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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. v. march, 1894. No. 3. 



CONTENTS 



Hulst — Elementary Entomology 65 ! Fox — Studies among the Fossorial Hy- 



Editorial 72 menoptera 86 



Economic Entomology 73 Holland— Some new and little-known 



Notes and News 77 African Hesperiidse 89 



Entomological Literature 81 Mengel— Description of new species of 



Enlomological Section 85 Myscelia from western Mexico 96 



ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY. 



LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths). 

 By Geo. D. Hulst, Ph.D. 



The Geometrina comprise about 600 described species, and 

 there remain probably from 200 to 300 species to be described. 



They are, as a rule, slender-bodied moths, with large, frail 

 wings, and a weak flight. The labial palpi are usually rather 

 short, not more than half the length of the head, projecting for- 

 ward, with the end member usually very short; sometimes as long 

 as the head, very rarely recurved. In two instances only in the 

 males they extend far forward, with second member very long, 

 the palpi being decidedly Deltoid in appearance. 



The maxillary palpi are wanting. I have, by careful bleaching 

 under a strong power, found rudiments, but these are scarcely to 

 be noticed here. 



The antennae are very variable. In the females they are more 

 simple in character than in the males, being generally ciliate and 

 rarely bipectinate. In the males they vary from the simplest 

 form through serrate and dentate to very broadly plumose bi- 

 pectinate. With us no form has been found with unipectinate 

 antennae as in other parts of the world, and one only with an- 

 tennae doubly bipectinate. 



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