ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIV. MAY, 1913. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Brehme A Note on Apantesis anna 

 and persephone (Lepid.) 193 



Brehme A New Aberration in Phycio- 

 des (Lepid.) 194 



Girault Fragments on North Ameri- 

 can Insects- IV. (Col., Lep., Hym.) 195 



Rowlev and Berr> Last Year's Work 



with Catocalae and other Lepidop- 



tera 



Ellis Seven New North American 



197 



Bees of the Genus Halictus ( Hym.) 205 

 Girault A Twelfth New Genus of 

 Hymenoptera Trichogrammatidae 

 from Australia 211 



Use of Ants in Punishments (Hym.). . . 226 

 Skinner To Collect Lepidopterous 



Pupae 22 6 



Editorial 227 



Johannsen Macrobrachius in America 



(Dipt.) 228 



Herms Pacific Slope Association of 



Economic Entomologists 228 



Society for the advancement of Forest 



Entomology in America 229 



Skinner Notes on Lycaena aymntula, 



monica and tejua ( Lep.) 230 



Cuisinier International Exposition of 



Ornithology, Entomology and Bot- 



Girault Standards of the Number of any 231 



Eggs laid by Spiders II 213 Green On the Humming of Chirono- 



Aldnch Collecting Notes from the midae (Dipt.) 232 



Great Basin and Adjoining Terri- ( Entomological Literature 232 



torv (Dipt.. Col.) 214 j Doings of Societies 238 



Bird The Appearance of an Unexpec- 

 ted Noctuid on the Atlantic Sea- 

 board (Lepid.) 222 



Obituary L. E. Ricksecker 239 



A Note on Apantesis anna and persephone (Lepid.). 



By HERMAN H. BREHME, Newark, N. J. 



(Plate VII, figs. 1-6.) 



Arctia anna and persephone were described by Grote from 

 a single female and a single male respectively. It has long 

 been known that these names apply to forms of one species. 

 A. anna is the less common form with wholly black hind wings 

 and has been said by collectors to have no male. A. perse- 

 phone is usually represented in collections by the forms having 

 yellow hind wings with a broad black margin and a black dis- 

 cal lunule joined sometimes to the marginal band. This form 

 occurs commonly in both sexes (Plate VII, Figs, i and 2). But 

 with it are usually associated males of a form having the mar- 

 ginal band joined to the base of the wing by black bars on the 

 costal and near the inner margins of the wing, and the yellow 

 space left is sometimes almost completely filled in with black. 

 The form with considerable yellow on the disk of the wing 

 is, however, the one that Grote had before him when he named 



