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Acailes ptinoides. Roslin. The Rev. W. Little and myself captured one 



specimen each. 

 Hypera fulvipes. South Queensferry. It seems really distinct from H. ni- 



grirostris. 

 Apion pomonse ; rare. A. cseruleopenne ; Queensferry ; a single specimen. 



A. carduorum — sulcifrons — vorax — foveolatum. 

 Rhagium inquisitor. Roslin. 

 Haltica flava. Dalmeny Park. 

 Thyamis pallens — Pulex. 

 Macrocnema hyoscyami. 

 Mantura semiamea. 

 Chretocnema concinna. 



Chrysomela pallida. A considerable number of specimens were taken at 

 Roslin by the Rev. W. Little and myself, by beating the hazel bushes. C. 

 hyperici. Juniper Green, on Hypericum hirsutum. 

 Phsedon aucta. 

 Coccinella humeralis. On palings in the Meadows, along with C. dispar and 



variabilis. 

 Quedius pyrrhopus — picipennis. 

 Philonthus maculicornis, — Watsoni. 

 Othius pilicornis. 

 Gyrohypnus affinis — punctulatus. 

 Lathrobium rufipenne. 

 Oxytelus rugosus — nitens. 



Stenus oculatus — cicindeloides ? — unicolor — picipes ? — gonymelas ? — Aceris 

 — canaliculars ? — lineatulus? — laevior? — lsevis — pusillus; besides several 

 individuals that I cannot refer to any species described by Stephens. 

 Lesteva testacea. Roslin. 

 Tachinus apicalis. 

 Tacbyporus lateralis. 

 Conurus cellaris. 

 Bolitobius apicalis. 



Among the rarer insects described in the Entomologia Edinensis, a single spe- 

 cimen has occurred of Microsaurus lateralis. 



Edinburgh, Dec. 16. R. K. Greville. 



BOTANICAL. 



Agaricus cochleatus, Eng. Fl. v. ii. p. 69 " Invei'ary" is the only recorded 



station for this rare Agaric in Scotland. It may therefore be worth while to 

 mention, that I gathered it in great perfection, on November 17, 1836, in the 

 plantation around Foulden House, Berwickshire G. J. 



Additions to Cooper's Flora Metropolitana Silene otites. — This un- 

 common plant, in the vicinity of London, was discovered in Charlton Chalk-pit, 

 Kent, last summer, by Miss S. Berkeley, Busk, and Finch, from whom I possess 

 specimens. 



Crocus aureus — I also found this not very common species in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, in Charlton Wood, Kent, in company with Messrs Chatterley 

 and Lee, who also met with it in a meadow in Battersea Fields. The locality 



