ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVII. 



JANUARY, 1916. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Metcalf The Rediscovery of Membra- 

 cis subulata Say, with a Descrip- 

 tion of a New Genus ( Homop.).. .. i 



Girault Notes on N. Amer. Mymaridae 

 and Trichogrammatidae (Hym.).. 4 



Weiss Additions to Insects of New 

 Jersey, No. 3 9 



Hebard Spring Orthoptera found on 

 the Islands in the Vicinity of Char- 

 lotte Harbor, Florida 14 



Psota A Suction-Pump Collector 22 



Greene A Correction ( Hym. ) 23 



Wright Phycitinae of San Diego, Cal- 

 ifornia, and Vicinity, with descrip- 

 tions of new Species ( Lep. ) . 24 



Williamson A New Dragonfly Genus 

 of the Legion Protoneura (Odon.) 30 



Girault Three new Species of Cocco- 

 phagus, Family Encyrtidae ( Hym. ) 33 



Wood Argynnis diana(Lep.) 53 



Wood Accidental Color Variation 

 (Lep.) 35 



Editorial Remarks on Labelling 36 



Greene Euparyphus tetraspilus Loew 

 (Diptera) 37 



Entomological Literature 37 



Review of Nelson : The Embryology ol 

 the Honey Bee 41 



Review of Punnett : Mimicry in Butter- 

 flies 43 



Doings of Societies Feldman Collect- 

 ing Social (Col., Dip.) 44 



Amer. Ent. Soc. (Lep., Hym., Col., 



Orthop. ) 44 



Newark Ent. Soc. (Lepid., Orthop., 

 Homop., Col., Hymen.) 45 



Obituary Prof. Raphael Meldola 46 



Dr. Fred. William Russell.. 47 

 Charles Kerremans 



Corrections, etc 48 



The Rediscovery of Membracis subulata Say, with 

 a Description of a New Genus (Homop.). 



By Z. P. METCALF, North Carolina Agricultural College and 

 Experiment Station, West Raleigh, N. C. 



(Plate I) 



In 1831 Say described Membracis subulata in a paper en- 

 titled "Descriptions of New North American lleniipterous In- 

 sects Belonging to the First Family of the Section Ilomoptera 

 of Latreille." As far as I am aware this species has not been 

 seen since. Van Duzee first suggested that it was a species of 

 Stictoccphala (Coding's Catalogue of the Memhracidae, page 

 410). Later (Studies in North American Mcmbracidae. p. 

 50) he accepted Coding's statement on rider's authority that 

 this species is but a variety of Say's Atyinna inornate. It was, 

 therefore, with a great deal of pleasure that 1 discovered among 

 the Homoptera collected last season, a specimen that agreed 

 in every way with Say's description save for a fev minor 

 points. It is of interest further to note that while the wing 



