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The best capture among the Coleoptera is that of JEpus 

 Bobinii, a curious little beetle found at about mid-tide level on 

 the Vale Coast by Mr. Marquand. It has not been recorded 

 before for Guernsey, although Mr. J. Sinel in his paper on 

 " Submarine Air-breathing Animals " in the Transactions for 

 1890 says it is plentiful on the Jersey coast. 



During the early part of June, thousands of dead cock- 

 chafers {Melonthia vulgaris) were washed ashore round about 

 Braye Bay and Platte Saline in Alderney. The event was 

 noticed in the local papers, and the London " Globe " added 

 the following of its own : — " Now the beach and water are 

 positively brown with them, and the people of Alderney are 

 beginning to complain. Even the cliffs, it is said, are 

 beetling." It is conjectured that they swarmed on the 

 adjacent mainland and were driven out to sea during a terrific 

 thunderstorm that occurred on the previous day. The same 

 phenomenon has been noticed before, by that observant 

 naturalist, the late Dr. F. C. Lukis. In a local Guide 

 published in 1863, he says: — "The sea after many a glow- 

 ing autumn day is not infrequently strewed for miles with 

 swarming ants, and the beach sprinkled with the rejected 

 thousands of dead cockchafers." 



Four additions to the Aculeate Hymenoptera of Guernsey 

 have to be recorded, all taken at L'Ancresse by Mr. Marquand. 

 Of these Halictus zonulas is new to the Channel Islands. 

 Mr. Marquand also took two new species of Chrysididce or 

 Ruby Wasps, Hedychridium integrum and Ellampus auratus, 

 in a sand pit on L'Ancresse Common. These are beautiful 

 metallic coloured atoms, only flying when the sun is shining 

 brightly on hot days. 



On August 22nd I took near Grandes Rocques a very 

 rare Ichneumon fly, Melanichneumon ?iudicoxa, which is new 

 to the Guernsey list ; there is only one record of its capture 

 in Great Britain. Another Ichneumon fly, Pimpla pomorum^ 

 is also an addition ; it was captured in my garden at 

 Brock Road on August 17th. During August Mr. Mar- 

 quand captured a specimen of Phryganea varia, one of 

 the largest of British Caddis flies, at the Yale. 



The Pear Midge, Diplosis pyrivora, has proved rather 

 destructive this season in Great Britain, and infested pears 

 from Guernsey were sent to the Editor of " The Fruit 

 Grower," who said, " It would be interesting to know how the 

 insects got to the islands. Probably the midge has been 

 carried by the wind." 



On applying to Mr. H. C. Smith, of the Caledonia 



