

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXL OCTOBER, 1910. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Daerke Trypetid Galls and Eurosta 

 elsa n. sp 341 



Cnckerell Notes on some Heliothid 

 Moths 343 



Rohwer Turner's genera of Thynnidae 



Smith Notes on Mamestra trifolii 



Rott. and its Allies 357 



Editorial 363 



Notes and News 364 



Entomological Literature 366 



Doings of Societies 376 



with notes on Ashmeadian genera 345 



Allard Some New England Orthop- Obituan Cyrus Thomas, Ph. D 387 



tera Observed in Late October. ... 352 



Trypetid Galls and Eurosta elsa n. sp. 



(With Plate X.) 



BY E. DAECKE. 



In an interesting paper in Psyche, Vol. XIV, No. 4, page 71, 

 the late Millett T. Thompson described the galls of Eurosta 

 rcticulata Snow and Rutrcta sparsa Wied., both on the root of 

 golden-rod, while Oedaspis polita Loew, Ocdaspis atra Loew 

 and Eurosta solidaginis Fitch have been previously recorded as 

 gall-makers on golden-rod. 



During the summer of 1906 I had the good fortune of locat- 

 ing the galls of a golden-rod-loving Trypetid not hitherto re- 

 corded. 



It was in September and golden-rods were in full bloom 

 when I took a stroll with my little niece through a sparsely 

 wooded section near Richmond Hill, L. I. As natural as it is 

 for a collector to take insects it is for a little girl to pick flowers. 

 Elsa picked golden-rods, but alas ! out came a plant with its 

 roots which the loose, sandy soil could not hold and a new 

 story was told. 



There were one to three galls on the root of every plant ex- 

 amined, of fleshy, potato-like consistency, with a chamber 



