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the age of 48. The eldest son of the Kt. Hon. Lord Justice Chitty, be was born 

 in London on May 27th, 1859, and was by profession a Barrister-at-Law, but in the 

 spare time which his legal duties allowed him he devoted himself most assiduously 

 to Entomology, and he was a keen and most successful collector; although mainly 

 a Coleopterist, he interested himself in most Orders, and there are few which'have 

 not; been enriched by his researches and discoveries. His brother remembers him 

 collecting butterflies as early as 1869, and during his Oxford days he used to set up 

 ants' nest for observation, isolating them in sponge baths containing water. 



The Hymenoptera and Hemiptera especially attracted his attention, and of these 

 he made extensive collections, capturing and recording many rarities which would 

 in most eases have escaped the eye of any but an experienced specialist. The 

 writer of this notice was often struck by his power of rapidly appreciating minute 

 characters which to many Entomologists are a stumbling block for years. His first 

 note in this Magazine, "Coleoptera from North Wales " (vol. xxvii, p. 331) was pub- 

 lished in 1891, and from that time he was a frequent contributor to our pages. 

 Amongst his more important communications are those dealing with the fauna of 

 the neighbourhood of Huntingfield and Faversham, at the former of which places 

 he had a country house ; these include the re-discovery of Andrena • ferox (vol. xxxv, 

 p. 13) and Nomada guttulata (vol. xxxix, p. 282) ; " Collecting (chiefly Coleoptera) 

 in old hedgerows near Faversham, Kent " (vol. xl, p. 100), in which he records the 

 occurrence in some numbers of the rare Anthribus albinu.i, L., and the still rarer 

 Tropideres niveirontris, F. ; and his notes on the habits of Ponera contracta, in 

 whose company he used to find the rare Machrerifet glabratus. Besides the above 

 contributions there are many others which deal chiefly with the records of captures. 

 In vol. xxxix, p. 143, he records the first discovery in Britain of Hydroporus biline- 

 atus, and points out the differential characters between it and H. granularis ; and 

 in the volume for last year he published an important synoptical table of the British 

 species of Cryptophagua, which has been already of great service to the students 

 of that genus. A few years ago he took up the special study of the obscure group 

 of Hymenoptera, Proctolrypid;e, and in vol. xlii, p. 148, described a new species 

 Pseudisobrachium cantianum. We hoped he might have lived to have given us many 

 contributions towards the elucidation of this little known family. 



Several communications on Coleoptera are to be found in the pages of the 

 " Entomologist's Record," the staff of which he joined in March last. Amongst 

 these his "Note on Killing and Setting Coleoptera" (vol. xviii, p. 134, 1906), describing 

 for the first time the so-called " ether process," is of special interest. He joined the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1891, serving on its Council from 1902-4, and 

 again from 1906 to the time of his death. In its concerns he took an active interest, 

 and rendered valuable assistance in drawing up the alterations and the by-laws 

 which came into force in December, 1902. He was educated at Eton, where be 

 became the head of his house, and was in the cricket eleven, and at Balliol College, 

 Oxford, taking honors in his final B.A. examination, and he was well known at the 

 University as a boating man and a cricketer ; he was for many years Secretary of 

 the All England Lawn Tennis Club ; and was a good performer on the violin ; he 

 had also a pood practical knowledge of astronomy 1 and made for himself more than 

 one reflecting telescope. He married the daughter of Sir John Croft, Bart., of 



