ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. v. JANUARY, 1894. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Slosson — List of insects taken in alpine I Editorial i^ 



region of Mt. VVasiiington i Economic Entomology 15 



Horn — A note on Cryptoliypnus 6 ' Notes and News 17 



Banks — Notes on Larinia and Cercidia 8 ' Entomological Literature 21 



Calvert — On the specific identity of yE. Entomological Section 24 



clepsydra and crenata 9 Dyar — A new Hepialus from Cala 25 



Walton — Oxy. rufipennis and stygicus.. 13 Holland — African Hesperiidae 26 



LIST OF INSECTS TAKEN IN ALPINE REGION OF 

 MT. WASHINGTON. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



In 1874, Mr. E. P. Austin (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. voL 

 xvi, p. 265) published his " Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Mt. 

 Washington, N. H., with descriptions of new species by J. L. 

 LeConte, M.D." 



In 1877, Mr. F. Gardiner, Jr., published in "Psyche" (vol. 

 ii, p. 211) a list of additional species taken by himself and Mr. 

 W. Schaus, Jr., in July, 1877. I" neither of these catalogues 

 do the authors limit themselves strictly to insects collected in the 

 alpine region proper, though in the latter list nearly all were 

 taken there. 



Mr. Austin's camp was situated "a short distance below the 

 Half-way House," about 3900 feet altitude, and nearly all of his 

 collecting was done near that place. He includes, also, he says, 

 Coleoptera taken by Mr. S. H. Scudder "near the foot of the 

 mountain," others gathered by Mr. Samuel Henshaw, locality not 

 given, and some from a list of general White Mountain species 

 by Mr. G. D. Smith, as far as I can discover comparatively few 

 of the insects named in this catalogue were taken on the summit 



