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pp. 879-438. There is reference to Glossina tachinoides, pp. 464-5 
in another paper by J. W.S. Macfie. (2) ‘ Quelques observations 
préliminaires sur la Morphologie et la Biologie de la larve, de la 
nymphe et de l’imago .de lAuchmeromyia luteola, Fabr.,” par le Dr. 
J. Schwetz, pp. 497-607. (3) “The Morphology, Biology, and 
Economie Importance of Nosema bombi, n. sp,, parasitic in various 
Humble-bees (Bombus SPB); by Dr. H. B. Fantham and Dr. Annie 
Porter, pp. 623-638. 
In vol. ix, No. 1 (March 18th, 1915), we find: (1) “ Preliminary 
Notes on the Mosquitos of Kabinda (Lomami), Belgian Congo,” by 
Dr. J. Schwetz, pp. 163-168. (2) “On some previously undescribed 
Tabanide from Africa,’ by H. I’. Carter, pp. 173-196. 
J. W. Lucas. 
OBITUARY. 
GEOFFREY MErADE-WALDO. 
Born January, 1884. Died March, 1916. 
Tue death of Geoffrey Meade-Waldo has occurred with such 
terrible suddenness that it is difficult yet to realise there has passed 
away one of the most promising of the younger school of entomolo- 
gists. In those who knew him—and all who knew him were his 
friends—he inspired a deep affection ; his gentle manners, his winning 
smile, his readiness to help, his ardent love of Nature—all contributed 
to make him welcome wherever he went, and in whatsoever sphere 
of usefulness he adorned. He went to Hton in January, 1898, and 
left in July, 1903, matriculating at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the 
following October. During his school days he had already begun to 
study at home and abroad the group of Insecta to which he remained 
attached—the Lepidoptera. In 1899, and again in 1902, he collected 
in Morocco,* and later in France and Switzerland; and four 
years after he had left the University, at the invitation of the late 
Lord Crawford, he joined the party of scientists on board the 
“ Valhalla” for a long cruise, extended among other places to the 
Federated Malay States and Borneo. On return, having proceeded 
to' his M.A. Degree, he took up his appointment in 1909 at the 
Natural History Museum, South Kensington, where latterly he was 
- in charge of the Hymenoptera section. While thus engaged he was 
chosen as delegate for the Museum (Entomology) to attend Zoological 
Congresses at Ghent, and Monaco, and in Canada. He also attended 
the first and second Congress of Entomology at Brussels and Oxford. 
Elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1904, he 
*** Collecting near Tangier in August and September, 1901,’ ‘Entomologist.’ 
xxxv, pp. 195-6; ‘‘ Notes on a Collection of Butterflies and Moths made in 
Touraine,” td., xxxvii, pp. 69-71; ‘‘ Note on a Month’s Collecting in Nor- 
mandy,” 7d., xxxvil, pp. 801-3. Besides notes on Lepidoptera, Mr. G. Meade- 
Waldo contributed to science a considerable number of valuable papers on 
the Hymenoptera in the Natural History Museum—descriptions of new 
species, and notes upon synonymy. The majority will be found in the 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History; some of them written in con- 
junction with Mr. Claude Morley and Mr. Rowland E. Turner. 
