ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

New York Entomological Society

Conomyrma Forcl and all its species were considered to belong in Dorjrm?mex Santschi, until Kusnezov (1952) separated the two genera, Dorymyrmex and Conotnyrtna. He further divided Conomyrrna into two subgenera, Biconomyrma Kusnezov and Conotnyrnta. Although these subgenera subsequently were elevated to generic status by Kusnezov (1 959), Biconot?lyrtna was later synonymized with Conotnyrrna by...

Washington Ornithological Society

Five new state birds revisited Dennis Paulson InWOSNEWS 30, I asked WOS members to submit a list of the five birds they predicted would be added to the Washington state list next. I also got the experts to reply to the same request. We eight "experts" of the Washington Bird Records Committee gave it our best tries (in fits of indecision, some submitted lists of more than five, but they were pru...

The Helminthological Society of Washington

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY of WASHINGTON A NEW SPECIES OF HISTURA RAZOWSKI (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE: POLYORTHINI) FROM GUATEMALA ATTACKING AVOCADOS (PERSEA AMERICANA) (LAURACEAE)

—Histura perseavora Brown, new species, from Guatemala, is described and illustrated. It is compared with Histura curvata (Meyrick) from Brazil and Histurodes costaricana Razowski from Costa Rica. All specimens of H. perseavora were reared from either fruit, fruit pedicels, or young green branches of avocados (Persea americana Mill.; Lauraceae) during efforts to identify lepidopteran pests of t...

The Helminthological Society of Washington