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Knutsford, Cheshire ; or lists for marking will be sent to anyone who 

 will apply for t he same. We would urge all our readers who know 

 any little part of this district to help, the fauna is exceedingly 

 interesting from so many points of view. 



It is with the greatest regret that we have to announce the death 

 of our dear friend Mr. Herbert Williams, at Southend, on the morning of 

 January 5th, last. He has long been ailing, although, for some time after 

 he ceased to be the secretary of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, and removed to Southend, he occasionally 

 came to the meetings. A kindly-hearted young fellow, an excellent and 

 careful field naturalist, he will be greatly missed by those who had the 

 pleasure of his friendship. Mr. John H. Leech died on December 29th, 

 1900. Although he has done comparatively little entomological work 

 himself, he has spent money freely on the collection of the fauna of out- 

 lying parts of the Paljearctic area, especially China and Japan, and his 

 books, on the fauna of these districts, will, thanks largely to his 

 scientific editor, Mr. E. South, long be standard works. He will be 

 best remembered as becoming some eleven years ago the proprietor of 

 The Entoiiiolofiib, ^vhich he bought with the intention of publishing 

 therein the systema ic resiilts of the collections that his collectors sent 

 home from China and Japan. Such a storm of indignation, however, 

 was aroused among British entomologists that the descriptions were 

 soon abandoned, too late, however, to affect TJte tiecord which was 

 started at the time. The Societe Entomologique Namuroise has lost 

 a colleague in M. Henri Verheggen, Chevalier de I'Ordre de Leopold, 

 who died at Heure-lez-Marche, December 16th, 1900, aged 55. 



Mr. McLachlan {Ent. Mv. Ma<i.) adds Chrysopa (lovHalis, Burm., to 

 the Neuropterid fauna of Britain, a very good example being taken at 

 Oxshott, Surrey, July 7th, 1900. The species is much hke C. perla, 

 being " of the same form, with much black on the body, and the 

 neuration very much mixed with black. C. perla can always be 

 distinguished by the distinct blue-green colour of the pale parts, very 

 conspicuous on the wing. In C. dorsalis the body colour is yellowish- 

 green rather than blue-green," etc. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice {Ent. Mo. May.) adds two sawflies to the 

 British list, Tornostethus nayathinus, Klg., taken by the Rev. A. Thornley, 

 June, 1898, near Lincoln, and Tomostethm funereHx, Klg., taken by Mr. 

 Beaumont in August, 1900, at Appledore, in Kent. 



Mr. Andrews adds AtJieri.r eassipes, Meig., to the list of British 

 diptera. The specimens were taken in July, 1900, among some small 

 alder bushes on the banks of the river Bother, near Ticehurst, in 

 Sussex. Mr. Bradley records the following Trypetidae as additions to 

 the British list : Tcphritia [Oxyna) elonyatula, Lw., swept in a field at 

 Swanage, August 29th, 1900; Tephritis ruralis,Ijw., 2 June 29th, 1898, 

 in New Forest ; Rhacochlaena to.coneura, Lw., one ? on a window at 

 Sutton Coldfield, May 22nd, 1897 : Tephritu tesaellata, Lw., one ? 

 taken in July, 1894, in the New Forest, and later at West Runton, in 

 Norfolk. 



The South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies will hold its next 

 annual congress at Haslemere, during the first week in June. Papers 

 relating to the natural history of the south-eastern counties are 

 solicited, and their titles and scope should be submitted to Dr. G. 

 Abbott, 33, Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, as early as 

 possible. 



