ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XIII. 



NOVEMBER, 1902. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Smith — Culex canadensis 267 



Viereck — Notes on Vespoidea 273 



Caudell — A new Phasmid from Mexico 274 



Viereck — A new Ceropales 275 



Hall — Anew method for studying ve- 

 nation 276 



Webster— Insect Enemies 277 



Doran— Vernacular Names of Insects.. 281 



Goodhue— A list of Bombycida; found 



at Webster, New Hampshire 284 



Ehrmann— A Papilio from the Orient.. 291 



Editorial 292 



Notes and News 293 



Entomological Literature 294 



Doings of Societies 297 



Obituary 398 



Notes on the Early Stages of Culex canadensis Theob. 

 By John B. Smith, So. D. 



This species was brought to my attention by Mr. J. Turner 

 Brakeley, who wrote me from Lahaway, May ii, 1901, that 

 he had found mosquitoes common in the woods on that day at 

 one point. They seemed to be very fresh, made no attempt 

 to bite, seeking rather to get away, and males were quite as 

 abundant as the females. Mr. Brakeley was at this time fol- 

 lowing out the development of the pitcher plant mosquito, 

 Aedes smithii, but he was interested enough in the occurrence 

 of this new species to make a hunt next day for the breeding 

 places, which he judged rightly enough, must be close by. 



May 1 2th, examined first a spring formed in a hole left by a 

 pine tree that had blown down ; the root mass yet partly shel- 

 tering the spring. He found there a number of very dark 

 gray, almost black wrigglers and pupae and secured speci- 

 mens. This is a permanent pool containing water all winter, 

 and there is no reason why the larvae could not have been 

 there all winter of that season. Similar larvae, pupge and 



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