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marble-ebony sap wood, showing ebony around the galleries of insects, 

 also lancewood similarly ebonized. — Mr. Hubert Langley, specimens 

 of Asthenia pTjgmcBana, Hb., and Aiiyhia epilohiella, Eoem., both from 

 Princethorpe, both being additions to the Warwickshire list. — Mr. H. 

 Willoughby Ellis read a short paper on the present knowledge of the 

 genus Dinarda, Grav., embodying the work of Donisthorpe and 

 Wasman ; also his own observations of the species collected from tlie 

 nests of Formica rufa, L., and F. sanguinea, Latr., and from a number 

 of specimens received from friends. — Alfred H. Martineau, Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Additions to the Wild Fauna and Flora of the Royal Botanic 



Gardens, Keiv. VII. (Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 



No. 3, 1908.) 



Entomologists will be interested in this number, which contains 



a list of Coleoptera and ants contributed by Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, 



and one of Aphidae and Coccidae by Mr. R. Newstead. Of the four 



lists, that of the ants seems of greatest interest, owing to the number 



of non-British species it contains. 



Nuevo Tricoptero de Espana. (Boletin de la Real Sociedad espanola 

 de Historia natural.) By R. P. Linginos Navas, S.J. Illus- 

 trated. April, 1908. 

 Leptocerus zapiateri, the new species, is described in Latin, and 

 named after B. Zapater, lately dead, a friend of Navas. 



W. J. L. 



OBITUARY. 



With very great regret we have to record the death of Mr. 

 W. H. Thoenthwaite, on June 27th last, aged fifty-eight years. 

 Only a fortnight previously he conducted a party of the members of 

 the South London Entomological and Natural History Society to 

 some private ground at Box Hill ; and he himself was then keenly 

 engaged in collecting Tortrices, &c., and seemed in no way distressed 

 by his labours on the rough hillside. On the evening of June 25th, 

 when dining at the Savoy Hotel, he was suddenly attacked by his 

 fatal illness. Although he rarely contributed to the literature of his 

 study, Mr. Thornthwaite had amassed a considerable collection of 

 British Lepidoptera, both "Micro" and "Macro"; and quite recently 

 he was busy in rearranging the PterophoridjB and other groups in 

 accordance with the most recent classification. For a number of 

 years he had been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gresham 

 Life Assurance Society, and this position he held at the time of his 

 decease. By all who knew him he will be greatly missed. 



We are also very sorry to hear that Mr. Thomas Maddison, 

 F.E.S., died suddenly on July 16th last while on a visit to Scar- 

 borough. 



