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Insects."— Mr. Andrews, specimens of "Witches' Broom" fungus-gall 

 Ascomyces sp. ? on willow, and types of sixty-three species of Diptera 

 taken in the months of March and April, chiefly at sallow-blossom.— 

 Mr. Coxhead, specimens of plant-galls and some very beautiful water- 

 colour drawings of the same, and the gall-fly Uromyces ficaria under 

 the microscope. —Mr. West (Ashtead), four species of Collembola 

 under the microscope. — Mi'. Edwards, large and conspicuous species 

 of Phasmidffi, Mantidae, Gryllidae, and Hymenoptera chiefly from 

 British North Borneo, together with the remarkable chelifer, Thely- 

 phenus lucanoidcs, and the curious Arachnids, Actinacantha arcuata 

 and Gasteracantha vittata.—B.Y. J. Turner {Ho7i. Bep. Sec). 



The Manchester Entomological Society. — April^nd, 1913. — 

 Meeting held in the Manchester Museum. — The Secretary read 

 on behalf of the Eev. S. Proudfoot, F.E.S., a paper entitled " The 

 Delights of Entomology." — Mr. B. H. Crabtree, F.E.S., exhibited 

 a long and remarkably varied series of Noctua j)rwmlce {f estiva) var. 

 confiua bred from the Shetlands.— Mr. J. H. Watson showed some 

 interesting Javan lepidoptera from the Ley den Museum. These were 

 Cricula anclrei var. elazia female, hitherto undescribed ; a very 

 curious aberration of G. andrei, without any fenestras ; Antherea nov. 

 sp. (?), closely allied to A. helferi from Assam. He also showed 

 C. andrei and trifenestrata from Assam, and C. trifenestrata from 

 Burma. — Mr. R. Tait, junr., showed his series of the genera Pachnobia 

 and Taniocampa, which included a fine lot of P. leucograpka. — 

 Mr. J. E. Cope exhibited coleoptera from Robertson, Cape Colony, 

 including two large species of Psavimodes, a large Adephagus beetle, 

 and a small chafer similar to our own Bhizotrogns.~A. W. Boyd, 

 M.A., Ho7i. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



By the death of Mr. Herbert Druce, the Entomological Society 

 of London loses one of its oldest and most prolific workers in the 

 wide field of universal Lepidoptera. Born on July 14th, 181G, from 

 his earliest boyhood he developed deep interest in entomology, and 

 his election to the Society took place when he was just one and 

 twenty. From that time onward he soon made a name as a dihgent 

 collector and describer, among the more important of his contri- 

 butions to contemporary scientific literature, and to our knowledge 

 of the world's species, being the three volumes (with plates) dealing 

 with Heterocera in the ' Biologia Centrali Americana,' upon which 

 he concentrated his energies over a considerable number of years. 

 In addition to this, he published several monographs of genera, and 

 described a large number of species new to science in the ' Trans- 

 actions ' of the Entomological Society of London, the ' Proceedings ' 

 of the Zoological Society, the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 

 and the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History.' Serving on the 

 Council of the Entomological Society in 1885 and 1892, he was also 

 a Fellow of the Linnean, the Zoological, and the Royal Geographical 

 Societies. We hear that his magnificent collections are shortly to 

 be sold. 



