MEETINGS. 57 



Papilio machaon, a rare visitor : one was captured in Guern- 

 sey last year. Larvas of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth, 

 Sphinx Convolvuli have been taken in Alderney. Mr. Mar- 

 quand also sends Gnathoconus albo-marginata and Meloe 

 proscarabceus, which are both new to the list. 



One addition to the Guernsey list, Crambus Pinetellus, 

 a small but pretty moth captured by Mrs. Boley. A pupa 

 of Sphhtx Convolvuli was exhibited. This is the first ex- 

 hibited to the Society ; its special peculiarity is the protuber- 

 ance from the head, which will develop into the proboscis. 



Mr. Pobilliard of the Piette forwarded some curious balls 

 formed of dried cow-dung. These are formed by a large 

 black beetle, Copris lunaris, a near ally of the Egyptian 

 sacred beetle Scwabceus. This creature rolls up these balls 

 depositing in the centre an egg ; the larva when hatched 

 feeds on this till full grown and then passes still inside it into 

 the pupa state. 



A new station was mentioned for the Coccid Exceretopus 

 formiceticola peculiar to Guernsey, viz. : Pleinmont. Mr. 

 Collenette described the peat at Longy Bay, Alderney. 



Mr. Derrick then read a paper on the antiquities of Alder- 

 ney by the late Dr. F. E. Lukis, published in the Journal of 

 the British ArchaBological Association, April, 1847. Among 

 the most important information in the paper the following may 

 be noted : Mr. Lukis possessed an impression of a seal of 

 one of the superiors of ' the Order of Cordeliers, who is 

 supposed to have resided in Alderney ; this is not the original 

 seal, probably a copy of an anterior one ; it was found at 

 Valognes. The legend is " Sigillum custodis insularum 

 inferioris Normaniaa " ; symbols, the cross carried in a frail 

 bark beyond the sea. The S.E. part of Alderney was that 

 which the original inhabitants occupied ; here may be seen 

 traces of ancient buildings silted over by sand. There is a 

 Druid's altar in the N.W. on an elevated spot overlooking 

 the Bay of La Clanque ; urns are said to have been dis- 

 covered beneath it. A dilapidated Cromlech stands in the 

 valley east of Longy called "Le Vaux Tremblier." There are 

 two others on brow of hill, S.E. of Longy common ; part of an 

 urn was found under one. There is an entrenchment or dyke 

 on hill S.W. of Longy, also a stone cist on rising ground 

 over Longy common. When Longy was first brought under 

 cultivation, a dark-coloured subsoil was found under silt, in 

 it were fragments of pottery, querns and coins of Caligula, 

 Antonius Pius and others, also large stone pebbles with spindle- 

 hole in one end only ; near is a menhir, " La Pierre du Villain," 



