ENTOMOLOGICAL NliWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXX. 



JANUARY, 1919. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Wilson Three new Lachnidswith Com- 

 parative Notes on three others 

 ( Hoinop.) i 



Malloch On an Undescrihed Species 

 Medeterus (Dipt., Dolichopodidae) 7 



Howe The Odonata of Concord, Mas- 

 sachusetts 10 



Schwarz On the Early Stages of Cato- 

 cala titania Dodge, and a Descrip- 

 tion of Three new Varieties of Cato- 

 cala (Lep.) 14 



Cockerel I A new Genus of Bees from 

 Peru ( H ym. ) 17 



Alexander Notes on the Genus Dicra- 

 noptycha Osten Sacken (Tipulidae, 

 Diptera) 19 



Cockerell C ordulegaster dorsalis 

 ( Odonata ) as an Enemy of Trout ... 22 



Editorial The News for 1919 23 



Cockerell Bittacomorpha c 1 a v i p e s 

 (Dipt.) 23 



Becker A One Year Life Cycle for Sap- 

 erda Candida Fab. Reared in an 

 e (Co!, i 24 



Botanical Abstracts 25 



Malloch The Larval Habitat of Clial- 

 comyia aerea Loew. (Diptera, Syr- 

 phidae ) 25 



Fall A Change of Xanu-s < Coleoptera ) 26 



Howard Note on the Yinegarone 

 ( Arach , Pedip:ilpi ) 26 



WeNs and Xicolay -Kmnerus strigatus 

 Fall, the Lunate Onion Fly, in New 

 Jersey ( Dip. ) 27 



Ferris A Remarkable Case of Longev- 

 ity in Insects < Hem., Horn.) 27 



Entomological Literature 29 



Three new Lachnids with Comparative Notes on 



three others (Homop.). 

 By H. F. WILSON, University of \Visconsin.* 



(Plates I and II.) 

 Essigella californica (Essig). (Plate I, A, figs. !-(">.) 



Description made from specimens collected on Pseudotsnga 

 douglassi at Corvallis, and on Pinus poudcrosa.' at < irant s I ' 

 Oregon, and from specimens sent to me by K. < >. Kssi^. 1mm 

 California. They occur on the needles and are hidden by the 

 sheath so that close observation is necessary to find them. 



Apterous ririHirotis female. General color, a palo yellowish gr< 

 to brownish yellow with a row of small In-own dots on i-r.ch 

 ncnt. A short sharp spine arises from each spot. Antenna'- an.! ' 

 dusky brown. The body is elongate with the head and thorax 

 rangular and the abdomen ovoid and ending in a sharp pointed cau 

 The antennae are five-segmented and reach almost to thr 

 of coxae. The third segment usually does not h:iv< 



*The drawings used in this paper were ma i 

 Nehrlich Pickett, since deceased. 



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