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regions. A summary might at least have been given of those genera and species 

 which are common to New Zealand and Australia, and of those which are strictly 

 endemic ; it might have roused interest and promoted investigation. 



The book is well got up, and seems carefully printed, though Eiiplaea is con- 

 sistently spelt Euploce. Although lately advertised as " just published," it is dated 

 1898, and a recent attempt to obtain a copy produced a reply that it was " being 

 reprinted ;" the date may possibly be unreliable. — E. Meyeick. 



6bitiiarn. 



Richard William Fereday, F.E.S. — We much regret to hear of the death of 

 our old friend Mr. Fereday, at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, on August 

 30th, in his BJth year. He was the fifth son of Mr. J. T Fereday, of Sedgley, 

 Staffordshire, and was educated for the legal profession, being admitted as a solicitor 

 in 1849. When we first knew him he held a responsible post on the legal staff of 

 the London and North- Western Eailway, which he gave up some thirty years ago, 

 and with his wife emigrated to New Zealand to join his brother, who had a sheep 

 farm, and never returned to this country. He soon reverted to professional duties 

 in the Colony, firstly as a solicitor, and afterwards as a barrister, and had a very 

 large practice, from which he retired a few years ago. When in England Mr. 

 Fereday was an enthusiastic Lepidopterist, and notes by him are to be found in the 

 later volumes of the " Intelligencer." Socially he was of a most genial temperament, 

 and a delightful companion in the field. During his long residence in the Colony 

 he did very much to further a knowledge of the native Lepidoptera, publishing a 

 good many papers thereon, a few in this Magazine, but mostly in the " Transactions 

 of the New Zealand Institute," in connection with the affiliated Philosophical 

 Institute of Canterbury, in which he took a warm interest, and of which he was at 

 one^iime President; three of the very limited number of New Zealand Butterflies 

 were first described by him. He also took a prominent part in the establishment of 

 the Canterbury Acclimatization Society, and was on the Board of Governors of the 

 Canterbury College. Being fond of athletic sports he took much interest in cricket 

 and archery in the Colony. His loss will be much felt amongst the small band of 

 Colonial entomologists. He joined thie Entomological Society of London in 1881. 



Samuel Stevens, F.L.S., c^'c. {a correction). — An error occurred in our notice of 

 the late Mr. Stevens in last month's Magazine (p. 238). The date of his birth was 

 March 11th, 1817, not August 11th, as there given. 



Alexander Wallace, M.D. — The death is announced at Colchester on October 

 1st, aged 70, of Dr. Wallace, who was well known as an ardent Lepidopterist, and 

 the captor of Catephia alchymista, some 40 years ago, and afterwards for his 

 attempts to introduce sericiculture into this country, the silk being the produce 

 of the huge oriental Bombyces. If his attempt was not altogether successful, 

 it had, at any rate, the effect of causing large importations of these insects in the 

 egg and pupa stages, which have continued ever since ; the species he mostly 

 experimented upon was Bomhyx yama-mai, and he published several papers on the 

 subject in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, and separately. 



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