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his many separate works dealing with various branches of Natural Science, 

 three at least — "The Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects/' "British Wild 

 Flowers considered in their Relation to Insects," and " Ants, Bees, and Wasps " 

 have long been familiar to all readers of this Magazine, and are unsurpassed in 

 charm of style and detailed accuracy of observation —while his " Monograph of 

 the Collembola and Thysanura" published by the Eay Society in 1873, is and 

 will remain one of our Entomological classics. His interest in our science 

 continued up to the last, and so recently as 1911 we find him contributing to 

 the exhibitions of the last Conversazione of the Entomological Society. 

 Finally, as the originator of the "Bank Holiday," his name will be for all 

 time held in grateful remembrance by those Entomologists who are blessed 

 with only a limited amount of leisure. 



Societies. 



Lancashire AND Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting held at the 

 Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, on Monday, April 21st, 1913. — 

 Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Alan Cookson, Blundellsands, and Alfred Watts, Oxton, were elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Mr. R. Wilding gave an address entitled " Notes on some rare and local 

 Coleoptera," in the course of which he gave details of the haunts and habits of 

 the following species, viz. : — Miscodera arctica, Amara rufocincta, Bembidium 

 5-striaturn, B. nigricorne, Cymindis vai^orariomm, Perileptus areolatus, Ocypus 

 fuscatus, Quedius auricomus, Pseudopsis sulcata, Heptaulacus villosus, ^gialia 

 rufa, Am')noecMis brevis, Anisotoma ciliaris, A. rugosa, Anthicus bimaculatus, 

 Antherophagus silaceus, and Chrysomela cerealis. Mr. Wilding exhibited series 

 of all these species in illustration of his remarks. A discussion ensued on the 

 bionomics of the less known species occurring on the sandhills from which it 

 appeared that a good deal of research is still required, especially in connection 

 with the larval habits. Mr. Alfred Watts, two specimens of Heliaca tenebrata 

 captured by himself near Birkenhead. Mr. W Mansbridge showed Epinephele 

 janira, Ino statices, and Lycsena icarus, all very brightly coloured, from Co. Cork ; 

 also Boarmia repandata from Huddersfield. Mr. F. N. Pierce brought a box of 

 Micro-lepidoptera, chiefly Tortrices, from various localities which he had obtained 

 as material for working out the genitalia. — Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Societt : 

 Thursday, April 10th, 1913.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Buckstone exhibited living larvse of Scodiona fagaria (belgiaria) from 



Oxshott. Mr. Newman, a remarkable aberration of a hybrid between Ephyra 



annulata S and E. pendularia ? in which the outer half of all the wings was 



melanic. Mr. A. E. Gibbs read a paper entitled " Through the Balkans 



with a Camera," illustrating his remarks with a number of lantern slides 



of views and scenes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he made a collecting 



tour in 1912. 



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