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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XII. DECEMBER, 1901. No. 10. 

 CONTENTS: 



Browning — Collecting in the vicinity 



of Salt Lake City 297 



Girault — Eggs of Thyridopteryx ephe- 

 merae formis 304 



Johnson — Variation in the Venation of 



King — The Greenhouse Coccidse, L... 310 

 Fox — Letters from Thomas Say to John 



F. Melsheimer, 1816-1825. — IX 314 



Slosson — Protection of Chionobas Se- 



midea 316 



Amalopis inconstans Osten Sacken 305 Editorial 318 



Fall — A New Cicindela, with Notes on Entomological Literature 320 



Allied Species 307 I Doings of Societies 325 



Collecting in the Vicinity of Salt Lake City. 



With a List of Rhopalocera taken. 



By G. Wesley Browning. 

 Owing to the diversified character of its environs, Salt Lake 

 City is admirably situated as the center of an interesting ento- 

 mological field. On the west we have the level sun-burned 

 alkaline flats lying betvs'een the city and the south end of Great 

 Salt Lake, where many interesting Coleoptera, Orthoptera and 

 Odonata are to be found. The outskirts of the town are fringed 

 by marshes, verdant meadows and agricultural lands, and there 

 is an abundance of orchard and shade trees which give to the 

 city its greatest feature of beauty. On the other hand, being 

 built at the very base of an abruptly rising range of mountains, 

 we have within the eastern and northern limits of the city 

 those level sage-brush covered ' 'benches' ' which, in times long 

 past, were the beaches of a vast body of fresh water — the Lake 

 Bonneville of geologists. Next we have the mountains them- 

 selves, with one of the most interesting canons entering the 

 city like a wedge from the northeast. In this one canon I 

 have found all the spedes in the subjoined list, with the excep- 



