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imago through the ant passages which those under observation never 

 failed to do. 



Lastly of less insular concern we have Dr. T. A. Chapman's precis 

 of the life-history of that other myrmecophil Lycaenid L. alcon (pp. 

 clv-clvii), which should be read by all interested in the fascinating 

 subject of ant association, and to whom the papers in M. Oberthlir's 

 ' Etudes,' reviewed in our last number, are inaccessible. H. R.-B. 



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Frank Norgate. 



In the first days of March the death was announced, at an 

 advanced age, of Mr. Frank Norgate, a good all-round naturalist 

 chiefly occupied with ornithology. But, though as an entomologist 

 he specialised in Lepidoptera, several of the larger rare beetles fell to 

 his lot — for example, Ocypus cyaneus, "identified before he had time 

 to jump off his bicycle, which nearly ran over it." This capture in 

 1896 is duly noted in the ' Entomologist's Record ' (vol. viii, p. 312), 

 and he contributed many other extremely interesting notes on 

 Lepidoptera and Coleoptera alike to the pages of our contemporary 

 and to this magazine. He was, I think, the first to record bellus, 

 Gerh., as an English aberration of Zejjhyrus quercils at Drayton 

 Drury in Norfolk ('Entomologist,' vol. vii, p. 69), and this agreeable 

 addition to the then known forms of quercils in the British Islands is 

 referred to by Tutt in his ' British Butterflies ' (vol. ii, p. 237). His 

 later entomological work as a rule was carried on in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, where he lived at Sunny Hill ; 

 and in the Norman church of Santon Downham there are many 

 memorials of his family. Earlier observations of Heterocera date from 

 the time when he was living in the house of his father, the Rev. 

 T. Starling Norgate, Rector of Sparham, Norfolk. Mr. Norgate was 

 a man of remarkable personality. It is told of him that once, when 

 accosted for trespassing by an irate keeper, he protested fortissimo : 

 " Don't you know who I am ? I am one of Her Gracious Majesty's 

 liege subjects " ; whereupon the keeper collapsed. Asked to give 

 evidence before the Select Committee on Wild Birds' Protection in 

 1873, he attributed the killing of nightingales to the keepers' inveterate 

 belief that their music kept the pheasants awake of nights. For 

 these two stories and the details of Mr. Norgate's family I am 

 indebted to his friend, Mr. Claude Morley. Mr. Norgate was twice 

 married — to Miss Golding Bird, the well-known naturalist, whom 

 he first met on an expedition to the New Forest ; and secondly to 

 the daughter of the Rev. Henry Inman, Rector of North Scarle, 

 Lincolnshire. H. R.-B. 



Sydney Webb, 1837-1919. 



Early in the month of April, at Kersney, near Dover, the death 

 took place of Mr. Sydney Webb in his eighty-third year. His name 

 has been familiar to British entomologists of three generations, and 



