ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. in. NOVEMBER, 1892. No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



' Kunze Larva hunting in Winter 217 i Townsend The so-called Throat Bot... 227 



Strecker On Argynnis astarte 218 Editorial 228 



Smith Elementary Entomology 220 Economic Entomology 229 



Skinner A new Pamphila. 222 Notes and News 232 



Ottolengui Entomologizing on Mount Entomological Literature 235 



Washington 223 Doings of Societies 239 



Fox Notes on Formicidae 226 j 



OUR plate illustrates the larva, chrysalis and imago of Proto- 

 parce cingidata Fab. The original drawing was made from life 

 by the late T. R. Peale. This moth expands a little over four 

 inches. It is readily recognized by the lateral rows of dark pink 

 spots on the abdomen and the pink color on the inferior wings. 



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LARVA HUNTING IN WINTER. 



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



(Continued from page 197, Vol. Ill, No. 8.) 



February i4th had another larvae hunt in the Cat-tail Flags of 

 our suburbs on the Harlem River flats. Mr. J. Mohns accom- 

 panied me and about three dozen larvae were found. In some 

 stems of Typha latifolia we found both the empty pupa-case of 

 a brood, as well as the full grown larva of the second as I am led 

 to believe. In three or four different stems we found evidence 

 of such. In quite a number of instances found two larvae in one 

 stem. In the " American Naturalist" for 1883, tne statement is 

 made by Dr. C. V. Riley that there is one annual brood of Ar- 

 zama obliquata, whereas Dr. Kellicott found two such in one 

 season. 



February 28th I went over to Long Island on a biting cold day 

 for the last hunt of the season. The ground of the swamp was 



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