ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
Vor. -X< XIX. FEBRUARY, 1918. No.2: 
CONT EMTS: 
Garnett—Notes on Dinapate wrightii Stout—Variation in Labial Characters 
lnkoren, (Croll) $e gone saeioe aaoo be seaaas 41 in the Nymph of Gomphus spicatus 
Skinner—Selenis sueroides (Lep.).....- 44 (Oi omatal)eoraiaacs syarittlecse te -scices 68 
Van Duzee—New North American Spe- Professor F. L. Washburn Ceases to be 
cies of Dolichopodidae ( Diptera)... 45 State Entomologist.................. 70 
Barber—Corrections to ‘‘New York Sco- Editorial—Entomology at the Convoca- 
lopostethi’’ (Family Lygaeidae: tion Week Meetings...........s0 71 
IRDIGE) ingeged a dnocacbn oe eToeeeene toe 51 | Benjamin Dann Walsh.........-.......- 72 
Van Dyke—New Species of Buprestidae Emergency Entomological Service...... 72 
(Col.) from the Pacific States—No. 2 53 
Cockerell—The Bembicine Wasps 
(Hym.) 
Cole—A new Genus of Cyrtidae from 
South America ( Dip.) 
Material Desired (Coleoptera).......... 64 
Girault—The North American Species of 
Cerchysius, females (Hym.Chalcid.) 65 
Hebard—A Correction Concerning La- 
bia annulata and Labia dorsalis 
Dermaptera: Labiidae)........-... 66 
Skinner—Argynnis apacheana, a new 
name (Lepid. Norte benopatocednoceys 67 
Gnancesiot AGdress  ociaciecle cel -\<ineclalsi 74 
Emerton—A New House Spider ( Aran.) 74 
Marlatt—Interrelations of Different Spe- 
cies of Insects (Hom., Col., Hym.).. 74 
Rau—Maternal Care in Dinocoris trip- 
LENS FAs) (ELCHI-))c.0« sivterelnleinieissicvere cl 75 
Entomological Literature.... .......--- 76 
Doings of Societies—Entomological ie 
GIGEVIOL PRAM CC son elnisie ieee lela nia 
Ent. Sec., Acad. of Nat. Sci. of Phila. 
(Dip., Lep., (Ord) Pasooocoossodnao0r 79 
Obituary RIGGS So eee cesehdeees cece 80 
Notes on Dinapate wrightii Horn (Col.).* 
By Ricuarp T. GARNETT, Oakland, California. 
(Plate II.) 
This extremely rare Bostrichid, called by Hubbard the 
“dodo” of Coleoptera, was taken by the writer in Palm Can- 
yon on May 21 and 22, 1917. Every dead or unhealthy speci- 
men of the palm, I’ashingtonia filifera, in Palm, Murray, and 
Andreas Canyons was thoroughly examined. Of these only 
one log in the extreme lower end of Palm Canyon contained 
the beetle. This log, covered by driftwood, was wedged into 
a crevice in the rock strata fifteen feet above the summer 
stream level. From this log on the days mentioned 13 33, adults, 
teen ti. Horn—Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIII, 1886, pp. 1-4, pl. E 
H. G. Hubbard—Proc. Ent. Soc. W ash., Vol. 4, pp. 228-230. 
H. G. Hubbard—Entomological News, 1899, Vol. X, No. 4, pp. 83-89. 
B. Fenyes—Rovart. Lapok, VIII, p. 4. 
2 P. Lesne—Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Vol. 78, 1909, Pp. 473-477, figs. 572 
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