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have a bright chestnut red patch outside angle of line at costa on prim- 

 aries, and on secondaries at both ends of the line, rather broadly diffused. 

 Discal dots large, round, black. Fringes of plumbeous and ochreous 

 scales mixed, flecked with black atoms. Thorax and abdomen beneath 

 dark brown. Legs ochreous, heavily dusted with dark brown and 

 roseate scales. 



Types six males and one female, taken at San Diego, Calif, XI, i6, 

 to XII, 9, 1 9 10 (Ricksecker), with ten co-types in author's collection. 



(To be continued.) 



DR. SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER. 



After many years of patiently endured weakness and infirmity, which 

 affected his bodily powers but left his mental capacity unimpaired, the end 

 has at length come to a most distinguished Entomologist, Dr. Samuel 

 Hubbard Scudder, who died at his residence in Cambridge, Mass., on the 

 17th of May, 19 II, aged 74 years. Dr. Scudder was born in Boston, and 

 received his education at Williams College, where he took the degree of 

 A. B. in 1857 ; five years later he became a B. S. of Harvard University. 

 In 1890 he received the honorary degrees of Doctor of Science at 

 Williams and LL.D. at Pittsburgh. A lover of Nature from his earliest 

 years, he devoted his life to the study of the insect world, and at the same 

 time did not neglect the refining cultivation of music and literature. His 

 charm of manner, kindliness of thought, entire unselfishness, refinement 

 and courtesy, attracted to him the friendship of the leaders in science, art 

 and literature in that centre of culture where he lived. He was also con- 

 siderate and sympathetic with the poor and struggling students of nature 

 and the aspiring entomologists, however uncouth they might be, winning 

 their hearts' devotion and life-long admiration and respect. A loveable 

 man indeed, and a trusty friend to those who knew him well. When the 

 writer first came within the charmed circle, of which Dr. Scudder was the 

 centre, some forty years ago, he and his young wife were living in Cam- 

 bridge. Not long after, on account of her delicate health, they went to 

 the south of France, and enjoyed for a time the balmy climate of the 

 Riviera ; but health was not restored, and soon the 'much loved wife was 

 taken away. Years after he experienced another bitter sorrow in the death 

 of his only child, who had entered upon a physician's career with every 

 prospect of attaining distinction in medical science. Over devotion to 

 the needs and calls of the sick in a time of severe epidemic in Boston, led 



