ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. in. JUNE, 1892. No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Townsend New N. Am. Tachinidse 129 



Blatchley Entomologizing in Mexico.. 131 



Bruce Oncocnemis in Colorado 136 



Fox Notes on the Larradse 138 



Wickham Collecting in the far North. 139 

 Blaisdell Notes on the Coccinellidae... 143 



Townsend New. Jamaica Tachinidse.... 146 



Banks Atypidae and Theraphosidae 147 



Coquillett A new Dalmannia from Cal. 150 



Editorial 152- 



Notes and News 154 



Entomological Literature 157 



Williston A n. sp. of Criorhinia 145 i Doings of Societies 164 



OUR illustration this month represents part of the life-history 

 of Datana ministra. The plate was made from a photograph 

 of a drawing' found among the unpublished plates of the late T. 

 R. Peale, of Philadelphia. 



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NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID/E. 



By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. Mex. 



(Continued from page Sr, Vol. Ill, No. 4) 



Loewia globosa n. sp. rf 1 . Eyes cinnamon-brown, thickly short hairy, 

 edges touching in front of ocelli; frontal villa light brown, vertex blackish; 

 anterior pair of ocellar bristles stronger than frontal bristles, directed 

 strongly forward, decussate; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white; 

 the prae-genal area very large, brownish, encroaching on sides efface and 

 extending narrowly to bases of antenna'; sides of face with fringe of 

 bristles; antennae and arista brownish, second anlennal joint orange ru- 

 fous, third joint one and one-half times as long as second, more or less 

 rufous on sides; proboscis about two-thirds bight of head, slim, brownish, 

 labella developed; palpi curved, thickened apically, brown, bristly; oc- 

 ciput blackish, black-hairy. Thorax and sculellum black, with a faint 

 purplish shade, scutellum with an apical decussate and a lateral pair of 

 macrochcuUe. Abdomen shining greenish black, in some lights dark me- 

 tallic-green; second segment with a median marginal pair and a weak 

 lateral pair of mam ichaetae; third with a stn mger lateral pair and a median 



