ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIX. MARCH, 1908. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Cresson, Jr. Two New Species belong- 

 ing to the Dipterous Families Ortal- 

 idae and Trypetidae from Dutch 

 Guiana, with Notes on others of 



these Groups 95 



Braun New species of Lithocolletis . . 99 

 Brimley Male Polistes annularis Sur- 

 vive the Winter 107 



Wolley Dod Argvnnis astarte, Doubl.- 

 Hew., and other High Mountain 



Butterflies 108 



Rowley Notes on Catocala 115 



Houghton Notes on Necrophorus or- 



bicollis Say 120 



Woodworth Winged Aphids 122 



Wolley Dod Further Notes on Alberta 



Lepidoptera 124 



Cockerell A Fossil Orthopterous In- 

 sect with the Media and Cubitus 

 Fusing 126 



Pearsall Two New Species of Eupith- 



ecia Curtis 128 



Oestlund Chaitophorus Testudinatus 



in America 131 



Girault An Aphid Feeding on Coc- 



cinellid Eggs 132 



Brimley Notes on Some Neuropteroids 



from Raleigh. N. C 133 



Brimley North Carolina Records of 



Odonata for 1906 and 1907 134 



Riley The Abnormal Appearance of 



External Wing-buds in Larvae of 



Holometabolous Insects 136 



Editorial 14 



Notes and News 141 



Doings of Societies 142 



Obituary 142 



Two New Species belonging to the Dipterous Fami- 

 lies Ortalidae and Trypetidae from Dutch Guiana, 

 with Notes on others of these Groups. 



BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 



(Plate VI.) 



This material, in the collection of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, was collected by Miss K. Mayo in Dutch 

 Guiana in the year 1905, except those from Idaho by Dr. H. 

 Skinner in 1905. The South American species of these groups 

 have been but little studied, and for that reason I have been 

 fuller in my descriptions. 



ZEUGMA gen. nov. 



Head broader than high ; occiput flat ; eyes large ; front nar- 

 row ; orbits parallel, ocelli removed from vertex and widely 

 separated ; the anterior ocellus about equidistant from vertex 

 and antennae ; vertex with stout outer- and inner-vertical 

 bristles. Antennae, situated below middle line of eyes, longer 

 than the face, with third joint elongate ; arista minutely pubes- 



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