822 THE ENTOMOLOGILT. 



The final change is gone through very suddenly; a few 

 minutes suffice to throw off the old skin, which remains in a 

 little heap on the leaf, and the pupa then hangs freely 

 suspended by the anal segment (or hooks ?). It is very 

 attenuated, and the points of the legs and wing-cases are free 

 from the body. — Henry Moncreaff ; I4b, High Street, Ports- 

 mouth, May 19, 1871. 



Death of Mr. Laycock. — William Laycock, of Highfield, 

 Sheffield, died on the 8th of this present May, aged fifty- 

 eight years. He was a wonderful example of industry in the 

 pursuit of Entomology ; and though a hard-working stone- 

 mason, with very liltle time at his own disposal, he made 

 such excellent use of it that, during the last twenty-five years 

 of his life, he formed a beautiful collection of Lepidoptera, 

 containing G70 species. He was a very patient observer; 

 and his remarkable familiarity with the habits of the various 

 species of moths and butterflies, combined with his own 

 genial nature, made him a particularly interesting companion 

 on an entomological ramble. He was most generous In 

 distributing specimens, and also in imparting to others much 

 useful information, which he had sought out for himself; and 

 I doubt not that he will be much missed by a great number 

 of his entomological friends. — Samuel Doncaster ; Broom 

 Hall Park, Sheffield, May 20, 1871. 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 



May 1, 1871. 



Variety of Ehodocera Rhamni. — Mr. Bicknell (on behalf 

 of Mr. Cowan, who was present as a visitor) exhibited an 

 extraordinary specimen of Rhodocera Rhamni, captured by 

 Mr. Cowan at Beckenham, in March, 1870. This example 

 was a male of" the ordinary form, but the costal margin of each 

 anteiMor wing was broadly, but unequally, sufiused with 

 brighter rose-colour or scarlet, and the right posterior wing 

 was marked in a like manner. Mr. M'Lachlan suggested 

 that possibly the wings of the insect had come in contact 



