472 ANIMALS INTRODUCED UNAWARES 



Agelastica alni has been found in Edinburgh, Pogono- 

 chaerus fasciculatus at Bo'ness Docks, and the North 

 American Arhopalus speciosus in the Glasgow district. 



None of these Long-horned Beetles has made more than 

 a fleeting visit to our shores, but one interesting form the 

 Timberman, Acanthocinus aedilis^ig. 84, p. 47 1) has made 

 persistent efforts at establishment: No imported Longicorn 

 appears so often as the greyish brown, three quarter inch long 

 Timberman, with extraordinary antennae, which in the male 

 are four times as long as the body. In many parts of the 

 country and in all sorts of curious situations, the Timberman 

 turns up ; at one time in a railway carriage near Greenock, 

 at another in a coalpit at Coatbridge, more often near timber 

 yards, as at Bo'ness, Granton, Kilbarchan in the Clyde area, 

 at Berwick and Tweedmouth just beyond the southern 

 border. In the last locality a workman had "frequently seen 

 others [of the Timberman] sticking out of holes in Baltic pine- 

 logs." And the importation of Baltic pine containing the 

 living larvae accounts for most of the specimens captured in 

 Scotland. When a boy, I found a living female Timberman 

 resting upon the doorstep of my home in Aberdeenshire, 

 and on the same day a male was captured not far off. Both, 

 presumably, had come from a stacked cargo of Norwegian 

 pine logs brought to the Inverurie Paper Mills for paper 

 making. The Timberman has been found in most of the 

 Scottish faunal areas from Tweed to Moray, and it is 

 possible that in a few places it may have become established. 



OTHER BEETLE IMMIGRANTS 



Beetles, other than Longicorns, occasionally find their 

 way to Scotland from foreign parts, but they too are of the 

 boring kind. Thus the South European Bupestris hae- 

 morrhoidalis has been captured in a house in Ayr, and 

 in the Royal Scottish Museum in 1915 Lyctus brunneus 

 made its appearance in several cases, the larvae having been 

 contained in wood used by a London taxidermist in mount- 

 ing some foreign mammals. The destructive Banded Pine 

 Weevil, Pissodes notatus, and its relative the Pine- bole 

 Weevil, Pissodes piniphilus, are frequently brought with 

 European fir trees to Scotland, and, even if they may not 



