ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXV. 



JANUARY, 1914. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Williams and Hungerford Notes on 

 Coleoptera from Western Kansas.. i 



Townsend The Species-status and the 

 Species-concept 9 



Crampton Notes on the Thoracic Scle- 

 rites of Winged Insects 15 



Girault A new Megastigmid from 

 Queensland, Australia ( Hym., Chal- 

 cidoidea ) 25 



Cresson The Male of Syringogaster 

 brunnea Cresson, from Peru ( Dipt.) 26 



Crosby The Identity of Two Insects, 

 each Described by Ashmead as Me- 

 gastigmus flavipes ( Hym. ) 27 



Clemence A new Lycaena from Arizona 

 ( Lep. ) 28 



Wenzel Change of address 29 



Girault A new Chalcidid Genus and 

 Species of Hymenoptera from Aus- 

 tralia '. 30 



Malloch A new Borborid (Diptera) 

 from Panama 31 



Girault The Twentieth Australian Spe- 

 cies of Elasmus (Hym., Chalcidoi- 

 dea ) 32 



Cockerell A new Wasp from Colorado 



(Hym.) 32 



Simms An Aberration of Pyrameis 



huntera (Lep.) 33 



Editorial Alfred Russel Wallace) 34 



Marlatt The Alligator Pear Weevil 



(Col ). A correction 37 



Acknowledgment of Photographs Re- 

 ceived 37 



E. T. C., Jr. "Daddy-long-legs"? 38 



Cockerell Schinia gloriosa Strecker 



( Lep ) 38 



Fernald Parasites of the San Jose 



Scale (Hym.) 39 



Townsend Human Case of Verruga 

 directly traceable to Phlebotomus 



yerrucarum ( Dipt. ) 40 



Notice to Authors 41 



Entomological Literature 41 



Review of Oberthur's Etudes Lepidop- 



terologie Comparee 47 



Obituary Jules Desbrochers des Loges 48 

 Obituary Odo Morannal Reuter 48 



Notes on Coleoptera from Western Kansas. 



By F. X. WILLIAMS, Bussey Institution, Harvard University, 

 and H. B. HUNGERFORD, Kansas University. 



(Plates I and II.) 



FAM. MELOIDAE. 



Hornia gigantea Wellman, Ent. News Vol. XXII, page 15, 1911. 

 The above named and recently described species of Meloid 

 beetle* was taken in the egg, triungulin, pupal and adult stages 

 from the cells of the cliff-bee, Anthophora occidentalis, the 

 habits of which are discussed in a previous paper (Ent. News, 

 XXIII, June 1912). This beetle was first taken from a colony 

 of bees in Gove County. The colony was located in the sides 

 and roof of a water-made cave. It had once been a large one, 

 but this parasite had nearly depleted it. 



*Contrary to Dr. Wellman's statement, this beetle has the claws 

 armed with a distinct basal spine (Fig. 10, PI. II). Whether this 

 character would throw it out of the genus Hornia, is not a matter for 

 us to decide. 



