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nearly all over taken in the New Forest, confluent forms of Zyuaena 

 trifnUi, Boarmia roboraria, Phurodemiia piistulata, Pterostoma palpina 

 and Leiicania tnrca from the New Forest ; a fine series of Di/sstroma 

 truncata from various localities, comprising vars. centnni-notata, conima- 

 notata, perfuscata, etc., was much admired, and a long series of Boarmia 

 repandata, which contained several examples of the Penuiaenmawr 

 melanic form, characterised by whitish submarginal blotches on the 

 black ground. 



Mr. Chas. P. Rimmer had a box of micro lepidoptera taken this 

 year, chiefly round Liverpool, also his fine series of Hibemia dcfoUaria 

 from Delamere. 



Mr. A. W. Hughes exhibited from Witherslack a long series of 

 Carsia jialndata, P. aegon and Coeno)ii/uiplta tiphon, and Brenthh 

 eiiphr<)R!/)te from Cartmel. 



Mr. R. Tait brought Wicken insects as follows: — Catocala nupta, 

 Apaniea lei(custi</))ia and var. fibrosa, Calainia )ihra<imitidh, Noctiia uiii- 

 brosa, Hadena trifolii, and Phibalaptcri/.i- vittata, with a few Papilio 

 mac/iaon, bred from ova found in 1920. Pliisia moneta is now well 

 established in Cheshire, as shown by a long series from Carrington in 

 this exhibit. The New Forest was represented by Heinaris fuciformis 

 and Hamearis liicina, and N. Wales bj' a nice series of Af/rotia aaJi- 

 worthii. 



Mr. J. B. Garner-Richards, Mr. J. W. Griffin, and Mr. H. B. 

 Prince, also made interesting exhibits. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.R.S. — An Appreciation. 



Our much loved colleague has passed away at a ripe old age. Up 

 to the last his intellect was so clear, and his charming manner 

 remained so untouched by the asperities which usually develop with 

 advanced age, that one did not realise he had passed by nearly a decade 

 man's allotted three score years and ten. His love for entomology was 

 probably lifelong, for we find that his father was a constant con- 

 tributor to the Kntomologist' s Weekhj IntelU(jencer , and on September 

 4th, 1861, reported to its pages the fact that his son had taken 

 nineteen specimens of Colias edusa in the Isle of Wight since August 

 21st. He also compiled a M.S. List of the Lepidoptera of Glasgow and 

 neighbourhood. This list still exists, and only a few months ago we 

 had the pleasure of taking it for " the Doctor's " perusal from the Library 

 of the Entomological Society, where it had gravitated. The skill in 

 microscopical manipulation, which he early acquired in training for his 

 medical degree at the University of Glasgow, and the knowledge and 

 practice of surgery he obtained during a year spent as demonstrator to 

 the late Lord Lister, were a huge aid to one, who alread}' possessed an 

 inclination for the experimental side of the study of nature. That 

 this love of biological investigation had become engrossing to him we 

 are assured, for when the hospital authorities wished to avail them- 

 selves of his skill as a surgeon he refused, nor would he become an 

 ordinary practitioner, but, no doubt guided by his innate desires, he 

 took an appointment at Abergavenny, where hours of duty w'ould be 

 definite and restricted. That he had early passed the stage of 

 the collector of " a thing of beauty " we know, for in 1870 he 

 contributed a paper on the " Life-history of lihipiphorits paradoxus " to 

 the Annuals and Magazine of Natural History, after having made an 



