Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

252 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
a peat bog near Loch Glow on the Cleish Hills, Kinross-shire (Forth
area) and I find another among some insects collected by Mr. R.
;
Godfrey at Loch Awe, Argyll, last June. Mr. E. Saunders has seen
the specimens and confirms my identification. The species has
been taken in some numbers near Ballinluig, by Mr. T. M'Gregor,
as recorded in this magazine for 1895, and it seems also to have
occurred at Aviemore and Rannoch and one or two other localities in
the north of Scotland. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh.
Rhyparoehromus dilatatus, H. Schf., in Perthshire. Among
some insects which I collected in Glen Farg, Perthshire, in
September 1899, there is a specimen (named for me by Mr. E.
Saunders) of this plant-bug. It seems to be an addition to the list
of Scottish Hemiptera-Heteroptera, and in England the recorded
localities for it do not extend farther north than Norfolk. WILLIAM
EVANS, Edinburgh.
Bombus soroensis, Fab., in Lanarkshire. On iSth and
September
I observed a number of males and a few workers of a
bee which seemed new to me, visiting marsh-thistle flowers in a
ravine among the hills near Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire. I thought of
B. soroensis, and Mr. E. Saunders, to whom I have submitted
specimens, says they are referable to that form. I can find no
previous record of it from Scotland. I may add that Bombus
jonellus, Kby., was common at heather on the Elvanfoot hills during
the greater part of the month. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh.
Corduleg-aster annulatus on the summit of Beinn Mhor, Mull.
On the 4th of June I made the ascent of Beinn Mhor, in the
island of Mull, in company with Mr. A. H. Pawson, F.L.S. When at
about Soo feet altitude we captured a large dragon-fly, which I sent
to Mr. John Waddington of Leeds, who informs me that it is
Cordulegaster annulatus. When at the actual summit of the
mountain I noted insects flying round and above the cairn, of
various orders, and at least a dozen or more species, including a
large dragon-fly, apparently in fact almost certainly of the same
species as the one I took on the slope. The day was fine and
warm, of brilliant sunshine. W. DENISON ROEBUCK, Leeds.
BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS.
Rubus argentatus, P.J. Mueller, in Scotland. Both Dr. Focke
and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers agree in naming as above a Bramble
I gathered near Stranraer in Wigtownshire in 1898. It is the first
Scottish specimen that Mr. Rogers has seen. G. CLARIDGE DRUCE.