ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. n. MARCH, 1891. . No.*3. 



CONTENTS: 



Slosson— Phragmatobia assimitans 41 ' Dyar— Composia fidelissima 49 



Fox— Hymetioptera from East Africa... 42 Harvey— Odonata of Maine 50 



Rowley — Observations on Paphia trog. [ Notes and News 51 



lodita 43 I Entomological Literature 56 



P. P. C. — Elementary Entomology 46 Doings of Societies 60 



Phragmatobia assimilans n. van franconia, PL ill, %. 2. 



BY ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 

 ^See Vol. II, No. i, p. 2.) 



Red. Abdomen conicaL short and stout, with darker dorsal 

 and lateral lines; pilose. Thorax darker and still more pilose. 

 Primaries rather thinly clothed with scales, the ground color red, 

 thickly sprinkled with dark brown, but with color of under ground 

 showing through, so as to make the general tint a reddish choco- 

 late; two discal dots connected^by line, and two diffuse transverse 

 lines, all of leaden black. The anterior line is arcuate, the pos- 

 terior runs obliquely to median vein, then curves and takes a 

 sinuously oblique course to inner margin. Secondaries pale red 

 with two small discal dots, and a submarginal band somewhat 

 irregular and interrupted, of leaden black. Antennae simple, 

 whitish. Underside of primaries and secondaries an almost even 

 tinfof bright red; the submarginal band on secondaries and discal 

 dots of both sets of wings showing through faintly. 



Described from one female, taken at light, May 24, 1890, at 

 Franconia, N. H. 



