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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



He was educated at All Saint's College, Oxford, taking his degree of B.A. 

 in 1851 and M.A. in 1857. In 1852 he was ordained Deacon, and in 1854 

 Priest, by the Bishop of Exeter. Eor over 20 years he was Chaplain to the 

 Devon County Prison, from which he retired about 7 years since in con- 

 sequence of ill health. Eor the past few years, feeling himself restored in 

 health, he has taken several honorary duties, such as Chaplain to the West 

 of England Deaf and Dumb Institution, Boys' Reformatory, &c. 



His loss will be severely felt, not only by the entomological world, but to 

 many poor people in the city. As a friend of many years standing, the 

 writer feels it very much, for during the summer months he was almost a 

 daily correspondent. — G.E.B. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



May 4th, 1887.— Dr. D. Shaep, F.Z.S., President in the chair. 



The Rev. C. Ellis-Stevens, B.D., of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. ; Mr. 

 Frederic Merrifield, of 24, Yernon Terrace, Brighton ; Mr. Henry Rowland 

 Brown, B.A., of Oxhey Grove, Stanmore ; and Mr. Coryndon Matthews, of 

 Ivybridge, Devon, were elected Eellows. 



Mr. Wm. Warren exhibited specimens of Stigmonota pallifrontana, S. 

 internana, Asthenia pygmceana, and A. abiegana {subsequana, Haw.) 



Mr. Stainton remarked that the two last-named species, Asthenia pygmmana 

 and A. abiegana, both had white underwings, and were in other respects 

 very similar. It was formerly thought that Elaworth's subsequana was identi- 

 cal with the species previously figured by Hiibner as pygmceana ; but now that 

 the two allied species were critically examined it appeared that the species 

 described by Haworth as subsequana was not Hiibner's pygmceana, but another 

 species known as the abiegana of Duponchel, dating only from 1842, so that 

 Haworth's name subsequana had priority by thirty years. 



Mr. E. Pascoe exhibited a specimen of Diaxneis Taylori, (Wath.), taken out 

 of the stem of an orchid — Saccolabium cceleste — growing in an orchid-house 

 at Croydon, and received from Moulmein, in Burmah. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited nearly 200 specimens of Neuroptera, in beautiful 

 condition, collected by Mr. E. Meyrick in various parts of Australia and 

 Tasmania, comprising about seventy species. There were between forty and 

 fifty species of Trichoptera, including moth- like forms from Western Australia, 

 allied to Pleclrotarsus, Kol. ; and other species belonging to a group re- 



