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have seen no notice of this species since 1S04, bat a few weeks ago I received 

 specimens from Mr. Luff, of Guernsey, wlio observed it in swarms over pools 

 among tlie rocks at low tide, in August, both in Guernsey and Jersey. This is of 

 interest, not only by giving two fresh localities, but as showing that this insect 

 appears in the perfect state, both in early spring and in summer. 



P.S. — Since writing the above notice my attention has been directed to some 

 interesting notes on this species by Mr. A. D. Imms, in the "Entomologist" for 

 June last, pp. 157-158; to these he has added a very complete bibliograpliy of the 

 genus, and an account of the discovery by himself of the insect at Port Erin, I.sle of 

 Man, in June, 1001; any one interested would do well to refer to liis paper. — 

 E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling : January Ifi^A, 1003. 



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Johannes Faust died at Pirna, near Dresden, from inflammation of the lungs, 

 on January 18th, 1903. He was born at Stettin, Germany, on February 12th, 1822, 

 and was the eldest son of a cartwright. He studied theoretical engineering at 

 Berlin, and practical engineering at Stettin, and was at first installed by the Vulcan 

 Society of Actionaries at Stettin. Later (about 1862) he went to Russia as a civil 

 engineer, and while staying at Samara, a place far removed from all civilization, he 

 began to observe and collect insects. In 1870 we find him at St. Petersburg, where 

 he acquired the collection of Prof. Eversmann, and joined the Eussian Entomolo- 

 gical Society. In the summer of 1872 he went on a collecting expedition for several 

 months with the Lepidopterist Christoph to Baku, Derbent, and the mountains 

 of Daghestan. In 1873 he returned to St. Petersburg, but owing to business 

 engagements he constantly had to change his abode: thus in 1874 we find him at 

 Wiborg, in 1878 at Helsingfors, in 1880 at Bobruisk (Minsk), in 1881 at Sarken- 

 hausen (Kurland), and in 1884 at Liban (Kurland). This unsettled course of life 

 induced him to restrict his collection of Coleoptera to the CurciiUonid(2. His first 

 papers contain articles on various families of Coleoptera (Hora? Soc. Knt. Ross., 

 viii, ix. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, viii), and on TenehrionidcB (Horse Soc. Ent. Ross., xi, 

 pp. 163-252), in which he was assisted by Prof. Miiklin of Helsingfors. Later, 

 Faust worked only at the Ctirculionidee, of which he amassed a collection of more 

 than 13,000 species,* represented by at least 36,000 specimens, including more than 

 2000 species described by himself, in about 130 different papers, published in the 

 Horae Soc. Ent. Ross., Ent. Zeit. Stett., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, Deutsche Ent. 

 Zeitschr., Rev. Mens. d'Ent. par Dokhtouroff, Ent. Nachrichten, Wien. Ent. Zeit., 

 Ofvers. Finska Vetensk. Forhandl., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., and Ann. Mus. Genova. 

 The collection, which is most carefully arranged and labelled with localities, col- 

 lectors' names, &c., was purchased in 1900 by the Royal Zoological Museum of 

 Dresden (which also possesses Kirsch's collection), and this induced Faust to settle 

 in 1901 at Pirna, near Dresden, so that he could work further at it, and finish a 

 Monograph of the Cleonidm he had in hand. Faust was an entomologist of great 

 activity and perseverance, a scrupulous scientific worker, an excellent correspondent, 

 and a most ami;\ble man. He was an Honorary Member of the German, Russian, 



* The numbei' uf described species is now fullv 20,000, e.x'olu.sivo uf Breutlnda and Anlhribidce. 

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