240 ENTOMOU>GICAL NEWS. [May, '15 



OBITUARY. 



Ferdinand Kowarz, born in Plan, Bohemia, February 23, 

 1838, died at Franzensbad, September 22, 1914. From 1859 ^^ 

 1901 he was in the Austrian telegraphic and postal service. 

 Dr. Th. Becker, who contributes an obituary sketch of him to 

 the Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift for 191 5, Heft I, 

 accompanied by a list of his 19 papers on the Diptera between 

 1867 and 1893, considers that his services to Dipterology con- 

 sist in the enlargement of our knowledge of genera and species 

 of the European fauna, partly by new descriptions, partly by 

 systematic studies, in which he made large use of chaetotaxy. 

 He received his first impulse to the study of these insects from 

 Schiner with whom, and later with H. Loew and Mik, he re- 

 mained in lifelong friendly relations. 



A biographical notice, in Swedish, of Dr. Filip Trybom, 

 accompanied by a portrait, is contained in the Bntomologisk 

 Tidskrift Arg. 35, Haft 1-2, Uppsala, 1914, recently received. 

 Doctor Trybom was born December 24, 1850, and died Febru- 

 ary 15, 1913. A bibliography of 27 titles appended to the 

 notice includes articles on Diptera, Odonata and Physapoda, 

 on which last group most of his entomological work was done. 



[From the Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift for 1914 Heft VI 

 and 1915, Heft I, and Entomologische Blatter, XI, Heft 1-3, 1915, we 

 learn of the deaths of the following entomologists in the war:] 



Dr. Walter Stendell, born August 25, 1889, author of 

 Beitr'dge zur Kenntniss der Oenocyten von Ephestia kuehniella 

 Zeller, at Lechauld, September 28, 1914. 



Dr. Otto Kirch hoffer, born July 2, 1863, author of Unter- 

 suchungen iiber die Augen pentamer Kdfer and of Die Ent- 

 wicklung der Complexaugen nebst Ganglion opticum bei 

 Dermestes vulpinus. [Date of death not given.] 



Oberleutnant v. Rothkirch und PanthEn, an active Cole- 

 opterist, was killed on the borders of Kamerun. 



Dr. W. Ha-^s, assistant in the Institut fiir Binnenfischerei in 

 Friedrichshagen. 



Dr. F. VoGEL, worker in the Landesanstalt fur Gewasser- 

 kunde in Berlin. 



