ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VII. JANUARY, 1896. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Thaddeus William Harris, M.D i [ Notes and News 13 



Hamilton— The Red Bug 2 Entomological Literature 17 



Calvert — Notes on European entomo- Doings of Societies 21 



logical collections 4 Entomological Section 22 



Schaus— Notes on the NoctuidcC, etc.... 7 Davidson— On the nesting habits of An- 



Editorial 9 ; thidium consimile 29 



Economic Entomology 10 ; Smith— Desc. of new sp. of Noctuidae.. 26 



THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M.D. 



This month we present our readers with a picture of one of 

 the greatest entomologists America has produced. We suppose 

 but few of our readers have already seen a picture of Dr. Harris 

 and that is our reason for publishing it. He was born in Dor- 

 chester, Mass., Nov. 12, 1795, and died on Jan. i6. 1856, at the 

 age of sixty. Dr. Harris graduated from Harvard College in 

 1815, and took the degree of M.D. in 1820. He published about 

 one hundred and fourteen papers on entomological subjects, but 

 his principal work was " Insects Injurious to Vegetation," which 

 is a classic, and also of value to the present day; and it is doubt- 

 ful whether the beginner can have any better general work on 

 entomology than the FHnt edition of this book. It is not our 

 purpose to say much about 'Dr. Harris, as this has already been 

 ably done; we merely present his likeness to those who have not 

 seen it. 



During one of my last collecting trips in September (Queens County, 

 N. Y.) I found on sprouts of white birch, all from one root and not over 

 thirty inches high, thirty-eight larvae of Paonius exascaius. Usually this 

 species does not oviposit more than three or four ova on one bush.— Dr. 

 R. E. KuNZE. 



