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a name, and now sings the virtues of his friends in verse. 12. — B. H, 

 Crabtree of Manchester, another student of British Lepidoptera. 13. — 

 S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., the host and worthy President of the Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire Entomological Society, who for 17 years has kept 

 together a verj' powerful and happy band of naturalists, and whose 

 home is the haunt of the entomologists of the neighbourhood, as is his 

 collection the reference library (as it were) for the younger members, 

 and the varieties it contains the cause of breaking the 10th 

 Commandment to most of his visitors. 14. — G. C. Bignell, F.E.S., of 

 Plymouth, well-known for his researches in Ichneumonidae. 15. — W. 

 Johnson of Aspull, near Wigan, another lepidopterist of the old school, 

 (whose kindness some 15 years ago is not forgotten by the writer). 

 Now we come to the row who occupy the front: — IB. — W. E. Sharp 

 of Ledsham, an able and philoso})hical naturalist, Avith an interesting 

 style of writing, besides being an excellent student of Coleoptera. 17. 

 — C. H. H. AValker, interested in Insect microscopy, and whose papers 

 on the " Wings of insects " are an educational treat, and show that the 

 observer can explain what he sees. 18. — J. Collins of Warrington, 

 well-known to all our readers as an ardent and successful lepidopterist. 

 19.— H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., of Doncaster, a micro-lepidopterist, a 

 skilful collector and observer, who ought to put a great deal more 

 of his work into permanent form than his modesty will at present 

 permit him. 20. — W. Webster of St. Helen's, another student of 

 British Lepidoptera. 



Some faces are missing that ought to be here- notably F. N. Pierce, 

 F.E.S., the Secretary, to whom the Society owes a great deal. The 

 dictum that a society depends almost entirely on its I 'resident and Secre- 

 tary was never better exemplified than in this flourishing proA'incial 

 society. — Ed. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



Zygaena exnlans has been j)robably one of the most interesting of 

 British lepidopterous insects for the past few j'ears, not so much from 

 the fact that there has been any very great interest in its scientific 

 claims to recognition, Imt because the regulation three inches or half- 

 row in the box or cabinet has been a blank (with a label at the bottom) 

 waiting for its occupants who have been so tardy in arriving. We are 

 always most interested in the insects we have not got ; we advertise 

 for them ; we speculate on what they will look like when Ave get them ; 

 and then, when Ave ha\'e got them, we fortliAvith forget all about them, 

 and are on the look out for other desiderata. No tangible result in the 

 Avay of information is forthcoming from that loving look we gaA-ethem, 

 and so, Avhilst the blank spaces in many cabinets haA'e been slowly filling 

 up, and Avhilst the excitement of many of our friends has been at boil- 

 ing point, some of us, devoid of this keen and intense desire merely to 

 possess, have been looking out for some scientific remarks, some ob- 

 servations, some lengthened notice of the habits of the species from 

 those who have captured it, or some notes at any rate on its variation 



