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recorded with localities. About this time Wilson and 

 Duncan conceived the idea of a complete Entomologia 

 Udinensis, but only the well-known volume on the Coleop- 

 tera, published in 1834, in which are enumerated and 

 described 634 species, ever appeared. Some 60 additions to 

 this list were recorded by Dr E. K. Greville in the Magazine 

 of Zoology and Botany for 18 37.'^ Diptera were now engaging 

 the attention of Duncan, in whose papers on the British 

 species in the same magazine (vols. i. and ii.) a number of 

 records from this district are given.^ To James Hardy, 

 LL.D., we owe many early records of Coleoptera and other 

 insects from the neighbourhood of Cockburnspath,^ and the 

 New Statistical Account of the parish of Dollar (1841) con- 

 tains an interesting list of beetles for that locality. About 

 this time, too, those minute Hymenoptera, the Chalcids, as 

 we shall see later, were being collected by Dr Greville. 



Our next entomological landmark is " The Lepidopterous 

 Insects of Midlothian " — an annotated list of 485 species, of 

 which 267 are "macros" and 218 "micros" — by Dr W. H. 

 Lowe and E. F. Logan, printed in The Naturalist for 1852 

 (pp. 121-131), with 50 additions in 1853 (p. 69). Investiga- 

 tions in this order were continued for some years by an 

 entomological committee of this Society, with which the 

 name of Andrew Wilson is intimately associated.^ Beetles 

 were now being collected in more districts than formerly, 

 and the knowledge of their distribution in the area was 

 greatly extended by the records of Andrew Murray and his 

 correspondents, given in his important ' Catalogue of the 

 Coleoptera of Scotland,' published in 1853. Equally note- 

 worthy in this connection were Dr David Sharp's extensive 



1 Vol. i. p. 494. Cf. also Rev. W. Little's "Localities of Scottish Cole- 

 optera" in vol. ii. p. 232. Records for the parish of Dalmeny were furnished 

 by Dr Greville to the Neiu Stat. Acc. (1843); and his son, R. N. Greville, 

 sent notes on Coleoptera captured near Edinburgh and at Stirling to the 

 Zoologist for 1843 and 1844. 



^ Of. also Wilson's article on Entomology in Encycl. Brit. , 7th ed. 



^ Cf. Proc. Berw. Nat. Cluh, vols, i., ii., iii. , vi. , etc. 



^ Cf. our Proceedings, i. pp. 3, 258, 406, and ii. p. 260 ; also Naturalist 

 for 1850 and 1851. In the Zoologist for 1845 and 1849, Stainton records a 

 number of Lepidoptera from East Stirlingshire (Torwood, etc.), and in the 

 same journal for 1847, some from East Lothian are given by A. Hepburn; 

 also in 1849 there are a few by J. C. Howden. 



