ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Voi,. XV. APRIL, 1904. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Ashmead— A new Alysiid from Ceylon 113 

 Grinnell — A new Thanaos from Cali- 

 fornia 114 



Banks — Two Species of Hydroptilidse 116 

 Fernald — The North American Species 



of Chlorion 117 



Brimley — List of Sphingidae, Saturni- 

 idae and Ceratocanipidse observed 



at Raleigh, N. C 120 



Kearfott — Micro-Lepidoptera Sugges- 

 tions, Part II 127 



Editorial 137 



Notes and News 137 



Doings of Societies 138 



Obituary: Dr. Hans Herman Behr 142 



A New Alysiid from Ceylon. 



By Wm. H. Ashmead, M.A., D. Sc. 



Mr. E. Ernest Green, the eminent Coccidologist of Ceylon, 

 has recently sent to Dr. L. O. Howard a small collection of 

 parasitic Hymenoptera for names, among which was a new 

 Alysiid, in a genus not yet reported from oriental regions, 

 which is described below. 



Genus ASPILOTA Forster. 



Aspilota ceylonica n. sp. 



cJ*. — Length 1.5 mm.; ovipositor subexserted. Black and shining, im- 

 punctate ; first segment of abdomen testaceous ; palpi yellowish-white ; 

 two basal joints of antennae and the legs honey-yellow, the trochanters, 

 tips of tibiae and the tarsi yellowish white ; flagellum black, pubescent, 

 the first joint a little longer than the second ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 brown. 



7>'/^.— Cat. No. 7725, U. S. N. M. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon. Described from two specimens bred 

 by Mr. E. E. Green from a Dipterous larva living in decayed 

 fungus. 



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