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and those entomologists who had the pleasure of his personal acquaintance have 
reason to deplore the loss, in him, of an amiable friend. Mr. Horton leaves a 
widow, two sons, and three daughters. To his fellow-townsman, Mr. Fletcher, we 
are indebted for several particulars in the foregoing short notice. 
The Rev. J. F. Dawson.—Of this “ Geodephagist,” whose somewhat premature 
decease, on the 16th October last, was briefly recorded on the cover of our Novem- | 
ber issue, little can be said that is likely to be unknown to any British | 
Entomologists, as his insect love and labours were (with the exception of an 
attachment to the Curculionide) entirely devoted to the beetles described in his 
well-known “ Geodephaga Britannica,” the publication of which was the first step | 
towards freeing us from isolation, and which, considering the state of Entomological 
science here at that time, is certainly deserving of the highest encomium ;—all | 
that can be said against it being that the author’s views were, perhaps, in some | 
cases, a little too synthetical; and that there was scarcely sufficient comparative | 
descriptive matter in it. Although anticipated in two of his species of Dyschirius ! 
(a difficult genus,—and at that time still more so,—for which he had an especial | 
liking), his D. impunctipennis, Trechus lapidosus and Bembidium Clarkia will- 
survive to keep him in memory,—if his Stenolophus derelictus should fail to | 
be established. Mr. Dawson retained to the last his love for the Geodephaga ; 
but, his eye-sight having for some time been failing, he was compelled to 
abandon even the pretence of working; and, not being able to keep in the | 
foremost ranks through this infirmity, he withdrew from all communication 
with his fellows. Beneath his personal eccentricity, he had very many estimable 
characters; and it may also be noted that his proficiency as a Hebrew scholar 
was very considerable, taking into account the small favour in which that study 
was held by the community until very recently. His book entitled “Old Testa- 
ment Events,” contains much that is able and ingenious, though some of the 
conclusions therein deduced might not find general acceptance. 
EnromonocicaL Soctrry or Lonpon, 2nd January, 1871.—A. R. Watnace, 
Esq., F.Z.8., President, in the Chair, 
A. M. Ross, Esq., M.D., of Toronto, was elected a Member. 
Mr. Butler exhibited species of Lepidoptera forming part of a collection sent 
to Mr. Swanzy by Mr. Ussher, from Fantee, West Coast of Africa, Amongst them | 
was a large species of Brahmea allied to B. Lucina, which Mr. Butler proposed to | 
call B. Swanzyii, also two instances of mimicry amongst butterflies, viz., Godartia 
Eurynome and Danais Leonora, and Mylothois Agathina and Belenois Sylvia. The 
latter case being one of resemblance between two species of the same family, | 
Mr. Bates suggested it was a case of affinity rather than positive mimicry. 
Mr. W. OC. Boyd exhibited varities of several familiar species of British Lepi-| 
doptera; one of the most remarkable being a strange dwarf form of Porthesia | 
auriflua. | 
Mr. Verrall exhibited a specimen of Plusia interrogationis captured at Battle, 
Sussex, by Mr. Jenner (see p. 214), the species being almost exclusively northern 
in its habits in this country. 
Mr. Hewitson communicated “New Species of South American Diurnal 
Lepidoptera.” 
