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B. Tn. — Bishops' Teignton (Devon). 



Nantua — France (Aisne), Jura mountains. 



Last — Lastingham (Yorkshire moors)." 



These explanations will be especially useful in working through 

 Marshall's collection of Braconidge, in the British Museum, for every 

 card bears one of the abbreviations ; and I regret not furnishing the 

 above information (which was equally at hand then as now) when 

 remarking upon that collection at Entom. 1909, pp. 61 and 96. — 

 Claude Morley ; Monks' Soham House, Suffolk, November 30th, 

 1914. 



OBITUARY. 



William Warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Born at Cambridge in 1839. Died at Tring on October 18th, 1914. 



Aged 75 years. 



Mr. Warren's interest in British Lepidoptera, evident even in 

 early boyhood, continued active throughout his life. As he was a 

 strenuous field-worker and keen observer, his acquired information 

 concerning our Lepidoptera was extensive and thorough. Especially 

 was this the case as regards the so-called " Micros " — the Tortricina 

 and Tineina, in particular. His knowledge of the species in the 

 families named was indeed great, not only of the imagines but of 

 their early stages also. 



Unfortunately, Mr. Warren did not often publish the results of 

 his observation and research, but most of those that he did record 

 will be found in the ' Entomologist Monthly Magazine ' for 1878- 



1889. His earliest communication (1878) deals with the economy of 

 the larva of Ephippiphora nigricostana. The occurrence of Laspey- 

 resia (Stigmonota) pallifrojitana in England was noted by him in 

 1887, and in August of the same year he found larvae of the species 

 feeding in pods of Astragalus glycyphyllos. In 1887 also he pub- 

 lished a note on the occurrence of both Steganoptycha pymceana, 

 Hb. and S. abiegana, Dup., in England. The latter he identified as 

 identical with Haworth's Tortrix suhsequana. 



When the late Mr. J. H. Leech acquired the ' Entomologist ' in 



1890, Mr. Warren was invited to act on the Reference Committee. 

 This he consented to do, and from that year until 1900 he took an 

 active interest in the journal, and contributed to its pages. 



Although he never lost touch with his special groups of British 

 Lepidoptera, Mr. Warren had for years past devoted much time to the 

 study of the Geometridae of the world. More than a quarter of a 

 century ago he undertook and carried out the arrangement of this 

 family, and also the Pyralidge, in the British Museum. Subsequently 

 his sphere of activity was transferred to the Tring Museum, and 

 here during the greater part of some twenty years he encompassed a 

 great amount of work on the lepidopterous fauna of New Guinea, South 

 America, Africa, &c., the results being published in ' Novitates 

 Zoologicae.' More recently his work was pretty much confined to the 

 Palaearctic Noctuidae, which formed the subject-matter of the third 

 volume of Seitz's ' Macro-Lepidoptera of the World.' 



