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his death will be felt as a personal loss to most of our readers. 

 His taste for Lepidoptera, which branch of Entomology received 

 his chief attention, was fully developed in the spring of 1857, 

 since which he has been an assiduous observer and collector of 

 both Macro- and Micro-Lepidoptera. Besides moths and butter- 

 flies, his attention was given, though not so completely, to other 

 orders, including bees, beetles, and the Trichoptera of the York 

 district. To his example may be traced the beginnings of several 

 well-known entomologists of the North of England, and through 

 him was established the present York and District Field 

 Naturalists Society, of which he was the delegate to the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union. Mr. Prest at all times had no greater 

 pleasure than showing his collection to tbose who could appreciate 

 it, and his house was for a long period thrown open as a monthly 

 meeting place for those interested in Natural Histor}\ These 

 meetings were held, with the exception of a few intervals 

 from time to time, from about 1859 up to a recent period. Our 

 late correspondent contributed notes frequently to the various 

 periodicals devoted to Natural History, his name first appearing 

 in the ' Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' as long ago as 1857. 

 He added several Lepidoptera to the Yorkshire list, and one of 

 his chief captures was a specimen of Eubolia maniata. Mr. 

 Prest suffered from chronic gout, which gave him much suffering 

 for many years, and eventually caused his death. — J. T. C. 



Erratum.— Vol. xvii., No. 251, page 92, 3rd line from top of 

 page, for "Bournemouth," read "Barmouth." — H. H. Corbett ; 

 Ravenoak, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. 



Erratum. — In my communication to the ' Entomologist ' for 

 the present year, page 51, line 34, I have omitted the name 

 "Fasciata, Brit. Cat., p. 92," after the word "remark"; the 

 sentence should run thus : "with the remark Fasciata, Brit. Cat., 

 p. 92 (an spec, diversa?)" Mr. R. C. B. Jordan, who has kindly 

 drawn my attention to the omission, informs me that E. discoidalis 

 and E. fasciata are very distinct, and that he has sent figures of 

 both to Dr. Staudinger; so that in his next Catalogue he will 

 probably place them apart. — J. Jenner Weir ; Chirbury, Copers 

 Cope Road, Beckenham. 



