148 [June, 1899. 



commences with a preface of 12 pages, treating chiefly on bibliography and the 

 history of various collectors and collections, rendered additionally interesting from 

 the fact that the locality is classic ground to the entomologist, on account of the 

 labours of the Rector of Barham. The whole work is well printed and got up, and 

 there is an outline map. The list itself has copious local references : no doubt, as 

 in all works of this nature, its very completeness may occasionally be a source of 

 error in connection with the records of some of the older authors, where the actual 

 specimens do not exist, or are not labelled. The number of species recorded is 1763 

 out of a British total of 3264, or much more than half. In 1893 Mr. Edwards 

 published a list for the adjoining county of Norfolk {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), iv, 

 p. 261), and Mr. Morley institutes a comparison, the advantage being in favour of 

 Suffolk, but the difference is not great. An analysis also shows to the advantage 

 of the more southern county in nearly all the larger groups, the most noticeable 

 discrepancy on the other side being in the Hydradephaqa, which is not surprising 

 considering the much gi-eater extent of fen in Norfolk. This list is indispensable 

 to British Coleopterists, and we trust that ere long each county will have a similar 

 record of its beetle fauna. 



(ibituarn. 



Prof. Achille Costa. — On the cover of the No. for February last we briefly 

 announced the death of this well-known Italian entonioiogist : we now give a few 

 details of his life. He was born at Lecce on August lOtli, 182^, and died of cerebral 

 haemorrhage at Rome on November I7th last while on a visit in connection with a 

 Phylloxera committee of which he was a member. He studied medicine and 

 qualified : in 1860 he succeeded his father in the Professorship of Zoology at Naples. 

 His writings were very numerous, and probably he is best known by tlie " Fauna 

 del Regno di Napoli," much of which was written by his father, but the Coleoptera 

 and Neuroptera by the son. Until recently this work was difficult of access. He 

 travelled much, visiting Palestine, North Africa, Turkey, &c., and more recently, for 

 several successive years, the island of Sardinia, collecting much material which 

 enriched the Naples Museum : and he wrote much independent matter on 

 Semiptera, Economic Entomology, &c., &c. The writer of this notide always found 

 him a most obliging and courteous correspondent, and the fact that he retained his 

 position during and after the troublous times that culminated in the merging of the 

 Kingdom of Naples with that of Italy, shows that he was held in esteem by all 

 parties. He was long a member of the Entomological Societies of France and Italy. 

 For information as to his early history we have to thank his fellow countryman, 

 Dr. C. Ribaga, of Portici, Naples. 



Dr. William Ny lander, formerly well known as a writer on Hymenoptera 

 (especially ants), but who of late was occupied almost exclusively on cryptogamic 

 botany (lichens), died very recently in France, where he had long been settled in 

 professional connection with an establishment for the insane. He was born in Fin- 

 land in 1822, and some of his earlier entomological publications appeared in that 

 country, but most of his later ones in the " Annales " of the French Entomological 

 Society. 



Dr. Charlex Brongnlart, F.E.S. — -We much regret to announce' the death at 

 the early age of 40 of Dr. Brongniart of the Musce d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, 

 the describer of the gigantic fossil insects from the Carboniferous of Commentry, 

 etc. Further particulars will follow. 



