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bestowed on Diptera, Mr. Henderson referred to the successful 

 work accomplished locally in that department of entomology by 

 Messrs. A. Ross, J. Pv. Malloch, and James J. F. X. King, F.E.S. 

 It is gratifying to know that the Clyde list, which Mr. Henderson 

 now reckons as comprising upwards of a thousand species, is in 

 Britain second only to that list which takes the whole kingdom 

 as its field ; and we may therefore look forward to having, at no 

 distant date, a list of Diptera for the West of Scotland as 

 approximately complete as that of any of the other groups of 

 Insecta which have been so long and so well studied by local 

 entomologists. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd read a paper on " Sclerotinia baccarum, Rehm, 

 and its Allies' 1 (page 149). He also submitted a List of the 

 Phycomycetes. Protomycetes, and Ustilaginese, which occur as 

 parasites on stems and leaves of plants within the Clyde Area. 



23rd June, 1908. * 



Mr. D. A. Boyd, President, in the chair. 



Mrs. E. L. Hardie, 34 Montague Street, Great Western Road, 

 was elected an Ordinarv Member. 



Reports were submitted of Excursions from Balmaha to Rowar- 

 dennan (page 255), and from Braidwood to Tillietudlem (page 257). 



Mr. Robert W. S. Wilson exhibited a specimen of Richardson's 

 Skua, Stercorarius crepidatus (Gmelin), shot at Brigaird Spit, 

 between Fairlie and West Kilbride, on 1st November, 1902. It 

 had previously been observed chasing the gulls on Fairlie 

 Roads, and, when picked up, a small fish was found to be project- 

 ing from its bill. Mr. Wilson made some remarks on the habits 

 of this species (page 235). 



He also showed a Nightjar (Caprimulgus europceus, L.) which 

 had been killed on 2nd October last by flying against a telegraph 

 wire at Cardonald. In the course of some remarks he stated that 

 the species is not common in the vicinity of Glasgow, but has 

 occurred at Killoch Glen, Upper Pollok, Queen's Park, &c. The 

 Nightjar is a bird of the twilight, and hawks for the moths which 

 come abroad when the darkness is setting in. Its loud jarring 

 note can be heard half-a-mile away when the night is still. The 

 favourite haunts of the bird are the bracken-clad glades of 



