ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVIII. OCTOBER, 1907. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Fernald and Summers The early sta- 

 ges of the Oriental Moth 321 



Skinner Thecla (Incisalia) polios 327 



Yiehmeyer Preliminary Remarks on 

 the Myrmccophily of the Caterpil- 

 lars of the Family Lycaenidae 328 



Skinner Cook : in defense of Incisalia 



henrici 333 



Caudell An Insect Ventriloquist 335 



Britton Some New or Little Known 

 Aley rod idae from Connecticut III 337 



Grossbeck Xotes on Eupithecia, with 



descriptions of new species 342 



Rrhn Three new species of Acrididae 



(Orthoptera) from California 350 



Pierce Contributions to the Knowl- 

 edge of Rhynchophora 356 



I'.i 1 itorial 364 



Notes and News 365 



Doings of Societies 368 



The Early Stages of the Oriental Moth. 



BY H. T. FERNALD AND J. N. SUMMERS, Amherst, Mass. 



(Plates X, XI.) 



The early stages of the Oriental Moth, Cnidocampa flaves- 

 ccus (Walk.), have never been described and several attempts 

 to obtain fertile eggs from the moths in captivity have failed. 

 This has been supposed to be because the small space pro- 

 vided by a breeding cage either prevented mating, or because 

 the confinement in some way affected the moths. To avoid 

 such difficulties a large number of the cocoons of this insect 

 obtained at Dorchester last spring were placed in a green- 

 house in which several Norway Maples were growing, all 

 openings having been screened with cheese cloth. 



The moths began to emerge June 22nd, probably rather 

 earlier than would usually be the case in the field and cer- 

 tainly two weeks earlier than in Dorchester this year, the 

 season being very late, and the first eggs were observed June 

 26th. The moths by this time had become very abundant in 

 the house and eggs by the hundred were obtainable by the 

 first of July. 



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