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(8 spec). Scopelosoma ceromatica Grt. (i spec), Jodia rufago Hbn. 

 (3 spec), and one specimen of fcralia jocosa Gn., on trunk of hem- 

 lock tree. 



Homoptera — Mr. Weiss mentioned the fact that Brood VI of the 

 Periodical Cicada was due in New Jersey in 1915 and that locality 

 records of its appearance would be desirable. 



Coleoptera-At the meeting of February 14, Mr. Weiss read a 

 translation of a German article dealing with the Colorado Potato 

 Beetle in Germany, which illustrated the thorough way the German 

 authorities took in dealing with an unwelcome importation from the 

 United States. Among other things, it stated that military aid was 

 secured to hunt for the beetles and engage in the work of extermina- 

 tion. — Harry B. Weiss, Recording Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



Joseph Tarrigan Monell. 



(Portrait, Plate XIV) 



On Sunday morning, May 9, 191 5, after a protracted illness, 

 Joseph Tarrigan Monell, prominent aphidologist, passed away 

 at his home in St. Louis, Missouri, in his 56th year. He was 

 born in St. Louis, September 15, 1859, son of Archer and 

 Hester (Tarrigan) Monell, both of Philadelphia and of Eng- 

 lish extraction. In 1863 he was left an orphan and became 

 the ward of Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical 

 Gardens, who educated him, first in the Shaw School near 

 the gardens and later in Smith's Academy and Washington 

 University, at which latter institution he received the degree 

 of Mining Engineer in 1881. During his university career he 

 was for two years a volunteer student under Dr. C. V. Riley, 

 then State Entomologist of Missouri, and one year a student 

 under Dr. George Engelman, the eminent botanist. 



He by profession was a Civil and Mining Engineer, his 

 first position being with the B. & C. R. R. in Illinois, which 

 he soon left to become chemist and assayer of a silver and 

 refining company. Later (1882-86) he was chemist in 

 charge of the smelters of several lead companies in Missouri. 

 From 1886 to 1895 he was in charge of the smelting and re- 

 fining plant of the Mine la Motte, near Frederichtown, Mo., 

 which address is most familiar to entomologists, and from 1895- 



