172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



OBITUARY. 



Oliver Jacob Staley, of Marshall, Saline County, Mo., died July 6, 

 1894, while on a collecting trip near home. His body was found by 

 searching parties in a creek, face downward. A sultry day induced him 

 to take a bath, with fatal result. Mr. Staley was bom in Princetown, 

 Schenectady County, N. Y., and removed with his parents to Marshall, 

 Mo., thirteen years ago. He practiced law for about four years, and was 

 in the twenty-fifth year of his age. He was a member of the Y. M. C. A. 

 and was much respected by everybody. He published " A List of the 

 Butterflies found at Marshall, Missouri, and Vicinity." From childhood 

 up he had a fondness for Lepidoptera, but his active work occupied the 

 last six years of his life (the death of Mr. Staley was mentioned in the 

 News, vol. v, p. 236). 



Charles W. Strombeeg died at his home in Galesburg, 111., on March 

 26 (1895), after a lingering illness of consumption. Mr. Stromberg went to 

 to Phoenix, Ariz., over a year ago, with the hope that he would recover his 

 health. He returned last Fall, the change not having benefited him to the 

 extent expected. Mr. Stromberg was born in Sweden, in 1856, and came 

 with his parents to this country twenty-nine years ago. From boyhood he 

 was devoted to scientific studies, and of late years Entomology has been 

 his favorite study, and he had obtained recognition as an excellent student 

 in that branch of natural history. He had amassed a fine collection of 

 the insects of his State; his collection of Coleoptera being especially com- 

 plete. Mr. Stromberg was quiet and reserved, and gentlemanly in dis- 

 position, and was naturally refined in his tastes. He will be greatly 

 missed by his entomological associates and correspondents. 



C. Ernest Seeber, aged sixty-one, died March 28, 1895. He was a 

 well-known Philadelphia entomologist, and one of the early members of 

 the American Entomological Society, and was lately vice-president of 

 the Feldman Collecting Social. 



Pausanias tells us, that in the temple of Parthenon there was a brazen 

 statue of Apollo, by the hand of Phidias, which was called Parnopius, out 

 of gratitude for that god having once banished from that country the 

 Locusts, which greatly injured the land. The same author asserts that he 

 himself has known the Locusts to have been thrice destroyed by Apollo in 

 the Mountain Lipylus, once exterminating them by a violent wind ; at 

 another time by vehement heat ; and the third time by unexpected cold. 

 Cowan's Curious Facts. 



Entomological News for April, was mailed March 29. 1895. 



