DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Of these it is only necessary in this place to speak very shortly. The DoG appears to have been early domesticated in the Long Island, bones having been found in a "Pict's house in Harris, carrying us back at least 1000 years, and so also with a small breed of SHEEP and a small-sized HORSE.* Bones of Swine have also been found, but their age would appear to be doubtful,† as Martin mentions some facts which seem to cast doubt upon the asserted antiquity of shell-mounds in the Long Island. Of other domestic and semi-domestic animals, it is only necessary to speak here of two. The WILD GOATS of Harris have very fine heads and horns, and, as far as wildness goes, are "as wild as the fery Deer themselves," as I was frequently told. I saw several in Harris, either in profile against the sky at the top of the great precipices in the Forest, or making their way along the ledges, where it is not always easy to discover them. The curious FOURHORNED SHEEP are to be seen upon several of the farms in Harris and North Uist. Mr. Macdonald, of Newton, usually keeps some of them. One which he gave some years ago to Lord Dunmore had five horns, the fifth projecting from the centre of the forehead. Of extinct British species possibly we may find a trace of the WOLF, Canis lupus (Lin.), in the name Loch Maddy in North Uist, though the loch is more probably named from the two rocks near its entrance, called Maddie gruamach and Maddie more. Remains of the SMALL FOSSIL Ox, Bos longifrons, Owen, are referred to by Dr. J. A. Smith, as having been found in a Pict's House in Harris, as noticed by Dr. James M'Bain, R.N., op. cit. in note, supra: or in "Ancient Underground Building at Neibost in Harris," by Captain Thomas of H.M. Surveying Ship "Woodlark."S * Vide Proc Royal Philosophical Society, Vol. 1., pp. 141-207-M'Bain. "Notice of various Osteological Remains found in a 'Pict's house' in the island of Harris." + Feilden. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgow, Vol. II., Op. cit., p. 64. p. 58. § Proc. Soc. Antiq. of Scotland, Vol. Ix., p. 634.--"Notes on the Ancient Cattle of Scotland." V.-On some New or Rare Hymenoptera. By Mr. PETER CAMERON. The species described by the author included Limneria fusipes, Holmgren, from Sutherlandshire; L. vestigialis, Ratz, bred from galls of Nematus gallicola-both additions to the British lists; L. flaviventris, Ratz, bred by Dr. B. White, from fir cones inhabited by Eupitecta togata, near Perth; Torymus azureus, Boh., bred from the same fir cones by Dr. White; and T. caudatus, Boh. (sec. Thomson), bred from fir cones collected by Mr. J. E. Fletcher, near Worcester, gathered to see if they would yield Coccyx strobilana. 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