ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. l march, 1890. No. 3. 



CONTENTS 



Wickham — Notes from Northwest 3? ' Robertson— Notes on Bombus 39 



Wadsworth — List of Dragonflies 36 ■ Notes and News 41 



Lugger — Fond of Grammar 38 



Ives — Method of Egg Deposition 39 



Entomological Literature 44 



Doings of Societies 48 



NOTES FROM THE NORTHWEST. 



BY H. F. WICKHAM. 



The following notes were made on my collecting trip in the 

 summer of 1889, and may be of interest to the readers of Ento- 

 mological News. 



The species of Cychrus included in the subgenus Brennus are 

 said by Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. VH, p. 176) to be " pe- 

 culiar to the true Pacific coast fauna of North America. ' ' This 

 summer I took the common C. marginatus Fisch. at MuUan, 

 Mon., and again at Helena in the same State, which extends the 

 range a long way east. These examples differ from the western 

 ones by being smaller and of a more uniform black. 



Carabus mceander occurs in the Rocky Mountains at Mullan, 

 Mon. 



A special search for Pselaphidae brought to light only the fol- 

 lowing species: Ctenistes pulvereus Lee, one specimen under a 

 stone at The Dalles, Oregon. Three examples of Pselaphus 



