ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. in. JUNE, 1892. No. 6. 



CONTENTS 



Townsend — New N. Am. Tachinidae 129 



Blatchley — Entomologizing in Mexico.. 131 



Bruce — Oncocnemis in Colorado 136 



Fox — Notes on the Larradae 138 



Wickham — Collecting in the far North. 139 

 Blaisdell — Notes on the Coccinellidae... 143 

 Williston — A n. sp. of Criorhinia 145 



Townsend — New Jamaica Tachinidae.... 146 



Banks — Atypidae and Theraphosidae...... 147 



Coquillett — A new Dalmannia from Cal. 150 



Editorial 152 



Notes and News 154 



Entomological Literature 157 



Doings of Societies 164. 



Our illustration this month represents part of the life- history 

 of Datana ministra. The plate was made from a photograph 

 of a drawing found among the unpublished plates of the late T. 

 R. Peale, of Philadelphia. 



NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID>E. 



By C. H. Tyler Townsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex. 



(Continued from page 8r, Vol. Ill, No. 4) 

 Loewia globosa n. sp. J^. — Eyes cinnamon-brown, thickly short hairy, 

 edges touching in front of ocelli; frontal vitta light brown, verte.x blackish; 

 anterior pair of ocellar bristles stronger than frontal bristles, directed 

 strongly forward, decussate; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white; 

 the prae-genal area very large, brownish, encroaching on sides of face and 

 extending narrowly to bases of antennae; sides of face with fringe of 

 bristles; antennae and arista brownish, second antennal joint orange ru- 

 fous, third joint one and one-half times as long as second, more or less 

 rufous on sides; proboscis about two-thirds hightof head, slim, brownish, 

 labella developed; palpi curved, thickened apically, brown, bristly; oc- 

 ciput blackish, black-hairy. Thorax and scutellum black, with a faint 

 purplish shade, scutellum with an apical decussate and a lateral pair of 

 macrochaetae. Abdomen shining greenish black, in some lights dark me- 

 tallic-green; second segment with a median margmal pair and a weak 

 lateral pair of macrochcetae; third with a stronger lateral pair and a median 



