OBI'LUARY. va | 
xv. 163). Herr Brischke has bred this species from Acronycta 
psi, A.tridens, and A. megacephala, amongst others. The curious 
pedunculated egg and economy of the young Paniscus larva is 
alluded to in Westwood’s “ Introduction” (vol. i1., pp. 145, 146), 
and Hartig’s figures copied (fig. 76, 9-14); see also Brischke and 
Adler in the ‘Entomologische Nachrichten’ (v. 221, 265).— 
EK. A. F.] 
Notre on NycTEMERA ANNULATA (CorreEcTION).—I find that 
the fly mentioned in my last note on Nyctemera annulata 
(Entom. xvi. 39) is not Chlorogaster ruficeps, but a new species 
which has been recently described in the ‘ Transactions of the 
New Zealand Institute’ by me under the provisional name of 
Nemorea nyctemerianus. I regret that this error should have 
taken place.—Guro. VERNON Hupson; Karori, Wellington. 
THe YorxsHirE List or Lepmoprera. — Entomologists 
generally, and particularly those of the North of England, will be 
pleased to know that the Catalogue of Yorkshire Lepidoptera, on 
which Mr. Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., of Huddersfield, has for the 
last few years been engaged, is now complete. The manuscript 
has been placed in the printer’s hands by the Secretaries of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, in whose ‘ Transactions’ the list 
will be published. Mr. Porritt has received the assistance of the 
leading lepidopterists of Yorkshire. In the list are included 
about two-thirds of the species occurring in the British Isles.— 
W. D. Rorsuck; Sunny Bank, Leeds, 
OBITUARY. 
BxNJAMIN Cooke, who was for several years President of the 
Northern Entomological Society, and later Vice-President of the 
Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, died suddenly 
at his residence in Southport on Sunday, the 4th of February, 
1883, at the age of 66 years. Benjamin Cooke was unquestion- 
ably the best all-round entomologist Lancashire has produced for 
many years; but being so timid by nature and so retiring in his 
habits he was little known beyond his immediate circle of friends. 
His extreme caution and fear of making a mistake, added to the 
desire to be quite sure of the completeness of his observations, 
