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an excellent dinner, and when the usual loyal toasts had been duly 

 honoured, the Chairman proposed the toast, "Success to Entomology," 

 to which Mr. Tutt, whose name was coupled with the toast, replied. 

 " The Success of the British Association," which meets at Leicester in 

 1907, proposed by Mr. Bouskell, was duly responded to by Professor 

 Beare, who gave an excellent account of his observations in South Africa 

 on the occasion of the British Association's visit last year, " Our 

 Visitors," proposed by Mr. Vice, brought up Mr, Groves and Mr. 

 Donisthorpe ; whilst Messrs. McAlpine, Talbot, Taylor and Holyoake, 

 contributed, by songs and recitations, to the further success of the evening. 

 There is, no doubt, sufficient foundation in this Society to make it one 

 of the best provincial ones in the kingdom ; a little more motive force 

 is wanted, however, to bring it to the level of the Liverpool, Birmingham 

 and other societies, of whose scientific work we are proud. 



We should be very grateful if those lepidopterists, who have speci- 

 mens of Eumemidophorus rhododacti/la, Amhlyptilia acanthodactyla, A. 

 punctidactyla, Marasmarcha phaeodactyla, O.ryptilus distans, 0. pilosellae, 

 O. pen vidactyla, and Buchieria paludum, in their cabinets, would send 

 us without delay the localities and dates (if possible). The " plume " 

 volume is now rapidly going through press, and details sent now will 

 be published; in a short time it will be too late for some of these 

 species. 



Mr. H, L. F. Guermonprez describes {Ent. Mo. Mag.) a new genus 

 and species to the list of British Psocidae, viz., Reuterella helvimacida, 

 Enderl., from specimens taken on August 12th, 1892, at Bognor, and 

 August 7th, 1905, at Chobham. 



The Hon. N. C. Kothschild describes a new British flea, Cerato- 

 phyllns insularis, from a 3' specimen taken by Dr. Joy, near Reading. 

 It is most closely allied to ('. gallinae. 



Mr. Bankes records the capture of a specimen of Sterrha sacraria 

 on September 6th, 1905, near Corfe Castle, also an example of 

 Phalonia iiianniana, taken on July 14th, 1905, in a bog on the Isle of 

 Purbeck. 



We have to note with the greatest regret the death of the Rev. 

 Joseph Greene, at the age of 82, the veteran author of The Insect 

 Hunter s Companion, a book for beginners that has long filled a useful 

 place as a guide to those absolutely ignorant of field entomology. He 

 is best known, however, by his paper " On pupa-digging " [Zool., 

 1857, pp. 5384-5398), an article which, from the point of view of our 

 present knowledge, may appear poor enough, yet which, at the time, 

 put many a collector in the way of getting insects hitherto considered 

 rare, and also opened up a new mode of collecting lepidoptera when there 

 was little else of other field entomology to do. We have also, unfortu- 

 nately, to record the death of Mr. C. W. Dale, who has quite recently 

 died. His entomological work has been comparatively limited, and 

 confined to short notes in the magazines, except for his History of the 

 British Butterflies, Avhich is largely a compilation of the notes made by 

 Lewin, Donovan, Stephens, Curtis, Newman, Hellins and Buckler, on 

 our British butterflies, but, unfortunately, contains nothing new. 

 Few men have begun entomological life under such excellent auspices, 

 his wealthy father having left him a most valuable collection and 

 entomological library, but modern scientific entomology advanced too 

 rapidly, and he loved above all things to indulge in retrospection of 



