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assistance to occasional visitors. I, for one, should be very 

 pleased to give anj' information I could to entomologists visiting 

 Bournemouth or neighbourhood. — P. M. Bright ; Roccabruna, 

 Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth. 



Local List of Insects. — It is proposed, in connection with 

 the Bournemouth Society of Natural History, to publish a list of 

 the Lepidoptera occurring in the Bournemouth district. If any 

 who have been working here or in the neighbourhood at any time 

 would kindly put themselves into communication with me I 

 should feel extremely obliged. Help is especially required in the 

 Micro-Lepidoptera. — P. Bright ; Roccabruna, Branksome Wood 

 Road, Bournemouth. 



[We hope in this instance a good model for the proposed list 

 may be followed, such as Mr. Porritt's Yorkshire list. It is with 

 great regret we have recently received more than one local list of 

 insects, which must have cost the compilers much time and 

 trouble, but which are all but useless, being mere lists of names, 

 without the addition of useful notes. — Ed.] 



Erratum. — P. 48, for A. Chitty read H. Chitty. 



OBITUARY. 



Edward Caldwell Rye died February 7th, 1885, in the 

 Stockwell Plospital, after a few days' illness, from a virulent 

 attack of smallpox. His age was about fifty-three. The late 

 Mr. Rye's father was a solicitor in Golden Square, London ; and 

 the subject of this notice was also intended for the law, being 

 articled to his parent. Having, however, great distaste for that 

 profession he abandoned it before being admitted a solicitor, and 

 studied in surgery, and the knowledge of anatomy, obtained 

 during these latter studies, became most useful to him in his 

 after investigations into insect structure. When about thirteen 

 years of age Mr. Rye was introduced by William Yarrell to 

 Mr. Janson, who rapidly formed his general taste for Entomology 

 into a systematic study of British Coleoptera. This he followed 

 for many years, first coming before the entomological public as 

 an exhibitor of new Coleoptera at the meetings of the Entomolo- 

 gical Society. After Mr. Janson ceased to edit the section 



