THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EDINBUllGH. 495 
Fam. cyphonid.^:. 
Gen. Cyphon. 
C. laetus, Steph. 
In woods and grassy places, occasional. Braid wood. 
C. pubescens, Fab. Steph. 
Near Edinburgh. Steph. lUus. 
C. griseus, Fab. Steph. 
In grassy places, and sometimes on flowers, frequent. 
Duddingston, Corstorphine, &c. June — July. 
Crio. nigricans and Crio. concolor of Marsham are va- 
rieties. 
Fam. LAMPYRID.E. 
Gen. Lampyris. 
L. noctiluca. Linn. 
Observed near Canonmills and Lasswade, rare. 
This interesting insect is by no means so widely distri- 
buted in Scotland as in England. It occurs, however, in 
Roxburghshire, Dumfries-shire, and along the southern 
border in the neighbourhood of Langholm. It has been 
taken by Mr Wilson near Rowardennan, on the banks of 
Lochlomond. Another luminous insect, the Geophilus 
electricus, has, I believe, been occasionally mistaken for the 
true glow-worm by casual observers, in the neighbourhood 
of Edinburgh. 
Fam. TELEPHORIDtE. 
Gen. Telephorus. 
T. ater, Oliv. Steph. Canth. atra, Linn. 
Not so common as the following species, which it very 
