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4. Clackmannan has (1) A. caliginosa to its credit, with (2) 

 Bimastus constrictus. (See Evans's paper on Forth Area.) 



5. Dumfries.— To the ' International Journal of Microscopy 

 and Natural Science,' 3rd series (1891), i. 163, seq., I contributed 

 an article on the Earthworms of Scotland, in which, after giving 

 such information as was then available on the general subject, 

 I subjoined an account of the species collected in Dumfries by 

 myself in 1890 and later. " It is curious to observe that the 

 very first worm which I added to the list (Allolobophora celtica, 

 Eosa) is exceedingly rare, or, to put it more accurately, has 

 seldom come under observation. I discovered this interesting 

 species in the spring of 1890, when on a flying visit to Langholm 

 and Burnfoot, the home of the Malcolms, in Dumfriesshire. 

 Some two miles north of Langholm, where the road diverges to 

 the left, there is a streamlet of a very unpretentious character. 

 Under the stones on its northern bank I found three specimens 

 of a worm I had not observed previously, which proved on 

 examination to be the one I have mentioned." It now bears 

 the name of (1) Dendrobcena mammalis, Sav. Some time after I 

 revisited the spot one Saturday afternoon, failed to find any 

 more specimens, and wandered so far in my search that I lost 

 the last train for Carlisle, and had a most lively experience as a 

 result. In February, 1891, between Annan and the Solway, I 

 found half a dozen specimens of (2) A. chlorotica in a brackish 

 pool. Half of them were dead, having apparently been drowned 

 by an exceptionally high tide. The same species was found to 

 the north of the town, while (3) Lumbricus castaneus, Sav., was 

 plentiful in the meadows. Near the station the Longworm (4) 

 A. longa, Ude, was taken, while (5) Allurus tetradrus was found 

 sparingly near the river a little above Annan. The only other 

 species known in 1891 for this county was (6) A. turgida, and 

 about this there is an element of doubt. 



6. Edinburgh. — The list for Edinburgh and district is very 

 large in comparison with that for any other county, thanks to 

 the efforts of Mr. Evans. Lumbricus festivus seems as yet to 

 have been found only once on the mainland, but it has once 

 reached me from the Isle of May, so that, if we include this 

 island under Edinburgh, we find all the four species of Lumbricus 

 here. These are (1) L. castaneus, (2) L. rvbellus, (3) L. festivus, 



