ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vl FEBRUARY, 1895. No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Webster — Thomas Say 33 ( Economic Entomologj- 46 



Ottolengui— Aberration, variety, race | Notes and News 47 



and form 34 j Entomological Literature 49 



Dyar — Relationship of Pyralidae and j Doings of Societies 58 



Pterophoridse from the larva 38 Entomological Section 60 



Hulst — North American Geometrina in Cockerell — Descriptions of new Hy- 



European collections 40 1 menoptera 60 



Editorial 45 ' 



THOMAS SAY .-II. 



By Prof. F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio. 



In 1824, Mr. Robert Owen purchased the lands belonging to 

 the Harmonists, a communistic religious association that had 

 migrated from Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1815, and under 

 the leadership of George Rapp, founded the village of New 

 Harmony, and were known as Harmonists or Rappites. The 

 village was already established when Messrs. Owen and Maclure, 

 accompanied by Thomas Say, moved there too in 1825. The 

 resident buildings that had been erected by Rapp and his fol- 

 lowers have many of them ceased to exist, in 1889, only two 

 being recognizable by their quaint, German architecture, one of 

 them, very fortunately, being the one occupied by Say and his 

 wife Lucy, before they moved into the Maclure house, in which 

 Say died. The building is shown as it appeared a few years ago, 

 but since that time it too has been remodeled and rebuilt, and is 

 not now recognizable. The engraving, however, shows it as 

 when occupied by Say, except that it had once been reshingled. 

 Our knowledge of the daily life of Mr. and Mrs. Say is exceed- 

 ingly fragmentary, the oldest inhabitants now only remembering 



