1890.) 113 



■wings, and in the yellowish abdomen. Tliis last character separates it also from 

 httidentella, which also is devoid of the slight markings found in the pi-esent species. 

 I have seen no specimens except those from Pembroke, and think it rare and 

 extrenielj local. — Id. 



The Butterflies of North America: by W. II. Edwards. Third Series, 

 Part is. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston and New York ; Triibner & Co., London. 

 1890. 



This Part contains Argi/nnis neiiadensis, Edw., A. Halcyone, Edw., A. ApJiro- 

 dite, F. (early stages), Safi/rns Pegala, F., and var. (?) Alope, Bdv., and Ereiia 

 episodea, Eutl., with var. Brncei, Elwes. This latter article is most exhaustive, both 

 as regards variation and local distribution, together with metamorphoses, about forty 

 figures being crowded into the plate ; in the text tliere are instructive details on the 

 distribution of Erehia in general. The author promises to give, hereafter, demon- 

 strations to prove that the SaiyrincE (of which Erehia is one) are naturally at the 

 bottom of the series in an arrangement of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



(ibituaru. 



Profe.tsor Heinrich Frey, M.D. — Heinrich Frey was born June 15th, 1822, at 

 Frankfort-on-the-Main, where in due time he went to the Grymnasium, and remained 

 there till he was 16. During this period he was acquainted with Senator von Heyden, 

 from whom no doubt he received an impetus to the study of Entomology. After 

 the Grymnasium came the University, and young Frey went, in 1838, to Bonn, thence 

 to Berlin, and thence to Gottingen. 



It was when he returned home to Frankfort for the first time from Bonn, in 

 1839, that his friend von Heyden showed him Zeller's "Attempt at a Systematic 

 i Arrangement of the Tineinea," which had then just appeared in Oken's Isis. He 

 has himself told us, in his notice of the life of Professor Zeller (Stettin, ent. Zeit., 

 1883, p. 414) with what enthusiastic delight he read this treatise, which shed such a 

 brilliant light and arranged in an orderly system a group of insects, which till then 

 had remained in a state of confusion that seemed quite hopeless to attempt to 

 unravel. 



At Gottingen he was established as a private tutor in 1817, and the following 

 y-ear he was appointed to an extraordinary Professorship there. 



In 1849 he received a call from the University of Zurich, and though Gottingen 

 would gladly have retained the young Professor, the attractions of Switzerland, its 

 Republican freedom, and its scenery, determined him to accept the Professorship at 

 Zorich, which henceforth became the home of his remaining life. 



In 1851 he was advanced to the position of ordinary Professor of the medical 

 faculty, and in 1855 to this he added the position of Professor at the confederate 

 Polytechnikum, and also became Director of the microscopical anatomical institute. 

 From 18(54 to 1856 he was Rector of the High School there. 



