ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol.. XXV. 



DECEMBER, 1914. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS 



Van Duzee — New Species of North 

 American Dolichopodidae (Dip. )•■■ 433 



Changes of Address 443 



Williamson — Dragonflies (Odonata) 

 collected in Texas and Oklahoma 

 (cont. from p. 415) 444 



Dodd — A new Platygasterid Genus with 

 Remarkable Antennae ( Hym. ) 455 



Williamson — Svmpetrum obtrusum and 

 costiferum (Odonata) in Maine 456 



Cresson — Descriptions of new North 

 American Acalyptrate Diptera — I.. 457 



Additions to the Entomological Collec- 

 tions, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh 460 



Girault — A new species of the Remark- 

 able Hymenopterous Genus Smi- 

 cromorpha with Correction of the 

 Generic Description 461 



Grinnell— An Individual Variation of 

 Lorquin's Admiral, Limenitis lor- 

 quinii Boisduval ( Lep. ) 462 



Allard — Locust Stridulations (Orth.).. . 463 



Cockerell — A Mite Gall on Clementsia 

 ( Acarina) 466 



Editorial— The Annual Entomological 

 Meetings 467 



The First Quarter Century of the 

 "News" 



Dusham— A Method of Injecting the 

 Tracheae of Insects 



Skinner— Callosamia promethea and 

 angulifera ( Lep. ) 



Annual Meeting, Entomological So- 

 ciety of America 



Annual Meeting, American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists 



Local Arrangements for the Annual 

 Meetings 



Entomological Literature 



Skinner — Review of Pierce's The Geni- 

 talia of the Group Geometridae of 

 the Lepidoptera of the British 

 Islands 



Calvert— Review of Williston's Water 

 Reptiles of the Past and Present. . . 



Doings of Societies — Entomological 

 Section, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada. 

 (Lep., Orth., Odon.. Col.) 



Obituary— Dr. William Saunders 



Errata 



467 



469 



470 



470 

 472 



476 



477 



477 



New Species of North American Dolichopodidae 



(Dip.). 



By M. C. Van Duzee, Buffalo, New York. 



(Plate XVIII.) 



Neurigona nigricornis n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Figs. 1, 4). 



Eyes separated by the face in the male, antennae and dorsum of the 

 abdomen black, hypopygium and thorax reddish-brown. Length 2 mm. 

 $ . Face narrow, dark green or blackish-green ; palpi and proboscis 

 dark brown ; front and occiput black ; orbital cilia black, very short ; 

 antennae black, third joint very small and clothed with rather long 

 pubescence; arista, also with long pubescence, inserted near the base 

 of the third joint; arista with two joints, the first of which is short. 



Thorax, scutellum and metanotum reddish-brown, darker along the 

 front of the thorax, at base of the scutellum and on the flattened space 

 before the scutellum, the latter with a little gray pollen, the rest of 

 the thorax shining; pleurae pale yellow below, becoming more reddish 

 above and with a black spot before the halteres ; acrostichal bristles in 

 two rows ; scutellum with two long bristles. 



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