Botany. 495 
Aealles 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 pomonae ; rare. A. eacruleopenne ; Queensferry ; a single specimen. 
A. carduorum sulcifrons vorax foveolatum. 
Rhagium inquisitor. Roslin. 
Haltica flava. Dalmeny Park. 
Thyamis pallens Pulex. 
Macrocnema hyoscyami. 
Mantura semiaenea. 
Chaetocnema concinna. 
Cbrysomela 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 Hypericurn hirsutum. 
Phaedon 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 
canaliculatus ? lineatulus ? loevior ? laevis pusillus ; besides several 
individuals that I cannot refer to any species described by Stephens. 
Lestcva testacea. Roslin. 
Tachinus apicalis. 
Tachyporus 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 " Inverary" 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 METROPOLITANS 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 
