ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA 



VOL. XXXIII 



JANUARY, 1922 



No. 1 



CONTENTS 



Tillyard New Researches upon the 

 Problem of the Wing- Venation of 

 Odonata I 



Leathers Chironomus braseniae, new 

 Species (Dip,, Chironomidae) 8 



Barnes and Lindsey New Synonyms 

 in the Noctuidae ( Lep. ) . 9 



Alexander An Undescribed Species of 

 Net- Winged Midge from Argentina 

 ( Blepharoceridae, Diptera) 10 



Gaige University of Michigan-Will- 

 iamson Expedition to Brazil n 



Jones A new North American Psy- 

 chid(Lep., Psychidae) 12 



Lice and a Horse Fly transmitting Dis- 

 ease ( Dip., Tabanidae) 12 



Williamson Libellulas Collected in 

 Florida by Jesse H. Williamson, 

 with Description of a new Species 

 (Odonata ) 13 



Brimley List of the Tachinidae (Dip- 

 tera) of North Carolina 20 



Buthn Some Cases of Aberrant Ovipo- 

 sition in Butterflies ( Lep ) 26 



Editorial The Boundless Field of En- 

 tomology 29 



Entomological Literature 30 



New Researches upon the Problem of the Wing- 

 Venation of Odonata. 



I. A Study of the Tracheation of the Larval Wings in the Genus 

 Uropetala from New Zealand 



By R. J. TILLYARD, M.A., Sc.D. (Cantab.), D.Sc. (Sydney), 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., Entomologist and Chief of the Biological 

 Department, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand. 



(With Plate I and three text figures) 



In the Suborder Anisoptera the most archaic family still 

 existing is probably the Pctalnrldac, containing only five genera, 

 having a discontinuous palaeogenic distribution. These are : 

 Tachoptcry.\- in North America, Tan\ptcr\.\- in North America 

 and Japan, Plictics in South America, Uropetala in New Zea- 

 land, and Pctalura in Australia. They are all dragonflies ,of 

 large size; the greatest number of species in any one genus i- 

 three in Pctalura; Tan\ptcr\.\- and Uropetala have two spear- 

 each, while Tachoptcr\.\- and Phcncs are monotypic. 



The family is characterized, amongst other things, by the 

 presence of two oblique -reins lying distad from the nodus, 

 between .1/2 and the next longitudinal vein bclmv it. This 



