THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1*77 



CrambidccvidA issued so nearly simultaneously with the worthless writings 

 of Francis Walker on the same subject, so that some of our North 

 American material has been twice named. The evidence seems to be 

 that Zeller's paper may have been earlier. As a matter of justice it should 

 have priority. In a series of articles, published since retirement from 

 official duties, Prof Zeller described a number of moths from North 

 America. Rather more than the, unfortunately not to be avoided, pro- 

 portion of synonyms mark the papers, which are otherwise models of what 

 descriptional work ought to be. Still later, Prof Zeller has published a 

 beautifully illustrated volume on microlepidoptera, and has given a 

 classification of Chilo. As I remember him, in 1867, Prof Zeller was a 

 white-haired gentleman of very kind manners and enthusiastic for his 

 favorite science. He was moderately thin and tall, wearing a slight 

 whisker, but otherwise with clean shaven mouth and face. His nose was 

 large and well-shapen, his eyes bright and the whole expression of his face 

 pleasing. He had high cheek bones, and his countenance was unmis- 

 takably German in its salient features. Loew, the celebrated dipterist, 

 was then living in Meseritz, and an entomological excursion which I made 

 with these two celebrities is among the most pleasant of my European 

 reminiscences. Prof Zeller's home relations were of the happiest, and 

 the sympathy of an amiable and considerate wife was his through life. 

 And it was a life devoted to science and learning. His accomplishments 

 as a linguist and teacher were well known and appreciated in Germany. 

 We know him chiefly as a biologist, the describer of the exterior structure 

 of lepidoptera. He was fortunate enough to avoid much of the contro- 

 versial spirit which accompanies descriptive entomology. Although he 

 felt deeply the uselessness of the British Museum Lists and his own 

 studies were impeded thereby, he has, on the whole, little to say in 

 criticism of others. He was not only charitable, but had schooled all 

 natural irritability. His assistance was freely given to others, and Mr. 

 Stainton's work on the Tineina acknowledges its value. He was a type 

 of a kindly German pedagogue and naturalist which hardly exists else- 

 where. A. R. G. in Papilio. 



CHARLES ARNOLD, 



of Paris, Ontario, died after a short illness on the 15th day of April, 1883. 

 Although not an active worker in the Entomological field, he was a close 

 observer of the habits of insects, especially such as are injurious to agri- 



