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some are rare and local, being found only in single places in a 

 wide district of country ; namely, C. limosa, found only in 

 Barsci'aigh Loch [it grew in Maxwelltown Loch some 30 years 

 ago, but is now supposed to be extinct there] ; C. filiormis, 

 found only in Barscraigh Loch ; C. pendtda and C. extensa, and 

 C. punctata. The last is the rarest of our carices. It was found 

 by the Chairman and the Rev. Mr Farquharson of Selkirk some 

 six years ago in three places in the parish of Colvend. A. specimen 

 of it was sent to Edinbiirgh for identification ; but the botanists 

 there failed to perceive the distinctive peculiarities of the carex. 

 It was then sent to Mr Peter Gray, a Dumfries botanist residing 

 in London, who placed it before the editor of the Journal of Botany. 

 That gentleman pronounced it to be C j)unctata, and stated that 

 there was no record of another example of it having ever been 

 found in Britain, though it was known to exist in Ireland. This 

 specimen is now preserved in the British Museum. 



Carabus Glahatios. — Mr Lennon read a short paper on the 

 occurrence of this rare beetle on the top of Cairnsmore of Fleet in 

 June, 1880. Mr Andrew Murray in his Catalogue of the Coleop- 

 tera of Scotland gives no particular locality for C. glabatus, but 

 merely notes " North of Scotland, not common." Mr Lennon 

 infers from this that Mr Murray never met with it. Perhaps the 

 finest local collection of Coleoptera ever made was that of the late 

 Rev. W. Little, Kirkpatrick-Juxta, which was sold in London 

 after his death for £500. Little and Murray were very friendly, 

 and the former conti'ibuted much valuable information to the 

 latter when compiling his catalogue. As no mention is there 

 made of C. glabatus south of the Perthshire mountains, Mr 

 Lennon concludes that Little never met with it in Upper Annan- 

 dale. Indeed from all he could learn, this specimen of his, found 

 on Cairnsmore, was the first recorded in the South of Scotland. 



J^th February, 1881. 



Mr Watt, Rotchell House, in the Chair. 

 Nineteen present. 



Donations. — Four parts of Transactions of Epping Forest and 

 County of Essex Field Club. 



Report of Transactions Committee was submitted and adopted. 



