66 4 (August, 
Throughout its whole larval life this species is very quiet, and even sluggish. 
The pupa is nearly five-eighths of an inch in length, the wing-cases long, the 
abdomen plump, thickest in the middle, tapering to the tail, and ending in a blunt 
flat spike ; the back of the thorax is rounded, the head and eye-pieces prominent. 
At first the head, thorax, and wing-covers were semi-transparent, and of a 
pinkish-grey tint, the abdomen ochreous, with dark dorsal stripe and other lines, 
and spiracles also as in the larva; but by July 10th, the eyes became black; the 
thorax, antennze-cases, and wing-covers, after passing through an opaque cream- 
coloured stage, finally changed to a dingy dark pinkish-brown. 
The butterfly, a very fine male, came forth on July 15th; but at the present 
date Mr. Hellins has a larva only just beginning to change.—Wm. BuckuER, Hms- 
worth, 19th July, 1870. 
Postponement of Dr. Staudinger’s visit to England.—Dr. Staudinger, who has 
purchased the rich collection of Lepidoptera of the late Herr Julius Lederer, and 
has lately been to Vienna to superintend its removal to Dresden (where it has now 
arrived in good order), finds that he shall now be unable to visit England this 
summer, but he hopes with certainty to be able to come over here newt year. The 
new edition of the catalogue is now in the press.—H. T. Stainton, Monntsfield, 
Lewisham, July 8th, 1870. 
Obituary. 
A. H. Haliday.—With profound regret we announce the decease of this gen- 
tleman, early in July, at Lucca, in Italy, which town he had since many years made 
his home. A more extended notice of his life and works will probably appear here- 
after in our pages. 
Alfred Haward.—The Entomologists of London have to lament the premature 
decease of Mr. Haward, who was well known among Coleopterists, and universally 
respected for his genial and thoroughly unassuming disposition. He died at his 
residence, near Croydon, about a fortnight after joining the Entomological Club 
on the Ist of July last, at their excursion to Weybridge, and we imagine no 
one then present had any idea that his end was so near. Mr. Haward’s 
business occupations always prevented him giving full scope to his bent for ento- 
mology ; but of him it can truly be said, that no man was more free from the petty 
jealousies that too often render our favourite study ridiculous in the eyes of the 
uninitiated ; and, as a consequence, no man had fewer enemies. 
EntTomoLoeicaL Society or Lonpon, 4th July, 1870; A. R. Waunace, Esq., 
F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Rev. F. A. Walker, of Wanstead, and E. M. Seaton, Esq., were elected 
Members. 
Mr. Meek exhibited three species of Dianthecia from Ireland, viz., compta, 
conspersa, and Barrettii ; also, from the Isle of Man, D. conspersa, and an insect 
which Mr. Stainton considered to be a peculiar dark variety of Gluphisia crenata, 
a very rare British species. 
The Hon. T, De Grey exhibited examples of Oxyptilus letus, from Brandon, 
Suffolk. 
Mr. Tegetmeier sent for exhibition examples of nature-printing as applied to 
Butterflies and Moths. These remarkably fine exponents of this method were on 
sale by a well-known London firm of printsellers, who had been under the idea that 
they were produced by some new process of chromo-lithogranhy. 
