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gardening, and the pleasure and interest he took in his flowers was quite as keen as 

 that whicli he had taken for so many years in his insects. His intellect was as 

 bright as ever to the last, and although he had not perhaps examined particular 

 species for years, he could tell the minute differences between them, and the very 

 spot where, and conditions under which, he took his specimens ; in fact, he took as 

 great an interest in entomology as ever, and the sight of an entomological friend 

 was always welcome to him. He was apparently quite well on the night before his 

 death, but next morning was taken suddenly ill, and soon after died ; he was buried 

 in Bedford Cemetery on June 12th. His death leaves a gap in the ranks of British 

 entomologists which it will be almost impossible to fill. In the words of one of his 

 oldest friends, to whom the writer of this notice is indebted for a portion of the in- 

 formation contained in it : " We have had many good collectors, and some that 

 knew more of entomological science and literature than he, but he was altogether 

 sui generis, and we shall never have another Power." — W. W. F. 



ExTOMOLOGicAL SOCIETY OF LoNDON, June 2nd, 1886 : R. McLachlan, Esq., 

 F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Fellows, viz. : — Messrs. C. Baron Clarke, M.A., 

 F.R.S. (formerly a Subscriber), H. Wallis Kew, of Louth, W. Dannatt, of Q-reenwich, 

 J. P. Mutch, of Hornsey Road, N., Wm. Warren, of Cambridge, B. W. Neave, of 

 Brownswood Park, N., and A. C. F. Morgan, of Oporto. 



The death of Mr. F. E. Robinson, one of the Fellows, at the early age of 26, 

 was announced. He was formerly a pupil of Prof. Westwood, at Oxford, and was 

 killed by a tiger in India on April 27th. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited an example of Heydenia auromacidata, Frey, from the 

 Shetlands, a species new to Britain, noticed by Mr. Barrett in the Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xxiii, p. 13, together with H. flavimaculella, for comparison. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited certain specimens of StajihyJinidce, prepared by him a long 

 time ago with a special view to their permanent preservation. They were placed 

 in cells of cardboard, open above and below, or above only, and sealed up by 

 successive layers of bleached shell-lac. The President said the plan appeared to 

 be very successful where the cells remained transparent ; in other cases the prepara- 

 tions were open to the obvious objection that only one surface of the insect could 

 be examined. 



Mr. Billups exhibited Meteorus luridus, Ruthe, a species of Ichneiimonidte new 

 to Britain, bred by Mr. Bignell from a larva of Noctua brunnea. 



Mr. White, in exhibiting cocoons of Cerura vinula, called attention to the vexed 

 question as to how the perfect insect escapes from these solid structures. He was 

 inclined to think that formic acid, secreted by the insect, was a probable factor in 

 the operation. The question also involved that of how do the parasitic Ichneumonida 

 and Diptera escape ? With regard to the latter question th^ President remarked 

 that larvae infested by parasites possibly constructed their cocoons to serve the 

 requirements of these parasites. Baron Osten-Sacken, Mr. Waterhouse, Prof. 

 Meldola, and others, joined in the discussion. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited living larvae of Geometra smaragdaria from the Essex 

 marshes. He also exhibited the singular pupse of Agdistis Bennetii. 



Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited a series of several hundred bred specimens of 



