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eum and library of the learned naturalist, the best of its 

 kind which exists in Guatemala. 



An obituary notice of Senor Rodriguez is also to be found 

 in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (London) for 

 JMarch, 191 7, written by Mr. G. C. Champion, who contri- 

 butes some additional items based on personal acquaintance. 

 The indebtedness of the Biologia C entrali- Americana to Rod- 

 riguez for Coleoptera and incidentally other insects is ac- 

 knowledged in the Introductory \^olume of that work (page 

 44). De Selys received from him the types of Anisagrion 

 allopterum (Odonata) and Candeze many Elateridae. 



The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for March, 191 7, con- 

 tains also obituary notices of Charles Owen Waterhouse, 

 born at Bloomsbury, London, June 19, 1843, died at Acton, 

 February 4, 191 7, and of J. Platt Barrett, born near Mars- 

 den, Huddersfield, England, June 29, 1838, died December 

 27, 1916. 



Waterhouse's father, G. R. Waterhouse, once keeper of 

 Geology in the British Museum, and his brothers, E. A. and 

 F. Waterhouse, all had entomological interests. C. O. Water- 

 house was an Assistant and Keeper in the Entomological De- 

 partment of the British Museum from 1866 to 1910, and was 

 chiefly interested in the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, his 

 main work being on the Buprestidae in the Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana. His Aid to the Identification of Insects, two 

 volumes of colored plates, is well known. He was President 

 of the Entomological Society of London, 1907-08. 



J. P. Barrett was for fifty-three years an instructor in 

 institutions for the deaf and dumb. His interests were mainly 

 in the Macrolepidoptera of Britain and of Sicily and he was 

 one of the founders of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society. 



Charles Adolphus Briggs, known for his work on 

 British Lepidoptera, Neuroptera (sensu Linnaei) and 

 Orthoptera, boni May 26, 1849, died October 17, 1916. (En- 

 tom., January, 1917). 



