OBITUARY. 89 



Mr. Prideaux, a series of aberrations of J P, icariis and an example 

 of Piumicia phlaeas ab. scltriiidtii (yellow). 



Mr. Edwards, exotic Papilionidae and species of the genus 

 Fjurania. 



Mr. H. Moore, a box of specimens of species showing the same kind 

 of deformity as ab. roystonensis of A. curidnn to support his contention 

 that they are cripples and not worthy of distinctive names. 



Mr. G. P. Pickett, a drawer of representative specimens of Amierona 

 prunaria, the results of nineteen years breeding, and read notes on his 

 experiments with coloured environment. He also showed a long series 

 of ab. pickettaria. Mr. Pickett also exhibited several drawers of A. 

 coridon aberrations taken in the Herts district in 1916, and read notes 

 on the various forms met with. 



Mr. E. Adkin, series of Polijiwniiatnii icarn^ from many outlying 

 parts of England, Scotland, Ireland and the islands, and compared the 

 races as to size, colour and markings. 



Jaiiiiary lltli, 1917. — Decease of a member. — The death of Mr, J. 

 Piatt Barrett, F.E.S., was announced. 



Late ebiebgence of H. defoi^iaria. — Mr. Brooks reported Hibernia 

 defoUaria taken by Mr. B. S. Williams quite freshly emerged in 

 •January. 



African Lepiooptera. — Mr. Moore, Mimiode^ discolor and the deep 

 green Sphingid, l'^iic/il<)ro)t iiieyaera, froiii S. Africa. 



Captures of the Season in the Wye Valley and in Staffordshire. — 

 Rev. P. M. B. Carr, his captures of the past season in Staffordshire 

 and in the Wye Valley, with Aijn'ades coridon aberrations from 

 lioyston, and including Lfiitofiia siiiapis, Brenthis seh'iie, Eidype hastata, 

 Venusia ccniibrica, etc. 



Paper. — Mr. Hugh Main, a cage made by him to facilitate the 

 breeding of GentnipeH beetles and to allow of full observation of the 

 digging of the galleries, massing the pabulum, laying the ova, feeding 

 and growth of the larva, etc., etc., and read a paper, " On Rearing 

 beetles of the Genus Gcotnipes,'" his observations being frequently at 

 variance with those previously recorded. 



<1)BITUARY. 



Rev. Octavius Pickard=Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., etc. 



The great pioneer in this country of the study of Spiders, the Rev. 

 Octavius Piekard- Cambridge, passed away on March the 9th, of this 

 year, having been born on November 3rd 1828. Nearly the whole of 

 his life was spent at Bloxworth in Dorsetshire. Even at the early age 

 of eight he collected Lepidoptera, and although in later years much of 

 his study was turned to " other orders," he always kept in touch with 

 the butterflies and moths of his own country. He was a first-rate all- 

 round naturalist and at one time had a large collection of Birds. He 

 studied for the Church at Durham University, 1856-58, graduated B.A, 

 in 1858, and M.A. in 1859. For a short time he was Curate at 

 Scarisbrick in Lancashire, 1858-60, and then went to Bloxworth, of 

 which he became Rector in 1868, retaining this duty till the day of his 

 death. He married in 1866 and five sons survive him. In lb87 he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



He was one of the now very few remaining links with the entomo- 

 logical workers of the last generation. Frederick Bond Avas his friend 

 and co-worker and John Blackwell consulted him in the great work 



