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the portion of the primaries anterior to the oblique line may be 

 ochre colored, while the portion posterior to that line is some 

 shade of red-brown or purple-brown. Again, the upper surface 

 of the primaries and under surface of secondaries may be entirely 

 free from black dots (as in van ijnmaculata), or these surfaces 

 may be very densely covered with the black dots, with every in- 

 tergtade between the two extremes. The oblique line across the 

 primaries is generally present, but may be entirely wanting. 

 Finally, the whole of the upper surface of the secondaries is gen- 

 erally red, though the red may be confined to the anterior two- 

 thirds of the wing, as in iimnacidata, with intergrades between 

 the extremes. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Godrey Siewers, of Newport, Ky„ a well known 

 entomologist, and a Cor. Memb. of the N. Y. Entomological Club, 

 died on September 6, i8§2. He was a son of the Rev. Henry 

 Frederick Siewers, a missionary of the Moravian Church, and 

 was born on the island of Santa Cruz (or Saint Croix), in the 

 Danish West Indies. At the age of about five years he was sent 

 to Nazareth Hall, a Moravian Academy at Nazareth, in the State 

 of Pennsylvania, for his education, where he remained until the age 

 of fifteen, when he was apprenticed to E. W. Carpenter, a manufac- 

 turer of planes, etc., at Lancaster, Pa., to learn the trade. In 1837 

 he settled in Cincinnati, where he went into the manufacture of 

 saws and other tools. Being very fond of fruit culture, he re- 

 moved in 1858 from Cincinnati to a farm some four miles south 

 of Newport, Ky., near the Licking River, where he planted a 

 vineyard and fruit trees, to which he devoted all the time he 

 could spare. The grape culture proved unprofitable, and in 1872, 

 his health and strength failing, he retired from active business. 

 He spent much time during his last years in the study of ento- 

 mology, and contributed articles embracing the results of his in- 

 vestigations to periodicals devoted to his favorite science. In 

 him those who knew him well found a man of culture and refine- 

 ment, of bright and poetic thought and expression, of genial and 

 cheerful spirits, and of high moral worth. 



