ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VI. SEPTEMBER, 1895. No. 7 



CONTENTS: 



Abbe Provancher 209 



Wickham— Insects of the Tortugas 210 



Ormonde — Names, scien. vs. common.. 212 



Fenner — .Arizona ants 214 



Ottolengui — Types in the Neumoegen 



collection 216 



King — Formicidae of Lawrence, Mass. 220 



Editorial 224 



Notes and News 225 



Entomological Literature 228 



Doings of Societies 235 



Blaisdell — New California Coleoptera. . 235 

 Kellicott — Odonata, a note and a desc. 239 



L'ABBE PROVANCHER. 



The late Abbe Provancher, whose picture we take pleasure 

 in presenting to our readers in this number, was born in 1820, at 

 Becancour, Quebec. His principal entomological work is the 

 " Faune Entomologique du Canada," in three volumes, embra- 

 cing the Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera and 

 Hemiptera. This was begun in 1874 and completed in 1890, and 

 the enormity of the work will be better understood when we learn 

 of the disadvantages at which the author was placed in being 

 separated from necessary libraries, collections and co-workers in 

 the field of Entomology. Notwithstanding these adverse condi- 

 tions he bravely struggled on, and to-day his work stands as a 

 monument to his assiduity. To be sure he made mistakes — we 

 all do that — and has been criticised, perhaps too harshly, when 

 the conditions he was obliged to face are considered. He con- 

 ducted the journal, " Le Naturaliste Canadien," the publication 

 of which was suspended, through lack of support, a short while 

 previous to his death, after twenty volumes had appeared dating 

 from 1869 to 1890. His labors were by no means restricted to 

 Entomology, as he published a treatise on the Flora of Canada, 

 treatises on agriculture and travels, and his last work was entitled, 

 " Les Mollusques de la Province de Quebec." He died in 1892, 

 aged seventy-two years. 



