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? Ps. obscura "with a touch of hobleyi" in the act of oviposition ; and though 

 the butterfly was not secured, the larva resulting from the single egg found was 

 successfully reared, and proved to be, as anticipated by Dr. Carpenter, Ps. terra, 

 the commonest form on Bugalla. Unfortunately this important discovery was 

 not made in time to be announced at the Oxford Congress, the single word 

 " terra " being cabled to Prof. Poulton on August 19th. As more eggs from 

 known forms of ? Pseudacrseas have recently been obtained by Dr. Carpenter, 

 it is to be hoped that direct proof of Dr. Jordan's conclusions as to the specific 

 identity of all the Uganda forms of the genus will shortly be forthcoming, and all 

 eoncei-ned in this research may be heartily congratvUated in their efforts at the 

 sohition of a " bionomic problem of extraordinary interest and complexity." 



Herbert Jordan Adams. — The arrival of Mr. Adams' valuable collection of 

 Exotic and Palaearctic Lepidoptera at the National Museum in Cromwell Road 

 has reminded us that no obituary notice of this entomologist has as yet 

 appeared in our pages. He was born in London in 1838, and died on March 1st 

 last at Roseneath, Enfield, in his 74th year, having resided in that district for 

 upwards of 50 years. Taking an interest in insect life, he commenced in a rough 

 way the usual schoolboy's collection of butterflies and moths, thus laying the 

 foundation in later years of a really fine collection of British Lepidoptera, 

 eventually bequeathed by him to the Enfield Entomological Society, of which 

 he was one of the founders. On the death of his mother, and the subsequent 

 sale of Chase Park, Enfield, he went to reside at " Eoseneath," a house not far 

 off, and it was here during the last 30 years of his life that, with the aid of 

 Mr. P. I. Lathy, his curator, he got together the large and valuable collection 

 of Lepidoptera which has now become the property of the nation, subject, we 

 believe, to the proviso of its being kept intact as the " Adams Collection " for 

 25 years. The collection is a very extensive one, and said to be particularly 

 rich in Ornitlioptera and other fine Bhopalocera. It is contained in 68 cabinets 

 and about 600 carton boxes. Mr. Adams— like his surviving brother, Mr. F. C. 

 Adams, a well-kno^vn collector of British Diptera — was elected a Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1877. He was a J.P. for Middlesex, a 

 Governor of Enfield Grammar School, one of the founders of the Enfield Town 

 Constitutional Club, a great supporter of Freemasonry, a Fellow of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, &c. Various papers by Mr. Lathy on the insects con- 

 tained in Mr. H. J. Adams' collection have appeared from time to time in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, the last (written in 

 collaboration with Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg), entitled "Notes on the Genus 

 Catasticta," having been published during February of the present year. 



George Herbert Grosvenor, M.A.—We deeply regret to record the death, at 

 the early age of 32 years, of Mr. George Herbert Grosvenor, Demonstrator in 

 Zoology in the University of Oxford. On September 4th, while bathing at 



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