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ings or photographs. We might say that to us it appears better to 

 use the term nymph, instead of larva, or larva and nymph, for the 

 whole of the early stages of insects with incomplete metamorphosis 

 (hemimetabolic). W J L 



We have also received the following Eeprints from Proceedings 

 of the Ujiited States National Museum. Vol. 47 (1914) : — 



No. 2045. Names applied to the North American Bees of the 



Genera Lithurgus, Anthidium, and AUies. By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Pp. 87-94. (May 7th.) 

 No. 2048. Hymenoptera, Superfamihes Apoidea and Chalcidoidea, 



of the Yale-Dominican Expedition of 1913. By J. C. Crawford. 



Pp. 131-134. (April 30th.) 

 No. 2046. The Noctuid Moths of the Genera Pahndia and Dyomyx. 



By Harrison Dyar. Pp. 95-116. (May 7th.) 

 No. 2050. Eeport on the Lepidoptera of the Smithsonian Bio- 

 logical Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. By Harrison C. 



Dyar. Pp. 139-350. (May 20th.) 

 No. 2043. New Genera and Species of Micro-Lepidoptera from 



Panama. By August Busck. Pp. 1-67. (April 30th.) 



OBITUAEY. 



H. T. DoBSON. 



All who knew him will regret to hear that a genial member of 

 the entomological fraternity has passed away in the person of Mr. 

 H. T. Dobson, of New Maiden. A somewhat exacting business in 

 London, municipal work in Maiden and Southw^ark, as well as affairs 

 connected with his local Congregational Church, of which he was a 

 deacon, made large calls on his time ; but Mr. Dobson was a keen 

 lover of Nature, and this fourth form of activity received its due 

 share of attention. In his younger days he was a keen fisherman, 

 and he was also much interested in gardening, but birds and insects 

 were his chief delight. For more than forty years he had been an 

 entomologist. Since 1884 he had been a member of the South 

 London Entomological and Natural History Society. In 1895 he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. 

 Though notes from his pen have appeared occasionally in entomo- 

 logical periodicals, he did not add much to the literature of his 

 subject. For some years he had been in poor health, and as time 

 went on he was able to do an ever decreasing amount of field work, 

 but he never lost interest and went on collecting in the limited space 

 afforded by his garden at New Maiden. As he retained full use of 

 his arms when walking became impossible, he was able to go on 

 adding to his collections, and preparing the specimens so kindly sent 

 him for his valuable and well-kept cases of birds. He finally retired 

 from business in January last, and died on June 27th at the age of 

 sixty-one, leaving a widow and three sons to mourn his loss. We 

 understand that he left directions for his collection to be sold. 



W. J. Lucas. 



