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rolircil from tin- post he lield in tlio Geologiciil De))fvrtnieiit of the Mancheatcr 

 Miisfum, Owfiis CoHoge. From 1857 to 1873 lie collected Culeoptera in the Man- 

 ciiester district, and in a sliort M8S. diary kept by him he recorded tlic following 

 Ciipl-ures amongst otliers •. — Cicindela hijbrida, L , (lying ])lentifully at New Brighton, 

 April 22!id, 1850; Carahus nifens, h, in profusion, Chat Moss, Muy 7th, 1859 ; 

 Saperda scalarls, L., Drinkwater Park, Prestwich, lU specimens, June 20tli, 1857 ; 

 Donacia .sparrfcinii, Ahr., Clifton Canal, July 12th, 1858. The new Tomlcus in 

 the utmost profusion in Drinkwater Park, coming out of the holes in the bark and 

 basking in the sun, April 4.tli, 1869 ; from the ravages it had made in the alder it 

 must have been in existence for years (this evidently refers to Dryoccetes alni, 

 Georg., recorded in Fowler's " British Coleoptera " as " first taken by Mr. Morley in 

 a wood near Prestwieh, Manchester, in February, 1861" [J. U. li.']}. Chrt/somela 

 hobsani, Stcph., one specimen near Stretford, along the Mersey, September 1st, 

 1860, plentiful at Jackson's Boat, Kiver Mersey, October 4th, 1873 (this note is 

 specially interesting as giving a more recent record for this species for the Man- 

 chester district than the one in Stephens' " Illustrations "and Stephens'" Manual," 

 and again in Fowler's " British Coleoptera," viz., " Manchester, in abundance 

 (Stephens)." The name of the var. hohxoni was evidently given in honour of 

 Edward Hobson, the celebrated Manchester inuscologist. President and Founder of 

 the Manchester Banksian Society, who died in September, 1830, a;tat. 48. Hobson 

 paid some attention to entomology during the years 1825 to 1827, and it is exceed- 

 ingly likely that he took the specimens mentioned by Stephens [J. H. B.]). — J. 

 H. Bailey. 



Rev. John Hocking Hocking, M.A., J. P., F.E.S., Rector of Copdock-with- 

 Washbrook, Suffolk, died on December 10th, 1903, aged 69. After being ordained 

 he officiated in various parishes in England, but in 1862 was called to a chaplaincy 

 in India, where he remained until 1880. On his return to this country he became, 

 in 1881, rector of Copdock, on the presentation of Lord Walsingham, until 1883, 

 and again from 1895 down to his decease. He was an enthusiastic collector of 

 Lepidoptera, but reserved in his habits, so that his brother entomologists seldom 

 knew much of his doings. The fortunate capture by him of that very rare (as 

 British) moth Xylina lambda {zinckenii) brought him before a meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of London on November 6th, 1895, where he exhibited it. 

 He became F.E.S. in 1896. 



Lancashike and Cheshire Entomological Society.— The Fifth Ordinary 

 Meeting was held in the Royal Institution, Liverpool, on Monday, November 16th, 

 Mr. Wm. Websteb, M.R.S.A.L. (St. Helen's), presiding over a large atten- 

 dance of members. 



Messrs. A. U. Garstang, F.R.S.L., of Southport, H. A. Sweeting, M.A., of 

 Liverpool, and Carrington B. Williams, of New Brighton, were elected Members of 

 the Society. 



Details in connection with the next (St. Helen's) Meeting having been dis- 

 cussed, Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, F.R.Met.S., F.E.S. , communicated an interesting 



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