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daughters, he went to reside at Chateaudun, and at his country seat, "Lea Chatelliers," 

 in the neighbourhood. It was there, that in 1857, we had the pleasure of seeing 

 him. It was but seldom that he quitted the country for Paris ; but, by a strange 

 coincidence, on the occasion of our very last visit to Paris, in March, 1872, we met 

 Guenee there — we were never to meet again. 



Guenee leaves a widow, two daughters (who are married), and three little 

 grandsons. Let us hope that one of those grandsons may develop the tastes of his 

 grandfather, and become a shining Entomological light in the next century. 



The career of Guenee as an Entomological writer commenced in 1833, with a 

 notice of the habits of the larva of Nonagria paludicola (var. geminipuncta) in the 

 "Annales" of the French Entomological Society, vol. ii, pp. 447 — 453. 



This was followed by several similar short notices, and, from 1837 to 1841, he 

 wrote a series of papers on Noctuce, including an Essay on the Classification of the 

 Noctuce ; these appeared in the "Annales" of 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1841. These 

 papers may be looked upon as the preparatory 6teps to his larger work on the 

 Noctuce, which appeared some years later. It*was probably during this period that 

 he furnished some of the descriptions of larva? which appeared in Duponchel's 

 " Iconographie des Chenilles." 



In the French "Annales " for 1845, he published an Essay on the Classification 

 of Micro- Lepidoptera, with a Catalogue of the European species. This paper 

 (though without the interesting introductory chapter which occurs in the "Annales") 

 was also published in a separate form under the title of " Europseorum Micro- 

 Lepidopterorum Index Methodicus." This " Index " goes systematically through 

 the Tortricina and Crambina (many new species being briefly described in Latin) ; 

 but of the Tineina only the Plutellidce and a portion of the Hyponomeutidce were 

 given. 



No doubt the author had intended (as he calls this " Pars Prima, sistens 

 Tortrices, Phycidas, Crambidas, Tinearumque initium ") to have brought out subse- 

 quently a " Pars Secunda," with the remainder of the Tineina; but his subsequent 

 Herculean labours amongst the Macro-Lepidoptera prevented the completion of this 

 " Catalogue of Micro-Lepidoptera." 



Guenee's greatest work appeared in 1852 — 3 volumes 8vo, extending to more 

 than 1300 closely printed pages, treating of the Noctuce of the whole world. At the 

 time this appeared the mass of interesting matter relating to the habits of species, 

 as observed by the author himself, formed a vast addition to our previous knowledge 

 of the subject. 



These volumes formed part of the Series of the Suites a Buffon " Species 

 General des Le'pidopteres," of which the first volume, treating of a portion of the 

 Mhopalocera from the pen of Dr. Boisduval, had appeared as far back as 1836 (see 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., xvi, p. 235). In 1854 Guenee brought out another volume of the 

 Series containing the "Deltoides et Pyvalites." Three years later there appeared 

 two more volumes containing the Geometrina (" Phalenites "). 



There are thus six volumes of the Suites a Buffon from Guenee's pen, and no 

 Entomological Library is complete without them. 



In 1868 there appeared, in the 5th volume of this Magazine, a series of de- 

 scriptions by Guenee of Heterocerous Lepidoptera collectecA^by Mr. Fereday in 

 New Zealand. d, hju 



