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The Ehopalocera of Europe. — We understand that it is 

 intended shortly to issue, in monthly parts, a really good work on 

 this subject. Every species is to he figured in colours, showing 

 the under sides, as well as the varieties when of importance. 

 Probably this Avork will remove one of the chief difficulties \vhich 

 have stood in the way of English students of European butterflies, 

 for the price will be witliin the reach of all. The work has been 

 undertaken by Dr. Henry C. Lang, of London, whose knowledge 

 of the subject will be a sufficient guarantee for the accuracy 

 of the descriptions, and notes which are to be given of habits, 

 localities, &c., not only of the imagines, but also of the larvse. 

 We further understand that there will be occasionally plates of 

 larvfe and pupae. We sincerely wish that this work may stimulate 

 greater attention to this, the most beautiful, section of European 

 Lepidoptera, by no means so difficult to obtain as many collectors 

 seem to think. Prospectuses may be had on application to 

 West, Newman & Co., 54, Hatton Garden, London. — Ed. 



OBITUARY. 



Eth^nne Mulsant. — This veteran French Coleopterist died 

 at Lyons on the 14th November last, at the ripe age of eighty- 

 three, he having been born on March 2nd, 1797, at Mornant, 

 Pthone. For many years M. Mulsant was librarian of tbe Public 

 Library at Lyons, which contains about 150,000 volumes and 

 many valuable MSS. ; also librarian to the important " Society 

 d' Agriculture, histoire naturelle et arts utiles de Lyon," to whose 

 " Annales " he contributed many valuable communications. These 

 were not only entomological, but observations on vegetable 

 physiology, ornithology, and in fact on almost every branch 

 of Science in any way connected with agriculture. He was the 

 author of a series of elementary scientific manuals; and in 1875 

 a splendid work on humming-birds was issued from his pen. 

 These various publications serve to show the general scientific 

 knowledge possessed by this eminent entomologist. As an 

 entomologist, Mulsant studied principally the Coleoptera and 

 Hemiptera of France, more especially the former. Possibly no 

 man has contributed more to the natural history of Coleoptera 

 than Etienne Mulsant. Pie was a good scientific entomologist, 



