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SOUTH OP SCOTLAND ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATUKAL HIS- 

 TORY SOCIETY. 



The annual Exhibition Meeting of the Members of this Society, was held in 

 their Meeting Place, Bridge Street, Galashields, on Saturday, November 5th. 

 This Meeting is held for the purpose of exhibiting those insects and other 

 Natural History objects, captured, or otherwise acquired, during the past 

 season. There was a good attendance of members ; and the season having 

 been good, many insects were exhibited. Of the Diurni, all the genus Pieris 

 have been most plentiful ; Arlaxerxes, Alexis, Phleas, Davus, Patnphilus, 

 /anira, and Hyperanthus in their usual numbers ; Blandina and Aialanta 

 have been most abundant, while Urlicae and Cardui, usually common here, 

 have scarcely been seen. Of the Nocturni, Populi has been very plentiful, 

 and the rare Acherontia Atropos and Sphinx Canvolvuli have both been taken 

 in the district. Among the^Bombyces Plantiginis, fuliginosa, Caja, Rubi, 

 Quercus, and Vinula, were all fairly abundant ; but Carpini has been unusu- 

 ally scarce. Of the Noctuidae triangulum, brunnea, baja, gothica, Janthina, 

 Orbona, Fimbria, Pronuba, cxoleta, Oxyacanihce, nigra, ferruginea, liiura, 

 stabilis, instabilis, rurea, polyodon, strigilis, impura, and Psi were taken about 

 in the usual numbers," and Saiellilia and the lovely Aprilina were positively 

 swarming ; while many single captures of other species were effected. Geome- 

 ters were also somewhat numerous, and several species were added to the list 

 of those already captured in the district. Mr. Clapperton exhibited a fine 

 case of Diurni from North America, including Danais Plexippus and Chrysitis, 

 several fine varieties of Argynnis, and a number of the American type of V. 

 Cardui, which is rather larger than the English form. Mr. Wilson had some 

 rery large foreign Coleoptera ; and a number of very fine cases of exotic in- 

 sects in splendid condition, were exhibited by T. D. Gibson Carmichael, Esq., 

 Chiefswood, including lovely specimens of Morpho Cypris and M. Adonis, 

 from New Granada and Brazil, several fine Papilios from the Himalayan dis- 

 trict, and a magnificent series of Omithoptera Brooheana from Borneo. A 

 fine case of the large silk-producing Bombyces was also among this lot, contain- 

 ing Capraria and Isis from South Africa, Myliita from India, and Polyphemus 

 from North America. This has undoubtedly been the most successful show 

 ever held by the Society ; as, apart from the local collection, the cases of Mr. 

 Carmichael contained some of the finest insects ever seen by any of the 

 Members. 



Old Kirkpatrick Naturalist and Antiquarian Society. The 

 inaugural address at the formation of this new Society was delivered by the 

 President, the Rev. James Lamb, U.P. Church, Old Kirkpatrick, on the 24th 

 Oct. The meeting was public and the President took the opportunity of 

 explaining the nature and objects of the Society, and the peculiar richness of 

 the district in material for study. The first regular meeting of the Society 

 was held on the 28th Nov. when a very interesting paper was read by John 



