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collections of North American and South Asiatic Diptera to which he had access, 

 and he published many papers on them, more especially interesting himself in the 

 AsilidcE, DexidcB, &c., but by no means limiting himself to any family. His early 

 writings showed a most distinct development from the distinctions used at that 

 period, and his facile pencil very much aided his descriptions. He never lost his 

 ease of drawing, but during the last few years while he had been working at 

 the Biologia Centrali-Americana he may have to a certain extent failed to keep 

 level with the critical distinctions of the present day, especially in the chse- 

 totatic characters. Nevertheless, there cannot be any doubt that his death has 

 caused us the loss of one of our most talented Dipterologists, and this is proved by 

 the fact that he had been elected Honorary Member of many of the European 

 Entomological Societies, while the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie probably owed to 

 him its continued existence from its start in 1858. In private life he began as a 

 civil officer in the Dutch Audit Office, from which he retired after 50 years' service, 

 when he was nominated Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. — ^Gr. H. Veeeall. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : October l&th, 1899. — Mr. Gr. T. 

 Bethune-Bakee, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed two specimens of a Solenobia which he had pre- 

 viously exhibited as S. Wockii, to which species they had been assigned by Mr. 

 C. Gr. Barrett ; recently, however, they had been sent to Mr. J. W. Tutt, who thought 

 they were a variety of inconspicuella, and who sent them on to Lord Walsingham 

 and Mr. J. H. Durrant, who said that they were certainly not Wockii, but did not 

 know to what species to assign them. Mr. Bradley, a case of Brazilian butterflies. 

 Mr. J. T. Fountain, Lepidoptera obtained in the Valley of the Wye at the beginning 

 of last August ; amongst other species he found Apatura Iris not uncommonly, 

 Thecla w-alhum common but worn, Yatiessa polychloros, Orapta c-album common, 

 TriphcBna interjecta, Tethea retusa, Catocala nupia, &c. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, 

 a short series of Tephrosia extersaria from Wyre Forest, where he said the species 

 had been quite common this year, although in previous years only single specimens 

 had been taken by various Members ; also a specimen of Vanessa Atalanta from 

 Cornwall, and one of Melanippe Jluctuata from Handsworth, both of which were 

 considerably smaller than the usual examples of these species. Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, a number of Erebiee, including many Blandina from various localities in 

 Britain and on the Continent, and pointed out that the Scotch showed more red than 

 the Swiss. 



In the report of the Meeting of August 21st it was stated that Leucania stra- 

 minea had been bred for the first time : this of course was an error ; there is a full 

 description of the larva in Buckler's" Larvae of British Lepidoptera." — Colbean J. 

 Wainweight, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History Society: 

 October 12th, 1899.— Mr. A. Haeeison, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Bennoch-Carr and Mr. F. M. Benuoch-Carr, of Handen Road, Lee, were 

 elected Members. 



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