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a oe _ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
SDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
_ ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
< > DECEMBER, 1908. No. 1o. 
j CONTENTS: 
be asaseseocevccace Weitee-Fupuing Faedn Beguetieg 
Sirstesseos Insects; and some Insects are 
PORGOROUS. 04 oc cctboovseabecvecascte 
Life History of Culex pertubans 
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Williams—The History of Lycacna 
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Other Species ..-....cceecnecsceseee 
peapenanciecdecccese i a ote te 
McAtee—Notes on an 
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ED con en ah pntcseghsdunadddiucecées 492 
) Notes and News. .......s.cccsceseveces wn 
Doings of Societios.........ceescce eee ory 
JAMES FLETCHER, LL.D. 
hae (Plate XIX) 
ie ther died in the Royal Victoria hospital, Montreal 
*r Sth, following a surgical operation. He was born 
oh England, March 28, 1852. His education was ob- 
t the King’s School, Rochester, England. He came to 
¢ when a young man as a junior officer in the"Bank of 
America, and soon began to devote his leisure 
aie teady of insects and plants Finding the work of a 
1k by no means congenial to his literary and scientific tastes, 
b 1 a position as assistant in the Library of Parliament 
ta’ It was not long before his talents and attainments in 
y and entomology became widely known, chiefly through 
to the “Canadian Entomologist” and the 
Il reports of the Entomological Society of Ontario. His 
irst paper in the latter was an article on Canadian Buprestidae, 
Ahn was published i in 1878, while his first contribution to the 
appeared in January, 1880. During all the years that 
have 
followed no volume of either publication has been issued 
without some valuable articles from his pen. 
_ . In 1878 he became a member of the Council of the Entomo- 
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