ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICftL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. X. SEPTEMBER, 1899. Ko. 7. 



CONTENTS : 



Liebeck— Cychrus GuyotI vs. C. An- 

 drewsil var.. 191 



Ashmead— The Largest Oak-Gall in 

 the World and its Parasites. . . . 193 



Wickham— Recollections of Old-Col- 

 lecting Grounds 196 



Hine — Sciara Inonstans — Reared 



from Carnations 201 



Dyar— Life Historj- of Notodonta 



Georgica-H. S. 202 



Editorial 205 



Economic JCntomology 207 



Notes and News .208 



Williamson — Calopteryx Augusti- | Entomological Literature ..209 



pennisSelys in Western Pennsyl- ' Doingsof Societies ;..219 



vania 199 Exchanges 1, 11 



CYCHRUS GUYOTI vs. C. ANDREWSII VAR. 



By Charles Liebeck, Philadelphia, Pa. 



(See Plate VI.) 



In the recent paper on Cychrus by G. E. Ehrmann, atten- 

 tion was called to a paragraph pertaining' to certain specimens 

 of C. Guyoti (No. 9 of plate), iu the possession of Prof. Je- 

 rome Schmitt, of St. Vincent's College, Pa. Some confusion 

 regarding the identity of this species exists in many collec- 

 tions, and the following notes are submitted with a view to 

 preventing future errors. 



C. Guyoti was described by Dr. Leconte, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sciences in 1866, p. 363, from a unique female collected 

 in the Black Mountains of North Carolina. Later Dr. Horn, 

 in his paper on Cychrus of N. A. Ti-ans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1878, 

 Vol. 7, p. 173-174, submitted the characters of male tarsi, sep- 

 arating these species as follows : 



Anterior tarsus of male with a slight papillose space at 

 tip of first joint. Guyoti. 



. Anterior tarsus of male densel}', spongy pubescent be- 

 •neath, first joint clothed over nearly the entire surface. 



Andrewsii, 



