ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVI. MAY, 1905. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Fall Two new species of Aphodius 129 



Grossbeck Notes on the Life History 

 of Atithocharis genutia Fabr 131 



Nason Parasitic Hymenoptera of Al- 

 gonquin, Illinois I 145 



Williams Notes on the Larvae of Cer- 



Grinnell Butterflies of Mt. Wilson, tain Lepidoptera 153 



Southern California 134 



Moodie A new Milesia from Arizona, 



with notes on some Wyoming Syr- 



phidae 138 



Baker Fleas and Disease 143 



Coverdale Variation in Callimorpha. . 154 



Editorial 155 



Notes and News 156 



Doings of Societies 157 



Obituary 160 



Two New Species of Aphodius. 



BY H. C. FALL. 



The two species of Aphodius described below have been 

 taken in numbers by Dr. Blaisdell and Mr. Knaus respectively. 

 They deserve to be more generally known, and as a prelimi- 

 nary step to their distribution the following diagnoses have 

 been drawn up and their relationship to previously described 

 forms indicated. I take pleasure in dedicating each to its 

 discoverer. 



Aphodius blaisdelli n. sp. 



Oblong, black or dark castaneous, under side slightly paler, legs 

 castaneous. Head not tuberculate, finely punctate with intermixed 

 coarser punctures, not at all rugose; clypeus broadly emarginate, rounded 

 each side ; geuo.- prominent, subrectangular. Prothorax wide, only 

 slightly narrowed toward the base, sides broadly arcuate, hind angles 

 obtuse but rather well defined, basal margin Insinuate each side, marginal 

 line deep and entire, disc sparsely punctate with coarse and fine punc- 

 tures intermixed. Elytra oblong, scarcely narrowed at base, humeri 

 slightly dentiform, stria,- rather fine, closely rather finely punctate, inter- 

 vals nearly flat on the disc, becoming strongly convex at apex ; intersti- 

 tial punctuation minute and sparse. Body beneath alutaceous and 

 somewhat dull, feebly but numerously punctate, mesosternum densely 



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