1877. J 167 



Anthocoris nemorum, and A. nemoralis. 



Lyctocoi-is catnpestris (rare). 



Ceratocomhus coleoptralus (rare, under stones). 



Crt/ptostemma aliemim (Findhorn Banks). 



Ploiaria vagahunda (rare, on yew). 



Nabis Umbatus, N.ferus, N. rugosus (not common), N. ericetorum. 



Salda scotica, S. littoralis (near the rifle butts), S. orthochila (on dry banks), 

 S. opacula (rare), S. c-album, S. pallipes, S. saltatoria, and iS. cincia. 



Hydrometra stagnorum (rare). 



Gerris thoracica. 



Velia currens. 



Nepa cinerea (rare). 



Notonecta glauca. 



Corixa Qeoffroyi (local), C. prausta, C. hieroglyphica (local), C. lugubris 

 (rare, pond at Moy), C. Stall (rare), C.Linnai, C. Sahlbergi, C. striata, C. vernicosa, 

 C. mcesta, C. Fabricii, C. semistriata, C. venusta, C. fossarum (rare, Locli of the 

 Blairs), C. Scott i, C. variegata. 



Cymatia Bonsdorffi (local).— Gr. NoRMAN, Cluny Hill, Forres : October, 1877. 



Linnean Society (Insects of the Arctic Expedition) : 15th November, 1877. Dr. 

 J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., &c., in the Chair. 



A "Report on the Insecta (including Arachnida) collected byCapt. Feilden and 

 Mr. Hart, between the parallels of 78° and 83° N. latitude, during the recent Arctic 

 Expedition," was read by its author, Mr. McLachlan : the following is a brief abstract : 



Commencing with some eulogistic remarks concerning the naturalists of the 

 Expedition, especially referring to Capt. Feilden, E.A., who was attached to the 

 "Alert" (Mr. Hart, who occupied a similar position on board the " Discovery," 

 being a botanist), the author said he regarded the insects as the most important 

 of all the zoological collections made during the voyage. The Arachnida had been 

 included in the materials placed in his hands by Capt. Feilden (with tlie consent of 

 the Council of the Eoyal Society). 01 these, the true spiders had been worked out 

 by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, and the Acari were being studied by Mr. Andrew 

 Murray. The Diptera had been examined by Baron Osten-Sackcn ; the other insects 

 (with occasional help) bj' the author. The materials solely referred to the Fauna of 

 Grinnell Land, on the west side of Smith Sound, that of Greenland having been 

 already, tolerably well examined. From this high northern region, about forty-five 

 species of true insects (excluding Arxchnida, which numbered six species of Aran- 

 eidea, and about the same of Acaridea) were brought, including five species of 

 Hymenoptera (two of them Bomhi), only one beetle {Quedius fuhjidus) , thirteen of 

 Lepidoptera, about fifteen of Diptera, one of Hemiptera (the walrus parasite, Hema- 

 topinus trichechi), seven of Mallophaga (bird-lice), and three of Collemhola (Poduridce). 

 Tlie Bomhi frequented the flowers of a Pedicidaris, and were probably instru- 

 mental in effecting the fertilization of that plant. Of the Lepidoptera, five species 

 (included in thirty-five specimens) were showy butterflies, viz. : Colias Hecla, var., 

 Argynnis polaris, A. Chariclea., (protean vars.), Chrysophanus phlceas, var., and 

 Lycama Aqvilo ; the other Lepidoptera were represented by Dasychira groenlandica 

 (the large hairy larva; of which were found abundantly almost up to the highest 

 point reached), two Noctuid.w (a new species of Mamestra!', and Plusia parilis), one 

 Geometer (Fsychophora Sabini), a new species of Scoparia (nearly black), and three 

 Tortricidoe. The Diptera included the common arctic Tipula arctica, Culices, a Tri- 

 chocera, Chironomi, Muscidw, and Tachiniidue. 



