ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA 



VOL. XXXII 



DECEMBER, 1921 



No. 10 



CONTENTS 



Ferris A new Species in the Horma- 

 phidinae ( Hemiptera, Aphididae). 289 



Barlow The Mating Habits of Megar- 

 hyssn(Hym.. Ichneumonidae) 291 



Alexander Undescribed Crane- Flies 

 from Argentina (Tipulidae, Dip- 

 tera) Part IV 2^2 



Barnes and Lindsev Notes and New 

 Species ( Lep., Arctiidae) 295 



Uvarov News of Another Russian 



Entomologist 298 



Dietz Description of Two new Spe- 

 cies of the Angustipennis Group of 

 the Dipterous Genus Tipula Linn- 

 aeus, with Table of Species 299 



Craijjhead Observations on Certain 

 Siphonaptera 303 



Uvarov- On the Species of the Genus 

 Basileus Sauss. and Pict. (Orth., 

 Copiphorinae) 308 



Mares A new Species and a ne\\ 



Variety oi Cicindela (Col.) 310 



Malloch Some Notes on Drosophili- 

 dae(Diptera) -511 



Editorial The Insects in the United 



States National Museum 313 



Annual Meetings at Toronto, Canada. 313 



Robertson Flower Visits of Xylota 

 chalybea Wd. ( Dipt., Syrphidae). . 314 



Davis On the Deposition of Type Ma- 

 terial 314 



Hutchison The Mulford Biological 

 Exploration of the Amazon Basin.. 316 



Entomological Literature 317 



Review of Ralf's Abstract of the Legis- 

 lation in Force in the British Em- 

 pire dealing with Plant Pests and 

 Diseases 320 



A New Species in the Hormaphidinae (Hemiptera, 



Aphididae). 



By G. F. FERRIS, Stanford University, Calif. 



(Plate VI) 



The subfamily Hormaphidinae of the Aphididae includes 

 among its few species some of the most specialized members 

 of the family. The life histories of such species as Haina- 

 tnclistcs spinosus and Hormaphis liauuunclidis are certainly 

 among the most extraordinary that are known in any of the 

 insect groups. As far as I am aware but three species belong- 

 ing to this subfamily have been recorded from the I'nited 

 States, and of these one is introduced. It is therefore a decided 

 pleasure to be able to record another American representative 

 of the group. Credit for the discovery of the new species i^ 

 due to Mr. Donald L. Currier, County Commissioner of Horti- 

 culture of San Benito County. California, who forwarded speci- 

 mens to me for determination in the belief that the insect. > were 

 Coccidae. 



The available specimens represent but a single form, and it 

 is consequently more or less unsafe to expre-s any opinion as 



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