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Mr. H.H. Bloomer, F.L.S. Owing to the somewhat stagnant condition of 

 the Birmingham Entomological Society, and the consequent small attend- 

 ance at its meetings, it has been decided by a considerable majority of 

 its members, to accept the invitation of the Birmingham Natural 

 History and Philosophical Society, to amalgamate with it, and form 

 an Entomological Section. The Birmingham Entomological Society 

 has therefore been dissolved, and Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S. , 

 becomes President of the new section, the first meeting of which was 

 held on April 13th. 



A/ilasta ononaria swarms in the bed of the Eaux Chaudes, opposite 

 the garden of " The Baths," at Digne. If anyone is at Digne this 

 spring (or summer) will he try to get living J s or eggs of this species, 

 for the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, Mucking, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, as 

 he wishes to rear the species, in connection with the series of papers that 

 he is publishing on the " Emeralds " in this magazine. 



We regret to have to record the death of Mr. F. F. Freeman, at 

 the age of 60, at Tavistock. His collection of legidoptera, we believe, 

 was held in common with that of Mr. F. Lemann, whose regretted 

 decease we chronicled in our last number. 



Another volume" of 500 solid pages of information on British 

 butterflies has just been completed, and is being published by Elliot 

 Stock, 66, Paternoster Row, London, E.G., dealing with the life- 

 histories of the British " hairstreaks " and "blues," and illustrated by 

 28 plates of these butterflies in all their stages — imagines, eggs, larviB, 

 pup^e, and other details of structure from photographs by Messrs. F. 

 Noad Clark, H. Main, and A. E. Tonge. There has never been any- 

 thing published, on any large group of insects, approaching the 

 completeness and thoroughness of this work. Up to the present, 

 there has been scarcely any exact knowledge on any of these species 

 published, but this book gives details of almost everything that can be 

 required about the interesting " hairstreak " and "blue" butterflies. 

 Besides this, all students of Pal^earctic lepidoptera will find herein the 

 basis on which advanced grouping of the allied species can be arranged. 

 Attention is especially called to the life-histories of Latnpides boeticus 

 and (Jelastrina ar(/iolus. 



BITUARY. 



John Thomas Carrington. 



The death of John Thomas Carrington has removed from our midst 

 the most Bohemian British lepidopterist of our time. He first appeared 

 on the entomological horizon in the late " sixties," as a professional 

 collector in Scotland, where he made the acquaintance of many 

 amateur, and some professional, brothers of the net. Being in 

 London at the time of the death of the late Edward Newman, 

 he offered his services as editor of the Fhitomoloijint, and, although 

 practically unknown, except for his collecting in Scotland (he 

 had really published nothing), was accepted, and carried on the 

 magazine most successfully from 1876 to 1890, when the magazine, being 

 purchased by Mr. Leech, the editorship fell into the hands of his then 



* The Natural History of British Butterjiies, their world-wide variation and 

 distribiUioji, vol. ii., by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., 495 + x. pp., xxviii. plates and 

 explanations. Price 21s. net. [Published by Elliot Stock, 66, Paternoster Row, 

 London, E.C. Friedlander and Sohn, 11, Carlstiasse, Berlin, N.W., Germany.] 



