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and several apical ones; the middle tibia? also have two^ black lines 

 consisting of minute seta;, one running the length of the tibia, the 

 other only reaching middle, when it is interrupted by a shining 

 patch of about ten rows of minute setae, arranged transversely, 

 comb-like; hind tibia; very minutely hairy, but with no large 

 bristles except the long apical spur, and a series of four small black 

 apical spine-like bristles, the only other armature being on the 

 anterior side, the end of which is fringed with minute black spinules, 

 while just above is a weak patch of about four transverse rows of 

 set^e, like those on mid-tibiae; basitarsi on inner or anterior side 

 with very well developed transverse rows of setae. 



This is readily known from the other described American 

 species by its large size and the armature of the legs. On account 

 of the transverse rows of setula; on the legs it resembles Phora 

 muUiseriata Aldrich and Phora laminarum Brues, the latter being a 

 Miocene fossil. I have ascertained that the middle tibia; of P. 

 laminarum have a pair of long bristles on the basal part, exactly 

 as on the insect now described. In the characters of the venation 

 and the armature of the scutellum P. muUiseriata is quite distinct 

 from D. gaudialis, but the fossil species has four scutellar bristles, 

 as in the La Jolla one. Thus it appears that our insect is actually 

 more nearly related to a Florissant fossil than to any living species. 



The specific nam.e is derived from the name of the locality. 



JEAN HENRI FABRE 



A few days before the present issue of our magazine went to 

 press, a telegram from Orange, France, appeared in the daily 

 papers announcing the death on Oct. 11, 1915, of Jean Henri 

 Fabre, one of the greatest entomological observers the world has 

 ever known. Owing to his extremely secluded life, his intense 

 aversion to publicity in any form, and his dislike of human society, 

 it is only within recent years that Fabre's genius has been generally 

 recognized, and among English speaking nations this recognition 

 has been largely due to the publication of English translations of 

 certain selections from his "Souvenirs Entomologiques," and to 

 Miall's translation of Legro's beautiful work "Fabre, Poet of 

 Science." 



A mere extended notice of Fabre's life and work will appear 

 in our December number. An appreciative account of his writings 

 by Prof. Wm. Lockhead was published in the 45th Annual Report 

 of the Entomological Society of Ontario (1914). 



