ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXX. 



JULY, 1919. 



No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Mengel — A new Perisama from South 

 America (Lepid., Rhop.) 181 



McAtee— Prel im inary Key to the 

 Nearctic Species of Eupteryx 

 (Homoptera; Eupterygfidae) 182 



VanDyke— New Species of Buprestidae 

 (Col.) from the Western United 

 States, with Supplementary notes 

 concerning others 186 



Mitchell— Notes on Diacrisia virginica 

 (Lep.) igi 



Baker— A Melaphis from Moss (Horn.) 194 



Schwarz— The early Stages of Catocala 

 minuta and a Description of a New 

 Variety of C. obscura (Lepid.) ... 196 



Mickel— A new Genus of Cerambycidae 

 from Wyoming (Col.) 198 



Parker— North American Sarcopha- 

 gidae ; New Species of the Genus 

 Sarcofahrtia R. Parker (Dip.) 201 



Editorial — International Relations of 

 Entomological Societies after the 

 War 204 



Entomological Literature 206 



Review— Lochhead's Class Book of 

 Economic Entomology 209 



Obituary — William Francis de Vismes 

 Kane, Sydney Webb, Grand Duke 

 Nicolas Michailovitch, Raphael 

 Blanchard, Jules Kunkel 'dHercu- 

 lais. Herbert Huntington Smith, R. 

 Kobert 209 



A new Perisama from South America (Lepid., Rhop.). 



By Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pennsylvania. 



(Plate VIII.) 



Perisama sinerubra n. sp. 



Expanse 43-45 mm. Upper side — primaries black with broad diag- 

 onal blue-green bar from middle of costal margin to the exterior angle. 

 There is a small dash of blue-green near the apex. A few bars of 

 the same color radiate from the base. 



The inferiors are black with a bluish reflection toward the base. 

 There is a broad marginal band of the same blue-green color. Fringes 

 of wings white. 



Under side — primaries largely black with a white spot in centre of 

 th£ costa changing to blue and extending halfway across the wing, 

 toward the exterior angle. Base of wing gray, changing to blue. 

 Apex of wing light gray, with a faint black band dividing the gray 

 color almost equally. 



Under sides of inferiors without red costal and basal bar. Uniform 

 gray in color. A thin black bar extends from the costal margin 

 toward the inner angle. A black marginal band, comparatively regu- 

 lar, extends parallel along the exterior margin.. There is an irregular 

 row of 5 black spots in the wing between the bars. 



181 



