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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XII. FEBRUARY, 1901. No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Calvert— Baron Edniond de Selys- 



Longchamps 33 



Cockerell — Flower and Insect Records 



from New Mexico 38 



Cockerell— A New Ceraiina 43 



Brues — A New Species of Dolicbopus 44 



Merrick — A New Callimorpha 45 



Kellogg— An Aquatic Psychodid 46 



King — Lecanium caryae Fitch 50 



Editorial 55 



En tomological Literature 56 



Doings of Societies 61 



Baron Edmond de Selys-Longchamps. 



The present classification of the Odonata, like that of all 

 groups of living things, is the result of the studies of several 

 generations, but it has advanced more during the second half 

 of the nineteenth century than at any other period. In those 

 fifty years excellent work on these insects has been done by a 

 number of entomologists of the first rank. Yet it will not be 

 unjust to them, to state that the present condition of that 

 classification is due more to de Selys-Longchamps than to any 

 other individual. The more eminent of his co-workers in this 

 department of entomology, indeed, were highest authorities in 

 other departments as well. This does not detract from the 

 great merit of de Selys, for much of the time which they de- 

 voted to study, he gave to the service of the State. But his 

 interests as a naturalist were not confined to insects ; they ex- 

 tended to the Belgian fauna generally, to mammals, birds, trees 

 and meteorological phenomena, and he wrote on all of them. 



His life was long ; his first and last scientific publications 



