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The BtTTTERFLiES OF NoRTH AMERICA: by W. H. Edwards. Third Sei'ies, 

 Part XIII, with three Coloured Plates. Boston and New York : Houghton, 

 Mifflin and Co. ; London : Triibner and Co. 1892. 



This part is devoted exclusively to the singular and interesting genus CMonohas. 

 The first plate is occupied by Ch. Chryxus, var, Calais, Scudd., the unique type 

 specimen of which is represented, together with others approaching thereto. The 

 second plate is crowded with about thirty figures, detailing the complete life-history 

 of Ch. Jutta, Hb., with very copious text. This species is found both in Europe 

 and North America, and in habits departs from those of the majority of the genus, 

 and is found in low swampy districts. The third plate contains figures of the perfect 

 insects of Ch. crambis, Fr., and Ch. Brucei, Edw., and of this latter the life-history 

 is given and delineated. Everything is drawn up with the greatest care, and the 

 plates need no commendation from us ; they speak for themselves. 



Profes.<sor • John Ohadiah Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Sfc. — Full of years and 

 honours this veteran entomologist passed away on the 2nd January. He had been 

 in feeble health for some time, and we believe he died simply from decay of nature. 

 He was born at Shefiield on December 22nd, 1805, and so had recently completed 

 his 87th year. His father was a die sinker at Sheffield, and his early education was 

 at a Friends' School in that town, so presumably he came of a Quaker family ; be 

 that as it may, he was himself a staunch Churchman. His family removed to 

 Lichfield, and thence he went to London to be articled to a solicitor. A fragment 

 of an early autobiogi-aphy is to be found in the " Entomologist " of 1842, where he 

 says : — " It was in the autumn of 1821 that I came up to London to be articled to 

 a profession. For the next six months, however, instead of studying Coke upon 

 Lyttleton, I greedily devoured all the information to be obtained from Samouelle's 

 Compendium, Haworth's Lepidoptera Britannica, Shaw's Zoology, and other similar 

 works." He was, however, admitted as a solicitor, and for a short time was a partner 

 in a firm. He never really practiced, but devoted himself to Entomology and 

 Archaeology, and having some private means, augmented his income by writing and 

 drawing, for it was probably by his rare artistic talent that he acquired much of his 

 justly great reputation. His drawings of insects were masterpieces of accuracy 

 without the slightest attempt at effect, rapidly executed, and, what some termed 

 rough, others preferred to style " Westwoodian ; " few have equalled him in 

 correct delineation. There certainly never has been an entomologist who left behind 

 him so much evidence, in practical work, of his ability to delineate insects, even to 

 the most minute dissections. But Westwood was much more than an artist in 

 Entomology. There probably never has existed, and in the present state of the 

 science, there can never again exist, one who had so much general knowledge, both 

 from personal investigation and a study of the works of others ; one who was less 

 of a specialist in the modern acceptation of the term. It is true he was a specialist, 

 but it was in the way of taking up small groups in all Orders, and working them 

 out thoroughly, his artistic talent giving merit and force to those small monographs. 



