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to his untimely death, and left the father sadly forlorn. Apart from these 

 two bereavements, his life was cheerful and happ)y, and it was a rare 

 delight to spend an hour or two in the quaint little building behind his 

 dwelling, where were stored his rich treasures of butterflies, locusts and 

 fossils, and his library of scientific works. 



After spending fully twenty-five years in the study of the life-history 

 of butterflies and the collection of information from all quarters, Dr. 

 Scudder produced his first great work " The Butterflies of the Eastern 

 United States and Canada," three large royal octavo volumes, illustrated 

 with a wealth of plates and maps, showing the insects in all stages in their 

 natural colours, and giving details of structure as well. From time to time 

 he published single small volumes on Butterflies adapted to the needs of 

 the ordinary collector, and leading on to scientific study. From the 

 butterflies he turned to the Orthoptera, and published a number of books 

 and articles of a systematic character, which are a great help to students 

 of this order. His attention was next directed to fossil insects, of which 

 he formed a most interesting collection, resulting in the publication of his 

 splendid work on the Pre-tertiary and Tertiary Fossil Insects of North 

 America. A full bibliography of Dr. Scudder's works will no doubt soon 

 be prepared, and will fill many pages. 



The high scientific reputation which he enjoyed is abundantly 

 evident from his election to honorary membership in important societies 

 in London, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Brussels, the Hague, Geneva, 

 Madrid, Argentina, as well as many in North America. He was one of 

 the first honorary members of the Entomological Society of Ontario, being 

 elected in 1868, and a frequent contributor to the pages of the Canadian 

 Entomologist, as well as occasionally to our Annual Reports. 



C. J. S. B. 



SPH^RIDIUM BIPUSTULATUS FAB. FOUND IN THE 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY 



BY CHARLES SCHAEFFER., 

 Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, Brookl3n, N. Y. 



Mr. Ernest Shoemaker showed me at the last meeting of the New 

 York Entomological Society a few specimens of a small Sphceridiuvi which 

 he had taken in East New York, Long Island, in company with 

 S. scarabaoides. 



These specimens proved to be the European S. bipustulatus Fab., 

 which differs principally from scarabceoides in smaller size and having the 



