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thereon, and formed an extensive collection, which was afterwards purchased by the 

 British Museum. Then for a few years he devoted himself to the culture of 

 orchids ; but abandoning this he formed a collection of CicindelidcB, and latterly a 

 very extensive one of British Coleoptera, thus returning to his early inclinations. 

 Without having made a scientific reputation comparable with that of his more 

 celebrated brother, he had the same intense love of Natural History, and, to 

 Londoners, a characteristic provincialism which his brother, after all his adventures, 

 never entirely lost. Personally he will be much regretted, and most of all by the 

 widow and family, who deplore their loss. He joined the Entomological Society of 

 London in 1867, in the then-existing class of " Subscribers," but subsequently 

 withdrew ; in 1897 he was elected a Fellow, and remained such. 



BiRMiNGnAM Entomological Society: September 21s<, 1903, — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Bakeb, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a series of Adopeea Acteon, Eott., taken this year 

 on tlie south coast, also Dianthoecia albimacula, Bkh., D. cucubali (S. V.), Fiiessl., 

 and D. carpupliaga, Bk., all from the same locality. Mr. A. D. Imms, a specimen 

 of a Trichiosoma from Montgomeryshire, which he said did not appear to be the 

 common vratagi. Mr. Bethune-Baker, a box of Lycanidas. from Queensland, 

 chiefly species which were associated with ants ; and including larvae, pupse, and 

 specimens of the associated ants in a few cases. He gave many interesting parti- 

 culars of their life histories, which had been communicated to him ; also a beautiful 

 set of LyvcenidcB from Sierra Leone, wliich he had just received, and which included 

 some new species.— Colbean J. Wainwkight, Hon. Sec. 



Correction.— In the report of the meeting of this Society on February 16th 

 last (Ent. Mo. Mag., xiv [2], p. 103) tlie species of Offyrius then shown wei-e spoken 

 of as " ant-feeding Lycaenids." It was not intended to imply that they fed upon 

 ants, only that they lived in association with ants, the loose expression " ant- 

 feeding " is however obviously likely to convey a wrong impression. — C. J. W. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 

 August \3th, 1903.— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Q-oulton exhibited (1) a short series of Hypsipetes sordidata {elutata) from 

 Eanmore Common, including a bright green, very black, barred form, and a wholly 

 dusky form ; (2) a short series bred from ova of the above, and stated that all the 

 bred ones were lighter than the captured ones ; (3) a yellow form from the Isle 

 of Wight, with yellow eyes. Mr. F. M. B. Carr, a large number of species of 

 Coleoptera taken at Salisbury and in South Devon. Mr. Ashby, series of the local 

 species Harpahis caspius and //. sabnlicola from Portland in June. Mr. McArthur, 

 Cossus cossus (licjniperda), one of a number seen around the electric light in King 

 Street, Hammersmith. Mr. R. Adkin, a bred series of Eupithecia exiguata from 

 Brighton, one half of the larvae were fed on sallow, and the other on ash. Mr. 

 West, of Greenwich, the three British representatives of the genus Acalles, taken 

 at Darenth Wood, by beating dead oak twigs in July. Dr. Chapman, (1) nearly 

 full-fed larvse of Nisoniades Tages, from ova laid on Lotus corniculatus ; (2) a larva 



