ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 





AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL, XXVI. 



APRIL, 1915. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Weiss A new Pin for Mounting Insects 145 



McColloch and Yuasa A new Parasite 

 of the Chinch Bug Egg (Hym.) 147 



Weiss Preliminary List of New Jersey 

 Acarina 149 



Banks A new Genus of Canestrinii- 

 dae ( Acari. ) 152 



Franzen Catocala luciana from Minn- 

 eapolis (Lep.) 153 



Rau Duration of Pupal and Adult Sta- 

 ges of the Meal Worm, Tenebrio 

 obscurus Linn. (Coleop.) 154 



Nakahara Three new Species of Japa- 

 nese Orl Flies (Neur., Megal.) 157 



Braun Life History of Menesta alba- 

 ciliella Chambers ( Lep. ) 160 



Hood On some American Aeolothripi- 

 dae (Thysanoptera) 162 



Russell A Remarkable Abdominal 

 Structure in Certain Moths (Lep.) 166 



Alexander A new Nearctic Gonomyia 

 (Tipulidac, Diptera) 170 



Duran and Grinnell Three Svnchloes, 

 Their Differences and Relations 

 ( Lep. ) 173 



Manee Three new Species of Coleop- 

 tera from North Carolina 175 



Van Duzee The North American Spe- 

 cies of Draeculacephala (Homop.) 176 



Editorial The Intensive Study of Spe- 

 cies 182 



Photographs Received for the Album 

 of the American Ent. Society 183 



Weiss The Occurrence of Ped iculopsis 

 graminum Reuter and the Carna- 

 tion Bud-Rot in New Jersey (Acar.) 183 



An Insect's Femur as a Fish Hook 

 (Orth.) 183 



Proposed Entomological Work in Porto 



Rico 183 



Linguatula serrata (larva) in a Native 

 Central American. (Arachnida). . 184 



Identification oi Specimens 184 



Data Wanted on Migrations of the Cot- 

 ton Worm Moth (Lep.) 185 



Cockerell A Mite Parasitic on the 

 Musk Rat. (Arachnida, Acarina) 185 



Entomological Literature 185 



Doings of Societies Feldman Collect- 

 ing Social (Lep., Col., Dip., Hym., 



Hem.) 1 88 



The Entomological Society of France 

 and the War 190 



Obituary Henri Achard de Bonvouloir 191 



Jean Perez 192 



Pierre Emile Gounelle 192 



Leon Vibert 192 



Albert Cheux 192 



A New Pin for Mounting Insects. 



By HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



(Plate V) 



On March 17, 1914, there was issued to Mr. Marvin H. 

 Mead, of Passaic, N. J., by the United States Patent Office, a 

 patent covering certain improvements in mounts for speci- 

 mens. These improvements should not be without interest to 

 those engaged in entomological work requiring the care, 

 mounting or exhibition of insects. 



Briefly, the apparatus consists of a vertically supported pin 

 bearing a small cube of cork. Through this cork runs a hori- 

 zontal support having, at its distal end, a prong which is 

 thrust into the ventral surface of the thorax. The opposite 

 end of this horizontal support after it leaves the cork is bent 

 to form a little crank, by means of which the specimen can 

 be readily turned, exposing all parts of its surface for inspec- 



