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common ; Luffness and Isle of May, Aug., common ; Swanston, Rosslyn, 

 Penicuik, Corstorphine Hill, Sept. and Oct. ; Abercorn (Linlithgow), Oct. ; 

 Ratho and N. Queensferry, Nov., common ; Vogrie, Feb. 1897, abundant ; 

 Cullalo (Fife) and Dollar, April, plentiful ; Balerno, June, several ; North 

 Berwick (E. Lothian), Aug., a few; Morningside, Oct., common under boards 

 in garden ; near top of Castle Law (Pentlands), and at Bridge of Allan, Feb. 

 1898 ; near Kirkliston, Binny Craig, and Carribber Glen (Linlithgow), 

 March, common : etc. 



Genus LepidocyrtUS, Bourlet. 



Lepidocyrtus curvicoUis, Bourl. 



A very beautiful, and relatively long and narrow 

 Lepidocyrtus, obtained in a greenhouse in the south side of 

 Edinburgh, is referred by Dr Schaffer to this little known 

 species. In life, the insect certainly looked quite different 

 from any of the varieties of the next species (L. lanuginosus) 

 that we have seen. From var. fiicatus, which comes nearest 

 to it in size, it differs structurally in having the dentes 

 distinctly longer than the manubrium — in fucatus they 

 are scarcely longer (Schaffer in lit). Our specimens are 

 2J to 3 mm. in length. Lubbock (7) has recorded the 

 present form from England. On the Continent it seems 

 to have been obtained only in France, Switzerland, and 

 Eussia. 



Local data. — Under flower-pots in an old greenhouse, Newbattle Terrace, 

 Morningside, Edinburgh, half a dozen examples, June 1899. 



Lepidocyrtus lanuginosus (Gmel.), Tullb. 



L. lignorum + L. gibbulus + L. ccncus% Lubbock's "Monograph." 



This active little silvery-blue insect is extremely common 

 throughout the district at all seasons of the year — almost 

 every piece of wood, bark, stone, clod, and the like, beneath 

 which there is a little moisture, when turned over, is 

 found to shelter some. The underside of a decaying 

 mushroom or other fungus is also a favourite haunt. Our 

 specimens vary so much in size, and even in colour, with- 

 out apparent reference to age, that we have sometimes 

 found it difficult to believe that they all belong to one 



