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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VII. NOVEMBER, 1896. No. c 



CONTENTS: 



Cocoon hunting in the Fall 257 



Calvert — Notes on European entomo- 

 logical collections 258 



Slosson — Additional list of insects taken 

 in Alpine region of Mt. Washington 262 



Heilprin— A Summer tour in the dark 

 continent 266 



Cunningham — Aberrant form of Meli- 

 taea colon 267 



Editorial 268 



Economic Entomology 269 



Notes and News 273 



Entomological Literature 274 



Doings of Societies 280 



Entomological Section 283 



Smith — A new species of Rhododipsa.. 284 

 Hamilton — Physoc. violaceipenne, etc. 286 

 Dunning — A new species of Phylanthus 

 from New Mexico 287 



COCOON HUNTING IN THE FALL 



By One of the Boys. 



Our illustration of the luna moth carries us back to the days 

 when we searched for cocoons among the fallen leaves and en- 

 joyed the glorious Autumn weather and the ever beautiful tints 

 of nature shown at this season of the year. There were three 

 of us — all school boys and enthusiastic young naturalists — and 

 we eagerly looked forward to Saturdays when we would have a 

 holiday and hoped that it might not rain so that our expedition 

 after cocoons could be undertaken. With our pockets full of 

 beef sandwiches and a supply of potatoes and matches we sallied 

 forth. The luna cocoon we were anxious to get, as it is not 

 common, and for the tyro not an easy thing to find. The height 

 of our ambition was angulifera, as we had already found pro- 

 methm, cecropia and cynthia, but by no means despised poly- 

 phemus, which we found suspended, but never very many in a 

 single hunt. Cynthia was common on the Ailantus trees in the 

 city, and by fastening a penknife to a pole, so that we could cut 

 and hook them off, we always had a plentiful supply of the spe- 



