ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIV. 



JANUARY, 1913. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Portrait Titian Ramsey Peale i 



Schaus New Species of Heterocera 

 from Brazil (Lepid.) 3 



Cockerell The Genera Parotermes 

 and Hodotermes (Isoptera) 6 



Cresson Collecting and Mounting 

 (Micro-Diptera) II 8 



Weiss Notes on the Phototropism of 

 Certain Mosquitoes ( Dipt. ) 12 



Severin and Severin The Effect of 

 Temperature on the Molting of the 

 Walking-stick, Diapheromera fem- 

 oral a Say (Orthop.l 14 



de la Torre Bueno Some New and 

 Little-known Heteroptera from the 

 Western United States 20 



Skinner Antigeny in Neartic Butter- 

 flies ( Lepid. ) 23 



Baker Change of Address 27 



Editorial 28 



Color of Hemiptera 29 



The Insects' Homer 29 



Caterpillars and the Weather 29 



Cockerell Feltia venerabilis arida n. 



subsp. (Lepid.) 30 



Entomological Literature 30 



Review of Comstock Spider Book. ... 35 

 Review of Winn A Preliminary List 



of the Insects of the Province of 



Quebec Part I 37 



Review of Kane Injurious Insects : 



How to Recognize andControl them 37 



Doings of Societies 38 



Obituary Frederick Blanchard 46 



Obituary Dr. Wm. Armstrong Buck- 



hout 48 



Titian Ramsey Peak. 



(Portrait, Plate I) 



Following our practice of the last two years in placing a 

 portrait of one of the older American entomologists on the 

 cover of the NEWS, we have selected for the frontispiece and 

 for the cover for 1913 the portrait of Titian Ramsey Peale. 



Titian R. Peale published in 1833 a work entitled Lepidop- 

 tera Americana* which seems never to have passed .beyond 

 a single small installment. 



*Lepidoptera Americana : or, Original Figures of the Moths and 

 Butterflies of North America; in their various stages of existence 

 and the plants on which they feed. Drawn on stone, and coloured 

 from nature ; with their characters, synonyms, and remarks on their 

 habits and manners. By Titian R. Peale. Curator of the Philadelphia 

 Museum. Vol. I. No. I, Philadelphia: Printed by William P. Gib- 

 bons, S. W. corner Sixth & Cherry Sts., 1833. 



The copy of Number i in the library of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia comprises 14 unnumbered pages of text and 

 4 colored plates numbered 3 to 7; the size is 8, : 4 x io^< inches. Ac- 

 companying this single part is a printed sheet of "The Proposals for 

 Publishing by subscription a work to be entitled Lepidoptera Amer- 

 icana" which state that "the work will consist of one hundred Plates," 

 in Numbers of four Plates, to be regularly published every two 

 months, at Ten Dollars a year; a few other uncolored plates with 

 Peak's autograph and the date 1836, and some unpublished manuscripts. 



