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biology beyond the scope of his interest'*, for during his retirement at Letch- 

 worth he wrote a '* History of Biology " and " The early naturalists and their 

 work." He also showed a lifelong interest for the classics. 



Miall was elected to the Rriyal Society in 1892. He joined the Entomo- 

 logical Society in 1894, served twice on the Council, and became a " Special 

 Life Fellow " in 1916. He was not personally known to the writer, who is 

 indebted to a notice in the " Times " for many of the biographical particulars 

 here a-iven. — H. S. 



John Clarke Hawk^haw. — Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw, F.E.S., died at his 

 residence, Hollvcombe, Sussex (near Liphook), on Feb. 12lh, 1921, in his SOrh 

 year. The eldest son of Sir John Ibiwkshaw, F.K.S., the eminent eniiineer, 

 he was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Colleye, Cambridge (he 

 w«s President of the Univer.-<ity Boat Club in 1864), and w;is himself for 

 many years an engineer bv profession. He early became a keen collector of 

 Lepidoptera, especially "' mic.rolepidoptera,'' and formed a lavge collection, 

 occupying over four hundred small diawers in cases specially devised by him- 

 self. All have full data atlacht-d, arranged on a uniform system. Tlie greater 

 number of specimens is British, but Mr. Hawkshaw also collected on the 

 Continent, particulHrly in South Norway. There he took several hundred 

 species, principally in the neighbourhood of some property which he owned at 

 Vigelands Foss on the Otteraa Ri\er, near Christiansand. He published an 

 account of the locality and a list of his captures there in the " Entomologist " 

 for March and April, 1919. He tolo the writer that in the year 1857 he met 

 Roland Trimen on the Biighton Downs and collected with him, and that to 

 Trimen he owed much help in the first stages of forming a collection -. also 

 that, previous to his retirement from l^u.^ine-^s, nesirly all his work on his 

 collection was done between 4.30 and 7.30 in the early morning. He joined 

 the Entonu)logical Society in 1910. Mr. Hawk.shaw was a keen arboriculturist, 

 and his beautiful estate at Hi)ll\coinbe contained a large collection of foreign 

 trees and flowering shrubs. His library included extensive series of books on 

 arboriculture and on travels, and he had at one period also formed a collection 

 of certain objects of art. — H. S. 



THE BRITISH SPECIES OF THE ANTHOMriD GENUS 

 LIMNOPHORA Desv. (DIPTERA). 



BY J. E. COLLIX, F.E.S. 



The very large Dipterous family Anthomyidae is well known as one 

 in which a natural grouping of the species into genera and a satisfactory 

 characterisation of such genera is a most difficult problem. Characters 

 used by the older writers for this purpose, such as the approximation or 

 separation of the eyes in the male, the bare, pubescent, or plumose arista, 

 the glabrous or hairy eyes, have all proved to result in a thoroughly 

 unreliable and unnatural arrangement of the species. The uselessness of 



