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humming noise as they tried to get away. So great a 

 nuisance did this chafer-spinning become that our Royal 

 Court passed an Ordinance on May 25th, 1811, to put a stop 

 to it. As this is perhaps the only law for the prevention of 

 cruelty to insects in existence, I here give it in the original 

 French, thinking it worthy of insertion in our Transactions : — 



" Samedi, le 25e de Mai 1811, devant Pierre de Ilavilland, e"cuyer, 

 Baillif ; presents, Sfc. 

 " Sur la representation faite a la Cour par les Officiers du Rc-i 

 que des Enfants presque journellement font voler des Hannetons, en 

 leur attachent, un fil avec une Epingle, — La Cour, afin de mettre 

 fin a une coutume aussi cruelle, ouie la conclusion des Officiers du 

 Roi, a defendu d'en faire voler de la maniere susdite, sur la peine de 

 Trois Livres Tournois d' amende, ladite amende applicable moitie au 

 Roi et moitie au delateur. Et sera cette presente Ordonnance pub- 

 liee au cri du Marche et affichee aux lieux ordinaires, afin que 

 personne n'en pretende cause d' ignorance." 



The number of species of Beetles at present known is at 

 least 100,000 (the British species alone numbering about 

 3,300) and new forms from all parts of the globe are being 

 constantly described in the various periodicals devoted to 

 Entomology. 



In our little island we have succeeded in finding 515 

 species, many of them rare and local, and I have no doubt 

 that ere long the list will be greatly extended. 



In collecting the material for the present list I have to 

 thank our worthy President, Mr. E. D. Marquand, and his 

 brother, Mr. E. P. Marquand, for their kind and able assist- 

 ance. As the result of three or four months assiduous collect- 

 ing in the early part of the year they have added no less than 

 116 species to those collected by myself. Many of these 

 belong to the minute and difficult orders. The initials (E. D. 

 and E. P. M.) are appended to these. 



Specimens of most of the species have been submitted 

 for examination and naming to three of the best known and 

 ablest Coleopterists in England, viz. ; Mr. G. C. Champion, 

 F.Z.S., Editor for Coleoptera of the Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine ; the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., author of the 

 " Coleoptera of the British Islands," and Mr. W. G. Blatch, 

 F.E.S., of Knowle, near Birmingham. To these gentlemen I 

 here tender my hearty thanks, for on the correct naming of 

 the species the value of any local list must depend. 



Amongst our Guernsey species three have never occurred 

 in Great Britain, and one is only doubtfully British. These 

 are : — 



