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fests the tobacco plant. Mcsoleuca vasaliata Gn., from Rox- 

 borough, Pa., April 16, 1910, collected by C. T. Greene. 

 Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of February 19, 1913, at 1523 South Thirteenth 

 Street, Philadelphia. Nine members were present ; Mr. John 

 Pemberton, Jr., of this city, visitor. President Haimbach in 

 the chair. 



Mr. Wenzel stated that he had gone over Cychrus and had 

 added many species to his collection of this group, which now 

 numbers about four hundred specimens. These were exhib- 

 ited. He said that it was peculiar that all the iridescent forms 

 came from this side of the Rockies. His collection of Dicaelus 

 was also shown, with only one known species missing. 



Mr. Harbeck started a discussion on the Bot Flies, and ex- 

 tracts were read from Howard's "Insect Book." The chapter 

 on Midges was also read by Mr. Wenzel, Jr. 



Mr. Wenzel, Jr., said he had noticed small white larvae in 

 the seed-pods of the wild hollyhock, Hibiscus moscheutos, at 

 Essington, Pa., but none of the members knew the species. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEORGE M. GREENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



L. E. Ricksecker. 



Lucius EDGAR RICKSECKER, well known to all American 

 students of Coleoptera, died at his home in San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia, January 30, 1913, (as was briefly announced in the 

 NEWS for March, page 144), of an attack of angina pectoris, 

 following a stroke of paralysis, nine months before, from 

 which he had recovered but slightly. 



He was born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1841. 

 From October, 1862, to July, 1863, he was a corporal in the 

 153(1 Pennsylvania volunteers. In 1868 he went to Salt Lake 

 City, where for several years he was in charge of the Division 

 Engineer's office of the Union Pacific Railroad, and later serv- 



