ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXIX. DECEMBER, 1918. No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Swain— Miscellaneous Studies in the Editorial — Rules and Suggestions for 



Family Aphid idae (Hem., Horn/).. 361 our Contributors 3S9 



Skinner — A Gynandromorph of Callo- Parshlev — Bibliography of the North 



samia angulifera and Melitaea American Hemiptera in Prepara- 



phaeton aber. streckeri ( Lep. ). . . . 369 tjon 391 



Dozier— An Annotated List of Gaines- Entomological Collection's of the late 



ville. Florida, Coleoptera ... 370 ^y. H. Harrington 391 



Howard — A >.ote on Insects Found on , ., t ■ . i r-„i" . c xt a ,, .„, 



Snow at High Elevations 37^ ^ ^^''' ^"' °^ Coleoptera of N. Amer. 392 



Change of Address -,77 Huguenin— Early appearance of Lv- 



Honors to Entomologists 377 caena antiacis and xerxes (Lepid.) 



McDunnough- Dates of Issue of the '" I9i7 392 



Plates of Gui^rin's Iconographie du The Annual Meetings of Societies in 



Regne Animal (Lepid.) 37S Convocation Week 393 



Blaisdell— Studies in the Tenebrionid 1 Entomological Literature 394 



Tribe Eleodiini. No. 4 ( Coleop. ). 380 I Review of Bequaert : A Revision of the 



Schaus— .A New Agrias from Guate- ! Vespidae of the Belgian Congo 397 



mala (Nvmphalidae. Lep.) ^87 Obituary— John \V. Bradley, Vernon 



McAfee- Vaporous Discharge bv Am- King. David Ernest Lantz, Freder- 



somorpha buprestoides ( Orthop- ick Knab. V. A. E. Daecke and 



tera : Phasmidae 3SS ; Stuart C. Vinal 400 



Miscellaneous Studies in the Family Aphididae 



(Hem., Hom.).' 

 By Albert F. Swaix, University of California, Citrus 



Experiment Station, Riverside. California. 

 During the writers study of the California Aphididae sev- 

 eral questions relating to the identity and synonymy of various 

 genera and species have arisen. A few of these questions arc 

 discussed and the writer's conclusions given herewith. 



There is always present the question as to the proper limita- 

 tions of genera, which oftentimes is difficult to decide. As a 

 general rule, the writer does not believe in the formation of a 

 vast number of genera on slight structural differences. How- 

 ever, there are included in some genera species of such widely 

 different characters that, although a specific determination may 



^ Paper No. 50 — University of California, Graduate School of Trop- 

 ical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. 



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