240 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



MEMORANDA. 



Tropical residents continue to visit us. I have in my cabinet two 

 examples of Sphinx (Argens) labruscce. Linn. One of these was taken at 

 Chicago, the other on a vessel near Mackinaw Straits. Several examples 

 of Erebus odora Linn, have been taken here this fall, two very fresh 

 examples having flown into one of our school-rooms during the night. 



My setting-pliers, bought several years ago from S. E. Cassino, at 

 Salem, and in constant use since, show decided magnetic polaritis. One 

 point attracts, while the other repels steel pins, etc. The upper end has 

 attractive power. The pliers have never been in contact with a magnet, 

 and have probably never lain in the same position for a week. Is the 

 magnetism due to some mechanical action to which the pliers were sub- 

 jected in the process of manufacture? 



O. S. Westcott, Racine, Wis. 



OBITUARY. 



It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of one of our cor- 

 respondents, Mr. VY. V. Andrews, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died on the 

 20th of October, 1878, after a brief illness, resulting from a sudden attack 

 of paralysis. 



William Yalentine Andrews was born on the nth of February. 181 1, 

 in Pilton, Somerset, England. At an early age he entered the British 

 service, and served as a private in the Coldstream Guards, rising 

 eventually to the rank of Captain. Subsequently he resigned his com- 

 mission and removed to Canada, where he resided for several years in 

 London, Ont, engaged in the book and periodical business. From thence 

 he removed to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, where he spent 

 the last few years of his life in the same branch of business, devoting his 

 leisure time chiefly to the study of Entomology, in which he made rapid 

 progress. He had a well arranged collection of Coleoptera and Lepi- 

 doptera, and a small but well selected library of Entomological works. 

 His remains were interred at Rosedale Cemetery, New Jersey. 



Since his decease his collections and library have been purchased by 

 Mr. John Akhurst, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



