ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Voi,. XIX. FEBRUARY, 1908. No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Ely Notes on C. dejecta Strecker, and 

 other species of Catocala from East 

 River, Conn 47 



Sherman The Panorpidae (Scorpion- 

 flies) of North Carolina, with notes 

 on the species 50 



Beutenmueller Description of a new 

 Catocala 54 



Fen yes A Preliminary Systematic Ar- 

 rangement of the Aleocharinae 

 (Coleoptera) of the United States 

 and Canada 56 



\Vriarht and Coolidge Notes on the 

 Coleoptera of Placer Co. , Calif 66 



Wolcott The North American species 

 of Chariessa ....................... 70 



Coolidge The North American spe- 



cies of the genus Erebia 



Girault Oviposition of Bibio albipen- 

 n is Say ............................ 76 



Biederman A new Anisota from Ari- 

 zona (Lepidoptera, Heterocera, 

 Ceratocampidae ) .................. 77 



Editorial ............................... 78 



Notes and News ................... ... 79 



Doings of Societies ............. ....... 84 



Notes on C. dejecta Strecker, and Other Species of 

 Catocala from East River, Conn. 



BY CHAS. R. ELY, Washington, D. C. 



(Plate V) 



In the original description of C. dejecta Strecker,* this species 

 is said to have no basal dash on the primaries. Hulst also, in 

 his monograph on the genus Catocala, makes the absence of the 

 basal dash one of the important characteristics separating this 

 species from others closely allied to it. 



During July and August, 1907, the writer collected thirty- 

 one specimens of a species of Catocala having black secondaries. 

 Of these, eighteen males were unmistakably C. dejecta, but the 

 remaining thirteen, females, differed from the published de- 

 scriptions of this species in having in every case a decided 

 basal dash. During the period mentioned the only other black- 

 winged forms of Catocala captured were epione and tristis. It 

 is therefore evident that the thirteen females of the above series 

 were of the same species as the males that is, C. dejecta and 

 that therefore the literature relating to this species is incom- 

 plete in that the male only has heretofore been described, and 



* Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., ii, 97, iSSo ; Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., vii, 32, 1884. 



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