ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIII. 



FEBRUARY, 1912. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Barnes arid McDunnough Further Re- 

 marks on Thecla clytie, leda and 

 ines (Lepid.) 49 



Barnes and McDunnough On the 

 Spring and Summer Forms of Sab- 

 ulodes sulphurata Pack. (Lepid.).. 53 



Barnes and McDunnough A New Cos- 

 sid (Lepid.) 55 



Kellogg and Mann Mallophaga from 

 Islands off Lower California 56 



Alexander Fulton Co. (New York), 



Tipulidae (Dipt.). II 66 



Back Notes on Florida Thysanoptera, 



with description of a new genus. . . 73 

 Blatchley A new species of Dicaelus 



from Arkansas (Coleop.) 77 



Editorial 79 



Notes and News 80 



Entomological Literature 84 



Doings of Societies 89 



Further Remarks on Thecla clytie t leda and ines 



(Lepid.). 



By WM. BARNES, M.D., and J. MCDUNNOUGH, Ph.D., 



Decatur, 111. 



(Plates VI, figs. 1-7) 



Tn the July number of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for 1911, 

 p. 293, we are treated to another of those "lumping" articles 

 for which certain of our Californian confreres are becoming 

 quite famous. This time it is three species from the genus 

 Thecla which are the objects of attention, and after four pages 

 of comparative tables and three pages of ordinary reading mat- 

 ter, Messrs. Haskin and Grinnell, Jr., arrive, in the final para- 

 graph, at the conclusion that Thecla clytie Edw., leda Edw.. 

 and ines Edw. are one and the same species, and that any dif- 

 ferences between them are "really so minute'' that they con- 

 sider "even form names a superfluity." 



A study of the material in Coll. Barnes has brought us to a 

 slightly different conclusion, viz. that the authors of the above 

 mentioned article have certainly never seen a specimen of the 

 true clytie, and most possibly not even of ines, and that from a 

 superficial study of a series of leda and an attempted compari- 

 son of mere descriptions they have considered themselves in a 



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