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in the catalogue. This method of treating the Lepidoptera by sub- 

 families possesses obvious advantages, and the scheme of compilation 

 has been devised to facilitate the work of the student. Where they are 

 accessible the location of types is stated. The arrangement of genera 

 and groups is based on a trivial character which the author states he 

 has found constant and not confined to one sex. 



Judging from the part before us, the Catalogue promises to be of the 

 utmost utility, and will meet a pressing need. 



The Second Part is in the press, and it is proposed to complete the 

 work during the year. 



CHARLES GOLDING BARRETT. 



Entomologists throughout the kingdom will regret to hear that 

 on December 11th last Mr. C. G. Barrett succumbed to the malady 

 from which he had suffered for some time past. As an authority 

 on Lepidoptera he was known far and wide, and his willing help and 

 kindly advice were always at the service of anyone who appealed 

 to him. His departure from among us has created a void that will 

 not be readily filled. 



Among his contributions to entomological literature are notes con- 

 tained in the ' Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer' (1856-61), also 

 in the 'Weekly Entomologist' (1862), and occasional communications 

 to the ' Entomologist,' dating from 1864. 



Mr. Barrett, in 1880, joined the editorial staff of the ' Entomolo- 

 gists' Monthly Magazine,' to which he had been a valued contributor 

 from its foundation in 1864. Among the more important of his 

 writings that have been published in that journal are a series en- 

 titled " Notes on British Tortrices," which were commenced in 

 vol. ix. (1872), and continued year by year up to vol. xxvi. (1890). 



In his excellent work " The Lepidoptera of the British Islands " 

 is concentrated the knowledge acquired during a lifetime of assiduous 

 research and careful observation. The first volume was issued in 

 1893, and the ninth in 1904. In the tenth volume, which was passing 

 through the press at the time of his decease, was commenced the 

 consideration of the Tortricina, a group in which he as an expert 

 had long been acknowledged pre-eminent. It is ever to be regretted 

 that he was nut spared to see this great undertaking completed, and 

 we earnestly hope that among his literary remains material will be 

 found to enable the work to be continued to, at least, the end of 

 the Tortricina, which, excepting the Tineina, is perhaps the most 

 neglected group of British moths. 



Mr. Barrett was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society 

 of London in 1884, and a Member of the South London Entomo- 

 logical and Natural History Society in 1889. He was President of 

 the latter Society in 1892. 



We understand that the collections of British, Continental types, 

 and South African Lepidoptera will be realized. 



