814 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



to make his investigations at first hand, with M. Fabre as his 

 guide; and happy he with such a one for his mentor. — H. E. P. 



d^ BITU AR Y. 



Dr. Arnold Pagenstecher. 



Dr. Arnold Pagenstecher, who, we regret to say, passed away on 

 June 11 th, 1913, was born at Dillenburg on December 25th, 1837. 

 He was educated at Wiesbaden, and studied medicine at the universi- 

 ties of Wiirzburg and Berhn. For a short time he assisted at the 

 famous institute for diseases of the eye at Wiesbaden, but in 1863 he 

 became a specialist for troubles of the ear. In the same year he 

 married Miss Ernestine Eoessler, by whom he had four children. 

 Pagenstecher was a man of great activity, for besides having a large 

 practice he did a great deal of work on the various municipal com- 

 mittees of the town of Wiesbaden and yet he found time for the study of 

 natural history. From his student days he was an active member of 

 the Nassau Natural History Society and was elected Secretary in 1882, 

 when he also became Editor of the Transactions and Inspector of the 

 Museum at W'iesbaden. He was corresponding member to several 

 societies, such as the Senckenberg in Frankfort, and was honorary 

 member of the Iris Entomological Society of Dresden. In 1876 

 Pagenstecher was made a Sanitiitsrat on account of his medical 

 eminence and twenty years later received a title of further distinction, 

 Geheimer Sanitatsrat. On his 70th birthday, the authorities of 

 Wiesbaden, in order to show their appreciation of their fellow towns- 

 man, conferred on him, among other honours, the freedom of that town. 

 As it is with so many entomologists, Pagenstecher commenced to 

 collect the Lepidoptera in his boyhood and the love of these insects 

 never left him. He made a large collection of European Lepidoptera 

 and, when the writer first met him in 1879, he had also collections of 

 the Papilinniilae and Catocalids of which he seemed particularly fond. 

 Later he especially studied the Lepidoptera of the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago and published several papers describing new species, etc. In 

 1893, he published a paper on East African Lepidoptera. Later he 

 wrote the monograph on the Libytlte'uiae and many other papers, and 

 in 1909 appeared his larger work. Die fieotira/}hisrhe yerbreitmui der 

 ScIuiu'tterHnfie. It may interest us to know that Dr. Pagenstecher spoke 

 English well, and once, at least, visited London. The writer went with 

 him to the Zoological Gardens, with which he was delighted. He was of 

 a singularly genial and amiable disposition, and on several occasions a 

 real friend to the writer. He will be much missed in the entomological 

 world and especially in W^iesbaden. (A few items in the above have 

 been culled from the h'.nt. Zeit., Frankfurt.) — A.S. 



Correction. — In my note on Coleoptera in Lundy Island {mitea p. 

 266) I referred to the number of Common Gulls nesting there. This 

 was an inadvertence. The birds were Herring Gulls. As is well- 

 known, the former species does not breed in England. I am obliged 

 to Dr. Joy for having called the attention of my friend Mr. 

 Donisthorpe and myself to this inaccuracy, and am glad to correct it. 

 Dr. Joy states that the Common Gull only once bred on the Fame 

 Islands. — R. S. Mitford. 



