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Fig. 8. Terminal structures of Enibia major (cerci partially removed). 



Fig. 9. Terminal structures of Echinosoma (an earwig) forceps par- 

 tially cut off. 



Fig. 10. Terminal structures of the " Gryllid " (Ecanthus. 



Fig. II. Terminal structures of the Plecopteron Capnia (terminal seg- 

 ments of cercus not drawn). 



Fig. 12. Terminal structures of the Phasmid Timenia. 



Fig. 13. Terminal structures of Termes. 



CHARLES PALM. 



Charles Palm, one of the founders of the New York Entomolog- 

 ical Society, died November 5, 191 7. He was born at Calbe, on the 

 river Milde, in Germany, in 1836, and was therefore in his eighty- 

 second year. He came to the United States in 1854 and had a suc- 

 cessful commercial career, founding the firm Palm, Fechteler & Co., 

 which introduced the decalcomania industry in this country. His 

 home was long at No. 172 East 64th St., where his great collections 

 of lepidoptera and coleoptera were, and where he entertained many 

 of the entomologists like Dietz, Merkel, Luetgens, who have died 

 years ago, as well as those of the present generation. In the early 

 days of the New York Entomological Society, Mr. Palm, then already 

 approaching sixty, was very active in promoting its welfare. He 

 served it for more than ten years on the Executive and Publication 

 Committees, was vice-president for four years and president in 1897. 

 The social features of the meetings were always of interest to him 

 and his connection with the Arion Society aided him in promoting 

 them. Unfortunately his advancing years eventually made evening 

 meetings impossible and he resigned his membership in February, 

 191 6, when he was eighty years of age. 



He distributed the Arizona beetles collected by Dr. R. E. Kunze 

 for many years and became thereby known to many in connection 

 with Plusiotis gloriosa and other Arizona rarities. 



The prominent part he took in entomology is commemorated by 

 the species and genera that have been named in his honor, viz. : 



Mcmythriis pahni, Hy. Edwards, 1887. 

 Datana pahni, Beutenmuller, 1890. 

 Paranthrcne pahni, Neumogen, 1891. 



