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a clump of trees, just opposite the village of Rigoroso, situated above 

 the left bank. Just behind this clump of trees is a little gorge, very 

 interesting both for Botanists and Entomologists. To-day I found the 

 summer brood of Biiiiiicia phlaeas, some Sefiia stellatannn, with fresh 

 examples of Diyas papJiio, Lycaena avion, T/iyiiieliciis acteon, Adopaea 

 fiani (t/iainnas), and Hespena carthaini, males only of the first two. 

 Females of C. mininiuti, A. thetis, and A. coridon were in number. The 

 Ascolaphiix was here, and so also were males of M. didynia. At the 

 electric light last night I took Boarmia coiuortaria and B. crepiiscii- 

 laria, 



June 28th. — This afternoon I again visited the little lateral valley 

 behind the Arquata Scrivia Hotel, but how different was the scene . 

 smce my last visit on April 28rd. The brook that then came gurgling 

 down was silent, and one walked up the bed, in places the only path, 

 so luxuriant was the vegetation. On the hillside, on the left, which 

 gets the afternoon sun, Lycaenids were in plenty. Polyommatus excheri, 

 both sexes, were perhaps the most numerous ; L. arion was there, too, 

 always conspicuous by its peculiar flight. M. parthenie, A. flava, H. 

 acteoii, and the Ascalaphns lonyicornis were numerous and active, M. 

 (jalathea was everywhere at this time, and large specimens of P. 

 brassicae flew up and down the gorge. 



June 29th. — In the first gorge to the left after crossing the bridge 

 I found plenty of S. pheyea with females of C\ iitinimns in number. By 

 the cemetery there is a steep pasture reached by a few steps out of the 

 lane before the footbridge is come to, and to-day this was swarming 

 with insects. Females of P. seniiargtts and P. escheri, a fine female 

 Loweia alciphron, many Melitaea didyma, T. acteon, and A. niobe were 

 among my captures here. The moth A. ochrata and the dragonfly C. 

 Virgo were also noted. Last night Catephia alchymuta, Leiicania 

 c-albani, and Orrhodia vaccinii came to the electric light. — G. B. Ashby. 



(glURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



"The death of Frederick Du Cane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., has 

 deprived the Entomological Society of the unique personality of one of 

 its oldest and most distinguished Fellows, who was its President in 

 1891-2. 



"It would not be too much to say that no single individual in the 

 lifetime of the present generation has rendered greater service to the 

 systematic study of Natural History, or contributed more generously 

 to promote scientific work in the various branches of zoology, especi- 

 ally of ornithology and entomology, in which he himself took so great 



an interest No one recognised more clearly than Mr. 



Godman, from the days when he travelled widely in early life, that if 

 a thorough knowledge of species and of the geographical distribution 

 of species was ever to be obtained this could bs accomplished only by 

 patient and extensive collecting, and by bringing the results together 

 to enable students to draw conclusions by the arrangement of speci- 

 mens in systematic order. .... 



"The publication of the fifty-eight large quarto volumes of the 

 JJioloyia Centrali -Americana, for which Mr. Godman bore the whole 

 expense, including the employment of the necessary staft' of collectors, 

 occupied some thirty-five years, and was completed in 1916. Botany 



