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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vin. OCTOBER, 1897. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Chapman — Two new species of Tricho- King — Termes flavipes, etc 193 



dectes (Mallophaga) 185 Editorial 197 



Aaron — The bee moth 187 Economic Entomology ig8 



Westcott — The distribution of some N. Notes and News 200 



American Syrphidse 190 Entomological Literature 202 



Youngs — Oviposition of Anthophilax Doings of Societies 206 



attenuatus 192 i 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF TRICHODECTES (MALLOPHAGA). 



By Bertha Chapman, Stanford University, California. 



Trichodedes is one of the two genera of Mallophaga found on 

 mammals. Gyropus, the other of these has been found only on 

 the guinea-pig. The species of Trichodedes, however, of which 

 about thirty are known, are found on various hosts. Of these 

 thirty species sixteen have been recorded from American hosts. 

 The type specimens of these two species are in the collections 

 of Stanford University. 



Trichodectes qnadraticeps n. sp. (Fig. i). 



Several specimens taken from a fox, Urocyon virginianus (Palo 

 Alto, Cala.). 



Description of Female. — Body length i.i mm., width .6r mm.; broad, 

 pale golden brown, with dark bands and spots on head and thorax, and 

 paler transverse bands on the abdomen. 



Head length .35 mm., width .44 mm ; broad, temples little wider than 

 forehead; front with a distinct concavity; sides of front evenly and broadly 

 rounding, with three short hairs each side of the median concavity, one 

 short hair in front of the trabeculae, which are large; antennae short, with 

 three segments of about equal length, a few scattered hairs; eyes large, 

 with a fine hair; temples slightly rounding, several spines and hairs on 

 the margm; occipital margin nearly straight; general color golden brown, 



