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there remain many others, made tor the purpose of illustrating 

 the work of the late T. H. Pergande, which still remain unpub- 

 lished. Mr. Heidemann was an unusually obliging, gentle, 

 courteous man, and even at an advanced age retained his vigor 

 and activity to a remarkable degree. 



Probably the most valuable feature of Dr. A. S. Packard's 

 Monographs on the Bombycine Moths is their extensive series 

 of fine illustrations in color of the early stages of these insects. 

 The drawings for these plates were very largely the work of two 

 men, namely, Mr. Joseph Bridgham and Mr. Louis H. Joutel. 

 Mr. Joutel was born in Delaware County, New York, August 

 19, 1858, and died in New York City, September 6, 1916. He 

 studied art at Cooper Union in New York City, where he 

 resided for some 35 years. Mr. Joutel was a naturalist as well as 

 an artist and took great delight in collecting and rearing the 

 larvae of moths as well as those of amphibians, fish and other 

 small animals. His most important contribution to entomo- 

 logical science no doubt are the drawings which he prepared for 

 Packard's monographs and the fine monograph on the Coleop- 

 terous genus Saperda, published in collaboration with Dr. E. P. 

 Felt, which was illustrated by Mr. Joutel in a most admirable 

 manner. In addition to his art work, however, Mr. Joutel 

 published many brief papers on the Coleoptera, principally 

 relating to the longicorn beetles, regarding the biology of which 

 he was very well informed. Most of Mr. Joutel's publications 

 occurred in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 

 with which organization he was long identified. 



Mr." Joseph Bridgham, who was Mr. Joutel's colleague in the 

 work on the Bombycine moths, and who was responsible for no 

 less than 41 of the plates in that monumental work, also aided in 

 securing many of the specimens from which the early stages of 

 the moths were drawn. 



CONCLUSION 



It would be a great pleasure to go on and tell in detail of the 

 work of such men as the late J. H. Grossbeck, who made so main- 

 excellent drawings for Smith's studies of the " Mosquitoes of New 

 Jersey"; of the fine line work of the late John K. Strauss, who 

 did a great deal of work for the various branches of the Federal 

 Bureau of Entomology, and especially of the beautiful, and 

 indeed exquisite, wash drawings of the mosquitoes executed by 

 our recently departed colleague, Mr. Fred Knab, and which were 

 published in the monumental Monograph on The Mosquitoes of 

 North and Central America and the West Indies in which Mr. 

 Knab also participated as one of the authors. 



It would be a still greater pleasure to extend the present 



