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discal projection, and without an inferior sinus. The median space is 

 much narrowed inferiorly. The grayish shade over median space is con- 

 tinued to costa ; in its ally the costal region is of the ground color of the 

 wing. I do not detect the brilliant line on the external margin of the 

 fore wings in C. Robinsonii ; the curved apical line is present in both 

 forms. The hind wings are darker in C. Robinsonii, and show a clear 

 white line before the series of black and golden marginal dots. The 

 inner line on primaries is white and curved, not straight as in its ally, and 

 the terminal space is wider and freer from grayish shades in C. Robinsonii. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



Death has of late been making serious inroads among the ranks of our 

 fellow laborers in the Entomological field. An old veteran among Ameri- 

 can Naturalists, Dr. J. P. Kirtland, of Cleveland, Ohio, has passed away, 

 while recent advices from across the Atlantic announce the deaths of Mr. 

 Andrew Murray and Mr. T. V. Wollaston. Most of the details given in 

 reference to the lives of the two latter are condensed from memoirs which 

 have just appeared in The Entomologist, of London, Eng. 



DR. JARED J'. KIRTLAND 



was born at Wallingford, Conn., on the ioth of November, 1793. His 

 youthful studies were pursued at Wallingford and Cheshire Academies, and 

 being a bright, active boy and an earnest student, he soon made rapid and 

 substantial progress in the classics as well as in English studies. As a 

 boy he was enthusiastic in the study of natural objects ; he knew the 

 habits of almost every "animal and bird that frequented his youthful 

 haunts, and at twelve years of age was engaged in practical experiments 

 in the cultivation of silk worms. About the same time he began the study 

 of Botany, and soon applied his knowledge to a series of valuable experi- 

 ments in the crossing of fruit trees with the view of improving the quality 

 of fruits. His success in this department is well known to all intelligent 

 cultivators of fruits in America, his hybrid cherries having won for him a 



