ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVIII. 



FEBRUARY, 1907. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Champion Itinerary of Ml. G. C. Cham- 

 pion's Travels in Central America, 

 1879-1883 33 



Haimbach Two new species of Cram- 

 bus and a new variety of Haematop- 

 sis grataria Fabricius 44 



Cockerell A new bee of the genus Cro- 

 cisa 40 



Skinner The identity of Thecla calanus 

 and ed wards! 47 



Bergroth Notes on American Hemip- 



tera 48 



Swenk and Cockerell The bees of Ne- 

 braska 51 



Editorial 59 



Entomological Literature 60 



Notes and News 61 



Doings of Societies. 64 



Itinerary of Mr. G. C. Champion's Travels in Central 



America, 1879-1883. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION. 





The following itinerary of my travels in Central America 

 (Guatemala and Panama), March 16, iS/Q-May 21, 1883, has 

 been drawn up at the request of Dr. P. P. Calvert, of Phila- 

 delphia, for publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



It may, perhaps, be of interest to American, as well as to 

 European, entomologists or to future travelers, pending the 

 possible publication in the "Biologia" of a fuller description 

 of the many places visited. In Guatemala both the Atlantic 

 and Pacific slopes were investigated, as well as the central 

 plateau, the larger volcanos, &c., the Atlantic slope proving 

 to have an incomparably richer insect-fauna than the Pacific. 

 In Panama (Chiriqui) the Pacific slope only was investigated, 

 the Atlantic side being very inaccessible and having no villages 

 or centres of population except along the coast or around the 

 Laguna de Chiriqui. The journey to Central America was 

 made to obtain material for the Biologia Centrali-Ainericana 

 and under instructions from Messrs. Godman and Salvin. 



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