Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

-130 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural History
which have appeared during the Quarter January-March 1900.
[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as
possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and
will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the
sources of information undermentioned.]
ZOOLOGY.
NOTE ON THE WEASEL, PUTOKIUS (lexis) NIVALIS, LINN., AND
SOME OF ITS SUB-SPECIES. By G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. Ann.
and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7),
vol. v. pp. 41-50 (January 1900). Dark
specimen of the form vulgaris, Erxleben, from Elgin, alluded Co.
SOME REMARKS ON THE BIRDS SEEN IN THE SOUTH-EAST PART
OF THE MAINLAND OF ORKNEY IN OCTOBER 1899. By N. E.
Ticehurst, M.A., E.Z.S., etc. '/.oologist (4), vol. iv. pp. 54-64
(February 1900). Over 50 species dealt with.
NOTES ON THE GENUS MELOE. By the Rev. Theodore Wood,
F.E.S. Ent. Record, vol. xii. pp. 46-47 (February 1900). M.
violaceus recorded as occurring on the highroad between Inversnaid
and Loch Katrine.
COLEOPTERA AND LEPIDOPTERA AT RANNOCH. By J. J. Walker,
R.N., F.L.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. xi. pp. 21-28 (January and
February 1900).
MACRO- LEPIDOPTERA OF THE GALASHIELS DISTRICT IN 1899.
By James C. Haggart. Entomologist, vol. xxxiii. pp. 44-46 (February
1900).
COLLECTING IN THE ISLE OF LEWIS. By H. Stuart Fremlin,
F.E.S. Entomologist, vol. xxxiii. pp. 37-39 (February 1900). This
short paper refers entirely to Lepidoptera, of which 15 species are
mentioned.
SMERINTHUS POPULI IN WESTERN SCOTLAND, WITH SOME NOTES
ON ITS HABITS. By H. C. Arbuthnott. Ent. Record, vol. xii. p. Si
(March 1900). The Isle of Arran and Bridge-of-Weir (Renfrewshire)
are given as localities for this species.
DIPHTHERA (AGRIOPIS) APRILINA IN MORAY. By Henry H.
Brown. Entomologist, vol. xxxiii. p. 14 (January 1900). A specimen
found on 8th November at Darnaway Wood, Brodie.
WINTER CAPTURE OF GONOPTERA LIUATRIX. By James C.
Haggart. Ent. Record, vol. xii. p. 27 (January 1900).
A specimen
captured at Galashiels on the night of 25111 December, with the
thermometer registering 20 degrees of frost.
OPORABIA AUTUMNATA FROM RANNOCH, WITH REFERENCE TO
SEVERAL OTHER RELATED FORMS. By LOUIS B. PrOUt, F.E.S.