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Secretary (Mr Service), we together made minute examina- 

 tion of it, but after careful research cotild find no trace what- 

 ever of such an insect in any books within our reach treating 

 of British Butterflies. We therefore determined on sending 

 it for identification to the Entomological authorities in Lon- 

 don. In due course we were favoured with a reply from the 

 editors of " The Entomologist," desiring every detail in con- 

 nection with its capture, and thereafter urging me to assure 

 them of its being a hona-Jide specimen caught in Britain. 

 Having fully satisfied them in every particular connected 

 therewith, the result of our correspondence has just been em- 

 bodied in an article on the species in question from the pen 

 of Dr Jenner Weir in last month's publication (February) of 

 " The Entomologist," and it affords me pleasure in laying 

 this journal now before you. And in conclusion, I have only 

 to specify the exact locality of its capture, which was at Dal- 

 scairth, to the left of the Dalbeattie Road, at the bottom of 

 the plantation below the meadow. And let me further 

 inform any of our friends now present who purpose devoting 

 some of their time and attention to the study of Entomology 

 in any of its numerous branches, that their researches at 

 this particular spot are certain to meet with success. 



A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF " RACKY." 

 By Dr Grierson. 



Read April 6th, 1877. 

 More than six years have passed since there was brought 

 to Thornhill Museum a little animal said to be a Raccoon, and 

 it received the name of "Racky," but it was evident that it was 

 not a Raccoon ; its general aspect was not that with which 

 I was in any way familiar. After consulting various authori- 

 ties in Natural History, at length I was able to identify it 

 with the Brown Coatimondi (Nasua naurica) of South 

 America, an animal belonging to the family Yiverridae, of 

 the order Carnivorse. It was the Rev. Alex. Donaldson of 



