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tastes to a very marked degree, and is, if possible, an even more 

 devoted student of entomology. 



Philip de la Garde, R.N., who died at Exeter on May 12th last, 

 in his -15th year, was a keen coleopterist. He was for a time in 

 the Royal Navy, and rose to the rank of Paymaster ; but owing to 

 failing health he was invalided in 1905, and spent the rest of his 

 life in various places in Devonshire, adding new species to the 

 local list and frequently recording the capture of rare or local 

 species. He had already drafted a skeleton plan for a new list of 

 the Coleopterous Fauna of Devon, and there can be little doubt that 

 had he been spared he would have accomplished a large amount of 

 valuable entomological vrork. 



Dr. Arnold Pagenstecher, of Wiesbaden, who was a noted ear 

 specialist, died on June 11th. His wide interest in entomology is 

 evidenced by his very useful work, " Die Geographische Verbreitung 

 der Schmetterlinge," published in June, 1909. His collections of 

 the Libi/tlieidcr and CalliiJidid/i , two families of which he published 

 a revision, are now in the Natural History Museum of Wiesbaden. 



Professor Odo Morannal Renter, a distinguished Finnish 

 entomologist, died at Obo, his native town, on September 2nd last, 

 aged 63 years. He was elected a Hon. Fellow of the Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. in 1906. He was an authority on Economic Entomology, 

 and a prolific writer on some of the less studied groups of insects, 

 no fewer than five pages of the Catalogue of the Ent. Soc.'s library 

 being taken up with the list of his Separata on Hemiptera — • 

 Heteroptera, Thysanoptera, and Collembola, chiefly published 

 through the Finnish Society of Sciences. Although afflicted with 

 blindness for the last five years of his life, Prof. Reuter maintained 

 his energy to the last, and the German and Finnish editions of a 

 work on the habits and instincts of solitary insects were actually in 

 the press at the time of his death, while an extensive paper on the 

 myrmecomimetic Hemiptera engaged his attentions all last 

 summer, and it is to be hoped may be finished for publication by 

 another hand. He was, in addition to his other gifts, a poet with 

 exceptional powers of observation and descriptive language, and 

 devoted considerable attention to the folklore and literature of his 

 native country. 



Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., D.C.L., F.R.S., who may be 

 described as the last of the pre-eminent naturalists of the nine- 

 teenth century died on November 6th, at the advanced age of 91. 

 So far back as 1845 he was collecting Coleoptera with H. W. Bates, 

 and three years later they set out together to the Amazons. His 



