8e ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 718 
specimen, by a quarter of an inch, out of many hundred that he had 
bred. Dr. Skinner spoke about his work on the genitalia of Argynnis. 
Orthoptera.—Mr. Rehn commented on, and gave some illustra- 
tions of the genitalic characters of several Orthoptera, showing that the 
value of certain characters is not constant in the various groups or 
families—E. T. Cresson, Jr., Recorder. 
OBITUARY NOTES. 
ANTOINE GROUVELLE, specialist on the Clavicorn Coleop- 
tera, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, June 9, 1917, aged 
74 years. He became a member of the Entomological Society 
of France in 1870, served as President in 1891 and 1897 and 
was elected an honorary member in 1911. Until his retire- 
ment, in 1907, he was Director of the State Tobacco Factory. 
His papers number more than 150, one of the latest having 
appeared in the Bulletin of the French Society for March 28, 
1917. His collection of Coleoptera, said to be very large and 
valuable, was bequeathed to the Paris Museum. (Obituary 
notices in Bull. Soc. Ent., Fr., 1977, pp. 181-2, and Ent. Mo. 
Mag:, August,’ 1917.) 
The deaths of Commandant PrerrE XamBeEu, “author of 
numerous works of compilation on the larvae of Coleoptera,” 
at Ria, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, on June 9, 1917, aged 80 
years; of Dr. E. A. Gotpr, formerly director of the museum 
at Para, Brazil, subsequently named the Museu Goldi in his 
henor, at Berne, Switzerland, July 5, 1917; and of Dr. Max 
STaNpFuss, of Zurich, well known for his experimental re- 
searches on the variability of Lepidoptera (date of death not 
given), are announced in the Bulletins of the Fntomological 
Society of France, 1917, Nos. 12 and 14. 
Among the deaths of entomologists during 1917, as a re- 
sult of the war, we note with sorrow and sympathy for his 
father, that of REGINA, JAMES CHAMPION, Lieutenant, Scots 
Guards, July 18. 1917, at the age of 22. He had already pub- 
lished four papers on insects. (Ent. Mo. Mag., London, 
Sept., 1917.) 
