ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL, XL 



SEPTEMBER, 1900. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Dyar Life History of a South Ameri- 

 can Slug-Caterpillar 517 



Hulst Notes on Some N. A. Geome- 



trina and Pyralidina 527 



Aldrich Goniops and other Synonyms 531 



Skinner A Headlong Plunge into the 



Synonymy 533 



Editorial 536 



Entomological Literature 537 



Economic Entomology 546 



Notes and News 547 



Doings of Societies 548 



Life History of a South American Slug-Caterpillar 



Sibine Fusca StolL 



By HARRISON G. DYAR, A.M., Ph.D., 

 United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



See Plate XIII. 



SIBINE FUSCA Stoll. 



1781 Bombyx fusca Stoll, Pap. exot., pi. 307, fig. G. 



1848 Phalcena trimacula Sepp, Surin. Ylind., i, pi. 45. 



1855 Nyssia trimacula Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., v, 1133. 



1855 Nyssia rufesccns Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., v, 1138. 



1878 Streblota bonaerensis Berg, Ann. Soc. Cient. Argent., v, 180. 



1878 Streblota bonaerensis Burmeister, Desc. Rep. Argent., v, 151. 



1883 Sibine fusca Moschler, Verb. z.-b. Ges., Wien, xxvii, 671. 



1887 Eupalia trimacnla Druce, Biol. Cent. Am. Lep. Het., i. 218. 



1892 Sibine nesea Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 539 (nee Cramer). 



1897 Sibine fusca Dyar, Can. Ent, xxix, 77. 



1900 Sibine fusca Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 



LARVA. 



1791 Stoll, Pap. exot., suppl., pi., xxi, fig. 2 (as cczlestina). 



1848 Sepp, Surin. Ylind., i, pi. 45. 



1878 Berg, Ann. Soc. Cient., Argent., v, 181. 



1894 Dyar, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., viii, 217. 



1897 Dyar, Can. Ent., xxix, 77. 



