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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XI. JUNE, 1900. ' No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Smyth— Larval Stage of Protoparce 



rustica Fabr 485 



Snow and Mills — Destructive Diplosis 



of the Monterey Pine 489 



Oslar— Habits and Capture of ^giale 495 



Ehrman— Capture of Platynus cauda- 



tus Lee, and Platynus larvalis Lee 499 



Coquillet— New Scenopinidae 500 



Osborn — A Neglected Platymetopius.. 501 



Skinner&Satterthwait — Tineid Larva 502 



Editorial '. 504 



Entomological Literature 505 



Notes and News 509 



Doings of Societies. 512 



The Larval Stage of Protoparce rustica Fabr* 



By Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., Blacksburg, Va. 



Although Protoparce rjistica is well known in the moth state, 

 there has been, so far as I can ascertain, no figure or descrip- 

 tion of the larva, since the fairly good figure and meagre 

 description given by Abbott in Vol. I, pi. 34 of "Abbott & 

 Smith's Lep., Georgia." Prof. John B. Smith, in his mono- 

 graph of the Sphingidae, makes a similar statement, adding 

 that Burmeister gives a brief original description from Brazilian 

 specimens, Duncan's description and plate in Naturalists' 

 Library, Vol. Ill, Clemen's description, and all others that I 

 know of are copied from Abbott & Smith's plate. 



This is my apology for presenting, through the kind medium 

 of the " News, " the figures of three stages of the larva, with 

 descriptions of the larva and &gg. Several times in the farther 

 South I have found the mature larva of rustica, but last Sum- 

 mer a number were obtained here, in Montgomery Co., Va., 

 and from these the water-color sketches were made by the 

 author, from which sketches the plate here given has been 

 prepared, showing the larva in three stages, and the pupa. Fig. 



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