Hydroptilafernoralis, Eaton, in Scotland. — At an excursion which the Natural 

 History Society of Grlasgow had to the hille above Port Glasgow on May Slst, I was 



; fortunate enough to obtain a nice series of Hydroptila femoralis, Eaton, by beating 

 the branches of Scotch firs, and sweeping the herbage along the edge of the burn in 

 the Devol G-len. This species has not, as far as I am aware, been recorded from 

 Scotland ; it has been captured by the Kev. Mr. Eaton near Ashbourne, Derbyshire^ 

 in June. 



^ It is to be regretted that so little is known about the distribution of these small 



caddis-flies, which is, no doubt, owing to the difficulty of collection, and also in 

 getting the specimens named. I think that a large amount of the latter raiglit be 



; obviated by examining the specimens when they are freshly killed, as then the anal 

 parts are very clear. — James J. King, 207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : June \Mh, 

 1884. 



Henry Waring Kidd died at Godalming on March 23rd, aged 39, after three 



» days' illness, according to a recent death-roll in the " Times." Readers of the first 



'« eight volumes of this Magazine will remember the numerous and valuable observa- 



1 tions by 11. W. Kidd on galls and gall-insects. But, probably, very few were aware 



• ' of the physical disadvantages under which the writer of those notes laboured. A 



helpless paralytic cripple from birth, utterly without the use of his legs, and almost 



■, ' in an equal degree without the use of his hands, he was a striking example of the 



i consolation derived from a taste for Natural History in the face of such terrible odds. 



\ H. W. Kidd was the son of Dr. Waring Kidd, of Godalming, who, it was long 



\ believed, wrote in the old " Entomological Magazine," and in the " Entomologist" 



i! of 1840—42, under the pseudonym " Rusticus," and was presumed to be the author 



' ' of the charmingly written " Letters of ' Rusticus ;' " but it was afterwards athorita- 



tively announced that Dr. Kidd only furnished some of the materials. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal Histoey Society opened 

 their New Rooms at 60, Blackman Street, Borough, S.E., on June 5th, at 8 p.m., 

 with an Exhibition Meeting, wliich was largely attended, in spite of the inclemency 

 of the weather. The exhibits were as follows : — 



Mr. T. R. Billups, 10 drawers of Coleoptera, 1 of Biptera, 4 of Hymenoptera, 1 

 of Hemiptera, 1 of Arachnidce, 2 of Orthoptera, and 3 of Mollusca ; also the life- 

 1 history of Tephritis onopordinis, the destructive celery-fly. 



Mr. Wellman, 2 drawers of Geometrce, and a series of Fidonia atomaria, which 

 ■:, included a fine black variety. 



Mr. Elisha, 2 drawers of Tinecs. 



Mr. Adkin, 1 draw of OeometrcB, 1 of Cuspidates, and a series of Nola cento- 

 jl nalis and Boletohia fuJiginaria. 



Mr. J. T. Williams, 6 bred specimens of Boletohia fuliginaria. 

 Mr. Coverdale, a series of Lepidoptera, illustrating his new method of mounting 

 without pinning. 



The President (Mr. W. West, L.D.S.), life-histories of 24 species of British 

 I Lepidoptera. 



\ Mr. West, Greenwich, a collection of leaves infested with Coleophora, pupae of 



British Lepidoptera, and Actias Selene, an exotic silk-producer. 



