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third weeks of July, they continued to appear in numbers, mostly 
females. In August some stobs were removed from the local 
sawmill to a shed, and soon quite a number of Wood-wasps emerged. 
The stobs were riddled with exit-holes, and these increased in 
number until on 26th August hardly a stob was free from them. 
The stobs were of pine, larch, and spruce, taken from Todhill Wood, 
which was probably planted about forty to fifty years ago.— 
A. CUTHBERTSON, Yoker. 
Beetle (Ceuthorrynchus erysimi, F. var. chloropterus, 
Steph.), from Summerston, near Glasgow.—While doing 
some sweeping on the banks of the river Kelvin at Summerston, 
at the beginning of June last, I took a single specimen of a small 
Ceuthorrynchus, of the same size and very similar sculpture to 
C. erysimi, F., but with the elytra of a fine go’den green, metallic 
colour, instead of bright blue, as in the type; indicating that it 
belonged to the variety chloropterus, Steph. The strie and 
punctuation of the elytra are, if anything, a little finer in the 
variety than in the type, and the thorax is more metallic. The 
contrast in the colour of the elytra, when compared with that of 
the type, at once distinguishes the two.—Tuos. H. M. Gorpon, 
Glasgow. 
Great Fan Shell (Pinna fragilis, Penn.), off Shetland.—A 
fine example of this species, brought up on a haddock line from a 
depth of 70 fathoms east of Out Skerries Lighthouse in February, 
is worth recording on account of the size attained in an area 
generally regarded as being on the border of the northern range of 
this mollusc. The shell, which was empty when found, is an old 
one, plentifully encrusted on the wider end of its valves by tubes of 
Serpula and masses of Polyzoa. It measures 114 inches in length, 
notwithstanding that the original lip has been broken away, and 
its greatest breadth is just over 6 inches. The specimen, now 
exhibited in the Royal Scottish Museum, was forwarded by 
Mr Henry Jamieson, Out Skerries —JAMES RITCHIE. 
Redstart common in Ross.—‘‘In Glengarry the Redstart 
is quite a common bird. I have found this year five nests within 
a distance of two miles along the roadside. . . . There were three 
nests of this bird within 200 yards of my house, and one has 
built for years in my garden wall... . It is a fairly common bird 
in all. the birch woods, but not so common in old fir woods, and 
except in open spaces or along road sides I have never seen it 
among young fir or spruce plantations.”—M. Martueson (in Zhe 
Field, 30th July). 
