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As an Agriculturist his gi'eatest interest was taken in improve- 

 ments of system: Lord Walsingliam was President of the Ensilage 

 Commission, and of the Smithfield Club, 1877 (V-P. 1874, etc.)— the 

 Merton flock of Southdowns was famous throughout the world. 



As a sportsman he contributed the articles on the Pheasant, Partridge, 

 and Grouse to the Badminton Library ; and was one of the most famous 

 shots. On his Blubberhouses Moor, Yorkshire, Lord Walsingham killed 

 with his own gun 842 grouse — this was on August 28th, 1872, but the 

 Kecord Bag of G-rouse was made on the same moor, August 30th, 1888, 

 when 1070 grouse fell to his gun in 14 hours 18 minutes. 



A man truly kind by nature, generous and sympathetic, he was ever 

 ready to assist those in need in the most kindly way. All who knew 

 him loved him, and would agree that he was entitled to re-echo the words : 



" I know what pleasure is, 

 for I have done good work." 



Dent. 



[The photograph of Lord Walsingham, taken at the age of 70, was issued 

 by mistake in the January number. It should face this memoir. — l!^DS.]. 



NOTES ON THE AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTEEOUS GENERA 



PALAESTRA Cast., TMESIDERA Westw., AND PALAESTRIDA White 



(FAM. MELOIDAE). 



BY K. O. ULAIR, B.Sc., F.E.S. 



(Published by perniissiou of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



When endeavouring i-ecently to identify some Meloid beetles col- 

 lected by Mr. G. E. Bryant in Australia I soon found that there was 

 considerable confusion as regards the above genera, which are closely 

 related to the Australian representatives of Zonitis. The species are all 

 of the same colour-pattern, viz. black with red elytra, and not only were 

 the identifications in the British Museum Collection unsatisfactory, but 

 the recent Catalogue of the famih' (Borchmann in "Junk's Coleopterorum 

 Catalogus," pars 69, 1917) also indicates that the genera are vei-y imper- 

 fectly known, 



Palaestra Castelnau (1840) Avas based upon a single Australian 

 species, P. ruhripennis ; it was placed in the Oedemeridae near 

 Calopus. Tiupsidera We>;t\vood (1811), fam. Jr('Io/(J(U% included one 



