ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XI. JUNE, 1900. No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Smyth Larval Stage of Protoparce 



rustica Fabr 485 



Snow and Mills Destructive Diplosis 



Coquiilet New Sceiiopinidse 500 



Osborn A Neglected Platymetopius.. 501 

 Skinner&Satterthwait Tineid Larva soa 



of the Monterey Pine 489 Editorial 504 



Oslar Habits and Capture of /Egiale 495 ! Entomological Literature 505 



Ehrman Capture of Platynus cauda- Notes and News 509 



tusLec.,and Platynus larvalis Lee 499 Doings of Societies 512 



The Larval Stage of Protoparce rustica Fabr. 



By ELLISON A. SMYTH, Jr., Blacksburg, Va. 



Although Protoparce rustica is well known in the moth state, 

 there has been, so far as I can ascertain, no figure or descrip- 

 tion of the larva, since the fairly good figure and meagre 

 description given by Abbott in Vol. I, pi. 34 of "Abbott & 

 Smith's Lep., Georgia." Prof. John B. Smith, in his mono- 

 graph of the Sphingidse, makes a similar statement, adding 

 that Burmeister gives a brief original description from Brazilian 

 specimens. Duncan's description and plate in Naturalists' 

 Library, Vol. Ill, Clemen's description, and all others that I 

 know of are copied from Abbott & Smith's plate. 



This is my apology for presenting, through the kind medium 

 of the " NEWS, " the figures of three stages of the larva, with 

 descriptions of the larva and egg. Several times in the farther 

 South I have found the mature larva of rustica, but last Sum- 

 mer a number w T ere obtained here, in Montgomery Co., Va., 

 and from these the water-color sketches were made by the 

 author, from which sketches the plate here given has been 

 prepared, showing the larva in three stages, and the pupa. Fig. 



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