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professional advantage, without abandoning his entomological pursuits. Sub- 

 sequently he resided at Deal, and afterwards at Dover until his death, and did 

 much and good work in investigating the insect-fauna of the district, especially in 

 Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, and Hemipiera, many notes on which, from 

 his pen, will be found in the back volumes (and some in the current vol.) of this 

 Magazine, and in other periodicals. In the last letter received from him, in April 

 of this year, he announced his intention of sending a list of the TenthredinidcB of 

 the Dover district. Hall was a genial, open-hearted, and liberal-minded man in his 

 relations with his entomological friends, and will be much regretted. He leaves a 

 widow and two children. 



Owen S. Wilson, F.E.S., of Cwmffrwd, Carmarthen, died on August 24th. We 

 are not acquainted with his early history, but he was educated for the legal pro- 

 fession, and was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in January, 1853, and 

 subsequently practised on the South Wales and Chester Circuit. He joined the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1874. His name is familiar to British Ento- 

 mologists through his work on " The Larvae of the British Lepidoptera and their 

 Food-plants," with 40 coloured plates, including 600 figures, from coloured drawings 

 executed by his wife, Mrs. Eleanora Wilson. This work was originally published 

 in parts, and has, no doubt, assisted many Lepidopterists in giving a clue to life- 

 histories, and in determining larvae unknown to them. 



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BiEMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : September Ibth, 1890. — Eev. C. F. 

 Thornewill, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. Runge, Broad Street, Birmingham, was elected a Member. 



Mr. E. C. Tye showed Cymatophora duplaris from near Tamworth. Mr. G. 

 W. Wynn showed Euperia fulvago, taken by Mr. Tye, on Cannock Chase, at rest, on 

 bracken. Eev. C. F. Thornewill showed Cidaria populata and testata, and Eucos- 

 mia certata. Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Boarmia repandata, including the variety 

 conversaria, taken on sugar at Porlock, Somersetshire. Mr. R. C. Bradley read a 

 paper on three days' collecting on Cannock Chase, in August, and showed the insects 

 taken ; they included Pedicia rivosa and Relophilus trivittatus among Dlptera, &nd. 

 Chrysoclista biniaculella among Lepidoptera. 



October 6th, 1890.— The President, Mr. W. O. Blatch, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Xylophasia scolopacina, from Arley. Mr. W. Or. 

 Blatch showed Homalota crassicornis, a beetle which he believed to be new to 

 England : the only record with which he was acquainted of its capture in Britain 

 was of three specimens taken in Scotland ; he also showed Euryporus picipes, a 

 beetle new to the Midlands. Mr. W. Harrison showed a small collection of insects 

 made this year in the New Forest, between July 19th and 26th, and described his 

 experiences there. — Colbran J. Wainwriqht, Ron. Sec. 



