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some unnamed insects, and besides this there is a new and unnamed species of 

 PsylloideSj which occurs apparently only at Lundy. 



The Botany of the Island is peculiar, the moisture, and entire absence of 

 frost (the climate being the same as at Scilly), being in favour of a rapid 

 growth of vegetation, while the terrific winds which prevail keep down the 

 development, and makes most parts of the surface a barren expanse of granite 

 and moss. In sheltered parts fuschias grow in hedges, the Hydrangea and 

 rhododendron thrive well, and the gazania lives through the winter. Other 

 plants are the bracken, which covers some parts of the East coast, digitalis 

 (Foxglove), thrift, heather, &c. The furze is not Eurqpaus, but a dwarf 

 form, Nanus. 



The granite of Lundy was worked by a company in 1863, and a very large 

 quantity was used in the Thames Embankment and other places, but the 

 great difficulty of carriage proved insurmountable, and the work was finally 

 abandoned. In the olden times Lundy granite was used in the churches of 

 Cornwall and Devon, so it must have been quarried long ago. 



No minerals are worked, but the following have been observed, copper ore, 

 garnet, mica, rock crystals, fluor, and felspar, with some small crystals of 

 beryl. China clay is occasionally met with, and quartz in the slate in every 

 direction. One half of the Island is of granite formation, and the other of 

 tlate, thus partaking of the characteristics of the opposite coasts of Wales 

 and Devonshire. 



Altogether, Lundy is a strange out of the way place, and well worthy of a 

 visit to anyone with a little time to spare. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



September 1, 1887. — Dr. Sharp, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of 

 Woodstock Koad, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. J enner Weir exhibited a living larva of Myrmeleon eurojiceus, which 

 he had taken at Fontainebleau on the 6th August last. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of bred specimens of both sexes of Zelleria 

 hejiariella, Stn. ; and also, on behalf of Mr. C. S. Gregson, a series of eighty 

 varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, selected from the specimens bred during 

 the year 1886, from 4000 larvse obtained from eggs laid by selected varieties, 

 the result of crossing and interbreeding for more than twenty years. 



