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preserved larvee of the same species. Mr. C.J. Wainwright, the genus 
Dioctria, including reinhardi from Wyre Forest, rujipes from Sherwood 
Forest and Sutton, and baumhaueri from Sherwood Forest. Mr. R. C. 
Bradley, series of Limnobia bifasciata and Amalopis littoralis from Wyre 
Forest.—CoLBRAN J. Watnwricut, Hon. Sec. 
THE EnromoLocicaL Crus.—A meeting of this Club was held at the 
Grand Hotel, St. Pancras, on October 4th, 1892. Dr. Philip B. Mason in 
thechair. Mr. R. Adkin, of Lewisham, was elected an Ordinary Member 
of the Club. Dr. Mason exhibited a specimen of Hercyna phrygialis, 
Hiibn., a Pyralid new to the British List, which he stated was from the 
collection of the Rev. A. Matthews, who obtained it from Tumer on his 
return from one of his collecting trips in Scotland. Mr. 8S. Stevens exhi- 
bited a Botys which he thought might prove to be a new species, but some 
of the members present considered the specimen to be a large form of B. 
fuscalis.—RicHarp Sours, Hon. See. 
OBITUARY. 
Wi.1am Tompson died at Stony Stratford, Bucks, on the 18th of 
October, 1892, in the 75th year of his age. Tor over fifty years Mr. 
Thompson had been interested in Lepidoptera, and has left a collection 
of the British species in that Order, which is almost if not quite 
perfect, and includes many varieties. Among his other communica- 
tions to this Journal is one in which he recorded the discovery, in 
1879, of Pyralis lienigialis, Zeller, at Stony Stratford. He had a large 
circle of correspondents, by many of whom his dealth will be felt as a 
personal loss. 
The Rey. Atsert Henry Wratisuaw died at Graythwaite, Southsea,. 
on the 8rd of November, 1892, aged 70 years. Educated at Christ’s 
College, Cambridge, Mr. Wratislaw graduated third classic and a 
senior optime in 1844. He was a fellow and tutor of his college, and 
was appointed Head Master of Felstead School in 1852, and of King 
Edward the Sixth’s School, Bury St. Edmund’s in 1855. This latter 
position he held with distinction until 1879, when he retired. From 
1879 until 1887 he resided in Pembrokeshire, where he held the 
college living of Manorbier. Mr. Wratislaw studied both Lepidoptera 
and Coleoptera, but he was probably best known to entomologists as 
the first to detect, or perhaps it would be more correct to say 
rediscover, Dianthacia irregularis (echii) in this country. He was not 
a frequent writer on entomological subjects, but he contributed several 
notes, both to the Ent. Mo. Mag. and Entom.; his ‘ Reminiscences of 
Entomology in Suffolk’ attracted the attention of lepidopterists to the 
district around Tuddenham St. Mary, in that county. Some four or 
five years ago his sight failed him, and his valuable collection passed 
into the possession of Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson. 
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