1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 133 



The E^ntomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



FEBRUARY 23, 1893. 



Meeting called to order at 8.20 P.M., Dr. Horn, Director, in the chair. 

 Members present: Laurent, Ridings, Calvert, Skinner, Liebeck, Welles. 

 Associates: Boerner, Nell, Dr. Castle. Mr. Calvert stated that, in con- 

 nection with the catalogue of Odonata he is preparing, he has been obliged 

 to revise the genera of the subfamily Libellulinae on account of the un- 

 suitable character of the present ones for American species. The speaker 

 gave the characters of the genera of Dipla.v and Celitheniis, aided by 

 drawings on the blackboard. Mr. Nell exhibited some pop-corn, show- 

 ing depredations of the moth Gelechia cereallella, and exhibited speci- 

 mens of the moth, chrysalis and larva. Dr. Horn exhibited the series of 

 Galerucini he had used in the preparation of his paper on that* subject. 

 The group had been treated in 1865 by Dr. LeConte, but comparatively 

 few species have been added since, and few reductions made by synonymy. 

 The comparative characters of the genera were explained and dwelt on 

 at length. Our species, previously under Luperus, will have to be called 

 Luperoides. In a paper entitled Miscellaneous Coleoptera, Dr. Horn 

 stated he would describe new species of Dacoderus aegialites, Mr. L,ie- 

 beck recorded finding in this locality, in numbers, Baris scolopacta. 



HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Recorder. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



Description of a new Sphinx and some notes on 

 S. coloradus Smith. 



By B. NEUMOEGEN, New York. 



Sphinx franckii nov. spec. Antenna; brown, culmen white. Head 

 gray; palpi of same color, granulated with yellowish brown; collar also 

 yellowish brown, with two oblique black streaks converging at upper 

 centre; patagiae light gray, heavily edged with black inwardly in their 

 upper portion. Abdomen has a large area of dorsum in yellowish brown 

 with a black centre line; broad black segmentary bands with whitish in- 

 terspaces. Primaries light gray, shading into white at base, at apex and 

 along submarginal line; black dashes along apical part of costa at apex, 

 in internerval spaces, and a thin black line below and parallel with me- 

 dian vein; a double, black, submarginal line from below vein 7 to inner 

 margin, bulging inwardly between veins 1-3, the outer line degrading into 

 a large, blackish, irregular blotch near angle; the entire median and sub- 

 marginal area of wing, up to near apex, covered with a peculiar bright 



