PSYCHE, 



A. JOXJ^nST^.L OF ENTOMOLOGY. 

 [Established in 1874.] 



Vol. 6. No. 201. 



January, 1S93. 



CONTENTS: 



An interesting blood-sucking Gnat of the family Chironomidae (Plate 



8). — C. H. Tyler Tozvtisend. .......... 369 



Heraclides cresphontes. — Lewi's E. Hood. . 372 



Ants breeding in and in 372 



Proceedings of the Cambridge Entomological Club (North American Phas- 



midae ; earliest occurence of injurious beetles). ....... 372 



Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera. — 



I.— IV. J. Holland 373 



On the species of the genus Mirax found in North America. — William 



H. Ashmead 377 



Notes on the larval stages of Arctia blakei Grote. — Harrison G. Dyar. 379 



A Monograph of North American Tachinidae 381 



Entomological Notes (Development of the head of Chironomus ; Edwards on 

 Chionobas; a catalogue of Hymenoptera ; strange egg of a Reduviid ; Marx's 

 American spiders; Latrodectus formidabilis ; a fragment of a Manual of our 

 butterflies; Casey on Rhynchophora ; a new index). ...... 381 



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