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falallj. He was the only son of Mr. S. J. Olliff, of Hornsey, London, and was 

 born in ]865, being only just over 30 wlien he died. Passionately devoted to 

 Entomology when only a young boy, he sought congenial work in the office of the 

 late Mr. E. W. Janson, by whom he was employed in setting and preparing insects ; 

 afterwards he obtained occupation at the British Museum in a similar capacity; 

 subsequently he became Curator and Private Secretary to Lord Walsingham ; and 

 in December 1884, he left England, having obtained a position in the Australian 

 Museum at Sydney ; in 1890 he was appointed Grovernraent Entomologist in con- 

 nection with the Agricultural Department of New South Wales. Only last year he 

 published an important official pamphlet of 15 pp. with four plates, on the so-ca.Ued 

 " vegetable caterpillai-s," under the title, " Australian Entomophytes." Though 

 scarcely more than a boy when he left England, Olliff had made many friends, and 

 in some respects he was a precocious genius, for so long ago as 1883 (when he was 

 18 years old) he published a paper, describing new Coleoptera, in the Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., and this was followed immediately by others in various English Maga- 

 zines, &c. Bad health overtook him before he had time to fully develop his powers 

 as Grovernment Entomologist. He joined the Entomological Society of London 

 in 1886. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : December \6th, 1895. — Mr. Geo. H. 

 Keneick, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain, 58, Darwin Street, Birmingham, was elected a Member of 

 the Society. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed fine specimens of Mschiia juncea and grandis fi'om 

 Sutton Park. Mr. Kenrick, a few Lepidoptera taken during a short trip on the 

 Norfolk Broads ; he had cruised in a wherry and collected chiefly by means of liglit 

 from the boat ; among the things taken by this means and shown were Leucania 

 albipuncta, Nonagria despecta, and Calamia phragmitidis ; he also tried sugar, but 

 with poor results, the best thing he got being A-pamea fibrosa ; he likewise showed 

 a pair of PlusiafestuccB, small and dark, bred from larvae found there. 



Januart/ 20th, 1896. — Mr. P. W. Abbott, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Abbott showed Notodonta dodonea from Wyre Forest ; a fine dark $ No- 

 nagria typhcE, one of two bred from a lai-ge number of pupffi taken in Norfolk by 

 himself and Mr. A. J. Hodges last year ; also pale $ Odonestis potatoria from 

 Norfolk, being almost as pale as normal $ . Mr. R. C. Bradley, Erigone vagans, a 

 handsome Tachinid, which he took in Sutton Park last June ; it was flying round 

 the pines in company of many Tipulklm, bees and other insects, indeed, all the 

 insects seemed attracted to the pines, and the flowers were quite deserted. He be- 

 lieved the attraction to be the resinous exudation from the trees, as he could find 

 no sign of any other, such as honeydew. Mr. Wainwright, Micros, including 

 Stenia jmnctalis from Boscastle, Cornwall. Mr. Martineau. sis cases of Hymenoptera 

 from his collection, containing many fine and interesting species. 



February 3rd, 1896: Seventh Annual Meeting.— Mr. G-. T. Bethune-Bakek, 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. A. E. Rodgers, 31, Hall Road, Handsworth, and the Wells House, 



