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and its ravages in Charente. He was a fertile writer and a 

 conscientious sliilled compiler. Probably his best-known and 

 most useful works are his ' Metamorphoses des Insectes,' and his 

 ' Cours Elementaire d'Entomologie,' the latter extending to 

 several volumes. 



Prof. Hermann Conrad Wilhelra Hering died at Stettin on 

 February 1st in his eighty-sixth year. For fifty-four years he 

 was connected with educational duties in Stettin, and became 

 Professor so long ago as 1837. He was a dihgent lepidopterist, 

 and fellow-worker for many years with the late Prof. Zeller. 

 Most of his not very numerous writings concerned the Lepidoptera 

 of Pomerania; the first was published in the ' Isis ' for 1835, the 

 last in the Stettiuer entomologische Zeitung for 1881. 



Carl Plotz, of Greifswald, died by his own hand, under dread 

 of approaching blindness, on August 12th. As au entomologist 

 he was an iconographer in Lepidoptera, and also published much 

 on Hesperidai, of which family lie had made a speciality. His 

 first published notice appeared in the Stettiner Zeitung for 1861, 

 his last in the same journal for 1886, the latter a lengthy memoir 

 of nearly forty pages. 



Adolf Werneburg, of Erfurt, died there on January 21st, 1886. 

 He held the position of " Oberforstmeister," a position unknown 

 in this country, but which has furnished many prominent ento- 

 mologists in Germany and elsewhere. Werneburg was a diligent 

 lepidopterist, and commenced publishing so long ago as 1853 ; 

 his writings soon showed his bent, which lay distinctly in the 

 direction of literature, and culminated in his ' Beitrage zur 

 Schmetterlingskunde,' consisting of two thick volumes, published 

 at Erfurt in 1864, devoted to a critical consideration of the works 

 on European Lepidoptera published during the 17th and 18th 

 centuries. His researches induced him to suggest great changes 

 in the then existing nomenclature on the ground of priority, and 

 to a considerable extent formed the basis upon which Staudinger's 

 modern list is founded. 



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