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I also captured one more A. adipjje, and one A. aglaia, after an exciting 

 chase. While waiting for the train I again saw Macroglossa stellatarum. — 

 Alfred H. Blake ; High St., Biggleswade, Beds., Dec. 12th, 1893. 



OBITUAKY. 



Major-General George Garden died, after a few days' illness, from 

 the effects of influenza, at Douglas Towers, Bromley, Kent, on Monday, 

 February 12th, aged fifty-six. He entered the army in 1854 as an 

 Ensign in the 77th Foot, and served with his regiment m the Crimean 

 War. He subsequently served with the 5th Foot (now known as the 

 "Northumberland Fusiliers") during the Indian Mutiny Campaign, 

 and was Lieutenant- Colonel commanding that regiment for some years. 

 Colonel Carden (who was granted a year's service for Lucknow, and 

 was in receipt of a Distinguished Service Pension) retired on half-pay 

 in 1882, and received the rank of Major-General in 1887. On retiring 

 from the army he took up his residence at Surbiton, and remained there 

 until he left for Bromley in 1892. He joined the Entomological Society 

 of London in 1890. General Carden made no pretensions to be a scientific 

 entomologist, but he was a close observer and an ardent collector of Lepi- 

 doptera ; and his small collection consisted exclusively of insects obtained 

 by himself in the woods and fields, or bred from larv» which he had col- 

 lected. During the past six years the writer of this notice made many 

 pleasant excursions with the late George Carden in the New Forest, 

 and Tilgate Forest ; in Barnwell Wold, the Bedford Purlieus, Castor 

 Hanglands, and other woods in Northamptonshire ; and in many woods 

 and on many hill-sides and commons in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. In 

 July and August, 1891, the deceased spent his annual holiday of six or 

 seven weeks in South Devon, and obtained a long series of Callimorpha 

 hera, several of which were generously presented to the writer. General 

 Carden was a good musician, both theoretically and practically ; and 

 his voice, a light tenor of pleasant quahty, will be missed in local 

 musical societies, and also in certain "Choirs and places where 

 they sing." He was also an accomplished artist, and lost no oppor- 

 tunity, when away on his entomological excursions, of sketching and 

 painting the most picturesque scenes amongst which his rambles led 

 him. As a man of business he did good service, from the time of his 

 retirement from the army up to the date of his death, as Secretary of 

 the Rochester Diocesan Society, and he will be much missed in Parlia- 

 ment Street. Although apparently a shy, cold, and reserved man 

 amongst strangers, intimate acquaintance proved him to be a kind- 

 hearted and genial companion, especially in the smoking-room; and 

 his premature death makes a gap in a wide circle of friends which will 

 not easily be filled up. The deceased leaves a widow and nine children. 

 -(H. G.) 



Errata.— P. 36, line 4, for " MeHttea " read " Melanargia.'* P. 62, 

 line 2 from bottom, for " account for those " read "account for in those," 



