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The Btjtteeflies of North America, with coloured dra\yiiigs and descriptions ; 

 by W. H. Edwards. Second series, part i. New York, Hurd and Houghton ; 

 London, Triibner and Co. May, 1874. 



Mr. Edwards has commenced a second series of his magnificent work, and the 

 first part of it fully maintains, both in plates and descriptive matter, the almost 

 unrivalled excellence of the first series. It is devoted to species of Fapilio, 

 Anthocaris, Argynnis, Libythea, and Chionolas, and in several there are copious 

 illustrations of all the stages from the egg upward. Apart from the beauty of the 

 plates (which could scarcely be surpassed for fidelity), the letter-press must commend 

 itself to the scientific entomologist from the careful way in which the descriptions 

 are made, and from the very copious and interesting geographical notes. 



JK. 6r. Keeley. Mr. Keelcy died of consumption at Southampton on the 28th 

 June, aged 38. He was known to many entomologists as a quiet and unassuming 

 collector of British Coleoptera, of which he had a good general knowledge. We 

 believe he was originally in the service of a well-known firm of natural history 

 lithographers, which possibly brought out his taste for entomological pursuits, and 

 for many years past he was an employe of a large East Indian Agency, and being 

 transferred to the Southampton branch, he took up his residence in that town. He 

 seldom published notes, but his name appears occasionally in the various entomo- 

 logical periodicals, probably for the first time in the ' Intelligencer ' for 1858. He 

 leaves a widow and three childi'en. 



George Robert Crotch, 31. A. It is our painful duty to announce the loss 

 of one of the most widely-known of British, or even of European entomologists. 

 George Robert Crotch, M.A., died at Philadelphia, U. S., on the 16th Juno last. 

 When quite a youth. Crotch already displayed a love for entomology ; this 

 manifested itself at first, as is so often the case, by his commencing the formation 

 of a collection of Lepidoptera ; in this he was very successful, and, while an under- 

 graduate at Cambridge, he captured in the fens of the district many rare and little- 

 known species of this order. At the same time he was also occupied in the formation 

 of a collection of British Coleoptera, and, during the years 1860-63, discovered 

 numerous species of this order not then known to inhabit the Bi'itish Islands, and 

 recorded their occurrence in the pages of the Zoologist. 



In the year 1863 he obtained his degree of M.A. at Cambridge, by graduating 

 in the Natural Science Tripos. 



By this time the order Coleoptera had entirely engrossed Crotch's entomological 

 attention, and in the same year (1863) he published a Catalogue of British Coleoptera. 

 This Catalogue contained the names of a great many species not before recorded as 

 British, and, as it differed much both in arrangement and nomenclature from the 

 Catalogues of British Coleoptera that had preceded it in this country, it attracted 

 much attention, and was much discussed by entomologists. Wliatever may be 

 thought of some of the changes adopted in this work (and many of them are, and 

 pro.bably will be for long, points under discussion), it was undobtedly a valuable 



