ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMV OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vot. XVI. MARCH, 1905. No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Britton— Some New or Little Known 



Aleyrodidae from Connecticut — I.. 64 

 Slosson — Just One Log ' 67 



Cockerell — Three new bees from the 



Southwest 81 



de la Torre Bueno — Notes on Mixogas- 



Fall — Notes on some Californian Bu- [ ter breviventris Kahl 83 



prestidae 71 1 GruaJel — Life History of Lemonias 



Uhler — Recognition of two N. Ameri- I virgulti 86 



can species of Cicada Latr 74 ] Editorial 87 



Franklin — A new species of Entomo- ] Notes and News 88 



brya 77 | Entomological Literature 89 



Felt — Culex brittoni n. sp 79 > Doings of Societies 90 



Pilate — Note on the finding of Ptinus 1 Obituary: W. N. Tallant 96 



fur and brunneus 80 



Some New or Little known Aleyrodidae from 



Connecticut. L 



By W. E. Britton, Ph. D., State Entomologist of Conn. 



(Plate IV.) 



Aleyrodes acteae sp. no v. 



-Egg: — Unknown. 



Larva. — Early stages not found. Specimen examined was about 0.99 

 mm. by 0.66 mm. Shape oval like pupa case. Color uniform light yel- 

 lowish green, medio-dorsal region not clouded. \'asiform orifice brownish 

 or slightly darker than the other portion. Segmentation apparent with a 

 median crest on each segment. Surface more or less wrinkled, with no 

 wax rods or papillae. Larva thin and fiat though slightly convex. 



Pupa case. — Size about 1.5 mm. by i mm. Broadly oval in shape, 

 pale yellow or greenish white near the margin with a medio-longitudinal 

 area of dark brown. Dorsum, especially the dark portion, highly con- 

 vex, most abrupt at cephalic extremity ; marked transversely with rather 

 deep furrows corresponding to the adult segmentation. Each segment 

 has a median crest which is darker in color than the surrounding por- 

 tion. Marginal area radially corrugated or wrinkled. Margin finely 

 crenulate. A pair of setae 43// long at anal extremity, with a second pair 

 30/jt long situated at a distance from the first pair nearly twice as great as 

 the distance between the first pair. Entire dorsal surface shiny, and 

 wholly destitute of papillae, wa.x rods or secretion of any kind. A low 



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