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he always preferred to keep himself at home, and verj seldom left Gumley, except 

 for a short collecting expedition in Sherwood Forest, or in order to visit some parti- 

 cular friends of similar tastes. He was most generous in helping those younger than 

 himself with knowledge and with specimens. The writer of this notice is especially 

 indebted to him for many notes on localities and habitats, and for the descriptions of 

 the TrichopterygidcB in the " Coleoptera of the British Islands," toI iii, as well as 

 for other assistance. 



Mr. Matthews was as keen an observer as White, of Selborne, and in many ways 

 resembled him ; in the closeness of his work, however, he far surpassed him ; and 

 there have been very few writers indeed in the field of Natural History who have 

 carried on such minute and accurate work as was involved in his delicate dissections 

 and drawings to so advanced an age. — W. W. F. 



Joseph William Dunning, M.A., F.L.S. — It is with deep regret we announce 

 the death on October 15th of Mr. Dunning, so long and so sympathetically connected 

 with the Entomological Society of London. A fuller notice will appear in due 

 course. 



The death of Morris Young, F.E.S., of the Free Museum, Paisley, has recently 

 been announced. A detailed notice will be given next month. 



oqicties. 



BiHMiNGiiAM Entomological Society : August IGth, 1897. — Mr. G-. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Bradley showed JEschna grandis from Sutton, and said that it was quite 

 unusually common there this year, both in the park and in his garden. He also 

 showed Molophilus murimis from his garden, where he had taken a fair series this 

 year, although it had not been seen there before. Mr. A. H. Marti neau showed 

 larvffi, pup.T, and imagines of Anthophora furcata, to illustrate its life-history ; also 

 Salius fuscus from Wyre Forest with a large gpider it had captured ; also Mimesa 

 bicolof, ^ and ? , from Coleshill ; and Ammophila sabuloaa from Wyre Forest. He 

 also said, apropos of a note by Mr. E. Saunders in the July number of the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., on " Muscular energy in a Tipula leg after death," that he had watched a 

 dissevered leg of a harvest bug {^Acariua) move spasmodically round a plate for 35 

 minutes. He also said that ho once removed the abdomen from a living wasp, and 

 tlien supplied it with liquid food ; it drank up the food -until it had deposited a 

 large bead of it behind ; he then attached a cork body to it, and the insect flew 

 across the room, though of course badly and not straight, as the balance had not 

 been restored. Mr. J, W. Moore showed a little lot of Lepidopiera from the Fens, 

 where he had collected them last Whitsuntide, awd wliich included Senta maritima, 

 with var. wismarlensis ; a fine series of Leucania obsoleta ; a single Tapinostola 

 elymi ; Acronycta leporina ; Lifhostege griseata, &c. ; also from Scotland, Arctia 

 ftdiginosa ; bred Hadena pisi, which were small, dark, and more marbled than 

 usual ; and Acronycta myriccB ; also a series of Agrophila sulpkuralis from Tudden- 



