ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. IV. JANUARY, 1893. No. i 



CONTENTS: 



Wickham — Collecting in the Far North i ' Notes and News iz 



Fox and Johnson. — Lepidoptera from | Entomological Literature 16 



Jamaica 3 j Entomological Section 21 



Smith— Elementary Entomology 4 i Holland— Some African Butterflies 22 



Laurent— Coleoptera of N. Carolina 6 ' Gillette— Colorado Cynipidae 28 



Editorial 8 ! Davis— A new Ichneumonid 31 



Economic Entomology 9 | Dyar— Synonymic and structural notes 33 



COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.-Part II. 



II. THE STIKINE RIVER. 



By H. F. WiCKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Not having a tent I used an old quilt to make a shelter large 

 enough to crawl under at night in the vain hope of being able to 

 keep out the mosquitoes by fastening down the end after I had 

 entered. In the morning I used to find numerous little beetles 

 on the outside, evidently attracted by some peculiarity in the 

 color or odor of my domicile, since they occurred rarely on other 

 shelters in the camp; among these captures may be enumerated 

 the following species: Porrhodites fenestralis, Lothrimceum sp., 

 Olophrum porcum, Pediaciis fuscus, Henoticus serratus, C^nos- 

 'celis cryptophaga, Corticaria serricollis and Podabriis scabra. 

 The summit of the hill, which is divided by the canon furnished 

 a number of Cryptohypnus nocturtms, found beneath a log. 



After a few days had been spent at the canon, a party of In- 

 dians came up the river in canoes on their way to the Tahltau 

 village above Glenora, and with them I engaged passage as far 

 as the latter place. At one of our stops I managed to find a few 



