ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XI. NOVEMBER, 1900. No. g. 



CONTENTS: 



Browning A Tiger Hunt in the West 581 Banks A New Species of Myrmeleon 596 



Caudell Description of Larvae of Aze- Wickham Recollections of Old Col- 



lina Peplaria Hubn 583 ' lecting Grounds 597 



Smyth Identity of Hemaris tenuis Bairett Some Strange Habits 600 



Grt. and Hemaris diffinis Bdv 584 Editorial 602 



Marlatt The European Pear Scale.... 590 Entomological Literature 603 



Cockerell A New Eriococcus, etc 594 Doings of Societies 608 



Our Illustration. 



Some time ago Mr. H. W. Nash, of Pueblo, Colorado, sent 

 us a fine photograph of Sp/iin.\- drupiferarum from life. It is 

 shown feeding on plum. We have reproduced it for the ben- 

 efit of our readers. 



"The full grown larva is about 3 I /2 inches long, and of a 

 bright apple-green color. The head has a vertical dark brown 

 or black stripe on each side, and there are seven oblique white 

 stripes on each side of the body, which are bordered on the 

 upper side with bright purple or mauve. The spiracles are of 

 a bright orange color. The caudal horn is dark brown, with 

 yellow at the base of the sides." (FERNALD.) 



A Tigar Hunt in the Far West. 



BY G. WESLEY BROWNING. 



Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Present indications ( March iSth) seem to promise that 1900 

 will be a Cicindela year in Salt Lake Valley. The beginning 

 of the collector's season dawns with a solid month of weather 

 too uniformly delightful by far to be characteristic of early 



