ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SEQION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XIII. 



DECEMBER, 1902. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS 



Smith — Mosquito Larvae 299 



Cockerell — Colletes crucis 304 



Skinner— A New Species of Melitaea... 304 

 Cockerell — Notes on the genus Leprus 305 



Bradley — Dyseidopus (Piinplinse) 307 



Banks — Daddy-long-legs from Maine.. 308 

 Rehn — N. Jersey and Penna. Orthop... 309 

 Denton— Tropical Butterflies 316 



Ashmead— Ceropales vs. Agenioxenus 3:8 

 Slosson — Additional List of Insects ta- 

 ken in Alpine Region, Mt. Wash. 319 



Editorial 322 



Entomological Literature 323 



Notes and News 326 



Doings of Societies 328 



Characters of Some Mosquito Larvae. 



By John B. Smith. 



During the season of 1902 systematic collections of mosquitoes 

 were made in New Jersey and larvae were bred from pools and 

 other bodies of water in all parts of the State. Three species 

 of Anopheles were bred by Dr. H. P. Johnson at Newark ; cru- 

 cians occurring once only among the adults. Its larva probably 

 resembles that of other species since it was not recognized 

 among them. Psorophora ciliata, Aedesfuscus, A. smithii and 

 Urotania sapphirina were raised in the I^aboratory and recog- 

 nized in the field. 



Stegomyia signifera Coq. was new to the State fauna and its 

 larva was separated from those of pMigens among which it was 

 found. It occurred in somewhat foul water and is recognizable 

 by its robust build and somewhat sickly white thorax contrast- 

 ing with the darker abdominal rings. The antennse are differ- 

 ent in form from the species of either Culex or Stegomyia, and 

 the anal siphon has no rows of spines or teeth. If larval char- 

 acters count, it forms a distinct generic type. 



Sixteen species of Culex were recognized in the larval stage. 

 One was not bred to maturity and one was brought in from 

 another State (Maine). 



299 



