96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l6 



HEMIPTERA. E. S. COGAN, Ohio State University, The Homop- 

 terous Mouth.* H. A. GOSSARD, Wooster, Ohio, Distribution of Peri- 

 odical Cicada in Ohio for the years 1906, 1914 and 1915. (Maps of 

 the areas in which they appeared and remarks thereon.) D. M. DE- 

 LONG, Ohio State University, Notes on the Jassoidea of Tennessee.* 

 R. D. WHITMARSH, Wooster, Ohio, Life History Notes on Apctcticus 

 cynicus and maculiventris.'EmtiL M. PATCH, Maine Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Host Plant Outlines of a Few Aphids Based Upon 

 Original Observations in Maine* (Exhibit) and Concerning Problems 

 in Aphid Ecology. (An outline indicating certain phases of aphid study 

 with especial reference to life cycle work with migratory species.) R. 

 W. COLEMAN and W. A. RILEY, Cornell University, Wax Model of Re- 

 pugnatorial Glands and their Muscles in Anasa Nymph. See also under 

 "Physiology," "Insects Injurious to Man," etc., and "Parasites of In- 

 sects" above. 



THYSANOPTERA See under "Physiology" above. 



OBITUARY. 



Professor FRANCIS MARION WEBSTER died of pneumonia 

 in a hospital at Columbus, Ohio, at 4 a. m. of January 3, 

 1916, and was buried in Illinois on January 5th. His death 

 removes an active and familiar figure from the annual en- 

 tomological meetings and from the Federal Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. Previous to assuming charge of grain- and forage- 

 insect investigations for the United States Department of 

 Agriculture in 1904, he was connected with State entomologi- 

 cal work in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, his title of Professor 

 being derived from the chair of Applied Entomology at Pur- 

 due University, which he held from 1884 to 1888. He visited 

 Australia and New Zealand in 1888-89 on a mission from the 

 Federal departments of State and Agriculture. 



Professor Webster was the son of J. S. and Betsey A. 

 (Riddle) Webster and was born at Lebanon, New Hamp- 

 shire, August 8, 1849. He married Maria A. Potter, of Sand- 

 wich, Illinois, August 21, 1870. 



Extended notices of his life and work are in course of 

 preparation for the Journal of Economic Entomology, Science 

 and the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of ll'asli- 

 ington. 



