240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [XXXI, '2O 



The death of LEONARD DONCASTER, Derby professor of 

 Zoology in the University of Liverpool, on May 28, 1920, 

 was reported in Science for July 2. Although chiefly a stu- 

 dent of heredity and cytology, as evidenced in his two books 

 Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910) and The De- 

 termination of Sex (1914), his research work was largely 

 based on insects. He published on Gameto genesis and Sex 

 Determination in the Gail-Fly, Neuroterus lenticularis (3 

 parts, Proc. Roy. Soc., 1910, 1911, 1916). On the Relation 

 between Chromosomes, Sex-limited Transmission and Sex- 

 determination in Abraxas grossulariata and On the Chromo- 

 somes of Biston hirtaria, Nyssia zonaria and their hybrids 

 (Journ. Genetics 1914), and On Some Gynandromorphic 

 Specimens of Abraxas grossulariata (Proc. Cambr. Phil. Soc. 

 1916). He was born at Sheffield, Dec. 31, 1877, attended 

 the Leighton Park School at Reading, went to Kings College, 

 Cambridge (of which he became a Fellow in 1910), and was 

 Lecturer on Zoology at Birmingham University, 1906-1910. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915. 



The Philadelphia Public Ledger, of August 30, 1920, pub- 

 lished a despatch from "Tokio, Aug. 29. The Rev. HENRY 

 LOOMIS, a pioneer missionary, is dead here. He was born 

 in Burlington, New York, in 1839." We suppose that it 

 was he through whom a number of American entomologists 

 obtained Japanese insects, especially in 1888 and 1889. 



Additions to the Recorded Illinois Reduviidae (Hem.) 



Van Duzee's recent Catalogue of Hemiptera contains all the published 

 records of Reduviidae from -Illinois, but there are in the collection of the 

 Illinois State Natural History Survey many species which are not in- 

 cluded in that catalogue as occurring in the state. The following list 

 supplies the omitted species. The nomenclature is according to Van 

 Duzee's catalogue. 



Ploiariola errabunda Say, P. tuberculata Banks, Barce annulipes Stal, B. 

 fraterna Say, Oncerolrachelus acuminatus Say, Pnirontis infirma Stal, 

 Pygolampis sericea Stal, Stenopoda culiciformis Fabricius, Oncocephalus 

 apiculatus Reuter, Narvesus carolinensis Stal, Reduvius personatus Linne, 

 Melanolestes abdominalis H.-S., Sirthena carinata Fabricius, Rhiginia 

 cruciata Say, Apiomerus crassipes Fabricius, Zelus exsanguis Stal, Pselli- 

 opns barberi Davis, Repipta taurus Fabricius, Filch in spinulosa Stal, 

 Aril-us cristatus Linnc, Ac holla diadema Fabricius, Sincu spinipes H.-S. 



This brings the state list to a total of 30 species, three more than re- 

 corded from New Jersey in 1909. J. R. MALLOCH. 



