ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHj 



VOL. XXXII 



MAY, 1921 



CONTENTS 



Braun Charles Henry Fernald 129 



Malloch Two new Species of the Ge- 

 nus Coenosia (An thorny iidae, Dip- 



tera ) 134 



Crampton A Phylogenetic Study of 

 the Venation of the Fore Wings of 

 the Homoptera, Thvsanoptera, 

 Psocida, Zoraptera, Neuroptera, 

 Embiida, Plecoptera and Hadento- 

 moida with notes on the Hymen- 



optera and Coleoptera 135 



Kertesz An Appeal from Hungary.... 140 

 Felt Three new Sub-tropical Gall 



Midges (Itonididae, Dipt.) 141 



Pinchot Prevent Forest Fires It Pays 143 

 Prison New Distribution Records for 

 North American Bremidae. with 

 the Description of a new Species 



( Hym. ) 144 



Caudell Hippiscus olancha Caudell, 

 an Apparently Undescribed Grass- 

 hopper from California (Orthop , 

 Acrididae) 149 



MAY - 5 1921 



FunkhouseWNote on the Genus Cryp- 

 tonotus ^ftlembracidae, Homop. I. . 



Editorial ThVs Makms You 



Williamson CoTScinflrfiAu Floods 



Van Duzee C 



Aid for Entomologiclrr~-Publk::U<( 



Asked 153 



Wood The Value of the Classics 153 



Ransom A Supplementary Note to 

 the Biography of W. H. Patton 154 



Entomological Literature 155 



Review of Silvestri's Monografia delle 

 Cocciniglie Italiane. Gustavo Leo- 

 nardi 157 



Review of Ferris' Report upon a Col- 

 lection of Coccidae from Lower 

 California 158 



Review of Lloyd's Biology of North 



American Caddis Fly Larvae 159 



Obituary Dr. Odoardo Beccari 160 



Prof. Tsunekata Miyake 160 



Charles Henry Fernald. 



By the death of Prof. Charles Henry Fernald at Amherst, 

 Massachusetts, on February 22 of this year, the scientific world 

 has lost one of its great pioneer entomological teachers and 

 investigators. 



Charles Henry Fernald was born March 16, 1838, at 

 Fernald's Point, Mount Desert Island, Maine, the son of Eben 

 and Sophronia (Wasgatt) Fernald. Opportunities for educa- 

 tion, as we know them, were very limited, but he early showed 

 the ability to choose and direct his own studies. His boyhood 

 ambition was to become a ship captain his father was a ship- 

 owner and to this end he set out to prepare himself. His 

 summers from the age of fifteen to twenty-one he spent at sea, 

 the winters in studying and teaching. His first interest in nat- 

 ural history began during these voyages with the collection of 

 marine forms, but at this time the love of the sea was still 

 paramount. At twenty-one, still with tin- desire better to pre- 

 pare himself for a ship captaincy, he entered the Maine \\ Vs 

 leyan Seminary. But here the atmosphere of learning aroused 



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