

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XX. 



MAY, 1909. 



No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary William H. Edwards 193 



Fox A new species of Dolichopsyllus 



a genus of the Siphonaptera 195 



Rohwer Notes and Descriptions of 



Wasps of genus Tachytes 197 



Gerhard Additional Bibliography on 



Flies and Mosquitoes as Carriers 



of Disease 207 



Rehn A New Species of Orocharis 



(Gryllidae) from British Honduras 211 

 Rehn A New Walking Stick of the 



Genus Diapheromera from Mexico 212 



Cockerel! Description of a Mexican 



Aleyrodes 215 



Fox A Parasite found on a Flea 216 



Comstock The Late Prof. Slingerland 217 

 Shull Some Apparently New Thysa- 



noptera from Michigan 220 



Franklin On Thysanoptera 22$ 



Van Duzee North Amer. Heteroptera 231 



F.ditorial 235 



Doings of Societies 236 



William H. Edwards. 



(Plate IX.) 



This distinguished naturalist died at his home in Coalburgh, 

 West Virginia, on April 4th in his 88th year. He was born 

 in Hunter, Greene County, New York, on March 15, 1822, 

 and was the son of William W. and Helen Ann Mann Ed- 

 wards. Having been graduated from Williams' College in the 

 Class of 1842, he was admitted to the New York Bar in 1847. 

 One year previous to this he made a voyage up the Amazon 

 River to collect objects of natural history. In 1851 he mar- 

 ried Catherine Colt Tappan. He was the author of "A 

 Voyage up the Amazon" (1847); Shaksper not Shakespeare 

 (1900) and compiled a genealogy of the Edwards' family in 

 1903. His home was at Coalburgh, West Virginia. 



The monument to Wm. H. Edwards will be the three vol- 

 umes he published "The Butterflies of North America," com- 

 menced in 1868 and completed in 1897. This work is one of 

 the greatest ever published on the subject, and it has been the 

 source of authoritative information on American diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera as a whole for nearly half a century. The author's 

 contributions to our knowledge of life histories marks an 

 epoch in Lepidoptera, and are of very great importance from a 

 scientific standpoint. 



