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In 188(5 lie published an illustrated work on the British PyralidcB, which, however, 

 did not meet witli universal approbation. He travelled much ; firstly, we think, to 

 the Amazons, then to tlie Canaries, and he made two or three long journeys to 

 the East, commencing with Cashmere in 1887, and subsequently to China, Japan, 

 and Corea, making huge collections. He also sent out intelligent collectors to China 

 Japan, and Northern India, and thus further increased his stores of Eastern Le- 

 ■pidoptera, &c. The greater part of these collections he worked out with the assistance 

 of Mr. South, and the volume of the " Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London " for 1900 owes its unusual bulk mainly to two large instalments of his 

 catalogue of the Heterocera of Northern China, Japan, and Corea. In 1890 he ac- 

 quired the " Entomologist " and the services of Mr. South as editor, with a long 

 advisory committee, intending to devote it mainly to the description of the new spe- 

 cies collected by himself and others in the East. The speedy abandonment of this 

 idea and the events that followed are now matters of history. That Mr. Leech, 

 during his short life, did much to further the cause of entomology is not to be 

 denied, yet one cannot help regretting that he did not do more. Latterly he had 

 been in bad health, lie leaves a widow and two young children to mourn his loss. 



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BiRMiNGnAM Entomoxooical Society : iWnvwJer 19^A, 1900.— Mr. R. C, 

 Bradlbt in the Chair. 



Mr. Dixon, of 149, Edmund Street, Birmingham, was elected a Member of the 

 Society. 



Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis showed Melanoma ccnewm from Cannock Chase ; 

 Crinceris aspa.rngi, from Bromsgrove (wlicre it occurred in thousands) ; Sirtodendron 

 cylindricurn, from Knowle ; Byturus snnihiici, from Haywood ; Sifonef' ramhrinis, 

 from Knowle ; also a few Lefidnfifio from Knowle. Mr. G. W. Wynn, a 

 number of Lepidvptei-a taken at sugar in his garden at Hampton-in-Arden 

 this year. He sugared regularly all the summer and found July the best month. 

 Triphmna javthina was especiallj' abundant, often five or sis being found on a 

 single patch of sugar ; also T. interjccfn occurred in two examples, and amongst 

 other things were XyJophasia svhhistris, X. liejiatica, Caradriva rnorpJicus, C. ahines, 

 0. cuhicularis, Agrntis nigricans, A . tritici, A . corticea , Noctua urn brosa , Xanthia gilvago, 

 Tetliea sublu.ia (one), Coamin nffiriin (common), Catocala ntipta (one). Mania mnura, 

 etc. Mr. A. H. Martineau, the following Hymenoptera, all taken at Solihull 

 this year : — Cralm clai'ipcs, C. tibialis, Trypoxylon clavicornis, and Stigmvs SoJshyi. 

 Mr. R. C. Bradley, a number of insects of various orders collected during a four 

 days' trip to the Stroud district of the Cotswolds at Whitsuntide this year. 

 Amongst others were the following Diptera : — Isopngnn hrevirostris , Platystoma. 

 seminationis, Xanthogramma ornata, Trixa oistroidea, and Hyalomyza pusilla : and 

 Hymeiioptera. as follows : — Andrena cingulata, Osynia xav thorn elan a., 0. hiculor, 0. 

 cmrulesccns, and 0. auridenta ; Nomada fiavoguttata, N. lateralis, etc. Mr. Colbran 

 Wainwright showed his collection of the families Ortalidce and Trypetidw, including 

 several interesting species taken this year : Trypeta cornutu, T. tussilaginis, and 

 Tephritis bardancc ; long series from West Runton, Norfolk, where all thi-ee species 



