56 THE entomologist's record. 



in having '* ' tlie mouth, orbits of the eyes, and stigma quite black, and 

 the wings hyaline,' whilst S. costalis has the wings fuscous, the base of 

 the costa and stigma ochreous-yellow, and the orbits of the eyes more 

 or less white." The specimen was taken at Cxuestling, by Mr. W. 

 Bennett, on April 3rd, 1893. 



It is with great regret that we have to record the death, at the age 

 of 61, of Mr. J. R. Wellman, which took place on Nov. 12th last. He 

 was one of the founders, and the first I'resident, of the South London 

 Entomological Society, and several times afterwards occupied the latter 

 post. He had been in failing health for some time. — Still more recently 

 (Dec. 3rd, 1S94:), occurred the death of a well-known scientific ento- 

 mologist. Dr. F. Buchanan White, F.E.S., of Perth. He was born at 

 Perth, on March 20th, 1842. Although educated for the medical pro- 

 fession, he had no need to practise, and devoted all his time to the study 

 of Natural History. Some qi;arter-of-a-century ago, his remarks on 

 melanism in British Lepidoptera proved him to be a man far in advance 

 of most of the entomologists of the da}^, and, as a collector, he is best 

 known, perhaps, by reason of his addition of Zygaena exulans to the 

 British list. A kind and genial companion, lie could nevertheless hold 

 his own in scientific discussion, and his scathing remarks when he was 

 under the impression that the Zygaena exulans gi'ound would probably 

 be closed to collectors, owing to what he considered had been a misuse 

 of his name, will be within the recollection of all lepidopterists. In 

 1871, he started the Scottish Naturalist, and continued to edit it for some 

 years, taking at the same time lively interest in The Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History with which it was finally incorporated. He was better 

 known as a botanist than as an entomologist. His death leaves a decided 

 gap in the scientific circles of Scotland. — The great collector Hugo 

 Theodore Christoph, who for the last fifteen years has l)een curator of 

 the entomological collections of the Grand Duke Nicholas of Kussia, 

 died on October 24th, 1894, at the age of 63. 



Professor Trail points out in The Annals of Scottish Natnral History, 

 that a statement made by Mr. W. Eeid, in a " List of the Lepido})tera 

 of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire," to the effect that Eetinia resi- 

 nella did not occur in Aberdeenshire, is erroneous, as he found the 

 well-known resinous masses on a Scotch fir-tree, near Bridge of Ess, 

 west of Aboyne, on September 8th, 1894. 



OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Short Notes from the Exchange Baskets. — Mr. Mason (Clevedon) 

 writes on Oct. 30th : — " The weather at present is very much against 

 collecting at ivy. So much rain falls that the flowers are scarcely ever 

 dry in the evening, nor have insects been as numerous as usual ; tlie 

 only good things I have taken up to date being a pair of Xi/lina 

 seinihrunnea and an odd specimen of Epunda nigra at ivy about a fort- 

 night since. X. soda is as scarce as it was last autumn. Dasycnmpa 

 rxibiginea I have not yet seen, but it may put in an appearance shortly. 

 Fhlogophora mcticulosa is the most abundant insect at ivy this season ; 

 you may see three or four to a square foot of ivy any fine evening, and 

 you may bring down a dozen into the umbrella with every stroke of 

 the beating-stick. E. nigra used to be tolerably abundant at sugar 

 here seven or eight years ago, but since then it has become gradually 

 scarcer, odd specimens only being taken now and then at ivy." 



