ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOI,. XV. 



JUNE, 1904. 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Viereck A Case for Schmitt Boxes. . . 177 



Smith Remarks on Classification 179 



Blanchard A new Californian species 



of Dromasolus Kies 187 



Girault Attelabus bipustulatus Fab... 189 

 Webster Relation of the Systematic to 



the Economic Entomologist 193 



Grinnell An early California collector 202 

 Newcomb Some notes chiefly on the 



scarcity of Michigan Rhopalocera 



in 1903 204 



Kearfott Micro-Lepidoptera Sugges- 

 tions, Part III 207 



Bradley Ropronia garmani Ashmead. 212 

 Ehrmann New forms of Papilionidse. 214 

 Calvert Thaumatoneura (Odonata).. 216 

 Skinner New Meloidae from Arizona. 217 



Editorial 218 



Entomological Literature 219 



Notes and News 219 



Doings of Societies 223 



Obituary Rev. Fr. Jerome Schmitt... 224 



A Case for Schmitt Boxes. 

 By HENRY L,. VIERECK. 



(With Plate XIII.) 



The first case specially designed to hold Schmitt boxes is 

 shown in the accompanying illustration. This case measures, 

 inside, 41^ ins. high, 19 ins. wide, and 13^ ins. deep. It is 

 made of sheet tin folded and soldered together, reinforced by 

 outside ribs, two on the lid and one on each side. Around the 

 outside of the case S/% in. from the edges is soldered a strip of 

 tin which, with the case, makes a groove ^ x $/% in. The 

 groove is lined with sublimated felt or rubber (the former is 

 best because the rubber hardens and becomes useless) and 

 receives the corresponding ^ x ^ in. rim of solid zinc on the 

 edge of the lid. Four wire clamps permanently attached to 

 the lid, when clamped over the projecting groove of the case, 

 hold the lid firmly in place so that the case becomes airtight. 



Inside the case is placed a wooden frame made of three up- 

 right boards, top, bottom and a shelf in the middle, the sides 

 are furnished with cleats that make separate places for the 

 Schmitt boxes. 



Each case holds 28 boxes and makes a unit of an elastic 



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