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biological details always engaged his attention, and he was familiar with these 

 in regard to many species, his published papers dealing only with those that 

 were previously more or less unknown, and his stores of knowledge were always 

 at the service of other workers, as may be gathered also from the works of 

 Barrett, Tutt, and many others. 



He became so familiar with all the Micro- Lepidoptera of Herefordshire, 

 that some twenty odd years ago, finding, as one may say, no more worlds to 

 conquer in that direction, he began to study Diptera, in the same thorough 

 manner. He confined himself to the fauna of Herefordshire, and was very 

 loath indeed to go outside the county— whether for Entomological or other 

 reasons. His collections, containing almost exclusively Herefordshire specimens, 

 have been bequeathed to the Woolhope Club for the Hereford Museum. 



We have in the pages of our Magazine a good record of the salient points 

 of Dr. "Wood's work as an Entomologist. There are altogether some 45 papers, 

 beginning in 1878 and continuing to the present year. These communications 

 are not mere records of some simple interesting captures, but are for the most 

 part life histories, or careful analyses of certain groups. The first twenty-three 

 papers are life histories of Tortrices or Tineae (and two Pyrales), not only with 

 the care we find in some of Buckler's papers, but almost always with details of 

 habits as observed in the field. Each year contained one or more papers up 

 to 1895 relating to Micro-Lepidoptera ; about this time the Diptera became the 

 subject of his observations, but we find a paper on Lithocolletis concomitella 

 and its allies in 1900, and one on Wingless Geometers in 1913. In 1903 there 

 begins a succession of papers on Diptera. 



Amongst his papers on Lepidoptera he announced several new species (with 

 their life histories), Nepticula torminalis, Tinagma betulm, Micropteryx sangii. 

 The discovery of Ditula woodiana (described by Barrett in Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 1882) and of its larva feeding on mistletoe (Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. XXVIII, 

 p. 225) was most notable. His differentiation of several new species amongst 

 the rush-feeding Coleophorse in the same volume (XXVIII) resulted from a 

 research involving much minute observation. He also added to the British 

 list several Nepticulse found by him in England for the first time. His studies 

 of the larvae of Micropteryx, and his elaborate study of the mines, habits, and 

 history of Nepticulse must be mentioned. 



His papers on Diptera added a number of new species, and of species new 

 to Britain, and the monograph on the genus Phora places our knowledge of 

 the species of that difficult genus in quite a satisfactory position, a number 

 of new species being described. 



There are several papers in the Transactions of the Woolhope Club : in 

 1876, one on the Clearwings of the Woolhope district ; in 1891, the Nepticulse of 

 the Woolhope district ; in 1904, on the Herefordshire Platypezidse, Pipnnculidse 

 and Syrphidse, and no small share in the list of Herefordshire Lepidoptera, by 

 Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, corrected up to 1902, from a first list in 1866. 



We find one paper in the Entomologists' Record " On the plumose antennae 

 of male Lepidopterous pupae " (Vol. iv, p. 237, 1893). 



