NOTES ON THE WOOD-WASPS ^SIREX) IN SCOTLAND 183 



SIREX GIGAS, L. 

 {a) West Lowlands. 



72. Dumfries. — Dumfries neighbourhood, annually, with more 

 or less frequency (R. Service, A7m. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1891). "Only 

 a few years ago this insect was prized as a great rarity. Now it has 

 become comparatively common, and this year [1898?] fully a dozen 

 individuals have been in my hands. I have also heard of it from 

 many different localities, not only in these counties but throughout 

 Scotland" (R. Service, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1899). Specimens 

 recorded from near Moffat in 1900; "a number of larch posts 

 erected as gateways on a sheep farm had been almost destroyed by 

 their borings"; common all over the area of Solway this season 

 (R. Service, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1900, p. 250). 



73. Kirkcudbright. — Clearly Service had this species as well 

 as the next from this county, though he gave no definite locality 

 {cf. under Dumfries). Kirkcudbright, $ and $, 3rd July 1900 

 (J. J. F. X. King). 9, Benyellary, at a height of 2360 feet, 8th 

 Sept. 192 1 (N. B. Kinnear), identified at Royal Scottish Museum. 



74. Wigtown. — In extreme south-west of Scotland, in unusual 

 numbers in 1906; $ dead with her ovipositor driven into a larch 

 pole in a paling (in Kirkcowan parish), (Sir H. Maxwell, Ann. Scot. 

 Nat. Hist., 1907, p. 119); ?, Monreith, Wigtownshire, early Sept. 

 1922 (from Sir Herbert Maxwell). 



75. Ayr. — Irvine, in shipbuilding yard, $ S and ? ? emerging 

 in end of Aug. 1920, from wood of coniferous trees, probably of 

 Scandinavian origin, used as props for scaffolding (A. Cuthbertson, 

 Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 58). 



76. Renfrew. — Near Paisley, three reported in Aug. 191 7 

 (A. M. Stewart, Entomologist, Nov. 191 7, p. 257); Giffnock, south 

 of Glasgow, beginning of Aug. 1922, small ? (from W. Burns); in 

 shipbuilding yard, Yoker, 22nd Nov. 192 1 (identified at Royal 

 Scottish Museum for Mr Alex. T. Cuthbertson). 



77. Lanark. — $, Partick, 28th Aug. 1922 (sent by R. Bryans, 

 for identification, to Royal Scottish Museum), cj , in a Glasgow 

 saw-mill (J. J. F. X. King). 



{b) East Lowlands. 



78. Peebles. — Broughton, prior to 1897 (reference mislaid); 

 Stobo, several, in 1897, and again in August 1898, two ? ? (from 

 John Thomson); ?, Aug. 1899, Stobo, "where they have been 

 established for a number of years " (J. Baxter, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1899) P- 55); Peebles, in Douglas Fir, small ?, Sept. 1915 (in my 



