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Paris in conjunction with Boisduval upon North American 

 butterflies (Histoire Generale et Iconographie des Lepidopter- 

 es et des Chenilles de I'Amerique Septentrionale). Coleop- 

 tera, however, may be said to have been his specialty, par- 

 ticularly in the latter part of his career, though he published 

 only four papers on them, and mainly upon a single family, 

 the Histeridae. He not only amassed a considerable collec- 

 tion, but left behind a most extensive series of water-color il- 

 lustrations of our native insects and plants made with his own 

 hands." * 



He was the father of Dr. John Lawrence LeConte, the dis- 

 tinguished Coleopterist, who died in 1883. 



Notes and Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL, QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



AN oil portrait of Dr. John Lawrence LeConte, the distinguished 

 American Coleopterist, was presented to the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, on Tuesday, April 18, 1911, by Mrs. LeConte. 

 Dr. Henry Skinner made the presentation on her behalf. 



A STATE Biological Survey has been organized at the University of 

 Colorado, the work being in the hands of a committee consisting of 

 Professors F. Ramaley, T. D. A. Cockerell and J. Henderson. The 

 work of such a survey has been carried on for a number of years past, 

 but until now there has been no definite organization. The work in- 

 cludes fossil as well as living species of plants and animals. Science. 



TAXONOMIC VALUE of the Genital Armature in the Tse-tse flies 

 (Glossina). Mr. Robert Newstead gave an address on this topic to 

 the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, December 19, 

 19 10, an abstract of which occupies nearly a page each in theEntomolo- 

 l.ist and the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for March, 1911. He 

 finds the male armature to be "the true and almost only natural ana- 

 tomic elements that can at present be found in these insects." On 

 this basis the eleven species now known fall into three very striking 

 and distinct groups. 



*S. H. Scudder, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XI. (Appendix). The 

 superb collection of Major LeConte's drawings of insects are now the 

 property of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and it is a great pity they 

 have never been published, as they could be splendidly reproduced by 

 tlit half-tone process. H. S. 



