Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

92 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
I
hope some day, with Mr. Thornley's co - operation as
regards at least one area, to see all these records published
in a connected form ;
but there is still a great deal to do
before that can be accomplished, and in the meantime it
may be well to place on record a few of the more interesting
occurrences.
In the matter of nomenclature I have followed Sharp
and Fowler's "Catalogue of British Coleoptera," 1893.
a. Species not in Sharp's " "
Coleoptera of Scotland
("Scottish Naturalist," 1871-81), and of which I am not
aware of any subsequent Scottish records :
Dromins meridionalis, Dej. Brodick, Arran, April 1895, one
example
:
identification confirmed by Mr. Thornley.
Euconnus hirticollis, 111. One found under stone lying in a mossy
bog near foot of Loch Ard, Aberfoyle, South-west Perthshire,
April 1896. Specimen shown to Dr. Sharp.
of this
Halyzia conglobata, L. On May 1896 I beat an example
" "
Ladybird off an oak at Aberfoyle, Upper Forth and in
;
September 1897 another was obtained in the same locality :
identification confirmed by Dr. Sharp. The species is not
included in Sharp's "Coleoptera of Scotland," and Fowler
uncommon in the
("Brit. Coleop.," vol. iii. p. 167) says "Not :
midland and southern districts of England and in Ireland, but
I can find no locality farther north than Sherwood Forest."
The name Coccinella conglobata occurs, however, in Don's list
of Forfarshire animals published in 1813; but, having regard
to the confusion which at that time existed respecting many of
the Coccinellida, there is
every reason to believe that some other
form (probably one of the numerous varieties of the common
C. variabilis) was intended.
Scymnus mulsanti, Waterh.
( ? S. redtenbacheri, Muls.).- -Four
examples of a small, dark, reddish-legged Scymnus, which Dr. Sharp
has named for me S. mulsanti, were obtained by sweeping grass
on the edge of Luffness Marsh, East Lothian, on 3oth June
last.
Anommatus \2-striatus, Mull. - - In September 1897 a single
example of this minute, eyeless beetle was detected on the
under side of a board which had been lying for some months
on damp earth, Morningside, Edinburgh.
Monochammus sutor, L. A $ example of this reputed British Longicorn,
which was found crawling on the trunk of a tree in