ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SEOTON 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XIII. 



JANUARY, 1902. 



No. I. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary— F. H. H. Strecker 1 



Slosson — Additional List of Insects 



taken at Mt. Wasliington 4 



Fox — Letters from Thomas Say to John 



F. Melsheimer, 1816-1825. — X 9 



Fox — Note on the Insect Collection of 



Thomas Say 11 



Montgomery— List of the Hemiptera 

 Heteroptera of the Vicinity of 



Wood's Hull, Massachusetts 12 



Rehn — New Aptenopedes from Florida 14 



Skinner — New Species of Rhopalocera 15 



Editorial 16 



Entomological Literature 18 



Doings of Societies 24 



Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker. 



Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker died at 7.55 a.m., 

 November 30th, at his home, 1325 Mineral Spring Road, 

 Reading, Pa. 



He was standing at 6th and Penn about 6 p.m., Friday, 

 the previous evening, waiting for a car, when he was stricken 

 with apoplexy and fell. Friends went to his assistance and 

 placed him in a cab, in which he was removed to his home. 

 He never regained consciousness. 



Deceased was 65 years of age. He is survived by his widow 

 and two children, Mrs. Edwin h. Hettinger and Paul Strecker. 



He had not been in the best of health for some weeks. 



Dr. Strecker was of German parentage, and was born in 

 Philadelphia, March 24, 1836. He inherited his fondness for 

 scientific studies, and evinced this inclination at an early age. 

 On his mother's side were three naturalists of note. They 

 were Benjamin, Edward and Richard Kern. 



Dr. Strecker was an architect, designer and sculptor by pro- 

 fession. He located in Reading when a boy, having accom- 

 panied his father, who was a prominent dealer in marble and 

 marble worker of Reading at that time. Since then he fol- 



