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in time's crucible, his fcork has proved to be of far more than ordinary value, and 

 the opinion of those best able to judge on special points, tends to show that, ex- 

 cepting in a few instances in which he worked " to order," he displayed an amount 

 of ability rarely excelled by writers of his time. After a period of confinement, he 

 so far recovered as to be able to add to his pension by literary work, and we find also 

 that two short papers by him appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical 

 Society of Edinburgh, written in 1865 and 1866. But he suffered several relapses ; 

 yet even when an inmate of one of the Scottish Asylums, he edited, and largely 

 contributed to, a Journal, the contents of which were supplied by patients. By 

 many entomologists of the present generation he was no doubt thought to have long 

 passed from among us. Now that he is dead, it is only just that a small tribute be 

 paid to his memory. Those who, during his time of ofBce, had occasion to consult 

 the entomological collection of the British Museum, will bear testimony to the as- 

 sertion that no one was more willing to go out of his way to oblige, and the writer 

 of this notice cannot express how much he profited, as a debutant, by his invariably 

 wise counsel and ready assistance. Mr. Wliite was a Member of the Entomological 

 Society of London from 1839 to 1863, and a Fellow of the Linuean Society from 

 1846 to 1855.— E. McL. 



Entomological Society of London. — ith December, 1878. H. "W. Batbs, 

 Esq., F.L.S., &c.. President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. P. Newman, of 7, York Grrove, Peckham, was elected a Member, and 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, of Sheemess, a Subscriber. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a scries of OlypMpteryx schaenicolella, of which many 

 examples had been taken last summer, near Witherslack, by Mr. Threlfall. 



Mr. Wood-Mason remarked on the method of stridulation used by one of the 

 Stdelidm. 



Professor Westwood exhibited varieties of Epinephile Tithonus and Jurtina 

 (Janira), the latter being especially interesting, owing to the left hind-wing having, 

 on the under-side, a streak of the paler colour usual in the ? , the insect being 

 otherwise S • He also exhibited various enlarged coloured diagrams of varieties or 

 monstrosities, including a ^ Perrhybris Pyrrha (in the late Mr. Hewitson's col- 

 lection) having the under-side of the right hind-wing coloured as in the ? , which 

 sex mimics a species of Heliconia ; also diagrams of two already recorded instances 

 of perfect insects with larval heads, viz., Nymphalis populi and Dytiscus marginalis. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a series of cases of Brazilian caddis-flies forwarded to 

 him by Dr. Fritz Miiller ; they included those of several forms of Sydroptilida, a 

 Setodes (or ally), and others of uncertain position (in the absence of the perfect 

 insect). One of these latter was composed of pieces of leaves, and was found in the 

 water that collects between the leaves of BromelicB, in which situation Dr. Miiller 

 had also found tadpoles, and also larvae of dragon-flies and other aquatic insects. 

 Mr. Bates had informed him that rain water collects at the bases of the leaves of 

 these plants, and remains there for nine months in the year. Dr. Miiller also sent 

 a photograph of some peculiar cases referred by him to the HydropsychidcB, having 

 a funnel-shaped network entrance. Dr. Miiller likewise sent drawings of the neura- 

 tion of, various genera of Lepidoptera, in order to show the homology that existed, 



