XO.V-r.lMTlSll INSECTS. .'].; 1 



COLEOPTERA (Beetles). 



Hyphydrus vaPieg'atUS, Anbe. This little si^ecies is rather common in 

 some ponds at the Vale. 



Cetonia mOPiO, Fabr. This curious black Rose Chafer is taken occasionally 

 on the southern cliff coast of the island, also in Sark, Herm and Aldernej. 

 It is so exactly like the beautiful green C. aurata in shape, size and mark- 

 ings that I at first took it for a melanic variety of that species, but that 

 well-known Coleopterist, ]Mr. U. 0. Champion, F.Z.S., informed me that 

 it was a distinct species which he had found rather commonly in the 

 Pyrenees. 



Onthophag'US taurus, L. This is a black species, the males having two 

 rather long horns on the vertex of the head, which are curved and 

 divergent. I have included it in my list, as although it is mentioned on 

 some of the British lists. Canon Fowler, in his elaborate w^ork on the 

 British Coleoptera, says "They are somewhat doubtfully indip^enous, 

 many of the specimens in our collections coming from Jersey or the 

 adjacent islands." 



Cpyptoeephalus Vittatus, F This pretty little beetle is black with a 

 yellow strijDe down the centre of the elytra. It is abundant on the 

 southern cliffs of Guernsey, where it almost always rests on the flowers 

 of a species of Leontodon. A variety occurs in Alderney without the yellow 

 stripe down the centre of the elytra, and this form does not seem to be 

 found anywhere else. 



Hymenalia fusea, lU. One specimen taken by sweeping on the cliffs at 

 Torteval, June, 1894. 



RhizOtPOgUS sestiVUS, 0/;r. One specimen captured by Mr. E. D. Marquand 

 in Alderney. 



NEUROPTERA (Dpagon-Flies). 



Caloptepyx ViPgO, L., race inendioiiale, de Selys. This fine species is very 

 local in Guernsey. It used to be commoner than it is at jDrescnt, but 

 many of the marshy fields where it occurred have been built over with 

 greenhouses. I have included it in this list as the form meridionale is not 

 found in England, but in Central and Southern France. 



Lestes baPbaPa, Fabr. A considerable number of specimens of this rare 

 species were taken by the late Rev. F. A. Walker, D.D., F.E.8., near 

 the pond on Longy Common, in Alderney, during 1900. Mr. McLachlan 

 says it is distinctly Mediterranean in its habits, but is found near Paris. 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., in his work on the British Dragon-flies, says 

 •'The only claim this insect has to a iDosition on the British list is the 

 presence of a male in the Dublin Museum, which was believed to have 

 been taken in Ireland. On such slender grounds the species should have 

 never been admitted. It may be recognised by the pterostigma, the 

 internal half of which is broAvn, the external half yellow." 



TRICHOPTERA (Caddis-Flies). 



Philopotamus insulaPls, McLach. This pretty Caddis-fly is peculiar to 

 Guernsey and Sark, occurring in early spring and agahi in autumn near 

 small rapid streams on our southern cliff coast and at the King's Mills 

 It was first described in Mr. R. McLachlan's " Monographic revision and 

 synopsis of the Trichoptera of the Phiropcan fauna," from which I copy 

 the following description and notes on the species. "Agreeing entirely 

 with F. montanm in the colour of the antennae, neuration of wings, ^:c., 

 and apparently without the slightest difference in the anal parts of tlie 

 male, but differing totally in the colour and markings of the wings. 

 The anterior wings are dull pale yellow cnused by a yeUow pubescence 

 on a nearly hyaline membrane trausversely retioulntod with greyish 



