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REPORTS. 



has not before been recorded for Guernsey in any stage and is 

 therefore an addition to our lists. On October 9th I received 

 a remarkably fine and perfect specimen of the Death Head 

 moth, A. Atropos, from Mr. R. Luff. And so late as November 

 13 Mr. Cohu, of Fosse l'Andry, brought me for identification 

 a larva of the same species which he had found feeding on 

 jasmine. It was the first I have seen of the uncommon 

 brown form of the larva, the usual colour being a rich green. 



General remarks : I have met with one specimen of 

 Colitis Edusa this year. The abundance of the small copper 

 C. PMcbcis was noticeable here in September as in many parts 

 of England. Other agreeable and not infrequent visitors to 

 flowers in the evening have been the Humming-bird Hawk 

 and the Convolvulus Hawk. Owing to the prolonged summer 

 there appears to have been at least one additional brood both 

 of Par urge megcera and P. Egeria, v. intermedia. Of the 

 latter I took a singularly dwarfed specimen. In the Ento- 

 mologist Mr. H. G. Lekay, of Upper Tooting, records the 

 capture in Guernsey of a perfect female specimen of Argynnis 

 lathonia, the Queen of Spain fritillary, on August 7th. This 

 capture, though not notified to the Society, should, I think, 

 be placed on record in our local Report. 



Frank E. Lowe, Sec. Ent. Sect. 



Report of Folklore Section. 



THE PASSING OF GUY FAWKES. 



There being a scarcity this year of miscellaneous matters 

 connected with Guernsey Folk-Lore, it may be interesting to 

 record the gradual local decadence and passing away of the 

 Guy Fawkes legend and celebration. 



There seems to be no existing record of the actual 

 introduction of this celebration into the Island, but probably 

 the practice was brought over from England in the early 

 years of the Nineteenth Century, when a considerable number 

 of farm-servants and other workmen are said to have immi- 

 grated from some of the southern counties, bringing certain 

 of their own customs and festal observances with them — of 

 which this Guy Fawkes commemoration is believed to have 

 been one. 



The most curious and interesting part of the matter, 

 however, is, that this new introduction — which, of course, in 

 itself really meant nothing to the Islanders — very quickly 

 absorbed and took the place of a much older annual celebration 



