

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XI. NOVEMBER, 1900. No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Browning— A Tiger Hunt ill the West 581 1 Banks — A New Species of Myrmeleon 596 

 Caudell — Description of Larvae of Aze- 1 Wickham— Recollections of Old Col- 

 Una Peplaria Hubn 583 ! lecting Grounds 597 



Smyth— Identity of Hemaris tenuis Barrett — Some Strange Habits 600 



Grt. and Hemaris diffinis Bdv 584 j Editorial 602 



Marlatt— The European Pear Scale.... 590 | Entomological Literature 603 



Cockerell— A New Eriococcus, etc.... 594 Doings of Societies 608 



Our Illustration. 



Some time ago Mr. H. W. Nash, of Pueblo, Colorado, sent 

 us a fine photograph of Sphinx drupiferarum from life. It is 

 shown feeding on plum. We have reproduced it for the ben- 

 efit of our readers. 



"The full grown larva is about 3>^ inches long, and of a 

 bright apple-green color. The head has a vertical dark brown 

 or black stripe on each side, and there are seven oblique white 

 stripes on each side of the body, which are bordered on the 

 upper side with bright purple or mauve. The spiracles are of 

 a bright orange color. The caudal horn is dark brown, with 

 yellow at the base of the sides." — (Fernai,d.) 



A Tigar Hunt in the Far West. 



By G. WesIvEy Browning. 

 Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Present indications (March i8th) seem to promise that 1900 

 will be a Cicindela year in Salt Lake Valley. The beginning 

 of the collector's season dawns with a solid month of weather 

 too uniformly delightful by far to be characteristic of early 



