ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol,. XXV. 



NOVEMBER, 1914. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS 



Chamberlin — Notes on Chilopods from 

 the East Indies 385 



Weiss — Insects found on Nursery Stock 

 Imported into New Jersey during 

 1913 392 



Girault — A new Genus of Chalcidoid 

 Hymenoptera of the Family Cieo- 

 nymidae from Australia 396 



Coding — Catalogue of the Membraci- 

 dae of Uruguay (Hemip., Homcp.) 397 



Van Duzee — New Species of North 

 American Dolichopodidae (Dip )... 404 



Lovell — Why do Honey-Bees Discrim- 

 inate Against Black? (Hvm.) 407 



Williamson — Dragonflies (Odonata) 

 collected in Texas and Oklahoma 411 



Evermann — A Note on the Abundance 

 of the Thistle Butterfly Pyrameis 

 cardui (Lepid.) 415 



Dodd — A new Genus of Platygasteridae 

 from Australia ( Hymen. ) 416 



Editorial— Sanitation in Vera Cruz, 



Mexico 417 



de la Torre Bueno— The Collection of 



the late G. W. Kirkaldy 418 



Changes of Address 418 



Zimmer — Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns in 



North America? (Hemip., Heter.) 418 

 Theses on Entomology in American 



Universities, 1914 419 



Huguenin — Notes on Calligrapha sig- 



moidea Lee. (Col., Chrysomelidae) 419 

 Maidl— Third International Congress 



of Entomology 420 



Entomological Literature 421 



Doings of Societies — 



American Entomological Society 

 (Dip., Orth., Lep.,Odon., Hvm.) 427 



Feldman Collecting Social (Dip., 



Col., Lep., Hvm.) 429 



Obituary— Dr. Theodore Nicholas Gill 432 



Notes on Chilopods from the East Indies. 



By Ralph V. Chamberlin, Cambridge, Mass. 



(Plate XVII) 



The following chilopods were secured by Dr. Thomas Bar- 

 bour, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, during his trip 

 in the East Indies and neighboring parts, 1906-1907, incident- 

 ally to his other collecting. All of the specimens, including the 

 types of the four new species here described, are deposited in 

 the Museum at Cambridge. 



SCOLOPENDROIDEA. 

 Cryptopidae. 



1. Otocryptops melanostomus (Newport). 

 Locality. — Java: Tjibodas. 



This species is widely distributed in the tropics of the en- 

 tire earth. 



Otostigmidae. 



2. Otostigmus punctiventer (Tomosvary). 

 Locality. — Dutch New Guinea : Sorong. 



The single specimen obtained is variant in having three lat- 



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