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William Henry Tugwell died at his residence in Lewisham Koad, near London, 

 on September 20th, aged 64, after a long illness from an obscure spinal disease, 

 which had confined him to his room for many months. He had been long estab- 

 lished as a pharmaceutical chemist, and was much respected in that capacity and 

 also privately. As an entomologist his name is familiar to all British Lepidop- 

 torists, and his collection of Macro- Lepidoptera is one of the finest in existence, rich 

 in rare species, and especially so in varieties. His earlier writings arc mainly 

 scattered througli the pages of the " Intelligencer," and those subsequently 

 througli tiie current entomological periodicals ; our present number containing post- 

 humously what are probably the lust notes ho penned on his favourite subject. He 

 will be greatly missed at the " South London " Society, in the affairs of which he 

 took the warmest interest, and of whicli he was a past President. Personally he 

 was genial, warm hearted, and a strong partisan on any subject in which he took an 

 interest. In connection with this latter trait it may be mentioned that at the recent 

 general election he had the bannisters of his staircase removed so that ho might be 

 carried down in a chair in which he was taken to the polling station. His death 

 leaves a conspicuous blank in the large army of British Lepidopterists. 



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BiEMiNonAM Entomological Society : August 19M, 1895.— Mr. G-. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary called attention to the fact, that this was the 100th Meeting of 



the Society. Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a number of insects taken on Cannock 



Chase at Whitsuntide, including Leucorrhinia duhia and other dragon flies, Nomada 



ochrostoma, ruficornis, fiavoguttata and other Aculeates, and a few Lepidoptera ; he 



also showed the specimens of the Solenobia which he and Mr. A. H. Martineau took 



last Easter at Wyre Forest, and which Mr. C. G-. Barrett identifies as Wockii, and 



new to the list. Mr. A. H. Martineau showed Aculeates — Myrmosa melanocephala, 



one from Sutton Park, Anthidium manicatum from Bridgenorth, also a series of 



Crahro dimidiatus which he had taken at Sutton, together with the insects they had 



captured, which consisted of four specimens of a Dolichopus, one Scatophaga, and 



two different Anthomyice. Mr. P. W. Abbott, Lithosia muscerda and Nonagria 



hrevilinea, with its var. alinea, from Norfolk. Mr. G. W. Wynn, a number of 



insects taken at Wyre Forest this year, including Boarmia rohoraria, iJipterygia 



scabriuscula and Xylophasia monoglypha, one quite black, one dark with a pale 



triangular patch on the inner margin of the fore-wings. Mr. Wainwright, for Mr. 



C. A. E. Kodgers, one Aplevta occulta taken several years ago in Bagot's Park, 



Staffordshire, on sugar, one Hellofhis (Chariclea) marginata (umbra) from Malvern, 



and one Zeuzera cesculi from Handsworth ; he also showed Syrphus annuUpes, Zett. 



from a third locality, Lynton in North Devon ; this species, which he found for the 



first time in this country last year near Stroud, has thus been taken in three widely 



separated localities, and this makes the fifth specimen. — Colbkan J. Wainwuigut, 



Hon. Secretary. 



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