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Emile Louis Ragorwt, F.E.S., Pres. Soc. Eni. de Fiance, died at his residence 

 in Paris on October 13tli, aged 52. The announcement was received by his 

 friends witli equal surprise and regret. He came to England in early life, 

 and when first heard of as an entomologist was in a monetary exchange ofBce 

 in Liverpool, and probably his first notice in print appeared in the No. of this 

 ]\ragazine for September, 1866. A few years later he returned to Paris {cf. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., November, 1869), and entered a banking establishment, in which he sub- 

 sequently became a partner, and at the time of his death the business was, we think, 

 entirely in his hands. He devoted his attention especially to the Micro- Lepidoptera, 

 and concentrated it on the Fht/citidce, of which he published a Revision of the 

 British species in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxii (1885). His great work was a Monograph 

 of all the known species of the Family, the first half of which formed vol. vii of the 

 Romanoff Memoires (St. Petersburg, 1893) ; let us hope the conclusion may yet 

 appear posthumously! He also wrote very numerous papers on Pyralidce, Tor- 

 trices and Tineina. He won the good feeling of all with whom he came in contact 

 on account of his quiet unassuming manner, and those of his correspondents to 

 wliom he was not known personally, bear testimony to his constant readiness to 

 impart information. He took an active part in the affairs of the Societe Entomolo- 

 gique de France, of which he was President in 1885, and again this present year. 

 In him the writer of this notice loses a personal friend, with whom he had long been 

 in more or less constant correspondence, and in company with wliom he spent several 

 pleasant days collecting in what may be called the Paris District. M. Ragonot 

 leaves a widow, one son and two daughters, to deplore his premature decease. — 

 R. McL. 



Societies. 



BiBMiNonAM Entomological Society: September \Qth, 1895. — Mr. Gr. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. W. Smallwood, of 18, Pakenham Road, Edgbaston, was elected a Member 

 of the Society. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a specimen of the pale green form of Didea alneti 

 from Sutton ; and one of Echinomyia grossa irova Sutton also, the species not having 

 been observed in the Midlands before. Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Lifhosia griseola, 

 and var. Jlava, from Norfolk, and Hepialus huniuli, Tar. hethlandica, from the 

 Shetlands. Mr. Valentine Smith showed beetles from Braunton Burrows ; viz., 

 iS'ebria complanafa, a nice series, Phaleria cadaverina, and Fsammobiiis sulcicollis. 

 Mr. Wainwright showed a single specimen of Colias Edusa taken at Lynton in 

 August ; also Macroglos.fa stellatarum from the same place. 



October 2\st, 1895.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. A. H. Martincau showed a specimen of Didea from Nevin, North Wales, 

 differing in the bands from any specimen of Didea possessed by Mr. R. C. Bradley, 

 and which he had referred doubtfully to D. fasciala ; also one dark specimen of 



