ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVII. 



MARCH, 1916. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Wolcott Description of two Hitherto 

 Undescribed Aberrations, the one 

 of Argynnis alcestis, the other of 

 Chlorippe celtis ( Lep.) 97 



Leussler A new Variety of Satyrodes 

 canthus irom Nebraska (Lep. ).... 99 



Dietz and Morrison Phenacaspis spi- 

 nicola n. sp.; an apparently new 

 Coccid from Indiana ( Hem., Horn.) 101 



Parshley New and Noteworthy He- 

 miptera from New England 103 



Hood A new Species of Heterothrips 

 (Thysanoptera) from Eastern Uni- 

 ted States 106 



Weiss Additional Records of New 

 Jersey Acarina 109 



Smith and Morrison South Carolina 

 Ants(Hvm.) no 



Johnson Additions to the Coleoptera 

 of Meriden, Connecticut 112 



Slosson Connecticut Coleoptera 125 



Dinner to Prof. Herbert Osborn 125 



Watson New Thysanoptera from Flo- 

 ridaIll 126 



Florida Entomological Society 133 



Editorial Discontinue the Fahrenheit 



Thermometric Scale 134 



McAtee Punkies feeding on a fish-fly 



(Dip.: Chironomidae; Neur.: Siali- 



dae) 135 



McAtee Curious behavior of Cicin- 



dela unipunctata (Col. : Cicindeli- 



dae ; Hym. : Formicidae) 135 



Yancey Vanessa californica and Frost 



( Lepid . ) 136 



Smyth Color Phases in Argynnis di- 



ana ( Lep. ) 136 



Entomological Literature 137 



Doings of Societies Ent. Sec., Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. ( Lep .. Dipt.. Orth.) 142 

 The Convocation Week Meetings 



Horticultural Inspectors .... 142 



Feldman Collecting Social (Dipt., 



Lep., Col., Hym.) 143 



Chicago Entomological Club (Lep., 



Col.) 144 



Description of two Hitherto Undescribed Aberrations, 

 the one of Argynnis alcestis, the other 



of Chlorippe celtis (Lep.). 



By ROBERT H. WOLCOTT, University of Nebraska, 

 Lincoln, Nebr. 



(Plate IV, figs. 5 and 6) 



There exists a lack of agreement among entomologists as to 

 the degree to which the various forms of an insect shall be 

 recognized by name, especially when the form in question is 

 in the nature of an aberration. Nevertheless the writer ven- 

 tures to describe two such aberrations, believing that the re- 

 cording of all such marked departures from the type which 

 may occur in nature is desirable from the point of view of the 

 student of variation, and that reference to all such departures 

 is facilitated and rendered definite by the bestowal of a name. 



The first of these aberrations is a form of .-In/yntiis alces- 

 tis Edw. which may be appropriately called 



97 



