. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. in. OCTOBER, 1892. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Nolan The Introduction of the Allan- i Cockerell Entomology of Colorado-.. 202 



thus Silk Worm Moth 193 



Kunze Larva hunting in Winter 195 



Fox A new Solitary Wasp 197 



Smith Elementary Entomology 198 



Coding N. American Membracida; 200 



Editorial 205 



Economic Entomology 206 



Notes and News.. 209 



Entomological Literature 212 



OUR plate this month represents the upper and under side of 

 Sphinx rustica Fabr. , with its larva and chrysalis. The original 

 drawing was made by the late Titian R. Peale, the artist ento- 

 mologist. The plate represents the objects reduced in size, the 

 moth expanding five inches and the full-grown larvae being about 

 four and a half inches in length. 



The Introduction of the Ailanthus Silk Worm Moth. 



By EDW. J. NOLAN, M. D. 



The attention of Dr. Thomas Stewardson, then Corresponding 

 Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, 

 having been drawn,- in 1860, by various notices published in the 

 " Bulletin of the Society of Acclimation" and other French 

 journals, to the recent introduction of the Ailanthus Silk Worm, 

 Attacus cynthia, into France, he succeeded in obtaining from 

 Mons. Guerin-Meneville specimens of the caterpillar, the fly, the 

 cocoon and the silk in various stages of preparation.* In lune 

 of that year a number of eggs were also sent to him from Paris, 

 but they were nearly all spoiled in consequence of being hatched 

 on the voyage. Another lot sent a fr\v days later reached him 



* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 525. 

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