ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OK NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVIII. DECEMBER, 1917. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



McGregor Three new Mallophaga 

 from North American Birds 433 



Skinner Anthocharis genutia and a 

 new Variety ( Lep. ) 438 



Crosby and Leonard The Egg of By- 



turus utiicolor Say (Col. ) 438 



Gibson The Genus Harmostes Burm. 

 (Coreidae, Heterop. ) 439 



Brues Three new West Indian Spe- 

 cies of the Ichneumonid Genus 

 Eiphosoma ( Hym.) 450 



Chidester Dytiscus as a Destroyer of 

 Mosquito Larvae (Col., Dipt.). 454 



Knight New Species of Lopidea (Mi- 

 ridae, Hemip.) 455 



Changes of Address 461 



Stoner A new Species of Apateticus 



from Louisiana ( Hem., Het ) 462 



Hampson The Determination of Ge- 

 neric Types in the Lepidoptera. . . . 463 

 Editorial The Convocation Week 



Meetings 468 



Entomology in British Columbia 469 



Emergency Entomological Service.... 470 



Entomological Literature 471 



Review of Tillyard : The Biology of 



Dragonflies 475 



Laurent Abundance of Sympetrum 



rubicundulum ( Odon. ) 479 



Doings of Societies Amer. Ent. Soc. 

 (Orthop., Odon., Lep.) 480 



Three new Mallophaga from North American Birds. 



By E. A. MCGREGOR, Bureau of Entomology, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



(Plate XXVIII.) 



Goniodes zenaidurae n. sp. (PI. XXVIII, figs. 1, 4.) 



Three females (Bishopp No. 5258) from a mourning dove, 

 Zenaidura macronra (L.), Aberdeen, South Dakota, June 3, 

 1915, W. E. Dove, Coll. 



Type No. 21606, United States National Museum. 

 This species is nearest G. damicornis N. from which it dif- 

 fers in the occipital outline, shape of prothorax, character of 

 lateral abdominal plates, and the arrangement of hairs and 

 spines. 



9. Total length 1.80 mm.; length of head .468 mm.; length of 

 prothorax .108 mm.: length of metathorax .252 mm.; length of ab- 

 domen .972 mm.; width of head across temples .666 mm.; width of 

 prothorax .y-.n mm.: width of metathorax .504 mm.: width of alxlomen 

 .765 mm. 



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