1875.] 211 



Nonagria hrecilinea, Fenii, Pliycis Davisellus, Newman, and GraphoJita <jrand- 

 (Evana, Zeller. — A short time since, I seut specimens of tlieso three species to my 

 friend Dr. Staudinger for examination, and have received his remai'ks upon them ; 

 he says : — 



" Nonagria brevilinea : I never saw it before, it is a very good species, and very 

 " distinct from all others known." 



" Phgcis Davisellus : This species has now been described four times. It is 

 " without any doubt Nephopteryx genistella, Dup. Herrieh-Schiiffer was the second 

 " who described and figured this species under the name of ulicella, from two males 

 " foimd by the late Julius Lederer, in Andalusia, — the originals are now in my col- 

 " lection. Then I reared a single specimen in Andalusia from a larva found upon 

 " Ulex, and as at that time I did not know much about the Micro-Lepidoptera, I 

 " sent it to Professor ZeUer, who thought ifmight be a now species, so I described it 

 " the third time as albilineella, and Mr. Newman the fourth time as Davisellus. The 

 " English specimens are a little darker than those from the South of Europe. I have 

 ''received it from IVIontpellier." 



" Qrapholita grandeevana : Your No. 1 is, doubtless, this species, but not a 

 " reared specimen. A friend of mine reared it on the sea coast near Stettin, in great 

 " numbers. The larvse feed on Coltsfoot (TussilagoJ, and make curious long tubes in 

 "tlie sand." — Heney Doubleday, Epping : January IWi, 1875. 



Obituarn. 



Professor J. W. Zetterstedt. This veteran Swedish Entomologist died (we 

 believe at or near Lund) on tlie 23rd December last, at the great age of 90, he having 

 been bom on the 20th May, 1785. For many years he was Professor at the Univer- 

 sity of Lund, and it is probable that his collections, which he retained to the last, 

 will be deposited in the Museum of that Institution. Although the list of his 

 separate publications is not lengthy, it includes several very valuable and laborious 

 works on the Entomology of Scandinavia, and especially that of Lapland, which he 

 visited for the purpose of investigating its insect-fainia. The most important of 

 these works are the " Fauna Insectorum Lapponica," published in 1828 ; " Insecta 

 Lapponica Descripta," published from 1838 to 1810 ; and the voluminous " Diptera 

 Scandinavia} " in fourteen volumes, appearing from 1812 to 1860. To the exactitude 

 and excellence of his works, all wlio have occasion to use them will bear willing 

 testimony ; and to English Entomologists they have been, and are, of great service, 

 owing to the similarity existing between our own insect-fauna and that of Scandinavia. 

 By his death, a vacancy has been caused in the list of Honorary Members of the 

 Entomological Society, he having been elected as long back as 1851. A similar 

 vacancy occurs in the Ilonorary List of the French Entomological Society, wliieh lie 

 joined iu 1833, being accorded the higlier distinction in 1858. 



IJcuifiu. 



The Microorapuic Dictionauy. Third Edition. Edited by J. W. Grifllth, 

 M.D., Professor P. M. Duncan, F.R.S. ; assisted by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., 

 F.L.S., and T. Kupert Jones, F.K.S. 8vo. London, Jo)in Van Voorst, 1871. 



