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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. v. JUNE, 1894. No. 6. 



CONTENTS 



Edward Norton, biographical sketch of 161 I Notes and News 185 



Baker—Michigan Araneae 163 Entomological Literature 187 



Snyder — Collecting in Utah 164 Entomological Section ; 193 



Davidson — Parasites of wild bees 170 



Cockerel! — Habits of some Asilidae 173 



White — Collecting in Prospect Park 174 



Brendel— Corrections in Pselaphidae 194 



Williston — Am. gen. of Sapromyzinae... 196 

 Slosson — Hyparpax var. tyria 198 



Boerner — An early Spring trip 175 ; Dyar— A new form of Pagara 15 



Rowley — Sphinges of Missouri 176 



Banks — Neuropteroid insects of Kansas 178 



Editorial 181 



Economic Entomology 182 



Klages — Variety of Euphoria 19S 



Cockerell — New Hymenoptera.. 199' 



Fox — Fossorial Hymenoptera 201 



Cockerell — New Coccidae 203 



I 



EDWARD NORTON. 



Mr. Edward Norton died April 8, 1894, at his home in 

 Farmington, Conn., aged 70 years, of pneumonia. He was 

 born in Albany, N. Y. , in 1823, his father being John Treadwell 

 Norton, of honored memory. After graduating from Yale, in 

 1844, he traveled in Europe, and spent several Winters in the 

 South to ward off threatened disease of the lungs. Agriculture 

 became to him a fine art, to which he devoted a singularly intel- 

 ligent and well-trained mind. He became interested in fine 

 grades of cattle, and was widely known for his enterprise and 

 skill in this department of farming industry. For many years, 

 and until the time of his death, he was secretary of the American 

 Guernsey Cattle Club, and in this capacity was well known in 

 diflferent parts of the country, and was an acknowledged authority 

 regarding this valuable kind of imported stock. 



Mr. Norton was a highly intelligent man; his mind was broad 

 and well balanced, and he loved the study of natural history. A 

 friend, in a letter, says: " Mr. Norton was a public-spirited man, 

 cordially interested in everything that promised to be of advan- 

 tage to the community in which he lived; he was a man of sterling 



