ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OP' NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. ii. MAY, 1891. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Skinner Description of Plate V Si ! Skinner Elementary Entomology 89 



Ashton Trap for capturing Coleoptera 82 Notes and News 91 



Banks Notes on Spiders 84 Entomological Literature 95 



Braun Lepisesia flavofasciata 87 Doings of Societies 99 



Description of Plate V. 



Plate V represents the so called protective mimicry of insects. 

 The last few years much ink has been spilled in the discussion of 

 this subject; some writers agreeing that it is undoubtedly protec- 

 tive mimicry and others only accidental resemblance. Drum- 

 mond, ,in his work on "Tropical Africa," speaks as follows: 

 " Carlyle, in his blackest visions of 'shams and humbugs' among 

 human kind, never saw anything so finished in hypocrisy as the 

 naturalist now finds in every tropical forest. There are to be seen 

 creatures not singly, but in tens of thousands whose very ap- 

 pearance, down to the minutest spot and wrinkle, is an affront to 

 truth ; whose every attitude is a pose for a purpose, and whose 

 whole life is a sustained lie. Before these masterpieces of decep- 

 tion the most ingenious human impositions are vulgar and trans- 

 parent. Fraud is not only the great rule of life in a tropical 

 forest, but the one condition of it." 



We are indebted for the plate to the kindness of M. J. F. 

 Sachse, editor of the " American Journal of Photography," who 

 made the original photograph. 



