174 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



and archaeology formed important parts of this great enterprise, the 

 predominant features being zoology and entomology. Moreover, the 

 type-specimens and series of many thousands of new species described 

 and illustrated in its pages have been generously presented to the 

 National Museum. His contributions in Lepidoptera alone amounted 

 to 107,000 — without counting sundry entire collections separately 

 purchased. 



" As a Trustee of the British Museum he knew personally what 

 every one was doing or not doing in the Natural History departments, 

 and was ever ready Avith useful suggestions and advice. His memory 

 will be cherished- and beloved alike by observers and students of 

 nature in field and laboratory, and by his fellow-sportsmen in whose 

 pursuits he was no mean companion. In short, it has been well said 

 of him that ' his many talents added to his fine nature made a com- 

 bination Avhich inspired a marvellously affectionate admiration.' " 



The above is taken from an "appreciation" contributed by Lord 

 Walsingham to the Proceedinr/s of the Entouwlogical Society of London. 



The following announcement in the Times was a great blow ta 

 many of us. " July 24th, of enteric fever, at 49 Hospital Chanak, 

 Frederick Hova Wolley-Dod, of Midapore, Alberta, Canada, Second 

 Lieut. York Lt. Inft. attached l;o the Macedonian Labour Corps. 

 Aged 47." During his stay in England Lieut. Wolley-Dod visited 

 wany well-known entomologists of the country, and he was a constant 

 attendant at both the Entomological and the South London Societies 

 meetings, as well as spending much of his spare time in studying the 

 British Museum Collections, especially the Noctiddae, of which he had 

 an excellent practical knowledge so far as the Fauna of North America 

 is concerned. We, who bad come to know him, mourn his loss. 



A most useful list of the species and varieties of Syrichthns {Hes- 

 peria) of Western Europe and Algeria is given in the Bull. Sac. ent. 

 Fr. for April, by M. Chas. Oberthiir. This will be invaluable as a 

 preliminary guide to those who in the near future will be able to 

 recommence their study of the butterflies of the regions mentioned. 



A very fine Eeport has been issued recently by the State Entomolo- 

 gist of Minnesota, A. G. Euggles. It contains some 240 pages, with 

 three admirably coloured and eleven black and white plates, and con- 

 siderably over a hundred figures and diagrams. After a general sum- 

 mary dealing with the four groups of the year's work, inspection of 

 nurseries, control of white pine blister rust, eradication of the common 

 barberry, and the study of life-histories and control measures for insect 

 pests, the following special articles are printed. (1) Life-history of an 

 oak-twig girdler [Aijrihis arciiatus), A. G. Euggles. (2) Potatoe Spray- 

 ing in Minnesota, S. A. Graham, comparing the control value of the 

 various insecticides. (3) The Carpenter Ant {Ca))iponotiis penmijlvani- 

 cits) as a Destroyer of sound Wood, S. A. Graham, showing how by a 

 knowledge of the habits of the ants much timber could be saved. (4) 

 A case of Drosophila (fruit-fly) puparia in certified milk, W. A. Eiley, 

 and its probable source in want of cleanliness. (6) Contribution to 

 our Knowledge of the Aphidae, 0. W. Oestlund. (6) The confused 

 flour-beetle, Triboliti.m confnsinii, E. N. Chapman, a pest which has 

 caused much loss during the late war period. (7) The Clover-seed 

 Chalcid {Bnichofo(/ns finiehiis), W. W. Williamson, not a parasite as 

 originally described, Wt itself a serious clover-seed pest which is 



