ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VGL. ix. APRIL, 1898. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Wickham Recollections of old collect- Editorial 90 



ing grounds Si Economic Entomology 91 



Harvey Contributions to the Odonata Notes and News 96 



of Maine 85 Entomological Literature 98 



Eustis Notes on Editorial 88 Doings of Societies 101 



Dodge Food of Eudamus lycidas 89 



RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. 



By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. 



IV. The Lower Rio Grande Valley (concluded). 



Chrysomelidae are quite numerous in these regions, but most 

 of them rather inconspicuous. A few specimens of Megascelis 

 texana Linell, an insect looking- something like a small Lema, 

 bright greenish above, testaceous or sometimes slightly greenish 

 beneath, the elytral suture and margin brownish yellow, were 

 found, in the heavy thickets. With them dwelt Lema lebioides 

 Linell, easily recognized by its reddish yellow color, and the 

 elytral pattern, consisting of a large square scutellar spot and a 

 longitudinal stripe which begins at the humerus and broadens 

 obliquely towards the suture and apex, the latter of which it does 

 not reach. The black color of the coxae and side pieces of the 

 meso- and metathorax mentioned in Mr. Linell' s description is 

 not constant. Some are almost unicolorous beneath. Anomcea 

 mulabilis was commonly seen feeding on mimosas, but became 

 much rarer toward the end of my stay. Eurypcopa lecontei was 

 rather seldom met with, chiefly on low bushes growing in sandy 

 spots. Chlamys memnonia Lac. fed on mesquite, and was by no 

 means uncommon both at Brownsville and Point Isabel. Exeina 

 conspersa was beaten from various weeds, where it might be seen 



