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there were a number of slides showing various Lepidoptera in their 
natural day-time resting places. 
PxoroerapHs In Narurat Cotours.—Dr. J. Cotton exhibited photo- 
graphs in natural colours of landscapes and flowers taken in the neigh- 
bourhood of Liverpool. 
BrittsH Tortrices, etc.—Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited long series of 
the Tortrices, E'phippiphora pflugiana, E. cirsiana and a possible new 
species allied to the latter. Mr. W. Mansbridge shewed a series of 
varieties of Peronea ferrugana, from Delamere Forest, where this season 
it had been commoner than usual; also a series of Hmaturga atomaria 
bred from a female captured in Delamere Forest shewing a wide range 
in variation. 
December 20th.—AnnuaL Merxntinc.—Exhibits were as follows :— 
CotroprEra:—by Mr. FN. Pierce, an army biscuit completely riddled by 
a small beetle (Ptinus, sp.?); by Mr. R. Wilding, series of the very 
local sand-hill beetles Anisotoma ciliaris and A. furva; he also con- 
tributed notes upon the habits of these insects. 
LeprpoprEra :—by Mr. W. Mansbridge, a long series of Lycaena 
icarus from Delamere and the Crossby sand-hills, including var. icarinus 
and underside variations with enlarged and confluent spots. The 
recently acquired collection of Lepidoptera was on view and it is ex- 
pected to be of great usefulness to the members of the Society. 
BITUARY. 
Geoffrey Meade-Waldo. 
The very unexpected death of Geoffrey Meade-Waldo came asa 
shock to his many friends, especially perhaps to the Fellows of the 
Entomological Society of London, from whose meetings he was seldom 
absent. He had been a member of the Council since 1914, and. was a 
most regular attendant to the last, having been present, apparently in 
his usual health, at the Council meeting on March 1st, while before 
the next meeting on March 15th, he was dead and buried. He was a 
universal favourite and will be greatly missed. Hducated at Eton and 
at Magdalen College, Oxford, and devoted to Natural History from 
boyhood, he had added much to his knowledge by somewhat extensive 
travel, having been in France, Switzerland, and Morocco, and, during 
a scientific voyage in the ‘ Valhalla,” so far east as Borneo and the 
Malay Peninsula. He received an appointment in the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington in 1909, and was in charge of the 
Hymenoptera, on which order his later papers were written, both in 
the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in the Transactions of 
the Entomological Society of London, his last paper in the latter, on the 
Aithiopian species of Odynerus, having been published about a year 
ago. His earlier papers, published in the Hntomologist, were on the 
Lepidoptera, and much of our earliest knowledge of this order in 
Morocco is due to his visits there, the fruit of which is also frequently 
to be found in specimens in the National Collection. He was also an 
ornithologist, and indeed an all-round student of nature, and his death 
at the early age of 32 has cut short a career of no ordinary promise.— 
G.W. 
