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Lieut.- Colonel Chnrle.i T. Bivqham, Bombay Staff Corps, was born in Trolanri, 

 April Ifith, 1848, and died at his residence in West Kensinnjton, on Oetober ISth 

 last. The greater portion of his military career was passed in India, where for 

 many years he pursued the study of NiUural History with char,icteristic energy and 

 success, and acquired an almost unequalled Isnowledge of the fauna of this important 

 region. At first chiefly devoted to Ornithology, he afterwards gave most of his 

 attention to the little-known and most interesting insect-fauna of Burmnh, in which 

 country he was stationed from 1877 uiifil his retirement from active service in 1894, 

 and where he finally held the important post of Conservator of Forests. On his 

 return to England he settled in London, and until his death was a familiar figure 

 in the " Insect-Room "of the JNatural History Museum, where his work in arranging 

 and reducing to order the extensive collections of Aculeate Ilijmenoptera will be 

 fully appreciated by all students of these Insects. An even more valuable piece of 

 work was the production of the volumes on Aculeate Hi/menoptera (1897 and 

 1903) and on the Butterflies (1905 and 1907), for the " Fauna of British India " ; 

 to the editorship of this important undertaking he succeeded on the death of 

 Dr. Blanford. The third and final volume of the "Butterflies of India" unfortu- 

 nately remains unfinished. Colonel Bingham became a Fellow of the Zoological 

 and Entomological Societies in 1895, and served on the Council of the latter from 

 1903 to 1906. Although his health had been much impaired by his long residence 

 in the Far East, his decease was somewhat unexpected, and his genial and kindly 

 presence will be greatly missed at the Nntural History Museum and elsewhere. 

 A widow and two sons, with whose loss we deeply sympathise, survive him. 



Societies. 



Lancashire and Cheshibe Entomological Society : Meeting, held at the 

 Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, November IGtli, 1908. — Mr. Wm. 

 Mansbeidge, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main kindly lent, their excellent series of lantern slides 

 illustrating phases in the development of various interesting species of Lepidoptera 

 and protective resemblance to resting surface ; some very striking instances of this 

 latter being shown. Mr. Taylor, of Bolton, also sent his series of slides, chiefly of 

 Lepidoptera in their natural surroundings, and some slides of Lepidoptera taken by 

 the Lumi^re direct colour process. Dr. Cotton, as well, showed photographs by the 

 Lumi^re process of Lepidoptera and views in the gardens at Southport. Mr. F. N. 

 Pierce brought the long series of Hydraecia nictitans, paludis, lucens, and all the 

 known specimens of crinanensit, being the material with which he, in collabora- 

 tion with the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, of Mucking, Essex, had worked out the specific 

 distinctness of the four species by a study of the genitalia. Mr. Pierce described 

 the difference of the genital appendages, and illustrated his remarks with a series of 

 excellent photographs ; he further pointed out how, without destroying the moth as 

 a cabinet specimen, the s])ecies could be examined and recognised. — H. R. Swketing 

 and Wm. Mansbeidge, Hon. Secretaries. 



