ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. V. 



SEPTEMBER, 1894. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Casey Some passing comments 205 



Tutt The absence of relationship be- 

 tween Pyralidina and Pterophorina 208 



Cockerell Coccidse found on Ivy 210 



Ehrmann Addition to a local list of 



the genus Catocala, etc 212 



Banks Classification of Arthropods.... 213 

 Daggett An outbreak of grasshoppers 216 



Editorial 219. 



Economic Entomology 220 



Notes and News 223 



Entomological Literature 225 



Entomological Section 233 



Cockerell Descriptions of new Hy- 



menoptera 234. 



SOME PASSING COMMENTS. 



By TH. L. CASEY. 



The recent paper on Smicronyx by Dr. Dietz (Trans. Am. 

 Ent. Soc. xxi, p. 113), seems to be a painstaking and discrimi- 

 native piece of work, and it is for this reason more especially 

 that I regret to find myself still unable to accept his conclusions 

 regarding genera in the group Smicronychi, not Desmorhines 

 or Desmori, be it mentioned, as Smicronyx is a much older name, 

 long since adopted for the group in question. 



I fail, for example, to find the slightest difference in a generic 

 sense between the tibial structure of constrictus and profusus,- 

 that is, between Desmoris and Smicronyx, and the habital pecu- 

 liarities of constrictus are plainly reproduced in griscus and ob- 

 tectus, and, gradually less distinctly, in other species. The hind 

 tibiae are of the same general structure throughout, but in certain 

 species the spurs become relatively smaller, although preserving 

 the same form and inward curvature; in these cases there is fre- 

 quently a small inflexed tuft of hairs which projects downward 



