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quarto, 1852 — 77) ; " a twenty-five years' labour of love," as 

 he himself describef) it, whilst regretting that age and failing 

 health warned him to bring it to a close. In 1862 tliere 

 appeared a specimen of a 'Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the 

 British Museiini,' containing eight })lates of Ocjyris and 

 Amblypodia; but the Trustees declined to continue the 

 work according to Hewilson's plan, and he commenced, 

 under the title of ' Illustrations, of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' a 

 series of plates of LyccBiiidce, of which seven parts appeared 

 between 1863 and 1877, the eighth and concluding part 

 being in preparation at the lime of his death. 



Besides the descriptive letterpress which accompanied these 

 illustrations, Hevvitson published numerous memoirs in the 

 ' Zoologist,' the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 

 the 'Journal of Entomology,' the 'Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine,' the ' Proceedings of the Zoological >Society,' the 

 'Journal of the Liunean Society,' the ' Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society;' and in 1869 and 1870 he published 

 as a separate work, 'Equatorial Lepidoptera collected by 

 Mr. Buckley.' With few and slight exceptions (e. ^., Proc. 

 Ent. Soc, 1856, p. ii., 1866, p. xxxv. ; Trans. Eut. Soc, 

 1868, p. 97; Ent. Mo. Mag., vi. 9Q, ix. 161) these 

 papers were simply descriptions of new species, many of 

 which were afterwards figured in the works to which 

 reference has already been made. The list concludes with 

 ' Descriptions of four New Species of Pronophila,' which 

 appeared (Ent. Mo. Mag., xiv. 227) so recently as March of 

 the present year. 



Hewilson married some thirty years ago, but was soon left 

 a widower and childless. His health compelled him to lead 

 a quiet and secluded life; and thenceforward his sole delight 

 lay in beautifying his grounds at Oatlands, and in adding to 

 his cabinets of butterflies. His ample means enabled him to 

 indulge his tastes without stint. Gathered from all quarters 

 of the globe, brought home by naturalists often sent out for 

 the very purpose, the specimens selected regardless of cost, 

 arranged with scrupulous neatness, and stored in cabinets of 

 superb solidity, — Hewitson's collection of Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera was such as no other man had formed, such probably 

 as no museum ever possessed. Together with some choice 

 pictures and water-colours, and some valuable cases of stufled 

 birds, he has left it to the nation ; and it is presumed that 

 this magnificent and unique collection of lihopalocera will 

 find a permanent and fitting home in the National Museum. 



His library of works on Natural History, with a legacy 



