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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOiMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vin. MARCH, 1897. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Piper — A remarkable seinbling habit of | Notes and News 59 



Cocciiiella traiisversoguttata 49 Entomological Literature 60 



Pilate — Collecting season in S. Georgia 51 

 Baker — Remarks on list of the Hemip- 



tera of Colorado 53 



Editorial 55 



Economic Entomology 57 



Doings of Societies 66 



Entomological Section 68 



Dunning — Notes on Philonthus 68 



Fox — The fourth species of Plenoculus 71 



Our illustration represents the pretty Sphinx moth, Deilephila 

 lineata, feeding on Azalea nudifiora. The larva also feeds on 

 Portulaca, Pyrus, Fuchsia, etc. The figures are from the unpub- 

 lished drawings of T. R. Peale, who commenced a work on Le- 

 pidoptera in 1833. 



In this number we present a list of the members of the oldest 

 entomological society in America. Here will be found the names 

 of many of the most distinguished entomologists the world has 

 known. The history of the American Entomological Society is 

 largely the history of entomology in this country, and it is just 

 as active to-day as it has ever been in the past. 



A Remarkable Sembling Habit of Coccinellatransversoguttata. 



By C. V. Piper, Pullman, Wash. 



The habit of various Coccinellids of sembling in numbers in 

 places where they seek shelter has often been noted, and the fact 

 is a familiar one to most entomologists. In no species have I 

 observed the habit more marked than in the commonest form in 

 this locality, Coccinella transversogtittafa, and it is no uncommon 

 thing to find, in Winter, a hundred or more under a board or 



