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Mosquitoes, Anopheles plumbeus, was taken by me west of 

 Longniddry on ist October. A member of the Culicine 

 section of the family, namely, Ochlerotattis neinorosus, was 

 plentiful at Bavelaw Moss on the evening of 27th September, 

 the males dancing in groups over an adjoining hedge, where 

 I had met with them in still larger numbers a year before. 

 Although this is quite a common gnat throughout Scotland, 

 I cannot call to mind any definite record of it from this 

 district. For over twenty years I have had in my collection 

 females from Bavelaw, etc., labelled neniorostis} and it was 

 only when I got males in September 1920 that the doubt 

 was removed. The specimen recorded by me in Ann. Scot. 

 Nat. Hist., 1903, p. 247, under name Cnlex cantans, Mg., was, 

 I think, this same species, but it is now in very bad condition. 

 When re-examining my Culicidae a couple of years ago I 

 found I had O. detritus from the coast at Blackness in the 

 autumn of 1896.^ From grubs in an onion from an 

 Edinburgh allotment in 192 1, an example of the lesser bulb- 

 fly {Eunierus) mentioned in my paper in the Scot. Nat. for 

 January 1920 was reared. The proper name of this syrphid, 

 it now appears, is Eumerns tuberculatus, Rond. {cf. Collins, 

 E.M.M., 1920, p. 102). Although of minor interest it may 

 be mentioned that Cai'popliagus heinipterus, a cosmopolitan 

 beetle, was plentiful in March in Mr Taylor's premises, 

 Morningside Place, Edinburgh, where it was emerging from 

 figs purchased at a sale of military stores. 



In conclusion, reference may be made to the unusual 

 abundance during September and October of the Red- 

 admiral Butterfly {Pyranieis atalantd), which was to be met 

 with from the coast to the most inland localities. With a 

 score of them on asters in Mr Bennett Clark's garden at 

 Balerno, west of Edinburgh, was a single Painted Lady 

 (^P. cafdui). The fact of two Atalantas being seen at 

 Balerno in May this year, indicates that a i&w, at any rate, 

 survived the winter. 



^ Mr Grimshaw has shown me two specimens he captured near 

 Aberlady on 24th August 1904. 



