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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.ODOROUS BU’rTERFLIES.The butterflies

of India seem to be often odorous. In a"List of the lepidopterous insects collected inCachar by Mr. Wood-Mason, part 2, Rhopa-locera," by Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and L. deNic6ville (Journ. Asiatic society of Bengal,1886, v. 55, pt. 2, no. 4, P. 343-393, pl. I5-I8),among the 249 species foun.d in that districttwelve species are mentioned as odorous.Five species ofnym3]mlidae are described as

having vanilla-scented males. Oft/mlma canadeva, Mr. Wood-Mason writes,"The gland covered by a patch of modifiedscales and by an erectile wisp of hairs on

each hind wing in the male, secretes a fluidthat gives out a pleasant odor distinct from,but so faint as barely to be perceptible in the

presence of a much stro.nger odor (resem-bling that of sable fresh from the furrier’sshop) which is common to .the two sexes."Of the male of Catopsla noma it is saidthat the tufts of hair on the wings smell like

jessamin. Three species ofailionidae arementioned as having a musky odor. Papiliodasarada is described as having "a strongscent of caged porcupines with a touch ofmusk." In P. aristolochiae "the male emitsa strong and slightly pungent odor resem-bling that of batcheIor’s buttons or of therose with a trace of acetic acid." G: D.

NECROLOGY. Since our last necrologicalnotice (PSYCHE, Jan.-Mar. I885, v. 4, P.266), news has been received of the death ofthe following entomologists, or persons whohave contributed to entomological literatureSpencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of theSmithsonian institution, at Washington,D. C.: zoologist, b. 3 Feb. 1823, in Reading,Pa., d. 19 Aug. 1887, at Woods Holl, Mass.Heinrich Anton de Bary, cryptogamic bota-nist, b. at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany,26Jan. 183 I, d. I9Jan. 1886, at Strassburg, Ger-many. Dr. Edward Becher, entomologist andassistant in the royal museum in Vienna, Aus-

tria, d. in that city, II Nov. 1886. ThomasBland, entomologist and conchologist, b. 4Oct. 18o9 in Nottinghamshire, Engl., d. 20

Aug. 1885, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Henri Bri-sout de Barneville, entomologist, d. 23 Jan.1887, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France,Dr. Adam Todd Bruce, anatomist and em-bryologist, instructor in Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, d. in Cairo, Egypt, II Feb. 1887.Nicholas Cooke, lepidopterist, b. 14 Jan.1818, at Liverpool, d. 19 May 188.5, at Leath-erhead, England. Thomas Cooke, Londonentomologist, b. in 1814, d. Io June 1885.Carl Cornelius, teacher in the Realschule inElberfeld, from 833 to 1874, who has con-tributed largely to the literature of the biolo-gy of insects, b. 17 Nov. I8O5, in Soest, Ger-many, d. April 188.5, inElberfeld, Germany.Thomas Edward, whose life is told by S:Smiles in his Life of a Scotch naturalist,"b. 25 Dec. 1814 in Gosport, d. 27 April1886. James English, entomological collec*tor, d. 12 Jan. 1888, in Epping, England,aged67 years. William Farren, entomologicalcollector, d. at Cambridge, Engl., 21 Nov.1887, aged 51 years. John Firth, lepidopter-ist and ornithologist, d. in Bradford, Engt.,29 Aug. 188‘5, aged .53. Dr. Heinrich Leo-pold Fischer, professor of minerology butwell known as a writer on orthoptera, d. inFreiburg, i. Br., Germany, Feb. 1886.Herrmann Friedrich Rudolf Heinrich Gada-mer, forester, entomologist and ornitholo-gist, b. 2 May, 1818, in Silesia, d. at Rasliitt,near J6nk6ping, Sweden, 24April 188‘5. Dr..Max Gemminger, coleopterist, b. 23 Jan.182o 20 Jan. I822_ in Mtinchen, Germany,d. 18 Apr. 1887, in the same city. MauriceGirard, a well-known Parisian entomologist,d. in Aug. I886, aged 64, at Lion-sur-mer,France, during his summer vacation. Gus-tar Haller, entomologist, student of acar]na,d. May 1886, in Bern, Switzerland. JamesHamer, entomological collector, d. at South-port, Lancashire, Engl., 14 Nov. 1887, aged46 years. Oscar Harger, zoologist and pa-

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leontologist,b. 12 Jan. 1843, in Oxford, Conn.,d. 6 Nov. I887, in New Haven, Conn. BaronEdgar yon Harold, coleopterist, d. Aug.1886, in Possenhofen, near Miinchen, Ger-many. Rev. John Hellins, lepidopterist, d.in Exeter, Engl., 9 May 1887, aged 58. C.W.Hering, lepidopterist, d. in Stettin, Germany,Feb. 1887 aged 85. Franz H611mer, lepi-

dopterist, b. 2 9 Sept. I82O, in Borgholzhau senKreis tlalle, Westphalia, Germany, d. II

April 1885, in Mtinster, Westphalia. Johannvon Hornig, lepidopterist, d. 29 Nov. 1886,in Vienna, Austria. Nicholas Joly, pro-fessor in Toulouse, d. there 17 Oct. 1885,Dr. Wilhelm Kaiser, zoologist, b. Feb. I841,in Arnsberg, Germany, d. 2 Sept." I884, inElberfeld. Frederick W. Klages, collector ofinsects, d. in Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 March I886in his 27th year. Albert Kothe, lepidopterist,b. in 1828, inBerlin, Germany, d. 12 Oct. 1885,in that city. Antonio de Lacerda, entomolo-gist, d. in Bahia, Brazil, early- in Aug.1885, at the age of 51 Charles Lambin, co-leopterist, d. at Paris, France, 8 Oct. 1885, atthe age of 63 years. Jules Lichtenstein,entomologist, d. at Montpellier, France, 3Nov. 1886, at the age of 68. Valre Li6nard,anatomist and entomologist in Ghent, Bel-gium, b. in 1856, d. 2o Aug. 1885, in Brussels.Robert Francis Logan, lepidopterist, d. in

Spylaw, Colinton, near Edinburgh, Scot-land, 28 July I887 Charles Martin, ento-mological collector and lieutenant of infan-

try in the French expedition to Tonquin.Philipp Leopold Martin, taxidermist andmuseologist, d. 8 Mar. 1885 in Stuttgart. Fe-rencz Franqois] Metelka, entomologistand pharmacist, b. 21 July 1814 at Hatvan,Hungary, d. 9 March 1885, at Als6-Dabas,Hungary. Pierre Millire, entomologist,writer on the biology of lepidoptera, d. atCannes, France, 29 May 1887, aged 74. Dr.Henri Milne-Edwards, eminent zoologist anddean of the scientific faculty at Paris, b. 23Oct. 18oo, in Bruges, France (now Belgium),

d. 29 July 885, in Paris, France. Max Mtit-zell, lepidopterist, d. 16 April 1887, in Ber-lin, Germany. Karl P16tz, lepidopterist, d.in Greifswald, Germany, 12 Aug. 1886, aged73. Dr. Franqois P. L. Pollen, zoologistand explorer of Madagascar, b. 7 Jan. 1842, inRotterdam, Holland, d. 7 May I886, in Lei-den, Holland. John Arthur Power, M. D.,coleopterist, b. 18 March 181o, d. in Bedford,Engl., 9 June 1886. Charles Phillippe Robin,French senator, physiologist and entomolo-gist, b. 4. June 182, at Jasseron, dept. deFAin, France, d. 6 Oct. 885, near Jasseron.John Sang, lepidopterist, d. in Darlington,Engl., 19March 1887, aged 59. J6rgen Chris-tian Schi6dte, entomological writer sincei836, b. 20 April 1815, in Copenhagen, d. 2April 1884, in the same city. Joseph Side-botham, astronomer, entomologist andbotanist, d. at Bowdon, near Manchester,Engl., 3 May 1885, at the aged of 62. CarlTheodor Ernst von Siebold, distinguishednaturalist and since 1853 professor of zoologyat Mtinchen, Germany, b. 16 Feb. 18o4, inWiirzburg, Germany, d. in Mtinchen, 7 April1885. Dr. Georg Simmermacher, a youngzoologist, d. 18 May, 1885, in Giessen, Ger-many, in consequence of accidental poisoningby arseniuretted hydrogen. Gabriel Tappes,entomologist, d. at Batignolles, Paris, 27Sept. 1885, in his 7oth year. Jean Jacques deTschudi, Swiss traveler and naturalist, d. inSt. Gall, Switzerland, 25 Jan. 1886, aged 68.Antonio Villa, naturalist and author ofnumerous entomological papers, d. 26 June1885, in Milan, Italy. Adolf Werneburg,forester and lepidopterist d. 21 Jan. 1887, in

Erfurt, Germany. Hendrik Weyenbergh,professor of zoology in C6rdoba, ArgentineRepublic, entomologist, d. in Harlem, Hol-land, 25 July 1885, aged 4.2; he was at thetime on a visit to his native country. ThomasWilson, entomologist, d. in York, Engl. 7April 1887, aged 5I. G: 19.

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