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by broad dark transverse bands which bear a few short non- 

 capitate bristles. The surface of these bands are covered 

 with numerous fine transverse Hnes and with rows of 

 extremely minute bristles. 



Length 1-4 mm. 



Nymph. — Coloration, markings, and bristles similar to 

 oviparous female. 



The remaining species will be dealt with in Part II. 



REFERENCES. 



(i) Baker, A. C. — "Generic Classification of the Hemipterous Family 

 Aphididce," U. S. Dept Agric. Bull.., No. 826, August 1920. 



(2) Jackson, D. J. — " Notes on Aphides of Ross-shire," Scot. Nat.., 



April 1918. 



(3) Jackson, D. J. — " Further Notes on Aphides collected principally in 



the Scottish Highlands," Scot. Nat., September— October 1919. 



(4) Kaltenbach. — " Monograph Pflanzenlause," Part I., 96, 71, 1843. 



(5) Theobald, F. V. — " New and Little Known British Aphides," 



Entomologist, vol. liv., Oct. 1921. 



(6) Walker, F. — "List Homop.," iv. 128, 1003, 1852. 



The Rarity of the Bean Goose on the East Coast. — The 



Bean Goose {Anser fabalis) is well known to be a more common 

 winter visitor to the western coasts of our islands than to the 

 eastern, but I doubt if the great rarity of the species on the east 

 coast is quite realised. In the old days, amongst sportsmen generally, 

 little distinction between the species of geese was made ; my father 

 used, of course, to call the geese he killed "Bean Geese." It must 

 have been about 1871 or 1872 that he discovered they were then 

 Pink-foots. Whether they had always been so I can't say, but I 

 have an impression of sitting gloating over a pair of geese whose 

 legs were orange and not red : though I don't regard this as 

 evidence really worth much, for I was only 4 years old ! 



The rarity of the Bean Goose in the Tay estuary is, however, 

 indicated by the following list, which gives the numbers and 

 species of geese shot here in my own time: Pink-footed, 98; 

 Grey-lag, 3 ; Brent, 3 ; White-fronted, i ; Bernicle, i ; and Bean, i 

 — a total of 107. 



The last specimen, a male, shot on 27th February 1922, I 

 have sent to the Royal Scottish Museum. — William Berry, 

 Tayfield. 



[The individual belongs to the typical race, A.f.fabalis. — Eds.] 



