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The females have the lines wanting and vary by being all white, 

 with black dots sprinkled over external margin and on costa at 

 base of primaries, as well as on the collar and vertex. Palpi black 

 and white. Some females have the primaries widely black, leav- 

 ing costal edge and inner margin white. The white fringes of 

 primaries are dotted with black. Several specimens from Tucson^ 



CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, F. R. S. 

 On the 20th day of April last a shadow fell upon the earth, 

 and a wail of sorrow went up from the homes of science, for the 

 news flashed around the world that the great naturalist was dead. 

 In this place we desire to do no more than record our loss and to 

 fulfil a duty we have laid down for ourselves of briefly noticing 

 the departure of all who have in any way belonged to the ranks 

 of our association. Mr. Darwin was early nominated an honorary? 

 member of the New York Entomological Club, and expressed a 

 warm interest in its purposes. In a letter received from him dur- 

 ing the past year, he says : " I like * Papilio ' very much, and, 

 though I am not specially an entomologist, it seems to me to be 

 established on a wise principle of investigation, and you will prob- 

 ably do better work by concentrating your inquiries. I wish for 

 it and your society every success." To say one word in praise of 

 a man so worthily honored would be, on our part, 



" To gild refined gold." 



We would only add our mite of sorrow to the universal grief 

 which the world has laid at the shrine of departed genius and 

 worth, and twine our humble leaf among the laurels placed upon 

 his tomb. — H. E. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



Notes from Monroe Co., N. Y. — Scepsis Fulvicollis. This 

 species appears to be more nocturnal than most of its family. I 

 captured several in fine condition at sugared trees from the mid- 

 dle of September to the middle of October, last season. 



Selenia Kentaria. Several males of this species flew into my 

 room (close to a large wood) the end of April and the beginning 

 of May. The date apparently indicates that, like its European re- 

 latives S. Illimaria and Illustraria, it is double brooded. 



Marmopteryx Strigulata. This insect is not uncommon in 

 beech woods near Lake Ontario, in September, but from its 

 habit of resting on the ground and its low, quick flight when 

 disturbed, it is not easily captured. I took five one day and 



