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Weedley Springs, near South Cave Station, yielded an inte- 

 resting' species in Chrysomela marginalis, Duft., identified by 

 Mr. M. L. Thompson, hitherto unrecorded for the East Riding. 



In this report it may not be out of place to mention that 

 a cabinet in the Hull museum is to be devoted to a type 

 collection of British coleoptera. This has been labelled 

 throughout with a complete list of the British species, of 

 which, as many as possible have been correctly identified 

 and inserted, but there are naturally many blanks, to fill up 

 which we hope to have the assistance of the entomological 

 members of our society. As far as possible the specimens 

 are localised, but in the case of certain rare species which 

 were found in an old museum collection, this, unfortunately, 

 has been impossible. Here is work in which entomological 

 friends could assist, by picking up specimens when on their 

 holidays in various parts of the country. Mr. J. Porter and 

 G. Mason have already assisted in this direction with speci- 

 mens from Market Rasen, including Saperda populnca, 

 Phytodecta viminalis, Adimonia Tanaceli, and Attelabus 

 curculionoides. 



BRITISH EGGS OF PALLAS' SAND GROUSE. 



THE erratic invasion or irruption of the Pallas Sand 

 Grouse (Syrrhaptes Paradoxus) in Europe has, at 

 various times, given rise to much comment amongst 

 ornithologists and the public generally. 



It is regarded as a very singular and exceptional move- 

 ment, and although almost every county in Britain can 

 include this Eastern bird as a visitor, only one or two have 

 the distinction of claiming it as a breeding species ; and 

 to Yorkshire alone falls the honour of producing the only 

 British eggs known to science. These consist of two clutches, 

 each a pair, the normal number, both taken on the high wolds 

 west of Beverley, one on June 15th and the other on July 5th, 

 1888. The specimens, here figured, were obtainad by the late 

 Mr. Johnson Swailes, and were at the time submitted to 

 Professor Newton, who mentions them in his " Dictionary of 

 Birds," p. 808. 



These two instances, and the finding of a young bird in the 

 down by a gamekeeper in Morayshire, are the only instances 

 we have of the Pallas Sand Grouse breeding in Britain. 



These unique specimens fortunately still remain in the East 

 Riding of Yorkshire, in the collection of Mr. T. Audas, who has 

 kindlv allowed them to be figured herewith (Plate XXXII.) — 

 T. S." 



