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the Micro-Lepidoptera, " les Tordeuses, les Teignes et les Alucitos ou Pt^rophores," 

 he would turn liis attention to the sections originally intended to have been worked 

 out by his " coUaborateur," Dr. Boisduval. 



Another important work brought out by Dr. Boisduval, in conjunction with 

 " MM. Eambur et Graslin," was a series of illustrations of European larvse, " Col- 

 lection iconographique des chenilles d'Europe," which appeared from 1832 — 1843. 



He also wrote Entomological volumes describing the new species collected 

 during the voyages " de I'Astrolabe " and " de la Coquille," and communicated many 

 papers to the " Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France ;" but he was not a 

 voluminous writer like those entomological giants G-uerin-Mene'ville and our own 

 Westwood. 



Hagen enumerates only 45 productions of the pen of Dr. Boisduval, and 5 more 

 are given in the Supplementary volume of the Royal Society's Catalogue of scientific 

 papers. 



His collection of Lepidoptera was very extensive ; Dr. Boisduval parted with 

 it in his life-time, and it is now the property of MM. Oberthur, and has been re- 

 moved from Paris to Eennes (Hie et Yilaine) . 



Jean Etienne Berce, another well-known French Lepidopterist, died on the 

 29th December, 1879. He was born in 1802, and for very many years was in business 

 as an engraver at Paris ; after this he settled at Fontainebleau, and more than one 

 English Entomologist had the pleasure of visiting him there, and of being guided 

 by him through the mazes of the marvellous forest surrounding that town. We 

 believe the Franco-Prussian war to some extent occasioned a change of fortune with 

 him, and he returned to Paris. He was one of the most genial and well-informed of 

 French Lepidopterists, and one of the most regular attendants at the French Ento- 

 mological Society, in the "Annales" of which his first publication appeared in 1847. 

 He published many other memoirs, and only a few years ago completed his 

 " Papillons de France," a semi-popular monograph of the native Macro-Lepidoptera, 

 illustrated by numerous plates of coloured figures, a work that is extensively used by 

 French Lepidopterists, but which is little-known (undeservedly) here. [In Memo- 

 EiAM, cf. Ent. Month. Mag., September, 1865, p. 73.— R. McL.] 



The Amebican Entomologist : an illustrated magazine, devoted to practical 

 and popular entomology. Edited by C. V. Riley (Washington) and A. S. Fuller 

 (Ridgewood, New Jersey). No. 1, new series, January, 1880. New York : Max 

 Jaegerhuber. 



The " Practical Entomologist," which became " The American Entomologist," 

 which, in its turn, became " The American Entomologist and Botanist," was generally 

 supposed to have departed this life nine years ago. It seems that it was not dead, 

 but only in an unduly prolonged trance. "The American Entomologist," No. 1, 

 new series, is so like the original, in its intermediate stage, that but few would 

 detect any difference. We naturally miss the outspoken, but always genuine, 

 observations of the late B. D. Walsh, who might be held up as a model of " auti- 



