ENTOMOLOGICAL NBVS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIV. JANUARY, 1903. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Merrick Variation in Haploa i i Robinson A trip after Papilio homerus 17 



Williamson A proposed new genus of j King The Seventeenth American Ker- 



Odonata (Dragonflies) of the Sub- mes (Coccidse) 21 



family ^-Eschninae, Group ^Eschna.. 2 : Johnson Some note: and descriptions 



Grinnell Three Undescribed Lepidop- 

 tera from Southern California... . 10 



of three new Lep' dae 22 



Bradley Vernacular -lames again 26 



McGillivray and Houghton A list of Editorial 27 



insects taken in the Adirondack Entomological Litera. ure 28 



Mountains, New York. II 12 Notes and "News 29 



Johannsen Notes on some Adirondack Doings of Societies 31 



Diptera collected by Messrs. Mac- 

 Gillivray and Houghton 14 



Variation in Haploa. 



H. W. MERRICK, New Brighton, Peiina. 



The plate on the opposite page is interesting, I think, chiefly 

 from the fact that the series of Haploas here shown are all 

 selected from my catch of 1902, and are thus one season's 

 brood, taken in quite a small -oiece of timber. Numbers 1-32, 

 were taken on a hill-top covered with large hard wood timber, 

 about three miles west of my home. 



Numbers 33-96 were taken under similar conditions about 

 one mile east of my home. The H. contigua (Nos. 1-32) and 

 H. Diilitaris (33-96) were selected from about an equal number 

 taken of each species, and show much more variation in the 

 latter than the former. 



While the immaculate form of militaris is quite common, 

 probably 25 to 30 p;r ct. of the entire brood, yet I hava failed 



