ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VII. 



MARCH, 1896. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS 



Dr. Asa Fitch 65 



Calvert — Notes on European Entomo- 

 logical collections 66 



Holland — Ravages of Dermestes vul- 



piiius in cork 68 



Dyar — Another Euchromiid to be 



added to our list 6g 



Hamilton— A review of T. L. Casey's.. 70 



Cleveland— A List of Lepidoptera, etc. 72 



The " Death-watch" beetle 75 



Superstitions about " Lady-birds ' 77 



Editorial 81 



Economic Entomology 82 



Notes and News 86 



Entomological Literature 88 



Doings of Societies 93 



Banks — A new species of Meleoma 95 



Dr. ASA FITCH. 



Dr. Asa Fitch was a son of Hon. Asa Fitch, M.D., and was 

 born Feb. 24, 1809, at Fitch's Point, Salem, Washington County, 

 N. Y., and died at his home April 7, 1879, aged 70 years. In 

 the death of Dr. Fitch Economic Entomology, in this country, 

 lost one of its ablest votaries, who spent the larger part of his 

 life in the untiring and successful study of the insects injurious to 

 agriculture and horticulture. While his earlier writings were 

 contemporaneous with those of Harris, and his later ones with 

 those of Walsh, he will, judged by the work he did, take a high 

 rank among the fathers of applied entomology in America. He 

 practised medicine for eight years, but in 1838 gave it up to as- 

 sume the management of his father's business. From this time 

 on he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, which gave more 

 opportunities for investigations in entomology. He was ap- 

 pointed State Entomologist of New York, which position he held 

 for seventeen years, and among other things published fourteen 

 reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State 

 of New York. 



