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tion ; he was also a good Micro-Lepidopterist, and has left a fairly typical collection 

 of Tortrices behind him. Apart from these he had no collection, having sold it 

 years ago to, I believe, Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson ; he then gave up Entomology to 

 within a few yeai's ago, when he re-commenced ; two years since he started his small 

 collection of Tortrices. He will be much missed by the undersigned, who was his 

 companion in hundreds of his excursions, and who is requested by the family to ask 

 that any one having claims for boxes, &c., will make them direct to him. — A. E. 

 Hall, Norbury, Sheffield. 



Prof. Hermann August Hagen, M.D., Son. F.E.S. — ^Information has been re- 

 ceived from America of the by no means unexpected death on November 9th of 

 this well-known Entomologist in his 77th year. A detailed notice will appear in 

 our next No. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : November IBth, 1893. — 

 Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., President, in the. Chair. 



The subject for discussion was the Vanessidce. Owing to the absence of Mr. 

 C. H. Sehill, who was to have given a paper on this subject, Mr. E. N. Pierce, E.E.S. 

 (Hon. Secretary), read a few notes. There were a large number of specimens ex- 

 hibited, the President showing many fine varieties from his collection, among which 

 was the celebrated specimen of Cynthia cardui from the collection of the late Mr. 

 Owen, having the white spots at the apex of the fore-wings obliterated by dark 

 scales, and " blind " specimens of Vanessa lo. Mr. Harker exhibited a fine Vanessa 

 Atalanta, the red border being creamy-yellow. Mr. Walker exhibited his unique 

 collection of varieties of Vanessa Antiopa, bred by him from Canadian pupae. Mr. 

 Watson, Teinopalpus imperialis. Mr. Stott, on behalf of Mr. H. S. Clarke, a speci- 

 men of Ophion obscurum and Faniscus tarsatns, which had been sent to him as 

 having stung a woman in Douglas, causing blood poisoning. — E. N. PiEECE, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 October I2t7i, 1893.— J. Jenner Weir, Esq., E.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. H. Carpenter exhibited long series of the white spotted forms of 

 Argynnis PapMa, L., and a small form of the same species, all from the New 

 Forest ; Mr. Tutt remarking that this white-spotted form was frequently tinted with 

 green, as in var. Valezina, more especially the females. Mr. Erohawk exhibited 

 examples of Vanessa cardui, L., V. Atalanta, L., V. polychloros, L., &c., being the 

 largest he had bred a)id the smallest captured, the difference being very considerable. 

 Mr. Barrett exhibited a gynandrous specimen of Argynnis Paphia, L., taken in the 

 New Eorest ; also, amongst others, the two broods of Vanessa levana, L., and V. 

 c-album, L., lent by Mr. Merrifield, of Brighton, showing the seasonal dimorphism 

 produced from the same batch of ova by means of artificial warmth and cold. Mr. 

 South exhibited a specimen of Orthotcenia antiquana, Hb., taken on June 28th, 1893, 

 on a shop window at St. John's Wood ; also long series of Pyrausta purpuralis, L., 

 and P. ostrinalis, Hb., both of which he considered to be forms of one species, many 

 that he showed being intermediate and referable to either j a long discussion fol- 



