120 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



14 species of the former genus and 4 of the latter had now been 

 captured in the county. — Mr. Murray, a box of Cayenne pepper in 

 which the beetle Anobium paniceum was breeding. 



March 3rd. — An exhibit of locally-taken forms of the common 

 froghopper Philaenus spumarius was made by Messrs. Murray and 

 Day, the following being represented : lateralis, L.,populi, F., lineata, 

 F., vittata, F., leucophthalma, L., leucocephala, L., and marginellus, 

 F. Mr. Day showed the following Coleoptera which had not 

 occurred in Cumberland before : Meligethes exilis from Drigg, 

 Pityogenes chalcographies, Dryocaetes autographies and Tomicus typo- 

 graphies, the three latter taken under bark of spruce in Carlisle. — 

 F. H. Day, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUAEY. 



Gilbeet Stoeey was already a keen naturalist when at school 

 at King William's College, Isle of Man. • He went to Queens' College, 

 Cambridge, in 1909, and there spent much of his spare time collecting 

 Lepidoptera in the neighbouring fens. 



On leaving Cambridge in 1912 he obtained a temporary appoint- 

 ment in .the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, but three months later 

 he went out to join the Entomological Section of the Ministry of 

 Agriculture of Egypt. His work there was largely administrative, 

 but he was closely associated with Dr. L. D. Gough in the develop- 

 ment of the seed-heating method of destroying the Pink Boll-worm 

 of cotton. Later he was appointed Sub-Director of the Entomological 

 Section. 



In 1920 his exceptional abilities caused him to be offered the 

 post of Technical Secretary to the Cotton Besearch Board — a 

 recently formed organisation for research on problems of cotton 

 cultivation in Egypt. After piloting through the press the first 

 annual report of this Board, he was engaged on the second report 

 when he was taken ill, but finished the report in bed a few days 

 before his death on April 5th, 1922. 



In addition to being an excellent entomologist, he was a first-class 

 athlete, and possessed a fluent knowledge of Arabic. 



His death at the early age of thirty-one is mourned in Egypt by 

 Europeans and Egyptians alike. C. B. W. 



We deeply regret to hear of the death of Mr. Arthur Bacot at 

 Cairo on Wednesday, April 12th, from typhus. 



