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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. IV. APRIL, 1893. No. 4. 



CONTENTS 



Kunze— Autumn collecting of Lepid.... 109 I Entomological Literature 129 



Dyar— A note on the Saturniidae 112 Entomological Section 133 



VVillistoii — N. Am. Psychodidae 113 Neumoegen — Descr. of new Sphinx 133 



Davis — Collection of the Am. Ent. Soc. 115 



Meeske — Field Notes 116 



Snyder — Coleoptera in Fungi 118 



Smith — Elementary Entomology 119 



Editorial 122 



Economic Entomology 123 



Notes and News 126 



Fox — Synopsis of N. A. sp. of Nomia... 134 



Davis — A new Ophion 135 



Holland — African Bombycids 136 



Neumoegen and Dyar — Lithosiidae and 



Arctiidse 138 



Fox — Synopsis of N. Am. Melecta 143 



AUTUMN COLLECTING OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Richard E. Kunze, M.D., New York. 



A sandy shore fringed by a belt of timber, the background of 

 which skirted by undergrowth, shelters many forms of Lepidop- 

 tera. A few clearings near fishermen's huts and patches of cul- 

 tivated ground produced a varied flora. Such is a part of Hud- 

 son County, N. J., facing Newark Bay on one side and on the 

 other a line of villages, opposite Staten Island, N. Y. The roads 

 leading to the beach are covered by a yellow sand, attractive only 

 to some insects because of protection it affords to certain forms. 

 A sandy bluff overlooking the bay was carpeted with a low, blue- 

 flowering Aster (A. rmdtifloms) , while other taller kinds and a 

 Goldenrod {Solidag'o ulviifolia) grew in abundance on the clear- 

 .ings. Many butterflies were attracted to this sheltered, out-of-the- 

 way locality, and not a few were uncommon. 



It was September 25th, 1892, a bright, warm Sunday, when I, 

 with an entomological scholar of mine, did some fine collecting 

 in this locality. Of Heterocera we took a few Catocalcs of com- 

 moner species, and one of reteda from a hickory tree, some 

 Deiopeia bclla, one Scepsis fulvicollis and a few Noctuids I could 



