ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXXI. OCTOBER, 1920. 



No. 8. 



CONTENTS 



Cresson Description of a New Spe- 

 cies of the Asilid genus Pogosoma 

 (Diptera) 211 



Alexander Undescribed Crane-flies 

 from Argentina (Tipulidae, Dip- 

 tera) 215 



Mason Cicindela nevadica LeConte 



(Coleop.) 221 



Martin -Notes on the Genus Hetaer- 

 ius and Descriptions of three 

 New Species (Coleop.) 222 



Editorial Shall the Subscription Price 



of the News be Increased? 226 



Orthoptera : Tettigidae 226 



Some Collecting Activities during the 



Summer of 1920 227 



Williamson The Cornell University 

 Entomological Expedition to 

 South America of 1919-20 227 



227 



Conference of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists .......................... 



Reorganization of Division or Ento- 

 mology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia ......................... 227 



The Gypsy Moth in New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania.. 



Entomological Literature 



Review of Blatchley's Orthoptera pi 

 Northeastern America ......... \. 2 



Doings of Societies Entom. Secf, ^ 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila ............ 237 



Obituary W. R. McConnell, J. R. 

 Sahlberjj, J. Pantel.L Doncaster, 

 H. Loomis ..................... 239 



Malloch Additions to the Recorded 



Illinois Reduviidae (Hem.) ..... 240 



Description of a New Species of the Asilid genus 

 Pogosoma (Diptera). 



BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., Philadelphia, Pa. 



The species of this genus are always interesting. They 

 seem to be distributed in most of the world faunas. Kertesz, 

 in his Catalogue Dipterorum, lists eleven species: Four from 

 Europe, four from the East Indies, two from North America, 

 and one from Mexico. In working over the collection here, 

 in connection with some material collected by F. M. Jones 

 in the western states, this genus was brought to my atten- 

 tion by a female from California. On comparing this speci- 

 men with another female without data, a male from Colo- 

 rado, and another male from New Jersey, I found many dis- 

 agreements in characters which seem worth while considt-r- 



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