96 [September. 1S32. 



An exact counterpart, so far as external appearance is concerned, of Lord 

 Walsingham's " Pterophoridce of California and Oregon." The first 23 pages are 

 occupied by a lengthy Preface, in which is a good deal of rudimentary information, 

 that might well have been omitted, as already familiar to every Entomologist ; also 

 very instructive details of the progress of knowledge of North American Nochcidce, 

 in which the Author modestly gives himself but small credit ; some excessively 

 severe strictures on a prominent economic Entomologist (the work is dedicated to 

 another equally prominent) ; and finally, an enumeration of those workers who have 

 helped the Author, the last named being Mr. George Norman, whose decease we 

 chronicle below. " Structure and Literature " form the second chapter, and will 

 repay careful reading. 



Then follows " Notes on Mr. Walker's types of North American NoctuidcB in 

 the British Museum," which are succeeded by descriptions of 45 species, every one 

 of which is figured. We think it would be impossible to surpass these figures, 

 either by care in engraving, or by delicacy or truthfulness of colouring, and they 

 may serve as models in all respects but one. Why will so many entomological 

 artists persist in considering that Lepidoptera are legless ? 



"A Colony of Butterflies" is a dissertation on the manner in which (Eneis 

 Semidea came to inhabit its isolated position on the top of Mount Washington in 

 New Hampshire. 



It is no secret that bad health has compelled the well-known author of this 

 little book to give up (let us hope only temporarily) his entomological labours, and 

 that the extremely valuable collection of American NoctiiidcB formed by him now 

 forms part of our own National Collection. This latter fact probably explains why 

 he has elected to print and publish the work in London. 



6bituar^. 



George Norman died suddenly at Peebles on the 5tli July last, in his 59th year, 

 he having been born in Hull on the 1st January, 1824. He was educated, in part 

 at least, in Grermany, and was afterwards engaged in mercantile pursuits in his native 

 town. In 1843, he first wrote in the " Zoologist," and for twenty years he continued 

 to send to that Journal occasional notes in all branches of Zoology. After his re- 

 tirement from business he removed to Scotland, residing, with occasional intervals, 

 at Forres, and in 1869 and three following years he communicated to this Magazine 

 copious lists of his captures of Lepidoptera in Perthshire and Morayshire. In 1874 

 and 1875 he was in Canada, and in our vols, xi and xii are long lists of the Lepi- 

 doptera he found in the province of Ontario. On his return he devoted his attention 

 to the Hemiptera of Perthshire and Morayshire, making cautures of many rare 

 species and some new ones, which are recorded or dcsci-ibed in vols, xv to xviii. In 

 March last he went to Peebles, intending to work specially at the Hemiptera of that 

 district, and now we have the sad news of his unexpected end. Sic transit! 



Mr. Norman had much of the true spirit of a Naturalist, and was a very 

 courteous and obliging man, tliinking no trouble too much if he could thereby serve 

 his friends and the cause of Entomology. 



