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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, 



Vol. hi. DECEMBER, 1892. No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Blaisdell— New Coleoptera from Calif... 241 

 Oltolengui — Entomologizing on Mount 



Washington 243 



Dyar — Egg & Larva of two Lithosians 245 



Gillette — Colorado Cynipidae 246 



Holland — N. sp. of Xeptis from Africa. 248 



Smith — New species of Noctuidae 250 



Hamilton — Notes on Bruchus alboscu- 



tellalus, etc 253 



Strecker — Erebia sofia 255 



Wickham — Collecting in the Far North 256 



Slosson — A new Arctia 257 



Neumoegen— A new Cossid from Texas 258 



Editorial 260 



Economic Entomology 261 



Notes and News 263 



Entomological Literature 265 



NEW COLEOPTERA FROM CALIFORNIA. 



By F. E. Blaisdell, M. D. 



Eleodes interrapta n. sp. — Length 16.6 mm.; width 7.1 mm. Bodj- 

 sHghtly inflated, convex ; color black. Head little shorter than wide, 

 rather more than half as wide as prothorax; finely and evenly punctate, 

 somewhat coarser on epistoma ; antennae slender, reaching to base of 

 pronotum, terminal three joints but slightly widened. Prothorax' one- 

 sixth wider than long, evenly convex, apex feebly sinuate in circular arc, 

 angles obtuse; sides in anterior half moderately arcuate, in posterior half 

 straight and moderately convergent to base, margin rather abruptly in- 

 terrupted at middle for the distance of one millimetre; base slightly ar- 

 cuate, angles quite broadly obtuse; disc very finely, evenly and sparsely 

 punctate, alutaceous. Elytra at base perceptibly wider than contiguous 

 base of prothorax, and about two and one-half time's longer than the latter; 

 widest at middle ; sides evenly arcuate ; humeri not prominent ; disc 

 smooth, shining, punctate, not sculptured in anterior half, posteriorly 

 sulcate, ridges narrow, very convex, nearly angulate, alternately promi- 

 nent, intervals twice as wide as ridges, outer longest, others gradually 

 shortening towards suture, sutural sulci obsolete, punctures not im- 

 pressed, moderately fine, nearly simple, not asperate at sides, arranged 

 in rows, alternate rows coarser passing into the intervals, in the finer 

 series the punctures more distant and less regularly placed, becoming 

 mostly obsolete on ridges; apex declivous, tips everted. Legs moderately 

 slender; anterior tibial spurs very unequal, middle equal, posterior sub- 

 equal. 



Hab. — San Diego. 



