ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIX. 



JANUARY, 1908. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Gillette The poplar bark aphid (Schi- 



zoneura populi n. sp.) I 



Cirault Standards of the number of 



eggs laid by insects VI 4 



Doane Notes on the Tipulid genus 



Dicranomyia 5 



Merrick The Inflation of Larvae 9 



Melander Annihilating the Coddling 



Moth ; ii 



Williams A new Eriocrania (Lepidop- 



tera) from the Pacific Coast 14 



Brimlcy Notes <m tin- < >rtliopti.-r:i oi 



Raleigh, North Carolina i'> 



Smith Notes on the larval habit- "f 

 Culcx pcrturbans -- 



Wellman Notes <m some Angolan in- 

 sects of Economic or I'.uhol. 

 Importance 26 



Editorial 



Entomological Literature 



Notes and News 



Doings of Societies 46 



The Poplar Bark Aphid (Schizoneura populi n. sp. I 



C. P. GILLETTE. 



(Plate I) 



I have noticed a pale yellow schizoneuran infecting the 

 crevices in the bark of trunks and limbs of the native narr>w- 

 leaved cottonwood, the broad-leaved poplar, the Carolina pop- 

 lar, and the balm of Gilead, for several years upon the \\V-tern 

 Slope, in Colorado. I have noted the lou-e as -pecially 

 numerous at Grand Junction, Delta, I'aoiiia and Montro-e. 



The white cottony secretion often tilU nearly all of the 

 crevices in the bark and it remains throughout the year, hid 

 the lice and their eggs. 



On June u;th. of last year, Mr. K. I'. Taylor told me 

 finding one of the winged lice, and two days later I a 

 a good number lodged upon Mr. Taylor's porch screen, tl 

 being some badly infested balm of Gilead tree- in front 

 the house. At this time e.i^s and young > 

 Mr. Taylor noted the appearance of winged lice 

 two weeks, when they disappeared f'-r the remainder of the 

 summer. As fast as winded lice appeared they lel't the tiv 

 but I have not been able to get any clue as to where the; 



