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Scottish Records of Myelophilus (Hylurgus) mixoi{ 

 (Hartig). By R. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., D.Sc. 



(Read 6tli Fcl)raai-y 1919.) 



This species has been described by Fowler as " ver}' rare 

 in Britain." In 1915 and earlier Mr. J. M. Murray found 

 the workings of M. m inor on Scots Pine in Murthly Woods. 

 In 1915 Mr. James Munro found an imago in Forfarshire. 

 In 1915 and following years Mr. Walter Ritchie found the 

 beetle in all stages in very large numbers over an area of 

 fifteen square miles in the Aboyne district of Aberdeenshire. 



Lieut. R. Grant Broadwood, whose specimens I have 

 verified, found the wox-kings of M. minor as follows: — In 

 Dungarthill Woods, near Dunkeld, on Scots Pine (the ti'ees 

 were dead), in July 1918. On the bark of blown Scots 

 Pine (the trees were dead) on Muir of Thorn, Perthshire, 

 in August 1918. On the bark of felled Scots Pine on 

 Birnam Hill, Perthshire, in August 1918. On the bark of 

 felled Scots Pine in woods round Pitlochry Hydropathic 

 Hotel, in September 1918. 



Mr. H. M. Steven writes as follows : — " During the past 

 year I have found Alyelophilus minor in two wideh' 

 separated and difierent localities. The first record was 

 obtained at Braigh Udine, Glengarry, Inverness-shire 

 (6-inch Ordnance Survey, Sheet XCVI, Inverness-shire), in 

 July 1918. This wood is an outpost of an old natural Scots 

 l^ine forest which stretched over this district. The trees 

 are from 100 to 300 years old. M. pinlpcrda was also 

 present, but M. minor was the pi-edominating species. 

 The wood now I'orms an island in a sea of peat. About 

 two miles away there is a planted wood containing Scots 

 Pine, but careful search gave no trace of M. minor there. 

 It would therefore seem probable that M. minor had bred 

 for centuries in this old natural forest. 'Vha second record 

 was obtained at Minkie Moss, Dupplin, Pertlishire (6-inch 

 O.S., Sheet XCVIIT, Perthshire), in October 1918. M. 

 r/imor predominated here also, and was busy at work on 

 the dying and wind-blown Scots Pine." 



