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The death of LEONARD DONCASTER, Derby professor of 
Zoology in the University of Liverpool, on May 28, 1920, 
was reported in Science for July 2. Although chiefly a stu- 
dent of heredity and cytology, as evidenced in his two books 
Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910) and The De- 
termination of Sex (1914), his research work was largely 
based on insects. He published on Gametogenesis and Sex 
Determination in the Gall-Fly, Neuroterus lenticularis (3 
parts, Proc. Roy. Soc., 1910, 1911, 1916). On the Relation 
between Chromosomes, Sex-limited Transmission and Sex- 
determination in Abraxas grossulariata and On the Chromo- 
somes of Biston hirtaria, Nyssia zonaria and their hybrids 
(Journ. Genetics 1914), and On Some Gynandromorphic 
Specimens of Abraxas grossulariata (Proc. Cambr. Phil. Soc. 
1916). He was born at Sheffield, Dec. 31, 1877, attended 
the Leighton Park School at Reading, went to Kings College, 
Cambridge (of which he became a Fellow in 1910), and was 
Lecturer on Zoology at Birmingham University, 1906-1910. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915. 
The Philadelphia Public Ledger, of August 30, 1920, pub- 
lished a despatch from ‘Tokio, Aug. 29. The Rev. HENRY 
Loomis, a pioneer missionary, is dead here. He was born 
in Burlington, New York, in 1839.’’ We suppose that it 
was he through whom a number of American entomologists 
obtained Japanese insects, especially in 1888 and 1889. 
Additions to the Recorded Illinois Reduviidae (Hem.) 
Van Duzee’s recent Catalogue of Hemiptera contains all the published 
records of Reduviidae from Illinois, but there are in the collection of the 
Illinois State Natural History Survey many species which are not in- 
cluded in that catalogue as occurring in the state. The following list 
supplies the omitted species. The nomenclature is according to Van 
Duzee’s catalogue. 
Ploiariola errabunda Say, P. tuberculata Banks, Barce annulipes Stal, B. 
fraterna Say, Oncerotrachelus acuminatus Say, Pnirontis infirma Stal, 
Pygolampis sericea Stal, Stenopoda culiciformis Fabricius, Oncocephalus 
apiculatus Reuter, Narvesus carolinensis Stal, Reduvius personatus Linne, 
Melanolestes abdominalis H.-S., Sirthena carinata Fabricius, Rhiginia 
cruciata Say, Apiomerus crassipes Fabricius, Zelus exsanguis Stal, Pselli- 
opus barberi Davis, Repipta taurus Fabricius, Fitchia spinulosa Stal, 
Arilus. cristatus Linne, Acholla diadema Fabricius, Sinea spinipes H.-S. 
This brings the state list to a total of 30 species, three more than re- 
corded from New Jersey in 1909. J. R. MALLocuH. 
