ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XV. JANUARY, 1904. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Frontispiece i 



Girault— Standards of the Number of 

 Eggs Laid by Insects — II 2 



Genus Perdita from Indiana and 



New Jersey 21 



Cockerell — Southwestern Geographical 



Packard — Colossal Silk-worm Moths of I Names 24 



the genera Altacus and Rothschildia 4 i Howard — S tiding Insects Through the 



Field — Notes on Pupation of Vanessa I Mails 25 



Antiopa 6 | Sherman— List of the Cicindelidae of 



McCracken — Anopheles in California. I North Carolina, with notes on the 



with Description of a new species 9 Species 26 



Jones— Pilcher-PIant Insects 14 : Cockerell— Two New Bees 32 



Ashmead— Description of the type of the : Davis — A New Beetle from New Jersey.. 34 



genus Curriea Ashmead 18 i Editorial 36 



Melander — Destructive Beetles: a note I Entomological Literature 37 



on Landscape Gardening 19 | Notes and News 40 



Viereck — Two new Species of the Bee I Doiiigs of Societies 43 



Our frontispiece shows the beauties and possibilities of the 

 three-color process for insects like butterflies and moths which 

 have a plane surface. These brilliant butterflies have been 

 photographed direct, and the three-color plates were made by 

 the well-known house of illustrators and engravers, Gatchel 

 & Manning of Philadelphia. The plates were made to test 

 the possibilities of the colored inks made for this kind of 

 work by the Charles Eneu Johnson Co. of Philadelphia. We 

 are firmly convinced that the possibilities of photography for 

 the illustration of insects is by no means fully realized, but it 

 is necessary to have more than a commercial interest in it. 

 The entomologist, the plate maker and an expert photographer 

 should work together to achieve the best results, more espe- 

 cially when the smaller species are figured. 



