ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XVII. 



MARCH, 1906. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS 



Blaisdell— New Californian Coleoptera 



Brimley— Notes on the Odonata and 

 other Insects of Lake Ellis, North 

 Carolina 



Hancock — Descriptions of new Genera 

 and Species of the Orthopterous 

 Tribe Tettigidae 



Brimley — North Carolina Records of 

 Odonata in 1904 and 1905, with cor- 

 rections of some previous records 



McClendon— Notes on true Neuroptera 



81 



Bridwell— A second species of the Hy- 

 menopterous Genus Odontophyes 



Konow (Xyelinae) 94 



Skinner— New Butterflies and Moths, 



with notes on some species 95 



Busck — Description of Amer. Moths of 



the Genus Cerostoma 96 



Editorial 100 



Notes and News 101 



Doings of Societies 101 



New Californian Coleoptera. 



By F. E. Blaisdell, M. D. 



(Plate II.) 



Recent collecting in California has brought to light a most 

 interesting blind Tenebrionide, and while making it known, I 

 have grasped the opportunity to describe other new species, as 

 follows : 



Lathrotropis caseyi sp. nov.— Elongate, parallel and shining, color 

 variable, when mature rufo-piceous, with legs rufous. Head, about 

 equal in width to the elytra, about as long as wide, evenly convex ; sides 

 very feebly arcuate, about parallel, broadly and evenly rounded at base ; 

 eyes, small, not in the least prominent ; punctures moderate in size, 

 irregular, sparsely placed at centre of frons, denser at the periphery ; 

 antennae rather stout and short, joints two and three obconical and sub- 

 equal in length, fourth rather short and apparently wider than long, fifth 

 to the tenth inclusive about as wide as long, eleventh pointed oval and 

 a little longer than wide. Prothorax oblong-oval, a little longer than 

 wide, sides parallel, angles broadly and evenly rounded, the anterior 

 scarcely more so than the posterior ; punctures similar to those on the 

 head, sparsely and irregularly arranged, median smooth line rather 

 broad. Elytra subquadrate, parallel, a little longer than wide, slightly 

 longer and one-fourth wider than the prothorax ; punctures subseriately 



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