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from common generally, although probably locally abundant — these are Orthotylus 

 dia2}hamis, Kb., and Plagiognathus Roseri, H.-S., both of these have occurred pretty 

 freely by beating the willows over an umbrella; with these I had the good fortune to 

 secure a single specimen of Oliarus leporinus, thus adding an additional locality to 

 those already known for this rare Homopteron. — Id. : August, 1887. 



Diptera in TSpping Forest. — Very few large Biptera were about when last I 

 visited this place (July 21st). The Acalypterate Muscidce, which I was chiefly in 

 search of, were tolerably abundant, the genera Chlorops, Meromyza, Borlorus, and 

 Sapromyza being well represented. There were also two or three species each of 

 Scatopse, and Agromyza. Hemiptera were rather common, and a few beetles fell 

 to my sweeping. The unfortunate proximity of the numerous stalls and booths that 

 encircle what was once the forest, causes the remaining portion of the wood to be 

 thronged with pleasure seekers, with the natural result of the gradual annihilation 

 of insect life. I have some duplicates to spare should any one want them. — E. 

 Brunetti, 129, Gi-rosvenor Park, Camberwell : July, 1887. 



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Dr. Max Gemminger died at Munich on the 18th April last, having been born 

 in the same city on the 23rd January, 1820 ; thus he did not long survive his 

 younger and (in Entomology) better-known collaborateur Baron Von Harold. In 

 early life he appears to have held an official position in the Museum at Trieste, but 

 returned to Munich in 1849. Outside the great "Catalogus Coleopterorum," the 

 idea of which he possibly originated, and which, in conjunction with Von Harold, 

 he carried to so successful a conclusion, his entomological publications woi'e not 

 numerous, but as long as there are systematic Coleopterists, so long will "Gemminger 

 and Von Harold " be familiar as household words. As a general naturalist he was 

 known in connection with pisciculture, and especially as a skilled preparer of 

 anatomical subjects for educational purposes. He was M.D., but probably never 

 practised, his duties at the Munich Museum fully occupying his time. 



Robert Francis Logan died at his residence, Spylaw, Colinton, near Edinburgh, 

 on the 28th July, at the age of 60. 



He was a very good observer on whom one might always thoroughly rely — but 

 with this great capacity for benefiting our science, he was unfortunately extremely 

 deliberate, and it was but very little of that which he had observed that was ever 

 given to the world. He would seemed to have turned his attention to Entomology 

 before he had reached his teens, as in his first published note (Zoologist, 1845, p. 

 1141), written when he was 18, he said "I have now been investigating the Ento- 

 mology of this locality for about seven years." 



This note referred to the capture at Duddingston (where he resided), near 

 Edinburgh, of two specimens of Folia occulta, then an insect of very great rarity. 

 In the Zoologist of the following year were notices of "Flowers which are particularly 

 attractive to moths," of " Graphiphora renigera " (the insect we now know as 

 Agrotis lucernea, it having borne for some yeai's the name of Graphiphora or 



