ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIII. 



JANUARY, 1912. 



No. i 



CONTENTS: 



Portrait Professor S. S. Haldeman I 



Davis An Injurious Grasshopper at 



Ridgewav, N. J. (Orthop.) 2 



Haskin and Grinnell Thecla dumento- 



rum and T. affinis ; a Study (Lepid.i 3 

 Smyth Description of the Larva and 



first bred specimens of Sphinx (Hy- 



loicus) franckii Neum. (Lepid ).... 9 

 Kellogg: and Mann A Third Collection 



of Mallophaga from Alaskan Birds 12 

 Hill-GriffinNew Oregon Trichoptera 17 



Bergroth Notes on Australian Penta- 



tomidae ( Rhynch.) 21 



Wellman New Species of Lyttidae, 

 with notes on described species 



(Coleop.) 29 



Editorial 39 



Entomological Literature 40 



Obituary James H. B. Bland 47 



F. W. Terry 47 



George Henry Verrall 48 



Albert Harrison 48 



Jules Bourgeois 48 



Professor S. S. Haldeman. 



(Portrait, Plate I.) 



Following the plan adopted for 1911, of placing on the 

 covers of the NEWS the portrait of one of the older American 

 Entomologists, w r e present for 1912 the portrait of Prof. S. 

 S. Haldeman, adding the following biographical sketch. 



SAMUEL STEHMAN HALDEMAN was born August 12, 1812, 

 at Locust Grove, Pennsylvania, and died at Chickies in the 

 same State, September 10, 1880. He spent two years as a 

 student in Dickinson College, Pa., but the rest of his education 

 was self-directed. He was Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Pennsylvania 1851-1855, Professor of 

 Comparative Philology in the same 1869-1880, and Professor 

 of Natural History in Delaware College in 1855, "acting also 

 as Professor of Geology and Chemistry to the State Agricul- 

 tural College." The Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers lists 61 titles on geological and zoological subjects from 

 his pen between 1839 and 1881, 30 of them being entomolog- 

 ical (chiefly on Coleoptera). "Failing eye-sight compelled him 

 eventually to give up his studies in Zoology, and to devote his 

 whole time to Linguistics." A biographical notice, by Dr. D. G. 

 Brinton, with quotations from Dr. J. L. Le Conte, was pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, Volume XIX, pages 279-285. 



