ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol.. XIV. JANUARY, 1903. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Merrick— Variation in Haploa i i Robinson— A trip after Papilio homerus 17 



Williamson— A proposed new genus of 

 Odonata (Dragonflies) of the Sub- 

 family JSschninae, Group ^schna.. 2 



Grinnell— Three Undescribed Lepidop- 

 tera from Southern California 10 



McGillivray and Houghton— A list of 

 insects taken In the Adirondack 

 Mountains, New York. — II 12 



Johannsen— Notes on some Adirondack 

 Diptera collected by Messrs. Mac- 

 Gilli vray and Houghton 14 



King— The Seventeenth American Ker- 



mes (Coccidse) 21 



Johnson — Some notes and descriptious 



of three new Leptidae 22 



Bradley — Vernacular names again 26 



Editorial 27 



Entomological Literature 28 



Notes and News 29 



Doings of Societies 31 



Variation in Haploa. 



H. W. Mkrrick, New Brighton, P( nna. 



The plate on the opposite page is interesting, I think, chiefly 

 from the fact that the series of Haploas here shown are all 

 selected from my catch of 1902, and are thus one season's 

 brood, taken in quite a small piece of timber. Numbers 1-32, 

 were taken on a hill-top covered with large hard wood timber, 

 about three miles west of my home. 



Numbers 33-96 were taken under similar conditions about 

 one mile east of my home. The H. contigua (Nos. 1-32) and 

 H. 7nilitaris (33-96) were selected from about an equal number 

 taken of each species, and show much more variation in the 

 latter than the former. 



While the immaculate form of militans is quite common, 

 probably 25 to 30 per ct. of the entire brood, yet I have failed 



