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Ticiiiitj of that town, added eutouiologically to tho liospitality vouchsafed to one who 

 had no further introduction tlian a formal letter from a mutual friend. A few years 

 later he retired from business, and he spent the rest of his life at his villa at Golfe 

 Juan, devoting himself cntii'ely to Entomology and Horticulture, and he became, to 

 use the words of a well known visitor to Cannes, the chief entomological attraction 

 of that place. Personally he was thin, wiry, and robust, and a keen mountaineer as 

 we proved during a visit with him to the Alps of Dauphine in 1875, on which occa- 

 sion he forced the writer of this notice, although much his junior, to " climb down " 

 very considerably. He explored Dauphine on several occasions, and he also visited 

 Corsica and other localities, always finding novelties, which were mostly introduced 

 in the publications of the "Annales de la Societe Entomologiquc de France," 

 which Society he joined in 1854. Essentially he was a Lepidopterist, and especially 

 a Micro-Lepidopterist, possessed of wide knowledge of liabits and a keen eye for 

 differences, and he was in active correspondence with most of the European workers 

 in the same line. (It is possible that a colleague of the writer, who knew him 

 more intimately as a Lepidopterist, may supplement these few words by a more 

 extended notice). He appears to have commenced writing on entomology so 

 long ago as 1855. Outside his papers on novelties in Lepidoptera, and notes on 

 liabits, &c. (always valuable), his principal publication was probably tlie " Catalogue 

 des Lepidopteres du departement de Saone et Loire " (Autun, 1866), which extended 

 to 368 pp., and was naturally very much more than a mere list of names. He was 

 essentially a field naturalist, and delighted in assisting other entomologists whose 

 opportunities for outdoor work were not equal to his, but who had greater facilities 

 fi'om a literary point of view. When the late M. Ragonot finally settled in Paris, 

 he soon made the acquaintance of M. Constant, to the certain advantage of both. 

 — E. McL. 



BiHMINGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL tJOCIETY : Ajjvil 15fh, 1901.— Mr. G. T. 



Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a few Lepidoptera taken last year, including Colias 

 Edusa, Apilates citraria, &c., from Bournemouth, and Catocala nupta from 

 Swanage. Mr. S. W. Wynn, a series of Callimorjyha Hera taken by Mr. E. A. 

 Rogers near Dawlish, ranging from yellow through intermediates to red forms ; also 

 a series of Spilosovia lubricipeda var. radiata bred from ova received from Mr. W. 

 Tunstall, of Huddersfield. Mr. J. T. Fountain, a number of insects taken by him- 

 self in Jersey last summer, including Colias Edusa var. Helice, very fine large 

 Satyrus Semele, Asilus crabroniformis and T'olucella zonaria, the latter being 

 a very fine large Syrphid not yet known as British. Mr. A. D. Imms, various 

 Lepidoptera, including PoUa fiavicincta from Northampton, where he had 

 found it very abundant at sugar, and SpJdnx convo/vu/i from Moseley. Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, Vanessa urticcp, with all its geographical forms or races, including 

 vars. ichnusa and pohtris, &c., also specimens of Colias Editsa, showing a purple 

 gloss on their wings for comparison. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, the following 

 Diptera : the two British species of Sepedon — sphegeus from Sutton Park, and 

 spinipes from Chalford, Gloucestershire, and three species of Limnea, marginata 



