life-history, including their extremely interesting larval development. 

 Part IV comprises a historical chapter and a general consideration of 

 the genera, followed by a catalogue of species and a full bibliography. 

 The work extends over more than 500 pages of Koyal octavo print, 

 and in addition to many text figures there are nineteen lithographic 

 plates, many of them double size. The greatest feature of the work, and 

 the one upon which Professor Beauregard is to be most congratulated, is 

 the fullness with which many of the larval histories have been worked 

 out. He has admirably summarized the observations of others and has 

 greatly added to our knowledge of the transformations of these inter- 

 esting hyper-metamorphic creatures. He has given us de novo the full 

 history of ^^icflMto iierticalis, which is entirely parallel with that of our 

 American congeneric species, and also of Cerocoma schreberi, and he has 

 independently followed out and added many new points in the histories 

 of Sitaris humeralis, Stenoria apicalis, Gantharis vesicatoria, and Zoydtis 

 mutica. In this connection Professor Beauregard has attempted a 

 classification of the Blister-beetles based on the larval transformations 

 and habits, which, although corresponding, to a certain extent, with 

 the classification derived from the characters of the adults, yet differs 

 in important particulars. It is in the same direction as Brauer's pro- 

 posed classification of the Diptera from their larvfe and the attempts of 

 various older authors, such as Dr. Horsfield, to compass the same result 

 with Lepidoptera. Beauregard gives us, however, careful and extended 

 descriptions of the larval forms of three species of Meloe, two species 

 of Sitaris, one of Cantharis, two of Zonitis, two of Upicauta, two of 

 Cerocoma, and five of Mylabris. 



Obituary Notes. — Never before in its history has Entomology suffered 

 80 many losses by death within such a short time as during the past 

 few months. Such well-known workers as Fr. Loew, Keyserling, Letz- 

 ner have been taken from us, and now we have to record a number of 

 other deaths : 



Dr. Adam Handlirsch, of Vienna, died on March 24, aged twenty- 

 seven years. He has written a number of Dipterological papers, among 

 them interesting observations on the life-history of the genus Rirmon- 

 eura. 



Mr. J. S. Baly's death was announced by Mr. Godman at the April 

 meeting of the London Entomological Society. His specialty was the 

 study of Chrysomelidce from all parts of the world, and he published 

 numerous descriptive papers on this family. His best-known papers 

 are the Descriptive Catalogue of the genera and species of Hispidae 

 and the Phytophaga Malayana. 



We are also informed of the death of Abbe S. A. de Marseul, the 

 founder and editor of the journal "Abeille" and more widely known as 

 the author of a masterly monograph of the Histeridce. 



