494 Zoology. 



the M. angustidens, Cuv., and which, if this opinion should prove correct, 

 would show that the remains of the latter animal had been found in three quar- 

 ters of the world, Europe, Asia, America — Inslit. 9th and 16th Novr. 1836. 



Migratory Birds in 1836 — In the northern parts of England the effects and 

 influence of season upon the movements of migratory birds, has been strongly 

 exemplified during the present year. The cold and ungenial weather during the 

 months of March, April, and May, delayed the arrival of most of our summer 

 visitants from ten to fourteen days beyond the average period of their first ap- 

 pearance, as deduced from a journal annually kept for more than fifteen years. 



It was also generally remarked that they were much fewer in numbers, and 

 that some species were altogether absent in localities where in previous years 

 they had been abundant. 



The departure of the Sylviada, as well as the Hirundinidce, on their equato- 

 rial movement, has also been unusually early, no doubt strongly influenced by 

 the low temperature of the season. 



Before the 1st of September the most of the Warblers had disappeared, a few 

 individuals of Sylvia trochilus alone remaining till the 8th or 10th of that month, 

 and after the 20th of September, more than a month before their accustomed 

 time, the Chimney Swallows and Martlets had entirely disappeared. It is worthy 

 of remark, that the Crossbill, whose summer migrations extends to higher lati- 

 tudes, were observed in Northumberland as late as the 2d of May, at which time 

 the eggs in the ovary of the female were some of them as large as peas. 



The Fieldfare (Merula pilaris) one of our winter visitants, arrived in large 

 flocks on the 24th and 25th of the present month, being a fortnight or more 

 before the average time of its appearance. 



An extraordinary deficiency of the insect tribe, particularly Coleoptera and 

 Lepidoptera, has been generally noticed throughout the north of England and 

 Scotland, during the spring and summer just passed — P. J. S. 



Additions to the Entomology of the Edinburgh district — The following coleop- 

 terous insects have been captured during the two last seasons ; and as they are 

 not contained in the Entomologia Edinensis of Messrs Wilson and Duncan, some 

 record of them will not perhaps be considered devoid of interest. 



Haliplus melanocephalus. Braid marshes. The species is described by 

 Stephens as having the interstices of the strice on the elytra impunctate ; my 

 specimens have a few scattered punctures, but differ in no other respect. 



Hydroporus frater. Reservoir above south Queensferry, and in the fish-ponds 

 at Newliston. 



12-pustulatus. Reservoir at south Queensferry ; a single individual. 



Hydrobius melanocephalus. Braid marshes. 



Sphajridium scarabseoides — bipustulatum . 



Trichopteryx minima. Wall-top, Dalmeny park. 



Ips ferruginea. Wall-top, Dalmeny Park, two specimens only. 



Hister neglectus — bimaculatus — nitidulus ; all near south Queensferry. 



Onthophagus ovatus. King's Park, in dung. This is a very interesting ad- 

 dition to our Fauna ; a few specimens were taken early in 1836 by Mr R. N. 

 Greville. It is the only species hitherto found in Scotland. 



Aphodius contaminans. 



Telephorus ochropus. Roslin. 



