280 I May, 1880. 



" Piimcographia : Illustrations of more than 1000 species of North-West European 

 IchneumonidfE, sensu Linnfeano," of which eight parts in large 4to have appeared, 

 with 40 plates, each containing from 8 to 12 insects, so that nearly half the work has 

 been published. The figures are beautifully drawn, the chief part being magnified. 

 A separate Memoir on certain exotic species of Ichneumonidce, also from his pen, 

 recently appeared in the Stettin, ent. Zeitung. 



English Lepidopterists ought also to be gi-ateful to the memory of the deceased 

 for the continuation of Sepp's great work on the Lepidoptera of Holland. A second 

 series of this work, with 150 coloured plates, containing beautiful illustrations of the 

 transformations of Dutch species of butterflies and moths, having already appeared, 



He also published a list, with descriptions, of the new species of insects col- 

 lected in Madagascar by M. Pollen, in the great work undertaken by that traveller. 



VoUenhoven was one of the editors of the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, pub- 

 lished by the Dutch Entomological Society, to which publication he contributed 

 numerous Memoirs, for the most part illustrated by his own pencil. 



Enough has been said to prove that VoUenhoven was an entomologist in the 

 truest sense of the word. 



His last letter to the writer concluded with the words, " Vale ac me semper 

 inter amicos habe," — but 



" Friend after friend departs : who hath not lost a friend ?" 

 —I. O. W., Oxford : 1st April, 1880. 



iE. A. HeUmuth von Kiesenwefier.—Thia celebrated Saxon entomologist died 

 recently at Dresden, at the age of 60, he having been born in 1820. The first notice 

 of any published article by him dates as far back as 1842, in which year he com- 

 municated a paper to the Stettiner entomologische Zeitung on a species of Colymhetes. 

 In the same Journal, and in the Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, are very 

 numerous memoirs from his pen, chiefly on Coleoptera, and especially on the groups 

 of that Order at which he more particularly worked, and also giving the entomo- 

 logical results of many and varied excursions in different parts of Europe, and more 

 especially in mountainous districts. Notably a Coleopterist, he yet did not by any 

 means confine his attention to beetles, as the list of his published papers shews. 

 Apart from his separate papers, his memory will always be respected in connection 

 with the " Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands," only the Coleopterous 

 portion (and that incomplete) of which has yet appeared. He undertook the Mala- 

 coderms, and two volumes on that division have been published, at long intervals — 

 the last in 1877. 



All his works have successfully stood the test of criticism, which time only can 

 render justifiable on such subjects. He was a conscientious labourer in the field of 

 natural science — would that there were more Kiesenwetters in these days of machine- 

 work in Entomology ! 



In his native kingdom of Saxony, he will be long missed, not only as an ento- 

 mologist, and a prominent one, but also privately, and officially, as one of the King's 

 Privy-Councillors. He has died before completing his part of the great work on 

 which he was engaged. Let us hope some one will be found to succeed him. 



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