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plans extending southwarti tliioiigli Mexico. 

 Guatemala and Panama. 



Dr. Leitner, of Basle, has passed the last 

 nine or ten months in thi.s country, studying 

 — both in the British Museum and at the 

 different private collections — the polymor- 

 phism of lucanoid beetles comprised in the 

 odontolabidae, with the view to an explana- 

 tion of the evolution of the mandibles and 

 of the strongly marked sexual dimorphism. 

 Dr. Leitner considers the female to exhibit 

 (in this case) the archaic type, and his 

 memoir will probably be published by one of 

 our London societies about the end of the 

 year. 



Perhaps at no previous period in the study 

 of lepidoptera has so much complete faunis- 

 tic work been in the course of publication 

 as at the present time. Thus in your own 

 country appears the excellent work of 

 Edwards on the Butterflies of North America, 

 whilst Godman and Salvin are publishing 

 their monograph of the rhopalocera of 

 Central America, and, tiirther south. Dr. 

 Burmeister is doing a similar service for 

 the lepidoptera of the. Argentine Republic. 

 In London Lang is publishing his "European 

 Butterflies" whilst as regards the east, 

 Moore's "Lepidoptera of Ceylon." Marshall 

 and de Niceville's ''Butterflies of India. 

 Burmah and Ceylon." and my own "Rho- 

 palocera Malayana" are regularly appearing 

 and sufficiently attest the amount of pub- 

 lishing energy in this field. 



Very few entomological collections have 

 recently been received from the neotropical 

 region. Mr. Champion has just returned 

 from Central America bringing the remain- 

 der of the best collection — in view of the 

 number of minute and carefully mounted 

 specimens — ever made in the tropics. Dr. 

 Angas has brought home from Dominica a 

 small but interesting collection, and in all 

 probability the next lot of entomological 

 novelties from this region will be received in 

 .\nierica from \our coinitrvmaii Herbert 



Smith and the other members of his expedi- 

 tion. 



»'. L. Dhl.uil. 



^'ACTOR TOUSEY CHAMBERS. 



Born in Burlington, Boone County, Ken- 

 tucky. 6 August 1830. 



Died in Covington. Kenton County. Ken- 

 tucky, 7 August 1SS3. 



Mr. Chambers made his name familiar to 

 the entomologists of North America, and 

 widely abroad, by his writings upon the tinci- 

 na. and may be reckoned next to Brackenridge 

 Clemens as a pioneer in the study of these 

 insects in this country. His first paper upon 

 the subject seems to have been his "A new 

 species of Cemiostomu." . . . [Rec, no. 3-97]' 

 published in June 1871, but we find an earlier 

 paper of his on a parasited lai'va of Tiopaiii 

 Itina, published in January 1S70. His last 

 paper appears to be his "The classification 

 of the tliieidae," on p. 71-74 of the present 

 volume of Psyche. Such of his papers as 

 have thus far been recorded in Psyche ap- 

 peared in approximately the following chron- 

 ological order, the numerals referring to the 

 Bibliographical record: 88. 411, 441.337, 339. 



340, 341- 343- 449- S*""- 49i' 1065. io72' '"7,^- 

 1090, 1102, 1113, 1129. 1142, 1150. 1156. S51. 

 852, S53, 11S5, 1196, 1212, 1239, 1244, 1261. 

 139S, 1S66, 186S, 1S67, 1292, 1308, 1326, 1409. 

 1370, 1S05, 2269, 2S03. We have still on hand 

 the titles of several articles by him. making 

 in all at least sixty titles, and many of these 

 are in fact series of separate articles, appear- 

 ing under the same word-title throughout a 

 volume. Mr. Chambers was singularly un- 

 fortunate in the treatnient he received from 

 his proof-readers, in some of the publications 

 where most of his articles appeared, and 

 rendered the citation of his articles especially 

 dillicult by the similarity which he gave to 

 their titles. .\ brief biographical sketch of 

 him appears in Science. 24 .\ug. 1SS3. v. 2, 

 p. 253-254. Ft: P. M. 



