ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXV. 



APRIL, 1914. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS 



Muttkowski— George Williams Peck- 

 ham, M.D.. L L.D 145 



Girault — Overwintered Cocoon Sur- 

 viving; Forest Fire ( Lep. ) 148 



Banks — Neuroptera and Trichoptera 

 from Costa Rica 149 



Ellis— New American Bees of the Genus 

 Halictus ( Hym. ) 151 



Girault — Length of the Pupal Stage of 

 Adalia bipunctata Linn (Col.) 155 



Eyer and Menke — Adelocephala bisecta 

 (Lepid., Family Ceratocampidae) 156 



Rowley and Berry — 1913 as a Catocala 

 Year (Lepid.) 157 



Girault— Supposed Diseased Eggs of 

 Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis 



Haworth and Record of Parasites 



(Hym.) 167 



Rohwer — The Nearctic Species of the 

 Hymenopterous Genus Sympha 



Foerster 1 68 



Malloch — New American Diptera 172 



Schmaltz— Mantis religiosa Linnaeus 

 in Rochester, New York, in 1913 



(Orthop.) 178 



Editorial— The Ethics of Publication. . 179 

 Girault— Fragments on North Ameri- 

 can Insects— VI (Hym., Lep.) tSo 



Entomological Literature 180 



Felt— Review of KiefFer's Cecidomyiidae 185 

 Doings of Societies — Amer. Ent. Soc. 



(Orth., Lep., Odon.) 188 



Obituary— Charles S. Welles 192 



George Williams Peckham, M.D., LL.D. 



1845-1914. 



(Portrait, Plate VI.) 



Fahrt der Blitz aus Wolkenmitte, 



Schlagt er wohl die starkste Eiche; 

 Tritt der Tod in unsre Mitte, 



Schlagt den Starksten er zur Leiche. 



— Musikantenfahrt. 



On January lo, 1914, Milwaukee's circle of nature students 

 lost one of its most prominent members through death. Latent 

 heart trouble, with an attack of angina pectoris as the immediate 

 factor, ended the life of Dr. George Williams Peckham, patriot, 

 educator, scholar and scientist. 



Dr. Peckham was born in Albany, New York, on March 23, 

 1845. In 1853 he came to Milwaukee, where he attended the 

 public schools and proved himself both mentally and physically 



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