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entrance being- finally pliiiij^ed by <i ninoli smaller pellet of the same uatnre. 

 Tiie violent way in wliicli tlie Hist one was got rid of was amusingly suggestive 

 of great annoyance and irritation. 



The complete concealment of the entrance, by the sprinkling of t^and over 

 it, was very quickly achieved by the wasp ; but after one could no longer see 

 anything but bare sand, she paid busy attention for several minutes to the 

 surface round about, sending sprays of fine sand in this direction and that, and 

 removing small pieces of debris from one position to another. The " camou- 

 flage " was quite successful on this occasion. It had been my intention to 

 exhume the caterpillar in order to find out where the wasp's e^^ Jiad been 

 attached, but after going away to get my small fern-trowel, I found it 

 impossible to locate the burrow, even with my original footprints in the sand 

 to guide me. I did a lot of digging, but no caterpillar or even rabbit-pellet 

 came to light. — A. E. Buadlky, 6 Shaftesbury Avenue, lioundhay, Leeds: 

 ?iooeinberUth,l^d\d. 



^'' Seitz s Macrolepidoptera of the World.'" — Vol. IV.. Palaearctic Geometridae. 

 The English and Erench Editions of this volume are now complete and can be 

 had of the publishers. The author of this section is Mr. L. B. Erout, E.E.S. 

 — Eds. 



Lord Walsin(ihiim, we regret to announce, died on December 3rd. A 

 detailed notice, with portrait, will appear in our next issue. 



Frederick Herschel Wuterhouse, the last surviving son of G. If. Water- 

 house, died on March ICth last. He was. born on October 4th, 1845, and 

 joined the Zoological Society as Librarian on Eebruarv 1st, 1872, retainino- 

 that po.-^t till the end of 1912, thus completing 40 years of service. , Like his 

 tA'o brothers, he was a keen Coleopterist, all three of them inheriting the love 

 of entomology from their father. Erequenters of the Society's Library, in the 

 old days, at Hanover Square, were often much indebted, to him for assistance 

 in finding the special papers they required, for study. Some years ago he 

 removed from Putney to Lower J3eeding, near Horsham, and his old friends 

 thus lost sight cf him. Waterhouse, during his term of office, prepared a new 

 Catalogue of the Zoological Society's Library and this was; published in 1902. 

 A few of the beetles collected by Darwin during- the voyage of the '' Beaglw '' 

 were described by him in 1879. He was elected an " Associate " of the 

 Linnean Society in that year. 



W. J. Ashdoioi of Leatherhead, Surrey, died on JSTovember 9tli, aged G4. 

 He was an industrious collector of Coleoptera, especially in the district in 

 which he resided, and was a personal friend of many of the members of the 

 South London Natural History Society. Not long before he died he presented 

 some speeimens of the very local Sphaeriestes {SulpiiKjus) mutilatus to the 

 British Museum. 



