ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIX. 



NOVEMBER, 1908. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Dr. Win. H. Ashtnead 397 



Houijhton Coleoptera of St. Lawrence 



Co., N. Y 399 



Plitt Collecting in Baltimore Co., Md. 402 

 Doane Variations in the Wing; Vena- 

 tion in some Tipulidae 405 



Laurent Notes on the early stages of 



some Pamphila 408 



Rohvver Four new Hymenoptera 417 



Kwiat One Day's Collecting, with a 

 description of a new Noctuid 420 



Slosson A hunt for Saldoida Osborn 424 

 Williamson A new Dragonfly (Odo- 

 nata) belonging to the Cordulinas, 

 and a Revision of the Classification 



of the Subfamily 428 



Fox Ceratophyllus niger n. sp 414 



Fditorial . . '. 4^6 



Notes and News 437 



Doings of Societies 439 



Dr. Wm. H. Ashmead. 



William Harris Ashmead died in Washington, D. C, Octo- 

 ber 1 7th, aged fifty-three years. He was descended from an 

 old Philadelphia family and was born in that city September 

 1 9> l &55- His father was Captain Albert S. Ashmead and his 

 mother Elizabeth (Graham). Educated in private and public 

 schools, he received the degree of A. M. from the Florida 

 Agricultural College in 1901, and the honorary degree of D. 

 Sc. from the Western University of Pennsylvania the same 

 year. While in Philadelphia he was with the large publishing 

 house of J. B. Lippincott & Company, which he left in 1876 

 and with his brother established a publishing house in Jackson- 

 ville, Florida. They specialized in agricultural books and pub- 

 lished an agricultural weekly journal and a daily paper. Dr. 

 Ashmead edited the scientific department of the weekly, devot- 

 ing himself chiefly to the investigation of injurious insects. 

 His excellent work attracted attention, and in 1887 he was 

 made a special field entomologist of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. From this time his career as an ento- 

 mologist was rapid and he occupied the following positions : 

 Entomologist, Florida State Agric. College (1888), Lake City, 

 Florida; Assistant Entomologist and Investigator, U. S. Dept. 



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