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The oarliost moth to appear was a male on May 29tli from tlie first hxrva wliose 

 progress I have traced ; from the second pupa a female emerged on the 31st, and on 

 the 7th June a male : the remaining larva died from mildew attacking it and its 

 leafy hibernaculum. — W.M. Buckler, Emsworth : Januarij 2Sth, 1876. 



A supposed new British species of Lettcania. — I have to announce the capture 

 of what I hope will turn out to be a new species of Leucania. It was taken by my- 

 self last autumn near the river Bure, between Yarmouth and Horning, brought home 

 and set by my daughter. My attention was not drawn to it for two or three months, 

 when I noticed its singular appearance, but professional engagements, which prevent 

 my attending to entomology during the winter mouths, compelled me to put it on 

 one side with several other doubtful moths till a month ago, when a friend noticed 

 its peculiarity, and we went over the late Mr. Doubleday's collection. There we 

 found nothing, either among the British or European species, to compare with my 

 moth, the nearest approach being L. Loreyi. When its unique character is more 

 fully determined, I will forward a detailed description. — W. Batteksuell Gill, 

 M.D., 9, Cambridge TeiTace, Kegent's Park, N.W. 



(Dbituarii. 



Thomas Wilkinson. This well-known entomologist died at his residence at 

 Scarborough (we believe from the rupture of a blood-vessel) on the 13th April, at 

 the age of 58. Although an uneducated man, and of humble oi'igin, he made 

 for himself a conspicuous position in the annals of British entomology ; and 

 those among our readers who can cany their memory back to the days of the 

 " Intelligencer " and the " Manual of British Butterflies and Moths," will be 

 able to appreciate the force of this remark. They will remember with what 

 ardour he entered into the investigation of the life-history of the Micro-Lepidoptera, 

 and the extraordinary number of valuable discoveries made by him m this branch 

 of entomology, his natural quickness of perception enabling him to follow up the 

 slightest clue, and he rarely failed to trace out the whole history of any species that 

 occurred in his neighbourhood. In this, he was aided by a strong constitution and 

 great powers of endurance, which enabled him to make long and arduous excursions 

 under the fatigues of which most men would have soon succumbed. Having, to a 

 considerable extent, exhausted the subject of Micro- Lejndoplera in the vicinity of 

 Scarborough, and his circumstances not permitting of the exploration of new fields 

 in this branch, he latterly turned his attention to Coleoptera and llemiptera, and in 

 both made important captures, including additions to our Fauna and to science in 

 the latter Order. The care and skill with which his specimens were pi-cpared are 

 patent to all who have seen his collections ; his British Micro-Lepidoptera are hardly 

 to be surpassed cither for completeness or condition. Those who knew him per- 

 sonally, saw in him a quiet unassuming investigator of Nature's secrets, utterly 

 disinterested in every thing he undertook, and characteristically free from any of the 

 petty jealousies that are too frequent among local naturalists. 



Entomological Society of London: 5<A April, 1876. — Professor Westwood, 

 President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. J. W. Douglas, E. C. Eye, F.Z.S., Charles Feun, George Lewis, J. 



