1877.] 119 



In 1857, be also executed a plate for the Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society, illustrating a paper by Mr. Baly on new ChrysomelidcB. In the next volume 

 of the Entomological Society's Transactions (vol v, new series), 13 out of the 19 

 plates are by Robinson, embracing subjects as varied as : Baly on Sagridce, Moore 

 on Adoiias, Saunders on Eratina, Scott on Coleophora, a.nd.^ oW&ston on Cossonides. 



In subsequent volumes of these Transactions, he illustrated papers by several 

 other authors, viz. : F. Bates, H. W. Bates, Clark, Hutton, Lubbock, McLachlan, 

 Pascoe, E. Saunders, Wallace, and Westwood. 



The Entomologists' Annual continued to be illustrated by him till it ceased to 

 appear, in 1874 ; and the volumes of the Natural History of the Tineina that he 

 illustrated are 12 in number. 



The Journal of the Linnean Society contains numerous plates executed by 

 him, principally in illustration of a valuable series of Coleopterological papers 

 by Mr. Pascoe, as also do the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and the 

 Journal of Entomology. 



Amongst other publications illustrated by him, may be mentioned the volume 

 on Hemiptera by Douglas and Scott, issued by the Ray Society, Westwood's 

 Thesaurus Entomologicus Osoniensis, the entomological works by Staiuton, Rye, and 

 others, in Lovell Reeve's Natural History series, &c. 



Mr. Robinson was, however, not content with being only an entomological 

 artist, he aimed at being a water-colour painter ; and many quiet nooks and corners 

 of our island were visited by him, from Yorkshire to South Wales and Devonshire, 

 in search of subjects for his pencil. Then the Channel was crossed, and French 

 scenes enriched his portfolio ; and at lengtli he found himself South of the Alps, 

 making sketches on the shores of Italian lakes, and in Switzerland, amongst the 

 grander scenery of the glaciers. This part of his career, though not entomological, 

 deserves notice here, as showing why, in the later years of his life, his occupations 

 led him more and more away from entomological subjects. 



But there wei-e already symptoms indicating some mischief in the system ; and 

 more than ten years ago, Mr. Robinson was subject to sudden fainting attacks, and 

 would drop down whilst at his work ; and once, when returning from Italy, he had 

 a sharp attack of illness, which quite prostrated him for the time, at Faido, between 

 Bellinzona and the St. Grothard. 



Fortunately, his buoyant, cheerful disposition helped him over this as over 

 many subsequent illnesses ; but of late years his health had generally failed in 

 the sunnner, and when it again failed last January to an extent it had never before 

 failed in winter, his friends could not but feel anxious as to the result. 



In July, it became only too evident that recovery was hopeless, and on the lOtli 

 August (as we announced, last month) he breathed his last. 



William Arnold Lewis. — I regret to have to record the death of Mr. W. 

 Arnold Lewis, who, with his companion Mr. Noel Paterson and three guides, lost 

 their lives in the fatal accident on the Lyskamm, on the Gth of September. Mr. 

 Lewis was educated at Harrow, and, after practising for a short time as a special 

 pleader, was called to the bar in 1869. Such time as he could spare from his pro- 

 fessional engagements he d(!voted to entomology, in the study and pursuit of which 

 he displayed a zeal and energy which sometimes led him into conflict with those 

 whose tenets clashed with his. The Lepidoplera were his favourite group, and he 

 chiefly distinguished himself by his opposition to the constant alterations in the 

 nomenclatin-e of the Order. Ilis papers on tliat subject, read before the Entomo- 

 logical Society and the British Association, shewed a fund of knowledge and a power 

 of reasoning and vigorous expression, which, if they failed to convince, connnanded 

 the admiration of his opponents. Mr. Lewis was elected a member of the Ento- 

 mological Society in 18()9, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1872. His 

 remains lie buried at Zcrmatt. All who knew him well, and especially those who 

 ever joined him in his cntomologit-al excursions, will deplore the sad catastrophe 

 which terminated his life at the eai-ly age of thirty. — [T. H. B.]. 



