ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. viii. SEPTEMBER, 1897. No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Cockerell and Quaintance A ne\v sp. Editorial , 



of the Coccidze, etc 161 Notes and News 172 



Snyder Utah revisited Idaho and Entomological Literature 174 



Wyoming 163 Doings of Societies 181 



Wickham-Recollections of old col- Entomological Section 182 



lecting grounds 165 Davis Life-hist. of Erycides amyntas. 182 



Ehrmann Coleopterological notes Banks A Leucochrysa from Florida... 183 



from my brother's diary 168 



A NEW SPECIES OF COCCID/E, OF THE GENUS 

 LECANIODIASPIS. 



I. DESCRIPTIVE. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL, N. M. Agr. Exp. Station. 



Lecaniodiaspis (Prosopophora) tessellatus n. sp. 9 -Scale nearly cir- 

 cular, moderately convex; long. 4^/2, lat. 4, alt. 2 mm.; above dull red- 

 brown, not very dark, with dull white secretion forming lines, indistinct 

 in middle, but at the sides forming very regular pentagons, with an oval 

 or elongate median patch in each, arising from the margin of the scale. 

 These pentagonal areas are eleven in number on each side, they are 

 pointed mesad, the two shortest sides being the mesad ones, and the 

 lateral side being formed by the margin of the scale. The lines of secre- 

 tion indicate, but do not complete, three dorsal rows of enclosed areas, 

 thus five rows in all. The enclosed areas are quite flat, not raised into 

 little tubercles as in some species. Ventral surface of scale orange, rufous 

 on the margin (boiled in caustic soda the insects stain the liquid burnt 

 sienna color; they are full of dark crimson embryos which stain the liquid 

 pink); antenna; brown, 8-jointed, cylindrical, joint 5 a little the IOIILM >t. 

 but not quite twice as long as broad; then 3 nearly as long, then 4 very 

 nearly as lonjj, then 6 very nearly as long, 3, 4 and 6 being almost equal. 

 Then 2 as broad as long; 7 and 8 shortest, 8 shortest of all, with nunu-r- 

 ous hairs. Formula 53462 (71) 8. Sometimes the antenna? are g-jointed; 

 4 longest, then 3, 5 to 9 all short and not far from equal; 2 almost as short 

 as 4, broader than long; mouth-parts large; legs absent, as usual in the 



