TBANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



GLASGOW SOCIETY OE FIELD NATURALISTS. 



THIKD ANNUAL MEETING. 



187 George Street, 20th March, 1S74. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society was held here this evening — 

 Mr. James Allan, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year :— 

 James Stirton, M.D., President; Richard M'Kay and Peter 

 Cameron, jun., Vice-Presidents; John Harvie and F. G. Binnie, 

 Secretaries; George Barlas, Treasurer; Alex. Watt, Curator; 

 James Allan and W. D. Benson, Memheo^s of Council. 



specimens exhibited. 



By Mr. Peter Cameron, jun. — Two saw-flies, new to Britain, 

 Blennocampa aterrima, Klug., a species distinguished from the 

 rest of the genus by its entirely deep black colour, and by the long 

 pilose antennae. Hoplocampa pectoralis, Thomson, the only 

 recorded locality for which is Gothland ; its nearest British ally is 

 H. crataega. The first of these was taken by Dr. Buchanan 

 White at Braemar, and the latter by the Bev. T. A. Marshall at 

 St. Albans. Also two new saw-flies described by him in the 

 "Entomologists' Monthly Magazine": Taxonus glottianus, of 

 which a single specimen was taken at Kenmuir Bank ; and 

 Nematus graminis, a not uncommon species in the district, the 

 larva of which feeds on grasses. 



Mr. James Allan communicated an extract from a letter which 

 he had received from Mr. Williamson, corresponding member, 

 mentioning the occurrence of Trichonianes radicans, near Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky. 



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