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A visit to Irvine and Troon, on the Queen's Birthday, in company 

 with Mr Dunsmore, yielded some good beetles, but no Hymenoptera. 

 Dyschlrius impunctipennis and Bembidium pallidipenne were found most 

 abundantly on the moist sand near the sea; Broscus cephalotes, of course 

 everywhere ; Onthophagus nuchicornis, rare in dung ; vEgialia arenaria, 

 very common ; Phyllopertha Jioriicola, rare ; Helioparthes gihbus, very 

 common in the pits. 



Mr James King has furnished me with the following list of his best 

 captures among the Lepidoptera : — 



Eupithecia Indigator, at Possil ; Ypsipetes ruberata, Eaglesham, but 

 getting exterminated ; * Cidaria populata, Cadder Wilderness ; Miana 

 arenosa, common on banks of Canal at Maryhill ; Scoparia miiralis, 

 Possil Marsh ; Perenia schalleriana, St. Germans Loch ; Retinia pini- 

 vorana, Possil ; Dicrorampha Herbosana, Possil ; Cochylis Smeath- 

 manniana, Possil ; Argyreslhia Gmdertalla, Possil and Kelvin ; A. 

 Brocheella, Possil ; Gracilaria smederella, Possil ; Fterophori bi2Juncti- 

 dactylus, Possil Marsh. 



Speaking generally, most of the other orders appeared in diminished 

 numbers, and this seemed to be more particularly the case with the 

 Diptera, except one blood-thirsty species which tormented my existence in 

 Cadder Wood. 



Among the Neuroptera, the occurrence of (Eschna varia, which was 

 captured, far from its native element, in Buchanan Street, must not be 

 passed over. 



Both Sialis lutaria and S. fuliginosa occur in the district. 



While out in Bardowie Loch, in July, searching the water-lilies for Z>. 

 crassipes, I was covered with multitudes of a small pure white species of 

 Ephemera, or May-fly, which rose out of the water in shoals, and fell on 

 me like flakes of snow, while others alighted on the plants, stones, &c., 

 on the side of the water, where they cast off their skins. This was about 

 five o'clock. 



I do not recollect seeing any grasshoppers other than Tettix bipunctata, 

 which was taken abundantly on the Gareloch, at the beginning of April, 

 and, in July, near Milngavie. 



* It Is to be hoped, not by collectors.— P. C. 



