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example, taken at Queendown Warren on October 2nd, 1894, had previously been 

 met with by me in the Chatham district. Those who only know Callistus from 

 cabinet specimens can form no idea of the beauty of the little creature when alive. 

 A visit to the same spot a week later by Mr. A. J. Chitty and myself failed to pro- 

 duce any more Callistus, but on the way thither my companion picked up a fine 

 example of Oxypoda spectabUis, running rapidly on the wet road. — James J. 

 Walker, 23, Ranelagh Eoad, Sheerness : November 6th, 1899. 



John Brooks Bridgman, F.L.S.—We are sorry to see the announcement of the 

 death of Mr. Bridgman, at Norwich, on October 6th, aged 63. He was in practice 

 as a dentist, but had retired. As an entomologist he was well known as a student 

 of British IchneumonidcB, on which insects he published many papers in the journals, 

 and in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, which Society he 

 joined in 1886, but resigned in 1893, owing to failing eyesight, which also com- 

 pelled him to abandon the study of the llymenoptera. He became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1883, and he took a warm interest in the affaii's of the Norfolk 

 and Norwich Naturalists' Society. 



.Societies. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : September ISth, 1899. — Mr. GI-. 

 T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. G-. W. Wynn showed Notodonta trepida, Dicranura bifida, and Cymato- 

 phora or, bred from larvae taken in Wyre Forest last year ; also a pair of Endromis 

 versicolora bred from ova from the same locality in May last year ; also a specimen 

 of Xylophasia sublustris taken at Hampton-in-Arden last June. Mr. J. T. Fountain, 

 a series of Procris statices from Umberslade, Warwickshire, where he found a colony 

 which was restricted to one corner only of a field. Mr. E. C. Bradley, a number 

 of Lepidoptera obtained in Thibet by a sportsman who was no entomologist, and who 

 had sent them to Prof. Bridge ; they were chiefly Geometrae, and were, as might be 

 expected, in bad condition ; it was remarked that they bore a strong general re- 

 semblance to a similar lot of British insects. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, a few 

 rare Diptera : Mallota eristaloides, one example from Herefordshire ; he said 

 that this species was not known as British until the capture of a specimen in the 

 New Forest in July, 1884, by Mr. F. C. Adams ; since that date others had 

 been taken by Mr. Adams, all, however, in the same locality, and this specimen 

 taken in the beginning of July last near Hereford was the first known from any 

 other part of the country ; he also showed series of Eumeriis lunulatus from St. 

 Ives, Cornwall (26/7/99 to 7/8/99), and E.ornatus from Herefordshire (8 to 11/7/99), 

 and a specimen of E. tarsalis from the Meuse Valley, Belgium, which he said closely 

 resembled the third British species, sabulonum. Mr. Gc. H. Kenrick, four drawers 

 from his collection, containing the genus Callidryas, and gave an account of the 

 genus ; he said that they were amongst the insects which migrate ; he came across 

 a swarm of one species himself on the borders of the Transvaal a few years ago : 

 they formed a stream about a mile wide, and were slowly moving on, those in the rear 



