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Lepidoptera, and furnished many records to Mr. Hudd's List of 
the Lepidoptera of the Bristol District. Mr. Vaughan captured 
the third British specimen of P. sicula in Leigh Woods in 1856, and 
was fortunate in adding Nepticula pomella and other Tineina to 
the British list. The Bristol records " Brs " in Stainton's Manual 
were contributed by him and the late Mr. Sircom. 
Mr. W. H. L. Walcott, who died in 1869, discovered several of 
the rarest species of Bees and Andrenidse : his collection of 
Hymenoptera is said to have been one of the finest in England. 
In Bristol Museum are two cases of bees found by him in the 
neighbourhood of Bristol. They are much bleached bv exposure 
to light, but well-set, and in good condition. Unfortunately, his 
collection, no doubt including many species of great local interest, 
has found a home in Cambridge Museum. 
The Rev. C. Weare Braikenridge was a collector of British 
Lepidoptera and recorded the capture of the local butterfly, 
Leucophasia sinapis at Clevedon and Tickenham many years ago. 
His fine cabinet of Lepidoptera was recently presented to the 
Bristol Museum by Mr. W. M. Hale. 
Mr. I. W. Clarke became a member of the Society in 1864. He 
collected Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, and recorded Vanessa 
antiopa from Durdham Down in 1872. 
The name of Mr. Alfred E. Hudd, F.S.A., F.E.S., also first 
appears in the list of members in 1864. He is the author of the 
' 'Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the Bristol District," which 
appeared in the Proceedings of the Society between 1877 and 
1884, also of the articles on the Entomology of the district, pub- 
lished on the visits of the British Association to Bristol in 1875 
and 1898. He assisted Messrs. Hellins and Buckler in their work 
of making out the life-history of British Lepidoptera as recorded 
in the well-known work, "The Larvae of British Butterflies and 
Moths," published by the Ray Society. To this he furnished the 
life-histories of some local moths — Acidalia incanaria, A. inter- 
jectaria, A. holosericata, Botys asinalis, and others. 
Mr. Hudd also edited the " List of the Lepidoptera of Somerset " 
for the Victoria County History in 1903. The number of species 
recorded for Somerset in this list is 1,245, whilst that for the Bristol 
Coalfield is 1,310. Since the publication of the list in the V.C.H. 
sixty-eight species have been added, bringing the Somerset 
Lepidoptera up to 1,313 species. Mr. Hudd has also done much 
in the arrangement of the Exotic Coleoptera in Bristol Museum, 
and has enriched the collections in that institution by presenting 
many rare and beautiful Buprestidce and other beetles. — G.C.G. 
Mr. H. J. Charbonnier, now one of our hon. members, joined 
the Society in 1865. His contributions to our literature have been 
many, and in widely differing branches of Zoology, but here we 
must particularly refer to his work among the less-known orders 
