ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVII. 



NOVEMBER, 1916. 



No. 9. 





CONTENTS: 



Jones Two Insect Associates of the 

 California Pitcher-plant, Darling- 

 tonia californica ( Dipt.) 385 



Change of Address 392 



McDunnough On the Types of Certain 

 Noctuid Genera occurring in North 

 America ( Lepid. ) 393 



Girault Descriptipnes Hymenoptero- 

 rum Chalcidoidicorum Variorum 

 cum Observationibus. II 401 



Van Dyke New Species of Bupresti- 

 dae (Col.) from the Pacific States. 405 



Felt New N. A.Gail Midges (Dipt.).. 412 



Cockerel! A new Cratomus (Hym.).. 417 



Beamer An easy Method of making 

 Insect Labels 418 



Weiss Tenthecoris bicolor Scott, in 

 New Jersey Greenhouses (Hemip. ) 419 



Rich Notes on Zonocerus elegans 

 Burm. (Orthop. ) 420 



Andrews Ants Caught on a Trip to 

 California (Hym.) 421 



Mengel New Lepidoptera from South 

 America 423 



Weiss Coleophora laricella Hlibn. in 

 New Jersey ( Lep. ) 424 



Heink The House Cricket a Pest in 

 St. Louis ( Orth. ) 424 



Editorial How Knowledge of Insects 

 Grows 425 



Questions and Answers 425 



Weiss Argyresthia thuiella Pack, in 

 New Jersey ( Lep. ) 426 



Weiss Agrilus viridis L. in New Jer- 

 sey ( Col. ) 426 



Entomological Literature 427 



Doings of Societies Amer. Ent. Soc. 



(Economic Entomology) 430 



Ent. Sec., Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 



(Lepid., Orth., Dip.,) 430 



Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop., 

 Lep., Hymen, and Strepsiptera). .. 431 



Obituary Albert John Cook 432 



Two Insect Associates of the California Pitcher- 

 plant, Darlingtonia californica (Dipt.) 



By FRANK MORTON JONES, Wilmington, Delaware. 



(Plates XX, XXI.) 

 Metriocnemus edwardsi nov. sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae.) (Plate 



XX.) 



In September, 1875, Mr. Henry Edwards communicated to 

 the California Academy of Sciences the results of his observa- 

 tions on the insect associates of the California Pitcher-plant, 

 Darlingtonia californica. Following thus closely after Melli- 

 champ's and Riley's papers on our eastern Sarracenias and 

 their insect victims and guests, it is noteworthy that Darling- 

 tonia, by its peculiar structure, its insect-catching activity, and 

 the number and variety of its victims evidently closely com- 



385 



