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probably more will soon be heard of this in a new edition when 

 material serves. A few ' Catalogue ' names seem to occur 

 which, of course, will remain such until a description is 

 given somewhere. Mr. Verrall states in his preface to the ' List ' 

 that he has not personally studied some groups ; and though he 

 does not say so, we presume all names in italics mean species 

 insufficiently recognised as British. We see there are over 500 

 of these in the ' List,' which consists of about 2500 species. A 

 vast amount of more work requires doing in the Mycetophilidae, 

 Chironomidge, Empidae, Tachinidae, and nearly all the groups 

 which used to be comprised under the term Muscidae Acalypterae. 

 Now that another excuse is removed by the publication 

 of this List of British Diptera, entomologists m this country 

 will surely pay more attention to the group. It only remains for 

 Mr. Verrall to follow with a manual of Diptera for the use of 

 young students and a cabinet label list, when we are satisfied 

 the dipterists would become well-nigh as numerous as the 

 lejDidopterists. — J. T. C. 



OBITUARY. 



John Scott was born at Morpeth, September 21st, 1823, 

 and died August oOtli, 1888, in the 65th year of his age. 

 From an early period Mr. Scott took interest in the study 

 of Nature, and was a contributor to the entomological serials, 

 chiefly as a lepidopterist, during the years following 1849, until 

 about 1862, when be began to report upon the order Hemiptera, 

 with which his name will be chiefly associated in time to come. 

 The well-known work published by the Ray Society in 1865, 

 upon British Hemiptera, of which he was joint author with Mr. 

 Douglas, still remains a standard work, as also does the ' Cata- 

 logue of British Hemiptera,' published by the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1876, with which list Mr. Scott was also 

 associated. His remaining literary work is scattered through 

 transactions of societies and periodicals, both English and 

 foreign. Mr. Scott was an ardent worker in the field and in his 

 study. Always bright and genial, until afflicted with a mental 

 disease that formed part of the complication which at last 

 caused his death, Mr. Scott had many friends, and was indeed 

 deservedly popular among entomologists. — J. T. C. 



