128 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" i2e" Geomelra Papilionaria. — Since I wrote you a short 

 account of the way of finding the larva of this insect (the 

 18th of March), 1 visited Darenth Wood for an hour or two 

 on the 14th April: the birches were not so forward as in 

 previous seasons ; but I and Mr. Dow found the larva of 

 Papilionaria there : four others were searching, but were 

 unsuccessful. I have not had an opportunity of making a 

 search since, although the weather has been more favourable. 

 — James Bryant ; 63, Old Broad Street, May 2, 1872. 



A. Pictaria at Danbury. — I met with three specimens of 

 this insect on the 15th of April, in a lane near Danbury, 

 Essex : one was flying round the flowers of a sloe bush, and 

 the other two not far from the same place. I tried at the 

 same lane for two or three nights after, but did not succeed 

 in taking any more, owing probably to the brightness of the 

 moon. On the 16th I found a female specimen in a pool of 

 water, at Hazeleigh ; and another on the 20th in some water 

 near Maldon ; so that the species seems to be pretty widely 

 distributed about that part of Essex, although it is some 

 twenty miles from the original locality at Colchester. — 

 Gilbert H.Raynor ; St.John''s College, Cambridge, April 22, 

 1872. 



Eremobia ochroleuca- — 1 believe this species is more 

 extended in its range than is generally supposed. I have 

 seen one or two specimens of it, which were taken by my 

 friend Mr. A. Taylor, in the neighbourhood of Christchurch, 

 Hants. — G. B. Corbin. 



Death of Mr. George Robert Gray. — Mr, Gray, so long at 

 the head of the ornithological department of the British 

 Museum, died on the 6th of the present month. May, 1872. 

 In addition to his ' Genera of Birds' and ' Hand-list of 

 Birds,' lately completed, he wrote several papers on Ento- 

 mology, more particularly a monograph on the Australian 

 Phasmidaj, which was beautifully illustrated. He also pub- 

 lished in the 'Zoologist' for 1643, "Descriptions of several 

 species of the genus Phyllium, in the collection of the 

 British Museum and that of the Rev. F. W. Hope," in which 

 thirteen new species are made known. Mr. Gray was, how- 

 ever, best known through his works on ornithology. — Edward 

 Newman. 



