ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



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Vol. ix. 



NOVEMBER, 1898. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS 



Williamson — A new species of Ischnura 209 

 Calvert— Funher notes on the new 



dragonfly Ischnura Kellicotti 211 



Dyar — Inguromorpha Slossonii 213 



Dyar — A new Hypopta 214 



Schaus — Two new spicies of Hesper- 



ocharis 215 



Cockerell— Another Yellow Perdita 215 



Harvey — A new Poduran of the genus 



Gnathocephalus 216 



Editorial 218 



Economic Entomology 220 



Notes and News 224 



Entomological Literature 226 



Doings of Societies 229 



A NEW SPECIES OF ISCHNURA. (Order Odonata.) 

 By E. B. Williamson, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Ischnura kellicotti n. sp. cf. — Upper part of head and eyes, and antennae 

 black ; postocular spots blue, large, rounded and not connected ; genae 

 blue ; frons blue, black above and at the middle ; clypeus black above, 

 blue below ; labrum blue, black at base ; head (except around the 

 occipital foramen) and eyes below pale blue. 



Dorsum of prothorax black with the following blue : a transverse line 

 on the anterior lobe ; two round spots on the middle lobe ; and the pos- 

 terior margin of the posterior lobe. Propleuron blue. Thorax blue, 

 black as follows : a wide mid-dorsal stripe ; a humeral stripe which 

 widens suddenly just posterior to the mesinfraepisternum, which it 

 covers ; a very narrow interrupted line on the posterior half of the first 

 lateral suture ; a narrow stripe on the second lateral suture, widening 

 anteriorly to cover the metinfraepisternum ; a line connecting these 

 stripes posteriorly ; under parts dark. 



Wings hyaline ; antecubitals 2, postcubitals 8 ; pterostigma : of front 

 wings black ventrally, blue dorsally with the inner angle black and the 

 outer angle pale ; of hind wings pale brown. Legs black superiorly, 

 blue and pale interiorly. 



Abdomen above metallic or bronze black, with blue as follows : a wide 

 apical ring on 1; a large cordate basal spot and a wide apical ring on 2, 

 the extreme base and apex of the segment black ; pale narrow inter- 



