ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVI. 



JANUARY, 1905. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Frontispiece i 



Nason Micro-lepicloptera from Algon- 

 quin, Illinois... i 



Needham Two Elusive Dragonflies. .. 3 

 Sh-rman The Flat-bugs (Aradidse) of 



North Carolina 7 



Cockerell Some Amer. Hymenoptera 9 

 Brues The Occurrence of a Tropical 



Butterfly in the United Sta'es 11 



Daecke Notes on Prionapteryx nebuli- 

 fera Steph 12 



Bradley Ropronia, an Anomalous Hy- 



menopteron 14 



. Williams The larva of Hepialussequo- 



iolus Behrens 19 



Ashrnead A new Thrips from the Phil- 

 ippine Islands 20 



Editorial 21 



Entomological Literature 22 



Doings of Societies 23 



Our frontispiece this month was made direct from specimens 

 in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, by the Photo-chromotype Company of Philadelphia. 

 This is one of the largest companies in America doing this line 

 of work. The specimens represented are as follows : Rronia 

 phocfca Felder, from the Philippines. Cyrestis elegans Bois- 

 duval, from Madagascar. Catagramma cynosura Doubl.-Hew., 

 from Brazil. 



Micro-Lepidoptera of Algonquin, Illinois. 



By \VILLIAI\I A. XASON, M.D. 



- The following list includes species of Lepidoptera of the 

 families of Pyralidte, TortricicUe and other ' micros' ar- 

 ranged in the order given in Dyar's " List of North American 

 Lepidoptera." The list is interesting from the fact that it 

 adds to our knowledge of the geographical distribution of 

 species; and also from the fact that the place of capture is 

 peculiar in its faunal relations. 



The town of Algonquin is situated fifty miles northwest, of 

 the city of Chicago, and less than thirty miles, in a direct line, 



