2o6 [Iv'oTcmber, 



OPOJIYZIDAK. 



Opomyzo forum F., viii.1913. II B. Meole Brace. 



„ ijenninutiunis L., vii.1918. JCJM. Meole Brace. 



Sepsidae, 

 Sepsis cynipsea^., \9\^-l9l7. HB. Bomere ; JCM. Meole Brace. 



DnOSOPIIILIDAE. 



l)rosophilafunehrisY.,m.x\i.ldl^. HB. Meole Brace. 



BORBOKIBAE. 



JJorhoms equinvs Fin., xii.1913. JIB. Bomere. 



„ geniculatus Mcq., iv.l914. HB. Meole Brace. 

 Li inosina Jlaviceps Stnh., xii.1913. HB. Bomere 



IIlPPOBOSCIDAE. 



Oniitliomyia avicidaria L. RFLB. Longner. 



Lomber Ilej; High Lane, Cliesliire. 

 September 1920. 



The lute F. C. Adams. — Some three months before his death, which 

 occurred in February last, the late Mr. F. C. A.dams presented his collection of 

 British Diptera, amounting to about nine thousand specimens, to the liritish 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.). With few exceptions, all the insects in the collection 

 were taken by Mr. Adams himself in the New Forest during the past twenty- 

 five years. The collection is contained in two handsome cabinets, one of forty, 

 the other of eight drawers, and is accompanied by a manuscript catalogue 

 giving field-notes, etc. Contrary to the rule among Diptcrists, Mr. Adams 

 made a practice of setting his captures, and all the insects in his collection are 

 displayed to the best advantage, clean and in good condition. Although 

 apparently including few species not already represented in the Natiomil 

 Collection, the Adams' cabinets contain examples of many of tise rarer British 

 flies, and are likely to prove a useful adjunct to the long sei'ies of British 

 Diptera collected and presented by Lt.-Col. J. W. Yerbury, G. H. Verrall, 

 Albert Piff'ard, and others, to whom the Museum has owed so much in the 

 past. — E.E. Austen, British Museum (Natural History), October Ibth, 1920. 

 [We have no particulars of the private life or career of the late 

 F. C. Adams, who contributed various papers on Diptera to this magazine, the 

 last having appeared in December 1912. Personally, he was known to many 

 of us, especially to those who ha,ve collected in the New Forest. His brother, 

 H. J. Adams, who predeceased him, was interested in entomology, and his 

 very extensive collections of exotic Lepidopteru were also bequeathed to the 

 Museum. He died in 1912, and an obituary notice of him appeared in our 

 issue for October of that year. F. C. Adams was elected a Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society of Loudon in 1877. — Eds. J 



