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Great Snow Goose in Solway.—TZzhe field (5th March) 
contains a note from Mr C. W. Phillips, recording the presence of 
Snow Geese in Kirkcudbrightshire during the winter. One of 
these, shot by Captain A. M. Montgomery, M.C., was forwarded 
to me for examination, and proved to be a specimen of the Great 
Snow Goose, Chen nivalis, a native of America not hitherto 
recorded from Scotland. Full particulars of this interesting visitor 
will appear in our next number.—W. EAGLE CLARKE. 
Two rare Staphylinid Beetles (Acidota cruentata, F., 
and A. crenata, Mann.) in the Clyde Area.—When collecting 
in the Lanark district recently I took two specimens of A. cruentata 
from grass tufts at the foot of an oak-tree. ‘This is rather a scarce 
beetle in Britain, and the only previous mention of its occurrence 
in Clyde is contained in a note by Rye in the L£xtomologists’ 
Monthly Magazine (vol. iii., p. 163), where he records the capture 
of one specimen which was found crawling upon a stone wall 
near Glasgow by the late R. Henderson during November 1865. 
The other British species of the genus, 4. crenata, is also scarce 
but appears to be more widely distributed. Two specimens under 
very loose bark of beech near Glasgow, and one clinging to an 
old sack which was lying in a field near the shore at Lagg in Arran, 
are the most recent captures of the species in the Clyde Area. 
Both these localities are at quite low elevations, and it is interesting 
to contrast the record by the Rev. A. Thornley of its occurrence 
on the summit of Ben Nevis, where no less than 157 examples were 
found by Mr W. S. Bruce during four months of the year 1895 
(Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1896, p. 34).—A. FERGusson, Glasgow. 
ENTOMOLOGY IN SOUTH LONDON.— The Proceedings of the South 
London Entomological and Natural History Society for session 1919-20 
is a model of workmanship, and full of interesting matter. Upon the 
perusal of the reports of the various meetings, one is struck with the 
variety of the objects exhibited, and the enthusiasm and activity of the 
Society’s members. Naturally enough, Lepzdopiera receive the greatest 
attention, being ever the most popular insects, but the other Orders are 
by no means neglected, and scores of interesting observations are 
scattered through the pages of this valuable publication. The more 
“important papers read before the Society are published in full, and these 
include articles on the mode of progression of the larve of the Tineid 
moth Coleophora nigricella, the geographical distribution and variation 
of the Geometrid moth Acidalia marginepunctata, the pupation of the 
Common Tortoise-shell and Peacock Butterflies, and a short Presidential 
Address dealing with the economic aspect of Entomology. 
