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Of late years he usually made an annual trip to one of 

 the other States, New South Wales and Victoria being often 

 visited. But the specimens obtained on these trips repre- 

 sented a comparatively small fraction of the total he 

 examined. He had all the beetles of the South Australian 

 Museum at his disposal, and thousands of these bear labels 

 in his writing. He examined all the beetles taken on the 

 Elder Expedition, (1) the Horn Expedition, Mr. Zietz's trip 

 to Lake Callabonna, etc. For many years specimens were 

 sent to him at such an accelerating rate that he found he 

 could not spare time to attend to all of them, and in conse- 

 quence of late years his entomological correspondence was 

 considerably curtailed. 



In his early years in Australia some of his finest species, 

 were sent by the late Sir William Macleay, by the late Mr. 

 George Masters, and the late Mr. A. S. Olliff. Mr. French 

 sent him many fine Buprestidce, Cerambycidce, and other 

 showy insects to be named. He obtained a fine lot of Wes- 

 tern Australian insects in exchange with Mr. Meyrick for 

 some Lepidoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Bailey, 

 the Queensland Botanist, sent him many specimens. Messrs. 

 Koebele and Perkins also gave him many specimens from 

 New South Wales and Queensland, especially from the north.. 

 From the late Dr. Bovill he obtained many species from the 

 Northern Territory. Mr. Aug. Simson contributed largely 

 from Tasmania. Mr. T. G. Sloane, Mr. H. H. D. Griffith, 

 the late Professor Tate, his own children, and myself gave 

 him species from various parts of Australia, but probably 

 every worker at Australian Coleoptera during the past 

 twenty -five j^ears sent him specimens at one time or another. 



Pie was a systematist, pure and simple, taking no in- 

 terest, or, at any rate, very little, in the life histories of the^ 

 insects themselves ; although in his earlier days he appeared 

 to have been interested in the transformation of Lepidoptera. 



He worked at most families of beetles at various times,, 

 both from interest in them and from working through col- 

 lections taken during various expeditions ; but of late years 

 he had almost confined himself to the Scarabceidce, a family 

 that had always been first favourite with him. He was, 

 however, preparing to work through the Elateri<h( j , and was 

 arranging his collection of that family when his call came. 



Groups that would have presented insurmountable diffi- 

 culties to many entomologists he attacked conscientiously : 

 thus the largest and most difficult genus of all Australian 



(i) A Mountain in Central Australia discovered during the- 

 Ekler Expedition was named after him. 



