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S. flaveolum, the only species of which descriptions appear to be 

 wanting are Syvipetrum sanguineum, Lihellula fulva, SomatocJilora 

 arctica, ^schna ccerulea, Lestes dry as, Agrion armatwn, and A. has- 

 tulatum." As a matter of fact, some of these nymphs are well 

 known already. For instance, Sympetrum sanguineum and Lihellula 

 fulva have been fully described by Dr. B. Eousseau, the first in Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg. hi. p. 290 (1908), and the second in Ann. Biol. 

 Lacustre, iii. p. 337 (1909) ; Dr. F. Eis described the nymph of 

 SomatocJilora arctica in Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. xii. p. 33 (1911). 

 Apart from Hagen, a short diagnosis of Lestes nympha { = L. clryas) 

 may be fomid in Tiimpel, Geradfl. Mitteleuropas, p. 72 (1901). 

 Eeference may also be made to the tables of nymphs given by Eis 

 (in Brauer, Siisswf. Deutschl. Odon. (1909) ), in which are charac- 

 terized the nymphs of several species occurring in our own country. 

 British Odonatists are much indebted to Mr. Lucas for the beau- 

 tiful figures of dragonfly nymphs which he has published already, 

 and we learn with satisfaction that he has before him the nymph- 

 skins of sixteen additional species, from many of which he hopes to 

 make drawings. jj n 



OBITUAEY. 



Edward Arthur Fitch. 



Edward Arthur Fitch died at the Brick House at Maldon, after 

 an operation for acute gastritis and other complications, early on 

 June 28th last. He was a J. P. and C.A. for Essex, and had several 

 times been Mayor of his town, besides filling many other civil offices. 

 In general, it is said, " Mr. Fitch was remarkable inasmuch as, while 

 taking an active part in local and public affairs, he yet found time to 

 devote attention to archaeological and literary matters, and display 

 an interest in sport, while all the time he was carrying on business 

 as a farmer." As an entomologist he was one of our great dis- 

 appointments. An education at Great Ealing School and King's 

 College, London, did little more than harness natural brilliancy and 

 that quick perception of fundamental points in an intricate subject, 

 so well exhibited in his generic articles concerning our parasitic 

 Hymenoptera, upon which he wrote the text and Bridgman the tables 

 of species in their incomplete " Introductory Papers on Ichneu- 

 monidcB," published in our Magazine from February, 1880, to August, 

 1885. This is the work by which he will be remembered among us ; 

 though his " Descriptions of Oak-galls," translated from Mayr's ' Die 

 Mitteleuropaischen Eichengallen ' by Mrs. Hubert Herkomer and 

 himself, together with many shorter articles from his pen upon a 

 wide range of kindred subjects, also appeared in the same Magazine, 

 of which he became an Assistant Editor in 1877. He joined the 

 Entomological Society of London when only twenty years of age, 

 served it as Hon. Sec. in 1881-5, and as Councillor in 1879 and 1886, 

 about which time he threw up Entomology finally and entirely. We 

 have corresponded with him from time to time, and ever found him 

 most courteous and willing to lend rare tracts on the Palaearctic 

 Parasitic Hymenoptera, upon the literature of which he possessed 



