S SSS 3S SS = AQ WA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/canadianentomol01 ento 4 fs hd ve THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. VOLUME T. EDITED BY THE REV €..J. S. BETHUNE, NEA, SECRETARY TO THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. TORONTO: COPP, CLARK & CO., 17 & 19 KING STREET EAST 1869. ‘ ee vcs CO., PRINTERS, W &19 KING STREET FAST, AND 18 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO. ate? EN DEXL.O VOLUME IL. —e—_ Acronycta superans, 85. Aellopos tantalus, 10. Agrotis murenula, 86. Alder-bud gall, 81, 89. American Entomological Society, Transactions of the, 63. American Entomologist, 14, 49. American Entomology, Record of, 64, 84. 4 American Naturalist, 50. Amherstburg, Visit to, 19. Amphion nessus, 48. Anarta luteola, 87. Acadiensis, 87. Anchylopera fragariz, 89. Anisopteryx vernata, 88. ‘' 4. Anomis grandipuncta, $7. Arctia parthenos, 5. phalerata, 27. Saundersii, 27. Arenetra Canadensis, Cresson, 36. Argynnis Aphrodite, 75. Atlantis, 9. Bellona, 57. — ——— Mpyrina 55. Arotes Amcenus, Cresson, 34. formosus, Cresson, 34. Banchus borealis, Cresson, 33. Canadensis, Cresson, 34. ———— Flavescens, Cresson, 33. Bethune, Rev. C. J. 8., Articles by, 2, 9, 17, 45, 47, 81, 85. Billings, B., Articles by, 28, 47, 60, 80. Book Notices, 14, 22, 30, 62, 83, 90, 108. Books Received, 15, 31, 48, 49, 63, 72, 83, 91, 102, 109. Callimorpha Lecontei, 20. Calpe Canadensis, 71. | Capnia pygmeea, 81. Captures, 107. Caradrina multifera, 85. Carpocapsa pomonella, 89. Catocala cara, 19. Chierocampa tersa, 19. Chionobas jutta. 9. Cicindela limbalis, 13. —— longilabris, 13, 68. Clementi, Rev. V., Articles by, 29, 62. Coleocentrus Pettiti, Cresson, 35. Coleoptera of London, 69. ——— of Grimsby, 106. Colias philodice, 54. Correspondents, to, 15, 23, 32, 42, 64, 72, 84, 92, 109. Couper, W., Articles by, 57, 61, 67, 68, 77. Crabro 6 maculatus, Nest of, 77. Cresson, E. T., on Canadian Ichneumonide, 33, 103. Cressonia juglandis, 48. Cucullia convexipennis, 86. Curculio new to Canada, 89. Danais archippus, 19, 74. Darapsa or Otus, 21. Darapsa pampinatrix, 27. Daremma undulosa, 17, 31. Datana Angusii, 46. — Contracta, 46. Deilephila lineata, 42. Donations, 59, 70, 72, 109. Double broods, 41. Drasteria erechthea, 4. Dryopteris irrorata, 46. —— rosea, 46, Echthrus abdominalis, Cresson, 3’. —— niger, Cresson, 37, Edwards, W. H., Articles by, 22, 59, 80, 102. “Butterflies of N. America,” 22, 43, 91. Entomological Notes, 3, 25, 53, 65, 73, 93. peeopolesieal Society of Canada, Meetings of, 7, 27, 70. Ephialtes macer, Cresson, 35. Erebus odora, 32, $8. Euceros burrus, Cresson, 104. Canadensis. Cresson, 103. Couperii, Cresson, 104. ——— Synopsis of species of, 104. Exchanges, 8, 23, 30, 42, 50, 90, 110. Figuier’s Insect World, 31. Fluid for preserving Larve, 6. Grape-seed, Larva infesting, 20. Graphiphora Dahlii, 8. ———- triangulum, 86. Grote and Robinson’s list of Lepidoptera, 30. Hemorrhagia gracilis, 10. thysbe, 10. Hager, Hair Snakes, 69. Hair Snakes, 62, 69. Hardwicke’s Science Gossip, 91. Hawthorn fruit miner, 82. Hesperia hobomok, 66. mystic, 65. thanaos, 100. ——-——_ wamsutta, 69. Hyphantria textor, 46. Ichneumonide, Canadian, 33, 103. Ichthyura inversa, 46. Introductory, 1. Knaggs’ Lepidopterist’s Guide, 108. Larentia geminata, 89. Larvee, Luminous. 2, 14, 29, 38. - Musical, 40, 47, 48. - New Fluid for Preserving, 6. Larva infesting Grape-seed, 20, Last moth of season, 47. Le Naturaliste Canadien, 49, 63, 72. Lepidoptera, Diurnal of Ottawa, 47. ————_ Notes on Canadian, 9, 17, 45, 70, S65. Lepisesia flavo-fasciata, 10. Libythea Bachmani, 25, Limenitis arthemis, 95, disippus, 94. Lissonota brunnea, Cresson, 87. frigida, Cresson, 36. rulipes, Cresson, 86. Lixus concavus, 89, iv INDEX. London Branch, 39, 108. Luminous Larvee, 7, 14, 29, 38. Lyecena neglecta, 100. pembina, 10, 12. ——— violacea, 26. Mead, T. L., on Musical Larve, 47. Melanactes, 38. Meliteea, phaeton, 28, 41, 59, 60, 80, 102. Meniseus Bethunei Cresson, 105. Musical Larvie, 40, 47, 48, Neenia typica, 87. Northern Inseets, 67. Nova Scotia Institute, Proceedings of, 109. Orgyia Nova 46. Osten Sacken, Baron R., Articles by, 38, 89. Packards’ Guide to the’Study of Insects, 22, 48, 638, 83. Papilio machaon, 22. —-— thoas, 19. ——-— troilus, 73. -— turnus, ¢3, 74. Parasites of Vespa Maculata, 61. Parthenos nubilis, 88, 107. Pempelia grossulariz, 89. Perithous pleuralis, Cresson, 36. Pettit, J., Articles by, 47, 106. Philampelus pandorus, 11, 26. Photuris pensylvanica, 39. Pieris rape, 11, 21 Platarctia borealis, 45. Platysamia Columbia, 46. Plusia mappa, 87. Polyommatus Americana, 4. ————_——— Epixanthe, 8, 57. thoe, 57. Pyrameis cardui, 93, ——--—— huntera, 105. Record of American Entomology, 64, $4. Reed, E. B., Articles by 19, 21, 40, 69, 107. Remigia latipes, 88. Rhyssa Canadensis, Cresson, 35. Riley’s First Report on Insects of Missouri, 90. Ritchie’s Coleoptera of Montreal, 102. Saguenay, Ent. Notes, During Trip to, 11. Sanborn, F. G.. on Musical Larvee, 48. Saperda cretata, 19. Saunders, W., Articles by, 3, 11, 20, 53, 65, 73, 93, 105. Science Gossip, Hardwicke’s, 91. Scudder’s Butterflies of New England, 82, 101. Orthoptera of N. America, 62. - Revision of Mole Crickets, 83. Smerinthus excwecatus, 48. Snow-flies, 81. Sphinx cinerea, 27. - depraved taste of a, 47. - quinque-maculata, 27, 41. Spider’s nests, 57. Spilosoma Isabella, 26. Sprague, P. 8., Articles by, 21, 41. Syneda hudsonica, 87. Thecla Acadica, 95 A new, 21. ——— calanus, 10, 98. ——W— falacer, 10, 98. ——-— inorata, 10, 57,£99. ——— mopsus, 96. ——— niphon, 95. ——— strigosa, 10, 99. Theridion, Nests of, 58. Thorn leaf gall, 68, 97. Thyreus Abbottii, 10. Tremex Columba, 29. Trochilium candatum, 18. Vanessa Antiopa, 75. — interrogationis, 76. milberti, 76. Vespa maculata, parasites on, 61. Volume, our new, 103. Wallace’s Bombyx Yama-mai, 91. Walsh, B. D., on Thorn leaf gall, 79. Winter collecting, 47. Xanthia ferrugineoides, 47, 86. Xorides vittifrons, Cresson, 37. Xylina Bethunei, 86. ERRATA. Page 19, 7th line from bottom, for Avetia, read Arctia. s 6th a Us cone 4o. Oth: re top msds, Lot fe se “ 92 9nd «“ «“ oe ord ue “ For other Errata, see page 84. be 46 to 52, respectively. Coleopetra, read Coleoptera. constantly, read constant. Phesia, read Plusia. teta, read leta. Acadia, read Acadica. Pages 44 to 50 are numbered improperly, they should Che Canadian Gntomolomst VoL. I. TORONTO, AUGUST 1, 1868. No. 1. INTRODUCTORY. For a long time, the wielders of the Butterfly net and Beetle-bottle in Canada have been longing for some medium of intercommunication—some mode of telling one another what they have taken, how and where they have takeu it, and what they are in want of. This desire the Entomologi- cal Society purpose now to satisfy to some extent by the publication of the Canadian Entomologist. It is but a few years since the Society itself began as a little germ with a few members, and now we find it rapidly growing into a goodly tree with its main trunk in Toronto, its thriving branches in London and Quebec, and its scattered adherents all over the country. We trust that the success of this publication may be some- what similar ; it begins now with a few pages, a limited circulation, and a very small supply of the necessary funds, but we hope and believe, too confidently, perhaps, it may be—that it will by and by grow and increase, and acquire goodly dimensions, and become a handsome and valuable exponent of the progress of Entomological Science in this Dominion. May we beg, then, that all zealous Entomologists around us will come forward and assist the enterprise with at any rate their pens, if not always with their purses too. And now for a word as to the proposed character and contents of the work. The Canadian Entomologist is intended to contain original papers on the classification, description, habits, and general history of Insects ; the transactions of the Entomological Society of Canada ; short notices of new works on Entomology ; accounts of the capture of new or rare species in Canada ; lists of specimens for exchange, and desiderata, by members ; correspondence, answers to correspondents ; notices to members, and suitable advertisements. It will be published not oftener than once a month, and only when there is a sufficiency of suitable matter for publ- cation ; its terms are gratis to members of the Society; 50 cents per volume of 12 numbers to non-members ; extra copies will be sold at the rate of five cents each, or fifty cents per dozen. Any contributions to the ‘publication fund will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged. Zz THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. All communications and remittances should be addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Entomological Society of Canada—‘‘ THE Rev. C, J. S. BETHUNE, CREDIT, ONTARIO, CANADA.” A LUMINOUS LARVA. BY THE REV. C. J. S. BETHUNE, M.A. On the sth of July, a friend brought me a very remarkable Larva that he found in a field the previous evening, and which had attracted his attention by the light it emitted. When alive it was about an inch and a half in length, and 0.25 inch in width across the middle, its general appear- ance being long and narrow; it is flattened above, and composed of twelve segments (exclusive of the head) ; each segment is broad and cut squarely, and overlaps the following one, the posterior angles being a little acute ; the anterior segment is gradually narrowed in front and rectilineally truncate, forming a shield to the head which is retractile within it; each of the first three segments has a pair of claw-like legs attached to it be- neath. The general colour of the insect is a dark drab, the posterior angles of each segment, the softer connecting portion between the segments, and the under side of the body being very much paler, and of a somewhat dirty yellow hue ; on each side there is a deeply impressed line in which the spiracles are situated. When seen in the dark the insect presented a very beautiful appearance, being apparently ringed and dotted with green- ish fire. Each spiracle appeared to be a point of bright greenish light, and the division between each segment a line of the same colour ; it looked, indeed, as if the whole insect were filled with fire, which shone out wherever it was not concealed by the dark shelly integument. When coiled up on its side it looked like a lovely Ammonite whose striz emitted a green light, and with a point of green fire in each interspace. The morning after receiving the insect, I left home in order to attend the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society at London, where the specimen attracted much attention; unfortunately I was unable to ‘ind out its proper food (which I now fancy must have been snails and slugs), and when I reached home, ten days afterwards, the worm, to my great regret, was dead, and I have failed in rearing it. On comparing, however, Westwood’s description and figure of the larva of the English Glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca), | cannot but think that my specimen is a closely allied species, and belongs at any rate to the family Lampyridz. Az the London Meeting it was mentioned that a similar luminous larva had deen captured in that neighborhood some years ago, but that nothing had deen determined respecting it. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 2 The chief point of interest in this case is the luminosity of a Larva. Everyone in this country is well acquainted with the light-giving powers of our common winged “‘ Fire-flies,” and most of us have seen specimens of the female apterous “ Glow-worm” found in England ; but that a larva should possess this singular property is a novelty to us all. On looking up various authorities I find that Westwood mentions that the males, pupz, larvee, and even the eggs of the English Glow-worm are slightly luminous ; and Kirby and Spence refer to a few similar instances. The last mentioned authors (Letter xxv.) also give an account of the various theories respect- ing the origin of this light, to which we would refer our readers. Professor Croft, who examined my specimen at London, has since written to me as follows :—“ Burmeister found the larva of Lampyris splendidula phos- porescent—he does not say how. Treviranus seems to have found that the light-giving substance (whatever it is) is diffused throughout the whole body of the insect, and that the appearance of the light in the thorax of later noctilucus, and in the abdomen of the different species of Lampyris is due to these special portions being composed of a fatty matter which allows the light to pass through. It is generally believed that the light-giving substance is phosphorus or some compound thereof, the light being caused by the air supplied by the breathing apparatus. Now, if we allow this to be true, z.e., that the whole of the body of the insect becomes luminous under peculiar conditions, then, as your larva was composed of dark brown segments separated by lighter partitions, which apparently expanded as the heart moved, we can account for the very beautiful appearance it exhibited—the light shining through the paler or fatty- covered portions. It may perhaps be the larva of a Lampyris.” Should any of our readers have met with similar larve, or be able to afford us any information on this interesting subject, we shall be very glad indeed to hear from them. ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. PAPER No. rt. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONTARIO, On the morning of the 12th May, while rambling about on the edge of a wood near London, I happened to observe some chips from a newly felled tree strewing the ground. While turning them over in search of insects, the sight of an object I had never seen before excited my curiosity, It was the full grown larva of a butterfly—a Po/yommatus or Thecla—I was not sure which. It had just stretched a silken thread across its body to aid in securing it to the spot selected in which to pass the crysalis 4 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. stage of its existence. As soon as possible, with the help of a magnify- ing glass, I took the following description :— Length, 0.45 in., greatest width, 0.20 in.—onisciform. Body, above, dull rosy red, with a diffused yellowish tint on the sides, most distinct along the middle segments, and a dorsal line of a deeper shade of red. Body downy, with minute yellowish and brownish hair, scarcely visible without a magnifier. On the 16th of May it changed to a chrysalis, and on the 28th the following description was taken :— Length, 0.40 in., greatest width, nearly 0.20 in. ; Color, pale, dull brownish red, with many black dots ; a ventral streak of brown, dotted with black, with two diverging branches on anterior portion of body ; a baid of the same color across the base of the head, and a short cross line about midway between these. On each side of the body are three rows of black dots, one dot on each segment in each of the rows, the two upper ones extending from the 6th to the 11th segment inclusive—the lower one the whole length of body. Below these are a few additional black dots, very minute. Body thickly covered with very brownish dots, and roughened with minute pale tubercles. On the 3rd of June the chrysalis began to grow darker, and soon a reddish lustre shone through the thin membrane covering the wings ; on the 5th the imago was produced, which proved to be /olyommatus Americana. These observations seem to establish this point : that the insect passes the winter in the larva state, probably nearly full grown. The chrysalis period was no doubt prolonged in the present instance by being kept zx a cool room. Drasteria erecthea is one of our commonest moths—common almost everywhere. It is one of the earliest on the wing in spring, and speci- mens of the second brood may be found up to quite a late period in the autumn. It frequents open places on the grassy sides of railway tracks, in fields and meadows, suddenly starting up before you and, after a short but rapid flight, as suddenly alighting. About the middle of August I captured a female specimen and con- fined it in a pill-box, where, a few days afterwards, I found it had deposit- ed anumber of eggs. These, in a short time, hatched, and from a num- ber of different kinds of leaves, put in for the larva to feed on, they selected clover, on which they were easily reared. By the 21st of Septem- ber they were full grown, in.fact several specimens had already entered the chrysalis state. On that date the following description was taken :— Length, 1.25 in. Body thickest along the middle segments, somewhat smaller towards head, but tapering much more towards posterior segments. Head medium sized, flattened in front, pale brown, with darker longitudinal lines, — THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 5 Body, above, reddish brown, with many longitudinal lines and stripes of a somewhat darker shade. A double, whitish, dorsal line, with a stripe on each side of the darker shade of brown ; another stripe of the same hue close to stigmata, and between these are faint longitudinal lines. Spaces between segments from fifth to eighth, nearly black above ; this, however, is only seen when the body is coiled up, which the larva readily does when disturbed. Under surface slightly darker than upper, with many longitudinal lines of a still deeper shade, and a central stripe of blackish green from 6th to gth segments ; feet and prolegs greenish, semi-transparent, with faint lines, and dots of a darker shade. This larva has only three pairs of prolegs, and in its movements resembles the true Geometer’s. Early the following spring the chrysalides pro- duced the imago. During the summer of 1866, late in July or early in August, a female specimen of that very rare moth, Arctia parthenos, was captured by Mr. B. Billings, of Ottawa. While confined in a box it deposited a number of eggs, which, a few days afterwards, produced the young larva. These fed readily on lettuce and other herbaceous plants, so that they were reared without difficulty until they were about half or two-thirds grown. The season was now advanced, and they refused to eat any more. At this period of their growth it appears they hybernate for the winter, hiding in crevices, and under loose pieces of bark on trees, &c., and finish their growth the following spring. For want of circumstances favorable to their preservation many of them shrivelled up and died. Several specimens were sent to me to see if I could winter them, and from one of these the following description was taken :— Length, 1.25 in., cylindrical. Head medium sized, bilobed, black and shining, with a few brownish hairs. Body, above, black, with transverse rows of shining tubercles, rather large, and of a dull, brownish-white color, excepting a few on anterior segments, which are black. From each tubercle arises a tuft of brown hair. The hairs on anterior segments and around the base of body are rather short, the other long, silky, of a slightly paler shade of brown, and extending backwards, overhanging the segments behind them. Stigmata elongated, and of a yellowish orange color. Under surface black, with a slight brownish tinge ; 5th, 6th, rrth and 12th segments, with a transverse row of black tubercles in continuation of those above, each emitting several short, dark brown hairs. Feet black, banded with whitish brown ; prolegs black without, tipped with greenish brown. I was unfortunate with my specimens ; Mr. Billings was equally so. Mine were buried in a box, under the ground, thinking this would preserve them in a uniform state of moisture. When taken up in the spring two of 6 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. them showed signs of life, but they soon dried up and died. By confining female specimens (especially such as are in a damaged condition) of our rarer moths in boxes eggs may often be obtained ; and from these, with attention and care, the history of the species may be worked out. NEW FLUID FOR PRESERVING LARVZ, &c. A cheap fluid for the satisfactory preservation of larvze and other soft animal forms has long been a desideratum among naturalists. The following solutions, prepared by Professor Verrill, and published by him in SiZZiman’s Journal, have been found satifactory for the preservation of both the color and form, as well as the structure of larva, fishes, mollusks and leaves of plants :— SOLUTION A. 1; (which may be kept in wooden casks.) Rock Sallie. irks. si. US iy sea area re veverevereneaens 40 Oz. Nitre:\(nitrate® of, potassa)!ac wore). ee ni 4 02. SOft Water sites cuseueencha suet teatieteter heist ds gallon. —_ This is the final solution in which all invertebrate animals must be preserved. A solution with double the amount of water may be kept, and called A. II.; another, with three gallons of water, will be A. III. SOLUTION: B: 1: Soft st water! | crarsrcictare ae ct cap dere pote 1 gallon. Solution As Hr! isis, tetoleiomi deer eeievorensetoirs I quart. ATsemiates.Of pO tassa\., dsose-utolvismet acto jeieyersralt I) 0z. Another solution, with double the amount of water, may be made, and called solution B. II. To preserve insects with these solutions, they are placed first in solution B. I., but if the weather be cool it would be better to first employ B. Il. Ifthe specimens rise to the surface they should be kept under by by mechanical means. After remaining for several hours, or a day (vary- ing according to the size and the weather), in the B. I. solution, they may be transferred to A. III., and then successfully to A. II. and A. I., and when thus fully preserved they may be transferred to a fresh portion of the last solution, which has been filtered clean and bright, and put up in a cabinet, when no further change will be necessary, if the bottle or other vessel be properly secured to prevent the escape of crystal- lization around the opening. To prevent this, the stopper, whether of cork or glass, together with the neck of the bottle, may be covered with a solution of paraffine, or wax in turpentine, or benzole, which should be applied only when the surfaces are quite dry and clean. The length of time that any specimen should remain in each of the solutions is usually indicated by their sinking to the bottom when saturated with it. In many cases but two solutions below A. I. will be effectual, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 7 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held, by invitation of the London Branch, in their Rooms, City Hall, London, Ontario, on the 7th of July, at 3 p.m. The President, Professor Croft, occupied the chair, and the following members were present :—From Toronto, Messrs. Sangster, Clementi, Bethune, and Osler ; from London, Messrs. Saunders, Reed, Barber, Griffiths, Puddicombe, Denton, Chapman, Waterman, and Simpson. The Secretary-Treasurer read the minutes of the last meeting, the Financial Report, and the Reports of the Quebec and Toronto Branches ; on motion, they were adopted as read. Letters of apology for non- attendance at the meeting were read from various members who were unable to be present, and a communication respecting the 17th Annual Meeting of the Americin Association, to be held at Chicago, in August. The meeting then proceeded to the election of officers for the year 1868-9, with the following result :— President— Professor Croft, D.C.L., University of Toronto. Vice-Presidents—Johnson Pettit, Esq., Grimsby; Wm. Saunders, Esq., London. L£x-officio Vice Presidents — Rev. O. Brunet, President, Quebec Branch ; J. M. Denton, Esq., President, London Branch. Secretary-Treasurer—Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., Credit, Ontario. Curator—W. H. Ellis, Esq., B.A., Toronto. Council—G. J. Bowles, Esq., Secretary, Quebec Branch ; E. Baynes Reed, Esq., Secretary, London Branch; J. H. Sangster, Esq., M.D., Normal School, Toronto. Several American Entomologists of note were then nominated for election as Honorary Members at the next meeting. After some discussion, a resolution was unanimously passed respect- ing the publication by the Society of a small periodical to be called the ** CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST,” under the editorial management of the present secretary of the Society. At six o’clock the meeting adjourned till 8 o’clock p.m., when the members proceeded to the examination, comparison, and discussion of Longicorn Coleoptera. Large and interesting collections of this family of insects were exhibited by Messrs. Saunders, Croft, Bethune, Reed, Sangster, and Clementi, representing nearly all the species enumerated in the Society’s list as Canadian, and also a few not before taken in this country. —A correspondent reminds us that the generic name Ofus (Nos. 13,14 and 15 in our ‘Notes on Lepidoptera ”) is pre-occupied in Ornithology, having been applied as far back as the days of Aristotle to the horned or eared owls. The usual 22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, rule is that no generic name shall be applied to more than one genus in any branch of Natural History, and hence Hiibner’s name for these Sphinges will have to be dropped, while we return to the more familiar apellation Darapsa. ‘The present rules of nomenclature are highly un- satisfactory and occasion naturalists an immense amount of useless labor ; we do hope that something may be done at the next meeting of the American Association to improve matters.—Ep. Can. Ent. PapiLio MACHAON IN British AMERICA.—I do not know whether the Canadian Entomologists are aware that P. machaon is found in British America. Some years ago I received several taken by Mr. Drexler at Rupert House, Hudson’s Bay.—Wmn. H. Epwarps, Coalburgh, Kanawha Co., West Virginia. NEW ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. A GUIDE TO THE Stupy oF Insects, and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.—For the use of Colleges, Farm-schools, and Agriculturists. By A. C. Packard, jun., M. D., Salem: Press of the Essex Institute. Parts 1 and 2, 1868. Price 50 cents each. This new work by Dr. Packard supplies collectors and students of insects in America with what they have long searched for in vain—a thoroughly good, reliable, well-illustrated manual of structural and system- atic Entomology, prepared by one who is a master in the science. We most strongly recommend all our readers to become subscribers to this work, and we assure them that they will find an abundant fund of interest and instruction. ‘The two parts already issued contain clear and concise descriptions of the anatomy, transformations, geographical and geological distribution, diseases, &c., of insects ; directions for collecting and pre- serving specimens ; a list of works on Entomology ; tables of classifica- tion; and the beginning of a_ systematic account of the order Hymenoptera. They are illustrated by 78 well-executed wood-cuts and two full-page plates ; each part consisting of about 64 clearly printed pages. The work is to be completed in 8 or 12 parts, issued at short intervals ; the author particularly desires that subscribers would remit for eight parts at once ($4 in U. S. currency), and thus materially assist the publishers in getting out the work. THe ButrerFLirs OF NortTH AMERICA: with colored drawings and descriptions. By W. H. Edwards. Philadelphia: the American Entomological Society. Part 1, April, 1868. Price $2. It would be difficult indeed to produce anything more beautiful or true to nature than these exquisite drawings of butterflies ; they vie in excellence with any European work that we have seen. Mr. Edwards, we THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23 understand, apart from his scientific attainments, has the finest collection of North American Diurnal Lepidoptera in existence. We can, therefore, have full confidence in his ability to carry out satisfactorily the magni- ficent work he has undertaken, of which the part before us is a worthy beginning. This part contains five large quarto plates of various species of Argynnis, viz: A. Diana, Cybele, Aphrodite, Nokomis and Atlantis, accompanied by descriptive letter-press of a valuable character. It is noteworthy that little or nothing is known of the larve of any of these five species, shewing us how much still remains to be done by Entomologists, and how far even the Butterfly field is from being worked out. Though the work is necessarily costly, it is yet one which no Lepidopterist can afford to be without, while at the same time it deserves the hearty support of all Entomologists, no matter to what order they devote their attention. Its publication at intervals of three months renders the expense of the subscription less onerous than were it to appear more frequently. EXCHANGES. EurRoPEAN NEUROPTERA.—Mr. R. McLachlan (20, Limes Grove, North, Lewisham, London, S. E., England, the well-known student of Neuroptera, desires to exchange European insects of this order for Canadian ones,—/Piryganide especially desired, but all will be accept- able. Specimens for transmission may be sent to the Editor of this Journal, Rev. C. J. S. BerHune, Credit, Ont. CaraBip#.—I should like to open a correspondence with any Entomologist in regard to exchanges of Coleoptera, especially Caradide. —PHuILip S. SPRAGUE, 141 Broadway, So. Boston, Mass. LEPIDOPTERA.—Canadian Lepidoptera, especially species of Catocala (C. relicta in particular) desired in exchange for American Lepidoptera. —JamEs Ancus, West Farms, N. Y. LepiporTErA.—In addition to the species mentioned in No. 1, Mr. G, W. Peck, o: New York, desires the following :—Arctia parthenos, Catocala relicta, C. briseis, Lycena pembina, and other more northern or eastern Lepidoptera. Good U.S. specimens in exchange. Apply to the EpIToR C. E. TO CORRESPONDENTS. M. S. R., Wooler, Ont.--Your specimens reached us in good order, thanks to careful packing. No. 1 is a rare wood boring beetle whose larva infests the Lombardy poplar, Balm of Gilead, and other trees ; its name is Prionus brevicornis, Fab. ; we should be glad of more specimens of it, if you have them to spare. No. 2 is, as you thought, the larva of 24 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. the Cecropia Emperor Moth (Sama cecropia, Linn). No. 3, Larva of the Yellow-necked Apple-worm (Datana Ministra). No. 4, Larva of the Apple Buprestis, Borer (Chrysobothris femorata) which is very destructive to young trees in many parts of the country. No. 5, a true Bug (Hemiptera) in its wingless state. We do not know its name. There were also enclosed three caterpillars, without numbers attached ; they had so lost their colors from preservation in alcohol that we were unable to determine them with certainty. SUBSCRIPTIONS to Vol]. I. have been received, with thanks, from the following :—Rev. R. B., Hamilton; Dr. R. R. S., Komoka; L. L., and Hi: “R. “W., Winona (per Mr. Pettit) ;:G. We 9P:,-New Yorks IPASiss; Boston, (Mass:'; ‘J.°C.,O'R., TKS, *On 9. "PAsst/'Gatharines7W she, Coalburgh, Va. Subscriptions to the American Entomologist from Dr. R. R. S., Komoka; W. H. M., Hamilton; R. N. B., Niagara; Rev. R. B., Hamilton%'O.)'TS, Wellington Squares‘T.,K; -andvOy uP seste Catharines. Letters received :—-H. L. M., Malden, Mass. (Nos. 1 & 2 sent; 75 cents in U.S. currency--S. M. L., Garrettsville, Ohio, ditto ; shall be glad to receive subscriptions from your neighborhood)--G. T. B., Quebec (a welcome letter)—-T. M. T., Halifax, N.S., (Happy to hear of your safe return). To meet the convenience of our Canadian readers we shall be happy to procure for them any of the Entomological works noticed from time to time in our columns ; the cheaper publications will be sent fost free on receipt of the prices mentioned. For sale, one copy of vol. i.,’several of vol. ii. of the Practical Entomologist, 50 cents each. We will furnish the Canadian Entomologist (50 cents) and the American Entomologist ($1.00), post-paid, for one dollar snd twenty-five cents ($1.25) per annum. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST is published, not oftener than once a month, by the Entomological Society of Canada at the following rates :— To members of the Society, gratis. To non-members (in Canada), 50 cents per vol. of 12 numbers. To non-members (in the United States), 62 cents per volume,—the additional 12 cents is for postage which has to be prepaid. (The ordinary U. S. fractional currency may be sent). Extra copies, 5 cents each, 50 cents per dozen. Suitable advertisements will be inserted on reasonable terms. WV. &.—Correspondence is invited respecting the habits, localities, occurrence, etc., of insects, as this journal is intended to be a medium for the recording of observations made in all parts of the country ; insects for identification will be gladly attended to and returned when desired. Any contributions to the publication fund will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged. All communications, remittances and exchanges should be addressed to ‘‘ THE REv. C. J. S. BETHUNE, Credit, Ont., Canada.” Che Canadian Entomologist. Wom: TORONTO, NOVEMBER 16, 1868. No. 4. ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES PAPER No. II. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. Whiie looking over some insects in Hamilton a few days since collected by Miss Mills, daughter of Wm. H. Mills, Esq., [ was de- lighted at finding aspecimen of Libythea bachmani, Kirtland, which is probably a variety of Z. motya, Boisd. It was almost entire, though somewhat beaten. The young lady had taken it on the beach at Hamil- ton early in August. . She found it settled on the sand, and it seemed at first partially torpid, but when captured used its wings freely in trying toescape. It isa very peculiar insect, with very long palpi. The following is a description of it. Palpi very long, fully one fifth of an inch, formed like a beak- brown above, whitish below. Body dark brown, with a faint metal- lic hue ; paler below. Wings angular, expand 134 inches. Primaries above dark brown, with three white spots arranged in a triangle near the tip. The up- per interior one largest, oblong, irregular in outline, divided by the nervules at its upper edge, ; ; the lower is also oblong but smaller ; the exterior is smallest and irregular in form. On the interior of the wing, beyond the middle, are two large fulvous spots, the upper elongated, pointed at each end—the lower oblong g, irregular, and di- vided near the middle by a dark brown nervule. Secondaries above dark brown, with a large irregular fulvous patch across the middle. Under side of primaries paler than upper, with the same white spots and fulvous markings, the latter somewhat larger and coalese- ing. The tip has a faint bluish tinge, with a slight iridescence. Secondaries with a wide brown border on hind margin, above - bluish, iridescent, streaked with brown. This butterfly is quite new to Canada, never having been taken here before to our knowledge. It is found in Ohio and in some other parts of the United States 26 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. A short time ago I forwarded to W. H. Edwards, Esq., of Coalburgh West Virginia, several specimens of Lycana, which I was in doubt about, for determination. Some were taken by myself about Lon- don, others had been received from J. Pettit, Esq., of Grimsby. In a recent letter Mr. Edwards informs me that the box was broken in transit and the specimens almost demolished, but he observed among the fragments wings of Lycwna violacea Edwards, one of which belongs toa female. This species resembles ‘‘ lucia” in ap- pearance; the points of difference between them are detailed at length by Mr. Edwards in the Proceedings of the Entomological So- ciety of Philadelphia, vol. vi, p. 201 to 204. I incline to think that the specimens sent Mr. Edwards, which he has determined to be violacea, were from Mr. Pettit’s collection, but cannot say positively. These additions, with the new species referred to in the last num- ber, by E. B. Reed, Esq., bring up our list of Canadian buttertlies to eighty-five. Philampelus satellitia.—One of our London Entomologists, J. M. Denton, Esq., has been so fortunate as to secure two specimens of the larva of this very rare insect thisseason. They were taken near- ly full grown on the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinqucfolia), they were of the dark variety, about three inches long, blackish brown, with six large oval cream-colored spots on sides ; these spots formed a very striking contrast with the general color. The usual caudal horn is replaced in this species by a smooth raised eye-like spot. One of these larvee is now in chrysalis. Several years ago a lady brought me a specimen of thesame larva, but I did not succeed in rearing it. These are the only instances known to me of the finding of this insect about London. On the 11th of August I was collecting insects near Milton June- tion, Wisconsin, on the Chicago and North Western Railway. While walking along the railroad track I observed a cocoon very like that of Sptlosoma Isabella, fastened to the upper part of the stem of an annual plant which, in consequence of the intense heat of the summer, was prematurely withering. I was much interested in this pupa. Could it be Isabella? If it were it must either be the cocoon of a larva of last year’s growth, which had spent the winter and nearly all the hottest part of the summer in the caterpillar state—a thought I could not for a moment eutertain—or it must be from a larva of the present year, resulting from eggs laid late in June. Both these conclusions being beset with difficulties, [inclined to the view that it might be the pupa of an Arctian I had not met before. So it was carefully boxed up. Early in September, after my return THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 27 home, this box was examined and found to contain a genuine Isa- bella moth recently escaped from the chrysalis. If this insect had been left to nature would it have spent the winter in a torpid state ; or would it have deposited its eggs and died before the severe weath- er came on ? But further. Early in September Mr. E. B. Reed, while collecting at Amherstburg, took a specimen of Arctia phalerata, Harris, and one of Arctia Saunderstii, Grote. My specimens of Saundersii have invari- ably been taken in June and July, and having reared this insect through its several stages, 1 am conversant with its history. It ap- pears in June, deposits its eggs early in July, and dies. The larve do not complete their growth the first season, some of them indeed do not acquire more than half their size when they hybernate for the winter ; completing their growth early the following spring, when they enter the chrysalis state and appear as moths in June again. Probably the habits and history ot Phalerata are similiar. How came it that these moths—good specimens too—were abroad in Sep- tember? During the latter part of August 1 was surprised to find the imago escaping from some chrysalides of Darapsa pampinatriz, which were obtained from larvee gathered late in July. I at first thought this might be an exceptional instance, but was soon convinced of the contrary by the appearance of a second brood of the cater- pillars on my grapevines, in numbers far surpassing the earlier brood. I also observed the moth about on the wing. Some of them appeared so late that the larvee have not had time to complete their growth and must necessarily perish. Only yesterday, October 8th, I found them not more than half grown, nearly frozen, clinging to the under side of the dry frosted leaves, which they could not eat. About the middle of September a friend of mine who had laid aside some pupee of Sphinx quinquemaculata for next year, was aston- ished to find the moths buzzing about in his box. They had all es- caped. My esteemed friend Rey. C. J. S. Bethune, informs me that he has had a similiar experience with the pupa of Sphinx cinerea. What is the occasion of all this? Can it be due to the unusual heat of the summer maturing these creatures before their time ? MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Society was held on the 10th inst. in the rooms of the Canadian Institute, Toronto; Mr. W. H. Ellis, Curator, in the Chair. After the reading of the minutes, the following gentlemen, nominated at the Annual General Meeting of the Society at London, were unanimously elected Honorary Members :— 28 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. K. T. Cresson, Esq., Secretary to the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia, W. H. Epwarps, Esq., Coalburgh, Kanawha Co., West Va. Pror. Townend Giover, Agricultural Department, Washington, D.C. Avueustus R. Grotr, Esq., New York. Dr. Grorce H. Horn, President of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. J. L. LeContr, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. A. S. Packarpn, Jun., Editor American Naturalist, Salem, Mass. C. V. Ritey. Esq., State Entomologist of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo. S. H. ScupprErR, Esq., Secretary, &c. to the Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass. Bens. D. Watsn, Esq., M. A., State Entomologist of Illinois, Rock Island, [linois. The following gentlemen were also elected members :— MarMADUKE 8. Ricumonp, Esq., Wooler, Ont., to be an Ordinary Member. Joun Fietcner, Esq., Detroit Michigan, (late of Oakville, Ont., ) to be a Corresponding Member. A vote of thanks was passed to F. Walker, Esq., of Elm Hall, Wanstead, Essex, England, for his kind donation of two boxes of specimens of various orders of British and Foreign insects. A collection of Cicindelide was exhibited by the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, after the examination of which, as well as of the new do- nations, the meeting adjourned. NOTICE OF A STATION FOR MELITAA PHAETON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF OTTAWA, ONTARIO. BY B. BILLINGS. Karly in July I accidently discovered a locality for this rare but- terfly within two miles of the city limits. It is an open swamp, densely surrounded with coniferous trees, which are almost imnpen- etrable except by a path which passes through them. It occupies an area of about eight or ten acres, with a ‘few scattered trees of Thuja occidentalis and Larix Ameri icana. The shrubs consist of Alnus incana, Rhamnus alnifolius, Rubus -triflorus, Ledum latifolium, and an occasional clump of Cornus stolonifera, Myrica Gale, and Salix candida. The principal herbaceous plants are Thalictruwm cornuti, Chelone glab- ra, Platanthera hyperborea, P. dilatata, Cypripedium pubescens, C. spec- tabile, and a few grasses and sedges Aspidiwm Thelypteris is very THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 29 abundant, and the surface to a great extent is covered with several species of our most common Hypnum. This season I watched faithfully for the appearance of the imago, making occasional visits to the spot during the month of June. It was first observed on the 8rd of July, and between this time and the 20th I made five or six excursions, capturing during the period over 200 specimens. I seldom met with them on the wing, but generally resting on the alders or ferns. They were not difficult to capture, appearing quite tame, and when aroused would fly but a few yards and alight ; even if one escaped from the net it would fly but a short distance, and could be easily recaptured. On dull days they were quite sluggish, sleeping exposed on the upper surface of leaves, and readily taken without the aid of the net. It is not improbable that they are double brooded, the larve pro- duced from the eggs of the second brood not appearing until the fol- lowing spring. I conjecture this from the circumstance of having two years ago seen a female late in August or early in September. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. CAPTURE OF TREMEX CoLuMBA.—One of the objects which the promoters of the Canadian Entomologist had in view, in the establish- ment of that periodical, was, I apprehend, to convey information respecting the appearance of various insects, whether of common or of rare occurrence, within the limits of our province. Under this impression, I send you a notice of the capture of some specimens of the Tremex Columba in our village, a few days ago. Last March, an oak, measuring nearly three feet in diameter at the butt, was felled and chopped into cordwood lengths. One of the pieces, a portion of the main stem, was split up the other day, and placed close to a stove for immediate use. On being thus subjected to the influence of heat, several individuals of the insect, in the imago state, crept out, from various perforations, in a semi-torpid condition, that is to say, they appeared barely able to crawl about, and made no attempt to use their wings or even to hasten their pedal movements for the pur- pose of escaping capture. On further search larve were also dis- covered in the wood. I regret to add that all the specimens I found were females. Their length, exclusive of the ovipositor, was 13s in. This is the first occasion of my discovering these insects in this locality.— Vincent CLEMENTI, North Douro, Ont- Luminous LArv«&.—With reference to our occount of a Luminous Larva in No. 1, Mr. W. Couper, Ottawa, writes :-—‘‘I frequently found larvee of Lampyride in daytime under moss and bark of decayed trees, but never noticed them produce light, as you describe. Ido not recol- 30 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. lect seeing larve of Lampyris of the length of an inch and a-half. I enclose the exuvia of a larva of one of the genera of this family, which I found under bark here. Has it the form of your insect? I do not believe that the larve of Lampyris enclose themselves in co- coon-like balls such as are formed by the larvee of Geotrupes and Os- moderma. As youcan see from the exuvia, its transformation is evidently similiar to that of Dermestes lardarius, and other active Coleopterous larvee.” [Our larva was immensely larger and quite different from the owner of the exuvia sent us by our correspondent : his looks very like the larve of Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus, a very common insect here, figured in the last number of the American En- tomologist, but we could hardly judge from a cast-off skin. We have, however, sent it, together with a luminous female captured by Mr. James Angus at West Farms, N. Y., and another taken by ourselves here, to Philadelphia, for identification.— Ep. C. E. EXCHANGES. Kuropran Diprpra, &c.—I have a large number of English, Euro- pean, and Exotic Diptera, entrusted to me for sale or exchange ; in the latter case, Hymenoptera, particularly the parasitic species, and minute Coleoptera, are chiefly requested in return.—F. WALKER, Elm Hall, Wanstead, Essex, Eng. CoLnoprera.--| have been collecting Coleoptera for many years past, but am still in want of many northern species; shall be glad to exchange.--J. Akuurst, 414 Prospect Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. LEPIDoPTERA.—I wish to obtain any species of Labrador or other far north butterflies, for which I would make a good return. I have a large number of specimens of various Catocalas, which I would gladly exchange for the following species: C. relicta, wniyjuga, uxor, eprone, polygama, briseis, vidua. —James ANGUS , West Farms, N. Y. * We insert lists of specimens for exchange, free of charge to sub- ser bere Of course it is understood that an actual quid pro quo is not expected, but that all Entomologists are willing to help one another to the best of their ability, without making a mercenary transaction of the exchange. NEW ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. List oF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF NortH America. By Aug. R. Grote & C. T. Robinson. Part I. Philadelphia: American Entomological Society. September, 1868. In 1860 the Smithsonian Institution published a catalogue of the described Lepidoptera of North America, prepared by Rev. Dr. Mor- 1is, which proved valuable to students of this order of insects. Since THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ol then vast strides have been made in the study, a multitude of new species and new genera have been added to our Fauna, and thorough revisions of the synonymy, nomenclature, and natural affinities of many families have been published; a new list has thus become an absolute necessity to those who desire to keep up with the progress of the science. We are glad to find that Messrs. Grote & Robinson have undertaken the work, to properly accomplish which no more competent Entomologists could have been found. The part before us contains the Sphingide, A¢geriade, Thyride, Zygaenide, and Bombycide ; the Butterflies are soon to follow, but the remaining families of moths are to await the publication of mono- graphic papers now in course of preparation. The listis clearly and beautifully printed in the same style as Dr. LeConte’s Catalogue of Coleoptera. Among the Sphinges we notice that the name Otus has been dropped and Darapsa resumed, the former being preoccupied in Ornithology, as we observed in our last issue; in the case of Daremma undulosa, Walker’s specific name is retained. The publi- cation of this List will render unnecessary our doing more than merely referring to the changes of name in Canadian species in our notes on Lepidoptera, as the synonyiny is fully given in regular sequence. Might we suggest to our authors the publication of a List with reference to descriptions, in a similar manner to Melsheimer’s and Morris’ Catalogues, so that the student might know where to look for descriptions of the species and genera? THE Insect WoriD; being a popular account of the orders of In- sects, together with a description of the Habits and Economy of someof the most interestingspecies. From the French of Louis Fig- uier. Illustrated by 564 wood-cuts, by M M. E. Blanchard, Dela- haye, after Reaumur, etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1868. Toronto: Adam & Stevenson. Price $4.50. The title of this handsome work, which we have given in full, will afford our readers a good idea of its general character. It is a po- pular and very readable book, profusely illustrated,.and as far as we can judge froma limited examination, quite reliable in its statements. It will no doubt be found valuable by beginners in Entomology, though to residents in America it possesses the draw- back of referring for the most part to European species of insects, which are not found on this side of the Atlantic. BOOKS RECEIVED. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Taken trom the Society’s Records. Vol. xii., June to October, 18638. The American Entomologist. St. Louis, Mo., October and November, 1565. The Maine Farmer. Augusta, Me., September 3, 10, 19, 26, October Be LO 17. ©32 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. TO CORRESPONDENTS. M. $8. H,, East Liverpool, Ohio.--The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist was published by the Natural History Society of Montreal. It commenced in February 1856, since which time eight volumes of the old series, and Vols. i. and i1., with three numbers af Vol. ii. of the new series, have been published. The last number, that for May, 1867, appeared in January last, since which time we regret to say, the publication has been discontinued, but we trust it will soon be resumed, J. F., who has lately removed from Canada to Detroit, Mich., wishes to know whether there are any Entomologists in his new place of abode. We do not know of any ourselves, but perhaps some of our readers, who may be better acquainted with the locality, will kindly inform us. G. M. M., Fort Reynolds, Col.—Have sent a specimen number as desired. B. B., Ottawa; T. R., Montreal.—The cork, we regret to say, has not yet arrived ; we shall send you the quantities you desire im- mediately upon its receipt. SUBSCRIPTIONS to Vol. i. have been received, with thanks, from the following :---H. L. M., Malden, Mass.; E. L. G., and J. A.. Brooklyn, N. ¥:3 Dr. W..E. Ms Grimsby, Ont.; J. A,, West Warns, IN. Ve: F.G. $8. (with addition from 8. H. 8.) Boston. Mass. To Vol. i., with the American ‘Entomologist, from Dr. R. H. G., Bayfield, Ont., and Rev. L. P., Portneuf, P. Q. B. B., Ottawa, Ont.—The large Moth, of which you sent us a drawing, is a specimen of Erebus odorva, Linn. This fine insect has also been taken at Toronto, by Dr. Sangster, who kindiy gave us an opportunity of comparing his specimen with your drawing. THE Canapian Entomotoerst is published, not ofteuer than once a month, by the Entomological Society of Canada at the following rates :— To members of the Society, gratis. To non members (in Canada) 50 cents per vol. of 12 numbers. To non-members (in the United States), 62 cents per volume,—the additional 12 cents is for postage which has to be prepaid. (The ordinary U. 8. fractional currency may be sent). Extra copies, 5 cents each, 50 cents per dozen. Suitable advertisements will be inserted on reasonable terms. V. B.—Correspondence is invited respecting the habits, localities, occurrence, etc., of insects, as this journal is intended to be a medium for the recording of ob- servations made in all parts of the country ; insects for identification will be glad- ly attended to and returned when desired. Any contributions to the publi ation fund will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged. € All communications, remittances and exchanges should be addressed to ‘THE Rey. C. J. 8S. Beruune, Credit, Ont., Cunada. ” Che Canadian Entomologist. Vou. I. TORONTO, DECEMBER 15, 1868. No. 5. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CANADIAN ICHNEUMONID%. BY E. T. CRESSON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1, BANCHUS FLAVESCENS.—Male. Pale yellow; a bilobed mark behind antenne, extending between them downward upon middle of face, band across vertex from eye to eye, covering ocelli, posterior margin of occiput, maxillary palpi, two apical joints of labial palpi, antennae above, stripe on middle of mesothorax, dilated anteriorly, a stripe on each side over the wings, basal suture of scutellum, base of metathorax, broader laterally, spot on each side of pleura posteriorly, posterior coxae within, their femora beneath, apex of their tibiae, and a broad band at base of four basal segments of abdomen, black ; antennae ionger than body, slender at tips ; scutellum witk an acute dusky spine; wings hyaline, faintly yellowish, nervures brown, stigma and costa pale honey-yellow ; posterior coxae and femora stained with ferruginous ; abdomen shining, short, apex broad, truncate and compressed. Length five lines. Hab.—Ottawa, C. W. (Mr. Billings.) Ooll. Am. Ent, Soc. 2, BANCHUS BOREALIS.—Male. Pale ferruginous, shining ; orbits, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, and four anterior legs yellowish: stripe down middle of face, spot beneath eyes, two spots behind antennae, band across vertex from eye to eye, covering ocelli, posterior margin of occiput, three broad stripes, sometimes only one, on mesothorax, basal sutures of scutellum and meta- thorax, spot on pleura beneath, posterior coxae within and at base beneath, line on posterior femora beneath, and a sub-basal fascia, sometimes irregular, on second and following segments of abdomen above, becoming less distinct on apical segments, black ; sometimes the pleura is black with a large fer- ruginous spot on each side ; posterior tibiae dusky at apex ; wings yellowish- hyaline, subviolaceous, slightly dusky at apex, nervures brown, stigma and costa honey-yellow ; antennae brown above ; scutellum with an acute spine ; metathorax rugulose, posterior angles prominent; abdomen smooth and shining, first segment with promineat stigmatic tubercles. Length 54 lines. Hab.—Ottawa (Billings); London (Saunders), Coll. Am. Ent. Soc, 34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 3. BANCHUS CANADENSIS.—Male and female. Ferruginous, dark on head and thorax ; face except central stripe, front except two black spots behind antennae, broad posterior orbits, line on collar, two lines on mesothorax dilated anteriorly, tegulae, line beneath, scutellum, spot on postscutellum, transverse subangular band on metathorax, spot on each side, elongate spot on pleura, four anterior coxae beneath, trochanters, spot on posterior coxae behind, four anterior femora in front, their tibiae and tarsi, basal half of posterior tibiae, base of their tarsi, and apical margin of abdominal segments, broadest on second and third, yellow ; antennae blackish, pale at base beneath ; central dark stripe of mesothorax, sometimes black ; scutellum w.th a short acute tubercle in male, scarcely visible in female ; wings yellowish-hyaline, nervures brown, stigma and costa pale honey-yellow ; tips of posterior tibiae sometimes black- ish ; abdomen polished, compressed at apex, which is truncate in male, pointed in female. Length 43-5 lines, Hab.—Ottawa (Billings); London (Saunders), Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 4 AROTES AMOENUS.—Female. Black, shining ; face, orbits, broad behind, mouth, broad annulus on antennae, large mark on each side of prothorax, margins of mesothoracic lobes, tegulae, spot beneath, scutellum, large trilobed mark at tip of metathorax, a round spot on the flanks, large mark on each side of pleura, indented with black anteriorly, four anterior legs, spot on posterior coxae above and beneath, their trochanters, tips of their femora, basal third or half of their tibiae, their tarsi except claws, and a narrow apical fascia on all the abdomiual segments, pale yellow or yellowish-white ; wings hyaline, the extreme apex fuscous, nervures black, second recurrent nervure not uniting with the transverse cubital nervure ; four anterior femora black behind ; first abdominal segment with a prominent sub-basal tooth beneath ; venter yellowish, the long acute ventral valve blackish; ovipositor longer than body, rufous, sheaths black. Length 64-75 lines, Male of a brighter yellow ; antennae longer than body, yellow, only its basal half above, black ; posterior coxae yellow with a black line above and within, their femora black above, except tips, sometimes only the extreme base of their tibiae are yellow- ish ; the abdominal fasciae are broader, and the basal segment has a central yellow stripe more or less abbreviated behind, and sometimes reduced to a sub-basal spot. Length 55-65 lines. THiab.—London (Saunders); Grimsby (Pettit). Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. This is a handsome and conspicuous species. 5, AROTES ForRMosUS.—Male. Differs from qamoenus by the yellowish markings being much paler and less developed; the antennae are black at extreme apex both above and beneath, the sides of the thorax are almost entirely black ; the superior wings have a fuscous spot at extreme tip, and the THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 35 second recurrent nervure unites with the transverse cubital nervure, by which character it may be readily distinguished from amoenus, Length 55 lines. Hab.—Ottawa (Billings), Coll. Am, Ent, Soc. 6. CoLEOCENTRUS PETTITIL—Female. Black, somewhat shining; wings yellowish-hyaline, nervures black, houey-yellow at base. areolet small, triangu- lar, petiolated ; legs honey-yellow, coxae and posterior tibiae black, posterior tarsi yellow, dusky at base ; abdomen broad at apex, which is compressed and shining ; ovipositor as long as body. Length 63 lines. Hab.—Grimsby, C. W. (Pettit). Coll, Aw. Ent. Soc. in this genus the last ventral segment is long and lanceolate, as in Arotes, but which has the areolet of anterior wings wanting. This fine species is respectfully dedicated to Johnson Pettit, Esq., of Grimsby, to whom 1] am indebted for many specimens of Canadian Hymen- optera. 7. RHyssa CANADENSIS.—Female. Black, shining ; anterior orbits, inter- rupted on each side of antennae, palpi and tegulae white ; antennae brownisi at tip and beneath ; mesothorax coarsely transversely rugose ; metathorax with a broad, deep, longitudinal chaunel on the disk; wings hyaline, faintly stained with yellowish, nervures black, pale at base, as well as extreme base of stigma, areolet minute, petiolated, sometimes reduced to a mere point ; legs bright honey-yellow, tips of all the tarsi, extreme tips of posterior femora, and base and apex of their tibiae, fuscous, middle of tibiae pale ; abdomen long, minutely transversely aciculate ; ovipositor longer than body, piceous, sheaths black. Length 7-8 lines. Hab.— Quebec (Couper). Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. Mr. Couper informs me that this insect was found “ boring into a pine tree.” 8. EPHIALTES MACER.—Female. Slender, black, shining, with short, thin, glittering, cinereous pile; cheeks and sides of thorax polished; clypeus reddish ; palpi whitish ; metathorax with a shallow central channel ; tegulae, and sometimes a short line in front, whitish ; wings hyaline, beautifully iridescent, nervures brown, areolet triangular ; legs honey-yellow, front coxae, except dusky spot in front, their trochanters, and apex of four posterior trochanters, whitish ; tips of posterior femora, their tibiae and tarsi more or less dusky, the tibiae more or less pale at middle and within, and sometimes the middle tibiae and tarsi are varied with dusky, the posterior coxae in one specimen are dusky behind; abdomen long, cylindrical, surface uneven, densely punctured and somewhat shining, subpubescent, posterior margin of the segments unevenly transversely wrinkled, first segment shorter than second, the second to fifth one-third longer than wide; ovipositor twice, sometimes nearly four times longer than body, very slender, rufous, sheaths ] 36 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. black. Length 45 lines ; with ovipositor 11-19 lines. Male has antennae brown, pale beneath ; legs paler than in female, the anterior coxae and trochan- ters white, posterior legs more or less obfuscated, base of their tibiae and of their tarsi white ; abdomen with first segment about as long as second, with two longitudinal ridges, most prominent at base. Length 23-3 lines. Hab.— Ottawa (Billings) ; London (Saunders). Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. This is the smallest and most slender of our North American species. 9 PERITHOUS PLEURALIS.—Female. Black, shining ; anterior orbits. basal margin of clypeus, mandibles, palpi, scape beneath, tip of scvtellum, spot beneath posterior wing, arched line on tip of melathora: four anterior coxae, all the trochanters, anterior legs in tront, and posterior margin of abdominal segments, interrupted laterally by a dusky spot, white; scutellum, pleura, sometimes the anterior portion of mesothorax, tibiae,and posterior coxae, honey- yellow ; antennae brownish ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures brown, pale at base, as well as a spot at base of stigma; tibiae and tarsi whitish, tips of posterior femora, a line on outside of all the tibiae, encircling the apex of posterior pair, and tips of tarsal joints, blackish; segments of abdomen shining, with a lateral blister-like elevation on each, two basal segments with thick coarse punctures, remainder with sparse punctures ; ovipositor longer than body. length 45-6 lines. Hab. -Grimsby, C. W. (Pettit). Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. Closely resembles the European P. mediator, but differs in the ornamentation of the legs. 10. ARENETRA CANADENSIS.—Male. Deep black, densely and coarsely punctured ; head, thorax and base of legs, thickly clothed with short black pubescence, most dense on the head ; antennae long, slender; wings hyaline, nervures black, areolet small, triangular, subpetiolate; apex of femora, the tibiae and tarsi dull testaceous, posterior pair pale fuscous ; abdomen narrow, subdepressed, shining at tip, apical margin of third and following segments with a very narrow pale fascia. Length 5 lines. Hab.— London, C. W., (Saunders), Coll. Am. Eat. Soc. Very closely allied to A, nigrita, Walsh, which has the pubescence less dense, and whitish. 11. LissonoTaA RUFIPES.— Female. | lack, somewhat shining; legs rufous, the coxae, trochanters, and posterior tibiae and tarsi black ; middle tibiae and tarsi sometimes dusky; wings dusky hyaline, iridescent,:nervures black, areolet small, petiolated ; abdomen shining at tip; ovipositor longer than body; body densely punctured, most sparse on abdomen. Length 43 lines. Hab.—Grimsby, C. W. (Pettit). Coll. Am, Eut. Soc. 12, LissoNoTA FRIGIDA.—Female. Black; head and thorax densely punctured, opaque; abdomen shining, delicately punctured, polished at apex ; wings dusky hyaline, iridescent, areolet triangular, not petiolated; legs, includ- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 37 ing coxae, and abdomen except base of first and the two or three apical seg- ments, rufo-ferruginous; four posterior trochanters and posterior tibiae and tarsi fuscous; ovipositor as long as body. Length 3 lines. Hab.—Ottawa (Billings); London (Saunders). Coll, Am, Ent. Soe. 13. LissoNOTA BRUNNEA.—Female, Entirely brownish ferruginous, sub- opaque, four anterior legs paler ; body covered with dense punctures ; anterior orbits, mouth and tegulae, yellowish ; wings yellowish-hyaline, nei vures black, areolet small, petiolated ; ovipositor as long as body, rufopiceous. Length 5-54 lines. Hab.—Ottawa, C. W. (Billings), Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 14, XORIDES VITTIFRONS.—Female, Black, shining ; anterior orbits, face except upper margin, spot on base of mandibles, palpi, line on collaz, lateral margin of mesothorax, spot on scutellum, another on post-scutellum, tegulae, and narrow fascia on apical margin of each segment of abdomen, abbreviated laterally on basal segments, white ; wings hyaline, nervures black; legs, including coxae, boney-yellow ; anterior pair and spot on base of posterior coxae above, yellowish ; apex of posterior femora, their tibiae and the four posterior tarsi, fuscous ; mesothorax transversely rugose, middle lobe very prominent ; metathorax rugulose, sub-pubescent ; ovipositor as long as body, slender, reddish, sheaths black, Length 9 lines. Hab,—London, C. W. (Saunders), Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. The white spot on the face is more or less indented with black above, and sometimes com- pletely divided longitudinally by a black line; the posterior legs, except coxae, are sometimes more or less obfuscated, with the extreme base of their tibiae pale. 15, EcutHrus NIGER,--Female, Deep black, sub-opaque, mesothorax shining ; tip of labrum, annulus on antennae, tegulae, and the diJated anterior tibiae in front, white ; legs tinged with piceous ; wings hyaline, faintly dusky at tips, nervures black ; metathorax rugose, elevated on the disk ; ovipositor longer than body, reddish, sheaths black, whitish at tip within. Length 74 lines. Male.—Smaller and very slender, shining ; antennae entirely black, nearly as long as the body; lateral margin of face, tip of labrum, spot on clypeus, spot beneath eyes, tegulae, tips of anterior femora, and a line on out- side of all the tibiae, white. Length 6 lines, Hab—Ottawa, C, W. (Billings). Coll, Am. Eat. Soc. Very closely allied to the European 7. reluctator, but readily distinguished by the white tegulae. 16, EcTHRUS ABDOMINALIS.—Female. Black, sub-opaque ; antennae with a broad whitish annulus ; wings hyaline, tinged with yellowish, nervures black, stigma reddish; palpi, legs and abdomen, rufous ; tegulae reddish ; ovipositor 2) Os THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, as long as the body, reddish ; metathorax as in the preceding species. Length 6 lines. Male.—Much slenderer than female, with lateral margin of face, scape of antennae beneath, and tegulae, pale ; antennae entirely black ; posterior tibiae dusky, their tarsi pale ; abdomen petiolated, long, thickened toward apex. Length 5} lines. Hab,—Ottawa, C, W. (Billings). Coll. Am. Ent. Soe. LUMINOUS LARV. We have received the following note from Baron Osten Sacken, of New York, on the subject of our larva : — “ A luminous larva is mentioned in your No, 4, p. 30. Is it not the larva of Melanactes, described and figured by me iu the Pro. Ent. Society, Phil. 1862, p. 125, Tab. i. fig. 8, under the name of ‘ Unknown larvae ?’ “ At that time I was uncertain about the genus of the larvae, as well as about the fact of their being luminous. But in a notice which was published in the same proceedings subsequently I communicate the fact, that 1 found the same larva alive, that it zs luminous, and that it probably belongs to the genus J/elanactes. ‘““The latter article I cannot refer to now, as I have not the book at hand. But it may be found in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., in one of the years after 1862, in the form of a letter read at one of the meetings of the Society. “R. OSTEN SACKEN” The notice referred to we have found in the Pro. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. iv- No. 2, in the minutes of a meeting of the Society held on April 10, 1865 (p. 8). The Baron, after referring to his paper and figure ia 1862, states that, ‘ Last September Mr, J. Carson Brevoort was fortunate enough to find one of the large larvae near West Point, N. Y., under a stone. The specimen is three inches long, and belongs to the same species as that which I had figured. In the dark, this larva emits a soft green light, shining principally through the sides of the body and the venter ; on the back it appears only in the intervals between the horny segments. The whole length of the larva being thus illuminated in the dark, when it moves briskly about, it is a most beautiful object. The larva is still alive, although I have little hopes that it will undergo its transformation in captivity. But 1 have not the slightest doubt now that it belongs to J/e/anactes, the more so as this genus, in Dr. LeConte’s arrangement, is placed in the same subtribe (Corymbitini) with Pyrophorus. At the time when I first described this larva, all the large specimens which I possessed came from the South (Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana), and I was not aware that such specimens could be found in the Middle States, and as the largest J/c/anuctes occurs in the latter States, this made me doubt that the larva could belong to that genus. The discovery of THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 39 the larva in the State of New York removes this doubt. Since it is settled that the larva is an elaterideous one, its structure only gains in interest. As I have shown in my paper, it has more the character of the Lampyridae than of the Hlateridae, and, remarkably enough, it has very little resemblance to the larva of Pyrophorus. The latter reproduces the common type of the Elateridae, and is very like the larva of Alaus.” Our larva, of which we gave a description in No. 1, p. 2 (this description had probably not come under the notice of Baron Osten Sacken when he wrote to us), corresponds very closely in structure and luminosity to the Melanactes larva above referred to, and. we now believe, is a species of that genus. It chiefly differs from that described by Baron Osten Sacken in size, being only 1.50 in. in length, coloration, and in being less convex above. The friend who brought me the specimen states that he had frequently seen » these “ glow-worms” before on his farm, so I trust some more will turn up next year, and that I may have the good fortune to rear a specimen. The larval exuvia sent us by Mr, Couper (vide No, 4, p. 29), is believed by Dr. LeConte to belong to Photinus borealis, Randall; its luminosity has not yet been ascertained, On the 3rd of September, 1868, in the damp misty evening, we captured in a wooded valley close to a little stream, a larva whose anal segments were brilliantly and steadily luminous ; a few weeks later we received a similar larva from Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, N. Y., which he found in a path on the night of the 15th of October, being attracted to it by its light ; a few days after he found another of the same species under a stone, which also emitted light when kept till evening. These specimens have been deter- mined by Dr. LeConte to belong to the common Photuris pennsylvanica, DeGeer; the larva and beetle are figured in the October number of the American Naturalist, p, 432, We are very much obliged to our correspondents for the kind assistance they have given us in the investigation of this, to us, interesting subject.— Ep. C. E. LONDON BRANCH, ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, CANADA, MONTHLY MEETING. The regular monthly meeting of this Branch of the Society was held on Friday, October 20th, at 8 o’clock, p. m., at the residence of Mr. Charles Chapman. Six members were present, The minutes having been read and signed, the Rev. R, H. Starr was duly elected a member. Messrs. Saunders and Reed were appointed a committee to confer with the Church of HKagland Young Men’s Association, as to giving an Entomological Entertainment under the auspices of the Association. 40 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. The members expressed the great pleasure it gave them to welcome back to London their esteemed friend and former President, the Rev. G. M Innes, who has been in ()uebec for the last four years. Mr, Saunders exhibited specimens of the Tree Cricket, Oecanthus niveus, with examples of their destructive work on raspberry canes, and the young wood of plum trees; this insect deposits its large eggs in a row in the centre of the twig or cane, and thus weakens it so as to cause it to break off from the weight of foliage in early spring. A copy of the first two parts of Mr. Elwards’ excellent work on the Butterflies of North America was also on the table, the plates of which were much admired. A MUSIOAL LARVA. BY E. B. REED, LONDON, ONTARIO. On September 10, 1868, during one of our regular Monday morning excursions, I captured on a beech tree, a short distance from London, a larva which I judged to belong to the Smerinthian genus. Its chief peculiarity, to which I wish to call attention, was its power of emitting a singing noise when handled or disturbed. The noise was similar to that produced by that pretty little beetle so common in our gardens, Lema frilineata, This is the only instance of a musical larva that I have met with, nor do I remember to have ever seer any mention in entomological books of a similar case. I should be glad to know, Mr, Editor, if you, or any of your correspondents, have ever noticed this musical power in any larva? or if you can explain the manner in which the noise is produced. My specimen was full grown, and in a couple of days duly passed into the pupa stage under the earth in a flower-pot, which I duly deposited in my winter box that I keep buried in my garden, but to my great disappointment it shared the fate of most of the Smerinthian larvae I have ever attempted to rear, and although it survived the winter, it failed to reach maturity. I subjoin a description of this larva, as possibly some of your correspondents may recognise it. Length 1}1nches. Body tapering anteriorly. Head large, triangular; of a deep shining green color, with lateral yellow stripes, a reddish spot at the apex ; a paler green and granulated on the back of the head behind the stripes. Mandibles black. Body apple-green, thickly covered with small greenish-yellow granulations ; the anterior segments semi-transparent ; on each side seven faint greenisn- yellow oblique stripes edged anteriorly with large granulations, the central stripes having a reddish tinge, the last stripe wider than the rest and terminating at the base of the caudal horn ; the latter at an angle of 20°, recurved backwards, purplish red and thickly granulated; the anal plate with THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 4] a central elongated black patch with a larger granulation on each side. Stigmata small, round, and dull red. Under surface slightly paler than the upper, with a darker central line. Feet pale green, spotted with red ; prolegs greenish, semi-transparent. Nort sy Ep, C. E.—This description corresponds very nearly to that of the larva of Smerinthus excecatus, by Mr. Lintner (Pro. E. S. Phil. iii., p. 665). We have never ourselves met with any Lepidopterous larva that emitted sounds; the imago of Sesca thysbe is described by Dr. Gibb (Can. Nat. and Geol. 1859, p. 122) as giving forth a loud and most striking note, “something like the squeaking of a mouse or a bat,” which he attributes to the action of the respiratory organs, The well-known European Death’s- bead moth (Acherontia atropos) emits a somewhat similar noise, even before leaving the pupa case, as well as afterwards; Kirby & Spence state further (letter xxiv.), that “its caterpillar, if disturbed at all, draws back rapidly, making at the same time a rather loud noise, which has been compared to the crack of an electric spark.” MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. DousLE Broops.—If others take as much pleasure in reading your little Journal as I do, possibly my mite of information may be acceptable. Mr. W. Saunders has asked a question, in the concluding part of his paper, No 2, for November, although I cannot give an answer, yet I believe J can throw a little light upon the subject. In the summer of 18651 fed upon the potato the larva of Macrosila celeus, G. & R. (Sphinx 5-maculata), which came out of the chrysalis in August. I then made record of the fact which to our entomologists was new. The following year I also raised upon the potato Macrosila carolina, Clems., a pair of which came out in September. The same year I also raised from larva Hemileuca maia, Walk. (Saturnia masa, Harr.), part of the brood coming out in October, and one deformed specimen in the following May. Miss. O. Guild, of Walpole, Mass., a close and careful observer and a reliable naturalist, informs me that her experience with the last named species is, that of the same brood of larvae all going into the chrysalis nearly at the same time, part come out in October and others not until the following October, some lying in the chrysalis one year longer than others. I have been puzzled to account for their seeming irregularities, but as instances of the fact increase, conclude it is a provision of nature that our lack of knowledge only makes it strange. In Mr. B, Billings’ article in the same number of your paper he enquires if Melcteea phaeton may not be double brooded. Mr, Scudder, in his list of butterflies of New England, says, ‘I have taken the caterpillar just ready to change, upon the barberry 42 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. in the middle of May; does the larva hibernate?” He also says, “it is very rare in Mass.” (1863). I with many others had been in anxious search for this beautiful butterfly up to 1866 without success, except in the extreme southern part of the State; now all of a sudden in this year (1866) they were found in their special localities, low and swampy meadows, quite plentiful, and have continued still more plentiful (from June 17 to July 8) to the present time. Dr. Harris collected in this vicinity from about 1825, and with a few exceptions never had met with it, It is possible that in some instances they may be double bronded. but 1 have never met with it out of its special season—PuHILie S. SPRAGUE, 141 Broadway, South Boston, Mass. OCCURRENCE OF DEILEPHILA LINEATA IN ENGLAND.—In the September and October numbers of the Hxtomologists’ Monthly Magazine (London, Eng ) there are numerous accounts of the capture of this handsome sphinx in various parts of England. Is this the same species as that taken in this country, or is it the European D. livornica, the D. lineata of Fabricius’ later works, and of Stephens? EXCHANGES. CoLEoPpTERA.—I am desirous of exchanging Coleoptera, as I am forming a collection of North American Coleoptera, and wish to get every species from every part of North America in which it may be found. If you can put me in the way of any Canadian collectors who wish to exchange, I should be very much obliged. I have at present a collection of about 2,000 species, mostly from New England, N. Y., Penn., D. C., and Mich.,—very few Northern or Western species, and am desirous of making arrangements to get such.— E. P. Austin, Cambridge, Mass. Hymenoptera.—Mr. E. T. Cresson, of Philadelphia—whose valuable paper, contaiuing original, hitherto unpublished descriptions, of new Canadian species of this order, we print on a previous page—begs to inform the Ento- mologists of Canada that he will be glad to determine specimens of Canadian Hymenoptera for any one who will send a duplicate set, duly numbered to correspond with their cabinet specimens, to the care of JeANSON PETTIT, Ese, Grimsby, Ont., who will forward them to him. He will describe all the new species thus received in the Canadian Hntomologist. There is a peculiar fauna in this country of which he would like to get a good collection so as to make the species known to science, We trust that all our Canadian readers will send on what undetermined Hymenoptera they have, and make a point of collecting diligently in this interesting order next year.—Ep, C. E. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 43 NEW ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. THE SutTTerFLIES oF Norta# AMERICA; with colored drawings and descrip- tions. By Wm. H. Edwards. Philadelphia: The American Entomological Society. Part 2, August, 1868. Price $2. The second part of this magnificent work, to which we have already drawn attention, is now before us. It contains five beautifully colored plates, and descriptive letter press; the species figured (none of which are Canadian) are Argynnis callippe, Boisd., taken in California; A. hesperis, Edw., from Colorado ; Colias Alerandra, EKdw., from Empire City, Colorado, “ high up in the mountains, near the Snowy Range;’ CC. Helena, Edw., from Mackenzie's River; C. Christina, Edw., from Slave River; C. Behrii, Edw., from among the Yo Semite Mountains, California, at an elevation of about 10,000 feet above the sea; Apatura Alicia, Edw. (new species), from New Orleans. BOOKS RECEIVED. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Taken from the Society’s Records. Vol. xii., Oct. 7 and Nov. 4, 1868. The Maine Farmer, Augusta, Me., Nov. 7, 14, 1868. From Prof. Townend Glover, Washington, D. C., a series of his admirably executed plates on the cotton plant and the insects injuring it, and on Diptera, &c., in all forty-three plates. A valuable addition to the, at present, small library of the Society; and for which we beg the author to accept our best thanks. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Rey. L. P., Port Neuf, P. Q.—The following are all of your Coleoptera that we are able to determine as yet; we shall endeavour to have the rest named for you shortly. (3) Oxytelus sculptus, Grav. (5) Hylastes pinifex, Fitch, (6) Hylastes? (7) Dinoderus substriatus, Payk. (9) Tacyporus jocosus, Say. (10) Dzbolia aerea, Mels. (11) Paria 4notata, Say. (12) Haltica? (14) Pterostichus lucublandus, Say. (15) we take to be an Amara, not a Pterostichus ; the species of this genus are very difficult to determine; your specimen differs from all in our cabinet. V.S. C., Covington, Ky.—Your letter was received after our article on ‘‘ Lu- minous Larve” was in type. The specimen enclosed which, you say, when taken last June, was luminous, and had power to put out its fire at will, is the larva, we think, of a Photuris, but different from any that we have. Your com- mon fire-fly is, you state, Photinus centrata, Say; it is not taken in Canada, our commonest phosphorescent species being Photuris pennsylvanica, DeGeer. Stain- ton’s ‘‘Manual,” vol. ii. (London, Van Voorst, 1859, price 10s.), contains a synopsis of the genera and species of British Micro-Lepidoptera; his ‘‘ Entomolo- 44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, gist’s Companion” (Van Voorst, 3s.), is a manual on the J'ineina: the most complete work is his ‘‘ Natural History of the V'ineina” (Van Voorst, 12s. 6d. each vol.), which is published in annual volumes since 1856. American species and genera are described by Dr. Clemens in the Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, 1859, pp. 256 and 317 ; 1860, pp. 4, 161, 203, 345, and 433; and also in the Pro, Ent. Soc. Phil. We do not know of any work on the Micro-Homoptera. We can supply you with the Cork you require, but how shall we send it? The charges by express would be more than double its value for so small a quantity ; by Post it would have to go at letter rates, as there is no Parcels Post between the two countries. Supscriprions to vol. i, have been received from the following :—E P. A., Cam- bridge, Mass.; H. F. B., Waterbury, Conn.; Miss E. R. C., Amherstbuig, Ont. (per Mr. Reed), and Dr. A. 8. P., jun., Salem, Mass. (2 copies, for the library of Bowdoin Coll., Brunswick, Me., and the Portland Soc. Nat. History). Letrers Recetvep.—E. T. C, Philad. (3. Many thanks); Prot. 'T. G., Washing- ton, D. C.; Dr. J. L. LeC., Philada.; 8. H. S., Boston, Mass.; Dr. G. H. H., Philada.; B. D. W., Rock Island, Ill.; T. R., Montreal (with P. O. O.); J. A, West Farms, N. Y. 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CatLimoreHA LE ContTe!, Boisd.—In our List as a Hypercompa. Grote and Rob., in their valuable “ List of Lepidoptera,” p. viii, enumerate no less than seven varieties or synonyms of this species, of which C. Con- tigua, Walk., was included in our list. This is certainly a well-marked and constant form, and can hardly, we think, be merged into Lecontes until both have been reared from the same larvae. Mr. Saunders (vide C. E., No. 3, p- 20) has been the first to rear and describe the larva of any species of this genus, 33. CALLIMORPHA INTERRUPTO-MARGINATA, Beauv.—Formerly known as a Hypercompa. What a pity that we cannot substitute Harris’ short and appropriate name Anchora for the species ! 34, PLATARCTIA PARTHENOS, Harris.—This new genus, which includes five species, has been separated by Dr. Packard from The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist with the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Montreal, New series, Vol. iii, Nos, 4, 5, and 6, Jan to Dec., 1868. ($3 per vol.) 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History and Condition of the Portland Society of Natural History from 1866 to 1869, We know of no scientific society that has been so singularly unfortunate as that of Portlana, Maine ; twice its hall and cabinets have been destroyed by fire. In 1854 it lost every species of property that belonged to it by the burning of the Custom House, and in the fearful conflagration of 84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1866 it lost its commodious building, splendid collections, everything indeed except its library, which was only saved by the exertion of a few of the mem- bers and at the peril of their lives. It now appeals for help from Naturalists everywhere, in the shape of books, specimens, and money, for which returns of native specimens will be made as far as practicable. We shall be happy to receive and forward any specimens that our Canadian readers may send us for the purpose. The Record of American Entomology, 1869 Weare glad to learn that a sutiicient number of subscriptions has been received to warrant the issue of this annual, the prospectus of which we published in No. 7, As the book will be larger than at first imagined, the price to new subscribers is raised to $1. Subscriptions to be sent to W. 8. West, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. TO CORRESPONDENTS. SUBSCRIPTIONS REcEIVvED,—To Vol. i, from W. V. A., New York; H.S.S., Buffalo ; Prof. A.J. C., and Agricult. College Lib., Lansing, Mich., (per G. T. F.); C. S. M., Boston, (per R. P. Studley & Co.) ; E B, Boston ; 10 subscrip- tions per American Naturalist’s Book Agency. W. V. A., New York.—Notices of specimens for sale can only be inserted as advertisements, the rate for which is ten cents per line ; ditto for exchange, gratis to subscribers. The Ailanthus grows very well in this part of Canada. E. H. C., New York.—Your note of January 28, we chanced to receive at the Toronto P. O. the other day—our address is “ Credit, Ont.” Specimen numbers sent. PosTAGE FROM THE UNITED StatTEes.—We would respectfully remind our correspondents that the postage on letters from the United States to Canada, is sev cents; a three cent stamp on such letters is merely thrown away, as we are then charged the unpaid rate of ten cents ; it is rather aggravating to find thirteen cents paid between us, when six cents are all that are necessary. EXCHANGE OF LEPIDOPTERA.—I should be glad to get up an exchange of Lepidoptera with some Canadian collector—W. V. ANDREWS, 130 Charlton Street, New York. Errata.—No, 3, page 18, 4th line from bottom, for Calliu-orpha read Callimor- pha. No. 6, pege 48, 4th line from bottom, for President read Press. No 7, page 60, third line from top, for larval read chrysalid. No. 7, page 68, fourteenth line, for Mr. Cresson of Philadelphia read Mr, Scudder of Boston. The American Entomologist ($1) and the Canadian .Entomologist (56 cents) will be furnished post paid, for one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per annum, All communications, remittances and exchanges, should be addressed to “THE Rev. C. J. 8. BerHunE, Credit, Ont., Canada.” The Canadian Entomologist. BE Vor. I. TORONTO, MAY 15, 1869. No. 10. | NOTES ON CANADIAN LEPIDOPTERA, ; PART IIl. | BY THE EDITOR. : (Continued from page 72.) } Tn our last notes we mentioned the names of various species of moths that, 90 various grounds, are to be dropped from our list of Canadian Lepidoptera ; we now proceed to mention those that are to be added to the list, as having been captured or determined since its publication in 1865. These, of course, are only what have come under our own notice, but we have no doubt that the number might be largely increased by our readers, notwithstanding that the last two years have been so peculiarly unfavorable to the collectors of Lepidoptera in this country. Acronycta occidentalis, Grote & Rob. (Pro. Ent. Soe. Phil. vi. 16)—Taken at London by Mr. E. B. Reed. _ Acronycta funeralis, Grote & Rob. (Pro. Ent. Soe. Phil. vi. 17, pl. 4.) _ —Taken at Grimsby by Mr. Pettit. _ Acronycta morula, Grote & Rob. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. 196, pl. 3.) Several specimens taken at sugar, at Cobourg. _ Acronycta superans, Guén.—Numerous specimens taken at Cobourg in dune, 1865, at sugar. This handsome species may be readily distinguished 4 by its dark primaries, which are conspicuously mottled with white, and have _a luteous or orange-coloured spot at the base of the inner margin. _ Hydrecia sera, Grote & Rob. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. 345, pl. 7.)—Taken in Canada by Mr. Bowles, of Quebec. Caradrina multifera, Walk. (C. B. M. x. 293).—Taken at Cobourg. Mr. Walker mentions its capture in Nova Scotia by Lieut. Redman, and thus describes it :—‘ Cinereous. ‘Thorax and fore wings with blackish speckles, Fore wings with black marks on the costa, with blackish zig-zag transverse lines, with two brownish bands, and with brown marginal dots ; orbicular spot small; reniform large, nearly fusiform. Hind wings with whitish cilia. Length of body 5 lines; of wings 12 lines.” D>. 86 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Agrotis murenula, Grote & Rob. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. 852, pl. 7).— Taken at Cobourg. Distinguished by the pearly grey primaries, which are almost destitute of markings; the reniform spot, which forms a blackish blotch, and the dotted transverse posterior line, being alone conspicuous. Agroiis subgothica, Haworth (J’vitia ducens. Walk.) —Taken at Orillia, by Mr. Bush. . Graph‘phora triangulum, Guén—An European species, taken in many parts of Canada. The primaries are pale brownish, often with a rosy tinge ; the basal transverse line is margined with black on both sides, the anterior on the external side ; a dark brown or black spot before the orbicular, which is very distinct and well defined, and another black spot between it and the reniform; the claviform spot, as well as the two others, is well marked ; sub- terminal line distinct, whitish, preceded by a blackish spot on the costa. Secondaries greyish-brown, with paler ciliz. Alar expansion 1.4 to 1.6 inch. Graphiphora Dahli, Hiibn.—Among a collection made by Mr. D’Urban, in Lower Canada, and sent out from England by him to Mr. Reed of London; the specimens were all determined by Mr. Walker. The species may be briefly described as follows: — Primaries reddish-brown ; transverse lines almost obsolete, hoary; median space dark; orbicular spot large, elliptical ; reniform conspicuous from its paler margin: secondaries grey-brown. It is recorded as a not uncommon insect in England, and has also been takenin the State of New York. F Xanthia ferruginea, Hitbn.—Another Huropean insect, the larva of which is said to feed on the young buds of the poplar. It is not uncommon in Canada in September and October, and even sometimes as late as the end of November. The general colour of the primaries is reddish-ochreous, more or less shaded with grey; transverse lines undulating, distinct ; orbicular spot pale, of the ground colour, but distinctly margined; reniform well defined with its lower half dark grey; a narrow transverse median shade, and a terminal shade clearly divided by the pale undulating sub-terminal line. Secondaries paler ochreous, with transverse median and sub-terminal darker lines. Alar expansion 1.4 to 1.6inch ; length of body 0.6 inch. Xylina Bethunei, Grote & Rob. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. 354, pl. 7).— “ Readily distinguished by its pale color and ochraceous shadings.”’ Named | by the authors after the editor of this journal, who has taken the species at — Cobourg, Toronto and Credit, in the months of September and October. It — has also been taken by Mr. Pettit at Grimsby, and in other localities. 7 Cucullia convex‘pennis, Grote & Rob. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. ii. 201, pl. 3) —“ Habitat, Atlantic District. Imago flies in July and August. Easily THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 87 the convex external margin of the wings, while the primaries above are very distinct in appearance.” Their general colour is dull pale ochraceous, deeply shaded on the apical half of the costa, and on the inner margin with dark ferruginous. A specimen of this insect has been sent us by Mr. J. M. Jones, President of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Halifax, N.S. Anarta Inteola, Grote & Rob. (Pro. Ent. Soe. Phil. iv. 493, pl. 3.)—Taken by Mr. W. Couper in the vicinity of Quebec. Primaries black, with the reniform spot very conspicuous, white; secondaries clear yellow, with a broad neatly defined black border of uniform width. Alar expanse 1.00 inch, length of body .50 inch. Anarta Acadiensis, Bethune.—A full description of this new species will appear in the forthcoming number of the Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science; we shall take an opportunity of transferring it to the pages of this Journal at some future time. The species was determin- ed from a specimen sent us by Mr. J. M. Jones. Phesia mappa, Grote & Rob. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. ii. 204).—This very beautiful species is described from a specimen taken by Mr. Bowles at Quebec. We have received a specimen from Mr. J. M. Jones, of Halifax, N.S., and have seen others that were taken in this Province. Its general colour is purple rosy, with shades of very deep brown and black, and numerous golden . dots and markings. Anomis grandipuncta, Guén.—Determined for us by Mr. Walker. Taken in great numbers at Cobourg in September, 1865, and not uncommon in - various parts of Ontario. In the British Museum Catalogue (Lep. Heteroc. _ xiii. 989) the specimens are stated to be from South America and the West Indies. The primaries are pale fawn-colour tinged with roseate, with a few scattered reddish streaks representing the transverse lines, and a large black- ish-white speckled discal spot in the place of the reniform ; secondaries dark greyish cinereous. Alar expansion 1.50 inch; length of body 0.50 inch. Nenia typica, Linn.—A common European insect, also taken in the United ‘States, sent to Mr. Reed in Mr. D’Urban’s collection made in Lower Canada. The following is Mr. Stainton’s description (Manual, i. 312): “ Fore-wings brown, marbled with dark brown; the lines paler; the veins and margins of the stigmata whitish ochreous: hind-wings dark grey. In June. Larva reenish grey, with a faint rosy tint in the incisions; a row of oblique whitish treaks intersect the dark grey sub-dorsal line, and those on the 11th or 12th ements are followed by a black streak; spiracular line whitish, edged above with blackish (Duponchel). On dock, willow-herb, &c. When young the va is quite gregarious, and almost defoliates the plant on which it occurs.”’ Syneda Hudsoiica, Grote & Rob. (Pro. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. 494, pl. 3),— 88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. We took a specimen of a lovely moth at Credit last year, which we consider to be this species. It chiefly differs from G. & R.’s description and figures in the much greater width of the black markings on the secondaries, thus leaving much less of the extremely pale yellow ground colour. We do not attempt a brief description, as it would necessarily be quite inadequate; we must therefore refer our readers to the full account by the authors. Parthenos nubilis, Hiibn.—This handsome species of the family Catocalide may be readily distinguished by its beautifully mottled black and white prima- ries and luteous secondaries, the latter especially being remarkable for having three undulating black transverse bands, and a marginal series of confluent, round black spots. We took several specimens at Credit in June, 1868, mostly attracted by light. Erebus odora, Linn.—Two specimens of this gigantic moth have been taken in Canada; one by Dr. Sangster at Toronto, the other by Mr. B. Billings at Ottawa. In the British Museum Catalogue specimens are related to have been captured on the ‘‘ West Coast of America,” “ off the Coast of Brazil, 120 miles due Hast of Espirito Santo,” Brazil, West Indies. It has also been taken in the United States. The wings expand about five inches and are deep blackish, with numerous transverse black lines, and on the primaries a large incised discal spot. Remigia latipes, Guén.—Taken at VUobourg, and also by Mr. Pettit at Grimsby. Distinguished by its extraordinary posterior tarsi, which are densely fringed with excessively long hairs. The primaries are cinereous, thickly sprinkled with blackish scales ; the two interior transverse lines are distinct almost straight, oblique and converging; discal spots tolerably distinct, finely margined with black ; subterminal space much darker, sharply defined ante- riorly by the posterior transverse line; submarginal line indicated by a row of blackish spots. Secondaries dark cinereous, with a transverse line of blackish spots, and a broad blackish border. Alar expansion 1.75 inch; leneth of body 0.7 inch. This species was determined for us by Mr. Walker. The following species, of other families than the Noctuade, are also to be added to our Canadian Lists :— Drymonia ? confusa, Walk. (Cat. Brit. Mus, xxxii. 413). Taken at Orillia by Mr. Bush. Dasychira clandestina, Walk. (Can. Nat. & Geol. vi, 36., Feb. sel Taken by Mr. D’Urban at Bevin’s Lake, Montcalm, P. Q., cal 7th 1859. A specimen of this insect is in the collection before alluded to, sent by Mr. 4 D’Urban to Mr. Reed. e Anisopteryx vernata, Peck. (Harris’ Ins. Mass. p. 461): This destruc. tive insect, well-known under the name of “ Canker-worm,” is related in — THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 89 the Canada Farmer, for May 1 1867, to have been taken at Grimsby in the previous November by Mr. Pettit. Larentia geminata, Grote & Rob. (Pro. Ent. Soe. Phil. vi. 29, pl 3). “ Readily distinguished by its pale coloration, its conspicuous irregular black bands associated with faint yellowish coincident shades.” Taken by Mr, Pettit at Grimsby, also found in other localities. Carpocapsa pomonelia, Linn.—Strange as it may appear, this terrible pest of fruit growers, the Apple Codling Moth, which destroyed probably one- half of the apple crop last year in Canada, has not had its name entered upon our List of Native species ; we only wish it were an entire foreigner. A good account, with figures, of the insect is given in our friend Mr. Riley’s First Report, p. 62. Pempelia grossularie, Packard. (Guide, Part vi. p 351, fig. 254). This new Gooseberry worm, first discovered by our esteemed coadjutor, Mr. Saunders of London, Ont., must now be added to our List. An excellent account of it in all its stages is given in Mr. Riley’s Report, p. 140. Anchylopera fragaria, Walsh & Riley. (Amer. Entom. i, 89, fig. 75, Jan. 1869). ‘The Strawberry Leaf-roller”—another new destructive insect which, vide Canada Farmer (Feb. 1869), is also to be added to our List. Now that we have completed our task, and brought our List of Canadian Lepidoptera—with many omissions no doubt, but to the best of our ability— down to the present time, we trust that our readers will assist us in recording in the pages of the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, any new additions that may be made from time to time to our knowledge of the Leidoptera of this country. ——_o——_ MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Auper-Bup GAun.—tThe gall on Alnus, mentioned on p. 81 of your last number, is probably the one described by me on p. 198 of vol. i. of the Monographs on N. A. Diptera, under the name of Cecidomyia serrulute. I obtained at that time the perfect insect—R. Osten Sacken, New York, April 22, 1869. A CurcuLIO NEW TO CANnapA.—In the Canada Farmer for March, 1869, page 98, mention is made of the capture, in July, 1868, of a specimen of Licvus concavus, Say, by Mr. J. M. Bristol, of Virgil, County of Lincoln, Ont. A pair of specimens of this insect were sent us last year by Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, N.Y., but it was not known before to occur in Canada The following is Mr. Say’s description (Knt. Works, vol. ii., p. 275) :— “DT. Concavus.—Dase of the thorax and of the elytra with a common dilated indentation. Inhabits Indiana. 90 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. “‘ Thorax convex each side, much contracted before, with very small punc- tures; dorsal indentation obsolete near the anterior margin and in the middle, profound at base: elytra with regular punctured striaw, not rugose; base with a dilated common deep indentation equalling that of the thorax, and another smaller indentation on the middle of the base: thighs unarmed. Length over half an inch. ‘Common, and is the largest species that I have met with in this country. The hair of the body detains a yellowish ferruginous dust, which often gives the whole insect that color.” — ¢— EXCHANGES. LeprporrrraA.—Of Northern United States in exchange for those of the Southern United States, Canada, Mast Indics, and South America. Corres- pondence also solicited. W. Wussrer Burrerrienp, M.D., P. O. Box 111, Indianapolis, Indiana, U. 8. Lrvioprera.—Of Pennsylvania, in exchange for those of Canada.—F. M:; Yeacrr, Reading, Pa., U.S. Lepiporrera.—I am very anxious to secure a correspondent in Canada who would give me in cxchange Lepidoptera (Rhopel. et Heteroc.) from Canada, Lxbrador, and British America generally, for some from Penn., Virginia, Georgia, Florida, California, Europe, 8. America, ete.—HERMAN Srrecker, Box 111, Reading, Berks Co., Penn., U. 8. Kurnopuan Diprrra —A large collection has been entrusted to me, which will be exchanged for American Diptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Coleop- tera, and Jepidoptera; preference given to the orders in the sequence named.—Rev. ©. J. S. Bernune, Credit, Ont. Evurmertwa.—An Enelish Entomologist studying this tribe thoroughly, earnestly desires American specimens, for which other English insects will be given.—Address Eprron Can. Enromornoatst, Credit, Ont. Hymenovrera.—Now that the collecting season has begun again, we beg to remind our readers that Mr. I. T. Cresson, of Philadelphia, is desirous of obtaining specimens of Canadian Hymenoptera. He will gladly determine specimens for any one who will send a duplicate set, numbered to correspend with their cabinet specimens, to the care of Jounson Perit, Esq., Grimsby, Ont. idle B23 BOOKS RECEIVED. First Annual Report on thé Noxious, Bencjicial, and other Insects of the State of Missouri. By Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist. Jefferson City, Mo., 1869. (Price $1, plain plates; $2 colored.) We gladly notice the receipt of this excellent Report, which is of interest and value not only to farmers and gardeners, for whose especial benefit it is prepared, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 91 but also to all who study the ways and doings of insects. We may particularly call attention to the chapter on Cut-worms, in which is related the natural history of twelve species, some of them new to science; the account of new Grape insects, and various other specics, described now for the first time. The work is illus- trated by nearly 100 wood-cuts, and two full-page plates; and bears testimony throughout to the faithful and painstaking labours of the author, both in the field and in the study. The Legislature of the State of Missouri deserves much credit for its enlightenment in thus fostering the study of practical entomology; we earnestly trust that our Canadian Government will speedily see the benefit of following so good an example. Report on the Culture of the Jaiancse Sill-worim, Bombyx Yama-mai, in 1867-68, ia Hngland. By Alexander Wallace, M.D., Colchester, 1869. This pamphlet (for which we have to thank Mr. W. V. Andrews, the author’s New York agent,) contains a very full and minute account of Dr. Wallace’s experiments in the cultivation of this noted Japanese silk-worm. If patience and perseverance can ensure success, Dr. W.’s cfforts ought ecrtainly to be rewarded by freedom from failure; such, however, we gather from his Report, has not yet been the case, though he has attained soine success, and has raised a few genuine speci- mens. oe THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 105 Abdomen above rufous, basal segment black on each side; posterior legs black Brill on 08 Meanie Pore ct aadeS A CAC oO Dera cDUr AR OR OOoeaee 2. CovUAERII, male. Abdomen above fulvous, varied with yellow ; posterior legs fulvous and yellow, 3. Tuoracicus, male. Thorax above rufous : Abdomen entirely rufous; most of head and pleura beneath black; legs and ANF NTED. TAINO EATON RI Shere dgeiid sew oucda Sec e ease mpc 4. Burrus, female. Abdomen rufous, first three segments narrowly yellowish at tip; most of head, antenne, except tips, posterior tibiz, and tarsi at base, and lateral sutures of DUA OMeM MD LACK peek ease eater ae an cine PSTN yt Be 5. Fricipvs, female. Thorax above honey-yellow : Abdomen above honey-yellow, with large medial, transverse, yellow spots ; thorax vittate with yellow ; antennz fuscous, pale at base....... 6. Mep1atts, female. Abdomen entirely pale honey-yellow ; most of head and antennz of female black, 7. Fuavescens, female, male. Nos. 1, 2 and 4 are from Canada; 3 from Connecticut; 5 from Maine; 6 from Massachusetts; and 7 from Connecticut and West Virginia. Genus MENISCUS, Scuiopte. Meniscus BrerHunetl, n. sp.—Female. Shining black; orbits, face except central black ridge, clypeus, mandibles except tips, annulus on antenne, hooked mark on each side of mesothorax, anteriorly, two short, nearly confluent, lines on the disk, scutellum except central black line, three spots at base of mesothorax, a transverse line at tip and spot on each side, three spots on pleura, and triangu- lar mark beneath just in front of middle coxe, base of first, second and third abdominal segments, and the venter, white; antenne long and slender; wings hyaline, iridescent, apex faintly dusky; legs honey-yellow, coxe paler beneath, posterior tibie black, base pale honey-yellow, extreme base of their tarsi black, remainder yellowish- white ; claws pectinated ; mesothorax opaque; abdomen polished. —Length 42 lines. Hab.—Credit, Ont. Rev. C. J.S. Bethune. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) One specimen. NOTES ON THE LARVA OF PYRAMEIS HUNTERA, Smita. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. Several years ago my esteemed friend, Mr. D. W. Beadle, of St. Catharines, sent me specimens of this larva, which he had taken feeding on some species of Gnaphalium. No description was then taken, and the larva was not met with again until the present season, when I found it on the G.W.R.R. track, a mile east of London, feed- ing on Gnaphalium polycephalum. Ft had drawn the leaves together, and fastened them into a rude case with silken threads. The larva during its growth had consumed portions of the inner surface of the 106 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. leaves, especially near the summit, and hence, here the foliage was crisp and blanched. These whitened portions of the leaves, together with the size of the case occupied by the larva when full grown, en- ables the collector readily to discover their places of retreat. On the 21st of June, I took three of them, two small and one full- grown; each small one occupied the tip only of a leaf, the edges of which were drawn together and fastened with silken threads. Description of full-grown specitmen:—Length 1.20 inches. Head medium sized, bilobed, flat in front; black with a number of short, fine, pale brownish hairs. Body above alternately banded with rich, blackish purple, and yellowish green. The purple bands occupy the middle portion of each segment, and on these arise traverse rows of black branching spines—none on second segment—four spines each on third, fourth, and terminal seg- ments—seyen on each of the others. On each side of the dorsal line, from sixth to twelfth segments inclusive, is a round silvery white spot, set on the anterior edge of the purple bands. The bands of yellowish green which alternate with those of purple, are crossed by faint traverse lines of black—anterior edge of second segment brown—posterior portion, yellowish green crossed with faint black lines; there is also a fringe of whitish brown hairs, arising from small black tubercles crossing this segment just beyond the middle. Spiracles large, dark brown, encircled with white. Under surface dull purplish brown, with many very small dots of yellowish green—feet black—prolegs purplish brown. Description of small specimen :—Length, 0.25 in. Head, medium size, black and shining. Body above, dull reddish brown, and glossy, spines black, as in full-grown larva. Under a magnifying power of 45 diameters, the white spots are very distinct, but are scarcely perceptible with an ordinary magnifying lens. Under surface similar to upper—feet black. LIST OF COLEOPTERA, TAKEN AT GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, BY J. PETTIT. CICINDELID A. CICINDELA, Linn. Purpurea, Oliv. Repanda, Dg). Sexguttata, Fab. Vulgaris, Say. Punctulata, Fab. Limbalis, Klug. Duodecim-guttata, De). THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. OmopHron, Latr. Americanum, De): Evarurus, “abr. Cicatricosus, Lec. 1 Ruscarius, Say. LoricEera, Latr. *Neoscotica, Lec. 2 Nepria, Latr. Pallipes, Say. NoTIoPHiILus, Dumeril. *Semistriatus, Say. Sibiricus, Motsch. CaLosoma, Fabr. Scrutator, Fabr. *Wilcoxi, Zee. Frigidum, Zec. 3 Calidum, Fab. CaRABus, Linn. Limbatus, Say. *Sylvosus, Say. 4 Cycurus, Fab. Lecontei, Dej. *Brevoorti, Lec. CARABID. Dyscuirtius, Bon. Globulosus, Putz. Crivina, Latr. Rufescens, De). 5 Cordata, Putz. ScHIzoGENIvus, Putz. *Lineolatus, Say. 6 Bracuinus, Web. 7 *Americanus, Lec. Ballistarius, Lee. Fumans, Fab. Cordicollis, De). GALERITA, Fab. Janus, Fab. Casnonta, Zatr. Pennsylvanica, De). PrLocuionvs, De). *Timidus, Hald. 8 Lesia, Zatr. Atriventris, Say. *Viridipennis, Dej. Viridis, Say. Pumila, De. Scapularis, De). (To be Continued.) 107 Lest, Latr. (continued) Axillaris, De. Fuscata, De). Dromtius, Bon. Piceus, De). Apristus, Chaud. *Subsulcatus, Chaud. METABLETUS, Schmidt. Americanus,Schawm. Biecurus, Motsch. *Linearis, Schaum. Cyminpis, Latr. Reflexa, Lee. Pilosa, Say. Americana, De). *Neglecta, Hald. AXINOPALPUS, Lec. Biplagiatus, Dej. CaLiipa, De). Punctata, Zec. CaLATHus, Bon. Gregarius, Say. *Opaculus, Zec. Impunctata, Say. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. CapturEs.—On June 23, Toronto, I captured a fine specimen of Parenthos nwhilis ; while walking on William Street, not having a box I was compelled to imprison it in a roll of paper. Just as I got to Yonge Street, out got my friend, and it was not until after a long and exciting chase that I finally * Species marked with an asterisk have not been before included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera, 1 Found under moss and bark of old logs in swamps, 2 A single specimen picked up on the shore of Lake Ontario. 3 Not uncommon on trees, where it feeds upon the canker worm. 4. Taken in August and September, under logs in open woods. 5 Under bark of old logs. 6 Occurs under stones at the margin of a creek. 7 The species of Brachinus are inserted with some diffidence, as Dr. Horn is now preparing a revision of the genus, and has a number of the writer's specimens under consideration. 8 Under bark of maples in winter, 108 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. secured it in a doorway, much to the astonishment of the surround- ing public, who evidently thought me an escaped lunatic, and did not seem one whit the wiser when I informed them of the name of my prize. I also took recently a specimen of that pretty and rare beetle, Gnorimus maculosus.—K. B. Reep, London. Lonpon Brancn.—You will be glad, Mr. Editor, to learn that En- tomology is still progressing with us, and that it has lately obtained a start in a fair and fresh field. The Head Master of Hellmuth College, the Rev A. Sweatman, has procured a cabinet for the school, and is giving every encouragement to the boys to take an interest in the science; and a New York gentleman, Mr. Gordon, the father of one of the pupils, has very liberally offered two prizes for the best collection of specimens procured during the holidays, and to be pre- sented to the College cabinet.—E. B. Rerp, London, Ont. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Lepidopterist’s Guide, intended for the use of the young collector, containing full instructions for the Collecting, Management, Ob- servation, and Preservation, of Lepidoptera, in all their stages. By H. Guard Knaggs, M.D., F.L.8. London: Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, E.C. (Price, 1s. 6s. stg.) We have time and again, recommended our readers and corros- pondents, to procure Dr. Packard’s Guide, and we hope most of them have invested in it by this time: we now advise such of them as col- lect Lepidoptera to lay out a little more of their hard cash in the purchase of Dr. Knaggs’ Guide, for though both are ‘guides’, and trustworthy ones two, they do not pullin opposite directions, but lead the faithful follower to a very fair knowledge of Entomology. The work before us, whose title we have given in full above, while modestly put forth as for the use of young collectors, is one from which very few old hands would not learn a good deal well worth knowing; it is indeed if not the best, at any rate one of the best - manuals of practical instruction in a particular branch of natural his- tory that has ever been published. Full and clear instructions are given for the first getting hold of and then looking after and taking care of Lepidoptera in every stage of their existence, from the new laid egg tothe perfectly developed fly. From being a book of instructions, some may think that it must be a pretty dry sort of affair—like, for instance, the drill books at the Military 8chool—but we can assure them quite the reverse, being really most interesting and amusing; some parts of it would even entertain the only too numerous individuals who do not know a bug from a butterfly ! 7 i nd Pe : THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 109 Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science. Vol. ii., part ii., 1867-8. Halifax, N.S.: W. Gossip. We cannot but congratulate our Sister Province, far away by the sea, on its enterprising and valuable Institute of Natural Science, which, judging from its published transactions, and the interesting newspaper reports of its meetings, is doing a good and useful work. The volume before us, though certainly rather late in its appearance, contains many valuable and interesting papers on various branches of natural science, especially on the marine fauna and mineralogy of the country. Address to the members of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. By the President, the Rev. Angus Bethune, M.A., delivered at its 22nd Anniversary Meeting. InDEx to Vou. 1.—We purpose issuing a title page and index to the first volume of the Canadian Entomologist, which this number completes, with our issue of next month, the first of the new volume. Hardwicke’s Science Gossip. London, Eng., June and July, 1869. Newman's Entomologist, No. 66. From Mr. Reeks. Le Naturatiste Canadien. Quebec, No. 6, June, 1869. The American Agriculturist. New York, July, 1869. The American Entomologist. St. Louis, Mo., July, 1869. The Canada Farmer. Toronto, June, 1869. The Maine Farmer. Augusta, Me. The Weekly N. Y. Sun. New York. DONATIONS. We beg to acknowledge with grateful thanks the following dona- tions to the Entomological Society of Canada: To the Publication Fund, tne sum of two dollars from W. Saunders, Esq., London, Ont. ‘To the Library, ten octayo and six quarto pamphlets from J. L. Te Conte, Esq., M.D., Philadelphia, containing a large number of his valuable monographs and papers on Coleoptera, published in various scientific periodicals. A most nseful and acceptable addition to the Library of the Society. TO CORRESPONDENTS. SupscripTions RecervED.—To Vol. I., from J. M. C., Newport, Vt. (Your letter of April 16 did not reach us till June17! Have sent back Nos. and ordered Am. Ent. for you.) To end of No. 9, Vol. IT., from T. L. M., New York. To Vol. 1., from Dr. W. W. B., per Stud- ley & Co. 110 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. EXxcuances.—The Rey. F. O. Morris, Nunburnholme Rectory, Hayton, York, Eng., writes that he sent in March last a box of British insects to Dr. Butterfield, Indianapolis, Ind., per the Smith- sonian Institution, but has since heard nothing further respecting them ; he now desires to know whether Dr. B. ever received them or not, and if so, begs him to return the box full of American speci- mens and he will send it back again with a fresh lot of British ones. [We have rece:.tly been informed that Dr. B. has removed to Sancta-Clara-on-Guadalupe, California, and probably has not re- ceived the specimens, as the Smithsonian Institution only makes distributions of packages at certain periods of the year.—Ep. C. E. J.P. B. H., Boston, Mass.— Have written to the author for the in- formation you desired. F. W., Wanstead, Eng.--C. B. M. Lep Heteroc., parts xvi., xviil., and xix., received ; very many thanks. The following are the new species described in Riley’s First Report :—Lepidoptera, Agvows, Cochranit, A. scandens, Penthia vitivorana, Packard ; Aplodes rubivora, Pempelia grossutarié, Packard ; Anchylopera fragaria, Walsh & Riley ; C clechia galle-solidagints, Pterophorus carduidacty/us ; Coleoptera, J/ad- a us vitis : Diptera, Lydella doryphore, Pipiza radicum, Anthomyta zeas ; Homoptora, £viosoma ulmi; Hymenoptera, Lurytoma Lolteri, [emite- les ? Cressontt, Microgaster gelichta. EXCHANGE. Hemiprera.---I should be glad to make exchanges with any one collecting Hemiptera—an order that has hitherto been much neg- lected in this country—or to give an equivalent in other orders for species from different parts of Canada.—Jounson Prertit, Grimsby, Ont. EnromonogicaL Pins.--The supply of pins has not yet arrived, but they are now on the way, and we expect them daily. We shall fill the orders we have received immediately upon their arrival. We cannot tell the exact price till we get the invoices. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to Vol. ii :— To members of the Entomological Society, gratis. To Subscribers in Canada, $1 post-paid. To Subscribers in the United States, $1.25 (in U. S. currency), free of Canadian postage. To Subscribers in Great Britain, 5 shillings, post-paid. Iixtra copies 10 cents each, $1 per dozen, Crus Rates.—Five copies for $4; Ten copies for $7.50. The Canadian Entomologist ($1), and the American Entomologist ($1), for $1.50 per volume, All communications, remittances and exchanges should be addressed to ““THE Rev. C. J. 8S. Bernune, Credit, Ont., Canada.’ ‘ 3 Me ) be x Coke Uy pug aKa A 7% he My 5 ; A ial Pate 1 " ; i* wi i) ar / } ; ' r : eit Pas i } Li : tr. 191 rh ips ~ 4 sept TNs y y eff _ PARTS OF CUT. Ventral surface of Harpalus caliginosus. A Mandible. K_ Prosternum, S Mesosternum, B Maxillary palpus. L Episternum of protho- T Metasternum. C Outer lobe of maxilla. Trax, U Episternum of meso- D Inner lobe of maxilla. M Coxe. thorax. E Labial palpus. N Trochanter. V Episternum of meta- F Paraglosse. O Femora. thorax. G Ligula. P Tibiz. W Veutral segments. H Mentum. Q Tarsi. X Epimeron of metatho- I Antenna. R Ungues, Y Epipleura. [rax. EXPLANATION OF TERMS, Base —That point of any organ nearest the centre of the insect. Apex —That point of any organ farthest from the centre of the insect. Dorsal — Upper surface. Ventral Under surface. Emarginate—Sharp indentation. Stnuate —Curved indentation. Lateral — Pertaining to the sides, Marginate—With the edge surrounded by a border. Truncate—Squarely cut. Transverse—Crosswise. Obtuse— Rounded, not acute. Acute—Pointed. Thorax— Usually the dorsal surface between the head and elytra. Prothoraz- Usually the ventral surface to which the anterior legs are attached. Mesothorax—That part to which the middle legs are attached. Metathorax—That part to which the posterior legs are attached. EHlytra—The wing covers, Elytral strie—Longitudinal grooves in wing covers. Llytral interstices—Spaces between the strice Elytral dorsal punctuyes—Small impressions usually between the first and third strive. Scutel—Triangular piece at the base of the suture of wing coyers, Scutellar strice—Abbreviated striz each side of the scutel. Suture—The longitudinal line of juncture between the wing covers. Sutural stria—The groove next to the suture. Rugose—Wrinkled. Sulcate--Broad shallow groove, Fovea— Large impression. Connate—Joined together. Reticulate —Covered with lines iatersecting each other like a net. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. VO LF. UM Er EE: EDITED BY GHEE REV. Cc, j. S$) BRERUNEY MA: SECRETARY TO THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. TORONTO: COPP, CLARK & CO., 17 & 19 KING STREET EAST. 2ST 0. —— SSS COPF, CLARK & CO., PRINTERS, 17 & 19 KING STREET EAST, AND 67 & 69 COLBORNE STREET, TORONTO. INDEX TO VOLUME II. ——_¢—— a A. ACCENTUATED List of Canadian Lepidoptera, 121, 149. ADVERTISEMENTS, 72, 88, 104, 120, 136, 159, 180. ah AxartiA FLoripA, Notes on, 6, 37. Aw Insect Friend, 93. ¥ _ ANDREWS, W. V., Articles by, 55. h ANaRTA, A new species of, 64. ¥ AMERICAN Butterflies and "Moths, 116. Os Association, 116, by APOLOGETIC, 121. i" ARCTIAN, Supposed new, 4 > A Singular Case, 43. Actias Luna, 27, 43, 82. a Actinomeris helianthoides, 163. Agonum affine, 105. 7 cupripenne, 105, 106. ; « _ erythropum, 106, - « _ eaxtensicolle, 91. — lenwm, 02. « melanariwmn, 92. « — picipenne, 91. «“ parumpunctatum, 105. seminitidum, 104, a sexpunctatwm, 105. Ef simile, 93. £6 sordeus, 92. oe eorettia. 82. Alaria florida, 3, 6. So Alypia Langtonit, 38. au Amara convexiusculus, 108. discors, 143. A « discrepans, 143. «< tmpuncticollis, 142. “«< inequalis, 142. « interstitialis, 142. « levipennis, 143, “ — laticollis, 108. “«< rufimanus, 108. « septentrionalis, 170. se £ ‘similis, 108. cy «vulgaris, 142. ve Amphipyra tragopogonis, 73. pyramidoides, 74. imornata, 74. Anarta acadiensis, 64. ie. Anisoctactylus melanopus, 144, carbonarius, 145. Arctia bimaculata, 5. 1 “6 celia, 74 “ parthenice, 4. Argutor bicolor, 106. brevicornis, 107. « femoralis, 106. « mandibularis, 107. 2 We vernalis, 106. a, - Araynnis Aphrodite, 8, 164. , bellona, 8. «< _ cybele, 8, 164. «diana, 164, « myrina, 8. “a F “ ‘ Arma modesta, 33. “« placidum, 93. *< spinosa, 33. ; Attacus Cecropia, 82. mt B. Bassett, H. F., Articles by, 98. BEE HUMBLE, Odd place for Nest of, 68. BETHUNE, Rey. C. J. S., Articles by, Te iauo koe 37, 38, 55, 64, 68, 73, "6, 89, 105, 115, 116, 21, 137, 142, 161, 164, 168. Booxs Received, 21, 55, 70, 86, 119. Bow tes, G. J., Articles by, 36, 38, 95, 115. BRITISH INSECTS, List of, 158. ae BUurtTERFLIES, Rearing from Eggs of, 115, 133, 156, ~ 162. Bembidiwm bimaculatus, 170. concolor, 171. ss impressum, 173, : ac inornatum, 172. “s LY intermedius, 172. «c . migripes, 172. a ‘ » a ~~ iv INDEX TO VOLUME II. CoLorADo Potato Beetle, 115, 134. CORRESPONDEN’S, Tio, 24, 40, 56. Couper, Wm., Articles by, 49, 68, 110, 118. Cownry, N. H., Articles by, 38. Crort, Pror, H., Articles by, 37. Curr: ANT Worm, Notes and bxperiments on, 13. ‘The, again, 47. a ss The, in Trouble, 146. ff oa Fly, The Imported, 3h. ¥ Bush Saw Fly, 115. Calathus gregarius, 106. Callimorpha interrupta-marginata, 37. Callosamia Promethea, 100, Calosoma calidum, 89. sé Srigidum, 89. Capsus linearis, 111. “¢ oblineatus, 126, Ca rabus carinatus, 82. ligatus, 82. oS Pensylvanicus, 123, sylvosus, 30, oe Vietinghovii, 81, es vinctus, $2. Casnonia Pennsylvanica, 7 Catocala epione, 30. My polygama. 30, 35. of relicta, 35, Ceratonia amyntor, 28.4 Chenopodium album, 5. Chlenius brevilabris, 90. se cordicollis, 90, FS emarginatus, 91, ne impunctifrons, 90. nemoralis, 90, Pensylvanicus, 90. és quadricollis, 90. sericeus, 90. Cicada canicularis, 67. Cicindela albilabris, 78. hirticollis, (Ke cs 12 g quttata, 78. Kirbyi, 78 longilabris, 78. Proteus, 77. obliquata, 78, purpurea, 78. repanda, 77. vulgaris, 78. Cidara diversilineata, 74, 128, Clytus erythroceph lus, 38, “¢ speciosus, 38. Clysiocampa sylvatica, 176. Colias philo@ice, 8, 67, 115,'133,8179, Conotrachelus nenwphir, 137, Corixa femorata, 83. Cossus plagiatus, 37. Cryptus orbus, 9. ‘' tenellus, 9, 12. Curtonotus brevilabri is, 109. oe converiusculus, 108, ee latior, 109. +S rufimanus, 108. Cymindis cribricollis, 79, FS marginatus, 7S, neglecta, 79. pubescens, 78. reflexa, 388, 79. wnicolor, 79, Cychrus vidwus, 45, “ee D; Dean of State Entomologist of Mlinois, 42. os Ofverot. Lacordaire, 136, «** of A. 8.‘ Ritchie, 155 Drepanopes, Species of, 111, Danuis Archippus, 8, 148. Darapsa cherilus, 30, Darapsa versicolor, 134. Depressaria applana, 2. depressella, 2 daucella, 2. heracliana, 19. ontariella, 1, 3. pastinacella, 3, Desmocerus palliatus, 38. Desmodium Dillenii, 163. Diapheromera femorata, 80. Diastrophus cuscuteformis,” 198. potentille, 98. radicum, 98, Dipthera deridens, 145. Doryphora 10-lineata, 115. Drepanodes sesquilinea, jl4. Dryocampa rubicunda, 75. Dytiscus verticalis, 30. E. ce Epwarps, W. H., Articles by, 36, 115, 133, 134, 162, 179. ENToMOLOG 1cAL Gleaning, 111, 126, 146. Society, 35, aie 69, 152, 17%. EXCHANGES, 39- 86, 103, 159, 179. EXHIBITION, Provincial, Insects at, 38. Hlaphrus, 173, clairvillei, 174. intermedius, 175, obse urior, 175, riparius, 174. wliginosus, 174, Epicauta vittata, 38, Krebia nephele, 8. Euceros burros, 53. Kudamus Tityrus, 8, 37. Huptoeia claudia, 164. “ce F. Fronvus, On the Economy of a Species of, 110. Feonus, ” Arca, 110. Feronia atrimedius, 169. fs erythropus, 106. as longicollis, 170. G. GALLs found on Plants of genus Rubus, 98. GRAPE Seed Insect, 25. Grote, Auc. R., Articles by, 114, 165. Gelechide, 2. Gibbiwm Scotias, 101, Grapta interrogationis, 8. Hi. HELLMUTH CoLLeGceE, Entomology at, 29. HEMITELES, On a Species of, 9. Hints on Describing Caterpillars, 94. Hadena xylinoides, 33. Haplochile pygmea, 20. * Harpalus amputatus, 59, 96, 145. basilaris, 143. ss bicolor, 123, caliginosus, 44, 57. carbonarius, 145. compar, 124, Ss desertus, 144. erraticus, 57, 58. erythropus, 124. es Jallax, 61, 97. ce Suunus, 123, 124, 125, Py S Slavipes, 123. KS Soveicollis, 96. gugcatinus, 46. SS herbivagus, 61, 96, 97. interpunctatus, 144, iripennis, 46. ss laticeps, 59. INDEX TO VOLUME Il. Vv | “ Cressonii, 31. Nisoniades Lycidas, 115, 133. “ » fasciipennis, 10. «" pylades, 115, 133. Suscipennis, 10. Notaphus intermedius, 172. cs incertus, 10, 31. ic nigripes, 172. = lepidus, 10. .*© — ustulatus, 172. | ne nemativorus, 10, 31. “ variegatus, 173. : » if ipapaae on Notiophilus aquaticus, 175. ee striatus, 10. semistriatus, 175. | “ subflavescens, 10, O , &e tricolor, 10. R } ne thoracicus, 9, 12. (woTHeRA, Larva on, 36, { ty thyridopteryx, 31, 32. On THE LaRV# of some Lepidoptera, 74. ) a xanthogasta, 10. On THECLAS inorata and falacer, 165. Hesperia ahaton, 8. OnTaRIo, Incorporated Entomological Society of, “¢ hobomok, 8. 177. « Leonardus, 8. Our THIRD VOLUME, 161. ; «¢- Peckii, 8, (nothera Lamarckiana, 6. . “« Pylades, 163. Omaseus nigrita, 108. Heteropterus marginatus, 30. SF orinomum. 107. " Homoptera lunata, 30. se picicornis, 108, Hyperchiria varia, ‘19. Omophron Americanum, 176. Hyphantria‘textor, 33. - labiatwm, 176. sé limbatum, 176. Ife Warersury, Cony., U. S. | CO ECAUVNES BY EU Samm Vert be tars operat cheney si cy suerte rcicyeleter eh eleyetnrereren a, sreie Covinerton, Ky,, U. 8. GC Tin Br MAU BUN Us Mea EGET, Wire cevereyvocs atcvres «) aysitay oetatetar'e tevevaveyataner Nortu Douro, Onr. COUPER, WM........ HOOD COMDOCUC COUT bl shanties MonTREAL, | COWIDEGYS GING Him. ses « HaCio Satetetooiaceie ie mare aries SrratTForD, Onv. ODDIE: TAO Up 2a ae ere Pa a RO Toronto, Ont, ; PEDWEAUEVE Stim Wis, Elin: cyccie cis o'e. 0. srelclele’s stneyele ereleteleisiste CoaLsurGH, West Va., U.S. CHROME AN Gry? fac eiarase sisi cveiaveiess ohare ee eleieres ietefeleverse Demopouts, Ata., U.S. ) MUA COUN, JOHN (i555 siciscisteiecisiee aah crolercewvaceateyesstecs BELLEVILLE, ONT. . AVORVAUD) aT. Ereieieere BAe das ehaaie evel sfuel einen ton oR es New York, U. S. ) INTITIN © ret CHEAT BIS Siv'-raja, ch a.opsione «io, cr ehorala elevetereel sl elets Boston, Mass, U.S. NEO OD ED INU: Vig Ls che eis o)av ars cs wvelsrev cee’ elsyeveyeraa at ein. tele Matpen, Mass., U.S. EPR eI Deiyerorsta stators ala cicterdo's aise wie! caviaty arsiershorsvetnale Grimspy, ONT. IAG READ) ae AtE SS tera: fic raid uate cleccisie ot ke v.clene aie velesis Bosron, Mass., U.S. EM EAHIED) Meira Dy eaycrrera ce bs creche laveraic oils: diosa sraveaeieleya etavsvetere.e Lonpon, Onr. RPASUMINI DD EYEucoaes WHMIS. clerave src avoieis, oVevcis ote) s) eens) avotenes eiatel's,ajele Lonpon, Ont. DOETOA GUIDES, Ere Ss ccleictersvarnescisiels s s.cln'e:e EO COO Or Boston, Mass., U.S. WEAUESElsive Wh) (ECERSEG) 11 eieieinisi tinged with yellow at the extremities, just before it becomes a chrysalis. I have a fact to communicate regarding the winter history of this insect. It has been universally held that the larve, when they leave the bushes in the fall, at once construct their cocoons, either at the surface of the ground or just below the surface, and change to a chrysalis either then or sometime before early spring. Possibly as a rule this may be the case, 1f so I have an interest- ing exception to record. On the 22nd of May I was trying some experiments in crossing gooseberries, fertilizing the flowers of the Houghton’s Seedling with some of the large English varieties, and having operated on several branches, tied them up in new paper bags to prevent interference with the work, either from insects or otherwise. The particular bag I am about to refer to, was attached so an upright branch on the summit of the bush, about 18 inches from the ground. While examining it on May 3lst, nine days afterwards, to ascer- tain the result of my work, I found in one of the folds of the bag a cocoon of Nematus ventricosus firmly attached to the surface of the paper. In this instance the larva must have remained unchanged during the winter, then crawled from the ground, attaching itself as related, and constructing its cocoon after the 22nd of May. A few days later, I found a similar cocoon attached to the bush, which from its fresh appearance I inferred had been con- structed about the same time, although Iam unable to advance any positive statement regarding it. During the summer I have found a considerable num- ber of such cocoons fastened to the underside of the leaves of the bushes on which the larve have been, and these have been observed in all positions from near the base to the summit of the bushes, showing that it is not the invariable practice of the larva to undergo its change to chrysalis, either at the surface or under the surface of the ground. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, LIST OF COLEOPTERA, TAKEN AT GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, BY J, PETTIT. (Continued from page 7.) CARABIDA PrEeROSTICHUs (cont'd), BapistTER, Clariv. Rejectus, Lec. Adoxus, Say. Rostratus, Vewm. Chalcites, Say. Lucublandus, Say. Erythropus, De). Caudicalis, Say. Corvinus, De). Patruelis, De). *Femoralis, Kirby. Mutus, Say. Adstrictus, Germ. Luczottii, De/. Coracinus, Vewm. Adjunctus, Lec, Stygicus, Say. Protensus, Lec. Honestus, Say. AMARA, Bon. vida, Say. Angustata, Say. Impuncticollis, Say. Fallax, Lec. *Erratica, Zim. Interstitialis, 77m. Obesa, Say. Subaenea, Lec, LopHoeLossus, Lec. Scrutator, Lec. Pulchellus, Zec. Dica«tus, Bon. *Simplex, De/. Elongatus, De. Teter, Bon. Politus, De/. DietocaiLa, Brul, Laticollis, Lec. Major, Lec. Impressicollis, De. AnomoaGLossus, Ch. Emarginatus, Say. CuLa&nius, Bon. Lithophilus, Say. Sericeus, /orsé. *Solitarius, Say. Chlorophanus, De). Pensylvanicus, Say. Tricolor, Dej. Impunctifrons, Say. Niger, Rand. Tomentosus, Say. Atranus, Lec. *Pubescens, De). Oovzs, Bon. Fluvialis, Zee. HapLocni.e, Lec. Pygmea, De/. GEOPINUS, Lec. *Incrassatus, Dej. AGONDERUS, Dej. Lineola, Fab. Pallipes, Fab. ANIsopactTyLus, Dej. Rusticus, Dej. Carbonarius, Say. *Punctulatus, Lec. Harrisii, Lec, Melanopus, Hald. Nigrita, De/. Discoideus, De/j. Baltimorensis, Say. *Sericeus, Harris. AmpuHasia, Vewm, Interstitialis, Say. Eurytricuvs, Lec, *Piceus, Lec. Terminatus, Say. *Agilis, Dej. BrabDYcettus, L7, *Vulpeculus, Say. *Autumnalis, Say, *Arenarius, Lec. *Badiipennis, ald, Lugubris, Lec. Rupestris, Say. Harpatvs, Latr, Caliginosus, /’ad. 1 Lake Shore, under pieces of wood. 17 18 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Harpa.us (continued), Patrosus, De). Erraticus, Say. Amputatus, Say. Faunus, Say. Pensylvanicus, Degeer. Erythropus, De). Pleuriticus, Arb. Herbivagus, Say. Varicornis, Lec. *Vagans, Lec. Srenotopuus, De). Fuliginosus, De). Coujunctus, Say. Ochropezus, Say. * Dissimilis, De/. Partiarius, Say. Hautpus, Latr. Triopeis, Say. Longicornis, Say. Bempipium, Latr. Inequale, Say. Nitidum, Aerb. Dilatatum, Zec. 2 Chalceum, De/, 2 *Fugax, Lec. Planum, /Ha/d. Lucidum. Lec. Picipes, Azrb. Gelidum, Lec. *Nitens, Lec Dorsale, Say. Patruele, De). DY TISCID. LaccorHixus, Leach. Maculosus, Say. Immaculivoilis, Harres.,Coprotumus, Say. Cnemipotus, J//, 12-Punctatus. Aube, Hyproporus, Clazr. Punctatus, Aube. Affinis, Say. *Granarius, A whe, *Consimilis. Lec *Lineolatus, Lec. Catascopium, Say. Modestus, Aube. *Varians, Lec, 1 Tenebiosus, Lec. *Oblitus, Aube. *Collaris, Lec. *Concinnus, Lec. *Patruellis, Lec. *Nubilus, Lec. Interrogatus, Aube. Matus, Aube. * Biacrinatus, A whe, CopELATus, Lr. *Glyphicus, Lec. Acabus, Leach. *Parallelus, Lec Punctulatus, A whe. *Tzeniolatus, Lec. *Semipunctatus, ec. *Stagninus, Lec. *Obtusatus, Lec. *Scapularis, Mann. Fimbriatus, Lec. Ambiguus, Lec. CoLyMBETES, Clairv, Biguttulus, Lec. BEMBIDIUM (continued ), Variegatum. Versicolor, Le.. *Frontale, Lec. Quadrimaculatum, Linn *Garinula, Chaud. *Wingatii, Bland. TACHYS, Ze. *Scitulus, Lec. *Leevus, Say Nanus, Schaum. Flavicauda, Say. Incurvus, Say. *Pulchellus, Ferte. CoLYMBETES, Clazrv, (continued ), Quadrimaculatus, (Aube,) Picipes, Kirby. *Sinuatus, Lec Sculptilis, Harris. Binotatus, Harris. Hypaticus, Leach, *Basillaris, Lec, AcILIuUs, Leach, Fraternus, Lec. Dytiscus, Linn. Confluens, Say. *Anxius, Mann. Cordieri, Aube. Fasciventris, Say. Harrisii, Ardy. *Verticalis, Say. Hybridus, A whe. * Species marked with an asterisk have not been before included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera. 1 Taken last year in Bosanquet, but mentioned here as it has not been before included in the list of Canadian species. 2 Taken at Goderich. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 19 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Parsnip LARVA.—Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, N. Y., writes as follows respecting our notice of this insect in the last number of the Canadian Entomologist. ‘Tam pleased with your description of the Parsnip Depres- saria ; it is an old acquaintance of mine. I have raised the larvee and noticed thair habits for many years, It seems to be very closely allied to, if not iden- tical with a British species, D. heracliana, an abdomenless specimen of which I have in my collection.” On again comparing our specimens with the brief descriptions in Stainton’s Manwal, we notice a great resemblance to that of D. heracliana, which had not struck us before. It is not at all unlikely that our species is an imported insect, like a great many more of the farmers’ and gardeners’ worst pests. We shail take an early opportunity of sending some of our specimens to England in order to have the question settled, and should the insect prove to be a British species we shall gladly withdraw the name that we have given it. We have no desire to multiply names or synonyms, which are becoming such a nuisance to Entomologists, but being unable to identify our insects from any description that we had access to, we determined—with some hesitation—to give it a name which could easily be withdrawn if the species proved not to be a new one, LARva OF HypeRcurRia VARIA, Walk.—On the 25th of July last, I found closely huddled together on the under side of a locust leaf (Robinia pseudaca- cia, L.) a cluster of fifteen small bristly caterpillars of a dark brown color. On opening the chip box in which they were confined, some hours after their capture, I found them ranged in a single line obliquely up and down its sides ; when disturbed they set off in a procession round and round the box, following their leader in a most grotesque manner. After this whenever I looked at them, till they became very large, they were always either ranged in a single column, or very closely huddled together. By and by they became so large that the line of fifteen exactly measured the inner circumference of the box, and then, by dint of a little persuasion, 1 got them to form an endless procession around the inside of the box, each one following closely the individual before him, They went on in this way for upwards of half an bour, and looked as if they would have gone on for ever, till I thought they had had exercise enough, and broke up the column. At this time their length was 0.35 inch; their general color black ; body entirely covered with long sharp compound black spines, so thickly branched on every side as to form a complete chevawx de frise —the ter- minal spinelets ended in a fine hair, the main stem being jet black, the side branches white tipped with black ; along the sides there was a reddish-white line, and another of the same color through the spiracles, In other specimens she two lateral lines and the space between them formed together a band of reddish- white. 20 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Up to the 16th of August [ did not recognise the species of these caterpil- lars, though I fancied they belonged to the Saturniade, but on my return on the 28th, from the meeting of the American Association at Salem, | found rather to my surprise, that they had grown to be about two and a half inches long, and were of a delicate yellowish-green colour with au abbreviated reddish lateral band. They had proved to be the very familiar larve of what is com- monly known as the Io Emperor-moth of Harris (Hyperchiria varia, Walk.) One of them began to form his cocoon on the 7th ot September, the rest are still feeding, and a prodigious quantity they eat. I have reared these larve before, though never from their infancy, and found them to feed on the leaves of Willow and Elm. Dr. Harris (Tus. Mass., p. 393), states that they “‘ live on the balsam poplar and the elm, and, according to Mr. Abbot, on the dogwood or cornei and the sassafras; they feed well also on the leaves of clover and Indian corn.” In his ‘Entomological Correspondence,’ p. 295, he states that a brood of these larva fed on Robinia viscosa. Dr. Fitch (4th Report, p. 81), gives the cherry as the food plant, and also (5th Report, p. 52), the locust, Mrs H. C. Freeman (Amer, Ent. i. 39), states that she found it teeding on the hop vine. It thus appears that they are by no means particular as to their diet. The imago usually appears between the lst and 20th of June; those I bred last pear aud kept in the house came out in April.—C, J. 8. B. Nores oN A FEW BEETLES.-- Perhaps it may interest some of the readers of the ENTOMOLOGIST to mention that that rare beetle, Necrophilus subter- raneus, F'ab., may be found during the last of September and in the early part of October in decomposing fungus, particularly the ‘toadstool’ species growing in clusters on decaying logs. My earliest specimex was taken on the 27th of September, the latest on October 13th. It is probably well known to all who have taken Haplochile pygmea, Dej., that it emits when handled a most un- pleasant and powerful odor, exceeding that of Chrysopa, and requiring repeated applications of soap aud water to remove it from the fingers ~ T’richodesma (Anobium) gibbosum, Say ; of this species I dug three specimens out of a dead maple tree in Oxtord, January, 1867, and early in July of the present year I obtained a number by beating the limbs of trees.- J. Perrit, Grimsby, Ontario. ScuppDER’s “ BUTTERFLIES OF NEw ENGLAND.”—I am very desirous of seeing collections of Insects from every part of New England, New York, New Jersey and tne Dominion of Canada, and repeat the promise made in the gpriug, of naming any collection of butterflies from these districts sent by express to the address below, early in October. I beg those who can do so to send not one specimen only of a species, but as many as possible, especially among the Hesperide and the genera Lycena, Thecla, Limenitis, Argynnis, Militea and Grapta, wheae some species have for a long time been confounded. The insects THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 21 should be numbered—at least with one number for a species—and where any specimen is sent, not obtained from the immediate vicinity of the sender, it should invariably be labelled with the locality where it was taken. If the col- lection is accompanied by the dates of capture of the different specimens, or a general table of the exact times of appearance and disappearance of the butter- flies in the region where they were captured, the collection would have a double value Specimens of the parasites of butterflies are also desired when it is known what species they attack—or the chrysalids from which the parasites have been bred can be sent; these also will be named and can probably be returned with the others. Specimens in all cases shoxld be pinned strongly m small light boxes, lined on the bottom with cork, pith, or soft wood; these boxes should then be wrapped in paper and packed in a larger box with an abundance of dry stuffing, such as crumpled paper, shavings, or coarse straw—not too tightly crowded, but so arranged as to leave from one and a half to two inches of stuffing around the whole interior of the outer box. If these directions are regarded little dan- ger need be feared. Collections sent to me by the first or middle of October next will be returned by the first or middle of the following January ; for the safety, however, of my own collection, and of others entrusted to me, it will be necessary to return at once and unnamed, any collection showing traces of having been attacked by Museum pests.—SAMUEL H. ScupDER, Boston Society of Natural History, Berkeley Street, Boston, Maas, BOOKS RECEIVED. Record of Americin Entomology for the Year 1868, Edited by A. S, Packard, jr., M.D., Salem. Naturalist’s Book Agency. (8vo. pp. 60. Price, $1.) Every American Entomologist mvst have felt from time to time the want of some ready means of “ keeping track” of what his fellows have published in the various scientific periodicals of the day. He need now be troubled no more; as the “ Record” before us is intended to supply the want year by year, and to afford a convenient index to all that is written about American insects. This first volume of, we trust, a long series, contains references to four hundred and two new species of insects from North America, and four new false scorpions, and to articles and notices by forty-five different writers. This is certainly a gratifying record, especially when it is observed that, with two exceptions, no notices are included of papers published in European journals, copies of them not having been obtained in time. In future it is intended to refer to all Ameri- can papers of the current year, and to European publications of the preceding year, in order to make the “ Record” as complete and useful as possible, The 22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Editor, Dr. Packard, has been arsisted in his work by some of the leading Ento- mologists of the day; while he records the notices of the Hymenoptera, Lepi- doptera (Heterocera) and Arachnida, Mr. Schuder takes the Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) and Orthoptera; Baron Osten Sacken the Diptera; Dr. LeConte the Coleoptera; Mr, Uhler the Hemiptera and Neuroptera, and Dr, Hagen the Peeudo-Scorpions, A Guide to the Study of Insects. By A. 8S, Packard, juu., M.D. Parts viii., June, and ix., August, 1869. Salem: Naturalists’ Book Agency. (50 cents per Part.) These two parts contain the conciusion of the Coleoptera, the whole of the Hemiptera, and the begining of the Orthoptera. They are, as usual, copiously illustrated, containing between them nearly two hundred excellent wood cuts, It is announced that one more part will complete the work. First Aunual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science, Solem, Mass., 1869. 8vo. pp. 103. Through the munificence of Mr, Peabody, of wide-world celebrity, who gave the sum of $140,000 for the “promotion of science and useful knowledge in his native County of Essex,” the Peabody Academy of Science has been founded at Salem by the amalgamation of the Essex Institute and the old Hast India Ma.ine Society. The new Academy was inaugurated in a befitting manner during the recent meeting ot the American Association at Salem, aud has now entered upon, we trust, a long career of usefulness and prosperity. The report before us sets forth all the particulars respecting the foundation of the Acade- my and the formation of its admirable museum, and includes interesting and valuable reports by the Director (F. W. Putnam) and the Curators, who are widely known as the joint Editors of the American Vaturalist. Dr, Packard adds a list, with descriptions oi new species, of the Hymenopterous and Lepi- dopterous insects collected by the Smithsonian Expidition to South America under Prof, Orton ; and Mr, Morse, a description of a new shell (Actznobolus) taken in Essex County. The “proposed plaa of operations” submitted by the Director and Curators is well worthy the consideration of all connected with similar institutions, and might be advantageously followed by our own “ Canadian Institute” at Toronto. Would that some of our men of wealth could be induced to take an inteaest in this institution, and place it in a per- manent and efficient condition, so as to enable it to accomplish for this Pro- vince what the Peabody Academy is now doing fo: its own County of Essex. The Canadian Naturalist. New Series, Vol, iv., No. 2, June 1869. Montreal: Dawson Brothers. ($3 per vol.). We are glad to hear that this long-established Journal has now been placed upon a new footing, and 1s likely to be issued with regularity. Instead ot appear- ing bi-monthly as before, it is now to be issued quarterly, though with the same amount of matter as formerly in the volume ; it 1s to be conducted by an editing committee of members of the Natural Hlstory Scciety oi Montreal, and is to =, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23 include a larger field of popular science than before. The number before us contains many interesting articles in various departments of science, including one in our branch of Natural History, viz, “ The Toad as an Entomologist,” by A.S. Ritchie. The writer advocates the slaughter of toads in the early morn- ing for the purpose of obtaining the specimens of insects they had swallowed during the night! This appears to us a horrible mode of collecting, and judg- ing from the few rarities obtained a most needless cruel operation. The results derived from the murder of the poor toad do not tend so much to the advance- ment of science as to ju: tify the shedding of their innocent blood. Ws hardly fancy the example will be widely followed—the very thought of mpping up some wretched toads before breakfast in the morning to get at the beetles in- side, makes one’s blood run cold ! The American Entomologist. An illustrated Magazine devoted to practical and popular Entomology. St. Louis, Mo., Vol. i., No. 12, August, 1869. This excellent publication has now come to the end of the first volume, and is to appear heacefortn in a new and improved style, with an ornamental wrap- per, on better paper, with an increased number of pages, and at a doubied price. The August number, which contains a splendid coloured plate of Cero- tocampa regalis, affords a sample of the new dress and other improvements. The American Naturalist. Salem, Mass. Vol. iii., No. 7, September, 1869. As interesting and attractive as ever. Le Naturaliste Canadien. Quebec, August, 1869. Contains a description and figure of a new Hemipteron, Vabis Canadenis, Provancher. The American Agriculturist. New York, September, 1869. Newman's Entomologist. London, Eng., Nos. 67 and 68. From Mr, Reeks, The former number cootains an interesting account of an undescribed light- giving Coleopterous larva from Brazil. Hardwicke's Scrence-Gossip. London, Eng., August 1, 1869, The Canada Farmer. Toronto, August 15, 1869. The New York Sun. New York. The Maine Farmer, Augusta, Me, The Orthoptera of the State of Maine, and Notes on American Cancaroid Crustacca. By Sidney I. Smith. Contributions to Zoology from the Museum of Yale College. No. 1, by A. E, Verrill, aud No, 2, by S. I. Smith. Entomological Notes. Part II. By 8. H. Scudder. 48 pages, Svo. Boston, 1869. These notes contain a number of valuable papers on Orthoptera, and an account of some diurnal Lepidoptera from Alaska. 94 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Supscrrprions Receirvep.—To Vol. II.: From J. A., Brooklyn; J. A., West Farms; G. W. P., New York (with Am. Hnt.); A. J, C., Lansing (Ditto); E. B., Boston; W. W. B., Indianapolis; Rev. Dr. D., Baltimore (Vols. I. and II. and Am. Ent.); J. G. M, Baltimore (Vols. I. and IT.); C. E. H.. Waterville, Me. Rev. F. O. Morris.—Dr. Butterfield, who has returned from California to his former address, writes that several months ago he received a letter from you stating that a box of insects had been sent to him, but he has never heard any- thing further respecting them. He will make enauiries in the proper quarter. F, W., Wanstead, Eng.—C. B. M., Lep. Heteroc., Part xx., Geometrites, received; also, per Smiths. Inst., a copy of your ‘‘ Catalogue of the Homopterous Insects collected in the Indian Archipelago, etc.,” and two boxes of specimens. For all of which please accept our best thanks. SUBSCRIBERS are respectfully reminded that their subscriptions to Vol. II. of the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST are now due. LreripopTERA.—I have obtained from pup of last season a good supply of Cerotocampa regalis, Hacles imperialis, and that rarity Sphinx jasminearum, There are several species of Sphinx and Catocala that I am anxious to obtain, especially a good male C. relicta.—James Aneaus, West Farms, N. Y. ARCTIA PARTHENOS is very much enquired after; any collector who has obtained duplicates of this rare species will do well to communicate the fact. LEPIDOPTERA FOR SALE.—A friend has a very fine collection of N. American Lepidoptera, including rare Sphingide, which he wishes to dispose of. They are in perfect condition, and many of them rare. For particulars apply to Gro. W. Peck, 129 Maiden Lane, New York. _ (Advt.) Ex tomoLogicaL Pins.—The long expected supply of pins has at length arrived ; they were delayed, it appears, by the illness of M. Klaeger, the manufacturer. By some, at present, unaccountable mistake, only half the order has been filled, and we have received to our great disappointment merely the coarser sizes. We have thus plenty of Nos. 4, 5 and 6, but none of 1, 2 or 3. The price is $1 per thousand ($1.25 in U. S. currency). No. 4, in packets of 500, at 50c. each; Nos. 5 and 6, in packets of 250, at 25c. each. Parties ordering will please state whether they wisb them sent by mail or express. Crus Rates.—We beg to direct the attention of our readers, who are now renewing their subscriptions, to the following advantageous club rates that we are enabled to offer them : Tue AMERICAN NATURALIST ($4) and the CanapiaAn EnTomo .ocist ($1) for three dollars and a half per volume ($4.50 in U. S. currency). THE AMERICAN EnToMOLOGIST ($2) and the CANADIAN EntTomoLoaistT ($1) for two dollars per volume ($2.50 in U. 8. currency). Those who desire to take advantage of these terms will please inform us as soon as possible, that we may be enabled to complete our lists. Z 4 Che Canad Entomologist. Vou. II. TORONTO, NOVEMBER 1, 1869. No. 3. THE GRAPE-SEED INSECT. (Lsosoma vitis, u. sp, ) BY W. SAUNDERS In Vol. i., No. 3, page 20, of the Canadzan Entomologist, I published a description of a larva found infesting the seed of the grape, and in the Canada Farmer for October 15, 1868, page 316, a fuller description of its habits and destructive powers, and ventured the opinion that it would probably produce, when mature, a small curculio. In this I was in error, for the perfect insect proves to be Hymenopterous, a small four-winged fly belonging to /sosoma, and as it is believed to be undescribed, I propose for it the name of vitis (Jsosoma vitis, n. sp.). The following notes on 1ts history were made subse- quent to the date of the issue referred to. In October I detached a larva from the inside of the seed, and placed it in a small glass cell between two plates of glass, in which state it remained until early in January, when it became a chrysalis, having first attached itself to the sides of the cell by a few short silky threads. It had now contracted in length, become nearly oval, and assumed a yellowish tint, with a few short loose silky threads adhering to different parts of its surface. On the 11th of February I examined some seeds and found the larva within still alive and active, just as it appeared in the fall, On the 7th of July further specimens were opened and the inmates found soft and motionless, these appeared to be in the chrysalis state, but I did not examine them with sufficient care to enable me to be positive. During the remaining part of July I looked many times into the bottles in which the grapes were enclosed but could not discover any- thing. On the 9th of August, feeling sure that the time for the appearance of the insect must be fully come, if not already past, I resolved on a thorough search for it. As soon as the contents of the bottles had been emptied on a piece of white paper, I observed a number of smatl four-winged flies among the dried-up grapes. They were all dead and stiff, some of them more brittle than others. From the observations made I should judge that they made their 26 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, escape from the middle to the end of July. The following is a description of the female deseribed from seven specimens. IsosoMA VITIS, female, n. sp.—Expands about one-sixth of au inch. Head large, flattened in front, black, thickiy punctured, and covered with many short whitish hairs; mandibles pale brown at base, tipped with black ; an- tenne black, thickly covered with whitish hairs, nine joined, inserted in deep sockets ; the first joint pale brown, more slender than the others, very long, nearly as long as the three following, the second short, third to eighth inclusive nearly equal in length, the terminal joint longer, tapering slightly towards the tip. Throax black, punctured, aud covered with whitish hairs. Wings clear, iridescent, venation simple, consisting of a single vein. On primaries the basal portion of this vein runs a little above the middle of wing, when less than half way towards the apex it is curved to the costal margin where it is thickened, and runs parallel with the edge a short distance ; then dividing, one portion extends somewhat further along the edge of the wing lessening in thickness towards the extremity, the other with a short outward curve terminates a little within the costal margin, and is widened at the tip, There is a slight duskiness about the inner portion of these branches, extend- ing back to near the point where the vein first joins the costal edge. The basal portion of vein on secondaries is thickest, and is coaleacent with the costal margin for nearly one-third of its length, then contracting in size it turas inwards another third towards the middle of wing,—the terminal third increasing ia size, extends to the costal margin, and ruus a short distance parallel with it, the whole vein extending little more than half the ieagth of wing. Both veins are sprinkled with many minute black dots, from which arise short black hairs ; they are also partially fringed with hairs. Abdomen long, black, straight smooth with a polished surface, placed on a short pedicel—the first ring very narrow, second and third a little wider and nearly equal in size, the fourth fully as wide as the three preceeding, fifth Less than half the width of fourth, sixth a little shorter, terminal ring somewhat longer. The abdomen is a little contracted at its anterior extremity thickest on the third ring, lessening gradually in size till it reaches the last two seg- ments, which are suddenly contracted, the terminal one ending in a point, with a few whitish hairs about and near the top, Anterior pair of feet pale brown, trochanters nearly black, second and third pairs have the trochanters black, femur and tibia nearly black along the middle, pale brown at each extremity, tarsi pale brown. The male differs from the female in having the joints of the antenn# some- what longer and more thickly covered with hairs; the hairs are also longer ; THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 27 the abdomen is short, thick, and blunt, placed on a moderately stout pedicel nearly its own length. The abdominal rings have about the same relative size as in the female, but the posterior edge of third overhangs the fourth, the latter appearing as if partially drawn within the projecting edge of third ring. I am indebted to my esteemed friend, Chas. V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, for the correct placing of this insect, and would refer those who desire further information on this and other closely allied genera, to a valuable paper by the Senior Editor of the American Hntomologist, in that interesting peri- odical, Vol. I., No. 8, illustrat:d by excellent figures, from accurate drawings made by the Junior Editor. Having kept the grapes in bottles, only occasionally opened for ventilation, in a dry room, they had become quite hard, dry and shrivelled. In conse- quence of this many of the flies were unable to make their way out, the seed having become too hard for their jaws to eat through. On opening some of these the flies were found dead with wings fully developed and surrounded by smali fragments of the interier coating ef the seed which they had evidently gnawed off whiie endeavoring to escape. Those which had found their way out had eaten a small nearly round irregular hole through seed and skin. In many similar cases where the larva feeds within a hard substance it provides for the escape of the perfect insect by eating away the hard enclosure until it is reduced so thin as to appear almost transparent, then a very little effort is sufficient to remove the obstruction to the outward passage of the imago. In this instance I have been unable to detect any such preparation, and believe that the whole work of escape is accomplished by the perfect fly. Notwithstanding the abundance of this insect last year, I have as yet been unable to detect their presence or any evidence of their work during the present season, probably the cold and wet character of the summer has been unfavor- able to their operations. BRIEF NOTES ON THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA. BY CHAS, 8S. MINOT, BOSTON, MASS, 1. Actias Luna.—Eggs laid at night by a female in confinement, on April 30th, (this is an exceptional case, they are not generally laid until June.) They are lateriform, obrotundate, smooth, approaching in some cases a sphe- roid, opaque, very dark sepia with a taint tinge of olivaceous, though some specimens were marked with broad white bands irregularly disposed, and a very few almost entirely white. 28 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 2. Ceratomia Amyntor Hubn, (Quadricornis Harr.)—Eggs sub-spheroid hyaline, very light yellowish green, without corrugations or strie, highly luteous. Laid on the 9th June—hatched on the 19th, Larva just hatched, .18 inch, elongated, attenuate, swelling at each extremity, the thoracic diameter being the greatest ; colour yellowish-green ; and horn .09 inch acuminate and black. After the first moult it assumes the appearance of the full-grown larve in everything excepting size. It moulted six times; full-grown specimens being seen in September. 3. Mamestra Arctica Boisd,—Eggs laid June 13th. Form above circular, tapering towards the apex, flattened at the base ; transverse diameter less than longitudinal ; luteous, pale yellowish-green ; a cordate impression upon the slightly flattened apex, a little smaller than the eggs of Chrysophanus Epixanthe. They hatched while I was not at home, and therefore I am unable to give any further account of the metamorphoses ot the insect. 4. Tetracis lorata Grote. ~ From two females confined in « box, I obtained on dune 18th-20th over three hundred eggs. These are subovate, slightly flattened at the larger end, varnished. From 15 to 40 eggs are laid at a time, during the night only ; they are deposited about 100 in one spot, in curving, sometimes angulated rows, which have the appearance somewhat of radiating from a common centre. When first laid they were yellowish-green ; on the 20th they had become ochra-olivaceous ; on the 21st indian red, and by the 28th or 29th the greater part appeared gray, which effect was caused by innum- erable minute black atoms on a whitish ground. On the 31st they were all a deep, though rather dull purple. Hatched on the 30th and 31st. Some of the larve lived until July 7th. Head several times larger than the prothorax, ochraceous, luteous, sub-globose ; anal segment much enlarged, white; prop- legs, two pairs, white. The enormous head and anal segments gave these caterpillars the appearance of minute, animated dumb hells, Above, fuliginous; stigmatical line, white ; beneath, pale red. They were very active, almost con- stantly in motion. Each time before looping, it rears itself up on its hind legs, and turns round in every direction, as if scrutinizing with almost every food plant I could think of. The changes the eggs went throw are most remarkable and interesting. I have been unable to learn of anything at all equal toit. If any of the readers of this journal know of any parallel case, or have any explanation to offer as to these extraordinary alterations of the colour, I should be very glad to hear from them. 5. ——_—_ ——_- ————_M. Scudder has in his collection the larval stage of an insect closely allied to this, both he and Dr. Packard THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 29 are at a loss to assign it to its systematic position ; they also agree in consider- ing it not to be Rhopalocerous. The eggs were laid on a currant leaf, and were received by me through Mr. Scudder after a three days journey. The fol- lowing description was made soon after I received them, July 18th. Long. diam. .07, trans. diam. .05 inch. Top-shaped, tapering towards the apex, where they were slightly flattened ; sides much compressed, lacteous, sordid, with a large jet spot on each of the compressed sides, and a blace dot above. Just before hatching, the spots disappear, the ground colour becomes pale lemon yellow, and the shell is luteous. Larvze appeared on the 29th.; the first act of their existence was to eat the egg shells entirely, except the basal part by which they were glued to the leaf. When two days old, these caterpillars are one-sixteenth of an inch long : head large, perpendicular, top-shaped, reddish- brown, luteous ; eyes black, shining ; mouth small, jaws not powerful ; body tapering towards urite, above yellowish-brown, lighter underneath, very dis- tinctly separated along the stigmatical line from the darker shade of the upper surface. Above, on each segment four black spines, branching thus—first a stout pedicel, branched like a Y,the inner branch being shorter than the outer, both divarications ending in four setoid appendages, three very short, and the fourth and exterior one as long as the rest of the spine and curving like that portion of the ellipse which would be included between two adjacent points of the intersections of the transverse and longitudinal axes with its circumference. These spines are .05 inch long. Whenever they move they march in single file, From several experiments T made, I am satisfied that they have no certain leader in moving. Their eyes seem to be useless, for they did not appear to perceive any difference between light and darkness, the leader seeming to feel his way along in a manner very ususual for larve, and those behind having each a very delicate silken thread about the length of the head of the larve, which attaches it to the one in front. There are prop-legs on the 2nd., 3rd., 4th., 5th and last abdominal segments, ENTOMOLOGY AT HELLMUTH COLLEGE. At the request of the Head Master, the Rev. A. Sweatman,I recently ac- companied my friend, Mr. W. Saunders, to the college, to adjudicate the prizes given for the collections of native insects, made by the boys during the summer vacation. Considering that this is the first effort of the school at entomology the result is most gratifying, and I feel sure that some slight notice of these collections will be of interest to the readers of the Lntomologist, The first prize, value $15, was awarded to William Hugh Wood, who resides in Walsingham, in the county of Norfolk, and contained representa- 30 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, tives of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, and Hymenoptera, embracing about 140 different species, amongst which we noticed in Lep., Heteropterus marginatus, Catocala epione, Darapsa cherilus, Homoptera lunata, and a very handsome Catocala quite new to us, with a dis- tinct white spot in each forewing; in Col., Dytiscus verticalis, Carabus sylvosus, Toxotus decoloratus, Telephorus rotundicollis, Necrophorus Pustulata, and Tomoxia ; also two new species of Neuroptera. This collec- tion is very good, and reflects great credit on the industry and perserverance of Master Wood. The second prize, value $5, was gained by Wm. G. Hodgins, of Toronto. This was a fair collection containing some 90 species, but bore traces of having been somewhat augmented from the collection of a tolerably experienced entomolgist. Other collections were exhibited by Messrs. R. D. Bourke, and R. Dewar, of London, and J. R. C. Dobbs, of Portsmouth, and although these last named boys obtained no prizes, they are entitled to some praise for their efforts. These collections are given to the school to form the nucleus of the school col- lection, and in a verv short time I expect to ses the cabinet well stocked. I may add that the Head Master takes a great personal interest in our Society, and is giving the boys every encouragement to develope their tastes in this and all other branches of natural history.—E. B. Reep, London, Ont. DESCRIPTION OF LARVA OF CATOCALA POLYGAMA, GuEN. BY E, B. REED, LONDON, ONT. Taken at Port Stanley, Ont., July 1, 1869, feeding on Thorn. Length, 1 and four-tenth inches ; body cylindrical inclined to onisciform. Head, flat, bilobed and horned or notched, dark brownish red with several long hairs just above the maudibles and collar. Body, plump, smooth and firm to the touch ; color, greenish grey with small spots and blotches : on the seventh segment, two lateral black spots; on the eight segment, a small fleshy dark coloured horn curved backwards; the anal segment terminated by two elongated prolegs ; on each segment are two dorsal spots or pimples with one long hair in each ; a thick fringe of greyish hair on the base of the sides ; the spiracles blackish not distinctiy marked. Under side, greenish white, with a central row of blackish spots, largest in the centre of the body, and growing smaller towards each end. Feet, grey ; prolegs greenish gray. This description was made July 7, and the larva commenced going into chrysalis the same evening. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 31 A slight cocoon was formed by drawing together two leaves of thorn, to one end of which the larva attached itself by a few threads of silk. Length of pupa sixth-tenths of an inch : greatest breadth { of an inch ; the colour at first light reddish brown, becoming dark on the 4th or 5th day, the whole covered with a plum-like bloom ; the tongue and wing cases very clearly defined ; head ease blunt ; the imago was produced July 29, after about 21 days ; its alar ex- pansion was | and seven-tenths inch. As far as I can ascertain, this is the first time this larva has been described T have taken it before, but failed to describe or rear it. THE IMPORTED CURRANT WORM FLY (Nematus ventricosus, Klug.) AND ITS PARASITE (Hemiteles nemativorus, Walsh). BY BENJ. D, WALSH, M.A. I wish to correct a tew mistakes which I have made in the paper on this subject, which was published in the Entomoocist, Vol, IT., No, 2. lst. I have said that “ not a single American species of Hemiteles, so far as I am aware, has as yet been described under that generic name as occurring, north of the West Ivdia Islands.” This is incorrect. Mr, Riley, in his Missouri Report, has described two species, yiz., H. thyridopteryx male and female, and H. Cressonzi male, as found in his Siate. 2nd. In H. thyridopteryx, Riley—in which I have now seen Mr. Riley’s own specimens male and female—the metathorax of female is strongly thorned, while that of the male is unarmed. It is the same with H. zncretus, Cresson, though I had overlooked the fact from Mr. Cresson’s diagnoisis giving the thorns as a specific, and not as a sexual female character. These two are the only described N. A. Hemzteles, were both sexes are known, and the female has thorns on the metathorax: and there is no described male that has these thorns, though I have one such male in my collection, Moreover, in Graven- horst’s genus /oplismenus, which scarcely differs from Cryptus, except by the presence of these thorns, the males, according to Brulle, have the methorax un- armed, while that of the female is strongly thorned (Hymen. LY. p. 186). Con- sequently we may infer, with a reasonable degree of probabillty, that in Hlemiteles these thorns very frequently, but not always, form a sexual character peculiar to females, This is a remarkable and somewhat anomalous fact, be- cause in Jcheneumon morulus, Say, the female only of which is described by Say, but of which I possess two males, I find that the metathoracic thorns are equally well developed in either sx. 3rd. In H. thyridopterya, Riley, the females has the front wings bifasciate with fuscous, and the male has them hyaline. In //. incertus Cresson, the front wings of females are fuscous, and those of males hyaline bifasciate with fuscous, And there is no other described N, A. male with fasciate or bifasciate 32 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, wings, nor have I any such in my collection. Hence we may infer that usually, when //emsteles females have the front wings entirely fuscous or banded with fuscouo, the moles will respectively have them either banded with fuscous or entirely hyaline. Such colorational sexual characters, though very unusual, are not without their parallel in other orders of insects. For instance in Myodites Walshii, Lee. (Coleoptera), the wings of males are hayline, and those of females strongly fasciate with fuscous. Conversely in the European Potamanthus marginatus, Zetterst. (Pseudo-neuroptera), as I am informed by Dr. Hagen, the front wings of males are tipped with fuscous, and those of females are hyaline immaculate. 4th, Since then in //emzteles metathoracic thorns and fasciate wings, when present— which is by no means universally the case—are usually not a specific but a mere sexual female character, the Synoptical Table which [ have given for this genus must be considered as applying exclusively to the female sex. We may observe here that the body of H. thyridopteryx male is very notably darker-colored than that of females. This is the only exception with which I am acquainted to a general colorational law which I have laid down, namely, that in /chnewmonide@, when sexual differences prevail as to the color- ation, the male body is almost universally lighter-colored than that of females ; whereas in Z'enthredinide the converse rule holds good very generally (Proc. Enl. Soc, Phil, VI, p. 239). Until I saw with my own eyes Mr, Riley’s speci- mens, I rather inclined to believe that he must have made some mistake in referring his male and female to the same species. The male of H. thyridop- teryx is further extremely remarkable for having the stigma perfectly hyaline— a peculiarity which I do not remember to have noticed in any other Ichneumon Fly. While on this subject I may add, that I do not quite see the force of Mr. Saunders’ inferences (Can. Hntom. IL., p. 16) as to the occasional hybernation of the Currant Worm in the larva state. In N. W. New York,—which lies in nearly the same latitude as London, C. W.—this Saw-fly comes out of the ground fiom the latter part of April to the fore part of May, and the female oviposits shortly afterwards. The earliest flies produced from this laying of eggs appearing about the last week in June. I can see no reason, therefore, why a larva might not have hatched out from the egg in London, C. W., in the first week of May, 1869, spun up on Mr. Saunders’ paper bag on May 30, 1869, and the cocoon been noticed by that gentleman for the first time, as he informs us, on May 31st, 1869. Yet Mr. Saunders from these data arrives at the con- clusion that such a larva “must have remained unchanged during the winter, and constructed its cocoon after the 22nd of May.” In most insects that hybernate under ground there is a considerable variation in the time at which the imago state is assumed in the following spring ; and of course the earliest THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 33 females will lay the earliest eggs and produce the earliest groups of young larve. The Heteropterous larvee described by Mr. Saunders (p. 15) as attacking the Currant Worms were not, as he supposes, those of Steretrus simbriatuss Say., which are quite different but those of some species of Arma—perhaps Spinosa, Dallas, or Modesta, Dallas, or a species closely allied to J/odesta, which I have found to live in the larval and pupal states in the nests of the Fall Web Worm (Hyphantria textor, Harris), preying voraciously upon the inhabitants thereof. The reader will kindly please to correct the following slips of the pen in the paper to which this forms a sequel : Page 10, line 2, for “latter” read ‘‘former.” “ce 10 6s Tl 1 x (43 ac 133? ce Soran? NOTES ON HADENA XYLINOIDES. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. Oa the 17th of June I captured a female specimen of Hadena xylincides, early in the evening on a sugar cask, Having confined it in a pill box I laid it aside and did not examine it again until the 20th, when it was observed that a number oi eggs had been deposited. These, although examined casually by the microscope, I neglected taking a minute description of. They were about medium size, of a flattened conical form, greenish in color, and ornamented many strie. The eggs hatched on the 24th of June, when the following uescription of the young larva as seen under a common eye-glass was taken :-—- Length 0-12 in., cylindrical. Head rather large, bilobed, black and shining, Body above green and glossy, semi-transparent, with a number of raised brownish dots on each segment, from every one of which arises a brown hair- Second and terminal segments have each a patch of brownish black above under surface similar to uppes. Feet blackish brown ; prolegs green tipped with brown. The middle part of body is arched when walking, the motion resembling that of a Catocala ; the anterior pair of prolegs do not appear to be used in progression. The general appearance, glossiness and semi-transparency of skin reminds one of a Saw-fly larva, Between the first and second moult another description of the larva was taken. Length 0-32 inch. Head small, bilobed, pale brownish, very trans- parent. Body above dull greenish brown along the middle with a reddish tinge at each extremity. 2nd segment above similar in appearance to head, A pale 34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. whitish dorsal line, and a lateral line of the same hue about half way between dorsal line and spiracles, Close to under surface is a faint double whitish line enlarged to a whitish patch at each extremity. 12th segment slightly raised. Under surface dark dull green along the middle of body ; paler with a red- dish tinge about each extremity. Feet dark brown ; prolegs pale greenish, After the second moult, Juiy 2nd, the body became much darker in color, and other striking changes were apparent. The head was much larger, and the smooth polished appearance of second segment had almost disappeared. The body above was dull blackish green, almost black on sides, while the whitish lines were about same as before. From the upper lateral line to the dorsal were oblique blackish brown lines meeting on the hinder part of each segment. On the underside, the 5th, 6th and 7th segments were black with a polished. surface, while on the other segments the color was dull blackish green. I found these creatures quite omnivorous in their appetite, they would feed on almost any green thing, but I fed them chiefly on dandelion leaves and lamb’s quarter (Chenopodium album). Having kept them rather closely shut up and crowded they were attacked soon after the second moult by violent diarrhoea, which although I gave them more room and ventilation soon proved fatal to them all, A fortunate circumstance enables me to complete the history of this insect. On the 5th July, while visiting a friend’s garden, I observed a larva feeding on Scabious, which proved to be a nearly full-grown specimen of Xylinoides, The following is its description :—Length 14 inches, nearly cylindrical, Head rather small, flat in front, blackish brown and shining, with a few minute hairs scarcely visible without a magnifyer. Body above black, with a tinge of brown ; a broken bluish dorsal line. On each side, close to under surface, is a stripe of brown slightly glossy, dotted with minute bluish white specks appearing like a bloom on the surface. A short whitish yellow lateral stripe on second and part of third segments, and the same on the outer edge of terminal prolegs, Under surface brown, of the same shade as the lateral stripes above, with a similar bloom. Feet brown and shining; prolegs pale shining brown within» marked with black without. This larva entered the chrysalis state about the middle of July, forming a rough outer case of leaves, fastened to the cover of the box in which it was confined by silken threads ; within this the brown chrysalis was enclosed- The imago appeared on the second of August. I have also found the chrysalis of this species attached to the under-side of a log early in May. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 35 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA, ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held, by invitation of the London Branch, in their rooms, City Hall, London, Ont., on Wednesday, the 22nd of Sept., 1869, at 7.30 p.m. William Saunders, Esq., Vice-President, occupied the chair. Owing to the varied attractions and engagements caused by the Provincial Exhibition then being held, the attendance of members was not large. The Secretary-Treasurer read the minutes of the last meeting, the financial report, and a detailed statement of the condition, present success, and pros- pects of the CaNaDIAN ENTOMOLOGIST; on motion they were adopted. Letters of apology for non-attendance from the President, Prof. Croft, Mr. W. Couper, and others, were read, as well as various other communications, President.— Professor Crort, D, C. L., University of Toronto, Vice-Presidents.—E. BAYNES REED, London ; B, BiLiines, Ottawa. Ex officio Vice-Presidents,—REV. O. BRUNET, President, Quebec Branch ; Rev. G. M. Innzs, President, London Branch. Secretary-Treasurer.— Rev, C. J. S. Beroune, M. A., Credit, Ont. Curator.—W. OstER, B, A., Toronto, Council.__J. Pettit, Grimsby ; G. J. Bow es, Secretary, Quebec Branch ; W. Couper, Ottawa. The following gentlemen were elected Honorary Members :— Baron R. Von Osten Sacken, Russian Consul General, New York. Dr, Herman Hagen, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass, Dr, Asa Fitch, State Entomologist of New York, And the following Corresponding Members :— Rev. J. G. Morris, D. D., Baltimore, Md. F. G. Sanborn, Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass. W.S. M. D’Urban, Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England. The meeting then proceeded to the examination of many rare and interest- ing specimens exhibited by various members ; amongst the most noteworthy may be mentioned a fine specimen of Catocala relicta, Walk., taken at Ham- ilton, by Mr, Mills; Philampelus pandorus, Walk. (satellitta Harris), raised from larve by Mr. Saunders and Mr. Denton; Catocala polygama, Guen., from larvee, by Mr. Reed. Mr. Saunders also exhibited specimens raised from larve, of Thecla inorata, Grote and Rob.; Plusia balluca, Gey., from the hop; a handsome 7Zortvix from thorn, a small species of leaf-roller that is very destructive to pear, plum, cherry and apple trees, specimens of Vemato- campa filamentaria, Guen., from pear and willow,etc. Mr. Bethune exhibited a collection of Cicindelide, embracing nearly all the known Canadian 36 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, species, several from the United States, and two from Switzerland; some re- markable Australian Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, recently sent out by Mr. Walker; and a number of duplicate Coleoptera which were distributed amongst the members present. Mr. Reed exhibited many interesting specimens of Lepidoptera, including several bred from larvee. After spending a few pleasant hours examining specimens and comparing notes, the meeting adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. EXTENSION OF HABITAT OF PIERIS RAP®, Linn.—On the Ist of October I captured a specimen of P. rape, Linn., on flowers in a salt marsh on the New Jersey side of the Huason River, less than a mile from this city. It in no wise differed from a European specimen in my collection. This, I believe, is the most southerly point from which the appearance of this butterfly has been yet recorded.—THEopDoRE L. Mxan, N ew York. PIERIS RAPA,.—Tnhe larvee of this insect were very abundant and injurious this year about Montreal; here they were not numerous, and theretore did little damage.—G. J. Bow zs, Quebec. MELIT#A PHAETCN, CRAmM.—I am glad to be able to inform you that I have a brood of J/. phaeton feeding. They were found by Mr. J. L. Mead, of New York, who has spent some time here this season, He found them within close webs which were attached to Chelone glabra, and sometimes to other plants, as Iron-weed [Veronica] and a Solidago. In one instance a web was attached to the two last named. The larvee which I have feed on Chelone; they appear to feed at night, and during the day collect in dense clusters in the corner of the box in which they live. They are now half an inch long, and marked much as the mature specimens, Mr. Mead has found the larve of another species of Melita, quite black, and lying—without a web—upon the under side of the leaves of the plant, a specimen of which I enclose with this. [The plant has been kindly determined for us by Prof. Macoun, of Belleville, as the “ Actinomeris squarrosa, Nutt., a tall branching plant from 4 to 8 feet high, with the stem winged above. It is common on the western prairies,”] These larve are difficult to rear, and probably will not be brought to chrysalis state this season. I suppose them to be WV. tharos, or one of the allied small species —W. H. Epwarps, Coalburgh, West Va., September 16ch, 1869. LARV&® ON CENOTHERA.—I was intending to write to you and to Mr, Saunders to-day about the larve on the (i aothera, when No. J. of the’Can. Ent, cameto hand. I had been watching them for some days and trying to THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 37 rear them, as I suspected they were the larve of Alarza florida, Guen. But I am somewhat puzzled ; I have not found the green caterpillar on the leaves but always on the buds with its head buried, eating into the bud from the out- side, and I could not make out whence the animal came; but Mr. Saunders seems to have found it on the leaves. On examining some of the buds which had a hole in them, and apparently the worm attacks only those just about to blossom, I found on the inside a worm about one-third of the size of the green one ; more of a grey colour and marked almost exactly the same, only much more distinctly,—at least it seems so to me. I did not find this worm in all. Now in what relation do these stand to each other, or are they quite different ? The Alaria seems fond of sweet-scented flowers, the only one I had ever taken before this year was on the Datura Africana, the perfume of which is almost overpoweriny.— Henry Crort, Univ. College, Toronto, August 16th, 1869. [In reference to the above, which was crowded out of our last issue, Mr. Saunders states that he had also observed this smaller larva in seed pods of (Hnothera for the first time a few days before the date of Prof. Croft’s letter. It was very similar in eolour to the larva of A. florida, but quite distinct, being very small. He has some of them now’1in chrysalis only quarter of an inch long. He adds that he did not usually find his specimens of A/arza feeding on the leaves, but generally with their heads buried in the flower buds, as described by Prof. Croft ; he fed them, however, on both leaves and buds in captivity.—ED. | CoLLECTING GRouND oN LAKE Superior.—Pie Island in Thunder Bay? Lake Superior, is the best place I know of for Coleoptera. Should any Ento- mologist go to Thunder Bay, let him by all means visit Pie Island. Iam sure I observed 100 species that were new to, me when on it, but unfortunately I had no means of collecting.—JoHn Macoun, Belleville, CapTuREs.—Hudamus tityrus,Sm. Abb. On July 9th, 1869, I captured a fine specimen of this handsome butterfly under an Acacia tree (Robinia) on one of our most crowded streets ; it had evidently just emerged trom the pupa state, for I caught it with ease in a pill box. This is the second time only that this insect has been taken in London ; the former specimen, caught also on an Acacia tree, is in my cabinet, Cossus plagiatus, Walk. (Xyleutes of Hubner, according to Grote).—A good specimen, slightly beaten, was brought to me early in July. I think this is the first time it has been taken here, > Callimorpha interrupto-marginata, Beauvy.—On July 21st a fine female of this rare insect was brought to me; it laid a large number of egzs, which, however, failed to produce larve, This is a beautiful moth, and when its 38 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, wings are foided presents a very extraordinary sight with its distinctly marked cross, which gives it a truly orthodox appearance. Thecla inorata, Grote & Rob.—T reared some half dozen specimens from larve taken on oak.—E. B. REED, London, Ontario. Cartures.— During my stay in Goderich I had hardly the average snecess. The following is a list of the rarities I have been able to find the names of:— Cymindis reflexa, Lee.; Desmocerus palliatus, Forst.; Clytus erythrocephalus, Oliv.; C. speciosus, Say ; Microrhopala interrupta, and Epicauta vittata, Fab.; and of Lepidoptera, Alypia Langtonii, Couper; and two species of Aigeria which are new to me.—N. H. Cowpry, Stratford, Ontario. LuMiNOUS LARV-E.—I seod you specimens of luminous larve which were plentiful here in August, 1868 ; they were given me by a gentleman who found them on the Island of Orleans. Can you tell ma what they are?—G. J. Bow ss, Quebec. [They are the larve of Phorturis pensylvanica, De Geer. See Can Env. vol. I. p. 39. We were fortunate enough to find a specimen of thia larva on the evening of October 2nd, 1869, on the sandy road near the Port Credit Railway Station. It was a warm damp night with occasional showers. —Ep | INSECTS AT THE PROVINCIAL ExHipition.—We are glad to see that our London friends obtained four prizes at the recent Provincial Exhibition held in their city, viz. :— W. Saunders, 1st Prize for native collection.,............. $12 00 Do Extra Prize for foreign * —............000 4 70 E. B. Reed, 3nd Prize for native Pe as acotaees 8 00 London Branch of Ent. Soc. Can., Extra Prize tor PATEMIBT INBOCUB: fate acses sa see ete ea ee eee eee eneeaes 6 00 $30 00 We understand that the Londoners make a rule of giving the amount of their prizes to the funds of their Branch of the Society ; this is a most laudable practice, and we heartily recommend its adoption in other localities, as the Society stands in need of all the money it can get. The following account of this department of the Exhibition we clip from the Toronto Glohe :— ‘In few departments of the Exhibition was there a more noticeable improve- ment than in that of Natural History, especially in the show of insects, which, this year, embraced the finest collection of butterflies, moths, and beetles ever brought together in the Dominion of Canada. This improvement was entirely due to the exertions of the resident members of the London Branch of the Entomological Society of Canada, who, at the cost of considerable time and labour, had prepared THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 39 their private collections for exhibition to the public. The whole number consisted of sixty-three cases, embracing probably two thousand different species, and five or six thousand specimens. They were all neatly arranged in their proper scientific order, and were also labelled in a general way with reference to their beneficial or noxious qualities. The principal collection is the property of Mr. William Saunders, of London, a gentleman who has attained a high reputation among scientific men as a thorough entomologist. It includes twenty-two cases of Canadian insects, and four of foreign species. It is undoubtedly the best private collection in the Dominion, and would be worthy of consideration anywhere. Next to this a collection of English butterflies and moths, the property of the Entomolo- gical Society. The case of butterflies included a representative of every British species. The moths were not so complete. These are interesting as objects of comparison with the allied species of this country. Mr. Edmund Baynes Reed, the Local Secretary of the Society, exhibited his private collecticn of sixteen cases of beetles, butterflies, moths, dragon-flies, &. Among these are some magnificent specimens. We especially noticed a case of Under-wing moths (Catocalide ), which includes some very beautiful species. The Rev. G. M. innes, of London, showed seven cases of Canadian butterflies and moths, and an interestiny case of specimens of various orders from Labrador, a portion of our country whose natural history has not yet been much investigated. Mr. J. M. Denton, also of London, exhibited nine cases of native insects, some of English butterflies, all in very nice order, and including many fine specimens.” Mountiné Sma InsEectrs.—I have adopted successfully the following plan of preparing and mounting very small inrects for the microscope, such as parasites and acari from birds, beetles, &c. Having procured the parasite alive, I place it on the inside of a sheet of tolerably good note paper, folded, and when in the act of running, I close the paper and press it tightly in a book, which, for want of a better press, I put between two books in my book- case. By this means I find the legs, antenne, &c., nicely extended, all the expressed moisture absorbed by the paper, and the skin apparently unbroken. I allow it to remain in the book about two days, when it is carefully removed from the paper, put into the turpentine bath, and afterwards mounted in balsam in the usual way.—A. A., F. in Sctence Gossip. EXCHANGES. GALLS AND GALL-INsEcts,—Galls and Gall-Insects from all parts of the globe are my speciality, and since the lamented death of my friend Mr. Wilson Armistead, of Leeds, (+ February 18th, 1868,) I am carrying on the researches which he so vigorously started in this field. I shall therefore be happy to enter into corres- pondence and exchange, or contributions of specimens, with any gentleman in Canada who takes an interest in this particular branch of Entomology—ALzerr 40 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Mutter (of Basle, Switzerland, but residing now in England), Eaton Cottage, South Norwood, London, S. E., England. LEPIDOPTERA.—I wish to obtain any North American specimens of Phalwnites, Latr., especially such forms as are likely to be found in southern New Hampshire or Eastern Mass,; any species of Urapteryx Acidalia, Coremia, Cidaria, and Boarmia, will be particularly acceptable. New Canadian species I will describe in the Can, Ent. Ihave some 70 specimens of /esperia metacomet, Harris, about equal num- bers of both sexes, for exchange.—C. S. Minot, 39 Court Street, Boston, Mass. CoLEopTERA,—Species desired from Canada, especially the eastern region ; can give in exchange Southern and California forms, as well as those from the New England States.—P. 8S. SpracusE, 227 Broadway, South Boston, Mass. PHOTOGRAPHS,—An esteemed correspondent writes to us asking, ‘‘ Is it possible to get up a ‘Naturalists’ Photo. Exchange Club,’ as I am anxious to fill an album with the portraits of my fellow labourers in the field of science?” Should such a thing be practicable, we should be very happy to render any assistance in our power; perhaps some of our correspondents will give us their opinion on the subject. Per- sonally, we should be delighted to fill our album with the cartes of all our ‘bug- hunting’ friends, and should willingly send a copy of our own in return to any who cared to have it.—Eb. C. E. TEXAN INsECTS.—25,000 specimens of insects from Texas, for sale and exchange. G. W. BELFRAGE, Waco, McLennan Co., Texas. Care of Forsgard & Co. LeripoprTeRA.—I wish to exchange eggs of B. Yama-mai, Pernyi, and Cynthia for good specimens of Arctia parthenos, A. Americana, D. veriscolor, Theclas On- tario, Augustus strigosa, or almost any exclusively northern species, Correspon- dence requested.—W. V. ANDREWS, 130 Charlton Street, New York. TO CORRESPONDENTS. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED.—To., vols. I. and II.: From A. M., London, Eagland; J. W. H. R., Yarmouth, N.S. To vol. IL: From H L. M., Malden, Mass.; C, S. M., Boston, Mass.; T L. M., N. Y.; E. P. A, Cambridge, Mass,; F. P. A., do. (per Am. Hnt.); W. H. E., Coalburgh, Va. Subscription to Packard’s Guide from B. B., Ottawa. C. H. B., Rock Island, Il.—your first letter enclosing 50 cents, has never reached us. Our rate of subscription is now $1.25 per vol. Money must be at the sender’s risk, unless in a registered letter, P. O. order, or Bank draft. The postage to Canada from the U. 8. is 6 cents ; when only 3 are put on a letter we have to pay 10. N. H. C., Stratford, Ontario.—Please send a specimen of the Dacne that we may be able to determine the species, The pale colour is probably owing toimmzturity. we Che Canadian Entomologist. Vou, II. TORONTO, JANUARY 1, 1870. No. 4. THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. To-day our Society enters with the New Year upon a new phase of exist- ence. Hitherto it has been entirely dependant upon the unaided contributions and voluntary assistance of its members, who, in the very nature of things, are comparatively few in number, and scattered over a wide area of country ; now it has received official recognition, and is furnished with such pecuniary aid as will enable it to carry out more effectually the work that it was intended to perform. We trust, then, that all our members will now bestir themselves, and work zealously and actively for the cause of Entomology in this country, and will show by their labours that the encouragement afforded them has been usefully and worthily bestowed. We have now made our first moult, but still continue in a larval state, with all a caterpillar’s voracity for food ; unless we get plenty we shall shrivel up and die. The sustenance that we require is more members, more work, more books, more specimens, more scientific con- tributions, more subscribers to our journal, more active co-operation on the part of all! The following resolution unanimously adopted at the last meeting of the Council of the Agricultural and Arts Association of Outario, describes our new position :— “* Resolved.—That the sum of four hundred dollars be appropriated in aid of the Entomological Society for the ensuing year, on the condition that the Society furnish an Annual Report, and form a Cabinet of Insects, useful or prejudicial to Agriculture and Horticulture, to be placed at the disposal of this Council, and that they also continue to publish their Journal.” This assistance is very timely and acceptable, but it will be observed that it imposes upon us fresh work which will require the active assistance of our members to perform satisfactorily. The Annual Report is intended to be of a practical character and to resemble those issued by the State Entomologists in the United States ; notes and observations in economic Entomology from all parts of the country will be especially needed for this, The cabinet of noxious and beneficial insects will also stand in need of contributions from all our mem- 42 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. bers everywhere, and will require an entirely distinct arrangement and system from that adopted in the Society’s classified collections. Our readers will per- ceive that this is work for all to do; the humblest beginner, the merest collec- tor, can render valuable assistance in his own way, as well as the more ad- vanced student of the science. Hearty co-operation, regular systematic obser- vation and work are what we require, and what all can render if they choose. Since our last issue, two regular meetings of the Society have been held in Toronto. At the first, Nov, 10, 1869, in addition to the ordinary routine busi- ness, letters were read from Baron Osten Sacken, and Dr. Hagen, acknowledg- ing their election as Honorary Members of the Society, and from Mr. Sanborn and Mr. D’Urban as Corresponding Members ; the thanks of the Society were voted to the Boston Society of Natural History, for the donation to the Library of a copy of the “ Harris Correspondence ;” and a number of specimens of Buprestide were exhibited by Messrs. Saunders, Reed, and Bethune. At the second meeting, Dec. 14, 1869, the resolution quoted above was read, and the meeting resolved upon accepting the grant of the Agricultural and Arts Asso- ciation upon the conditions specified. Mr. F. B. Robertson was elected an Ordinary Member ; the Secretary announced the much lamented death of Mr. B. D. Walsh, State Entomologist of Illinois, and obituary resolutions of a simi- lar character to those passed at a meeting of the London branch, were adopted. DEATH OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST OF ILLINOIS. It is with feelings of very great grief that we record the death of our much esteemed correspondent, Benjamin D. Walsh, M. A., State Entomologist of Illinois. He was walking, it appears, on the railroad track near the depot, at Rock Island, on Friday, Nov. 12th, when a train coming on him unawares, the engine caught his foot and crushed it. The injured limb was amputated, and for several days no great alarm was felt respecting his condition ; it soon however, became evident that he had received serious internal injuries, and that there was no hope of his recovery. He lived till the 18th of the month, and then, after much suffering, breathed his last. No words of ours are needed to tell the reader of the loss science has sus- tained by this sad accident. One of the most thorough entomologists in America has been taken from us in the full maturity of his powers ; the accu- mulated stores of knowledge gathered during many years of zealous labors in the field, and in the study, have been closed to us for ever. Deeply do we deplore the bereavement, but humbly must we bow in meek submission to the incomprehensible wisdom of an overruling Providence. The following resolutions respecting this sad event were adopted at a recent meeting of the London Branch of the Entomological Society of Canada :— ——— THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 43 ‘* Resolved. —That the members of this Society have learned with deep regret of the sudden death of Benjamin D. Walsh, State Entomologist of Illinois. We have long admired his zeal and earnestness in endeavouring to advance entomolo- gical science, and we feel that our favourite study has lost in him one of its staunchest supporters and advocates, and those of us who had the privilege of his personal acquaintance, a warm friend. We tender our heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved widow and friends, and assure them that his labour of love manifest in his many valuable contributions to entomological literature will ever be fondly cherished in our memories. ” “* Resolved. —That the Secretary be instructed to transmit copies of the above resolution to the widow of the late B. D. Walsh, and also to the editors of the American Entomologist and Canadian Entomologist, requesting them to insert the same in their next issues.” A SINGULAR CASE. Seeing in the last number of the Canadian Hntomologist, a description of the eggs of A. Luna, reminds me to ask of you the explanation of a curious circumstance in the life-history of one bred by me from the larva last year. I will premise that I am writing without my notes,and therefore cannot give jgures accurately, but can give the facts. There may be nothing very strange about it, but two of the best entomologists in the United States inform me that it is entirely new tothem. It is this:—Some time in the latter part of the summer of 1868 I took, feeding on walaut leaves, a mature larva of A. Luna, from which I did not hope to rear the mature insect, because I counted on the larva over twenty eggs like those of a Z’achina. Underneath some of these eggs I could discern with a lens a minute opening through which the fly-larva had entered the body of the Zuna larva. The skin of the latter was more or less discoloured under cach egg, but under some—under many in fact—there was a dense black spot, sometimes two lines in diameter. I made a slight incision in the skin of the Zwna larva at the place where a Tachina larva seemed to have entered by one of the little holes, to see if I could find the Tachina larva. It was a very slight incision, as I did not wish to kill the Luna larva, but wanted to rear the flies from it to see if they were the same as those bred from Saturnia Jo. Before it spun up it changed colour, becom- ing almost pink. It spun up, and to my surprise, instead of producing Zache- nee, there last spring emerged from it an unusually large wna. The question which puzzles me is, what became of the parasites? According to all the books, I believe, the entrance of the parasite into the body of its proper host is certain death. Could it have been that the parent Zachina made a mistake, and that its progeny, not finding the Zwna to their taste, died or made their escape? Even if they had died inside the Zwna larva, must they not have occasioned its death, especially considering the number of them ¢ 44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. I will add that there was no possibility of a mistake, as I had but one other Luna larva, (and it had spun up before I found the infested one, and like it produced a perfect moth, though not so large as that from the infested one), and these were the only two Luna larve and the only two Luna moths that [ever saw. I still have both. The infested larva was the last to spin up, but the first to emerge. Can you tell me what became of the Tachine ? V. T. CHAMBERS, Covington, Ky. P. 8.—Since the above was written, I have referred to my journal, and find that the first larva was taken on Sept. 2; the infested oneon Sept.4. The latter came out on May 6th, and the former on May 15th. Otherwise the facts are as above stated.— V. T. C. NOTES ON SOME OF THE COMMON SPECIES OF CARABIDA,, FOUND IN TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA. BY PHILIP S. SPRAGUE, BOSTON, MASS. The many difficulties encountered by those entomologists who have neither time nor access to scientific libraries, but who wish to be more than mere collectors, have induced me to try and assist them, more especially those who are to some extent advanced enough to distinguish many of the families and genera of the Coleoptera. I also hope to be of some assistance to those beginners who have a true love of nature and her works. Yet were I to write for this class only, the Hntomologist would be more than full for years. My first attempt will be to help the reader to classify some of the more com- mon genera of Carabidae, after which I will refer to the species, pointing out their particular differences by comparative descriptions. I shall endeavor to express myself in familiar phraseology, rather than in technical. To those who have not these instruments, a convenient magnifying glass, Le Conte’s ‘ Classification and List of Coleoptera of N. A.,’ are absolutely necessary. (1). I have had prepared a highly maguified drawing of one of our common sum- mer beetles, H/arpalus caliginosus, to plainly represent all those parts which are of the most importance in classification ; the names should be printed with a pen on tbeir appropriate parts, very plainly, that you may know them at a glance. You will find it of the greatest advantage to dissect a number of beetles, of the same and allied genera, com) aring the different parts with each other and with the cut, and making drawings of the same, thus familiarizing yourself with the form and parts pertaining to the subject; if you are a new beginner, or have never done this, it is absolutely necessary, and you will be surprised to find how much you have learned with so little trouble (2). LS THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 45 The cut only represents the ventral or under surface. When viewed from above you will find at the extreme anterior part of the head, between the mandibles and covering the mouth, the Labrum ; a little behind this, at the sides just forward of the eyes, are inserted the antenne. The head fits into the thorax, which extends to the e/ytra, or wing covers, which are sometimes entire (Cychrus viduus ), sometimes the true wings beneath are entirely wanting (Pterostichus permundus). The small triangular piece at the centre and base of the thorax and elytra is the scutel, the characters of which are not used in the classification of this family. The sexual characteristics are of particular importance, and may usually be known by the greater dilatation of the anterior tarsi of the male. In many genera it is absolutely necessary to have the male to be positive; an instance in point is recorded, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., page 382, Dec., 1868 (3). By reference to Le Conte’s Classification you will find the family Carabide divided into sub-families, the last of which, Harpalide, the only one we shall now consider, contains the greater number of the species of Carabide. This sub-family is divided into tribes, these again into groups, two only of which, Hurytrichi and Harpalc, containing most of the common summer beetles, will be now cousidered. In these forms we have the following plan of arrangement :—Zgula free at the apex, Paraglosse distinct, Hlytra rounded and sinuate at the tip, anterior and middle tarsi of the male usually broadly dilated, —Harpalini, tribe. Anterior and middle tarsi of the male usually broadly dilated and covered beneath with a dense brush of hairs,—Eurytrichi. Group. Anterior and middle tarsi of the male usually strongly dilated, and covered beneath with two rows (one on each side) of bristles—Harpali, Group. As I presupposed in the beginning that you were somewhat acquainted with the different forms of the Genera, you will not confound these with Pterostichus, which has in the male only three joints of the anterior tarsi dilated, or with Chlencus, which has bright metallic species, usually pubescent, or with Qvodes, which very much resembles Harpalus in form, but differs by having the eighth and ninth elytral strie confluent and the ocellate punctures very near the margin ; this genus is scarce, and not easily distinguished from a number of others, except by those who have had much experience. We will now take into consideration part of the genera embraced in these Groups, remembering, that where they run into one another you will often be puzzled, and must refer to the classification, where the whole subject is carefully elaborated. The Groap Harpali contains a number of genera, one of which, Gynandropus, with but a single species common at the north, is .25 long, quite slender, shining black, thorax much narrower than the elytva, rounded before and behind, and decidedly convex; it resembles both Pterostichus and Steno- lophus, but differs from all other species by the characters of the Group, and by having three rows of punctures on each elytron on the second, fifth and seventh strive, and by the anterior tarsi having the last joint elongated and 46 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. dilated in the female. This last charaeter is of much importance, as we have a division of //arpalus having the elytra punctured in three rows ; to you who have this insect named in your collection, the above will enable you to verify it ; to others it is of little importance, as it is one of the more difficult forms to determine. Bradycellus has the mentum strongly toothed, but with the exception of the two first species in the list, they are quite small, less than .25 long. The species of Stenrolophus are also small and slender beetles, with the thorax rounded before and behind, which distinguishes them from //arpalus. With a common glass you will make but little progress with the two last named genera, for although they are both quite common, their small size and the excellent paper on Agonoderus, Stenolophus and Bradycellus (which is as per- fect as the iong experience of our greatest American Entomologist can make it), renders it undesirable to treat of them in this paper. There is a division of the Genus Harpalus (Selenophorus) which, as Dr. Le Conte says, should be aseparate genus, and which has the paraglossa flat, longer than the ligula, without lateral bristles, and the ligula is narrow, not dilated at the tip. Nearly all of this division are small and oval, having the form of the smaller common Amare, but have three rows of punctures on each elytron; only two species are commonly found at the north, 7. gugaténus and H. cripennis, which resemble in general form the true Harpalus, having the paraglosse rather thick, not longer than the ligula, and furnished at the sides with a few bristles; the ligula is truncate; they are mostly of medium or large size, and are found in the middle of summer; the mentum tooth is usually wanting, or quite small, except in three or four species, which are quite rare and inhabit the extreme west. The thorax is sub-quadrate (nearly square) ; the proportions of this part of the insect are quite deceptive, it appearing much longer than it really is, therefore you should measure it accurately until your eyes are familiar with this seeming difference. These beetles are rather broad and oval, varying trom brown to black; two or three of the species are metallic green, more or less shining. The anterior and middle tarsi of the male are dilated, covered beneath with two rows of squamiform papillae. Tne posterior tarsi of the male are like all of those of the female. Some have the elytra reticulate in both sexes, others in the female only. The apex of the elytra of the female in some species is pro- longed into a short spine called the sutural spine, as it is a prolongation of the suture. In my next paper I shall commence the description of the species, having given you here an outline of the genera. 1. The Watchmakers’ common jewelling glass, having two lenses of about a half-inch focus, will answer for all but the most minute forms. It costs less than one dollar, U.S. The Smithsonian Classifleation of the Coleoptera of N. A., by John L. Le Conte, M. D., 1861-1862, and the List of Coleoptera of N. A., 1863-1865, are indispensable ; be particular to get the latest edition; these pamphlets can be had at the Naturalists’ Book Agency, Salem, Mass. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 47 2, A sheap and convenient dissecting board, which will answer all require- ments, can be made by taking a smooth piece of board, one inch thick, 8 x 12 inch, glueing to the middle a piece of soft *wood or cork, about two inches square, one-half thick ; put up a standard three inches high on one side of the board near the middle ; next twist a small piece of annealed wire around your eye-glass, leaving one end long enough to pass around or through the side of the standard, thus bringing your glass over the centre of the board ; the wire can then be bent so as to have the focus come where you please. Cover the small centre piece with white paper; on this you can pia or glue the specimen as you please, and now, with your glass in position, you have both hands to work with. Take two or more pieces of wood like the small tip of a penholder; force a fine needle into the end of each; heat the points in a flame, and by quickly pressing them against a piece of iron or glass you have a set of dissecting hooks ; with these you can hold the insect and separate the various parts. | 3. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., page 382, Dec., 1868.—Bradycellus (Geobenus) arenarius Lec. “is proved by the discovery of the male to belong to the genus Amara.” Therefore, those having this beetle named Bradycellus must change the label to Amara. 4, This valuable paper, which is advertised under the title of “Species of Baridius of U. S., 1868,” can be had at the Naturalists’ Book Agency, Salem, Mass., Price 10 cts., postage U. 8S. 2 cents. | THE CURRANT WORM AGAIN. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. In the last number of the Hntomologist our late esteemed friend, Mr. B. D. Walsh, whose sudden death we most deeply deplore, calls in question the cor- rectness of my inference regarding the ovcasional hybernation of the currant worm, intimating that my conclusions were based upon insufficient data. He says, “I can see no reason why a larva might not have hatched out from the egg in London, CO. W., in the first week in May, 1869, spun upon Mr. Saun- ders’ paper bag on May 30th, 1869, and the cocoon been noticed by that gentleman for the first time, as he informs us, May 30th, 1869. Yet Mr, S. from these data arrives at the conclusion that such a larva must have remained 48 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, unchanged during the winter and constructed its cocoon after the 22nd of May.” Tam sure our much lamented friend must have overlooked one portion of the paragraph to which he refers, which was written with the express intention of removing such an objection as he urges, should it arise. I there stated that on the 22nd of May I was trying some experiments in crossing gooseberries— fertilizing the flowers of the Houghton seedling with pollen from some of the English varieties. Anyone who has thought for a moment on this subject will see that to ensure success in hybridization, it is necessary to open the flowers before they are ready to burst of themselves and remove the male organs before the pollen is fully matured, so as to prevent natural impregnation ; and also to avoid another source of danger, that of the carrying of pollen by insects from other flowers and its deposition on the stigma of the flower on which you wish to operate. It is well known by those who have cultivated the goose- berry that the flowers are open betore the leaves are fully expanded, and that the whole process, from the bursting of the buds to the opening of the flowers, is accomplished in a very short time—usually, I think, within five or six days. I believe that all entomologists agree that the eggs ot the saw fly are znvariably laid on the under side of the leaves, and usually attached to the larger veins. On the date before referred to, che 22nd of May, as the flowers were not then open, there would be scarcely a leaf on the bush sufficiently developed to serve the purpose of the female fly as a resting place for her eggs, and yet niae days after this the cocoon was found attached to the paper bag, and quite firm in its texture, as if it might have placed itself there several days before. From 10 to 14 days would probably elapse from the time of depositing the egg to the appearance of the young larva, and two weeks more, at least—perhaps three—would be required to bring it toits full growth. This work of a month or five weeks could not possibly have been crowded into the space of eight days or less, and I think I can scarcely be accused of rashness in forming the conclusion I did, that in this instance the larva must have remained unchanged during the winter, probably under the surface of the ground, then crawled up the bush, attaching itself to the paper bag, and there constructing its cocoon some time between the 22nd and 30th of May. The hemipterous insect Mr. Walsh refers to in the closing paragraph of his paper I have succeeded in rearing. It is not yet determined, but as far as I can learn, is distinct from either of the species referred to by myself or Mr. Walsh ; as soon as it is correctly determined I shall give its name publicity. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 49 REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE WOOD PAPER-MAKING WASPS. BY WILLIAM COUPER, OTTAWA, ONT. The history of the wasps of temperate America has not been recorded. It appears that entomologists have no great desire to study those interesting insects; and although several species occur in Canada, we know little or nothing of their natural history. One species, the spotted wood wasp (Vespa maculata, Linn.), occurs commonly, as near as I can determine, about every third year, in our northern woods. Having partially studied its habits, and collected a series of the nests in,all their stages, it is particularly in regard to the latter that I claim attention. But before I proceed to relate what I have ascertained regarding their architecture, it will sutice to state that each large nest which we notice suspended from trees towards the end of summer consisted of a colony of males, females and workers, or imperfect females, as they are termed. The large nest is certainly the second, probably the third structure which has been formed by an industrious colony of workers during the warm months of summer. In this latitude, late in the fall and early in spring, we find large and small females in a torpid state. They are the generators of the forthcoming colonies, and the only living remnant of the large number of distinct individuals which inhabited one of the deserted nests of the previous season. These females leave the nest on the approach of cold weather in October, or according to the latitude where they occur, and they then carry impregnated ovaries from which are produced eggs to constitute a young colony of from eight to twelve workers in the following spring. The gradual warmth, generally in the early part of May, awakens the torpid female, and she emerges from her winter’s abode to perpetuate her species. After partaking of such food as can be procared at this season, she is now prepared to fulfil another part of her mission—instinct teaches her that she must be her own builder-—and for this purpose she goes forth to select a suitable sheltered situation. When this is found, she collects and prepares woody fibre from weather-worn fences, &c., by which, in the course of a week or ten days, she forms a little pretty spherical paper nest. After it is perfected, she attaches a single tier of hexagonal cells, in cach of which an egg is deposited. The first egg is placed in the central cell, and as far as I have been able to watch the parent, and from examination of several of these small nests, I am of the opinion that she does not deposit all her eggs simultaneously, but that there is a lapse of time between the deposition of each egg. Iam led to this conclusion because in several nests which I have’ examined larvae occupied the central cells, while some of the surrounding ones contained eggs ; besides, I have ascertained that the young workers issue from their cells at stated periods, one after another. Here, then, we 50 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. see a beautiful provision Providence has made for the perpetuity of what we look upon as an insignificant wasp. It has been provided with instinct to guide her ; indeed, it appears to me that she has a kind of understanding that her progeny are to be brought forth gradually, therefore she only deposits a single egy at atime, when a lapse of a day or more occurs between each, which is no doubt caused in order that her labor in the collecting of food (for they are ravenous eaters in their larval state) may be brought about with greater facility, or, correctly speaking, that the time for procuring food and watching the nest will be equally divided. She is therefore only compelled to feed two at a time; and by the period of the issue of larva from advanced eggs, the first two have ceased to feed and are no more trouble to her, as they are prepared to spin cocoons to epclose themselves in their cells to undergo the third stage of their life. The parent wasp has also the accuracy and knowledge of a bird in regard to the locality of its nest; indeed, the attach- ment is as great, and which is not abandoned until it is deserted by her progeny to construct the second. I have had the pleasure of watching the formation of the parent nests of Vespa maculata and germanica from the time they were commenced until completion, and I now record a difference in their mode of working from the European J. vu/gards or its American representative, 7. e., that the pedicel and the tier of cells are the last portions of the work finished. In some rare examples, the inner dome and part of the second exterior envelope are not fully completed when the pedicel and tier of cells is attached to the roof; but there may be a force of nature in these deviations from the general plan of architecture, which Iam not prepared to solve. Kirby says : ‘ That the common wasp of Europe ( Vespa vulgaris, Linn.) only partially completes the dome before the uppermost tier of cells are begun, and when the first tier is finished, the continuation of the roof or walls of the building is brought down lower; a new tier of cells is erected, and this work successively proceeds until the whole is finished.”—J/ntroduction to Hntomology, Vol. I., p. 504-5. The first and second nests of V. maculata and germanica, with the exception of the rare specimens before mentioned, are not formed in this manner, for all those which I have examined had their exterior covering and the aperture fully formed before the first or second tiers of cells were commenced. In order ta confirm my former statement that the parent nest is abandoned by the first issue of wasps, and that it is not enlarged, as many people suppose, one of these little nests was found occupying the full extent of a cavity in an old tree stump. It contained a single tiér of eighteen perfect cells, which I believe is the maximum number of the parent nest. They are found from one and a half to three inches in diameter, and contain from one to four partitions or envel- opes. These distinctions may be attributed to the bulk and strength of the parent architect—for I find a great difference in the size of hibernal females— one found under bark of a tree at Quebec, on the 20th of May, measured seven- eighths of an inch, and two others which I found under decayed leaves in the THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 51 woods near Ottawa measured five-eights of an inch inlength. There is some motive for these varied proportions which as yet requires explanation. Vespa maculata invariably suspends its nest from the branches of beech and maple trees. These may be found common during some seasons between the months of July and October. The structural conformity of those of the second colony are remarkable from being only about half the size of the third—for there can- not be a doubt on my mind but that maculata constructs a third—and that is the large nest we find in the fall of the year, and the one in which the males are produced. It 1s during the season that the second form of nest isinhabited that these insects should be watched, and I am sorry that I have not had that opportunity, as I should have determined the existence or not of males at this period. The parent wasps are very fond of building their nests in the neighborhood of our dwellings. Sometimes they are found attached to sheltered situations in out-houses, and their object in selecting these situations is no doubt to be close to localities where they can procure food to rear their young quickly. The entomologist may look for these little nests early in May ; thence‘orward he can find them in all stages of progress, but few will be found containing eggs before tke 25th of May, which is about the time that the first egg is deposited. Larvae appear about the 7th of June. Vespa maculata was the species prevalent in the woods near this city in the summer of 1868. Last year Vespa germanica was predominant, and I append two or three notes regarding them. May 30th—Found a nest of V. germanica under a piece of old bark, on the ground. Appearance of nest similar to that of V. maculata. There was only one egg in the central cell. | June 7th—Found a second nest of V. germanica. It contained twelve cells, ten of which had eggs, and the two central contained larvee, apparently hatched a few days previous. The eggs are attached to the inner wall at the bottom of each cell. This nest had three partitions of similar construction to that of V. maculata. June 13th—Examined the nest found on the 30th ultimo, It appeared to have been increased by an additional envelope. In taking up the piece of bark and holding the aperture so that the rays of the sun could enter it, I detected larvae in the central cells, but they were very small. When I first found this nest, the parent came out and flew about my head, but on this occasion I had to blow into the aperture ere she came out, and when she did there was no fear exhibited, nor did she fly away, but stood on the outside of the wall while I examined the interior. One part of the history of this species, I am sorry to say, 1 have not had an opportunity to investigate- that is, their economy while in the second nest, for I believe that it is during this stage of progress tliat a true account of the indi- viduals which constitute the colony can be determined. Here we could, no 52 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. doubt, arrive at some conclusion regarding the correct dates of the appearance of the sexes which are said to occur towards the autumn. Reaumer states that there are two sizes among the males, It would be interesting to know if they are permanent kinds. Kirby, and other writers on Insects (see Westwood’s Int. to the Modern Class. of Insects) state that the neuters, or what are now termed undeveloped females, “massacre the later brood of larvae which are not able to undergo their transformation before the setting in of the winter.” This may, no doubt, be the end of the later larvae of the two species here spoken of, but it is not the case with the pupae which occupy the cells of V. maculata in the autumn, as I procured living specimens from nests brought home in October. The second nest of V. germanica contains two tiers of cells, which are generally enveloped with six or more partitions. During the warm season in which it is occupied, proper ventilation is necessary to insure the health and increase of the colony; therefore the wasps never neglect this im- portant mode by which the interior is kept at an equal temperature. The innermost partition encircles the double tier of cells, but its aperture is larger than the next outermost, and the aperture of each decreases towards the exterior one until it is only of sufficient size to admit one or two insects. In order that pure air be properly obtained, and that the circulation should be sufficient to force foul air from the interior, we find other apertures on the exterior partition, which lead in zigzag passages from one partition to another until they reach the interior. This mode of ventilation is beautifully illus- trated in the large autumnal nests, and for a good reason, we generally find them containing from four to five tiers of cells and a numerous colony, which obtains its full strength in this nest. In a nest lately examined the latter number of tiers was found; the two uppermost consisted of small cells, and those of the two central were of larger dimension, and had been evidently occupied by males and females, while the fifth or lowermost tier does not appear to have been occupied; but it is nevertheless curious that et agrees in size, number and form of cells to that found in the parent nest in spring. Notwithstanding the powerful sting with which some of them are provided, wasps are liable to the attacks of other insects, and their nests are entered by parasites belonging to the orders of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera, for the purpose of depositing their eggs in the cells containing the larve. Nests of the second and third colonies which I took from branches about fourteen feet from the ground, at the end of October, 1868, are infested with a Hymenop- terous parasite. One of these species issued from a cell of maculata about six days after it was in my possession. Five came from one cell I sent this Hy menopter to Mr. Cresson, of Philadelphia, and he has since described it as a new species, Huceros burrus (Canadian Entomologist, 1., p. 104). This parasite occupied a longitudinal position in the cell of the wasp, and its cocoons were slightly made, and stood side by side. I also remarked that they issued from a cell which was covered with the cap which is generally spun by the wale ye owe. a a oe: “ae ae i“ ae el ¥ pY nave 14 (PLOT i ) me. kL ns nt ee 7 - Foi ed Oa 4 -" pie, eee os GE ae ¢ i . Hm Ose bQOnP PARTS OF CUT. Ventral surface of Harpalus caligsnosus. Mandible. K_ Prosternum. S Mesosternum. Maxillary palpus. L_ Episternum of protho- T Metasternum. Outer lobe of maxilla. rax, U_ Episternum of meso- Inner lobe of maxilla. M Coxe, thorax, Labial palpus. N_ Trochanter. V_ Episternum of meta- Paraglossz. O Femora. thorax. Ligula, P Tibiez. W Ventral segments. Mentum. () Tarsi. X Epimeron of metatho- Antenna. R_ Ungues. Y Epipleura. [rax. EXPLANATION OF TERMS. Base—That point of any organ nearest the centre of the insect. Apex— That point of any organ farthest from the centre of the insect. Dorsal—Upper surface. Ventral —Under surface. Emarginate—Sharp indentation. Sinuate—Curved indentation. Lateral—Pertaining to the sides. Marginate—W ith the edge surrounded by a border. Truncate—Squarely cut. Transverse—Crosswise. Obtuse—Rounded, not acute. Acute— Pointed. Thorax—Usually the dorsal surface between the head and elytra. Prothorax— Usually the ventral surface to which the anterior legs are attached. Mesothorax—That part to which the middle legs are attached. Mctathorax—That part to which the posterior legs are attached. Hlytra—The wing covers. Elytral strie—Longitudinal grooves in wing covers. Elytral interstices—S paces between the striz. Elytral dorsal punctures—Small impressions usually between the first and third strie. Scutel— Triangular piece at the base of the suture of wing covers. Scutellar stricee—Abbreviated strie each side of the scutel. Suture—The longitudinal line of juncture between the wing covers. Sutural stria—The groove next to the suture. Rugose—Wrinkled. Sulcate—Broad shallow groove. Fovea— Large impression. Connate—Joined together. Leticulate— Covered with lines intersecting each other like a net. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 53 wasp larva prior to its changing into a pupa. Therefore I think that #. burrus is a wasp pupa parasite. There are at present cocoons of what I take to be another species occupying about two-thirds of the cells of a nest of Vespa maculata, but differently shaped from the cocoons of #. burrus, being generally triangular in shape externally, but having an interior cocoon occupied at present with the larva. The curious shaped cocoons, of chestnut color, are all situated at the bottom of the cells, and only in those cells which are open, but having the larval lining to the walls of the cells, and in every instance uncovered. For this reason [ believe that this parasitic larva, which has now lain in cocoon since October, 1868, and is not yet developed into the perfect insect, is probably a wasp larve parasite, and they illustrate what entomologists term “ the metropolis of a species.” When they issue, we may conclude it to be their prolific year. LIST OF COLEOPTERA. TAKEN AT GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, BY J. PETTIT. (Continued from page 18.) GYRINID. Gyrinus, Linn. * Aeneolus, Lec. Dinevtes, WeLeay. *Picipes, Aubé, Fraternus, Couper. Americanus, Linn. *Ventralis, Kirby. *Lugens, Zimm. *Carolinus, Ler. *Analis, Say. *Limbatus, Say." HYDROPHILIDA, HetorpHorus, Fab. Hyprocuus, Germ. Hyprana, Klug. Lacustris, Lec. Squamifer, Lec. *Pensylvanica, Aves, Lineatus, Say. *Excavatus, Lec. HyDROPHILUS, Geoff, Scaber, Lec. *Simplex, Z~. Triavgularis, Say. *Species marked with an asterisk have not before been included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera. 1From Canada East. 54 THE CANADIAN HypDROPHILUS, Geof. cont. Hyprosius, Leach. Lateralis, Host. *Ovalis, Zieg.” Hyprocuaris, Latr. Obtusatus, Say. Berosus, Leach. Striatus, Say. Laccosivs, “7. Agilis, Rand. Necropnorus, Fab. Marginatus, Fab. Pustulatus, Herschel. Mortnorum, Fab. *Pyemeus, Kerby.* Orbicollis, Say. Sayi, Lap. Lec.) Velutinus, Fab. Obscurus, Kirby. SinpHa, Linn. ScypManNus, Latr. *Fossiger, Lec. PSELAPHIDA— CTENISTES, Fetch. *Piceus, Lee. Bryaxis, Leach. *Perforata, Brend. “Tllinoisensis, Brend. (lunatus *Insculpius, Lec. *Digestus, Lec. *Subcupreus, Say. Puintvypevs, Sol. *Fimbriatus, els. *Maculicollis, (.uls)., CrypropLeurUM, Mus, *Nebulosus, Say. Perplexus, Lec. SILPHIDA. Surinamensis, ab. Lapponica, /Hbst. Marginalis, Fab. Tnequalis, Yah. Peltata, Catesby. Necroruiuus, Latr. *Subterraneus, Fab, Catops, Fad. Opacus, Say. *Terminans, Lec. *Parasitus, Lec. SCYDM ANID A. *Capillosulus, Lec. *Basalis, Lec. ? Rubicunda, Awhé. DecartHRON, Brend. *Abnorme, Lec. Batrisus, Aibé. *Lineaticollis, Awbé. (To be Continued.) (BRENDEL’S ENTOMOLOGIST. Ochraceus, Wels. Cinctus, Say. *Bifidus, Lec. Cercyon, Leach. Flavipes, “7. *Pretextatum, Jus. Vagans, Lec. Antsotoma, ///. Obsoleta, Lec. Liopes, Lat. Globosa, Lec. *Polita, Lec. *Dichroa, Lec. AGATHipium, ///. *Oniscoides, Beauv. Exiguum, JZels. Revolvevs, Lec. Rasus, Lec. SyNopsIS). Eupwiectus, Leach. *Confluens, Lec. RueExtivs, Lec. *Tnsculptus, Lec. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Preris Rap#, Linn.—In your * Miscellaneous Notes” cf Nov. 15, your correspondent, T, L. Mead, of New York, speaks of haviay captured “ a spe- cimen of P. rape on flowers in 2 salt marsh on the New Jersey side of the *A single specimen taken several years ago on the shore of the Lake, only lately identified. . *Dr. Le Conte, in his List, has placed NV. pygmaeus, Kirby, as a synonym of NV. mortuorium, Fab., but, as Dr. Horn informs me. now considers them distinct. A fine specime of the variety crispetus, Motsch, was taken here by Dr. Milward. Ee ——————————E—= - THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Or eb | Hudson River.” If he had ‘ hunted’ the ‘ Hill’ on which Hudson City stands, instead of the ‘salt marsh’ at its foot, he might have captured a hundred specimens instead of one. The increase of this insect during the last two years is marvellous.—W. V. ANDREWs, New York. LIMENITIS PROSERPINA, Edw.—Mr. J. M. Jones sent us a coloured drawing of a specimen captured near Halifax, Nova Scotia, wkich we consider to be a specimen of LZ. proserpina Edw. We sent the drawing, however, to Mr. Edwards, the highest authority, who replied as follows :—“I think the figure is of Proserpina ; the white band is rather unusually broad on the upper sur- face, but no two of the specimens I have seen are alike in this respect. If you examine a series of Arthemzs you will notic2 a large range of variation in all respects, and probably Proserpina varies as much.”—C. J. 8. B. BOOKS RECEIVED. 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In my previous article upon this subject, I treated upon the classification and the particular distinguishing characters of the genus Harpadus ; in this I wish to call attention to their specific differences, by noting those varia- tions of form or structure which are so constant as to cause us to consider them as denoting distinct species. The general form of the beetles of this genus is oblong-oval, rather broad, thorax quadrate and in length from . 30-1 inch, black piceous, shining. Our northern exceptions to this color are FT. viridiaeneus, Beauv., and /Z. erraticus, Say, the former being bright brassy green, the latter dark ferruginous or the colour of immaturity. The cut accompanying the previous article was of Harpadlus caliginosus, Say, a beetle so well known that I shall describe it in detail, that you may better understand my ideas in describing others. I shall suppose that you have taken up this beetle without any previous knowledge of its name ; you per- ceive it has the general form of the genus Harpalus. We now proceed to examine the anterior and middle tarsi, the four first joints of which are strongly dilated, consequently it is a male, beneath they have at the sides a few coarse short bristles (had they been covered with a dense brush of hair, we should have laid it aside as most likely belonging to the genus 4n/sodac- ty/us), its length from the apex of labrum to the end of the elytra is .go (‘80-1.05 are the extremes of specimens in my collection), width .35. If we now had access to descriptions of the beetles of this genus, we should find only one of this length or near it, consequently without further trouble we should only have to see that it agreed with the specific description. This is the largest Yarpa/us we have, being one-half longer than any other, and if the generic characters are well worked up, it cannot be mistaken for any other. The head is black with a few scattered punctures, nearly obsolete, the frontal impressions between the antenne are well marked, apex of labrum Or OO THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. slightly emarginate at centre ; mouth, tarsi and antennz reddish brown, the latter with the two basal joints smooth ; thorax nearly twice as wide as the head and much wider than long, finely punctured, confluently at the base and near the apex, sparsely at the centre on top, the dorsal longitudinal line distinct, abbreviated in front, sides depressed and flattened, making a wide margin which is punctured, it is narrow at the apical angle and very broad at the base, there is a very narrow raised border at the edge, on each side between the middle and margin a little inward from the base is a broad shallow fovea (basal fovea), more roughly punctured than the other parts, the sides are narrowed and rather broadly rounded forward from a little behind the middle, and sinuated posteriorly, the basal angles are acute with the apex pointed and somewhat extended outwards ; elytra” broader than the thorax, oval, with its greatest width near the middle, the apex is obliquely and slightly sinuated, the striz are deep, very finely and rather sparsely punctured, interstices convex, no dorsal puncture ; beneath dark piceous, punctured at the sides, mentum not toothed, on the abdominal segments beneath, each side of the centre, are seen a row of punctures from which a long bristle projects (ambulatorial seta). I wish to call your attention to this marking for we have those with another set of setz nearer the sides of the abdomen and called accessory ambulatorial sete. The great length and breadth of this beetle distinguish it from all others of the genus, and I know of no beetle that it can be taken for. During the middle of summer, under stones and boards in sandy soil near running water, beetles are found quite commonly, having the appear- ance of being immature in color ; this is Harpalus erraticus, Say. Long ‘60 (50-68). Testaceous beneath, darker above with the elytra piceous, more slender than the preceding. Head smooth, frontal impressions shallow, antennz concolorous, with the two basal joints smooth ; thorax smooth, with the sides depressed, leaving a wide margin suddenly and broadly dilated behind, finely punctured, the basal foveze are distinct and usually punctured, sides rounded forward of the middle and strongly narrowed behind but not rounded, basal angles obtuse, scarcely rounded at the extreme apex ; elytra much wider than the base of thorax, sub-oval, deeply and obliquely sinuate at tip, in the @ the outer angle acute and dentiform, the extreme apex is sometimes sub-sinuate, leaving a sutural spine, the striae are moderately deep and impunctured, it has no dorsal punctures ; the abdomen beneath is finely punctured and pubescent at base. In most examples of this species a slight sinuation of the thorax is seen on each side, about one-third of its length from the base, in some the basal fovee are scarcely punctured, making the whole thorax nearly smooth. I have in my collection one a THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 59 specimen which is wholly dark piceous, almost black, with the exception of the outer joints of the antenne, which are covered with fuscous hairs. This beetle differs from all other species of Harpalus (except H retractus, Lec., from New Mexico, which I have never seen), by the deep and peculiar sinuation of the apex of elytra and also by its immature color. Har palus testaceus,Lec.—lowa and Illinois—must be similar in color, but is much smaller, long .41, and also differs by belonging to the subdivision having accessory ambulatorial sete. I presume from the fact that I never have obtained this beetle in my many western exchanges, that it is quite rare. Harpalus viridiaencus, Beauv., length -40 (*32.42). Beneath black, above bright metallic green, more or less bronzed, sometimes coppery, rarely black ; epipleurae, legs, mouth and antennz reddish-brown ; head smooth, nearly black and darker than the thorax, which is a little wider than long, sides narrowed behind but not depressed, showing only the narrow border which is distinct wholly around the thorax, its basal foveze shallow, some- what linear, and with the angles and base punctured, posterior angles obtuse and very slightly rounded at the extreme apex ; elytra wider than the thorax, with the sides finely punctured and pubescent, striz not deep, and in some specimens nearly obsolete punctures may be seen, interstices flat, the apex is obliquely and strongly sinuate,in the ? the outer angle acute, no dorsal puncture. ‘The color of this beetle marks it well, and with the apical sinuation of the elytra quite distinguishes it from others of the genus. flarpalus amputatus, Say. Dr. LeConte refers to a beetle somewhat resembling the above (Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci, Philadelphia, page gg, 1865), as coming from Kansas, New Mexico, Saskatchewan, Montreal, Canada, which I will describe, hoping that others may have been more fortunate than myself in procuring it from this section. The only specimens I have seen were from New Mexico, one of which by the kindness of Mr. G. D. Smith, of this city, I have in my collection. Dr. LeConte says (loc. cit.) “above metallic blue or green, nearly black, with the apex of elytra truncate.” Three of the four specimens I have examined are nearly black, with the faintest tint of dark blue, and only one was brassy green. The following is a description :—Length -38 (-37-41). Above and below nearly black, shining, legs and antenne piceous. Head smooth; the thorax at the sides broadly rounded before and behind, basal angles nearly obsolete, sides of thorax not depressed, basal foveze shallow, with the outer angles somewhat flattened and punctured ; elytra broader than thorax with the apex nearly squarely cut off, striz well marked, the 2 with sutural spine. The truncate elytra and round thorax sufficiently mark this species. Harpalus laticeps, Lec. Length 55 (52-60). Black above and below, 60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. shining, very broad and convex, legs and antennz rufo-piceous. Head very broad, black, shining, smooth, the frontal impressions small, antennze short, not reaching the base of thorax, dark testaceous ; thorax one-half broader than long, sides distinctly depressed at and behind the middle, basal fovez broad, not very deep, finely punctured, sides well rounded before, distinctly narrowed behind, basal angles obtuse and rounded at the ex- treme apex, the fine raised border is distinct at the side and base, the dorsal line distinct, abbreviated in front ; elytra a little wider than the thorax, not deeply striate, impunctured, interstices flat, a dorsal puncture behind the middle near the second stria, N. H., Me., Vt. The large head and convex and obese form, well mark this beetle. In the 2 the elytra are slightly opaque or silky “ser7ceo-opaca) and generally with a small sutural spine. In nearly all of my specimens the sides of the thorax for a short space behind the middle are very slightly sinuate, the terminal spur of the anterior tibiz is quite long and broad. Harpalus rufimanus, Lec.,*40-48. Black, shining ; tibiae, tarsi and antennae rufo-piceous. Head smooth, not as broad as in the preceding, antennae quite short ; thorax distinctly wider than head, one-half wider than long, sides slightly depressed behind, broadly rounded and distinctly nar- rowed posteriorly, basal foveae deep, somewhat linear, finely and confluently punctured, basal angles obtuse, scarcely rounded and sparsely punctured; elytra wider than thorax, 2 ‘sericeo-opaca,” striae deeper than in the pre- ceding, impunctured, a small but distinct sutural spine in the 2 , behind the middle two dorsal punctures on the third interstices, near the second stria. The two punctures near together behind the middle on each elytron mark this beetle from all the other species, and perhaps I may say from all Har- palide. 1 cannot understand why this pecuharity has not been noted ; Dr. LeConte neither mentions it in his description of the species (Ann. Lyc Nat. Hist. 4,402), or in his notes ‘‘On the species of arpa/us inhabiting Amer- ica, north of Mexico” (Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, page 98, 1865). I have in my collection 3 2,2 § thus marked, one of which Dr. Horn, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Ulke, of D. C., identified as H rufimanus, Lec. I have seen two specimens in another collection thus marked, and I have also seen in Dr. Harris’ collection, a specimen sent him by Dr. LeConte, from Lake Superior, and by me sent back to Dr. LeConte last year, for the Boston Society Nat. Hist., to be identified ; now with eight specimens be- fore me, one from Lake Superior, the others from N. H. near the White Mountains, all that I have ever seen agreeing perfectly with all descriptions (save this peculiarity), and these particular specimens identified by Dr. Le- Conte, Dr. G. H. Hornand Mr. Henry Ulke, three of our greatest American Entomologists, I can see no reason for believing this an accidental marking, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 61 Harpalus spadiceus, Dej. Length -33-38. Rufo-piceous, legs and an- tennae ferruginous. Head smooth, rather large, mandibles long ; thorax one-half wider than head, a little wider than long, sides broadly rounded, not at all depressed, strongly narrowed behind, basal angles obtuse, not rounded, basal foveae narrow, shallow, more or less punctured, disk smooth, somewhat convex ; elytra oval, widest a little behind the middle, striae deep, impunctured, interstices convex with a dorsal puncture on the third near the second stria, behind the middle, elytra not opaque or reticulate in either sex. This beetle resembles Aerdivagus in color and size, but is more robust (convex), and in this respect more like //7. fad/ax, Lec , and Hf. Pleuriticus, Kirby, but differs from both by the larger head and man- dibles, and the strongly narrowed thorax posteriorly ; it resembles in form of thorax, WH. viridiaeneus, but is still more strongly narrowed behind. Not common in New England ; two examples from Massachusetts. The above descriptions comprise most of our species whose form is so well marked as to be most readily recognized, and not easily confounded with others. The reader is requested to make the following correction in my first paper :—Page 46, line 15 from top, after ‘“¢%zs paper” insert “(4);” and at line 22, for “having” read “the latter, however, has.” ON THE LARVA OF 7HECLA INORATA, Garde Re BY Ww. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. On the 15th of June, 1869, I obtained several Zhec/a larvae by beating over an umbrella the branches of some small oak trees growing in a cemetery about two miles west of London. Not having met with them before I at once took the following description : Length, -40 in., onisciform. Head small, pale greenish-yellow, with a minute biack dot on each side. Mandibles pale brown, with a faint whitish patch immediately above them. Body above yellowish-green, streaked above with yellowish-white, and thickly covered with fine, short, white hairs ; second segment of rather a darker shade of green than the rest of the body. A dark green dorsal stripe, on 3rd, 4th and 5th segments, the full width of the dorsal crest ; narrow on the four terminal segments, almost obsolete on those intermediate A faint whitish dorsal line runs through the centre of this stripe. Dorsal crest edged with yellowish-white, most apparent where it borders the darker portions of dorsal stripe ; sides of body with a few faint oblique lines of yellowish-white ; body margined on each side with the same color close to 62 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. under surface extending around the posterior segments. In some younger specimens these yellowish-white markings have a reddish or brownish tint. Under surface deeper bluish-green, with a faint white bloom. Feet and prolegs partake of the general color. June 2tst.—Since the 15th most of the larvae have moulted, resulting in some change in their appearance. Length *55 in. Head, color and markings as before. Body above dull white with a faint green tinge, changing in some speci- mens to a slight ochrey-reddish tinge, thickly covered with minute white hairs ; second segment pale green. The green dorsal stripe on third, fourth, and fifth segments has acquired a deep greenish brown tint, which contrasts strongly with the general color of body ; the same change is also observable on the last four segments, and here the stripe is much widened, the anterior portion of it assuming the form of a triangular patch, its base on posterior part of eleventh segment, its apex on anterior part of tenth; on the intermediate segments the dorsal stripe is obsolete. On the fifth segment a streak of dark brown crosses the end of the dark dorsal stripe extending about half way down the sides ; there is also a dot of the same color on each side of this segment close to under surface. On the sides of the fourth and sixth segments are several additional brown dots, very small. The tenth and eleventh segments have an oblique brown streak on each side, with a small spot of the same color placed below it. The sides of body have five or six white oblique lines. Under surface green, with a whitish bloom ; a patch of brown on each side in continuation of spots on tenth and eleventh segments ; a patch of the same also behind the last pair of prolegs. Before entering the pupa state these larvee assumed a delicate pink color, the dorsal stripe becoming darker, the other lines paler. Length .60 in. Head, color and markings as before. Body above dull whitish pink ; second segment greenish ; dorsal stripe on third, fourth and fifth segments very dark brown, widest on fifth, where there is a spot of the same color on each side of it. ‘The lines bordering dorsal crest, oblique lines on sides, and edging of under surface, all pale pink. On the hinder segments the anterior portion of dorsal stripe is widened, assuming the form of a triang- ular patch as before, its color scarcely so dark as that on anterior segments. Under surface green with a yellowish tint, feet and prolegs of the same shade. One of these became a chrysalis on the 27th of June. Length of pupa, ‘40 in. Color pale brown, sprinkled with many dots of a darker shade, and thickly covered with short yellow hairs. A ventral line of dark brown THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 63 along posterior segments. Under surface much paler. This description was taken June 30th. ‘The imago appeared on the 13th July. Among the first lot of larvee secured one differed materially from the others in its appearance just before entering the chrysalis state. The body assumed a deep green color with the same dark brown dorsal markings, while the yellow edging of dorsal crest appeared very prominent in conse- quence of the deepening of general color, on posterior segments it was in- distinct. The bordering around body close to under surface was dull pink, and the oblique lines on sides of body scarcely perceptible. The under sur- face was a little deeper in color than upper ; feet faintly tipped with brown. This specimen became a pupa June 24th, and the following description was taken on the 28th. Length, ‘40 in. Color, brownish black, thickly covered with short yellowish hairs, with three or four faint brown spots on each side of the ventral line on posterior segments. Wing cases mottled with pale brown, under surface paler. This produced the imago July roth. On the first of July some additional specimens of the larva were taken by Mr. E. B. Reed in another locality, also on oak. Several of these were kindly placed at my disposal. Some were of the normal cast as first described, while two or three appeared very distinct. The head had the same color and markings in all; but in one case the Jody was pale brown with a pinkish tinge, thickly covered with short whitish hairs; 20 yellow or other markings. Under surface yellowish-green. In a second speci- men the color was of the same pale brown shade, but the yellow markings were present. Both these examples presented a marked contrast with the common form of whitish or greenish-white larva with broken dorsal stripe. In all these cases the imago appeared identical—after a careful examin- ation I could not detect any difference worthy of notice. Two of the common form of larve produced each three dipterous parasites, which escaped from the larva when full grown, and produced pup .rg in. in length, nearly oval in form; color dark brownish-red. One of these produced the imago on the 11th of July. The insect has not yet been determined, In this interesting series of specimens we have the same imago pro duced from First—A dull zwite or whitish-green larva, with green dorsal stripe and whitish lines, producing a pa/e-brown chrysalis. Second—A deep green larva with dark brown dorsal stripe and yellow lines, producing a brownish-black chrysalis. Third—A pave brown larva with a pinkish tinge, wth no dorsal stripe or other markings. Fourth—A pale brown larva with yellow lines. Thus showing variations as wide as those marking some distinct species. 64 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. The figure of this larva given in Boisduval and Leconte (Pl. 29, fig. 4), although very imperfect, is evidently intended to represent the normal form of this larva. It is there stated to feed on different species of thorn ). ( Crataegus A NEW SPECIES OF ANWARTA FROM NOVA SCOTIA. BY THE EDITOR. In the Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of, Natural Science (1868-9, p. 78-87), I have given a list of some specimens of Nova Scotian Lepidoptera, sent me for determination by the esteemed President of the Institute, J. Matthew Jones, Esq., of Halifax. Among these was included a new species of Avarta, the description of which I reprint here, as many of those interested in this department of Entomology may not have access to the original publication. “ Anarta Acadiensis, Bethune (Pro. Trans. N. S. Inst. Nat. .Sci., 1868-9, p. 84). The pretty little species of this genus are chiefly confined to mountainous and sub-arctic regions ; one, however, is taken all over England, and another, 4. /z/eo/a, Grote & Rob., has been found in the neighborhood of Quebec ; Dr. Packard (Pro. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Oct. 17, 1866), has described several species taken in Labrador. The following is a description of our species :— “« Anterior wings dull brick red, sparsely powdered with black scales, Basal line indistinct, doubled, slightly dentate, black ; transverse anterior line black, perpendicular to costa for nearly half its length, than curved outwards forming an irregular arc to the inner margin. Median space darker, with a transverse central black shade ; orbicular spot very conspicuous, creamy white, with a few scattered ferruginous scales in the middle, narrowed posteriorly and produced till it meets the edge of the reniform ; this spot is of the normal shape, concolorous with the rest of the wing, conspicuously bordered with white, except inferiorly where it is open and encroached upon by the dark central shade. Transverse posterior line, black, fine, forming a very convex arc outside of the reniform spot. Subterminal and terminal spaces paler ; subterminal line rather broad, distinct, black, arising from a triangular black spot on the costa, slightly wavy, parallel to the outer margin ; terminal line deep black, very distinct ; fringes concolorous with the wing. ‘* Posterior wings shining, straw-yellow, with a broad well-defined black border, which is slightly excavated interiorly just before the anal angle; costa, base and inner margin broadly discolored with black scales ; fringes golden yellow at apex, pale yellow inferiorly. “* Under side of anterior wings shining, the costa narrowly, and the outer margin broadly, reddish-yellow, especially at the apex ; inner margin rather broadly pale yellow; all the rest uniformly deep black. Posterior wings shining, pale yellow, with the costa and apex broadly irrorate with bright ferruginous scales, and a narrow ill-defined sub- marginal band ; fringes pale yellow, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 65 ‘* Antennz pale ferruginous, with a slight pubescence. Head and thorax ferru- ginous. Abdomen cinereous above, darker from numerous black scales below ; anal tuft ferruginous. Tarsi annulated. “* Alar expansion 1.15 inch. Length of body 0.50 inch. “* Habitat, Nova Scotia. (No. 281, J. M. Jones). This very pretty little moth may be readily distinguished by its color and the conspicuous peculiarly shaped orbicular spot. ‘¢ Halifax : rare, taken in July at Ashbourne.—J. M. J.’ LIST OF COLEOPTERA, TAKEN AT GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, BY J. PETTIT. (Continued from page 54.) STAPHYLINIDA, XANTHOLINUS, Serv. Fulgidus, £7. *Capucinus, £7. Molochinus, £7. CREOPHILUS, Steph. Cephalus, Say. Villosus, A7zrdy. Hamatus, Say. LreIsTorRopPHus, Perty. BaproLinus, Ar. Cingulatus, A7. *Filicornis, Pays. Ocypus, Kirby. LATHROBIUM, Grav. Ater, Zr. Grande, Lec. STAPHYLINUS, Zinn. Punctulatum, Lec. Maculosus, Grav. Angulare, Lec. *Mysticus, Er. Concolor, Lec. Vulpinus, Vord. *Armatum, Say. Fossator, Grav.” *Longiusculus, Grav. STAPHYLINUS (contin’d). *Collare, Er. Badipes, Lee. Cryprosium, Jann. Cinnamopterus, Grav. Bicolor, Zr. FALaGrRia, MZann. Dissecta, Er. *Venustula, 7. LEUCOPARYPHUS, Avraats. *Silphoides, A7. Coproporus, A™?. Ventriculus, A7. TACHINUS, Grav. *Flavipennis, Dez. *Memnonius, Grav. Fumipennis, £7. Picipes, Zr. Fimbriatus, Grav. Limbatus, J7Ze/s. TACYPORUS, Grav. Jocosus, Say, ConosoMa, Avr. Crassum, Lec. Basale, Lec. Bo.erosius, Leach. *Niger, 27. *Cincticollis, £7. Cinctus, #7. *Rostratus, Lec. *Longiceps, Lec. Queptus, Steph. Fulgidus, 7. *Levigatus, Zr. Violaceus, Grav. Capitatus, Bland. PHILONTHUS, Curtis. Cyanipennis, 27. Aeneus, Vord. Blandus, “7. Promptus, £7. Debilis, #7. Lomatus, 7. *Fulvipes, Word. *Aterrimus, 4+. Apicalis, Zr. Pallipes, ord. *Latebricola, /Vord. STiuicus, Latr. *Angularis, Zr. *Dentatus, 27. Liruocuaris, yr. Confluens, 47. SUNIUS, Steph. *Prolixus, £7. *Linearis, Zr. SUNIUS (continued ). Longiusculus, Zr. 66 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. P#DERUS, Grav. OXYTELUS, Grav. TRIGONODEMUS, Lec. Littorarius, Grav. Sculptus, Grav. Striatus, Lec. STENuUS, Latr. TRoGOPHL@US, Zann. ANTHOBIUM, Steph. *Colon, Say. *Morio, Zr. Protectum, Lec. Juno, “ad. ANTHOPHAGUS, Grav. PROTEINUS, Latr. Oxyporus, /ad. *Ceesus, Lr. Parvulus, Zee. Rufipennis, Lee. LestEva, Latr. MEGARTHRUS, StepA. *Femoralis, Grav. *Biguttula, Lec. * Americanus, Sachse. Lateralis, Grav. Acipora, Steph. Angulicollis, AZak/. BLEpDIus, Steph. *Subcarinata, Hr. OListH@Rus, £7. Fumatus, Lec. *Patruelis, Lec. Nitidus, Lee. PLATYSTETHUS, J7ann. OLOPHRUM, £7. GLypToma, Er. Americanus, £7. *Emarginatum, £7. *Costale, Er. HISTERIDA. Ho.oepta, Pays. Coarctatus, Lec. *Deletus, Len Fossularis, Say. *Cylindricus, Payk. TERETRIUS, £7. . HIster, Linn. Gracilis, Zec. *Americanus, Lec. Interruptus, Beawv. PHELISTER, JZars. PLEGADERUS, £7. Merdarius, Pays. *Subrotundus, Jzars. Transversus, Say. *Harrisi, Azrdy. TRIBALUS, £7. Acritus, Lee. Foedatus, Lec. *Americanus, Lee. *Exiguus, Lec. *Cognatus, Lec. PAROMALUS, £7. SCAPHIDIDA. Marginicollis, Lee. ——-? SCAPHIDIUM, O/27'. Depurator, Say. SAPRINUS, Leach. 4 Pustulatum, Say. Abbreviatus, /7a@é. Distinguendus, Mars. Piceum. JZe/s. *Sedecim striatus, Say. *Pensylvanicus, £7. SCAPHISOMA, Leach. Americanus, Pay. Conformis, Lec. Convexum, Say. *Carolinus, Pay. Assimilis, £7. Toxipium, Lec. LeContei, AZars. *Scrupularis, Lec. Gammaroides, Lee. Parallelus, Say. Fraternus, Lec. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Larva or HELIOTHIS ARMIGERA.—At a recent meeting of the Entomo- logical Society of London, Eng., “Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited two speci- mens of Heliothis armigera, Linn. ( . umbrosus, Grote), bred from larve which fed in tomatoes. Animportation of tomatoes from Spain or Portugal had been greatly damaged by a number of green larve, with black lines and spots, which fed in the fruit, where there was apparently juice enough to drown them, and which ultimately produced the moths exhibited.” This * Species marked with an asterisk have not been before included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 67 insect has been taken in all parts ef the world, and of late years in the United States. In Illinois and Kentucky the larva has been very destruc- tive to Indian Corn, and in the former State to the tomato as well (Amer. Ent., i. 212). Mr. Glover has found it feeding in a young pumpkin ; but it is best known in the United States as the Cotton Boll-worm, from the injury it inflicts upon the cotton crop. It is probable also that it attacks Indian Corn in Canada, ( Vide C. Farmer, 1869, p. 425). Captures AT NortH Douro.—An attack of ague—for although that depressing complaint is happily of infrequent occurrence in our village, it was exceedingly prevalent last year—and a subsequent lengthened absence from home for the recuperation of health, prevented me from devoting much time, last summer, to the capture of entomological specimens for my cabinet. Perhaps the most interesting addition I made to my collection was a very good specimen of the ZAyreus nessus. The Colias philodice appeared in great abundance, noticed chiefly around the puddles on the roads. Among the Coleoptera captured was the “one-coloured Przonus,” Prionus unicolor, called now, I believe, Orthosoma cylindricum. tis a good specimen, measuring 1% in., exceeding by 14 in. another specimen previously included in my collection. Some of the “Buprestians,” particularly the Buprestis Virginica, we find constantly in our neighbourhood. Last year I captured the Auprestis Sulvoguttata, the “tawny-spotted Buprestis ;” it measures a little over 1's in. The large ‘‘Capricorn beetles,” AZonohammus titi//lator, were unusually abundant last season. I captured numerous specimens for the purpose of measuring their avtenn@, one pair of which had attained to the unusual as far as my experience extends—length of 3% in. I also added a “Tree-hopper,” Cicada canicularis, to my collection. Both my specimens are of the same length, a little over 11°o in. to the end of the wing covers. My Dahlias, last year, were infested with emiptera. Indisposition at the time of their appearance disinclined me from the trouble of endeavour- ing to ascertain even the group to which they belonged. They were about yo in in length, and prettily coloured. Around my currant bushes were playing, during the summer months, innumerable “Ichneumon flies.” I never saw so many congregated within a similar space before. ‘They were of different sizes and colours. I noticed one of the larger ones, of a steel-blue colour, with a linear body, entangled in aspider’s web. Madame Arachne, however, soon discovered that she had. “caught a Tartar ;” for, after a few ineffectual struggles to escape, the 68 THE GANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Ichneumon managed to insert her ovipositor into the body of the spider, retaining it there for a longer period than would have’ sufficed for the de- posit of an egg—probably the original intention—in fact, until the spider was, or appeared to be, dead. I need scarcely add, that I alvays welcome the appearance of the ichneumons, cruel as is their mode of propagation. Isaw a Zremex columba on one of the window-sills of my church. It was beyond my reach, and, having specimens in my cabinet, I took no pains to secure it. And, to conclude this gossiping communication, I found, on a spruce tree, two Jarve of the Orgyta leucostigma.—V. CLEMENTI, North Douro, Ont. RASPBERRY GALL.—Towards the end of the summer of 1868, while entomologizing in the neighborhood of Billing’s Bridge, south of Ottawa, in company with Mr. B. Billings, I noticed that the roots of the common raspberry, growing in certain localities, were attacked by a species of gall-fly. I recognized this gall as similar to one which I found on the 31st May, at a place called La Table Bay, Labrador. ‘The galls are generally attached to the roots, but they sometimes occur on that portion of the stem which is covered with earth. I collected a quantity of the Labrador galls, which were placed in a paper bag, and brought to Quebec, where the (Hymenopterous ) insects emerged, but unfortunately the galls and in- sects were lost on my removal to this city. The galls are small, spherical, and sometimes found in clusters, each being a cell, containing one insect. I visited the locality near this city this spring, but found the place covered with water, and I have not had another opportunity to look after them. I believe it was not described up to 1868. Do any of your correspon- dents know it 2—WILLIAM CouPER, Ottawa, Ontario. An Opp PLACE FoR A HuMBLE Ber’s Nest.—Our country butcher being for a long time annoyed in his: shop with humble bees, was at a loss to find out where they all came from. His shop is a wooden erection, having a broad running beam at the top of the wall to support the roof. The windows are open in the summer and the apertures covered with hexagon wire net- ting. On carefully searching the premises, he discovered on the top of this beam, at the foot of a rafter, a thriving colony of humble bees, snugly ensconced among the wool ina s/eep’s tai/ which he had cut off and thrown there some time in the spring. At my request the butcher promised to preserve it, but unfortunately, when I next went to see it, I learned that some rats had found it out and destroyed it—R. D. CRUDEN, in Science Gossip. {Last summer I observed a somewhat similar instance. In the _spring I carelessly threw a buffalo skin over a beam in my barn, in sucha way that the sides hung down with the hairy portions inwards. Sometime ; THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 69 afterwards, suspecting the depredations of moths, I proceeded to beat the skin with a stick, and was considerably astonished to hear a great buzzing, and find myself attacked by some enraged humble bees, who had made their nest among the hair. After a time the skin was knocked down upon the floor, and the bees deserted their novel quarters.—C. J. S. B.] ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. At a recent Meeting of the Council of the Agricultural and Arts Associa- tion of Ontario, the following resolution was adopted .— “That the Secretary notify the Entomological Society that their Report will not be required until about the rst of October; also that the grant will be paid at the same time as the County Societies; also that they will be furnished with room for their Cabinet in the Agricultural Hall.” At an informal meeting of some members of the Council of the Entomolo- gical Society, who met in London, on the 15th ult., it was resolved that the Report for 1870 should comprise a description of the insects noxious and beneficial to the following productions of the field, the garden and the or- chard : wheat, potatoes, peas, hops: the apple, plum, grape, currant and gooseberry ; the strawberry, cabbage, cucumber and squash, and any other crop, fruit, or vegetable that may be attacked during the coming season by a new ravager orina more than ordinary degree. Members of the Society, and the public generally, are requested to kindly render such assistance as may be in their power, by forwarding specimens and furnishing informa- tion of insect depredations, to either the general Secretary, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Credit, Ont., or to the Secretary of the London Branch, E. B. Reed, Esq., London, Ont. Specimens of noxious and beneficial insects in all their stages, and ex- amples of their work and operation, are earnestly requested for the Cabinet of the Society. They may be sent by mail, with perfect safety, if enclosed in stiff pasteboard, or tin boxes of convenient size, and packed with a little cotton-batting, wool, or other soft substance. They should never be en- closed in a letter without some such protection, nor should dead speci- mens be sent loose ina box. Living larve should be sent in a/r-tight boxes, with sufficient food to last them on their journey; otherwise they die on the road and shrivel so muchas to become unrecognizable. Dead larve should be carefully packed in small vials filled with diluted spirits. As much in- formation as can be afforded about the specimens is always most desirable. REPORT OF THE LONDON BRANCH, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1869. Your Committee present the Fifth Annual Report. We congratulate the members on the prosperous state of the London Branch, The Financial Statement shows a small 70 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. balance in hand, after paying off some $45 of the debt on the Society’s Apparatus, and we trust that during the present year this debt will be greatly reduced. The Society numbers 30, and we hope to procure some fresh additions to our ranks. We feel that the Society is greatly indebted to those of our members, who, not being practical ento- mologists themselves, yet aid and encourage us by their subscriptions in prosecuting our useful work. The last Provincial Exhibition bore good testimony to the industry and perseverance of London Collectors. The display of Insects there was probably the finest ever yet exhibited in the Dominion. We feel proud in recording that Four Prizes were obtained, amounting to $26 50. This sum, in accordance with our usual custom, was added to the funds of the Branch. We must not omit to notice that Entomology has been started at the Hellmuth College, and the Head Master, the Rev. A. Sweat- man, is desirous of giving the science every encouragement. It is with pleasure that we now record the success of the Parent Society in obtaining aid from government. Upon a strong application to the Agricultural Association of On- tario, the Board has made a grant of $400 for the present year, conditional ona Report being made and collections procured, and the publication of the CANADIAN ENTOMOLO- GIsT being continued. This is, indeed, a great success, and we trust that through this wise liberality the Society may be enabled to diffuse, far and wide, a more practical knowledge of Entomology. 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A regular perusal of this publicacion cannot fail to be of great benefit to any naturalist or scientific student. No. 14 contains some copious extracts from what appears to have been a very able and interesting address delivered to the Entomological Society of London by the President, Mr. W. H. Bates. No. 15, an article on ‘Entomology in America,” referring especially to Dr, Packard’s Guide to the Study of Insects. Hardwicke’s Sctence Gossif—Nos. 61 and 62, January and February, 1870—Contains many entomological articles and notes, as well as much that is interesting in other de- partments of science. Le Naturaliste Canadien, Vol. ii., Nos, 2 and 3; January and February, 1870. The former number contains a continuation of the list of Co/eoftera taken at Portneuf, P. Q,, which it is intercsting to compare with Mr, Pettit’s of Grimsby, Ont. 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April Ist is the date set down for the issue of No. 6; communications for insertion should be in our hands at least ten days previously. Che Canadvn Entomolonist. Vor. IL TORONTO, APRIL 8, 1870. No. 6. NOTE ON AMPHTPYRA TRAGOPOGONIS, Linn. BY THE EDITOR. On the 6th of June, 1868, we observed for the first time a handsome green caterpillar eating some lettuce that we were growing in our grapery; thinking that it could not very well escape we merely took a rough descrip- tion, as follows: Sixteen footed caterpillar, about an inch long, pale green (almost the color of lettuce leaves) above, deeper green below ; a white dorsal line, two lateral white lines, the lower passing through the spiracles ; all five lines proceeding from head to tail. Before we secured it, it did however escape, probably entering the ground. The following year, in June and early in July, we observed many similar larve on a number of different plants, both in the garden and in the woods. ‘The following description of a nearly full-grown specimen was taken on the 3rd of July :— Length 1.00 inch. Colour beautiful apple-green. Head pale green, with a dark spot on each side in front; dorsal, sub-dorsal, and spiracular lines, narrow, pure white ; the spiracular lines begin on the second seg- ment, the others on the third ; on all the segments except the head and second, there are a few minute white granulations tipped with black, and terminating each in a fine hair; spiracles white ; feet green. On July 11th it formed a slight silken cocoon in the box in which it was confined, having no earth to burrow into, and there assumed the pupa state. The imago appeared on the 3rd of August, and proved to be a specimen of Amphipyra tragopogonis, Linn. This excessively common moth, found all over the Province of Ontario, and also in Quebec, appears to be an importation from Europe, where, ac- cording to Guénée and Stainton, it is very abundant. Its specific name is derived from the Salsify, or Vegetable-oyster plant ( Zyagofogon ), on which, as well as on Spinach, Dock, and other plants, it feeds, according to Fab- ricius. In England it is called the “Mouse” moth, either from its colour or its habit “ of creeping into houses, and secreting itself in blinds, and 74 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. when dislodged, if it falls on its back or belly, of shuffling along in a very peculiar manner” (Stainton). In this country we often find it about vene- tian shutters in the summer time, and through the winter its remains are very abundant in cobwebs about the windows of little-used buildings,— as, for instance, in the Cemetery Chapel at Cobourg a few years ago. The imago may be at once recognized by the three black dots,—one on the disk, and two occupying the place of the reniform spot,—on the dull greyish-brown fore-wings ; the hind-wings are much paler, shaded ex- teriorly, and immaculate ; the abdomen is flattened ; and the whole insect has a satiny lustre in certain lights. ‘There is another equally abundant species of this genus, the Copper Underwing (4 pyramidoides, Guén.) which can usually be taken in great numbers in August and September. Its larva is stated (Amer. Fut. ii. 26) to feed on the leaves of the Grape, Poplar, and Red-bud ( Ceres canadensis); and by Guénée, on Oaks ( Quercus). Grote (Pro. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. 86) describes, under the name of A. zzornata, another species from Canada, taken by Mr. Saunders, but we have never met with it, and are inclined to think from his description that it is merely a variety of the foregoing. ON THE LARVA OF SOME LEPIDOPTERA. BY W. SAUNDERS. ARCTIA CELIA, Sauzders. A single full grown specimen of the larva of this species was found under a log in a wood near London on the rith of June. Length one inch. Head black and shining. Body above brownish black, closely covered with tufts of moderately long, stiff hairs, proceeding from elevated shining tubercles. Hairs and tubercles a little darker than the surface of body excepting along the sides, where, although the tubercles continue the same, the hairs are changed toa yellowish-brown color.’ Under surface brown, with a slight greenish tint ; fifth, sixth, eleventh, and twelfth segments are each belted with a series of tufts of short yellow- ish-brown hairs, in continuation of those above. Feet black and shining. Prolegs yellowish-brown and hairy. This larva changed to a chrysalis on the 13th of June, and produced the imago on the 3oth of the same month. CIDARIA DIVERSILINEATA, /Zubn. The date of the capture of these larvee I failed to record. It was early in summer, and they were very abundant on the leaves of the American Ivy (Ampelopsis quinguefolia), on which they fed. _—_e Ts. Ss ra ——— THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, @ Length from one to one and a quarter inches. Head flat, with two prominent black points or processes above, mandibles yellowish-white. Body above dark dull brown, with a slightly reddish tint, and patches of a darker shade along the dorsal region. On each side close to under surface is a longitudinal ridge. Under surface similar in color to upper, excepting the spaces between the feet and the two pairs of prolegs, which are of a greenish color. Feet crowded closely together, of a brownish-black color, prolegs of a similar shade. The hinder pair tinged with green. In some specimens the general color is lighter. When alarmed they straighten themselves out, and remain for some time in that position, and being so nearly of the hue of the twigs of the plant they feed on, they thus often escape detection. MAMESTRA ARCTICA, L7Icyc. In No. 3 of the present volume of the EZztomologist, C. S. Minot, Esq., of Boston, published some interesting notes on the eggs of this species. Observations made last year enable me to add another fragment to the knowledge we have of the history of this—one of our commonest moths. On the first of June two full grown specimens of the larvee were found under turf—they probably fed on the roots of the grass, &c. Length one and a quarter inches. Head rather large, bilobed, reddish, with a polished surface ; mandibles black. Body above dull greenish-white, smooth, shining, and somewhat semi- transparent, a little darker between segments. Second segment with a horny plate above similar in appearance to head, but of rather a darker hue. ‘There are on each segment a few very small brownish dots, from each of which there arises a single fine brownish hair. Sides of body much wrinkled ; terminal segment small, brownish-black ; spiracles black. Under surface similar to upper, feet brown, prolegs tipped with black. These changed to chrysalides about the 3rd of June, and produced the imago in the latter part of the same month. In a previous year I found the same larva full grown as late as the 26th of June. DRYOCAMPA RUBICUNDA, Jad. Larva found feeding on silver maple July 3oth. Length one inch, cylindrical. Head rather small, flattened, in front bilobed, pale orange, with a black dot on each side below, near mandibles. Body above yellowish-white, thickly covered with minute whitish granu- lations, only visible with a magnifying lens, with a dorsal and three lateral 76 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. stripes of pale green, rather indistinct. Second segment greenish-white with a row of six black dots or minute tubercles, but slightly raised on its anterior edge. TZhird segment with two black horns nearly one-tenth of an inch long, one on each side of the dorsal line and spreading outwards, and forward below these on each side are two small black tubercles. Each segment behind this to eleventh inclusive has a transverse row of six of these black points or tubercles, those close to under surface being largest, those above much smaller, the upper ones scarcely visible without a mag- nifying glass. On twelfth and thirteenth segments these tubercles are a little more prominent and about equal sized throughout, numbering six on twelfth and three on thirteenth segments. Anal lid pale green, with its outer edge fringed with eight small black tubercles, so small as to be scarcely visible. On sides of twelfth segment, close to under surface, and extending slightly into the segments on each side, is a pale reddish-orange patch or short stripe nearly the color of head. Under surface glossy green, with a faint whitish line down the middle and many small blackish dots or tubercles, some of which are arranged in a longitudinal row outside feet and prolegs. Feet dark-brown, nearly black, shining ; prolegs pale green. On the 28th of August these larvae were about full grown. Length 134 inches. Head as before. Horns on third segment fully one-tenth of an inch long. Upper tubercles on middle and hinder seg- ments quite distinct. Reddish patch on sides of posterior segments larger, extending over rith, 12th and part of 13th segments, but less bright in color than head. Under surface deeper green, feet pale reddish, prolegs pale green dotted with black. These entered the ground shortly after and changed to chrysalides, pro- ducing the imago early the following summer. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. From Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana ; Insecta. I—COLEOPTERA. For ten years we have been trying, and trying in vain, both in England and America, to ohtain a copy of Kirby’s descriptions of the insects of the Northern parts of British America, contained in the fourth volume of Richardson’s Fauna Boreali-Americana, published at Norwich in 1837. Many of our friends have been making similar attempts, and always with the like ill-success. We have had, however, occasional access to a copy in the library of the University of Toronto, which, with the exception of eee er r ”—~S THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, vial one in the Library of Parliament at Ottawa, is the only copy we know of in Canada. By the kindness of Prof. Croft we have obtained a loan of the copy belonging to the University, and, with the full approbation of many of our friends and correspondents, we now purpose re- publishing from it in the pages of the Canadian LEntomolo- gist Kirby’s descriptions of new species, and such _ other matter as may be deemed of special value or interest. As the work consists of upwards of 300 quarto pages, it will be necessary for us to omit almost everything except the descriptions of species that cannot be obtain- ed elsewhere, in order to accomplish the republication within a reasonable time, and without trespassing too much upon our limited space. Though we shall thus depart a little from our expressed intention of only publish- ing original matter in this Journal, we feel assured that all our readers will be pleased to have brought before them descriptions of Canadian insects to which they can hardly otherwise obtain access. For cenvenience of re- ference the paging of the original work, and any notes we may add, will be enclosed in square brackets. [8] Famity CIcINDELID&. *Labrum unidentate. . CICINDELA HIRTICOLLIS, Say.—Locality not stated. [For description vide Say’s Ent. ii. 423.] [9] 2. CICINDELA REPANDA, Br jeen —Locality not stated. Very like the preceding species, but the labrum is shorter and less pro- minent in the middle; the lateral margin of the elytra is not continuously white; the lower limb of the humeral crescent slopes towards the apex of the elytrum; the broken or S-shaped band terminates in a streak at the margin : all the markings also of the elytra are baff colored rather than white; and the minute mucro or point that terminates the suture, and the serrulations of the apex of the elytra are less conspicuous. - De Jean regards this species as synonymous with C. Azrticollis, but, if I am correct in my reference to him, of which I have little doubt, they are clearly distinct. 3. CICINDELA Proteus, Azrby.—Length of body 534 lines. This spe- cies, of which several specimens were taken in the expedition, appears to abound in North America. Dr. Bigsby met with it in Canada, and there was a specimen in the late Mr. Marsham’s collection, probably from the United States. Similar to C. repanda, but instead of the humeral and terminal cres- cents, in all the varieties, are four white dots, two at the base and two at the apex of the elytra; the middle broken or tortuous band resembles the figure 7 reversed, and does not terminate in a marginal streak. The body 78 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. underneath, as usual, is golden-green, or green with clouds of blue, above it is dark-brown with a tint of copper. Variety B. With the apical dots not larger than the humeral. C. With an interrupted crescent at the apex. D. With three apical and two humeral dots; intermediate band internally abbreviated. &. Like the last, but with only one humeral dot. [This is C. duodecim-guttata, De}. ; it is commonly taken in many parts of Canada. | * Labrum tridentate. [10] 4. CicINDELA oBLiquata, De /ean.—Many taken in the expedition, and apparently abundant in N. America. I received it many years since, but without a name, from my lamented friend Prof. Peck. Body above greenish-copper, underneath golden-green clouded with blue. Labrum white, tridentate, slightly prominent in the middle; mandi- bles white at the base, black at the tip; palpi black; labial with the inter- mediate joint rufous, darkerat the tip. Elytra with a large white humeral crescent, extended at the lower end obliquely beyond the middle ; mesal band bent downwards, recurved at the end, and connected by a marginal line with a crescent atthe apex. In the male the intermediate joint of the labial palpi is white, and the mesal band is not connected with the termi- nal crescent. [Le Conte (Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, Dec. 1866, p. 362) states that this species should hereafter be known as C. Azrdyz, since, as he learns from a drawing made by Mr. Andrew Murray, from the type in the British Museum, it is quite distinct from any species known to him. | 5. CICINDELA VULGARIS, Say.—A common species in all N. America. [xr] 6. CicInDELA puRPUREA, O/v.—| Very common in most parts of Canada, | [12] 7. CICINDELA ALBILABRIS, A7rdy. Plate i, fig. 1.—Taken in lat. 64°, and also in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. |Previously described as C. longilabris, by Say. (Ent. Works, i. 176). We have received specimens of this species from Nova Scotia, collected by Mr. J. M. Jones, and from Quebec and New Hampshire. | [FAMILY CARABID. | [13] 8. Casnonia Pennsyivanica, De /ean.—Two specimens taken. g. CYMINDIS MARGINATUS, A77by.—Piceous, thickly punctured; anten- nz, mouth, dilated sides of the prothorax, lateral margin and shoulders of the striated elytra, and legs, rufous. Length of the body 4% lines. One specimen of this insect was taken in the route from New York to Cumberland House, and the other in lat. 65°. It is nearly related to C. pubescens, Dej., but appears distinct. : ee THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 79 [14] Body depressed and flat, as in its congeners, piceous ; above densely punctured ; mouth rufous: antennz longer than the prothorax, piceo-rufous: front between the eyes transversely wrinkled : prothorax convex, with a longitudinal channel ; lateral margin dilated, reflexed, and rufous : elytra striated or slightly furrowed, with the furrows and their interstices punctured ; viewed on one side they appear hairy with upright ferruginous hairs ; their shoulders and lateral margin are obscurely rufous; their apex obliquely truncated, and subemarginate ; the legs are rufous. Var. B. Piceo-rufous ; elytra concolorate. [In Melsheimer’s Catalogue, p. 4, this species is put down as a synonym of C. cribricollis, Dej., and in LeConte’s List, p. 6, with a mark of interro- gation under C. veflexa, Lec. ‘The latter author, however, subsequently states (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Feb., 1869, p. 244), that both C. Warginata; Kirby, and C. reflexa, Lec., are identical with C. cribricollis, Dej. The species occurs in the most northern part of the United States and in Canada. | 10. CYMINDIS UNICOLOR, Avrby.—Thickly punctured, ferruginous ; legs paler ; lateral margin of the thorax not dilated. | Length of the body 3% lines. One specimen only taken. This species greatly resembles variety B of the preceding. It is however smaller and paler; the prothorax has no longitudinal channel, and its lateral margin is not dilated. [ Placed, with a mark of interrogation, as asynonym of C. neglecta, Hald., in LeConte’s List, p. 6. } Genus SERICODA, Kirby. Labrum transverse, sub-quadrangular: with the anterior angles rounded. Mandibles acute, incurved at the apex, not toothed? Ladium [mentum] emarginate with a minute tooth in the sinus. Ladpi - maxillary 5-joint- ed; first joint very minute, second longer than the rest, sub-cylindrical, at- tenuated at the base; third ob-conical; fourth as long as the third, fusiform, truncate; fifth very minute, retractile within the fourth; ZadzadZ 3-jointed ; joints nearly equal in length; the two first conical ; the last fusiform, trun- cated. Antenne rather incrassated toward the apex; scape! incrassated ; 2nd joint the shortest, and the third rather longer than the others. [15] Body depressed, narrow. Head triangular. yes large and _pro- minent. Veck very little constricted. Prothorax short, channelled, widest anteriorly ; with the angles rounded. Z/y¢ra obliquely truncated at the apex and emarginate, so that internally they terminate inanacumen. Cudit Scape. The first, and often most conspicuous joint of the antenne, terminating be- low in the bulb, which inosculates in the head and acts the part of a rotula, [ Defini- tions, &c., p,. xvii, 80 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. (tibia of 1st pair of legs] emarginate. Zars/ with the penultimate joint entire. C/aws single, not pectinated. The maxillary palpi of the genus here defined present an anomaly ob- served in no other known coleopterous genus, they appear to be furnished with a minute #/// joint retractile within the fourth. In one of these palpi, in the only specimen taken, this little accessory joint is not apparent, but in the other it is distinctly seen emerging from the fourth joint, or rather, as this last appears broken at the apex, it is uncovered. ‘There is only one supposition that can reconcile this case to the general rule, that no coleop- terous maxillary palpus shall exceed four joints, namely—that this is an effort of nature, by a reproduction, to restore the mutilated organ so as to fulfil its functions. J)id the insect belong to the Crustacea or Arachnida this would be a satisfactory explanation of the anomaly, bnt I do not recollect. any instance upon record of a genuine ¢msect hav- ing reproduced a_ lost organ. I thought it possible that the palpi of other Predaceous beetles might contain a retractile joint, and this truncated apex seemed in some degree to favour the idea, but I did not succeed in my endeavours to discover one. [Mr. Scudder (Pro. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist. xii. 99) describes the reproduction of lost limbs in the Walking-Stick Insect (Diapheromera femorata), speci- mens of which we have seen in his cabinet. We cannot but think that the case described above by Mr. Kirby is an instance of reproduction. | The above structure of the palpi, if not accidental, seems to give our little insect some affinity with the Swdu/¢pa/pi of Latreille, but its general characters and aspect appear to demand a place for it somewhere between those Zruncipennia whose claws are not pectinated, and those who have those organs so armed. tI. SERICODA BEMBIDIOIDES, Avvdy.—Plate 1, Fig. 2.—Black under- neath, above black-bronzed, rather silky ; prothorax subtrapezoidal, with a pair of impressions behind ; elytra substriated, impunctured, somewhat clouded, with a series of impressions adjoining the suture. Length of body 3 lines. Only a single specimen taken. [16] Body underneath black glossy ; above the black has a brassy tint, with somewhat of the lustre of silk ; head, between the eyes, marked witha short, anteriorly forked furrow ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal, anteriorly sub- emarginate, sides oblique with the margin reflexed, transversely very minutely wrinkled, with a pair of anterior excavations in the disk, posterior- ly also somewhat impressed on each side ; elytra longer than the head and prothorax together slightly furrowed with impunctured furrows, obsoletely clouded ; there is a series of about five shallow impressions near the suture. [Included by LeConte in the genus /7/atynus. Has been taken in Oregon. | LE eee a ae se THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ; 81 12. BRACHINUS CYANNIPENNIS, Say.—[Say’s Ent. Works, ii. g1.] Several specimens of this insect were taken in the journey from New York to Cum- berland House, and in lat. 54°; it was also taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [17] 13. CaraBus VIETINGHOVII, Adams.—(Mem. Soc. Nat.» Moscow, iii. 170; Fischer Ent. Russ. 1. 98; Dez. Coleopt. ii. 61, 21.) Kirby, plate Bes Len 23. ?. Length of the body ro lines. Body very black and glossy. Head punctured between the eyes with confluent but not minute punctures ; an- terior part of the front wrinkled on each side, but the nose and upper lip are quite smooth ; the seven terminal joints of the antennz are brown : the prothorax is nearly square with the sides rounded anteriorly and_ the posterior angles a little prominent; it is deeply channelled, transversely wrinkled in the disk, confluently but not minutely punctured on the sides ; the disk also is black, but the sides exhibit shades of dark blue and green; at the margin they are of a most brilliant ruddy copper, some of the an- terior punctures also appear as if gilded: the elytra are rough and as it were reticulated with longitudinal and transverse elevations, the former nearly arranged in lines which produce deep cavities ; the disk is of a fine deep blue, the sides green and the lateral margin of the same ruddy cop- per as that of the prothorax. The body underneath is quite smooth in the disk, with some irregular elevations and depressions on the sides: the sides of the ante-pectus, or fore-breast, are of a fine green ; the intermedi- ate segments have each a pair of impressions from which a hair emerges. This is most visible in the 2. I at first regarded this splendid insect as a new species. I thought it, indeed, very near C. Vietinghovii, but as it did not altogether agree either with Dr. Fischer's figure or description, and was found in another quarter of the globe, I regarded it as distinct ; but having received from my friend Mr. Hope, a Russian specimen of that insect, I find no difference suffi- cient to constitute a species. In that specimen the marginal gilding of the prothorax and elytra is greener with scarcely any of the ruddy hue of cop- per which gives such brilliance to the American specimen. [A single specimen only of this magnificent beetle was brought to Mr. Kirby in the Richardson collection, and no locality is given of its capture ; can it have come from Russia and not from British America? No speci- men of it has been taken in this country, so far as we are aware, since the time of that expedition, a period of over 30 years. It might have been included in the collection by some accident,—a not infrequent occurrence. Prof. Croft, for instance, writes us that some years ago he had a collection of moths given to him “collected in or near Toronto,” yet among them was 5 82 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. a gigantic Chinese Saturnia! He adds, that on looking into Fischer's work he finds the habitat for the insect is ‘Eastern Siberia—banks of the Lena.” | [18] 14. Carazus Licatus, Avoch.—Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Length of body 7% lines. Body black and glossy. Head oblong, impunctured, separated from the neck by a transverse slender curving ridge forming anteriorly a deep sinus ; ridge, defending the base of the antenna, conspicuous; frontal im- pressions long, not deep ; antennz not much longer than the prothorax ; ‘ prothorax nearly square, black slightly bronzed: sides lightly punctured, lateral margin reflexed ; it is faintly channelled, depressed transversely at the base, with a punctured impression on each side ; elytra bronzed, sub- depressed with scarcely any sinus at the apex, lateral margin reflexed and carinated: each elytrum with 13 or 14 rows of impressed punctures ; a triple series of oblong discoidal elevations; interstices with numerous trans- verse linear impressions : abdomen underneath smooth with a few minute punctures on the sides. The insect here described agrees with Germar’s description of Knoch’s C. ligatus, but it is doubtful whether it be synonymous with C. carinatus of DeJean. In most respects, indeed, it accords precisely with his des- cription, but the head is not slightly punctured, as he states his specimens tobe: [Both C. Zigatus and C. carinatus are included as races of C. vinctus, Weber, by Le Conte, in his List of Coleoptera, p. 3. | ( To be continued. ) MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Ecos oF THE Cecropra Moru.—I should like to call the attention of the readers of the Canadian Entomologist to the fact, that Platysamia cecropia, Grote (Attacus cecropia, Linn.) always lays two eggs close together upon the food plant of its larva. When seeking for these larve early in the sea- son you will usually find them both near to each other, and upon careful examination of the leaves in the vicinity you will find their eggs cemented to the underside, sometimes however upon the upper. They are about ‘07 long, oval, somewhat flattened on top. They are not as round as 7. poly- phemus or A. luna. Colour yellowish white, with a light brown spot on top, and discoloured more or less at the bottom and sides. They are usually laid side by side. The larva gnaws a rough sided hole through the end and is nearly black, growing lighter each moult until of the normal colour. The larva when about to shed its skin deposits in a convenient place suffi- cient silk to firmly attach its posterior prolegs, and never should be dis- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 83 turbed when in this position, because it depends upon this attachment to draw itself from the old larva skin. Of six pairs which I tried to raise from the eggs in only one case was I successful, not because they are difficult to rear, for I have had very excellent success heretofore, but I was obliged to trust to inexperienced hands for a short time, and they were not properly fed. This pair are now in the cocoon, and I anticipate that they will come out f and ?, presuming this to be the law of their nature from the fact of there being two eggs laid together. I hope for further facts the coming season, and that those who have conveniences for raising larvee will give their attention to the subject.—Puitip S. SPRAGUE, Boston, Mass. Insects as Foop.—In this utilitarian age perhaps the most important question in entomology is to find out in what way insects can be employed for the benefit of mankind. A most curious instance has lately come to my knowledge which I think may interest some of our readers. My informant, M. Guerin-Meneville, a well known sericulturist and economic entomol- ogist, showed me some dark-coloured cakes resembling somewhat brown bread. These cakes are eaten extensively among the poorer classes and natives in the City of Mexico. ‘They are made exclusively with the eggs of two kinds of water-bugs (Corixa femorata and a species of Votonecta.) The natives cut quantities of reeds and other aquatic weeds, and strew them on the borders of the great lake near the city, and they are soon coated with eggs laid by the insects. These eggs, which are about the size of a mustard-seed, are deposited so abundantly as often to cover the plants entirely. The natives “harvest” these plants, and after exposing them some time in the sun to dry, scrape off the eggs, and either keep them in that state for future use or pound them at once into meal. The perfect insects them- selves are not neglected, for they are caught in great numbers and hawked about the streets as food for cage-birds and poultry, which are very fond of them. It is surprising that the raids which are practised against these in- sects in two of their states do not apparently diminish their numbers ; they, however, multiply to such a degree, that notwithstanding the tribute they have to pay, enough survive to supply the natives with food year after year, M. Guerin-Meneville received samples of the insects, the eggs, ‘‘seed,” meal, and cakes ; but unfortunately the latter aecidentally became saturated with spirits of wine in which a snake had been preserved, so that it was impossible to taste them.— Z. L. Ragonot, 33 Rue de Buffon, Paris (Science Gossip ). We hear that the “Ladybirds,” which excited so much curiosity last autumn, have reappeared in large numbers in the neighborhood of New Wandsworth. So early an appearance will surprise most of us who have been wont to regard these visitors as summer guests.—Vature, March 3. 84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. TAKEN AT GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, PHALACRID&. OuiBrus, E+. *Bicolor, £7. *Pallipes, Say ? NITIDULID&. Cercus, Lafr. *Abdominalis, #7. BRACHYPTERUS, Auge/. Urtice, Aad. Couastus, £7. *Semitectus, Say. *Unicolor, Say. Truncatus, Rand. CarRPoPHILUS, Leach. Niger, Say. Discoideus, Lec. CoNOTELUS, £7. *Obscurus, /r Epur&aA, £7. *Nigra, MWakiin. Helvola, £7. Boreela, £7. NITIDULA, Fad. Bipustulata, Fad. OnmositTa, £7. Colon, Zinn. PHENOLIA, £7. Grossa, Fab. STELIDOTA, £7’. *Ocitomaculata, Say. CRYPTARCHA, Shuck. Ampla, £7. LIST OF COLEOPTERA, (Continued from page 66 ) Ips, Lab. Fasciatus, Oliv. 4-Signatus, Say. *Obtusus, Say. Sanguinolentus, OVv. Confluens, Say. Dejeanii, Azrdy. PiryopHacus, Shuck. Bipunctatus, Say. RuIzoPpHaAGuS, Herbst. *Dimidiatus, Jann. *Remotus, Lec. MONOTOMID&. BACTRIDIUM, Lec. Nanum, £7. *Striatum, Lec. Monotoma, /ferdst. Parallelum, Lec. TROGOSITID. ALINDRIA, £7. Cylindrica, Zc. TrocositTa, Oltv. *Corticalis, JZe/s. *Intermedia, Horn. Dubia, J7Ze/s. *Collaris, Stem. Castanea, JZels. Laticollis, Horn. Bimaculata, J7e/s. NosoveEs, Lec. Silphides, Vewz.! BY J. PETTITT. PELTIS, Kug. *Fraterna, Rand. 4-Lineata, Je/s. TuHyMALUS, Latr. Fulgidus, Zr. COLYDIDA, Diroma, é/ig. 4-Guttata, Say. SyncHITA, Hel/w. *Fuliginosa. CiconeEs, Curtis. Marginalis, JZe/s. Cotypium, Fad. *Lineola, Say. BOTHRIDERES, £7. *Geminatus, Say. ENDEcTUS, Lec. *Hematodes, ad.” CERYLON, Lar. Unicolor, Zzeg. Angustulum, Lec. RHYSSODID&. RuyssoDEs, Da/m. *Hxaratus, 7/7. CUCUJID&. SYLVANUS, Steph. Surinamensis, L222 NAUSIBIUS, ed?. *Dentatus, JZars. CATOGENUS, Westw. Rufus, Fad. * Species marked with an asterisk have not before been included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera. 1 A single specimen picked up on the shore of the lake, October 1, 1868, * Under pine bark, May 27th. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Cucujus, Fad. Clavipes, Fad. Pepracus, Shuck. Planus, Lec. *Subglaber, Lec. La&MoPHLa@US, Lap. Biguttatus, Say. Fasciatus, J7Ze/s. Adustus, Lec. *Geminatus, Lec. * DENDROPHAGUS, Sch. Glaber, Lec. Brontes, Fad. Dubius, 7a. CRYPTOPHAGID&. ANTHEROPHAGUS, Latr. Ochraceus, JZe/s. Tomarus, Lec. *Pulchellus, Lec. Flexuosus, Say. Pluripunctatus, Lec. *Obsoletus, J7e/s. *Bipustulatus, JZe/s. TRIPHYLLUS, Latr. Ruficornis, Lec. Lirarcus, -r. Sexpunctatus, Say. TypH#A, Curtis. *Fumata, Zinn.* DipLoca us, Guér. *Brunneus, Lec. * DERMESTID&. DERMESTES, L777. Caninus, Germ, Nubilus, Say. Pulcher, Zee. ° Lardarius, Zznz. ATTAGENuS, Latr. ParaMeEcosoma, Curtis. Megatoma, Fadr. Denticulata, Zec. Inconspicua, Lec. DERODONTID&. DERODONTUS, Lec. Maculatus, JZe/s. LATHRIDIID. Laturipivus, /7//. *Pulicarius, Je/s. *Minutus, Zz. CortTIcaRiA, Mars. *Cavicollis, Zec. *Pumila, AZe/s. MYCETOPHAGID&. Mycetopuacus, He//w. Punctatus, Say. TROGODERMA, Latr. *Ornatum, Say. ° ANTHRENUS, Fad. Varius, Fad. ORPHILUS, £7. Ater, Er. BYRRHID&. Cyninusy 27. Varius, Fad. Byrruus, Linn. Kirbyi, Lec. Americanus, Lec. *Cyclophorus, A7rdy. Geminatus, Zec. Liunicuus, Lafr. Punctatus, Lec.‘ PARNID&. HELicHus, £7. Striatus, Lec. Lithophilus, Germ. STENELMIS, Duf. Crenatus, Say. Limntius, AZZ. *Fastiditus, Lee. Eimis, Latr. Vittatus, AZe/s. HETEROCERID&. HETEROCERUS, Fad. Mollinus, A7es. LUCANID&. Lucanus, Linn. Dama, Zhunb. Placidus, Say. Dorcus, JZcL. Parallelus, Say. PLATYCERUS, Geoff. Quercus, Weber. Depressus, Lec. CrerucHus, WcL. Piceus, Weber. PassaLus, Fad. Cornutus, /ad. SCARABAIDE. CantHon, /Zof. Levis, Drury. Copris, Geoff. Anaglypticus, Say. ONTHOPHAGUS, La?ér. Latebrosus, Faé. ® Found in scores under rails from which a hay-stack had been removed ; January and April. * In moss on a fallen maple tree ; latter part of July. . © Taken in January under the bark of a dead elm. ® Bred from larvz found in a case of insects. ™ Found under stones at the margin of a creek ; in July. 86 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. *Canadensis, //ad. Trox, Fad. *Villifrons, Lee. Apuopius, £//. Sordidus, Lec. PELIDNOTA, WL. Fimetarius, £277. Porcatus, Say. Punctata, Zzz2. *Ruricola, J7e/s. Erinaceus, Lec. CoraLpa, Burm. Granarius, 2777. Capillaris, Say. Lanigera, Lenn. Vittatus, Say. Afqualis, Say. Licyrus, Burm. Inquinatus, /ad. Hoptia, ///. Relictus, Say. *Stercorosus, Lec. Trifasciata, Say. APHONUS, Lec. Bicolor, Say. DicHeLonycua, Azrby. *Tridentatus, Say. *Oblongus, Say. Elongatula, Schon. Frater, Lec. Striatulus, Say. Albicollis, Burm. XYLORYCTES, /Zope. Euparia, Lep. SERICA, Wel. Satyrus, Jad. Stercorator, Fad. Vespertina, Schon. Euryomia, Lurm. *Cognata, Lee. mericea, 2/7, Inda, Zinn. Ovonté&us, Klug. MACRODACTYLUS, Lafr. Fulgida, Fad. Cornigerus, JZe/s. Subspinosus, ad. OsMODERMA, Lep. GEOTRUPES, Latr. DIPLOTAXIS, Kirby. Eremicola, A7och. Egeriei, Germ. Tristis, Avrdy. Scabra, Beauv. Excrementi, Say. LACHNOSTERNA, Hoge. GNorRimus, Lep. Splendidus, 7a, Fusca, /rohd/. Maculosus, Avzoch. Blackburn, /aé. Cognata, Burm. Tricuius, Fad. Nicacus, Lec. *Subtonsa, Lec. Affinis, Gory. Obscurus, Lec. *Hirsuta, Avoch. EXCHANGES. SILK Motus.—Eggs of 4. Yama-mat, Pernyt, and of the white variety, free from disease, also of B. morz, for rare species of Canadian Lepidoptera,—W. V. ANDREWS, Room 17, No. 137 Broadway, New York. COLEOPTERA — Species desired from Canada, especially the eastern region ; can give in exchange Southern and Californian forms, as well as those from New England States, —P. S. 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The work opens with an’ outline of Physiological Zoology, and an account of Zoological Classification, with divisions into Provinces and Classes based upon the system of Cuvier; the greater part of the volume is occupied with illustrated descriptions of the leading divisions of Radiata, Mollusca and Articulata. In an appendix is given an outline of the classification of Vertebrata , and also valuable instructions for collecting and preserving invertebrate animals. - Should the present volume be well received—which we earnestly trust will be the case—the author purposes completing the work by another on the Vertebrata. The Canada Bookseller: A Quarterly Record of British, American and Native Literature, for the use of the trade and book-buyers : published by Adam, Stevenson. & Co., Toronto. March, 1870 (50 cents per annum). We beg to commend to our book- buying and book-loving friends this beautifully printed venture of a most enterprising Canadian firm. It contains much interesting matter relating to the trade, and full in- formation respecting recent or forthcoming publications by Canadian, British and Foreign houses. It is certainly one of the best specimens of typography ever issued in this country. ‘ The American Entomologist. Vol, ii. No. 5. March, 1870. In addition to the usual supply of varied and interesting matter, including several contributed articles, the Editor of this valuable periodical presents us with an admirable steel-plate portrait of 8 late esteemed coadjutor, Benj. D. Walsh. Second Annua! Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of the State of Missouri. By Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist. Jefferson City: H. Wilcox, 1870. 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(Kirby divides the genus Calosoma into two sub-genera: C'alosoma proper having the maxillary palpi with the last joint of tbe length of the last but one, and the elytra gilded; Chrysostigma having the maxillary palpi with the last joint shorter than the last but one, and the elytra obscure with gilded punctiform impressions. The two species that he describes both belong to the latter sub-geous. Dr. Le Conte (Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Feb. 1862, p. 52) has given a more complete classification of the species of this genus into six groups, based upon the differences of the anterior tarsi of the males, Kirby’s division has not been adopted by subsequent authors, | [19] 15. Canosoma caLtipuM, Fab. This species is very common in all parts of North America ; several specimens were taken in the expedition. 16 CALOSOMA FRIGIDUM, Aérby.—Length of the body 94 lines. Taken in Drummond’s Island, Canada, by Dr. Bigsby Not unlike C. calidum, but longer in proportion and more depressed. Body black, not glossy above. Head confluently punctured and wrinkled : mandibles obliquely but less densely wrinkled, and frontal impressions longer than in C. calidum :; prothorax scarcely at all bronzed, lateral margin obscurely green, with the same number of elevated lines as in C. calidum, but in the furrows formed by them is a series of punctures, and the tranverse lines are less con- _Spicuous ; there is a triple series of punctiform impressions, but they are bilobed, smaller, and the gilding is greenish and less conspicuous ; they are also less numerous, there being only seven or eight in the series next the suture, eight or nine in the intermediate one, and three only towards the apex in the external one: at the base there is alsoa pair on each side: the sides of the body underneath are greenish, punctured and wrinkled. [20] 17. Hetosra [Nera] cASTANIPES, Airby.—Length of body 5 lines, Two specimens were taken in lat, 65° 90 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Body black, glossy. Antenne, mouth, mandibles, and palpi pale chesnut or mahogany colour ; the former more dilute at the apex; front with three or four slight furrows between the eyes; upper-lip very short ; prothorax heart-shaped, constricted posteriorly, convex in the disk; sides and base depressed and lightly punctured: elytra dark piceous, striated or slightly furrowed : furrows very obsoletely punctured ; interstices very flat ; between the 2ad and 3rd furrows, adjoining the latter, are from three to five shallow but rather large impressions : the legs are slender, of a pale chesnut or mahog- any colour, in one of the specimens the thighs are darker than the rest of the leg. iV. B —In one specimen there are three and in the other five impressions. 18. CHL&NIUS SERICEUS, Jorst.—[Say’s Ent. Works, ii. 483. ]—Several taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. In Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [Very common throughout Canada. | [21] 19. CoLmNIus ImpUNCTIFRONS, Avrby.--[This name is pre-occupied by Say ; Kirby’s species is probably identical with LeConte’s C’. brevilabris, | Length of body 5-5} lines. Smaller than C. serzceus, though like it, Head without punctures ; antennze black, with the three first joints testaceous: scutellum not acuminate: elytra black with with a shade of green; apex of the epipleure or side-covers and legs testaceous ; coxee chesnut. In othr respects this agrees with the preceed- ing species, 20. CHLENIUS NEMORALIS, Say.-~ [Eat, Works, ii. 487 | A pair taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, [Rare in Canada. ] [22] 21. CHLENIUS QUADRICOLLIS, Kirby.— Length of tie body six lines, Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. Body hairy like the others, black underneath. Head and prothorax bronzed- green ; mandibles piceous ; palpi and three first joints of the anteance testace- ous; the latter are longer than the thorax, with the 4th joint as loug as the 3rd ; prothorax rather square, a little narrower before, with the sides curving, sculptured like the preceding species ; scutellum sub-acuminate ; elyt:a blue- black, furrowed with deeper turrows very visidly punctured, interstices minutely punctured. [Placed, with a mark of interrogation, as a synonym of C. Pensylvanicus, Say, in Le Conte’s List, p. 11. ] 22. CHLANIUS coRDICOLLIS, Azvrby.—Length of the body 8 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Body black. Head impunctured; palpi re‘ous; antenne dusky, with the three first joints rufous, the third much longer than the fourta: prothorax THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, y 91 obcordate, constricted behind, deeply channelled, disk gibbous on each side of the channel, centre of each gibbosity smooth, remainder of the prothorax punctured ; posterior lateral impression longitudinal : elytra black with a shade of green, sculptured as in the preceeding species, but the interstices of the furrows are more visibly punctured : legs testaceous, thighs darker. [23] 23. CHLEZNIUS EMARGINATUS, Say.—Length of the body 6? lines, Taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. Body hairy, punctured ; black underneath. Head glossy green, with a tint of copper between the eyes, and a net-work of very minute, confluent, trans- verse wrinkles ; maxillz and palpi rufous, maxillary palpi very long ; upper- lip transvers®, rufo-piceous, anteriorly subemarginate ; madibles piceous ; antenne rufous, longer than the prothorax, with the third joint rather longer than the 4th ; prothorax dusky-green, transverse, rather narrowest at the apex, very thick and minutely punctured ; basilar impressions double, the inner one the longest ; elytra black with a very faint tint of blue: legs rufous, This is most probably the C. emarginatus of Say, but it does not exactly accord with De Jean’s species. [Say’s C. emarginatus belongs to the genus Anomoglossus, Chaud. ; the species here described is C’. empunctifrons, Say. | 24, PLATYNUS ANGUSTICOLLIS, DeJean.—Length of the body 5 lines. Taken in lat. 54° and 65°. Not uncommon in Britain, [24] Body very black, glossy, somewhat narrowed. Head smooth, narrower than the prothorax, including the neck sub-rhomboidal, without it triangular ; palpi and antennee piceous ; frontal impressions large; prothorax narrower than the elytra, obcordate, longer than wide ; dorsal channel deep terminating anteriorly is a transverse obtuse angular impression ; lateral margin dilated, especially at the base, reflexed, somewhat piceous in a strong light, basilar impressions single, large, round, with a few scattered indistinct punctures : elytra rather deeply furrowed ; furrows very slightly punctured ; between the second and third are two punctiform impressions, the anterior one being adjacent to the former furrow, and the posterior to the latter. [This is considered an erroneous determination by Dr. Le Conte (List, p. 7)’ and is inserted by him asa race of P. sinwatus, De}. | 25. AGONUM (ANCHOMENUS) EXTENSICOLLE, Say.—[Ent. Works, ii. 478.] A pair taken in lat. 54°. [Belongs to Platynws ; bus been taken in Ontario, ] 26. AGONUM PICIPENNE, Airby.—Length ot the body 3} to 4 lines. Several specimens taken in lat, 54°. [25] Body black, glossy. Mouth and its organs rufous, except the upper-lip, which is edged with that colour ; antennz Jonger than the prothorax, piceous with the scape paler than the other joints: prothorax longer than in the 92 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, tollowing species, oblong-ovate, with the lateral margin piceous, and not dilated posteriorly as in the majority ; basilar impressions rather shallow, vblong : elytra oblong, rufo-piceous slightly furrowed, furrows impunctured ; five punc- tiform impressions between the second and third ; the three anterior ones adjacent to the latter, and the two posterior to the former: legs dusky rufous. Variety B, With only four punctiform impressions, legs paler. C, With the 2nd, 3rd and 4th joints of the antenne piceous, the rest ferruginous : impressions of the elytra as in B. D. Larger, elytra with five impressions, in other respects like C. This species appears very like A. /enwm, Dej., which is also North American, but the colour of the underside of the body and of the head and prothorax is different. [Belongs to Platynus.] 27, AGONUM SORDENS, Azrby.—Length of the body three lines, Two speci- mens taken in lat, 54° Body black, glossy. Head rhomboidal ; mouth, mandibles at the tip, palpi at the base, and scape of the antennz, rufous ; frontal impressions very slight : prothorax scarcely longer than wide, narrowest behind ; dorsal channel rather deep ; lateral margin underneath testaceous ; basilar impressions oblong, deep- ish : elytra dusky-testaceous, in one specimen a little bronzed, slightly furrowed, furrows impunctured ; between the second and third are five punctiform im- pressions placed as in the last species : epipleura and legs testaceous. [26] AGONUM MELANARIUM, De Jean.—Length of the body 4? lines. Taken in lat, 54°. Body black, glossy. Mandibles at the tip, mouth and scape of antenne, piceous: prothorax nearly as long as wide; disk transversely wrinkled ; late- ral margin at the base much dilated, rather incrassated, and sub-angular ; posterior impressions large and distinctly punctured : elytra wider than the prothorax, sub-emarginate at the base; distinctly furrowed with very minute and inconspicuous punctures in the furrows ; three punctiform impressions in the third furrow from the suture: legs piceous. - This species is the American representative of A. versutum, which it much resembles, [Belongs to Platynus ; taken at Ottawa by Mr. Billings. ] 29. AGONUM SEMINITIDUM, Kirby.—Length of body 43 lines. Taken in lat. 54°. Body smooth, glossy, black underneath. Head greenish-bronzed, very glossy, with frontal impressions lunular ; antenne longer than the prothorax ; pro- thorax greenish-bronzed with a copper tint, very glossy, channelled, disk transversely and minutely wrinkled ; basilar impressions longitudinal, lateral YHE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 93 margin, particularly at the base, reflexed: elytra black-bronzed, less glossy than the hoad and prothorax, lightly furrowed ; furrows punctured ; in the interstice between the second aud third furrows are five punctiform impres- sions, two nearer the base and three nearer the apex of the elytrum, so that the interval between the second and third is greater than that between the others, Variety B, Second and third punctiform impressions not more distant than the others. In this specimen, on the left hand elytrum, there are only four impressions and on the other five, but in neither are the second ard third situated asin A. It may bea distinct species, bet I can discover no other difference, [27] 30. Aconum simiLE, Kérby.—Length of the body 34 lines. Locality not stated. Body glossy, underneath very black, above black slightly bronzed. Antennz scarcely longer than the prothorax : prothorax rather longer than broad ; basilar impressions roundish, impunctured: elytra more bronzed than the head and prothorax, lightly furrowed ; furrow adjoining the suture more depressed and deeper than the rest ; in the space between the second and third furrows are five equi-distant punctiform impressions, the two anterior adjoining the latter furrow, and the three posterior the former. This little species greatly resembles A. semznitedum. It is however much smaller, fess bronzed, the prothorax is longer in proportion, the sutural furrow is deeper, and the impressions are differently arranged. AN INSECT FRIEND. Arma placidum, Ulke. The accompanying figure correctiv represents the mature form of the friendly bug referred to in the “ Canadian Eatomologist,’’ Vol. ii. No. 2, which was found feasting so energetically on the larvz of the goose- berry saw fly (Nematus ventricosus). For a description of the appearance and habits of the immature form of this beneficial insect the reader is referred to the above num- ber of the “ Canadian Entomologist.” The perfect insect has been determined by Mr. Ulke, of Baltimore, Md., who found it to be an undescribed species of A7ma, to which he has given the specific name placidum. Hence our friend willin future be known as Arma placidum, Ulke The excellent drawing of the insect is the work of our esteemed and able friend, C. V. Riley, Esq., State Entomologist of Missouri, who has kindly 94 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, furnished us with an electrotype of the plate for the use of this journal. The smaller figure is the natural size of the bug, the larger one a magnified repre- sentation of the same. W, SaunpeErs, London, Ont. HINTS ON DESCRIBING CATERPILLARS. BY W, SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. When comparing descriptions of larvee made by different writers, the labo? of the student is often greatly increased by the want of order and method in their compilation. With a view of simplifying details and lessening labors the following suggestions are offered, with the hope that they may serve to stimulate some to enter earnestly into this interesting branch of our favorite study. When we take upa caterpillar with the intention of describing it, the many ornamentations, markings and diversities of color belonging to it, are sometimes quite confusing, unless we begin to classify them, when the most complex appearauce is soon markedly simplified. We have for some time past made it a rule to take descriptions precisely in the following manner and order. First, the full length of body when in motion ; then form, whether cylindrical, onisciform, or otherwise ; if strongly annulated or ringed, a note is made of that also. Beginning with the head, which we call the first segment—making the total number thirteen—take first its size, large, medium, or small. Next form, flattened, rounded, or pointed, and whether strongly bilobed or not, Then color, markings and appendages, such as spines or hairs ; giving also the color of mandibles. Commencing the body with the upper surface, give first its general color ; next markings, such as stripes, lines or spots, working from anterior to pos- terior segments ; then ornamentations or appendages, such as hairs, spines, horns, tubercles or granulations, with their size, form and color. Under surface—first general color, then markings, &c., finishing with color and form of feet and prolegs. By steadily observing a particular arrangement of this sort, descriptions may readily be compared with one another and their identity or distinctness estab- lished with little labor. It is also an excellent plan to underline some of the most prominent and striking features in the appearance of a larva, by which one may often ata glance decide whether it is likely that a certain caterpillar before you is or is not identical with a particular description. In Stainton’s “ Manual of Butter- flies and Moths” this plan is carried out, and the prominent characteristics thus given in a few italicised words will frequently relieve one of the labor of reading a description throughout, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 95 LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN AT QUEBEC. BY G, J. BOWLES, PAPILIONID E 21, Pyrameis atalanta, Zinn. (rare), 1. Papilio turnus, Zinn. aoe cardui, Linn, PIERID #&, os Huntera, Sm, 2. Pieris oleracea, Harr. (rare), 24, Limenitis arthemis, Drur. 3: rape, Linn. SATYRID#, 4. Colias philodice, Godt, 25, Chionobas jutta, Moschler, (C. 5. eurytheme (Chrysotheme 4) Balder, Boisd, & Lec.) Boisd (very rare). 26. Neonympha Boisduvallii, Harr. DANAID. 27. Erebia nephele, Kirby. 6 Danais archippus, (ab, (rare). 28, Satyrus alope, (2) Fad. NYMPHALID#. LYCENID&, 7. Aigynnis cybele, Godt, 29. Thecla Augustus, Xirby, 8. myrina, Cram. 30. clothilde, Zdwards. 9. bellona, Godt. (very 31. Polyommatus Americana, D’ Urb, rare). 32. epixanthe, Boisd d: 10. aphrodite, Godt. Lee. 11. Melitzea phetov, Cram (rare). 33. lucia, Azrby, 12 Harrisii, Scudder. HESPERID 2. LB. tharos, Cram. 34. Eudamus tityrus, Smith (v. rare). 14 Grapta interrogationis, Godt. Sip bathyllus, Smith. (very rare), 36. Nisoniades brizo, Boisd d& Lec. Le comma, Harr, oie catullus, Smith. 16. faunus, Hdwards. 38. Hesperia mystic, Hdwards. 17. Vanessa J-album, Bowsd & Lec. 39. hobomok, Harr. 18. Milberti, Encyc. 40. wamsutta, Harr, 19. progne, Cram. Al. ahaton, Harr, 20. antiopa, Linn. 42, mandan, Hdwards. NOTES. I have followed the authorities given in the Society’s list. Papzlio asterias is common one hundred and fifty miles east and west of Quebec. Pieris oleracea is subject to great variation. I have seen specimens with the nervures on the under side as fully covered with greyish scales as P. napi of Europe, and others with secondaries of a greenish tinge underneath. On pine, May 3Ist. ® Drug store, Grimsby, in Caztharis vesicatoria. * Bred from woody fungus. S Under bark of black ash stumps ; last of July. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 119 LIST OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED BY A. S. PACKARD, JUN., AT CARIBOU ISLAND, LABRADOR, STRAITS OF BELLE ISLE: The Coleoptera here enumerated, and named several years since by Dr. Leconte, were collected by me during the summer of 1860 at Caribou Is- land while a member of the Williams College expedition to Labrador and Greenland under the direction of Prof. P. A. Chadbourne. This is an incomplete list of the Coleoptera of Labrador ; and in a subsequent expe- dition with my friend, Wm. Bradford, the artist, to Hopedale, Labrador, many more forms, as yet not named, were collected.—A. S. P. Gyrinus, not determined. Calathus confusus, Lec. Agabus punctulatus, Aubé. Bledius, not determined. “ laevidorsus, Lec. Ips sanguinolentus, Oliv. “ semipunctatus, Kirby. Byrrhus Americanus, Lec. ** subfasciatus, Lec. “ Kirbyi (picipes, Kirby). “ infuscatus, Aubé. Eanus vagus, Lec. (Limonius vagus, Colymbetes sculptilis, Harris. Lec ) i picipes, Kirby.) “< maculipennts,. Lec., n. sp. fy droporus tenebrosus, Lec. Philhydrus bifidus, Lec. Silpha Lapponica (Linn.) Podabrus mandibularis ( Acmeops Creophilus villosus, Grav. proteus, Lec.,Lepr. proteus, Kirby, Amara similis, Lec. (Stereocerus Atomaria, not determined. similis, Kirby). Criocephalus agrestis, Kirby. Amara near melanogastrica, Esch., Leptura, n. sp. perhaps drunnipennis, De}. BOOKS RECEIVED. 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RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION. Every vowel is to be pronounced short unless marked long, thus é. TABLE OF VOWEL SOUNDS. a is to be pronounced as in the word ‘ hat.” a@ asin ‘*hate” e “ gs ss met.” é€. * y Semetore Z oe 6c 6c ‘¢hid.” z “cc 73 hide.” r) “ce “ce 66 66 hop.” 5 sc be hope.” uU “c “a 6c “6 duck,” i <<“ * duke.” Two vowels occurring together, and not joined as in the diphthongs, are to be pro- nounced as two syllables; thus, Regiella pron. Re-gi-el-la, not Re-giel-la. TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS. c is to be pronounced hard, as k. ¢ cs ae soft, as s. ch © s hard, as k, except where preceded by s, in which case the ‘“‘ sch’? is equivalent to sk, and is printed sch: thus, Fris¢hella, pron. as Frishella. g is to be pronounced hard, as in ‘ gate.”’ g ae se soft, °§ — & gem:” The position of the accent (’) shows where stress is to be laid: viz., on the syllable preceding the accent. LEPIDOPTERA—Lepidop’tera. Gr. Lepis a scale, pteron a wing. Insects whose wings are clothed with scales. DIURNI—Diur/ni. Day-fliers. RHOPALOCERA—Rahopaloc’era. Gr. Rhopalon a club, keras a horn. Insects whose antenn are clubbed at the extremity. All butterflies have this peculiarity. PAPILIONID#—Papilio’/nide—the family of which the genus Papilio is the type. PAPILIO—Papilis, a butterfly. Linneeus first attempted to combine in some degree Natural and Civil History, by attaching the names of personages illustri- ous in their day to insects of particular kinds. His first division of the Butter- flies consists of Hyuites (Knights), and these are sub-divided into 7roes and Achivi (Trojans and Greeks). TURNUS—Tur/nus. A prince of the Rutuli, who contended with Ainéas for the princess Lavinia. TROILUS—Zro’ilus. A son of Priam and Hecuba killed by Achilles. PHILENOR—Puiilé/nor. A Grecian proper name. ASTERIAS—Aste/rias. Daughter of Ceeus and Phebe, and sister of Laténa. THOAS—Tho/’as. King of Chersonésus to whom Iphigenia was brought. AJAX—Ajaz. A Grecian hero, son of Telamon. PIERIDM—Pieride. The family of which the genus Pieris is the type. PIERIS—Pi/eris, a Muse. The Muses derived their name Pierides from Mount Pierus, where they were worshipped. PROTODICE—Proto/diee. Gr. ‘‘ Protos” first, ‘‘ Dice” the name of one of the hours—in allusion probably to this insect being one of the earliest to appear in Spring. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 123 RAPH—Rape. Feeds on Rape. (Brassica Rape). OLERACEA—Olerd/cea. Feeds on Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea). COLIAS—Colias. A surname of Venus from a promontory in Attica where she was worshipped. a NOTES ON SOME OF THE COMMON SPECIES OF CARABIDA, FOUND IN TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA. BY PHILIP 8. SPRAGUE. ARTICLE NO. IV. Harpalus (Carabus) pensylvanicus, Degeer. Mem. Ins. IV. 108. Red- dish brown; head dusky; shells striate; body beneath, antennez and feet testaceous. Inhab. Penn. N. A. Tast p. 104, t. IV. f. 22, Degeer. H. (C.) pensylvanicus. Winged; body above black; beneath ferrugi- nous. N.A. Fab. Syst. Hlut. I. 195. H. (€.) pensylvanicus. Resembles ruficornis. Head black; thorax almost square, with a longitudinal line impressed in the middle and two posterior impressions ; elytra black, striated; body beneath brown, more or less clear. Oliv. ITT. 57, t. XI. f. 92 b. fi. bicolor, Say. Head black; mouth and antenne rufo-testaceous; gula piceous; thorax glabrous on the disk; a dorsal impressed line; area of hind angles impressed and confluently punctured; posterior angles rounded ; elytra striate; striz impunctured ; margin with numerous punctures; pectus and post-pectus piceous-black ; piceous on the disk, with obsolete punctures ; feet testaceous pale; venter piceous-black; tail paler. Trans. Amer. Philo. Soci. IT. 26, H. faunus, Dej., and flavipes, Dej., Cat. 3rd ed. p. 15. Oblong oval; above black; thorax nearly square; on both sides behind punctured; basal fovexe distinct; posterior angles nearly right; elytra striate; sides obsoletely punctured; behind obliquely sinuate; antennz and feet testaceous. Dej. Sp. IV. 254. The foregoing descriptions are supposed by Dr. LeConte to refer to one and the same species described by Degeer as Caradus pensylva- nicus, and this decision is now acquiesced in by other entomologists. This example of the lack of minute and systematic description is only one of the many; in fact it is the rule, as you will see by the many synonyms attached to other species, and is the great difficulty all students experience in deter- mining them. Harpalus pensylvanicus, Dej, N. A. Long. .55 in. (45-65). Broad oblong oval, above usually dull black; sub-Alpine and northern varieties blacker and more shining; legs, antennze and mouth testaceous yellow; tho- rax one-fourth broader than long, scarcely narrowed behind the middle ; sides broadly rounded and strongly depressed; the margin is quite narrow at 124 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. the apex, widening posteriorly, and absorbing the whole basal fovesxe, making a broad flattened space internally from the apex of the basal angle; basal fovese strongly marked, and with the margin heavily and confluently pune- tured; basal angles obtuse, somewhat rounded ; elytral striz deep; interstices convex, and at the sides punctured, in some specimens confluently ; no dor- sal puncture; mentum distinctly toothed. The broadly rounded sides, the wide and punctured margin of the thorax, with the side punctures of the elytra, are the special parts that differ from the following species, to. which it is most nearly allied. Harpalus compar, Lec. — Mass. to Cal. Long. .55 in. - Oblong oval; above reddish black, somewhat shining; beneath lighter; legs, antenne and mouth reddish yellow; thorax one-fourth broader than long; strongly but narrowly depressed at sides; distinctly narrowed behind; basal fovez shal- low, confluently punctured in centre; basal angles obtuse, scarcely rounded ; flattened above, and with the side margin finely punctured; elytral strize well marked, not deep, with the interstices flattened, and with a few obsolete punctures at the sides; no dorsal puncture; mentum tooth distinct. ‘This species differs from ZT. pensylvanicus by the thorax being distinctly narrowed behind the middle instead of broadly rounded; the depressed margin is nar- rower; not so broad and flattened at the basal angle, yet somewhat depressed ; the punctures are finer and not confluent except in basal fovee; the apex of basal angle is quite well defined; the interstices of elytra are flat; the punc- tures at the sides nearly obsolete; sometimes only a few points are seen on the seventh and ninth interstices. This beetle was described quite a number of times by our early entomologists under different names, which being pre- occupied necessitated a new one, which was given by Dr. LeConte. Harpalus erythropus, Dej. Oblong oval; above black; thorax nearly square; punctured on both sides behind; basal fovew shallow; posterior angles nearly right; elytra striate; behind obliquely sinuate; antennx and feet reddish-yellow. Long. 5} lines. Penn. This beetle much resembles faunus (see under the head of H. pensy/vanicus), but is a little smaller; it is very nearly of the same color; the thorax is less rounded at the sides; sides not depressed; basal foveze less marked; elytra nearly of the same form; interstices smooth, not punctured at the sides; palpi, antennee and feet reddish-yellow. N. A., Dej. Sp. IV. 258. The above is a translation of the original description of DeJean. My description of H. compar will answer for this species, with the following differences: it is much smaller; long. .44-50 in.; the sides of the thorax are perhaps more distinctly nar- rowed; the punctures of basal foveze and sides a very little deeper, and without punctures at sides of elytra. Were a large erythropus and a small compar placed side by side, the only real difference would be the punctures THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 125 at the sides of elytra. These two species run so close together as to make it doubtful if they are distinct. The three species just described, with an intermediate one, HH. longicollis, Lec., which I will leave for a future time, have puzzled carabeean entomologists from the first describers to the present time, and I fear that until we have some additional way of determining spe- cies we shall still continue in doubt. With quite a large series coming from Texas to Oregon and from Canada to Florida, I am at a loss where to place some examples, they so strongly partake of what we consider two distinct species. The preceding descriptions are typical forms which will absorb the raass of all captures. Since Article No. 2 was written, I have received from Missouri Harpalus testaceus, Lec. (See page 59, Vol. 2.) Oblong oval; reddish yellow, shining; thorax more than one-half shorter than broad; posterior angles right, quite prominent, with the base on both sides shortly impressed; elytra at apex scarcely sinuate; strize obsoletely punctured ; interstices a little con- vex, with a single puncture on the third.—Trans. Phil. Philo. Soci. X. 385. In addition to the above, which is Dr. LeConte’s description translated, I will describe the specimen in my cabinet. Long. .89 inch; uniformly light . testaceous; thorax nearly twice broader than long; narrow and sinuated at the sides behind the middle; strongly and broadly depressed; basal angles obtuse; apex prominent; basal fovex are impressed points; elytral strize deep ; interstices convex; no dorsal puncture; body beneath has accessory ambulatorial setee. Dr. LeConte says, Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1855, p. 101, “elytra without dorsal puncture.’ With the above corrections this beetle will be readily recognized. Harpalus faunus, Say.—Uong. .42-55 in.; oblong oval; reddish black, shining, lighter beneath; thorax nearly square, margins lighter, clear; sides sub-parallel, strongly depressed; basal foveze broad, deep, and with the margin well punctured; basal angle right, apex slightly rounded ; elytral strixe deep; interstices convex, not punctured; 2 has a row on the seventh, and sometimes also on the ninth, which, with the square thorax, and light margins, makes this a well-marked species. — +— 4. Monruty journal has been started in Jena devoted to the interest of Sericiculture. ‘ Ittrnois Stare Entomoroaist.—We learn that Dr. Wm. LeBaron, of Geneva, Kane county, Ills., has been appointed to the office of State Ento- mologist, made vacant by the death of our late associate. Well done, Gov- ernor Palmer! Our Illinois friends have good cause to rejoice at the appoint~ ment !—Amer. Eniomologist. 126 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS. Paper No 2. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. Phytocoris linearis (Capsus oblineatus, Say.) I regret that I had not observed before writing paper No. 1, a valuable article by my esteemed friend Riley on this insect, in his last Annual Report on the insects of Missouri. He there speaks of. effects produced by it on young pear trees in that section, precisely similar to those I described, and expresses the opinion, which I also entertain, that the puncture of this insect is peculiarly poisonous to the young growth on the tree. He says, ‘it attacks many kinds of herbaceous plants, such as dahlias, asters, marigolds, balsams, cabbages, potatoes, turnips,” &c., and several other trees, besides pear, viz., quince, apple, plum, and cherry. They deposit their eges and breed on the plants, and the young and old bugs together may be noticed through most of the summer months. The young bugs are perfectly green, but in other respects do not differ from their parents except in lacking wings. There are probably two broods during the season, I have observed the full grown bugs throughout the summer, but more abundant early in August, I noticed them very numerous about some swollen diseased ears of corn, resulting from that peculiar black fungoid growth to which it is at times subject. Mr. Riley suggests as remedies strong tobacco water, quassia water, vinegar, and cresylic soap. Affecting the apple, Phycita nebulo, Walsh. While looking over some apples trees, on the 25rd of May, I observed the work of a small case-making larva, which I had never noticed before. Its ease resembled a long niiniature horn, wide at one end, tapering almost to a point at the other, and frequently twisted ina very odd manner. There were generally portions of dead leaves fastened around the case, so as to partially conceal it, and a firm base of attachment was made for it by gnawing off the young bark from the twig on which it rested, and then firmly glucing it with some glutinous secretion to the spot thus laid bare. The case was curiously constructed of silk interwoven very cleverly with the excrement of the artificer, and had a smooth whitish surface internally, with an exterior also smooth, but of a yellowish brown color. The larva lives inside this curious structure, coming out only when it waats food, and quickly retreating when danger threatens. Its length when full grown is about six tenths of an inch, with a body tapering slightly towards the hinder extremity. Its head is medium sized, rather flat, dark reddish brown with a dull roughened surface, mandibles or jaws dark shining brown, 1 r , ul 4 4 5 % eS a EE ee \ —_—sS 2 Ss ee er we | | | i THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 127 The body above is dark dull brown with a slight greenish tint, the second segment being nearly covered above with a horny looking plate, similar in appearance to the head, but a little paler, and edged behind and at the sides with a darker shade—on each side below this plate is a flattened blackish prominence—on each side of third segment is also placed a small shining black tubercle. On each segment from the third to terminal inclusive, are several very minute blackish dots, from each one of which arises a single pale brown hair. The under surface is a little paler than the upper, with a more decided greenish tint, feet green banded and tipped with brownish black, prolegs dull greenish brown. It changes to a chrysalis sometimes, and I think usually within the case. I found them thus changed in some cases on the trees, but one or two of the specimens among those brought home and fed, came out of the case, and changed to a pupa on the outside. The chrysalis was about four tenths of an inch long, and of a reddish brown colour, one specimen was observed to effect its change on the 8th of June, and produced the winged moth on the 21st of the same month, showing the duration of the pupa stage to be about thirteen days. On examination the moth proved to be the Phycita nebulo, (Walsh) to which he has given the significant common name of ‘‘ The Rascal leaf erum- pler.” In Mr. Walsh’s excellent Report on the noxious insects of Illinois, he states that this larva affects the plum and wild crab as well as the culti- vated apple. ‘The young larvee appear late in the summer, and construct their little cases, surrounded with portions of dried leaves, in which they pass the winter in a torpid state, awakening to activity and resuming their depre- dations as soon as the young foliage expands in spring. He was of opinion that this insect was confined exclusively to the North Western States, its occurrence in Canada shows that in this his views were incorrect. Although he had bred a number of specimens, he had never found them preyed on by any species of ichneumon fly, whereas in my own case, although I only bred seven or eight, one of them produced an interesting ichneumon, the name of which has not yet been determined. The moth is a pretty little thing, its wings measure when expanded, abou seven tenths of aninch. Its fore wings are pale brown, with patches and streaks of silvery white, the hind wings are plain brownish white, the under side of both wings is pale whitish brown, the hind wings paler than the fore wings, It is figured and described by Mr. Walsh, in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 9 p. 312-8. 198 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. The amount of damage done by this insect in my own case was not great, their numbers were not sufficient to cause much alarm, but when they are very numerous, one can easily imagine, that their destructive powers would be very considerable, for besides consuming the foliage, their pernicious habit of gnawing away all the young bark from and about the spot to which the case is attached, would in all probability, lead sometimes to the girdling of the young branches, and their consequent death., The little bunch of dead and dried leaves around their cases, gives a ready means of detecting the presence of these little rascals, and no better remedy for them than hunting them up, and crushing the case with the hand, has yet been suggested. From the Grape, Cidaria diversitineata. 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Association (expenses)is2.2.0-eace- Janes eee 1 85 " ue tor Wondonybranchia.reins « oarcrorsuseio aveisicroleteron snonos el cfekeie ere teie ern aanere 75 00 Fie GOLAN Gl CATES) tara, ore taiciouedehons euclalte eronolsin)=/eherel si elspa oes aiatateleerare ciel teraeriats 45 57 nm Pinsyandecharcess, gem op ieteto siesta: : o-phk oa. os) SPRINGPIELD,, MASS.) Ui: PERS We Elec. SO 5 cheats cele «eee COALBURGH, Wy, VarUao ame AUG, Ris testake. cneh cos oes ont DEMOPOLIS, ALA.UULS: emibona MEAT TRE Wis ou nag ioe. 1 sELALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA EAR GRN LNV e soc ac ee tues oe pac) aa 2 GA DMIEIERST,. Meass, UR ts: RAMU elses... ole his wt pe near gaetad m~ % . 3) i D - 4 ° ay n § From nature OMS th heme WS PLS BP Od Bs Bt © | OF Che Entomological Society of Ontario, INCORPORATED 1871. SECTION I.—(OBJECTS AND MEMBERSHIP.) 1. The Society shall be called ‘The Entomological Society of Ontario,” and is instituted for the investigation of the character and habits of insects, the improve- ment and advancement of Entomological Science, and more especially its practical bearing on the Agricultural and Horticultural interests of the Province. The Society shall consist of not less than twenty-five members. ; 2. The Society shall consist of four classes, viz. :—-Members Ordinary, Life, Associate and Honorary. 3. Ordinary Members shall be persons whese pursuits, or studies, are connected with Entomology, or who are in any way interested in Natural History. 4. life Members shall be persons who have made donations to the value of $25 in money, books or specimens (the two latter to be valued by eompetent persons), or who may be elected as such at the General Meeting of the Society, for important services performed, and after due notice has been given. 5. Associate Members shall be persons residing out of the Dominion of Canada, whose pursuits or interests are similar to those of Ordinary Members. They shall _ have all the privileges of Ordinary Members except that of voting. 6. Honorary Members shall be members of high standing and eminence for their attainments in Entomology. 7. The number of Honorary Members shall be limited to twenty-five. 8. The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary-Treasurer, and not fewer than three, and not more than five, Directors, to form a Council ; all of whom, with two Auditors, shall be elected annually at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, and shall be eligible for re-election. The said Council shall, at their first meeting, appoint a Curator. SECTION II.—(ELECTION OF MEMBERS.) 1. All candidates for admission into the Society as Members, Associate Members, or Life Members, must be proposed by a member at a regular meeting of the Society, and be ballotted for; the aftirmative vote of three-fourths of the members present shall be necessary for the election of a candidate. 2. Honorary Members must be recommended by at least three members, who shall certify that the person named is eminent for his Entomological attainments ; the election in their case shall be conducted in the same manner as laid down for other members. 3. Whenever any person is elected a member in any class,the Secretary shall immediately inform him of the same by letter ; and no person shall be considered a member until he has signified his acquiesence in the election. 4. Every person elected a member is required to pay his first contribution within one month of the date of his election ; otherwise his election shall be null and void. Hi _ CONSTITUTION. SECTION III.—(CONTRIBUTIONS.) 1. The annual contribution of Ordinary and Associate Members shall be one dollar ; all contributions to be due in advance on the first day of January in each year, the payment of which shall entitle the member to a copy of all the publications of the Society during the year. All new members, except those elected at and after the Annual General Meeting and before the following first of January, shall be required to pay the subscription for the year in which they are elected. 2. Every member shall be considered to belong to the Society, and as such be liable to the payment of his annual contribution, until he has either forfeited his claim, or has signified to the Secretary in writing his desire to withdraw, when his name shall be erased from the list of members. 3. Whenever any member shall be one year in arrear in the payment of his annual contribution, the Secretary shall inform him of the fact in writing. Any member con- tinuing ¢wo years in arrears shall be considered to have withdrawn from the Society, and his name shall be erased from the list of members. 4, Life and Honorary Members shall not be required to pay any annual contri- bution. SECTION IV.—(OFFICERS, ) 1. The duties of the President shall be to preside at all meetings of the Society, to preserve good order and decorum, and to regulate debates. 2. The duties of the Vice-President shall be the same as those of the President during his absence. 3. . The duties of the Secretary-Treasurer shall be to take and_ preserve correct minutes of the proceedings of the Society, and to present and read all communications addressed to the Society ; to notify members of their election, and those in arrear of the amount of their indebtedness ; to keep a correct list of the members of the Society, with the dates of their election, resignation, or death, and their addresses; to maintain the correspondence of the Society, and to acknowledge all donations to it. He shall also take charge of the funds of the Society, and keep an accurate account of all receipts and disbursements, and of the indebtedness of the members, and render an annual report of the same at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, in the manner required by the Act respecting the Board of Agriculture and Arts. 4. Itshall be the duty of the Curator to take charge of all books, specimens, cabinets, and other properties of the Seciety ; to receive and arrange in their proper places all donations of specimens; to keep a record of all contributions of books and specimens, with a list of the contributors ; and to oversee and direct any exchange of specimens. He shall, also, report annually to the Society on the condition of the speci- mens and cabinets under his care. 5. The Officers of the Society shall form a Council who shall have the direction and management of the affairs of the Society. ‘The Council shall meet once in every quarter, the time and place of meeting to be appointed by the President, and notice to be given by the Secretary at least ten days beforehand. 6. The Council shall draw upa Yearly Report on the state of the Society, in which shall be given an abstract of all the proceedings, and a duly audited account of the recerpts and expenditure of the Society during their term of office ; and such Report shall be read at the Annual General Meeting. CONSTITUTION, II. SECTION V.—(MEETINGS.) 1. Ordinary Meetings shall be held once a month, on such days and at such hour as the Society by resolution may from time to time agree upon. 2. The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held at the place and during the same time as the Exhibition of the Agricultural and Arts Association is being held in each year, to receive and deliberate upon the Report of the Council on the state of the Society, to elect Officers and Directors for the ensuing year, and to transact any other business of which notice has been given. 3. Special Meetings of the Society may be called by the President upon the written request of five members of the Society, provided that one week’s notice of the meeting be given, and that its object be specitied. SECTION VI.—(BRANCHES OF THE SOCIETY.) 1. Branches of the Society may be formed in any place within the Dominion of Canada on a written application to the Society from at least six persons resident in the locality. 2. Each Branch shall be required to pay to the Parent Society fifty cents per annum for each paying member on its list. 3. Every Branch shall be governed by the constitution of the Society, but shall have power to elect its own officers, and enact by-laws for itself, provided they be not contrary to the tenor and spirit of the Constitution of the whole Society. 4, All the members of the Branches shall be members of the Society and entitled to all the privileges of Ordinary Members. 5. No Associate or Honorary Member shall be appointed by the Bran¢éhes, but such members may be proposed at*General Meetings of the Society by any Branch, as well as by individual members. 6. Each Branch shall transmit to the Parent Society, on or before the first of September in each year, an Annual Report of its proceedings, such" Report to be read at the Annual General Meeting. SECTION VII.—(ALTERATION OF CONSTITUTION.) 1. No article in any section of this Constitution ‘shall be altered or added to, unless notice be first given at an ordinary meeting of the Society, or of a Branch, and the alteration or addition be sanctioned by two-thirds of the members present at the next ensuing meeting; the Secretary of the Society, or of the Branch, shall then notify the Secretaries of all the other Branches ; when the sanction of all the Branches has been obtained in the same manner, the alteration or addition shall become law. LV. ACT OF INCORPORATION. Act of Incorporation of the Entomological Society of Ontario. Extracted from the Agricultural and Arts Act, 34 Vic. 1870-71. That the following new section and sub-section read as and be section thirty-three of 31 Vict., c. 29 :— “The Society now existing and known as the ‘ Entomological Society of Canada,’ may organize and form themselves into a Society, comprising not less than twenty-five members, and paying an annual subscription of not less than one dollar each, to be known as The Entomological Society of Ontario,” and shall have power te adopt a constitution, and make by-laws for the admission of members, and for its guidance and proper management, and the promotion of any objects consistent with the study of Entomology, and its practical bearing upon the Agricultural and Horticultural interests of the Province of Ontario and not inconsistent with the laws of the Province ; and on filing a copy of such constitution and by-laws with the Commissioner of Agriculture, such society shall become a body corporate under this Act.” (1.)» And such society shall be entitled to receive, from unappropriated moneys in the hands of the Treasurer of the Province, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars in any one year : (2.) The said Society shall hold an annual meeting at the place, and during the same time as the Exhibition of the Agricultural and Arts Association is being held, in each and every year ; and shall at such meeting present a full report of its proceedings and a detailed statement of its receipts and expenditure for the previous year, and shall at such meeting elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer (or a Secretary-Treasurer), and not fewer than three, nor more than five Directors ; and they shall also elect two Auditors : 3.) A copy of the annual report of its proceedings, and a list of the oftice-bearers elected, and also a report of such information as the Society may have been able to obtain on the subject of insects beneficial or injurious to the farm and the garden, with such appropriate illustrations as the Society may have been able to obtain, shall be sent to the Commissioner of Agriculture within thirty days after the holding of such annual meeting. By another section the President of the Entomological Society of Ontario is made a member ev officio of the Council of the Agricultural Society. Che Canadian Entomolonst. VOL: IIT: EONDON,.ONT., APRIL, 1871: NOS OUR THIRD VOLUME. To all our friends and correspondents—to all who read these pages, we bid a kindly greeting. Once more we are entering upen a new volume; for the third time we solicit the attention and assistance of all lovers of nature throughout the continent—of all especially who delight in the study of the wonderfully varied forms, structure and habits of Insects. In addition, we now also desire to draw into our friendly circle of readers and observers in the same great field of nature, that numerous class of haters of insects, who hate them with a deadly hate, who give them no quarter in any case, and who devote them all alike to execration and unsparing destruction. Friends, we invite you all to come and join us in our work, which is one of deepest pleasure, even though often filled with toil; come with us and search into the mysteries of the insect world; help us to trace out the wondrous beauties of structure, form and coloring of these marvels of the Creator’s power; help us to investigate thoroughly the lives, metamorphoses, habits, occupations, food, and all other matters connected with these tiny crea- tures; join us in working out their scientific arrangement and nomenclature; aid us in rightly discriminating between friend and foe, between noxious, beneficial and neutral insects, and let us all unite in the endeavour to discover the best means of counteracting the ravages of the one, and of encouraging and protecting the other. In this work all can do something; not only the laborious student of Ento- mology and the ardent collector of insects, but multitudes of others as well. Every fruit grower, farmer and gardener, every one who cultivates even a square yard of ground, has constant opportunities of learning new facts respecting these ubiquitous creatures, and can, if he but will, add much to our knowledge of them. Careful observation is the first and most important operation, and next the accurate record of the facts observed. It is astonishing how much can be learnt in a single season by any one who will but open his eyes to what is going on about him,and how much true pleasure can be derived from the con- templation. We beg, then, kindly reader, that if you are not already like our- selves a devotee at this particular shrine of Nature, that you will make use of this joyous spring time that has opened upon us, and become initiated into the mysteries of this alluring science. It isa branch of knowledge the pages whereof are open to all, the secrets of which are ready to be disclosed to every enquirer. It requires no costly apparatus, no long journeys in search of materials; its ~ a THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. objects are all about us ; go where we will we cannot fail to find them. It is, moreover, fraught with pleasure to the seeker after it, and bears as its fruit results of enormous value to the prosperity and wealth of our country. To enable us to enlarge our circle of readers and correspondents, and to attract as many as possible into the consideration of this branch of natural history, we are publishing a thousand copies of this number of the CANADIAN ENToMoLoctstr, and are sending them to all whose addresses we can ascertain, and who are known to be interested in the subjects treated of in these pages, either directly as Entomologists, or indirectly as Fruit-growers and Agricultur- ists. We beg that all those to whom a copy of this number is seut, and who desire to receive it regularly, will kindly send the amount of the subscription to the Secretary-Treasurer as stated below. Former subscribers will no doubt observe and appreciate the improvements in the appearance, size and embellish- ment of our Journal. Though our progress has been satisfactory since we timidly put forth a first number in August, 1868, we still hope to continue to prosper and increase, and we trust that all our friends will not deem it too much trouble to give us a helping hand, and introduce us to their neighbors and ccrrespondents, Tre ENromobocisr will in future be mailed to all members of the ENTomo- LOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, FREE. TERMS OF MEMBERSHIP. OrDINARY MeEMBERS, being subscribers residing within the Dominion Of “Camadavs cis. UNE a sarees nc cene aad eancaelia. eee ee mpteaan kan eae ae $1 00 AssociATE MEMBERs residing in the United States (U.S. c’y.)............ 125 = _ m (AeA b (BPyGain, =. 4:7y¢ nents donas teeoueeeee 5s, stg. All fees are payable in advance in January of each year. Extra copies 10c. each; $1 per doz. All business communications and remittances should be addressed to KE, BAYNES REED, (Sec.-Treas. Ent. Society of Ontario), Lonpon, Onv. For THE BENEVI?T of new members and others who may not fully understand the position and constitution of the Enromonoarcan Socrery or ONTARIO, we have printed in the present number that portion of the Amended Agricultural Act which relates to our Society ; also our constitution in full. This covers four pages, and thus lessens the amount of Entomological matter which in future numbers will occupy the full twenty pages. lee ad se Conan a see yids eta Me a nae ‘een ; \ a re | mat i cn i Me i ; ; 1% ai + oy ‘ a Nila "Wy “py i hes \ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. FIG. 1. FIG. 2. FIG. 3. Color: black and brown, with fawn-colored white. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 5 THE PLUM SPHINX MOTH. Sphine drupiferarum (Smith & Abbott). BY E, B. REED, LONDON, ONT. As this moth pretty generally makes its appearance in our plum orchards from year to year, I have thought it advisable to give a short history of its different stages for the benefit of our fruit-growers. It is a member of a family of moths to which the great naturalist Linnzus gave the name of Sphingide, on account of the resemblance he conceived some of their caterpillars bore, in certain positions, to the notorious Egyptian Sphinx, and which our artist has faithfully represented in the engraving of the larva— fig. 1. While the ravages caused by this caterpillar are fortunately not very extensive, yet it generally appears in different localities from time to time in numbers quite sufficient to cause considerable annoyance to the plum growers of those regions. Its conspicuous size, when full grown, and its bright green colored body, and mauve stripes, make it tolerably easy of detection; while the leafless twigs, the result of the voracious appetite necessary to sustain its huge carcass, are sure to cause the eyes of the observant fruit-grower to make diligent search after this monster leaf-eater. The larva (fig. 1) ishatched from an egg deposited (probably) singly on the under side of the leaf. - Mr. Wm. Saunders has kindly allowed me to make use of his notes on the appearance of the young larvee. On the 2nd of July, a pair of drupiferarum were brought to him which had been taken zz coitu. They were confined together in a seidlitz box. The next day the female began depositing eggs, continuing to do so for two or three days. “Keg: Length -07 inch; slightly oval; surface smooth; color pale yellowish green. In from 6 to8 days,the young larvee made their appearance, having eaten their way out through the side of the egg. In some cases one half or more of the egg-shell was eaten; in others only a hole just large enough to allow of the escape of the larva, while in a few cases it was almost entirely consumed. July 10.—Some out this morning, length -22 inch; head very large, rounded: pale yellowish-green, with a few very short whitish hairs; mandibles tipped with dark brown; body above pale yellowish-green, with a few whitish slightly elevated tubercles on every segment, from each of which arises a single short fine hair, those along each side of the dorsal line dark brown, the others yellowish white. The tubercles are arranged in a double transverse row on the middle and hind segments; caudal horn -10 inch long, nearly erect, black, thickly covered with very short stiffish black hairs slightly furcate at the apex. Each tip terminated by a pale brownish hair longer than the others; under surface similar to upper.” The larva,when full grown, measures about three or three and a half inches. Its color is a beautiful apple green. The head is also green, with lateral dark 6 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. brown or black stripes. On each side of the body are seven broad oblique bands of a white color, bordered in front with light purple or mauve. The stigmata or breathing pores are very distinct, and are of a bright orange-yellow color. The caudal horn is long, of a dark brown color, with a yellow tint at the base of the sides. The body is cylindrical in form, and is smooth to the touch. The caterpillar, after satisfying its appetite,or on any sudden alarm, assumes the peculiar rigid appearance shown in the cut, and will remain thus, with its head raised, for a considerable period. The formidable-looking horn on the last segment gives the insect a rather alarming appearance; but it is perfectly harmless, and in fact even at this date naturalists can find no use either for offensive or defensive purposes, for this horn, which is peculiar to nearly all the caterpillars of the Sphingide. The larva of the Plum Sphinx is generally found in Ontario about the month of July or the early part of August. When it has attained its maturity it ceases eating, and seeks shelter in the earth, where it excavates for itself a convenient chamber which it lines with a water-proof, gummy cement, and there undergoes its transformation into the pupa or chry- salis state. The pupa (fig. 2) is about 15 inches in length; its color is dark reddish- brown, and it has a short thick projecting, or as naturalists term it, exserted tongue case. The insect remains in the ground all through the winter and spring, and emerges in its perfect winged state about the early part of June. The moth (fig. 3) is a large one, its wings expanding from 33 to 4} inches. The body is about 14 inches long, varying slightly in the sexes as to length, that of the female being shorter, somewhat thicker, and more obtuse at the anal segment, while that of the male is longer and tapers almost to a point. Describing this moth from five specimens (2 male and 3 female) now before me, there appears very little difference in the markings of male and female. The antenn are slightly different, but it requires some slight experience in Ento- mology to ascertain it. The head and thorax, which are large and thick, are blackish-brown with a whitish fawn color at the side. The eyes are very pro- minent. The snout-like projection is composed of the palp:, or feelers, which are two close-fitting shields for the protection of the proboscis, which les suugly coiled up between them like the mainspring of a watch. This proboscis or tongue which is shewn in the engraving (fig. 3) is as long as the body of the moth, and is used by the insect in extracting from flowers the honey, which forms its chief food. Toa watchful observer, a sphinx moth presents a most curious appear- ance, not unlike that of a humming bird, while it hovers over some flower bed with its wings humming from their rapid and ceaseless beating, its body poised in the air, and its long tongue projecting like the beak of a bird, and dipping from time to time into the innermost recesses of the various flowers in search of food. The body of the moth is brown, with a black central line and a black band on either side containing four or five dingy white spots. On the back of the thorax are several fawn-colored blotches or markings which are peculiar to many THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ~T of the Sphingide, and which some of our readers may possibly have noticed in the striking resemblance to a human skull on the thorax of the English death’s head moth, Acherontia atropos. The wings are long and very narrow, but possessing great strength and evidently adapted for great swiftness. Their general color is dark purplish-brown, with a stripe of white on the front edge extending from the white sides of the head, and with a fawn-colored stripe on the outer edge of the front wing. The hind wings have two whitish wavy stripes with a similar fawn-colored stripe on their outer edge. There are also three or four black oblique streaks on the fore-wings, and generally a black dot on the white stripe. The engravings of this insect are the work of Mr. C. J. Beale, of Toronto, Ont. That of the pupa and larva are adapted, with some alterations, from the excellent designs of Professor Townend Glover, of Washington. But the beau- tiful figure of the moth was engraved by Mr. Beale from a specimen in my own collection, and is an admirable fac s¢mz/e of the original insect. 2 QUEBEC CURRANT WORMS. BY G. J. BOWLES. In May last I became the tenant of a house in a central part of the city of Quebec. To this house is attached a garden, which contains a few plum trees, and a considerable number of currant and gooseberry bushes. The plants, how- ever, are very old, and as the garden has been neglected, noxious insects have increased and multiplied to no small degree. I intend in this paper to give my experiences as regards the currant and gooseberry bushes, leaving the rest till another time, and trust that I shall be able to add something to the history of the insects, unfortunately too common, which infest these small fruits. No sooner had the currants and gooseberries expanded their leaves, than I observed, here and there upon them, a few green caterpillars about half an inch or more in Jength,which seemed to be in a healthy and flourishing condition. I did not molest them, feeling rather pleased at the idea of having something of the kind to study so near home ; and as I intended looking after them when they had grown larger, I did not examine them very closely. In a few days, however, these green caterpillars had disappeared, but the bushes swarmed with another larva, which, to my surprise, I soon found to be those of the notorious currant saw-fly (Nematus ventricosus.) Whether or not the green ones I first noticed were Jarvee of this species in their last stage, I cannot now say; but if they were, it certainly is a corroboration of Mr. Saunders’ conjecture, that some individuals hybernate in that state. The currant unfolds its leaves very quickly, and these green caterpillars (which were not geometers), made their appearance almost as soon as the bushes were covered with foliage. Their disappearance so soon afterwards is also a fact which would favor the idea of their being the | larvie of this sawfly. S THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. By the middle of June, the spring brood of ventricosus swarmed on the red currants and gooseberries, almost stripping the leaves from some of the bushes. Larvee of all ages and sizes, from one tenth of an inch to an inch in length,might be found upon a single leaf ; some in their old coats of green and black, and some of the largest in their new ones of green only. At the same time the pretty speckled caterpillars of //lopia ( Abrawis) rebearia, Fitch, appeared in almost equal numbers. They were more common, however, on the black and red currants than on the gooseberries. The fact of this larva thus feeding on the black currant, disproves the assertion of that eminent entomologist, the late Mr. Walsh, who states [see Am. Hntomolog?st, vol. 2, page 13] that none of the currant worms attack that plant. As the fruit was not ripe, I did not wish to apply hellebore, but set all hands to work picking off the depredators, and dropping them into a basin of water. In this way at least a pint of larve of both species were gathered daily for a week, anda very apparent diminution made in their numbers. About the 20th June, I began to find cocoons of ventricosus, some fastened singly to the surface of a leaf, some in groups of two or three in the forks of the branches. Of these I gathered sixteen, and having put them in a bottle, in about ten days twelve flies emerged, the remaining four dying in their cocoons, as I subsequently ascer- tained. These twelve specimens were all inales, and I also noticed the males about the bushes several days before the females appeared,although I searched carefully for the latter. At length, about the middle of July, I detected the females on the un- der side of the leaves laying their eggs in the usual manner, and killed many while engaged in this operation. As soon as the fruit had been picked, I dusted the bushes with hellebore, and found it to be, as re- ported, a speczsic,completely destroying the ventricosus larvee which came in contact with it, though it did not seem to be so effective in the case of the Hl/opia, By the end of July, the saw flies [see accom- Fig. 4, panying figure of sawfly, magnified] and their larvee had been very much reduced in number,and the geometers which had escaped destruction had passed into the pupa state. On searching at the roots of the bushes, I found many of these pupze naked in the earth, and a few days afterwards the moths began to appear in great numbers. The net now came into use, and catching half a dozen at a sweep was an ordinary affair, when clouds of them would rise on disturbing a bush. After killing some hundreds in this way, they gradually disappeared, and my two friends were invisible for the rest of the season, with the exception of a few larvee of ventricosus, which I THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ) now and then discovered, some even in October. I had occasion during that month to remove two of the gooseberry bushes which had been infested, and although I carefully examined the earth from their roots, I could not find any sawfly cocoons. About the same time I examined a dying plum tree which grew near, the bark of which was loose and full of holes, in which, as well as in the forks of the branches within three feet from the ground [ discovered many of them. From this it might be inferred that these larvee do not invarzably seek the earth before pupating in autumn, but sometimes follow the example of their predecessors, and construct their cocoons in asheltered place above ground. I have made enquiries as to the extent of the depredations of these two insects in this vicinity, and find that in some gardens the ventricosus has net yet appeared. Where it has gained a footing, however, it is a worse enemy than ‘the Hllopia, though the latter is often very numerous and destructive. It seems to be admitted that an imported insect, in America at least, soon becomes a greater pest than the native which attacks the same plant. Nor were these the only foes I had to contend with. In July, Zgeria tipuli- JSormis [see fig. 5] came out by dozens, in its pretty dress of steel - blue and gold,but met with no mercy despite its beauty. The red currant bushes, which had stood in the garden for a long time, 4 were examined in autumn, and nearly every twig found perfo- Fig. 5. rated by this little enemy. I also found a dead pupa of this moth in a stem of white raspberry growing near, within a burrow about three inches in length, which the larva had excavated in the pith. While searching for the cocoons of ventricosus in the currant bushes, I found several pretty chrysalids, which I secured. The moth these produced was Angerona Crocaotaria, Guenée, and as I shortly afterwards captured some caterpillars of the same species on the red currant, I am able to give a partial history of the insect. I am, however, indebted to Mr. Saunders, of London, Ontario, for descriptions of the egg and newly-hatched larva, he having kindly placed his notes at my disposal. They are as follows:— “On the 27th of June,a female laid in a box in which she was confined,about 220 eggs. They were laid in patches or clusters on different parts of the box, containing each from 10 to 40 or 50 eggs. When first deposited, they were yellow, but in a day or two afterwards they changed to a bright red, and on the 4th July some which were about to hatch had turned greyish-brown, soon after which the young larvee made their appearance. Some still remained red at this date (4th), but all changed to greyish brown before the appearance of the larvee. They were all hatched by the 7th of July. “Ege: oval, with a depression above; length, -03 of an inch; greatest width -02 inch. The depression above in each egg led me to think that they were barren and drying up, but in this I was agreeably disappointed. Surface nearly smooth under an ordinary magnifier, but under a power of 45 diameters there appear a number of very shallow, small depressions over its whole surface. 10 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. “Newly hatched larva: length, -10 inch ; head rather large, bilobed, pale brown with a few fine short hairs and several black dots on each side. Body above, dull yellowish- green, with a dark brown stripe on each side, about half way towards spiracles. Below this the sides of the body are paler,with a whitish bloom over the surface. There are a few short brownish hairs, most numerous on terminal segment. Under surface pale whitish, with a dusky patch of red about the base of the two pairs of prolegs. Feet and prolegs pale, seimi- transparent.” Mature Larva (Quebec.) Fed on red currant. Length, 1.50 to 1.75 inch ; body gradually increasing in size from head to prolegs ; general colour, yellowish green. Head square and flattened above, with three longitudinal purplish brown an whitish stripes, which are continued on first segment. There are also two small projections like rudimentary antennze, one on each side of head, -03 long. Body yellowish-green, an indistinct whitish dorsal line, a rather broad whitish line on each side, just below spiracles, bordered above with faint purple, which increases in depth of colour towards the posterior rings, and becomes a purple stripe on anal prolegs, forming a resemblance to an inverted 4. Beneath, same colour as above, but with faint interrupted longitudinal lines. Spiracles white, bordered with purple. Above, on each segment, from 2nd to 7th inelu- sive, are five minute black dots (four in a square and one in front towards the head), and all the rings have a yellowish band on the swelled part where the succeeding segment is inserted. Legs pale green. The pupa is -50 to -60 inch. in length, and of a dark olive green colour, with the exception of the abdomen, which is pale greenish yellow, and has a row of black dots on each side, and another dorsal row. The wing cases are very prominent, and from their strong contrast with the abdomen in colour make the chrysalis a pretty object. I found them fastened by the tail, and reposing in a slight net-work of silken threads, with which the caterpillar had drawn the edges of a currant leaf half way together, so as to form a kind of cradle. The structure could not be called a cocoon, in fact the chrysalis, which is very lively, had wriggled itself out of its bed in some cases, and hung outside fastened only by the tail. The moth appeared in July, from 10 to 14 days after pupating. It will be seen that it emerges somewhat earlier in the season at Quebec than at London, judging from the dates given by Mr. Saunders. On the 28th June, I took a Grapta larva, almost full grown, from a red cur- rant bush, and after feeding it a few days it became a pupa, and duly produced the butterfly, which, after some hesitation, I have referred to Grapta progne. Mr. Saunders says that “it approaches very near to fuwnus, but resembles progne still more, though the markings are deeper and richer than usual.” The following is a description of the larva:— Mature Larva: Fed on red currant; length 1-30th inch; cylindrical; general color, yellow. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 11 Head: Medium, flattened, reddish, a blackish triangular spot in front, and a wedge-shaped one on each side, some short whitish hairs, and two black branching horns, mandibles black. Body: Striped transversely with narrow black and yellow lines; small thorns on second segment; six branching spines each on third and fourth segments; seven each on remaining ones, viz.: three on back, yellow; one each side, orange; aud one each side, below spiracles, yellow, out of an orange tubercle; spiracles black, encircled with yellow. Four small black dashes on upper part of each segment, viz.: two on each side above second row of spines, and extending backwards diagonally towards each other. Feet reddish, with a black mark on outer side. When at rest, the caterpillar often coils round the stalk of a leaf, with the hinder part of its body raised in the air. The general colour of the chrysalis is dark umber brown, slightly mottled with a lighter shade. It has a silvery spot on under side between thorax and abdomen, and is suspended by the tail. The caterpillar became a chrysalis on the 3rd of July,and the perfect insect emerged on the 13th. On the 3rd of August my attention was drawn to a smail black-currant bush by its peculiar appearance. On a closer examination, I found a number of geometric caterpillars,which were resting themselves in their customary manner, by clinging to the branches with their anal legs, and holding their bodies ex- tended. At a little distance they closely resembled the bare stalks of leaves, and it was this resemblance which led me to seek the cause of the bush being affected in such a manner. J gathered twenty-four of these caterpillars, which were all nearly full grown, and fed them on black-currant leaves in a box of earth; but by the 7th of August they had all descended and changed to pup on or just beneath the surface of the ground, without forming any cocoon. The following is a description of this larva:— Mature larva: Fed on black currant; length 1.75 to 2.00 inches; nearly cylindrical, gradually enlarging to posterior extremity; general color, pea green. Head: Greyish green, strongly bilobed. Body: Pale green, with a darker green interrupted dorsal line, and indis- tinct broken transverse lines of same color; a yellow cross line on posterior end of each segment, and two small tubercles on second segment close to head. The body is also dotted with very small whitish tubercles, and a few short black hairs -04 inch long; spiracles reddish; feet pale green. Some of the largest of these larvze had a small brown tubercle on each side in front of each spiracle on segment before first pair of prolegs, and a purplish brown ridge on last segment from one spiracle to the other. The pupa is -G0 to -70 inch long, very stout, and of a dark brown color, with a strong point or thorn at the end ot the abdomen. With this exception, it has nothing to distinguish it from that of many of the Bombycide. The abdomen is slightly flexible. These pup had remained so long in the earth (since August last), without producing the moth, that I became impatient, and brought a few in a small hox 12 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. into a warm room, hoping to hasten their development. On the 2nd of April, I was rewarded by finding in the box a very fine female specimen of that handsome grey geometer, Amphidasys cognataria, Guenee, which had escaped from one of the chrysalids, and was the first of the species I had seen alive since 1864. I had thus no less than 7 different species preying upon my currants and gooseberries, viz.: .Vematus ventricosus, Lllopia ribearia, Agecria tipuliformis, Angerona crocaotaria, Grapta progne, and Amphidasys cognataria, Of these, the saw-fly, Vematus ventricosus, was decidedly the most destructive. There is still another insect, a dipterous fly, which I have not yet seen in my garden, but observed in others some years ago, and which lives in the fruit of the red and white currant. The history of this fly I hope to investigate during next summer. HINTS TO FRUIT GROWERS. Paper No. \. BY, W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. To make the ENTroMOLOGIsT more interesting and useful to fruit growers, it is intended to devote a page of every number issued during the summer season to giving practical hiuts in reference to insects whose times of appearance may be near at hand, with a condensed summary of such means and remedies as have been found most serviceable in lessening the numbers of such as are injurious. We shall be glad to receive communications from fruit growers, relating to any new insect pests occurring in their neighborhood. The Plum Curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar). Now-is the time to try Ransom’s method of trapping the curculio. It may be practiced any time during May and continued with success till early in June. Have the ground made quite smooth and clean for several feet around the base of the tree, and ‘place a few pieces of chip, bark or shingle close around and against the trunk. These will afford convenient hiding places for the insect. They should be turned over and examined once or twice a day, when the curculios will be found attached to the under side, and they can be picked off and destroyed. It is not expected that this will supersede jarring entirely, but will no doubt, if persevered in, prove a valuable means towards lessening the numbers of this terrible foe to plum culture. The Tent Caterpillar (Clistocampu americana). The ring-like nests of eggs of this species, so common on the twigs and small branches of fruit trees, are now hatched, and the young caterpillars forming w ebs in which to shelter them- selves. If allow od to procecd and grow without interference, they will soon strip the branches of the trees on which they are located entirely bare, and thus produce an unsightly deformity as well as check the vigor of the tree. Where the affected branches are low, the webs may be removed by the hand and the THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 13 insects crushed, and where they are high, the nests may be brought down by means of a pole with a bunch of rags tied to the extremity. The black Cherry Aphis (Aphis ceras?). This disgusting looking little creature begins to appear almost as soon as the foliage is expanded, and multi- plies so fast that the under side of the young leaves are soon almost entirely covered with them, and the growth stunted by their continual puncturing and sucking of the juices. Drenching the tree with weak lye, strong soap suds, or tobacco water, are remedies which have been used with suecess; but probably nothing is better than the means which Nature employs to keep these creatures within bounds— that is, by the multiplication of their natural enemies. If we assist Nature in this way by introducing into their midst a few Lady Birds, we shall find their numbers soon decrease; for the Lady Birds feed on the Aphis incessantly, as well in the laryal or caterpillar stage of their existence as in the perfect beetle state; and when they have abundance of food they multiply very fast. Figures are here given of some of our common species:— Figure 6 is the larva of a Lady Bird. Figure 7 represents the species known as the 13 spotted Lady Bird ({ippodamia 13 maculata); and Figure 8 ). Be on the look out for this mischievous little creature—a tiny, pale, dull-brown worm, which is fond of locating itself about the base of the blossom buds where, tying the various flowers or newly-formed fruits together with silken threads, it revels on their substance, soon causing them to blacken and wither. To the amateur fruit grower,whose garden and crop is comparatively small, these are often particularly annoying, and destroy hopes fondly cherished. We know of no better plan than that of hunting this creature out and destroying it by hand. Its presence is soon made apparent by the unhealthy and withered look of the affected buds. Figure 9 represents both the caterpillar and moth of this species. The Bud-moth Caterpillar (Grapholitha oculana) —+ o> LONDON BRANCH OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. The regular monthly i Yes of the London branch was held on Tuesday evening, the 3rd ult., at the residence of the Vice-President, Mr. J. H. Griftiths. A report of the proceedings of the Parent Society at the Toronto meeting was given by Messrs, Reed and Saunders, in all of which the members heartily ed b —— THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. concurred. The requisite alterations were then made in the by-laws to bring them into conformity with the new constitution. Mr. W. Saunders read a letter from Mr. J. T. Whiteaves, Secretary of the Natural History Society, of Montreal, stating that Mrs. Ritchie had accepted the offer of the London branch for the purchase of the cabinet of insects be- longing to the late Mr. A. 8. Ritchie. Several of the members brought with them excellent microscopes, which added greatly to the interest of the proceedings. Many entomological objects were thus submitted to high magnifying powers, and the marvellous details of their structure clearly shown. = —-—o—e- ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS. [PAPER No, 4.] BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. The egys of the Vaporer Moth, Orgyta leucostiga. Attentive readers of the Entomological portion of the late Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario, will have noted the fact already well known to Entomologists that the female moth of this species is wingless, and lays her eggs on the outside of the cocoon from which she has escaped. Last fall the moths were unusually common, and their nests of eggs are now so abundantly distributed among our fruit trees, that unless some effort is made to destroy them, the larvee will probably be exceedingly numerous and destructive during the approaching season. Fig. 10 represents the full grown caterpillar of this species, which, when about to change to chrysalis, selects a leaf on which to under- 4¢0 its next transformation, and this in such a position that, while the chrysalis is firmly at- tached to it on the one side, ¢¢ is. firmly secured by — silken threads to the under side of a branch on the other, thus se- curing the leaf from falling to the ground in the autumn. The female, after its escape from the coccon, rarely moves more than a few inches from it, waiting the attendance of the male moth, after which she at once commences to place her eggs in the position already indicated. But how are the eggs, when laid, kept in their place on the top of the cocoon! Dr. Fitch says that the eggs are extruded in a continuous string, which is folded #hd matted together so as to form an irregular mass. On removing this mass of eggs from its place of attach- ment, the surface of the cocoon appears covered with fragments of a transparent gelatinous looking substance, which has evidently been applied in a fluid state. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. my The bottom layer of eggs will usually number 100 or more, and their interstices are well filled with this same gelatinous substance, which adheres so strongly to the eggs that when the nest is torn open they cannot be separated without bringing away portions of this material firmly attached. Another irregular layer of eggs is placed on this, then a third, and sometimes a fourth, before the total number is exhausted, and through the whole of these the gelatinous matter is So placed as to secure every egg, not by being imbedded in a solid mass, but surrounded by the material worked into a spongy or frothy state. Possibly this may be to economize the amount used. Over all is a heavy layer of the same with a nearly smooth greyish white surface, the whole number of eggs being placed so as to present a convex surface to the weather, which effectually prevents the lodgement of any water on it. Within this enclosure are deposited from 375 to 500 eggs. We give these numbers because we have counted the contents of several, and 375 is the lowest number and 500 the highest we have found. The egg is nearly globular, flat- tened at the upper side—not perceptibly hollowed—with a dark point in the centre of the fiattened portion surrounded by a dusky halo. Its surface is smooth under a magnifying power of 45 diameters; but when submitted to a higher power, appears lightly punctured with minute dots. Its color is uniformly white to the unaided vision; but the microscope reveals a ring of dusky yellow surrounding it immediately below the flattened portion. Its diameter is 1-25th of an inch, " A careless observer seeing a dead leaf here and there upon his trees might _ readily conceive that it was accidentally blown into the position it occupied,and perhaps held there by a spider’s web or something of that sort; but as will be seen from what we have said, a closer examination will furnish food for thought, in the wise arrangements made by the parent moth in providing for the safety of her future offspring; and at the same time may well excite alarm in the fruit grower’s mind when he perceives promise of the approaching birth of such a horde of hungry caterpillars as even one of these will produce. + > o— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. CoLEoprerRA.—The following notes upon the localities for finding certain species of Coleoptera, all taken in April, in Massachusetts, may be of some use to collectors:— Under much decayed butternut bark were found Omosita colon, Hister Lecontet, Ips fusciatus, Phenolia grossa,Cucujus clavipes, and Cossonus platalea. About fresh-cut maple and birch stumps where the sap was flowing, /ps fascia- tus, and sanguinolentus, and Staphylinide of various species. Under loose pine bark, Boros unicolor and Rhagium lincatum. Around fresh eut pine wood where the pitch was oozing out on sunny days, 7'omdeus pin’, Hylurgus terebrans, Pissodes strobi, Hylobinus pales, Clerus nigripes, and trifasciatus, were very abundant. 16 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. To collect those species of Scolytidee and Curculionide that live upon pine, it will be found very successful to go out just at dusk after a sunny day, when they have taken refuge under the chips about fresh cut pine wood-piles. They can then be taken in abundance.—Gero. Dinmock, SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Omission.—A valuable paper by V. T. Chambers, Esq., of Covineton, Kentucky, U.S., on “A New Species of Cen/ostoma?—one of our Canadian Micro-lepidoptera, belonging to the family Tineina—was received too Jate ‘for insertion in the present number, but will appear in our next, which we hope to issue during the month.—Epb. Can. Env. REMITTANCES RECELVED SINCE JANUARY Ist, IS71. J.G. G., Toronto, $1; R. V. R., Kingston, $6; G.D., Springfield, Mass., $2.24; T. L. M., New York, $1.12; O.8.W., Chicago, $3.37; J. P., Grimsby, $2; Dr. M., Grimsby, $2; A.S.F., New York, $1.80; V.T.C., Covington, Ky., $1.12; Dr. E.S.H., xrand Rapids, Mich., $4; Dr. G., Bayfield, $1; J.M.J., Halifax, N.S., $3; W.H.E., Toronto, $1; J.B., San Francisco, Cal., $4.45; C.J.S. B., Port Hope, $1; N.H.C., Stratford, $2; P.S.M., Detroit, Mich., $1. EXCITANGES, &c. LeEpIpopTerRa. — Canadian Lepidoptera desired in exchange for British,—— E. H. Conuins, Daily News ottice, Kingston, Ont. Pups anp Ova or Luprpoprers.—I am desirous to obtain, if possible, /7ve Pup and Ova of certain Canadian and other North American Lepidoptera. Would purchase, or give in exchange, English or other European species.—Cuas. Gro. RorHERAM- WeEBSDALE, 78 High-street, Barnstaple, England. CoLEopTeRA AND LeprpoprERs.—lI have a few Cychrus Andrewsii and Ridingsi/, which I should like to exchange for rare Canadian insects: Lepidoptera preferred.— Tueropore L. Mean, 596 Madison Avenue, New York. CoLeopTeRA.—I should be pleased to exchange coleoptera with some Canadian Coleopterists, or would purchase species not found in my locality. —Anprew 8. FuLLER; Woodside Garden, Ridgewood, Bergen Co., N. J. AGENTS FOR THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Canapa.—H. B. Reed, London, Ont.; W. Couper, Naturalist, Montreal, P.Q.; G. J. Bowles, Quebec, P.Q.; J. Johnstcn, Canadian Institute, Toronto, Ont. Unirep Stares.—The American Naturalist’s Book Agency, Salem, Mass.; J.Y. Green> Newport, Vt.; W. V. Andrews, Room 17, No. 137 Broadway, New York. ADVERTISEMENT. Corks AND Pins.—We have received a fresh supply from England, of sheet cork of the ordinary thickness, price 16 cents (gold) per square foot; and a full supply of Klaeger’s pins, No’s. 1 to 6, price 50 cents (gold) per packet of 500, Orders will please state whether the package is to be sent by mail or express, —- Che Canadwn Entomologist. VOL. III. LONDON, ONT., JUNE, 1871. NO. 2. TO OUR FRIENDS. We very much regret that the new type with which the present number is printed did not reach us in time to be used for No. 1. ‘There had been so much delay in beginning the volume, that we thought it best to use such material as we had at command rather than postpone its commencement lon- ger. The printing and general appearance of our little monthly is now as near perfection as we can hope to reach, and will in future be uniform. We trust all our readers will show their appreciation of our efforts to improve the ENromo.ocist by sending a few more names to add to our increasing list of membership ; and we should also feel obliged if those of onr old members whose annual subscriptions are not yet paid would remit to the Treasurer as promptly as_ possible. When issuing our last number, we printed an unusually large edition, intending to send a copy to every person in Ontario known to be interested in Entomology directly, or indirectly as agriculturists or horticulturists, with the hope of largely increasing our list of subscribers. When mailing we found our surplus copies not sufficient for the purpose, and intend printing an extra number of the present issue, which we shall send to all those who did not receive No. 1. For the benefit of such we append the con- tents of our first number, of which we still hold sufficient to supply new subscribers : ° Constitution of the Entomological Society of Ontario. Editorial. The Plum Sphinx Moth, with 3 illustrations. Currant Worms, with 2 illustrations. Hints to Fruit Growers, with 3 illustrations. Entomological Gleanings, with 1 illustration. Miscellaneous Notes, &c. Subscriptions, one dollar ($1.25 in U. S. currency) per annum, should be sent to the Secretary, E. B. Resp, Esq., London, Ont. oY, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ON THE LARVA OF THE PEACH BORER. (feeria Exitiosa. ) BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. The accompanying figure, No. 11, 1s a faithful representation of the larva of the Peach tree Borer, an insect which in some localities is so injurious and abundant as to sadly interfere with successful peach culture. ‘Phe grub from which this woodcut was prepared was found in com- pany with several others early in March, in some gummy matter lying on the soil immediately surrounding a peach tree. One, which was somewhat smaller than the rest, was dug out of its bored channel in the tree, where it was still feeding. The following description will, we hope, enable any one to distinguish this pest beyond doubt when it is met with : Its head is of a medium size, with a depressed line down the centre dividing it into two lobes. It has a triangular piece inserted in the middle, with its base towards the mouth, and its apex terminating just under the anterior edge of the second segment. ‘The head is also flattened, and of a reddish color, becoming darker, almost black, on its anterior edge. ‘The jaws are black and prominent. The body above is of a dull pale yellow, with the segments or rings of the body rather deeply cut. The second segment is of a pale reddish brown color, smooth and horny looking. On each segment there are a few minute pale reddish dots, from which arise short reddish or brownish hairs—those along the sides and on the posterior extremity being some- what longer. A faint line runs along each side through the stigmata or breathing pores of a paler shade than the rest of the body. ‘The stigmata are small, nearly round, and of a dull reddish color. The under surface is very similar in color to the upper. The feet are tipped with reddish brown, and the prolegs are pale yellow, with the fringe of hooks, crowning each of a dark reddish brown. The grub becomes a chrysalis early in the spring, from which the wasp- like moth is produced late in June or early in July, which, soon after pair- ing, lays its eggs on the bark of the trunk of the tree, near its base. Here the young grubs, as soon as hatched, eat their way to the inner bark, and commence their work of destruction. To prevent the moths from depositing their eggs, some recommend — THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23 mounding the trees well up with earth, two or three feet high, early in June—others brush the trunk and main branches over with soft soap, reduced with water so as to bring it to about the consistence of paint. A NEW SPECIES OF CEMIOSTOMA. ( Micro-Lepidtoptera, Tineina. ) BY V.. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. [Some little time ago Mr. Chambers sent us a specimen of the insect referred to in the following communication, and desired our opinion respect- ing its specific position. Being unable to give any definite opinion on the matter, as we know but little of the Micro-Lepidoptera, we sent his note and specimen to Mr. Stainton, the great English authority on the Tineina. He very kindly examined the specimen, and communicated his views respecting it, through us, as noticed below.—Epb. C. E.] Your letter reached me just as I was starting to an adjoining county where a term of Court has detained me until now. As you request, I send a notice of the Ceméostoma for the CanapIAN ENnTomoLocist. I am satisfied that it is a new species, and call it C. 4/bed/a. It is of a glistening snowy white. ‘There is a small tuft on the head,—the antennz pale fuscus with the apex and basal joint, white. On the costa beyond the middle is a pale golden streak, dark margined on both sides, obliquely placed, pointing towards the anal angle, dut not produced to it: towards the apex, on the costa, is another larger pale golden spot, with slightly diverging sides, but faintly dark margined posteriorly, though distinctly so anteriorly. The apical spot is shining silvery gray metallic with very distinct black margins anteriorly and posteriorly ; behind it, at the base of the ciliz, is an indis- tinct pale golden streak, which on the costal margin touches a small fuscus spot in the cilia, but which does not touch the dorsal margin. ‘There is a minute indistinct fuscus spot at the apex of the cilie. Abdomen white, banded above with golden fuscus. This would seem to be intermediate between C. Swsinel/a, Higa, and C. Spartifolidla, Stainton, approaching more nearly to the former. Possibly it may prove to be what the late Mr. Walsh would have termed a “ phyto- phagic species,” or variety of the former. I have never seen either of those species, and I compare this insect only with the descriptions of those species contained in “ Stainton’s Tineina.” ‘The description there given of Swsenedla is very brief, and Adbel/a differs from it in not having the 24 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. first costal streak produced to the anal angle ; in having a pale golden streak in the cilie, behind the apical spot, which is not mentioned by Stainton, and in having only two faint fuscus spots in the cilia, one of them at the apex very indistinct, instead of two ciliary fuscus streaks point- ing upwards, as Stainton says of Susinella; and still more in having a distinct tuft on the vertex, whilst, according to Stainton, C. Scéfed/a is the only known species which possesses such a tuft, and Scztedda cannot be mistaken for this. It is also clearly distinct from C. Spartifoliclla and C. Laburnella, although it strongly resembles them. The larva mines the leaves of the silver-leaved and Lombardy poplars, (P. Alba and P. Dilatata.) Susinella mines the leaves of P. Zremula and these are the only known poplar-feeding species. — It leaves the mine in the latter part of September, and spinning about them small cables of the purest white silk, it spins its cocoon beneath them and becomes a pupa in the fall, the imago emerging in the next April. ‘Tne cocoon is oval, flat, and snowy white. According to Stainton Sfartcfoliel/a is the only species which forms its cocoon in such situations. If, as I believe, this insect is distinct from Swszved/a, it has not yet been observed in Europe. Yet as both of the trees upon which it feeds are unported species, A/be//a is probably a European insect. So far as I am informed this is the first time that any species of Cemiostoma has been ob- served in this country, and yet 4/bel/a is very abundant on both ?. Alba and P. ddatafa, and it is strange that it has not been observed both in this country and in Europe, if it is found there. ‘The mine is very conspicuous, and sometimes the upper and lower cuticles of the entire leaf are separ- ated, and the leaf deadened, but in such cases several larvae are found in it. Up to the date of the publication of Vol. I. of Stainton’s ‘Tineina but six species of Cemiostoma had been observed, all of which were found upon the European continent, but only three of which had been observed in England. Swszved/a, which approaches most nearly to 4/bcdér, has never yet been found in England, but I believe that since the publication of that work two new species have been discovered in england, and one or two in India. A single specimen of /bed/a was sent to Mr. Stainton, (by your kind- ness,) who writes that he is inclined to separate it as a distinct species, but that he cannot be positive, as the specimen was slightly injured. | Among four specimens examined by me I cannot discover the slightest difference. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 25 P. S.—As no one except myself, so far as I know, is giving much attention to our “Micros,” and as I have a good many new, beautiful and interesting species, if you desire it I shall occasionally notice them in the ENTo- MOLOGIST. [We shall be very glad to receive our Correspondent’s communications, and trust that he will follow up the work so well begun by the late lamented Mr. Brackenridge Clemens.—Ep. C. E.] HINTS TO FRUIT GROWERS. Paper No. 2. By WM. SAUNDERS, LonpoN, ONT. The gooseberry saw fly Mematus Ventricosus. The season of warmth and growth having opened this year carly, this never-failing pest has put in its appearance also in advance of previous years ; as early as the 23rd of April I found the insect on the wing preparing to deposit its eggs as soon as the foliage was sufficiently expanded, = Our last number contained an en- larged figure of the fly—See fig. 4.) We now give a representa- tion of the larva in its natural position, feeding on the leaves. (See fig. 12.) The fly deposits itswhite eggs in long regular rows on the under side of the leaves. Fig. 12. chiefly on the larger veins, where they speedily hatch, and the hundreds of voracious worms resulting are soon scattered all over the bushes. Already, May 15,the eggs are very nume- rous, and here and there may be found a colony of larvae. ‘These latter, while young, feed in company, from 20 to 4o on a leaf, which is soon riddled with the small holes they at first make, but in a few days they increase in size, and parting company spread in all directions. By keep- ing a close watch, and picking off the eaten leaves early in the season, the evil will be much lessened, but where the worms are numerous there is nothing so good as Powdered Hellebore, which may be readily and economically applied by mixing an ounce (previously rubbed up 26 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. with a lithe water to prevent its being lumpy) in a pail of water, and kowering it over the bushes with a watering pot. Many people are tunid about using hellebore while the fruitis on, for fear of its finding lodg- ment there in quantities sufficient to produce unpleasant consequences when the fruit is eaten, but if applied in the Way just mentioned there need be no apprehensions on this point. The Plum Curcuho. Although we referred to this insect in our last, it will not do to pass it over in silence now, for by the time this reaches the eyes of our readers the young fruit will have formed, and jarring should at once begin and be steadily a up every evening until the fruit is pretty well grown. ‘The severe frost we have had has considerably injured the plum blossoms in this western section, and we believe that the crop will consequently be light, hence plum growers should be on the alert and dis- pute possession with the “little Turk” from the very beginning. ‘The most convenient form of sheet to spread under the trees is that made with two pieces of cotton of the requisite size, stitched only half way up the middle, so as to allow the tree to pass to the centre, and having a strip of wood attached to each of the outer edges, so that it may be conveniently handled. Small trees may be jarred with the hand, larger ones should have a branch cut off, leaving a stump which may be struck with a mallet, cr else have a hole bored in Ps zi / PERE = cee \~ $4 the tree, and a broad-headed iron spike inserted, which may be struck with a ham- mer. ‘Phe accompanying figure 13 shows the Curculio in its difierent stages of larva, a, chrysalis 6, and perfect insect c; the hair lines alongside of each object shows its natural size; @ represents a Curculio working en a young plum in which one egg has already been deposited. The Codling Moth Carpocapsa pomonclla. ‘This insect, so destructive to the apple, usually appears in Ontario from the middle to the end of June, but the season having opened earlier this year than common, we may look for them in the beginning of the month, and in a fortnight later they will probably be busy depositing their eggs about the eyes of the young apples. Excellent traps may be made for them out of common bottles—widemouth ones preferred—by partly filling them with a mixture of vinegar and water, well sweetened with sugar, and having a little rum cr other strong smelling . 4 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 27 spirit added to it. These may be fastened among the branches of the trees with cord or pieces of wire. The insects, being attracted by the smell of the compound, they are lured into the bottle and drowned, and thus the mischief they were about to perpetrate is nipped in the bud. Later in the season the wermy fruit should be carefully gathered, and either dipped in boiling water to destroy the grubs, or fed to hogs. Fig. 14 delineates the various stages of the insect: @ section of apple attacked, 4 point at which the egg was laid and at which the Det young worm entered, ¢ the full grown worm, / its head and portion oi body magnified, 7 the cocoon which it spins, @ the chrysalis enclosed in the cocoon, f the perfect insect as it appears when at rest, ¢ the same with its wings expanded: Borers. June is the month for borers of all kinds, so look out for your apple trees ; prevention in this instance is far better than cure, and by taking a little pains now the entrance of the borer may be prevented. Soft soap, reduced with water to the consistence of thick paint, and applied copiously over the trunk, and a short distance up the main branches of the tree, will prevent the beetles from depositing their eggs on such at all, and besides will have the effect of cleansing the bark from many other animal and vegetable parasites. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. Compiled by the Editor. From Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana : [nsecta. P (Continued from Vol. II., Page 176. FAMILY HALIPLID®. [This family, usually regarded as a sub-family of the Dytscide, is restricted by Leconte to the genera Hadlip/us and Cnemidotus ; but Kirby, as will be observed, includes it in the genera /Zvdroporus and Laccophilus. | 20 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 93. Hatip_us ImMpressus, Za/7.—One specimen taken in Lat. 65°. Length of body 1% lines, nearly. [66.| Body, reddish-yellow. Head punctured, dusky behind: prothorax yellow, depressed in the middle posteriorly, with a transverse curved series of punctures in the depression ; anteriorly there are five or six black dots arranged transversely ; at the base, between the central point and the margin on each side, an oblique little furrow, but not easily discoverable, is Impressed: elytra pale-yellow, with a cinereous tint, nine rows of black punctures on each, those near the lateral margin being the faintest ; anteriorly, in the interstices of the rows, there are also a few black punc- tures ; the apex of the elytra is oblique, terminating in an acute point: the laminee that cover the posterior legs are punctured. | Kirby is doubtful respecting the identity of this specimen with Latreille’s species, as though the latter's description agrees with it, his figure does not, for it represents the elytra with eight black spots, which are not to be found in /7/. /ipressus. Le Conte puts it down as a probable synonym of //. Zinmaculicollis, Harris, a species taken in Canada, and regards its identification with Latreille’s species as erroneous. | 94. Hyproporus Nicro-LINeatus, Stephens.—A pair taken in Lat. 65°. Length of body 2% in.—234 lines. Body lurid-yellow, somewhat glossy, minutely and thickly punctured : antennae dusky at the tip: prothorax with a minute black rhomboidal spot in the disk, which is marked with a punctiform impression ; anteriorly it has a transverse series of punctures larger than those of the rest of its surface : elytra most numerously and minutely punctured: the suture and four longitudinal stripes not reaching the apex, nor the first and third the base, all black ; the fourth, or outermost, is distant from the margin and interrupted : the alitrunk and abdomen are black. In the female, which is less glossy, the external stripe is continuous, and only the second reaches the base ; and in the male the prothorax is more conspicuously punctured, se and the anterior series of punctures is wanting. [67.] 95. Hyproporus ParaLLetus, Say.—One specimen only taken. [Previously described as //. Catascopium Say, and subsequently as /7/. Lnterruptus Say: For descriptions z7de-Say’s Ent. Books, 11., 98, 516,560. Taken in Canada. | 96. Hyproporus Lavis, A7rby.—Length of body 2 lines. One speci- men only taken. THE CANADIAN. ENTOMOLOGIST. 29 Very like the preceding species, but smaller ; it differs principally in being perfectly smooth and without punctures, even when examined under a powerful magnifier. ‘The head has two larger vertical lurid-yellow spots, and there is a triangle of the same colour between the eyes, which at its base is dilated, and occupies the nose and mouth : the prothorax is lurid- yellow with two oblong oblique dusky spots beyond the middle ; towards the base is an obtus-angular transverse impression, and on each side, at a little distance from the margin, is an oblong punctiform impression : in the elytra are six distinct narrow black stripes, none of which are confluent except at the apex ; at the side, but at some distance from the lateral margin, are three black spots placed in a line, or a stripe wider than the others twice interrupted : the legs are testaceous with the posterior tibiae black at the tip. [Placed, with a mark of interrogation, as a synonym of //. Duodecimlineatus, Lec., in Le Conte’s list, p. 16.] [68.] 97. Hyproporus Picatus, Av7bv.—Length of body 2% lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Body, dark piceous, without gloss ; covered, especially above, with an infinity of punctures. Head, obscurely ferruginous, dusky behind, with a paler quadrangular spot extending to the mouth, between the eyes: antennz ferruginous: prothorax, with its anterior half, ferruginous, marked with a discoidal punctiform impression or little furrow: elytra, with four posteriorly abbreviated punctured furrows, very difficult to be discerned, and only by looking on one side from behind : forebreast and legs ferruginous : alitrunk and abdomen black. 98. Hyproporus SiMiLis, Az7by.—Length of body 21% lines. ‘Taken with the preceding species? I at first regarded this as the other sex of A. Picatus, but upon inspecting their tarsi I found they were both males. ‘This species is smaller, more glossy, the parts that in that are dark ferruginous, in this are much paler ; the punctures on the upper surface are less numerous and larger, especially those of the basilar half of the elytra, and the four furrows, particularly the three dorsal ones, are deeper and more distinct ; the disk of the prothorax also is transversely levigated and impunctured. Both these insects come - very near to //. Picipes, but that species has not the discoidal impression in the prothorax ; and its elytra are dark testaceous, striped with black. N.B.-—All the above divisions belong to Mr. Stephen’s second division of the family with the sides of the prothorax rounded. — | //. Svmrdis has been taken in Canada. | 30 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. [69.| 99. LaccopHiLtus Bicurrarus, Avréy.—lLength of body 2 lines. One specimen taken. Body, very smooth, glossy. Tlead, dirty-yellow ; palpi and antenne dusky at the tip; manitrunk (the manitrunk is that part of the trunk that bears the arms or fore-legs: it includes the prothorax and antepectus), dirty yellow ; elytra, embrowned cinereous, with a line of punctures, as in the other species, adjacent to the suture, and a pale yellow, indistinct, oblong, anterior, marginal spot: legs, dirty yellow; posterior tarsi, dusky; alitrunk and abdomen, nigro-piceous ; apex of the segments of the latter reddish- yellow. ‘This species is smaller than Z. minutus, Which it resembles, and the colour of the elytra and underside of the body differs. [Inserted as a probable synonym of Z. fasciatus Aube, in Le Conte’s list; in Melsheimer’s Catalogue it is recorded as synonymous with Z. proximus Say and L. Ameri- canus Aube. | FAMILY DYTISCIDF. 100. COLYMBETES SEMIPUNCTATUS, A7réy.—-One specimen only taken. Length of body 3% lines. Body oblong, glossy, very black, above very shghtly bronzed; under a powerful magnifier the whole upper surface is most minutely reticulated, and the under covered, with longitudinal scratches. | Head with a pair of vertical red crescents placed transversely, and scarcely visible except when the sun shines; upper-lip, palpi, and antennz ferruginous ; mandibles black ; prothorax, anteriorly with a continuous transverse marginal series of punctures, posteriorly with one widely interrupted in the middle, and in the disk with a minute furrow; elytra with a triple dorsal series of punctures not regularly or singly arranged, with other scattered punctures interjacent, especially towards the apex, on the side the punctures, which are not numerous, are scattered without order; in the sutural series the punc- tures are distant and single; beyond the middle of each elytrum, not far from the lateral margin, is a red streak, not distinctly visible except in a strong light: the arms are piceous, and the four anterior tars! ferruginous. [Belongs to Agadus. Taken at Grimsby, Ont., by Mr. Pettit. | [70.] 101. CoLtymBeres (AGaABus) Biconor, A7rby.—Length of body fa) 3% lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Body nearly elliptical, convex, smooth, glossy, and very black. — Reti- culations more visible in the head than in the rest of the surface ; a pair cf round, obscure red spots in the vertex ; mouth palpi, and antenne testa- ceous: anterior transverse series of the prothorax with single punctures at THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ol the sides, but scattered ones in the middle, posterior series continuous, with single and rather distant punctures ; elytra, externally of a pale mahogany colour, with a double series of punctures, not numerous nor regularly arranged, which do not reach the apex ; there are a very few scat- tered punctures besides in the side : legs mahogany-colour. ro2. CoLtyMBErus (AGABUs) PH&opreRus Avrby.—Length of body 34 —3% lines. ‘Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°. Body nearly elliptical, rather depressed, smooth, very black, glossy. Head with a pair of transverse obscure red spots in the vertex ; mouth and antenne testaceous : posterior series of the prothorax thickly punctured, and discontinuous in the middle: elytra brown, a little paler at the base and side: epipleura yellow: sculpture of the elytra like that of C. Seme- punctatus, pat fewer punctures in the side: legs ferrugious : body under- neath longitudinally scratched. ‘This species appears to be the American: representative of C. paludosus (Dytiscus politus Marsh) which it nearly resembles, but the anterior part of the front is black, and not yellow as in that species; and the prothorax is wholly black, without a broad rufous margin. [Placed with a mark of interrogation as a synonym of Agabus obliteratus Lec., in Le Conte’s List, p. 17.] [71.] 103. CotymBerres (AcazBus) Birartius, Azrby.—Plate v., fig. ¢. Length of body 3% lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Body oval, smooth, black, less glossy. Head with a pair of vertical red crescents: mouth, antennz and palpi ferruginous: manillary palpi with the last joint black: prothorax longitudinally acuducted, with the bead of the lateral margin rufous: elytra, at the base longitudinally, at the apex transversely, acuducted: fore-breast and legs piceo-rufous. 104. COLYMBETES RevricuLarus, Azrby.—Length of body 314 lines. ‘Three specimens taken in Lat. 65°. Body oblong, black, gloss obscured from its being covered as it were with a web of the finest net work, sculptured as if with the point of a needle. Head with a pair of round red vertical spots: prothorax with a yellow mesal band and lateral margin: elytra dusky-cinereous, with the side yellowish: legs ferruginous. |Not mentioned in either Le Conte's or Melsheimer’s Catalogues. | 105. CoLymMbBeres Picipres, Avréy.—Length of body 4'4 lines. ‘Two specimens taken, one in Lat. 54°, the other in Lat. 65°. [72.] Body oval, black, above slightly bronzed, not glossy, covered above and below like the preceding species with, as it were, a web of net- . ~ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. = work; but the reticulations are more minute. © Upper-lip, palpi and antennz ferruginous; a pair of oval, minute, obscure red spots mark the vertex : prothorax, with the anterior transverse series of punctures double in the middle, the posterior one not easily discernible, discontinuous in the middle: there appear no rows of punctures on the elytra, but a few scattered ones may be discovered: the four anterior legs are piceous. This species approaches C. chalconatus, but it is longer, less glossy, the reticulations of the surface are more distinct, no rows of punctures are discernible, as in that, on the elytra, which, as well as the prothorax, are all of one colour ; and the posterior legs are black. It seems. still nearer C. ater, but it is much smaller, less convex, and has no fenestrated spot on the elytra. | Taken in Canada. | 106. COLYMBETES ASSIMILIS, Azréy.—Length of body 534 _ lines. » Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. Body rather depressed, between oblong and obovate, smooth, rather vlossy, black, covered above with an infinity of very minute reticulations. Head dirty-yellow; vertex black, with a pair of confluent transverse reddish spots: prothorax dirty-yellow, rather dusky in the disk, transverse punctures nearly obliterated: elytra of the same colour as the prothorax, but sprinkled with innumerable black dots, which, however, do not extend to the base and sides; a row of more distant and larger dots adjcins the suture: the fore-breast, the base and apex of the other ventra] segments of the abdomen, are dirty yellow; the legs are of the same colour, but the arms are shorter than usual and piceous; the dilated posterior cox are sculptured with branching rugosities. | This species represents C. sofadis, which it is very like, but the elytra are wider towards the apex which gives the insect an obovate shape; the black dots of the elytra are more numerous and minute; the prothorax is without spots; and the arms, or fore-legs, are shorter and of a different colour. — [Included under Agadus in Melsheimer’s Catalogue. | ENTOMOLOGY. No. 1. BY WILLIAM COUPER, MONTREAL. The approach of the season for the study of the habits of insects urges me to write a few hints for the guidance of young Canadian beginners. — | find that many young persons collect insects more for the sake of recrea- tion and pastime than for the value of the material to aid future investiga- i THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. oD tion. Occasionally one may meet a tyro who can discriminate insect forms, and possess that peculiar acuteness so essential to the study of Entomology ; but still he has sad defects, that is, clumsiness in the prepa- ration of his specimens, and want of method. Now, this should be avoided, and the first determination of a young collector who wishes to be successful must be neatness in mounting his specimens, with a zealous regard for the preservation of his cabinet. In order to carry out this deter- Inination satisfactorily, the first great requisite is Aatience, the second quickness ; but independently of this quality, I contend that patience is the chief gift to make a successful Entomologist. Without it, he cannot grasp an abstruse subject, for being too hasty, his brain wanders to isolated points, magnifying them, to the exclusion of other more important ones; whereas he should watch patiently, and record facts as they gradually come before him.* It-is little use attempting a collection of insects unless the proper appli- ances are at hand to procure and secure the specimens. 4,—L. Clemenselia. LN. sp. Silvery or glistening white. Antenne annulate above with brownish. Apical half of the anterior wings pale golden, with four silvery white costal and two dorsal streaks all dark-margined internally. ‘The dark margin of the first costal streak distinct, oblique, and produced along ‘the costa to- wards the base. ‘The first dorsal streak cpposite to the second costal, oblique, pointing to the third costal. Ao basal streak. Apical spot black, nearly circular. Hinder marginal line at /Ae base of the dorsal ciliae brownish, broad, continuous with the hind margin of the second dorsal streak, and reaching to but not passing around the apical spot; ciliae silvery-tinged with pale golden. A/ ex. 4 inch. Kentucky—common. Differs from the next species, Z. /ucidicostella, in the points indicated by the italics, and is, perhaps, a little smaller. Though the imago is common in April and May, and I have made diligent search for the mine, I have never found it. I have taken the lhberty of naming this pretty species in honor of the late Dr. Clemens, who has done so much for this branch of American Lepidopterclogy. Sub.-div. ¢c. Both apical spot and basal streak. * No fascia, but both dorsal and costal streaks. 5-—L. lucidicostella, Clem., loc. cit. supra. Larva of first group. ‘Tent mine en the under surface of the leaves of Sugar tree (Acer Saccharinum) and sycamore? (A pseudo-platanus ).— Imago in April, May, July and August. Abundant. AZ ex. 14 inch, large. Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Alabama. L. Argentifimbriclla, Clem., is described doc. cit. supra and L. qguere albella, by Dr. Fitch, cz vol. 5 of his New York Reports; and both are said to mine the leaves of oaks, but I have never found either in Ken- tucky, nor have I ever seen them at all. Are they the same? From the descriptions I cannot see wherein they differ. L. Argentijmbricla and L. lucidicostella are described by Dr. Clemens in the same paper, and no doubt they are different species. Yet the differences indicated by the descriptions are differences of degree, that is. of intensity and extent of the markings rather than of kind, that is, of location and pattern of coloration ; and I have species of L. duetdigostella, which seem to me to meet the requirements of either description. 58 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 6.—L. Caryae-albella, N. sp. Head palpi, tuft, antennee and thorax silvery white; basal portion of the wing (within the costal and dorsal streaks) silvery white, with a wide pale goliten basal streak along the costal margin from the base to the first costal streak. ‘Yhe basal white portion in some lights suffused with pale golden. Apical two-thirds or more of the wings pale golden, with four silvery costal and two dorsal silvery streaks, all dark ; margined internally. The first dorsal large oblique, opposite the first costal, which 1s smaller ; their dark margins uniting at an acute angle on the fold, the streaks them- selves being scarcely confluent. Second dorsal opposite to and larger than the second costal; its dark margin wide. ‘Third and fourth costal streaks small. Apical spot small, black ; hinder marginal line at the base of the cilia, brown. Ciliz pale, fulvous. AZ ex. Y inch. Larva un- known. Mines the under surface of the leaves of hickory trees ( Cavya- alba). Mine ovoid, tent-like. The parenchyma is eaten off of the upper cuticle in a ring, leaving a green spot in the centre, which is then caten off. ‘The pupa is contained in an oval cocoon made of frass. Imago in July—rare. Very distinct from Z. /ucidicoste//a, the main differences being indicated by the italics above. BOOKS) RECEIVED. Ir is now several months since we have had space to acknowledge the various publications that have been kindly sent us by authors and pub- lishers ; this omission has arisen, not from any want of appreciation of the kindness of the donors, or the slightest intention ot being discourteous, but from the fact that our journal has been published at longer intervals than previously, and consequently the pressure upon its limited pages has been greater than ordinary. Our observations now must necessarily be brief, as we have fallen so deeply into arrears. Characters of Undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera, and A List of Hymen- optera, collected by J. K. Lord, Esq., iv Fegvpt, in the neighbourhood of the Red Sea, and in Arabia. By Francis Walker, F.L.S. London: Janson. 1869-71. ‘THE former of these works, by our diligent friend, Mr. Walker, contains descriptions of 196 new species from various parts of the world, including —_= =. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGISY. a9 several from North America ; the latter gives descriptions of new species and references to nearly 300 species, chiefly of Aculeate Hymenoptera. Record of American Entomology for the Year 1869. Edited by A. S. Packard, jun., M.D. Salem: Naturalists’ Book Agency. .(8vo. pp. 62, 1$1:) WE were very glad, indeed, to receive this second issue of a most useful work, and trust that we shall soon have the pleasure of announcing the publication of the third volume containing the “‘ Record” for 1870. The part before us contains references to the articles or notes of fifty-two American Entomologists, and to the descriptions of no less than three hundred and thirty-five new species of North (and Central) American insects. Among the Entomologists we notice the names of ten Cana- dians, whose articles, together with those of several of our friends in the United States, have for the most part appeared in the pages of the CANADIAN Enromo.Locist. We cannot but feel highly gratified at the success which our little publication has achieved as shown in the pages of the ‘‘ Record ;’ and we trust that future issues will manifest no falling off in the numbers and zealous work of our friends and corres- pondents. The * Record for 1869” contains notices of the Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera (Heterocera), Arachnida and Myriapoda, by the Editor, Dr. Packard ; Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) and Orthoptera, by Mr. Scudder ; Diptera, by Baron Osten Sacken ; Coleoptera, by Dr. Horn ; and Hemip- tera and Neuroptera, by Mr. Uhler,—all well-known and eminent Ento- mologists. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. ~ Le Naturaliste Canadien,’ vol, i., No. 6, May, 1871 ; “ The ‘Cana- dian Journal,’ Toronto, May, 1871 ; “The Canadian Naturalist,” Mon- treal, Sept., 1870 ; “‘ Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,” vol. xul., 1869-71 ; ‘‘ Newman’s Entomologist,” No. go (from Mr. Reeks) ; Hardwicke’s ‘‘ Science Gossip,” May, 1871; “ Nature,” No. 80, vol. iv., May 11, 1871 ; “he American Agriculturist ;’ “The Rural New Yorker ;” “The Prairie Farmer ;’ “ The Maine Farmer ;” ‘ The New York Sun ;” “ Arthurs Home Magazine” and “ The Children’s Hour ;” “ The Horti- culturist ;° “‘ The Canada Farmer ;” “The Churchman’s Magazine ;” “ The Canada Bookseller ;) “The Journal of Education ;” “The Canadian Poultry Chronicle.” ERRATUM.—In the last number of the Can. ENT., vol. i., p. 23, 7th line from the bottom, for C. Swsinedla, Higa, read C. Susinedla, Heyden. 60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. EXCHANGES, &c. COLEOPTERA, LEPIDOPTERA, &c.—-Expecting soon to return to Europe, 1 should like to receive in exchange Lepidoptera or Coleoptera of Canada and the United States for European. .\s a corresponding member of the Royal Entomological, Malacological and Linnean Societies of Belgium, and an honorary member of the Silk Supply Association of London, I am desired to procure such species as can be obtained from the United States and Canada. 1 should especially like to obtain specimens of Silk-worm Moths ; and should also be thankful to receive birds’ skins, eggs and nests for Europe. Early correspondence is solicited, in order to effect agrecable exchanges. Specimens may be sent packed or pinned in cigar-boxes. J. Q. A. WarREN, Chicago, III. LEPIDOPTERA, &c.—-I have a collection of Birds’ Eggs, Lepidoptera (including some from Florida) and Coleoptora, duplicates of which I should like to exchange, giving preference to the two first named. JosEpn FE. CHaAsr, Lock Box 46, Holyoke, Mass. 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Andrews, Room 17, No. 137 Broadway, New York. Che Canadvan Entomoloust. EN LOMOLOGY. “Ne! i: BY WILLIAM COUPER, MONTREAL. In a former paper, I have briefly referred to the peculiarity of nest struc- ture made by the larve of our large Lepidopterous Nocturnal insects,* in order to show that an attempt should be made to separate species on the similarity of form and texture of “these structures. No doubt, when Entomology becomes thoroughly studied throughout the Dominion, much of the confusion in our present generic classification will be removed by means of investigations into the early history of larva and imagines of the many genera. ‘I'rue, this may be pronounced a theory ; but when I find * Fitch, in his Report for 1859, gives some pertinent remarks regarding the nomen- élature of Aftacus cecropia. When Linneus first noticed this moth in the cabinet of (Queen Ulvica, it was at that time the largest and most sumptuous of.the kind known to him, and he named it as above, but Sir James E. Smith and latterly Dr. Harris have stated that the Lianzean generic and specific nomenclature are inexplicable. Fitch adds that “the name Aftacus, meaning elegant, or connected to the Athenians, was originally given by Linnzeus to a section or sub-genus of his group Bompycip.%, having the wings expanded when at rest. Schrank afterwards gave the name Saturnia to the same insects. (sermar subsequently revived the original Linnean name, but most authors still continue the name proposed by Schrank. Duncan (Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, vol. viis) has recently proposed dividing these insects into quite a number of genera. Plain, and in the main judicious as his arrangement of them is, he, in our view, improperly ignores the name Aftacus, and unfortunately gives an erroneous location to some of the species. Thus our American Cecropia and Promethea are the two species which he figures and fully describes as illustrating his genus Hya/ophoia, yet, as its name implies, this genus is characterised as having large hyaline glass-like spots on the middle of the wings. But no vestige of such spots exists in either of these species. ‘The author has evidently been misled by figures, presuming the white spots represented in the centre of the wings to be hyaline, whereas they are opaque. A new situation must therefore be assigned to these two insecis.” Fitch further states that ‘‘ Cecropia, Promethea, and the East Indian species named Cynthia of Drury, present a striking likeness to each other both in their prepara- tory and perfect states ;” and be adds that ‘‘it is a remarkable feature in the Insect Fauna of this country that we possess such a number of large showy moths of the group Attacus of Linneus. * * * * * we have in the State of New York alone eight of these elegant moths.” At page 136 he remarks that our Luna ‘is almost identical with the 62 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. facts pointing toward these objects, I only ask the intelligent student to select a group for study, and when he concludes his investigations, let us have the matter fully explained. But before he can investigate cocoons or other nest forms of any particular genus, it is necessary that a collection be made of the various structures that contain either the living pupa or nymph. These should be preserved in separate boxes, and those speci- mens which his knowledge leads him to suppose belong to identified genera should be kept in such condition as to accord with the position in which he originally found them. ‘This is the proper course to follow in inves- tigating nest-structures of insects, which I claim will lead to the correction of many errors in our present classification, and place in their proper position many species that are now arranged under wrong genera. If this plan is carried cut, the student will be rewarded with instructive lessons and discoveries of the greatest interest to science. ‘This was the system commenced and partly worked out by the late lamented Benjamin D. Walsh, of Ilinois, whose investigations of insect life were of the highest order ; indeed, much of the present advanced state of the science in America is due to him. When my few illustrations and descriptions of insect architecture appeared in the Canadian Naturalist, he was the first to notice the matter and send me additional information regarding the species ; and as I consider his remarks of value, I give them here as an addenda to said descriptions. “No. 1 (see “ Canadian Naturalist and Geologist,” Dec. 1865, p. 461), except in being slightly smaller, strongly resembles the nest of Auwsmenes Sraternus Say—a very common insect here. I have bred the female imago from the nest, and some that I broke open in the summer con- tained numerous green caterpillars, enough, I should judge, to feed the larvee to maturity. I do not believe any wasps that are not social feed their larvee after they are hatched out. ‘The use of the short tube, which, Chinese species named Se/ene by Dr. Leach ;” and regarding the Po'yphemus, which is our most common species, he says that ‘‘ it is remarkable that two insects which are so similar in their preparatory states that their larvee differ only by slight and unimportant marks, and their cocoons cannot be distinguished from each other, still come to be so unlike each other in their perfect state as is Polyphemus and Luna. These facts show that the meta- morphoses of the insects of this order are not so accurate a guide to their systematic arrange- ment as many have assumed them to be.” I have some reason, on another ground, to divide Promethea from Cecropia on cocoon form alone ; and no doubt when the American species constituting the Linnean genus Attacus are properly studied, great differences will be discovered, not only phytophagi- cally but also in the internal structure of their larvie. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 63 when plugged up with clay, assumes the appearance of a button, 1s pro- bably to prevent the caterpillars first enclosed in the nest from escaping before the full complement of food is made up.” “No. 2 (Can. Nat., Dec. 1865, p. 461) is the nest of a.wasp belong- ing to Pompilide, and differing from true Pompilus in having the front legs of the female nearly smooth. I have bred four or five different species from nests of similar structure, most of them found under dry bark, but one species occurring always under logs where the ground is moist. One of the former species is largely infested by an undescribed ichneumon fly belonging to the genus Mesostenus. The kind you figure is the smallest kind that I have bred from, some kinds being twice as long.” In a sub- sequent communication, Mr. Walsh states that ‘‘ the insect that forms the cell No. 2 belongs, I believe, to St. Fargeau’s genus Axoplius; and on account of the legs being unarmed in the female he concludes it to be ‘parasitic’ in his sense of the term, or what Hartig calls an ‘ Inquiline, and I have called in English a ‘ Guest-fly.’ It is plain, however, that the reason why the legs of the female are unarmed is because it builds a clay nest and does not dig one out either in wood or in the ground. For the same reason, our common mud-wasp (Pé/opeus /unatus Fabr.) has the legs of the female but very slightly armed with spines.” It will be seen from the above, that Mr. Walsh has bred four or five species belonging to the genus that produced my nest No. 2, and that the nests were all of similar structure,—but these species, he adds, differ from the true Pompilus, by having the front legs of the females devoid of spines. [ am sorry that it is not in my power at present to obtain additional infor- mation regarding the species occurring in Canada; but it may be safely inferred that they do not belong to Pompilus proper. ‘The habits of these insects differ, as he states, in that the majority of the species build under dry bark of trees, while one species constructs cells under logs, &c., in damp places. It may be found that this difference is a selection to suit the larva-food which may be of another kind from that found in the cells made under bark. Many of the mud-building wasps that construct dry cells provide their larvae with caterpillars and spiders, which the parent insect stupefies with a kind of aculeate poison that keeps them fresh for many days. It is, therefore, probable that the similarly-formed cells found under logs in damp, muddy places, may be supplied with a larva-food requiring moisture to keep it fresh while the larvae are feeding.* It would please me greatly, if some young Entomological student of Ontario * During the progress of these articles. it is my intention to make occasional remarks on the similarity of nests formed by Canadian Insects, embracing distinct genera in the 64 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. attended to this enquiry. ‘Phe insect builds commonly in muddy places on river banks, such as the Don, near ‘Voronto, and Rideau, near Ottawa, where I found the cells quite common in the autumn; but no doubt they can be found -under logs near any of the smaller rivers in Ontario. [ pass now to another subjeet—The Report of the Fruit Growers’ Association of Ontario, to which is appended a Report of some of the Noxious Insects of Canada. [| am glad to notice that Ontario takes the lead in these useful and instructive matters; but what in the world are the Fruit Growers about in offering such large prizes for the dead bodies of so many specimens of Conotrachelus nenuphar? 'Vhe Report states that thirteen persons collected last year 13,653 bodies of this weevil, for which the Association may have paid upwards of sixty dollars. Now, | to ask any person who has studied this insect, or the habits of the family which it belongs, if he discovered any natural check on its increase more than any other species of Cvécoftera 7? During my residence in Ontario, I have not, but, on the contrary, know that they have a prolific year like every other creature on this earth. Well, say that next year will be its prolife year, what a drain would be made on the funds of the Association, provided a person was lucky enough to discover a metropolis of the insect, as I did several years ago at Toronto! ‘They occupied a number of choke-cherry trees which grew on cach side of the road that divided the Allan from the Ridout property, north of Queen-street. At the rate offered to-day by the Association for so many of their bodies, I could, at that time, have easily made twenty dollars per day. ‘This weevil occurs on all cherry and plum-bearing trees growing in the wilds of the west ; and I also found it destructive on the butternut growing in the Don valley, where it attacks the fallen fruit, in which it-undergoes its changes within the decayed nut on the surface of the ground. I am afraid that this pest has too great a latitude in the west, and it will be difficult to lessen thein until we are thoroughly acquainted with the various fruits and nuts which serve to propagate them ; indeed, not even then can we be rid of them, unless attention is paid to the destruction of all the fallen fruits which are found under the trees on which they occur. — Conotrachelus ancnuphar does not appear to be very destructive to plum trees in the districts of Quebec, Montreal, or St. Johns, about twenty-seven miles south of this city, where plums are largely cultivated. present Classification. Many of these species are considerably misplaced—according to my theory—but fam determined to make no statement that cannot be upheld by archi- tectural form and structure. .. A ] THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 6.) Vhe Curculionide are generally hardy insects, and widely distributed. Cold does not affect them much, as we find species recorded as inhabiting temperate zones, ranging and occurring abundantly in northern latitudes. [ make a suggestion, which, if carried out, would greatly advance our knowledge of this extensive family, of which, | am sorry to say, we know little or nothing :—That each of the Coleopterists of Ontario devote a season to the study of at least one species of Curcu/ivo—first arranging, at a meeting of the Society or agreeing by correspondence, on the names of the species selected for study—that is, that an understanding may be had in order that everyone is to take upa separate species—each student to make a report to the Entomological Society of Ontario sometime in the autumn. Fitch, in his Report for 1859, p. 158, says that ‘‘ we are not certain as to the species of weevil which produce the grubs in our American hazelnuts, walnuts and acorns.” On the 31st March, I discovered the acorns of the white oak, growing on the Mountain near this city, to be infested with a Coleopterous larva. ‘These acorns remained under the snow during winter, and | have no doubt that they will produce weevils. The larvae, at the above date, were of three sizes, and quite vigorous. Color glossy white, the young purely so, but the larger specimens are dotted with numerous black dots arranged transversely on the segments. Head and _ thorax chestnut color, but in some specimens a black square internal spot occurs on the centre of the dorsal region ; this spot has an inter-cutaneous move- ment when the animal creeps. When these acorns are examined, a small circular hole may be noticed on the side of the nut, made by the parent for the deposition of its eggs ; but in many specimens the hole is so mcely closed by the larva from within, that it requires a very expert eye to detect the orifice. ‘This is but one of the many curious stratagems described by Kirby and others. Some of the larvee which I brought home have begun to spin silken cocoons within the acorns; and if I succeed in breeding this insect, the readers of the ENromMoLocis? will learn it in a future paper. THE Goop EFFECTS of Entomology are numerous: patience, persever- ance, and punctuality are essential for successful collecting ; discrimination, and logical reasoning are necessarily cultivated ; early rising is encouraged ; the mind and body of youth find occupation ; temp- tation to immoral pursuits loses its effect ; and liberality with a desire to memory, assist brother collectors is generally engendered, sometimes because it is pleasant, at others because it pays better than greediness.—-Avagy. 66 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. HINTS LO FRUIT GROWERS: Paper No: 3. By WM. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT: hiGuRES Nos. 25, 26 and 27 represent the caterpillar, chrysalis, and perfect insect of the grape-vine sphinx, Charocampa pampinatrix. Vhe young larvee, varying in color from green to pale lilac or red, are now (August rst) very common, and may be easily recognised by reference to the figure; for although the ground-tint of the body may vary, the dots and lines remain about the same. Its habit. too, of drawing its head with the second and third segments into the fourth, gives it a distended appearance anteriorly which is very characteristic. When full-grown, the caterpillar is seme two inches in length, green, and covered with many small yellow granulations. On the back is a row of seven dots, varying in tint from very pale lilac to red, and on each side of these there is a yellow line or stripe extending from near the head to the base of the caudal horn; while the sides of the body are striped obliquely with pale yellow. ‘These caterpillars are great eaters ; and did they appear in swarms, as is the case with many others, they would cause immense damage; but as the eggs are laid by the parent moth singly, and not often many on the same vine. the rapid growth of the foliage during the warmer months will, on a large vine, almost make up for any defoliation caused by this larva. In young vineyards or gardens where the vines are small serious injury is sometimes done by these voracious creatures, one of which, when nearly full-grown, will strip a young vine clean of all its foliage in two or three nights. We know of no readier way of fighting this foe than by hand-picking. When the foliage is sparse. the destruction they cause will lead to their ready detection, and where it is dense. they may be discovered by their large dark brown castings en the ground under the vines on which they are feeding. Nature, which is seldom at fault. has provided a remedy to supplement man’s agency in the shape of a friendly parasite, a small fly, which is shown here both magnified and of its natural size (see fig. 28), and whose progeny feed within the bodies of their victims, and finally destroy them. Before attaining full growth in these instances, the larvee usually begin to look sick, and there is a sluggishness apparent in their movements, when soon the body becomes covered with Color block, little oval white cocoons, formed by the young grubs THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. FIG. 25. Colors green, vellow and lilac. Colors yellowis’ and brown, Colors olive green and grey ae wo ey et wel eo Or | t a : i az ion oat ' a. > > : ' —_——_- -—— THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 69 which have eaten their way out through the skin of their victim (as AIG= 20: shown in fig 29), from which, in about a week, the little flies escape, bent on their errand of mercy to the vine-grower. Discriminate here between friends and foes, and never destroy an infested larva. Should all things work smoothly with the caterpillar, its life-history not being interfered with by either parasites or vine-growers, then, when full-grown, it descends to the earth and constructs a slight cocoon, by drawing loosely together a few leaves or other material and binding them with silken threads, in which in three or four days the change to chrysalis (see fig. 26) takes place, and which finally gives birth to the beautiful green moth shown in fig. 27. For further details regarding this insect in all its stages, the reader is referred to “The First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of the Province of Ontario,” which appeared in the Re- port of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1870. VHE FALL WEB WORM. A serious pest just now affects the apple tree—I refer to the “fall web worm,” A/vphantria textor, an insect which has found its way into this Province from the Eastern States within a few years past, and is rapidly spreading. It is by no means confined to the apple, but is equally destructive to the cherry—we have also occasionally found it on the blackberry as well as on several different kinds of forest trees. At a distance, it appears as if the tree or branch infested had been suddenly blighted, the leaves have such a scorched and withered look ; but on closer inspection you find the branches enclosed in a slight silken web, by means of which many of the leaves are drawn towards the stem, The upper surface and pulpy portion of the withered leaves have already been consumed by this spoiler ; and here and there, where some green portions still remain, groups of ever-hungry, hairy caterpillars are busy at york. In June or July, a small, pure white moth, or miller, has laid a cluster of eggs on a leaf near the extremity of one of the branches, and from this has originated the host of mischief-makers. Before attaining full growth they give up their social characteristics, and scatter far and wide, feeding singly on almost anything they meet with. When mature, they are a little more than an inch long, of a bluish black color, with a wide band of a paler hue along each side, and a few clusters of whitish or reddish hairs arising from little knobs or tubercles, which are arranged 7() THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ina transverse row on each segment or ring of the body. ‘They are of very active habits, running briskly when disturbed. Hand-picking is the best remedy for these also: go carefully over the infested branches and give no quarter. REARING BUTTERFLIES FROM THE EGG. By W. H. Epwarps, CeaLpurGH, West Va. I Give herewith the conclusion to my experiments with jax and its varieties. “The Zedamonides larva spoken of in my communication of 27th Feb. (vol. i, p. 163) as having lived over the winter, on the ist of April, 1871, produced male Ze/amonides (all the rest had yielded AZarcedlus in 1870). ‘Vhe Marcellus larvee were mostly lost at the burning of my house in February, but one was saved and yielded Zedamonides female on the roth of April, 1871. We have a third well-marked variety very nearly the same as that hgured by Abbot, and for convenience | designate this as * Aza var. Ialsfu.” It is the earliest of the species in the spring. On the roth of April last | confined three females of this variety, and from them obtained 125 eggs, which in due time gave me 70 chrysalids. From these emerged, between the ist and 6th of June, 22 male and 34 female A/arced/us, 1 male TVadshie and 1 male Telamonides. On the 23rd of June, another female Warceed/us emerged, and still another on the r2th of July. The rest of the chrysalids are alive at this date. On the 4th day of June last, I took two female /vferrogationzs fluttering about my hop vine, and enclosed them in a keg which was covered with a cloth and placed over a portion of the vine. “They immediately began to lay eggs, and from them I obtained 38 larvee, which, as they hatched, I transferred to a breeding case in the house. From these larve I had 18 chrysalids. Between the 3rd and gth of July emerged therefrom 5 males and 6 females of /xterrogationis (black-winged), 1 male and 5 females Fabricti (red-winged), and one died. The larva exhibited every distinct type of coloration that I have hitherto noticed in these forms, and either tvpe of larvae produced either sex or form of butterfly indifferently. In part ix. of the * Butterflies of N. A.” (to appear in October), 3 plates will be appropriated to the three varieties of Ayax, and 2 to /vterrogationts and its variety Aaérvei7, with detailed statements of my experiments and observations. —July 13, 1871. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Tole. ENTOMOLOGICAL. PICNIC. THE members of the London Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario held their annual picnic at Maple Grove Fruit Farm, the pro- perty of Mr. W. Saunders, on Wednesday, July 26th. ‘They assembled at I p.m., and were conveyed in vehicles to the place of rendezvous. The day was fine, and although the bright sunlight brought heat in its train, it was so tempered by a refreshing breeze as to make the ride quite enjoyable. On arrival at the grounds the party, which numbered about 40, soon distributed themselves among the small fruits. The raspberries being in season attracted the most attention. ‘The PAcladelphias were still heavily laden with well-ripened berries, and the Doolittle and Mammoth Cluster black caps, although past their prime, added to the enjoyments of the occasion. ‘The assembled representatives of Entomological science were expected to do double duty, and while freely partaking of Nature's bountiful and refreshing gifts to take note of such insect enemies as affected the raspberry both in fruit and foliage. The programme in this respect was found impracticable, and it was unanimously decided by the parties concerned that to do one thing at a time and do it well was the most sensible way of proceeding; so the few insects abroad were allowed to retain peaceable possession until the gastronomic re- quirements of the company were met. Among the red_ raspberries. the black caps and the well-ripened gooseberries—of which there was an abundance—the various groups into which the party was divided feasted until small fruits ceased to be attractive, when a line of march was formed to the picnic ground, at the back of the farm, where numerous baskets containing hidden treasures had already been conveyed. The route lay through the plum and pear orchards—the former con- taining 500, the latter over 1700 trees, most of which are now three years planted. We observed that some of the dwarf pear trees were already fruiting. The vinery, containing over tooo vines, two or three hundred of which were in bearing, next claimed attention: the Con- cords were especially admired for their vigorous appearance and large, well-filled clusters of grapes. ‘The trees in the cherry orchard, num- bering over 300, were now in order; and these, although young, ap- peared remarkably thrifty and healthy, and promise well for fruit another season. Behind and at one side of the last mentioned is an . ~ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. I i extensive apple plantation of nearly 2000 trees, a large proportion of which are now two years planted and growing well. A few of the more zealous members had their nets, pill boxes, &e., with them, but there were not many Insects astir, and the trees and vines were remarkably free from caterpillars, so that but few captures were made in the orchards. On the grassy sward, under the shade of a handsome group of naples, the company finally rested; and here, on the extended table- cloths was soon spread a tempting display of the choicest viands, furnished by the various members of the party, and supplemented by a profusion of raspberries and cream, the product of the farm, all tastefully arranged. After feasting well on these ‘good things,’ the members set off in skirmishing order and scoured the adjoining woods and fields in search. of insect game, and some good captures were made. There were a few dragonflies and butterflies on the wing, which were energetically chased with but limited success; but small moths were more common and easily caught. ‘The Coleopterists did better, and numberless logs were turned over and many a decaying stump 5 barked to disclose the hiding places of the interesting objects of their search. A list of the captures will be found appended. After a hunt of an hour or two, the company re-assembled and enjoyed the cool shade and the cooler ice-cream, and spent awhile In comparing captures and in’ social converse. On motion, all the collectors willingly handed over the results of the afternoon's hunt to the Secretary to be deposited in the Society's cabinet. By and by the setting sun gave warning of the approaching shades of night, and after votes of thanks to their courteous host, who had so kindly placed his grounds at the disposal of the Society, and to the ladies and others who had so materially aided in making the gathering such a_ pleasant one, the members left for their homes, all agreeing that the occasion had been one of the most agreeable reunions ever held under the auspices of the Society. Among the captures of Lepidoptera, we observed the following species :—Polyommatus Americana; Drasteria erechthea; Heterophleps triguttata ; Ebulea tertialis; Lithocolletis multipunctella; and a number of other “ Micros” unknown to us, that would, no doubt, have charmed our friend, Mr. Chambers. Of the Coleoptera, the following may be mentioned :—Chleenius lithophilus and pensylvanicus ; Platynus longicor- | | | THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 73 nis and cupripennis,; Pterostichus stygicus; Hydrophilus glaber; Sta- phylinus violaceus; Brontes dubius ; Osmoderma scabra; Lachnosterna fusca ; Penthe obliquata; Nyctobates pensylvanica; Dendroides Cana- densis ; Melandrya striata ; Centronopus calcaratus ; Dacne heros ; besides a number of minute species that we have not yet had time to determine. EXTRACT FROM MR. BENTHAMS ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS TO THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. We have ventured to reprint the following extract from Mr. Bentham’s address, feeling sure that it will be read with great interest by all students of Entomology in this cotntry.—Ep. C. E. There is no country, however, in which the native Flora and Fauna has been so long and so steadily the subject of close investigation as our own, nor where it continues to be worked out in detail by so numerous a staff of observers; ... but the Entomological Fauna of our country, especially in relation to the insects of the adjoming Continent, notwith- standing the numerous able naturalists who devote themselves to its study, appears to be somewhat in arrear. In answer to my query as to works where our Insects are compared with those of other countries, I have received from our Secretary, Mr. Stainton, the following reply :—‘‘ The questions you have put to me with reference to our Entomological literature are very important ; they, how- ever, painfully call my attention to the necessarily unsatisfactory nature of my replies. Wollaston’s ‘ Coleoptera Hesperidum’ is the only separate work to which I can direct your attention as giving the fauna of a par- ticular district, with the geographical range of such of the species as are likewise found elsewhere. R. M‘Lachlan, who in 1865 had published (Trans. Ent. Soc., ser. 3, v.) a Monograph of the British Caddis-flies, gave, in 1868 (Trans. Ent. Soc. for 1868), a Monograph of the British Neuroptera Planipenna, but little is there said of the European range of our species. In 1867 (Entom. Monthly Mag., iii.) Mr. M‘Lachlan, who is one of our most philosophical writers, gave a Monograph of the British Psocidz, and he there says, with reference even to their distri- bution in our own country, ‘As a rule, I have not mentioned special localities ; these insects have been so little collected that an enumeration here of known or recorded localities would probably appear ridiculous 74 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. in a few years.” The Rey. 'T. A. Marshall has given (Entom. Monthly Mag., 1. to ii.) an essay towards a knowledge of the British Homoptera, in which occasionally allusion is made to the European distribution of our British species. “The position of the Insect-fauna of Britain may be thus stated : the late J. F. Stephens commenced in 1827 a systematic descriptive work of all the orders of British Insects as ‘ Hlustrations of British Entomology 7 it ceased to appear after 1835, until a supplementary volume came out in 1846. ‘The Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera were wholly, the Hymenoptera partly, done, the Hemiptera and Diptera altogether left out. In 1839, Mr. Stephens published, in a more compendious form, a ‘Manual of British Beetles.” In 1849, an attempt was made to supply the gaps in the British Entomology left by Stephens, and a scheme of a series of volumes called ‘ Insecta Britannica’ was elaborated. in which Mr. F. Walker was to undertake the Diptera, Mr. W. S. Dailas the Hemiptera, and great progress having been made in our knowledge of the smaller moths since 1835, I undertook to write a volume on the Tineina. This scheme was so far carried out, that three volumes on the British Diptera by Mr. F. Walker (assisted by the late A. H. Haliday) appeared in 1851, 1852 and 1856, and my volume on the British Tineina int854. In 1859, another great group of the smaller moths was described by S. J. Wilkinson in a volume entitled ‘The British Tortrices.’ The British Hemiptera, not having been done by Mr. Dallas, were undertaken by Messrs. Douglas and Scott for the Ray Society ; and in 1865 a 4to volume was issued, containing the Hemiptera, Heteroptera, leaving the Homoptera for a second volume, still in progress. Even in this elaborate work little or nothing is said of the geographical distribution out of sritain of our British species. The same will apply to the late J. F. Dawson's ‘Geodephaga Britannica, published in 1854; to Westwood’s ‘ Butterflies of Great Britain, published in 1855; and to E. Newman’s ‘Tllustrated Natural History of British Moths,’ published in 18609. ‘““T believe I do not at all exaggerate if I say that for many years Entomology was pursued in this country with an insularity and a narrow- mindedness of which a botanist can scarcely form a conception. The system of only collecting British Insects was pursued to such an extent, that it was almost a crime to have a non-British insect in one’s posses- sion: if accidentally placed in one’s cabinet it might depreciate the value of the entire collection, for Mr. Samuel Stevens can assure you that the value of the specimens depends very much upon their being indubitably ss? =e THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. fit ~ and unmistakeably British. A specimen caught in Kent which would fetch 2/. would not be worth 2s. if caught in Normandy. I satirised this practice several years since in the ‘ Entomologist’s’ Weekly Intelligence’ (vol. v. and 1858, articles ‘ Jeddo’ and ‘ Insularity’), but it is yet far from extinct.” Perfectly concurring in Mr. Stainton’s observations in the last para- graph, I would, however, add, that there are purposes for which a local or geological collection distinct from the general one may be of great use, and such a collection would be much impaired by the introduction of stray foreign specimens. In a local museum, a separate room devoted exclusively to the productions of the locality is very instructive with reference to the history of that locality, and I have seen several such spoiled by the admission of exotic specimens, giving the visitor false impressions, which it takes time to remove. But it is never from such an exclusive collection that the fauna or flora of the district can be satis- factorily worked out, or that any branch of Zoology or Botany can be successfully taught. Mr. Stainton adds: “It has been suggested to me that those who have critically studied the distinctions between closely allied species have rarely the time to work out in addition their geographical range, and that those who might work up the latter subject might fail in their good inten- tions for want of a proper knowledge of species.” Upon this I would observe that, in the due appreciation of a species of its limits and con- nections, its geographical range and the various forms it assumes in different parts of its area are an essential element; and it appears to me that the neglect of this and other general characters is one reason why many able naturalists, who have devoted their lives to the critical distinction of races of the lowest grades unduly raised to the rank of species, have really contributed so little to any science but that of sorting and naming collections. On the other hand, the study of geographical range without a proper knowledge of species is little more than pure speculation. Division of labour carried too far tends to narrow the mind, and rather to delay than advance the healthy progress of science. Mr. Stainton informs me that “ there has just appeared a monograph of the Ephemeride, by the Rey. A. E. Eaton (Trans. Entom. Soc., 1871), treating of those insects throughout the globe ; and when any species are ‘noticed which occur in this country, their entire geographical range is noticed. It is altogether a valuable paper, on account of the thorough- ness with which it seems to be done.”—/Vature, July 6, 1871. 76 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. NOTES ON THE EGG AND YOUNG LARVA OF ALAKIA, FLORIDA, BY W. SXUNDERS, LONDON, ONT, On the 4th of July | found a number of eggs of this beautiful moth on the evening primrose, Cenotiera Lamarckiana. ‘Vhey were found attached to the stalks of the young flower buds; to the sides of the calyx of the flower, and also to the young leaves at their base. The eggs were quite firmly fastened among the long stout hairs with which the cuticle of the calyx and flower stalk is covered. Description of egg examined under a magnifying power of 45 diame- ters :—Length, 1-goth of an inch; width, 1-45th. orm nearly round, flattened a little at the base, where it is also somewhat contracted in size, and slightly conical above, with numerous raised striz, about 36 in all, which run into each other before they reach the tip, where they are reduced to less than half the number, and terminate at the base of a small ring which crowns the tip: this ring has a depression in the centre, and the space around the cavity 1s finely punctured. he striae are irregularly crossed by numerous fine, raised lines, and thus the whole surface is minutely reticulated, but the meshes are irregular in form, with a slight depression in the centre of each. The color of the egg 1s dull yellowish pink. Some of the eggs hatched on the 7th of July, when the following fete) o description, of the young larva was taken :— Length, about 1-15th of an inch, cylindrical. Head large, and black, with a few black and brown hairs. Body above of a dull shining yellow, with a wide dorsal band of dull white. On each segment there are from § to 12 shining black dots, from each of which arises a single black or brown hair. The upper portions of second and terminal segments have each a large patch of black. Under surface similar to the upper, but with fewer dots ; feet black ; prolegs pale greenish, faintly tipped with brown. The changes in appearance of the larva at its subsequent moultings were not noted. bist OF COLEORTERA DAKEN Ad? GRIMSBY, ON'T., BY J. PETTUS Continued from page 151, vol. ii., Cay, Env. CERAMBYCID. PARANDRA, Ladr. KLAPHIDION, .Serz. (continued ). brunnea, /aby. mucronatum, Sar. QRTHOSOMA, .S¢77, villosum, 7dr. eyvlindricum, /idhy. parallelum, ez. TRAGOSOMA, .Sc77". “pubescens, /fad/. Harrisi. Lee. “unicolor, A/ad/. EBURIA, Sez, ' notatum, /¢7. quadrigeminata, .Say. : aaa CrrocePHaLus, Judy, CHion, Vez. E } rusticus, Zz. garganicum, /abys. , : ; agrestis, Avrdy. I LAPHIDION, .Scv7. : *atomarium, Drury. ASEMUM, .Sev7. vicinum, //al?/. moestum, Z/a//. * Species marked with an asterisk have not before heen included in the list of Canadian Coleoptera. 106 THE CANADIAN ARHOPALUS, Se77’. fulminans, adr. CaLLipiuM, fadbr. violaceum, £7777. lignum, Laér. *amoenum, Say. janthinum, Le. PuyMaTovDEs, J7uts. proteus, Azréy. Tytonotus, Aad. bimaculatus, 7d. PuysocNeMuM, (fad. brevilineum, Say. Cryrus, /abr. speciosus, Sav. nobilis, 7/av7vy. flexuosus, /adr. erythrocephalus, O/7. luscus, adr. campestris, O17. hamatus, Sa. *a-maculatus, //a//. CyrTOPHORUS, Lee. verrucosus, O07. OBRIUM, Sez’. “rubrum, -Vew7. EupERCES, Lev. picipes, Lady. STENOPTERUS, Ldlig. sanguinicollis, OWv7'. - MororcHus, Labr. mellitus, Sa. HEeLioMANeEs, eww. bimaculatus, Sav. ACANTHODERES, S¢77’. decipiens, add. ENTOMOLOGIST. GRAPHISURUS, A7rdy. *pusillus, Avrdy. fasciatus, Geer. AEDILIS, Serv. obsoletus, O/tv. LEPTOSTYLUS, Lev. aculiferus, Suy. variegatus, Ffald. commixtus, /7a/d. macula, Say. Liopus, Lee. *alpha, Say. symmetricus, /fa“?. “sionatus, Lec. “rusticus, Lec. *querci, L2tch. maculatus. //a/. aspersus, Sav. EKevrus, Lee. *dasycerus, Say. Evupocontivs, Lec. *vestitus, Say. subarmatus, Lec. PoGONOCHERUS, Alege. mixtus, AZad?. “nubilus, Lee. MoNoHAMMUS, Lads. dentator, Faby. confusor, A77y. scutellatus, Sa. Gors, Lee. tigrinus, O77. oculatus, Lev. Trerraopes, Dalim. tornator, Faby. PSENOCERUS, Lee. pini, Of. THE CANADIAN DORCASCHEMA, Lee. nigrum, Say. SAPERDA, Fadr. calcarata, Say’. tridentata, Ol77. vestita, Say. Cyrrinus, Lee. “pygmaeus, al/. OBEREA, JZeg. amabihs, Aad. tripunctata, Faber. DESMOCERUS, »Se77. cyaneus, Fade. RHAGIOM, Fabs. lineatum, O“7. ToOxorus, Serv: decoloratus, //arr. trivittatus, Say. *cylindricollis, Sav. *Schaumil, Lec. ENcYCLOPS, eww. coeruleus, Say. EVODINUS, Lee. monticola, Rand. ACMAEOPS, Lec. proteus, Azrdéy. ENTOMOLOGIST. LO7 ANTHOPHYLAX, Lec. malachiticus, //add. *alternatus, Lec. STRANGALIA, Serv. subhamata, Rav. bicolor, S7zeed. quagga, Germ. fugax, Labr. lugubris, Sav. Imeola, Say. *cruentata, Hal. LEPTURA, Lz7i7ie. canadensis, Oz. biforis, Vez. vittata, O/v. vagans, Oli. sphaericollis, Sa. mutabilis, Lec. pubera, Say. 8-notata, Sav. scalaris, Say. subargentata, Avrév. *propinqua, Bland. proxima, Say. capitata, Mew. ruficollis, Sav. Tue Number or INsecrs.—The number of described species of insects is estimated by Gerstaecker at above one hundred and _ sixty thousand, viz. : Coleoptera, ninety thousand ; Hymenoptera, twenty-five thousand ; Diptera, twenty-four thousand; Lepidoptera, twenty-two to twenty-four thousand.-—ature. CLASSIFICATION OF Morus.—-The great work by the Messrs. Felder on the Lepidoptera of the Novara (an Austrian) Exploring Expedition, will be completed this year. It will contain a complele classification of the moths, and will supplement Guenee’s work on them.— American Naturalist. LOS THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. BY Va .. (OR ANT BIS COMES GIRON: Th Ve [Continued from pie Ss. | LP PHOCOLLETIS, Sub-dti bath an apical streak iistcad ef spot. With a basal streak. tolath dorsal and costal streaks. ti.—L. eratieselia Clem., foe. cit. ALiLof my specimens have a very pronounced though rather short white dorso-basal streak, which is sometimes continuous with a longitudinal median white streak upon the thorax, and in all of them the wedean basal streak Is continuous with a white line across the anterior margin of the thorax, which ts extended backwards over the tegulae. “Phe dorso-basal streak and the markings of the thorax and tegulae are not mentioned by Dr. Clemens. But these thoracic markings are very variable in a great many species. In some specimens of some species no trace of them is visible : in others they are very fait; and in others they are pronounced and distinct. Vhe larva mines the leaves of the Apple, Wild) Cherry (Pretus sero- tina), Haw (Crategus) and Sweetscented Crab (Pyrus coronaria), on the under side. It is of the first group, and the mine ts tentiform. Dr. Clemens records of it. that it quits one mine to form another—in which it 1s singular. There is considerable variation in the shades of coloring, some species bemg much more golden than others, and the same specimen varies in this respect with the light. AZ ev. Ps to % inch. Common in Kentucky. and probably wherever in| America its food R plants are found. Subd. c No apical spot. Apex dusted. * No basal streak. PON fascia, but with dorsal and costal streaks. j 12.—ZL, nonfasciela, N. sp. Face and palpt white, tuft white, mixed with pale golden; antennae white, each joint tipped with fuscous above ; thorax and anterior wings THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. LOS mixed whitish and pale golden, with a few dispersed fuscous scales, and some irregular patches more thickly dusted with fuscous, especially in the apical portion of the wing, which is dusted with fuscous. The anterior and lateral margins of the thorax and the wing along the fold and across the middle are paler than the other portions, but not sufh- ciently so, nor definite enough in outline, to call them streaks or fasciae. Al. ex. 44 inch. ‘Two specimens captured in May in Kentucky. Larva unknown. ‘The style of coloration is that of a Buceuwlatrix, but it has palpi. be. Devumella.- iV. sp. Face and palpi silvery white ; antennae silvery white beneath, brownish banded with white above; tuft golden, interspersed with white ; thorax and anterior wings reddish-orange, with three costal and three dorsal sil- very streaks; all dark margined externally. First costal and first dorsal small, the dorsal being the largest and nearer to the base, whilst the costal is a little oblique and at about the basal 43 of the wing. The second dorsal and second costal about the middle, opposite each other, and a little oblique, the dorsal being the longest, and almost meeting the costal near the costa, whilst their dark margins do meet and are poste- riorly angulated and produced to the space between the third dorsal and third costal. The third dorsal and third costal are a little behind the apical 13, opposite, straight, and the dorsal is the longest. Apex dusted with blackish on a white ground. Ciliae fulvous, with a dark-brown hinder marginal line at their base. AZ ex. a little over 4% Inch. It bears a strong resemblance to, but is not by any means identical with, the species next mentioned, 4. Carvefolicla, in some of the varieties of L. Caryefoliella. The larva is of the second (flat) group. It is yellowish, and the maculae are ferruginous-brown. ‘Phe mine is an oval blotch on the upper surface of the leaves of Black Oaks ( Quercus tinctoria). Kentucky : rare. I take the liberty of naming it in honor of the Editor of the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. th Pith one or more fasctae. 14.—L. Caryefoliella. Clem., loc. cit. This is a variable species. Sometimes the first fascia Is not a fascia at all, but is only a long oblique dorsal streak not quite attaining the 110 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. costal margin. Sometimes the second fascia is distinctly interrupted near the costa, and frequently its dark margin is not produced. AZ ex. 14 In. Larva of the second group; makes a flat mine on the upper surface of leaves of Hickories (Carya), and when complete the mine is drawn into a pucker along the middle. Wisconsin, Kentucky, Pennsylvania. (Common. 15. -L. dre-tenianela. .N. sp. Face and palpt white ; tuft and thorax golden ; antennae white-banded above with fuscous ; anterior wings reddish saffron, with three white fasciae. each narrowly dark-margined 7ufernad/y, the first before the middle, the second about the middle, and the third about halfway between it and the apex, and slightly angulated posteriorly. Apex slightly dusted with brown ona white ground. 42. ev. about ty inch. Avsingle specimen, captured in April in Kentucky. Larva unknown. 10... guttifinitella. Clem., foc. cit. Dr. Clemens describes this species as follows :—‘'lront silvery, with a reddish hue: tuft and thorax reddish orange : antennae blackish brown : forewings rather deep reddish orange, with two silvery bands black- mnargined behind, one in the middle nearly straight, the other midway between this and the base cf the wing obliquely placed. Before the costo-apical cilia is a costal silvery spot, black-margined on both sides, with an opposite dorsal spot black-margined behind. ‘The apical portion of the wing is dusted” (thickly so) * with dispersed blackish scales” (on a white ground), ‘* with a white silvery spot near the tip above the middle of the wing.” (The position of this spot or streak is variable ; it is any- where near the apex.) ‘There are two hinder-marginal lines, one, the margin of the dispersed scales, the other dark-brownish in the ciltae.” The costal and dorsal white spots near the apex are sometimes straight and sometimes more or less oblique, and the dorsal one is frequently con- fluent with the apical spot. Usually there is no basal streak, but frequently the anterior margin of the thorax is pale, or even white, that color being produced back over the tegulae to the base of the wings, forming a small median basal streak which is occasionally dark-margined. ‘The first fascia is sometimes distinctly interrupted near the costa, and the second fascia is sometimes dark-margined /ternad/y on the costa. Sometimes the costal spot (near the apex) is faint, or even entirely wanting, Sometimes the whole apical portion of the wing is dusted, and sometimes the dusting is THi CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. cB bs | confined to the dorsal margin. ‘The larva is of the second group, and is described in the table appended. It makes a flat z//sfish mine on the upper surface of the leaves of the Poison Ivy or Oak (Rhus toxtcodendron ). Sometimes there is only a single larva in a mine, and then the mine 1s either an irregular blotch or a narrow band, like the mark made by a drop of water running over a smooth surface. But usually there are several larvae in a mine—frequently six or seven—and then the mine covers nearly the entire upper surface. The pupa lies in a small circular depres- sion in the mine, in an oval flat white cocoon. Variety LZ. Zsculisella. Var. now. ‘The imago is not distinguishable from that of Z. gudtifinitedia, but the larva differs decidedly in its markings, as shown by the table annexed, and approaches more nearly the larva of variety Ostrvarella of the next species (Z. Cor viise/la), (the larvae of which differ also, that of 2 Came lisella resembling that of Guttifinitella). | have never found more than one larva of this variety ina mine. The mine is a narrow band and édood- brown in color, thus differing from the above. ‘The mines and larvae, therefore, differ, while the imagines are the same. ‘These differences, not great, are constant. A/ cv. 1{ inch. Kentucky, Pennsylvania. — Abundant. Mines upper surface of leaves of the Buckeye (-4:scwlius glabia ). 17.—L. Corylisella. WN. sp. The only difference between this species and ZL. guttifiutella in the -imago is, that this has a straight dorsal white streak at the inner angle, internally dark-margined, and the apical dusting is much less dense and much paler, and, in some lights, scarcely visible. The mine is an irregu- larly circular blotch, brownish-vellow in colour, with a pale yellow border on the upper surface of the leaves of the Hazel (Corydus Americana ), thus differing from both of those above-named. The larva resembles that of guttifinitela rather than its variety, -Zsculisella, but differs from both, as shown by the annexed table. Ad. ex. % ich. Wisconsin. Kentucky. Common. Variety Ostryarcdla, mines the upper surface of the leaves of Ostrya wrginica. The mine and the imago are not distinguishable from those of L. Corylisella. But the larva differs from it, and bears the same relation to it that var. .2scu/isella does to sp. guttifinitela. Kentucky. Common. 1 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. The following table shows the differences in the larvae above-men- tioned : LL. Covuliselta, L. guttitiniiela, L. A sculisella, L. Ostruare'la, Blueish, sinoky, except Blucish, smoky, except Wohitish yclow, Same as .fsev- the head and anal seg- | head, Ist, Sth and fol- not at all : - = THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING : OF THE - _ ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. . ‘ — The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at Queen's: College, Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday evening, September 27, 1871. The President, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, being unavoidably detained. the Vice-President, Mr. W. Saunders. of London, Ont., took the chair. a The Secretary-Treasurer then read the following Financial Statement _ —_ for the year ending September 23, 1871. - RECEIPTS. 2 By Balance from 1870........ rn ee $34 97 oo * Members’ Pitcetasone venhes ig JO ee $12 00 Branches... . * Grant from Bureau of Agriculture... ............... Bearer ames ete lse5 8 sh eve We ee ae 0 45 * “Sale of Back Nos. of CAN. ENT..... 2.2.2.4... 0204. 16 07 AS71100) ee ee Ce eee ares , I co. 7 ** Various small accounts.. oh eee 10 30 : * Exchange of Am. and ene Cy. EXPENDITURE. Bee PSPCUSE ACC. b.. ckee ces see de eae ase * Engraving....... dors thea ithe owls Se a 2a ye Ge 27 25 * CANADIAN ENToMOLoGIST, Printing Nos. 10, 11, 12, Vol. II., and Nos. 1—6, Vol: III............. 330 OI Pins. ** Various small accounts... .................2---- TE Sivan $734 90 $73 We certify that the above is a correct statement of accounts fo THE .CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. fae year ending Sept. 23, 1871, as shewn by the Treasurer's Books with vouchers for all disbursements. JoHun H. GRIFFITHS. Meee ; Auditors. CHAS. CHAPMAN. | London, Sept. 23, 1871. ‘The ‘Treasurer stated that the balance now in hand would be entirely spent this year in completing the remaining six Nos. of the Can. ENT., which the Editor purposed to do before Christmas. After December it is intended that the numbers should be issued monthly, but at present it is necessary to issue double numbers in order to complete the current volume during the year. The Secretary also stated that in accordance with their statute of incorporation, an annual report of insects injurious to the farm and garden would be furnished to the Commissioner of Agriculture, and that a printed copy thereof would be forwarded to each member of the Society. The following officers were then elected for the ensuing year : PRESIDENT.—Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., Trinity College School, Port Hope. VICE-PRESIDEN?T.—W. Saunders, Esq., London, Ont. SEc.-TREAS.—E. B. Reed, Esq., g He Councit.—Prof. Croft, Toronto ; Prof. J. Macoun, Belleville; R. V. Rogers, Esq., Kingston; J. M. Denton, Esq., London; J. Pettit, Esq., Grimsby. Auprrors.—John H. Griffiths, London ; Chas. Chapman, London. The President's Annual Address will be found on another page. Prof. Dupuis, of Kingston, laid some information before the meeting with regard to Lithographs for the Can. Env. Several members of the Kingston Branch expressed their pleasure at the meeting being held in their city, and from the spirit evinced by their remarks it is evident that Entomology will not be allowed to languish, but that some good work may be expected from the “Limestone City.” Before adjourning, the Secretary took occasion to reciprocate the kindly sentiments that the President of the Fruit Growers’ Association had so courteously expressed in his Annual Address the night previous with regard to the Entomological Society of Ontario. It is sincerely to be hoped that the two sister Societies may long continue to work to- gether in such harmony, and that the results of their respective labours may be felt and appreciated by the country at large. L34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. from Aitrbyvs Fauna Borcalt-Americana : Insecta. (Continued from paze 116.) [95.] 133. CREOPHILUS VILLOsUS Gyraz.—Length of body, 7 lines. Taken in Lat. 54° in Canada, also by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. I have specimens likewise, taken in Britain. [Quite common throughout Ontario. | This species is extremely similar to C. maxiddosus, and its American representative. ‘The following circumstances principally distinguish them. The anterior angles of the prothorax in C. waaxillosus are thinly cloathed with shortish d/ack hairs; in C. vilosus, these hairs are cinercous, longer, more numerous, and cover a larger portion of the angle; in the former, the band of the elytra is whiter and wider than in the latter: in the former also the back of the abdomen, especially the third and fourth segments, is mottled with cinereous hairs; in the latter the second and third have each a cinereous band interrupted in the middle : again the four first ventral segments in C. maxidlosus are thickly covered with decumbent cinereous hairs, with each a lateral black spot on both sides, while in C. oillosus only the ¢hree first segments are so distinguished ; and finally, in the former the sides of the postpectus are covered with black hairs, and in the latter with cinereous. [FAMILY S!LPHIDA. | [96.] 134. NECROPHORUS VELUTINUS “adr. — Length of body, 8 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. [Common in Ontario. | Body black ; nose separated posteriorly from the front by a straight line, anteriorly furnished with a submembranous rhinarium, above which is a round flattened tubercle ; knob of the antennz black : prothorax dilated anteriorly, thickly covered with golden pile: elytra with two orange- coloured bands, toothed as it were on both sides, the anterior being the widest ; epipleura pale yellow: postpectus covered with golden pile : posterior trochanters truncated at the apex and emarginate. 35. NECROPHORUS HEBES Avréy.— Length of body, 7 lines. ‘Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. [97.] Like the last, but the nose is separated from the front by a THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIS1'. SS) curved line, it is also marked on each side by a deep longitudinal furrow, and is depressed longitudinally in the centre; but what more strongly characterizes it, is the want of the rhinarium or nostril-piece discoverable in most of the other species: the anterior part of the prothorax is less conspicuously dilated and naked: the elytra anteriorly have a strongly toothed orange band including a black dot at the suture ; posteriorly they have a large toothed spot of the same colour ; the epipleura is orange in the middle, black at the tip with a black spot at the base connected with the black disk: postpectus not brilliant with golden pile. [Unknown to Dr. LeConte. | 136. |NECROPHORUS oBscURUS Azréy.—Length of body 9—10 lines. A pair taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. Body black. Nose separated from the front by a straight abbreviated line, with a deep oblique furrow on each side and no distinct rhinarium ; three last joints of the knob of the antennz ferruginous: prothorax anteriorly dilated: elytra with two rather obscure deep red bands, the anterior one broad, dentated and reaching from the epipleura to the suture : the posterior one externally broad, internally narrow, and reaching neither epipleura nor suture ; epipleura deep red, narrower than usual : posterior trochanter emarginate. [Taken in Canada; at Toronto by Mr. Couper, and at Grimsby by Mr. Pettit. | 137. NECROPHORUS MELSHEIMERI Azrby.— Length of body 9 lines. A single specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- house. [98.| Body black. Nose separated from the front by an obtusangular line ; rhinarium orange-coloured, subtrapezoidal; three last joints of the knob of the antenne ferruginous: prothorax dilated anteriorly: elytra with two orange-coloured subundulated toothed bands reaching from the epipleura to the suture ; epipleura broad, orange-coloured : posterior tro- chanters truncated at the apex with the external angle recurved ; tibiz dilated, especially the anterior part, or cubits: postpectus on each side covered with tawny hairs. [Taken at Toronto by Mr. Couper. ] 138. NecropHorus Hatin Av7by.—Length of body 8-9 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall, and in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. Body, as usual, black. Nose separated from the front by a straight line, channelled ; rhinarium distinct, membranous, tawny, anterior angles elongated : knob of the antennz with the three last joints dull-orange : prothorax nearly circular, anteriorly emarginate: elytra with an anterior 136 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. angular band which does not reach the suture, and a posterior crescent or kidney-shaped spot, both of a deep orange; epipleura black ; wings dusky ; trochanters emarginate at the tip. 139. NECROPHORUS PYGM-EUS A7rby.—Plate 1., Fig. 3.—Length of body 6 lines. A single specimen taken in the Rocky Mountains. [Taken at Grimsby, Ont., by Mr, Pettit; north shore of Lake Superior (Agassiz). | (99.| This is the smallest known species of the genus. Nose separated by a nearly straight line from the front ; rhinarium transverse, not mem- branous ; knob of the antennz black : prothorax nearly circular, there is a slight sinus on each side, and a deeper anterior one: elytra with an anterior angular band dilated at the epipleura, and a nearly semicircular spot at the apex of a dull deep red; epipleura of the same colour but black at the apex, and with a black spot at the base: posterior trochan- ters emarginate at the tip. 140. NECRODES [SILPHA] SURINAMENSIS /aér.——lTaken in Nova Sco- tia by Dr. MacCulloch. [Abundant on carrion in all parts of Canada. | [roo.} 141. O1ceopTroMa [S1ILPHA] MARGINALE /abr.— Length of body 6 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat 54°, taken also by Dr. Mac Culloch in Nova Scotia. Body oblong, black, very thickly punctured. Head with an oblong punctiform impression in the space between the eyes: the margins of the prothorax, the lateral more widely, are of a pale-red: the whole disk 1s covered by a large three-lobed black spot, with the lateral lobes the smallest and shortest : the elytra are reddish-brown with three longitudinal ridges, the external one, as usual, stopping short of the apex. In the female the elytra at the apex are subsinuated and subacuminated. — [Very common throughout Canada. | 142. O1iceoproma [SirpHa] LapponicuM Zini—[101.] Taken abun- dantly both in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, in Lat. 65°, and in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. ‘This species abounds in the huts of the Laplanders, devouring every thing—skins, flesh, and dried fish. [Very common throughout Canada. For description ade Say’s Ent. Works i1., 122, who described it as a new species under the name of .S. candata. | 143. OICEPTOMA [SILPHA] TRITUBERCALATUM Avrdy.—Length of body 4% lines. Several specimens taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, and in Lat. 54°. [102.] This species appears to be the American representative of Silpha opaca, from which it differs in being smaller, and proportionally THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. sae ei narrower.; the prothorax is longer in proportion to its width, and has an obsolete channel: the elytra are more distinctly punctured, and besides the ordinary elevation at the termination of the external ridge, have two smaller ones at that of the other two ridges ; the ridge next the suture also is more elevated at its termination than in 5S. opaca, of which in every other respect it is the exact counterpart. The elytra of the female are slightly sinuated at the apex, and obtusely acuminate. Variety B. Quite black. 144. OICEOPTOMA [SILPHA] INZQUALE /abr.—Length of body 54% — 6 lines. Same localities as the preceding. Body black, not at all glossy, minutely -punctured ; punctures not visible except under a good lens. Three last joints of the antennx cinereous : prothorax anteriorly emarginate with four discoidal obtuse ridges, the lateral ones undulated and oblique and thé intermediate ones straight and parallel: elytra with the three customary longitudinal ridges, the outermost the shortest and most elevated, and the intermediate one towards the apex curving inwards ; in the female the apex of the elytra is subacuminate and very acute, but with scarcely any sinus ; in the male it is rounded. [Quite common in Canada. | = MISCELLANEOUS NOTES- AcORN WEEVILS.—I see that in the last CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Mr. J. Pettit refers the Acorn Weevil to Aalaninus nasicus Say. It is true that Say’s descriptions are so brief that, not knowing how many specimens he described from, it is difficult to fully recognize his species, and Dr. Horn may, in this sense, be quite right in stating that the acorn-feeding species cannot be referred to any that are deseribed. Yet the species | have bred must evidently be referred to Say’s rectus, which is easily dis- tinguished from wasicvs by the finer, more rectilinear rostrum. If Mr. Pettit has specimens of wvaszcus, I think he will have no difficulty in dis- tinguishing the two species, and I shall be greatly obliged if he will send me a few of his acorn-bred specimens. In what I take to be wasécus, the rostrum is on an average darker, thick- er more curved, shorter, and with the antennz springing from its middle in the 2 and from its basal third inthe 2. ‘Two thoracic paler vitte are observable on the thorax, and there is always a pale transverse band be- [38 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. hind the middle of the elytra and a sutural vitta. In the ? the rostrum is equal to three-fourths the length of the body; in the 9 it is equal to five-fourths. 1 believe it breeds entirely in hickory nuts. What I take to be 7eefvs, on the contrary, has a finer, lighter-coloured rostruin. which is much more rectilinear, especially in the 2 ; and it always differs from vasicevs in having no bands or z7/f, the elytra being uniformly spotted as in sfavsuvs Schoen. ‘This is the species I breed from acorns, and I believe it also infests hazel-nuts. There are several other species which closely resemble these two and seem to connect them, and [| am_ satisfied that we can do very little in classifving them until their habits and variations are better understood.— C.V; RILEY. A) PHENOMENON.—The Ashy Blister Beetle, Zyééa cenerca Fab. ( Wa- crobasis Labricii LeConte) was very destructive to the potato vines in several parts of the Province of Quebec during last July. In some places it was exceedingly abundant, and attacked the Windsor bean as well as the potato. Five years ago it was also very common. _ Its appear- ance this year gave occasion to an article in one of the French newspapers published in Three Rivers, which is such a wonderful production that it is well worthy of being placed on record. Entomologists will have a smile at it, and think that a little better acquaintance with insect life would do our farmers and journalists no harm. ‘The following is a free translation of the article :— “A NEW PLAGUE. “We are threatened, it would seem, by a new plague. REGS slightly interrupted in the middle, and is narrowly dark-margined poster- iorly; (on one wing it is not interrupted, but it is angulated and produced posteriorly) ; another rather wide fascia of the same hue, before the ciliz slightly produced along the base of the dorsal cilia. An apical drown streak and a costo-apical streak (of the same hue as the fascize), which reaches the inner end of the brown streak and is there bent backwards passing around the end of the brown streak, and in a direction nearly parallel with it to the dorsal ciliz just behind the apex. Hinder marginal line at the base of the apical cilie golden brown. Ciliz pale golden. The specimen from .S. Zongéfolia is scarcely at all dusted, the markings are paler and narrower, though similarly disposed, and the white ground colour is not so marked as in the other, but I have no doubt they are of the same species. 29. L. jugtandidla. Dr. Clemens (/oc. cit.) names this species also from the larva which he found mining the upper surface of leaflets of the Black Walnut ( Fugdans nigra), and Dr. Packard refers to it in the same way as to the last named species. Dr. Clemens suggests the probability that it may be identical with ZL. caryaefoliclla. 1 have never found it on the Walnut, but have occasionally, though rarely,found it in the leaves of the Butternut, ( Fuglans cinerea), and judging from the larva, without having bred the imago, I have no doubt that it is LZ. caryacfoliella. Clemens, ante p. 109. L. tubiferella. Clem. Proc. Acad. Nat.-Sci., Phila., Fune, 1860, p. 208. | have not succeeded as yet in getting this species from the mine, and have never seen the imago. But I have found on the upper surface of leaves of the White Oak ( Quercus alba) a larva and mine which I believe to be the same described by Dr. Clemens. It is a long, rather narrow band, gradually widening, in which the larva lies transversely, eating first upon one and then upon the other side, so that the frass is deposited in a narrow line along each side. Dr. Clemens has alluded to the peculiar appearance of the larva, which in fact differs from the ordinary flat Litho- colletis larva, as much as that does from the larva of the first group (cylin- drical). It is considerably larger, vertically thicker, depressed but not flat, the head is more obtusely rounded in front, and the sides of the segments are more distinctly mamillated. The cuticle is sleek and shining. It is white, with the alimentary canal nearly colourless or watery, and the con- tents of the body on each side of it white and granular. It remains much longer in the larval state,than the other species, and hence is much more 166 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. difficult to rear. It cats voraciously for a few days, and then remains quiet without appearing to eat at all for several days. larva precisely like it, but in a different blotch mine, inhabits the leaves of the Black Oak (ic): wicifolta (yy Another like it, but with the mine a little different from the last, inhabits oaks of the Willow Oak group. Another still inhabits leaves of the Beech (Saugus ferruginea ). Sull another in the leaves of the Sugar Maple (Acer saccharinum ). Another (two others?) similar but different, mines the leaves of differ- ent species of Desmodium. | I have never known one of them to enter the pupal state, though I have kept them nearly two months in the larval state, in which condition they still remain alive in the dead leaves, as if they would hybernate as larvae. The Black Oak species and that of the Desmodium construct little circular depressed cocoons like those of £4. coryliella, &c., in which the larvae are reposing. (The Desmodium larvae are distinct from the thers, and may possibly produce a Leucanthiza or some other allied genus). I think there can be but one brood in a year, and that larvae found in July continue to be larvae until the next spring. | have met also with the following larvae of the second (flat) group and mining the upper surface of the leaves. Possibly some of them may prove to be the same with species already described, but I scarcely expect it. Most, if not all, are new species. One mines the leaves of the Chestnut ( Cas¢anea ). ‘Pwo species, if not three, mine those of oaks of the Willow Oak group. One mines those of the Water Beech ( Carpinus Americana ), and also of the Hornbeam or Ironwood ( Ostrya Virginica ). Of the first (cylindrical) group there is the species (perhaps two species) mining leaves of the (/Ze/ianthus ) Wild Sun Flower. A species which may prove to be L. crataegela mining leaves of the Vild Red Plum (Prunus Americana ). And a species which is probably L. dasistriged/a, mining the leaves of Biack Oaks (Q. ¢icifolia, Gc.) ‘The mine and cocoon are the same, with those of LZ. basistrigella on the White and Chestnut Oaks. Also a mine on the upper surface of Haw leaves (Crataegus) which seems to be identical with that of Z. vrginiella on the Ostrya virginica. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ARCTIA FROM COLORADO: BY CHAS. R. DODGE, WASHINGTON, D.C. ArRcTIA WILLIAMSII, 7. sp.—(See fig. 34). Anterior wings rich chocolate - brown with creamy white stripes or markings. Costal mar- gin lighter brown. A broad line running from aed. the base of the median vein nearly to the pos- terior angle, where it becomes slightly forked; from this ‘proceeds a slightly curved narrower branch, from the centre of the wing nearly to the costal edge, and one-third the distance from the apex; a zigzag mark composed of three straight lines, the first being the broadest,and the third one-half the length of the others, proceeds from the outer angle, where it joins the first line, and terminates under the costal edge; the whole forming a distinct W crossed at the top by the transverse band. Inner edge faintly marked with creamy white. Posterior wings dull red, marked with dark brown spots. Inner edge yellowish ; costa and outer edge with a dark border, formed by confluent spots, narrowest at the middle third, the spot at the posterior angle more prominent, and triangular in shape ; a large heart-shaped spot occupies the centre of the outer third of the wing, nearly touching the outer edge, and is surrounded by four smaller spots, the one near the inner margin wedge-shaped and extending to the base of the wing. Fringes dirty yellow. Alar. expanse 1-15 inch. Antenne brown. Head creamy white above, brownish around the eyes. Thorax brown with lateral lines of creamy white ; shoulder tippets edged with same colour. Body beneath uniform hght brown; above, darker, with two broad red lateral stripes which become yellowish at the tip. Habitat.—Colorado Territory. This beautiful little species is dedicated to Mr. Henry T. Williams, of the “ Horticulturist,” to whom I am indebted, more than to any other person, for my summer’s ramble through the Rocky Mountains. The accompanying figure, though not quite correct in detail, will give an idea of the markings by which this moth is characterized. On the anterior wing, the upper fork of the line running from the base, is too heavy, and too long, giving the appearance of four zig-zag marks when there are but ¢Avee, while the spots on the hind wings, though correctly placed, are not in every instance exactly of the right shape. 168 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ON A NEW GRASSHOPPER FROM COLORADO. BY C. THOMAS, WASHINGTON, D. C. Caloptenus Dodget. Nov. sp. Posterior femora with three white bands ; elytra not more than half the length of the abdomen. Male. Small size. Vortex elongate, distinctly channelled; frontal costa broad, flat and squarely margined above the ocellus, margin punc- tured ; antennze thick, passing the thorax, joints short, distinct, and some- what obconic. ‘Transverse incisions of the pronotum distinct ; posterior lateral margins very slightly incurved at the humerus ; median carina distinct only on the anterior and posterior lobes. Elytra about half the length of the abdomen, oblong-ovate. Posterior femora about as long as the abdomen. Prosternal point thick, obtuse, transverse. Cerci slender: sub-anal plate somewhat pointed, the margin on the upper surface entire. Colour. Brown varied with white. Face cinereous, occiput and disk of the pronotum dark brown, mottled with lighter and darker shades, except the posterior lobe, which is uniform brown. Elytra brown, lower half very dark ; on each side of the head and pronotum, behind the eye. is a dark brown glabrous spot, not extending further back than the third incision. A white oblique spot above the posterior coxz. Posterior femora with three white bands on the outside, the one nearest the apex much the smallest, the middle dark band abruptly bent forward at the middle of the disk. Abdomen pale, mottled with reddish-brown. Four anterior tibiae pale reddish-brown. Antennae pale at base, the rest rufous. female. Pronotum uniform dark brown, except the spot on the side, and that the posterior lobe is a bright reddish-brown. Elytra extend cover but two segments. Abdomen brown. Dimensions. 9 Length .85 in.; elytra .2; posterior femora .4; pos- 2 terior tibie .32. ¢ Length .56 in.; elytra .18; posterior femora .37; posterior tibiz -26. Pike’s Peak, Colorado Territory. Named in honor of Mr. Charles R. Dodge of the Agricultural De- partment, Washington, who recently discovered it during an ascent of Pike’s Peak. It is important in one respect, showing the effect of altitude (about 10,000 feet above the level of the sea) on the antenne, contracting their length, but compensating by thickening ; also rendering the joints more distinct. It approaches /ezoleftix in two respects, the shortness of the wings, and the slope of the posterior lateral margins of the pronotum. —————— e THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 169 NEW ENEMIES OF THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE. BY (i, Bi REEDS LONDON. ON MYSIA I5 PUNCTATA, Ofzv. Sometime during the latter part of July last, while wahdering about the outskirts of a large potato patch, and examining the damage caused by the Colorado beetle, I found on the vines the larva of a beetle belonging to the family of Coccinedlide or Lady Birds. The insect was new to me, and although there were no larvee of the Colorado beetle in the immediate vicinity, yet I was in hope that I had discovered a new enemy of our abominable pest. ‘To test the question more at leisure, | took my newly- found treasure home, and placed it in a box, wherein were numerous speci- mens of Colorado larvz in all stages, from the diabolical looking iittle monster just hatched from the egg,to the full-grown, fat,and repulsive larva dragging its bloated body slowly about in search of some convenient place to undergo the transformation into the pupal state. The box was roomy and covered with a glass top, so that I had ample opportunities of observing what took place. After a little preliminary tour of inspection, my Lady Bird friend caught sight of a small Colorado, and immediately made a bee line for it, and commenced a fierce attack upon the unhappy little victim, seizing it in the powerful jaws, with which Dame Nature has provided most of these creatures, and in the course of a very few minutes sucking the juices completely out, and leaving only the dry and blackened looking skin as a ghastly monument of its victory. It then commenced its attacks, after a short interval, on a full-grown specimen, which, how- ever, had strong objections to be eaten all-alive-oh, and struggled viciously with its enemy, which was not nearly so large, although of course much more active. Its efforts at resistance were vain, and after Mr. Lady Bird had got its jaws firmly fixed in its. victim’s broad and capacious back, the struggles soon ceased, and it became a question of the capacity of the Lady Bird larva, to contain all the juices that were in the body of its cor- pulent victim. Nearly an hour was occupied in this little operation, and when it was over, our friend retired to rest on its laurels and digest its enormous meal at its leisure. For several days I watched at different times a repetition of the same thing, and the Lady Bird must have consumed some eight or nine Colorado larvae. I regret that I neglected to make any description of L70 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. the larva; and, being called away from home just at this time, I found on my return that the larva had gone into chrysalis,and in a few days afterwards, the perfect beetle emerged, and proved to be a very light-col- oured specimen of AZvsia 15 punctata Oliv. (Fig. 35). This beetle, as may be seen from the engraving, varies very much in its perfect form, so FIG. 35, much so, indeed, that a careless or unskilled observer would never imagine that these four insects belonged to one and the same species. PERILLUS CIRCUMCINCTUS,. Say. This insect (Fig. 36) belongs to the Heteroptera - ~ Hemiptera, or true Bug family. It was brought to | me by a friend, who had detected it in the act of | killing a Colorado Beetle larva, by piercing the soft body of the larva with its long rostrum or beak. pees I placed this insect also in my glass-covered box, and watched its operations, and mode of attack. It moved very quietly, and attacked the larva with a sudden dart of its sharp-pointed beak. The larva, of course, struggled with all its power, yet it never seemed at all to loosen the hold of the bug, which rather astonished me, for Iam at a loss to see what enables the beak to be retained so firmly ; for, as far as I can ascertain, the. beak is tolerably smooth, and easy of withdrawal if the bug is willing. Yet, when I attempted to take the larva off the beak, I had to use some slight degree of force. The bug, moreover, has a curious fashion of planting himself squarely and firmly on his feet, with the beak raised nearly horizontal, and the victim poised, or spitted on it, and writhing about quite clear of the ground. I had the curiosity to weigh the bug, and also a larva which I saw it attacking, and the larva was very nearly as heavy as the bug, and yet it seemed no exertion to the bug to raise its victim on the point of its beak, and hold it suspended there while it sucked out the contents of the body. Whether the close confinement of the box was not calculated to pro- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. vee mote its general health, or whether the diet of Colorado larvee was too overpowering, I do not know ; but after eating about half a dozen larve, my bug seemed to lose his appetite. So I at once killed him, and sent him for identification to Mr. Riley, who named it for me. Both the draw- ings of these two new insect friends are from the clever pencil of Mr. Riley, who kindly permitted me to obtain electrotypes of them. I shall be glad to hear from any of the members of the Society residing in Ontario, whether the Colorado beetle has done much damage in their neighbourhood. In many places, I am aware, some mischief has been caused, but the potato crop. generally seems to have been an unusually good one, even in those districts where the beetle was prevalent. I would also ask the members to keep a sharp look out for any para- sites or other enemies which they may discover attacking the Colorado larve. We know already of sixteen, and we hope that the number may largely increase. Any communications on this subject will be gladly received. CHICAGO FIRE—APPEAL TO ENTOMOLOGISTS. Mr. J. Q. A. Warren, of England, recently residmg temporarily in Chicago, writes to us from St. Paul’s, Minn., as follows :—‘ Having lost my entire collection, by the fire in Chicago, of Entomological and other Natural History specimens, the work of the past year in the West, as well as of years abroad, I beg to solicit correspondence and specimens from American Entomologists for a new collection, for which I will send Eure- pean duplicates as soon as I reach Europe. My loss is heavy, over $3000, and the patient labour of months. “Help me all you can, and I will appreciate it fully, and do all I can in return. Address me at New York after Nov. tst., care of Adams’ Ex- press Company, for parcels, and by mail to New York post office.” Mr. Warren, we understand, had a very large collection in Chicago, which he was intending to take back to England this winter, but it was entirely consumed in the great fire. He is anxious to replace it, as far as possible, before his return, which will be in December. We trust that all our readers, who have it in their power, will assist Mr. Warren with speci- mens, and enable him to take back a goodly representation of the Insect life of this country. L72 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. Trom Kirov s Fauna bhorealt-Americana : Insecta. (Continued from page 156.) [rog]. 148. Orckoproma [SippHA| CaNapENsi Avrby.— Length of body 7 lines. Taken in dead fish on the shores of Lake Huron in Canada, by Dr. Bigsby. This species approaches near to O. Americanum, but it is smaller, the frontal impression is deeper and oblong; the discoidal spot of the prothorax is much larger, extending from the anterior to the posterior margin, it is scarcely at all lobed, and only the punctures of its posterior part exhibit the appearance of angular scratches: the elytra are dirty- yellow at the apex, and the yellow occupies a much greater portion of the extremity than in the two preceding species, they are not acuminate at the tip, but have a very slight tendency to a sinus; the epipleura in colour resembles that of O. Americanum, but is less briluant. [Also a variety of S. peftata. FAMILY PROGOSITID-E, 149. PELTIS FERRUGINEA Linn.— Length of body 5 lines. A single specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. The insects of this genus are usually to be met with under the bark of trees, and in fungi. [105.]| Body oblong, flat, ferruginous, resembling greatly, as De Geer has observed, the common bed-bug. Head thickly punctured : prothorax deeply emarginate for the reception of the head, thickly punctured ; lateral margin sloping, reflexed: disk of the elytra with six clevated ridges gradually diminishing in length from the suture outwards ; between the ridges is a double row of punctures, each pair of punctures being con- nected by a transverse furrow : outside the discoidal ridges are several irregular rows of punctures ; lateral margin reflexed ; epipleura linear at the apex, gradually dilated at the base. [Taken in Canada. | FAMILY NITIDULID#. 150. Niripura opscuRA Sadér.—Length of body 2!4--21'3 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. Body subdepressed, black, with its lustre obscured by inconspicuous decumbent subcinereous hairs. Head minutely punctured, transversely impressed between the eves: occiput elevated ; mouth and stalk of the aS vo THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Uh ——————$ —_—__— ———— antenne piceous: prothorax minutefy punctured, most visibly at the sides, which are depressed ; lateral ‘margin reflexed ; elytra very obtuse at the apex, they have the appearance of being acuducted which seems to be produced by the pubescence : legs piceous or rufo-piceous. | 106. | 151. Niriputa Ossium Azrby.—Length of body 1%4—134 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. Mr. Stephens regards this as a variety only of the preceding species, but it is smaller, narrower in proportion, the legs and stalk of the antennz are paler, and the elytra and sides of the prothorax, in the British as well as American specimens, are piceous. In other respects they agree. 152. NirmuLa piscoiwEA Fabr.—Length of body 1% lines. Many specimens taken in Lat. 65°, Considerably smaller than the British specimens. Body subdepressed, black, above minutely punctured, subpubescent. Stalk of the antenne : sides of the prothorax, which has posteriorly a pair of discoidal obsolete impressions, legs and anus, rufous: elytra with a large anterior discoidal suborbicular pale-rufous spot common to- both, in which, in some speci- mens, is a black dot ; apex of the elytra obscurely variegated with rufous. Fabricus, and after him Mr. Marsham, describes the legs of this ‘species as black ; but others have properly denominated them by the term ferrugi- nous and piceous. In the American specimens they vary in colour from piceous to pale-rufous. [107.] 153. Ips Dre JEanut Avrdy.—Plate i, fig. 4.— Length of body 2% lines. ‘Three specimens taken in Lat. 65°. ; Body linear, depressed, thickly and mmutely punctured, glossy, black or dark piceous. Head with a punctiform impression in the vertex, and a larger impression on each side between the eyes: prothorax quadrangular, rather narrowest behind : elytra piceous or ruto-piceous, with two oblong white spots at the base, forming an interrupted line, and two oblique nearly parallel ones below the middle : legs piceous. In the other sex the elytra are subacuminate. Variety B. With five white spots, viz.: 1, 2, 2. | Taken in Canada ; and north shore of Lake Superior (Agassiz). | [108.] 154. CHOLEVA (Carops) SPENCIANA A7rby.—Length of body 2 lines. A single specimen taken. Locality not stated. Body black, covered with decumbent pale hairs. Head minutely punctured ; antenna shorter than the prothorax, the two first joints ferruginous, the cighth shorter and smaller than the rest; mouth and palpi ferruginous: prothorax not visibly punctured with all the angles i74 THE GANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. rounded ; base with a slight sinus on each side: elytra acute, very minu- tely punctured with a hair emerging from each puncture, without furrows except a single one parallel with the suture, ferruginous, black at the tip : abdomen piceous, rufous at the base: legs ferruginous. [Belongs to the family S7/phide. | [rog.| FAMILY SCAPHIDIID. 155. SCAPHIUM CASTANIPES Avrby.—Plate v., fig. 1.— Length of body 3 lines. A single specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. Body naked, glossy ; underneath smooth, black, with a very light shade of bronze: above more evidently bronzed, punctured. Mouth, palpi, and antenne pale chestnut : prothorax behind, on each side, marked with a pair of punctiform impressions, between these impressions are several large punctures, but not in a regular transverse series as in Scaphidium : elytra with six discoidal rows of punctures: the four rows nearest the suture reach the base, but not the apes, and the two external ones neither base nor apex; the first row also terminates towards the base in three large distinct punctures, and from the base of the third runs a transverse row, as in Scaphidium, to the sutural furrow, which 1s impunctured : the legs are pale chestnut. [110.] FAMILY ANISOTOMID-E. 156. LeElopES PUNCro-srRIATUS A7réy.—Length of body 1 line. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. Body hemispherico-ovate, naked, glossy, chestnut. Head very lightly panctured ; mandibles rather prominent ; palpi and antennz rufous, clava of the latter much incrassated consisting of five joints, the second of which is extremely minute: prothorax very large, wider than long, very lightly punctured, with the sides paler than the disk: elytra deeply and grossly punctured in rows, interstices impunctured: legs and under-side of the prothorax rufous : anus paler than the rest of the abdomen. This species closely resembles the Axnzsofoma badia of Sturm, but the elytra are not finely punctured, as Mr. Stephens describes them in that species. FAMILY SYLVANID-E [LATHRIDIIDA. | 157- CORTICARIA DENTICULATA Avrby.—Length of body 1 line. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. [111.] Body dark piceous, rather glossy, naked, minutely punctured. Prothorax rather orbicular, with a circular deepish impression just above the scutellum ; sides distinctly denticulated : elytra with several rows of THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Le5 punctures. The insect here described approaches very near to C. 7mpressa Marsham, but it is sufficiently distinguished not only by its colour but chiefly by the very visibly denticulated sides of its prothorax. [As the specific name of this insect is preoccupied, it has been named C. Avrdyz by Dr. Le Conte. Taken by Agassiz’s Expedition on the north shore of Lake Superior. | FAMILY CRYPTOPHAGID. [112.] 158. Aromarta ATRA Sfephens.—Length of body 23 lines. One specimen only taken. Body black, punctured, glossy. Mouth reddish ; antennae rufous : elytra pubescent, piceous, rufous at the tip: anus and legs rufous. 159. CRYPTOPHAGUS HUMERALIS Av7by.—Length of body 134 line. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54°. Body subcylindrical, black ; above punctured and pubescent, rather glossy. Prothorax rather widest behind, with the basilar angles somewhat depressed : scutellum transverse, obtusangular: shoulders of the elytra obscurely rufous : legs, especially the tibize and tarsi, pale chestnut. 160. CRYPTOPHAGUS CONCOLOR A7rby.— Length of body body 1% line. A single specimen taken in Lat 54°. [113]. In shape, sculpture and pubescence this species resembles the preceding, but it is smaller, and the whole insect is entirely of one colour —dark ferruginous. N. B.—The two. species last described differ from the other C7yf/o- _ phagi in having the thorax without serratures or denticles, and the scutel- lum obtusangular, and may perhaps form a subgenus. FAMILY DERMESTIDA. 161. ATTAGENUS CYLINDRICUS A7réy. Plate vil., fig. 3.—Length of body 2 lines. ‘Iwo specimens taken in the. Rocky Mountains. This little species has much the air of a Crvptophagus, but belongs to the present genus. The body is subeylindrical, dark-piceous, very minutely punctured, and covered, but not thickly, with decumbent cinereous hairs. The two first joints of the antennae are large, globular, and of the same colour with the rest of the body ; the intermediate ones very minute and pale rufous ; the three last are incrassated and form an oblong piceous knob, of which the terminal joint is as long as the. two preceding ones, ovate and acute: the prothorax behind is very obsoletely trilobed with the intermediate lobe rounded: the tarsi are rufous. (Unknown to Dr. Le Conte. | 176 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. [rr4.] 162, ArraGENus PELLIO Linn. Length of body 234 lines. ‘Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. This species, though particularly destructive to furs. is to be met with in other animal matters, and is very common in houses. De Geer describes its larva as having a very long body covered with a hard, shining skin of a reddish-brown colour and hairy; as having six legs, and tne posterior extremity terminated by a long remarkable tail, formed of rufous hairs as long as the body, and placed horizontally in the same line. He says that their motion is gliding, but by snatches. The American specimen, which is a male, is considerably larger than my British ones and blacker; but in other respects it precisely resembles them. The species may generally be known by its black or dark-piceous colour, covered, especially underneath, with decumbent whitish or ciner- eous hairs. The stalk of the antennae, and the tarsi,.are testaceous, and the last joint of the former, in the male, is longer than the two first and cylindrical: the ‘prothorax at the three posterior angles has three white spots formed of hairs, and the elytra are in the middle near the suture. [Taken in Canada]. [tr5.] 163. DERMESTES LARDARIUS Linn.—Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall; in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. Latreille observes that this insect is found in every quarter of the old world. [We may add, in the vez as well. It is a great pest to collectors in Canada. | 164. DERMESTES DISSECTOR Avrby.— Length of body 343 lines. Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. [Apparently identical with Say’s /. nubilus (Ent. Works, 1. p. 300), which differs little, if at all, from 2. caninus Germ. Not uncommon in Canada. | [116.] 165. Byrruus piciprs A7rbv.—Length of body 3% hnes. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Body black, covered with short decumbent hairs. Scutellum velvetty- black : elytra with a pair of deep black interrupted stripes terminating in a transverse abbreviated posterior band of the same colour: legs piceous. [As this specific name is preoccupied, Le Conte has named the species B. Kirbyi. It is taken in Canada from Quebec to the north shore of Lake Superior]. [117.] 166. Byrruus concoLor A7rby.--Length of body 3 lines. ‘Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°. : This nearly resembles 2. fccifes, but it is much smaller, the prothorax is more distinctly channelled, the elytra have no black band, and the legs are black. [Supposed by Le Conte to be a variety of Cyti/us varius Fab.] _ Ty THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. : i yay Apel bn AACE Wie. RE PGE The late Mr. A. S. Ritchie, whose loss we have so much reason to deplore, was born at Pettenween, a small town on the coast of Fifeshire. His father, Mr. Robert Ritchie, was a magistrate of that place. Ac- companied by his cousin, Mr. David Ritchie, who now resides in Brant- ford, Ont., he left Scotland for Canada, in 1853. He remained in Montreal one year, during which time he was in the employ of Messrs. Morrison, Cameron & Empey. He then removed to Brantford, where he resided several years, and where he appears to have been very highly respected. Finaliy, he returned to Montreal in 1860 or 1861, where he remained until the time of his death. ‘In the month of May, 1864, he was elected a member of this Society, and from May. 1866, to the present year, he was, as many here well know, an active member of the Council, of which, in 1867 and the present year, he was unanimously elected chair- man. He was alsoa member of the editing committee of the Canadian Naturalist. During the six years of his connection with this Society, he brought before us seven papers, six of which are printed in the Naturalist. The following are the titles of the papers, and the dates at which they ) were read :— March, 1865.—On the structure of insects, illustrated by microscopical preparations. March, 1866.—On the “ Walking Stick ~ insect, Spectrum femoratum. Noy., 1868.—On the Beetles of the Island of Montreal. Oct., 1869.—On the White Cabbage Butterfly, Prerts rape. Feb., 1870.—Why are. insects attracted to Artificial lights ? April, 1870.—Aquaria Studies, No. 1. Oct., 1870.—Aqu. Stu., No. 2. His favourite study was Entomology, and this he pursued in a philo- sophic spirit, studying the habits of insects in their native haunts by day, and examining the details of their anatomy under the microscope at night. He was also well acquainted with other departments of Zoology, especially with the infusoria. A little before his decease he was preparing a lecture, * On the Inhabitants of a drop of water,” for the young men connected with Erskine Church, and for this Society, a paper on a curious ichneu- mon parasite of the white cabbage butterfly. He died on the 13th De- cember, 1870, at the early age of 34. Rey. A. De Sola, LL.D., spoke of Mr. Ritchie, as a most enthusiastic member who had devoted all his spare time to the study of science, which it would be to the advantage of business men to cultivate, and he trusted that many others would follow his example. —Canapian NATURALIST. L78 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. POLYHISTOR 2—In the September number of the CANapIAN ENTO- MOLOGISY, the State Entomologist of Missouri, who 1s a stranger to me, asserts that ‘there 1s something rather incoherent in my articles—that I have committed serious errors,” and, furthermore, that I ‘must not talk of the family of Hymenoptera.” When I write for the ENTOMOLOGIST, it is not with the intention of leading others astray,or of committing error; and after all consideration, I doubt if my significations would be looked upon as incongruous by the majority of my Entomological colleagues. I have no knowledge of Mr. Riley’s definition of “ family,’ and I care not to which of the theories he may have a leaning. I hold my own, and have a perfect right to talk of the Family of Hymenoptera. In following up this cause, perhaps this Naturalist would have the kindness to correct ne with more distinctness, when next he publishes strictures upon my Entomological Notes, and state, for general information, how many families of Hymenoptera exist on this continent. I am told that I ‘tought to know that curculionidous larvee do not spin silken cocoons,” and furthermore, that I “ carelessly overlooked the legs” of the larva which I described on page 65, because it happens that inqui- linous Lepidopterous larvee take possession of acorns after they have fallen from the tree. On the 31st of March, the larve were of two kinds, and three sizes were found in the acorns of the White Oak in this latitude, and Iam not astray in stating that a larva of an unknown Coleopterous insect did spin a cocoon within an acorn. In the October number of the ENromo.ocist, Mr. Riley expresses his sorrow for having rashly and inconsistently contradicted a matter with which he was not thoroughly acquainted. Having no knowledge of the existence in this country of a silk-spinning snout-beetle, and, as every Entomologist ought to be conscientious, he thought he should be, even at the ninth hour, and discovers good European authority stating that snout- beetles do spin silken cocoons, or at least, close their nidus with some substance resembling silk. In the September number of the Entomoto- GIST, p. 118, he tells us that the acorn weevil is Balaninus rectus Say, and that it is found in the acorns of one of the oaks in his State. Fortunately, at this juncture, Mr. Pettit, of Grimsby, comes to my aid, and throws additional light on this important inquiry, by the discovery of Balaninus THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 179 nasicus Say, in the Red oak, and when we search more thoroughly, I have no doubt but additional species will be found attacking acorns produced by other oaks, therefore there are no species that we can define as “ the acorn weevil.” The remarks made by Mr. Riley, at p.137,No.7 CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, regarding the descriptions of Say, are gratuitous ; for I have studied and compared his. descriptions, and found them’ very accurate. Mr. Riley appears to rely greatly on the form and colcr of the ros- trum, as specific distinctions of Curculionide, but I have no faith in such forms alone, but, as in other Coleoptera, must look for those dis- tinctions in the permanency of parts and marks cn the body. Mr. Riley refers me to the 3rd Missouri Ent. Report, where, he says, I will find that “we do know something of the habits of quite a number of our snout-beetles;” and at page 138, number 7 CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, he says that ‘we can do very little in classifying them until their habits and variations are better understood.” I have not had the pleasure of seeing the said Report, which may contain the descriptions of quite a number of Curculionide, but it appears curious that in the two principal collections of Coleoptera in the United States, viz.: that of Dr. Le Conte, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Ulke, of Washington, the greater portion of snout-beetles were either undescribed or undetermined—at least, they were So, after Melsheimer’s Catalogue was published, and I am aware that those in Dr. Le Conte’s collection were not worked up in 1864, as in a letter from him in July of that year, he says :—‘‘I regret that my Cuscu- fionide have not been arranged for the past seven or eight years, and therefore, I am not at liberty to name the species, for fear of giving cur- rency to error.” In 1863, Dr. Le Conte issued a revision of the latter catalogue in conjunction with materials from his own collection, which is a standard for comparison, and it terminates with the £/aferide. Part IL., of said List, will, no doubt, occupy years of hard work, ere it can be placed in the hands of Entomologists with a perfect list of the Curculionide of this country ; therefore, I may conclude by surmising that Mr. Riley has only a vague knowledge of our Northern species—W™M. COUPER. NEw BUTTERFLIES av QUEBEC.—The seasen of 1871 has been marked by the capture, at Quebec, of three butterflies new to the locality, viz. : Papilio asterias, taken at Lorette ; Polyommatus porscnna, at the Island of Orleans, and an unidentified species of AZe/itea at the latter place.—G. J. BowLes, Quebec. iso THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. EACHANGES,) &c. Phe undersigned would be pleased to open communications with any ntomologist in Canada, United States or England with a view to ex- changing specimens. Address JAMES CoLWELL, care of A. CHOUN, Kingston, Ont. Pub undersigned would be pleased to correspond with Lepidopter- ologists (Southern and Western U. S. preferred), with a view to ex- changes. Address Epw. L. Grarr, 4o Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y., U.S. LEPIDOPTERA, &c.~-1 have a collection of Birds’ Eggs, Lepidoptera (including some from Florida) and Coleoptora, duplicates of which | should like to exchange, giving preference to the two first named.— Josepn bk. Cuasr, Lock Box 46, Holyoke, Mass. \n American Entomologist, who has made a speciality of Lepidoptera, would like to correspond with collectors in any part of the world.— Address H. K. Morrison, care of FE. K. Butler, 68, Pearl-street, Boston, Mass. — ADVERTISEMENTS. CORK AND Pins.— We have a good supply of sheet cork of the ordi- nary thickness, price 16 cents (gold) per square foot; and a full supply of Klaeger’s pins, Nos. 1, 2. 5 and 6, price 50 cents (gold) per packet of 500. CANADIAN ENromotocist, Vols. 1 and 2.-We have a few copies left of these volumes—-No. 1 of vol. 1 being deficient, however, and out of print. Price $1.25 (gold) each. List OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA.—Price 15 cents each, embracing 55 - families, 432 genera, and 1231 species. (For labelling cabinets). PRINTED NUMBERS, in sheets, 1 to 2000, for labelling cabinets. Price ro cents each set. These prices are exclusive of cost of transportation, and orders will please state whether the package is to be sent by mail or express. AGENTS FOR THE ENTOMOLOGIST. CANADA.—E. B. Reed, London, Ont.; W. Couper, Naturalist, Montreal, P.Q.: G. J. Bowles, Quebec, P. Q.; J. Johnston, Canadian Institute, ‘Voronto, Ont. UNITED SrarEes.—-The American Naturalist’s Book Agency, Salem, Mass.; J. ¥. Green, Newport, Vt.; W. V. Andtews, Room 17, No. mg7 Broadway, New York, 4 Che Canadtan Entomologist. MO TL: LONDON, ONT., NOVEMBER, 1877. Nohne DESCRIPTIONS OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM ALABAMA. BY AUG. R. GROTE, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. Caractysra Ropinsonil Grote. g Y I refer this species to Le- derer’s Section C.: veins 8 and 5 of the secondaries present. -Primaries bright golden brown. ‘The median whitish grey space is tolerably narrow and well defined; inwardly bounded by the outwardly arcuate white transverse anterior line ; outwardly by the white transverse posterior line which is angulated on the m. nervules. Both the lines are a little uneven. From the distinct and regularly arcuate white transverse anterior line to the base of the wing, the surface is entirely golden brown. On the gray median space there is a blackish stain at the extremity of the discal cell, preceded and defined inwardly by a C-shaped white shade line. Outside the transverse posterior line, the wing is terminally dark golden brown, but becomes dark greyish over the median nervules opposite the angula- tion of the line; the brown colour obtaining again, over the internal angle. A distinct white sub-apical rounded line (following the shape of the external margin, and allowing, at the apex, the brown scales to appear beyond it), is shortly discontinued. Fringes dark grey. Secondaries pale, powdered with black scales, and these are aggregated in a little cluster before the internal margin. Before the external margin the wing is lin- early free from the dark scales, and beyond, on the margin, hes a double series of velvety-black dots, between which, and alternating with them, is a row of brilliant scales, the whole not very conspicuous. Beneath, the hind wings are paler, with an incomplete median band ; the marginal series of black and scintellate dots is repeated, but the black dots are single. The fore wings are dark greyish beneath, the two median lines dark, and not very distinct, the median space, posteriorly, is stained with blackish, and the white semi-circular mark of the upper surface is dis- tinctly repeated. Apically, the wing is shaded with brown, and here the terminal white line is distinctly repeated. Exp. r8-19 m. m. Coll. Pea- body Academy of Science, & C. ‘IT. Robinson. | took a pair of this pretty species in July near Demopolis. ERRAtUM.—The top line on page 126 of this volume should be placed in the same position on page 125. 182 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. bY Vol CHAMBERS, COVINGION, KY. Continued from Page 160. LITHOCOLLETIS. The following species, which have been described by Drs. Clemens, Packard and Fitch, | have not met with. But for the convenience of those who may not -have access to the writings of these gentlemen, I con- dense the following account : 1. L. Argentipmbriela Clem. has been already mentioned at p. 57. It mines the under surface of leaves of the Chestnut Oak, and must _re- semble 4. carvac-albella or L. lucidicostella. At p. 57, ante, it is suggested that ZL. guerci-albeHa ¥itch may be the same insect. Dr. Fitch states that ic mines the leaves of the White Oak; and cther species of the genus mine both the leaves of the White and Chestnut Oaks indifferently. But Dr. Clemens says that Arventifimbricila makes a tent mine on the under side, has a cylindrical larva, and pupates suspended in a thin web im the mine like L. Zuctdicostella. Dy. Fitch describes the larva of his gwerci-albella as being flat, mining the underside (which no known flat Lzthocolletis larva does except Z. ornatedla, which makes a flat mine), and as making a tent mine (as 1 understand Dr. Fitch’s description), which no known flat larva of the genus does. He also states that it pupates in an oval cocoon (like that of LZ. basistriged/a, as T understand his description), and vo known flat larva makes such a €CCCCON. L. basistrigedia Clem. makes just such a mine and cocoon as Dr. Fitch describes, and in the same kind of leaves, but the larva is cylindrical, and the imago is not at all like Dr. Fitchs description of his gverc:-albclla. Again no known /a¢ larva produces an imago at all akin to the group to which guerci-albella belongs, according to Dr. Fitch’s description. All flat larvee known—at least in this country—produce imagines of some shade of yellow (Sec. B., ante), except Hamadryadella, which is of a very distinct group from Luecidicostella, &e., to which qguerci-alelia would belong, as described by Dr. Fitch. He also says that it resembles the European L. clerckella, but L. clerckella is not now recognised as a Lithocolletis at all, but is known as Cuniostoma scitella. It seems, to mé, therefore, that we must await the rediscovery of the species befere we can assign it a place among the American species of Zzthocolletis. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. dee Argyromiges Morrisella Fitch, and A. Uhlerella 1 consider, as already stated, to be only varieties cr worn specimens of Lz¢hocolletis robiniella Clem., a variety of which, as Dr. Clemens states, mines the leaves Of, 4 species of Lespedeza. 2. Argyromiges (Lithocolletis) Ostensackenella Vitch (Rep. 5, see. 333), is no doubt a good species, and from Dr. Fitch’s description, must resemble Z. ambrosieedla, ante. Larval history unknown. 3. L. Fitchella Clem. Argyromiges quercifolicla Vitch. Pale saffron; 5 costal and 2 dorsal streaks and an apical spot, but no basal streak. Head and thorax white. It seems to resemble ZL. argentine- fella in the arrangement of the costal and dorsal streaks, and it mines the upper surface of White Oak leaves. Larva cylindrical. At p. 54, ave, it is stated that Dr. Fitch has described 7 species; but there was an error in the count. ‘The true number is 6, and that includes his Anacampsis robiniela, Argyromiges querci-albelia, A. Uhlerella, and A. Morrisella, none of which can be considered good species. There only remains, therefore, his /. Ostensackenclla and L. Fitchella. 4. L. aeriferella Clem. Larva cylindrical, and mines Oak leaves. Imago reddish-saffron with 4 costal and 3 dorsal streaks, an apical spot but no basal streak. ‘The first thin costal and the first dorsal sreak inter- nally dark-margined ; the second dorsal dark-margined by a line .curved above. 5. L. obstrictella Clem. Larva cylindrical, and makes a tent mine on the under side of Oak leaves. Reddish orange with three silvery fascize dark-margined externally. An apical spot, but no basal streak. | 6. L. tubiferedla Clem. ‘The larva and mine have been already de- scribed. It mines ‘the upper surface of Oak leaves. It is pale saffron with slightly oblique white fascize both dark-margined externally ; no apical spot, nor basal streak. The following species are named and described by Dr. Packard (Guide P- 353), and I am unacquainted with these except from his descriptions, which are necessarily brief. He gives no account of their structure, but all of the three species, differ so widely in the habits of the larvee and pupz and in the ornamentation of the imagines, as to suggest great doubts whether there are not correlated structural differences which separate them from Lithocolletis pupe. 7. L. geminatela Packard, is said to be dark slate gray without pro- minent markings, but with a round black spot on the middle of the dorsal eA) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. margin (like a Bucculatrix 7), and an apical ocellus. ‘Vhe larva is pale livid reddish (unlike any known Lithocolctis larva, but not unlike some Gracallariv). It feeds on leaves of Apple and Pear trees dctzven two leaves, or ina fold of a leaf. (Vhis is very unlike a Lithocolletis.) 8. L. curvilincatela Packard. ‘his larva is unknown. ‘The pupa was found in a long slender cocoon, attached to the bark of an apple tree. (This is like a Buecculatrix, but not like a Lithocolictis). Vhe imago 1s pale whitish with yellowish scales, with an apical ocellus in the wings, and a roundish spot on the middle of the dorsal margin. (Like a Bucculatrix). 9. L. nidifcansella Pack. is said to be silverv white with an apical ocellus ; three oblique golden costal streaks, and spotted with gold below the costa. The pupa is suspended in a thin web, outside of the leaf between its edges, which are drawn towards each other. ‘This is very different from the habit of a Lrthocolletis pupa. The two species of Dr. Fitch, these three (?) of Dr. Packard, the seven- teen species of Dr. Clemens, and the fifteen species which I have de- cribed in these papers, make the total number of described American species of Lithocolletis up to this time, thirty-seven. L. tritencanela, ante p. 110, Is scarcely sufficiently characterized to distinguish it from the European Z. ¢rifasciclla as described and figured by Stainton, Wat. His. 777. 7. 2. As compared with Stainton’s figure, this species 1s more golden, the fascie are straighter, with much narrower dark margins, and in this species the only dark dusting is a small spot at the apex. Still, if there is much variation, this may be the same species. In Trans. Lond. Ent. Soe., Sec. 2, v. 2,18 a figure of ¢tifasciclla not nearly so well executed as Stainton’s, but more nearly resembling this species. It, however, has a dorso-apical patch of dusting, which is wanting in this species. What do Mr. Stainton, Dr. Clemens and others, mean by * the spring brood” and ‘* the fall brood,” &c., of Lzthecolletis and allied genera? 1 confess I do not know. I know what it means when applied to some insects, because, as to such, there is ‘‘a time for all things”—a time when they are found only in the larval state, a time when they are found only in the pupal state, and a time when only the imago can be found. Indeed this seems to be the case with most moths, even with the JZzcros. For instance, many (not all) species of Gracilaria are found as moths, only in the fall, or in the spring and fall, and the larva only is found at midsum- mer. But in the genera, Lthocolletis, Phyllocnistis, Tischeria, Cemiostoma, oe or THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1S and Parectopa Clem. (which is a Gracillaria), which seem to me to be nearly related to each other, I have not yet found it so. For instance, take L. robiniella Clem. It hybernates beneath bark, and is found abroad on the wing, early in Spring, (so early that there are no flowers, and I can- not imagine what it lives on) and in Summer. But the mine and larva, are not found until the middle of July, (and then, and always, only in the older leaflets ; I have never found them in young and tender leaflets). It remains in the larval state, not exceeding three weeks, and in the pupal state not so long. Six weeks will cover the time from the hatching of the egg to the development of the imago, at which period many of the old brood still remain alive; and from that time, until the fall of the leaves in Autumn, the insect may be found in all its stages, and in gradually in- creasing numbers in all. Many are still in the larval state, when the leaves fall, and doubtless perish. Others survive as pupze probably; as do other non-hybernating species. Z. vobiniella is the only Lithocolletis which 1 know to hybernate, though I suspect that Z. salicifoliella also does, from the fact that I have found it abroad late in October. Of the allied genera, all the species of Phylocnistis known to me, winter over as imagines, except P. liriodendronella Clem., and, perhaps, that does also. All the others, so far as I know their habits, pass the winter as larvee or pup. They begin to appear sometimes as early as March, usually in April, and towards the latter part of May they begin to oviposit. From the first to the middle of June, the first pupze are found, and, shortly afterwards, the first imagines, _ whilst yet their ancestors are still alive ; and from that time, until the fall of the leaves, they may be found in constantly increasing numbers, in all of their stages, and the different broods overlap, so that there is no line to be drawn between them. : But, if the phrases “‘ spring brood,” “summer brood,” &c., only mean that there is a certain number of generations descended from a given pair in one season, then we can only arrive at the number of generations, by breeding them, or dy guesses, founded on the length of time, passed in the larval and pupal states. I write about one degree south of Dr. Clemens, and I think it probable that there are as many as four here, and certainly not less than three ; and the number increases as we go southward. I have taken Z. U/mella, or a closely allied species, at Columbus, Georgia, late in November—a month after it had disappeared here. And I have found Parectopa robiniella Clem. actively mining Locust leaves at New Orleans in December ; and if there is any cessation of its broods there at all, it can not exceed two months. 186 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. NOTES ON THE LARVA OF HALESIDOTA MACULATA, arrts. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. Three specimens of this larva were taken Sept. 16th, feeding on Oak. Length, 1.30 in. ; cylindrical. Head large, slightly bilobed, black with a faint white streak down the front, as far as the middle, where it becomes forked, a branch going to- wards each of the palpi. Mandibles black, palpi white at base, tipped with black. Body above black, thickly covered with tufts of bright yellow and black hairs. On the second, third and fourth segments, the hairs are mixed, yellow and black; those of the second and third segments over- hanging the head. From the fourth to the eleventh segments inclusive, 1s a dorsal row of black tufts, the largest of which are on the tenth and eleventh; the fourth and eleventh segments have also a black tuft on each side, near the base. ‘The hairs on the sides of the body, from the fifth to the tenth segments inclusive, are all bright yellow, while those on the sides of the twelfth and thirteenth, are mixed with black. On the third, fourth, eleventh and twelfth segments, are a few long, spreading, yellow hairs, much longer than those on the other portions of the body. The under surface, is a little paler in colour, especially between the prolegs ; feet black and shining, with faint lines of a paler hue; prolegs pale yellow, faintly tipped with reddish brown. In a few days after their capture, these larvee entered the chrysalis . state, within a yellowish grey oval cocoon, constructed of silk, interwoven with the hairs of the larva ; the perfect insect appeared on the 4th of June following. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA, COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. from Kirby’s Fauna Boreali-Americana: Insecta. (Continued from page 176.) 167. ByRRHUS CYCLOPHORUS KAvrby.— Length of body 3% lines. One specimen only taken. Body underneath and limbs dull ferruginous, above black with some cinereous hairs intermixed. Antennae piceous: elytra with two deep black subinterrupted stripes, and inscribed in the middle with traces of a THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 187 circle formed of pale, or cinereous hairs, common to both. The circle is probably more distinct in recent specimens. [Taken at Grimsby, Ont., by Mr. Pettit, and at Toronto by Mr. Couper; north shore of Lake Superior by Agassiz’s Expedition. | [r18.] 168. Byrruus varius /abr.—Length of body 234 Several specimens taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- House. Body underneath black. Head and prothorax bronzed, the gloss obscured by glittering hairs, above the scutellum is a patch of golden ones: scutellum channelled, covered with paler hairs: elytra slightly furrowed, bronzed, with the alternate interstices of the discoidal furrows green-bronzed, spotted with little velvetty patches of black hairs. [ Be- longs to Cyzi/us ; not uncommon throughout Canada. | lines. [x19.] FAMILY HYDROPHILID4. 169. Hyprosius Fruscipes Lina.—Length of body 3 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. Body oblong, convex and rather vaulted; underneath black, very minutely and thickly punctured with a pale short decumbent hair planted in each puncture ; above slightly bronzed, more conspicuously punctured, naked and rather glossy. Head slightly impressed on each side between the eyes; palpi pale rufous, last joint dusky at the tip: antennae rufous with a black knob: sides of the prothorax with two or three groups of larger punctures: elytra furrowed with thickly punctured furrows, dusky rufous at the sides: legs dark rufous, base of the thighs black. This 1s smaller than my British specimens, the furrows of the elytra are rather deep, and their sides more conspicuously rufous. [Taken in Canada.] [120.] 170. Hyprogius MaRGINELLUS Fabr.—Length of body 173 line. ‘Two specimens taken in Lat 54°. Body subelliptical, convex, minutely punctured, black ; above glossy. Palpi and antennae dusky rufous; knob of the latter black : sides of the prothorax, and the anterior margin dusky rufous: elytra with a single furrow adjoining the suture ; sides dusky rufous : tarsi rufous. 171. HypROBIUS MELANOCEPHALUS O/iv.—Length of body 2144—2%4 lines. ‘Two specimens taken in Lat. 54° [r21.] Body subelliptical, minutely punctured ; underneath black, somewhat hairy with very short inconspicuous hairs, above lurid or dirty yellow, glossy, more conspicuously punctured. Head black with a qua- drangular yellow spot before each eye ; nose gibbous separated from the i8$ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. front by a transverse angular line; palpi and antennae dirty-yellow, the latter with a black knob: prothorax with a dark, discoidal, subquadran- gular spot, which does not reach the anterior margin: shoulders with a dusky line: tibiae and tarsi dusky rufous. Var. B. Larger, dusky rufous above, spots before the eyes larger and subtriangular: black spot on the prothorax wider but not so near the anterior margin ; shoulders of the elytra without a dusky line. [This and the preceding are European species ; Kirby’s descriptions of them are not sufficiently definite to enable them to be identified with any of the species described by Le Conte in his ‘‘Synopsis of the //ydrophilide of the United States.” (Pro. Acad. N. S., Philada., June, 1855). ] [123.] FAMILY HISTERIDZ. 172. HISTER PaykKuLI A7rby.—Length of body 31 lines. One spe- cimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. Body black, glossy. Head circumscribed by a rather deeply ploughed furrow ; antennze piceous with a pale knob; mandibles longer than the head: prothorax rather wider behind, seemingly quite smooth, but under a strong magnifier it appears thickly covered with very minute lightly impressed punctures ; it is circumscribed on all sides, by a deepish furrow, between this furrow and the lateral margin is another abbreviated one less impressed ; elytra besides a distinct marginal furrow have three discoidal subpunctured ones running from the base to nearly the apex ; between the external discoidal furrow and the margin is a series of punctures near the apex, representing what is called the marginal furrow, and between the internal one and the suture are the traces of three others, the first just discernible, drawn, but interruptedly, from the base to the apex; the second consisting of three or four punctures near the apex, and the third parallel with the suture, consisting also of punctures, sometimes confluent, and extending from the apex not quite half the length of the elytrum ; the surface of the elytra is covered with minute punctures very hghtly im- pressed, so as not to be discoverable except under a good magnifier: the cubit or anterior tibia is armed with three teeth, the last of which appears cleft from its being furnished at the apex with two short truncated trans- parent bristles, the two other teeth have only one such bristle. [Synonymous with /Z, depurator Say (Ent. Works i. 261), a species found in Canada, and taken by Agassiz’s Expedition on the north shore of Lake Superior. | 173. HisteER Harrisu Avrby.—Length of body 3% lines. One specimen taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house. ad THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 189 Body black, glossy, thickly punctured, the punctures on the upper- surface being most conspicuous. Head circumscribed ; antennz and palpi nearly of a mahogany colour ; mandibles longer than the head ; nose slightly impressed: prothorax with two furrows at the lateral margin, both nearly reaching the base, the inner one, as usual, when arrived at the anterior margin, with the corresponding one on the other side forming one furrow surrounding the prothorax on three sides ; just above the scutellum is a punctiform impression: the elytra, including the submarginal one, have seven distinct furrows, the two next the suture being anteriorly abbreviated and very short, especially the first ; from the base of the first, or external discoidal one, an obsolete furrow runs obliquely towards the submarginal one ; the four discoidal entire furrows when arrived near the apex of the elytra are bent towards the suture: cubit piceous, armed with five teeth, the three outer ones obtuse. [Taken at Grimsby, Ont., by Mr. Pettit. | [125.] LAMELLICORNIA.—FAMILY CoprRiDa |SCARABAIDZ. | 174. ONTHOPHAGUS LATEBROSUS Fabr.—Length of body, f~ 3% lines; 2 3—334. A single specimen of the ? taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house ; a ¢ taken in New England by Prof. Peck. The species of this little interesting genus, remarkable for the great variety of processes resembling horns, that arm the head of the males, are as widely dispersed as those of any genus of beetles ; they are to be found in every climate from the frigid to the torrid zone, nor do they increase in size as they recede from the former and enter the latter, for the most minute species are to be found in Southern India, where they abound, while the largest seem to inhabit temparate climates. g Body entirely black, except the hands or anterior tarsi, which are rufous: gloss obscured by hairs. Nose at the apex bent upwards, form- ing a vertical, triangular, acute tooth ; on the vertex are two obsolete transverse ridges: the prothorax is rough with little granules, and anter- iorly sends forth a longish wide horn truncated at the end and overhang- ing the head: the two angles of the apex are elevated, and the space between them is deflexed, and bidentate : the cubits are armed with four sharpish teeth. The female differs from the male merely in having the shield of the head more distinctly notched on each side, and the apex of the nose rounded and reflexed, but without any triangular horn or tooth ; in having two distinct ridges on the vertex,and in having no prothoracic horn, which 190 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. is replaced by a transverse emarginate ridge in the middle. [Quite com- mon everywhere throughout Canada ; generally found under the droppings of horses or cattle. | [126.] 175. ONTHOPHAGUS SCABRICOLLIS Avréy.—Length of body 4 lines. A single 2 specimen taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. This is so like the last insect that I felt at first disposed to consider it as merely a variety. The following differences in their character induce me however to consider them as distinct. Not to mention the difference of size, the female of O. Zatebrosus has a distinct notch on each side of the head, of which there is no trace in O. scabricollis, the ridges of the vertex of the latter are more elevated, the prothorax is larger in proportion and much rougher, with larger and more numerous granules, and the four teeth of the cubit, which in the former are long and acute, in the latter are shorter and obtuse. 176. TROX ARENARIUS /adbr.—Length of body 3 lines. - Taken by Capt. Hall in Nova Scotia. [127.] Body oblong, black, without any gloss. Head covered with cinereous varioles ; nose a little reflexed, rounded with a slight tendency to be obtusangular ; antenne ferruginous ; prothorax with a wide rather obsolete dorsal channel ; sides with two impressions, one near the anterior angle, and the other basilar in the disk; base lobed ; lateral margin fringed with ferruginous bristles: elytra slightly furrowed, interstices with each a series of elevations crowned with brown bristles, the elevations of the alternate series are minute ; anterior tibiz with three acute teeth, they are also serated at the base. [An European species, not found in Canada. ] 177. PELIDNoTA PuNCYATA Linw.—Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada, near Lake St. Clair. [Abundant, and often very injurious to the foliage of the grape-vine throughout the Western peninsula of Ontario ; it does not occur, however, as far east as Toronto. For description and illus- trations, see “ First Report on the Noxious Insects of Ontario,” Saun- ders’s Report, page 106; or Harris’s “Insects injurious to Vegetation,” p. 25; Fitch, Riley, Packard, etc. | |129.] 178. CAMPTORHINA ATRACAPILLA Airby.—Length of body 534 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. [Synonymous with Serica vespertina Schonh., a species taken com- monly throughout Ontario, and, according to Dr. Le Conte, in the Middle, Southern, Eastern and Western States, as far as Lake Superior. For description vide Say’s Ent. Works, ii., p. 143.] ——— Lee ee THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Daley nn towards the mouth, and a triangular elevation adjoining each eye on the inner side ; labrum with a deep sinus ; mandibles with three teeth at the extremity, and one in the middle of the upper side ; knob of the antennae consisting of three hairy joints, the outer one thicker than the others and curved: prothorax channelled, impressed on each side near the base ; under a powerful lens several scattered very minute punctures may be discovered on its surface; the ora, or undersides of the prothorax, are likewise punctured, and soft with tawny hairs: elytra furrowed ; furrows punctured: cubit many-toothed ; intermediate tibiae densely bearded, on the outside, with tawny hairs. : The bent or nodding horn on the head of the species here described has generally been taken for a sexual character; but I am inclined to regard this as a mistaken notion. Specimens thus circumstanced, as far as I have been able to ascertain, have hitherto been found only in North America ; while those witha tuberculated head are found in various parts of South America, in the East and West Indies: and I have one in my cabinet from New Holland. Eleven specimens of the former were col- lected in the Expedition, varying in size, and not a single one of the latter. {Generally known by the Fabrician name of P. cornutus. ‘Taken frequently in the southern and western parts of Ontario. ] ° MEETING OF THE LONDON BRANCH. The regular monthly meeting of the London branch of the Entomo- logical Society of Ontario, was held on Friday evening, the 15th inst., at the residence of Mr. Saunders—the President, Mr. C. Chapman, in the chair. After the usual routine business was disposed of, the recent death of one of the active members of the Society was referred to: that of Mr. B Billings, of Ottawa. His loss was deeply regretted, and the following resolution of condolence and sympathy unanimously passed :— Resolved —TVhat we have heard, with deep regret and sorrow, of the loss of one of our active members by death: the late B. Billings, Esq., of Ottawa, a man who, by his generous bearing towards his fellow-labourers, and his own active work in Entomological science, has won for him the highest esteem; and, while we sincerely feel the loss which our Society has 218 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. sustained in his removal, we tender our warmest sympathies to his be- reaved family in their severe affliction. Resolved.—That a copy of the above Resolution be forwarded to the widow of the deceased, and that it be also published in the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Mr. W. Saunders exhibited the following interesting insects : Ist. Five specimens of unnamed Coleoptera belonging to the family Cerambycida, from the collection of R. V. 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These prices are exclusive of cost of transportation, and orders will please state whether the package is to be sent by mail or express. AGENTS FOR THE ENTOMOLOGIST. Canapa.—¥. B. Reed, London, Ont.; W. Couper, Naturalist, Montreal, P.Q.; G. J. Bowles, Quebec, P. Q.; J. Johnston, Canadian Institute, Toronto, Ont. UNITED STaTES.—The American Naturalist’s Book Agency, Salem, Mass.; J. Y. Green, Newport, Vt.; W. V. Andrews, Room 17, No. 137 Broadway, New York. —— ts ee i Che Canadian Entomoloaist. VOL. III. LONDON, ONT., DECEMBER, 1871. Noh 12 MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. Continued from Page 209. LAVERNA. This genus may be distinguished by the tufts of raised scales on the anterior wings. The antennae are more than half as long as the wings, simple, inserted just above the eyes. Head and face smooth, with ap- pressed scales. Face rather broad. ‘Tongue very short. No maxillary palpi; labial palpi curving around the sides of the head upwards, the tips approaching each other on the vertex, the third joint shorter than the second, which is laterally compressed and slightly clavate. For a fuller diagnosis, see Dr. Clemens’ Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 70. L. cephalonthiella. N. sp. Tongue and face white ; palpi grayish-white beneath, gray above ; antennae gray, annulate with dark brown, tipped with white, and with four or five very distinct white annulations near the tip. Thorax and wings dark bluish-gray, flecked with numerous white scales and specks. The wings are irregularly spotted with velvety black ; have an ochreous patch at the base of the inner margin, not very distinct, and a larger one upon the disc, and an irregular indistinctly outlined fasciae nearly crossing the wing, just before the third costal streak, and dusted with golden in the middle, and with white upon the costa. The ochreous patches are not distinct in outline, and seem to be composed of confluent streaks. Two rather large tufts of elevated scales within the inner margin, the first velvety black, the second ochreous, margined with velvety black, and larger than the first. The first tuft is before, and the second behind the middle. Three velvety black, slightly oblique costal streaks, the first small, placed before the middle; the second larger, behind the mid- dle; and the third and largest just before the ciliae. In some lights, i) bo bo THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. the tufts glow with crimson and purple hues, and the ochreous patches assume the form of indefinite wide bands. ‘There is an oblique costal streak of rather dense white dusting before the apex, and an opposite dorsal one. Three dark brown hinder marginal lines, one at the base of the ciliae, the second before the apex, and the third at the apex, of the ciliae. Dorsal ciliae dark slate-colour, wth eight or ten dis- tinct white specks near the base. Posterior wings and ciliae slate-colour. Abdomen slate-colour, with crimson and purplish reflections. But the colours of the entire insect vary somewhat with the direction of the light. Alar ex. about % inch. Common. Kentucky. The larva mines the leaves of the Button Bush (Cephalanthus occiden- talis). 1 found them early in October, and a few days afterwards, they became pupae, and within a week thereafter, produced the imago. It pupates on the ground, and the imago most probably hybernates. The mine and larva resemble those of the genus Anéispzi/a, but the larva is reddish. This is the only Zaverna that I have found, and is a very handsome insect. ASPIDISCA, Clemens. Head smooth, with appressed scales. ‘Tongue naked, short. Labial palpi short, much separated. Antennae about one half as long as the wings. Size, very small. (This brief, generic diagnosis is condensed from Dr. Clemens’ account published in the Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, v. 11., corrected at Pp. 209. Dr. Clemens errs, however, in the statement that there are no maxillary palpi. They are not visible without dissection, but upon dis- section, minute ove-jointed palpi are perceptible). The larvae are cylindrical, depressed; head smaller than the first segment. No true legs nor prolegs, but in their places, and also on some of the other segments, are what appear to be discs, which act as suckers. It is doubtful, however, if they do so act, as they appear on the dorsal as well as ventral surfaces. ‘They are miners through their whole larval existence, and when ready to pupate, they cut out a minute case, and, sewing together the edges, let themselves down by a thread, and, notwith- standing their apparent want of means of locomotion, they manage to transport themselves and their cases frequently through long grass, or over seemingly impracticable routes, for many rods, before spinning the silken “byssus,” by which the case is attached to a tree, or fence, or blade of grass, for the pupal repose. — bo wo THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. be 1. A. splendoriferdla, Clem. Loc. cit. Lyonetia Saccatella, Packard, Guide, p. 355, and plate 8, figs. 18, a and b. Dr. Clemens found this “ perfect little gem,” as Dr. Packard truly calls it, mining the leaves of Haw trees (Crategus ) in August, and cutting out its cases, preparatory to pupating, 7 the latter part of August and in September. He also found a similar larva mining the leaves of the Wild Cherry tree (Prunus serotina) at the same time, but was uncertain as to the species. I have bred it from the mines, and find it to be this species. I have also bred it from the leaves of the Sweet Scented Crab (Pyrus coronaria), and from those of the Apple. At Janden Grove Cemetery, at this place, it occurs by the million. In that Cemetery (so called because there are only two or three Linden saplings in it, I suppose), there are a great many Wild Cherry trees, and in August, scarcely a leaf can be seen without a mine, and, usually, from two to five or six in each; and in September, after they begin to descend, to pass under one of the trees is like sticking one’s head into a cobweb. A little later, the trees and fences are plastered over with their little cases. Dr. Packard’s account of his Zyonetia saccatella is brief, as it must of necessity be, in such a work as the “ Guide,” but I think there can be no doubt that it is identical with this species, which was first described by Dr. Clemens in the “ Proceedings,” loc. cit. 1 am led to this conclusion by the following facts :— The species of Zyonetia are not case bearers, but leave their mines to pupate on a zdus on the ground. The antennae in Lyovefia are about as long as the wings, while Dr. Packard’s figure represents them, as they are in this species, about one half as long as the wings. The description of the species by Dr. Packard is so accurate for this species (considering its brevity), that it is not probable that two species belonging to different genera, should resemble each other so closely ; and he found, at the same time, upon the same food-plant, and with the extraordinary ‘ mimicry” carried so far, that one of the species, belonging to a genus in which there are no other case bearers, assumes the case bearing habit in imitation of the other. Such a case of mimicry would delight Messrs. Wallace & Bates beyond measure. Dr. Packard evidently supposed that his species was a case bearer throughout its larval existence. But the fact which he states, that the case is made of the cuticle of leaves, shews that it has once been a miner. He found it on the leaves of the Apple, in the latter part of August and in bo bo ie THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. September—just the period when A. splendoriferel/a is cutting out its cases, crawling over the leaves, and fixing its byssus to the limbs and trunks, as Dr. Packard’s species did. On the other hand, some of the minuter markings, towards the apex of the wing, are not mentioned by Dr. Packard, nor shown in the figure. The form of the case in the figure is by no means accurate, though that of the larva is. And the a@/ar ex. is stated to be .20 inch, whilst I have never found it to exceed two lines. 2. A. lucifluella, Clem. Op. ¢it., p. 209. I have found the larvae mining the leaves of Hickory trees, but have not yet succeeded in raising them from the mines. According to Dr. Clemens’ description, it is a little larger than A. splendoriferella, and resembles more closely the next described species. Kentucky and Penn- sylvania. Not common. . 3. A. Ella. N. sp. Head silvery white, tinged with yellowish. Antennae pale fuscous above, silvery beneath ; thorax and about the basal one-third of the wings, silvery gray, remainder of the wings golden brown or dark brown, accord- ing to the light, sometimes appearing reddish golden. A rather large costal white streak in the dark part of the wing, just before the middle, with an indistinct reddish or yellowish spot before it, within the costal margin, and a triangular white dorsal streak nearly opposite, but a little before, and a costal faint yellowish indistinct spot behind it. A trian- gular, velvety, black, apical spot with its base towards the ciliae, a small silvery spot at its apex, and a narrow silvery line on each of its sides; ciliae silvery. Under surface and legs silvery white. A/ar ex. about } inch. (Smaller than 4. sflendoriferedla). Larva and food plant unknown. A single specimen found in its case attached to the bark of an Oak tree. Named in honor of a lady friend, who, like our ‘‘micro,” is both “etzte” and pretty. Dr. Clemens mentions the larvae of two other species, one of which mines the leaves of the Ironwood ( Ostya Virginica ), and the other mines different species of Willows (.Sa/éx). I have met with both mines, but, like Dr. Clemens, I have never seen the imagines, unless 4. £//a should prove to be one of them. These are the only known species of the genus. eat » tin THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 22,5 NOTES ON LEPIDOPTEROUS LARV. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. In November, 1867, I received from my esteemed friend, the late B. Billings, of Ottawa, several specimens of the larva of that very rare arctian, A. parthenos, which he had reared from eggs laid by a captured female in a box. They were apparently about two-thirds grown, and ready to hybernate for the winter ; a common practice with many species belong- ing to this interesting family of moths. The length of this larva was 114 inches, body cylindrical. Head medium sized, bilobed, black and shining, with a few brownish hairs. Body above, black, with transverse rows of shining tubercles, which were rather large, and of a dull brownish-white colour, excepting a few on the anterior segments, which were black ; and from each of them was emitted a tuft of brown hairs. The hairs on the anterior segments and around the base of the body, were rather short ; the others long and silky, and of a slightly paler brown colour, recurved backwards. Stigmata elongated, and of a yellowish orange colour. The under surface was black, with a slight brownish tinge, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th segments, each with a transverse row of black tubercles in continuation of those above, each tubercle emitting several short dark brown hairs. Feet black, ringed with dull whitish-brown, prolegs black without, tipped with greenish-brown ; within, greenish-brown. I buried these larva a short distance underground, stowed away care- fully in a box with some loose pieces of chip, with the hope that they would survive the winter. In this, however, I was disappointed, for on disinterring the box very early m Spring, I found them all dead. STEGANIA PUSTULARIA Guence.——The larva of this little delicate-looking geometric moth, feeds on the Maple. It is common in our neighbour- hood, and may be readily got, in season, by striking the branches of the trees a sharp blow, when it drops at once part way to the ground, re- maining suspended by a silken thread, by means of which, when danger passes, it can regain its position on the tree. Itis found full grown about the middle of June, enters the chrysalis state within a few days afterwards, and produces the moth early in July. When full grown, the larva measures about five-eights of an inch in length, body cylindrical. DAH THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIS'. Head medium sized, rather flat in front, slightly bilobed, and of a pale green colour, with a few very fine hairs, invisible without’a magnifying lens, scattered over its surface ; mandibles tipped with black. Body above bluish-green, with thickly set longitudinal stripes of whitish and yellowish. .\ double whitish dorsal line, with bordering lines of yellowish-white, neither of which are unbroken, but are formed of a suc- cession of short lines and dots. Below these, on each side, are two or three imperfect white lines, made up of short streaks, and much fainter than those bordering the dorsal line ; spaces between the segments yel- lowish. ‘Phe skin all over the body is much wrinkled and folded. The under surface is green, with a tinge of yellowish between the segments ; feet yellowish-green, prolegs green, faintly tipped with brown. The moth is of a pure white colour, with three or four reddish-brown spots on the costal margin of each of the fore-wings, and with a faint curved line of the same, crossing them a little beyond the middle; it expands 1 inch, This species was kindly determined for me by Dr. A. S. Packard, of Salem, Mass. METROCAMPA PERLATA Guence.--This pretty white geometer, which is larger than the last species referred to, I have bred from a larva which was found feeding on willow, and which entered the chrysalis state before I had an opportunity of describing it. ACRONYCTA OBLINITA Sm. & Adbbot.—This insect, which is admirably represented in all its stages in fig. 39, is well described by Mr. C. V. Riley, in his ** Third Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of Il- linois.” In addition to the re F food plants there given,I have B” = found the larva quite common on the cultivated Strawberry, and also on the Wild Rasp- berry. My specimens were taken early in September, and produced the imago about the middle of the following June. The ‘arva is very handsome, while the moth is of a very plain grey colour. a yy ae , bo t NI THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. EupHANESSA (NupDARIA) Menpica Waldk.—A female of this species deposited eggs on the sides of a box, in which it was confined, on the znd and 3rd of July. ‘They were of a bright red colour, and the young larve were hatched from them on the 8th of the same month. They were extremely active, about one-tenth of an inch long, with cylindrical bodies, and true geometers in their larval characteristics and mode of progression. The following description was taken at this stage in their history :— Head large, bilobed, dark brown. Body above dull brownish-green, with a slight pinkish tinge, and with many short black and brown hairs. Under surface similar to the upper; feet and prolegs—of which latter there were two pairs only—greenish and semi-transparent. I used my utmost endeavours to procure food for these larvae, and introduced into the box in which they were confined, leaves belonging to many different families of plants, but failed to find anything they would eat. In the course of two or three days, they all died of starvation. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. From Kirby’s Fauna Boreali-Americana.: Insecta. (Continued from page 217.) FAMILY ELATERIDE. [145.] 194. CAMPYLUS DENTICORNIS, A7rby.—Length of body 6 lines. ‘Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. This is the American representative of C. mesomelas, from which it is sufficiently distinguished by its toothed antennae 4nd longer prothorax. Body linear, black, hairy with pale decumbent hairs. Head punctured ; _ antennae longer than the prothorax, filiform, with all the joints, except the scape, pedicel, and terminal one, terminating at their internal extremity in a prominent tooth, less conspicuous in the two lower ones ; upper-lip, and nose which is reflexed and overhangs the mouth, yellow : prothorax chan- nelled, punctured, quadrangular, with the anterior angles rounded, and the posterior diverging and terminating in a sharp tooth or prominence ; sides rather wavy; limb yellow: scutellum subcordate: elytra minutely and thickly punctured, slightly furrowed, furrows thickly punctured ; marked with a narrow yellow stripe which does not reach the apex ; there is also a short yellow streak on the shoulders : base of the tibiae, claw-joint of the a 228 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. tarsi, and claws, yellow. [‘‘ Lake Superior, Maine and Pennsylvania” (Le Conte). We have specimens taken in the neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ont. | [146.] 195. PepEeTES BRIGHTWELLI, A7vrby.—Length of body 6 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. Body elongate, more slender than that of the type, testaceous ; hairy, with decumbent pale hairs; thickly punctured. Head dusky-red ; an- tennae longer than the prothorax, slenderer than usual in the tribe, scarcely serrated, with the four last joints rather slenderer than the rest ; eyes large and hemispherical ; nose a good deal reflexed : prothorax con- vex, channelled, dusky-red, darker in the disk: elytra pale testaceous ; furrowed, furrows deeply punctured ; interstices minutely punctured with scattered punctures: legs paler than the rest of the body, and nearly yellow. [Included now in the genus Athous Esch. Le Conte, in his ‘ Revision of the Elateride of the United States,” (Amer. Phil. Trans. vol. X., Pp. 425), states that this species occurs in the ‘Middle and Southern States, not rare. The specimen described by Kirby seems to have been a pale coloured variety of this species, which varies much in colour. In the male the thorax is constricted before the posterior angles, which are slightly divergent ; in the female, the sides are straight and the angles do not diverge ; the dorsal channel is never deep, and is frequently wanting.” SUBGENUS ASAPHES K7rdy. Body wider. Nose not overhanging the mouth. Rhinarium attenu- ated in the middle. Prothorax short, posterior angles carinated. I am doubtful whether this should not be considered as forming a dis- tinct genus. The general form is very different. But as the tarsi have suckers on the second and third joints, till more species are discovered, | have given it as only a subgenus of Pedetes. _ [Dr. Le Conte (Am. Phil. Trans. x. 449) states that’ although but one species of this genus is described by Kirby and another by Germar, I find that several of our Elaters possess characters which require them to be associated with his type. They seem to form a ‘natural group approach- ing most nearly to Corymbites, and indeed differing from that genus only in the structure of the tarsi. The second and third joints of the tarsi are dilated beneath into a short spongy lobe: the first joint is as long as the second and third together, and usually spongy at the tip: the fourth joint is small and narrow, received upon the third, and is sometimes also spongy beneath : the fifth joint is elongate with simple claws.” 196. PEDETES (ASAPHES) RUFICORNIS Avrdy.—Length of body 7% hnes. Taken in Nova Scotia’ by Capt. Hall. Ar - THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 229 Body black, rather glossy, minutely punctured, downy with pale down. Antennz, mouth, and palpi rufous or dusky-rufous ; labrum and mandibles piceous; nose rounded, not reflexed, not overshadowing the mouth ; antennz serrated on the inner side in the middle, last joint acuminated : prothorax short, widest behind, very obsoletely channelled, sides submar- gined ; posterior angles dentiform, strongly carinated : elytra piceous, or rufo-piceous, very slightly furrowed with oblong punctures in the furrows, interstices minutely punctured: margin of the abdomen and of the penulti- mate segment, rufous. [Previously described as Z/ater memnontus Herbst. Quite common in Canada; taken also in Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama (Le Conte). | [148]. 197. Perrmecus FuLvipes /erbst—Length of body 7 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Body black, punctured, glossy ; gloss and colour obscured by nu- merous decumbent pale hairs. Antenne pale chestnut, with the third joint double the length of the second: posterior angles of the prothorax carinated: elytra with nine rows of large and deep punctures, interstices minutely punctured : legs pale chestnut. | The only difference that I can Uiscover between the American and European specimens, is in the length of the third joint of the antenne, which in the latter is scarcely longer than the second ; and this may probably be a sexual distinction. [Belongs to the genus AZedanotus Esch., and is synonymous with JZ. (Cratonychus ) castanipes Payk.] 198. PERIMECUS CoMMUNIS Gy//—Length of body 6¥3 lines. Se- veral specimens taken at Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. Very similar to the preceding species, but much smaller. Body chest- nut-coloured, darker or lighter in different specimens, punctured, glossy, hairy: third joint of the antennz twice the length of the second: pro- thorax thickly punctured, obsoletely channelled, chiefly behind : elytra, antenne, and legs rather paler than the rest of the body, the former sculp- tured as in the last species. |Taken in Canada. © “ Abundant as far as Nebraska” (Le Conte). Belongs to the genus JZe/anotus. | [149.| 199. PertMecus simiLis Avréy.—Length of body 61% lines. Taken in Lat. 54°. I should have given this as merely a variety of the last ; but besides its blacker body, the punctures of the prothorax are not nearly so numerous, and there is no appearance of its being channelled : the breast is chestnut. [Belongs to the genus AZe/anotus. | 200. CTENICERUS KENDALLI Avrdy.—Plate ii, fig. 7. Length of body 7 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 200 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Body black, thickly punctured; gloss obscured by inconspicuous hairs. Head with two impressions between the eyes; nose subemargi- nate ; antenne shorter than the prothorax, serrated: prothorax longer than wide, channelled, posterior angles diverging, very acute, carinated : scutellum suboval, covered with white hairs: elytra rather wider than the prothorax, testaceous with a black discoidal blotch at the tip; slightly furrowed with punctures in the furrows; interstices punctured: legs piceous. . This species, which is a female, is related to Ct cupreus, but is much wider in proportion to its length. [Belongs to the genus Corymbites Latr. ‘One specimen found on the north shore of Lake Superior. Mr. Randall found it in Maine” (Le Conte). ] : [150.] 201. ELaTER (APHOTISTUS) 4RIPENNIS Azrdy.—Length of body 6 lines. Several taken in Lat. 54°. Cumberland-house. Body very black, without hairs, underneath very minutely punctured. Head thickly and confluently punctured; nose with two slight impressions: antenne shorter than the prothorax, third joint longer than the fourth : prothorax very thickly punctured, obsoletely channelled, longer than wide, rather narrowest before, sides curving, posterior angles acute, diverging, carinated: scutellum heart-shaped: elytra bronzed, or green-bronzed ; furrowed, furrows punctured ; interstices convex, minutely punctured ; tips acute: a discoidal rufous spot or band, and sometimes two, marks the underside of the abdomen : legs piceous. This species is the American representative of “£. impressus, from which it differs principally in being smaller, narrower in proportion, with the head and prothorax not at all bronzed, and the latter more thickly punctured and without any gloss. [Not uncommon in Canada; “ very abundant at Lake Superior ; found by Randall in Maine” (Le Conte). Belongs to the genus Corymbites Latr. | FAMILY BUPRESTID/. [151.] 202. BupreEsTis (ANOPLIS) RUSTICORUM A7réy.—Length of body 9% lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Body black-bronzed, punctured, glossy. Head with a levigated ele- vation in the centre between the eyes, channelled behind ; marked with two yellow spots underneath on the cheeks, a triangular one adjoining the eyes on their inner side, and two dots of the same colour between them ; prothorax grossly punctured with levigated spaces, the discoidal one longi- tudinal ; above the scutellum is an impression ; sides converging at the base of the prothorax ; anterior angles with a yellow stripe: elytra slightly THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 231 furrowed with numerous very minute punctures in the furrows ; rounded at the apex: interstices with scattered punctures; those of the second, third, fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth furrows elevated so as to form an obtuse ridge: the four last ventral segments of the abdomen have on each side a reddish - yellow spct, those on the last segment being the largest and most irregular ; anus with two distinct lateral teeth. This species is so similar to B. rustica, that at first I regarded it as merely a variety, that insect however is smaller; the head has a distinct longitudinal channel: the prothorax is less thickly punctured, and the sides, at the base, converge less but more suddenly: the elytra are trun- cated, or rather premorse, at the apex with a few minute denticles: the mandibles have a yellow spot, and there are none on the ventral segments of the abdomen, except the anal one: the anal teeth also are obsolete. [Belongs to the genus Ancylochira Esch. ‘‘ Oregon and Washington Ter- ritories, abundant”(Le Conte). | [152.] 203. BuprestTis (ANOPLIS) PaAGANoRUM A7zrby.—Length of body 734 lines. A single specimen taken at Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. Very like the species last described. Body of the same colour, head, anterior angles of the prothorax, and underside of the abdomen similarly spotted, except that in the former there are no frontal dots. The pro- thorax however is differently shaped, being somewhat constricted anter- iorly, with the sides towards the base rounded, it is also channelled ; the sculpture of the elytra is similar, but they are more attenuated and trun- cated at the end, like 4. 4. rustica, and armed with three minute den- ticles. [Probably belongs also to Axcylochira; unknown to Dr. Le Conte. ] 204. Buprestis (ANopLIs) NuTaLii Avréy.—Length of body 714—8 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. and on the Rocky Mountains. This species appears to be related to B. octoguttata. Body black- bronzed, glossy, punctured ; underneath with a few pale decumbent hairs. Head conffuently punctured with several irregular connected levigated spaces ; labial palpi, spot on the mandibles, labrum, lower margin of the eyes, and frontal spots, yellow: prothorax bisinuate both at the apex and base, grossly punctured with several levigated spaces; lateral margin, except the base, and part of the anterior, yellow ; elytra slightly furrowed, furrows punctured : interstices alternately convex and plane ; the sutural one is convex and forked at the base ; the flat ones are most punctured, but the convex ones more grossly; in the disk of the elytra are three 2 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. equidistant irregular yellow spots arranged longitudinally, and nearer the base, on the second ridge, a line of confluent yellow dots ; the apex of the elytra is truncated: [153] on each of the ventral segments of the abdomen the sides are marked with a triangular orange-coloured spot, those on the anal segment being larger and irregular: the coxze also and underside of the thighs are partly of the same colour. Variety B. Without the yellow line of confluent dots at the base of the elytra, and with the spots arranged longitudinally indistinct. C. With all the ventral orange spots large and irregular. 1). Front with a large central spot. | Base of the belly bluish. i’. Elytra with only yellow spots. Front as in D. F. With only one distinct yellow spot. The most certain distinction of this varying species is the alternately convex and plane interstice of the furrows of the elytra. [Belongs to Ancylochira. “ Lake Superior, one female” (Le Conte). | 205. BUPRESTIS (ANOPLIS) LINEATA /abr.—Length of body 9 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. Body above black-bronzed, underneath bronzed, punctured. Head below and mouth orange: mandibles black with a basilar orange spot; front obscurely banded and dotted with the same colour ; vertex chan- nelled : prothorax dilated posteriorly ; anterior angles deep orange : elytra slightly furrowed: furrows scarcely punctured ; interstices flat, grossly punctured ; truncated at the apex and armed with three minute teeth, one nearly obsolete ; on each elytrum are two obscure deep orange stripes, the outer one diverging towards the base so as to pass below the shoulders, the inner one subinterrupted, widest towards the base, and not reaching the apex: fore-breast anteriorly orange. [Taken in Canada, but not com- mon. ‘ Middle and Southern States, not rare. Varies very much in the fulvous markings of the elytra, which are normally two broad vittee upon each ; the extreme variation is where the outer vitta is broken into three spots, and the inner one into two ; the two anterior spots are then con- nected by a transverse line forming a hamate spot. The tip of the abdo- men in the male is truncate, with a little tooth on each side; in the female, it is broadly rounded, but the same teeth are seen. ‘The under surface is dull bronze, with the head and anterior margin of the posternum fulvous” (Le Conte, Am. Phil. Trans. x1, p. 206). Belongs to Ancylochira. | 206. Buprestis (ANOPLIS) FASCIATA Faby.—Length of body 7—8 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 233 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby; B and C in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. [154.] Body of a lovely brilliant green, punctured underneath with a few pale hairs. Head confluently punctured: antenne bronzed ; vertex channelled: prothorax transverse marked before the middle with two transverse impressions, and another just above the scutellum ; grossly punctured : elytra furrowed ; furrows thickly punctured ; interstices con- vex with fewer punctures ; apex truncated with the angles terminating in a short point ; beyond the middle of the elytrum is a rather broad, especially next the suture, wavy orange band surrounded by a dusky blotch ; beyond this and near the apex is another oblique abbreviated little band of the same colour. Variety B. Smaller with the bands paler and narrower. C. With only a single band narrowest next the suture : pro- thorax without the anterior impressions. [Quite common in many parts of Canada, in al lits variations. We found it abundant at Credit, Ont., but quite rare at Cobourg and Port .Hope. Le Conte (/vc. cit.) states that it is “not rare, especially in the Northern portions of the Atlantic States ; varies in colour from green to blue, and also in the size of the markings of the elytra. The tip of the abdomen of the @ is truncate ; in the @ it is truncate and bisinuate: the anterior tibize are simple.” Belongs to Ancylochira. | BOOKS RECEIVED. First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of the State of Lllinois. By W. Le Baron, M. D., State Entomologist. Springfield, Ill., 1871. We have been favoured by Mr. Le Baron—the successor of the much la- mented Mr. Walsh—with a copy of his fst Report as State Entomologist we trust that it is the precursor of a long series during years to come. After some introductory remarks, the author takes up for consideration Insects injurious to the Apple, Pear and Plum trees, the Grape-vine, the Currant, the Potato, the Rose, and the Pine. Among the first mentioned, he describes a new species, “ The Lesser Apple Leaf-folder” ( Zortrix malivorana ), which appears to have been excessively destructive in the neighbourhood of Lacon, Ill.; and gives a full account of the beneficial labours of a Chalcis fly, parasitic upon the Apple Bark-louse. . Another 234 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. new enemy to the horticulturist is figured and described—* the Callimor- pha Pear Caterpillar’(C. Leconte Boisd., var. fulvicosta Clemens.) ‘The larva of Acronycta superans Guen., he records as affecting the leaves a Plum trees, and gives a full description of its larval and imago states. Valuable descriptions are also given of the “ Four-striped Plant-bug” (Capsus quadrivittatus Say), affecting the Currant, and of the “ White Pine Leaf-louse” (AZptilaspis pinifoliae Fitch ). Notes on Chalidide. Parts ii. and iv. By Francis Walker, F.L.S. London, Janson, 1871. These pamphlets, for which we have to thank the author, contain numerous descriptions, illustrated by occasional wood- cuts, of species of Chalcidide from all parts of the world. Le Naturaliste Canadien. Edited by M. L’Abbe Provancher (Quebec), has now reached, like ourselves, the close of its 727d volume. We may congratulate each other upon having survived the most perilous period in the life of a scientific journal, and feel a well assured hope that we may both continue, in our respective ends of the country, to do what we can to promote the study and knowledge of the natural history of the Do- minion. Though designed especially for our French-speaking compatriots, we trust that Ze Naturaliste will acquire an extensive circulation also among the Anglo-Saxon portion of the community. Our readers will find in its pages much to interest them of an Entomological character, as well as other departments of Zoology and Botany. Les Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques (A. M. E. Deyrolles fils, 19 Rue de la Monnaie, Paris, France), though sadly interrupted during the siege and subsequent troubles in Paris, was at once resumed upon the cessation of hostilities, and is now conducted with quite as much spirit as formerly. We gladly translate from its pages much that is of more than local interest, from time to time. (We can supply a few copies at $1.25 per annum to our subscribers). ERRATA.—On page 163, at the sixteenth line from the top, for “intercepted” read “ interrupted ;” on page 182, at the third line ie the bottom, for ‘‘Cuniostoma” read ‘‘Cemiostoma ;”’ on page 183, a the third line from the bottom, and on Bees 184, at the fourteenth a from the top, for ‘‘ pups” read “ proper.” * Our specimens of this moth, to which Mr. Le Baron refers, were determined for us by Mr. Walker of the British Museum; we think that the determination may be relied on, although Guenee’s description is so meagre. ~ CG THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES PARASITE ON PIERIS RAP#.—The news of the appearance of an ef- fective parasite on P.rapfe will, we doubt not, be hailed with delight by our Lower Canadian friends and the gardeners of the North-Eastern States. Mr. P. S. Sprague, of Boston, Mass., has kindly sent us several specimens, of both sexes, of this new arrival, respecting which he writes as follows :— “The P. rape chrysalis parasite, mentioned in my communication (CAN. Enr., vol. iii., page 158) proves, on examination by Dr. Packard, to be the introduced Pteromalus puparum. My son gathered about fifty of the chrysalids, every one of which was infested, as many many as forty specimens coming from a single one. The female walks over the chrysalis feeling with her antenne for a suitable place to insert her ovipositor, and when found, drills a hole, which takes upon an average one minute in time.” [Figure 40 repre- sents the larva and chrysalis of this imported pest. | The following excellent communication by Mr. Sprague’s son, who bids fair to become an eminent Entomologist, we copy from the Rural New Yorker : “A New ENEMY TO THE CABBAGE WORM.— - Although I am a little boy, I think I can write something for the entomological column that will please the old folks. Almost everybody who raises cabbages has had a great many de- stroyed this year by a little green caterpillar, and I suppose they have seen a new, white butterfly, called the Prer?s rapa, flying around them. FIG. 40. This butterfly lays a little white egg on the leaves, which, in a few days, hatches out a little green caterpillar, which eats until it grows about an inch in length ; then it goes and hunts up some sheltered place where it can go into a chrysalis. I was looking for some chrysalids for my father, when I saw a little fly walking all over them ; by-and-by it made a little hole in the chrysalis to lay its eggs in. This fly is almost one-eighth of an inch long ; it is of a golden colour. Some of the flies have yellow legs, and others have dark ones. They have four wings; the body is pointed at the end; there are about fifty of these flies in a chrysalis ; the chrysalis looks as if it were all right, but if you break it open you will find it full of little grubs. This little fly kills so many of the chrysalids that in a few years the butterflies will not be so common, and cabbages will not be destroyed.—H. W. S., Boston, Mass.” 236 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. EXCHANGES, &c. LrepIpoPTERA, &c.—I have a collection of Birds’ Eggs, Lepidoptera (including some from Florida) and Coleoptora, duplicates of which I should like to exchange, giving preference to the two first named.— JosepH E. Cuase, Lock Box 46, Holyoke, Mass. An American Entomologist, who has made a speciality of Lepidoptera, would like to correspond with collectors in any part of the world.— Address H. K. Morrison, care of E. K. Butler, 68, Pearl-street, Boston, Mass. ADVERTISEMENTS. COLLECTING ‘TouR IN Laprapor.—The undersigned intends to leave next spring, 7 the first vessel from Quebec, on a collecting tour in LABRADOR. Insects of all orders will be collected ; and as many species will be, no doubt, unique, undetermined or new to science, those who are anxious to obtain specimens of LEPIpOPTERA and CoLeoprera will please communicate with me as early as possible. Terms in accordance with number and specialties.—Wm. Couper, Montreal. CORK AND Pins.—We have a good supply of sheet cork of the ordi- nary thickness, price 16 cents (gold) per square foot; and a full supply of Klaeger’s pins, Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6, price 50 cents (gold) per packet of 500. CANADIAN ENToMOLOoGIsT, Vols. 1 and 2.—We have a few copies left of these volumes—No. 1 of vol. 1 being deficient, however, and out of print. Price $1.25 (gold) each. List OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA.—Price 15 cents each, embracing 55 families, 432 genera, and 1231 species. (For labelling cabinets). PRINTED NUMBERS, in sheets, 1 to 2000, for labelling cabinets. Price 10 cents each set. These prices are exclusive of cost of transportation, and orders will please state whether the package is to be sent by mail or express. AGENTS FOR THE ENTOMOLOGIST. Canapa.—t. B. Reed, London, Ont.; W. Couper, Naturalist, Montreal, P.Q.; G. J. Bowles, Quebec, P. Q.; J. Johnston, Canadian Institute, Toronto, Ont. UNITED States.—The American Naturalist’s Book Agency, Salem, Mass.; J. Y. Green, Newport, Vt.; W. V. Andrews, Room 17, No. 137 Broadway, New York. Se INDEX TO VOLUME III. —__—_—_——_} © o—___—_ A Accentoatep List of Canadian Lepidop- tera 9). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 219. Acr of Incorporation, 4. Acorn Weevils, 137. AGrotis, Description ef, from Canada, 192. ALABAMA, Descriptions of Lepidoptera, from, 101, 124, 181. ANNUAL Meeting, 117, 152 ‘© Address, 120. Arctta, New, from Colorado, 167. ARTIFICIAL Colouring of Lepidoptera, 1538. Abraxis ribearia, 8. Acherontia atropos. 7. Acidalia pannaria, 103. ‘+ persimilata, 103. purpurissata, 105. Acilius mediatus, 89. Acronycta oblinita, 226. ABzeria exitiosa, 22. ‘* tipuliformis, 9. Agabus assimilis, 31. ‘“¢ bicolor, 30. ‘« — obliteratus. 31. ** phee »pterus, 31. semipunctatus, 30. Agrotis brunneicollis, 192. ‘* clandestina, 192. depressus, 192. oe os notes on larva of, 193. Alaria florida, 75. Aleochara pallitarsis, 114. Amphidasys cognataria, 12. Amphipyra inornata, 193. a pyramidoides, L933 Anacampsis robinie'la, 54, 55, 87, 163, 183. Anisotoma badia, 174. Angerona crocataria, 9. Anoplis fasciata. 232. dg Jineata, 232. ‘~ nutalli, 231. ie paganorum, 231. «* ru-ticorum, 230. Aphis cerasi, 13 Aphotistus eripennis, 230. Arctia parthenos, 225. “« Williamsii, 167. Argyromyges albella, 183. Morrisella, $6, 185. Ostens: vckenell: a, 183. pseudacaiella, 86, 88. quercifoliella, 183. robiniella, 54. : Uhlerella, 86, 183. se oe oe Asaphes ruficornis, 228. Asopia farinalis, 126. Aspidisca Ella, n. sp., 224. ca lucifiuella, 274. a splendoriferella, 223. Atomaria atra, 175. Attacus cecropia, 149. Aitagenus cylindricus, 175. a pellio, 176. Attelides dolichos, 102. B BentHaw’s, Mr., Anniversary Address, 73. BETHUNE, Rev. C. J. S., Articles by, 1, 16, 27, 37, 58, 81, 88, 114, 120, 134, 155, 172, 211. 227. Books Received, 58, 77, 233. Borers, 27. Bow tes, G. J., Articles by, 7, 37, 98, 138. 144, 179, 201. Bourt+RFLY Pictures, 159. Balaninus nasicus, 9%, 137. re rectus, 118, 137. Boros unicolor. 15. Botys auticostalis. 104. argyralis, 125. ecclesialis, 125. “« ~ flavidalis, 104, 126. ** laticlavia, 105. marculeata, 126. p ectilis, 105. plumbicostalis, 103. ventralis, 125. Buprestis fasciata, 232. lineata, 232. BY nutalli, 231. = octoguttata, 231. paganorum, 231. rustica, 231. rusticorum, 230. Byrrhus concolor, 176. cy cipaliosses 186. ‘* Kirbyi, 176. ‘* picipes, 176. varius, 187. C CaBBaGE Worm, an enemy to, 235. CeMIOSTOMA, a new species of, 2 CuHamBers, V. T., Articles Be 23, 54, S84, 108, 127, 146. 161, 182, 205, 221. CHICAGO Fire, LL. CLaSSIFICATION of Moths, 107. CopiinG Moth. the, 26. Cocoons Made by Snout Beetles, 158. iad oe ce ee oe ae 235 INDEX COLEOPTERA, 15, ve List of, 105. € ‘OLORADO ie otato Beetle, Report on, 61. CONSTITUTION, 4. Couper Wm., Articles by, Caloptenus Dodget, 165. Calosoma calidum, 49. Camptorhina atracapilla, 190. Campylus denticornis, 227. ce mesome'as, 227. Carpocapsa pomonella, 26. Ortaclysta Robinsonii, 181. Catops Spenciana, 173. Cemiostoma a/bella n. sp., 23, 209. 7 Laburnella, 24. Scitella, 24 spartifoliella, 23. susinella 23, 209. Ceratocaimpa imperialis, 37. Cetonia fulgida, 213. Choerocampa pampinatrix, 66. Choleva Spenciana, 173. Clerus nigripes, 15. “ee GL, 178. a2, oe Cs trifasciatus, 15. Clisiocampa Americana, 12. Coccinella. 9 notata, 13, 48. Colias Eur; theme, 82, 101. ‘* Keewaydin, 82. i volymbetes assimilis, 32. ie er, 32, bie lor, 80. bifarius, 31. chalconatus, 32. dolabratus, 89. “ fuscus, 89. irroratus, 83. MacCulloeiii, 89. notatus, 32. paludosus, 31. pheopterus, 3?. picipes 31, reticulatus, 51. rugicollis, 89. sculptilis, 89. semipunctatus, 36, 3!. striatus, 89. triseriatus, @8. Conotrachelus nenuphar, 12, 26, 65. Cossonus platalea, 15 Goricaria | denticulata, 174. a impressa, 175. Cratonychus castanipes, 229. Creophilus maxillosus, 154. oe villosus, 134. Cr yptobium bicolor, OF. pallipes, 94. Cryptophagus concolor, 175. humeralis, 170. Cryptus sami, 202. a Smithii, 202. Cteniceruscupreus. 230. Wy Kendalli, 230. Cucujus clavipes, 15. ee New Enemies of, 169. TO VOLUME 1UHe : Cyclinus assimilis, 91. Cynips q. centricola, 195. Cytilus varius, 176. D Dawnats ArcHippus, Abundance of, in Mas- sachusetts, 157. DasNals ARCHIPPUS, Swarming of, 156. rmauock, Gro., Articles by, 15. Donner, C. R., Articles by, aot Depressaria pse udacaciella, § robiniella, 87. Dermestes dissector, 176. ps lardarius, 176. Desmia maculalis, 126. ‘* subdivisalis, 126. ‘ Dichelonyea Bachii, 212. < clongatula, 213. subvittata, 213. testacea, 213. os virescens, 212. Diplotaxis tristis, 191. Dor yphora 10- lineata, 41. Dy ‘tiscus confluens, 9V, 91. Franklinii, 9). a Harrisii, 90. marginalis, 99. ‘* — Ooligbukii, 89, 90. om politus, 31. a iz 4 Epwarps, W. H., Articles by, 70. Enremy, New Insect, to Turnip and Rape, 98. Entomo.oey, 32, 61, 198. ENTOMOLOGISTS in France, 99. ENTOMOLOGIC AL Books, New, iE Gleanin s, 14 Notes from Lakes Huron and Superior, 81. a Picnic, 71. re How to Preserve, 119. Errata, 38, 59, 94, 126. 130 181, 234. EXCHANGES, 16, 39, 59 SO: 10°, 120, 140, Tao! 180, 200. 230, 236. Eacles imperialis, 37. ‘ Ebulea tert alis, 72. ; Elater wripenni-, 230. ] “© impressus, 230. ‘* memnonius, 229. Ellopia ribearia 8. Erebus odora, 84. Eumenes fraterna, 62. Euphanessa mendica, 227. F F'riznpiy Notes, 117. | G Goop Effects of Entomology, 65. Grotnr, Aug. R., Artieles by, 101, 124, 181, 192. r e: GRASSHOPPERS, 139. ue ce INDEX TO VOLUME It. 939 GRASSHOPPERS from Colorado, New, 168. Gelechia geminella, 196. a glandulella, 118. Gnophria vittata, 36. Gnorimus maculosus, 214. Grapholitha oculana, 13. Grapta C. album, 117. ** Fabricii, 79. “* faunus, 10. interrogationis, 70, 119. progne, 10. Gyrinus zeneus, 92. Am-ricanus, 91. analis, 92. borealis, 92. imp essicollis, 91. lineatus, 92. mar nus, 92. minutus, 95. ventralis, 92. Gyrohypnus assimilis, 94. H Hints to Fruit Growers, 12, s torePackine. 13: ae se ec ee 25, 66, 149. Hale idota maculata, Notes on Larva of, 186. Haliplus immacuiicollis, 28. ci impressus, 28. Harpalus caligivosus, 49. Hesperia conspicua, 51. Hippodamia convergens, 42. 13 punctata, 15, 48. macu ata, 48. Hister depurator, 188. ** Harisii, 188. ‘« Lecontei, 15. *¢ Paykulii, 188. Hydaticus MacUullochii, 89. rugicollis, 89. Hydrobius fuscipes. 187. marginellus, 187. melanoc phalus, 187. Hydroporus catascopium, 28. duodecimlineatus, 29. interruptus, 28. levis, 28. nigro- lineatus, 28, parallelus, 28. picatus, 29. picipes, 29. similis, 29. Hylobius pales, 15. Hylurgus terebrans, 15. Hyperetis alienaria, on the Larva of, 209. Hyphantria cunea, "36. textor, "69. i INQUILINOUS moth larva, 195. Ips De Jeanii, 173. ‘© fasciatus, 15. sanguineolentus, 15, J Joxes J. M., Articles by, 37. “ee “ee “se ae se oe “se ae ae ] | K Kirey’s Insects of British North- Am- erica, 27, 88, 116, 134, 155, 172, 186, 211, 227. it Leprinoprera from Florida, 79. LEvIDOPTEROUS larve, nutes on, 225. Lonvon Branch Meetings, 13, 217. Lace cophilus Americanus, 30. biguttatus. 30. fa. ciatus, 30. minutus. 30. proximus, 30. Lachnosterna fusea, 192. Lathrobium bicolor, 94. den tatum, 93. Gravenhorstii, 93. puncticolle, 93. Laverna cephalonthiella, n. sp., 221. Leiodes puncto-striatus, 174. Leionotus Franklinii, 99. Leistotrophus cingulatus, 116. Lema trilineata, 43. Leucanthiza Amphicarpeaecfoliella, 162, 205. Leucanthiza ornate’la, n. sp., 87, 88, 127. Saundei -sella, n. sp., 200. Limenitis arthemis, pate oh disippus, 52, 117. ursula, 52, 117. Lithocolletis aceriella, 130. eriferella, 183. esculisella. A111; 112. : ambrosive'la, n. sp., 127, 183. argentitimbriella, 57, 182. argentinotella, 148. me basistrigella, 148, 149, 166, 182. Bethune la, n. sp., 109. Carye-albella, n. sp., 58, 85, 182, 205. caryee foliella, 109. 165. celtifoliella, n. sp., 128. ce tisella, n. sp., 129. Clemensella, n. sp., 57, 85, 205. Cincinnatiella, n. sp., 146, 149. clerckella, 182. coryliella, n. sp., 111, 112, 127, 166. a crategella, 55, 108, 166. a5 curvilineatella, 184. desmodiella, 127, 162. Fitchella, 183. geminatella, 183. yuttifinitella, 110, 111, 112. hamadryadella, 55, 147, 164,182. juglandiella, 165. lucetiella, 56, lucidicostella, n. sp., 205 multipunctella, 72. nidificansella, 184. nonfascielia, n. sp., 108, obscuricostella, 85, + obstrictella, 183. es ee ee ae 57,85, 182, ‘3 240 INDEX ° Lithocolletis ornatella, n. sp., 161, 182, 205. | te Ostensackenell a, 183. a ostryeella, 111, 112. * ostr\ efoliella, 85, 111. | Wy pastorella, 164, oe populifoliella, 164. | zs querci-albella, 57, 182. | a robinie la, 54, 86, 87, 85, 163, 183, 185. 5 salicifoliella, 163, 164, 185 : sylvella, 164. “ titacella, in. sp., 50. ie trifasciella, 1S4. triteeneanella, nv. sp., LLO, 1d4. tubifere la, 165, 185. ulmella, vn. sp., 148, 185. a virginiella, n. sp., 84, 166. Lyonetia saccatella, 225. Lytta cinerea, 158, M Micro-LeprpopterRa, 54, 84, 108, 127, 146, 161, 182, 205, 221. MisceLuangEovs Notes, 15, 37, 79, 97, 117, 137, 156, 178, 194, 234. Macrobasis Fabricii, 158. Megachile brevis, 210. Melanetus castanipes, 220. Meloeangusticollis, 37. Metrocampa perlata, 226. Mysia, 15-punctata, 169. ~ | New Mode of Attracting Lepidoptera, 194. Nisontabes Butterflies, the, 112. Nores from the far East, 37. ‘* on L pidopterous larve, SOs | Nova Scotia and Canada, Notes om some | Insects of, 141. Nov. Scotian Hymenoptera, 197. Notice to Members, 150. Numer of Insects, 107. Necrodes surinamensis, 156. Necrophorus Hallii, 135. | hebes, 154. | “ Melsheimeri, 135. | | i | Be obscurus, 135. a pygmeeus, 136. ad velutinus, 134, Nematus ventricosus, 7, 25, 37. Nison: ades Brizo, 113. Ennius. 115. | ‘© Horatius, 112. | "©" “Teetus, 11:2. | “ Juvenalis, 113. ‘© Lucilius, 115. = Martialis, LL5. “¢ persius, 115. ‘© -virgilius, 112. Nitidula discoidea, 170. | ‘© obsenra, 172. | ** ossium, 173. Noctua clandestina, 35. Nudaria mendica, 227. OMISSION, Our Thir« O VOLUME IIl. O 16. 1 Volume, 1. Oice optoma affine, 156. Omosita ¢c Onthophag oe Americanum, 155, 172. Canadense, 172 ineequale, 137. lapponicum, 136. marginale, 136. terminatum, 156. tritubercalatum, 136. olow, 15. cus latebrosus, LS9. scabricollis, 190. Orgyia leucostigma, 14. Osmoderma seabra, 216. P PAPILIONID, 98. PARKER, H. W., Articles by, 51, 112. Peacu Borer, on the larva of, 22. PERSONAI Prorrinsrde PHENOME Puium Cur Uy O02 Lose , Articles by, 97, 105. non, A, 138. culio, 12, 25. PoLyHISTOR, 178. Prize for Ontario Entomologists, 37. PiuMm Sphinx Moth, 5 Papilio, Ajax, 70. ‘* “Marcellus, 70. ‘© Telamonides, 70. Peederus } “cc ittorarius. 93. riparius, 93. Parectopa robiniella, 55, 87, 88, 185. Parorgyia achatina, 125. 6 ee “cc clandestina, 125. leucophea, 125. plagiata, 125. tephra, 125. rossii, 125. Passalus cornutus, 217. oe interruptus, 216. Pedetes Brightwelli, 228 “© ruficorn's, 228. Pelidnota punctata, 199. Pe uis ferruginea, 172. Perimecus communis, 229, “ee ce fulvipes, 229, simils, 229, Perillus circumcinctus, 170. Phenolia grossa, 15. Philonthus aeneus. 115. se ae oe oe brunneus, 115. fulviy es, 115. mw ndibuliris, 115. picatus, 115, 116. politus, 115. Phyllocnistis ampelopsiel/a, 1. sp., 207. oe 6c ee ee Pieris rape “cs ampelopsifoliella, 206, liriodendronella, 185, 205, 207. vitegene la, 206, vitif lie la, 1. sp., 206, 207, 208, 37. ‘parasite, 197, 284. INDEX TO VOLUME III. Pilocrosis ramentalis, 125. Pissodes strobi, 15. Platycerus depressus, 216. Sie piceus, 216. Platysamia columbia, 204. Priocycla armataria, Notes on larva of, 130. Pteromalus puparum, 197. Pygarctia abdominalis, 124. Q QuepeEc Currant Worms, 7. ‘* Lepidoptera taken at, 144. ‘* New Butterflies at, 179. R REARING Butterflies from the Egg, 70. Rerp, E. B., Articles by, 5, 41, 95, 169, 210. REMITTANCES, 16, 39, 89, 99. Riuey, C. V., Articles by, 52, 117, 138, 158, 195. Rircuig, the Late Mr., 177. Reduvius raptatorius, 49. Rhaygium lineatum, 15. Rhizotrogus Drakii, 192. fervens, 192. S SaunpDERS, Wm., Articles by, 12, 14, 22, 25, 35, 41, 66, 76, 130, 149, 156, 186, 193, 209, 225, SprpErR, An intelligent, 98. Sprague, PIS; Articles by, 157. Samia Columbia, 35, 201. “ ecclesialis, 125. Saturnia eglanterina, 97. Scaphium castanipes, 174. Serica vespertina, 190. Silpha affine, 156, americanum, 155. ‘** canadense, 172. inequale, 137. pporicnm, ae marginale, 136. “ peltata, 155, 6, 172. surinamensis, 136. 241 Silpha terminatum, 156. ss tritubercalatum, 136. Sphinx drupiferarum, 5. Stegania pustularia, 225. Staphylinus brunneus, 115. chrysurus, 116. . hybridus, 116. 4 maculosus, 116. ie Tuomas, C., Articles by, 168. To Our Fr ends, 21. Tachyporus acuductus, 114. affinis, 114. Terias nicippe, 101. Vhecla Dolich:s, 102. Tinea granella, 196. Tischeria citri ipenella, 208. a malifoliella, 208. Me quercilella, 208. = solidagonifolielia, 208. a Zelleriella, 208. Tomicus pini, 15. Tortrix rosaceana, 218. Trichius affinis, 215. assimilis, 214. Of Bigsbii, 214. 58 fasciatus, 214, foveatus, 214. piger, 215. oe rotundicollis, 215. rugosus, 215. viridans, 215. viridulus, 215. Trox arenarius, 190. Trypeta canadensis, 218. V Varia, 199. W WaLker, F., Articles by, 141, 197. W ausH Cabinet, destruction of, 196. Wary? 39. x Xantholinus cephalus, 94. END OF VOJ.UME IIL f QL The Canadian entomologist v.1-—3 Biological & Medical Senals PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE CARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY STORAGE Y Ue ty Yas iy y iy YY YU Uy 4, Yi fy Wy, UY, Yi y y UY yes iy yy yy Yj Uy ge iy yD d