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Antolne TIenri Gronvelle died on June 9th last, at the age of 74. By liis 

 death entomohijify has lost one of its most useful and industrious workers on 

 the systematic side. Attaclied to tiie French Goveniraent Service, iu which he 

 attained the position of Director of the State Tobacco Factor}', his leisure, for 

 nearly half a century, was devoted to a patient study of some of the smallest 

 and most difficult of the Coleoptera. lie w<is attracted early in life to the 

 investigation of the obscure and neglected but immensely numerous little 

 beetles constituting the Clavicorn families, and with admirable persistence ho 

 steadily refused to allow tlie rival attractions of less exacting but more showy 

 objects of study to divert him, even temporarily, from his chosen task. He 

 retired from the public service in 1907, and from that time until the end 

 worked incessantly at the subject u])nn which he had become the recognized 

 authority, and upon which he ha-3 left more than loO memoirs, some of them 

 of considerable length and all characterized by a degree of thoroughness and 

 accuracy far from common in work of its kind. He served his term as Presi- 

 dent of the Entomological Society of France, but was of a particularly modest 

 and unassuming nature, although extremely charming and genial in private 

 life. His very Inrge and valuable collection of Coleoptera is left to the Paris 

 INluseum. — G. J. A. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Miaj -lifh, 1917.— Mr. Hv. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Sperring exhibited a short series of Fieris napi from Sligo strongly 

 tinged with yellow. Mr. Edwards, specimens of the British Cicada, Cietuhdta 

 i)io)>tan<i, from the New Forest. Mr. II. Moore, Manduca atropos from 

 Durban. Mr. Main reported that his Scarabaeids were very busy trundling 

 their balls of horse-dung and actively engaged in e.vcavaling their cells and 

 other domestic matters. 



June \4,th, 1917. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a field-cricket, Brachi/tri/pis membrcmaceiis, and 

 a stng-beetle, Lucanus sp., from Durban. Mr. II. J. Turner, specimens of 

 JuicJi/u'e cardamvies showing minor aberration: — (1) Large S fi'om Cannes, 

 intense orange patch, edged with yellow shade, and reaching the anal angle; 

 (2) a S fi'om Wisley with apical blotch extending nearly to anal angle and 

 about double in width by a cloud of black scales ; (3) a $ from Box Hill with 

 very dark apical blotch on fore wings and distinct discoidal dot on hind wings ; 

 (4) a 2 from Amersham with very light apical blotch which was intersected 

 throughout by parallel bars of white ; (5) a S from Oxshott witli basal half of 

 underside clear light yellow. Mr. Turner also showed a copy of Jacob Cliristian 

 Schiifler's work, date 170:5, and called attention to the coloured })lates illus- 

 trating the life-history of Pamassius apollo, including the eversible fork on 

 neck of larva, flimsy cocoon for pupation, structure of fore legs?, and details of 



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