ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA 



VOL. XXXII MARCH, 1921 No. 3 



CONTENTS 



Skinner Moths Collected at Hot Attacking Mildews (Col ).. 83 



Springs, Virginia ( Lepid. ) 65 ; Skinner A new Species of Mt-litaea 



Alexander Undescribed Crane-Flies from Montana ( Lepid. , Rhop ) .... 89 



from Argentina (Tipulidae, Dip- Editorial The Influence of Insects on 



tera). Part II 72 Human History 90 



Cockerel! The Bee-genus Ancylosce- Entomological Literature 91 



les Haliday ( Hym.) 76 Review of Oberthur's Etudes de Lepi- 



Barnes and Lindsey--On Some Spe- dopterologie Comparee 93 



ciesof Hesperia ( Lep., Hesperidae) 78 Review of Lindsey's Hesperioidea of 



Howe Sympetrum atripes (Hagen)a 



good Species ( Odon. ) 80 



Davidson Observations on Psyllobora 



taedata LeConte, a Coccinellid 



America North of Mexico A 1 



Doings of Societies Ent. Sec. Acadv 

 Nat. Sci. (Orth., Dip., Lep., 



Odon ) 94 



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Moths Collected at Hot Springs, Virginia (Lepid.). 



By HENRY SKINNER. 



It not infrequently happens that entomologists go on collect- 

 ing trips or spend their vacation in the country and give no 

 thought to general entomology hut confine their entire attention 

 to the group or order in which they are specially interested. 

 This appears rather selfish to the writer and not good for 

 entomology. Mr. Morgan Hebard is an exception to this rule. 

 His principal work is with the Orthoptern hut he does not 

 neglect the other orders. The moths listed were in an excel- 

 lent state of preservation and it was a pleasure to study them. 

 The collection is noteworthy on account of the number of 

 genera and species collected at one place in a short period of 

 time. Butterflies were also collected and the true Lycacna 

 lygdamus taken.* Mr. Hebard has very kindly supplied the 

 following notes in regard to the locality and his method of 

 collecting the specimens. 



"Hot Springs, Virginia, is situated close to the western 

 border of the state in its central portion. At an elevation of 



*Ent. News, 1917, xxviii, 212. 



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