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NOTICES OF 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL APPOINTMENTS, &c. 



Mr. E. R. Speyer has taken up a temporary appointment under 

 the Ceylon Government for the purpose of investigating the shot- 

 hole borer of tea {Xyleborus fornicatus). 



With great regret we have to announce the death of the two following 

 Entomologists : — 



Mr. Andrew Rutherford, Government Entomologist in Ceylon, 

 who died of enteric fever in February last. 



Second Lieutenant Duncan H. Gotch, Worcestershire Regiment, 

 Entomological Assistant in the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, who 

 was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle on the 11th March. 



