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on each segment. The four central seg- 

 ments have also a second pair of smaller 

 and less distinct tubercles, from the region 

 of which spring longish and curiously 

 recurved hairs. The spiracular line is 

 also indicated by a row of raised orange- 

 coloured tubercles." 



Death has removed, during 1884, some 

 well-known entomologists. 



William Buckler, of Emsworth, died on 

 the 9th of January. For quarter of a 

 century Mr. Buckler had been assiduously 

 rearing and figuring the larvae of our 

 British Lepidoptera, and making the most 

 careful notes of their habits. He had 

 figured about 850 of the Macro Lepidoptera, 

 and only those who have had the privilege 

 of seeing his beautiful drawings are able to 

 appreciate the boon the Ray Society is 

 bestowing on Lepidopterists, by their pur- 

 chase of the whole of his figures, and 

 proposed issue of them in their volume for 

 1885 and '86. We have already called our 

 readers attention to this and refer them to 

 these for particulars. 



William Prest, of York, died rather sud- 

 denly on the 7th April. Mr. Prest was a 

 hard-working collector, and was well known 

 to a large circle of acquaintances and cor- 

 respondents. He had an excellent know- 

 ledge of British Lepidoptera, and within 

 the last year or two had distributed a large 

 number of Scoparia eonspicualis, recently 

 added to our Fauna. 



Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, Knt., of 

 Upper Norwood. London, died on the 15th 

 April. Sir Sidney Saunders was one of 

 the original founders of the Entomological 

 Society of London, of whom only five 

 survive him. His entomological work was 

 chiefly among the "neglected orders," 

 especially among the Aculeate Hymenoptera ; 

 insect parasites had also a large share of 

 his attention. Though 75 years of age, he 

 was a worker to the last. He was present 



at the meeting of the Entomological 

 Society on the 2nd April, at which he read 

 a paper on the " Pedioulus Melitta of Kirby 

 and its affinities to the larvse of Meloe" 

 He corrected the proofs of this paper on 

 the 14th of the same month, and died 

 suddenly on the following day from an 

 attack of Bronchitis. 



Edwin Birchall died on the 2nd May, 

 after a long continued and very distressing 

 illness. He is best known for his re- 

 searches into the Entomology of Ireland. 

 Several important species were added to 

 our fauna by Mr. Birchall from these 

 researches and those in the Isle of Man. 

 Many cabinets owe their first specimens 

 of such insects as Zygoma nubigena, 

 Nyssia zonaria, &c, to his great liberality. 

 His most important work is a list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Ireland, published in the 

 second volume of the Entomologists' Monthly 

 Magazine and subsequent supplements to it. 

 He paid great attention to Variation, and to 

 Local Races, and was a correspondent of 

 Darwin and Wallace. 



HELPS AND HINTS FOR 

 YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



By Albert H. Waters, B.A. 



I shall not say much about out-door work 

 this month. The hints I gave about pupa- 

 digging in the October number of the Young 

 Naturalist will avail as much for now as 

 then. Of course, you will remember that 

 Eylernia aurantiaria and H. defolia ia may 

 now be taken. If you require the former, 

 you should search the underside of fern 

 leaves when you are out pupa-digging, and 

 you will find defoliaria at rest on trees ; or 

 you may take them both at light. 



Instead of saying more about out-of-door 

 work, I will give a few practical hints on 



