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be remembered by many of you as the author of " The Lepi- 

 dopterist's Guide for the Use of the Young Collector," and he 

 was a frequent contributor to the entomological journals. 

 One of his more recent contributions to the " Entomologist," 

 which commences, " Whilst being wheeled round my 

 garden I noticed a number of little Tortrices flying over a 

 clump of tansy," speaks in a more telling manner of his 

 devotion to entomology, even during the sufferings of his 

 later years, than could any words of mine. 



Howard Saunders, whose death occurred during last 

 autumn after a long and painful illness, will be greatly 

 missed by our ornithologists, and long remembered as the 

 author of that most useful book, " An Illustrated Manual of 

 British Birds," published in 1889, than which perhaps no 

 other, on a similar subject, has had a larger circulation. He 

 was a Fellow of the Linnean, the Zoological, and the Royal 

 Geographical Societies, an active member of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, took a deep interest in the Society for 

 the Protection of British Birds, and was intimately connected 

 with sundry other scientific institutions both at home and 

 abroad. He was aged seventy-two years at the time of his 

 death. 



The past season, like the Society's year, has, from the 

 point of view of the field naturalist, been uneventful, and 

 were it not for the addition of a considerable number of 

 species to the lists of the British insect-fauna there would 

 be little to report. Even these cannot all be credited to the 

 year's field work, as quite a number of them are identifica- 

 tions of specimens previously taken ; it may, however, be 

 well, in accordance with custom, to mention them. 



Aphaniptera. — The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild adds two 

 new fleas to the British list, viz. Ceratopliyllus borealis and 

 Typhlopsylla isacanthus. The former was taken in the Island 

 of St. Kilda, from the nest of a sea-bird, probably that of a 

 gannet (Sula bassana), by Mr. Norman H. Joy, in July, 1906, 

 (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 11) ; and the latter from a bank vole 

 (Hypudceus glareoliis) at Lyndhurst by Mr. F. J. Cox in 

 December, 1896 (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 41). Both species are 

 new to science. 



Coleoptera. — This order claims by far the largest number 

 of additions, of which Mr. E. A. Newbury is responsible for 

 five, viz. Enicmus fungicola, Thorns., small numbers of which 

 were taken in dry fungi on a tree at Edenhall, Cumberland, 

 by Mr. Britten, in May, 1906 (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 103). 

 Haliplus immaculatus, Gerh., taken by Mr. W. H. Tuck, near 



