ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XV. SEPTEMBER, 1904. No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary— Rev. Fr. Jerome Schmitt... 225 1 Viereck— A Bee Visitor of Pontederia 244 



Obituary— Robert M'Lachlan 226 1 Williamson— A new species of Psolo- 



Stcvensoii — Micro Cyanide Bottles.... 228 ■ desmus from Formosa 247 



Rehti— Notes on the Orthoptera of the : Brues — A new species of Ecitopora 250 



Keweenaw Region, Michigan i29 ; Swenk — Anew Coiletes 251 



Wickham — Reduplication of the Tar- '' Editorial 254 



sus in Hydrocharis 237 ■ Entomological Literature 255 



Kunze — Protective Resemblance 239 > Doings of Societies 256 



The Rev. Jerome Schmitt, O. S. B. 



(Plate XV.) 



Father Schmitt died at the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, 

 April 27th. He was born at Neuhausen, Wuertemberg, on 

 May 20, 1857. 



He entered the Scholasticate at St. Vincent's College, 

 Beatty, Pa., July 5, 1869. Having successfully completed 

 his clerical studies. Father Jerome, in July 1875, entered the 

 novitiate of the Order. In 1881 he was ordained priest, and 

 assigned to teaching Latin and Greek in the college course. 

 In 1899 he was appointed Subprior. Official duties were not 

 to his liking, he claiming his temperament ill fitted him to be 

 a superior. He therefore importuned the Rt. Rev. Archabbot 

 to relieve him, and when this was done, at the end of his first 

 year's serv'ice, he announced the fact with childlike glee to his 

 brethren, introducing himself as the very Reverend Ex- 

 Subprior. He had eminent musical talent and was an old- 

 time and reliable member of the college orchestra, which now 

 feels his loss keenly. Almost thirty years ago he began the 

 study of entomology and succeeded in reaching the foremost 

 rank among men devoted to this branch of natural science. 

 His specialties were the Formicoidea and among Coleoptera 

 the families Scydmaenidae and Pselaphidse. In regard to the 

 latter particularly his studies and observations were well known 



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