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94 . PSYCHE.
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pterifs extending southward through Mexico, Guatemala and Panama.
Dr. Leitner, of Bade, has passed the last nine or ten months in this country, studying -both in the British Museum and at the
different private collections -the polyrnor- phisni of lucanoid beetles comprised in the udontolabidae, with the view to an explana- tion of the evolution of the mandibles and of the strongly marked sexual dimorphism. Dr. Leitner considers the female to exhibit (in this case) the archaic type, and his memoir will probably be published by one of our London societies about the end of the war.
Perhaps at no previous period in the study of lepidoptera has so much compiete faunis- tic work been in the course of publication as at the present time. Thus in your own country appears the exceflent work of
Edwards on the Butterflies of North America, whilst Godman and Salvin are publishing
their monograph of the rhopatocero of
Central America, and, farther south, Dr. Burmeister is doing a similar- service for the lepidopkra of the Argentine Republic. In London Lang is publishing his "European Butterflies" whilst a$ regards the east, Moore's "Lepidoptera of Ceylon," Marshall and de Niceville's "Butterfli'es of India, Burmah and Ceylon," and my own "Rho-
palocera Malayans" are regularly appearing and sufficiently attest the amount of pub- lishing energy in this field,
Very few entomological collections have
recently been received from the neotropical region, Mi-. Champion has just returned
from Central America bringing the remain- der of the best collection-in view of the number of minute and carefully mounted
specimens-ever made in the tropics. Dr.
Angas has brought home from ~ominica a
small but interesting collection, and in all probability the next lot of entomological novelties from this region will be received in America from your coun tryrnan Herbert
Smith and the other members of his expedi- tion.
W, L. Distant.
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VACTOR TOUSEY CHAMBERS.
Born in Burlington, Boone County, Ken-
tucky, 6 August 1830.
Died in Covington, Kenton County, Ken-
tucky, 7 August 1883.
Mr. Chambers made his name familiar to
the entomologists of North America, and
widely abroad, by his writings upon the tiset- *a, and may be reckoned next to Brackenridge Clemens as a pioneer in the study of these insects in this country. His first paper upon the subject seems to have been his "A new ,
species of Cemiosioma." . , , [Rec., no. 32071, published in June 1871, but we find an earlier paper of his on a parasited larva of Trofaea Zuua, published in January 1870. His last paper appears to be his "The classification of the fineidae," on p. 71-74 of the present vd'ume of PSYCHE. Such of his papers as
have thus far been recorded in PSYCHE ap- peared in approximatelj the following chron- ological order, the numerals referring to the Bibliographical record : 88. 41 I, 441,337, 339, 340, 34'7 343, 449' 361, 491, 1% I074 IT59 low, t 102, 1113, 1129. 1142, 1150, 1156, 851, 852, 853, 1185, 1196, 1212, 1339, 1244, 1261, 1398, 1866, 1868, 1867, 1292, 1308, 1326, 1409, 1370, 18~5, 2269,2803. We have still on hand the titles of several articles by him, making in ail at least sixty titles, and many of these are in fact series of separate articles, appear- ing under the same word-title throughout a volume. Mr. Chambers was singularly un-
fortunate in the treatment he received from his proof-readers, in some of the publications where most of his articles appeared, and rendered the citation of his articles especially difficult by the similarity which he gave to their titles. A brief biographical sketch of him appears in Science, 24 Aug. 1883, v. 2, P. 253-2544 B: P. M.




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