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a number of the beetles themselves were soon found. Along 

 with them were, as often happens, a few Epurcea angustula, 

 a beetle new to the Forth list. The claim of T. doinesticum 

 to a place on that list had previously rested on a single 

 specimen swept by Prof. Hudson Beare off herbage at 

 Hawthornden, some miles further down the valley on 6th 

 May 1905, as recorded in the Ent. Record for 1906, p. 107. 

 I may here say that during the spring of 1922 this Scolytid 

 was again found by me at Penicuik, both on oak and beech, 

 when DelipJirum crenatinn (the subject of a recent paper by 

 Mr A. Fergusson in this magazine) was also present, and 

 also at Roslin in an old oak. Among other things found at 

 Penicuik on the occasion above mentioned were numbers of 

 the little beetle, Agathidmni nigripenne, under beech bark, 

 and dead examples of the large blue-black wood-wasp, Sirex 

 cyaneus, in the bole of a much-decayed but still standing 

 silver fir. A specimen of 6". gigns was obtained in the 

 same locality in July, and another on Mortonhall estate in 

 September ; both were females. 



Adjoining the site of Bavelaw pine-wood, near Balerno,^ 

 on 3rd May, 1 beat from the freshly lopped branches of a 

 felled Scots pine nine examples of Rhinoviacer aitelaboides, 

 a weevil for which no recent Forth record is known to me. 

 The same branches yielded a female of the rather scarce 

 Sawfly, Lyda stellata. 



On 24th May, Mr J. W. Bowhill motored me to Press- 

 mennan Lake, at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills, East 

 Lothian, where I secured a good Caddis-fly, LivinopJiilus 

 rJiombicus (Messrs Bowhill and Morton had taken one there 

 three days previously), and also a specimen of the much 

 commoner Phiygaiiea striata. The former is an addition to 

 the list of Forth Trichoptera, while the latter fills a blank in 

 my East Lothian list. The Sawfly Strongylogaster cingulatiis 

 was beaten off oaks; and a single example of a small Weevil, 

 which Professor Beare has identified for me as Anthonoinus 

 conspersus, came, I believe, also off oak. On a sunny brae- 

 side below the lake there was a strong colony of the some- 



1 This fine old wood, the home of a number of good insects, was cut 

 down during the winter of 1920-21. 



