ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXXI. 



NOVEMBER, 1920. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS 



Cliamberlin — Description of One New 

 Buprestid with Notes on Other 

 Little Known Species (Coleop.) . . 241 



Martin — Notes on the Genus Hetaer- 

 ius and Descriptions of Three 

 New Species (Coleop.) 24s 



Osborn & Metcalf — Notes on the Life- 

 History of the Salt Marsh Cicada 

 (Tibicen viridifascia Walker), 

 (Hemip.) 248 



Mann — The Occurrence of Mallophaga 



on a Dragonfly (Odon.) 252 



Calvert — Studies on Costa Rican Odo- 

 nata IX. Sympetrum with De- 

 scription of a New Species 253 



Ramsden — A New Kricogonia from 



Cuba (Lep., Rhop.) 259 



Davis Indiana Insects 260 



Brimley — On Scolia bicincta Fab. and 

 Scolia undata Klug (Hymtnop- 



tera, Scoliidae) 261 



Spillane — House Flies in Court 262 



Editorial — -Mental Attitudes toward 

 Insects; Anent an Increased Sub- 

 scription Price 263 



Skinner — Two Syntomidae New to 



Mississippi (Lep.) 263 



Entomological Literature 264 



Review of Morse's Manual of the 



Orthoptrra of New England 267 



Correction. 270 



Description of One New Buprestid with Notes 

 on Other Little Known Species (Coleop.)- 



By W. J. Chamberlin, Forest Entomologist, Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College. 

 Ginyra robusta n. sp. 



Form elongate, robust. Entire upper surface, head, thorax and elytra 

 covered with scattered, short, fine, recumbent hairs, arising from the 

 punctures. 



Head same color as elytra, not shining, very coarsely punctured, with 

 a faint median line running one-third from the thorax. Front rough with 

 irregular callosities extending across the middle. Clypeus shallow, 

 broadly emarginate. Antennae with the third joint twice as long as the 

 second; from the fourth joint on, all joints are broad and flattened, entire 

 antennae black not testaceous. 



Thorax coarsely, moderately densely punctate with irregular smooth 

 callosities, especially along the middle, sides of thorax slightly arcuate, 

 widest just behind the middle and narrowing sharply at the anterior 

 fourth. Scutellum semi-circular, small. 



Presternum dull black not shining, an irregular slight depression ex- 

 tending around the sclerite just inside the border (Fig. i). From this 



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