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2nd January, 1885. 

 Dr Gilchrist, President, in the Chair. 28 members present. 

 Donation.— '^he Transactions of the Berwickshire Natural 

 History Club were laid on the table as a donation from that 

 Society. 



Exhibits.— Mx Starke, V.P., exhibited a copper-plate engraving 

 of the Old Bridge of Dumfries. Mr Rutherford exhibited two 

 cases of Caddis-flies, lent by ]\Ir R. Service to illustrate Mr 

 King's paper. 



Communications. 

 I. Notes on some Trichoptera from the Stewartry. 

 By Mr J. J. King (Corresponding Member). 

 On March 6th, 1880, a paper entitled " Notes on a Collection 

 of Triclioptera from the Stewartry," by Mr F. G. Binnie, was 

 read before your Society. At various times since then Mr 

 Service has forwarded to me some small collections of caddis flies, 

 amonw which I find 17 species that have not been recorded from 

 the Stewartry ; indeed, one species is new to the Fauna of Britain. 

 These, along with the species recorded by Mr Binnie, bring up 

 the number to 47 species in all, wliich is somewhat less than one- 

 third of the species recorded from Britain. No doubt if a little 

 more attention were paid to this much-neglected and interesting 

 group of insects, the number might be very much increased, as I 

 notice the absence of many common species, such as Limnophilus 

 centralis, L. vittatus, Micopterna lateralis, kc, that must occur in 

 the Stewartry. 



I might here ask the entomologists of the Society to collect 

 any caddis-flies that they may come across during the incoming 

 summer ; by so doing they will materially assist Mr Morton and 

 myself in a list of the caddis-flies of Scotland which we are about 

 to publish in the Scottish Naturalist. Caddis-flies require no 

 further attention in preparing them than do the Lepidoptera. 

 In the following list the species new to the Stewartry are indi- 

 cated by an asterisk. The arrangement followed is that of Mr 

 M'Lachlan in his " Revised List of British Trichoptera," published 

 in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 1882:— 



Phryganeidce. — *Phryganea grandis, L. Pliryganea varia, F., 

 common — Maxwelltown Loch, &c. 8 



