ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXVI. 



DECEMBER, 1915. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Wood The Cuban Variety of Proto- 

 parce rustica Fabricius ( Lep. ) 433 



Calvert Studies on Costa Rican Odo- 



nata VII (cont.) 435 



Destructive Grasshoppers in Costa 

 Rica ( Orth. ) 447 



Cresson Some North American Dip- 

 tera from the Southwest III 448 



Burgess Twenty-eighth Annual Meet- 

 ing of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists 456 



Hebard Dermaptera and Orthoptera 

 Found in the Vicinity of Miami, 

 Florida, in March, 1915 (Part II) 457 



Rau The Number of Generations per 

 Year of the Mud-Daubers (Hym.) 469 



McDunnough Synonymical Notes 

 (Lep.) 471 



Editorial The Financial Status of Sci- 

 entific Journals 472 



Brehme Parasite of Bellura obliqua 

 G. and R. ( Lep., Dip.) 473 



Weiss Corthylus punctatissimus 



Zimm. in New Jersey (Col.) 473 



The Entomological Society of America: 

 Announcement of the Ninth Annual 

 Meeting 474 



Entomological Literature 475 



Review of Notman : Coleoptera Illus- 

 trata 480 



The Cuban Variety of Protoparce rustica Fabricius 



(Lep.). 

 By WILLIAM C. WOOD, New York. 



(With Plate XIX) 



The multiplication of mere varietal names is usually unde- 

 sirable, although in somes cases, such as Junonia cocnia var. 

 ncgra, or Pieris uwnnste var. philcta simple color varieties 

 a name may be a convenience. 



Local variations would, however, seem better entitled to 

 distinctive names. This is true especially when the points of 

 difference are constant ; when they are present in all the indi- 

 viduals from a particular region ; and, above all, when they are 

 not found in individuals from anv other localitv. 



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For many years I have realized that specimens of Proto- 

 parce rustica from the island of Cuba look different from the 

 usual type. Such perceptions are often more or less instinctive 

 and unreasoned. Merely as an example, take the case of two 

 other species of Protoparce pelleuia and scuta/a. They are so 

 similar in pattern and coloring that it would be very hard to 

 differentiate them by a written description, yet there is little 

 difficulty in separating them once they are known. 



Protoparce rustica Fabr. is found throughout the Nearctic 



433 





