ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIV. 



NOVEMBER, 1903. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary A. R. Grote 277 



Eckel The Resin-Gnat Diplosis 279 



Geddes Citheronia sepulcralis 284 



Experiments with a Chrysalis 286 



Hampson Catocala in the Brit. Mus... 287 



Webster Coccidae of Ohio 288 



Johnson Agenia architecta 290 



Brues Dexiid parasite of the sow-bug 291 

 Rehn Earwigs from Costa Rica 292 



Murtfeldt Vuca-feeding insect 293 



Ashmead A new Ammoplanus 295 



Laurent Butterflies of Miami, Fla 296 



Fernald Webbing Saw-fly 298 



Editorial 303 



Notes and News 304 



Entomological Literature 306 



Doings of Societies 307 



. Augustus Radcliffe Grote, M.A. 



Prof. Grote died of endocarditis on September i2th last at 

 Hildesheim, Hanover, Germany, where he was Director of the 

 Roman Museum. He was born on February 7, 1841, in Aig- 

 burt, near Liverpool, England. His father was a German 

 from Danzig and his mother an English- woman. He came to 

 America when a child and spent his early days in New York. 

 About 1884 he left the United States and resided at Bremen, 

 Germany, and went to Hildesheim in 1895. He leaves a 

 wife and six children. His scientific work began about 1862, 

 at which time he was a contributor to the Proceedings of 

 the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. The first three 

 volumes of the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 History (1873-1877) contain numerous articles on American 

 Lepidoptera, by Grote, mostly on moths. He was curator of 

 the Buffalo Society, and a very active member. The three 

 volumes mentioned contain no less than twenty-seven articles. 

 There are a few, however, devoted to subjects non-entomo- 

 logical, such as " Descriptions of New Crustaceans from the 

 Water L,ime Group," " On the Peopling of America." Some 

 other writings not relating to natural history are the follow- 



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