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described by our most prominent lepidopterists. In this con- 

 nection Dr. Herman Strecker wrote of him : "When my friend 

 Neumoeg^en, some years ago, commenced to study and collect 

 Lepidoptera, to which he applied himself with an energy seldom 

 equaled, I impressed on him the importance of obtaining exam- 

 ples from Arizona, giving him drawings of Arg. nokomis and 

 other rare species. By indefatigable industry he secured collec- 

 tors who, from inner Arizona, in a remarkably short time sent a 

 large quantity of the most interesting material, among which 

 ^\Qve Smerinihus hnperator and the coveted nokomis in both sexes, 

 as well as numbers of others new to science. I cannot omit men- 

 tioning another still more astonishing thing in connection with 

 the reception of these Arizona novelties which, incredible as it 

 may appear, is nevertheless a fact, to the truth of which I am 

 willing to at any time to be qualified with proper jurat appended; 

 it is when Mr. Neumoegen -passed them to me he did not even 

 hint, let alone make it a condition, that any of the new species 

 should be named after himself, his wife, his aunts, or his cousins- 

 german, his grandparents, the stranger within his gates, or even 

 after his rich neighbor." He was an indefatigable collector, and, 

 as a result, was the possessor of one of the finest collections of 

 Lepidoptera in the world. Mr. Neumoegen was also a well- 

 known writer on his specialty, and described many new genera 

 and species from this country and the West Indies, and of late 

 years has published a number of valuable papers on the Bom- 

 bycidse in conjunction with Mr. H. G. Dyar. He was engaged 

 in business as a banker and broker at No. 40 Exchange Place, 

 and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. 

 Neumoegen will be greatly missed among his lepidopterological 

 brethren and co-workers, and his wife and children will have the 

 sympathy of his scientific friends in their irreparable loss. 



In 1835, a plague of locusts made their appearance in China, in the 

 neighborhood of Quangse, and in the western departments of Quangtung. 

 The military and people were ordered out to exterminate them, as they 

 had done two years before. A more rational mode, however, was adopted 

 by the authorities, of offering a bounty of twelve or fifteen cash per catty 

 of the insects. They were gathered so fast for this price, that it was im- 

 mediately lowered to five or six cash per catty. A strike followed, and 

 the locusts were left in quiet to do as much damage as they could. — Coiu 

 an's Curious Fads. 



