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in the Galleries of the Museum at Cromwell Road, and he edited the 1st edition 

 of the " Guide." More recently, in conjunction with the late F. Enock, he paid 

 considerable attention to the Mymaridae, and joint papers on these minute 

 Hymenoptcra were contributed to the Entomological Society's Transactions. 

 An excellent manipulator, notwithstanding a certain amount of nervoiisness, 

 which would appear to render such work very difficult, he was able to make very 

 good dissections of insects, as may be seen by a visit to the Galleries and col- 

 lections of the Museum. Subsequent to his retirement he was often to be seen 

 at work at the Museum in order to finish the rearrangement of the Buprestidae, 

 the incorporation of the Kerremans collection having been in great part com- 

 pleted at the time of his decease. Waterhouse was elected a Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1869, and was President in 1907-8, and 

 Vice-President, 1900 and 1909. His wife and daughter survive him. Always 

 genial, and ever willing to assist visitors of all kinds, he will be missed by 

 many, including some of those who knew him in the old days at Bloomsbury. 

 — G. C. C. 



Juan J. Rodriguez Luna, who died in Guatemala on December 22nd last, at 

 the age of 76, was but little known in this country. He had a great love for 

 Natural History generally, including Botany, and many Entomologists are 

 indebted to him for examples of the special productions of that Central 

 American Republic, which has a rich tropical fauna and flora in the two coast 

 regions, and a subalpine one in its high mountains and plateaux. The present 

 writer was fortunate in making his acquaintance in the Guatemalan 

 capital, in March, 1879, and subsequently spent some time on the coffee and 

 sugar-cane estates owned by him atCapetillo, a locality situated in the elevated 

 valley between the lofty volcanoes of the Agua and Fuego. After my return 

 to England, in 1883, we occasionally corresponded, and from that year onward 

 he has from time to time sent me insects from his country, the last letters 

 received from him being dtted May and Atxgust, 1916. He was one of the first 

 collectors to send the remarkable Rutelid-beetle, Heterosternus rodriguezi Cand., 

 to Europe, and only a few years ago another fine Lamellicorn of the region, 

 Pantodinus kluqi Burm., was received from him. Candeze, too, was indebted to 

 Rodriguez for many Elateridae. During his three visits to Europe, 1868, 1878, 

 1887, he made the acquaintance of various French and Belgian entomologists, 

 and when he came to London in 1887 we again met. The Museum of the 

 Sociedad Economica in Guatemala received much assistance from him in com- 

 pleting its local collection of birds, many of which were sent to Salvin for 

 determination. He was a member of varioiis French, Belgian, and Spanish 

 scientific Societies, and in 1900 was awarded the French distinction of the Cross 

 of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for his services in improving the culti- 

 vation of cinchona and other valuable plants, some of which he successfully 

 introduced into Guatemala. The Editors of the " Biologia Centrali- Americana" 

 certainly owe him a debt of gratitude, in which the present writer shares. — 

 G.C.C. 



