of Kremsminster. From 1834 to 1840 he worked as a voluntary 

 assistant in the Vienna INIuseum. In 1840 he took the degree of 

 Doctor in Medicine ; in 1851 he was made Professor of Zoology 

 in the University of Prague, from whence he was recalled by the 

 Emperor to the Museum of Vienna as Custos-adjunct, and in 

 1860 the Directorship of the Museum was conferred upon him. 

 His chief published works were the Coleopterous part of the 

 Fauna Austrire, which has gone through tbree editions, the same 

 portion of the work known as the ' Voyage of the Novara,' and 

 his descriptions of the beetles of Kotschy's collections from 

 Syria and Western Taurus. 



Entomology in Vienna has, moreover, experienced a further 

 loss in the death of Count Johann Axgelo Ferrari, who had 

 for many years been the especial Custos of the Coleopterous 

 portion of the Imperial Museum, and who died on the 18th of 

 May last. In Munich, also. Dr. Frischmann, the Conservator 

 of the Museum of Natural Histor}^ died on the 11th of February; 

 and on the 20th of May died Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach, of 

 Aix la Chapelle, who was born on the 30th of October, 1807, at 

 Cologne. His principal works had reference to the insects 

 destructive to vegetation, and his Monograph of the Aphidse is a 

 classical work. 



We have also to lament the death of Herr C. H. Hopffer, 

 the talented assistant to the Entomological Department of the 

 Berlin Museum, whose attention was especiall}'^ devoted to Exotic 

 Lepidoptera, of which he published various new species, some of 

 which appeared as a second part of Dr. King's ' Neue oder 

 weniger bekannte Schmetterlinge.' 



The death of Mr. W. S. ATiaNSON, of Calcutta, must also 

 be recorded. He was a very industrious collector of Lepidoptera 

 for many years in India, and we are indebted to him for a 

 description and figure of Butanites Lidderdalii, one of the most 

 interesting species of butterflies which has ever been published. 

 His collections have been purchased by Mr. Hewitson, but the 

 Heterocerous portion of them has been transferred to Herr 

 Staudinger, although it is understood that the new species are in 

 the hands of Mr. F. Moore for publication. 



