ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. PHILADELPHIA. 



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Vol. X. 



MAECH, 1899. 



No. 3 



CONTENTS 



Webster— Some Notes on the Grape- 

 Cane Gall-Maker, Ampeloglypter 

 Sesostrls 53 



Ashmead— Three New .Species In the 

 Genus Dlploplectron Fox. 55 



Tinsley and King— The Tenth Ants'- 

 Nest Species of Coccld from Mas- 

 sachusetts 57 



Walker— The Sound-Producing Or- 

 gans of Lema Trilineata ... ..'^.58 



Uhler— A New Destructive Capsld .. 59 



60 



62 



Coquillett — A New Dipterous Family 



Related to the Chironomidse 



Hough — Some North American Gen- 

 era of the Dipterous Calliphorinse 



Gerschner 



Editorial 67 



Notes and News. 68 



Entomological Literature 74 



Doings of Societies 78 



Obituary 80 



Exchanges 1 



SOME NOTES ON THE GRAPE-CANE GALL-MAKER, 

 AMPELOGLYPTER SESOSTRIS (Coieoptera).=^ 



By F. M. Webster. 



In his First Eeport as State Entomologist of Missoiu'i, p. 131, 

 Dr. C.V. Biley describes this species under the name Madarm 

 vitis, stating that the larva formed its gall in the Fall, pupating 

 in June and developing to the adult about two weeks later. 

 He therefor gave as a remedial and preventive measure the 

 collecting and burning of infested canes during Winter. In 

 th» ''American Entomologist," Vol. II, p. 105, the same 

 writer states that the galls first become visible towards the 

 latter end of July, the larvae producing them wintering over 

 within these galls, but not becoming full grown until the 

 Spring of the following year, pupating during the latter part 

 of June and in a couple of weeks developing to adults. 



On May 6, 1898, a lot of dried leaves were brought from 

 a \-ineyard near the lake shore about Gypsum, O., where they 

 had fallen the Autumn before and been blown by the winds 

 into bunches along an Osage orange hedge, remaining there 

 throughout the Winter and placed in a breeding cage in the 

 insectarj-. From among these leaves adults of A. sesostris 



* Read before the Ohio State Academy of .Science, December 29. 1898. 



