ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 







PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 





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VOL. XXX. 



MARCH, 1919. 



No. 3- 



CONTENTS: 



Hooker Notes on the Life History of 

 Epipsilia monochromatea Morr. 

 (Lepid., Noctuidae) 61 



Crampton Notes on the Phylogeny of 

 the Orthoptera 64 



Calvert Odonata Anisoptera from 

 Guatemala 72 



Hebatd Remarks on the Species as- 

 signed to Cavotettix Hancock, a 

 Synonym of Neotettix Hancock 

 (Orthopt., Acrididae, Acrydiinae) 78 



Davis An Entomologist's Handbook 82 

 Editorial The Next International En- 

 tomological Congress 83 



The Jubilee of the Canadian Entomo- 

 logist 83 



An Appeal from Belgium 84 



Entomological Literature 85 



Doings of Societies Feldman Collect- 

 ing Social (Coleop., Orthop., Dip.) 88 

 Obituary Benjamin Hayes Smith 88 



Notes on the Life History of Epipsilia monochromatea 



Morr. (Lepid., Noctuidae). 1 

 By HENRY D. HOOKER, JR., Ph.D. 



(Plate IV.) 



In the course of some work on Droscra rotundifolia during 

 the summer of 1915, Droscra plants collected from Beaver 

 Swamp in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, were found 

 to be attacked by the larva of a noctuid moth, which is as far as 

 I know the only insect that eats with impunity this insectivor- 

 ous plant. 2 The larvae collected in the early part of July 

 were not more than 3 millimeters long and were readily caught 

 and eaten by the Droscra plant when brought in contact with 

 the secreting glands of the tentacles. However, the larva 



1 Contribution from the Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Connecticut. 



2 H. D. Hooker, Jr., 1916. Physiological enervations on Drosera 

 rotundifolia. Bull. Torrey Club 43 : pp. 4, 5. 



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