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ti'ibutions to natural history, and of his inadequate means of support, 

 £100." Mr. Rippon is the author of Iconea OmitJiopterormn, a mono- 

 graph of the Piipilionine Tribe Truides of Hiibner, or Omithoptera of 

 Boi&duval, with 101 coloured plates and many figs., 2 vols., folio, 1898- 

 1906. He has also been responsible for the rro/'/^'s-section of Wyts- 

 mann Goioa Insectonuii, 1902. 



We regret to announce that two members of the South London 

 Entomological Society have fallen in action in France. Lieut. W. W. 

 Penn-Gaskell, of the C^)ueen's London Regiment, who was killed on 

 May 25th, and W. D. H. Gotch. 



In the May number of the l^nt. Mo. Ma;/. Mr. F. W. Edwards 

 announces several species of Diptera new to Britain, and describes one 

 as new to science. Turlionta rlaricanda, from Nethy Bridge, taken by 

 D. Sharp in 1908 ; T. subfusca, from Elgin, taken by T. Jenkinson ; 

 T. venialis, taken by A. Piflfard, in Herts; Itlnjuiosia tarnanii, from 

 Cambridge, F. .Jenkinson ; K.vechia liiinlata, from Lelant, Cornwall 

 and the" New Forest, taken by Col. Yerbury and F. C. Adams; /•-'. 

 meiiibrauaira, from Crowborough, taken by F. .Jenkinson ; Mycetophila 

 hialoiKssira, from Elgin, taken by F. .Jenkinson ; and ( iile.r kortoifus, 

 from Elgin, taken by F. Jenkinson, are all new to Britain. While 

 Plastosciara /icniitido is described as new to science, from specimens 

 bred from rotten wood at Stanmore Common, in 1914, by K. G. Blair. 



Mr. A. Bacot, who has been making investigations on the carrying 

 of disease in Sierra Leone during the past year, is shortly to return to 

 this country. 



The Syllabus of the London Natural History Society has come to 

 hand, and the larger proportion of its arrangements for the coming 

 session deal with Entomology, as did those of its predecessor the City 

 of London Society. 



Mr. R. S. Bagnall, F.L.S., F.E.S., our colleague, is largely respon- 

 sible for a new venture called the ]'asci(liii)i, an illustrated quarterly 

 dealing primarily with the Natural History of Northumberland and 

 Durham. The general editor is the Rev. J. E. Hull, of Ninebanks, 

 Northumberland, and in addition are the names of Messrs. G. Bolam, 

 of Alston, Cumberland, and J. W. H. Harrison, of Middlesborough. 

 The last named will no doubt be responsible for the Lepidoptera 

 section, for which he is eminently qualified. Mr. G. Bolam will deal 

 with Onithological records, etc., while Mr. Bagnall will see that the 

 sections devoted to Coleoptera and what are known as "other orders " 

 are adequately dealt with. In the current number a considerable mass 

 of records of all kinds have been collected in the various articles and 

 sections. There are several original articles, and some pages are 

 devoted to educative notes for young naturalists. A new species of 

 Neuroptera is described liy Mr. Bagnall from species taken at New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, in July, 1911. He names it as Cdnitott-Ja cnjjitnHeiiris, 

 and states that it is near <'. finrticola of Enderlein. May the I'asndion 

 flourish and win its way as the )'(irk>ihiie Xatioalist has done before it. 



We regret to see the announcement of the death of a well-known 

 illustrator of more or less popular natural history books, Mr. Thomas 

 Carreras. Many of his drawings and photographs are to be found in 

 Marcels of the I'nicerse and Jusect /yj/c, and he had collaborated with 

 Mr. Edward Step, F.L.S., in many of his undertakings. Quite 



