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Page 116 - Entomological news and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Continued from vol.
Page 118 - ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA.
Page 136 - Association by transmitting proper credentials to the Secretary, and by authorizing him to sign their names to this constitution. Other persons engaged in practical work in economic entomology may be elected by a two-thirds vote of the members present at a regular meeting of the Association, and shall be termed associate members.
Page 56 - ... pauses an instant and immediately emits a rapid succession of sounds like chwi at the rate of about five per second, and continues them for an unlimited time. Another writer likens its note to the syllable "ik-ik-ik" as if sharpening a saw, enlivening low bushes and particularly the corn patch, as it seems to especially delight in perching near the top of a corn-stalk and there giving forth its rather impulsive song.
Page 138 - ... components from the atmosphere, immediately after the cooling of the primeval crust to the point of solidification. While the writer is not prepared to accept this view, he must bear testimony to the ability with which Professor Perry advocated it. The following papers were published by Professor Perry in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History : — Vol. XI., p. 341. December 18, 1867. Queries on the Red Sandstone of Vermont, and its Relations. Vol. XII., p. 214. December 2,...
Page 141 - March contained larva- and pupa about equally, bat no developed beetles. A larva that I observed go into the wood in April appeared as a beetle among the first of such as had presumably pupated in the fall. The number of these beetles obtained that and the present, season was great and afforded a good opportunity to observe individual variations, and they do differ greatly. In length from 8 to...
Page 141 - E. villosum and parallelum and their several synonyms, as far as I possess them, it was easy to pick out sets that would answer satisfactorily all their requirements, and I became satisfied that E. parallelum could not be separated. An inquiry of Dr. Geo. H. Horn elicits the following note and kind permission to use it : " Regarding the two species of Elaphidion (villosum and parallelum) of which you write, I can only say that my opinion, based on the series in my cabinet and an examination of those...
Page 139 - After hatching, the young larva (in the latter case) penetrates to the pith and devours it downwards till the woody base is reached, and so onward to the centre of the main limb ; here it eats away a considerable portion of the inside of the limb, and then plugging the end of the burrow, which it excavates towards the distal end, eventually falls to the ground with the limb, which being weakened, is broken off by the high autumnal winds. They exist here either as larvae or pupae till spring, and...
Page 138 - The author, as would have been expected of one of our best lepidopterists, familiar with the structure as well as the early stages, the form and coloring of butterflies, has followed closely in the lines of the classification made prominent in recent years by Bates, in which the Hesperidae are immediately preceded by their nearest allies, the Papilionidae. It remains only to say that a good deal of interesting reading will be found scattered through the portly volume, and that there are points in...
Page 221 - he had taken the moth, near Marquette, Lake Superior, on July 29th, this year. Mr. Smith considered it to be quite generally distributed, breeding in oak, willow and poplar. Mr. H. Osborn read a note on the occurrence of Cicada rimosa Say., in Iowa. Prof. OS Westcott, related the occurence of a large gathering of butterflies about the carcass of a dead dog at Port Arthur, in June last ; one hundred and ten specimens were counted, chiefly consisting of D. archipp-us and some L. arthemis, Colias and...