ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vl JANUARY, 1895. No. i. 



CONTENTS 



Webster— Thomas Say i [ Notes and News i8 



Slosson — Additional list of insects taken Entomological Literature 21 



in alpine region of Mt. Washington 4 Doings of Societies 26 



Ottolengui — Aberration, variety, race | Entomological Section 27 



and form 7 



Hulst — North American Geometrina in 



European collections 11 



Knab — Ant nests 15 



Editorial 17 



Baker — Biological notes on some Colo- 

 rado Coleoptera 27 



Schaus — A new Phaegoptera from Mex. 29 

 Williston — A new Tachinid with re- 

 markable antennae 29 



THOMAS SAY— I 



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



During late Autumn of the year 1888, the writer had the pleas- 

 ure of spending- a few days in New Harmony, Ind., a guest of 

 the late Col. and Mrs. Richard Owen, both of whom were resi- 

 dents of that somewhat famous little city during the nine years 

 that "The Father of American Entomology" made it his home, 

 and with whom they were both personally acquainted. Though 

 at that time upwards of ninety years old, Col. Owen and his good 

 wife pointed out many, to me, historic places, made sacred by 

 their associations with Thomas Say, and feeling that not only 

 such places would sooner or later disappear, but those who were 

 able to give their history from personal recollections would within 

 a few years cross the Dark River, I engaged to have a series of 

 photographic views taken under the supervision of my host and 

 hostess. The three views that are to follow in forthcoming num- 

 bers of the News, were thus obtained, and will be explained 

 as they are consecutively used. The portrait included in this 

 number is from a photograph of a steel engraving in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Frategot, of New Harmony, to whose father it was 



