ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXX. 



JANUARY, 1919. 



No. I. 



CONTENTS 



Wilson— Three new Lachnids with Com- 

 parative Notes on three others 

 ( Homop. ) I 



Mailoch— On an Undescrihed Species 

 Medeterus (Dipt., Dolichopodidae) 7 



Howe — The Odonata of Concord, Mas- 

 sachusetts 10 



Schwarz— On the Early Stages of Cato- 

 cala titania Dodge, and a Descrip- 

 tion of Three new Varieties of Cato- 

 cala (Lep.) 14 



Cockerel I — A new Genus of Bees from 

 Peru (Hym.) 17 



Alexander — Notes on the Genus Dicra- 

 noptycha Osten Sacken (Tipulidae, 

 Diptera) 19 



Cockerell— Cord u leg aster dorsalis 

 (Odonata) as an Enemy of Trout. . . 22 



Editorial— The News for 1919 23 



Cockerell— Bittacomorpha clavipes 

 (Dipt.) 23 



Becker— A One Year Life Cycle for Sap- 

 erda Candida Fab. Reared in an 

 Apple (Col.) 24 



Botanical Abstracts 25 



Malloch— The Larval Habitat of Chal- 

 comyia aerea Loew. (Diptera, Syr- 

 phidae ) ' 25 



Fall— A Change of Names (Coleoptera) 26 



Howard— Note on the Vinegarone 

 (Arach , Pedipalpi) 26 



Weiss and Nicolay— Fumerus strigatus 

 Fall, the Lunate Onion Fly, in New 

 Jersey (Dip.) 27 



Ferris— A Remarkable Case of Longev- 

 ity in Insects (Hem., Horn.) 27 



Entomological Literature 29 



Three new Lachnids with Comparative Notes on 

 three others (Homop.). 



By H. F. Wilson, University of Wisconsin.* 



(Plates I and IL) 



Essigella calif ornica (Essig). (Plate I, A, figs. 1-6.) 



Description made from specimens collected on Psciidotsnga 

 douglassi at Corvallis, and on Piiuis ponderosaf at Grants Pass, 

 Oregon, and from specimens sent to me by E. O. Essig, from 

 California. They occur on the needles and are hidden by the 

 sheath so that close observation is necessary to find them. 



Apterous viviparous female. General color, a pale yellowish green 

 to brownish yellow with a row of small brown dots on each body seg- 

 ment. A short sharp spine arises from each spot. Antennae and legs 

 dusky brown. The body is elongate with the head and thorax quad- 

 rangular and the abdomen ovoid and ending in a sharp pointed cauda. 

 The antennae are five-segmented and reach almost to the second pair 

 of coxae. The third segment usually does not have sensoria, but in 



*The drawings used in this paper were made by Mrs. Margaret 

 Nehrlich Pickett, since deceased. 



