ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCREDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXIX. 



JULY, 1918. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS 



Hungerford— Concerning the Oviposi- 

 tion of Nolonectae ( Hem. ) 241 



Braun — New Genera and Species of 

 Lyonetiidae ( Microlepidoptera).. . 245 



Beutenmuller — Description of a New 

 Periclistus ( Cynipidae, Hym.) 251 



Cockerell— A Remarkable New Bee of 



the Genus Oxaea ( Hym. ) 252 



Watson — Hemileuca burnsi,its specific 

 validity and habitat (Saturnidae, 

 Lepid. » 252 



Wickhani — An Interesting new Species 

 of Eleodes (Col.: Tenebrionidae). . 255 



Caudell— Rega rd i n g Diapheromera 

 veliei Walsh and Manomera blatch- 

 leyi Caudell(Ortli. : Phasmidae).. 258 



Dunn — The Lake Mosquito, Mansonia 

 titillans Walk., and its Host Plant, 

 Pistia stratiotes Linn., in the Canal 

 Zone, Panama {Dip.: Culicidae).. 260 



Editorial — " Making the Editorial of 

 Greater Use in Entomology" 270 



Currie — Occurrence of the Damselfly 

 Argiallagma minutum (Selys) in 

 Southern Florida (Odonata) 271 



Emergency Entomological Service (U. 

 S. Dept. Agric. ) 271 



Fletcher — The Cottony Cushion Scale, 

 Icerya purchasi, in Ceylon ( Ho- 

 mop., Coccidae) 274 



Entomological Literature 274 



Review of Fletcher : Report of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Second Entomolo- 

 gical Meeting held at Pusa 277 



Review of Barnes and McDunnough : tfc^ 

 Contributions to the Natural His-~ ' 

 tory of the Lepidoptera of N. Amer. 277 



Doings of Societies— Ent. Sec. of The 

 Atad. of Nat. Sci. Phila. (Orthop., 



Odonata) 27S 



Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting 

 of the New York Entomological 



Society '. 278 



The Entomological Society of France 278 

 Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop.) 279 

 Foundation of the Entomological 

 Society of Spain 279 



Obituary — Gustave Adolphe Baer 280 



" Charles Edwin Sleight 280 



Erratum 280 



Concerning the Oviposition of Notonectae (Hem.). 



By H. B. HuNGERFOKD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 



Kansas. 



(Plates XIV, XV) 



This short paper is presented to clear up certain points 

 concerning the oviposition of the hack-swimmers of the genus 

 Notonccta in America. In a former paper the writer called 

 attention to the diversity of statement in regard to the egg- 

 laying of the European A'', glanca and to the fact that the 

 American species are said to dififer markedly from N. glanca 

 as reported by Regimbart. 



In view of the careful work of this French writer, who 

 stated that the European form inserts its eggs in the stems of 

 plants, the writer regarded it as strange that all the American 

 species should simply affix their eggs to plants and other sup- 

 ports in the water. In view of the observations of Essenberg 

 in California and Bueno in New York, however, it appeared 

 likely that such might be the case. 



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