ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. ii. 



MARCH, 1891. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Slosson Phragmatobia assimilans 41 



Fox Hymenoptera from East Africa... 42 

 Rowley Observations on Paphia trog. 



lodita 43 



P. P. C. Elementary Entomology 46 



Dyar Composia fidelissima 49 



Harvey Odonata of Maine 50 



Notes and News 51 



Entomological Literature 56 



Doings of Societies 60 



Phragmatobia assimilans n. var. franconia, PI. in, fig. 2. 



BY ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 

 ^ee Vol. II, No. i, p. 2.) 



Red. Abdomen conical, short and stout, with darker dorsal 

 and lateral lines; pilose. Thorax darker and still more pilose. 

 Primaries rather thinly clothed with scales, the ground color red, 

 thickly sprinkled with dark brown, but with color of under ground 

 showing through, so as to make the general tint a reddish choco- 

 late; two discal dots connected by line, and two diffuse transverse 

 lines, all of leaden black. The anterior line is arcuate, the pos- 

 terior runs obliquely to median vein, then curves and takes a 

 sinuously oblique course to inner margin. Secondaries pale red 

 with two small discal dots, and a submarginal band somewhat 

 irregular and interrupted, of leaden black. Antenna- simple, 

 whitish. Underside of primaries and secondaries an almost even 

 tint'.of bright red; the submarginal band on secondaries and discal 

 (.lots of both sets of wings showing through faintly. 



Described from one female, taken at light, May 24, 1890, at 

 Franconia, N. H. 



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