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the markings of Lq>idopterous caterpillars (137 pages), and 

 with the phylctic parallelism of metamorphic species (85 

 pages), discussing insects of different orders. 



\ short paper in the Zoologischer Anzeiger for 1878 treats 

 of the scent-scales of butterflies. 



Charles Sedgwick Minot was bom in West Roxbury, 

 Massachusetts, December 23, 1852. In his se>'enteenth year 

 he was publishing descriptions of the male of Hesperia metea 

 Scudder, of four new species of Geometridae and three new 

 species of Phalaenidae, and dismMmg, but very briefly, the 

 limits of genera, in the twelfth and thirteenth volumes of the 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, and 

 furnishing Brief Notes on the Transformations of Several 

 Species of Lepidoptera [Heterocera] to the second volume of 

 the Canadian lintomotogist. In the following year (1870) 

 some Notes on the I'liijht of New England Butterflies gave a 

 classification of the characteristic manners of flight of different 

 genera, briefly considcre<l the influence of the size of the thorax 

 and the shape of the wings in relation thereto, commente<l on 

 the position of butterflies when at rest and as to where they 

 spend the night (Proc, B. S. N. H., xiv, 55). In 1872 the 

 Canadian Entomologist published his Notes on Limochores 

 bimacula. In the same year came his graduation from the 

 Ma.ss.i -of Technology (1872) and then a pe- 



riotl 01 ...... ,,, .in Leipzig, Paris and Wurzburg. Here 



belong his Recherches Histologiques sur tes TracMes de f/Zy- 

 drophilus piceus (Archives Physiol. Norm. Path., 2. iii. 1876), 

 made in the histological laboratory* of the College de France. 



After his return to America, at the desire of Dr. A. S. Pack- 

 ard, Jr.. he undertook a study of the anatomy and histology of 

 vnrious fVthoptera 'Sn connection with the more directly 

 pr.Ktii.il laln.rs of the U. S. Entomological Commission." The 

 results ;ip]K-.ired in the First and Second Reports of the Com- 

 nii>;«iitm r. ' ; the titles Report on the Fine Ana- 



totny of tr.- ^ . and Histology of the Locust (Cal- 



optenus) and the Cricket (Anabrus) with seven plates (1880). 



