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A Study of the Aquatic Coleoptera and their Surroundings in the 

 Norfolk Broads District: by Frank Balfour Bkiw-ve, \f.A., F.R.S.E., 

 F.Z.S. Second Paper (Reprinted from tlie Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwidi 

 Naturalists' Society, vol. viii). 



The fireseiit paper is in continuation of one noticed by us in vol. xli, p. 243, 

 aud like it is of very high bionomic interest and value to the students of our 

 " water-beetles." It embodies the further researches of the author in the rich 

 district of the Norfolk Broads in the season of 1905, and is written on the same 

 lines and the same thoroughness as its predecessor. A large amount of addilional 

 information as to the life-history and distribution of many species has been obtained, 

 and the re.sulls of the writer's assiduous collecting and observation are presented 

 graphically in two very interesting charts, in which the work of the two years 

 covered by both papers may be compared at a glance. 



i)bituarn. 



William Christopher Boyd. — It is with deep regret that we heard of the 

 death, on September 18th last, of Mr. W. C. Boyd, who was head of the firm 

 of Messrs. J. and C. Boyd, Manchester Warehousemen, of Friday Street, London, 

 E.G. He was elected to the Entomological Society of London as long ago 

 as 1867, at which time he resided at Cheshunt, though for some years past The 

 Grange, Waltham Cross, has been his home. Deeply interested in all the 

 British Lepidoptera, including even the minutest of the sadly neglected Tineina, 

 our friend made the most of his opportunities of studying them, and the notes from 

 his pen that are scattered through many volumes of this Magazine testify to iiis 

 keen powers of observation, and his consequent success as a collector ; the earliest 

 of these is to be found in vol. v (1868-9), and the latest in vol. xl (1904.) ! In 

 proof of the valuable work for which we are indebted to him, it will be sufficient to 

 mention that Cohophora pofentiUx (Boyd MS.), Stn., was new to science when he 

 discovered it, and that his additions to the British List include the extremely rare 

 Ebulea catalaunalis, and the very local Nepticula minusculella. Mr. Boyd was, in 

 addition, an ardent sportsman, equally proficient, with his gun and with the cricket 

 ball, and his interest in philanthropic work is shown by the fact of his being one of 

 the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A most cheery and pleasant com- 

 panion, blessed with a strong vein of humour, he will be much missed by those of 

 us who were privileged to enjoy his friendship. — Eustace R. Bankes. 



William Chayiey. — We regret to learn of the death of this veteran Entomolo- 

 gist, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on November 3rd, 1906, at the ripe 

 age of 78 years. A native of Chatham, and employed in the Royal Dockyard there, 

 he became interested in Entomology at an early age, and contributed many notes on 

 the Lepidoptera of his neighbourhood to the " Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer " 

 and other periodicals. The knowledge which he acquired of the insect fauna of 

 that beautiful and productive portion of the County of Kent was most thorough, 

 and his " List of the Macro- Lepidoptera of the Rochester District," published in 

 the quarterly " Rochester Naturalist" (1S84— 1889) is one of the most valuable and 



