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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. in. JANUARY, 1892. No. i, 



CONTENTS: 



Morton— Notes from New Windsor i | Fox— Hymenopterological Notes 9 



Cockerell— Note on the Larva oj Pa- j Brendel— Rhexidius 11 



chilia ficus 4 i Rowley— Notes on Ark. Lepidoptera.... 13 



Dyar— Preparatory stages of Ichthyura I Notes and News 15 



bifiria 5 ' Entomological Literature 19 



Wickham— Note on Cychrus 6 Doings of Societies 22 



Wadsworth— Second Additions and j 



Corrections to the list of Dragonflies 8 i 



NOTES FROM NEW WINDSOR. 



Emily L. Morton, New Windsor, N. Y. 

 ISA TEXTTJLA H.-S. 



Reading the last number of Entomological News (October) 

 I noticed a short paragraph by Mr. Dyar on the genus Isa. Dr. 

 A. S. Packard having identified a small Limacodes for me as Isa 

 textula, and as the moth seems but little known, I have written 

 a short account of the species, which I have raised from the eggs 

 and back again through all its changes. 



Isa textula is a small moth nine-tenths of an inch in expanse, 

 of a very satiny texture, with long fringes to all the wings, the 

 color a pale wood color as light as white pine; on some specimens 

 there is a faint indication of a t. p. and t. a. line broken and ex- 

 tending only half across the forewings, but in many specimens 

 this is entirely wanting. The eggs are laid singly, scattered 

 about, and, like most of the Limacodes eggs which I have seen, 

 are without form, looking like tiny drops of gelatine, or coagu- 

 lated dew, invisible to the naked eye on the leaves, but on white 

 paper having a slightly yellowish tinge, increasing with the growth 

 of the larva within, but nothing more than a tiny, irregular shin- 

 ing speck on the leaves, and hatch in from eight to ten days. 



