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fluctuosa, ete.—Mr. Sich, specimens of Arqyresthia brocheella with 
the aberration awrivettella and an intermediate form, and also a 
cocoon of Tortrix viridana spun on a blade of grass, and thus of a 
long narrow shape.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a number of species of 
Pyraustine taken by Mr. Bacot in Sierra Leone. They were all 
species of very extensive distribution and included, Hntephria 
cribrata, Zinckenia fascialis, Marasmia venilialis, Syngamia_ flori- 
dalis, S. abruptalis, Bocchoris inspersalis, Nacoleia indicata, Sylepta 
balteata, S. derogata, Glyphodes indica, G. sinuata, Sameodes cancel- 
lalus, Maruca testulalis, and Pachyzancla pheopteralis.—Mr. R. 
Adkin, xanthiec forms of Aglais wrtice.—Hy. J. Turner. 
July 13th.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— 
Mr. H. Leeds exhibited a large number of aberrations of Polyommatus 
icarus taken in May and June, including obsolete, asymmetrical, 
gynandromorphous, abnormally spotted, light, dark, and suffused 
specimens.—Mr. H. Main, Pupa of Geotrupes spiniger, living examples 
of Copris lunaris, larva of Panorpa germanica (scorpion-fly), an ich- 
neumon of the alder sawfly Phyllotoma vagans, and the larva of the 
sawfly of the Solomon’s seal Phymatocera aterroma.—The Rey. F. D. 
Morice, a British specimen of Polistes gallica, » common Continental 
wasp. It was taken in Durham.—Dr. Chapman, a larva of Trico- 
pteryx viretata on the flowers of Cornus sanguinea from Reigate.— 
Mr. Hy. J. Turner, cocoons of Bucculatrix aurvmaculella, leaves of 
birch mined by the Coleopteron Orchestes rusci, the beautiful open 
net-work cocoon of the anomalous Lepidopteron Chrysocoris festalella, 
and some tubular larval cases of a Tineid formed on dog’s excrement 
at Aden.—Mr. Bunnett, imagines and larval cases of the hawthorn 
Cleophorid Coleophora nigricella—Mr. F. B. Carr, a pupa of Gone- 
pteryx rhamni.—Messrs. R. Adkin and F. M. B. Carr communicated 
notes on the Lepidoptera of the present season, and interesting 
remarks were made on the same subject by Messrs. Curwen, Hare, 
Newman, Rey. F. D. Morice, and others.—Hy. J. Turner. 
OBITUARY. 
FREDERICK ENnock, whose death we briefly referred to in our last 
number (antea, p. 192), was perhaps best known to the present 
generation as a popular lecturer on entomological subjects, and in 
this connection did much to instil into the minds of his hearers a 
desire to study the economy of some of the more obscure species. 
He was at his best when lecturing to the members of some of the 
numerous Natural History or more definitely Entomological 
Societies, where the knowledge that he was addressing sympathetic 
audiences relieved the tension of the set lecture-room and allowed 
full play to his natural witty method of bringing home to his hearers 
the more important points of the subject under review. Many of 
those who were privileged to hear him under such conditions, often 
the occasion being practically a “trial run’’ before any set lecture 
