2IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [XXXI, '20 



The first story, "Van, the Sleepy Butterfly who was Wakened by a 

 January Thaw," tells of Van's January experiences, of her laying eggs 

 in May from which hatched Sister Essa and Essa's brothers and sisters; 

 how Essa in her turn laid eggs in June from which came Opie, and of many 

 other happenings to the three generations. 



This may be taken as typical of the book which is neither technical nor 

 sentimental and surely should appeal to the child as far as an Olympian 

 {sensu Kennethi Grahami) can see. The author is the well known ento- 

 mologist of the Maine State Agricultural Experiment Station so that 

 the non-entomological public may be assured of the reliability of the 

 book. — P. P. Calvert. (Advertisement). 



Obituary 



The Reverend Henry Stephen Gorham — author of the 

 sections on Malacodermata (1880-86) and Erotylidae, Endo- 

 mychidae and CoccineUidae (1887-1889) in the Coleoptera 

 volumes of the Biologia Centrali- Americana, died at Great 

 Malvern, England, March 22, 1920. He was born in 1839, 

 educated at Rugby under Arnold and was a civil engineer 

 before he became a curate in the Church of England, in 1865. 

 His entomological writings deal with British and exotic 

 Coleoptera. His extensive collections of beetles have been 

 widely dispersed in various public and private museums, 

 some data on which are given in a notice in the Entomolo- 

 gist's Monthly Magazine for May, 1920, from which the 

 above details are taken. 



The same issue of the Magazine announces also the death of 

 Edmund Reitter. author of "innumerable papers" on Palae- 

 arctic Coleoptera, at Paskau, Moravia, March 15, 1920, aged 

 75. He was one of the original editors of the Wiener Ento- 

 mologische Zeitung from its foundation in 1891 to his death. 



The deaths of two entomologists are announced in a recent 

 number of the Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France: 

 Emile Boudier, member of the Institute of France and old- 

 est member of the Entomological Society in point of election 

 (1857), who studied European Coleoptera: and J. Pantel 

 known for his work on comparative anatomy and general 

 biology, especially of Orthoptera, and for his monographic 

 essay on the parasite Tachinid larva of Thrixion haliday- 

 anum, (1898), at Toulouse, February 7, 1920, aged 67. 



