96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Walter Philip Weston. — By the early death of Mr. Walter 

 Philip Weston (Entora. xiv. 72) a large number of the readers of 

 the ' Entomologist ' have lost a genial friend in one who was 

 always willing to assist his brother naturalists either with 

 information from the large store of knowledge he had accumu- 

 lated or with specimens which he liberally distributed. Mr. 

 Weston had from his childhood been attached to the study of 

 Entomology ; and although most of his attention was devoted to 

 Lepidoptera, the other orders, particularly Coleoptera (of which 

 he possessed a good collection), were not neglected. His favourite 

 group of Lepidoptera was the Tortrices, and his collection of them 

 is very complete. Whilst solving the problem of the identity of 

 EjJhijjpij^Jiora gallicolana and E. ohscurana (Entom. xi. 287) he 

 made many interesting observations concerning the insects 

 inhabiting oak-galls ; and Mr. Bridgman named one of the new 

 Ichneumons bred by him, Cecidonomus Westoni. As a practical 

 collector Mr. Weston was most successful, but at the same time 

 he endeavoured to attain scientific results from his work, and 

 that he succeeded in doing so the pages of the ' Entomologist ' 

 bear ample testimony. Amongst the periodicals to which he 

 contributed may be mentioned the ' Athenaeum.' Had he lived 

 there is no doubt but that science would have much benefited 

 from his untiring energy and power of observation. In September, 

 1879, Mr, Weston married a daughter of Dr. Birch, keeper of 

 oriental antiquities, British Museum, who survives to mourn his 

 loss. — Ed. 



Egbert Hind. — Mr. Hind died at York, March 11th, 1881, 

 aged sixty-one years. About quarter of a century ago Mr. Hind 

 did much, in an unostentatious manner, to encourage and revive 

 Entomology in Yorkshire. At his home in Gillygate, York, was 

 established the York Entomological Society, which became a 

 pleasant reunion of those interested in the subject. Chiefly on 

 account of ill-health he has not latterly given much attention to 

 collecting. He had, however, considerable success as a rearer of 

 Micro-lepidoptera. It was he who first obtained in this country 

 Melissohlaptes Cephalonica, a species which has rarely, if ever, 

 been obtained since. — Ed. 



