ENTOMOLOGICflL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. X. 



MARCH, 1899. 



No. 3 



CONTENTS : 



Webster Some Notes on the Grape- 

 Cane Gall-Maker, Ampeloglypter 

 Sesostris "tf 



Ashmead Three New Species in the 

 Genus Diploplectron Fox 55 



Tinsley and King The Tenth Ants' - 

 Nest Species of Coccid from Mas- 

 sachusetts 57 



Walker The Sound-Producing Or- 

 gans of Lenia Trilineata 58 



Uhler A New Destructive Capsid .. 59 



Coquillett A New Dipterous Family 



Related to the Chironomid;e 60 



Hough Some North American Gen- 

 era of the Dipterous Calliphdri M;I- 



Gerschner <>- 



Editorial 67 



Notes and News 68 



Entomological Literature 71 



Doings of Societies 7S 



Obituary *0 



Exchanges i 



SOME NOTES ON THE GRAPE-CANE GALL-MAKER, 



AMPELOG LYPTER SESOSTRIS (Coieoptera ) * 



BY F. M. WEBSTER. 



In his First Report as State Entomologist of Missouri, p. 131, 



Dr. C. \ . Ki ley describes this species under the name Maduni* 

 //7/.S-, stating- that the larva formed its gall in the Fall, pupating- 

 in June and developing to the adult about two weeks later. 

 He therefor gave as a remedial and preventive measure the 

 collecting and burning of infested canes during Winter. In 

 the " American Entomologist," Vol. II, p. 10"). the same 

 writer states that the galls first become visible towards the 

 latter end of July, the larva- producing them wintering over 

 within these galls, but not becoming full grown until the 

 Spring of the following year, pupating during the latter part 

 of June and in a couple of weeks developing to adults. 



On May <>, ISDN, a lot of dried leaves were brought from 

 a vineyard near the lake shore about (iypsum, ()., where 1he\ 

 had fallen the Autumn before and been blown 1>\ the winds 

 into bunches along an Osage orange hedge, remaining there 

 throughout the Winter and placed in a breeding cage in 1 lie 

 insectary. From among these leaves adults of .1. 



* Read before I he < thin stair Academy <>!' Science, I >c<-cml>er '."A 



