142 [Miiy. 



Woodthorpe in Greenfield Wood, near Alford, Lincolnshire, on March 22nd this 

 jear. No doubt it is a hibernated specimen, and though this species is known to 

 sometimes survive the winter in South Europe, its doing.so so far north is of interest. 

 De Selys give^ July as the date of its earliest occurrence in Belgium, and records its 

 hibernating habit. — Eland Shaw, Wandsworth : April, 1890. 



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Josepfi Sugar Baly, M.E.C.S., F.L.S., F.E.S., of " The Butts," Warwick, died, 

 we think somewhat suddenly, on March 27th, aged 73. Of his early history we 

 know nothing. He became M.R.C.S. in 1840, and L.S.A. in 1841. In 1850 he 

 joined the Entomological Society of London, and was then established in North 

 London, with an extensive practice, where he remained until about 1868, when the 

 death of a relative, and material considerations, induced him to relinquish his 

 London practice and to settle at Warwick, which afterwards became his home, ami 

 where he resumed private practice, and held several professional public appoint- 

 ments, and for which borough he was also a magistrate. Outside a certain amount 

 of attention paid to the higher groups of exotic Hytneiwptera, Baly devoted 

 his life, from an entomological point of view, almost solely to Phytophagous 

 Coleoptera, and on this subject he became one of the foremost authorities. What 

 was probably his first paper, of any importance, was published in the Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., in 1855, and thenceforward his communications were continuous, occupy- 

 ing places in all available Transactions, Proceedings, and Journals. During the 

 latter years of his life his activity was greater than ever. He must have been 

 responsible for an enormous number of new species and many new genera in Fhyto- 

 pliaga. His work was almost purely descriptive, dry and unattractive to the general 

 reader, and, so far as can be judged by the test of time, of a generally sound nature. 



Mr. Baly married early, and had a large family. During his residence in 

 London, he was a constant attendant at the Entomological Society and kindred 

 meetings. In private life he was quiet, amiable, and unemotional, making many 

 friends ; in some matters his character was marked by extreme simplicity. After 

 his removal to Warwick, his visits to London, and consequent association with 

 old friends, were few, but he is none the less regretted by a large circle of acquaintances. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1865, and was also 

 a Member of the Entomological Societies of France and Stettin. 



BiHMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : March 12th, 1890. — The President, 

 Mr. W. G. Blatch, in the Chair. 



Messrs. C. T. Parsons and H. R. Ilodgkinson were elected Members of the 

 Society. Mr. R. C. Bradley showed Asphalia flavicornis from Solihull, in one of 

 which the stigmata had coalesced. Mr. H. M. Lee showed three Hesperia, appa- 

 rently lineoJa, which he had found in a collection, and which he believed came from 

 Jersey. Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed a collection of insects from Colombia, S. • 



