228 THE entomologist's TviiCORD. 



In conclusion we cannot do otherwise than warmly congratulate 

 the author for his valuable and most painstaking work, and also the 

 Entomological Society for the publication of it, the value of this year's 

 transactions will be much enhanced by Mr. Eltringham's able 

 monograph. — G.T.B.-B. 



A CoKRECTioN. — My friend, Mr. A. H. Jones, has pointed out a 

 little mistake in my paper " Ten days in the Cevennes," ante pp. 117- 

 121. I there speak of Hinutina dolus. I should have said Hirsntina 

 dolus var. vittata. The type form dolus does not apparently obtain 

 there, all our captures were of the form vittata. 



I might also here explain that I use the generic name Hirsutina 

 only to conform to the general usage of our magazine. I cannot 

 accept for myself this and other names created in recent years for this 

 group of butterflies, but until I have brought out my generic revision 

 of the Lycaenidae I am content to fall in line with our assiduous 

 editorial secretary. — G. T. Bethune-Baker. 



<DBITUARY/ 



Edward Arthur Fitch. 



In the early volumes of the " Entomologist" from about 1874, one 

 of the most oft recurring names of contributors to its pages is that of 

 Edward Arthur Fitch. Born in Chelsea, in 1854, he passed through 

 his school days with considerable honour and success, and in 1874 took 

 up his residence at the Brick House, Maldon, where he lived until his 

 death on June 28th last. His life from beginning to end was a 

 strenuous one, and his interests varied and engrossing. To whatever 

 he put his hand to that he gave his earnest energy, whether it was to 

 his business as a farmer, to local affairs either of his town or his 

 county, to the study of nature, or to Archasoiogy. His keen intellect, 

 his fluency of speech, his love of fair-play, made him honoured and 

 respected by all, even by those opposed to him in thought and politics. 

 His aid was a si)ie qua non in aught that was done in the county as 

 well as in the town of his adoption. He was a Fellow of the Entomo- 

 logical Society, since 1874, served on the Council and was Secretary 

 from 1881-5 ; a Fellow of the Linnean Society ; a Fellow of the 

 Zoological Society ; one of the founders of the Essex Field Club, and 

 on the Council of the Essex Archteological Society. Six times he was 

 Mayor of Maldon, he was an original member of the Essex County 

 Council and one of its Aldermen, and for 20 years he served on the Board 

 of Guardians as Chairman and Vice-chairman. A keen politician, he 

 prided himself on doing naught to create strife and ill-feeling among 

 those who thought other than he did. In 1902 his ability as a linguist 

 helped him much in leading a party of some 50 Essex farmers to 

 Hungary to study agricultural methods in that country. 



During thu last quarter of a century he had done uut little active 

 entomology, although his love for the study led him to aid societies 

 and individuals whenever opportunity was afforded him. The pioneer 

 work which he did in " other orders " than Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, 

 from the beginning of his entomological work, will be a lasting 

 memorial. 



