ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXX. 



JUNE, 1919- 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS 



VanDyke — New Species of Buprestidae 

 (Col.) from the Western United 

 States, with Supplementary notes 

 concerning: others 151 



Winn— Arg;ynnis apacheana Skinner 

 and Edwards' Platesof A, nokomis 

 ( Lep. ) 156 



Calvert — O d o n a t a Zygoptera from 

 Guatemala 160 



Emerton — The P'lights of Spiders in 

 the Autumn of 1918 ( Arach., Aran.) 165 



Tillyard— A Further Note on the Wing- 

 Coupling Apparatus in the Family 

 Micropterygidae ( Lep. ) 168 



Lindsey — A New Skipper from South 

 America (Lepid., Hesperidae) 169 



Metcalf— Humerus strigatus again 

 (Dip., Syrphidae) 170 



Schaus — A new Amastus from Argen- 

 tina (Lep., Arctiidae) 174 



Editorial — A League of Nations Means 

 the Metric System 175 



Editorial— Stop Thief ! 175 



Entomological Literature 176 



Doings of Societies— Ent. Sec, Acad. 



Nat. Sci. (Orth., Lep.) 179 



Feldman Collecting Social (Dip., 

 Lepid., Coleop. ) 179 



Obituary— Eliza Klages 180 



New Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the Western 



United States, with Supplementary 



notes concerning others. 



By Edwin C. Van Dyke, University of California, Berkeley, 



California. 



(Plate Vn.) 



This paper embodying the descriptions of certain new species 

 and notes pertaining to others, will constitute the third short 

 paper dealing with the Buprestidae which I have written. It 

 is presented like the previous ones^' ^ with the idea of 

 increasing our knowledge of this interesting family. 



^ "New Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the Pacific States," by 

 Edwin C. Van Dyke, Entomological News, Vol. xxvii (1916), pp. 

 405-412. 



2 "New Species of Buprestidae (Col.) from the Pacific States," by 

 Edwin C. Van Dyke, Entomological News, Vol. xxix (1918), pp. 53-58. 



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