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coreus. A subsequent re-examination of the type revealed the mistake. As a 

 British species guttaUpennis remained practically unknown, and it was not until 

 1895, when Mr. Dennis, of York, found it in November of that year (Porritt, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xxxii, p. 41), at Pickering, in Yorkshire, that something certain was 

 learned about its habits. Mr. Porritt took it in profusion at the same place in 

 November of the following year, and subsequently it was recorded from Gloucester- 

 shire, where it had been taken by Mr. James Edwards on September 26th, 1896, 

 and from Marlborough, Wilts., by Mr. Meyrick, taken by him in the first half of 

 October. The two last mentioned dates must be regarded as early for this species. 

 As indicated, it occurs in Switzerland, and it has also been found in Belgium, but I 

 cannot at the moment recall any other continental localities. — Kenneth J. 

 MOBTON, 13, Blackford Eoad, Edinburgh : December 12th, 1905. 



Unusual dates for Halesus radiatus in the Isle of Man. — In most parts of 

 Britain Halesus radiatus is regarded exclusively as a late summer and autumn 

 species, and here I have never seen it before September, when it is very abundant. 

 But the following dates, representing its capture in the Isle of Man by Dr. R. T. 

 Cassal, suggest the possibility that it is either double brooded with him, or else that 

 it hibernates. One specimen June 3rd, two specimens June 4th, one specimen 

 June 5th, one specimen August 24th, and three specimens September 27th, 1904; 

 one specimen April 29th, and one specimen October 5th, 1905. I believe that as yet 

 no Trichopteron is known to hibernate as an imago in Britain, though the late 

 Mr. McLachlan suspected, from the number of early spring captures, that Steno- 

 phylax permixtus (concentricus) does so. Of this I am doubtful myself, because 

 the closely allied Stenophylax vihex occurs here freely in April, and is then indeed 

 apparently much commoner than in the autumn. — Geo, T. Poeritt, Huddersfield : 

 Fehruary 9th, 1906. 



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The Rev. Joseph Greene, M.A., F.E.S. — It is with much regret that we 

 announce the decease, at his residence, Eostrevor, Clifton, Bristol, at the ripe age 

 of 82, of the Rev. Joseph Greene. Probably few men have done more than he to 

 advance the study of our insect fauna, and his name for two generations has been 

 a " household word " among British Lepidopterists. As long ago as 1850 we find 

 him contributing to the " Zoologist " a note on rare Lepidoptera at Lower Guiting, 

 on the Cotswolds ; and in the same periodical (1857, pp. 5384 — 5398) appeared his 

 classic paper " On pupa digging," a method of collecting which he carried out 

 systematically with great success, and with which his naitie will always be associated. 

 This paper was reproduced in full in his well-known little book " The Insect 

 Hunter's Companion, first published in 1870, which has reached a third edition, 

 and is universally recognised as one of the most useful and most pleasantly written 

 works on practical insect collecting. Up to a recent date Mr. Greene was a frequent 

 contributor to the pages of the Entomological Magazines, and occasionally to our 



