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Br. Arnold Pagenstecher. — By the death of Dr. Arnold Pagenstccher, of 

 Wiesbaden, on June 11th last, Lepidopterology has lost a very prominent and 

 many-sided worker. Born at Dillenburg in 1837, Pagenstecher early showed a 

 love for the Lepidoptera, but it is diiring the last 30 years that his writings 

 have made him a name throughout the entomological world. That he by no 

 means neglected systematic entomology is evidenced by his revisions of the 

 Libytheidae and Callidulidm (in " Das Thierreich " and elsewhere), and in these 

 families he had amassed good collections, which are now in the Natural History 

 Museum of Wiesbaden ; but it was to faunistic work that he devoted most of his 

 attention. Tlie " Jahrbiicher des nassauischen Verein's f iir Naturkunde," which 

 for many years he edited, contained almost every year some more or less im- 

 portant contribution from his pen, including a valuable series of articles on the 

 Lepidoptera of the Malay Archipelago, which were also published separately. In 

 addition, he worked out several African collections, Semon's from Australia, 

 and even contributed to Eoemer and Schaudinn's " Faima Ai'ctica," and on 

 one occasion touched the fauna of tlie Antilles. This wideness of interest 

 and love of hard work culminated in the publication of a very iisefvd work — 

 though of necessity largely compilation — " Die geographische Verbreitung der 

 Schmetterlinge " (Jena, 1909). 



In the medical profession also Dr. Pagenstecher had won distinction, 

 particularly as an ear specialist, and numerous scientific institutions liad 

 conferred upon him honorary distinctions or membership. — L. B. P. 



Dr. Auguste Puton. — This prolific writer on Palsearctic Hemiptera died on 

 April Sth last, at Remiremont, France, after a brief illness, He was senior 

 Honorary Member of the Societe Entomologique de France, having joined that 

 Society in 1856. For some years before his death he appears to have abandoned 

 entomology, and ceased to coi-respond with his friends. His usefid " Catalogue 

 des Hemipter^s (Heteropteres, Cicadines et Psyllides)," the 4th edition of whicla 

 was published in 1899, was in the hands of all students of the order. 



The Transactions of the 2nd International Congress of Entomology (form- 

 ing Vol. II of the Report of the Congress), Oxford, August, 1912, were issued 

 on October 14th, 1913. They form a ponderous volume of 489 pages and 

 thirty-two (III- XXXIV) uncoloured plates. The 38 papers, 21 of which are 

 contributed by Fellows of the Entomological Society of London, cover a great 

 variety of subjects, written in English, French, German or Spanish. The 

 papers are as follows, arranged under aiithors alphabetically: — (1) R. S. Bagnall 

 — A Synopsis of the Thysanopterous Family Molothripidx ; (2) H. A. Ballon— 

 Some Entomological Problems in the West Indies ; (3) J. F. van Bemmelen— On 

 the Pliylogenetic Significance of the Wing-Markings of Rhopalocera ; (4) 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker — Resolution of the Entomological Society of London ; 

 (5) E. L. Bouviei'— Le Stade " Natant " ou "Pixerulus" des Palimu-ides; (6) 



