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son of the grand-duke Adolf Friedrich V, whom he succeeded 

 on his fathers death, June ii, 1914. He is said to have served 

 brilliantly with Von Mackensen in Serbia in 191 5, being the 

 first officer to cross the Danube, and was credited with storm- 

 ing Fort Elisabeth almost single-handed. 



The relationship of the deceased to the entomological world is chiefly 

 through his leadership of two important African expeditions, both of 

 which secured very extensive entomological collections. One of these 

 expeditions, the German Central Africa Expedition of 1907-1908, of 

 which Dr. H. Schubotz was the zoologist, traversed the country be- 

 tween Victoria Nyanza and Lake Kivu in western German East Africa ; 

 explored the Virunga Volcanoes, the lower slopes of Ruwenzori and 

 the Ituri River region of the northeastern Belgian Congo. The second 

 expedition, the Second German Central Africa Expedition of 1910- 

 191 1, on which Drs. Schubotz and Arnold Schultze were zoologists, 

 visited the lower Congo basin and lower Ubangi River, one party going 

 down the Shari River to Lake Tchad and returning to the west coast 

 by way of the Niger River, another party traversed the southern 

 Cameroons to the west coast and two other sections, by diflFerent routes, 

 traveled the Uelle-Ubangi system, across the watershed and down 

 the Nile. 



On the entomological collections of the first expedition twenty-three 

 reports had appeared up until the time when communication with Ger- 

 many was discontinued. Of these seven were on the Hymenoptera and 

 the same number on the Coleoptera, while two were on the Orthoptera 

 and one each on Plecoptera, Dermaptera, Collembola, Thysanoptera, 

 Trichoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera, the authors being Kieffer, 

 Strand, Bischoff. Stitz. Szepligeti, Lesne, Pic, Hintz, Kerremans, W. 

 Horn, Bernhauer. Klapalek. Byrr, Griinberg. Borchmann, Jacobi, Weise, 

 Enslin, Gebien, Ulmer, Karny, Borner, Schulthess-Rechberg, Kolbe, 

 Shelford and Rehn. These reports were published as sections of the 

 natural history results of the expedition — Wissenschaftliche Brgcb- 

 nisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Uxpcdition 1907-08. The results 

 of the second expedition have been appearing in a similar series — 

 Ergebnisse der Tzveiten Deutschen Tentral-Afrika-Expedition 1910- 

 iQii. To date nine entomological sections have been received in Phila- 

 delphia, five on Coleoptera, one on Mecoptera, two on Hymenoptera 

 and one on Hemiptera. The authors of these are : Weise, Enslin, 

 Szepligeti, Melichar, Sjostedt, Gebein. Moser, Ohaus, Bickhardt and 

 Kerremans. — J. A. G. Rehn. 



Erratum. 

 Page 119, line 18 (March, 1918), for Coleoptera read Lepidoptera. 



