ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. X. APRIL, 1899. Xo. 4 



CONTENTS : 



Hubbard— Letters from the South- Editorial 101 



west «3 jfotes and News 102 



Baker-Remarks on Emposea... . 90 ' Entomological Literature IW 



Slosson— Collecting on Biscayne Bay W 



Doingsof Societies 107 



Tragosoma. 97 Obituary 110 



Dyar- On the Smallest Pyromorphid ; Exchanges i, ii 



Casey— New Species of Pemphus and 



Tragosoma. 



ar- On the Smallest Pyromorphid 

 and its Larva 99 



LETTERS FROM THE SOLTHWEST. 



By H. (i. Hubbard.'^' 



The Home of Dinapate wrightii Horn. 



Palm Springs, Cala., February 8, 1897. 

 I have just returned this afternoon from a visit to Palm caiion 

 and am somewhat sore and tired from contact with the saddle 

 and also from my frantic exertions to find a specimen of Dina- 

 pate wrightii. The AVashingtonia palms {Xeowashingtonia fiU- 

 fera) in this small caiion are few in number, several hundreds 

 perhaps strung along in a straggling line and most of them 

 burned by the Indians who set fire to the fans as a smoke 

 offering to their dead. There are very few young palms, as 

 the freshets wash away most of the seed. However there are 

 occasional clumps of not very old plants on the higher benches 

 and these are sheathed with immense accumulations of dead 

 fans. Every part of this tree is so huge and tough that I, 

 with my small hatchet, can make but little impression upon 

 it. Even to cut' through one of the handles of the dead leaves 

 is almost beyond my strength, and where there are accumula- 



• [These letters were addressed to the undersigned at Washington, D. C.>and 

 are now. after the death of the author, published without any alterations.— E. A. 



•SCHWAKZ.] 



