8O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l8 



specimen, by a quarter of an inch, out of many hundred that he had 

 bred. Dr. Skinner spoke about his work on the genitalia of Argynnis. 

 Orthoptera. Mr. Rehn commented on, and gave some illustra- 

 tions of the genitalic characters of several Orthoptera, showing that the 

 value of certain characters is not constant in the various groups or 

 families. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



ANTOINE GROUVELLE, specialist on the Clavicorn Coleop- 

 tera, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, June 9, 1917, aged 

 74 years. He became a member of the Entomological Society 

 of France in 1870, served as President in 1891 and 1897 and 

 was elected an honorary member in 1911. Until his retire- 

 ment, in 1907, he was Director of the State Tobacco Factory. 

 His papers number more than 150, one of the latest having 

 appeared in the Bulletin of the French Society for March 28, 

 1917. His collection of Coleoptera, said to be very large and 

 valuable, was bequeathed to the Paris Museum. (Obituary 

 notices in Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr., 1917, pp. 181-2, and Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., August, 1917.) 



The deaths of Commandant PIERRE XAMBEU, "author of 

 numerous works of compilation on the larvae of Coleoptera," 

 at Ria, Pyrenees-Orientales, France, on June 9, 1917, aged 80 

 years ; of Dr. E. A. GOLDI, formerly director of the museum 

 at Para, Brazil, subsequently named the Museu Goldi in his 

 honor, at Berne, Switzerland, July 5, 1917; and of Dr. MAX 

 STANDFUSS, of Zurich, well known for his experimental re- 

 searches on the variability of Lepidoptera (date of death not 

 given), are announced in the Bulletins of the Entomological 

 Society of France, 1917, Nos. 12 and 14. 



Among the deaths of entomologists during 1917, as a re- 

 sult of the war, we note with sorrow and sympathy for his 

 father, that of REGINALD JAMES CHAMPION, Lieutenant, Scots 

 Guards, July 18. 1917, at the age of 22. He had already pub- 

 lished four papers on insects. (Ent. Mo. Mag., London, 

 Sept., 1917.) 



