ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXII. JULY, 1911. No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituar> Samuel Hubbard Scudder. . 289 Walton Notes on Pennsylvania!! Dip- 

 Haskin and Grinnell Thecla clytie, tera. with two new species of Syr- 



leda and ines fLepid.) 293 ' phidae . . 318 



Skinner A new Variety of Megathy- ; Schroers Observations on the Lepid- 



mus yuccae CLepid.) 300 t optera of St. Louis, Missouri, and 



Doll A new Datana 300 , vicinity during 1910 322 



Felt Four new Gall Midges (Dipt.). . 301 Fditorial 325 



Knah Chrvsomela staphylea Linne in 

 North America 306 



Smith Notes on the species of Acro- 

 nycta ; Descriptions of new species 309 



Notes and News 326 



Entomological Literature 328 



Doings of Societies 335 



Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 



(Portrait, Plate VIII) 



This distinguished American entomologist died May I7th, 

 1911, aged seventy-four years. He was born in Boston, 

 Mass., April I3th, 1837, an d lived in Cambridge, at 156 

 Brattle Street. He was educated at Williams College and 

 received honorary degrees from Harvard and the University 

 of Pittsburgh. From 1864 to 1870 he was Custodian of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, and from 1879 to 1882 

 Assistant Librarian at Harvard University. From 1886 to 

 1892 he was Paleontologist to the U. S. Geological Survey; 

 he served as General Secretary of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science in 1875, and was a Vice 

 President of the Association in 1894. 



He was the greatest Orthopterist America has produced. 

 His first paper on recent Orthoptera, in 1861, in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume VIII, 

 was "On the genus Raphidophora, Serville," etc. ; his last on 

 recent Orthoptera was published in April, 1902, in conjunc- 

 tion with Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, entitled "A first list 



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