ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL, XXVIII. 



JANUARY, 1917. 



No. i, 



CONTENTS: 



X Otto Heidemann j 



Rich Zonocerus elegans ( Orth. ) 2 



Knight New and Noteworthy Forms 

 of North American Miridae ( Hem ) 3 



Williamson Correction of the Specific 

 Name of a Dragonfly (Odon.) S 



Kennedy Notes on the Penes of Dam- 

 selflies (Odon.) 9 



Dunn A Simple Method of Identifying 

 the Anopheles Mosquitoes of the 

 Canal Zone ( Dip. ) 14 



Girault New Chalcid Flies from Mary- 

 land ( Hym.) 20 



Weiss Some Unusual Orchid Insects > 

 ( Hem., Lep., Dip., Col.) 24 



Ottolengui The Distribution and Syn- 

 onymy of Autographa vaccinii Hy. 

 Edw. (Lep.) 29 



A Collecting Trip in Colombia 32 



Wirtner A new Genus of Bothynotinae, 

 Miridae ( Heter. ) 33 



Kipley Notes on the Feeding Habits of 

 Adult Chrysopidae I NVnr. ) js 



Parshley A Species of M;u n.tnicheli- 

 ella Found in New England ( 1 lem. , 

 Anthocoridae) 37 



Editorial The News for 1917 



Questions and Answers 40 



Weiss and Dickerson Psyllia buxi in 

 New Jersey ( Homop. ) 40 



The O. B. Johnson Entomological Col- 

 lection |i 



Tillyard Phylogeny of Ant-lions ( Neu. ) 4^ 



Entomological Literature 



Review The Lepidopterist 



Doings of Societies Amer. Ent. Soc. 



(Orth., Col.).....- (5 



Newark Ento. Soc. (Lepid., Hynu-ii., 



Coleop. ) '. 46 



Entomological Section, Aca<l. Nat 

 Sci. Phila. (Dipt., Lepid., Orthup., 

 Coleop. ) 47 



Otto Heidemann. 



(Plate I) 



We give in this number a portrait of the well-known 

 Hemipterist, Otto Heidemann, for many years a member "f 

 the United States Bureau of Entomology, and Honorary Cus- 

 todian of Hemipicra in the National Museum, who died Xo- 

 vembef 17, 1916, after an operation at the Homeopathic 

 Hospital in Washington, D. C. 



Heidemann was born in Magdeburg, Germany, on Septan - 

 ber i, 1842. He learned the art of wood-engraving and prac- 

 ticed this profession in Leipsic, Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart 

 and Berlin until 1873, when he came to this country and '-.tab 

 lished an engraving office in Baltimore. Tn 187^ he moved hi- 

 office to Washington and in the following years furnished 

 many illustrations for various Government publication-. In 

 1880 he entered the office of Captain G. \\ heeler's Gcographi 



