ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVII. 



APRIL, 1916. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Weiss A Recently-Patented Collect- 

 ing Net 145 



Cresson Descriptions of new Genera 







and Species of the Dipterous Fam- 

 ily Ephydridae III 147 



-"" Girault A new Genus of Eulophidae 



from the United States (Hym.) ... 152 



Johnson Insect Notes for the Season 

 of 1915 (Lep., Col., Dipt.) 154 



Cockerell A new Phalangid from the 

 Coronados Islands (Arach.) 158 



Hebard A new Species of the Genus 

 Neoblattella from Costa Rica (Or- 

 thoptera, Blattidae) 159 



Weiss Additions to Insects of New 

 Jersey, No. 4 162 



Williamson A new Cyanogomphus 

 (Odonata) 167 



Prof. Herbert Osborn Research Pro- 

 fessor 172 



Notice of Disposal of Manuscripts, etc. 172 



Ball Some new Species of Athysanus 

 and Related Genera (Homoptera) 173 



Editorial How manv languages must 

 an Entomologist know ? 177 



A Dipterous Larva Parasitic in Earth- 

 worms 177 





Townsend New Muscoid Genera 

 (Dip.) 



Cook What the House Fly Did 



McDermott The Unusual Prevalence 

 of Ground Beetles ( Harpalus) dur- 

 ing the Summer of 1913, at Ashland, 

 Ohio (Col.) 



Cockerel! The Biota of Nantucket... . 



Cockerell The Cactus-feeding Volu- 

 cellines ( Dip. ) 



Girault Proportion of the Sexes in 

 Uloborus geniculatus Walck., with 

 a Few Notes (Arach., Aran.) 



McAtee Note on use of Antennae in 

 Collopsvittatus(Col.,Malachiidae) 



Stoner Additional Iowa Pentatomoi- 

 dea (Hem., Het.) 



Entomological Literature 



Doings of Societies Am. Ent. Soc 



Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop. , 



Hym.) 



Chicago Entomological Club (Col., 



Lep.) 



Newark Ent. Soc. (Lep., Hem.) 



A New Entomological Club 



The New Ecological Soc. of America 



Obituary Miss Adele Marion Fielde... 



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A Recently-Patented Collecting Net* 



By HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



(Plate VII) 



To collectors in general, but especially those of Lepidoptera, 

 who are desirous of obtaining specimens in as perfect a con- 

 dition as possible, the net recently patented by Mr. Marvin H. 

 Mead, of Passaic, New Jersey, should not be without interest. 

 The accompanying Pinto VII shows so clearly the construction 

 of the net that only a few words of description are necessary. 

 The most important part is the specimen chamber or dome at 



*U. S. Patent Office, Patent No. 1143721, to Marvin H. Mead, Pas- 

 saic, N. J., June 22, 1915. 



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