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distribution of the species are attempted, but not much progress 
is made. Kirchner wrote a list of the Hymenoptera of his 
district, published in the ‘ Verhandlungen’ for 1854, and “ The 
galls of the Budweiss district” appeared in the Prague ‘ Lotos’ 
for 1855. Kirchner practised as a Doctor of Medicine at Kaplitz, 
and as he received his diploma (Vienna) in 1830 he must have 
attained the allotted three score years and ten. 
JEAN-BapristE ALPHONSE DEcHAUFFOUR DE Borspuvat died 
the day after Kirchner (December 30th). He also was a Doctor 
of Medicine, and an eminent and veteran entomologist. Being 
born in Normandy, where he also died, at Ticheville, near 
Vimoutiers, in the last year of the last century, he thus outlived 
the allotted term by ten years. Dr. Boisduval was known here 
almost exclusively as a lepidopterist ; but in earlier life he seems 
to have paid some attention to Coleoptera, and allied himself 
both with Lacordaire (1835) and Dejean (1833) in their respective 
publications on that Order. As a lepidopterist, Boisduval is well 
known as the author of many valuable works and memoirs. ‘The 
latter were mostly published in the French ‘ Annales,’ though 
three of his later memoirs appeared in the ‘Annales’ of the 
Belgian Entomological Society. Of both of these societies he 
was an honorary member; of the Belgian since 1860; and of the 
French since 1866. He was an original member (1831) of the 
French Society, and was also a member of the Botanical Society 
of France, and of the Horticultural Society of Paris. Of 
Boisduval’s works three are tolerably well-known in this 
country: they are his ‘Genera et Index methodicus’ (1840) ; 
the ‘Collection iconographique et historique des Chenilles 
d'Europe’ (1832—1837), by Boisduval, Rambur, and Graslin ; 
and the ‘Species général des Lépidoptéres’ (1836—1874) by 
Boisduval and Guenée. In Dr. Boisduval, the friend of the 
illustrious Latreille, who died in 1833, we lose a valuable link 
with the past. 
Etrenne Berce also died, at the age of seventy-seven, on 
December 29th last. Berce was a student of both Coleoptera 
and Lepidoptera, and is well known as the author of several 
French works on Lepidoptera; especially of that part of the 
French fauna, four volumes published from 1867 to 1871, which 
contain forty-nine coloured plates. This work is spoken of by ‘Le 
