ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION! 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. v. 



DECEMBER, 1894. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS 



Heilprin — A home among the tree tops. 301 

 Hulst — Notes on types of N. A. Geome- 



trina in European collections 302 



Sharp — Collecting in the " Lone Star" 



State 307 



Editorial 310 



Economic Entomology 311 



Notes and News 313 



Entomological Literature 317 



Doings of Societies. 322 



Entomological Section 323 



Harvey — A n. sp. of Lepidocyrtus 314 



Neumoegen — Notes on a remarkable 



" interfaunal" hybrid of Smerinthus 326 

 Cockerell — Desc. of new Hymenoptera 328 



Dyar — Thecla californica. 329 



Neumoegen — New forms of N. Amer. 



Aegeridse... 330 



Skinner — A new Eudamus 332 



A HOME AMONG THE TREE TOPS. 



Prof. Heilprin in " Around the World." 



We illustrate in this number one of the most striking forms ot 

 animal architecture, taken from the bush of Yucatan, that the 

 world of nature presents. Nearly every one is familiar^ through 

 the description of travelers, with the habits and economy of the 

 white ants ( Termites) of South Africa, their huge habitations and 

 almost endless marching columns, but it is not generally known 

 that a closely related insect form inhabits the tropics of America 

 as well, and with largely identical habits. The writer of this 

 notice first came upon their singular habitations in the open 

 scrub of northern Yucatan, where they were found perched among 

 the axiles of low trees, some eight to ten feet above the ground. 

 Their gray color and " papery" appearance, so suggestive of the 

 nests of the social Hymenoptera, threw out that caution which is 

 ordinarily exercised in approaching the habitations of bees and 

 wasps, but which in this instance was wholly unnecessary. The 

 puncture of the walls disclosed a busy community of almost in- 

 finite life — restless and seemingly ever active. In the great 

 mangrove forest which occupies much of the northern coast, and 



