ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVI. MARCH, 1905. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Britton Some New or Little Known 

 Aleyrodidae from Connecticut I.. 64 



Slosson Just One Log 67 



Fall Notes on some Californian Bu- 

 prestidse 71 



Cockerell Three new bees from the 

 Southwest 81 



de la Torre Bueno Notes on Mixogas- 

 ter breviventris Kahl 83 



Grundel Life History of Lemonias 

 Uhler Recognition of two N. Ameri- virgulti ............................ 86 



can species of Cicada Latr ......... 74 j Editorial .............................. 87 



Franklin A new species of Entomo- 

 brya ............................... 77 



Felt Culex brittoni n. sp .............. 79 



Pilate Note on the finding of Ptinus 

 fur and brunneus ................ 80 



Notes and News 88 



Entomological Literature 89 



Doings of Societies 90 



Obituary : W. N. Tallant 96 



Some New or Little known Aleyrodidae from 



Connecticut. I. 

 BY W. E. BRITTON, Ph. D., State Entomologist of Conn. 



(Plate IV.) 



Aleyrodes acteae sp. nov. 



Egg. Unknown. 



Larva. Early stages not found. Specimen examined was about 0.99 

 mm. by 0.66 mm. Shape oval like pupa case. Color uniform light yel- 

 lowish green, medio-dorsal region not clouded. Yasiform orifice brownish 

 or slightly darker than the other portion. Segmentation apparent with a 

 median crest on each segment. Surface more or less wrinkled, with no 

 wax rods or papillae. Larva thin and flat though slightly convex. 



Pupa case. Size about 1.5 mm. by i mm. Broadly oval in shape, 

 pale yellow or greenish white near the margin with a medio-longituclinal 

 area of dark brown. Dorsum, especially the dark portion, highly con- 

 vex, most abrupt at cephalic extremity ; marked transversely with rather 

 deep furrows corresponding to the adult segmentation. Each segment 

 has a median crest which is darker in color than the surrounding por- 

 tion. Marginal area radially corrugated or wrinkled. Margin finely 

 crenulate. A pair of setse 43// long at anal extremity, with a second pair 

 30/7. long situated at a distance from the r first pair nearly twice as great as 

 the distance between the first pair. Entire dorsal surface shiny, and 

 wholly destitute of papillae, wax rods or secretion of any kind. A low 



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