ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA 



VOL. XXXIII 



APRIL, 1922 



No. 4 



CONTENTS 



Forbes Five Strange Lepidoptera 

 (Oinophilidae, Noctuidae, Gele- 

 chiidae) .... 97 



The University of Michigan-William- 

 son Expedition to Brazil 104 



Kennedy The Phylogeny and the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of the Genus 

 Libellula ( Odonata) 105 



Hall A Carbon-tetrachloride Killing 

 Bottle 112 



Williamson Enallagmas Collected in 

 Florida and South Carolina by 

 Jesse H. Williamson with Descrip- 

 tions of Two New Species (Odo- 

 nata, Agrionidae) 114 



Information on Bibliographies and Cat- 

 alogs Wanted. 118 



Editorial Zoological Bibliographies.. 119 



Marchand Aphis-Lion Attacking Man 

 (Neur. , Chrysopidae) 120 



McAtee Note on Abundance of Mos- 

 quitoes ( Dip., Culicidae) 121 



To the American Subscribers of the 

 Concilium Bibliographicum (Zu- 

 rich) 122 



Entomological Literature 123 



Obituary Dr.Thomas Algernon Chap- 

 man, Dr Georg von Seidlitz, Dr. 

 George Blundell Longstaff, Freder- 

 ick William Lambert Sladen, Rev. 

 Thomas W. Fyles 127 



Five Strange Lepidoptera (Oinophilidae, Noctuidae, 



Gelechiidae). 



By WM. T. M. FORBES, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 



(With Plate V) 



The following Lepidoptera are described at this time be- 

 cause I would like to refer to them elsewhere, where there will 

 not be room for a satisfactory description. The first one is 

 thoroughly aberrant, but appears to belong better in the family 

 Oinophilidae, which has not before been reported from the 

 United States, than to the Tineidae, to which it also shows some 

 affinity. The Oinophilidae are a family of somewhat special 

 interest, as they appear lo form a connecting link between a 

 whole group of families of the lower Tineoidea, namely, the 

 Tineidae, Lyonetiidae, Opostegidae and Gracilariidae, with the 

 isolated and aberrant genera Ccjiiiostoina, Rcdcllm, Bnccula- 

 tri.v, Pliyllocnistis, and their relatives. Of these only the Graci- 

 lariidae have been lately revised by Meyrick. In larval habit, 

 however, the known Oinophilidae contrast strongly with the 

 Gracilariidae, Lyonetiidae and Opostegidae. feeding on decay- 

 ing vegetable matter and fungi, like many Tineidae, while in 



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