200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



was then invariably dark. Where the ground was not all dark, there 

 he found typical forms as well as the dark one. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. 

 Report Secretary. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — Mr. G. H. Kenrick in the 

 chair. Exhibits : — By Mr. A. H. Martineau, a willow-gall with the pupa- 

 case of a Cecidomyia projecting from it ; he described the manner of 

 exit from the gall of the pupa. By Mr. P. W. Abbott, a fine series of 

 Spilosoma lubricipeda, with its varieties, including radiata and semi- 

 fasciata ; the latter bred by Mr. Porritt, and the former by Mr. Mera. 

 He also showed S. menthastri var. ochracea from Forres. By Mr. K. 

 C. Bradley, a series of a curious little fly, Pelomyza baumhaueri, Loew, 

 which he had found not uncommonly in one spot in Sutton Park last 

 year. By Mr. Valentine Smith, a lot of Coleoptera, including Amara 

 patricia, from near Stourbridge ; Donacia affinis, from Kingswood ; 

 Silpha qiiadripunctata, from Sutton ; Rhopalomesites tardii, from Lyn- 

 mouth ; Calathus piceiis and Ocypus pedator, from Ilfracombe ; and 

 Staphy Linus erythrocephalus and Trox sabulosus, from Cannock Chase. 

 By Mr. W. Harrison, living pupae of EucJiloe cardamines from his garden 

 at Harborne. By Mr. H. Foster Newey, a number of drawings in 

 black and white of the larvae and pupae of British Lepidoptera, executed 

 by himself and Mr. Rollason. They were very greatly admired for 

 their detailed accuracy. — Colbran J. Wainwright, H071. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



Mr. John Anderson Cooper, whose death we briefly announced in 

 our last issue, had attained his forty-seventh year. He was born at 

 Thorpe, in the county of Durham, in 1849. Mr. Cooper was manager 

 of the Leytonstone branch of Nevill's Bakery at the time of his 

 decease, and had held that position for a period of ten or twelve years. 

 Although his business life was an extremely active one, he still found 

 time to devote to Natural History, in which he was greatly interested. 

 The fine collections he formed of birds and their nests and eggs, as 

 well as of Lepidoptera,- testify to the large amount of energy he put 

 into the work, and the careful and painstaking manner in which he 

 performed it. As a collector of Lepidoptera he had few equals, and it 

 was always his ambition to make himself practically acquainted with 

 the habits, and if possible with the life-histories, of the species he 

 added to his collection. His knowledge, indeed, in these particulars 

 was considerable; but although he was at all times most happy to give 

 information to those who sought it of him, he could rarely be induced 

 to pubhsh anything concerning his entomological or other natural 

 history work. He was elected a member of the South London Ento- 

 mological and Natural History Society in 1884. His genial disposition 

 and straightforwardness of character secured him many friends, by all 

 of whom his loss will be sincerely deplored. 



- We understand that the entomological collection will be sent in to 

 Stevens's at an early date. 



