ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIV. 



OCTOBER, 1913. 



No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Rau and Hosenfelt Abnormal Wing: 

 Formations in Satnia cecropia and 

 S. californica ( Lep. ) 337 



Girault Fragments on North Ameri- 

 can Insects VI (Lep., Hym., Hem., 

 Dipt., Col.) 338 



Leussler The Butterflies of Omaha, 

 Nebraska (Lep ) 344 



Stoner Notes on some Beetles reared 

 from a dead elm stick (Coleop. ). . . 352 



Schroers Observations on the Lepi- 

 doptera of St. Louis and Vicinity 

 during: iqia 354 



Wolley Dod Notes on some North 

 American Noctuidae (Lep.) 356 



Bishopp The Occurrence of the Aus- 

 tralian Cattle Tick and the Brown 

 Dog-Tick in Key West, Ftorida 

 (Acarina. Ixodoidea) 366 



Editorial A Utilitarian Value of Ento- 

 mology 369 



Changes of Address 370 



Girault Lepidopterous Eggs from the 

 Stomach of a Wren 370 



Vanatta The Zimmermann Collection 



of Coleoptera 371 



Girault Mantid eggs apparently eaten 



bv birds .. 371 



Girault Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea 



eaten bv birds 371 



Ants crossing water I Hymen ) 372 



Girault A Dragonfly depositing eggs 



in a rainpool over concrete ( Odon ) 372 

 Williamson Some Colorado Dragon- 

 fly records (Odonata) 372 



Calyert The true male of Nehalennia 



integrirollis and N. pallidula n. sp. 



( Odon ) 373 



Joicey The Druce Collection of Lepi- 



doptera 374 



Beth une-Baker M aterial Wanted 



(I-ep. ) 374 



The Audubon Entomological Club 374 



Entomological Literature 375 



Review of Kellogg's Distribution and 



Species-forming of Ecto-Parasites 382 

 Review of Junk's Bibliographia Lepi- 



dopterologica 382 



Obituary Dr. Horace Jayne 383 



Abnormal Wing Formations in Samia cecropia and 



S. californica (Lep.). 



By PHIL RAU and GEO. H. HOSENFELT, St. Louis, Mo. 



(Plate XI) 



A female Samia cecrdpia, having a fifth wing emerged from 

 its cocoon on May 6, 1904. This cocoon was one of a lot of 

 forty which were taken in the southwestern part of St. Louis. 



The figure makes any further description superfluous ex- 

 cepting that the supernumerary wing is in no way connected 

 with the normal one, and the attachment of the wing to 

 the thorax is quite independent of the others. This wing 

 is an exception to those usually recorded in that it is 

 only slightly aborted. This female differs from the male of 

 the same species recorded by Bateson in that this supernu- 

 merary wing is a complete repetition of the left secondary 

 wing, markings and all, whereas the one Bateson* records 



* Materials for the Study of Variation, p. 283. 



337 



