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recently showed an example. He says M. ornata, Steph. = M. rufescens, Zett., 

 but at present there is some doubt as to which author has priority. 



Syntemna morosa, Winn, y — In the March, 1912, number, page 67, I also 

 mentioned the capture of an example supposed to be this species, but on 

 submitting' it also to Mr. F W. Edwards, he has named it Syntemna alpicola, 

 Strobl, similar to Mr. Jenkinson's specimen recorded in the same ntimber. — 

 Fredk. C. Adams, 50, Ashley Gardens, S.W. : November 15th, 1912. 



William Rickman Jeffrey. — Another of the old time lepidopterists has passed 

 away in William R. Jeffrey, of Ashford, Kent. Born at Ashford in April, 1836, 

 he died at his native place on October 14th last, having attained the ripe age of 

 over 76 years. His early school days were spent at Croydon, but the year 1848 

 found him at Folkestone, where he appears to have imbibed the strong liking 

 for natviral history which clung to him through life. In 1851 he was apprenticed 

 to Mr. Thomas Nickalls, watclimaker, at Eeigate, and which bvxsiness he adopted 

 as his own after he settled down in his native town of Ashford some years 

 afterwards. Whilst at E-eigate, he made the acquaintance of the late 

 Mr. H. T. Stainton ; and afterwards, when he removed to Scarborough, where 

 he spent some years, of the late Mr. T. Wilkinson. But it was probably his 

 connection with the late Mr. William Buckler which brought him most 

 prominently into entomological notice, for, with the larvaj of the Pyrales 

 especially, he helped Buckler very largely, as the earlier volumes of this journal 

 and " Buckler's Larvae " testify. And the writer of this notice knows how very 

 proud he always was of his connection with that work. For many years 

 Mr. Jeffrey had been a correspondent of the writer's, but it was not until June, 

 1899, that he made his personal acquaintance ; the occasion being a visit to 

 Wye, in company with Mr. F. J. Hanbury, to collect Pachetra leucophasa, &c. 

 Mr. Jeffrey frequently joined us in our sugaring expeditions and walks, and a 

 most genial and instructive companion he proved. We believe he shared with 

 Mr. Sydney Webb the discovery of Nonagria sparganii as a British insect ; and 

 was also the discoverer of the head-qu.ax'ters of Pachetra leii,cophxa in Britain. 

 In recent years, on the discovery of the habits of JEgeria andrenseformis, he did 

 not rest until he had turned it up in numbers in his own district. His delight 

 was in the study of the early stages of Lepidoptera, for he made no collection, 

 generously distributing his specimens when bred among his friends. 



Besides entomology he took great interest in astronomy, on which science, 

 with a sympathetic listener, he seemed never to weary of talking. He also took 

 much interest in the lower forms of plant life. 



As a member of the Society of Friends, he was laid to rest at the Friends' 

 burial grovmd at Kennington, near Ashford, on October 16th. — G. T. P. 



Williaon Forsell Kirhy. — We regret to announce the death of this dis- 

 tinguished Entomologist, in his 69th year, on November 20th. A full notice 

 of his career and work will be given in our next number. 



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