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decrepitalis could not be found last year in its usual locality, and 

 that P)ubalapteryx lapidata was much scarcer than in the previous 

 year. In addition to these already mentioned two other species 

 of Macro-Lepidoptera were added to our list during the year — 

 Bryophila pa-la and Ephyra punctaria. Mr. R. Henderson also 

 picked up at Tarbert a very interesting beetle — one of the 

 Rose-chafers, Tridws fasdatus. Cfcterv<.<x -f(o-^cco7/\ 



It was our intention at the beginning of the year to take up the 

 Hemiptera of the district systematically, but I am sorry to say 

 that progress in this direction has not been so great as we 

 expected. In regard to the Diptera, some work has been done 

 in the group Tipulidce, principally in the two genera Pachyrrhina 

 and Tipula. At the first meeting of the Session I submitted a 

 partial report of the work done by this Section since its formation, 

 and at the same time I laid on the table a fully detailed list of the 

 Macro-Lepidoptera of the district, founded entirely on the work 

 of the members of the Section. 1 I have also to report that at the 

 beginning of the year we were enabled to hand over to the 

 authorities of Kelvingrove Museum a collection of over 100 

 typical species of British Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera, 

 and we hope to be able to do more in this direction in the future. 



1 A copy of this is engrossed in the Minutes of the Society, and the substance 

 of it, with additions, is to be published in the hand-book now in 

 preparation for the meeting of the British Association in Glasgow in 

 1901 (Ed.). 



EDITORIAL NOTE. 

 The above reports are printed here as a memorial of the writer, George 

 Walker Ord, who was Convener of the Entomological Section of this Society 

 from 1893 till his untimely death on the 9th August, 1899, at the early age of 

 twenty-eight. At the meeting in September, our President, Mr. John Paterson, 

 read an "In Memoriam " notice, the substance of which is printed in the 

 Annals of Scottish Natural History (Oct. 1899, pp. 193-6), and Mr. Robert 

 Henderson of this Society also contributed an "In Memoriam" notice to the 

 Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow (Vol. V. (N.S.) 1900, 

 pp. 319-21). Consequently it is sufficient here to say that by his death our Society 

 has lost one of its most active and capable members, and one who frequently 

 contributed in various branches of natural history to its proceedings, for while 

 his favourite subject of research was entomology, he was, in the first place, a 

 good naturalist. As such, and as a man, we mourn his death, and would 

 commend to his fellow-members the spirit which runs through such work as is 

 here given the permanency of paper and type. 



