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94 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY<br />
sparingly on the Pentlands seventy years ago. C. nitens, L.,<br />
is also still to be found on the Pentlands and adjoining moors,<br />
where I have met with it on several occasions (Bavelaw Moss,<br />
April 1885 and 3oth March 1896; Bonaly Hill, May 1896),<br />
and I once found pieces of the elytra in the Kestrel's " pellet "<br />
on Dalmahoy Crags. Mr. Eagle Clarke tells me he captured a<br />
specimen on the path between Bonaly and Glencorse on ist<br />
May 1892.<br />
Elaphrus uliginosus, F. One taken near Aviemore, Moray Area,<br />
May ^893. E. lapponicus, Gyll. Several from hill west of<br />
Fearnan, Loch Tay, 4th May 1892.<br />
Harpalus rubripes, Duft. Aberdour, Fife, April 1893, nine specimens.<br />
H. quadripunctatus, Dej. One from near foot of<br />
Ben-a-ghlo, September 1898.<br />
Anisodactylus binotatus, F. Aberfoyle, Upper Forth, May 1897, a<br />
single example.<br />
Pterostichus striola, F. Brodick, Arran, April 1895, several.<br />
Amara consularis, Duft. In July 1890 I took three examples in<br />
the neighbourhood of Peebles. It seems to be a rare species in<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>. A. alpina, F. In last year's volume of this journal<br />
(p. 54, 1899) I recorded the capture of two c?s and a $ of this<br />
rare beetle on a hill<br />
up Glen Tilt, Perthshire, in September 1 898. 1<br />
Besides the Rannoch and Braemar localities to which I alluded,<br />
the species has also occurred near Aviemore (" Ent. Mo. Mag.,"<br />
1874, p. 64, etc.). A. similata, Gyll. Mr. Thornley reports<br />
two examples of this form among my captures, both taken in<br />
Fife in 1893 one at Aberdour in April, the other near Leven<br />
in August. The only previous Scottish record seems to be that<br />
of Messrs. Lennon and Douglas for the Solway Area (" Annals,"<br />
1892, p. 108).<br />
Bembidium continuum, Steph. Half a dozen along with Cillenus<br />
lateralis under stones at the mouth of the Esk, Musselburgh,<br />
October 1899.<br />
Dromius melanocephalus, Dej. A few examples from near Aberlady<br />
(May 1890 and September 1893), Mortonhall, March 1896,<br />
and Hillend, near Edinburgh, April 1896. Sir A. Buchan-<br />
Hepburn recorded it for " Forth " in " Scottish Naturalist," iv.<br />
p. 248. A. nigriventris, Thorns. Is not uncommon in the<br />
Edinburgh district.<br />
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In the same note I recorded a few other beetles got in the Glen Tilt district<br />
of Perthshire in September 1898, namely Carabits ai~vensis, Miscordera<br />
arctica, Harpalus qitadripimctatus, H. latits, Pterostichus Gthiops, Cymindis<br />
vaporariorum Aphodius fa'fidus, Otiorrkynckus maitnts, and 0. blandits , ; also<br />
Coccinella ^-punctata from banks of the Garry below Blair-Atholl.
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