322 THE ENTOMOLOGILT. 
The final change is gone through very suddenly; a few 
minutes suffice to throw off the old skin, which remains in a 
little heap on the leaf, and the pupa then hangs freely 
suspended by the anal segment (or hooks?). It is very 
attenuated, and the points of the legs and wing-cases are free 
from the body.—Henry Moncreaff ; 145, High Street, Ports- 
mouth, May 19, 1871. 
Death of Mr. Laycock.—William Laycock, of Highfield, 
Sheffield, died on the 8th of this present May, aged fifty- 
eight years. He was a wonderful example of industry in the 
pursuit of Entomology; and though a hard-working stone- 
mason, with very little time at his own disposal, he made 
such excellent use of it that, during the last twenty-five years 
of his life, he formed a beautiful collection of Lepidoptera, 
containing 670 species. He was a very patient observer; 
and his remarkable familiarity with the habits of the various 
species of moths and butterflies, combined with his own 
genial nature, made him a particularly interesting companion 
on an entomological ramble. He was most generous in 
distributing specimens, and also in imparting to others much 
useful information, which he had sought out for himself; and 
I doubt not that he will be much missed by a great number 
of his entomological friends.—Samuel Doncaster; Broom 
Hall Park, Sheffield, May 20, 1871. 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 
May 1, 1871. 
Variety of Rhodocera Rhamni.—Mz. Bicknell (on behalf 
of Mr. Cowan, who was present as a visitor) exhibited an 
extraordinary specimen of Rhodocera Rhamni, captured by 
Mr. Cowan at Beckenham, in March, 1870. This example 
was a male of the ordinary form, but the costal margin of each 
anterior wing was broadly, but unequally, suffused with 
brighter rose-colour or scarlet, and the right posterior wing 
was marked in a like manner. Mr. M‘Lachlan suggested 
that possibly the wings of the insect had come in contact 
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