

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIII. 



NOVEMBER, 1912. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Cresson Descriptions of several new 

 Neotropical Acalyptrate Diptera . . 389 



Sasscer Erium lichtensioides Ckll. vs. 



Eriococcusartemisiae Kuw.fHem ) 396 



Girault Fragments on North Ameri- 

 can Insects I (Lep., Col., Hym. ) 399 



Rehn and Hebard On the Genus An- 

 axipha lOrthoptera, Gryllidae) 411 



Knab and Malloch A Borborid from 

 an Epiphytic Bromeliad (Diptera; 

 fam Borboridae) 413 



Alexander A Brpmeliad-Inhabiting 

 Crane-flv (Tipulidae, Dipt.) 415 



A School of Entomology in N. Y. Citv 417 



Alexander A new Tropical Gonomyia 

 (Tipulidae. Dipt.) 4iS 



Editorial 42 1 



Westcott Note on Anatis is-punctata 

 and A. caseyi n. sp. (Coleop.) 422 



Thomas The Splitting of Insect Tra- 

 cheae 422 



Additional votes on Priority in Nomen- 

 clature 4 2 3 



Townsend Strict Priority Throughout 

 Taxonomic Nomenclature 423 



Skinner A Senator on Medical Ento- 

 mology 425 



Entomological Literature 425 



Review of Sanderson & Jackson : Ele- 

 mentary Entomology 43 2 



Doings of Societies 433 



Obituary Ludwig Ganglbauer 435 



Rev. Thomas Blackburn 436 



George Masters 436 



G. H . Grosvenor 436 



Descriptions of Several New Neotropical Acalyp- 

 trate Diptera. 



By E. T. CRESSON, JR., Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



(Plate XIX) 



The following- are descriptions of a few species belonging 

 to little known and interesting genera of the families Micro- 

 pezidae, Psilidae and Agromyzidae. A few suggestions and 

 notes are also included, relating to the classification of the 

 genera of Micropezidae based upon observations made in the 

 study of this family and of the literature. 



MICROPEZIDAE. 



From a casual study of the few genera of the Micropezidae, 

 the following is suggested for the sub-family divisions : 



Propleura strongly developed beneath, in front of fore coxae; ster- 

 nopleura beneath, at most, scarcely longer than fore coxae. 



Neriinae 



Propleura scarcely developed, sternopleura much longer than fore 

 coxae; fore legs widely separated from the closely situated 

 middle and hind pair Micropezinae 



389 



