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Meeting held on June 6th, and illustrated his remarks with lantern 

 slides. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



EECENT LITEEATURE. 



A Catalogue of the CoccidcB of the World. By Mrs. Maria E. Fernald, 

 A.M. 8vo, pp. 360. Amherst, Mass. : Carpenter & Morehouse. 

 1903. (Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College; Bulletin No. 88.) 

 Until comparatively recent years there were few students of this 

 important family of homopterous insects, and there has been no 

 general monograph of the Coccidfe since Signoret's series of papers 

 on the family were concluded in the ' Annals ' of the Entomological 

 Society of France, about thirty years ago. During the last ten years 

 or so considerable attention has been given to Coccids. Professor 

 Cockerell, among others, has added very extensively to our knowledge 

 of the family, and has done much valuable work in clearing up many 

 of the intricate points in synonymy. A few books on the subject 

 have been produced, and of these we may mention Green's ' Coccidae 

 of Ceylon' (i., 1896, ii., 1899), and Newstead's 'Monograph of the 

 British Coccidse,' vol. i. of which was published by the Ray Society in 

 1901. Altogether a vast amount of literary matter has accumulated, 

 and awaits the monographist. In the meanwhile the excellent 

 Catalogue before us should prove a veritable boon to everyone in any 

 way interested in Coccid literature. Upwards of fifteen hundred 

 species are enumerated, the references are most comprehensive, and, 

 we should suppose, would enable one to get in touch with almost 

 everything that has been written on the subject from the year 1758 

 down to the end of February, 1903. 



Mrs. Fernald has carried out a laborious and somewhat difficult 

 undertaking in an exceedingly able manner. 



OBITUARY: CLAUDE A. PYETT. 



The death is announced of a promising young entomologist, Mr. 

 Claude A. Pyett, of Ipswich, whose name will be familiar to readers 

 of the ' Entomologist ' as the contributor of Notes on the Lepidoptera 

 of South-west Suffolk. Mr. Pyett, who was of colonial extraction, 

 chose the profession of a journalist, and in the brief intervals of 

 leisure which that somewhat exacting career affords devoted his 

 attention to scientific and artistic pursuits. He possessed the rare 

 gift of taking careful and accurate notes of his observations, and was 

 always ready to place his knowledge of the insect-fauna of the Ipswich 

 district at the disposal of his fellow- workers. Mr. Pyett was no mean 

 artist, and many sketches from his pen have appeared as illustratioiis 

 to his articles and reports in the press of the Eastern Counties. It is 

 to be feared that he overtaxed a somewhat fragile frame during the 

 Newmarket election campaign of last year. An attack of typhoid fever 

 left him in a very weak condition, and he passed away at his home at 

 Ipswich on October 2nd, the actual cause of death being syncope. 



