324 MEETINGS. 



MedieagO falcata, Linn. Bordeaux Harbour (J. 8. Collcns). 

 Melilotus parviflora, Lam. Doyle's Column (E. D. Marquand). 

 Trifolium inearnatum, Linn. St. Briocq, St. Peter's (excursion). 

 Trifolium hybridum, Linn. St. Sampson's Harbour (excursion). 

 Lathyrus aphaea, Linn. Field at Paxadis (J. S. Collens). 

 Centaurea ealeitrapa, Linn. Near Vale Castle (Miss Dawber). 

 Anagallis ecerulea, Sehreb. St. Andrew's (E. D. Marquand). Pleinmont 



(Miss Dawber) , Also very fine at Jethou. 

 MyOSOtis Balbisiana, Jord. Cliffs at Icart (Miss Dawber). 

 Orobanehe ecerulea, Vitt. Field near St. George Lookout (Rev. G. F. 



Saxby) . 

 Carex laevigata, Sm. Field path between Les Paysans and Caudre Mill 



(Miss Dawber in 1888). 

 Catabrosa aquatiea, Beaiw. Ditches near Ivy Castle (E. D. Marquand). 



T. C. Royle, Sec. Bot. Sect. 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



Owing to the wet summer, butterflies have been far less 

 abundant than usual, and there has been a noticeable scarcity 

 of such common species as the Garden Whites. 



Colzas Edusa (the Clouded Yellow) has been seen both in 

 the early spring and late autumn, but not in any numbers. 



The Black Rose-chaffer ( Cetonia morio), one of our 

 Guernsey prizes, has been again captured on the cliffs between 

 Moulin Huet Bay and Petit Port. It was flying swiftly in the 

 sunshine, and would be easily mistaken when on the wing for 

 the common Dor Beetle. It had not previously been taken 

 for some years. 



Fifteen species have been added to the list of Colcoptcra 

 already published. Amongst these Cistela fusca does not 

 occur in Great Britain. Meloe brcvicollis, one of the oil 

 beetles, is very rare and local in England. Gyrinus colymbus, 

 a whirligig beetle, is also extremely rare. 



I noticed a specimen of Brachinus crepitans (the Bom- 

 bardier Beetle) amongst some insects collected in Guernsey 

 by Mr. Peter Fourneau about twenty years ago. Dr. Lukis 

 records it for Guernsey in " Ansted's Channel Islands." I 

 have never taken it myself. It must be extremely local, or it 

 may be one of those species which is gradually dying out. 



There are seven additions to the list of Hcmiptera- 

 Heteroptera. Of these Sehirus bicolor is the largest and most 

 conspicuous. 



The species of Coccid mentioned in the last report as 

 taken near Bordeaux Harbour turns out to be quite new to 

 science. Mr. R. Newstead, F.E.S., has given a full descrip 

 tion of it in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for 



