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and by the 29th had changed to pupa. The third specimen was inflated. 

 The first moth emerged on the 15th June, and the second on the 20th 

 June. At Ottawa the moths have been taken during the second week 

 of July, and at Toronto the writer has collected specimens at the electric 

 lights about the same time. 



Pupa. — Length, 29 mm.; width at widest part, 10.75 mm -', black, 

 yellowish-brown in folds of abdomen, pruinose, as if the pupa had been 

 heavily frosted — whole surface roughened. Abdomen and thorax sparsely 

 covered with short black bristles. Spiracles black, shiny, conspicuous. 

 Cremaster rough, shiny at base, hollowed below, bristles capitate, reddish 

 brown. The pupa when first formed is reddish-yellow on dorsum of thorax ; 

 wing-cases dull yellow. The ground colour of the abdomen is reddish, 

 the segments are ringed with black, and in folds of segments there is much 

 white. 



DR. HERMAN STRECKER. 



Dr. Herman Strecker, a widely-known sculptor, and one of the leading 

 entomologists of America, died on the morning of Nov. 30, at his home in 

 Reading, Pa. 



He was stricken with apoplexy on the evening of the 29th of 

 November, and passed away without regaining consciousness. He was in 

 the 65th year of his age. 



Dr. Strecker was of German descent, and was born in Philadelphia, 

 March 24, 1836. He inherited his fondness for scientific studies, and 

 evinced this inclination at an early age. On his mother's side were three 

 naturalists of note. They were Benjamin, Edward and Richard Kern. 



He was an architect, designer and sculptor by profession. He 

 located in Reading when a boy, having accompanied his father, who was 

 a prominent dealer and worker in marble, at that time. Since then he 

 followed the pursuit of his father. As a sculptor* he gained a wide and 

 enviable reputation. He produced many praiseworthy works of art. 



He began his work as an artist and sculptor in his 12th year, and 

 laboured hard ever since. All his literary and scientific work, the 

 immense correspondence attending the making of his collection, was done 

 at night, his vocation as a sculptor taking up his daylight hours. 



He travelled a great deal, and in 1855-56 visited many islands in the 

 West Indies. He also travelled in Mexico and Central America, to examine 

 the old Aztec monuments, as well as to add to his collection. 



