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the Society. Until the outbreak of war, he had been in the habit 

 of spending several weeks abroad each year, so that a large number 

 of Swiss and French insects are included. His extensive library 

 reflected the wide range of his interests ; he generously left the 

 natural history portion of it to the Society. At the date of his 

 decease, in November, he was a member of the Council and Recorder 

 of Attendances. 



Lieut. W. F. Wolley Dod, who had joined the Society but recently, 

 died of enteric, in Macedonia. At the beginning of the war he come to 

 England from Canada, where he was an authority upon the 

 indigenous Xoctuida'.. 



E. K. Inge's membership was even more brief: he had been 

 elected only a month when he contracted double-pneumonia and 

 died three days later. He was a lepidopterist. 



Sydney Webb, who died in his 83rd year, became a member in 

 1888, and continued to take great interest in the Society, although 

 age and distance had prevented him attending our meetings in 

 recent years. Unlike the majority of entomologists, he began his 

 study of insects with the Tineina. Ultimately, there was probably 

 no finer private collection of British Lepidoptera than his, which 

 contained magnificent series of varieties and aberrations, and 

 included the collections of Bond and Gregson. 



T. R. Billups, though not a member at the time of his death, 

 was a past-president, having filled the chair in 1882 and again in 

 the years 1888 and 1889. He joined the Society in 1877, and was 

 for many years one of its most active members, frequently serving 

 on the Council. He was a keen collector of Coleoptera, the parasitic 

 Hymenoptera, and Tenthredinida . 



Death has also claimed some notable entomologists outside our 

 Society whose work will be greatly missed by all. 



A few of the year's contributions to biological knowledge may be 

 noted : — 



Mr. W. R. McConnell, in the " American Journal of Economic 

 Entomology," reports the discovery of another parasite of the 

 Hessian Fly, viz., Miris (or Eupehninus) saltator, a hymenopteron 

 of the family Rncyrtidw, which attacks both larval and pupal 

 stages of its host. 



Our new President, Mr. K. G. Blair, describes a beetle {Abax 

 parallelus) new to Britain. It is closely allied to Abax ater, and was 

 found on St. Mary's Island, Scilly, in .July, 1913. 



Mr. F. V. Theobald (" Entom.," July, 1919) describes several 



