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Transactions. 
2nd January, 1885. 
Dr Gincurist, President, in the Chair. 28 members present. 
Donation.—The Transactions of the Berwickshire Natural 
History Club were laid on the table as a donation from that 
Society. 
Exhibits—Mr Starke, V.P., exhibited a copper-plate engraving 
of the Old Bridge of Dumfries. Mr Rutherford exhibited two 
cases of Caddis-flies, lent by Mr R. Service to illustrate Mr 
King’s paper. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
I. Notes on some Trichoptera from the Stewartry. 
By Mr J. J. Kine (Corresponding Member). 
On March 6th, 1880, a paper entitled ‘“ Notes on a Collection 
of Trichoptera 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, 
among 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, which 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, &c., 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 :— 
_ Phryganeide.—*Phryganea grandis, L. Phryganea varia, F., 
common—Maxwelltown Loch, &e. 8 
