ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. in. JANUARY, 1892. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Morton Notes from New Windsor i 



Cockerell Note on the Larva of Pa- 



chilia ficus 4 



Dyar Preparatory stages of Ichthyura 



bifiria 5 



Wickham Note on Cychrus 6 



Wadsworth Second Additions and 



Corrections to the list of Dragonflies 8 



Fox Hymenopterological Notes 9 



Brendel Rhexidius n 



Rowley Notes on Ark. Lepidoptera.... 13 



Notes and News 15 



Entomological Literature 19 



Doings of Societies 22 



NOTES FROM NEW WINDSOR. 



EMILY L. MORTON, New Windsor, N. Y. 

 ISA TEXTULA H.-S. 



Reading the last number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (October) 

 I noticed a short paragraph by Mr. Dyar on the genus Isa. Dr. 

 A. S. Packard having identified a small Limacodes for me as Isa 

 textula, and as the moth seems but little known, I have written 

 a short account of the species, which I have raised from the eggs 

 and back again through all its changes. 



Isa textula is a small moth nine-tenths of an inch in expanse, 

 of a very satiny texture, with long fringes to all the wings, the 

 color a pale wood color as light as white pine; on some specimens 

 there is a faint indication of a t. p. and t. a. line broken and ex- 

 tending only half across the forewings, but in many specimens 

 this is entirely wanting. The eggs are laid singly, scattered 

 about, and, like most of the Limacodes eggs which I have seen, 

 are without form, looking like tiny drops of gelatine, or coagu- 

 lated dew, invisible to the naked eye on the leaves, but on white 

 paper having a slightly yellowish tinge, increasing with the growth 

 of the larva within, but nothing more than a tiny, irregular shin- 

 ing speck on the leaves, and hatch in from eight to ten days. 



