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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. in. NOVEMBER, 1892. No. 9, 



CONTENTS: 



Kunze — Larva hunting in Winter 217 ' Townsend — The so-called Throat Bot... 227 



Strecker — On Argynnis astarte 218 Editorial 228 



Smith — Elementary Entomology 220 Economic Entomology 229 



Skinner— A new Pamphila 222 Notes and News 232 



Ottolengui — Entomologizing on Mount Entomological Literature 235 



Washington 223 Doings of Societies 239 



Fox — Notes on Forraicidae 226 



Our plate illustrates the larva, chrysalis and imago of Proto- 

 parce cingulata Fab. The original drawing was made from life 

 by the late T. R. Peale. This moth expands a little over four 

 inches. It is readily recognized by the lateral rows of dark pink 

 spots on the abdomen and the pink color on the inferior wings. 



LARVA HUNTING IN WINTER. 



By Richard E. Kunze, M.D., New York. 



(Continued from page 197, Vol. Ill, No. 8.) 



February 14th had another larvae hunt in the (]!at-tail Flags of 

 our suburbs on the Harlem River flats. Mr. J. Mohns accom- 

 panied me and about three dozen larvae were found. In some 

 stems of Typha latifolia we found both the empty pupa-case of 

 a brood, as well as the full grown larva of the second as I am led 

 to believe. In three or four different stems we found evidence 

 of such. In quite a number of instances found two larvae in one 

 stem. In the " American Naturalist" for 1883, the statement is 

 made by Dr. C. V. Riley that there is one annual brood of Ar- 

 zama obliquata, whereas Dr. Kellicott found two such in one 

 season. 



February 28th I went over to Long Island on a biting cold day 

 for the last hunt of the season. The ground of the swamp was 



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