June, 1916.] IgNAZ MatAUSCH. 155 



Mr. Sherman also has Cicindela tortuosa taken at Boardman, 

 Cokimbus Co.. N. C, 21 September, 191 5, by Mr. R. W. Leiby. 



The most interesting- species, however, is Cicindela hlanda Dej. 

 from White Lake, Bladen Co., N. C, June 5-15, 1914, and early 

 June, 1915, collected by Mr. Sherman. In Revision of the Cicindeli- 

 dae of Boreal America (1891), Leng states that hlanda has been 

 found in Ga. and North Carolina ; that it is " very rare in collections " 

 and " not recently found." In North American Cicindelid^e in the 

 Harris Collection (1911), it is recorded from several localities in 

 Alabama. The finding of the insect at White Lake gives for this 

 rare species a definite locality in North Carolina. — Wm. T. Davis. 



Local Records of Lepidoptera. — Hcrsc cingnlaia Fab. One male 

 specimen in fresh condition from East Ouogue, L. I., Sept. 28, 191 5, 

 was collected by W. F. Downs. 



Atrytonc zahulon Boisd. & Lee. Although generally common at 

 Washington Hights, New York, this species was unusually so last 

 August. Most of the specimens were taken Aug. 21. — F. E. Watson. 



IGNAZ MATAUSCH. 



Mr. Ignaz Matausch, a member of the New York Entomological 

 Society, and well-known as artist and modeler on the staff of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, died December 14, 1915, of 

 bronchial pneumonia after an illness of seventeen days. 



Mr. Matausch was born September i, 1859, i"' Budweis, Austria. 

 Of a naturally artistic temperament he was trained from boyhood as 

 a modeler and acquired such skill in his profession that at one time 

 he supplied the private museum of Duke Schwarzenburg with models. 

 He came to the United States in 1892, and resided in Cleveland, Ohio, 

 till the year 1904 when he came to the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History and was assigned to the modeling staff. 



As he had a natural inclination toward entomological studies he 

 joined the N. Y. Entomological Society in 1906 and has continued a 

 member till the time of his death. As an entomologist his efforts 

 were largely devoted to investigations in the life-history of the 

 Membracidse. Minute observation was one of his strongest charac- 



