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fiftieth anniversary, and has decided to publish a "jubilee " volume to 

 mark the event. The growth of this society has been as marked of 

 recent years as has those of the leading French, German, and British 

 societies, and its work bears very favourable comparison with that 

 produced by them. We congratulate the Society on its jubilee, and 

 have no doubt that the goodwill which has always existed between it 

 and its larger sister societies in other countries will always be main- 

 tained. Science knows no nation, its devotees are cosmopolitan and 

 universal. 



Mr. Porritt records the breeding of a number (30) of Abraxas 

 grossnlariata ab. varleyata, by two Huddersfield lepidopterists, during 

 the last two seasons. 



On the strength of a single specimen, taken by Mr. Kidson-Taylor 

 in rotten fungus, in October, 1904, m Sherwood Forest, in company 

 with Quedius cvanthopKs, Er., Mr. Newbery adds Quedius variabilis, 

 Heer, to the British fauna. 



Mr. Champion points out that the insect introduced into the 

 British list by Rye, as being possibly Anistouia ohloiuja, Er. [Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., vii., p. 180 ; x., p. 149), was not this species, but is to be re- 

 ferred to A. lucens, Fairm., of which species another (J is in Saunders' 

 collection. He points out further that A. ohhmga, Er., and A. i/raiidis, 

 Fairm., are both forms of A. ciunaittnniea, Panz., the^. (jvandis of Rye 

 being also a form of the same species, which was later named var. 

 ancflica, Rye. 



Mr. C. J. Wainwright has (Ent. Mo. Mag.) a first class paper on 

 the Tachinidae, with diagnostic tables of vulfinus, Fin., covijitiis, Rdni., 

 haemorrhoidalis. Fall. (Rdni.), and pudiciis, Rdni., together with further 

 notes on the synonymy of haemorrhoidalis. Fall., and i^irpudicus, Rdni. 

 Further interesting notes on the genus Hoeselia (with the distinctions 

 of 11. anti(ina, Mg., and B. pallipes. Fall.), Erione and Exorista follow. 



BIT U AR Y. 



John William Douglas. Died August 28th, 1905. 



The notice of the death of John William Douglas, on August 28th 

 last, at Harlesden, in his 91st year, will bring up many recollections 

 to the minds of the older entomologists. To many of the younger 

 lepidopterists he was possibly altogether unknown, and the greater 

 part of his entomological work had been done by the time many of us, 

 now actively engaged and no longer in our first youth, were born. 

 Almost contemporary with Stephens and Curtis, who made British 

 lepidopterology between 1820 and 1850, he was in his prime when 

 Newman, Stainton, Zeller, Frey, and Herrich-Schafler were moving 

 European lepidopterology into the more modern lines of biological 

 science, and Blackheath and Lewishani, where he and Stainton resided, 

 were the shrine of the leading lepidopterists of Europe, for, besides 

 these, Darwin, Jenner-Weir, McLachlan, Beaumont, and many others, 

 then lived in the same district. The meetings of these savants were 

 of the most pleasant description, and the younger British lepidopterists 

 of those days met their continental confreres at the houses of one or 



