ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXIV. MAY, 1913. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Brehme— A Note on Apantesis anna ' Use of Ants in Punishments (Hym.). . . 226 



and persephone (Lepid.) 193 Skinner— To Collect Lepidopterous 



Brehme— A New Aberration in Phycio- Pupae 226 



des (Lepid.) 194 Editorial 227 



Girault— Fragments on North Ameri- Johannsen— Macrobrachius in America 



can Insects-I\'. (Col., Lep., Hym.) 195 (Dipt.) 228 



Rowlev and Berr\- — Last Year's Work Herms— Pacific Slope Association of 



with Catocalae and other Lepidop- Economic Entomologists 228 



tera 197 Society for the advancement of Forest 



Ellis — Seven New North American Entomology in America 229 



Bees of the Genus Halictus (Hym.) 205 Skinner— Notes on Lycaena aymntula, 



Girault— A Twelfth New Crenus of monica and tejua ( Lep.) . . . .. . 230 



Hymenoptera Trichogrammatidae Cuisinier — International E.\position of 



from Australia 211 Ornithology, Entomology and Bot- 



Girault — Standards of the Number of any 231 



Eggs laid by Spiders — II 213 Green — On the Humming of Chirono- 



Aldrich — Collecting Notes from the midae (Dipt ) 232 



Great Basin and Adjoining Terri- Entomological Literature 232 



torv (Dipt.. Col.) 214 Doings of Societies 238 



Bird — The Appearance of an Unexpec- Obituary — L. E. Ricksecker 239 



ted Noctuid on the Atlantic Sea- 

 board (Lepid.) 222 I 



A Note on Apantesis anna an(d persephone (Lepid.)* 

 By Herman H. Brehme, Newark. N. J. 



(Plate V'll, figs. 1-6.) 



Arctia anna and persephone were (described by Grote from 

 a single female and a single male respectively. It has long 

 been known that these names apply to forms of one species. 

 A. anna is the less common form with wholly black hind wings 

 and has been said by collectors to have no male. A. perse- 

 phone is usually represented in collections by the forms having 

 yellow hind wings with a broad black margin and a black dis- 

 cal lunule joined sometimes to the marginal band. This form 

 occurs commonly in both sexes (Plate VII, Figs, i and 2). But 

 with it are usually associated males of a form having the mar- 

 ginal band joined to the base of the wing by black bars on the 

 costal and near the inner margins of the wing, and the yellow 

 space left is sometimes almost completely filled in with black. 

 The form with considerable yellow on the disk of the wing 

 is, however, the one that Grote had before him when he named 



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