ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXV. 



JUNE, 1914- 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Cresson Descriptions of New Genera 

 and Species of the Dipterous Fam- 

 ily Ephydridae 1 241 



Dodd New Proctotrypoidea from Aus- 

 tralia (Hym.) 251 



de la Torre Bueno British Guiana 

 Heteroptera 257 



Scattered Writings of Dr. H. A. Hagen 262 



Williams One Hundred Butterflies 

 from the Jamez Mountains, New 

 Mexico (Lepid.) 263 



Girault Fragmentson North American 

 Insects VII (Col., Neur., Dip.). . . 268 



Gillette Two Colorado Plant Lice 

 ( Hemip.-Homop. ) 269 



Cresson Some Nomenclatorial Notes 



on the Dipterous Family Trypeti- 



dae 275 



Weiss Some facts about the Egg Nest 



of Paratenodera sinensis (Orth.)... 279 

 Editorial Prevention of Insect-borne 



Diseases in the Army in Mexico. . . 283 

 Girault Smicra mariae Riley (Hym.) 283 

 Girault Epargyreus tityrus Fabricius 



in Maryland ( Lepid. ) 283 



Bowditch Corrections in Phytophaga 



(Coleop.) 284 



Entomological Literature 284 



Obituary Dr. Jakob Huber 288 



" John A. Grossbeck 288 



Descriptions of New Genera and Species of the Dip- 

 terous Family Ephydridae. I. 



By E. T. CRESSON, JR., Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



(Plate X) 



In working over some material in preparation of mono- 

 graphic reviews of the members of this family, many new 

 and interesting species were found. Some of these represent 

 new genera which, as well as some of the most interesting 

 species, will be described in preliminary papers of which this 



is the first. 



CEROMETOPUM gen. nov. 



Suggesting Mosilhis Latr. in general form, but differing 

 mostly in the structure of the face and in the pectination of 

 the arista. The frontal bristles are well developed, which is 

 not the case with that genus. The face is not deeply exca- 

 vated beneath the antennae and with no indication of a tuber- 



241 



