Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (V. 26 1924)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...London, since 1895, a member of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, and several other entomological societies, and was for several years associated as a subeditor with the London Entomologist, and was president for the ensuing year of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, a local society chiefly devoting its observations to the bionomics of the native insect fauna of the archipelago. The deceased leaves a wife, a little daughter, and an aged mother to mourn his loss. The following papers were accepted for publication: NOTES ON THE FAMILY Dalceridje. Lepidoptera; Dalcerida?. By Harrison G. Dyar. I first gave a synopsis of the genera of this interesting little family in 1898 (Joum. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vi, 231), recognizing five genera. Later, Mr. Schaus published a table (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxix, 331, 1906), in which ten genera are distinguished. Not much has been added to our knowledge since that date, but I think an improvement can be effected by a change in the order of the characters used in the table, with the suppression of one genus. Two other genera are here recognized, bringing the number up to eleven. The family is allied to the Cochlidiidae. I have never seen a larva of any species of the group, and know of but two descriptions. These are of the larvae of Acraga flava Walker and Acraga moorei Dyar and are quoted below. The description implies a form like our cochlidian hocJuctes heutenmuelleri II. Edw., without the hairs and with the processes even more easily detachable. If this interpretation of the description is correct it will furnish some interesting deductions as to the relationship of the Dalceridse and also as to the antiquity of the Phobctron type of larva, to which hochiptcs belongs. Synopsis...