ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



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Vol. XIII. 



APRII,, 1902. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Poling— Megathymus from Arizona.... 97 



Baker — Lost Knowledge ,. . 98 



Cockerell— Blackberry Crown-borer in 



New Mexico 100 



Rehn — Nomenclatural Notes on Two 



Genera of Orthoptera loi 



Cockerell— Xenoglossa in California.... 103 

 Ellsworth — Notes on Butterflies and 



Description of an aberration 103 



Weeks— Butterflies from Bolivia 104 



Williamson— A List of the Dragonflies 



Observed in Western Pennsylvania io8 

 Knaus — Collecting Coleoptera in Wyo- 

 ming and Utah 1 14 



Editorial n6 



Entomological Literature 118 



Notes and News 121 



Economic Entomology 122 



Doings of Societies 124 



A New Megathymus from Arizona. 

 By Otho C. Poung. 



See Plate IV. 



I,arge objects are usually first to be discovered, even by a 

 casual observer, so it would seem the more remarkable that 

 our most robust and heavily constructed North American di- 

 urnal should have, until the present year, escaped observation. 



Megathymus ursus n. sp— female.— Expanse, 3}^ inches. 



Colors and markings above and below are correctly repro- 

 duced by the accompanying plate. Type, one female in the 

 collection of the author. Habitat, Pinal County, Arizona. 

 When both sexes of the described species in this genus are 

 known, the specific name which I have used in presenting this 

 insect may become synonymous. This, however, is not ad- 

 mitted by any of several well-known entomologists who have 

 seen the insect or its likeness, and my own opinion that it may 

 be the female neumogenil is not shared by anyone whom I have 



