ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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I'ROCHHniXCS OF Till: l:\TOMOLOGICAL SECTION", 



ACADEMY NATfKAL SCIKXCKS, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. i. JUNE, isgo. No. 6. 



CONTEXTS: 



Slosson Winter collecting in Florida.. Si Wukham On the Habits of some Me- 



Fox Aculeate Hymenoptera new to loini 89 



Pennsylvania and New Jersey 83 Van Winkle Collecting by lamplight.. 91 



Skinner Geographical Variation 84 Notes and News 92 



P. P. C. Klementarv Knti>inr>i<>gy S6 F.ntomological Literature 95 



<""]i!ley "Sports" in Venation 88 



WINTER COLLECTING IN FLORIDA. 



i;\ ANXII-: TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 



I rea< h< -d Florida this year on January 25th. Butterflies were 

 flying at that season in Jacksonville, anil I saw from my window 

 Cti//idt'}'<i.\' cubule, Tcrias dcliii, I.inicnitis disippiis, l^anais ar- 

 i'/iif>pi(s, and some of the Hi^pi-rida-. At nis^ht, though the 

 weather was cool. .l^r<'/is incii'is and .-/. malcfida came to the 

 ]>ia//a lights l>y the dozen. On the Jjth, at Sanford, about one 

 hundred and twenty-five miles farther xnith, several moths came 

 to the rather dimly-lighted windows, amon^ them the Southern 

 form of 1 f\'pi-)-i'hiria /\>, Dr. Stn-cker's lilith Endiof>tis /iva/innta 

 and Agrotis iui'/i'i's. On the jSth we went to Puntu Gorda 

 (Charlotte I liirl.or i and remained there until March. Then' had 

 lieen no rain there for some four or ti\e months, con>e(|uently 

 \i-c|;ition was t>ack\vard, and then- u i-ri- very few flowers, luit 

 in^ecN were ])lentitnl. During the tirst t'eu days alter my arrival 

 I -aw I\ crcs/i/hvt/fs, P. palani<-d< ,v, /'. ajax } /'. /nn'/us, /'. tnrnns, 

 D. un-hif>f>us, L. ditippus. I . eros } /V ( ;vV >nomtsft\ .l^nm/is 

 rani/la-. Ti-rnt* dcli<<, I', lisa, (.'(tl/idn'tt* cnbulc and Jioionia 

 cn-nia, he^iiles numerous He-,])erida-. A feu days later, about 



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