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pleurite complete, elongate extending back to the eighth segment; 

 outer pleural appendage an elongate fleshy lobe that is narrowed 

 apically, clothed with Icng hairs that are directed backward; inner 

 pleural appendage of somewhat similar structure, elongate, bear- 

 ing on the inner face a small, sub-apical tooth; the surface is densely 

 clothed with a short pubescence. Ninth sternite with a deep, V- 

 shaped notch; eighth sternite unarmed. 



Habitat. — Alaska. 



Holotype. — &, Point Barrow, Alaska, July 8, 1882 (John 

 Murdock). 



Type in the collection of the U> S. National Museum. 



OBITUARY NOTICE. 



WILLIAM D. KEARFOTT. 



Canadian students of Lepidoptera will regret to record the 

 death of William D. Kearfott, of Montclair, N.J., which occurred 

 on November 12th, 1917, following an attack of apoplexy. Born 

 in Berkeley County, West Virginia, on January 12th, 1864, he was 

 thus, comparatively, a young man. We learn from Entomological 

 News, January, 1918, that he was educated in primary schools in 

 Richmond and Philadelphia. In his earlier years he was con- 

 nected with the Morton Poole Company, of Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware, and the International Navigation Company, of Philadelphia. 

 He was associated also with the Worthington Steam Pump Com- 

 pany. Two years ago he formed the Kearfott Engineering Com- 

 pany. He was considered an authority on his branch of engineering. 



Kearfott was a keen student of the Micro-lepidoptera, par- 

 ticularly of the family Tortricidae, and was specially interested in 

 Canadian species. During the years 1903 to 1908 he l)uilt up a 

 large correspondence with collectors throughout Canada and, as 

 a result, brought togeiiher a most important collection, particu- 

 larly of the family mentioned. He was an exceedingly bright 

 correspondent and ever ready to help us in the determination of 

 specimens in the groups in which he specialized. Of late years, 

 however, his eyes gave him considerable trouble, and he found it 

 necessary to give up the study of the small moths he loved so well. 

 His collection of Tortricidae, which was particularly rich in Cana- 

 dian material, is now in the American Museum of Natural History. 

 His Pyralidae is in the Barnes' collection. 



