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Obituary. 



The decease was announced of Mr. H. G. Palliser, and 

 of Mr. H. W. Barker, Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions, 



New Noctuid. — Sir George Hampson brought for exhibi- 

 tion the unique example of a Noctuid moth new to science 

 captured in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen by Mr. L. G. Esson, 

 and presented to the National Collection by the Hon. N. C. 

 Rothschild. It would be necessary, he said, to constitute a 

 new genus for it, as it presented characters not known to exist 

 in allied species. 



Butterflies from Dauphine. — Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited 

 examples of Melitaea deione, from la Grave, and aberrant 

 forms of M. didyma from Digne, taken in July last. This is 

 the first record of the former species occurring so far north in 

 the French Alps, and it was noteworthy that the specimens 

 showed a nearer affinity to the meridional form than to the 

 var. berisalensis of the Rhone Valley in Switzerland. The 

 M. didyma included one very fine aberration taken at Digne, 

 Basses- Alpes, on July 16th, in which the black spots on 

 the central area of the fore-wing were confluent, forming a 

 broad black band ; the outer margin broadly black, and this 

 continued to the hind-wing. 



Rare British Beetles. — Professor T. Hudson Beare ex- 

 hibited specimens of Trechus rivularis, Gyll., taken at Wicken 

 Fen on 15th September, 1909. This insect is very local 

 and rare ; the only specimens which have been taken for 

 many years were two, captured by the late Mr. Chitty, also 

 at Wicken Fen. Also specimens of Pseudopsis sulcata, Newm., 

 taken at Sandown, Isle of Wight, in haystack refuse, in 

 August last. This genus and species were originally described 

 by Newman on specimens taken in the Isle of Wight. The 

 species has never been taken in the island since that date 

 until the present capture. 



Rare Beetles, Dipteron and Braconidae. — Mr. H. St. J. 

 DoNlSTHORPE showed examples of the following — (a) Tycldus 

 polylineatus, Germ., taken at Ditchling by Mr. Dollman and 



