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of tin- Lepidoplera; but whilst Norman appears to have been more specially attracted 

 by the British species, Dobree included the Noctux of the European fauna, and was 

 especially interested in the great variation in the forms shown by the geographical 

 distribution of the various species. His collection of European Noctuse was known 

 as one of the best in the kingdom, probably the best private collection. As advanc- 

 ing years brought a natural diminution in his collecting energy, his generosity 

 prompted him to give the collection to the Hull Museum, where it can now be 

 consulted by any one interested in the Noctuse. Hull was no doubt chosen for its 

 location because for many years Mr. Dobre'e was in business there as a corn and 

 seed merchant. Mr. Dobree took great interest in the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, in the excursions of which, years ago, some of us remember him as a most 

 genial and entertaining companion. His great knowledge of the Noctuse of his 

 own particular district of Holderness may be seen by a reference to the " List of 

 Yorkshire Lepidoptera." His own Entomological contributions w r ere mostly pub- 

 lished in the pages of the "Naturalist" and the "Entomologist." Fond of 

 travelling, he became acquainted with some of the leading continental Entomo- 

 logists, and could speak fluently in German, French, Swedish, and Italian. — G. T. P. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : January 20th, 1908. — Mr. G-. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a larva of Lasiocampa quercfis, L., from near 

 Barmouth, together with the Dipterous parasite, Tachina larvarum, L., which he 

 had bred from it. Mr. Gr. T. Bethune-Baker, a very fine little collection of some 

 of the rarer African Papilionidse. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, Platychirus 

 melanopsis, Lw., $ , from the Riffelalp, Valais, Switzerland, a rare British species, 

 which seems but little known on the Continent. Also various Dolichopodid.r, 

 including Campsicnemus magius, Lw., and called attention to the extraordinary 

 development of the fore-tarsi in the males, of that species.— Colbran J. Wain- 

 wright, Son. See. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Annual Meeting, held 

 at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, on Monday, December lfith, 1907, Mr. Wm. 

 Mansbridge, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following Members were elected Officers of the Society for the ensuing 

 year, viz. :— President, Samuel J. Capper, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., Oxford, J. R. Charnley, F.Z.S., H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S.,Doncaster, 

 Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S., Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S., Corfe Castle, Robert 

 Newstead, A.L.S. ; Eon. Treasurer, J. Cotton, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. ; Hon. Secretaries, 

 H. R. Sweeting, M.A., Wm. Mansbridge ; Hon. Editor, J. R. le B. Tomlin, M A., 

 F.E.S. ; Hon. Librarian, F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. ; Council, The Rev. T. B. Edrupp, 

 M.A., Wakefield, C. E. Stott, Robert Tait, Jun., P. Edwards, M.R.C.S., J. Collins, 

 Oxford, R. Wilding, O. Whittaker, Wm. Bell, J.P., M.R.C.S., E. G. Bayford, 

 Barnsley, P. F. Tinnie, M.A., W. D. Harrison, and W. A. Tyerman. 



