ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XIII. SEPTEMBER, 1902. No. 7. 



CONTENTS 



Obituary— H. F. Basselt ..203 I Skinner— A New Hesperid 213 



Bowditch— Notes on Casey's Revision Editorial 215 



of the American Coccinellidae 205 



Smith, E. J.— Lantern Trapping 207 



McClendon— The Larvae of Myrmeleon 

 texanus Banks and M. rusticus 

 Hagen 209 



Entomological Literature 216 



Notes and News 222 



Economic Entomology 223 



Doings of Societies 230 



OBITUARY. 



Homer Franklin Bassett died at his home 120 Cooke Street, 

 Waterbury, Conn., 4,20 a.m., June 28th. He was afflicted 

 with disease of the heart and kidneys. 



' ' Mr. Bassett was the eldest son of Ezra and Keziah Bas- 

 sett ; he was born in Florida, Mass., September 2, 1826. At 

 an early age his parents removed to the Middle West, and he 

 studied at Berea (Ohio) University and at Oberlin College. 

 From 1837 to 1850 he resided at Rockport, Ohio, and from 

 1850 to 1858 spent his winters teaching in Ohio and Connecti- 

 cut, returning for the summer months to his farm at Rockport. 

 He taught during the winters of 185 1, '52, '53 in Wolcott ; in 

 '56 and '57 at Berea, and in '58 and '59 in Waterbury. It was 

 thus that he first became identified with Waterbury and its 

 interests. He spent part of the year 1858 in Kansas, but in 

 the spring of 1859 he opened a private school in Waterbury 

 with quarters on the second floor of the building. He was 

 obliged to discontinue this school eight years after its start, 

 however, because of ill health. 



"In 1 87 1 he started an insurance agency in connection with 



