36 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



collecting was carried on by natives in China, Japan, and Syria, 

 and consignments were received from Capt. Young, of Sullan- 

 pore, Kulu. 



Mr. Leech also went to South America in 1884, and collected 

 on the Amazons, but the material, largely Micro-Lepidoptera, 

 and mostly obtained at Para, was not kept by him. On one 

 journey inland the whole party was attacked by yellow fever, and 

 several of bis followers died. 



Not only was it due to Mr. Leech's great activity and lavish 

 expenditure that many collections have been enriched by the 

 additions thereto of species of which only one or two examples 

 were previously known, but our knowledge of the insect fauna of 

 Eastern Asia has been considerably increased by the results of 

 his commendable enterprise. Over one thousand species of Lepi- 

 doptera have been described by him, and a very large number of 

 other msects, as well as Lepidoptera, have been made known to 

 science by various specialists to whom the material obtained 

 either by himself or his collectors was submitted. 



At the close of 1889 he purchased the ' Entomologist.' One 

 of his objects in acquiring proprietorship of this Journal was 

 that he might have a ready means of publishing papers on the 

 insects he was then receiving from his collectors in China. 

 Although those papers in no way trespassed upon the space 

 usually available for matters connected with British Entomology, 

 a certain section of the readers considered themselves justified 

 in raising objections to their publication in the Journal. The 

 consequence of this antagonistic feeling, which was largely 

 fostered by the ungenerous comments of a contemporary, was 

 that Mr. Leech, in 1892, almost entirely withdrew from the 

 ' Entomologist,' and transferred his right in it to the then, and 

 present, editor. 



Mr. Leech was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1884, of the Zoological and Geographical Societies in 1885, and 

 of the Entomological Society of London in 1887. He was also a 

 member of the following continental Societies :— Societe Entomo- 

 logique de France (1888), Entomologischen Verein zu Berlin 

 (1889), and Gesellschaft Lis zu Dresden (1890). 



For about two years Mr. Leech had been troubled with 

 asthma and bronchitis, and rather over a year ago he was 

 advised that one lung was shghtly affected;' but he was not 

 thought to be seriously ill until a very few hours before the end. 

 The malady assumed an acute form on the evening of Dec. 28th, 

 and he passed away peacefully in the early hours of the following 

 morning. 



His death creates a void in the entomological world which 

 may not be readily filled, and he will be greatly missed by all 

 who had the pleasure of knowing him personally. The writer of 

 this memoir, who for over thirteen years had the privilege of 



