ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXIV. JANUARY, 1913. No. i, 



CONTENTS: 



Portrait— Titian Ramsey Peale i I Baker— Change of Address 27 



Schaus — New Species of Heterocera Editorial 28 



from Brazil (Lepid.) 3 Color of Hemiptera 29 



Cockerel! — The Genera Parotermes I The Insects' Homer 29 



and Hodotermes (Isopteral 6 Caterpillars and the Weather ^9 



Cresson— Collecting; and Mounting Cockerell — Feltia venerabilis arida n. 



(Micro-Diptera)— II 8 [ subsp. (Lepid.) 30 



Entomological Literature 30 



Review of Comstock — Spider Book. ... 35 

 Review of Winn — A Preliminary List 

 of the Insects of the Provinee of 



Quebec — Part I 37 



Review of Kane — Injurious Insects : 



How to Recognize andControl them 37 



Little-known Heteroptera from the 1 Doings of Societies 38 



Western United States 20 | Obituary — Frederick Blanchard 46 



Skinner — Antigeny in Neartic Butter- Obituary — Dr. W'm. Armstrong Buck- 



Weiss — Notes on the Phototropism of 

 Certain Mosquitoes (Dipt.) 12 



Severin and Severin— The EfTect of 

 Temperature on the Molting of the 

 Walking-stick, Diapheromera fem- 

 orata Say (Orthop.) 14 



de la Torre Bueno — Some New and 



flies (Lepid.) 23 I hout . 



Titian Ramsey Peale. 



(Portrait, Plate I) 



Following our practice of the last two years in placing a 

 portrait of one of the older American entomologists on the 

 cover of the News, we have selected for the frontispiece and 

 for the cover for 191 3 the portrait of Titian Ramsey Peale. 



Titian R. Peale published in 1833 a work entitled Lepidop- 

 tera Americana^ which seems never to have passed beyond 

 a single small installment. 



*Lepidoptera Americana : or. Original Figures of the Moths and 

 Butterflies of North America; in their various stages of existence 

 and the plants on which they feed. Drawn on stone, and coloured 

 from nature; with their characters, synonyms, and remarks on their 

 habits and manners. By Titian R. Peale. Curator of the Philadelphia 

 Museum. Vol. I. No. i, Philadelphia: Printed by William P. Gib- 

 bons, S. W. corner Sixth & Cherry Sts.. 1833. 



The copy of Number i in the library of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia comprises 14 unnumbered pages of text and 

 4 colored plates numbered 3 to 7 ; the size is 8^:^ x 10^ inches. Ac- 

 companying this single part is a printed sheet of "The Proposals for 

 Publishing by subscription a work to be entitled Lepidoptera Amer- 

 icana" which state that "the work will consist of one hundred Plates," 

 in Numbers of four Plates, to be regularly published every two 

 months, at Ten Dollars a year ; a few other uncolored plates with 

 Peak's autograph and the date 1836, and some unpublished manuscripts. 



