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evening of August 18th, after a very interesting trip in an adverse 

 collecting season. 



(-{grUKRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



We regret to announce the death of Dr. Sharj), F.Ji.S., who for 

 many years has compiled and edited the lnse(;tii, portion of the 

 ZooUiiiical lleroid. He had passed the chair of the EntcMnological 

 Society, and was one of the two " Special Life Members." 



Another fellow of the Entomological Society has also passed away 

 in Hamilton Druce, F.Z.S., whose special study was the Li/raeniilae, 

 For some time past he had been in bad health. 



We are pleased to welcome a new venture in I ' Amatnir ile l^apillon, 

 five numbers of which lie before us. It is an admirable little maga- 

 zine published in Paris under the editorship of M. Leon Lhomme, 

 an ardent devotee of the study of French Lepidoptera. We under- 

 stand from the prospectus that it will appear eight times a year, 

 each number will contain 16 pages with illustrations, and the contents 

 will deal with the Lepidoptera alone, not omitting the Micro- 

 lepidoptera, will contain much faunistic matter as to localities, and 

 will afford aid to those whose opportunities of making progress in 

 their studies are limited ; all the matter will be concerned with the 

 Lepidoptera of France. The subscription is seventeen francs, and 

 we would suggest to those who spend their annual holidays in the 

 " pleasant land of France " that they subscribe to this modest 

 periodical. 



From the editorial of L'Ainatenr de I'apillims we quote an apt 

 phrase or two. " Est-ce qu'il y a des oeuvres vrainient parfaites ? 

 Mieux.vaut faire une oeuvre imparfaite que ne rien faire. Agir, c'est 

 vivre, tandis que rester inactif et ne rien produire, c'est deja etre 

 mort." 



From the same editorial we quote an admirable summary of the 

 pleasure and benefit some of us gain in our practical study of 

 entomology apart from the scientific side: " Apres une longue semaine 

 d'un labeur incessant, absorbant, comme on anrie, le dimanche venu, 

 gagner la foret voisine, egarer ses pas dans les allees herbues et fieuries, 

 frequentees par nos insects predilection, ou arpenter les champs en 

 friche que la main de I'homme ne retourne pas de quelque temps, 

 laissant les plantes sauvages se developper ti leur aise. On y retrouve 

 un calme reparateur, on y respire un air revivifiant, on y eprouve le 

 bienetre recherche et, par les heureuses captures qu'on a pu faire, on 

 sent encore s'augmenter le plaisir de sa journee de repos." 



The May number of the ('anadian Kntniiioloiiist has only just 

 reached us. The contents deal lai'gely with injurious insects: — Beetles 

 injurious to sunflowers in Manitoba, the devastation of young pine 

 trees by the beetle /yw jiini, a study of the Tarsonemid mites of N. 

 America, with several illustrations and biological details, new 

 Si/r/ihidaf, (Dip.) to Canada, miscellaneous notes on Coleoptera, and 

 synonymic notes on Caiorala by McDunnough. 



M. Chas. Cabeau describes a new aberration of Ih i/as iiop/iia in the 

 July number of the J If rue Mt'iisnelle (Namuroise), ah. g joannis, 

 captured in June near Torgny. Above, the forewings are entirely 

 black except (1) a basal area of the typical ground colour, (2) a median 



