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CoLEOPTERA. — Unaffected : Carabun grannlatu^ and catenulatus, Dromius 

 meridionalis, Lema cyaneHa, Nehria breincoUis, Calathus melanorephalu.i , Dromius 

 4-nof.afus, Donacia xericea, Grammoptera ruficornix, Anchomenus parumpunctatus 

 and dorsalis, Cicindela campestris, Crepidodera helxines,fiiid atirata, Rhynchites 

 conicux, Ht/drohius fuscipes, Chryxomela hiemoptera and staphi/lea, Agelaxtica 

 halen.sis, Cteniopns, Micraspis \2-punctala, Bembidium littoral e aw A lampros, Demc' 

 trias atricapillus , Nitidula bipustulata, CocciduJa rufa, Loricera, Halipluss rufi- 

 coll'm, Tachyporux and Choleva chriisomeloidex, Erirrhinus validirostris ; slightly 

 faded : Apion minialiim, Pterostichns! strenuus, Serica brunnea, Phyllopertha 

 horticola, elytra, Dromiux i-maculafux, elytral marking?, Leptura livida, elytra ; 

 distinctly faded : Anchomenvs alblpex, one example only, Spliseroderma cardui, 

 Dromiux linearis, CoccineVa variabilis; very distinctly : Pt/rochroa serraticornis 

 and Coccinella 22-punctafa. 



DiWEUA :— Hiematopota pluvialis (slightly), Chloromyia formosa and Volu- 

 cella pellucens (not at all), Helophilux pendulux (very distinctly), Bombylius 

 discolor (distinctly). 



Neuroptera : — Panorpa communis and germanica (wing-markings slightly), 

 Salexus radiatux (distinctly). 



Hemiptera : — Nabis ferus (very slightly). 



Orthopteba : — Stenobothrus eleganx (normal), 5. viridulus (very distinctly). 



HymenoptebA : — Athalia roxas, body distinctly; Sylotoma ustulata,wovm^\. 

 — Claude Moblet, The Hill House, Monks Soham, Suffolk : February, 1905. 



(ibituari). 



Alexander Fry was born on September 10th, 1821, at Pencraig, Herefordshire. 

 In 1838 lie went to Rio de Janeiro, entering his father's mercantile business house 

 there. In 1843 he became a partner, and came to England for a short time, re- 

 turning to Rio after his marriage. After 1854 he resided in London (visiting Rio 

 occasionally), and became a Member of the Entomological Society in 1885. He was 

 an enthusiastic collector of Coleoptera, and to those he collected himself he added 

 greatly by purchase, including Parry's collection of Lovgicornia, great numbers 

 collected by Wallace, Doherty, and others, and the very fine series collected by 

 Whitehead at Kinabalu, including all the types described by H. W. Bates. He did 

 not confine himself to any particular Family, but he seemed to be particularly at- 

 tached to the Longicornia and Weevils. He never did any descriptive work 

 himself, but many parts of his collection had been examined and named by Mono- 

 graphers, and are on this account of considerable value. He was always most 

 ready to show his collection to any one, and many entomologists will long remember 

 their visits to his beautiful house at Norwood. At the time of his death, which 

 occurred on February 26th, 1905, he had been a widower for many years. He had 

 no family. He bequeathed his whole collection, comprising some 200,000 specimens, 

 to the Trustees of the British Museum. 



Eenri Louis Frederic de S'atJSsMre.— Entomology has suffered a severe loss by 

 the death of this veteran Orthopterist at the age of seventy-fivo ; the infirmities of 



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