ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SEaiON 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XV. 



FEBRUARY, 1904. 



No. 



CONTENTS: 



Smith — Notes on the Life History of 

 Culex dupreei Coq 49 



Dury — Notes on Coleoptera — on Mela- 

 sini, etc 52 



Hoover — Notes on an Elm Leaf Case- 

 bearer, Coleophora limosipennella 

 (Duponchel) 54 



Houghton — An Unusual Injury by the 

 Snowy Tree-Cricket and Notes on 

 its Feed ing Habits 57 



Caudell — Notes on Some Orthoptera 

 from British Columbia 62 



Graenicher — Wisconsin Bees : Genus 



Andrena 64 



Engel — Observations on Bembecia mar- 

 ginata var. albicoma and Sesia 



acerni. 68 



Dyar— New North American Species 



of Scoparia Haworth 71 



Coquillett — Notes on Culex nigritulns 73 



Editorial 75 



Notes and News 76 



Doings of Societies 78 



Notes on the Life History of Culex Dupreei Coq. 



By John B. Smith. 



(With Plate VII.) 



This is a small mosquito originally described from Louisiana, 

 and it ranges in color from grayish brown to nearly black. 

 The dorsum of the thorax is taken up by a silvery white 

 stripe with diffuse edges, and this white is continued on the 

 head ; filling up most of the space between the eyes. It re- 

 sembles serratus on a smaller scale ; but the stripe is not so 

 well defined and the maculation of the abdomen differs. 



The species was first found in the larval stage July 29, 1903, 

 by Mr. Clarence Van Deursen, an oflSce assistant, in a woodland 

 pool near New Brunswick, New Jersey. Several other species 

 were associated with it, but this larva was at once recognized 

 as distinct by its unusually long anal gills, the apparent ab- 

 sence of a breathing tube, and by its habit of remaining close 



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