ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
AND 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
Vor. XXIII. JANUARY, 1o12. No. 1. 
CONLENTLS: 
Portrait—Professor S. S. Haldeman.... 1 | Bergroth—Notes on Australian Penta- 
Davis—An Injurious Grasshopper at tomidae (Rhynch.).................. 21 
Ridgeway, N. J. (Orthop.).....-.... 2 Weliman—New Species of Lyttidae, 
Haskin and Grinnell—Thecla dumento- with notes on described species 
rum and T. affinis; a Study (Lepid.) 3 (Coleops) ose eee eceeee os esse 29 
Smyth—Description of the Larva and 1D bt Pay, 2 Lion saseoor HAD OneOOL ea aedee -50e 39 
first bred specimens of Sphinx (Hy- Entomological Literature .............. 40 
loicus) franckii Neum. (Lepid )...._ 9 | Obituary—James H. B. Bland .......... 47 
Kellogg and Mann—A Third Collection Te 4 Roo e eeseaondocpoobEce 47 
_of Mallophaga from Alaskan Birds 12 George Henry Verrall....... 48 
Hill-Griffin—New Oregon Trichoptera 17 Alberta Harrisons... -\sc/ cess. 48 
Jules Bourgeois.............. 48 
Professor S. S. Haldeman. 
(Portrait, Plate I.) 
Following the plan adopted for 1911, of placing on the 
covers of the News the portrait of one of the older American 
Entomologists, we present for 1912 the portrait of Prof. S. 
S. Haldeman, adding the following biographical sketch. 
SAMUEL STEHMAN HALDEMAN was born August 12, 1812, 
at Locust Grove, Pennsylvania, and died at Chickies in the 
same State, September 10, 1880. He spent two years as a 
student in Dickinson College, Pa., but the rest of his education 
was self-directed. He was Professor of Natural History 
in the University of Pennsylvania 1851-1855, Professor of 
Comparative Philology in the same 1869-1880, and Professor 
of Natural History in Delaware College in 1855, “acting also 
as Professor of Geology and Chemistry to the State Agricul- 
tural College.” The Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific 
Papers lists 61 titles on geological and zoological subjects from 
his pen between 1839 and 1881, 30 of them being entomolog- 
ical (chiefly on Coleoptera). ‘Failing eye-sight compelled him 
eventually to give up his studies in Zoology, and to devote his 
whole time to Linguistics.” A biographical notice, by Dr. D. G. 
Brinton, with quotations from Dr. J. L. Le Conte, was pub- 
lished in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical So- 
ciety, Volume XIX, pages 279-285. 
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