ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVI. 



OCTOBER, 1915. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Crampton The Thoracic Sclerites and 

 the Systematic Position of Gryllo- 

 blatta campodeiformis Walker, a 

 Remarkable Annectent, " Orthop- 

 teroid" Insect 337 



Banks Two new names in the Ascala- 

 phidae ( Neur. ) 350 



Girault The Urgent Need of the Eco- 

 nomic Entomologist 351 



Stoner Preliminary Notes on Iowa 

 Pentatomoidea ( Heterop. ) 353 



Franklin A new Species of Campo- 

 plex (Hym., Ichneumon idae) 356 



Haskin Boisduval's Lycaena piasus 

 and Lycaena rhea (Lep.) 357 



Skinner Boisduval's Lycaena piasus 

 and Lycaena rhea ( Lep. ) 360 



The Entomological Society of Ontario 361 



A Liquid Preservative for Insects 361 



Girault A Few Notes on Queensland 

 Insects (Orth., Lep., Dip., Hym.). 362 



Editorial Buying and Selling Insects. 363 



Cockerel! Habits of Xenoglossa brevi- 

 cornis (Cresson) (Hym.) 364 



Huguenin An observation on a Bu- " 

 prestid ( Col. ) 364 



Girault Notes on Some Chalcidoid 



Hymenoptera from Java 365 



Cockerell Habits of Spinoliella ze- 



brata ( Cresson) (Hym.) 366 



Townsend Some Muscoid Synonyms 366 



Changes of Address 367 



Banks University of the Philippines 



College of Agric., Los Banos, Dept. 



of Entomology and Zoology 367 



Maxson A Schizoneuran Migrating 



from Elm to the Apple (Homop. ) 367 



Entomological Literature 368 



Review of Ealord : Insects and Man... 375 

 Review of Holland : The Butterfly 



Guide 375 



Doings of Societies Amer. Ent. Soc. 



(Dip., Hvm., Odon.) 376 



Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop., 



Lepid., Dipt.) 376 



The Pacific Coast Meetings 377 



Newark Ent. Soc. (Lepid., Homop., 



Coleop.) 379 



Obituary Joseph Tarrigan Monell.... 380 



Covington Few Seiss 383 



Dr. Julius Max Hagedorn.. 384 

 Carlos Juan Finlay 384 



The Thoracic Sclerites and the Systematic Position of 

 Grylloblatta campodeiformis Walker, a Remarka- 

 ble Annectent, " Orthopteroid " Insect. 



By G. C. CRAMPTON, PH.D.* 



(Plate XIII) 



In the March, 1914, issue of the Canadian Entomologist 

 (Volume xlvi, No. 3, pages 93-99), Dr. E. M. Walker has 

 described and figured a very remarkable insect, Grylloblatta 

 campodeiformis, which combines within itself characters com- 

 mon to a number of "Orthopteroid" insects. Indeed, in many 

 respects, it may be considered as a veritable "living fossil," 

 and from the point of view of the study of insect phylogeny, 

 it is one of the most important of recent pterygotan forms. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. Walker, T have been able to 

 make a study of the external anatomy of this important an- 



*Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. 



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