THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVIIL] FEBKUAEY, 189 5. [No. 381. 



DR. F. B. WHITE. 



Francis Buchanan White was the eldest son of Dr. Francis 

 Isaiah White, for many years one of the leading medical prac- 

 titioners in the city and county of Perth. He was educated at 

 the Perth Academy until he entered the Edinburgh University. 

 After passing, with distinction, through the regular medical 

 curriculum at Aberdeen College, he returned to his native city ; 

 but instead of following the profession for which he had qualified, 

 he devoted himself to the study of Natural History, in several 

 branches of which he has done excellent work. In 1867 he 

 delivered the inaugural address before the Perthshire Society 

 of Natural Science, of which he was the founder and the first 

 President. In 1871 publication of the ' Scottish Naturalist,' and 

 the 'Proceedings' of the Society just mentioned, were respectively 

 commenced under his editorship. He was elected a Fellow of 

 the Entomological Society of London in 1868, and of the Linnean 

 Society in 1873. Dr. White was the discoverer in Scotland of 

 several insects new to the British lists, among which were 

 Zygcena exulans, Ahlahia (Aphclia) argentana, and Zelleria 

 saxifragcB. Of the last named he also found larvae on Saxifraga 

 aizoides and S. ojypositifolia. 



Among the more important of his entomological writings are 

 the following : — 



Lepidoptera of Perthshire, being Part I. of ' Fauna Pertbensis.' 



Notes on the Insects of Stratbglass, Inverness-shire. E. M. M. vii. 



On Involuntary Migration in Insects. E. M. M. viii. 



Notes on CuH.i-a. E. M. M. x. 



The British Species of Crambus. Scott. Nat. 1872. 



On Melanochroism and Leucocbroism. E. M. M. xiii., xiv. ; and 

 Eutom. X. 



List of the Hemiptera of New Zealand. E. M. M. xiv., xv. 



New and Rare Hemiptera observed during the years 1874, 1875, 

 and 1876, in Britain. Entom. x. 



Note on certain Parasitic Fungi which attack Insects. Entom. xi. 



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