ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIX. DECEMBER, 1908. No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



James Fletcher, LL.D 445 



Dr. Francis Huntington Snow 447 



E\\ ing Two new species of Phthiraca- 



rus 449 



Fox A new genus of the Siphonaptera 452 

 Cockerel!- A Dragon-fly Puzzle and its 



Solution 455 



Manee Some Observations at South- 

 ern Pines, N. C 459 



Mitzman How a Hungry Flea Feeds 462 



Walton Popular Fallacies Regarding 

 Insects ; and some Insects that are 

 Poisonous 467 



Grossheck Additional Notes on the 



Life History of Cnlex pertubans. . . 473 



Williams The Life History of Lycaena 

 antiacis Bdv., with other notes on 

 other species 476 



Patch Pemphigus tessellata: Alternate 

 Host, Migrants and True Sexes... 484 



Walton Notes on the Egg and Larva : McAtee Notes on an Orthopterous 



of Goniops chrvsocoma (O. S.) 464 j Leaf Roller 



Cockerell Anew Bee from Tahiti.... 466 



Editorial 492 



Notes and News 49^ 



Doings of Societies 494 



JAMES FLETCHER, LL.D. 



(Plate XIX) 



Dr. Fletcher died in the Royal Victoria hospital, Montreal 

 on November 8th, following a surgical operation. He was born 

 in Ash, Kent, England, March 28, 1852. His education was ob- 

 tained at the King's School, Rochester, England. He came to 

 America when a young man as a junior officer in the Bank of 

 British North America, and soon began to devote his leisure 

 hours to the study of insects and plants. Finding the work of a 

 bank by no means congenial to his literary and scientific tastes, 

 he obtained a position as assistant in the Library of Parliament 

 at Ottawa. It was not long before his talents and attainments in 

 botany and entomology became widely known, chiefly through 

 his contributions to the "Canadian Entomologist" and the 

 annual reports of the Entomological Society of Ontario. His 

 first paper in the latter was an article on Canadian Huprestidae, 

 which was published in 1878, while his first contribution to the 

 former appeared in January, 1880. During all the years that 

 have followed no volume of either publication has been issued 

 without some valuable articles from his pen. 



In 187* he became a member of the Council of the Entomo- 



445 



