ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 





AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXXI. 



JULY, 1920. 



No 7. 



CONTENTS 



Coolidge and Newcomb Richard H. 



Stretch An Appreciation 181 



Skinner The Genus Choranthus Scud- 



der, with a Description of a New 



Species (Lep.) 186 



Ainslie Notes on Gonatopus ombro- 



des, a Parasite of Jassids (Hym., 



Horn.) 187 



Haber Oviposition by a Cockroach, 



Periplaneta americana - Linn. 



(Orth.) 190 



Green Notes on American Rhynch- 



ophora (Col.) 19.? 



An Appreciation (Diptera) 201 



Sad but Familiar 201 



Editorial Labels on Specimens 202 



Prof. V. L. Kellogg to leave Stanford 



University 203 



Return of the Williamson-University 



of Michigan Expedition from 



Venezuela 203 



Entomological Literature 203 



Reviews Howe's Insect Behavior. . . . 206 



Howe's Manual of the Odonata 



of New England 206 



Comstock's, An Introduction to 



Entomology 208 



Patch's Hexapod Stories 209 



Obituary H. S. Gorham, E. Reitter, 



E. Boudier, J. Pantel 210 



Richard H. Stretch---An Appreciation. 



By KARL R. COOLIDGE and H. H. NEWCOMB, 

 Los Angeles, California. 



(Plate II) 



There remain today but few of the pioneer lepidopterists 

 who, mostly under great handicaps, laid the ground work 

 for this study in America. Grote, Behr, Henry Edwards, 

 Scudder, William H. Edwards and others have passed to the 

 Great Beyond, leaving behind them writings and memories 

 that will forever be monuments to their genius. An associate 

 of these men, and himself the pioneer lepidopterist of tin- 

 Pacific Coast, is Richard H. Stretch, who for some years has 

 been living at 2657 37th Avenue, S. W., Seattle, Washington. 

 As he has been wintering at Pasadena, California, we have 

 been privileged to make his personal acquaintance, and from 



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