ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XVII. 



SEPTEMBER, 1906. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS 



Rowley— Hunting Catocalae in daylight 231 

 Rehn— A new species of Eotettix (Acridi- 



d;e) from Georgia 234 



Davis and Joutel— Observations on Ci- 

 cada tibicen L. aud allied forms. . . 237 

 Cockerell— Preoccupied generic names 



of Coleoptera 240 



Mitchell— Notes on Tanypus dyari 244 



Smith— Some new Larridae from Neb. 246 



Nason— Parasitic Hymenoptera of Al- 

 gonquin, Illinois — V 249 



Hancock— On the Orthopteran genus 

 Ageneotettix, with a description of 



a new species from Illinois 251 



Swenk — New bees of the genus Colletes 257 



Editorial 261 



Entomological Literature 262 



Notes and News 263 



Doings of Societies 265 



Hunting Catocalae by Daylight 

 By R. R. Rowley, Louisiana, Mo. 



From the standpoint of a laborer, chasing Catocalae through 

 the tangled shrubs and vines of a valley, up the hillside, over 

 logs and stumps, under a noonday sun of mid-July, protected 

 only by the friendly shade of the dense foliage, is an exercise 

 that the most energetic might not despise. 



Divested of coat and vest, we had scarcely entered the little 

 valley before we were dripping wet with perspiration. 



Blinded by sweat and attacked by gnats and mosquitoes, the 

 chase was anything but pleasant, and to add to our discomfit- 

 ure, swarms of bloodthirsty Chrysops pursued us relentlessly. 

 These villainous little dipters, bolder than our other torment- 

 ors, feared neither the hand nor the hat, and desisted only in 

 death. 



Up the little dry run, beneath the naked roots of a venera- 

 ble elm, we first came upon the quarry. 



The net had been discarded, and with cyanide jar alone the 

 shadowy nooks were closely scanned for the color-protected 



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