It2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '04 



Benjamin Franklin Koons. 



Benjamin Franklin Koons died at his home in Storrs, Con- 

 necticut, December 17, 1903. He was born September 8, 

 1844, at Sulphur Springs, Ohio. At the age of seventeen he 

 enlisted in the 123d Ohio regiment, and served till the close 

 of the Civil War ; after which he worked his way through 

 Oberlin, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 

 1874. Mr. Koons received the degree of Ph. D. from Yale 

 University in 1881. He spent several summers working with 

 the United States Fish Commission. In the fall of i88r he 

 was appointed Professor of Natural History in the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College (then Storrs Agricultural School), and 

 from 1883 until 1898 was at the head of the institution. From 

 then until his death he was Professor of Natural History and 

 Curator of the Museum, which contains valuable material 

 largely collected by Professor Koons from many parts of the 

 United States, including the National Park and Alaska, Al- 

 though Professor Koons has published little of entomological 

 interest, he was a careful student of the subject, keeping well 

 informed. His popular lectures were interesting and instruct- 

 ive, and the .students received much of practical value from his 

 course in Economic Entomology. For many years he was 

 Entomologist of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture. 



Professor Koons was a man of a quiet nature, but firm in 

 his convictions. He was respected by all the students, and 

 his death is mourned by many friends. 



Corrections in the List of North Carolina Cicindelid^ — 

 There are two matters which need attention in my "List of the Cicin- 

 delidae of North Carolina" (Ent. News, vol. xv, p 26-32). 



Cicindela 6-guttata has been taken at Raleigh, thus adding a new 

 locality. This would scarcely be worthy of record were it not for the 

 fact that it does not seem to be at all common here, the one specimen 

 taken on April 29, 1903, by myself, being the only record. 



The other matter is one of credit. Under Cicindela purpurea it should 

 have been stated that the species was taken at Blowing Rock by Mr. 

 C. O. Houghton and myself. We were together upon that occasion. 

 Under Cicindela abdominalis Mr. Houghton should also have been given 

 credit for taking the species with me at Southern Pines, hideed, of the 

 five specimens taken, Mr. Houghton captured three. — Franklin Sher- 

 man, Jr, Entomologist N. C. Dept Agr., Raleigh, N. C. 



