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'A. May, 1915. The aspens not yet in leaf: could find two only of D. tortrix 

 by beating ; of dejeani none. Again cut a turf with same experience as in 

 No. 2. Cut a piece more and observed tliat as the tortrix fell when shaken out of 

 the turf on to the sheet, so they lay without moving, some with all their legs 

 tucked underneath, others with just one or two legs extended: timed them by 

 watch and f^und that the first individual to walk away had remained quiescent 

 for six minutes, and the last of the batch noted was 20 minutes before it 

 moved. 



4. When searching the trees for larvae in June, observed that it was 

 quite coumion for the outer husk of the leaf bud to persist long after the leaf 

 had expanded, and for it often to adhere so firmly as to be carried up with the 

 stalk as it grew (Plate I, fig. d, photographed from dried specimens). — 

 James H. Keys, 7, Whimple Street, Plymouth : April, 1916. 



Teratology of A)iomala aenea De G. (frischi Fab.) — While preparing some 

 insect slides for the microscope a short time ago, I came across a specimen of 

 the above beetle, kindly given me by my friend Mr. J. Gardner of Hartlepool, 

 in which the external claw on the intermediate and posterior legs of the left 

 side was in each case bifid for about a third of its length ; all the other claws 

 were quite normal. — Geo. B. Walsh, 166, Bede-Burn Eoad, Jarrow-on-Tyne : 

 April, 1916. 



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Geoffreij Meade-Waldo, M.A., of whose untimely and wholly unexpected 

 death on March 11th we made a preliminary announcement in our last number, 

 had been a member of the staff at the Natural History Museum, S. Kensington, 

 since 1909, and occupied the post formerly held by the late W, F. Kirby, as 

 Assistant in charge of the collections of Hymenoptera. Although he had not, we 

 believe, previovisly much occupied himself with that gTOup, he speedily became 

 proficient in his new duties, and has done good and much-needed work in the 

 arrangement of the collections entrusted to him, and also produced valuable 

 memoirs on certain Families in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History " 

 and elsewhere. Parts iii and iv of the Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. for 1 914 contain a 

 Revision by him of the Ethiopian Odynerus spp., and he had undertaken to 

 deal with the Bees {Andrenidae and Apidae) of the world in Wytsman's 

 "Genera hisectorum." He had recently completed for this work his recension of 

 the genus Hylaeus F. (= Prosopis of authors) and we believe it would have 

 already appeared but for the outbreak of the great war. 



He was born in 1884. His taste for natural history early developed itself — 

 first, we understand, when he was a pupil at a well-known school in that " Para- 

 dise of Naturalists," the New Forest. He specially affected the Lepidoptera, 

 but was also keenly interested in all nature, and (as might be expected in a son 

 of Mr. E. G. B. Meade- Waldo) was a good field-ornithologist. He was at Eton 

 from 1898 to 1903, and then passed on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he 



