ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. ix. JANUARY, 1898. No. ] 



CONTENTS: 



Dr. George H.Horn I I Johnson — Notes and descriptions of 



Blandford — The identity of Xyleborus new Syrphidae, etc 17 



i.ffinis, with some synonymical notes' 3 Snyder — Utah revisited, etc 18 



Elrod— Iowa Odonata 7 Wickham — Recollections of old col- 

 Holland — Descriptions of new West A f- lecting grounds 22 



rican Heterocera 11 



Strecker — Lasiocampa medusa 13 



Fox— Notes on the Mutillidae of N. Am. 14 



Kellogg— Carphoxera ptelearia 15 



Banks — Arachnida from the Malaspina 



Glacier, Alaska 16 



Ashmead— An egg-parasite, etc 24 



Editorial 25 



Notes and News 27 



Entomological Literature 28 



Doings of Societies 31 



Dr. GEORGE H. HORN. 



George Henry Horn was born in Philadelphia, April the 

 7th, 1840, and died at Beesley's Point, N. J., November the 24th, 

 1897. He had an apoplectic stroke in December, 1896, which 

 caused hemiplegia, from which he did not recover, and he was 

 at the sea-shore for the benefit of his health and of this partial 

 paralysis when the end came. 



He was a graduate of the Philadelphia High School, from 

 which he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M., and in 1861 

 received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. From 1862 to 1866 he was in the service of the United 

 States, being surgeon in the 2nd Infantry, California Volunteers, 

 Department of the Pacific, serving in California, Arizona and 

 New Mexico, where he collected extensively in entomology. 

 Until within the last few years of his life he practiced medicine, 

 his specialty being obstetrics, in which branch he was an expert, 

 not infrequently being called in consultation in difficult cases. 

 Much of his scientific work was done at night during time stolen 

 from sleep and after the day's cares and professional engage- 

 ments were over. The days were never long enough, and this 

 close application to work and devotion to science may have been 

 a factor in shortening his life. 



