ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XV. 



MARCH, 1904. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Herrick— Notes on the Life History of 

 Crabhamia Jamaicensis 81 



Rehn — A new Meiaiioplus from New 

 Jersey 85 



Viereck — A Handsome Species of Ta- 

 chysphex from Arizona (Hymen.) 87 



Kearfott — Micro-Lepidoptera Sugges- 

 tions, Part 1 89 



Grundel— Notes on the Life History of 



Chrysophanus Gorgon 97 



Crawford— Two new Halictus from N. 



Jersey 97 



Brimley and Sherman — North Carolina 



Records of Odonata in 1903 100 



Editorial 103 



En'.omological Literature 104 



Doings of Societies 107 



Obituary: B. F. Koons 112 



Notes on the Life History of Crabhamia Jamaicensis. 



By Glenn W. Herrick. 



(See Plate VIII.) 



In a monograph of the Culicidse, VoL i, page 345, Mr. F. V. 

 Theobald describes the female of a new species of Culex, which 

 he names C. jamaicensis. In Vol. iii, page 244, of the same 

 monograph, he describes the male of the same species but 

 under the new generic name of Grabhamia. He says that 

 ** this beautiful species has so far only occurred in Jamaica." 

 Furthermore, he expresses the opinion that it is rather un- 

 common in that island. During the summers of 1902 and 

 1903, I found this mosquito abundant in the vicinity of Agri- 

 cultural College, Miss. The habits of the larvae proved of 

 considerable interest and seemed worth recording. 



I first noted the larvae in an open sewage drain on the College 

 campus in 1901. They attracted my attention by their large 

 size as compared with the larvae of C.fatigans which were so 

 numerous in the same drain. At this time several adults were 

 taken from the weeds and grasses overhanging the ditch. They 

 were submitted to Mr. D. W. Coquillet who immediately recog- 

 nized them as Culex jamaicensis, now G. jamaicensis. In the 



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