ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. vii. SEPTEMBER, 1896. No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Foote Aromatic butterflies 193 



Calvert Notes on European entomo- 

 logical collections 195 



Klages A plea for an improvement in 

 entomological pins 197 



Ormonde Carnivorous larva of Me- 

 lanotus communis 200 



Editorial 203 



Entomological Literature 206 



Doings of Societies 212 



American Entomological Society 213 



Hunter A new sp. of Tropidia, etc 215 



Davidson Alcidamea producta, etc.... 216 

 Dyar Notes on the white Callimorphas 218 

 Coquillett A new subfamily of Ephy- 

 dridse 220 



Economic Entomology 204 | Cockerell Three new bees, etc 221 



Notes and News 205 I Letcher A new Drasteria 223 



FENISECA TARQUINIUS. 



Our illustration shows one aspect of the chrysalis of this in- 

 teresting species. It \vas photographically enlarged from a 

 drawing made by Mrs. Mary Peart for Mr. W. H. Edwards' 

 ' Butterflies of North America." The species is a carnivorous 

 one, the larvae feeding on plant lice. 



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AROMATIC BUTTERFLIES. 



By W. F. FOOTE, Most Yard, N. H. 



Scudder, in his " Butterflies of New England," speaks of sev- 

 eral species as being aromatic, but I do not think that he men- 

 tions Debis portlandia in this respect. This species is quite com- 

 mon in this immediate locality, and is the most aromatic butterfly 

 with which I am acquainted, far exceeding' Argvnnis atlantis. I 

 had noticed a peculiar, but not unpleasant odor upon opening 

 my cyanide jar, but it was some time before I traced it to pori- 

 landia. I have frequently taken this species on the sugaring 

 patches when making my rounds just before dusk with fresh 



