ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AM) 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. i. FEBRUARY, 1890. No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Slosson May Moths 17 Aaron N. American Hesperida? 23 



Skinner Random Notes 19 Notes and News 26 



Weed Siphonophoraor Nectarophora? 20 Entomological Literature 29 



Jones Notes on Smerinthus Astylus... 21 Doings of Societies 31 



Calvert Virginian Dragonflies 22 



May Moths in Northern New Hampshire. 



BY ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 



Few entomologists seem to know much of the early spring- in 

 Northern New England and its opportunities for collecting. For 

 the last two or three years I have gone to Franconia, N. H. , on 

 or before the middle of May. In an ordinary season the snow at 

 that date still lies in tin- woods, and the mountains often look 

 quite white. But there are plenty of moths. 



I have found, on May I5th, Corycia vestaliata Guen. and C. 

 semiclarata Walk. Hying in such numbers over the fields and on 

 the edges of woods that they looked like white flower petals flut- 

 tering in the breeze. With these, and as early, fly the pretty 

 species of Lobophora, L. vernata Pack, and I., gcminata Pack. 

 About the same date Lozogramma dcjluata Walk, and /,. dcter- 

 sata Guen. start up before you as you walk in meadow or open 



