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visitant ; it has been found in Deal, Dover, Folkestone, Heme 

 Bay and Gravesend ; it has also occurred in the Isle of Wight 

 and at Plymouth ; one example was recorded from the Irish 

 Coast in 1815, but this is very doubtful." 



A specimen of the extremely rare Meloe autumnalis 

 was brought to me during August ; it was taken at St. 

 Martin's. 



Several specimens of Hoplia philanthus were taken near 

 Grande Rocque on June 22nd. We had previously only one 

 record of its capture by Mr. Fourneau many years ago. 



A most interesting discovery is that of Clunio marinits a 

 small fly which occurs on the sea-shore at about half-tide, both 

 in Guernsey and Jersey. The male skims over the surface of 

 the water in rock pools. The female has only the merest 

 rudiments of wings, and both sexes have their mouths almost 

 obsolete. The larva feed on the green seaweeds ( Cladophora) 

 growing in the pools. 



This species was first discovered on the Coast of Kerry in 

 Ireland, by Mr. Halliday, in 1855, who described the male in 

 the Natural History Review of that year. It was not found 

 again until April, 1872, when Mr. Dale met with it on the 

 shore near Hastings. The only other mention of it is in the 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, for 1894, when both male 

 and female and the curious larva are described and figured by 

 Mr. Geo. R. Carpenter, B.S.C., from specimens taken near 

 Dublin. 



During the Society's excursion to Sark on August 30th, 

 I captured a specimen of Salius obtusiventris, a bee which 

 had not been previously recorded for the Channel Islands. 



Several species of Diptera and Hymenoptera which form 

 galls on various plants are additions to the list. 



An important paper written by Mr. Edward Saunders, 

 F.L.S., on the Hymenoptera- Aculeata of Jersey, Guernsey, 

 Alderney and St. Briac (Brittany), was published in the 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, for June, 1892. 



During a stay in Jersey of three weeks in 1901, from 

 the 5th to 24th July, Mr. Saunders captured no less than 

 129 species which, with the addition of 17 previously recorded, 

 makes a total 146 species for that island. Fifteen of these do 

 not so far as we know occur in Britain, neither have they been 

 recorded for Guernsey and Alderney. From the above data 

 and the lists published for Guernsey and Alderney in our 

 Transactions, Mr. Saunders has drawn up a Comparative 

 Table of species now known to occur in the three larger 

 Channel Islands. 



