TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



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Monthly Meeting held January 15th, 1896, Mr. A. Collenette, 

 President, in the chair. 



There was a fair attendance of members. After the 

 usual formal business, Dr. F. de B. Collenette and Mr. Henri 

 Marquand were unanimously elected members, and four 

 persons were proposed for election at the next meeting. 



Mr. W. A. Luff read the following note, sent by him to 

 the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine of January, 1896, on 

 " Forficula auricularia, var. forcipata in the Channel Islands," 

 and also extracts referring to the forceps of Forficula auricu- 

 laria, from a paper by W. Bateson, M.A., and H. H. 

 Brindley, M.A., " On some cases of variation in Secondary 

 Sexual Characters statistically examined," in which the 

 authors refer to numerous specimens of the same variety 

 found on one of the Fame Islands, off the coast of Northum- 

 berland : — 



" On the west coast of Guernsey lies the small islet of 

 Lihou. It is connected with Guernsey by a rough cause- 

 way, said to have been constructed by the monks (the ruins of 

 whose monastery is still to be seen) to enable them to cross 

 from one island to another during low tides. This causeway 

 is about 700 yards long, and is covered during at least half of 

 every tide. The islet is of rectangular shape, and is about 

 600 yards long by 150 wide. It contains one inhabited house 

 with a few small patches of cultivated ground. The remain- 

 der is very sandy soil covered with grass and short herbage, 

 and abounding in wild rabbits. Near the shore, under stones, 

 I found numerous specimens of a large earwig. I submitted 

 examples of these to Mr. E. Saunders, F.L.S., who considered 

 them to be Forficularia auricularia, var. forcipata, Steph. I 

 find, however, that Stephens, who gives an excellent figure of 

 this variety in his " Illustrations," states that it is found in 

 high trees at Coombe Wood and also in the New Forest. I 

 have found the same variety on another but much smaller 

 islet, not far from Lihou, called Chapelle Dom Hue, which is 

 about 400 yards from Guernsey, and also accessible only at 

 low tides. I have searched the coast of Guernsey opposite 



