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writer of this notice had a very pleasant conversation with him, the last in 

 an intimate friendship of nearly fifty years. In 1911 Barrett joined the 

 Entomological Society of London, and became a familiar figure at the meetings 

 of that assembly. 



He bequeathed his collection of Lepidoptera to the Council of Horniman's 

 Museum at Forest Hill. It contains many interesting and valuable insects, 

 including a pair of the very few British specimens of Aplasta ononaria, which 

 he himself took in Folkestone Warren, July 1st, 1900, but which he had 

 never recorded in print. 



He was biiried on January 2nd in the same grave with his wife, who had pre- 

 deceased him in 1883, at Birchington, and the sympathy of Entomologists Avill 

 be with his two daughters and son who survive him. — G. T, P. 



Societies. 



The South London Entomological and Natural Histobt Society : 

 Thursday, January llth, 1917. — Mr. Ht. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The death of Mr. J. Piatt Barrett was announced. 



Mr. Brooks reported Hibernia defoliaria, taken by Mr. B. S. Williams, quite 

 freshly emerged in January. Mr. Moore, the deep green Sphingid, Euchloron 

 megaera, and a species of Euchloris from S. Africa. Rev. F. M. B. Carr, his cap- 

 tures of the past season in Staffordshire and in the Wye Valley, with Agriades 

 coridon, aberrations from Eoyston, and including Leptosia sinapis, Brenthis 

 selene, Eulype hastata, Venusia camhrica, etc. Mr. Hugh Main, a cage made by 

 him to facilitate the breeding of Geotrupes beetles, and to allow of full obser- 

 vation of the digging of the galleries, massing the pabulum, laying the ova, 

 feeding and growth of the larva, etc., etc., and read a paper, his observations 

 being freqiiently at variance with those previously recorded. — H. J. Ttiener, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, December 6th, 1916. — 

 Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., UN., F.L.S., Vice- President, in the Chair. 



Prof. L. C. Miall, F.E.S., Norton Way N., Letchworth, and Col. J. W. 

 Yerbury, F.Z.S., 2. Eyder Street, St. James's, S.W., were elected the first Special 

 Life Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. J. C. F. Fryer exhibited: (1) Specimens of the heetles Anthicus bifasci- 

 atus and the bug Lygus rubicundus, two species which have only been recorded 

 in Britain from a restricted area in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. 

 (2) Specimen apples illustrating the serious injury cavised by the bugs Plesio- 

 coris rugicollis and Orthotylus marginalis, which appear to have adopted apple 

 as a food-plant only within comparatively i^ecent years. Dr. H. Eltringham, 

 examples of Papilio dardanus S , taken by Mr. G. H. Bullock (British Vice- 

 Consul at Fernando Po) near Santa Isabel, Fernando Po ; also a curious 



