ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol.. XIV. 



SEPTEMBER, 1903. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS 



Biographical— Blake 213 



Cockerell — A new Bee, Genus Andrena 215 

 Ris— Dragonflies (Odonata) from Bal- 

 timore, Md 216 



Fenyes— Palaeoxenus Dohrnii Horn 22 



Williamson — Dragonflies (Odonata) 



from Tennessee, etc 221 



Brimley & Sherman — A morning's col- 

 lection at Raleigh, N. C 230 



Harris— Psorophora ciliata 232 



Rehn— Ischnoptera from Florida 233 



Banks— Habrophlebia 235 



Skinner— Notes on Buprestidie 236 



Editorial 240 



Notes and News 241 



Doings of Societies 242 



Charles Alfred Blake. 



Mr. Blake died June 24, 1903. He was suddenly stricken 

 with Angina pectoris and expired in a few minutes. "He was 

 born at Brighton, England, July 23, 1834, and came to America 

 in 1849. He received his education in the English Naval 

 School, at Greenwich. When quite a small boy he was fond 

 of rearing silk-worms and it became quite a hobby with him. 

 He was thus led to take an interest in moths and butterflies in 

 general. For over forty years he was in the dental and surgical 

 instrument business and was thus led to make entomological 

 forceps, and the Blake pinning forceps have been favorably 

 known for many years. On October 2 2d, i860, Mr. Blake 

 was elected g. member of the American Entomological Society 

 and until recent years was a very active member, being an 

 ardent collector and interested in all orders, but worked par- 

 ticularly in the Hymenoptera and Eepidoptera. He formed 

 quite a large collection which is now in the possession of his 

 children. In the Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. II, 279, 1863, 

 appears the following title : Description of a Supposed New 

 Genus and Species of Saturniidae from the Rocky Mountains. 

 By C. A. Blake. Coloradia nov. gen. pandora n. sp. (see pi. 7). 



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