ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. ix. 



SEPTEMBER, 1898. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Wolcott — An insect monstrosity 161 



Schwarz — A setting block for Lepidop- 



tera 162 



Dyar — Life-history of Pam. ethlius.... 163 

 Hough — A third American species of 



Cyoomyia 165 



Townsend — Some characteristic mari- 

 time Diptera, etc 167 



Gillette — An insect-catching plant 169 



Jacobs— Tenod era sinensis? 170 



Cockerell — A southern type of Andrena 



in Connecticut 171 



Houghton— Sphaeridium scarabaeoides 172 



Editorial 173 



Notes and News 174 



Entomological Literature 176. 



Doings of Societies 183 



AN INSECT MONSTROSITY. 



By A. B. Wolcott. 



The figures given this month (PI. X) are drawn from a speci- 

 men of Epicauta cinerea Forst taken at Heyworth, 111., early in 

 August and now in my collection at the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity. 



This beetle was crawling on a board-walk when first observed 

 and its gait was extremely awkward and grotesque. The irreg- 

 ular masses shown extending from the joints of tarsi are thick- 

 ened considerably externally, somewhat granular and fully chit- 

 inized; they are of a light gray color. Where these masses 

 extend from one joint to another they cause that joint to be rigid; 

 several of the tarsal joints and claws are also deformed. With 

 the exception of the tarsi the specimen is normal. The figures 

 will give a better idea of this monstrosity than many words; the 

 different members are placed in the same position as they occu- 

 pied in life, those at the top of the plate being the anterior feet. 



Mr. Lancaster Thomas will make further onslaughts on the Lepidop- 

 tera of Cranberry, N. C. Argynnis diana is an old friend of his, and he 

 always manages to get some fine examples. 



