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inland, but it was too fresh and breezy foi* many to remain, 

 and they had become so scarce on the 9lh of September that 

 with ditficnlty seven or eight specimens were procured. The 

 servant at one of the houses in CHfton Terrace, Margate, says 

 that she had to go to all the windows with a dust-pan and 

 brush to lake then) away from the window-ledges, and I have 

 been given to nndersland that it was the same in most of the 

 houses at the place. They went by strange names, but the 

 most common one amongst the ignorant was that of " horse- 

 stingers," from their appearance. You have already noticed 

 flights of this class of insects in the ' Zoologist,' and Mr. F. 

 iSmilh, of the British Museum, tells me that he saw, some 

 years since, the line of surf on the beach for miles covered 

 with the dead bodies of Syrphus pyrastri, so that they might 

 have been taken up by shovels full : this was at Bourne- 

 mouth, and the insects had been drowned in the sea and 

 their remaiiis thus cast ashore. The same thing, he tells me, 

 was observed to occur at the back of the Isle of Wight, 

 which is not far off. Plence these flights would appear to 

 be not uncommon, altliough when they do occur they are 

 worthy of note, and hence my communication. — C. Home ; 

 Upper Norwood, October 13, 1869. 



Death of Dr. Maclean. — It has become my duty to record 

 the loss of one of the most observant and most accurate of 

 our economic entomologists: Allan Maclean, Doctor of Me- 

 dicine, and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, died at 

 his residence in the Lexden Road, Colchester, on the 5th of 

 September, 1869, in the 74th year of his age. He was the 

 son of Sir Lachlan Maclean, also a Doctor of Medicine, who 

 practised for a number of years at Sudbury. The deceased 

 was sent at an early age to the then celebrated school at 

 Bury St. Edmund's, where he remained twelve years, and on 

 obtaining a Tancred Scholarship he proceeded to Caius Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, and, graduating in physic, shortly after- 

 wards established himself at Colchester, being elected 

 Physician to the Hos])ital, and continuing to practise in that 

 town for nearly half a century. His great /or^e was observa- 

 tion of the living objects of Natural History, and in tiiis 



