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S. anomala and not more than ten H. hispida, none of them 
being more than half fed. The larve of Agrotis lucernea were 
also very scarce, but they were most of them nearly full fed. 
Epunda lichenea and EH. migra were in more abundance than 
any of the above-mentioned larve ; but they were very small, the 
ii. mgra evidently having only just turned out from the ova. 
The larve of Triphena fimbria and Noctua glareosa were more 
abundant than usual. The sallow bloom this year, here, has 
been very much spoilt by the rai, but yielded plenty of 
common moths, such as T’eniocampa gothica, T’. stabilis, T’. cruda, 
and one T'rachea piniperda. On 13th April we got a fine pair of 
Arctia fuliginosa which must have only just emerged from the 
pupa.—Cuarues Winn; Kettlethorpe Hall, Wakefield. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. SamurL Constant SNELLEN VAN VOLLENHOVEN.— 
Science has just suffered a great loss by the death of Dr. 
Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven, who died at the 
Hague, on the 22nd of March last. This well-known naturalist 
was born at Rotterdam on the 18th of October, 1816. After 
taking his degree at the University of Leyden, he went to reside 
at the Hague, with the intention of practising at the bar. This 
career, however, seemed to have but little attraction for the 
young barrister, who had from his early youth shown a very 
decided taste for the study of natural science. * After a two years’ 
residence at Leyden, he took up his residence in the country, at 
Glephawe, near Heemstede, and devoted himself more especially 
to the study of insects, a catalogue of Netherland Coleoptera 
being the first fruit of his work in this direction. On the estab- 
lishment of the Netherland Entomological Society, in 1845, he 
became one of its first members, and in 1852 he was elected its 
president, which office he retained, with a short interval, up to 
the time of his death; and it may be said that the high position 
occupied by this society, both in the Netherlands and abroad, 
and the value attached to its ‘l'ransactions, are ina great measure 
due to the exertions of its late president. In former years the 
whole of the collection of Invertebrata in the Museum of Natural 
History at Leyden was placed under the care of one person, but 
