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inside gas lamps on the outskirts of the town of Reading. Adela SuheUa, beaten 

 from a hedge row, Reading. Micropteryx salopiella, among bircli, Reading. Scy- 

 thropia cratcegella, common on whitethorn and wild ajiple, both at Reading and 

 Basingstoke. Gelechia cethiops, disturbed from heather in the same way as O. 

 ericetella, for a dark form of which it miglit easily be mistaken, Reading ; O. Lyel- 

 lella, the well marked and iinicolorous black forms disturbed from among coarse 

 herbage, Reading; Q. Knaggsiella, taken from tree trunks, Reading ; O. semidecan- 

 drella, in sandy places, Reading ; G. scriptella, plentiful in an old damp ditch by 

 the side of a hedgerow, Reading ; O. albiceps and nanella, tree trunks, Reading ; 

 G. arundineteVa, taken in a boggy place, Reading ; G. gemmella, tree trunks, Reading. 

 (Ecophora binaris, beaten out of underwood, Reading. BntaUs inconqruella, on a 

 heath, Heading. Per/i^/« oJsci(re/3«j«c/e//rt, among honeysuckle, Reading. Coriscium 

 Brongniardellum, in an oak wood, Reading. Argyresthia dilectella, among juniper 

 on the chalk downs. Coleophora hicolorella, olivaceella and palliaiella, by general 

 beating. Laverna vinolentella and atra, Reading. Elachista cerussella, among 

 coarse grasses. Fhylloenistis suffusella, among aspen. — A. H. Hamm, 21, Hathcrlcy 

 Road, Reading : June l^lk, 1895. 



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The Rt. Bon. Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., M.D., F.R.S., .jr., 4c., born at 

 Ealing May 24th, 1825, died at Eastbourne June 29th, 1895. It would be super- 

 fluous for us to attempt any detailed notice of Prof. Huxley, whose recent death has 

 placed the scientific world in mourning. Possibly his sole contribution to Ento- 

 mology in the restricted sense was tlie remarkable memoir, " On the Agamic 

 Reproduction and Morphology of ApJiis," published in the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society of London, vol. xxii (1858-59), and of course this had far more 

 than a purely entomological importance. Very many entomologists will have studied 

 his "Crayfish" (1879) with advantage, a work in which his broad sympathies (even 

 with the much abused " mere systematist ") are manifest in every chapter. Possibly 

 no man (Darwin not excepted) did more to influence modern thought on questions 

 of Natural Philosophy and kindred subjects ; it is certain that no man more 

 industriously endeavoured to restrain, the excesses of some of the post-Darwinians. 

 It remains to be seen what the effect of the untimely removal of the curb will be. 



Laureano Perez Areas died at Requena in Spain on September 24th, 1894; he 

 was born at the same place on Jidy 4th, 1824. It is only quite recently that the 

 news of the death of this prominent Spanish entomologist and naturalist has been 

 made public outside his native country. He published an educational work, 

 " Elementos de Zoologia," which extended to six editions (1861-1886), and many 

 papers on Entomology, principally on Coleoptera. He was the founder in 1871 of 

 the Sociedad espaiiola de Historia Natural, a most useful Society, in the " Anales " 

 of which most of his entomological writings appeared. 



