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Polzeath, near Wadebridge, N. Cornwall, he was, thongli an expert swimmer, 

 drowned in a gallant attempt to rescue a fellow- victim. Mr. Grosvenor, who 

 was the eldest son of Mr. G. W. Grosvenor of Kidderminster, was greatly- 

 esteemed and respected in his University, where, in addition to the iisual 

 zoological siibjects, he was responsible for the tuition in economic and forest 

 Entomology of the students in the new School of Foi-estry. At the recent 

 Congress of Entomology at Oxford he acted as one of the joint Secretaries, in 

 which post his energy and powers of organization were largely in evidence, and 

 contributed in no small measure to the sviccess of the meeting. He was elected 

 a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1909. 



Edward Arthur Fitch was born at Chelsea on February 23rd, 1854, and died 

 on June 28th at his residence, the " Brick House," Maldon, Essex, after an 

 operation for acute gastritis. Although he had of late years almost or quite 

 ceased to take an active interest in Entomology, he will be long remembered for 

 his able articles in the early volumes of our contemporary, the " Entomologist," 

 on certain of the so-called " neglected Orders " of Insects ; those on the Parasitic 

 Hyvienoptera written in collaboration with Mr. J. B. Bridg'man of Norwich being 

 of especial value. A man of wide and varied interests, he threw himself with 

 characteristic energy into whatever work he iindertook, whether local or general 

 politics, archaeology, or the stxidy of nature. In the latter connection he was 

 one of the founders of the well-known Essex Field Club, and M^as for ten conse- 

 ciitive years its President. For many years, too, he was a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society, and was elected into the Entomological Society as long ago as 1874, serving 

 more than once on the Council, and acting as Secretary from 1881 to 1885. A 

 family of five sons and four daughters siu'vives him. 



Societies. 



The South London ENTOMOLoaicAL and Natural Histort Society : 

 Thursday, July 2oth, 1912.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. "West (Ashtead) exhibited ova of a Chrysopa on the leaves of the Garden 

 Ox-eye Daisy. Mr. Edwards, the butterflies Eunica eurota fi-om Brazil, Smyrna 

 hlomfildia from Mexico, and S. karwinskii from Brazil. Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, a 

 fiill fed larva of Saturnia pyri from Sicily, young larvae of Colias edusa from ova 

 of an English cauglit $ , and a large niuuber of bvitterflies from South Africa. 

 Mr. R. Adkin, Ptycholoma lecheana from Brentwood, one almost unicolorous 

 buff colour and uniisually pale, the other a rich deep brown with very distinct 

 silvery markings. Remarks were made on the abundance of Celastrina argiolus 

 and the occurrence of Sesia stellatarum and Colias ediisa this season. 



August 8th. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Ash by, larvte and imago of the local Coleopteron Cassida fastuosa from 

 Otford. Capt. Cardew, larva' of I'apilio machaou from Stalham Uyke spun up 



