ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL 8CIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. X. OCTOBER. 1899. No. 8. 



CONTENTS ; 



<Joodluie — NoctuidiP of Webster, 



N. H i-il 



I-nll— A New Species of Piilvinaria...287 



Llebeck — Cremastochilus lyeucostlc- 

 tus Bnrin— Male and Female 243 



Editorial .24t> 



Notes and News 247 



Entomological Literature 24^* 



Doings of Societies 252 



Hirkman— List of Aculeate Hymen- Exchanges i, u 



optera.. 244 I 



NOCTUIDAE OF WEBSTER. N. H. 



By Charles F. Goodhue. 



The town of Webster is in central New Hampshire, aboui 

 sixteen miles northwest of Concord, the capital of the State. 

 The conutry is hilly and well wooded, with but very little low 

 meadow.land. We have collected here every year, more or les8, 

 for twenty years, beginning early in the season and only stop- 

 ping with cold weather late in the fall. We do not mean that 

 we have collected every day or even every week, but such time 

 as we could spare from the usual work which falls to the lot of 

 a New Hampshire farmer. We usually have a small cyanide 

 pot in our pocket most of the time from March until Nov^em 

 ber, and by this means we get many a rare thing that would 

 not otherwise have been found. We wish to extend our 

 thanks to Prof. J. B. Smith in particular for the naming of 

 many species unknown to us and for time spent in verifying a 

 large number of our more common species ; also for many 

 other favors best known to those interested. 



No species are included in the following list that have not 

 V)een taken here either by us or that we know personally to 



