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NOMENCLATOB COLEOPTEEOLOGICUS. EiNE ETTMOLOGISCHE ErKLARUNG 

 SAMTLICHER GaTTUNGS-UND ArTNAMEN DER KaFER DES DEUTSCHEN FaTINEN- 



GEBIETES. Von SiGM. ScHENKLiNG. Pp. 221, 12mo. H. Bechhold, Frankfurt 

 a/m. 1894. 



We have not critically analyzed this work, but it professes to give an alphabetical 

 List of all the genera of German CoJeoptera, with the derivations of the names, 

 and, if approximately correct, should be useful to many of our own Coleopterists. 

 A list of specific names is treated in the same manner. And finally there is a list 

 of vernacular names with the scientific equivalents. We cannot refrain from 

 noticing one amusing error in the specific list. It is there stated that " Reyi " is 

 named after " the English entomologist CI. Key," a confusion of our own E. C. 

 Eye with the French Claudius Rey. Then, again, taking haphazard the name 

 " Opatrum," we find " derivation unknown ;" surely the derivation is not far to seek 

 in any Greek Lexicon. About 2400 generic names are referred to. If a second 

 edition is called for, we would suggest that the addition of the date of each generic 

 name would be useful. 



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Hugo Theodor Cliristoph. — This well-known entomologist and traveller died at 

 St. Petersburg on October 24th, 1894. He was born in Saxony on April 4th, 1831, 

 and became engaged in educational duties. In 1858 he went to Russia, and estab- 

 lished himself as teacher at Sarepta, and to him is mainly due the vast number of 

 new forms described from £Imt place. In 1870 he commenced a series of entomolo- 

 gical expeditions to various parts of the Russian empire and adjoining countries, 

 including, amongst others, Transcaspia, Transcaucasia, Amurland, and North Persia, 

 making 23 journeys in all. The results of these expeditions have been given in 

 many continental publications. Though especially a Lepidopterist, he collected all 

 Orders, and there are few collections of palaearctic insects of any note that do not 

 contain some of his materials. Since 1880 he had been curator of the entomological 

 collections of the Grand Duke Nikolai Michailowitsch of Russia. He was a diligent 

 collector and a keen observer. 



Francis Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., Sfc, died at his residence at Perth 

 on December 3rd, 1894. He was a man of powerful physique, and the announce- 

 ment of his decease would have come as a shock had we not been somewhat prepared 

 for it by the report of a friend who had seen him a short time previously. He was 

 born at Perth on March 20th, 1842. His father (who survives him) practiced 

 medicine in that city. Buchanan White was himself educated for the medical pro- 

 fession, and passed with distinction, but never practised, preferring to devote his life 

 to the pursuit of Natural History generally, and a study of the flora and fauna of 

 Scotland in particular. He was a thorough mountaineer, and probably no other man 

 had so intimate an acquaintance with the Scottish Highlands. His discoveries in all 

 branches were numerous ; in entomology perhaps the most conspicuous were Zygana 

 exulans and Cordulia metallica. What was probably his first published communica- 

 tion appeared in the "Intelligencer," vol. ii, p. 51, and is dated May 5th, 1857. 

 Subsequently he was a constant contributor to that periodical, and to this and other 

 Magazines and Natural History publications. In 1871 he established the " Scottish 



