ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXIV. FEBRUARY, 1913. No. 2. 



CONTENTS: 



Walton— New North American Tachin- 

 idae ( Dipt. ) 49 



Girault — Fragments on North Ameri- 

 can Insects— III (Colep., Lepid., 

 Dipt., Hemip., Hymen.) 53 



Banks — The Genus Brachynemurus 

 (Neuroptera) 63 



Weiss and Patterson — Revised Keys to 

 the Species of Mosquitoes and 

 Mosquito Larvae found in New Jer- 

 sey (Dipt.) 65 



Skinner— A new Hesperid Butterfly 

 from Cuba ( Lepid. ) 72 



Chamberlin — Two new Otostigmi from 

 India (Myriop.) 73 



Nunenmacher — Studies Amongst the 

 Coccinellidae, No. 5 (Col.) 76 



Editorial- The Meetings at Cleveland 77 



Stoner — Eleodes in Minnesota (Col.).. 81 



Cockerell — Andrena dunningi Ckll. 



(Hymen.) 82 



Skinner — Notes on Lycaena neurona 



(Lepid.) 82 



Selous — Birds and Butterflies (Lepid.) 83 

 Selous — Insect Arrow Poison (Coleop ) 83 

 Vorhies — Trichoptera Collected Under 



llnusual Conditions 84 



Westcott— The 1912 Swarm of Aletia 



argillacea (Lepid.) 84 



Dodd — The Occurrence of Leucania 

 unipunctata (Haworth) on Sugar 

 Cane in North Queensland (Lepid.) 85 

 Cockerell — Eustypiura rodriguezi (Hy- 

 men.) 85 



Entomological Literature 86 



Review — Berlese's Trombidiidae 90 



Obituary— W. G. Wright 91 



" William Forsell Kirby 93 



'■ Peter Cameron 96 



New North American Tachinidae (Dipt.), 

 By W. R. Walton, Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C* 



(Plate III; 



The first form described below adds a new genus and species 

 to the small aggregation of Muscoids known to be parasitic on 

 beetles of the genus Lachnosterna. 



The members of this small group, although rather widely 

 separated in the existing artificial classifications, are to some 

 extent similar in habitus, especially as regards the facies. 



The front is produced, the antennae and eyes small, the 

 cheeks wide and the vibrissae placed considerably above the 

 front edge of the oral margin. These peculiarities are most 

 marked in the genus Micro phthalmus. It seems probable that 

 these parasites of Lachnosterna are nocturnal or at least cre- 

 puscular in habit, as in the genus Pyrgota of the Ortalidae 

 which is also parasitic on Lachnosterna. In the latter group 

 there is a remarkable similarity in the conformation of the 

 head to the Muscoid parasites of the "may beetles." 



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