ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
VoL. XXV. JUNE, 1914. No. 6. 
CO NEE Niles i: 
Cresson—Descriptions of New Genera Cresson—Some Nomenclatorial Notes 
and Species of the Dipterous Fam- on the Dipterous Family Trypeti- 
ily Ephydridac—I.. oe... ccc cmecns. 241 AC aie cfs tistalsie/aacaln alain siete isinletatetaciziel atc 275 
Dodd—New Proctotrypoidea from Aus- Weiss—Some facts about the Egg Nest 
Ua VEU (LE ign) BacagpareaaaeD 2600 IAC 251 of Paratenodera sinensis (Orth.)... 279 
de la Torre Bueno—British Guiana Editorial—Prevention of Insect-borne 
FACUETAODUCKAN sc «lo ceisisels Se ~ sce eissicrsinic 257 ' Diseases in the Army in Mexico... 283 
Scattered Writings of Dr. H. A. Hagen 262 | Girault—Smicra mariae Riley (Hym.) 283 
Williams—One Hundred Butterflies Girault—Epargyreus tityrus Fabricius 
from the Jamez Mountains, New im Maryland: (epid:))n cece ss +s om =!-\0 283 
MeExICOIQIGEDIG: \ire esos oc sac ce avis < 263 | Bowditch—Corrections in Phytophaga 
Girault—Fragmentson North American CE OLCO pe enteraaisiateis visiniales sicle oiainietats tele 284 
Insects—VII (Col., Neur., Dip.)... 268 | Entomological Literature.............. 284 
Gillette—Two Colorado Plant Lice Obituary—Dr. Jakob Huber............ 288 
(Hemip.-Homop. )...........-..2+0 269 oH John A. Grossbeck.......... 288 
Descriptions of New Genera and Species of the Dip- 
terous Family Ephydridae.—I. 
By E. T. Cresson, Jr., Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
(Plate X) 
In working over some material in preparation of mono- 
graphic reviews of the members of this family, many new 
and interesting species were found. Some of these represent 
new genera which, as well as some of the most interesting 
species, will be described in preliminary papers of which this 
is the first. 
CEROMETOPUM gen. nov. 
Suggesting Mosillus Latr. in general form, but differing 
mostly in the structure of the face and in the pectination of 
the arista. The frontal bristles are well developed, which is 
not the case with that genus. The face is not deeply exca- 
vated beneath the antennae and with no indication of a tuber- 
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