ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. ix. MARCH, 1898. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Kunze Rarse aves of the insect fauna 

 of Arizona 57 



Harvey Contributions to the Odonata 

 of Maine 59 



Editorial 68 



Economic Entomology 69 



Notes and News 72 



Entomological Literature 74 



Baker Five new jpecies of Phlepsius.. 65 Doings of Societies 79 



RAR/E AVES OF THE INSECT FAUNA OF ARIZONA. 



By Dr. R. E. KUNZE, Phoenix, Ariz. 



Having for nearly two full seasons collected in Arizona, I wish 

 to place on record a few of the good finds allotted to a passionate 

 collector under sometimes very trying circumstances. The season 

 never closes in S. Arizona; Coleoptera are found every month 

 of the year. Whenever a longer breathing spell is at hand I will 

 more fully describe the insect fauna and flora of this sun-kissed 



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land. 



I will briefly refer to memorized notes, the vast amount of all 

 material collected precluding detailed account, except for a little 

 biological work. Of Sesiidse found one only in San Francisco 

 Mountains, saw another of same species on flowers of Within 

 spec, which I failed to net. This Autumn found what appears 

 to be a Sesiid, beaten off a shrub, Hymenoclea monogyra, the 

 arrow weed of bottoms; in all, two examples were secured early 

 in November. Of Sphingidae, rare in S. Arizona, took at light 

 in June, 1897, one S Dilophonota obscura, and a S Diloph. ello, 

 middle of September. In July, 1896, took an Hciuaris cyno- 

 glossum near Prescott, and several more at headwaters of Has- 

 sayampa River, near Senator Mills. One of these taken on 

 Mount Union, head of this river, at 8600 feet elevation, nc.ir its 



