

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIV. 



JUNE, 1913- 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Schwarz Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt.... 241 



Brehme Notes on Mosquitoes (Dipt.) 242 



Sherman The Melpidae (Blister-bee- 

 tles) of N Carolina (Col.) 245 



Leonard Additions to the New Jersey 

 Tipulidae (Diptera), with the de- 

 scription of a new species 247 



Wolley Dod Notes on Some North 

 American Noctuidae (Lepid ) 249 



The New President of the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of London 257 



Williamson The Medio-anal Link in 

 Agrioninae ( Odonata) 258 



Comstock On the recurrence of Thecla 

 wittfeldii Edw. (Lep.) 261 



Bergroth On some North American 

 Hemiptera 263 



Honors to Entomologists 267 



Bowditch New Species of Macrogo- 

 nus (Col. ) 268 



Van Duzee Synoptical Table of the 

 North American species of the Dip- 



terous genus Sympycnus, with the 



description of a new species 270 



Smith Anew Noctuid (Lepid.) 273 



Malloch The genus Parodinia Coquil- 



lett (Geomyzidae, Dipt.) 274 



Editorial Color Nomenclature 277 



Reed Cystineura Amymone (Lepid.) 279 



Entomological Literature 279 



Review Brunetti's Diptera Nemato- 



cera, Fauna of British India 283 



Review The Monthly Bulletin of the 



State Commission of Horticulture 285 

 Review of Scorer The Entomologist's 

 Log-Book and Dictionary of the 

 Life Histories and Food Plants of 

 the British Macro-Lepidoptera .... 285 

 Review of Barnes and McDunnough 

 Contributions to the Natural His- 

 tory of the Lepidoptera of North 



America 286 



Doings of Societies 26 



Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt. 



(Portrait, Plate VIII.) 



Mary Esther Murtfeldt died at her home in Kirkwood, 

 Missouri, February 23rd last. 



She was born in New York, and there, at an early age, she 

 suffered the serious illness which left her with a slight paral- 

 ysis, so that for all her after life she was restricted in her 

 walking. Otherwise she was robust and her physical infirmity 

 seemed only to intensify her mental powers. 



With her family she early moved to Rockford, Illinois. 

 Here in Rockford College she received the education that the 

 schools could give. In 1869 she moved to St. Louis, where 

 Miss Murtfeldt met Prof. C. V. Riley and on account of her 

 extensive knowledge of botany became an invaluable associate 

 worker to him. In 1871 the family moved to Kirkwood, a 

 suburb of St. Louis, where she lived ever since. 



Her learning, which was so profound in her special work 



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