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contribution to that view of the subject. In our own Magazine, Vol. xviii, 1882, 

 p. 276, Mr. Gosse's capture of Trioza crithmi, F. Low, is recorded by the late J. Scott 

 (whose death we record in this number), as a species new to our British list ; and 

 in Vol. xix, p. 65, is given a vivid description from Mr. Gosse of his finding the 

 creature in all its stages on samphire at Anstey's Cove, Torquay. Mr. Scott had, in 

 the April number, Vol. xviii, p. 263, asked for information as to where samphire 

 grew, and suggested that there T. crithmi would probably occur, and in the very 

 next number was able to announce that through Mr. Gosse's exertions he was in 

 possession of T. crithmi in all its stages. It is a pleasure to record this incident, 

 as it connects the names of the two naturalists whose obituaries appear simul- 

 taneously in our current pages. 



Mr. Gosse was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856, and joined the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1879. His diction was pleasing and alluring, 

 and his writings must have had a potent and wide-spread influence in inciting and 

 fostering an observant love of Nature. 



John Scott died August 30th last, aged nearly 65 years, he having been born 

 at Morpeth, on September 21st, 1823. He first came into notice as an Entomologist 

 by a note in the "Zoologist," vii, 2633 (1849), on the " Curious habitat of Tinea 

 ustella " (a coal mine near Glasgow). In subsequent volumes of the same journal 

 are notes by him on Lepidoptera. To the successive volumes of the "Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer " (1856 — 61) he was a frequent contributor, chiefly about 

 Micro- Lepidoptera, of the economy of which he was a close observer and discoverer. 

 To the " Entomologist's Annual " for 1856, he contributed a paper on Lepidoptera, 

 entitled, " On the results of a residence at Fochabers ;" in the volume for 1862, he 

 had a chapter on Hemiptera, with a description and figure of a very rare species, 

 Metatropis rufescens, H.-S. ; in the volume for 1863 he gave a paper on the 

 Hemiptera detected in Britain in 1862, with descriptions and figures of two new 

 species ; in the volume for 1864, he gave an enumeration of the additional Hemip- 

 tera found in Britain during 1863, with descriptions and figures of two new species ; 

 and in the volume for 1866, two additional species were figured, but the descriptions 

 thereof, omitted for want of room, appeared, with other species, in the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., ii, pp. 217 and 272, and iii, 213 (1866). 



He was joint-author of the " British Hemiptera," published by the Ray Society 

 in 1865, this being the first descriptive enumeration of these insects : of this volume 

 his share was the Capsina. He was also joint-author of the " Catalogue of British 

 Hemiptera," published by the Entomological Society of London in 1876. 



He contributed to the " Transactions of the Entomological Society," Ser. 2, ii, 

 19 (1854), a description and figure of a new species of Lithocolletis (L. irradiella) ; 

 to the same series, v, 408 (1861), descriptions of five new species of Coleophora, of 

 which four were figured ; to the volume for 1876, a " Monograph (with two plates 

 from his own drawings) of the British species of Psyllidce ;" to the volume for 1880, 

 a paper " On a collection of Hemiptera from Japan," supplementary to his memoir 

 in the "Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist." (1874) ; and to the volume for 1882, 

 " Descriptions of new exotic Psyllidce," with two plates from his own drawings. 



The "Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung," xxxi, 98 (1870), contains descriptions 

 by him of five new species of exotic Hemiptera. 



