ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIII. MAY, 1902. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Kearfoot Eriocranid Larva 129 Williamson Dragonflies (Od on a t a) 



Hornig Samia cynthia 132 



Kuwana A new Coccid from Calif... 



Fox Lithurgopsis 



Ehrman Notes on Coleoptera No. 2. 

 Skinner A new moth from Alaska... 

 Johnson Remarks on Tephronota ru 



from the Magdalen Islands 



Knaus Collecting Coleoptera in \V 



137 ming and Utah 147 



140 i King The Greenhouse Coccidre, II... 1.^2 



141 Editorial 157 



Notes and News 



ficeps and descr. of a new species 143 j Entomological Literature 161 



Doings of Societies 167 



Our plate represents a species from Bolivia, described by Mr. 

 Weeks in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 23, p. 265, 1901. 



Notes on a Eriocranid Larva. 

 BY W. D. KEARFOOT. 



Our entomological literature is altogether barren of facts in 

 regard to the larval habits or life history of any one of our 

 American species of Micropterygidae, in fact the perfect insert 

 is a rara-avis and to be found in but few collections and in 

 small numbers. 



For this reason I wish to record the following preliminary 

 account of the larva of at least one species. The only excuse 

 for the publication of such incomplete data is the desire to 

 inform fellow-workers of the discovery, so that they may make 

 an effort to secure the larvae and work out the life history during 

 the coming spring and summer. 



During early June or late May last \ ear I found in several 

 places about Montclair, N. J., the leaves of common chestnut 



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