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Entomologist for 1881 appeared an article on Hyphantria 

 tc.vtor and in the year before one on "Early Appearance of 

 Catocalas." In Entomological News for 1891 three articles 

 were by him, the most important being entitled "Hunting 

 Catocalae," a list of the local species being given with dates of 

 appearance. Mr. Johnson was a genial man and an ardent 

 collector and naturalist.- H. S. 



Obituary notices of the following entomologists have been 

 published in recent numbers (SeptemberNovember, 1920) of 

 the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (London): 



WILLIAM WEST, born at Rotherhithe in 1836, died at Har- 

 ringay, Middlesex. July 20, 1920. His work was in the brass 

 foundry of John Penn & Sons. Greenwich, for nearly fifty 

 years. He wa? one of the founders of the South London 

 Entomological and Natural History Society and Curator of 

 their collections. He presented his collection of Homoptera 

 ( ca. 3500 spmns.) to the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. Llis few written communications concern British 

 insects. 



E. C. ADAMS, an extensive collector of Diptera, who pre- 

 sented his specimens (ca. 9000), chiefly taken in the New 

 Eorest, to the same Museum, died in Eebruary, 1920. 



! ( V-\XK MILBURN How- LETT. Second Imperial Entomologist 

 of India (1907) and, at the time of his death, Imperial Patho- 

 logical Entomologist at Pusa, died after an operation at 

 Mussoorie, India, August 20, 1920. He was born at Norfolk, 

 in 1877, was a scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge (1896- 

 1900), taught in England, and then at Allahabad University. 

 first in chemistry, then in biology (1905-1907). He con- 

 tributed some of the sections to Professor Maxwell Lefroy's 

 Indian Insect Life (1909V Lie was especially interested in 

 Diptera and in chemical and physical problems relating to 

 entomology. 



ALT-REP EPMTXP Mr PP. who died October 7. 1920. aged 

 75, contributed articles on Hriti^h Lepidoptcra and Diptera 

 and was also a generous donor to the I'ntLh Museum of 

 Natural History. 



