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Barynolus Schonlieri, Pissodes nolatus, Antlionomus varians, 

 Tychius qiiinquepiuictatus, Scolytns Ratzeburgii, Tomicus 

 dispar, T. dryo^rapbicns, Strangalia auriilenta. Many of 

 these insects liavo no doubt been taken by Dr. Power and 

 others, — Pissodes Pini I have just found at Bournenionth, — 

 but Charles Turner led the way, and our collections have 

 been enriched by his industry. This class of men all possess 

 a love for Natural History ; they are content to labour for 

 small gains, and must at times feel keenly the privations 

 which their calling naturally subjects them to ; they are 

 usually poor, and content with little ; and such was the life 

 of Charles Turner after he once became a collector of 

 insects. — Frederick Smith. 



Death of Mr. Thomas Desvignes. — Mr. Desvignes died at 

 his residence at Woodford, in Essex, on the 11th of May, 

 1868, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. He was well- 

 known as a laborious student of that difficult group of insects 

 the Ichneunionidie, and his collection of these insects was by 

 far the most complete of any hitherto formed of the British 

 species : I am pleased to know that it is likely to find a home 

 in our National Museum. Entomologists have much reason 

 to regret that the vast amount of knowledge acquired by Mr. 

 Desvignes during twenty years' study has never been pub- 

 lished, and therefore dies with its possessor, the ' Catalogue 

 of the British Ichneumonidae in the British Museum ' being 

 the only connected work he ever published on the subject. 

 In earlier life Mr. Desvignes devoted great attention to the 

 formation of a collection of British PeroncEC, and published 

 a short paper on the genus in the ' Zoologist' for 1840: in 

 this he arranges the fifty named forms or varieties in two 

 groups, Peronea spuria and P. vera; of the latter, which cor- 

 responds with our P. cristana, he makes eleven species, 

 arranging the numerous varieties under each, but unfortunately 

 giving no distinct characters of the species. Entomologists 

 generally have not adopted them. — E. Newman. 



Death of Foreign Entomologists. — Three Norih-Europsean 

 entomologists of some note have recently passed away — Von 

 Tiedemann, of Dantzig ; Sommer, of Altona; and Wester- 

 mann, of Copenhagen. All three must have been well 

 advanced in years ; the last had attained the great age of 87. 

 —Enl. Mo. Mag. No. 49, p. 20. 



