north of Mexico. Dr. Horn's list includes nearly 700 species, seventy-nine of which 

 are described as new, with three new genera. Seventy-four species only arc specially 

 inciitioTied as common to Lower California and Mexico, or Central America, but this 

 number would probably be doubled by a more careful analysis of the ranges of the 

 species already recorded. The families containing the largest number of species 

 are: — Tenebrionides, 101; Carabides, 71; Chrt/xomelidcB, 62; ScarabreidcB, 51; 

 CeramhycldcB, 48 ; StaphyJ inidce, 29 ; Dytiscidce, 26 ; CurculionidcB, 22 ; and Bu- 

 prestidfp, 21. The peninsula of Lower California is a narrow strip of land, about 

 700 miles long, running in a south-south-easterly direction from the southern 

 boundary of California, varying greatly in width, although in a general way narrowing 

 from north to south. Through the axis runs a chain of mountains of a general 

 elevation of 3000—4000 feet. The fauna of the Pacific coast of Lower California 

 shows it to be a continuation of that of California ; the fauna of the Gulf coast 

 resembles that of Arizona and the Colorado Desert, with a slight admixture of 

 Mexican forms. It is in the southern part only, in the region of Cape San Lucas, 

 that the fauna assumes a more tropical aspect, and this is not only the case with the 

 Coleoptera, but, to a slight extent, with the Aves and Rhopalocera also, & humming- 

 bird, Basilinna Xantusi, and a butterfly, My.icelia auletex, being closely allied to 

 Central American forms. Notwithstanding the arid nature of the greater part of 

 the country, it is probable that very many more species really exist there, the 

 numerous Longicornia , Buprestidce, &c., indicating the presence of a considerable 

 amount of forest. Very many of the species enumerated by Dr. Horn are peculiar, 

 so far as we know at present. One species, Cantharis anguHcollis, Duges (An. Mus. 

 Michoacano, ii, p. 105 [1889]) = vulnerata, Lee, appears to have been accidentally 

 omitted from Dr. Horn's list. — G. C. C. 



Dbituari). 



Pastor Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren, Hon. F.E.S. — By the death of Pastor 

 Wallengren (which occurred at his parish of Favhult, in South-west Sweden, on 

 October 2.5th, 1894, in his 72nd year) Scandinavia loses one of her most prominent 

 entomologists, and entomological science generally a most careful and strikingly 

 original worker, one who was comparatively isolated in the locality of his pastorate 

 duties, and yet, notwithslanding this disadvantage, enriched entomological literature 

 with many valuable papers and memoirs. Of his early life we at present know 

 nothing. He commenced as an entomological author about the year 1850, and the 

 flow of articles from his pen has since been nearly continuous, mostly in the publi- 

 cations of the Swedish Academy, but also latterly in the " Eutomologisk Tidskrift." 

 He studied all Orders, but especially Lepidoptera {Rhopalocera particularly) and 

 yeurop/era. In the latter Order a Monograph of the Scandinavian Planipennia 

 appeared in 1871, a continuation on the Trichoptera so lately as 1891, and there are 

 not wanting signs that he intended to complete the series with the Pseiido- Neuroptera, 

 for in the same part (1891) of the " Tidskrift" that contains the announcement of 

 his death is a Synopsis of the Scandinavian Dragon-flies from his pen. It has been 

 said that in Lepidoptera ho particularly favoured the Butterflies ; but he also did 

 much good careful original work in the Scandinavian Micros, vind his researches into 



