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RICHARD MIDDLETON FOX (1911-1968) Dr. Richard Middleton Fox, currently the world's authority on lthomii­ dae, died suddenly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 25, 1968. Dr. Fox was born in Morrisville, Pa., on April 15, 1911, He is survived by his wife, Jean Walker Fox, and a son and daughter by his first marriage. Fox's education was interrupted by depression and war. He studied at Swarthmore ('29-'32), University of PennsylvanJla ('40-'41-AB with Honors) and University of Pittsburgh. The last institution granted him his M.S. (Zoology) in 1947 and Ph.D. in 1948. During World War II, Dick Fox served in the Pacific as operations officer on an amphibious­ group staff and later became Commanding Officer of LSM 177. He rctired from the U. S. Naval Reserve as a Lt. Commander in 1960. With the exception of his military service, Fox's life was divided between teaching and entomological research. Belforc the war he was engaged in research at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (1935-1941) and Reading, Pa., Public Museum (1941-1942). From 1946-1948 Fox was on the faculty at University of Pittsburgh which he rejoined in 1960. At the time of his death he was Adjunct Professor of Biology in the Graduate School. From 1949 to 1954 he was Associate Professor of Zoology at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. In 1954 he and his wife Jean moved to where he was medical entomolo­ gist and acting director of the Liberian Institute (1954-19'57) and then director of field research for Riker Laboratorie:;, Inc. (1958-1959). Upon returning to this country Fox became Associate Curator, Section of and Spiders, Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., which position he held at the time of his death. I first became aware of Dick Fox in the late 1930's when I returned from a year-long collecting trip to Ecuador, and he asked to study my Ithomiids. From that time on our friendship grew. We argued the philosophy of taxonomy, reviewed each other's work before publication, and in general enjoyed each other's company in the field, laboratory and at home. Fox wrote numerous papers about taxonomy, the most important of which are his now closed series of monographs upon the Ithomiidae. He was meticulous and tolerated no slovenly work among those associated with him. Perhaps his most important contribution is the textbook on entomology that he prepared with his wife, also an accomplished systematist and morphologist. To my knowledge this is the only non-economic entomological text published in this country. He and Jean spent years of loving care to make it as 1968 JOll1'11al of the Lepidopterists' So ciety 193 sound and complete as is humanly possible. Reinholt published their "Introduction to Comparative Entomology" in 1964. Lee Miller's as yet unpublished study of the genera and higher categories of the world fauna of Satyridae was carried out under Fox's critical eye. ·When I last was with him, a few weeks before his death, he was guiding Maria Etcheverry, the well-known Chilean lepidopterist, through a similar study of the . The Fox family had planned to spend this past winter and spring in London working at the British Museum where Dick was familiar with the collections as he was with those at the Carnegie. A heart attack, his second, last fall [Jut him into the hospital and prevented him and Jean from making that trip. His many friends at the British Museum will rniss him as much as we here who were associated with him. He was a man who made friends slowly but enjoyed life, a musician of a1)ility, an artist of no mean talent and above all, a superb, well-rounded scientist and teacher.

F. MAR TIN BROWN, Colorado Springs, Colorado

The following bibliography of scientific writings of Richard M. Fox is complete to mid-1967.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF RrCHATID M. Fox

l. 1937 Pyrameis virginiensis in France ( : Nymphalidae). En!. News, 48: 230- 231. 2. 1939 (a) Notes on Melinaea lilis D & H with the description of a new suhspecies (Lepidoptera: Ithomiinae). Ent. News, .50: 72-76. 3. (b) A note on the Fabrician species lyeaste (Lepidoptera: Ithomiinae) . Ent. News, .50: 141- 144. 4. ( c ) Notes on Oeneis katahdin and semidea with designation of types ( Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae). Ent. News, 50: 21.'3-216. .5. 1840 A generic review of tbe I thomiinae (Lepidoptera: Nym)1halidae) . Trans. AlTler. Ent. Soc., 66: 161- 207, 4 pIs. 6. 1941 (a) New Ithomiinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Reacling Pllb. Mus. Sci. Pub!., 2: 27 pp., 2 pls. 7. (b ) [R. F erreira d' Almeida & R. M. Fox] A revision of the genus Sais l-hibner (Lepidoptera: lthomiinae) . Heading Pub. Mus. Sci. Pub!., 3: .5 pp., 1 pI. 8. 1942 (a) On the identity of Melinaea lucifer Bates, with descriptions of l wo new Melinaea subspecies. American Mus . .\lovitates, 1194: 3 pp., 2 figs. 9. (h) Catalogue of the types in the L. ,,y. Mengel butterfly collection. Reading Pub. Mus. Sci. Pub!., 4: 23 pp., 4 figs. 10. (c) Three new Ithomiinae in the Mengel collection. Reading Pub. Mus. Sci. Pub!., 4: 25- 27, 4 fjgs. 11. 1943 New and rare Ithomiinae ~( Lepidopt e ra) in the Carnegie Museum Annals Carnegie Ylus., 29: 397- 406, 1 pJ. 12. 194.5 New genera and species of 1thomiinae ( Lepidoptera, l\ymphalidae ). American Mus. Novitates, 129.5: 14 pp., 28 fi gs . 194 BROWN: Richard M. Fox, 1911-1968 Vol. 22, no. 3

13. 1947 [R. M. Fox & Jean W. Fox] Ithomiinae (Lepidoptera) of Rancho Grande, Venezuela, including two new species. Zoologica (N.Y. Zool. Soc.), 32 ( 4 ): 173-177, 1 pI. 14. 1948 (a) Roswellia, a new gcnus of Ithomines (Lepidoptera). Ent. Ncws, 59: 131-132. 1.5. (b) Two new Ithomiinae in the Schaus collection (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). J. Washington Acad. Sci., 38: 315-316, 2 figs. 16. ( c) The scarcest of fossils. Carnegie Mag., 2~: (2.): 51-52. 17. 1949 [Preprint] The evolution and systematics of the Ithomiidae (Lepi­ doptera). Doctoral Disscrtations 1948, Bull. Univ. Pittsburgh, 45(8): 36-47. 18. 1953 (a) [R. M . Fox & n. M. Stabler] Basilia calverti, a new species of bat-tick fly (Nycteribiidae: Diptera). J. Parasit., 39: 22-27, 2 figs. 19. (b) The taxonomic value of male genitalia in the Ithomiidae (Lepi­ doptera). Ent. News, 64: 141-143. 20. (c) [G. E. MacDougall & R. M. Fox] The seasonal distribution of carrion and refL;se feeding flies in Colorado Springs, Colorado. J. Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sc.i., 1953. (Abstract.) 21. (d) Speciation in the Ithomiiclae. J. Colorado-vVyoming Acad. Sci., 1953. (Abstract.) 22.. 1954 (a) Ecuadorian Lycoreinae (Lepidoptera: Danaidae). Rev. Ecuadoriana Ent. Parasit., 2: 257-262, 6 figs. 23. (b) The effect of reservoirs on raw water contamination. J. Colorado­ Wyoming Acad. Sci., 1954. (Abstract.) 24. (c) Oeneis semidea Say in New Hampshire and on Pike's Peak. J. Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci., 1954. (Abstract.) 25. 1955 (a) [Jean W. Fox & R. M . Fox] Maxillary index and biological races in Anopheles gambiae Giles. Mosquito News, 15( 4 ): 207-214, 4 figs. 26,. (b) On subspecies. Syst. Zoo!. 4 (2): 93-9,5. 27. 1956 A monograph of the Ithomiidae (Lepidoptera), Part I. Bul!. American Mus. Nat. Hist., 111( 1): 76 pp., 75 text figs. , 9 pIs. 28. 19.57 Anopheles gam biae in relation to malaria and filariasis in coastal Liberia. American J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 6( 4): .598-620, 8 figs., 6 tables. 29. 19.58 Man-biting mosquitoes in coastal Liberia. American J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 7(2): 215- 220. 30. 1959 (a) [R. M. Fox & Jaraslav Weiser] A microsporidian paraSite of Anoph­ eles gambiae in Liberia. J. Parasit., 45( 1): 21-30, 6 figs. 31. (b) Yendamalahoun. Carnegie Mag., 33( 8): 278-284, ill. 32. ( c) [R. S. Bray, R. Burgess, R. M. Fox l!t M. Miller] Effect of pyrimethamine upon sporogony and pre-crythrocytic schizogony of Laverania falciparum. Bull. World Health Organ., 21: 233-238. 33. 1960 (a) A monograph of the Ithomiidae (Lepidoptera), Part II. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 86: 109-171, 28 figs., 4 pIs. 34. 1960 (b) A postscript on the Ithomine tribe TithOleini. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc., 68: 152-156, 1 fig. 35. 1961 (a) Tribal medicine in Liberia. Carnegie Mag., :15: 41-47, ill. 36. (b) Folk medicine in Liberia. Healthways, 1 ( 3): 2-5. 37. (c) A check list of the Ithomiic1ae, 1. Tribes T ithoreini and Melinaeini. J. Lepicl. Soc., 15: 25-33. 38. 196.3 ( a) [M. Condamin and R. M. Fox] A new subspecies of ignobilis (Lepidoptera, Satyridae). Bull. Inst. Francais d' Afrique Noire, 25 (Ser. A): 1166--1167, 1 fig. 39. (b) Reports on the Margaret M. Cary-Carnegie Museum Expedition to Baja California, 1961. 1. Introduction: Itinerary and Localities. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 181-192. 1965 Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 19.5

40. (c) New African . Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 213-224, 9 figs. 4l. 1964 (a) Affinities and distribution of Antillean Ithomiidae. J. Res. Lepid., 2(3): 173-184, 12 figs. ["1963"]. 42. (b) [R. M. Fox and Jean W. Fox] An introduction to comparative entomology. New York. Reinhold Publishing Corp., 4.50 pp., 326 figs. 43. (c) [Jean W. Fox and R. M. Fox] A new species of Triozocera (Men­ geidac: Strepsiptera) from Liberia, 'vV est Africa. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., .57 ( 4): 402-40,5, ill. 44. (d) [M. Condamin and R. M. Fox] Le complexe de Bicyclus dorothea. Bull. Inst. Francais d'Afrique Noire, 26 (SeI. A), 624-631, ill. 45. (e) The genus Phalanta (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Bull. Inst. Francais d'Afrique Noirc, 26 (SeI. A), 632-639, ill. 46. (f) [Jean W. Fox and R. M. Fox] A new genus and species of Stylopidae (Strepsiptera) from Liberia, "Vest Africa. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., .57: 754-756, ill. 47. 1965 (a) [Cummins, K. W., L. D. Miller, N. Smith and 11. M. Fox] Experi­ mental entomology. New York. Reinhold Publishing Corp., 176 pp., ill. 48. (b) [Fox, R. M., A. W. Lindsay, H. K. Clench and 1,. D. Miller] Butterflies of Liberia. Mem. American Ent. Soc., No. 19: 438 pp., 233 figs. 49. (c) The importance of introductory entomology in a modern biological program. Bull. Ent. Soc. Amer., II (2): 78-80. .50. 196.5 (d) Additional notes on Melinaea Hiibner (Lepidoptera: Ithomiidae). Proc. Royal Ent. Soc. London (B), 34: 77-S2. .5l. 1967 (a) Forelegs of butterflies, I. Introduction. Chemoreception. .T. Res. Lepid., 5: 1- 12, 12 figs., 1 table ["1966"]. .52. (b) [Book Review of] A list of the butterflies of Malawi, by D. Gifford . J. Lepid. Soc., 21: 7-8. .53. (c) Monograph of the Ithomiidae (Lepidoptera), Part III. Tribe Mechanitini Fox. Amer. Ent. Soc., Mem. 22: 200 pp., 201 figs.

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE A.(N.s.)SO

Required six-month's notice is given on the possible use of plenary powers by the International Commission on Zoological l\' omenclature in connection with the following names listed by case number: (see, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 24, pt. 5, 7 December 1967): lS01. Suppression of Argynnis chlorodippe Villers & Guenee, lS35 (Insecta, Lepidoptera) lS15. Validation of Pachyrhynchus Germar, lS24 (Insecta, Coleoptera) 1822. Type-species for Lasioptera Meigen, 1818 (Insecta, Diptera) 1829. Suppression of Polanisa Walker, 1875 (Insecta, Hymenoptera) (see, Bull. zool. Nornencl. 24, pt. 6, 18 January 1968) 1827. Typc-species for Solenills Lepeletier & Brulle, 1834 (Insecta, Hymenoptera)