56 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



albo-carbon light fittings, or direct from the Albo-Carbon Light 

 Company, Horseferry Koad, London, S.W.— Ed,] 



Lepidoptera near Bromley. — On page 20 there is rather an 

 mifortunate omission: on line 4 from bottom, after " Leucania 

 lithargyria,'" insert " Pseudoterpna cytlsariaf the remark " two — 

 one green and one brown," refers, of course, to the Pseudoterpna, 

 and not to the Leucania. — T. D. A. Cockerell ; January 9, 1885. 



OBITUARY. 



Sidney Smith, of Walmer, was sufficiently well known as an 

 entomologist to merit an obituary notice. As a scientific 

 collector, an ardent lover of Nature, and indefatigable worker even 

 in his 78th year, few can have exceeded him. A good botanist 

 was he too, whilst his genial happy nature made him a welcome 

 companion. For years he maintained broods of the honeycomb 

 moths, which by his means were broad scattered through the 

 country, and he was one of the first to capture in England 

 Margarodes unionalis and Eugonia autumnaria. He was 

 particularly lucky in finding varieties of Lepidoptera. No 

 later than in 1884 a trip to St. Margarets yielded him one 

 imago each of Calliinorpha dominula, with pink and yellow hind 

 wings. Of the latter form he had several, and more than one 

 black one fell to his net. To show his vigour and desire never 

 to be left behind in the sports of his country, it may be mentioned 

 that last summer, although getting very stiff in his limbs, he 

 often joined in a game of lawn tennis. To the hot weather of 

 August may be attributed the illness which ultimately caused his 

 death, for becoming very heated through a walk on the sand- 

 hills, he sat down and took a chill which resulted in pneumonia 

 and bronchitis. He died at Walmer, where he had long 

 resided, on the 28th December last, aged nearly 80 years. Any 

 information which he could impart to other entomologists he was 

 glad to afford, and few London collectors ever left his part of the 

 country without calling upon him. As a conchologist he was 

 not to be despised, and he was known as the discoverer of the 

 true var. picta of the common limpet, the form that previously 

 had the credit of being that variety being found to be incorrectly 

 named. 



