428 REPORTS. 



Report of the Eutoiiiological Section. 



In presenting the seventeenth anrnuil re])ort of the 

 Entomological Section, I am pleased to say it is one of the 

 most interesting of the series. Many additions have been 

 made to the lists of species and several important obser- 

 vations have been recorded. 



The most numerous additions to our lists have been made 

 by Mr. E. D. Marqnand, A.L.S., who, taking advantage of 

 the fine weather we have enjoyed this snuiner, has devoted 

 a great deal of time to the ca])ture of the insects belonging 

 to that sun-lovdng family, the IcJuicumonidce^ in various ])arts 

 of the island. Mr. Mar([uand was well qualified for the task, 

 as he knew exactly the right localities to search for the 

 various species, having collected in the Land's End district 

 of Cornwall, and published a list of the species in the 

 Transactions of the Penzance Natural History Society for 

 1883-4. Nearly three hundred specimens were taken, and 

 they have all been kindly examined and named by Claude 

 Morley, Esq., F.E.S., who has just completed the third volume 

 of his valuable monograph on the British IchneumonidsB. 

 There are 59 additions to the Guernsey List, several being 

 of great rarity, as : — Mclanichen anion danieticola^ Ischnus 

 thoracicns, Bariclineuman incnhitor^ Mesolcius fascialis^ Lis- 

 sonota divei'sor, &c. 



None of our occasional butterfly visitors such as Lanipides 

 hoetica^ Papilio rnocliaon^ &c., have been observed this year. 

 Colias cdusa (Clouded Yellow Butterfly) has not been plentiful, 

 but several were seen on the wing at a late date, one on 

 November loth at Petit Bot Bay. I saAV a specimen of 

 J^anessa, atahuita (Red Admiral) for three days in succession, 

 from November 2nd to 4th, busily engaged in extracting 

 honey from the flowers of the ivy in Doyle Koad, thus 

 testifying to the mildness of the season. 



The Rev. F. E. LoAve, F.E.S., found a nearly full-grown 

 larva of J.ambcssa (BonLhyx) rnhi in the Upper Croutes 

 on September 19th. This fine moth is not on our list, and 

 it is not recorded on Ansted's list, although it is there noted 

 as occurring in Jersey Avhere I have myself taken it. I 

 rather hesitate to record this larva as of Guernsey descent, 

 as Mr. Lowe says that in 1^91 he brought back from England 

 a dozen larvas of this species and liberated them beyond 

 the Imperial Hotel at Pleinmont. He had quite forgotten 

 the circumstance until he took this larva. It may be a 

 descendant of these introduced specimens. A fine specimen 



