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September 26th {Entom. vii. 228, 289). A rather wasted 

 example was taken by Mr. W. W. Shaw in Berwickshire, 

 September 9th, 1876 {Entom. ix. 278). 



In 1880, five specimens were seen or taken at sugar in 

 various parts of the country as follows : — Mr. John Mundie, 

 of Aberdeen, says one visited a sugared tree on August 30th, 

 and two following nights. Mr. Wratislaw took one at Rugby, 

 August 31st. A much worn and broken example fell to the 

 lot of Mr. Griffiths, taken in the Leigh Woods, Bristol, Sept. 

 1st. Mr. W. White one, at Barnsley, Sept. 6th, and Mr. J. 

 H. A. Jenner, one in fair condition, near Lewes, Sept. 27th 

 {Entom. xiii. 240, 241, 281, 310). 



Having reviewed the Society's actual position, touched on 

 some of the probable items of our programme for 1886, and 

 also glanced at the most notable captures and important 

 discoveries made this year by Entomologists in Britain, I will 

 now briefly refer to some eminent Biologists, learned special- 

 ists, and earnest workers who have been removed from their 

 labours by the hand of death during the past twelve months. 



By the untimely death of Mr. Rye, F.Z.S., F.E.S., the 

 scientific world has lost an able Entomologist and most 

 assiduous literary worker, and this Society one of its original 

 patrons. 



Edward Caldwell Rye was born in London in June,i832, 

 and died at Stockwell on Feb. 7th, 1885, after a very short 

 illness, in the fifty-third year of his age. 



As an Entomologist, he at first was interested in Lepidop- 

 tera, but subsequently turned his attention to Coleoptera, 

 among which order he was especially successful in discovering 

 species new to the British fauna. In the Entomologists 

 Annual 1863, he commenced a series of articles on British 

 Coleoptera, which he continued until the Annual ceased in 

 1874. Mr. Rye was one of the original founders and co- 

 editors of the Ento7Jtologist"s Monthly Magazine, the first 

 number of which appeared in June, 1864. In 1866, he pub- 

 lished his well-known British Beetles. He was sole editor 

 of the last ten volumes of the Zoological Record, and in 

 several of the earlier volumes the article ' Coleoptera ' was 

 from his pen. He contributed articles on various orders of 



