ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
VoL. XXXII. OCTOBER, 1920. No. 8. 
CONTENTS 
Cresson—Description of a New Spe- Conference of Economic Entomolo- 
cies of the Asilid genus Pogosoma BISES HOEY Set yee rt iel teeta a ara te Pere a 227 
(Diptera). ...... Ciph D Sae -> 2II | Reorganization of Division of Ento- 
Alexander — Undescribed Crane-flies mology at the University of Cali- 
from Argentina (Tipulidae, Dip- 4 i. 
a, a ore FORMIA Scans ore cP tene teen sscseles 227 
Mason—Cicindela nevadica LeConte TUE Se MAS MGS 
MGoOleOpeles ac. aask a Paces 221 Pennsylvania.................. 228 
Martin—Notes on the Genus Hetaer- Entomological Literature............ 229 
ius and Descriptions of three Review of Blatchley’s Orthoptera of 
By ae ea eens ies any - 222 Northeastern America........... 233 
Beg eo Seren en Erice Doings of Societies—Entom. Sect. 
of the News be Increased?....... 226 Read ANKE, SG Phila ab 
Orthoptera: Tettigidae.............. 226 . ; Si te ae) a 233 
Some Collecting Activities during the Obituary—W. R. McConnell, J. R. 
Srimmcrofeslozony tae ale. 227 Sahlberg, J. Pantel.. Doncaster, 
Williamson—The Cornell University H. Loomis.......-...+--..+-+.. 239 
Entomological Expedition to Malloch—Additions to the Recorded 
South America of 1919-20....... 227 Illinois Reduviidae (Hem.)..... 240 
Description of a New Species of the Asilid genus 
Pogosoma (Diptera). 
By E. T. Cresson, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. 
The species of this genus are always interesting. They 
seem to be distributed in most of the world faunas. Kertesz, 
in his Catalogus Dipterorum, lists eleven species: Four from 
Europe, four from the East Indies, two from North America, 
and one from Mexico. In working over the collection here, 
in connection with some material collected by F. M. Jones 
in the western states, this genus was brought to my atten- 
tion by a female from California. On comparing this speci- 
men with another female without data, a male from Colo- 
rado, and another male from New Jersey, I found many dis- 
agreements in characters which seem worth while consider- 
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