ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
Vor, XXVIT. MARCH, 1o16. No. 3. 
CONTENTS: 
Wolcott—Description of two Hitherto Florida Entomological Society........ 133 
Undescribed Aberrations, the one Editorial—Discontinue the Fahrenheit 
of Argynnis alcestis, the other of Thermometric Scale... -...:..00<s- 134 
Chlorippe celtis (Lep.) Seon gsaconds 97 | McAtee—Punkies feeding on a fish-fly 
Leussler—A new Variety of Satyrodes (Dip.: Chironomidae; Neur.: Siali- 
canthus from Nebraska (Lep.)---- 99 GAG) EsSecaceeuas vader suendaacoaneae. 135 
Dietz and Morrison—Phenacaspis spi- McAtee—Curious behavior of Cicin- 
nicola n. sp.; an apparently new dela unipunctata (Col. : Cicindeli- 
Coccid from Indiana (Hem., Hom.) tor dae; Hym.: Formicidae) aerate 135 
Parshley—New and Noteworthy He- Yancey——Vanessa californica and Frost 
miptera from New England........ 103 (epid’ Wasscte et seeker eee tebe 136 
Hood—A new Species of Heterothrips Smyth—Color Phases in Argynnis di- 
(Thysanoptera) from Eastern Uni- Shei ((IS\ ah) sa 5Gsonsnot 760a> coanseore 136 
PS CMIEA LES ae cininiseicicicicisisivic.e + seyuje sere 106 | Entomological Literature..-...... .... 137 
Weiss—Additional Records of New Doings of Societies—Ent. Sec., Acad. 
ELSCWWACATINA Ss cic-.-  . vcwc= geese. 109 Nat. Sci. Phila. (Lep.. Dipt., Orth.) 142 
Smith and Morrison—South Carolina The Convocation Week Meetings— 
PIRES MEAIMITE 4) trai vic olsteieratsiaieiers </aietoyic)-/=1< T10 Horticultural Inspectors...... .... 142 
Johnson—Additions to the Coleoptera Feldman Collecting Social (Dipt., 
of Meriden, Connecticut........... 112 Weep, oles Ekiyiri)c ceive ayo} ies elven 143 
Slosson—Connecticut Coleoptera...... 125 Chicago Entomological Club (Lep., 
Dinner to Prof. Herbert Osborn....... 125 Goleta puwaeicts seeteien cae treba. 144 
Watson—New Thysanoptera from Flo- 
Wi 1M codoadooceacsbaoseoaneaaaae 126 
Description of two Hitherto Undescribed Aberrations, 
the one of Argynnis alcestis, the other 
of Chlorippe celtis (Lep.). 
By Rosert H. Wotcort, University of Nebraska, 
Lincoln, Nebr. 
(Plate IV, figs. 5 and 6) 
There exists a lack of agreement among entomologists as to 
the degree to which the various forms of an insect shall be 
recognized by name, especially when the form in question is 
in the nature of an aberration. Nevertheless the writer ven- 
tures to describe two such aberrations, believing that the re- 
cording of all such marked departures from the type which 
may occur in nature is desirable from the point of view of the 
student of variation, and that reference to all such departures 
is facilitated and rendered definite by the bestowal of a name. 
The first of these aberrations is a form of Argynnis alces- 
tis Edw. which may be appropriately called 
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