ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIII. 



MARCH, 1912. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Watson Some new forms of North 

 American Saturnidae, genus Hemi- 

 leuca (Lepid.) 97 



Williamson Hetaerina titia and trico- 

 lor (Dragonflies Odonata) 98 



Banks At the Ceanothus in Virginia.. 102 



Fox Two Apparently Hitherto Unde- 

 scribed Species of Xiphidium from 

 the Salt Marshes of the Atlantic 

 Coast of the United States (Orthop.) HI 



de la Torre Bueno Records of Heter- 

 optera from Brownsville, Texas 

 (Hemip.) 120 



Jones The Female of Sesia rubrofas- 



cia Hy. Edw. (Lepid.) 122 



Fenyes Gyronycha Csy. (Coleop., Sta- 



phylinidae), a critical study 123 



Skinner Two New Butterflies ( Lepid.) 126 

 Nixon Description of a New Variety 

 of Smerinthus jamaicensis (Lepid.) 127 



Editorial 128 



Notes and News 129 



Entomological Literature 132 



Doings of Societies 138 



Some New Forms of North American Saturnidae, 



Genus Hemileuca (Lepid.). 

 By J. HENRY WATSON, Withington, Manchester, England. 



(Plate VII.) 

 Hemileuca electra ab. rickseckeri n. ab. $ . (Plate VII, Fig. la.) 



Forewing above wholly jet black except for the discal spot, a faint 

 diffused white streak widening from base to half way up the cell and 

 a faint diffused whitish spot on hind margin divided by the submedian 

 nervure. The nervures submarginally pencilled with the faintest pos- 

 sible traces of white. Hindwing above with the costal margin heavily 

 outlined with black extending to the large oblong black discal spot 

 which has a distinct transparent line within. Outer margin heavily 

 outlined with black which runs up the nervures as far as the discal 

 spot. 



Both wings below have the costa and outer margins broadly suffused 

 with black. No apical white suffusion. Body less heavily banded with 

 white below. 



Hob. : San Diego, California. 

 Type : One ? . Coll : J. H. Watson. 



Hemileuca burnsi ab. conjuncta n. ab. (Plate VII, Fig. 4.) 



Differs from typical burnsi in having the hinder ends of the apical 

 and transverse black bands of forewings joined together by a distinct 

 black line running along the hind margin. The nervures outlined with 

 black form the apical band towards the discal spot. 



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