ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVI. 



JULY, 1915- 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Schwarz Recent Work on Catocalae : 

 a new Variation, Aberration and 

 Correction (Lep.) 289 



Ellis A new Halictine Bee from the 

 Northern United States (Hym.)... 291 



Blanchard Two new Silphids (Col.).. 294 



Calvert Studies on Costa Rican Odo- 

 nata VI 295 



Cresson Note on the Bombyliid Genus 

 Rhabdopselaphus Rondani (Pseu- 

 doperon Cress. ) (Dip. ) 305 



Hebard Records of Orthoptera from 

 Newfoundland 306 



Johnson Coleoptera found in the Vi- 

 cinity of Meriden, Connecticut 307 



Wild Description of a newColeophora 

 Moth and note on a Synonym( Lep. ) 320 



Haimbach New Heterocera (Lep.)... 321 



Girault A new Genus of Chalcidine 

 Hymenoptera 325 



Editorial A Contrast and a Hope 326 



Blood Worms and Water Pollution 



(Dipt.) .... 326 



Napier Observations on Colias inte- 

 rior (Lep.) 3 2 7 



The Entomological Society of Amer- 

 ica Announcement of Summer 



Meeting 328 



Skinner Lycaena argiolus in America 



(Lep.) 329 



The Thomas Say Foundation 329 



Entomological Literature 330 



Doings of Societies Entom. Section, 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. (Odon.,Arach., 



Lep., Orth.) 334 



Amer. Ent. Soc. (Lep., Odon.) 335 



Los Angeles Entom. Club (Lep., 



Hym. ) 335 



Feldman Collecting Social (Horn., 

 Lep., Col., Dip.) 336 



Recent Work on Catocalae : A new Variation, 



Aberration and Correction (Lep.). 



By ERNST SCHWARZ, St. Louis, Mo. 



(Plate X). 



Catocala robinsonii Grote, var. missouriensis n. var. (Plate X, 

 figs. 1 and 2). 



There occurs a form of Catocala robinsonii a little larger 

 than the typical form, in general appearance much like Catocala 

 angusi var. lucctta in which the black shading on primaries is 

 very similar to that of lucctta. In missouriensis this shade is 

 even on both sides and not interrupted at the reniform and 

 subreniform, reaching to W of the terminal line and con- 

 tinues from this point posteriorly in a V-shape to below apex. 

 This part of the shade is not as prominent but more suffused. 



This shading in C. ant/iisi var. lucctta is not as even, more or 

 less interrupted by the reniform and subreniform reaching 

 nearly to the lunules 5 and 6. There is also a V-shaped exten- 

 sion above this point, which is of the same intensity as tlie 

 other part of the shading. 





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