ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION" 



ACADEMY OK NATURAL SCIEN.CES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIV. MARCH, 1903. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Marlatt Japan's foremost Entomolo- 

 gist 65 



Laurent Moths (Heterocera) of East- 

 ern Pennsylvania 69 



Banks A new Genus of Solpugida 78 



Brues Studies of Texan Bees 79 



Smyth Morpho Thoosa (sp. nov.) 85 



Editorial .. 88 



Melander An interesting new Chry- Notes and News 88 



sotus.... 72 , Entomological Literature 91 



Rucker A glimpse of the Life History Doings of Societies 96 



of Mutilla vesta Cresson 75 



Japan's Foremost Entomologist. 



BY C. L,. MARLATT. 



Many entomologists in this country have seen the little Jap- 

 anese entomological publication entitled on the "last page" 

 "The Insect World," a monthly magazine edited by Y. Nawa, 

 Gifu, Japan. The illustrations of the little magazine have 

 often been wonderfully accurate and interesting, and keen re- 

 gret has undoubtedly been felt that the language proved so 

 complete a bar to the contents. 



Among the pleasantest features of the writer's recent trip 

 in Japan were the two visits paid to Mr. Nawa's establishment 

 at Gifu, an inland city in the very heart of ancient Japan, far 

 removed from any of the foreign ports and showing very slight 

 invasion of western "barbarism." Mr. Nawa is very preposs- 

 essing in appearance, rather larger than the ordinary Japanese 

 and with a strong, kindly face. His interest in entomology is 

 evidently inborn and 25 or 30 years ago he began his work on 

 insects unaided and with no knowledge of foreign literature. 

 He was formerly a man of some wealth, but in common with 

 many of the old Japanese, under the new regime he lost his 



