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the markings of Lepidopterous caterpillars (137 pages), and 

 with the phyletic parallelism of metamorphic species (85 

 pages), discussing insects of different orders. 



A short paper in the Zoologischer Anzeiger for 1878 treats 

 of the scent-scales of butterflies. 



CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT was born in \Yest Roxbury, 

 Massachusetts, December 23, 1852. In his seventeenth year 

 he was publishing descriptions of the male of Hesperia metea 

 Scudder, of four new species of Geometridae and three new 

 species of Phalaenidae, and discussing, but very briefly, the 

 limits of genera, in the twelfth and thirteenth volumes of the 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, and 

 furnishing Brief Notes on the Transformations of Several 

 Species of Lepidoptera [Heterocera] to the second volume of 

 the Canadian Entomologist. In the following year (1870) 

 some Notes on the Plight of New England Butterflies gave a 

 classification of the characteristic manners of flight of different 

 genera, briefly considered the influence of the size of the thorax 

 and the shape of the wings in relation thereto, commented on 

 the position of butterflies when at rest and as to where they 

 spend the night (Proc. B. S. N. H., xiv, 55). In 1872 the 

 Canadian Entomologist published his Notes on Limochores 

 bimacnla. In the same year came his graduation from the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1872) and then a pe- 

 riod of study (1873-6) in Leipzig, Paris and Wiirzburg. Here 

 belong his Recherches Histologiques sitr les Trochees de I'Hy- 

 drophilns picens (Archives Physiol. Norm. Path., 2, iii, 1876), 

 made in the histological laboratory of the College de France. 



After his return to America, at the desire of Dr. A. S. Pack- 

 ard, Jr.. he undertook a study of the anatomy and histology of 

 various Orthoptera "in connection with the more directly 

 practical labors of the U. S. Entomological Commission." The 

 results appeared in the First and Second Reports of the Com- 

 mission respectively, under the titles Report on the Pine Ana- 

 tomy of the Locust (1878), and Histology of the Locust (Cal- 

 optcnns} and the Cricket (Anabrus'} with seven plates ( 1880). 



