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islands. His volume on the variation of species, dedicated to Mr. Chas. 

 Darwin, and published in 1856, is well known. His shorter papers, chiefly 

 relating to Coleoptera, embodying the results of original research, contri- 

 buted to English and foreign scientific journals, range over a period of more 

 than 30 vears. In the autumn of 1875, feeling it desirable to seek a 

 warmer climate, he visited St. Helena, where he devoted himself assidu- 

 ously to the study of the Coleoptera inhabiting the island, of which work 

 we have the record in his " Coleoptera Sanctse Helenae," lately published. 

 This was Mr. Wollaston's last contribution to Entomological science, and 

 is characteristic of its author in the finished elegance as well as clearness 

 of its style. He returned to his home in the early summer of 1877, and 

 thenceforward devoted himself to the task of arranging the valuable mass 

 of information he had accumulated during his absence, and of which he 

 leaves us the record in the work just referred to. He was a man of highly 

 refined and accomplished mind, as well as of great scientific attainments, 

 and will be much missed from the ranks of our leading naturalists, as well 

 as by those whose progress he aided by his encouragement and counsel. 



NORTHERN OCCURRENCES OF PAP1LIO CRESPHONTES. 



BY THOS. E. BEAN, GALENA, ILLINOIS. 



The American Naturalist for November, 1877, contains on p. 688 the 

 following paragraph : — 



" Papilio cresphontes in New England. — On the 6th of last 

 September Mr. N. Coleman captured in the vicinity of Berlin, Connecti- 

 cut, the only specimen of this Southern insect ever recorded from New 

 England. As the larva is not known to feed on any other plant than the 

 orange, the butterfly probably hatched from a larva accidentally transported 

 with trees from Florida, or emerged from a chrysalis sent North as a 

 curiosity." 



The writer of the paragraph appears to have mislaid certain pages of 

 recent Entomological literature. 



