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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. ix. MARCH, 1898. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Kunze— Rarae aves of the insect fauna 

 of Arizona 57 



Harvey — Contributions to the Odonata 

 of Maine 59 



Baker — Five new species of Phlepsius.. 65 



Editorial 68 



Economic Entomology 69 



Notes and News 72 



Entomological Literature 74 



Doings of Societies 79 



RAR/E AVES OF THE INSECT FAUNA OF ARIZONA. 



By Dr. R. E. Kunze, Phoenix, Ariz. 



Having for nearly two full seasons collected in Arizona, I wish 

 to place on record a few of the good finds allotted to a passionate 

 collector under sometimes very trying circumstances. The season 

 never closes in S. Arizona; Coleoptera are found every month 

 of the year. Whenever a longer breathing spell is at hand I will 

 more fully describe the insect fauna and flora of this sun-kissed 

 land. 



I will briefly refer to memorized notes, the vast amount of all 

 material collected precluding detailed account, except for a little 

 biological work. Of Sesiidae found one only in San Francisco 

 Mountains, saw another of same species on flowers of Withia 

 spec, which I failed to net. This Autumn found what appears 

 to be a Sesiid, beaten off a shrub, Hymenoclea monogyra, the 

 arrow weed of bottoms; in all, two examples were secured early 

 in November. Of Sphingidae, rare in S. Arizona, took at light 

 in June, 1897, one % Ditophonota obscura, and a % Diloph. ello, 

 middle of September. In July, 1896, took an Hemaris cyno- 

 glossum near Prescott, and several more at headwaters of Has- 

 sayampa River, near Senator Mills. One of these taken on 

 Mount Union, head of this river, at 8600 feet elevation, near its 



