

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIII. 



MAY, 1912. 



No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Grossbeck Professor John Bernhardt 

 Smith, Sc.D 193 



Williamson The Dragonfly Argia 

 moesta and a n. sp. (Odonata) 196 



Knetzler Observations on the Lepid- 

 optera of St. Louis, Missouri, and 

 vicinity during 1911 203 



Rowley and Berry A dry year's yield 

 of Catocalae (Lepid.), 1911 207 



Cockerel! A Fossil Raphidia (Neur., 

 Planip. > 215 



de la Torre Bueno A new Corizus 



from the Northeastern United 



States (Hemip., Coreidae) 217 



Barnes and McDunnough New Mi- 



crolepidoptera 219 



Stryke The Life-Cycle of the Malarial 



Parasite 221 



Editorial 224 



Notes and News 226 



Entomological Literature 233 



Doings of Societies 237 



Obituary Prof. Thomas H. Montgom- 

 ery, Jr 239 



Professor John Bernhardt Smith, Sc.D. 



(Portrait, Plate XI) 



Professor John Bernhardt Smith, one of the best known en- 

 tomologists in this country, and widely known in foreign lands 

 also, died at his home at New Brunswick, New Jersey, on 

 Tuesday morning, March I2th, after an illness of seven 

 months. For some years Professor Smith had been ailing, and 

 in 1906, partly under the advice of his physician, he spent sev- 

 eral months in Europe in the hope of regaining his health. He 

 returned a much better man physically ; but he was never 

 again his old self, and he frequently alluded in a jocular man- 

 ner to the fast approaching end to his earthly career. His in- 

 domitable energy, however, kept him from becoming a chronic 

 invalid, and even during the last months of his life when he 

 was largely confined to his bed he regularly attended to his 

 correspondence and directed the work under his charge at the 

 New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Bright's disease, 

 with its manifold complications, finally claimed him , and he 

 rapidly sank under its dreaded influence. 



Professor Smith was born in New York City on November 

 21, 1858. He was educated in the Public schools, studied law 



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