ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. iv. APRIL, 1893. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Kunze Autumn collecting of Lepid.... 109 



Dyar A note on the Saturniidae 112 



Williston N. Am. Psychodidse 113 



Davis Collection of the Am. Ent. Soc. 115 



Meeske Field Notas 116 



Snyder Coleoptera in Fungi 118 



Smith Elementary Entomology 119 



Editorial 122 



Economic Entomology 123 



Notes and News 126 



Entomological Literature 129 



Entomological Section 133 



Neumoegen Descr. of new Sphinx 133 



Fox Synopsis of N. A. sp. of Nomia... 134 



Davis Anew Ophion 135 



Holland African Bombycids 136 



Neumoegen and Dyar Lithosiidse and 



Arctiidas 138 



Fox Synopsis of N. Am. Melecta 143 



AUTUMN COLLECTING OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



By RICHARD E. KUNZE, M.D., New York. 



A sandy shore fringed by a belt of timber, the background of 

 which skirted by undergrowth, shelters many forms of Lepidop- 

 tera. A few clearings near fishermen's huts and patches of cul- 

 tivated ground produced a varied flora. Such is a part of Hud- 

 son County, N. J., facing Newark Bay on one side and on the 

 other a line of villages, opposite Staten Island, N. Y. The roads 

 leading to the beach are covered by a yellow sand, attractive only 

 to some insects because of protection it affords to certain forms. 

 A sandy bluff overlooking the bay was carpeted with a low, blue- 

 flowering Aster (A. multiflorus}, while other taller kinds and a 

 Goldenrod (Solidago ulmifolia) grew in abundance on the clear- 

 ings. Many butterflies were attracted to this sheltered, out-of-the- 

 way locality, and not a few were uncommon. 



It was September 25th, 1892, a bright, warm Sunday, when I, 

 with an entomological scholar of mine, did some fine collecting 

 in this locality. Of Heterocera we took a few Catocalte of com- 

 moner species, and one of rctecta from a hickory tree, some 

 Deiopeia bella, one Scepsis fulmcollis and a few Noctuids I could 



