ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXVII. 



APRIL, 1916. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Weiss— A Recently- Patented Collect- 

 ing Net 145 



Cresson — Descriptions of new Genera 

 and Species of the Dipterous Fam- 

 ily Ephydridae — III 147 



Girault — A new Genus of Eulophidae 

 from the United States ( Hym.) ... 152 



Johnson — Insect Notes for the Season 

 of 1915 (Lep., Col., Dipt.) 154 



Cockerell — A new Phalangid from the 

 Coronados Islands (Arach.) 158 



Hebard — A new Species of the Genus 

 Neoblattella from Costa Rica (Or- 

 thoptera, Blattidae) 159 



Weiss — Additions to Insects of New 

 Jersey, No. 4 162 



Williamson— A new Cyanogomphus 

 (Odonata) 167 



Prof. Herbert Osborn Research Pro- 

 fessor 172 



Notice of Disposal of Manuscripts, etc. 172 



Ball— Some new Species of Athysanus 

 and Related Genera (Homoptera) 173 



Editorial — How manv languages must 

 an Entomologist know ? 177 



A Dipterous Larva Parasitic in Earth- 

 worms 177 



Townsend— New Muscoid Genera 

 (Dip.) 178 



Cook— What the House Fly Did 178 



McDermott — The Unusual Prevalence 

 of Ground Beetles (Harpalus) dur- 

 ing the Summer of 1913, at Ashland, 

 Ohio (Col.) 179 



Cockerell — The Biota of Nantucket.... 180 



Cockerell — The Cactus-feeding Volu- 

 cellines ( Dip. ) 180 



Girault — Proportion of the Sexes in 

 Uloborus geniculatus Walck., with 

 a Few Notes (Arach., Aran.) 181 



McAtee — Note on use of Antennae in 

 Collops vittatus (Col., Malachiidae) 182 



Stoner — Additional Iowa Pentatomoi- 

 dea(Hem., Het.) 182 



Entomological Literature 183 



Doings of Societies — Am. Ent. Soc 187 



Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop., 



Hym.) . 187 



Chicago Entomological Club (Col., 



Lep.) 188 



Newark Ent. Soc. (Lep., Hem.) i8g 



A New Entomological Club 190 



The New Ecological Soc. of America 190 



Obituary— Miss Adele Marion Fielde... 191 



A Recently-Patented Collecting Net.* 



By Harry B. Weiss, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



(Plate VII) 



To collectors in general, but especially those of Lepidoptera, 

 who are desirous of obtaining specimens in as perfect a con- 

 dition as possible, the net recently patented by Mr. Marvin H, 

 Mead, of Passaic, New Jersey, should not be without interest. 

 The accompanying Plate \ II shows so clearly the construction 

 of the net that only a few words of description are necessary. 

 The most important part is the specimen chamber or dome at 



*U. S. Patent Office, Patent No. 1143721, to Marvin H. Mead, Pas- 

 saic, N. J., June 22, 1915. 



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