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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIV. 



DECEMBER, 1913. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Howard Philip Reese Uhler, LL.D... 433 

 Alexander The Neotropical Tipulidae 

 in the Hungarian National Museum 



(Diptera) II 439 



Notice to Authors 449 



Skinner A new Argynnis from Utah 



(Lepid. ) 450 



Lectures on Insects 450 



Hebard A new North American genus 

 belonging to the Group Nemobiites 



(Orthoptera. Gryllidae) 451 



Ewing A new Parasite of the House 



Fly (Acarina, Gamasoidea) 452 



Crane-flies and Sweets (Diptera) 456 



Girault Three new Genera of Chalci- 

 doid Hymenoptera from Queens- 

 land 457 



Schroers Heterocera in and around St. 



Louis, Missouri ( Lep. ) 406 



Weiss Aesthetic Appreciation in En- 

 tomology 464 



A Course in Applied Entomology 465 



Plates of Diptera and Hymenoptera... 465 



Editorial The Annual Entomological 

 Meetings 466 



Knab The Lepidopterous Caterpillar 

 in the Bromeliad from Costa Rica 467 



A Sealed Paper Carton to Protect Cer- 

 eals from Insect Attack 467 



Bethune and MacGillivray Announce- 

 ment of the Eighth Annual Meet- 

 ing of the Entomological Society 

 of America 468 



Parrott and Burgess The Twenty- 

 sixth Annual Meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists 469 



Entomological Literature '. . . . 470 



Entomological Section, Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 Phila. (Odon., Dipt., Orth., Lep.) 477 



Obituary Alfred G. Hammar 480 



Alfred Russel Wallace 480 



Philip Reese Uhler, LL.D. 



(Portrait, Plate XV, from a photograph taken November 17, 1911.) 



These men of the old school were lovers of nature. They knew 

 nature, as a whole, rather than as a fragment or a succession of frag- 

 ments. They were not made in Germany or anywhere else, and their 

 work was done because they loved it, because the impulse within 

 would not let them do otherwise than work, and their training, partly 

 their own, partly responsible to their source of inspiration, was made 

 to fit their own purposes. If these men went to Germany, as many 

 of them did, it was for inspiration, not for direction ; not to sit through 

 lectures, not to dig in some far-off corner of knowledge, not to stand 

 through a doctor's examination in a dress coat with a major and two 

 minors, not to be encouraged magna cum laudc to undertake a scien- 

 tific career. The career was fixed by heredity and early environment. 

 Nothing could head them off and they took orders from no one as to 

 what they should do, or what they should reach as conclusions. They 

 did not work for a career many of them found none but for the 



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