ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. IV. 



JANUARY, 1893. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



\Vickham Collecting in the Far North i 

 Fox and Johnson. Lepidoptera from 



Jamaica 3 



Smith Elementary Entomology 4 



Laurent Coleoptera of N. Carolina 6 



Editorial 8 



Economic Entomology 9 



Notes and News 12 



Entomological Literature 16 



Entomological Section.... 21 



Holland Some African Butterflies 22 



Gillette Colorado Cynipidae 28 



Davis A new Ichneumonid 31 



Dyar Synonymic and structural notes 33 



COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.-Part II. 



II. THE STIKINE RIVER. 



By H. F. WICKHAM, Io\va City, Iowa. 



Not having a tent I used an old quilt to make a shelter large 

 enough to crawl under at night in the vain hope of being able to 

 keep out the mosquitoes by fastening down the end after I had 

 entered. In the morning I used to find numerous little beetles 

 on the outside, evidently attracted by some peculiarity in the 

 color or odor of my domicile, since they occurred rarely on other 

 shelters in the camp; among these captures may be enumerated 

 the following species: Porrhodites feuestralis, Lothrimceum sp., 

 Olophrum porcum, Pediacus fuscus, Ilawticus serratus, Ctznos- 

 celis cryptophaga, Corticaria scrricollis and Podabrus scabra. 

 The summit of the hill, which is divided by the canon furnished 

 a number of Cryptohypnus nocturnns, found beneath a log. 



After a few days had been spent at the canon, a party of In- 

 dians came up the river in canoes on their way to the Tahltau 

 village above Glenora, and with them I engaged passage as far 

 as the latter place. At one of our stops I managed to find a te\\ 



