ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol.. XIV. MAY, 1903. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Morrill— Notes on the Early Stages of 



Corylophodes Marginicollis Lee... 135 



Laurent— The Moths (Hetejocera) of 



Eastern Pennsylvania 139 



Rehn— A New Genus of the Orthop- 



terous Subfamily Phaneropterinae. 141 



Cook— Out of Due Season 142 



Bradley — Agathobanchus Aequatus.... 144 



Dury — Note on Galeruca 146 



Brues— Notes on Some California Myr- 



mecophiles 147 



Brimley — List of Dragoiiflies (Odonata) 



from North Carolina 150 



Editorial 158 



Notes and News 158 



Doings of Societies 162 



Notes on the Early Stages of Corylophodes 

 Marginicollis Lee. 



By Austin W. Morrill, B. Sc. , Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, Mass. 



The adults of this species were found in large numbers on 

 the under surface of the leaves of a European horse-chestnut 

 on the college grounds about the first of September, 1902. On 

 examination a fungus was found in abundance, growing prin- 

 cipally on the under surface of the leaves, and upon the myce- 

 lium of this the larvae and adults of the beetle were observed 

 to feed. The fungus was determined by Mr. H. A. Ballou of 

 the Botanical Department of the college, as Ujicinida flexuosa 

 Pk. Specimens of the adult beetle were sent to the Division 

 of Entomology U. S. Department of Agriculture for determi- 

 nation. In a letter they say of it : " The small black beetle 

 which you send is Arthrolips ^narginicollis Lee. , of the family 

 Corylophidae. The species is extremely common throughout 

 the eastern portions of North America, occurring among de- 



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