NOTES ON THE WOOD-WASPS (^SIREX) IN SCOTLAND 187 



emerging from fallen Scots Pine throughout the month of Aug. 

 1920 (K. J. Morton). 



102. Ebudes, South. — Kildalton, Islay, one (A. Cuthbertson). 



There are no records of Sirex gtgas from the North Highlands 

 or Isles, 



BLUE-BLACK GROUP. 



{Definite Species is given where k^ioivn). 



72. Du77ifries. — In 1889 S. ^^juvencus" was noted emerging from 

 trunks of larch trees growing on Closeburn Estate, Dumfriesshire 

 (R. Service, Scot. Nat., 1891, p. 41); S. "Jitve7tctis'^ has been much 

 in evidence in 1900, a number received from near Lockerbie, where 

 they were emerging from the flooring of an outhouse. The timber 

 had been cut from an adjoining estate (R Service, An?t. Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1900, p. 250). 



73. Kirkcudbright. — "Juvencus," Munches, "some years ago," 

 both sexes bred from a block of larch wood (R. Service, Scot. Nat., 

 1891, p. 41), two 9 $ given to me by the late Robert Service are 

 dated Oct. 1883, and both prove to be ^. cyaneus ; June 1890, 

 numbers emerged from blocks of rough wood in greenhouse at 

 Southwick House. The blocks were of silver-fir growing in the 

 avenue at Southwick (R. Service, Scot. Nat., 1891, p. 41). 



76. Renfreiv.— One, Aug. 191 7 (A. M. Stewart, Entomologist, 

 Nov. 191 7, p. 257); "Clyde district" — ^^Juvencus" — several taken 

 lately, but all doubtlessly imported (A. A. Dalglish, Clyde Hajidbook, 

 1901, p. 215). 



79. Selkirk. — ? , Galashiels (identified as ^^ ?ioctilio"), sent to me 

 by Miss Hayward in 1908 (cf. Trans Bot. Soc, xxiv., pt. i, p. 

 X., 1909). 



80. Roxburgh. — Ormiston, near Caverton, $ $ and $ ? , got 

 from an old larch gatepost in Aug. 1896 (recorded as "jtivencus" 

 by A. Elliot, Caverton, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1897, p. 49). 



81. Berwick. — "In 1917 I had more than one specimen [$ 

 '■'■juvencus"'\ shown to me from Duns Castle Woods" (A. F. in 

 Scotsman, 2nd Sept. 1919); 9 in room in Court House, Berwick- 

 on-Tweed, ist Sept. 1922 (T. Bertram Young) — this specimen is 

 now in my collection, and is a fine .S". cyaneus. 



82. Haddijigton. — Gosford, $ $ or $ $ (J. J. W. Lamb) 

 referred to by me as ^^noctilio" in Afin. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1908, p. 55 ; 

 $ and ? , given to me and now re-examined, are undoubtedly 

 S. cyaneus. 



83. Edinburgh. — Specimen (?) from Rosslyn, 1895 (T. 

 Wright) in Royal Scottish Museum, has been examined by Mr 



