ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND « 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. v. may, 1894. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



I 



Fernald — North Greenland Microlepid- ■ Economic Entomology 143' 



optera 129 ' Notes and News 146 



Wadsworth — Third addition to the list Entomological Literature 148- 



of Dragonflies (Odonata) 132 Entomological Section 154: 



Snyder — Collecting in Utah 133 | Van Duzee — Synonymical notes on 



Williston — On the genus Erax 136 I some N. American Tettigonidse 155- 



Fernald — Elementary "Entomology 138 j Cockerell — A new wax-scale found in 



Webster — Species of reared Coleoptera 140 Jamaica 157 



Editorial 142 I Brendel— On some Pselaphidse 15S 



NORTH GREENLAND MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



By Prof. C. H. Fernald, Amherst, Mass. 



The insects described in this paper were captured at McCor- 

 mick Bay, North Greenland, in lat. 77° 42' North, between July 

 25 and Aug. i, 1891, by Mr. Levi W. Mengel, entomologist, and 

 Dr. W. E. Hughes, ornithologist of the West Greenland expe- 

 dition. This party was sent out by the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Sciences to escort Lieut. R. E. Peary to his Winter quarters 

 at McCormick Bay. 



Mr. Mengel wrote me as follows: "The microlepidoptera 

 were caught at the following places: Godhavn, on Disco Island, 

 two species at Upernavik, three specimens at Cape York, and 

 the remainder were taken at McCormick Bay. I can safely say 

 that 75 per cent, of all the insects were taken at this locality, 

 though we had but two good collecting days while there, all the 

 others being foggy, cold and damp. The insects, especially the 

 micros, did not fly unless the sun was shining. 



" The shores at McCormick Bay, and in fact all the coast visited, 

 sloped gently inward for distances ranging from 500 to 1000 

 yards, rarely further, unless glaciers or glacial streams were de- 

 scending from the ice cap. The side of the mountain then arose 



