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comparison. Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, Colias eurytheme, Bdv., — forms 



(1) amphidusa, Bdv., (9) keewaydia, Edw., (3) ariadne, Edw., (4) eriphyle, 

 Edw., from the United States, — and made remarks relative to his exhibit. 

 Mr. E. Joy, living larvae of Toxocampa pastinum, Tr. Mr. Tugwell, bred 

 specimens of Heliophobus hispidus, Hb., and said it was just possible in 

 some of the specimens to see a violet tinge. Mr. A. E. Cook exhibited 

 nests of Vespa sylvestris from Bagshot, Surrey. Mr. Moore, nests of seve- 

 ral species of British and foreign wasps. Mr. Billups, Epeolus productus, 

 Thorns., taken at Chobham ; also a series of Trichomma enecator, Rossi, 

 bred by Mr. Adkin from Peronea hastiana, L. ; and male and female 

 Pelecystoma lutea, Nees, bred by Mr. Adkin. Mr. Billups contributed notes 

 relative to his exhibit. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — September 16th, 1890. — Rev. 

 C. F. Thornewill, V.P., in the chair. Mr. C. Runge, Broad Street, Bir- 

 mingham, was elected a member. Mr. E. C. Tye showed Cymatophora 

 duplaris from near Tamworth. Mr. G. W. Wynn showed Euperia fulvago, 

 taken by Mr. Tye, on Cannock Chase, at rest on bracken. Rev. C. F. 

 Thornewill showed Cidaria populata and testata, and Eucosmia certata. 

 Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Boarmia repandata, including var. conversaria, 

 taken on sugar at Porlock, Somersetshire. Mr. R. C. Bradley read a paper 

 " On three days' collecting on Cannock Chase in August," and showed the 

 insects taken, which included Helophilus trivittatus among Diptera, and 

 Chrysoclista bimaculella among Lepidoptera. 



October 6th.— Mr. W. G. Blatch, President, in the, chair. Mr. P. W. 

 Abbott showed Xylophasia scolopacina from Arley. Mr. W. G. Blatch 

 showed Homalota crassicornis, a beetle which he believed to be new to 

 England : the only record with which he was acquainted of its capture in 

 Britain was of three specimens taken in Scotland. He also showed 

 Euryphorus picipes, a beetle new to the Midlands. Mr. W. Harrison 

 showed a small collection of insects made this year in the New Forest, 

 between July 19th and 26th, and described his experiences there. — 

 Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



Owen S. Wilson died at Cwmffrwd, Carmarthen, on the 25th of August 

 last. He was the only son of the late Mr. John Wilson, County Court 

 Judge in South Wales, and Recorder of Carmarthen ; a barrister by pro- 

 fession, though he had not been practising for some years. He appears to 

 have been a zealous Volunteer, and had attained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel 

 after twenty years' service. In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London, and has long been known as a most ardent 

 and hard-working lepidopterist. His ' Larvae of the British Lepidoptera,' 

 an important work of 367 pp. and 40 coloured plates, published in 1880, 

 met with a most favourable reception at the hands of Lepidopterists. For 

 some time past he had been actively engaged in preparing for the press a 

 more comprehensive work, dealing with the Life-Histories of Lepidoptera, 

 in which it was proposed to give plates, each representing life-sized figures 

 of one or two species in all the different transformations from the larva to 

 the imago, with, in many cases, the egg, and invariably the food-plant of the 

 larva ; all the figures drawn from Nature by Mrs. E. Wilson. 



