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On January 14, 1920 (although dated 1919), there appeared the first 

 part of CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD A MONOGRAPH OF THE SUCKING LICE by 

 GORDON FLOYD FERRIS, then Instructor, now Assistant Professor of En- 

 tomology at the Leland Stanford Junior University and published by 

 that institution. It was announced to be the first of a series which, when 

 complete, will constitute a monograph of the Anoplura, and that the 

 sequence in which the various genera would be dealt with would be gov- 

 erned entirely by convenience and relative completeness of material. The 

 collection forming the basis of the work, presumably that at Stanford, 

 is stated to be without a doubt the largest and most comprehensive now 

 in existence, containing approximately three-fourths of the described 

 Series. The most significant portion of it has been obtained by the 

 initiation of the mammal skins in certain museums. This first part 

 consisted of 51 octavo pages and 32 text figures and treated of the 

 genera Endcrleincllns and Microfhthirns. The second part appeared in 

 1921. as Vol. II, No. 2 of the Stanford University Publications, Uni- 

 versity Series, Biological Sciences. It occupies 76 pages, contains 57 text 

 figures and is concerned only with the genus Hoploplcitra. Part I states 

 that all discussion of the group as a whole and all keys to the families 

 and genera must of necessity be delayed until the final papers of the 

 series, which will also contain a complete host list, a bibliography, ac- 

 knowledgments of the sources of material and other matter of general 

 interest. 



OBITUARY. 



VICTOR SZEPLIGETI. 



Thanks to Dr. K. Kertesz, I am now able to contribute the 

 following obituary of Victor Szepligeti. Born in Zircz (Hun- 

 gary) August 21, 1855, he died in his 60th year on March 24, 

 1915. He studied at the University and Technical University 

 at Budapest. He became professor of Natural History and 

 Chemistry in 1877. He taught until 1912 when he retired. 



First he was a botanist and had a very large and precious 



herbarium (now in the Botanical Department of the Hungarian 



National Museum. ) Then he was interested in Aphids and 



galls. Later he began to collect and study the Braconidae and 



[chneumonidae. 



Up to the time of his death he had published sixty papers 

 which, with but three or four exceptions, dealt with Ichneu- 

 nit moidea. 



lie published one paper on Cecidomyidae (Diptera) in 18 ()() . 



