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•was rather ahnndant in Glen Fender, but I saw it nowliorc else. — A. E. J. 

 Cahter : August 19l'l. 



Vanessa antiopa in Sussex. — An hour or two before leaving home on 

 the evening of August 20th I had the good fortune to capture a very tine 

 specimen of the above in ni)' kitchen-garden. It had been first noticed by my 

 head gardener, who had seen it two or three times before he told me that there 

 was "a large, nearly black butterfly in the garden, that had a white edge all 

 round." I went to the house for net and box, and, after about forty minutes' 

 wait, it returned to the original spot, and after one unsuccessful attempt to net 

 the insect I finally caught it after it liad alighted on an apple-tree. The speci- 

 men is in far finer condition than any of the other liiitish specimens in my 

 cabinet. I think it must have been bred in this country, perhaps from a 

 hibernated female blown or flown from the Continent in the spring. — 

 Fredkiuck J. IIanbury, Brockenhurst, East Grinstead: September 1921. 



John Gardner. — The death of Mr. .Tohn Gardner, F.E.S., at his residence, 

 Hart, near Hartlepool, on July 21st, in his 80th yoar, has removed from 

 amongst us a vetenin British entomologist. J3orn at Egglestnne in Upper 

 Teesdale on December 29th, 1841, Mr. Gardner came to Hartlepool in early 

 life, subsequently entering business as a timber merchant. From this occu])a- 

 tion he retired some fifteen years ago and went to reside at Hart, where his 

 love of gardening afforded him pleasing recreation during the latter portion of 

 his life. He took an active interest in the public affairs of Hartlepool, being 

 at one time a member of the Town Council and the local Edncati(m Authority. 

 Fond of Natural History from boyhood, Gardner early began the study of our 

 native Lepidoptera, contributing notes on rare and local species through a long 

 series of years to the principal entomological journals. He also rendered much 

 assistance to the late William Buckler, when that entomologist was engaged, 

 in his work on the larvae of British Lepidoptera. In this connection it is 

 of interest to quote Buckler's own words respecting onl3' one insect — perhaps 

 his best discovery. " With much gratification I am able to record the 

 interesting discovery of the larva oi Miana e.iyolita and its food-plant ; a puzzle 

 that has hitherto baffled all attempts at solution has at length been unravelled 

 by the assiduous efforts of Mr. J, Gardner of Hartlepool." The larvae of 

 Halonota turbidana and Lithocolletis insignitella were also amongst his great 

 " finds '' ; the latter species he took freely on clover near Hartlepool, its only 

 British locality. When the late John E. Kobson was conducting 'The British 

 Naturalist,' which flourished thirty years ago, Gardner was one of the sub- 

 editors who assisted him in its production. His work in this order of insects 

 culminated in the task of editing the concluding portion of Mr. Robson's 

 " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland and Durham." At the time 

 of Robson's death in 1907 this valuable catalogue remained unfinished, and to 

 this work Gardner devoted himself with characteristic energy until the end 

 of 1912 saw the completion of his labours. Anyone looking through this List 

 will obtain a good idea of his zeal as a collector, and the success with which 

 he worked at the life-history of many rare and local species. Amongst the 

 Microlepidoptera especially was this the case, this portion of the catalogue 



