ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVI. 



JUNE, 1915- 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Ramsden Juan Gundlach 241 



Weiss Additions to Insects of New 

 Jersey, No. 2 ( Lep. ) 260 



Skinner How Does the House-fly Pass 

 the Winter (Dipt.) 263 



Manee Observations in Southern 

 Pines, North Carolina ( Hym., Col.) 265 



Cockerell A Wasp Resembling a Bee 

 (Hym.) 268 



Frost List of Coleoptera Collected 

 from Tanglefoot 269 



Photographing Insects under Magnifi- 

 cation 270 



Braun Notes on Some Species of Tis- 

 cheria, with Descriptions of New 

 Species (Lep.) 271 



de la Torre Bueno Heteroptera in 



Beach Drift 274 



Richardson Ecto or Endoparasitism ? 

 A plea for Greater Definiteness in 

 the Citation of Host Data in the 



Parasitic Hymenoptera 279 



Editorial Incomplete Titles 280 



Entomologists in the War Zone 281 



A Mistake of a Butterfly (Lep.) 281 



Troop Cerambycid in Bedstead (Col.) 281 



Entomological Literature 282 



Doings of Societies Entom. Section, 



Acad.Nat.Sci. Phila. (Lep., Dip.) 284 

 Feldman Collecting Social (Col., 



Lep., Dip. ) 284 



Obituary Carl Brunner von Wattenvvyl 285 



Juan Gundlach. 

 By CHARLES T. RAMSDEN, Guantanamo, Cuba. 



(Plates VIII and IX.) 



Johannes Christopher Gundlach was born on July i/th, 1810, 

 at Marburg, Hesse-Cassel (now Hesse-Nassau), Germany. 

 His father, Johann, a Professor of Mathematics and Physics 

 at the University of Marburg, died, leaving a widow, Christina 

 Redberg, and five children to live on two small pensions, one 

 from the State, and the other from the University, not suffi- 

 cient to make ends meet and educate the children. 



It was from his eldest brother, just returned from Cassel, 

 where he had mastered the art of taxidermy, that Johannes tlu-n 

 nine years old, got his first notions in this line ; though he 

 had long been fond of studying nature in all its forms, so 

 fond indeed that his spare moments were dedicated entirely to 

 it. On one occasion while collecting birds, being about to 

 shoot one, seeing a guard coming up, Gundlach got so nervous 

 while trying to hide his gun under his coat, muzzle up, the 

 hammer getting fouled in his clothing, the cartridge exploded, 



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