ENTOMOLOGICflL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICflL SECTION 



A( AKK.MV OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. X. SEPTEMBEB. 18!l. No. 7 



CONTENTS : 



Liebeck Cychrus Guyoti vs. C. An- Hine Sciara In onstans Reared 

 clrewsii var.. ..!!! fronl Carnations I'd I 



A sb mead The Largest Oak-Gall in 



the World and its Parasites 193 



Wi ckham Recollections of Old-Col- 



Dyar Life History of Notodonta 



Georgica - H. S. 202 



Editorial .2iVi 



Kconomic Entomology '-N~ 



lecting Grounds !!> Notes an ,, NVws 20H 



Williamson Calopteryx August!- Entomological Literature 'JN 



pennisSelysin Western Pennsyl- l">innsof Societies 219 



\aiiia W> Exchanges i, ii 



CYCHRUS GUYOTI vs, C, ANDREWSII YAR. 



BY CHAKI.KS LIEBECK, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 (See Plate VI.) 



In the recent paper on d/dintx by G. E. Ehrmann, atten- 

 tion was called to a paragraph pertaining to certain specimens 

 of C. dni/oti (No. 9 of plate), in the possession of Prof. Je- 

 rome Schmitt, of St. Vincent's College, Pa. Some confusion 

 regarding the identity of this species exists in many collec- 

 tions, and the following notes are submitted with a view to 

 preventing future errors. 



C. (riii/oti was described by Dr. Lecoute, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sciences in l,s(i(), p. : }(>:}, from a unique female collected 

 in the Black Mountains of North Carolina. Later Dr. Horn, 

 in his paper on ( 1 i/<-/inix ot N. A. Trans. Am. Knt. Sue.. 1S7S, 

 Vol. 7.]). I 7.'M 7 I. submitted the characters of male tarsi, sep- 

 arating these species as follows : 



A nterior tarsus of male with a slight papillose space at 

 tip of first joint. (iinjnti. 



Anterior tarsus ot' maledensel\. spongy pubescent be 

 neath, first joint clothed over nearly the entire surface. 



Andrewsii. 



