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ordinary sum of £5 10s. each ; Mr. Evans, of Darley Abbey, 

 Derbyshire, being the purchaser. The collection and books 

 realized together between sG80 and ^£90. — E. Newman. 



Death of Charles Turner. — Charles Turner died in King's 

 College, Hospital, during May, 1868, in the 60th year of his 

 age. He belonged to a class of men to whose industry and 

 acqiiired knowledge the scientific entomologist is greatly 

 indebted. Of collectors Turner was perhaps in every way the 

 one whose loss will be most felt by entomologists, if we 

 attempt to give a short list of his most important discoveries 

 and captures. Collectors of tact and intelligence are few in 

 number, and no one I have known could so perseveringly, 

 and usually so successfully, carry out investigations, aided 

 simply by a ie\^ hints and suggestions : he had also a most 

 accurate eye ; the form of an insect once submitted to him 

 as a species of rarity, and therefore worth his searching for, 

 seemed to be indelibly impressed upon his memory ; the 

 rough notes he took of such species, intelligible to himself 

 only, always seemed to guide him aright in his undertakings. 

 The following list of his discoveries will necessarily prove to 

 be incomplete, because he no doubt disposed of rarities, or 

 of species new to our lists, to entomologists with whose col- 

 lections I am unacquainted. I will first mention those he 

 was the discoverer of: — Synchita mediolanensis, Endo- 

 phlceus spinulosus, Athous undulatus, Telephorus scoticus, 

 T. paludosus, T. elongatus, Anobium nigrinum, Rhopalodon- 

 tus perforatus, Brachonyx indigena, Crypbalus Tiliae, Do- 

 nacia aquatica, Zeugophora Turneri : here we have a dozen 

 species added to the British list. His rediscoveries were 

 much more extensive ; single examples only of several 

 existed in collections, or were only recorded to have done so 

 by Stephens and others : — Agabus brunneus, Quedius dilata- 

 tus, Sphaerites glabratus, Rhyzophagus nitidulus, Colydium 

 elongatura, Oxyla^mus variolosus, Dendrophagus crenatus, 

 Anthaxia nitidula, Agrilus sinuatus, Microrhagus pygmajus, 

 Elater tristis, E. rufitarsis, E. tibialis, Hylecoetus der- 



mestoides, Anobium denticolle, Haplecnemus ? Pla- 



tydema violaceum, Tetratoma ancora, Orchesia undulata, 

 Dircaea laevigata, Phlaeotrya rufipes, Melandrya canaliculata, 

 Conopalpus Vigorsii, Pyrochroa pectinicornis, Tomoxia bi- 

 guttata, Asclera sanguiuicollis, Rhinomacer attelaboides, 



