ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXXI. 



DECEMBER, 1920. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS 



Parshley — Hemipterological Notices I. 



(Tingidae) 271 



Malloch — The genus Aspistes Meigen 

 in North America (Diptera, Sca- 

 topsidae) 275 



Branch — A Webspinning Sarcophagid 

 Parasitic upon a Mantis (Dipt., 

 Orth.) 276 



Pierce — Studies in the Genus Myodites 

 Latreille (Coleoptera, Rhipiphori- 

 dae) 277 



Weiss & West — The Eggs of Bole- 



totherus bifurcus Fab. (Col.) 280 



Hebard — The Sarta Marta Region of 

 Colombia from an Orthoptero- 

 logical Viewpoint, with Deduc- 

 tions relative to Tropical Ameri- 

 can Collecting 281 



Ewing — New Predpceous and Parasitic 

 Mites of the Superfamily Gama- 

 soidea (Acar.) 286 



Chamberlin — A New American Amau- 



robius (Arach., Aran.) 293 



Changes of Address 293. 



Alexander — A New Species of Dixa 



from Argentina (Dixidae, Dipt.) . 294 



Editorial — Program and Price of the 



News for 192 1 295 



Meetings of Societies in the Christmas 



Holidays at Chicago 29s 



Weiss — Coleoptera Associated with 



Pleurotus ostreatus 296 



O'Kane — The Crop Protection Insti- 

 tute 297 



Entomological Literature 297 



Hemipterological Notices I. (Tingidae), 



By H. M. Parshley, Smith College. 



There is no more splendid instance of the scientific value of 

 careful collecting than that afforded by the work of Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson. For many years specialists in 

 every order of insects have made free use of her materials, 

 and still the riches of her collection are by no means exhausted. 

 The following notes on groups which have recently received 

 general treatment are based for the most part on material 

 which Mrs. Slosson has been kind enough to send, in spite 

 of difficulties due to ill health; and I would express my sense 

 of obligation for these and many other favors. 



Gargaphia bimaculata sp. nov. 



Head, disc of pronotum with basal one-third of angulate process, and 

 body black; antennae yellowish brown, the first segment except toward 



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