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swept on sunny evenings along forest footways, but without result as far as Aniso- 

 tomidcs are eoncerned. — George C. Champion, Hacienda de San Q-eronimo, Salami, 

 Baja Vera Paz, Q-uatemala : 22nd Becemier, 1879. 



Coleoptera near Maldon. — At the beginning of last January, I found a decayed 

 oak stump in a wood at Ulting, near Maldon, Essex : the whole stump was riddled 

 with the burrows of Xestohium tessellatum, of which I found both the larvfe and the 

 perfect insects. I also took from the rotten wood, and from under the bark, the fol- 

 lowing insects: — Paromalus Jlavicornis (in some numbers, in a narrow wet channel 

 of decayed wood that ran up the stump), Batrisus venustus (in perfectly dry decayed 

 wood), Euplectus nigi'icaiis, AbrcBtis fflobosus, Cerylon histeroides, Agathidium semi- 

 ntclum, Choleva nigricans, Baptolinus aJternans, Homalota circellaris, Quedius 

 scitus, and a variety of Quedius fulgidus (Q. fageti, Thorns.), besides two or three 

 other insects. — W. W. Fowlee, Eepton, Burton-on-Trent : \Qth February, 1880. 



Tenacity of life in Timarcha Icevigata. — Seeing in the last number of the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. a remark by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, at the December Meeting of the 

 Entomological Society, on the tenacity of life in a beetle, Curculio cleonus, I would 

 like to record that a Timarcha Icevigata, which I captured last summer in Eent, 

 was exceedingly difficult to kill. I chloroformed it when taken, and three hours 

 after, when I was about to set it, I gave it another dose, the first having had no 

 effect ; the second was also ineffectual, and I then placed it in a close-fitting box 

 with a piece of burning sulphur, and left it over an hour. When taken out it ap- 

 peared dead, but in a few minutes revived for the third time. I then plunged it 

 into a pan of boiling water, and by this means 1 managed to kill it after leaving it 

 for some time in the water. — -Eneico A. Beunetti, Lower Grosvenor Place, London, 

 S.W. : IZth February, 1880. 



#bituariJ, 



Dr. Boisduval, born 1799, died December 30th, 1879, was one of the most 

 celebrated Lepidopterists of France. 



He was one of the original members of the French Entomological Society, and 

 in 1866 he was elected an honorary member of that body. 



His earliest scientific contributions appeared as far back as 1827, more than half 

 a century ago, and three of his principal works were issued more than 40 years ago. 



These were the "Monographic des Zyg^nides," in 1829, the "Index methodicus," 

 of which a second and improved edition appeared in 18-40, and the first volume of 

 the " Species General des L^pidopteres," treating of a portion of the Rhopalocera, 

 which appeared in 1836. 



It was not till 1874, after an interval of 38 years, that it was followed by a vol. 

 treating of the Sphingides, Sesiides, and Castnides. 



There still remains a gap in the series of volumes, which should have treated of 

 the Bombycina, and this important lacuna appears now scarcely likely to be filled 

 up, though M. Gueuee had intimated in his preface that when he had finished all 



