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pared by the speaker with specimens in the Academy's collec- 

 tion determined by Professor Wheeler ; they appeared to be 

 Formica schaufussi Mayr. var. incerta Emery. Cases where 

 Odonata have survived for some time the loss of terminal 

 abdominal segments have been previously recorded, as for ex- 

 ample, by the speaker in the Transactions of this Society, 

 Vol. xx, p. 193. The present observation is also of interest 

 in recalling another source of danger to which these insects 

 are exposed at the critical period of metamorphosis. 



Dr. Calvert also exhibited about two hundred Coleoptera 

 which he had incidentally picked up in Costa Rica. 



HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



HERBERT DRUCE. 



The death of Mr. Herbert Druce was announced at the May 

 (1913) meeting of the Entomological Society of London. He 

 v:as born July 14, 1846, and is chiefly known as the author of 

 the section Lepidoptera Heterocera (excluding the micros) 

 of the Biologia Centrali- Americana, two volumes of text and 

 one of plates, published 1881-1900, enumerating 3,639 species. 

 Brief obituary notices appeared in The Entomologist for June, 

 1913, and The Entomologist's Record for June 15. The dis- 

 position of his collections was mentioned in the NEWS for Oc- 

 tober, page 374. 



DR. AUGUSTE P'UTON. 



Dr. Auguste Puton, author of works on the Hemiptera, 

 member of the Entomological Society of France since 1856 

 and the dean of its honorary members, died at Remiremont 

 April 8, 1913. (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1913, No. 8.) 



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PROF. FRITZ WACHTL. 



Fritz Wachtl, one of the five founders of the Wiener Ento- 

 mologische Zeitung and for nineteen years an editor thereof, 

 died March 4, 1913. Born in Breitau, Moravia, July 18, 1840, 

 he entered the forestry service and became Professor of Forest 

 Conservation and Forest Entomology in the Agricultural High 

 School in Vienna in 1895. His entomological publications, 

 which are listed in a biographical notice in the Zeitung for 

 July 15, 1913, (xxxii, 7-9), dealt largely with forest insects. 



DR. PAOLO MAGRETTI. 



The death of this Hymenopterist at Cascina Amata di Pa- 

 clerno Dugnano, Italy, on August 30, 1913, is announced. 



