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autumn-bred specimens of Apatura iris, the rest of the brood going 

 over as hirva) as usual. Dark L. deplana and Capture of Peripi.aneta 

 AUSTRALASIA. — Mr. Bleukarn, light and dark examples of Lithosia 

 deplana, and a specimen of the cockroach Periplanela axstralasiae, 

 taken from a case of oranges from Jamaica. Sexual dimorphism of 

 E. halitherses. — Mr. Edwards, the remarkably sexually dimorphic 

 species hhiiipus lialithcracs, of which the 5 mimics a Kuploca. H. 

 semele, var. — Mr. Pickett, a very richly marked aberration of 

 Hipparchia semele. The " Tugwell Herbarium." — Mr. Step, a further 

 portion of the " Tugwell Herbarium," which he had been renovating 

 for the Society, and to contain which Mr. R. Adkin had most kindly 

 ffiven a handsome cabinet. 



Samuel James Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Samuel James Capper, of Huyton Park, Liverpool, President and 

 founder of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, passed 

 away at his residence on the evening of January 21st., in his eighty- 

 seventh year. He was a Londoner by birth and early came under the 

 influence of natural history, for he was sent to a boarding school at 

 Epping, where the brothers Doubleday did all they could to induce the 

 young to take an interest in the local Lepidoptera. In course of time 

 he settled in Liverpool and became a partner in the well-known firm 

 of Thompson and Capper, manufacturing chemists. He soon met with 

 the late Benjamin Cooke and other Lancashire collectors, and resumed 

 his boyhood's pursuit, which he continued to follow with unflagging 

 energy until a few years ago. In 1874 he met with an accident while 

 collecting in N. Wales, and was henceforth too lame to carry on his 

 field-work. Nothing daunted, if he could not go to entomology, 

 entomology must come to him. In 1887 the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Society was inaugurated at his house in Huyton Park, 

 himself as first President, an office he held until his death. 



His written work has been small, but his Annual Addresses to the 

 above Society show him to have been a man of very wide and deep 

 reading, and one whose knowledge of entomology, gained by experience 

 in the field, was no mean amount. In the Knt. lleeord, vol. x., p. 54, 

 there is reprinted an address given by him on " Entomological 

 Literature in Britain," and a portrait of him will be found in the 

 l]rit. Xat. (continuation of )'oiin;i Nat.) vol. ii., p. 60. For many years 

 he had taken every opportunity to add to his collections, which 

 contained a very large number of interesting and unique varieties. In 

 the Xatiiralists' Journal, vol. v., p. 20, etc., S. L. Mosley gives a most 

 interesting account of a visit he paid to Huyton Park. Subsequently, 

 a large number of the aberrations of British Lepidoptera in the 

 collection, were figured by Mosley in his lllustratidns of Varieties of 

 Ihitish Lepidoptera and in the volumes of tlie Xatnralists' Journal. 

 During the last few years Mr. Capper's declining strength prevented 

 his taking much interest in his insects, and finally last autumn 

 he parted with the whole of them to Mr. L. \V. Newman, by 

 whom they are being dispersed. He was a member of the Society of 

 Friends.— H. J. T. 



