ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XIV. 



OCTOBER, 1903. 



No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Aldrich— Garry de N. Hough, M D.... 245 



Cockerell— A new Aphid on Thistle 248 



Viereck — A group of diurnal Mutillidae 249 



Hornig — Anthocharis genutia 252 



Hebard— Captures made at Miami, Fla. 253 

 Williamson— A hybrid dragonfly of the 



genus Gomphus (Odonata) 253 



Rehn— Description of a new genus of 

 Gryllidae with a note on the genus 

 Aphonogryllus 258 



Hebard — Collecting around Thomas- 



ville, Georgia 260 



MacGillivray and Houghton — Insects 



taken in the Adirondack Mts 262 



Slosson — Hunting Empids 265 



Davis— Cicindelidse of Rhode Island.... 270 



Editorial 274 



Doings of Societies 275 



Garry de N. Hough, M.D. 



By J. M. Aldrich. 



The subject of the present sketch is happily alive and in the 

 vigorous activity of middle life ; but as his growing medical 

 practice has driven him to the abandonment of entomology, 

 and he has sold his collection and library, it seems a fitting 

 tim§ to call attention to the work he accomplished on the 

 Diptera. 



Garry deN. Hough was born in 1861. In his boyhood he 

 collected and bred butterflies and moths, keeping at this until 

 he entered Harvard Universiy in 1877. At Harvard he was a 

 frequent visitor to the entomological collections kept by Dr. 

 Hagen. He graduated in 1881, cum Imide, and with honors in 

 chemistry. He graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College in 1884, and remained a year as interne in the surgical 

 service. He then settled in New Bedford, Mass., where he 

 still resides. 



Dr. Hough's attention was first drawn to the Diptera in 

 1894, when he began to study the species affecting corpses, 

 his duties as public examiner having suggested to him the 



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