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ready to give others the benefit of his wide bibliographic 

 knowledge, and his untimely demise is greatly to be deplored, 

 not only as a severe loss to hemipterology, but his optimistic 

 and kindly personality will be greatly missed by his friends 

 and colleagues. He was a fellow of the Entomological Society, 

 London, since 1895, a member of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, and several other entomological soci- 

 eties, and was for several years associated as a subeditor with 

 the "London Entomologist," and was president for the ensu- 

 ing year of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, a local society 

 chiefly devoting its observations to the bionomics of the native 

 insect fauna of the archipelago. 



The deceased leaves a wife, a little daughter, and an aged 

 mother to mourn his loss. 



The following papers were accepted for publication: 

 NOTES ON THE FAMILY DALCERID^E. 



[Lepidoptera; Dalceridce.] 

 BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 



I first gave a synopsis of the genera of this interesting little 

 family in 1898 (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. , vi, 231), recognizing 

 five genera. Later, Mr. Schaus published a table (Proc. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus. , xxix, 331, 1906), in which ten genera are dis- 

 tinguished. Not much has been added to our knowledge since 

 that date, but I think an improvement can be effected by a 

 change in the order of the characters used in the table, with 

 the suppression of one genus. Two other genera are here 

 recognized, bringing the number up to eleven. The family is 

 allied to the Cochlidiidse. I have never seen a larva of any 

 species of the group, and know of but two descriptions. 

 These are of the larvae of Amiga flava Walker and Acni^n 

 nioorei Dyar and are quoted below. The description implies 

 a form like our cochlidian Jsoc/itctct hcHtcnmnellcri II. Kdw., 

 without the hairs and with the processes even more easily de- 

 tachable. If this interpretation of the description is correct it 

 will furnish some interesting deductions as to the relationship 

 of the Dalceridae and also as to the antiquity of the 

 type of larva, to which hochictcs belongs. 



