ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. X. 



MAY, 1899. 



No. 5. 



CONTENTS : 



Skinner Notes on Butterflies, with 

 Descriptions of New Species Ill 



Snyder Reflections on the Realiza- 

 tion of One of Boyhood's Dreams-114 



Wickham Recollections of Old Col- 

 lecting Grounds 120 



Slosson Collecting on BiscayneBay.124 



Smith Description of Haploa Trian- 

 angularis, N. Sp 126 



Thomas Additions to the List of 

 Cranberry, N. C., Butterflies 128 



Dyar A New Cossid from Texas 129 



Coquillet A New Try pet id from Ha- 

 waii 129 



Dyar Notes on Alaskan Arctiida-. !'!<) 

 Holdridge A Hybrid Between Li- 

 mentis Ursula and L. Archippus.,131 



Editorial 132 



Economic Entomology 134 



Notes and News 144 



Entomological Literature ; 147 



Doings of Societies 152 



Exchanges i, ii 



NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, WITH 



NEW SPECIES. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



Pa m phi la ttcmMeri, n. sp. Male. Expands U inch. Supe- 

 rior wings yellow fulvous, with a darker border, -about an 

 one-eighth inch in width; the yellow fulvous runs into this 

 darker color along the nervures ; the stigrna is long and nar- 

 row, and becomes thinner as it approaches the subniediau iier- 

 vure. Inferior wings yellow fulvous ; costal margin fuscous ; 

 edge of wing fuscous ; fringes whitish-yellow. Under side of 

 superiors with a large black patch at the base; remainder 

 nearly immaculate. Inferiors light yellow-fulvous, immaeu- 

 late. 



Female. Expands but slightly more. Superiors darker in 

 color, with a row of yellow spots extending across the \\i 



from the cost a to the inner margin ; tirst come three distinct 

 subapieal spots, then two small ones further toward the outer 



