92 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
advance our knowledge of the group; a painstaking describer, he 
has laid foundations that: will serve for future classifiers to build 
upon. Regular and methodical in his habits, patient and 
persevering, laborious and industrious,—like his favourite ants 
and bees,—he plodded on, piling fact upon fact, and adding to his 
ever-increasing store of knowledge. His writings may not be 
characterized by the polished style of the ‘Monographia;’ yet, 
in his way, Frederick Smith was a worthy successor of William 
Kirby; and it is to be hoped that his collections of Hymenoptera 
will find a home, side by side with Kirby’s types, in the great 
National Institution which for more than eight and twenty years 
he served so well. 
Unassuming in manner, retiring and somewhat reserved with 
strangers, Mr. Smith was warm and affectionate at heart; 
possessed of a quiet sense of humour, he had a capacity for 
entertaining others which was probably unsuspected by the 
generality of his acquaintances, and was known only by those 
who have met him in the unrestraint of social gatherings. Of 
simple tastes and thoroughly domestic habits, he was devoted to 
his family, and in turn beloved by them. A widow and four 
children survive to lament his loss. 
Mr. Smith died on the 16th February, 1879, from exhaustion 
consequent upon the operation of lithotrity. His last resting- 
place is in Finchley Cemetery, near the hunting grounds of 
Hampstead and Highgate, where so many happy days of his 
peaceful and uneventful life were spent. His colleagues have 
lost a faithful friend, the public a conscientious servant, and 
Entomology an earnest and indefatigable votary. 
J. W. Dunnine. 
INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON LEPIDOPTERA. 
By W. F. Krrsy, 
Assistant-Naturalist in Museum of Science and Art, Dublin. 
No. XII. NYMPHALIDA.—NYMPHALIN &. 
(Genera allied to CATONEPHELE and DYNAMINE.) 
THE genus Hpiphile contains several handsome species from 
Tropical America, expanding a little over two inches. The fore 
wings are rather truncated at the tips, with a projection on the 
upper part of the hind margin, below which the wing slopes off to 
