210 TRANSACTIONS, NATUBAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Ardgowan were submitted by Messrs. Jas. Stark, D. A. Boyd, and 

 John Cairns, Jun. (see pp. 192-196). In connection with the report 

 of the Aiichenmade excursion, Mr. Boyd exhibited Rhynchospora 

 alba, Vahl., collected in the moss at Auchentibber, where it was 

 seen in unusual abundance. 



Mr. John Robertson exhibited eggs of the Cuckoo, Thru-shes, 

 Chats, Warblers, and Doves of the Clyde area. Special notice 

 was taken of the eggs of the three species of dove — Columba 

 palumhus, Linnajus, C. oenas, Linnjeus, and C. livia, Gmelin — as 

 this was the first occasion on which the eggs of these species 

 taken in the Clyde area had been seen together. 



Miss Wanda Zamorska showed the popular Jumping Bean, 

 Carpocapsa saliitans, and read a description of the fruit and larva 

 contained therein. 



]\Ir. John R. Lee exhibited Webera Ludwigii, Schp., from Ben 

 Vane. 



Mr. Robert Dunlop exhibited two Bats from New Zealand, 

 the Long- tailed Bat (Chalinolobus morio) and the Shorl^tailed 

 Bat (Ifystacops iuberculatus). He gave a detailed account of 

 both species, and pointed out that the former is still fairly 

 plentiful, but is decreasing in number as the brush is cut down. 

 The latter is very rare, and till the present has been found only 

 at a few places on the coast of New Zealand. 



Mr. Alex. Ross showed specimens of two species of Coleoptera 

 Strangalia quadrifasciata, L., and Cetomia Jloricola, Herbst., 

 taken by him at Tarbert, Loch Fyne, on 12th August, and both 

 known to be very rare in " Clyde." 



Mr. John Renwick then took the chair, and the President 

 (Mr. Ewing) presented his report as Delegate to the Bi-itish 

 Association at Cambridge. 



Volumes I. and II. of " Katalog der Paldartischen Dipteren," 

 and the Report of the British Association for 1903, were laid on 

 the table. 



