ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIX. 



FEBRUARY, 1918. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Garnett Notes on Dinapate wrightii 

 Horn (Col.) 41 



Skinner Selenis sueroides ( Lep. ) 44 



Van Duzee New North American Spe- 

 cies of Dolichopodidae ( Diptera ). . . 45 



Barber Corrections to "New York Sco- 

 lopostethi " (Family Lygaeidae : 

 Heter.) 5: 



Van Dyke New Species of Buprestidae 

 (Col. ) from the Pacific States No. 2 53 



Cockerell The Bembicine Wasps 

 ( H ym. ) 59 



Cole A new Genus of Cyrtidae from 

 South America ( Dip. ) 61 



Material Desired (Coleoptera) 64 



Girault The North American Species of 

 Cerchysius, females ( Hym.Chalcid. ) 65 



Hebard A Correction Concerning La- 

 bia annulata and Labia dorsalis 

 Dermaptera : Labiidae) 66 



Skinner Argynnis apacheana, a new 

 name ( Lepid. ) 67 



Stout Variation in Labial Characters 

 in the Nymph of Gomphus spicatus 



(Odonata) 68 



Professor F. L. Washburn Ceases to be 



State Entomologist 70 



Editorial Entomology at the Convoca- 

 tion Week Meetings 71 



Benjamin Dann Walsh 72 



Emergency Entomological Service 72 



Changes of Address 74 



Emerton A New House Spider ( Aran.) 74 

 Marlatt Interrelations of Different Spe- 

 cies of Insects ( Horn., Col., Hym.).. 74 

 Rau Maternal Care in Dinocoris trip- 



terus Fab. ( Hem. ) 75 



Entomological Literature. ... 76 



Doings of Societies Entomological So- 

 ciety of France 79 



Ent. Sec., Acad. of Nat. Sci. of Phila. 



(Dip., Lep., Orth.) 79 



Obituary Notes 80 



Notes on Dinapate wrightii Horn (Col.).* 



By RICHARD T. GARNETT, Oakland, California. 



(Plate II.) 



This extremely rare Bostrichid, called by Hubbard the 

 "dodo" of Coleoptera, was taken by the writer in Palm Can- 

 yon on May 21 and 22, 1917. Every dead or unhealthy speci- 

 men of the palm, li'ashincjtonia filifcra, in Palm, Murray, and 

 Andreas Canyons was thoroughly examined. Of these only 

 one log in the extreme lo\ver end of Palm Canyon contained 

 the beetle. This log, covered by driftwood, was \vedged into 

 a crevice in the rock strata fifteen feet above the summer 

 stream level. From this log on the days mentioned 133 adults, 



*Geo. H. Horn Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIII, 1886, pp. 1-4, pi. i. 

 II. G. Hubbard Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 4, pp. 228-230. 

 H. G. Hubbard Entomological Xews, 1899, Vol. X, No. 4, pp 83-89. 

 B. Fenyes Rovart. Lapok, VIII, p. 4. 



P. Lesne Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Vol. 78, 1909, pp. 473-477, figs. 572 

 &573- 



