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PERIODICALS. 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 1888 (July). — List of 

 British Tipulidae, etc., by G. H. Verrall. (Notes from Scotland Tipida 

 varipennis Mg., T. scripta Mg., T. melanoceras Schuni.? one male from In- 

 veran, T. lunataL., T. oleracea L., T. paludosa Mg. , the two last are the 

 common " Craneflies " or "Daddy-long-legs"); Generical Synopsis 

 with Annotated List of British Ephemeridse by Rev. A. E. 



Eaton. (Siphlurus lacustris Eaton, hill streams and mountain lakelets, Scot- 

 land) ; Oxyporus rufus L., in Scotland (in a fungus at Castle 

 Douglas), by W. D. R. Douglas. 



(August.) Sjnlosoma Menthrasti, var. ochracea White, (Exhibited), bred 

 from ova from Dundee, the larvae having been fed on the Stinging Nettle. 

 Eupithecia togata, (exhibited), bred from Perthshire larvae. 



(September.) The Larva, &C. Of PhilopotamuS, by Kenneth J. 

 Morton. 



{December.) Phibalapteryx lapidata in Argyllshire, (near 



Taynuilt, in October), by A, H. Clarke. 



1889 (January.) Exhibited, Cymatophora or Fb. from the Hebrides, 

 Dianthcecia nana Rott. from the Hebrides and from Shetland, and Agrotis 

 simulans Hufn. from Aberdeenshire. 



(February.) Exhibited, Noctua glareosa Esp. from Perth, Forres and 

 Shetland, (the Shetland specimens and one from Perth approaching a melanic 

 variety); dark Gidaria suffumata Hb., and black and suffused Melanthia 

 bicolorata Hufn. from Forres. 



(March.) Note on Stenophylax stellatus and S. latipennis, 



(taken at small streams near Carluke), by Kenneth J. Morton. 



(April.) Exhibited, Anerastia lotella Hb., Dioryctrcea abietella Zinc, and 

 Crambus dumetellus Hb., all from Forres. 



{May.) Notes on Diptera in 1888, by E. Brunetti, (enumerates 

 Tabanus tropicus Mg. from Aberdeen, Laphria Jlava L., two from Kincar- 

 dineshire in September, Thereva nobiletata F. from Aberdeen ; Cynomyia 

 mortuorum from Aberdeen) ; Note on the probable origin of last 

 year's Deilephila Galii, by W. H. Tugwell, mentions the capture of a 

 female by Mr. Home at Aberdeen, and of a male by Mr. Kirk at Dundee. 

 Exhibits : — Euchromia mygindana Schiff., E. arbutella L., and Coccyx 

 nemorivaga Tgstr., bied from larvae in shoots of Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi 

 from Forres ; small, dark Agrotis pyrophila from Forres, and a melanic 

 variety from Stcrnoway, and Triphaina orbona from Forres and Stornoway, 

 and T. subsequa from Forres to compare with New Forest examples. 



(July.) Notes on Agrypnia Pagetana and other Trichop- 



tera, (near Glasgow, in June 1889), by Kenneth J. Morton ; On the 

 British species of the genus Anaspis, by Rev. Canon Fowler, 

 mentions as Scotch A. rufilabris Gyll., A. Geoffroyi Mii.ll, A. rujicollis F., 

 A. Jlava L., v. thoracica L., A. maculata Fourc. 



(September.) .^Eschna borealis Zett. at Rannoch, (5 taken in 

 June), by Kenneth J. Morton and J. J. King. Exhibits : — Galls of Nematus 

 herbacece Cam., on Salix herbacea, with their makers from Aberdeen, (should 

 probably be Braemar, as the Willow does not grow near Aberdeen). 



