ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXII. OCTOBER, 191 1. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituao' — Daniel William Coquillett 337 Skinner— Two rare spp. of Coleoplera. . 354 



Coolidge — Collecting in Southern Ari- Beutenniueller — Description of a new 



zona . 339 Dryophanta ( Hj men.) 357 



Needham — Notes on a few Nymphs of Girault — A new Polynema from Mexico 



Agrioninae (Order Odonatai of the iHymen.) 358 



Hagen Collection 342 Bower — Early Stages of Lycaena lyg- 



Bishop-^A new Root Gall Midge from damus Doubleday (Lepid.) 359 



Smilacina ( Dipt. 1 346 Girault— Critical notes on some species 



Girault — The Probable Occurrence of of Mymaridae (Hymen.) 363 



the Mymarid Genus Dicopus Enock Editorial 369 



in North America i Hymen.) 347 I Notes and News 370 



Alexander — Notes on Two Tipulidae Entomological Literature 374 



(Dipt. I 349 , Doings of Societies 379 



Daniel William Coquillett. 



(Portrait, Plate X.) 



Daniel William Coquillett was born January 2^^, 1856, on 

 a farm in Pleasant \'alley, between \\'oodstock and ^larengo, 

 Illinois, and died July 7. loii. at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 

 of heart failure. 



It was with great regret that we heard of the death of our 

 leading Dipterist. There are many who will miss his cheer, 

 and his help in the determination of their finds in Diptera, and 

 the United States National Museum has lost a valuable mem- 

 ber of its stafif. 



He had been interested in insects as a young man on his 

 father's farm in 'Pleasant \^alley, and he contributed liberally 

 to the literature of applied entomology. In r88i he became 

 Assistant State Entomologist of Illinois, but was compelled 

 to remove to California for his health, where in 1885 he be- 

 came field agent for the Division of Entomology of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and continued as such until 

 1893, when he was transferred to Washington as an assistant 

 to the Entomologist of the Department. In 1896 he was raised 

 to the office of Honorary Custodian of Diptera of the U. S. 

 National ]^Iuseum, which he held at the time of his death. 



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