ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXII. OCTOBER, 1911. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary Daniel William Coquillett 337 , Skinner Two rare spp. of Coleoptera. . 354 

 Coolidge Collecting in Southern Ari- Beutenmueller Description of a new 



zona 339 



Dryophanta (H)men.) 357 



Needham Notes on a few Nymphs of ] Girault A new Polynema from Mexico 



Agrioninae (Order Odonata) of the (Hymen.) 358 



Hagen Collection 342 Bower Early Stages of Lycaena lyg- 



Bishop A new Root Gall Midge from 

 Smilacina ( Dipt. I 346 



Girault The Probable Occurrence of 

 the Mymarid Genus Dicopus Knock 

 in North America (Hymen.) 347 



Alexander Notes on Two Tipulidae 

 (Dipt.) 349 



damus Dpubleday (Lepid.) 359 



Girault Critical notes on some species 



of Mymaridae (Hymen.) 363 



Editorial 369 



Notes and News 370 



Entomological Literature 374 



Doings of Societies 379 



Daniel William Coquillett. 



(Portrait, Plate X.) 



Daniel William Coquillett was born January 23, 1856, on 

 a farm in Pleasant Valley, between Woodstock and Marengo, 

 Illinois, and died July 7, 1911, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 

 of heart failure. 



It was with great regret that we heard of the death of our 

 leading Dipterist. There are many who will miss his cheer, 

 and his help in the determination of their finds in Diptera, and 

 the United States National Museum has lost a valuable mem- 

 ber of its staff. 



He had been interested in insects as a young man on his 

 father's farm in Pleasant Valley, and he contributed liberally 

 to the literature of applied entomology. In 1881 he became 

 Assistant State Entomologist of Illinois, but was compelled 

 to remove to California for his health, where in 1885 he be- 

 came field agent for the Division of Entomology of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and continued as such until 

 1893, when he was transferred to Washington as an assistant 

 to the Entomologist of the Department. In 1896 he was raised 

 to the office of Honorary Custodian of Diptera of the U. S. 

 National Museum, which he held at the time of his death. 



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