ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



ZD3 



Vol. ix. 



DECEMBER, 1898. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS 



Welles— Destructive work of Daremma 

 Catalpse 233 



Wickham — Recollections of old collect- 

 ing grounds 235 



Fall— A new Chalcolepidius 238 



Smith — Notes on the genus Mamestra 

 Ochs., with descriptions of new 

 species 240 



Slosson — Additional list of insects 

 taken in Alpine region of Mt. 



Washington 251 



Editorial 252 



Economic Entomology 255 



Notes and News 256 



Entomological Literature 257 



Doings of Societies 262 



DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF DAREMMA CATALP/E. 



By Chas. S. Welles. 



The readers of Entomological News will probably be inter- 

 ested to know that there has appeared in our midst a new foe to 

 one of our shade trees, the Catalpa bignioides, in the shape of a 

 large sphinx, Daremma Catalpce Boisd. The Catalpa, though 

 more suitable for planting on large lawns is, nevertheless, highly 

 esteemed by arboriculturists as an ornamental shade tree on 

 account of its large leaves, beautiful white flowers and peculiar 

 cigar-shaped pods. 



Whether this pest, which menaces these trees with at least the 

 destruction of their foliage, if not with permanent injury, has 

 come to stay the future alone will divulge. The probability is 

 that it has, though appearances are often deceiving. Many 

 entomologists are well aware that the occurrence of an insect in 

 large numbers one year is no criterion for the next, sometimes 

 not even a single specimen greeting the eye. Now as to the 

 actual facts in the case. One morning, in the latter part of 

 August or the first of September, 1898, my man, returning from 

 Media, informed me that he had seen large numbers of "worms," 



