ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVI. 



OCTOBER, 1905. 



No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Daecke T\v<> new species of Diptera 

 In mi Now Jorsov 249 



Banks A new genus and species of 



Phalungida 251 



Sherman On the pupation of the Noc- 

 tuid Moth Harrisimemna trisignata 

 Walk 254 



Williamson Oviposition of Tetragon- 



euria ( ( (donaUi) 255 



Williams Notos on the synonymy and 

 preparatory stages" of Illice fausti- 

 nula Bdv. 257 



260 



Bruner Concerning the luoiist genus 



Mestobregma Scudder 259 



Kirkaldy Five new species ,.i Miero- 

 necta Kirkaldy (Aquatic Homip- 



tera ) 



Baker Entomological Literature. The 



Bete Noire of the Entomologist. . . . 264 

 Cockerell New Bees from Colorado . . 270 



Editorial 273 



Entomological Literature 274 



Notes and News 275 



Two New Species of Diptera from New Jersey. 



BY ERICH DAECKE. 



Chrysops bistellatus n, sp. 9 



Length 8-9^ mm., body slender. Face, facial collosities and palpi 

 yellow. Cheeks brownish. Front covered with yellow pollen whicli 

 also surrounds the annulate and facial orbits. Frontal callus black. 

 The brownish ocellar tubercle is connected with the frontal callus by a 

 narrow, shiny black line. First segment of antennae yellow, second and 

 base of third brownish, the annulate portion black. 

 The two inner dorsal stripes of thorax are greenish 

 gray, the lateral yellowish and they alternate in the 

 usual manner with three brown stripes, of which the 



Atxlcunon and wing of C. bistellatus. 



mid-dorsal one is relatively narrow. The pleura are light yellow with the 

 usual dark brown stripes. Scutellum yellowish brown. Abdomen yel- 

 low, with one broad, light brown stripe on each side. These stripes 

 begin narrowly at base of second segment attaining their full width 

 apically and thus form a rectangular triangle ; the right angle being 



249 



