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comprising descriptions of a large number of new genera and 

 species, which, commencing in 1848, were continued to the early 

 part of the present decade. He also from time to time described 

 in our Transactions (1857—1862), in the 'Journal of the Linnean 

 Society,' and in a separate form ('Insecta Saundersiana'), a large 

 selection of insects of various orders from the collection of 

 Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, in addition to frequent contributions to 

 our own and other Transactions and periodical pubHcations ; 

 more especially to the 'Zoologist' and 'Entomologist,' continued 

 in the latter up to the very month of his demise. A posthumous 

 paper by him, containing "Descriptions of New Genera and 

 Species, belonging to the Families Proctotrupidae and Chalcidid^e, 

 which attack Insects destructive to the Fig in India," has also 

 appeared in the 'Entomologist' of the present month, and some 

 others in the ' Cistula Entomologica' (vide post). 



Dr. Antoixe Dours, of Amiens, who died on the 23rd July, 

 1874, at the age of fifty, was a diligent collector of Hymenoptera, 

 to which his attention was first directed when serving in Algeria 

 in a military capacity. He was the author of a ' Monograph on 

 the Genus Anthophora,' published at Amiens in 18G9 ; of a paper 

 containing ' Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Hyme- 

 noptera from the South of Europe,' which appeared in the 

 'Revue et Magasin de Zoologie' of August, 1872; and of a 

 ' Synonymic Catalogue of the Hymenoptera of France,' pubHshed 

 in 1874. His extensive collection of insects of this order, chiefly 

 from Europe and Algeria, in addition to those formerly belonging 

 to Dr. J. J. Giraud, chiefly European, comprising together (as 

 lately announced for private sale) upwards of seventy-eight 

 thousand specimens, said to be in excellent preservation, would 

 be a valuable acquisition to any public museum. 



In addition to these losses we have also to lament the death of 

 Mr. John Traheene Moggridge, F.L.S., whose instructive 

 volume on 'Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders,' with a 

 Supplement thereto, which has just appeared, bear testimony to 

 his persevering industry and attention in investigatmg the 

 provident instincts and economy of these interesting races. He 

 died on the 24th November last, aged thirty-two, at Mentone. 

 whither he was accustomed to resort during the wmter months for 

 the benefit of his health. 



