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and other Crustacea, as recorded in a series of papers contributed to the " Irish 

 Naturalist " and the " Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy." Though he 

 wrote nothing upon the subject, his knowledge of botany was considerable. 

 His special hobby was landscape gardening, and he enriched his beautiful 

 demesne at Drumreaske with many trees, shrubs and decorative plants which 

 he imported from Japan and elsewhere. Archaeology also had its attractions 

 for him, and he described many Irish antiquities in the *' Proceedings of the 

 K:>yal Irish Academy" and the ^'. Royal Historical and Archaeol epical Society 

 of Ireland." 



"While thus devoting a long life to scientific pursuits, he was also a keen 

 worker for his county and country. He served twice as High Sheriff and was 

 a Justice of the Peace. As an ardent Churchman he was a member of the 

 General Synod and Representative Body. For the development of the canal 

 system in Ireland, he did excellent work, and also for various agricultural and 

 other bodies. An accomplished and most courteous country gentleman, he 

 did a good work in his generation for the Ireland which he loved. He suffered 

 a serious loss by the death of his only son in 1897. — Willoughby Gardner. 



The South Loxdox Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 September 12th, 1918. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited series of the Homopteron Ledra aurita, with 

 living larvae ; some females had the frontal horns more developed than in the 

 males. Mr. Blair, two very similar beetles, Coccinella distincta and C. septeni- 

 punctata, the former associated with ants, and pointed out their differences. 

 Mr. Bowman, four successive broods oi Dysstroma {Cidaria) tJ'uncata-. (1) an 

 average wild female, (2) including the yellow clouded and dark diffused forms, 

 (3) more or less typical, October and November, (4) also more or less typical; 

 (3) and (4) quite as large as the parent. Mr. Sich, the Micro-Lepidoptera 

 Cacoecia podana, ab. sauberiana, bred from ivy ; Pandemis ribeana, with very 

 faint markings ; P. heparana, a dark specimen bred from rose ; Enarmonia 

 luoeberiana, a dark specimen, Bath ; Acalla contaminana, the aberrations ciliana 

 and rhombana and the form which has been provisionally named omicron. 

 Mr. Barnett, a series of Aricia medon, one underside striated on the fore wings, 

 Chipstead. Mr. B. W. Adkin, a series of Nisoniades tages, some finely-marked 

 varied females and a remarkable khaki-coloured form. Mr. Sperring, eight 

 specimens of Abraxas grossulariata from Aberdeen, bred, gradations of the 

 dark suffused local race, also the sth./idvapicata form from S.E. London, and 

 two very dark ones bred from suburban larvae. He also showed ten speci- 

 mens of Arctia caja bred this year from S.E. London, including aberrations 

 with orange hind wings, predominance of white on fore wings, forms with 

 banded fore and hind wings, and much suffused specimens. Mr. F. B. Carr, 

 series of Royston Agriades coridon, 1918, including ab. rogstonensis, ab. 

 semisgngrapha, and specimens close to ab. sgngrapha with several underside 

 aberrations. Mr. Dennis, heads of the common rush on which the very young 

 larvae of Coleophora caespititiella liad mudi' their cases since the heads were 



