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Ernest Candeze, M.D., F.E.S., the learned monographer of the ElateridcB, an 

 accomplished entomologist and writer, died at Liege on June 30th, after a short 

 illness from angina pectoris, in his 72nd year, deeply mourned by a large circle of 

 personal friends, not a few of whom are in this country. This is a preliminary 

 notice ; a more extended memoir will appear hereafter. 



foc[ti|ltes. 



BlEMIN^GHAM ENTOMOLOafCAL SOCIETY: April ISth, 1898. — Mr. R. C. 

 Beadlet in the Chair. 



Mr. P. W. Abbott showed a very fine series of Heliothis peltigera taken 

 in South Devon last year. Mr. R. C. Bradley, a small lot of insects collected 

 during a holiday spent in Norway last year ; he occupied most of his time cruising in 

 the Fjords, &c., and was only able to collect a very little at times when on shore ; 

 amongst his captures were Boarmia repandata, with pale blotches in the disc of the 

 fore-wings, and very fine vars. of Bombus agrorum. Mr. Martineau, a fine large 

 Sirex gigas, ? , taken in a grocer's shop at Solihull. 



May 16^.— Mr. a. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. C. Bradley showed a Trypetid which he had taken on a window in his 

 house at Sutton ; it had been sent to Mr. Gr. H. Verrall, who said it was Bliacoch- 

 l<jena toxoneura, a genus and species new to Britain, and very rare. Mr. P. W. Abbott, 

 TcBniocampa opiina and a series of T. stahilis, all from Wyre Forest ; the stalilis 

 were rather peculiar, the orbicular and reniform tending to coalesce in all ; in one 

 specimen they had coalesced on the right wing, but had not quite done so on the 

 left. Mr. Q-. T. Bethune-Baker, the remainder of his collection of the genus Colias, 

 also Meganostoma and Rhodocera ; he pointed out the manner in which Colias ran 

 naturally into Rhodocera through Meganostoma. 



June 2Qth. — Mr. R. C. Bradley in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, Park Grove, Solihull, was elected a Member of the 

 Society. 



Mr. C. J. Wainwright exhibited a short series of OrtJioneura elegans (four 

 males, four females) and 0. brevicornis (nine males) from Sutton, taken on May 15th 

 and 22nd this year, and said that both species were exceedingly rare, and that they 

 had previously been known as British only from a few odd specimens. Mr. Bradley 

 showed Anthophora pillpes and Andrena Gwynana, both of which species had been 

 very common at Droitwich in the first week of April this year. Mr. Martineau said 

 that Anthophora pilipes occurred at Solihull, and was damaging the red sandstone 

 church wall by burrowing freely in it. Mr. Fountain, a collection of insects made 

 in Herefordshire on Whit Monday, including Epione advenaria, Ligdia adustata^ 

 Minoa euphorbiata, Hadena genista, &c. Mr. Martineau showed Andrena cingulata, 

 $ and ? , from Wyre Forest, taken on May 9th ; they were the first local specimens 

 he had heard of.— Colbran J. Wainweight, Eon. Secretary. 



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