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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXX. 



JULY, 1919. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Mengel A new Perisama from South 

 America (Lepid., Kliop ) 181 



McAtee Preliminary Key to the 

 N e a r c t i c Species of Eupteryx 

 ( Homoptera ; Euptervgidae) 182 



VanDyke New Species of Buprestidae 

 (Col.) from the Western United 

 States, with Supplementary notes 

 concerning others 186 



Mitchell Notes on Diacrisia virginica 



(Lep.) iqi 



Baker A Melaphis from Moss (Horn.) 194 



Schwarz The early Stages of Catocala 

 minuta and a Description of a New 

 Variety of C. obscura (Lepid. ) .. 196 



Mickel A new Genus of Cerambycidae 

 from Wyoming (Col.) 198 



Parker North American Sarcopha- 

 gidae ; New Species of the Genus 

 Sarcofahrtia R. Parker (Dip ) 201 



Editorial International Relations of 

 Entomological Societies after the 

 War 204 



Entomological Literature 206 



Review Lochhead's Class Book of 



Economic Entomology 209 



Obituary William Francis de Vismes 

 Kane, Sydney Webb, Grand Duke 

 Nicolas Michailovitch, Raphael 

 Blanchard, Jules Kunkel 'dHercu- 

 lais. Herbert Huntington Smith, R. 

 Kobert 209 



A new Perisama from South America (Lepid., Rhop.) 

 By LEVI W. MENGEL, Reading, Pennsylvania. 



(Plate VIII.) 



Perisama sinerubra n. sp. 



Kxpansc 43-45 mm. Upper side primaries black with broad diag- 

 onal blue-green bar from middle of costal margin to the exterior angle. 

 There is a small dash of blue-green near the apex. A few bars of 

 the same color radiate from the base. 



The inferiors are black with a bluish reflection toward the base. 

 There is a broad marginal band of the same blue-green color. Fringes 

 of wings white. 



Under side primaries largely black with a white spot in centre of 

 tli costa changing to blue and extending halfway across the wing, 

 toward the exterior angle. Rase of wing gray, changing to blue. 

 Apex of wing light gray, with a faint black band dividing the gray 

 color almost equally. 



Under sides of inferiors without red costal and basal bar. Uniform 

 gray in color. A thin black bar extends from the costal margin 

 toward the inner angle. A black marginal band, comparatively regu 

 lar, extends parallel along the exterior margin.. Then.- is an irregular 

 row of 5 black spots in the wing between the bars. 



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