Vol. XXVl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



is an eternal recommencement. In place of a siege we have the 

 'tauben' sinister passenger pigeons one of which dropped a bomb, 

 the day before yesterday, in the Rue Guy-de-Labrosse, very near the 

 Museum of Natural History." 



The following members of the Society are serving in the Army : 

 Dr. R. Jeannel, secretary ; Dr. Maurice Royer, first assistant secretary ; 

 J. Sainte-Claire Deville, L. Semichon, J. Surcouf, J. Achard, A. Mag- 

 delaine, Joseph de Muizon, Georges Koechlin, Dr. Maurice Bedel, G. 

 Billiard, V. Laboissiere, A. Mequignon, Dr. L. Bettinger (whose 

 collection was destroyed in the bombardment of Rheims), L. Beguin. 

 G. Babault (recently returned from an expedition in the Himalayas), 

 P. Chabanaud, A. Lavallee, L. Legras, P. Vayssiere, J. Vincent, /. 

 Aitbail, J. Herve-Bazin, E. Roubaud and E. Dattin. [Those whose 

 names appear in italics have been wounded in action. Elsewhere 

 in this NEWS the names of those killed in battle are given.] 



At the end of the meeting of Nov. n, 1914, "M. A. Bourgoin, con- 

 sidering that the closing of the cafes at 8 o'clock deprives us of the 

 traditional 'humid session,' proposed to contribute to the 'soldiers' 

 tobacco fund,' the savings to be realized from this fact. This gen- 

 erous thought of our Archivist-Librarian was adopted and the col- 

 lection produced a sum which will procure for thirty-two of our 

 brave soldiers in the bottom of their trenches the joy of receiving 

 each a package of 'caporal.' " 



At the meeting of July 22 the Passet Prize was unanimously voted 

 to P. de Peyerimhoff for his memoirs on the larvae of Coleoptera. 

 (Bulletin, 1914, Nos. 14-17). 



OBITUARY. 



[From recent numbers of the Bulletin of the Entomological 

 Society of France for 1914, we learn of the death of the fol- 

 lowing entomologists.] 



HENRI ACHARD DE BONVOULOIR died at Paris, July 13, 

 1914, at the age of 75 years. Undertaking the study of the 

 Coleoptera when a young man, under the direction of C. 

 Jaquelin Duval, he first turned his attention to the Throscidae, 

 of which he produced a monograph in 1859. After some ad- 

 ditional papers on this group in 1860 and 1862, he turned his 

 attention to the Eucnemidae. His monograph of this family 

 was published by the French Society in four parts from 1871 

 to 1875 and amounts to 908 pages and 42 plates. He became 



