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Eupithecia consignata bred. — I have bred six fine specimens of E. consignata 

 within the last few days, from eggs kindly sent to me last spring by Mrs. Hutchinson, 

 of Grantsfield. I have entirely failed in getting them to pair. — H. Harpur Crewe, 

 Drayton Beauchamp, May, 1869. 



The late Br. L. Imhoff's Works, Manuscripts and Collections. — The November 

 number of this Magazine contained an obituary notice of Dr. L. Imhoff, and there 

 will shortly appear in Switzerland a " Necrolog " of the same naturalist from the 

 pen of Professor C. L. Kutimeyer. 



In connection therewith the following memoranda may be of some interest, 

 and, in publishing them, I hope to meet with the approval, not only of the respected 

 author of the " Bibliotheca Entomologica," but of all those who are agreed that 

 in the interest of science it is the duty of the survivors to preserve an exact record 

 of the work done by those who have died at their post. 



Published Works. — To the almost complete list up to 1862, in Dr. Hagen's 

 work, there are to be added — 



" Catalogus Piezatorum (Hymenopterorum) circa Basileam nee non in aliis 

 Helvetia? regionibus repertorum." Basilea, 1 fol (1838?). 



" Sanimlung auslandischer Kiifer und Schmetterlinge in naturgetreuen Abbil- 

 dungen von T. D. Labram. Mit Text von Dr. L. Imhoff." 1838. Basel, 8vo ; 2 

 numbers, each with 4 pages text and 4 plates, some of which are coloured 

 (Papilio Doreus, Erippus, Bolina, et Biaphanus ; Syntomis Lethe, Procris Lichas ; 

 Acroza Horta ; Passalus Heros ; Catoxantha angusta ; Chrysochroa xanthotceniaj . 



Lacordaire's notice of a "Heft" No. 19 of the " Singulorum generum Cur- 

 culionidum," is correct (compare Hagen, Bibl. Ent. I, p. 401). The aforesaid 

 publications are in my possession. Labram's original pencil drawings to Dr. 

 Imhoff's work about the Curculionidai are also in my hands, as well as many of 

 those of the " Insecten der Schweiz ;" but what has become of the remainder of the 

 latter, particularly of the finely executed drawings of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, I 

 am not able to state at present. 



Manuscripts. — Of these I have secured — 



" Ludovici Imhoff Dissertatio, in qua insecta nonnulla succino inclusa de- 

 scribuntur et figuris illustrantur," etc. 4to ; ann. 1 tab. (8 Diptera, 1 Phryganea, 

 1 Termes, and 1 Chrysomela, from the Public and Bernoullian Collections at Basle). 

 No date. 



" Kirby's Arten des Genus Bombua " (a critical comparison of Kirby's with 

 continental species). No date. 



" Europaeische Arten des Genus Bombus in der Hellwig-Hoffmanseggischen 

 Sammlung." No date. 



Collections. — Dr. Imhoff's first and most complete one, combining all orders 

 of Swiss insects, with the types of the species described by him as new, was 

 bought, many years ago, by Professor L. Agassiz, for the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology in Cambridge, Mass. (see Hagen, Stettin. Ent. Zeitung, 1868, p. 115). 



Swiss entomologists will not fail to appreciate the fact that this collection 

 (together with other European ones) is now under the care of Dr. Hagen himself ; 

 and it is to be hoped that this coincidence will be in due time made use of to 

 settle the many open questions, particularly in the order of the Neuroptera taken 

 in the Linneean sense. 



