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on about the ante-penultimate segment of the abdomen, and apparently always on 

 the left side, there is a more or less rounded whitish mass, appearing more like 

 something attached externally than an exudation, sometimes nearly smooth, but 

 usually made up of coarse agglutinated granules. What is this mass ? It appa- 

 rently only occurs on female examples, and I am inclined to think it may be due to 

 a rupture of the integuments, and be composed of the extruded contents of the 

 ovaries. But why it should occur always at the same point, and (in this species) 

 apparently always on the same side, I do not understand. N. capitata, though 

 never common, is wide spread, and it should not be difficult to solve the mystery 

 from an examination of fresh specimens during the coming season. 



At one time I thought this peculiarity was confined to N. capitata, but I see it 

 in two examples of N.fulviceps (one British, the other continental), in the same 

 position, but in one of them it exists on both sides of the abdomen. I see no sign 

 of it on examples of about a dozen other species of the genus, European and exotic. 

 — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : April Qth, 1895. 



Hydroporus marginatus, Duftschm., at Ramshury. — Mr. Champion and I cap- 

 tured a few specimens of this rare Hydroporus at Ramshury, Wilts, on the 14th 

 inst. We found them by dragging the water-net amongst the refuse accumulated 

 on the surface of a mill-dam in the river Kennet. I obtained a single specimen last 

 year at the same locality in some flood refuse on the banks of the river. The insect 

 is recorded from Marlborough by the Rev. Canon Fowler. — R. W. Lloyd, St. 

 Cuthbert's, Thurleigh Road, Balham, S.W. : April \1th, 1895. 



Crahro gonager, Lep., and Panzeri, v. d. Lind., in the London district. — I 

 captured two females of C. gonager on raspberry leaves in our garden at Woodfield, 

 Streatham, last June, and forty or fifty of C. Panzeri from a colony several hundred 

 strong in a hard trodden path by the side of Tooting Bee Common in July. — 

 C. H. Mortimer, Woodfield, Streatham, S.W. : April \Oth, 1895. 



ituarjT. 



James Mortimer Adye, F.E.S., who died at Bournemouth on March 30th, at 

 the early age of 35, was the second son of the late W. L. Adye, Esq., J. P., D.L., of 

 Merly, Wimborne. He was a diligent student and collector of British Lepidoptera, 

 and had made some notable discoveries. It seems that last autumn, when collecting 

 in the New Forest, he contracted a severe cold and neglected it ; this was followed 

 by pneumonia and pleurisy, and finally by phthisis. Mr. Bright, of Bournemouth, 

 to whom we owe the particulars as to his death, informs us that Mr. Adye's col- 

 lections have been left to Mr. McRae of that borough. He became a Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society of London so recently as 1891. 



Claudius Rey. — Information has been received of the death of this industrious 

 French entomologist, who, in conjunction with the late Etienne Mulsant, was a 

 prolific writer on Coleoptera and Jlemiptera. Articles in their joint names com- 



