ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIX. 



JULY, 1918. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Hungerford Concerning the Oviposi- 

 tiou of Notonectae ( Hem. ) 241 



Braun New Genera and Species of 

 Lyonetiidae ( Microlepidoptera). . . 245 



Beutenmuller Description of a New 



Periclistus ( Cynipidae, Hym.) 251 



Cockerell A Remarkable New Bee of 

 the Genus Oxaea ( Hym. ) 252 



Watson Hemileuca burnsi, its specific 

 validity and habitat (Saturnidae, 

 Lepid. ) 252 



Wickham An Interesting new Species 

 of Eleodes (Col.: Tenebrionidae). . 255 



Caudell Reg a rd in g Diapheromera 

 veliei Walsh and Manomera blatch- 

 leyi Caudell (Orth.: Phasmidae).. 258 



Dunn The Lake Mosquito, Mansonia 

 titillans Walk., and its Host Plant, 

 Pistia stratiotes Linn., in the Canal 

 Zone, Panama (Dip.: Culicidae).. 260 



Editorial" Making the Editorial of 

 Greater Use in Entomology" 270 



Currie Occurrence of the Damselfly 

 Argiallagma minutum (Selys) in 

 Southern Florida (Odonata) 271 



i Emergency Entomological Service (U. 



S. Dept. Agric. ) 271 



Fletcher The Cottony Cushion Scale, 

 Icerya purchasi, in Ceylon ( Ho- 

 rn op., Coccidae) 274 



Entomological Literature 274 



Review of Fletcher : Report of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Second Entomolo- 

 gical Meeting held at Pusa 277 



Review of Barnes and McDunnongh : tt- 

 Contributions to the Natural His-" 

 lory of the Lepidoptera of N. Amer. 277 

 Doings of Societies Ent. Sec. of The 

 Acad. of Nat. Sci. Phila. (Orthop., 



Odonata) 278 



Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting 

 of the New York Entomological 



Society 278 



The Entomological Society of France 278 

 Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop. ) 279 

 Foundation of the Entomological 



Society of Spain 279 



Obituary Gustave Adolphe Baer 280 



Charles Edwin Sleight 280 



Erratum 280 



Concerning the Oviposition of Notonectae (Hem.). 



By H. B. HUNGERFORD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 



Kansas. 



(Plates XIV, XV) 



This short paper is presented to clear up certain points 

 concerning the oviposition-of the back-swimmers of the genus 

 Notonccta in America. In a former paper the writer called 

 attention to the diversity of statement in regard to the egg- 

 laying of the European N. glanca and to the fact that the 

 American species are said' to differ markedly from A r . (jlunca 

 as reported by Regimbart. 



In view of the careful work of this French writer, who 

 stated that the European form inserts its eggs in the stems of 

 plants, the writer regarded it as strange that all the American 

 species should simply affix their eggs to plants and other sup- 

 ports in the water. In view of the observations of Esseiilier^ 

 in California and Bueno in New York, however, it appeared 

 likely that such might be the case. 



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