ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXI. NOVEMBER, 1910. No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Banks Snonymical N( tes on Neurop- 



tera 389 



Coolidge Notes on the Arachnida of 



Cresson Collecting and Mounting 



Micro-Diptera 406 



Allen The Development of a Green- 



Placer Co , Calif 391 I Bottle Fly 411 



Wolley Dod Noctuid Notes 395 | Editorial 419 



Kellogg and Paine A new Polyctenid 401 Notes and News 420 



Pearsall Eupithecias that appear to Entomological Literature 422 



be undescribed 404 I Doings of Societies 428 



Obituary Adolph Conradi 436 



Synonymical Notes on Neuroptera. 

 BY NATHAN BANKS. 



In the Records of the Indian Museum, Vol. III., for October, 

 1909, Dr. Needham has published some new genera and species 

 or Xeuroptera. One Annandalia, p. 208, is a genus of Hem- 

 erobridse near Sympherobiits. I have now seen a specimen of 

 it and find it is the same as my Notiobiella from Australia ; 

 Navas has recently described species of Notiobiella from India. 

 Notiobiella was described in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., XI, 

 ]). 80, issued 31 August. 1909. 



In this same article Dr. Needham says he has identified the 

 Pic in c robins sctnlosns of Walker as a Microinus. Walker 

 says that his species is near the H. hirtns of Europe ; this 

 latter species is a Megalomus, and I have a species of Mcga- 

 loinus from India which in other points also agrees with 

 Walker's description. This species also fits very well with a 

 species of Megalomus M. noi^halicri, recently described by 

 Xavas from India. So I consider M. nowhalieri as a synonym 

 of M. setuhsits Walk. In this same article Navas (Broteria, 



389 



