ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



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Vol. VI. 



MAY, 1895. 



No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Slosson— Collecting at. Lake Worth 133 



Maywood — The assembling of the Ce- 



cropia moth 136 



Lembert — Food Plants 137 



Lugger — A case of mimicry 138 



Schaus— Some Notes on American 



S::)hingidae 141 



Albright — California Lepidoptera 144 



Popular Entomology 145 



Kunze — Cocoon mimicry 147 



Editorial 151 



Economic Entomology 153 



Notes and News 157 



Entomological Literature 159 



Doings of Societies 165 



Entomological Section 166 



Holland— Two new African Lycaenids.. 166 

 Wickham— On the Larvae of Hydro- 

 charis obtusatus and Silpha surina- 

 mensis 168 



COLLECTING AT LAKE WORTH, FLA. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 

 I reached Palm Beach on the east side of Lake Worth on 

 December 31st, a few days after the first great " freeze" of this 

 Strange, cold Winter. Of course even in South Florida, whe;-e 

 the temperature is generally so uniform throughout the year, 

 there is a season of rest for both plant and insect life. And the 

 Winter months— the dry season — show a great lessening of the 

 number of insects. But for several years I have collected in 

 Florida through January and February, and have never seen as 

 little insect life as in the Winter months of this year of 1895. 

 Still in the two weeks of my stay at the Lake I found some rare 

 and interesting things. There was very little in the way of Le- 

 pidoptera. In the spots where last March the air was full of 

 fluttering wings and gay with bright tints of butterflies and day 

 moths, th^re was now scarcely a sign of life or motion. The 

 flowers around which they then flitted and hovered were dead, 

 the vines, shrubs and trees dry and leafless. I saw one Callid- 

 ryas agarithe only, where last season the place was all golden 

 with their waving wings; I took one Heliconia charitonia, and a 



