ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Voh. XXIX. 



APRIIv, 1918. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS 



Dickerson and Weiss— Corythucha 

 spinuiosa Gibson, a new Lace Bug 

 on Wild Cherrv ( Hem., Horn.) .. 121 



Girault— New and Old West Indian 

 and North American Chalcid-flies 

 (Hym.) 125 



Scudder's Tertiary Insects of North 

 America T31 



Knull— A new Species of Eupogonius 

 (Coleoptera) from Pennsylvania... 132 



Cresson — New North American Di{>- 

 tera ( Scathophagidae ) 133 



Knab and Van Zwaluwenburg — A Sec- 

 ond Mycetophila with Dung-bear- 

 ing Larva (Diptera; Mycetophili- 

 dae ) 138 



Garnett — Beetle,Hippomelassphenicus, 

 Prey of Wasp (Dip.) 142 



Parker— Data Concerning Flies that 

 Frequent Privy Vaults in Montana 

 (Dip.) 143 



Malloch— Two New North American 

 Phoridae (Diptera) 146 



Editorial — As to Types 148 



Moths Lively after a Low Tempera- 

 ture { Lep. ) 149 



Leussler — Interesting Butterfly Occur- 

 rences at Beeville, Texas (Lep.)... 149 



Leng — Genitalia of Rhynchophora — 

 Material Wanted ( Col. ) 150 



Skinner — Some Species of Copaeodes 

 (Lep. ) 150 



Entomological Literature 151 



Review of Van Duzee : Catalogue of ' 

 the Hemiptera of America North 

 of Mexico, excepting the Aphidi- 

 dae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae 154 



Review of Lutz : Field Book of Insects 155 



Doings of Societies — Meeting of Ohio 

 Entomologists (Arachnida, Ho- 

 moptera. Hymen., Lep., Dip.) 156 



Obituary— Dr. Samuel Gibson Dixon.. 157 



" Charles Arthur Hart 157 



" Charles Palm 159 



" Adolph Friedrich \'1 159 



Erratum 160 



Corythucha spinuiosa Gibson, a New Lace- bug on 



Wild Cherry (Hem., Horn.). 



By Edgar L. Dickerson and Harry B. Weiss*, New Bruns- 

 wick, New Jersey. 



(Plate VII ) 



During the late summer of 1916 this species was first noted 

 feeding on wild cherry (Pruntis serotina) at Jamesburg, New 

 Jersey, and obsen^ations conducted since then have resulted in 

 the following notes. Overwintering adults first appeared dur- 

 ing the first few days in June, females being most abundant. 

 Unfavorable weather undoubtedly delayed their appearance 

 several weeks. At this time scattered feeding injuries were 

 noted usually along the mid-ribs of the leaves showing that 

 considerable feeding took place during egg-deposition. Egg- 



* The arrangement of the author's names has no significance and 

 indicates neither seniority nor precedence. 



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