ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THK ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XV. 



JANUARY, 1904. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Frontispiece i 



Girault Standards of the Number of 



Eggs Laid by Insects II 2 



Packard Colossal Silk-worm Moths of 



the genera Attacus and Rothschildia 4 

 Field Notes on Pupation of Vanessa 



Antiopa 6 



McCracken Anopheles in California, 



vvilh Description of a new species 9 



Jones Pitcher-Plant Insects 14 



Ash mead Description ol the type of the 



genus Curriea Ashmead j8 



Melander Destructive Beetles: a note 



on Landscape Gardening 19 



Viereck Two new Species of the Bee 



Genus Perdita from Indiana and 



New Jersey 21 



Cockerel! Southwestern Geographical 



Names 24 



Howard S ndnig Insects Through the 



Mails 25 



Sherman List of the Cicindelidae of 

 North Carolina, with notes on the 



Species 26 



Cockerell Two New Bees 32 



Davis A New Beetle from Newjersey.. 34 



Editorial 36 



Entomological Literature 37 



Notes and News 40 



Doings of Societies 43 



Our frontispiece shows the beauties arid possibilities of the 

 three-color process for insects like butterflies and moths which 

 have a plane surface. These brilliant butterflies have been 

 photographed direct, and the three-color plates were made by 

 the well-known house of illustrators and engravers, Gatchel 

 & Manning of Philadelphia. The plates were made to test 

 the possibilities of the colored inks made for this kind of 

 work by the Charles Eneu Johnson Co. of Philadelphia. We 

 are firmly convinced that the possibilities of photography for 

 the illustration of insects is by no means fully realized, but it 

 is necessary to have more than a commercial interest in it. 

 The entomologist, the plate maker and an expert photographer 

 should work together to achieve the best results, more espe- 

 cially when the smaller species are figured. 



