ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol.. XXVII. JANUARY, 1916. No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Metcalf — The Rediscovery of Membra- 

 cis subulata Say, with a Descrip- 

 tion of a New Genus ( Homop.) i 



Girault— Notes on N. Amer. Mymaridae 

 and Trichogrammatidae (Hym.)-- 4 



Weiss — Additions to Insects of New 

 Jersey, No. 3 9 



Hebard— Spring Orthoptera found on 

 the Islands in the Vicinity of Char- 

 lotte Harbor, Florida 14 



Psota — A Suction-Pump Collector 22 



Greene— A Correction (Hym.) 23 



Wrisrht— Phycitinae of San Diego, Cal- 

 ifornia, and Vicinity, with descrip- 

 tions of new Species ( Lep. ) 24 



Williamson— A New Dragonfly Genus 

 of the Legion Protoneura (Odon.) 30 



Wood— Accidental Color Variation 

 (Lep.) 35 



Editorial — Remarks on Labelling 36 



Greene — Euparyphus tetraspilus Loew 

 ( Diptera ) 37 



Entomological Literature 37 



Review of Nelson : The Embryology of 

 the Honey Bee 41 



Review of Punnett : Mimicry in Butter- 

 flies 43 



Doings of Societies— Feldman Collect- 

 ing Social (Col., Dip. ) 44 



Amer. Ent. Soc. (Lep., Hym., Col., 



Orthop. ) 44 



Newark Ent. Soc. (Lepid., Orthop., 

 Homop., Col., Hymen.) 45 



Obituary— Prof. Raphael Meldola 46 



Girault — Three new Species of Cocco- ' " Dr. Fred. William Russell.. 47 



phagus. Family Encyrtidae (Hym.) 33 , " Charles Kerremans 

 Wood — Argynnis diana (Lep.) 53 ' Corrections, etc 



The Rediscovery of Membracis subulata Say, with 

 a Description of a New Genus (Homop.). 



By Z. P. Metcalf, North Carolina Agricultural College and 

 Experiment Station, West Raleigh, N. C. 



(Plate I) 



In 1 83 1 Say described Membracis subulata in a paper en- 

 titled "Descriptions of New North American Hemipterous In- 

 sects Belonging to the First Family of the Section Homoptera 

 of Latreille." As far as I am aware this species has not been 

 seen since. Van Duzee first suggested that it was a species of 

 Stictoccphala (Coding's Catalogue of the Membracidae, page 

 410). Later (Studies in North American Membracidae, page 

 50) he accepted Coding's statement on Uhler's authority that 

 this species is but a variety of Say's Atymna inornata. It was, 

 therefore, with a great deal of pleasure that I discovered among 

 the Homoptera collected last season, a specimen that agreed 

 in every way with Say's description save for a few minor 

 points. It is of interest further to note that while the wing 



