90 TEtB ENTOMOliOGISt. 



more thorough scientific observer than Mr. B. Coolce, and with one 

 who had so much knowledge of insect-life generally ; and yet un- 

 fortunately he has left hardly any record of all his life's work. Some 

 few years after this lecture, Dr. Buchanan White published his 

 observations on the subject in the ' Transactions of the Linneau 

 Society.' Most interesting is it, however, to state that, without the 

 knowledge of the work that had been done in this direction by others, 

 our Secretary was engaged in the same study, and by his lectures 

 before our Society, and luerary communications on the subject in our 

 magazines, has made himself famous in the entomological world. It 

 is not my place on the present occasion to do more than thus allude to 

 the work done by Mr. Pierce. Almost the last lecture given at our 

 Society was a most interesting one by him on that subject, a lecture 

 tiiat makes us proud of such a member. 



" The iuterestiug paper ' On the Wings of Insects,' by Mr. C. H. 

 Hesketh Walker, October 25th, 1880, and published in the 'Young 

 Naturalist,' is one of great originality of thought, and has led to much 

 investigation, being indeed a new theory on the development of the 

 wings of insects, based upon very caret ul microscopic study. This, 

 like the ' Genital Armature ' of Mr. Pierce, opens up subjects for 

 endless enquiry. 



" Familial- as most of us now are with the works of the late Dr. 

 Darwin, twenty years ago his ideas were neither understood nor 

 appreciated as they are at the present time. Converts, however, had 

 been increasing, especially amongst men of science, since the publica- 

 tion of the 'Origin of Spec;ies,' in 1859. This has gone on up to the 

 present date, when it is rare to meet with a man of culture who is not 

 one of Dr. Darwin's disciples. We shall therefore expect to find 

 papers on this subject ; nor are we disappointed. Amongst others. 

 Dr. Ellis, on Aug. 28th, 1878, read us a paper on 'Darwinism: its 

 Eelations to Entomology'; on June 26th, 1882, the Kev. S. Fletcher 

 Williams one, on 'Darwin and Darwinism' ; and on Oct. 29tli, 1883, 

 Mr. Henry Capper, ' Darwinism and Beauty.' These papers were all 

 thought worthy of publication, and each led to most interesting and 

 instructive discussions at our meetings. 



" As a student of the Homoptera we have, as a honorary member, 

 Mr. Kobert Newstead, of Chester, who for a number of years has con- 

 tributed origiual papers on his investigations of the British Coccidas, 

 dealing fully with the habits, met imorphoses, and structural charac- 

 ters of these obscure and little-known insects. In his first paper, 

 read m 1890, Mr. Newstead described, as new to science, Dacti/lopiits 

 u-dlkrri, K., Kiiococcns insiijnis, N., and llipersia fra.nni, N., all of 

 which he had himself discovered in Cheshire. During the years which 

 have followed, Mr. Newstead has published, in the Ent. Mo. Mag., a 

 series of papers on ' British and Foreign Coccidse,' and quite recently 

 has communicated a paper to the Entomological Society of London on 

 ' New Species of Coccida^ collected by the Kev. A. E. Eaton in Algeria.' 

 W^hen we consider the amount of work Mr. Newstead has gone through 

 in connection with the museum at Chester, we may well wonder how 

 it is he has been able to describe over forty new species of scale insects, 

 and clear up the synonymy of many doubtful species. All his diagnoses 

 are clearly given, and accompanied by carefully prepared, drawings, 



