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NOTES AND NEWS. 
. well-merited car to the memory of — oni eee Hl gata 
John Sang, is paid by Mr. John H. Wood, whe Gedicat o him 
Mi lroptery x thie Saich i is described in the ¢ Futauolcotsts’ Monthly Macacine? 
for April 
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Mr. S. L. Mosley, F.E.S., continues his most interesting ‘ History ze Pikes 
Birds: their Nests and Eggs,’ of which Nos, 66 and 67 are now before u 
include sseelipcenmtan plates of the Land Rail, the Water Rail, the Spotted igo 
i e Grey Phalaro 
ai 
varieties and the immature birds being figured, as well as the eggs and mature 
forms. 
Oe 
A brief obituary notice is given in the ‘ Entomologist’ for August last (xxiv. 
200) of Roward Ralph Pearson, of aioetpe, Nowbumberends who died on the 
12th July, 1891, at the age of 56. tion cf made of his excellence as a 
lepidopterist, and several good local leek: including Vesti antiopa, are named 
as among his captures late! in the neighbourhood of Wallington. 
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n honour is Fis to our well-known entomologist of Hartlepool, Mr. J. E 
Reon, F.E.S., a new variety rodsonz being suggested for spa melanic form of 
Aplecta ‘nebulosa by M aS Collins, at the mirage meeting of the Lancashire and 
Cheshire Entomological Society. The formal and technical eg ap on of this 
variety is published in the ‘ British Naturalist? for November 1891, p. 
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In respect of the question of the proposed abandonment of the ee name 
ot and the substitution for it of Pomatias, t ev. Canon Norman 
returns to the charge in the August number of the ‘ Annals jee Maan | of 
atural Hoth and defends eee vigour the ipouitiony he took up i 
pCoOt—— 
The November number of the ‘Ent soaatlont® contains an article on the 
Diamond-Back Moth (Pletella ese dete), which has committed so much 
damage to se crops in the eastern counties of England. Mr. J. Arkle, of 
escr 
contacts great ravages in one year to be necessarily feared in succeeding seasons ? 
COE. 
A paper on the re- oo of lost limbs in the insecta, by Mr. John Watson, 
of Manchester, read to the ntific Section of the Liter iad Seo Philosophical 
Society of that bende is olga sh - pages 108-110 of the ‘ mologist ’ ay 
1891. eo ms were made on /latysamia ate: Antherea wiyiditas 
and on dragon- ian 
> 
r former editor, Mr. W. Eagle ib Cane, F.L.S., is to be most warmly c 
grated on the success of the new nevi magazine, ‘ The Annals of Scottish 
ral Hi which he has brought out in Ccaiunction with Aas John A. 
sea tag ime ae a ge and Prof. James W. H. iboed sa A., M.D., and of 
the first number, for January, lie ‘belbes It takes t fe The 
Scottish Naturalist,’ which vakeas i aft ie fee ; 
to exist, after a sot of life extending 
over nearly two a of years, and th in every ect an 
immense improvement u ts eces ypographically the ‘ Annals’ is 
rk of art and affords not the gu i loophole for an adverse-minded critic, 
and scientifically its contents are high-class and well wort the natural history 
ability of which Scotland t. t number is illustrated by two 
plates, one of them an excellent AL oegepe n of Anarrhichas minor, lith 
inter - e contents are well balanced ng the different 
es of natural history, and . whole production eminently w of the 
orthy 
oe se prosperous career which we venture to predict (and sontiiently ese 
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