EXTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE EXTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXIV. OCTOBER, 1913. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Rau and Hosenfelt — Abnormal Wing 

 Formations in Samia cecropia and 

 S. califomica ( Lep. ) 337 



Girault — Fragments on North Ameri- 

 can Insects — VIiLep., Hym.Hem., 

 Dipt., Col. » 338 



Leussler— The Butteiiiies of Omaha. 

 Nebraska ( Lep 1 344 



Stoner — Notes on some Beetles reared 

 from a dead elm stick 1 Coleop. ». . . 352 



Schroers — Observations on the Leoi- 

 doptera of St- Louis and Vicinity 

 during 1912 354 



Wolley Dod — Notes on some North 



\'anatta — The Zimmermann Collection 



of Coleoptera 371 



Girault — Manlid eggs apparently eaten 



bv birds . 371 



GirauU— H>-menoptera Chalcidoidea 



eaten bv birds 371 



Ants crossing water 1 Hymen ) 372 



Girault — A Dragonfly depositing eggs 



in a rainpool over concrete ( Odon 1 372 

 Williamson — Some Colorado Dragon- 



flv records ( Odonata 1 372 



Calvert — The true male of Nehalennia 



integricollis and N. pyallidula n. sp. 



(^Odon ) 373 



American Noctuidae i Leo.1 356 Joicey — The Druce Collection of Lepi- 



Bishopp — The Occurrence of the Aus- doptera 374 



tralian Cattle Tick and the Brown Bethune-Baker — M a terial Want ed 



Dog-Tick in Key West. Florida (Lep.) 374 



(Acarina. Ixodoideal 366 The Audubon Entomological Club 374 



Editorial — A Utilitarian Value of Ento- Entomological Literature 375 



mology 569 Review of Kellogg's Di.^tribution and 



Changes of Address 370 Species-forming of Ecto- Parasites 382 



Girault— Lepidopterous Eggs from the Re^^ew of Junk's Bibliographia Lepi- 



Stomach of a Wren 370 dopterologica 382 



Obituary — Dr. Horace Jayne 3S3 



Abnormal Wing Formations in Samia cecropia and 



S. californica (Lep.\ 



By Phil Rau and Geo. H. Hosenfelt. St. Louis. ]\Io. 



(Plate XI) 



A female Samia cecropia, having a fifth wing emerged from 

 its cocoon on 'Slay 6, 1904. This cocoon was one of a lot of 

 forty which were taken in the southwestern part of St. Louis. 



The figure makes any further description superfluous ex- 

 cepting that the supernumerar\- wing is in no way connected 

 with the normal one. and the attachment of the wing to 

 the thorax is quite independent of the others. This wing 

 is an exception to those usuallv recorded in that it is 

 only slightly aborted. This female differs from the male of 

 the same species recorded by Bateson in that this supernu- 

 merary wing is a complete repetition of the left secondary- 

 wing, markings and all. whereas the one Bateson* records 



* Materials for the Study of Variation, p. 283. 



