

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS FEBS m 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA 



VOL. XXXII FEBRUARY, 1921 No. 2 



CONTENTS 



Britton and Howard William Hamp- Museum at \Vitley, Surrey, Eng- 



ton Patton 33 land Lepid 56 



Malloch Notes on Some of van der Heinrich New Synonymy in a recent 



\Vulp's Species of North American Paper on the European Corn-Borer. 



Anthomyiidae (Diptera) 40 Lepid 57 



Weiss A Bibliography on Fungous Entomological Literature 58 



Insects and their Hosts 45 Notice of Leng's Catalogue of the 



Newcomb Change of Address 47 Coleoptera of America, North of 



MacGillivray New Species of Cladii- Mexico 62 



nae Hvmenoptera 48 Doings of Societies Amer. Ent. Soc. 



Drurv Demand the Metric System... . 50 (Orth., Hemip.. Lep. > 62 



Hutchison Entomology and the Pro- Obituary James S. Johnson. 63 



fessional Ideal 5' William West 64 



Editorial Entomology at the Convo- F. C. Adams 64 



cation Week Meetings of 1920-21... Frank Miiburn Hewlett 64 



Talbot Recent Additions to the Hill Alfred Edmund Hudd 64 



William Hampton Patton. 



By W. E. BRITTOX and L. O. HOWARD. 



(Portrait, Plate I) 



\Yilliam Hampton Patton was born in \Yaterbury. Connecti- 

 cut. March 10. 1853. and died in Hartford, Connecticut. De- 

 cember 26. 1918. He was the son of William Patton. and 

 he prepared for college at \Yilliston Seminary, Easthampton, 

 Massachusetts. He entered the academic department of Yale 

 University in 1872 and, receiving a colloquy appointment in 

 his senior year, graduated in the class of 1876 with the degree 

 of B. A. Even before graduating. Mr. Patton was interested 

 in the natural sciences, especially zoology and botany. After 

 graduating he took two years of work in zoology at Yale, 

 and during a part of this time served as assistant to Professor 

 A. E. Yerrill. This was followed by two years of independent 

 study at his home in \Yaterbury. 



During the summer of 1879. and from June 1880 to April 

 1881. he was a special agent of the United States Entomologi- 

 cal Commission, at "Washington, D. C. of which Dr. C. Y. 

 Riley was chairman. Dr. Riley was Government Entomolo- 

 gist from June 1878 until March 1879. when he resigned, and 



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