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an example:— Argynnis Paphia; black-yellow lines; violet, 
nettle, wild raspberry; grey-silver spots; July. The idea of 
this synopsis is a good one, but it might be much further deve- 
loped. More attention might also be paid to the food-plant ; for 
example, T’hecla rubi is said only to feed on bramble and broom, 
its usual food, birch, not being mentioned. This card will be 
found, nevertheless, of use to the collector of butterflies, and is 
well worth the small sum charged for it.—Ep. 
OBITUARY. 
Tuomas West.—It is with much regret that I have to announce 
the death, at the age of thirty-eight years, of Mr. West, of Liverpool, 
since its formation one of the best-known members of the Lan- 
cashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. By occupation a fitter 
in a Liverpool engineering works, he added to a pure delight in 
nature a technical knowledge of Entomology, and a power of 
laborious and patient investigation which would have made him 
known to a wider circle had the circumstances which surrounded 
him been more congenial to the pursuit of his favourite study. 
His attention was directed principally to the Lepidoptera, and 
few men had a more thorough acquaintance with, or had studied 
more minutely, this group as locally represented. Unfortunately, 
the result of his researches, except as represented by an excellent 
collection, passes away with him. LEver ready to impart his 
knowledge and experience to younger entomologists, his death 
leaves the society of which he was a member deprived of one of 
its most useful members. It may be very doubtful how far a too 
constant attention to any natural study may advantage a man 
when unguided by the education which would teach him its 
proper place and value. Still, it must be a subject for con- 
gratulation that there live among the working classes of our 
large towns men such as he to whom has been given a higher 
appreciation of nature, and the possibility of purer and more 
profitable recreation than is possessed by the majority of their 
fellows in the same walk of life. The widow and family of Mr. 
West having been by his sudden death left in great destitution, a 
fund has been initiated by the society to which he belonged for 
their relief. Contributions are received by the Secretary of 
the Society, 6, Colonial Chambers, Temple Street, Liverpool. 
—W. E. Suarp; Hon. Sec., Lanc. and Ches. Ent. Soc. 
