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and the entirety of the Capsidac and Anthocoridac, as well as 

 the Aradidac and Tingidae. In fact, the families Lygaeidae 

 and Capsidac constitute together at least one-half of the 

 Heteropterous fauna of any given region. It may not there- 

 fore be out of place to here urge a special effort in securing 

 these small forms, which even in closely collected sections such 

 as the Northeastern States, for instance, still yield unrecog- 

 nized species. 



The Female of Sesia rubrofascia Hy. Edw. (Lcpid.). 

 By FRANK MORTON JONES, Wilmington, Delaware. 



In 1 88 1 (Papilio I, 191) Mr. Henry Edwards described 

 Sesia rubrofascia from a single male collected in Georgia 

 by Morrison. In 1901, when this family was monographed 

 (.Beutenmiiller, Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. i), the 

 type specimen was still unique. In April, 1907, the writer 

 captured a red-banded Sesia, male and female, at Summer- 

 ville, South Carolina; the male is undoubtedly Edwards' 

 rubrofascia ; the female has opaque primaries, and if prev- 

 iously captured has perhaps been mistaken for a small 

 Sanninoides exitiosa 3 , which it resembles, though readily 

 separable on comparison, Mr. Beutenmiiller has kindly ex- 

 amined my specimens and confirmed their identification. 



Description of female: head, palpi, antennae, thorax, black with a 

 purplish-blue metallic lustre ; legs the same color, with tarsi and spines 

 showing light beneath over-lying dark scales ; abdomen black, with 

 fourth and fifth segments entirely red; anal tuft black; primaries 

 densely opaque, black with blue and purple reflections ; secondaries 

 transparent to base, with black discal mark, the fringe and black outer 

 border twice as broad as in the male; expanse 25 mm. 



THE NEWS extends its hearty congratulations to Professor John 

 Henry Comstock, and to American Entomology, by reason of his elec- 

 tion as an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, 

 on November i, 1911, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Dr. 

 Samuel H. Scudder. On the same occasion Father Eric Wasmann was 

 also made an Honorary Fellow in the place of Mr. P. C. T. Snellen, 

 lately deceased. 



