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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VI. APRIL, 1895. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Webster — Thomas Say loi 



Hulst — North American Geometrina in 



European collections 103 



Ottolengui — Aberration, variety, race 



and form 107 



Fall — Aphodius rugifrons 108 



Slingerland — A curious hammock and 



its maker 109 



Horn — Vesperoctenus flohri Bates 114 



Editorial 116 



Economic Entomologj- 118 



Notes and News 123 



Entomological Literature 125 



Doings of Societies 130 



Entomological Section 131 



Coquillett — A new Volucella from Wash- 



Skinner — Notes on Rhopalocera, with ington 131 



descriptions of new species 112 



THOMAS SAY.-IV. 



By Prof. F. M. Webster, Ohio. 

 The vault in which are deposited all that remains of the " Father 

 of American Entomology," with the monument erected to his 

 memory by Alexander Maclure, brother of William Maclure, is 

 located in the rear of the house in which Thomas Say breathed 

 his last on Oct. lo, 1834, and which was shown in the illustration 

 in the March number of the News. The view of the vault and 

 monument here presented is taken from Main Street and looking 

 slighdy south of west. The monument is of white marble, about 

 six feet in height, the sculpture being sufficiendy indicated by 

 the engraving. It was erected in 1846, twelve years after the 

 death of Say, by Alexander Maclure, at the request of his brother 

 William, and bears the following inscriptions : 



EAST FACE. 



Thomas Say. The Naturalist. Born in Philadelphia, July 27, 1787. 



Died at New Harmony, October 10, 1834. 



SOUTH FACE. 



One of the founders of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



January 25, 1812. 



