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colour. But it is a great pity that the explanations of these last were not 

 printed separately, instead of upon the plates themselves, for in one case, at 

 least, the Hues of type are so densely packed together as to be almost illegible, 

 Mr. Tillyard's fellow-workers are well acquainted with his skill as an entomo- 

 logical artist. Indeed, he is to be numbered among the very elect few who can 

 make a satisfactory drawing of a Dragon-fly's wings, and there is little to 

 choose, in point of accuracy, between tliese venational studies of his and 

 figures which are produced by photographic means. — Herbert Campion. 



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Reginald J<iines Champion, Lieutenant Scots Guards, was killed in action 

 on the Western front on July 18th. He was the youngest son of one of our 

 Editors, and his early death, at the age of 22, will certainly be a loss to ento- 

 mology, as shown by the four papers contributed by him to this Magazine in 

 1914-16, one of these, written in conjunction with his eldest brother, on the 

 life-history of Methoca ichneumojiides, being of distinct bionoaiic value. Edu- 

 cated at Guildford Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, he joined the 

 Public Schools and University Corps on the outbreak of the War, and subse- 

 quently saw a great deal of active service on the Continent, both in the London 

 Irish Rifles and in the Scots Guards, having been wounded in 191.5 and again 

 in 1916. He had made a considerable collection of Aculeate Ilymenoptera, 

 and of the Micro- and Macro-Lepidoptera also, in Surrey, not onlj' at Horsell, 

 where he was born, but in the neighbourhood of Guildford, Godalming, etc. 

 From his boyhood onward he was the constant companion of his father or one 

 or the other of his brothers in their excursions in these places, and thus very 

 early acquired a taste for entomological work. — J. J. W. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society ; 

 Juli/ 12th, 1917. — Mr. Hv. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a long series of aberrations of Coccinella variabilis 

 taken this year in Surrey. Mr. Turner, the life-history of Colecrphora jialliatella 

 on oak, and parts 1, 2, 3, 4-7 of the rare book Thunberg's ' Dissertatio Eutomo- 

 logica Insecta Suecica,' 1784-94, all dealing with Lepidoptera. Mr. Erohawk, 

 a series of Cupido minimus irom Coulsdon, Surrey, showing much individual 

 aberration, including an asymmetrical example which appeared tube gynandro- 

 morphic. Mr. West (Greenwich), Coleoptera taken recently in the New Forest, 

 including Elater It/thropterus, E. miniatus, Pi/rochroa coccinea, 2'omo.via hiyiit- 

 tata, etc., the last around the burrows of a v\ asp. Mr. Jiarnett, varied series of 

 Ematurga atomaria and of females of Pulyommatus icurus from near Coulsdon, 

 Surrey. I\Ir. Edwards, a series oi Fapilio poli/tes and remarked on the dimor- 

 phism expressed in continental and island forms. Mr. Moore, Papilio aristoluchiae 

 from the Nilgherry Hills, India. Mr. Jkuinett, newly-hatched larvae of Fmnea 

 casta, and a living example of I'oithesia similis which emerged from a pupa 

 the cocoon of whicli was surrounded by a number of the cocoons of an Ich- 

 iieomvii. Mr. Leeds reported tliat Chatfcndenia w-albtnit was out at Monkswood 



