NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. XIX 



from the air, and not from the branches, on which they merely 

 rest. 



Mr. Ernest E. Barker exhibited a gigantic Spider-crab from 

 Japan, measuring 12 feet across between the points of the nip- 

 pers. Mr. Barker stated that he beheved the species to be Inachu.^ 

 Kempferi, and he made some remarks on the habits of large 

 marine crustaceans of this class. 



Mr. James J. F. X. King exhibited several species of Neicrop- 

 tera, on which he made the following remarks : 



Elipsocus cyanops, Rostock, is one of the Psocidce which I 

 captured at Kilmun in June 1880, by beating firs. At that time 

 the species had not been recorded for Scotland. It has been 

 taken at Worcester and Newmarket. 



Ccecilius piceus, Kolbe, I obtained at Boxhill, Surrey, during 

 a short visit spent in that favourite entomological hunting- 

 ground in July 1881. The species at that time was undescribed; 

 but it Vv^as subseqiiently described by Kolbe from specimens 

 taken in Saxony. 



Mr. King also exhibited an ample series of an interesting 

 variety of Panorpa germanica=\ ar. borealis, (Leach) Steph., 

 taken during July and August 1883, at Tongue, Sutherlandshire. 

 Alongside the variety was placed a series of the type for comi- 

 parison. It is to be noticed that the type does not occur at 

 Tongue, so far as can be ascertained. There was also shown a 

 specimen of the var. apicalis, Steph., taken at Dairy. 



The following papers were read: "Meteorological Notes for 

 1883, with Remarks on the State of Vegetation in the Public 

 Parks of Glasgow," by Mr. Duncan M'Lollan, Superintendent of 

 Parks;* "Notes on Tubularla gracilis,'' by Mr. W. Anderson 

 Smith; "With the British Association at Southport," by Rev. 

 A. S. Wilson, M.A., B.Sc, Vice-President. 



25th March, 1884. 



Dr. James Stirton, F.R.C.S.Ed., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. David Sharp, M.B., CM., Eccles, Thornhill, Dumfries- 

 shire, was elected an Honorary Member. 



Mr. W. Anderson Smith, Ledaig, Argyllshire, was elected a 

 Corresponding Member. 



Mr W. Hunter Bowie, 4 George Street, Edinburgh, was 

 elected an Ordinary Member. 



The Constitution of the Society, as revised by a Committee 

 of the Council, was considered, and, on the motion of Mr John 

 Robertson, it was unanimously adopted as follows : 



* Transactions, i. 80. 



