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Pierre Adrien Prosper Finot. — Wo regret to record the decease of this well- 

 known French Orthopterist, which took place at his residence at Foutainebleau 

 where he had lived in retirement for some years, on April 14th last. Until 1870 he 

 was a Staff-Captain in the French Army under Napoleon III, serving with dis- 

 tinction in the Franco-Prussian War, and being taken prisoner at Sedan, but on 

 his return to France, remaining true to his Bonapartist attachment, he withdrew 

 from the world and devoted himself to Entomology and kindred pursuits. The 

 works by which he is best known to Entomologists, all of very high value and 

 beautifully illustrated from his own drawings, are : — " Les Orthopteres de France " 

 (1888); "Catalogue raisonne des Orthopteres de la Regence de Tunis " (in con- 

 junction with Ed. Bonnet) (1885) ; " Faunc de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie, Insectes 

 Orthopteres " (1897), and " Faune de la France, Insectes Orthopteres (18'JO). We 

 are indebted to Mr. Malcolm Burr, F.L.S., for the materials of this brief obituary 

 notice. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting, held at the 

 Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, Monday, April 13th, 1908. Mr. R. 

 Newstead, A.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Chairman delivered a lecture entitled " The Bionomics of Mosquitoes," in 

 which he dealt with the sub-families Anophelinse and Culicinse : he described the 

 Anopheline genera Anopheles and Pyretophorus, contrasting them with the Culicine 

 genera Culex and Stegomyia in a very clear and thorough manner. Mr. Newstead 

 illustrated the lecture by blackboard drawings and by the following exhibits: — 

 Living larva? and pupae of Corethra and Culex : a case showing the complete life- 

 history and distribution of Stegomyia calopus, the mosquito which transmits yellow 

 fever; and the following species concerned in carrying filariae, which not uncom- 

 monly cause the condition known as elephantiasis, viz. : Culex fatigans, Pyreto- 

 phorus costal is, Myzomyia rossi, Mansonia africanus, and Stegomyia fasciata. 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibition of Hydraecia 

 nictitans, H. lucens, and H. paludis, most of the Members present having brought 

 their series of these moths. The discussion was opened by Mr. F. N. Pierce, who 

 showed preparations of the genitalia of the three species named above under the 

 microscope, as well as of the new species brought forward by the Rev. C. R. N. 

 Burrows, of Mucking, at a recent meeting of the City of London Entomological 

 Society. Mr. Pierce demonstrated that the genital ancillaries are markedly 

 different, and fully support the view that we have really four distinct species confused 

 under the name nictitans. Mr. Pierce also showed photographs of genitalia of 

 Retinia buoliana and R. pinicolana, clearly proving these two insects to be distinct. 



Other exhibits were:— Hy Mr. W. Mansbridge, a series of Zygsena achillese 

 from Argyll, with Z. minos from Wales for comparison. Mr. F. N. Pierce also 

 showed Z. achillese from the Continent, with many other species of the genus. 

 Mr. W. A. Tyerman, a bred series of Amphidasys strataria from Delamere ; the 



