ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVI. 



APRIL, 1905. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary A. S. Packard 97 



Stevenson The Blattidse of Montreal 98 

 Laurent Notes from a diary made dur- 

 ing a collecting trip to the Rocky 

 Mountains of Colorado and Utah.. 99 

 Girault A Bibliography of Entomolog- 

 ical Glossaries 105 



Adams On the North American species 



of Oscinis 108 



Jeheber Observations on Papilio tur- 



nus var. glaucus in 



Ris Oviposition in Cordulegaster ri3 



Grinnell Lycasna emigdionis n. sp 115 



Coquillett New Culex from Australia. .116 

 Lawrence Some notes on the habits 

 and life history of Bembecia margi- 

 nata Harris in West. Washington... 117 



Editorial 120 



Notes and News 121 



Doings of Societies 121 



Alpheus Spring Packard, M.D., Ph.D. 



(Plate VI.) 



Prof. Alpheus Spring Packard, M.D., Ph.D., died on Febru- 

 ary 14, 1905. He was born in Brunswick, Maine, in 1839, 

 and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861. He occu- 

 pied many important scientific positions, being one of the 

 founders and for twenty years editor-in-chief of the American 

 Naturalist. In 1865 he became librarian and custodian of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, was curator of the Essex 

 Institute and in 1867 became curator and afterward director of 

 the Peabody Academy of Sciences. From 1877 to 1882 he was 

 a member of the United States Entomological Commission. At 

 one time he was State Entomologist of Massachusetts. He 

 was a corresponding or honorary member of a number of Euro- 

 pean Scientific Societies and was elected a correspondent of the 

 American Entomological Society in 1861. He occupied the chair 

 of Zoology and Geology at Brown University from 1878 to his 

 death. Dr. Packard was a prolific writer and was known to all 

 entomologists through the work " Guide to the Study of In- 



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