ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. vi. JANUARY, 1895. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Webster Thomas Say i 



Slosson Additional list of insects taken 

 in alpine region of Mt. Washington 



Notes and News 18 



Entomological Literature 21 



Doings of Societies 26 



Ottolengui Aberration, variety, race Entomological Section 27 



and form 7 , Baker Biological notes on some Colo- 



Hulst North American Geometrina in rado Coleoptera 27 



European collections n 



Knab Ant nests 15 



Editorial 17 



Schaus A new Phasgoptera from Mex. 29 

 Williston A new Tachinid with re- 

 markable antennae 29 



THOMAS SAY I 



By Prof. F. M. WEBSTER, Wooster, Ohio. 



During late Autumn of the year 1888, the writer had the pleas- 

 ure of spending a few days in New Harmony, Ind., a guest of 

 the late Col. and Mrs. Richard Owen, both of whom were resi- 

 dents of that somewhat famous little city during the nine years 

 that " The Father of American Entomology" made it his home, 

 and with whom they were both personally acquainted. Though 

 at that time upwards of ninety years old, Col. Owen and his good 

 wife pointed out many, to me, historic places, made sacred by 

 their associations with Thomas Say, and feeling that not only 

 such places would sooner or later disappear, but those who were 

 able to give their history from personal recollections would within 

 a few years cross the Dark River, I engaged to have a series of 

 photographic views taken under the supervision of my host and 

 hostess. The three views that are to follow in forthcoming num- 

 bers of the NEWS, were thus obtained, and will be explained 

 as they are consecutively used. The portrait included in this 

 number is from a photograph of a steel engraving in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Frategot, of New Harmony, to whose father it was 



