ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXX. 



OCTOBER, 1919. 



No. 8. 



CONTENTS 



Holland— Herbert Huntingdon Smith 211 

 Alexander— Two new Crane-flies from 



California (Tipulidae, Diptera) 214 



Skinner— A New Species of Arg>nnis 



from Utah (Lepid., Rhop ) 216 



Lankester— Costa Rican Butterflies 



(Lepid., Rhop.) 216 



Funkhouser — A New Tylocentrus from 



Arizona (Membracidae ; Homop.) 217 

 Felt— Five Non-gall-making Midges 



(Dip., Cecidomyidae) 219 



Parshley— On the Preparation of He- 



miptera for the Cabinet 223 



Editorial— The Resting Place of Col- 

 lections 228 



Prison— The Occurrence of Eurema 



mexicana Boisd. in Illinois (Lep.) 228 

 Severin— The Cause of the Delay of 



Publication of the Selys Catalogue 229 



Scott— Abundance of Cicadas in Belu- 

 chistan 230 



Changes of Address 230 



Prof. Bruner's Retirement 231 



Memorials to the late F. D. Godman . . 231 

 Martin — Notes on the Occurrence of 

 Schizax senex in California (Col., 



Cerambycidae) 231 



Entomological Literature 232 



Fletcher's Report of the Imperial 



Entomologist, 1917-1918 237 



Miyake's Studies on the Fruit-flies of 



Japan 237 



Doings of Societies — Feldman Collect- 

 ing Social (Dip.. Col., Hym., Lep ) 238- 

 Amer. Ent. Soc. (Col., Lep., Dip., 



Orth. ) 239 



Ent. Sec, Acad, Nat. Sci. Phil. ( Lep. ) 240' 



Herbert Huntingdon Smith. 



(Portrait. Plate IX) 



In the death of Herbert Huntingdon Smith, which occurred 

 on March 22, 1919, at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, tlic world lost 

 one of the most indefatigable and successful field-naturalists 

 who has ever lived. In recent years Mr. Smith was afflicted 

 by deafness, and was struck by a railway train, of the ap- 

 proach of which he was unaware, and was instantly killed. 

 He was born at Manlius, New York, on January 21, 1851, and 

 was therefore m his sixty-ninth year at the time of his death. 

 He leaves his widow, Mrs. Amelia Woolworth Smith, and an 

 only son, Huntingdon Holland Smith, the latter a successful 

 young man of affairs, residing at Atlanta, Georgia. 



Mr. Smith was well known in scientific and literary circles. 

 While still a student at Cornell University in 1870, he accom- 

 panied his friend and teacher, the late Prof. C. F. Hartt, to 

 Brazil. In 1874 he returned to Brazil and spent more than 

 three years in making natural history collections in the vicinity 



