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to pusillus, and he gives the habitat, " in flour, &c. : London and Norwich." There 

 is a figure in his Illustrations, Mandibulata, iv, 224, plate xxi, fig. 6.— C. Gh Hall, 

 14, Granville Street, Dover : February 27th, 1889. 



On the position of Chimarrha. — In a note at page 90 of vol. xxiv, reference is 

 made to the discovery, by Dr. Fritz Miiller, of the pupa of a Brazilian species of 

 Chimarrha. The original record will be found in the " Entomologische Nachrichten " 

 xiii, No. 15, August, 1887, where Dr. Miiller states that, on account of the peculiarities 

 possessed by the pupa and case, the insect is certainly no Rhyacophilid but a Hydro- 

 psychid, a view which Mr. McLachlan, in the note above mentioned, also supports. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. Miiller, I have just received a number of papers 

 bearing on the Trichoptera, and amongst these is a second note on Chimarrha, (Ent. 

 Nach., xiii, 289—290) in which a figure is given of the labrum of the larva. The 

 first glance at this figure suggested relationship to Wormaldia and Philopotamus, an 

 impression which was confirmed by perusal of the text. The labrum of the larva 

 in the two last named genera, and the same part in that of the Chimarrha, certainly 

 belong to one and the same type; and there is also agreement in the antennae, colour, 

 habits, &c. 



Dr. Midler's comparison of the neuration of the Chimarrha with that of 

 Wormaldia subnigra is also of some significance. 



All the points above noticed seem to me to have a bearing on the position of 

 Chimarrha in the family where it now finds a resting place, supposing the Brazilian 

 insect is really a true ally of our Ch. marginata. — Kenneth J. Moeton, Carluke, 

 N. B. : January, 1889. 



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Jacques Charles Puis, a chemist at Ghent, one of the oldest members of the 

 Belgian Entomological Society, died at Ghent on January 13th. He was a member 

 of most of the Entomological Societies of Europe ; of that of London since 1870. 

 He published but little, and almost exclusively on Hymenoptera. But he formed 

 a vast entomological library, possibly unique of its kind in Belgium, and we hear 

 with regret that it is likely to be dispersed by sale by auction. 



The Rev. John George Wood, M.A., died while on a lecturing tour, on the 3rd 

 March, at Coventry, after a few hours' illness. He was born in London in 1827, and 

 graduated at Merton College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1852. For a time he was 

 attached to the seamen's floating chapel, and was also chaplain to St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital. But he soon practically abandoned clerical duties, and devoted himself 

 to writing popular works on Natural History, and delivering popular lectures on the 

 same subject. In this he was very successful, and probably no other writer of works 

 of a kindred nature has been so widely read, though, unfortunately, his books are 

 often marred by a want of scientific accuracy. His eldest son, Mr. Theodore Wood, 

 is well known as a successful collector and student of British Coleoptera, and also 

 as the author of several works on elementary and economic Entomology. 



