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Eev. A. Miles Moss, also an album of watercolour drawings of lavv» 

 of exotic Sphingida' executed by tbe Eev. A. M. Moss from living 

 specimens. — Mr. W. A. Tyerman showed a collection of moths which 

 were taken in the neighbourhood of warehouses in Liverpool. Four 

 species of tlie genus Epliestia were represented, viz. E. ehiteUa, 

 E. 2^assnllela, E.ficeUa, and E. kuehnielia, also Plodia intcrpwictella, 

 MelissoblajUcs ce'phalonica, and Sitotroga cerealella, all having been 

 more abundant than usual this year. — The Eev. F. M. B. Carr had 

 the results of his collecting in Delamere Forest and district during 

 the past summer. Besides the usual species found in the district, 

 the exhibit included a specimen of Plusia vioneta bred from a larva 

 found at Tarporley, this being the second record for Cheshire ; the 

 other, by Mr. E. Tait, being from Ashton-on-Mersey. — Mr. Carr also 

 showed Phisia iota, P. jmlchrina, and P. festiicce, a nice series of 

 each from his garden at Alvanley. — Dr. John Cotton exhibited a 

 specimen of Sphinx convulvuli, taken in a back yard at St. Helens in 

 September.— Wm. Mansbeidge, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUAKY. 



William Henry Harwood was born at Colchester on February 

 25th, 1840, and from a very early age developed a taste for ento- 

 mology. He was educated at the Colchester Eoyal Grammar 

 School, and afterwards apprenticed to Messrs. Smith and Shenstone, 

 chemists, of Colchester. Some time after the expiry of his inden- 

 tures he was medically advised to take up an outdoor occupation, 

 and this resulted in his devoting all his time to entomology. 

 He was the originator of the system of breeding Lepidoptera by 

 sleeving on growing food-plants, and was successful in discovering 

 the larvae of many species that were previously unknown in that stage 

 in Britain, and was in constant communication with Messrs. Buckler, 

 Hellins, and Harper Crev^-e, his name, in this connection, occurring 

 frequently throughout ' Buckler's Larvae ' and in the entomological 

 magazines. He contributed occasional notes to the ' Entomologist.' 



In the early eighties he took up the study of Coleoptera and 

 Hymenoptera Aculeata and later that of other Orders of British 

 Insects, devoting much attention to those of economic interest ; 

 but the Aculeata were always his favourite group, and he soon 

 became as well known among students of the " Neglected Orders " 

 as he already was among lepidopterists. 



He married in 1875 Elizabeth, younger daughter of James 

 Netherwood Dixon, who predeceased him in 1914 and had four 

 children, of whom three survive him. He was responsible for the 

 Insect Section of the Victoria ' History of Essex,' the bulk of the 

 records, apart from Lepidoptera, being of species taken in the 

 Colchester district. 



His main recreation was literature, and in 1913 he published 

 a volume of verses — ' The Modern Poet ' — which was favourably 

 reviewed, and from time to time he contributed articles and verses 

 to various magazines and periodicals. 



He was taken ill in the spring of 1914, and about a year later 

 removed to Sudbury, where he passed away on December 24th, 1917. 



