120 OBITUARY NOTICES. 



(2) Description o£ a new species of Stomoxys (Diptera) 

 from South Africa. By Dr. J. Villeneuve. 



(3) A new species of Tachino-Oestrid from South 

 Africa (Diptera). By Dr. J. Villeneuve, 8th December, 

 191G. A description of the species, with the note " One 

 male from Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, alleged to have 

 been bred from a honey-bee (J. W. FitzSimmons). This 

 biological indication is the more interesting that nothing 

 was hitherto known of the habits of the Tachino-Oestrid 

 Diptera." 



(4) A contribution to the study of the South African 

 liigher Myodarii (Diptera Oalyptratse) based mostly on the 

 material in the South African Museum. By Dr. J. Ville- 

 neuve, 8th December, 1916. Contains descriptions of many 

 new genera and species. 



Obituary Kotices. 



1. H. E. Dresser. From " The Ibis " we note with regret 

 the death of Henry Elles Dresser at the age of 77. One of 

 the grand old type of English Naturalists, his name will live 

 lono- as the author of the nine volume work " History of the 

 Birds of Europe." He also wrote two folio monographs : one 

 on the Meropida3 or Bee-eaters, and one on the Coraciid?e or 

 Family of Rollers. Several other works of his need not 

 concern us here. 



2. Dr. D. G. Elliot, of New York, died on 22nd Decem- 

 ber, 1915, at the age of 80. He wrote, besides other works 

 and papers, a series of Monographs illustrated with very fine 

 coloured plates ; these deal with the Pittidse, Tetraonida3, 

 Pliasianidse, Paradiseidse, and Bucerotidre. His last work 

 was a " Review of the Primates " in three large quarto 

 volumes, begun in 1906 and finished in 1912, published by 

 the American Museum. 



3. Adolf Nehrkorn. — In the " Ardea : Tijdschrift de 

 Nederliindsche Ornithologische Vereeniging,'' we notice that 

 the veteran German Ornithologist Adolf Nehrkorn died on 



