ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXX. DECEMBER, 1919. No. ic 



CONTENTS: 



Cole— A new Genus in the Dipterous i Skinner— Hesperia syrichtus and mon- 

 FamilyCyrtidae from South America 271 j tivagfus (Lep.) 297 



Ferris — A New Species of Pseudodias- 



pis ( Hemiptera ; Coccidae) 275 



Nicolay — Additions to Insects of New 



Jersey, No. 7 276 



Reinhard — Preliminary Notes on Texas 



Tachinidae (Diptera) 279 



Cockerell — The Bees of the Rocky 



Mountain National Park (Hymen.) 286 

 Williamson— Variation in Color Pat- 



Bradley— A new Tachytes from Geor- 



g:ia ( Hymenop. : Larridae) 298 



Ireland— Sugaring: for Moths 298 



Editorial— After Thirty Years 299 



A Loved and Respected Entomologist 300 

 Davis — Preservatives for Plants and 



Insects 300 



Entomological Literature 301 



Notice of Oberthur's Etudes de Lepid- 



opt^rologie Compar^e 304 



tern of the Dragonfly Gomphus eras- ( Doings of Societies— Feldman Collect- 



sus (Odonata) 204 '■ ing Social (Dip., Coleop., Lepid.). .. -04 



Annual Meetings of Entomologists 296 i Correction 304 



A new Genus in the Dipterous Family CArtidae 

 from South America. 



By F. R. Cole, LJ. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



(Plate XI) 



In material received at the United States National Museum 

 from Prof. F. Campos, of the Museum in Guayaquil, Ecua- 

 dor, there was included a remarkable new Cyrtid. Through 

 the kindness of Dr. J. M. Aldrich, of the National Museum, 

 I am able to describe and figure this interesting specimen. 

 Among other characters there is an almost unbelievable de- 

 velopment of the antennae, and it is small wonder that some 

 of the entomologists at the National Museum thought they 

 were dreaming when they came across it in the collection. 



CAMPOSELLA n. gen. 

 Head hemispherical, the occiput but little swollen. Eyes 

 pilose, contiguous from vertex to base of antennae and widely 

 separated from this point to the mouth opening, the space 

 being deeply excavated, although the proboscis is quite rudi- 

 mentary. Antennae in male about four times the length of 

 the head ; the first joint sunk in the head, the second ring-like 



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