ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OK NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL, XXIX. 



JANUARY, 1918. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary of William D. Kearfott i 



Stearns Description of a new Species 

 of the Family Cercopidae from Wis- 

 consin ( Hem., Horn.) 3 



Hebard A Generic Assignment of 

 Three North American Species of 

 Dermaptera 5 



Blaisdell Studies in the Tenebrionidae 

 (Coleop. ) 7 



Howard Moonstones in a Cecropia 

 Cocoon ( Lepid . ) 15 



Smith A Key to the Known Species of 

 South Carolina Ants, with Notes 

 (H 5 m.) 17 



Weiss Isaac P. Trimble, M. D., Early 



Economic Entomologist of New Jer- 

 sey 29 



Malloch Occurrence of a European 

 Anthoim iid in Illinois (Diptera) ... 32 



Editorial The Present Crisis 33 



New Color for Clothing Suggested by 



Butterfly (Lep.) . .'.' 34 



Entomological Literature 34 



Doings of Societies Amer. Ent. Soc. 



(Lep.) 36 



Eritorn Section of the Acad. Nat. Sci. 



of Phila. (Odoti . Orlliop , Lep.) 37 



Entomological Society of Nova Scotia. 



A Correction 38 



Feldman Collecting Social (Lepid., 

 Coleop., Orthop., Dipt.) 39 



William D. Kearfott. 



(Portrait, Plate I.) 



William 1). Kearfott died suddenly on Monday night, No- 

 vember the 1 2th, 1917, following an attack of apoplexy. 

 During the ten years from 1902 to 1911 he was an active 

 student of the Microlepidoptera, particularly the family Tor- 

 tricidae. Previous to that time he had been interested in 

 Lepidoptera generally. 



An indefatigable and keen-eyed collector and a master nf 

 technic in the preparation of the small moths he studic 1. he 

 amassed a very large collection and also received many speci- 

 mens for determination from the United States and Canada. 

 He also reared and studied the life histories of many of the-e 

 insects. In addition he was a prolific writer of systematic 

 articles and described many new specie-., one paper contain- 

 ing 164. species and varieties new to science. I ie was very 

 clever with the brush, and pen and copied many figures from 

 books and made paintings of typ< - in museums for UM- in hi> 

 studies. Ilis work \\as careful and accurate and ranked high. 

 Exception, however, was taken to some of the name- he pro 



