ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XVIII. JULY, 1907. No. 7. 



CONTENTS: 



Davis— Life-history and habits of Gale- 



ruca pomonae Scopoli. in Illinois. . 269 

 Banks— A new genus and a new spe- 

 cies of Neuroptera 275 



En gel— New Micro-lepidoptera 276 



Viereck — Andrenae of the Canadian, 

 Alleghanian and Carolinian Plant 

 Zones occurring or likely to occur 



in Connecticut 2S0 



Harbeck — List of Tachinidae taken in 



the City of Philadelphia 288 



Coquillett — Notes and descriptions of 



Hippoboscidae and Streblidae 290 



Swenk — The Bees of Nebraska — III . . . 293 



Schaeffer— Notes on Histeridae 301 



Rowley — Notes on Papilio ajax 306 



Brehme — Preparing Lepidoptera for 



the cabinet in short order 308 



Taylor — A new Geometrid Moth from 



California 310 



McElhose and Schwarz — List of no 

 species and varieties of Butterflies 

 taken by the Members of the St. 

 Louis Entomological Club, in the 



vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri 312 



Rothke — The results of a breeding of 



of Apantesis figurata Drury 314 



Editorial 317 



Notes and News 318 



Doings of Societies 319 



Obituary — H. D. Merrick 320 



Life -History and Habits of Galeruca pomonae 



Scopoli, in Illinois. 



John J. Davis, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



(Plate IX) 



So little is known of the life-history and habits of Galeruca 

 pomonae in this country, that the following observations, made 

 last year, are worth recording. 



Mr. Frederick Knab has reported the occurrence of this 

 European species in North America, in Entomological News, 

 Vol. 16, page 230. It was found by him in the collections of 

 the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History and of Mr. 

 Chas. Dury. The Illinois specimens were reared by Mr. C. A. 

 Hart from larvae collected at Urbana, 111., and Mr. Dury's 

 specimens were taken at Cincinnati, Ohio. This species had 

 previously been confused with G. externa and tanaceti. (Ent. 

 News, Vol. 14., p. 146 and loc. cit.) 



Outside of Illinois it is known to have been taken only at 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, where about the year 1878 Mr. Dury collected 

 the adults in May and June by "sweeping low vegetation in 

 shady places." This is the earliest record of its presence in 



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