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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. I. SEPTEMBER, 1890. No. 7. 



CONTENTS 



Slosson— Winter collecting in Florida- loi Bunker— Some experiences in Larvfe 



P. P. C— Elementary Entomology 102 ; Rearing 108 



Dyar— Two species of Lepidopt era new Notes and News no 



to our Lists 105 Entomological Literature 112 



Fox— Description of three new species Doings of Societies 115 



of Hymenoptera 106 



WINTER COLLECTING IN FLORIDA. 



BY AXNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 

 (Continued from p. 83, vol. i.) 



To attract moths at night we used a large lamp with Rochester 

 burner, giving a very brilliant light. The first time we tried it 

 very few insects came, though the night seemed favorable, warm, 

 dark and still. After waiting an hour or two, with little gain, we 

 extinguished the lamp preparatory to going indoors, when, at 

 once, moths began flying into the dimly-lighted windows and 

 resting there. This occurred again and again, until we felt as- 

 sured that our brilliant light frightened away rather than tempted 

 the moths of Punta Gorda. It was not until some weeks after 

 our discovery of this fact that we read in Entomological News 

 for February of Mr. Doherty's letter as to his collecting in the 

 Naga Hills. In this you will remember he expresses the opinion 

 that "light used in out-of-the-way places repels rather than at- 

 tracts. ' ' I frequently spent an evening in my room with a bright 

 gas-light and a large kerosene lamp burning directly in front of 

 the open window. No insects came, but when I had turned out 

 the gas and lowered the flame of my lamp, moths would soon 

 begin to fly in. ' 



