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of beetle pests in areas where Scots pine predominated. 
The reason for this differentiation is to be traced to the 
fact that in normal conditions in this country Scots pine 
supports “more kinds of injurious forest insects than all 
our other conifers together,” and since insects bred in 
Scots pine overflow and attack other conifers the author 
pertinently asks whether it may not be that Scots pine 
is planted too extensively in our woodlands. Vo dR 
Coleoptera of the Clyde Area.—With reference to the 
paper by Messrs Murphy and Gordon on some additions to the 
Coleoptera of the Clyde Area in the last issue of this magazine 
(p. 25), Proternus brachypterus, F., and Micropeplus staphylinotdes, 
Marsh., mentioned in Mr Murphy’s list, have both been taken by 
Mr G. Brown in the Coatbridge district and have already been 
recorded by me in the second paper of additions to the list of 
Clyde Coleoptera (Glasgow WVat., iv., 70). Both species, however, 
are new to the counties from which they are recorded by Mr 
Murphy. elophorus brevipalpis, Bed., which is included in Mr 
Gordon’s list, was recorded as common in the original list of Clyde 
Coleoptera (1901), but unfortunately, through a clerical error, 
under the name of dbrevicollis, Th., a much rarer insect. This 
error, however, was corrected in my first paper of additions to 
the Clyde list (Glasgow JVat., ii. 83). Lxochomus 4-pustulatus, L.., 
also mentioned by Mr Gordon, has already been recorded from 
Clyde by the Rev. Charles A. Hall, who found a specimen at 
Paisley (Scot. Wat., 1914, p. 264). With regard to Mr Gordon’s 
record of Aleochara succicola, Th. Mr G. C. Champion has 
pointed out (2.47 MZ, xxxiil., 97) that this species was confused 
in British collections with A. diversa, J. Sahl., under the name of 
A. moesta, Gray. A. succicola is common and generally distributed, 
while A. diversa appears to be very much rarer. The records 
standing under the name of A. moesta in the original Clyde list 
really referred to succicola. I have had occasion to draw attention 
to this point when recording A. diversa as an addition to Clyde 
in a paper read before the Natural History Society of Glasgow 
on 26th December rorg, but not yet published.—A. FERGUSSON, 
Glasgow. 
