ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. II. 



FEBRUARY, 1891. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Remarks on Illustration 21 



Lugger Notes on Coleoptera 21 



Ottolengui Lepidoptera at Electric 



Light 23 



P. P. C. Elementary Entomology 27 



Van Duzee Immigration Story 30 



Fox A new species of Nyssonidae 31 



Notes and News 32 



Entomological Literature 37 



Illustration No. 2. About ten months are supposed to have 

 elapsed, and we now present our larva figured inVol. II, PI. I, trans- 

 formed into an imago. This was also photographed by Mr. J. 

 F. Sachse, editor of the "American Journal of Photography," 

 to whom we are indebted for the plate.. ED. 



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NOTES ON COLEOPTERA. 



BY PROF. OTTO LUGGER. 



Cremastochilus Knochii Lee. This beetle is rather abun- 

 dant in* the vicinity of our Experiment Station (St. Anthony Park, 

 Minnesota), and occurs here from early Spring till late in fall. 

 One field seems to be its favorite breeding ground. It is a field 

 with poor and rather sandy soil, thoroughly exhausted by con- 

 stant croppings, so that even oats can no longer be produced suc- 

 cessfully. Being simply held on speculation for building lots, it 

 is decidedly neglected for farming purposes. This field forms, 

 however, not a bad hunting ground for a number of insects, and, 

 besides other species of beetles Harpalus erraticns Say, Bolbo- 

 ceras farctus and lazarus Fab. and Cremastochilus A wchii Lee. 

 are very common. With the exception of the latter all have to 



