ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. X. 



MAY, 1899. 



Ko. 5. 



CONTENTS ; 



Skinner — Notes on Butterflies, with 

 Descriptions of New Species Ill 



Snyder— Reflections on the Realiza- 

 tion of One of Boyhood's Dreanis'114 



Wickham— Recollections of Old Col- 

 lecting Grounds 120 



Slosson— Collecting on Biacayne Bay. 124 



Smith— Description of Haploa Trian- 

 angularis, N. Sp 126 



Thomas— Additions to the List of 

 Cranberry, N. C., Butterflies 128 



Dyar— A New Cossid from Texas 129 



Coquillet— A New Trypetid from Ha- 

 waii 129 



Dyar— Notes on Alaskan Arctiidte. 130 

 Holdridge— A Hybrid Between Li- 

 mentis Ursula and L. Archippus..l31 



Editorial 132 



Economic Entomology 134 



Notes and News 144 



Entomological Literature 147 



Doings of Societies 152 



Exchanges i, ii 



NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 

 NEW SPECIES. 



By Henry Skinner, M. D. 



PamphUa scvdderi, n. sp. Male. Expands I2 inch, Supe- 

 rior wings yellow — fnlvous, with a darker border, about an 

 one- eighth inch in width ; the yellow fulvous runs into this 

 darker color along the nervures ; the stigma is long and nar- 

 row, and becomes thinner as it approaches the siibmedian ner- 

 vure. Inferior wings yellow fulvous ; costal margin fuscous ; 

 edge of wing fuscous ; fringes whitish -yellow. Under side of 

 superiors with a large black patch at the base ; remainder 

 nearly immaculate. Inferiors light yellow-fulvous, immacu- 

 late. 



Female. Expands but slightly more. Superiors darker in 

 color, with a row of yellow spots extending across the wings 

 from the costa to the inner margin ; fii-st come three distinct 

 subapical sjwts, then two small ones further toward the outer 



