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daughters, he went to reside at CMteaudun, and at his country seat, “ Les Chatelliers,” 
in the neighbourhood. It was there, that in 1857, wo had the pleasure of seeing 
him. It was but seldom that he quitted the country for Paris ; but, by a strange 
coincidence, on the occasion of our very last visit to Paris, in March, 1872, we met 
Guen6e there — we were never to meet again. 
Guenee leaves a widow, two daughters (who are married), and three little 
grandsons. Let us hope that one of those grandsons may develop the tastes of his 
grandfather, and become a shining Entomological light in the next century. 
r llie cai*eer of Guenee as an Entomological writer commenced in 1833, with a 
notice of the habits of the larva of Nonagria paludicola (var. geminipuncta) in the 
“Annales” of the French Entomological Society, vol. ii, pp. 447 — 453. 
Phis was followed by several similar short notices, and, from 1837 to 1841, he 
wrote a series of papers on Noctuce , including an Essay on the Classification of the 
Noctuce ; these appeared in the “Annales” of 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1841. These 
papers may be looked upon as the preparatory steps to his larger work on the 
Noctuce, which appeared some years later. It was probably during this period that 
he furnished some of the descriptions of larvte which appeared in Duponchel’s 
“ Iconographie des Chenilles.” 
In the French “Annales ” for 1845, he published an Essay on the Classification 
of Micro- Lepidoptera, with a Catalogue of the European species. This paper 
(though without the interesting introductory chapter which occurs in the “Annales”) 
was also published in a separate form under the title of “ Europseorum Micro- 
Lcpidoptei’orum Index Methodicus.” This “ Index ” goes systematically through 
the Tortricina and Crambina (many new species being briefly described in Latin) ; 
but of the Tineina only the Plutellidce and a portion of the Hyponomeutidce were 
given. 
No doubt the author had intended (as he calls this “ Pars Prima, sistens 
Tortrices, Phycidas, Crambidas, Tinearuinque initium ”) to have brought out subse- 
quently a “ Pars Secunda,” with the remainder of the Tineina ; but his subsequent 
Herculean labours amongst the Macro- Lepidoptera prevented the completion of this 
“ Catalogue of Micro- Lepidoptera.” 
Guenee’s greatest work appeared in 1852 — 3 volumes 8vo, extending to more 
than 1300 closely printed pages, treating of the Noctuce of the whole world. At the 
time this appeared the mass of interesting matter relating to the habits of species, 
as observed by the author himself, formed a vast addition to our previous knowledge 
of the subject. 
These volumes formed part of the Scries of the Suites a Buffon “ Species 
General des Lepidopteres,” of which the first volume, treating of a portion of the 
Phopalocera from the pen of Dr. Boisduval, had appeared as far back as 1830 (see 
Ent. Mo. Mag., xvi, p. 235). In 1854 Guenee brought out another volume of the 
Series containing the “ Deltoides et Pyralites.” Three years later there appeared 
two more volumes containing the Geometrina (“ Plialenites ”). 
There are thus six volumes of the Suites a Buffon from Guenee’s pen, and no 
Entomological Library is complete without them. 
In 1868 there appeared, in the 5th volume of this Magazine, a series of de- 
scriptions by Guenee of Heterocerous Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Fercday in 
New Zealand. 
