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but on arriving there I found I had nearly two hours to wait for 
a train. I came out and strolled offin quite an opposite direction 
to pass away the time. I had not been walking more than a 
quarter of an hour before my attention was drawn to a lot of: 
Centaurea nigra growing on a nice sloping bank, the terminal 
shoots of which plant were screwed up by the larve of a Depressaria. 
On getting over the hedge to ascertain whether they were other 
than D. liturella, I saw within a yard of me seven or eight cases 
of C. conspicuella. My fatigue very soon vanished, for within ten 
minutes I had taken seventeen cases. I need hardly say I lost 
my train, and had to go by a later one, but before leaving I had 
the satisfaction of taking above ninety cases. From their size I 
am convinced the larva must be nearly full fed. I could have 
taken many more, but I left the small and medium-sized cases, 
knowing how difficult the small larve are to rear. I took five 
small ones in the neighbourhood of Cuxton, near Strood, last 
year, none of which were reared, although I paid every attention to 
them, but I think I am now in a fair way to obtain a series this 
year, and I hope many for my friends.—G. Exisua, Shepherdess 
Walk, City Road, N. 
OBITUARY. 
FRANCIS ORAM STANDISH.—It is so seldom that we meet with 
a case in which for three generations, in one family, there have 
been collectors of insects, that the fact should be put on record. 
My. F. O. Standish, who was well known as a careful and assiduous 
lepidopterist, died at Cheltenham, where he had lately lived, on 
April 12th last. His father was Benjamin Standish, who for sixty 
summers used to trudge from Camberwell to Darenth and Black 
Park in search of insects. There was still one generation before 
him; the three having collected for upwards of one hundred 
consecutive years. The last, whose death we now record, worked 
up to within a short period of his decease. One of the latest 
additions to our list of Lepidoptera, viz. Hupecilia gilvicomana, 
was discovered by him. His collection, which comprises many 
of the insects from the cabinets of his ancestors, recently passed 
into the hands of Mr. E. G. Meek. Mr. F. O. Standish was 
never married. His age was forty-eight years,—J. T. C, 
