ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SliCTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol.. XIII. 



MAY, 1902. 



No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Kearfoot— Eriocranid Larva 129 



Horiiig— Saitiia cynthia 132 



Kuwaiia — A new Coccid from Calif.... 134 



Fox— Lilhurgopsis 137 



Ehrman— Notes on Coleoptera No. 2.. 140 



Skinner — A new moth from Alaska.... 141 

 Johnson— Remarks on Tephronota tu- 



ficeps and descr. of a new species 143 



Williamson — Dragonflies (O d o n a t a) 



from the Magdalen Islands 144 



Knaus— Collecting Coleoptera in Wyo- 

 ming and Utah 147 



King— The Greenhouse Coccidse, II... 152 



Editorial •• 157 



Notes and News 158 



Entomological Literature 161 



Doings of Societies 167 



Our plate represents a species from Bolivia, described by Mr. 

 Weeks in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 23, p. 265, 1901. 



Notes on a Eriocranid Larva. 

 By W. D. Kearfoot. 



Our entomological literature is altogether barren of facts in 

 regard to the larval habits or life history of any one of our 

 American species of Micropterygidse, in fact the perfect insect 

 is a rara-avis and to be found in but few collections and in 

 small numbers. 



For this reason I wish to record the following preliminary 

 account of the larva of at least one species. The only excuse 

 for the publication of such incomplete data is the desire to 

 inform fellow- workers of the discovery, so that they may make 

 an effort to secure the larvae and work out the life history during 

 the coming spring and summer. 



During early June or late May last year I found in several 

 places about Montclair, N. J., the leaves of common chestnut 



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