ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. ix. JUNE, 1898. No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Joseph Albert Lintner 129 Hall Some rare butterflies, etc 143 



Sargent Some observations on the | A species of Orthoptera 144 



hunting spider, Lycosa vulpina 131 Cockerell A new scale-insect, etc 145 



Schaus Notes on Am. Sphingidse 134 Barrett Collecting in the T. Caliente.. 146 



Hancock Thespecies of the new genus Editorial I4Q 



Neotettix, etc 137 Notes and News 150 



Banks Concerning the names of some Entomological Literature 152 



common spiders 141 ' Doings of Societies 157 



JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER. 



It is with sorrow and regret that we announce the death of 

 Prof. Lintner on May 5th at Rome, Italy. 



"JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER, Ph.D., of German descent, was 

 a son of Rev. George Ames Lintner, D.D., who was born in 

 Minden, Montgomery County, N. Y. , in 1796, was graduated 

 from Union College in 1817, and was pastor of the Lutheran 

 churches of Schoharie, Middleburg and Cobleskill for many 

 years. Prof. Lintner was born in Schoharie, February 8, 1822, 

 attended the Jefferson Academy; was graduated from the Scho- 

 harie Academy in 1837 and spent ten years in mercantile pursuits 

 in New York city, where he also prosecuted his studies under the 

 Mercantile Library Association. He contributed scientific arti- 

 cles to the Tribune and other newspapers, and returning to Scho- 

 harie in 1848, engaged in mercantile business. In 1853 ne began 

 a collection of insects, and in 1860 removed to Utica, where, for 

 seven years, he manufactured woolen goods. Meanwhile, he 

 had steadily pursued his scientific studies, for which he had a 

 natural taste and unusual capacity. In 1868 he became zoological 

 assistant in the State Museum of Natural History at Albany; in 

 1880 he was appointed, by Governor Cornell, State entomologist; 



