300 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
The authors confidently expect to find ample materials to continue 
the work as long as they feel inclined to do so. 
The volume before us contains careful figures and descriptions of 
nearly 200 butterflies belonging to the families and subfamilies 
Papilionide (Papilionine and Pierine), Nymphalide (Danaine) 
Acreine, Heliconine, Nymphaline and Morphine), and Lycenide. 
Among them are some extremely remarkable and beautiful species, 
such as Ornithoptera victorie and Morpho helena; but the most 
valuable part of the book, from a scientific poimt of view, is perhaps 
the section on the hitherto little known or studied groups of African 
Lycxnidex, to which 17 out of the 60 plates are devoted, illustrating 
nearly half the total number of butterflies described in the volume. 
By far the larger proportion of the species figured in other parts of the 
work are likewise from Africa or Madagascar. 
We may add that the work is being continued in quarterly parts, 
each containing three coloured plates of butterflies with the accom- 
panying letterpress. 
OBITUARY. 
We regret to record the death of Mr. Howarp W. J. Vauenan, 
which occurred at Woodford Green, Essex, on the 18th of October, 
1892, in his 47th year. Mr. Howard Vaughan was born at Hackney, 
on the 18th April, 1846, and was educated at private schools. He 
adopted the law as a profession, being admitted a solicitor in 1869, 
in which year he also joined the Entomological Society of London. 
On his parents removing to Kentish Town in 1860, he made the 
acquaintance of Dr. H. G. Knaggs, whose house at that time was one 
of the chief entomological centres, and he consequently, at a com- 
paratively early age, found himself in the full tide of London entomo- 
logy. Although he had some knowledge of Coleoptera, his chief study 
was Lepidoptera, of which Order (excepting the Tine) he amassed a * 
singularly rich collection, his Tortrices being especially fine. He was 
an ardent collector, and was the means of introducing H. sawicola, 
H. senecionis and T’.. pryerella to our lists, but the first-mentioned has 
failed to retain its rank as a species. Asa rule, however, he was diffi- 
dent in recording his discoveries, frequently allowing others to reap the 
honours to which he was entitled. For some time, in conjunction 
with Mr. Lovell Keays, he edited the entomological department of 
‘Young England,’ the popular periodical in which the publication of 
Newman’s Moths was commenced. In the winter of 1889-90, a fit, 
rapidly followed by others, warned him that his end was probably 
approaching; and in April and May, 1890, his collection was sold at 
Stevens’s, several of the lots fetching unprecedented prices, the gross 
total of the three days’ sale being £831 18s. After his seizure in 
1880-90, he never was really well, and, slowly breaking, ultimately 
dicd, after a few days’ illness. His remains are interred in the City 
of London Cemetery at Ilford, Essex. Those who knew him in his 
former years, and especially the few who shared in his collecting 
excursions, will mourn the loss of a genial friend and enthusiastic 
entomologist.—C. A. B. 
