

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vin. JUNE, 1897. No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Patton — The number of prolegs in in- Entomological Literature 135 



sect larvae 122 Doings of Societies 140 



Calvert — Notes on European entomo- Entomological Section 143 



logical collections 124 Kincaid — The Psychodidas of Washing- 

 King— Aphids and coccids associating I ton 143 



with ants 125 



Snyder — Scarabidse of Dodge County, 



Wisconsin J29 



Casey— A reply 132 



Editorial 133 



Notes and News 134 



Smith — A preliminary classification of 

 the sp. of the genus Acronycta. elc. 146 



Baker — A remarkable new Acocephalid 

 from S. America 153 



Linell — A new. nearly blind genus of 

 Tenebrionidae 154 



Our illustration was furnished by our good friend, Mr. Frank 

 M. Jones, of Wilmington, Del. A previous drawing of moths 

 by the same gentleman was much appreciated by many of our 

 readers. There has been confusion for years in regard to two of 

 the species represented — zabulon and hobo??iok. Dr. Strecker 

 was, I believe, the first author to catalogue these correctly, but 

 he has not been followed by subsequent writers; zabulon and 

 hobomok are certainly distinct species, the fonner having a dark 

 female and the latter having a tawny and also a black female 

 {pocahontas). The principal differences between the dark females 

 of the two species are the following : zabulon 9 is smaller, 

 brighter in color, and the spots on the superiors above are bright 

 yellow and more clearly defined, the line of demarcation between 

 spot and the wing being much sharper than in dark 9 hobomok. 

 The females of zabulon show no discal dash, while in hobomok 

 they are quite apparent in the specimens before me. The under- 

 side of 9 zabulon is always much more brilliantly colored than 

 in the other species. I have examined all the large collections 

 in the country excepting one, and many of the smaller ones, and 

 have never seen a female zabulon of the color of the male. Pam- 

 phila aaroni belongs to the group arpa, palaikce, etc. 



