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XXII. Note on the Occurrence of Lithobius variegatus {Leach) 

 in Scotland. By T. D. Gibson-Carmichael, Esq. 



(Read 20th December 1882.) 



This species is the only myriopod as yet known which has 

 not been found out of the British Isles. Leach, in his de- 

 scription of the species in the eleventh volume of the Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean Society, says of it, " habitat in Dan- 

 monia australi sub lapidibus passim." Newport (id,, vol. xix., 

 p. 363) says of it, " Habitat in Wimbledon common prope 

 Londinum," and mentions a specimen of the species in the 

 collection in the British Museum, ticketed in Leach's hand- 

 writing " Ireland," though Leach had wrongly labelled this 

 specimen L, forficatus. 



This summer I have obtained specimens of L. variegattis 

 from various localities in Scotland. Mr Gibson collected 

 numerous specimens in Colonsay. I myself found it frequent 

 in the woods at Inverary, and rare in the neighbourhood of 

 Loch Katrine. I have also received it from near Oban, from 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, and from the neighbourhood of Bowling 

 in Dumbartonshire. The species seems thus to occur through- 

 out the west of Scotland. No specimens have yet occurred 

 among the material which I have received from various places 

 in the east. 



I have also obtained it in several new localities in England 

 — at Clifton (Bristol), at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, and near 

 Wimborne in Dorsetshire. I have always found it under or 

 near oak trees. 



XXIII. On the Occurrence of the Pectoral Sandpiper (Tringa 

 macula ta, Vieill.) at Loch Lomond. By Egbert Gray, Esq. 



(Read 20th December 1882.) 



The specimen of this bird now on the table was shot on 

 28th of last month on the banks of Loch Lomond by Sir 

 George Leith Buchanan. It rose along with several snipe 

 from a strip of marshy ground frequented by these birds, but 

 did not seem to be accompanied by others of its own species. 



