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ever had feet. The bowl of a censer was rarely found, covers being 

 comparatively common. The branches suggested that the candles were 

 placed in front of consecration crosses. Outside Salisbury Cathedral 

 Church there were ten (out of twelve) discs 2ift. in diameter, each with 

 a small hole 2iin. below for fixing a candle. 



The President had no doubt about the English origin of the 

 exhibit, which had a general resemblance to Dinanderie, but by a 

 process of elimination could be narrowed down to England. Church 

 goods would at that date have been more naturally supplied from 

 France, but they would in that case have been of superior workmanship. 

 In the absence of proof to the contrary that type of cro?s might be 

 considered English, and several examples were known. The thanks of 

 the Society were due to the vicar and churchwardens for a most 

 interesting and unusual exhibition. 



Report of the Entomological Section, 1014. 



In Guernsey, insects were late in appearance in the 

 Spring and up to the beginning of June this year. From 

 the middle of June to the end of July I was on the Continent, 

 and cannot offer any opinion of the condition of things here. 

 Honey bees and Humble bees were busy at flowers on March 

 8th, but it was not until March 31st that I saw the first white 

 butterfly, Pieris rapes. On Saturday, May 10th, I Avas given 

 a pupa of Zygcena trifolii, which emerged on June 11th. 

 On May 18th I made an expedition to Pleinmont and found 

 the usual things fairly abundant, such as Chiysophanus 

 phlceas, Lyccena icarus, Polyommatus astrarche and Cyaniris 

 argiolus, Par urge oegeria, var. intermedia, was freshly emerging 

 in the lanes. On the cliffs P. megara was quite unusually 

 abundant, and here, just under the Avails of the semaphore, 1 

 Avas fortunate enough to take a beautifully fresh specimen 

 of the very rare aberration mediolugens (Fusch), a female. 

 Though this is one of our very commonest butterflies, I have 

 never met with the ab. mediolugens before, or seen a specimen 

 in a collection. I believe it to be eA^en most uncommon on 

 the continent. Dr. Seitz, in his large work of the " World's 

 Lepidoptera," which is now publishing, says that ab. mediolu- 

 gens is local in the middle Rhine, and that at Bergstrasse it 

 is said to replace this type ; but as the aberration is not on 

 sale in the German trade lists, I venture to doubt this. (I 

 have brought a type specimen to show Avith the aberration 

 that members may compare them). The next event of 

 interest occurred on August 20, when, in a garden above 

 Saints' Bay, I saAv a male specimen of the brimstone butterfly 

 Gonoptcryx rhamni. This is a rare butterfly in Guernsey. 

 The curious thing is not that it should be rare but that it 

 should occur at all, since the larva feeds upon buckthorn, 



