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entomological, and one of these was translated into English (" The Adventures of a 

 Cricket"). The deeply humorous side of his nature occasionally found its vent in 

 anonymous publications, and certainly one of the best and most amusing of them 

 ■was " La Doi-yphora en Eelgique," which appeared at the time of the Colorado 

 Beetle scare in 1877. Candeze was a many-sided man : at one time he was deeply 

 devoted to photography, and perfected a hand camera when such appliances were 

 but little known ; he was attached to horticulture, and passionately fond of. music. 

 His extreme vivacity and gaity of spirits made him a charming companion. To the 

 writer of this notice, who met him so frequently in Belgium at the chateau of Baron 

 de Selys, and several times on excursions occupying two or three days (to say nothing 

 of his occasional visits to London), his death comes as that of a personal friend : to 

 his Belgian colleagues, and especially to the venerable Baron, whose friendship with 

 him existed for more than half a centui'y, and who pronounced a touching " discours " 

 at his funeral, his loss is irreparable. Candeze was an Officer of the Order of 

 Leopold, a Member of the Belgian Academy, and of the Academy of Sciences of 

 Liege, and one of five Commissioners for the Natural History Museum at Brussels ; 

 he was also Member of many foreign Entomological Societies, including that of 

 London since 1860, and of France from 1856 to 1882, and subsequently on the 

 honorary list. His wife long predeceased him, but he leaves two sons and three 

 daughters, all of whom are married. His second son, Leon, inherits his father's 

 taste for Entomology. — li. McL. 



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Birmingham Entomological Society : July 18th, 1898. — Mr. A. H. 

 Maetineau in the Chair. 



The Chairman showed larvse of Dytiscus marginalis from Ribberford ; also a 

 Nematus, one antenna of which had a white ring near the tip and the other was all 

 black ; he believed it to be gynandromorphio. Mr. Bradley, Megachile Willugh- 

 hiella and M. centuncularis, $ and ? of both, obtained from a post at Sutton. Mr. 

 W. Bowater, a specimen of Odynerus pictus, which had made its nest behind a 

 picture in his bedroom at Edgbaston ; the cells, which were broken, contained about 

 three dozen larvae of one of the sawflies. Mr. Willoughby Ellis recorded the 

 occurrence at Haywood, near Solihull, of Strangalia armata, Pterostichus striola, 

 Apliodius fossor, Clythra quadripunctata, Melanohis rufipes, and Serica hrunnea, 

 the last having been taken at sugar. — Colbean J. Wainweight, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natfeal Histoey Society: 

 June 23rrf, 1898.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Broome, Christchurch, Oxford, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Filer exhibited living larvae of Thecla ruhi feeding on rock-rose (Cistus), 

 and called attention to their remarkable protective colouration. Mr. Adkin, larvae 

 of Acidalia niarginepunctata (promutata), and read notes on their habits ; some 

 were nearly full-fed, while others were small ; the ova had hatched in the early 

 autumn. Mr. Moore, two fine varieties of Arctia Caj'a bred from ova by Mr. Cooke. 

 1. Fore-wings uniformly dark chocolate, without the usual cream markings. 2. 

 Fore-wings with a very considerable decrease in the area covered by the dark mark- 

 ings. The larvae, some sixty in number, fed all the winter on cabbage. Mr. West, 

 the Coleoptera he had taken at the Reigate Field Meeting. Mr. Barnett, a specimen 

 of Venilia maoulata, having the dark blotches irregularly joined and blurred on 

 one side only. — Hy, J. Turnee, Hon. Sec. 



