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lying on the concrete, having apparently dropped from one of 

 the wagons hauling broken stone for the base of the asphalt 

 pavement being laid in that vicinity. 



When the wheel came in contact with the obstruction it turned 

 directly at right angles and Professor Riley was thrown with great 

 violence, head downward, on the pavement. His feet seemed to 

 get tangled in the pedals and the machine fell on top of him. 

 He was apparently lifeless, and a stream of blood gushing from 

 his ear had already formed a pool on the pavement. The injured 

 man was lifted up and laid on the parking, and in a few minutes 

 several physicians were present. The observable injuries of Pro- 

 fessor Riley consisted of a deep gash over the left eye, a cut 

 across his nose and the laceration of every knuckle on either 

 hand, showing that his grasp on the handle bar of his machine 

 had not relaxed, so^ quickly had the catastrophe happened. 

 Death took place shortly after midnight on September 15th. 



The work done by Professor Riley is too well known to ento- 

 mologists to require a detailed account, and we are sorry, indeed, 

 that his life was cut short at a period when he would have had 

 much more time to devote to research, having given up executive 

 and routine work in the Department of Agriculture. 



Some Entomological Notes from Montgomery County, Virginia. 



By Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., Blacksburg, Va. 



Inasmuch as Argynnis bellona has been given a hitherto North- 

 ern range, it will be of interest to note its capture in this south- 

 western part of Virginia; two specimens, both males, were cap-' 

 tured here in the latter part of August, 1894; both were taken 

 in a wet, boggy place in a little valley, and were the only ones 

 seen, the only other Argynnidae taken or seen being Arg. cybele, 

 diana and Euptoieta clandia. Three specimens of Phyciodes 

 nydeis were also taken here in July, and in June I saw one 

 Melitcea phcBton on the side of Bald Knob, about 4000 feet above 

 sea-level, but having no net, failed to secure it. 



This Spring (April 13, 1895) I saw my first Thecia datnon, on 

 Juniperus virginica, and it has been since, and is now (May 8), 

 very abundant in both|sexes, every red cedar having a few flitting 

 about their top branches. They seem also to fancy the bloom 



