ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XVIII. 



MARCH, 1907. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS: 



Shull.— Life History and Habits of An- 



thoeharis(Synchloe)01ympia Edw. 73 

 Brehme— A new var. of Thecla damon. 82 

 Akerlind— Insect Hunting as a Pastime 83 

 Girault — Standards of the number of 



Eggs Laid by Insects.— V 89 



Franklin— Notes on Bombinae, with De- 

 scriptions of New Species 90 



Brimley and Sherman — List of Butter- 

 flies of North Carolina 94 



Banks — New Ant Lion-fly from Arizona 100 

 Coquillett— Discovery' of Blood-sucking 



Psychodidae in America 101 



Speiser — Check-List of North American 



Diptera Pupipara 103 



Editorial 106 



Notes and News 107 



Doings of Societies no 



Obituarv 112 



Life History and Habits of Anthocharis (Synchloe) 



Olympia Edw. 



By Charles Albert Shull, Lexington, Kentucky. 



(Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of Kentucky Univ., No. 1.) 



Thirty-five years ago William Henry Edwards* gave us the 

 first description of Anthocharis olympia from specimens cap- 

 tured near his home at Coalburgh, West Virginia. Later, 

 Strecker.t and Scuddert also, gave accurate descriptions of 

 the imago, in their works on butterflies. 



This species was found to have a very broad range, being 

 reported in most of the states from West Virginia to Colorado, 

 and from the Northwest Territory in Canada to Texas. Not- 

 withstanding its wide distribution, nothing was known con- 

 cerning its preparatory stages for over twenty years. It was 



* Edwards. \V. II., 1871.— Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. iii, p. 266. 



tStrecker, F. H. H., 1874.— Lepidoptera Rhopaloceres and Hetero- 

 ceres, Indigenous and Exotic, p. 64. PI. viii. Fig. 9. 



tScuddcr. S. H., 1889.— Butterflies of the Eastern United States and 

 Canada, vol. iii. p. 1844. 



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