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Capture of Hister marginatus near King's Lynn. — The dearth of Lepidoptera 

 last season may be assigned as the principal reason of my giving attention for the 

 first time to Coleoptera, and it is not improbable that I shall demote more or less 

 attention annually to this fascinating group ; a group which, to say the least of it, 

 gave me plenty of employment in an otherwise rather discouraging season, so far as 

 Lepidoptera were concerned. Amongst my captures in beetles sent to Mr. E. A. 

 Newbery, who kindly identified them for me, is a specimen of Hister marginatus. 

 This insect was picked up one afternoon in June on a road-side near this town. As 

 Mr. Newbery informs me it is a rare insect, I thought it worth recording. — E. A. 

 Atmoee, King's Lynn, Norfolk : March 20th, 1891. 



Abundance of Retinia turionana near King's Lynn. — For several years past I 

 have been in the habit of searching for pupse of this species, but never until this 

 year have I met with them commonly. As a result of twice searching for them 

 recently, I have taken in all thirty-eight healthy pupse. I need scarcely add that 

 many ichneumon pai'asites were found, for I must have destroyed at least 150. — Id. 



Sahits of Cymatophora flavicornia. — It struck me as being worth recording 

 that on the sunny afternoon of March 28th last, while netting some specimens of 

 Brephos Parthenias in some woods near here, I noticed a greyish insect fluttering 

 round the birch trunks, which on capture proved to be a male specimen of C. flavi- 

 cornis. Is it generally known that this species ever flies by day ? From tlie business- 

 like search among the trees which this insect was making (and which it resumed on 

 release), it appeared to me to be in search of a female. I may add that I have taken 

 this species subsequently, feeding on sap from a punctured birch trunk, at night. — 

 K. M. Peideaux, 28, Berkeley Square, Bristol: April 3rd, 1891. 



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Prof. Felipe Poey, C.M.Z.S., died on January 28th in the ninety-second year 

 of his age, at Havana (Cuba), where he was born in 1799, and where he passed all 

 his life, save a few years spent as a student at Paris. He was one of the founders 

 of the French Entomological Society, and was elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the Zoological Society of London in 1836. Poey was a profound naturalist, best 

 known as an ichthyologist, but he published several papers on tlie Lepidoptera of 

 Cuba, and also a bulky volume on the general Natural History of the Island. 

 Moreover, he largely assisted others, and in Hagen's Synopsis of North American 

 Neuroptera, his name is very frequently quoted in connection with Cuban species. 

 He retained his love of Nature to the last, notwithstanding his patriarchal age. We 

 conclude this short notice by quoting the words of a well-known entomologist who 

 met him at Havana in 1857 — 58 : — " Already at that time he looked old ; his sallow 

 complexion gave him the appearance of a man worn out by the climate. He was a 

 remarkable instance of the macrobiotic quality of the study of Nature. He was a 

 savant in the full sense of the word ; at the same time charming and entirely un- 

 pretending in his manner." There remain few naturalists who have reached so 

 great an age, even in climates far less trying. 



