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locality with him, and it was while spending what was probably his first 

 holiday in South Devon, that he was the first to discover and make known 

 that Callimorpha hera, until then regarded as one of our greatest larities, was 

 common in that district; and it was rather a "sore point" with him at the 

 time that the late 0. G. Barrett, in his "Lepidoptera of the British Islands," 

 seemed to give the credit of this to another man. His most notable capture 

 was the beautiful fresh specimen of Ophiusa stolida which he took on 

 September 23rd, 1903, at Galmpton, South Devon, on a post which the writer 

 of this has himself sugared very many times. Jaeger recorded this interesting 

 capture in our Magazine for November of the same year (p. 269), and the 

 specimen, which still remains unique as British, was also figured on the 

 coloured plate published by us in September 1911. Some of the writer's most 

 enjoyable entomological expeditions were spent with Jaeger at Galmpton, and 

 we there took together such then rare species as Heliolhis armlgera, Leucania 

 vifellhia, L. albipuncta, Laphyyma ea-ir/ua, as well as many other good, but less 

 notable, Lepidoptera. Jaeger, too, found the larva of Deikphila livornica at 

 Starcross, and succeeded in breeding the perfect insect. Jaeger never pre- 

 tended to be in any sense a scientific entomologist : his greatest delight was to 

 get into the haunts of various local species and take them himself, and from 

 eggs obtained to watch their habits by breeding them through at home. His 

 interest in Lepidoptera was strong until quite the end of his long life, and 

 after he could no longer do any field-work, he was breeding them up to within 

 two or three years of his death. So recently as December 21st last he wrote 

 to the writer a long and cheerful letter on entomological and other matters, 

 but saying that, although in fairly good health, his sight was so bad that he 

 could do but little of anything. It was, therefore, a shock to hear from his step- 

 daughter in just over a fortnight later that he was gone, after three days' 

 illness from broncho-pneumonia. 



For a collector throughout so many years, his collection is not an extensive 

 one, and contains but few great rarities, but it shows a good representation of 

 the moi-e ordinary and local moths. This is accounted for from the fact that 

 he did little exchanging, and no buying, the collection thus being largely the 

 result of his own work. For many years he was associated with the South 

 London Entomological Society, where he often spoke and exhibited his 

 specimens. There he made many friends, and having made an intimate friend 

 he probably never lost him in life, his great cheerfulness and geniality being 

 very attractive. Among such friends who predeceased him may be mentioned 

 W. H. Tugwell and Sydney Webb, and his visits to the latter at Dover were 

 greatly enjoyed by him, in looking and chatting over his well-known fine 

 collection. 



He has left a sou, and a step-daughter (Miss Townsend), the former now 

 having a large practice as a medical man in the district in which his fatlier 

 resided for eo many years, and to them we extend our sincere sympathy in 

 their loss.— G. T. P. 



Arthur W. Bacot. — The death of this entomologist was announced in (he 

 daily press on April 12th, in a telegram from Cairo, in the following words : — 

 "Science has claimed another victim in Mr. Arthur Bacot, who died here this 

 morning from typhus, which he contracted while carrying out research work 



