Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS 127
and where it is sometimes common. I have also found it in
St. Andrews Bay, in the estuary of the Tay below Dundee, and also
taken it in the Humber to the east of Grimsby. Mr. G. C. Bourne
has recorded it from Falmouth. The specimens now recorded were
obtained in the Cromarty Firth, between Invergordon and Cromarty,
on iyth January, and again on 5th February, of the present year;
and it was also captured off the Nairnshire coast on yth February.
There is,
so far as I know, no previous record of Macropsis from
the Moray Firth. T. SCOTT, Aberdeen.
Scottish Myriapoda. In the course of the last three or four
years I have on many occasions observed the little white Myriapod
Scolopcndrella immaculata, Newp., under stones in this district. The
following are a few of the localities and :
dates, namely Arthur's
Seat, February 1896 and October 1899 ; Charlestown, Fife, February
1896; Dreghorn, March 1896; and near Rosslyn, March 1899.
It does not seem to be mentioned in Sir T. D. Gibson-Carmichael's
list of Scottish Myriapoda published in the " Proceedings of the
Royal Physical Society" for 1882 (vol. vii. p. 193). I have also
specimens of the following species from this neighbourhood :
Linotiznia crassipes, Koch. An example of this luminous centipede
was captured in Dalmeny Park, Linlithgowshive, in October
1895, by Mr. Charles Campbell, and kindly given to me. Mr.
Campbell states that he got another in the same locality about
10 P.M. on 24th January of the present year. Mr. R. I. Pocock, of
the British Museum, writes me that this is
probably the Scolioplanes
acuminatits of the list above referred to.
Craspedosoma rawlinsii, Leach. Two examples of this species,
first described by Dr. Leach from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh,
were found by me near The Bush, a few miles south of Edinburgh,
on 23rd October 1893.
An exotic Paradesnms but whether P. gracilis, Koch, or P.
coarcfatus, Sauss., is uncertain, as the specimen is an immature $ -
was obtained in a greenhouse at Morningside in December 1898.
My best thanks are due to Mr. Pocock for having named these
and some other Myriapods for me. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh.
BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS.
What is the Blue Lupine naturalised in Scotland? For a
number of years a showy lupine has been known to botanists, both
residents and visitors, as well established on the Dee, the Beauly,
and the Tay ;
and it was thought to be Lupinus perennis, L., and
was recorded occasionally under that name without suspicion. It