ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIX. 



DECEMBER, 1918. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Swain Miscellaneous Studies iti the 

 Family Aphididae ( Hem., Horn.').. 361 



Skinner A Gynandromorph of Callo- * 

 samia angulifera and Melitaea 

 phaeton aber. streckeri ( Lep. ) 369 



Dozier An Annotated List of Gaines- 

 ville, Florida, Coleoptera 370 



Howard A Note on Insects Found on 

 Snow at High Elevations 375 



Change of Address 377 



Honors to Entomologists 377 



McDunnough Dates of Issue of the 

 Plates of Gu6rin's Iconographie du 

 Regne Animal ( Lepid.) 378 



Blaisdell Studies in the Tenebrionid 

 Tribe Eleodiini. No. 4 (Coleop. ). 380 



Schaus A New Agrias from Guate- 

 mala (NymphaliHae, Lep.) 387 



Me Atee Vaporous Discharge bv Ani- 

 somorpha buprestoides (Orthop- 

 tera : Phasmidae 388 



Editorial Rules and Suggestions for 

 our Contributors 



Parshlev Bibliography of the North 

 American Hemipt'era in Prepara- 

 tion 



Entomological Collections of the late 

 W. H. Harrington 



A New List of Coleoptera of N. Amer. 



Huguenin Early appearance of I.v- 

 caena antiacis and xerxes (Lepid.) 

 in 1917 



The Annual Meetings of Societies in 

 Convocation Week 



Entomological Literature 



Review of Bequaert : A Revision of the 

 Vespidae of the Belgian Congo 



Obituary John W. Bradlev, Vernon 

 King. David Ernest Lantz, Freder- 

 ick Knab, V. A. E. Daecke and 

 Stuart C. Vina! 



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Miscellaneous Studies in the Family Aphididae 



(Hem., Horn.). 1 

 By ALBERT F. SWAIN, University of California, Citrus 



Experiment Station, Riverside, California. 

 During the writer's study of the California Aphididae sev- 

 eral questions relating to the identity and synonymy of various 

 genera and species have arisen. A few of these questions are 

 discussed and the writer's conclusions given herewith. 



There is always present the question as to the proper limita- 

 tions of genera, which oftentimes is difficult to decide. As a 

 general rule, the writer does not believe in the formation of a 

 vast number of genera on slight structural diftVn'nces. How- 

 ever, there are included in some genera species of such widely 

 different characters that, although a specific determination may 



1 Paper No. 50 University of California, Graduate School of Trop- 

 ical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. 



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