ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, 



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Vol. VII. 



FEBRUARY, 1896. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS 



Bowditch— Coleoptera collecting notes 



for 1895 33 



Ottolengui — Types in the Neumoegen 



collection 35 



The effect of music upon spiders 38 



Slosson — More about the Red Bug.... 40 



Zoological Record 42 



Editorial 45 



Economic Entomology 46 



Notes and News 49 



Entomological Literature 50 



Doings of Societies 55 



Entomological Section 58 



Baker— Notes on Oxybelus, etc 59 



Lafler — Anew parasite 62 



Pergande — Desc. of a new species of 



Idolothrips 63 



COLEOPTERA COLLECTING NOTES FOR 1895. 



By Fred. C. Bowditch, Boston, Mass. 



The early Spring gave one good day for collecting on the ice, 

 the conditions most favorable being a south slope free from ice or 

 snow, with a small pond or flovved meadow at the foot covered 

 with ice, a bright warm sunny day and a gentle wind from the 

 slope over the ice at the foot; the insects take wing and are borne 

 onto the ice; or the little streams of water which trickle from the 

 slopes carry minute species down to the ice edge, the collector's 

 work is only walking over the ice, picking up the fallen, or 

 searching the grass blades just at the edge of the little rivulets 

 for minute forms which gather in clusters as they are brought 

 down by the water. Almost any patch of melting ice in a 

 meadow will reward the collector who searches the edges, but 

 the south slope gives the best field. Fresh hard wood sap was 

 also good last Spring and furnished very fine series of two species 

 of Nitiduhdae, the best place being between the bark and the 

 stump where the former had just begun to warp away fi'om the 

 latter. 



My store of twigs and branches produced a fine lot of Ceram- 

 bycidse, chief among which were about fifteen Xylotrechtis 4- 



