ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACAKKMV OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHII.ADKI.I-HIA. 



VOL. X. APEIL, 1899. Xo. I 



CONTENTS : 



Hubbard Letters from the South- .Editorial in] 



west 83 xotes and News HU 



Baker Remarks on Emposca no 



Entomological Literature loi 



siosson Collectingon Biscayne Bay 91 



Casey-New Spec-its of I'emphus and I'oingsof Societies 



Tragosoma 97 



l\ar On the Smallest Pyromorphid 

 and its Larva... . 99 



Obituary no 



Exehan-j. . . .i. ii 



LETTERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. 



MY H. (I. HUBBARIV- 



The Home of Dinapate wrightii Horn, 



PALM SPKINCS, CAI.A.. February s, 1S97. 

 I have just returned this afternoon from a visit to Palm canon 

 and am somewhat sore and tired from contact with the saddle 

 and also from my frantic excel ions to iind a sperimen of Dhut- 

 )nilc tn'it/lifii. The Washingtonia i);:lms \r:>irtivliinnlfnti<t ji/i 

 fcrti > in this small canon are few in number, several hundreds 

 perhaps strung aloni; in a si ratlin. if line and most of them 

 bnrneil by the Indians who set (ire to the fans as a smoke 

 offering to their dead. There are very few youn.u' palms, as 

 the freshets wash away m;>-t of (he seed. However (here are 

 occasional clumps of not \ery old plants on the higher benches 

 and these are sheathed with immense accumulations of dead 

 fans. Kvery part of this tree is so hu^eand tou^h (hat I. 

 with my small hatchet, can make but lilt le impression upon 

 it. Even to cut through one of the handles of the dead Leaves 

 is almost beyond m\ strength, and where I here are accumnla 



* [These letlrr* \\<'iv addi'i'^i'd l<> llr,- iinilfrsii; ncd at Waslii nirtoii. 1 >. '.. a n d 

 an- DOW, after the death of the author, |niMisiu-d wit IHMH an\ alterations. E. A . 

 SCHWABZ.] 



