December 1948 The Queensland Naturalist 119 
is illustrated by a number of photographs and a 
coloured plate showing all the species. 
— S.T.B. ' 
OBITUARY 
Dr. Alfred Jefferis Turner was born in China in 1861. 
Educated in England, he graduated M.D. at the University of 
London m 1886. He came to Australia in 1888. 
As a boy he was a keen collector oi insects and influenced 
by Meyrick he decided on coming to Australia to devote most 
of his attention to the Lepidoptera, He was an ardent field 
naturalist and during his career collected Lepidoptera in all 
States of the Commonwealth and New Zealand Eventually, he 
became a world authority on the Australian Lepidoptera. He 
was a member o( the Queensland Naturalists 1 Club for very 
many years and was a foundation member of the Entomo- 
logical Society ol Queensland He tended to concentrate on 
the Ivticro-Lepidoptera and his patience in mounting these 
rather diificul! little specimens was admired by all who 
watcnod him. He built up a magnificent collection, which is 
now housed in the National Museum at Canberra. 
Undoubtedly, he was one o[ the outstanding field natural- 
ists ot our times and his death on December 29, 1947, is a 
distinct toss to all those with whom he associated. He was 
largely responsible lor the section on Lepidoptera in Tillyard’s 
"Insects of Australia and New Zealand." E.N.M. 
