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this, and suggest that each species described in the book, wliatevci* author's name it 

 may bear after it, is in reality attributable to Packard, the authors' names being only 

 required in the synonymy and bibliography. 



Let us hope that this volume may be followed by others on the Noctum, Pyra- 

 lidcB, &c., &c., of North America, and that these groups may find authors and artists 

 as competent and painstaking as Dr. Packard and Mr. Trouvelot. 



The sequential arrangement of the genera is somewliat novel, commencing with 

 JEupithecia and ending with JEugonia (Ennomos), Selenia and Drepanoid forms. 

 With regard to Walker's catalogues, Dr. Packard could not have spoken more to the 

 point than when he alludes to them as having " only brought maledictions on the 

 head of the amiable but uncritical author." 



Trovey Blackmore died at his residence, at Wandsworth, on the 3rd September, 

 at the early age of 41. Several of his brothers and sisters, and his father, were 

 carried off by consumption, and to this disease he himself succumbed. In his early 

 years, he was at school at Epping, and used to visit the late Mr. Doubleday, to whose 

 influence may perhaps be attributed the taste for Entomology that afterwards developed 

 so strongly in him. Some years ago, the state of his health caused him to winter in 

 Morocco, and this part of Africa he afterwards almost annually visited, devoting 

 himself to a study of the Insect Fauna of the country, and making many and valuable 

 discoveries, some of which are recorded in this Magazine. During last winter, he 

 remained at home, and appeared to have so far recovei'ed that we were scarcely 

 prepared to hear of his death. Up to the last, he was engaged in writing a series of 

 articles on insects injurious to cereals, some of which have already appeared in a 

 journal devoted to the interests of the corn trade. Although naturally of a quiet 

 and reserved disposition, he was full of wit and humour among his intimate friends, 

 and his loss is deeply felt by them. In 186i, he was elected a Member of the 

 Entomological Society of London. 



JEdioin Brown. In tlie death of this gentleman (which occured suddenly from 

 apoplexy, at Tenby, on the 1st September, at the age of 57), the naturalists of the 

 ]\ridland Counties, and especially of Burton-on-Trcnt, have sustained a great loss ; 

 as have his numerous friends in all parts, — for there arc many wlio have spent pleacant 

 days with him, and enjoyed his hospitality at Burton. His knowledge in all 

 departments of Natural History was most extensive, and in a large room adjoining 

 (and connected with) his residence, he had enormous stores of treasures, geological, 

 zoological, and botanical, British and exotic. At the time of his death he was 

 Manager of the Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourn Union Bank, a position he had 

 held for 25 of the 42 years during which he had been connected with the Bank, in 

 Burton, where he was universally respected. He published little, yet, as long ago 

 as 1842, a notice from his pen apeared in the "Annals." In 1863, ho furnished the 

 entomological portion of Sir Oswald Moseley's Natural History of Tutbury ; especially 

 valuable for a memoir on the anomalous genus Acentropnx, of which he had discovered 

 the larva some years previously, proving the insect to be Lepidopterous. Latterly, 

 he had devoted himself to the study of Carabida, of which he had amassed a large 

 and valuable collection ; and a paper by hii% on some Australian species, appeared 



