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IV.-APRIL to DECEMBER, 1888. ee EDITOR : Rev. Geo. D. Hutsrt, 15 HIMROD STREET, BrRookiyn, N. Y. ASST. EDITOR: Curis. H. Roserts, 11 WEST 123RD STREET, New York. t sf - = < / i / f/x. Fi ie a < “, ma = So AMERICANA BROOKLYN, BPRIL, 1888. ~-NO. 1. VOL. ‘IV. A Preliminary List of the Myriapoda of Arkansas with Descriptions of New Species. By CuHarxies H. Borrman. (Published by permission of JOHN C. BRANNER, State Geologist of Arkansas.) 1. Platydesmus Lecontei (Wood). One was found on the grounds of the Deaf Mute Asylum and others on the hills along the river, near Little Rock. 2. Julus minutus (Brandt). I found a specimen in the swamp at south end of Main Street, Little Rock. Mr. Hutcherson also found one near Argenta. 3. Spirobolus marginatus (Say). Abundant throughout the state... Mee ss 4. Parajulus czsius Bollman. “@ 4 Julus cesius Wood, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci, 43, 1867 (Texas). This species is not uncommon throughout the state. 5. Cambala annulata (Say). I have received numerous specimens of this species, collected around Little Rock by Mr. Hutcherson. 6. Lysiopetalum lactarium (Say). Common throughout the state. 7. Campodes flavicornis Koch. Campodes flavicornis Koch, Syst. der Myr., 126, 1847 (Pa.). aS Campodes fusicornis Koch, Syst. der Myr., 127, 1847 (Pa.). Spirostrephon cestoannulatus Wood, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 194, 1865 (Alleghany Co., Pa.); Ryder, Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus., 526, 1880. Pseudotremia vudii Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 180, 1869 (Montgomery Co., Va.); Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 527, 1880. * Cryptotrichus cesioannulatus Packard, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 190, 1883 (Culmana, Ala., or Ocean Springs, Miss.). A single specimen was obtained at Little Rock. As this species has a number of synonyms, I have thought it best to give its synonomy, 8. Craspedosoma flavidum sp. noy. Yellowish brown, feet and antennez lighter. Robust, segments not constrict2d, lateral carinze small and body strongly resembling that of Campodes. Antenne longer than width of body. Ocelli 12-14, di-tinct, arranged in a triangular patch and in § or 6 series. Dorsal plates rather smooth, setigerous granules small, sete rather large. Male feet crassate, those of fema!e slender. Length of body 5.8 mm.; width .7 mm. Hab.—Okolona. This species strongly resembles a Campodes. In life the individuals are a dusky yellow.. This description is based upon a male and female. g. Craspedosoma carniatum Bollman. Not common in the Fourche bottoms, south of Little Rock; also found on the grounds of the Deaf Mute Asylum. 10. Leptodesmus hispidipes (Wood). Abundant everywhere. Very common throughout the State. All specimens obtained were young, but the shells of many adults were found. 11. Euryurus evides Bollman. _ Paradesmus evides, Bollman, Ent. Amer., II, 229, 1887 (Winona, Minn. ). Common over the State. Specimens agree with those from Minn, 12. Chztaspis albus Bollman. Chetaspis albus, Bollman, Ent. Amer., III, 46, 1887 (Blooming- ton, Ind.). One specimen obtained at Little Rock. 13. Polydesmus minor sp. nov. Dark shining brown, lighter beneath. Moderately slender, depressed, slightly acuminate anteriorly and posteriorly, smooth, very sparsely pilose (setigerous). An- tennze equal to width of body, subclavate. First dorsal plate wide, angles not or but slightly produced , not toothed, tubercles not distinct, except lateral. Other dorsal eh plates with posterior angles produced, especially posteriorly ; lateral margins three or four toothed, indistinct posteriorly, tubercies distinct, arranged in two rows of four each, anterior border indistinctly div'ded into two, po-teriorly, the Jast row of tub- ercles project beyond border ofsegments. 1. +s long, crassate in male. Male: copulation foot very simi ar to se/rauéus ; ventral plates produced into a short, pilose lobe anteriorly. Length of body ro—14 mm., width 1.5 1.8 mm. Hab.—Little Rock. This species is described from a number of specimens foand in the low lands, south of Little Rock. 14. Polydesmus pinetorum, sp. nov. Very similar to P. serratus, but the general color paler and size smaller. Tuberculation not su distinct, sides of first segment I toothed, other distinctly 3 or 4 oothed. Last row of scales on posterior segments composed of six or eight setae tipped scale-, which project beyond border of segments. Ventral plate of ninth pair of legs not produced as in serrvaéus, copulation foot very similar. Length of body 15 to 18.5 mm.; width 2.2 to 2.8 mm, Hab.---Little Rock, Arkadelphia, Okolona, Murfreesboro, and Ultima Thule. As already indicated, this species is closely related to serratus. It is principally separated by its smaller size and form of the ventral of ninth pair of legs of male. This species may only represent a geographical form of serra/us. It is very abundant throughout the state, and all those collected during the summer were in the larva stages. I am indebted to Mr. Hutcherson for adult specimens. 15. Fontaria virginiensis (Drury). Abundant at Donaldson, common at Okolona. Specimens from Arkansas are similar to those from North Carolina, but those from northern parts of Mississippi valley represent geographical species. At Donaldson the adults were found crawling on the surface of the ground in company with a large number of their young, probably one adult to five or eight hundred young, then (July 11, 1887) about half grown. This species seems to be more confined to river bottoms, and low rich woodlands. The odor of prussic acid is strongly emitted by this species through a series of pores on each side of the body. 16. Spheriodesmus pudicus sp. nov. General color pinkish, especially posteriorly, anterior half of segments darkest, a black median dorsal line, antennz dark, legs pale. Body widest and highest an- teriorly, tapering posteriorly, smooth, setze absent. Vertex smooth, somewhat sul- cate, Antenne subclavate, about equalling width of body. Dorsal plates smooth, four preceding the last with an indistinct row of obtuse scales ; lateral plates except —4— the first, antepenult and penult with their posterior margin serrate. Anal plate triangular with the anvles rounded, sparsely pilose. Legs long and slender, extend- ins beyond sides of body. Male: ventral plate of second pair of legs produced into two short cones; coxz of second and third pairs more pilose than others ; copulation foot much twisted, end expanded and divided, pilose. Length of body 7 mm.; width 2 mm. Hab.—Little Rock and Okolona. This is the first time that any species of this genus has been found in the United States. It is easily distinguished from S. mexzcanus (Saussure), by having a few scales on posterior dorsal plates. The collection contains two specimens of this species. 17. Polyxenus fasciculatus Say. Common at Little Rock, five were obtained at Antoine and one at Ulima Thule. 18. Pauropus lubbockii Packard. A few specimens were obtained at Little Rock. 1g. Linotenia bothriopa (Wood). I have received one specimen that was collected near Little Rock by Mr. Hutcherson. 20. Linotznia robusta (Meinert). Scolioplanes robusius Meinert, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 224, 1886 (N. A.). Frontal plate present. Fulvous, head and antenne dark. Not robust, attenuated anteriorly and posteriorly ; moderately smooth, sparsely pilose. Prehensorial feet smooth, sparsely pilose ; sternum subcordiform, length and width subequal; coxz a little wider than long, unarmed ; tooth strong, acute; claw small, a little curved. Cephalic plate somewhat wider than long, smooth, sparsely pilose, sides strongly rounded, slightly diverging, posterior margin only covering a small part of basal plate, basal plate two-thirds as long as cephalic, twice as wide as long. Antenne moderately short, articles short, penult and antepenult not noticeably shortened. Dorsal plates subsmooth, anterior prescuta short, median and posterior long. Spiracles round, very small. Ventral plates with an obsolete median foveola, pores 0a posterior margin. First pair of legs short, posterior longer than anterior. Posterior coxee moderately inflated, pores about 12 to 18, small, in three series ; last ventral plate triangular, small, sides moderately converging. Posterior pair of legs longer than penult, crassate in the male, slender in the female ; claw large. Pairs of legs of male 51—55 ; of female 54—59. Length of male 27 —33 mm.; of female 34 —52 mm, Hab.—Little Rock, Okolona, Arkadelphia and Ultima Thule. I refer this species provisionally to Z. robusta (Meinert), although it differs from Meinert’s description by rather unimportant characters. I have also seen specimens of this species from Tennessee. 21. Linotznia branneri sp. nov. Frontal plate present. Fulvous, head and antennz dark. Robust, strongly at- tenuated anteriorly, less posteriorly ; moderately smooth, sparsely pilose. Prehensorial Sa feet smooth, sparsely pilose; sternum subcordiform, wider than long (5:3); cox wider than long, unarmed ; tooth strong, acute ; claw jarge, curved. Cephalic plate subquadrangular, sides rounded, slightly diverging posteriorly ; basal plate about half as long as cephalic, twice as wide as long, anterior margin scarcely covered by cephalic plate. Antennz long, joints moderate, penult and antepenult longer than wide. Dorsal plates moderately smooth; anterior and posterior prercuta moderate, median larger. Spiracles round, moderately large. Ventral plates with a distinct median sulcus ; pores on posterior part. First pair of legs moderately short, anterior and posterior subequal, Posterior coxz strongly inflated, pores large and small, about twelve. Anallegs of the female slender, claw large. Pairs of legs of female 43. Length of female 37 mm. Hab.—Little Rock. This species is named in honor of Dr. J. C. Branner, State Geo- logist of Arkansas. The collection contains one specimen of this species. It is related to dothriopa, but is distinguished by a smaller number of legs and its large posterior coxa and pores. 22. Geophilus perforatus (McNiell). Schendila perforatus, McNiell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 325, 1887 (Pensacola, Fla.). Abundant throughout the Siate. 23. Geophilus okolone sp. noy. Frontal plate absent ; anal pores absent. Fulvous, head and antennez darkest. Rather slender, very slightly attenuated anteriorly and posteriorly, smooth, very sparsely pilose and punctate. Prehensorial feet smooth, punctate, sternum wider than long (4:3.5); coxa of about equal length and width, unarmed ; claw moderately curved ; teeth almost obsolete. Cephalic plate slightly longer than wide, suboval, posterior margin truncate, sparsely punctate and pilose; prebasal plate exposed ; basal plate much wider than long (5:2). Antennz short, penult and antepenult joints not noticeably shortened. Dorsal plates distinctly bisulcate. Anterior spiracle rather large, oval, oblique, median and posterior smaller. Ventral plate with an indistinct median sulcus ; pores not manifest. First pair of legs short, anterior and posterior subequal. Posterior coxa scarcely inflated, pores absent ; last ventral plate wide, side moderately converging, not densely pilose. Anal legs produced, armed, rather densely pilose beneath, crassate. Pairs of legs of male 61 ; of female 63. Length of body 40 mm, Hab.—Okolona. There are two adults of this species in the collection. It is separated from other North American species by having no coxal pores and the pre- basal plate exposed. 24. Geophilus salemensis Bollman. I have seen one specimen that was collected near Little Rock by Mr. Hutcherson. 25. Cryptops hyalinus Say. Cryptops hyalina Say, Journ. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., III, 1820 . Gas: (E. Florida); Say, Oeuvres Ent., sp. 3, 1822; Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc., 409, 1844; Newport, Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus. Chil., 60, 1856; Wood, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 168, 1865 ; Underwood, Ent. Amer., 65, 1887. Cryptops hyalinus Koch, Syst. d. Myr., 175, 1847 ; Gervais, Aptéres, IV, 293, 1847. ? Cryptops milberti Gervais, Aptéres, IV, 592, 1847 (New Jersey). ? Cryplops milbertii Wood, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 168, 1865 ; Underwood, Ent. Amer., 65, 1887. Cryptops asteripes Wood, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 129, 1867 (Montgomery Co., Virginia); McNiell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, 326, 1887 (Pensacola, Fla.); Underwood, Ent. Amer., 65, 1887. Cryftops sulcatus Meinert, Proc. Amer. Philos. Suc., 211, 1886 (Bee Spring, Ky.); Underwood, Ent. Amer., 65, 1887. The study of a large series of specimens of the genus Cryp/ops has convinced me that all the species of Cryféops described from North America belong to a single species—Ayalinus Say. I have questioned the Cryp/ops milberti of Gervais, because the author states that the spines of the last pair of feet are absent. This character is contrary to the true definition of Crypfops and I am inclined to think that either Gervais had an abnormal specimen or that his ob- servations were incorrect. : Asperipes Wood, has been separated from the other species by the number of antennal joints (1g), which he assigned to his species, but as the number of joints has recently been found to be variable it is not a true character upon which species can be based. In Ent. Amer., 65, 1887, Dr. Underwood says the last pair of legs of sulcatus Meinert, are unarmed, as in mz/berti Gervais, but in this he is mistaken, for, in his generic description Dr. Meinert states that the last pair of legs are armed with a definite number of spines. Considering this state of characters, I believe that all the described species should be united under C. hyalinus. I have examined specimens of this species from the following States: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Indian Territory, and Ar- kansas, where it is very common. 26. Theatops spinicaudus (Wood). Abundant from Little Rock to Ultima Thule. 27. Scolopendra heros Girard. Two adults were obtained at Little Rock, several young at Murfrees- boro and Muddy Fork. a= 28. Scolopendra woodii Meinert. A single specimen was caught at Donaldson. 29. Scolopocryptops sexspinosus (Say). Common at all points ; these specimens are of a darker shade than northern or eastern examples. 30. Henicops fulvicornis (Meinert). A single specimen was obtained at Little Rock near the Deaf Mute Asylum, This is a European species, and the only other recorded North American locality is Mount Lebanon, New York. 31. Lithobius branneri Bollman. A single specimen was obtained at Okolona and another at Little Rock. ‘ . 32. Lithobius proridens Bollman. A few were obtained at Little Rock. One individual is considerably larger than any specimen collected before. 33. Lithobius pinguis sp. noy. Posterior angles of all the dorsal plates straight. Anal pair of legs armed with two claws. Coxal pores few, in a single series. Penultimate pair of legs armed with two claws. Coxe of the posterior feet unarmed. Dark chestnut brown, head and antenne dark, legs paler. Slender, not smooth, sparsely pilose; head wider than long (3.5:3), polished, not pilose. Antennze short, 22- to 24-jointed, articles short. Ocelli 4 to6, arranged in 2 or 3 series. Prosternal teeth 2 =- 2. Coxal pores 3,3,3,2 to 4,4,4,4, round. Spines of the first pair of legs 0,0,1 ; penultimate pair 1,3,2,1 to 1,3,3,1 ; anal pair 1,3,2,0. Posterior legs short. Female : claw of the genitalia entire, stout and much curved; spines strong, subequal. Length of body 97—10 mm, Hab.—Little Rock. This description is based on three specimens. ‘This is the smallest North American species with the claw of the female genitalia entire. 34. Lithobius celer sp. nov. Posterior angles of the 9, 11, 13 dorsal plates produced. Anal pair of legs armed with one claw. Coxal pores few, in a single series. Penultimate pair of legs armed with two claws. Coxz of the 13, 14, 15 pairs of feet laterally armed. Brown of various shades, head and legs more or less chestnut, antennae dark. Moderately robust, smooth, sparsely pilose ; head about as long as wide, pilose. Antennae rather long, 30- to 34-jointed, articles small. Ocelli 18 to 40, arranged in 4 to 7 series. Pro- sternal teeth 5-+5 to7-+ 7. Coxal pores 2,3,3,2 to 5,6,6,5, round. Spines ot the first pair of legs 1,2,1 to 2,2,1; prenultimate pair 1,3,3,1 to 1,3,3,2 ; anal pair 1,3,3,1 to 1,3.3,2. Posterior legs short. Male : tibia of anal legs somewhat crassate, and furrowed beneath; but more furrowed in the female. pages Female: claw of the genitalia short, tripartite, middle lobe much longer, others subequal ; spines moderately slender, inner shortest. Length of body 15—25 mm. Abundant or common throughout the State. This species is not strongly related to any known North American locality, it should be placed near _furvficafus, which it seems to replace in Arkansas. Dr. Wood has reported /orficatus from Arkansas and he may have had the species which I have described. 35. Lithobius cedipes, sp. nov. Posterior angles of the 9, 11, 13 dorsal plates produced. Anal pair of leys armed with twe claws. Coxal pores few, in a single series. Penultimate pair of leys armed with two claws. Posterior coxae unarmed. Brown, head and anten: ac dark. legs and ventral plates paler. Robust, not smooth, sparsely pilose ; head smooth, of about equal length and breadth (3.2, 3.6). Antennae short, attenuate, 24- to 26-jointed (Ss, 26, © 24). Ocelli g to11, arranged in 3 or 4 series. Prosternal teeth 2+ 2 or 3+3- Coxal pores 3,5,4,3 to 6,5,5,5 round. Spines of the first pair of legs 1,1,1 ; penultimate pair 1,3,3,2; anal pair 1,3,3,1. Posterior pair of legs short. — Male : femur of the last pair of legs somewhat bent inwardly and swollen ; tibia very strongly swollen, especially above and having a bunch of hairs on the posterior third ; first tarsal joint crassate. Penultimate pair of legs somewhat swollen, prin- cipally the tibia ; first tarsal joint produced into a short lobe on the inner side. Female : posterior pair of legs scarcely swollen ; claw of the genitalia entire ; spines 2—2, Length of male 15.4 mm.; of female 20 mm. Hab.—Little Rock, I have three specimens of this species. This is the only known species with both the anal and penultimate pairs of feet swollen or pro- auced into lobes. 36. Lithobius transmarinus Koch. Abundant at Little Rock, common at other localities. 37. Lithobius mordax Koch. Common from Little Rock to Ultima Thule. 38. Lithobius vorax Meinert. Found at all points where collections were made, but was more common at Little Rock. 39. Lithobius multidentatus Newport. In a vial of Myriapods that were collected near Little Rock by Mr. Hutcherson, there is a single specimen of this species. 40. Scutigera forceps (Rafinesque). One adult was seen at Arkadelphia, and several young at Little Rock. InpraNaA University. March 28, 1888. = Or. An Introduction to a Classification of the North American Lepidoptera. By Jounx Bb. Situ. (Continued from Ex. Am., vol. I, p. 87.) In the last paper of this series the Sphingidze were treated of and a synopsis of the genera was given. It has been usual to follow this family with the Sesvde, or 4geriid@e as some authors prefer to call them, and, though recognizing no close relationship in any of its stages, with the Sphingide, I shall yet follow the general order here. The family Seszde is sharply defined, resembling somewhat in the imago state the Hymenoptera in the transparent wings and banded bright maculation. In the early stages they resemble the Cas/niide and Cosside@ in so far that the larvee are Lxdophydes, living in roots, stems or branches of plants, and the pupz also have great resemblance to them. The antennz are longer than half the length of primaries, gradually variably thickened medially, more slender apically, the tip often with a brush of hair; rarely they are setaceous, in the + While picking apples, October 12, 1887, I found a thin oblong cocoon between two apples, with a leaf drawn over part of its upper side. November 1, there came out a fine Q Lugonia almiaria. The orchard consists of apple and pear trees, and the nearest pear tree is about twenty feet from this one. I am not aware that Apple has been as yet known as a food plant of this insect. M. S. CRane. A Disclaimer. Dear Mr. Editor : In Ent. Amer.. vol. 3, p. 218, in a note on the American species of Ca/imorpha, Mr. Lyman’s work on the subject, and my own are noticed. For myself I can but welcome criticism, and as in the very paper noticed I claim full liberty to disagree with everybody, I certainly do not dispute the right of others to disagree with me. But your reviewer speaks in the plural, of a ‘‘ Galileo consciousness.” Now of course it is known to all that Galileo made a discovery, which the conservative and prejudiced intellect of the period deemed incredible, and forced him to recant It was Galileo vs. the mob. Now Mr. Ly- man and myself have made, or claim to have made certain discoveries, which are not generally accepted, and it is hard that ze should be placed in the position of the mod, forcing the enlightened rank and file to recant in spite of their better knowledge. I dont want to be Galileo—but I do object to being the mob! Aggrievedly yours, Joun B. Smrru. * > * Note by Editor.—If Mr. Smith were one of the Priests he would know that one of the rules of Biblical interpretation is, that a parable is to be used to explain the object in view, and is not to be forced into having a correspondence and lessons in every particular. Galileo recanted because he was compelled to do so in view of certain ‘* arguments ” such as the thumb screw and stake. But he was unconvinced, and so ex- pressed himself in a sort of a ‘‘sub rosa” way. Now our friends Messrs. Smith and Lyman have advanced arguments which force us to assent, as we can not with corresponding study and argument controvert ; and we must logically confess they are right. Yet, notwithstanding my con- fession, we feel certain they are wrong. .Weare sorry we have not the time properly to study up Calhmorpha, and either convince or be convinced. As it is, taking the pattern of ornamentation as the guide in the determ- ination of species, and this is their guide, and taking Mr. Lyman’s figures as representing typical forms, we can see no difference at all in pattern between the first g figures of his plate, representing two of the species. And, indeed, there is practical identity between figures 1 and 7, represent- ing respectively C. Leconfei and C. confusa. But far be it from us to consider Messrs. Smith and Lyman the Priests of the Church (not the mob) or ourselves Galileo. Note the comparison was not even with the shake of Galileo’s head, only a ‘‘sort of a Galileo shake,” a sufficiently modest comparison ! Descriptions of New Florida CHALCIDS, belonging to the Subfamily Eucyrtine. By Wituram H. AsHMeap. The following new Chalcids, belonging to the Subfamily Zucyrine, were recently discovered by me, in arranging my collection. APHYCUS, Mayr. 1. Aphycus niger, n. sp. 3. Length .03 inch. Opaque black, finely pubescent ; mandibles and palpi, brown. The antennae is hardly as long as the thorax ; scape brown; flagellum brown-black, nearly twice the !ength of the scape, rather densely pubescent, the joints being wider than long. Thorax microscopically rugulose ; tegulae honey-yellow. Abdomen very short, black, with bluish reflections in certain lights. Legs fuscous, trochanters and knees, honcy-yellow ; tarsi pale, almost white. Wings hyaline, iri- descent, veins brown. Described from one specimen. 2. Aphycus chrysope, n. sp. ©. Length .c8 inch. Yellow-ferruginous. Eyes large, oval, black. Each ocellus is surrounded by a black ring. The space between the eyes is very narrow and very finely punctate. The thorax is smooth and there is a dusky streak across the collar and on the fore part of the mesoscutum. Legs yellowish-white, Wings hyaline, pubescent, the pubescence short ; veins pale brown, the stigmatal vein long, stout. Described from one specimen reared from a Chrysopa cocoon. 3. Aphycus unicolor, n. sp. ©. Length .o4 inch. A short, very robust form, its breadth being nearly equal to its length. The head, thorax and the legs are of a uniform reddish-brown ; eyes dark brown; palpi black. The head is very large, broad, with some coarse punct- ures. The scape of antennae is dilated towards apex, it with the pedicel and the first three funiclar joints concolorous with the body, the 4th, 5th and 6th funiclar joints white, club black. The long tibial spur of middle legs is dusky at apex, while the tarsal joints are much dilated as in certain Eupelmids. Wings hyaline. Described from one specimen. EUCYRTUS, Dalman. 4. Eucyrtus pyralidis, n. sp. ©. Length .03 inch. This pretty little species varies from a black to a blue black, with a metallic greenish lustre on the thorax and lower part of face. The scape of antennae is brown or black, except at tip, the first four funiclar joints are white, while the pedicel, the two last funiclar joints and the club are ferruginous. Legs, excepting trochanters, knees and tips of tibiae which are white, vary from a black to a ferruginous color. Wings hyaline, veins pale, the marginal vein punctiform, stigmal vein very delicate, short. Described from four specimens reared from Peach pyralid. Re ea LEPTOMASTIX, Forster. 5. Leptomastix tinezvora, n. sp. ©. Length .o7 inch. The head, fore part of collar and the mesopleura, steel blue ; thorax and abdomen brown ; eyes dark brown. Antennae very long, slender, the pedicel extending considerably beyond the ocelli, it and the pedicel yellow, the flagellum brown, the joints of which are very long. The legs are pale brown, ex- cepting the basal one-third of the tibiae, and the tarsi, which are white. Wings hyaline, pubescent, veins brown ; the marginal vein nearly twice the length or the stigma and enclosed in a large dusky blotch which extends nearly across the wing. Described from one specimen, reared from a Tineid larva. PRIONOMASTIX, Mayr. 6. Prionomastix americana, n. sp. 3. Length .o7 inch. Head brownish-yellow ; thorax and abdomen fuscous, sparsely pubescent. The space between the eyes wide, finely punctate; eyes and antenne, excepting scape, dark brown; the scape rather short, slender , pedicel very small; flagellar joints long, much flattened, and of nearly equal length, about two-thirds as long as the scape. Scutellum large, highly convex and finely grooved. Metathorax short, smooth. Abdomen small, sessile ovate, depressed above. Legs fuscous, excepting the tibize at base, first four tarsal joints, and the large middle tibial spur, all of which are white. Wings hyaline. Described from one specimen. PSILOPHRYS, Mayr. 7. Psilophrys armatus, nv. sp. od’, @. Length .o5 inch. Dark blue with greenish metallic reflections on the thorax and the upper part of the head. The antenna in the O is very slender and entirely brown-black, excepting a pale pedicel ; in the 6

A More Wicked Worm! Epiroxr Entom. AMER. .» Dear Sir :—Reading No. to of Vol. III, Ento. Am., I was much amused by the article ‘‘ A wicked Worm.” I can assure you no one in Germany knows of this terrible insect, nor have I read anything about it in any of the German newspapers. It seems to me this worm must have developed quite independently in the brain of some North American Journalist. Of course there can be no doubt of the truth of the story. Mr. Smith is, in my opinion, right in his idea, that this worm and those that destroyed the Russian cannons during the Crimean War, are nearly allied. A third worm, belonging to the same family and perhaps genus, is the famous ‘‘Ice Worm” which fed on the ice in the cellar of a great brewery at Dresden once upon a time. Of course the March beer went to ruin, as did also the brewery and all the stockholders! Neither ice, beer, nor money was to be found ! Yours truly, H. B. Méscuter. Phlceophagus spadix, Herdsi, By Wiritam Jivicu. Collecting on Rockaway Beac!), L.. 1, June 18th, last year, among the driftwood, I turned over board, half imbedded in the sand and thor- oughly soaked with salt water. The board laid within the line of the high tide and must have been under water several hours every day for some time. Crawling on it were a few small, dark brownish Curculios which reminded me very much at the time of ZVassoptes marinus, Horn, which I found under similar circumstances at the Pacific coast. Upon closer examination of the board—pine, about 2 inches thick, rotten and wormeaten—I succeeded in cutting out about 30 beetles, and a number of larvae and pupze ; the larve as lively as crickets, 3 to 4 mm. long, ofa yellowish white color, head. considerably darker, and mandibles brown. On each side of the first three segments they had, on small wart-like pro- jections, a very small leg. The beetle proved to be Phleophagus spadix, Herbst, a European species, not before found in this country to my knowledge. This capture I consider especially interesting as it shows how some of these importations are landed, A board infested and wormeaten is thrown over board as useless and washed ashore, where the involuntary passengers take to the wing to seek conditions to suit them, or accomodate themselves the best way they can, or perish, if not capable of doing so. The astonishing tenacity of life, peculiar to Curculios, enables them to outlive unfavorable conditions which would kill a great many other insects, especially in the larval state, and accounts for the great number of Rhynchophoride ‘‘ naturalized” to our fauna. In order to indentify this species, if it comes under the observation of our collectors, I give the synopsis of Dr. Horn of the three species now known to belong to our fauna. Elytra oval, humeri broadly rounded. i Thorax very densely and coarsely punctured, elytral striz broad, coarsely and GeeppeMMeClured, 4°TONI. 5.6 aw wjaisime cee = a sites ole apmaieren eens spadix. Elytra oblong, sides straight, humeri distinct. Thorax densely punctured, elytral striz deep, coarsely, serrately punctured, FHT ia g dees ccs BOCA GEEESEE nao ho pe bob oine torsade ro ooU pc apionides. Thorax sparsely punctured, elytral striz broad, not deep, punctures coarse, not SORE, 2 ToT ee eI or cic Cecie ic WRI ark Cases minor, The two species described by Dr. Geo. H. Horn appear to be un- common, and all the specimens I have found I cut out of dead Ash. Early Stages of Erebus odora, Z- By Hi, “iv Prendrp; BES: The egg and larve of Erebus odora have never been described in any scientific paper that has come under my observatlon, and it was with great pleasure that I recently received from her Excellency, Mrs. H. A. Blake, formerly of Nassau, N. P., a record of observations on these stages of this beautiful moth, which she has kindly given me permission to publish. Toward the end of June, 1877, an adult moth of this species was captured and placed under a bell glass, when on June 27th, it deposited forty or fifty eggs. These were not attached to either the sides or bottom of the glass and seemed to possess no glutinous matter. They were spherical in form, flattened slightly at the poles, and under the micro- scope showed a series of ridges passing from pole to pole. The eggs hatched during the forenoon of July 2nd, producing larvee about a quarter of an inch in length and about the size of a bristle. They became very active when disturbed and if one fell it spun a thread to the end of which it remained attached. Each had but six pairs of feet. In color they were dirty white with six longitudinal reddish stripes, broken at intervals. Long hairs stood up here and there along the body. Various food plants were tried, viz: Lettuce (Lacfuca sp. 7), Sea Grape (Cocoloba uvifera}, Poison Wood (Rhus sp. ?), Palmetto (Sada/ sp. ?), Wild Almond (Amygdalus sp. P); Silk Cotton (Bombax ceiba), Tamerind (Zamerindus indica), and Sapodilla (Sapofa Achras, J). but all were untouched. One or two, however, appeared to eat Whist- ling Bean leaves. On July 5th, but one larva remained but it had apparently grown somewhat. Unfortunately, during its examination it was lost, a puff of wind carrying off the leaf on which it was resting. In my note in vol. III, No. 4, of this magazine I alluded to a state- ment by the natives that the larva of Hredus feeds on the Wild Fig. Recently, the larva referred to has been proved to be that of a Sphinx, thus showing how little reliance can be placed on the observations of un- trained persons. det eh ees Dr. Horw visits Europe again this season. The Doctor needs this recreation and we know he will bring back with him fresh energy that will enable him to continue his valuable work. His address will be: Care of Dr. D. Sharp, Shirley Warren, Southampton, England. The Doctor will leave May gth, and will be gone all Summer. -_” North American PYRALIDA. By Pror. C. H. FErnatp, Amherst, Mass. Botis plumbosignalis, n. sp. Expanse of wing, 21 mm. Head and palpi yellowish white above, pure white beneath. Labial palpi fawn colored on the outside. Thorax and fore wings sulphur yellow, the former with a rust-colored stripe on the sides from the eyes to the wings and extending a short distance on the costa. The orbicular spot on the middle of the cell is small and round, of a dark rust red color and overlaid with lead colored scales. The reniform spot on the end of the cell is similarly colored and extends across more than the width of the cell. A stripe of the same width and color as the reniform but forming an obtuse angle with it, extends across to the hinder margin of the wing, and another extends from where this joins the reniform obliquely up to near the apex, the whole forming a Y-shaped mark. These stripes are somewhat diffuse on the outside, and the outer transverse line is distinct only between the upper parts of the Y. The inner transverse line extends obliquely out and down from the costa to the median vein, where it forms an angle, and then extends to the hinder margin, forming another angle on vein one. Another similar line runs parallel but outside of it, from the median vein to the hinder margin, forming a lunule between the veins and these two lines together give the appearance of the figure 8 beneath the orbicular spot. The fore wings are rather narrow and slightly falcate. The hind wings are white, slightly tinged with sulphur yellow on the outer margin, and there is a minute brown spot on the anal angle with traces of one or two more on the surface of the wing, an indication of a transverse line. The underside of the wings is whitish with the markings of the upperside reproduced in brown. Described from three examples from Colorado. Lipocosma fuliginosalis, n. sp. Expanse of wings, from 13 to 15 mm, Head, thorax and fore wings, snow white ; the latter overlaid, except on the base, at the apex and narrowly along the costa, with dark brown or soot color. The outer crosslime which is darker than the wing starts from the outer fourth ot the costa, makes an outward angle at first, then curves outwardly beyond the end of the cell, then makes another outward curve and ends at the outer fourth of the hinder margin. There is a faint trace of another line crossing the middle of the wing. The outer margin has a row of black dots. The fringe is sordid and cut with whitish. The hind wings are whitish on the costal half, and discolored more or less on the rest of the surface with soot-color which forms a line across this part of the wing beyond the middle. On the inside of this line above the anal angle there is a white spot and a tuft of black scales on the innerside of the spot. The basal joint of the abdomen is white and the rest sooty-brown. The markings of the upperside are repeated and there is a plain discal spot on each of the wings. Described from four examples, from Maine, Ontario and Illinois. Hydrocampa proprialis, n. sp. Expanse of wings, Io toIg mm. Head, thorax and fore wings, dark brown. The reniform spot at the end of the ce!l of the fore wing is white, and there isa more or less prominent white spot on the costa above it. The inner transverse line is arcuate and white. The outer line starts from a small white spot on the costa a little beyond the spot above the reniform, and extends inward so as to interfere more or less with the reniform spot causing it to be toothed on the outer side in some examples, then it extends inwardly on vein two, somewhat within the reniform when it turns and extends to the outer third of the hinder border. A white line toothed on the in- side, crosses the wing close to the outer border. There is generally a shade of dull ochre yellow, in the subterminal space, on the outside of the basal line, and a spot on the inside of the discal spot. The hind wings are a shade lighter than the fore wings, and there is an indication of the two outer white lines, between which near the middle of the outer margin there is generally a dull yellow spot. The abdomen is concolorous with the hind wings and ringed with lighter brown on the posterior edge of each segment. The underside of the body and wings is much lighter than above, and there is a terminal row of whitish lunate or wedge-shaped spots between the veins. The hind wings also have an angulated white line outside of a discal spot, which is sometimes extended into a shade, and within which there is another white line. Some examples scarcely show these white markings. Described from fourteen examples from Florida and Texas, —_———o+»—___ Book Notice. ‘*Diagnoses of N. A. Phycitidz and Galieridz, by F. L. Ragonot. Publshed by the author.” Paris, Dec. 1887. The above is a pamphlet of 25 pages, in which the author gives very brief descriptions of 26 genera and 96 species of American Lepidoptera. Of the species 94 belong to the Phycitide and 2 to the Galleride ; 79 be- long to the U. S. or Canada, 2 to Mexico, 2 to the West Indies, and 23 are without indication of locality. Besides those under the genera newly described, various of the species fall under previously described genera, so that the 96 species re- present 53 genera. The pamphlet is issued, according to the statement of the author, only to obtain priority. Whether a private publication, privately distrib- uted, with what pretends to be a diagnosis only, not a description of species, will be accepted as giving priority in any case of disagreement, is doubtful. But, that there may be just as little cause as possible for any such doubt we call the attention of the public to Mr. Ragonot’s work, Weare glad to say that the diagnoses, though very brief, are generally explicit, and with the fact that there is generic difference between the most of the species, there need be no great difficulty in determining most of the species described. Mr. Ragonot promises an early completion of his ‘‘ Monograph of the Phycitide and Galleride of the World,” in which he proposes.to give in colors many of the new and rarer species. We most earnestly hope, his promise will be shortly fulfilled ; for, from what work Mr. Ragonot | has done, we can be assured his Monograph will be above the average of such works in value. It will not be simple a collection of pictures, as so many are. Just here, we express a hope. It is, that Mr. Ragonot, as well as all other Europeans describing American Insects, will have the generosity and courtesy to place a set of types in some Museum in this country. We have the profoundest regard for Zeller, Lederer, and Guenée, but so far as our country is concerned, we are strongly af the opinion that they have greatly hindered the study and development of American Entomo- logy. In case of all these, not to mention Walker, a large percentage of their species is, after from 25 to 40 years, entirely undetermined. Ameri- cans, who were not driven to other fields, have had to go on with their own work, simply ignoring the species described by all these. We are glad to learn that Lord Walsingham has set a worthy example in this respect, as most if not all of his species are represented by types in America. We hope this example will be followed by all European Entomo- logists hereafter. Surely, if our brethren across the water feel the need of retaining their collections for their own study, there is no possible reason why all types of American species should not be left by will, to some American Institution instead of being buried in some European Museum, and thus made utterly useless. In all cases where species are not so placed that those interested in them can obtain comparatively easy access to them, there is only one thing for Americans to do, viz: to entirely ignore them. To Mr. Grote Americans owe a vast debt of gratitude for following this course. Many of his species will likely fall before the as yet unknown ones of Zeller, Lederer, Guenée, and Walker, but those who realize what he did for American Entomology will never cease to give him the gratitude he has merited for daring to do and starting America forward in doing her own work. It might be an excellent object lesson, for some enterprising American to purchase all types of European Lepidoptera yet possible, and deposit them in the Cambridge, Philadelphia or Washington Museums, that it may be seen by others how pleasant it is to deal with material from 3000 to 5000 miles away! At all events we hope hereafter every American will furnish material to the workers across the sea, only on condition that a complete set of types be deposited with some Museum or specialist in America. This may be selfish, and may be called unscientific, but it is the right of the majority which we believe in, and is, we believe, for the best interests of Science. Gro. D. Huzst. —40— Society News. Ento. Soc. Washington, March 1, 1888. Thirteen members present. Prof. Riley presented a paper entitled ‘* A Contribution to the Literature of Fatal Spider Bites’ giving details of a case in which death resulted from the bite of a spider, presumably Latrodectes mactans. Also details of another case in which the patient recovered from a bite of the same spider. Prof. Riley reviewed the literature of the subject at some length, and concludes that personal idiosyncracy is a large factor in these cases and that the poisonous secretion of spiders affected different individuals in a very different manner, and hence the discrepancy in resu'ts. Mr. Lugger related an experience of his own with Phydippus tripunctatus, L., which bit one of his chil- dren. The result was convulsions, high fever, headache, swollen eyes and great pain in the pit of the bitten arm. In about three days all inflammation and untoward symptoms had disappeared. Dr. Marx states that the secretion in which Latrodectes mactans envelops its victims when taken internally had the effect of increasing the pulse from 72 to 120. He commented on the case but rather skeptically : he cannot see how Latrodectes with its minute, soft mandibles can possibly pierce the skin or contain poison enough to produce the violent affects recorded. The subject was dis- cussed at considerable length by Messrs. Lugger, Dodge, Marx, Fox, Schwarz, John- son and Smith. Mr. Dodge exhibited some of Glover’s early plates and commented on his work in this direction. This induced a discussion on the relative value of the various pro- cesses for illustrating Insects, in which Messrs. Marx, Schwarz and Smith took part. Mr. Howard called attention to an undetermined external parasite on a spider, found by Dr. Fox in February. A paper was read by Prof. P. R. Uhler, ‘*Observations upon the Heteroptera collected in Southern Florida by Mr. E, A. Schwarz,’’ in which he discusses the de- rivation of this fauna and describes a new species of Achanthochila, a genus heretofore unknown in our fauna. Mr, Smith made some remarks on the Lepidopterous family Hleterogynide, historical and critical. He does not believe the family occurs in our fauna, and that 77a, Edwards, cannot be referred here. April 6, 1888.—Twelve members present. Dr. Horn made some remarks on Pleocoma, exhibited a preparation of the abdomen, showing the position of the stig- mata, and that Leconte is right and Gerstaecker is wrong in the position assigned in the Lamellicorn series.* Dr. Horn also exhibited the larva of Platypsylla castoris, mounted in balsam, and states that it fully proves that the Insect is Coleopterous. Prof. Riley states that he has had the larva for more than a year but has been pre- vented from working it up. However, he fully agrees with Dr. Horn concerning the Coleopterous nature of the larva. Mr. Schwarz read a paper on the semi-tropical Insect fauna of Southern Florida. This region mostly coral formation, and compara- tively recent seems to have received its vegetation and its Insect fauna from the West Indies. He carefully marks the observed limits of the fauna and credits the Gulf stream with bringing a very large proportion of it. This paper was discussed at some length by Dr. Horn and Prof. Riley who agreed in the main with Mr. Schwarz. Dr. Horn doubts the propriety of receiving this fauna into our lists in its entirety. He also illustrated the distribution of Insects along the Pacific coast, and the natural boundaries between Mexico and the U. S. which rather sharply separates the Coleop- terous fauna. Prof. Riley thinks the wind should be credited as an agent in distri- bution, and mentions the receipt of Hornia minutipennis from Thesus Co., California, as a remarkable fact in distribution. J. B. Smiry, Ree. Sec’y. * ‘See Ento! Am-, vols Tl, p. 233: VOL. IV. BROOKLYN, JUNE, 1888. NO. 3. A Revised Generic Table of the EURYTOMIN~, with Descriptions of New Species. By Wiciram H. ASHMEAD. (PaRT I.) _ Prof. Westwood’s group Luryfomides, in the family Chalcidide, has always been an attractive one to students in the order Hymenoptera, on account of the dissimilarity in the habits of some of the species represent- ing the group ; for, while the major portion of them are true parasites, it is now a thoroughly established fact that a small portion of them are unquestionably Phy/ophagous, or pseudo gall-makers ; and, if we exclude the Blastophage, or Fig-caprifiers from the family Chalcidide, they are then the only ones in the whole family out of thousands of species that have this habit. Up to the present day, the species composing the group, have been placed in but seven genera, viz:—Lury/oma, Illiger, 1807 ; Decatoma, Spinola, 1811; Zsosoma, Walker, 1832; Sysfole, Walker, 1832; Phy- lachyra, Haliday, 1871 ; Azolomorphus, Walker, 1871; and Lephrata, Cameron, 1884. But recently, in working up my material in the group, the acumula- tion of several years, I have found it necessary to erect many additional genera and below I give a'carefully prepared analytic table of all the known genera, with the essential characters of the new ones recognized, which will be followed by another paper with descriptions of the new species. The table is as follows: —42— ANALYTICAL TABLE OF THE GENERA. Females. Wingless ,<; Nac? paren epee pe: week, Lane ens iy hath aise e dik Soles oe ae ae 5 Winged. Marginalovermlinear oe). 46 4)... 0er ce. oc eee oat onl Sata Ass che one eet Marginal vein thick, quadrate. Wings with a dusky submarginal blotch ...... .....G. (1) Decatoma, Spinola. Wings without a dusky submarginal blotch.......... G. (2) Eudecatoma, n. x. 2 Metathorax much Jengthenied ,..:..... 2a; ccikel.< «oc oh Were oe eens ie eee ee 4 Metathorax not lengthened. Mesothorax umbilicate punctate =. te ee yelgerae oats Sines cee eee 3 Mesothorax not umbilicate punctate. *Marginal vein not longer than the stigmal, abdomen sub-globose ..°..... ..... G. (3) Systole, Walker. **Marginal vein one and a half times as long as stigmal, abdomen conic-ovate. G. (5) Xanthosoma, pn. g. ***Marginal vein three times as long as the stigmal ; abdomen sub-compressed ... G. (6) Rileya, Ashmead. 3. Postmarginal vein distinctly longer than stigmal. *Marginal vein always distinctly longer than the stigmal. . Scape equal in length to the first funicle joint... .. G. (7) Bephrata, Cameron. Scape much longer than the first funicle joint. a Posterior tibize with two spurs. Parapsidal furrows obliterated posteriorly. .... G. (8) Decatomidea, n. g. Parapsidal furrows complete, distinct. 6 Pedicel much shorter than first funicle joint...G. (9) Eurytoma, Illiger. 66 Pedicel longer or at least as long as the first funicle joint.............. G. (10) Eurytomocharis, n. g. aa Posterior tibize with one spur ............. G. (11) Phylloxeroxenus, n. vg. **Marginal vein not longer than the stigmal. Abdomen ovate, pointed, compressed ......... G. (12) Bruchophagus, n. g. Abdomen sub-globose, fourth segment longest, enclosing the following ....... : Je - G. (4) Systolodes, n. g. Postmarginal vein twice as long as the stigmal. Abdomen much lengthened, conic-ovate, cylindric, fourth segment as long as all thekathersttogethensas-s seeker eee ..G. (13) Evoxysoma, np. g. 4. Marginal vein longer than the stigmal. Mesothorax more or less umbilicate punctate. Postmarginal vein about same length as stigmal, or slightly longer. Pedicel not longer than the first funicle joint. Metathorax sloping, rounded behind.......... G. (14) Isosoma, Walker. Metathorax quadrate, abruptly truncate behind..... .................. G. (15) Isosomorpha, n. g. Pedicel longer than the first funicle joint ; mesothorax smooth, polished...... G. (16) Isosomocharis, n. g. Marginal vein not as long as the stigmal. Postmarginal much lengthened.................+00: G. (17) Isosomodes, n. g. heViesothorax ‘smooth, spolished ... 25 475 sean G, (18) Philachyra, Haliday. Males Marainal vein linear iy)... 24 22+. ss eee nla ec eter ee 2 Marginal vein thick, quadrate. Antenne simple, not verticillate pilose. Wings with a smoky submarginal blotch.......... G. (1) Decatoma,! Spinola. Wings without a smoky submarginal blotch.. .....G. (2) Eudecatoma, n. g. Peetatmorax muGhlencthemedess. We... 0 eee es A AOI RRO EAE cio 4 Metathorax not lengthened. IMS i rarer eomeue dl Gelber TIM Gta Le ernie elfelaye c Crctsceyefe) Shalajare ate ducetara, ae sie ters 3 Mesothorax not umbilicate punctate. *Marginal vein not longer than the stigmal ; abdomen sub-globose ; funicle joints with long hairs, but not pedunculated ............ G. (3) Systole, Walker. **Marginal vein one and a half times as long as the stigmal... . ............. G. (5) Xanthosoma, n. g. ***Marginal vein three times as long as the stizmal; abdomen long- oyal, petiole short ; funicle joints simple, without long hairs ... G. (6) Rileya, Ashmead. 3. Postmarginal vein distinctly longer than the stigmal. Marginal vein longer than the stizmal. Scape equal in length to the first funicle joint. .... G. (7) Bephrata, Cameron. Scape much longer than the first funicle join?. Funicle joints simple, not pedunculate verticellate-pilose. Parapsidal furrows obliterated posteriorly ; abdomen ovate, petiole short, Ui Cher aeetcemren AU cer eras cies ses Bias o G. (8) Decatomidea, n. g. Funicle joints pedunculate and verticillate-pilose. Posterior.tibice with two spurs; parapsidal grooves, complete, distinct, Abdomen trigonate, sub-compressed. ....... G. (9) Eurytoma, Illiger. Abdomen ovate, sub-compressed ...... G, (10) Eurytomocharis, n. g. Posterior tibiz with one spur............ G, (11) Phylloxeroxenus, n. g. Postmarginal vein twice as long as the stigmal......... G, (13) Evoxysoma, n. g. Marginal vein not longer than the stigmal. Postmarginal vein hardly as lony as the stigmal ; abdomen ovate, petiole shorter than posterior cox ; funicle joints oval, WuEnglonsy airs) = crs. se eeeet eee G. (12) Bruchophagus, pn. ¢. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal ; abdomen subglobose, petiole longer than posterior coxee, funicle joints of antenne oval, pilose .... ..... LEN: G. (4) ) Systolodes, n. g. mince er Gr cUOCOnIel Ver VeS MUI Ar rtp). a are citcc sas sin cad iaiy auele Siajeveisieon a gue gale eis biwaee 6 Petiole of abdomen long. Moarainalevein mOtassonéeas tie StOmMall:¢2 on cecil cote lve s+ cide aie cneie Oo eee 5 Marginal vein longer than the stigmal. Mesothorax, unless otherwise-stated, more or less umbilicate punctate. Postmarginal vein distinctly longer than the stigmal ; funicle joints pedunculate and verticillate-pilose. Pedicel not longer than the first funicle joint. Metathorax sloping, rounded behind .......... G. (14) Isosoma, Walker. Metathorax quadrate, abruptly truncate behind............... . 2.9 G. (15) Isosomorhpa, n. g. Pedicel longer than the first funicle joint ; mesothorax smooth, polished...... G. (16) Isosomocharis, n. g. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal ; antennze slender, filiform, pubescent; abdomen clavate, “slightly compressed, a little Jonger than the thorax ex- eaverciume PEO’... .. 0.6... teas G, (19) Aiolomorphus, Walker. 5. Funicle joints not pedunculated, long, cylindric, about five times as long as wide, pilose ; mesothorax umbilicate punctate........... G. (17) Isosomodes, n. g. 6. Postmarginal vein shorter than the stigmal, one-third the length of the marginal ; antennz verticillate-pilose ; head and pr othorax shining and somewhat smooth. G, (18) bi Ae ed Haliday. : oo Notes on the CRAMBIDZ-. By Pror. C. H. FERNALD. Amherst, Mass. I have recently been making a critical study of the described species of North American Craméide preparatory to describing the unnamed species in my collection, and take this occasion to put some of the re- sults on record. In 1813, Germar began the publication of his *‘ Magazin der Ento- mologie” which closed at the end of the fourth volume. In the second volume, published in 1817, Dr. Zincken began his Monograph of the genus Chilo, which included not only the species now placed under that genus, but also those under Craméus, Prionopteryx, Ancylolomia and Schenobtus. Germar’s genus Chilo has been broken up by later writers, but the first species under it—phragmitellus—has been retained and regarded as the type of Chilo. In the third volume, page 114 (1818), Zincken described a species under the name of Chilo Leachellus, but stated that the habitat was un- known. Zeller, who saw this type, found it to be identical with speci- mens in his collection from North America, and sent a specimen under this name to the Cambridge Museum with which I compared mine several years ago, and which I now find to agree perfectly with the original de- scription. Zeller believed the species to be the same as Crambus involu- tellus, Clem., but in this he was mistaken, for I have studied the type of Clemens’ species very critically and found it quite distinct from that of Zincken. In the fourth volume of Germar’s Magazine, published in 1821, Zincken published a Supplement to his Monograph of the genus Chz/o in which he described seven North American species, viz :—sordidellus, satrapellus, prefectellus, decorellus, Plejadellus, tetterellus and incertellus, all of which I have been able to determine in my collection. A carefully study of the literature and types gives the following syn- onomy of some of the species : Chilo decorellus, Zincken, Germ. Mag., IV, p. 25¢ (1821). Crambus polyactinellus, Kollar in lit. (Zeller, Chil. et Cramb.), p. 25, (1863). Crambus goodellianus, Grote, Can. Ent., XII, p. 17 (1880). Crambus bonusculahs, Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soec., XII, p. 167 (1886). This species belongs to the genus Cramdus as restricted by recent authors, and should be known by the name of Crambus decorellus, Zinck. By some slip, Prof. Grote, in his New Check-List, has put his Crambus goodelianus as a synonym of C. Plejadellus, to which it has no resemblance. * Chilo Plejadellus, Zincken, Germ. Mag. IV, p. 251 (1821). Crambus Plejadellus, Zeller, Chil. et Cramb., p. 26 (1863). Diphryx prolatella, Grote, Bull, U. S. Geo. Sur. VI, p. 273 (1881). Chilo oryzeellus, Riley, Rept. Dept. Ag. for 1881-2, p. 135 (1882). This species belongs to the genus Cfz/o and should be known by the name of Chilo plejadellus, Zinck. The genus Juphryx was established for an imperfect female of this species, but since more perfect examples do not differ structurally from the type of Chilo, the generic name Diphryx cannot be used. Prof. Riley was led into the€tror of redescribing this species, partly by my inability at the time to say positively that it was Grote’s species, and partly be- cause Grote expressed the opinion that it was not his species. Prof. Riley states concerning this insect: “It is in fact, as we have always felt, congeneric with the larger sugar-cane and corn-borers treated of in the last annual report of the Entomologist under the generic name Dratre@a.” In this, Prof. Riley is mistakén, since J. saccharalis, Fab., has no ocelli, and the venation of t ings is quite different from C. oryzeellus, Riley, which has ocelli. ‘hese differences have long been considered of generic value by every worker*on fe Microlepidoptera. Zeller in his Monogtaph has made many errors on the synonomy of our Cramébide, and Grote was appafently led by him into some of the same errors. The difficulty was in not being able to determine the spe- cies of Clemens. C. mvolufelliis and pulchellus are not synonyms of leachellus, but of prefectellus. > +»____— Miss Emiry L. Morron, in collecting larvae of Lepidoptera last year, put a mixed lot in a breeding box. Among others emerging afterwards in the imago form, was Aleta argillacea, Hb., the cotton worm. As beyond a penadventure none of the larve were taken from the cotton plant, it may be considered proved beyond question that the larvz feed, in the North at least, upon one food plant other than cotton. *K K kK A novel exhibibition has during the last month been given to the people of New York and vicinity. Mr. Neumoegen, of the Brooklyn Society, has, as is well known, an unrivalled collection of Native and Exotic Lepidoptera. This has been on exhibition at the Eden Musee and has excited a very great deal of interest in the city. Biograhy of Acontia delecta, Walker. By ArcHiBALD C. WEEKS. The larvae (four in number) were taken when nearly full grown, during the first week of September, 1884, feeding upon the Hibiscus moscheutos, L., (Rose Mallow), on the meadows bordering the interior of the Long Island beach. Upon reaching home they were placed on mallow leaves, the stems of which were inserted in a glass iuk-well filled with very moist earth. They fed voraciously and on the second day after capture spun in the earth at the base of the stems oval cocoons, two-fifths of an inch in length and firmly coated with clay. These were exposed to the normal temperature and kept thoroughly moist, until July 5th, of the following year, when two of the imagines, and Q, appeared, reproducing the brilliant coloration of the larva— the black, irregular, metallic L upon the white ground of the primaries, with angle at the inner margin, contrasting strongly with the pale saffron, margined with a darker shade, of the secondaries—the maculatron above being roughly and faintly pictured beneath. The following is a description of the larva : Length 11/, inches. Head and first segment smaller than remainder of body. Head rounded, some- what flattened on the sides, broader at bottom than at top, strongly cleft at summit, ground color dirty white, mouth parts black; ground color enclosing a trianzular black space in front ; bottom, middle and summit of eyes with black spots, sometimes confluent ; eyes with exceedingly minute sparse hairs. Body cylindrical, considerably enlarged anteriorly on the 3rd and 4th segments. Ground color dark, purple. On all segments a subdorsal line of black spots, strongly edged with orange, especially on the middle segments. On the 3rd and 4th segments, directly below the 1st subdorsal line, appears a 2nd double line of black spots in pairs, each pair joined and included by an oval orange patch. On each of the other segments are two other spots directly behind the first subdorsal. These are edged with orange, especially in front, and more conspicuously on the middle segments. The black spots, especially at the middle segments, have a slightly tuberculous ten- dency, and from each of them a single short minute black hair projects, barely visible to the naked eye. There is also a row of sublateral patches, white anteriorly, orange posteriorly, broadest behind and narrowing towards the front, each patch containing from 3 to 7 irregularly located and varying velvety black dots. The 1st and 2nd pair of anal legs, are wanting. The larva is consequently geometriform, and has the geometriform mode of progression. The fore legs are black with whitish orange towards the base. Anal legs orange on the outside, their color being confluent with the lateral patch —except in last pair. Anal legs somewhat projecting behind. A cluster of 5 or 6 minute hairs projects horizontally and directly above and between the anal claws. The rows of subventral black dots nearly correspond as to position with the subdorsal but want color ; from each dot hairs similar to subdorsal project. t The larva seems to have no fear of parasites, exposing itself freely in the centre of the upper side of a leaf in hot sunshine and in full view. It is not readily seen however, and its immunity is partially due perhaps to its resemblance to the twisted irregularly bent and withered petals of the mallow fallen after separation from the calyx, such resemblance being increased by the contorted posture assumed by the larva and the facility with which it rolls off the leaf when the plant is jarred. The species would seem to be single brooded—the imago appearing in the latter part of June or early part of July, and shortly thereafter the fertile female ovipositing upon the mallow, the larvee attaining full size and pupating during the latter part of August or first of September. It appears to be of rather infrequent occurance, inasmuch as many of our large local collections are without a specimen. Its rarity, aside from its single brood, is undoubtedly caused by the precarious situation of, so far is known, its solitary food plant, which exposes the insect in all stages of its existence to the destructive submergence and action of the tides. ea a oO gS in Prof. FERNALD is appointed Entomologist to the Agr. Experiment Station of Mass. He will hold this office in addition to his Professorship at Amherst, and will have assistants to aid in the work of the Experiment Station. Massachusetts is to be congratulated in having so worthy a person in this position. : * x * Mr. O. Luecer of Baltimore, now one of Prof. Riley’s assistants, has been called to the University of Minn, to take charge of the State Museum of Natural History. A better selection could not have been made, as Mr. Lugger has a wide knowledge in the general field of Natural History and in Coleoptera is a specialist. * * * Dr. Packarp expects to publish in June a work entitled “ Entomo- gy for beginners.” It will be illustrated, a work of from 300 to 400 pages, 12™° size. It will contain full directions for collecting and pre- serving insects, for dissecting them and making microscopical prepara- tions. Also lists of works on the general subject and special lists for each order. It promises to be a work of very great usefulness as it must be of , necessity of very great merit. * 3 * Mr. C. R. Grtzette of Lansing, Mich., has been appointed Ento- mologist to the Iowa Agr. Experiment Station. Ey A Note on Chanopterus, Sof. By Grorce H. Horn, M. D. This genus was founded by Boheman (Eugenies Resa Ins. p. 98) on the heteromerous coleopter collected at the Straits of Magellan. It is about .3 inch long, brown or piceo-testaceous in color, shining. My attention was called to it, more especially, by its resemblance in form to Agialites, although larger and differently colored. Through the kind- ness of Mr. Chas. O. Waterhouse a specimen was given me from the collection of his father, in which it bore the name Chz/oniscus brevipennis, probably unpublished. ‘ In studying the species more closely, it was found that Chanopferus had comparatively little in common with “gialites. The anterior coxal cavities are widely open behind, removing it from any relationship with the Zenebriomd@e. The head being rather broad behind the eyes and the thorax without distinct lateral margin the affinities are decidedly in the direction of the A/elandryide and Pythide, to the latter more especially. At this time it is not necessary to discuss the propriety of retaining the two cited families as distinct but I have already expressed the opinion that there is not that fundamental difference in structure which should separate families. Chanopterus paradoxus was placed by Boheman in the Tenebrionide tribe Helopinz. As the insect was unknown in nature to Lacordaire he merely mentions it in the supplement to the fifth volume and the Munich Catalogue adds no further opinion. From the study at present given, it seems an undoubted Pythide, as the family now stands, and while not closely related to either of the tribes proposed by Lacordaire it seems most nearly allied to Lalpingus although forming a tribe apart. —_—~- <> +

> Elateridz in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. By Cuarres Dury. Species of the sub-family Zucnemine occur in numbers in the vi- cinity of this city. The following species have been identified from this locality. Melasis pectinicornis, Melsh. ‘Taken as it emerged from dead Beech which was riddled with holes made by it. -June. Tharops ruficornis, Say. Abundant, taken as it emerged from dead Beech logs. June. Svethon pectorosus, Lec. Taken from fungus growing on the under- side of Poplar logs. July. Deltometopus amenicornis, Say. May, July. ie rufipes, Mish. June, found running about on dead Beech. Dromeolus cylindricollis, Say. June. ry striatus, Lec. June and July. harringiont, Horn. June and July. All occur on Beech. Fornax calceatus, Say, June. ‘< horni, Bony. = (Q calceatus. June. new species. June. orchesides, Newm. June. All taken on dead Beech. Calceatus and orchesides are very variable in color and size, ce ce ce —164— Microrrhagus humeralis, Say. June, July. ee subsinuatus, Lec. June. gS impressicollis. Bony. June. Be pectinatus, Lec. June. All taken on dead Beech. 400 Aumeralis were taken out of a small Beech limb that had broken from a neighboring tree. Hypocelus terminalis, Lec. Dead Beech. Nematodes atropos, Say. cs penetrans, Lec. Many of both species taken while running up and down dead beach trees. Some a/ropos taken from Sycamore were very large in size. While the sun shines warm and bright from the latter part of May until the middle of July members of this interesting sub-family are found actively running about on the dead and dying timber, generally Beech. Late in the afternoon they conceal themselves in crevices and under loose bark where they rest for the night. a Book Notice. Entomology for Beginners, by A. S. PackArp, M. D., Ph. D. 8vo. pp. 367. Henry Holt & Co., New York. The above work is by the generosity of the Author in our posses- sion. It is a compact handy volume, w ell printed, neat and attractive. In its subject matter it is what it professes to be, but its profession has a strong flavor of modesty. It is a well conceived, well arranged compendium of Entomology for beginners, but it reaches very often and very far into the deep things of the science. What the work treats of can be in no better way summarized than by giving the table of contents by chapters. This is as follows : Chap. ; the structure of Insects ; Chap. 2, growth and metamorphosis of In- ey Chap. 3, classification of Insects : Chap. 4, Insect Architecture ; Chap. 5, Insects injurious and beneficial to Agriculture ; Chap. 6, di- rections for collecting, preserving and rearing Insects ; ; Chap. 3 Mode of dissecting Insects ; Chap. 8, Cutting and ‘mounting microscopic sec- tions of Insects, and mounting them whole, etc. ; Chap. 9, the Ento- mologists Library. The work is a summary of most that is best in the experience of entomologists up to the present time, compactly arranged and clearly stated. It i is a work to which, so far as our know ledge. goes, no work heretofore published, can, in the carrying out of the special purpose of its existence be compared. ‘There certainly is no work so well adapted to the needs of the beginner, no work so well fitted as a text book for schools and colleges. “Many of us will no doubt differ from the learned Author on certain matters of opinion, but not one of us but will ac- knowledge his great indebtedness for what Dr. Packard has so ably done. We give the work the unstinted praise it destrves, and recommend it to all beginners or veterans in the science of Entomology. G.. Dy TON OG Ig AMERIGANA YOL. IV. BROOKLYN, DECEMBER, 1888. NO. 9. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE A. A. A.S. [Coatinued from page 159.] Dr. Kellicott commended the methods employed in breeding. Mr. Smith said he was specially interested in the methods employed for securing eggs. Dr. Kellicott stated that he used earthen flower pots in rearing insects. Mr. Fletcher mentioned the use of lamp chimneys as very con- venient cages. Mr, E. A. Schwarz presented a paper on the Insect Fauna of Southern Florida. THE INSECT FAUNA OF SEMITROPICAL FLORIDA WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THE COLEOPTERA. By E. A. ScHWaRz. ‘Synopsis of the Hymenoptera of North America north of Mexico;” *-Revised Catalogue of the diurnal Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico ;” “Monograph of the Aphodiini of America north of Mexico” — such are a few samples of the titles of numerous works treating on North American insects, the authors thereby intimating that the fauna of North America represents on all sides a well limited area except along the Mexican frontier, and that here it has been found convenient to sub- stitute the political boundaries of the two countries in the absence of a natural dividing line. JI have not yet come across a similar work en- titled : Monograph or Catalogue of a certain family of insects of North America north of Mexico and the West Indies, and it cannot be denied that hitherto very little attention has been paid to the insect fauna of the == p0=— region forming the extreme southeastern point of North America; where- as a great deal of interest has been shown for many years in the study of the insects of all Orders inhabiting the south-western extremity. Of course, it has long been known that there exsisted in southern Florida a colony of West Indian forms but no one knew how large or small this colony was, nor how far north it extended. Most entomologists considered this colony as a very small one, or as having only a temporary character, the insects having flown or having been in some other way brought over from Cuba to disappear again from the Florida coast with- in one season or two. In fact some of the species reported in former times from southern Florida are now again dropped from our lists as doubtfully belonging to our fauna. Aside from this West Indian colony quite a number of species have been described from southern Florida as being peculiar to that section, thus creating the impression of the presence of a distinct endemic fauna in southern Florida. A few of these insects came from Key West but most of them are simply recorded from ‘‘Southern Florida,” a rather indefinite and somewhat mysterious locality, since it must be remembered that by far the largest part of southern Florida consists of unproductive Cypress or Mangrove swamps, or impenetrable sawgrass savannahs, or overflowed land like the immense stretch of the Everglades. Thus when last year I had the opportunity of spending a few weeks on an exploring trip to southern Florida, a preparatory study of what was known of the insects of that region furnished hardly any information, and, in fact, I started on my trip quite ignorant regarding the general character and extent of that fauna. To make sure of striking the semi- tropical part of Florida I proceeded at once to Key West and here I found indeed a fauna entirely different from any I had found on various previous trips to Florida.* Of course, the island of Key West contains also a great many species well known to me but all these are species of general distribution, either in our Southern States or distributed through both North and South America. After a study of this peculiar fauna of Key West which I also found on many other localities farther north and which constitutes the semitropical fauna of Florida, I have come to the conclusion that it is entirely of West Indian origin, and that the region I shall hereafter circumscribe as Semitropical Florida does not She following remarks pertain only to the Coleopterous fauna, to the study of which most of my time and attention was paid; but from what I collected or saw in the other orders I feel confident that the character and extent of the semitropical in- sect fauna as a whole does not differ in the least from that of the Coleoptera. The strong flyers among the insects, viz : certain Lepidoptera and Odonata, differ of course in the mode of immigration but their number is comparatively small. —167— contain any endemic forms. In other words, the distinctive fauna of Southern Florida is a permanent colony of West Indian forms, much more numerous in species than it has hitherto been supposed ; the number in Coleoptera alone amounting, according to a very low estimate, based upon my collection, to at least 300 species not yet in our cata- logues. In describing species from Southern Florida the point I have just mentioned has been too much overlooked, the result being that many of these species prove to have been previously described from the West Indies. This conclusion which of course cannot be fully proven before we have acquired a more complete knowledge of the West Indian fauna, but which is fully sustained by the peculiar composition and mode of occurrence of the semitropical insect fauna of Florida, forms the starting point of the following remarks. Before entering on a discussion of the charactér and extent of this West Indian colony in Florida it seems worth while and instructive to give a glance at the south-western extremity of North America where our fauna comes also in contact with a semitropical fauna. , The great faunal regions known as Nearctic and Neotropical are connected or divided by the Central American fauna which from the nature of the conditions participates in the characters of both regions, but is more nearly allied to the latter than to the former. It is again divided into the fauna of the Central American continent and the Insular fauna of Central America, more commonly called the West Indian fauna; these two faunal regions being related to each other in the same degree as is the fauna of our Atlantic slope to that of the Pacific slope. At the zone of contact between the North American fauna and that of Mexico the conditions are as follows: The ocean current along the Pacific coast of North America runs from north to south, thus facilitating the spread of more northern species southward. It loses its force and disappears before reaching southern California and thus the North American fauna along the coast does not come into contact with that of the Mexican coast. On the mainland we find between California and the largest portion of Arizona on the one side and Mexico on the other, a broad tract of the most barren and sterile country * which proves to be a most effectual barrier between the two faunal regions. Farther east, and more especially along the Rio Grande, a complete intermingling of the two faunas takes place in such a way that species of all families partici- pate in this intermingling. It it thus impossible to decide whether a collection of insects comes from Texas or the State of Tamaulipas, or * See Dr. G. H. Horn’s “ Notes on the ‘ Biologia Centrali-Americana,’” Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol, XIII, Month. Proc., p. VII. Soo whether it comes from southern New Mexico, from south-eastern Arizona, or from Sonora. The Morrison collection, for instance, has been distributed among North American entomologists as coming from south-eastern Arizona and is worked up in the ‘‘ Biologia Centrali- Americana” as coming from Sonora, Mex. Returning to Florida and the West Indies we find a quite different state of affairs. Florida is apparently well separated from Cuba, the nearest of the West Indian islands, by an ocean which, at its narrowest place, is go miles wide. In realty, however, this wide arm of the ocean does not separate but connects the West Indies with Florida ; in fact it is not an ocean but the mightiest river on this globe, with a strong current ; in short it is the Gulf stream. As everyone knows, the valleys of large streams are most favorable for distributing different faunas. Take the Mississippi River for instance: it has often been pointed out that along its banks and its valley the fauna and flora of the Southern States extends well up into the Northern States as far as Iowa and Nebraska, while the current of the river constantly carries numerous species of northern plants and insects into the Southern States. The Gulf stream has neither banks nor a valley and a distribution or migra- tion against the current or up stream is not possible but a distribution with the current takes place as in any other large river. The result is that Floridian insects and plants cannot migrate southward into the West Indies, while numerous species of West Indian plants and insects are easily carried with the current on to the shores of Florida where the insects find a permanent lodgement because their original food-plants have also established themselves at the same place. In looking for the original home of this colony of West Indian in- sects and plants we have been hitherto too much accustomed to con- sider the island of Cuba as the only place from which this immigration has taken place. In the task of determining my South Floridian Co- leoptera it was found over and over again that these immigrants may have been described not only from Cuba, but from any other of the West Indian islands, or from the Central American continent south of Yucatan, or even from Columbia and Venezuela—in other words from all parts of Central America which come under the influence of the Gulf stream. As can be seen from any physical atlas, the warm equatorial current enters the Caribbean sea through the Windward Islands and at- taining by this contraction a considerable velocity forms the Gulf stream which flows between the southernmost chain of the West Indies and the Leeward Islands and strikes the Central American continent, flow- ing northward along the coast. Deflected by the projecting peninsula of Yucatan, the stream turns eastward and reaches the coast of Cuba —169— and the southernmost part of Florida. Thus the West Indian colony of insects in Florida may come from any part of this vast area swept by the Gulf stream, although the largest proportion comes of course from Cuba since this island is the nearest to Florida. This immigration by the aid of the Gulf stream explains the following interesting phenomenon in geographical distribution. We have seen that insects from the coast of Central America south of Yucatan may occur in Southern Florida ; but the same species often had the power of extending their geographi- cal distribution northward on the Central American mainland through Mexico, thus reaching the south-western limits of the United States. Certain species may occur, therefore, in the United States, in Western Texas or South-eastern New Mexico and in Southern Florida, being however, absent in the intervening Southern States, viz: Eastern Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Northern and Central Florida. This curious distribution has never been pointed out so far as I am aware but can be exemplified by numerous species, not only among the Co- leoptera but also other Orders of insects. The distance between Cuba and Florida is not very great, the current of the Gulf stream is very swift, and logs and other debris swept out to sea from the rivers of Cuba may reach the coast of Florida within three -or four days; from Yucatan in about double that time. It is evident that within this short time all such insects may safely be carried from the West Indies to Florida which, in the imago or praeparatory stages, live under bark, or within the wood of trees, or within seeds and similar sheltered conditions, or whose eggs are firmly attached to trees and cover- ed with viscous liquid. But it is evident that this sea voyage is too long for all such insects as do not live in such sheltered positions. As a con- sequence, all adephagous Coleoptera, further all those living under old leaves, in the ground, in very rotten wood and similar places, and finally most of the Chrysomelide which lay their eggs either on to the leaves or in the ground are not brought over from the West Indies. There are, therefore, no West Indian Carabide, Lampyride, Staphylinide and other thypophagous Clavicorn families and very few West Indian Scarabeide and Chrysomelide to be found in Southern Florida.* This is a most characteristic feature of the semitropical Coleopterous fauna of Florida, strikingly contrasting with the state of affairs in the south-western ex- tremity of North America. I have stated before that along the Texan and New Mexican frontier there is a perfect intermingling of the North * The absence of fresh water in the coral region of the Keys and the mainland south of Miami River necessitates the absence of Dytéscide and most other aquatic or semi-aquatic families. Even the Everglades and the rivers draining the same at the northern end of Biscayne Bay seem to be almost destitute of acquatic Coleoptera. and Central American faunas so that it is impossible to decide whether a miscellaneous collection of Coleoptera comes from Western Texas or the adjacent parts of Mexico. A miscellaneous collection, consisting only of about 100 species but made promiscuously in semitropical Florida can at a glance be distinguished from a similar collection made in Cuba or any other part of the West Indies. Further, the peculiar composition of this fauna at once precludes the assumption that any agencies other than the current of the Gulf stream could have been active in assisting the im- migration from the West Indies. To find out the geographical extent of this semitropical fauna in Florida was the chief object of my trip and since I was fortunate enough to transverse the whole length of the region to be taken into consideration, I have been able to contribute to the solution of this question. But long before I got through with my trip I had come to the conclusion that in the course of my first expeditions to Florida in the years 1875 and 1876 I had been, in the vicinity of Fort Capron and other points on the Indian River, in the very midst of this West Indian colony of insects without capturing any of them, except, accidentally, a few stray specimens. I feel quite sure that my companions and myself passed then within a few yards of places where we might have collected scores of species belonging to this semitropical fauna. But at that time we did not know anything about the peculiar mode of occurrence of this fauna. Some years later, Mr. H. G. Hubbard instituted a careful search at several points on the narrow strip of land lying between the ocean and the Indian River between Capron and Jupiter inlet. He found then for the first time quite a num- ber of these species which I now recognize as West Indian immigrants. All these occured exclusively in small and isolated thickets of hammock Jand found at wide intervals in the dense shrubbery back of the ocean beach. Mr. Hubbard recognized several trees composing these thickets as West Indian species, but the relation of the insects to this flora was at that time not fully recognized, and some of the more striking species found by Mr Hubbard were shortly afterwards described by Dr. Leconte as belonging to the Floridian fauna. Most of the more southern Keys are covered with semitropical forest, 7. e. forest composed of West Indian trees, while, as I stated be- fore, the true Floridian fauna and flora are almost entirely absent. These islands are, therefore, by no means favorable to a study of the relation of the semitropical to the true Floridian fauna. However, a stay of a few weeks on the shores of Biscayne Bay fully sufficed to settle this question. Here as well as on the mainland farther south and the northernmost Keys (Key Largo and Elliott’s Key) the Floridian flora largely infringes upon the semitropical forest and reduces the same to smaller or larger —17I— island-like patches lying close to the shore or occupying similary isolated patches on the shore of the Everglades and the few islands in the Ever- giades. The bulk of the mainland is covered by pine woods* with an undergrowth composed almost entirely of true Floridian plants. ‘There are further vast stretches of what is called ‘‘the prairie,” 2 e. land quite recently formed, partly by the accumulation of seaweeds swept ashore by the waves, and partly by the advance of the Mangroves. ‘This prairie is covered with the same herbaceous vegetation which we see in similar places in Central Florida and does not contain a single semitropical “plant. Even the hammock is invaded by several true Floridian trees: the Live Oaks, several Palmettos, the Hackberry and others make their appearance and, on higher ground we find plenty of Persea carolinensis, Now on all these trees, in the pine woods and on the prairie, in short wherever there is the Floridian flora we meet the true Floridian insect fauna whereas the semitropical fauna is confined to the semitropical forest.** This fact once recognized, it becomes evident that the north- ward extent of this fauna is identical with that of the semitropical forest, a fact fully borne out by subsequent experience. We have seen that the semitropical forest occupies the chain of the Keys and island-like spots on the shores of Biscayne Bay and farther south on the mainland. North of Miami River the coral formation rapidly sinks below the level of the ground and the land is covered with vast stretches of Mangrove and saw-grass swamps until it is lost into the Everglades. The semitropical forest is no longer to be found here but it is continued northward in a remarkable way on the narrow and sandy coast strip beginning with Cape Florida. Here we meet for the first time with the semitropical maritime flora in its fullest development. It covers as a dense shrubbery the land back of the beach; but to my surprise I was unable to discover any peculiar Coleoptera on this flora although in Hemiptera I found here quite a number of the most striking species. But in the very midst of this shrubbery, at a distance of from 2—300 yards from the beach, there occur little patches of the semitropical forest, these patches being only about one acre in size, rarely larger and often * While it is true that the Pine of Southern Florida, Pinus cubensis, is also of West Indian origin, its distribution in Florida is quite different from the rest of the semitropical flora and its introduction evidently of a very ancient date. Its fauna does not differ from that of the Yellow Pine (P. palustris). ** There is, in addition, in Southern Florida a maritime fauna of semitropical character but the number of species composing the same (about 12 in Coleoptera) is so small that it is hardly worth while considering. Its northern extent is still uncer- tain but it is safe to say that on the eastern coast, it does not reach beyond Musquito Inlet at New Smyrna. --172— smaller but always widely distant from each other and difficult to find in the high and dense shrubbery of the maritime flora. At Lake Worth, about 100 miles north of Cape Florida the semitropical forest attains a most unusual development extending for 8 or g miles on the narrow space between the lake and the sea. In their northward extent along the Indian River these semitropical thickets become smaller and scarcer, one species after another of the semitropical trees disappears and with their food-plants the semitropical insects become gradually scarcer in individuals as well as species. Before reaching Cape Canaveral this peculiar fauna and flora may be said to have disappeared. I desire to emphasize here once more as one of the principal characteristics of this flora and fauna, that north of the Everglades they nowhere appear inland but always close to the shore. Even along the inner bank of the Indian River there are— or rather were—but a very few. spots covered with semitropical forest, viz: on the mouth of the St. Lucie and Sebastian Rivers, at the southern end of Merritt’s Island and perhaps some others; but they are now mostly destroyed by cultivation, What I have hitherto said of the extent of the semitropical fauna refers only to the eastern and south-eastern coast of Florida. I know nothing from personal experience how far north this fauna extends on the western coast.* In fact the south-western part of Florida south of the Caloosahatchee River is at present the most unknown and least accessible portion of the whole United States and, entomologically, still /erra in- cognia. I rely here entirely on a statement by Prof. C. S. Sargent pub- lished in his ‘‘ Report on the forests of North America” ** and quote it herewith ; but I wish to say that long before I saw it I had worked out from my own experience and with the aid of Mr. Hubbard’s notes the extent of the semitropical fauna and flora along the south-eastern coast. Says Prof. Sargent: ‘‘A group of arborescent species of West Indian origin occupies the narrow strip of coast and islands of Southern Florida. This belt of semitropical vegetation is confined to the immediate neigh- borhood of the coast and to occasional hammocks or islands of high ground situated in the savannahs which cover a great portion of Southern Florida, checking, by the nature of the soil and want of drainage, the spread of forest growth across the peninsula. This semitropical forest belt reaches Cape Malabar on the east, and the shores of Tampa Bay on the west coast, while some of its representatives extend fully two degrees * The distribution of semitropical insects on the western coast is facilitated by a counter current which, originating at Cape Florida, runs in a south-westerly direction between the Keys and the mainland to Cape Sable, thence northward along the coast. ** Tenth Census of the United States, Vol. IX, 1884, p. 6. riggs farther north. It is rich in composition ; nearly a quarter of all the arborescent species of the Atlantic forest are found within this insignificant region.” In these few words the extent of the semitropical insect fauna is also sketched, but Prof. Sargent omits to emphasize the island-like distribution of the semitropical forest which as a matter of course exists on the Keys but is maintained throughout on the mainland. This distribution of the semitropical fauna which surrounds, like a necklace of pearls by far the largest portion of the penincula of Florida is certainly a most remarkable one, and has, I think, no parallel in any other country of the globe. In a paper read at the March (1888) meeting of the Entomological Society of Washingion, My. Uhler, while speaking on the Hemiptera col- lected by mysell in south-eastern Florida, stated that the present Hemip- terous fauna of North America is largely derived from the neo-tropical fauna, and that the comparatively few really nearctic forms in Southern Florida have a hard struggle with the invaders from the South. His first assertion is undoubtedly correct and holds true also of the other Orders of insects; but Mr. Uhler omits to state that the immigration to which he refers and which shaped the character of the present fauna of the North American continent, took place at a very remote age, viz: at the end of the Ice period, long before there existed a Southern Florida. The settle- ment of West Indian plants and insects which has been the subject of my communication is, geologically speaking, of quite recent date and, in fact, is still going on. This West Indian colony occupies, as we have seen, a very modest place in Florida and certainly does not infringe upon or contend with the continental forms. Some species have acquired, and some others no doubt will acquire the power to change their food-habits and extend their geographical range northward, but the majority will re- main confined to the isolated spots covered by the semitropical forest and will never compete with the North American forms. Yes, this semi- tropical flora and fauna stands even in imminent danger of being con- siderably restricted by the agency of Man since the hammock land, on account of its rich soil, is rapidly brought under cultivation. Thus the once famous semitropical hammock of Lake Worth will have entirely dis- appeared ere long. During my stay on the shores of Biscayne Bay I witnessed myself the destruction by cultivation of some of the prettiest pieces of semitrop- ical hammock land, and if on the island of Key West the building boom, which flourished at the time of my visit, holds on for only three or four years, not the slightest trace will then be left of the hammock, and the semitropical insect fauna of that island will be a thing of the past. Sul, . ean ° there is no danger that this fauna will become entirely extinct in Southern Florida, since many spots covered with semitropical forest are situated in the most inhospitable and inaccessible parts of the country which will never have any attraction to the settler. One more question remains to be briefly touched, viz: What shall we do with these colonies of semitropical insects in the south-western and south-eastern extremities of our country? Shall we include them in the lists of North American insects or shall we exclude them therefrom ? From the standpoint of systematic Entomology it would no doubt be ad- vantageous to include as much as possible or the whole of the semitrop- ical faunas since the systematic position of many now isolated species or genera or higher groups could then be established in a much more satis- factory way than it is possible from the study of the North American fauna alone. Some of our authors, dealing with whole Orders of insects, have indeed included this semitropical fauna, e. g. Dr. Hagen sin his Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, Baron Osten-Sacken in his Catalogue of Diptera, and Mr. Uhler in his Check List of Hemiptera. These authors could do so, however, without much inconvenience since the material at their command from Central America and the West Indies was very limited as to the number of species. If they had now the im- mense material from the continent of Central America that has been ac- cumulated by the enterprise and energy of the editors of the ‘‘ Biologia Centrali-Americana” they would no longer include the Central American fauna into a Monograph or Catalogue of North American insects, for the the simple reason that the true North American fauna would then appear as an insignificant appendix to the much richer fauna of the Semitropics. The fauna of the West Indies is as yet but very imperfectly known; but it is safe to say that, although poorer than the Central American fauna, the number of its species also exceeds that of the North American con- tinent. This inclusion would, in Coleoptera alone, involve the addition of at least 20,000 species. Our systematists would thus be utterly over- whelmed by this abundance of material, and, moreover, after this in- clusion we would be in the same trouble as before, since there is again no dividing line between the Central American faunas and the adjacent portions of the tropical fauna of South America. This inclusion is, there- fore, impracticable but so is also a wholesale exclusion, for the reason that the many semitropical species found along our south-western frontier and the few species that were hitherto known of the West Indian colony in Florida, have already been included into our own fauna, and it would cause considerable confusion and inconvenience to exclude them again from our lists and synopses. Moreover, a portion of these species have acquired a more or less wide distribution in our Southern States and could, therefore, be still less conveniently excluded. Thus some intermediate way must be found to deal with this semi- tropical colony. Mr. J. B. Smith, in a recent paper in the Enromotoerca AMERICANA proposes to admit only such species as are found breeding within our territory and to reject all temporary visitors. This would ad- mit, so far as the Coleoptera are concerned, the whole fauna of the semi- tropical forest of Southern Florida which has been the subject of this communication. Iam fully in accord with Mr. Smith though I can foresee that there will be considerable dissent among Entomologists, and especially Lepidopterists, whether certain species are to be considered as permanent residents or temporary visitors. Still I would like to add an- other restriction, viz : to exclude also all such species which add a strange or disturbing element into the classification of North American insects. Under disturbing elements I understand all such species or genera which in their characters contrast more or Jess strongly with those of the nearest North American species or genera and which would thus occupy a more or less isolated position in our monographs and synopses. * Dr. Riley remarked that he thought there was little room for differ- ence of opinion regarding the exclusion of West Indian species from the Floridan fauna. We can no more exclude them from consideration than the Mexican species in Southern California. As we extend our realm we are obliged to recognize additional forms as connected with the fauna of the United States. The United States does not have a natural geograph- ical limit and embraces portions of different great faunal regions. Where the presence only of species has been recorded they should be included in our lists simply as visitors and when breeding here as residents. Mr. Fletcher asked what the object could be in excluding them. He thought the occurence of a species in our territory sufficient reason to in- clude it in our faunal list. As information might be at any moment re- quired concerning its habits. ‘There was no difficulty in indicating in such lists that it was an accidental visitor. Mr. Bethune cited cases in Canada, where some essentially Southern insects“occur as Adefia argillacea, Erebus odora, Sphinx ello, etc. He "_* For the benefit of those who have the opportunity of studying the fauna of our south-western frontier I append here the following statement by Prof. C. S. Sargent (Report on the forest trees of N. A., p. 6), as it may help to throw some light on the distribution of Mexican forms in Western Texas: ‘‘ The Mexican forést belt of Texas extends from the valley of the Colorado River, near the 98th mer‘dian to the Rio Grande. It touches the coast not far from the Nueces River and extends to the eastern base of the mountain ranges west of the Pecos; here the species of which it is com- posed mingle with those peculiar to the Pacific-Mexican forest.”’ —176— would not omit them altogether but admit them as visitors. In the Florida fauna he thought it would be best to include all found there. He was of the opinion that any difficulty might be obviated by writers of Monographs stating.on their title-pages that they treated of the insects inhabiting the Northern temperate region of the U. S. rather than ‘‘the U.S. north of Mexico” as is now customary. Mr. Howard believed it best to separate mere captures from fauna} lists which should be based on residence of a species, and inquired how such species could be a disturbing element in monographic works. Mr. Schwarz replied that they represent groups of genera or species which have their nearest allies in the semitropics but not in our fauna. It is important to recognize them as belonging to a tropical fauna. Faunal limits are often very sharply drawn and we should exercise more care in defining such limits. Mr. Smith stated that he agreed in the main with Mr. Schwarz. There is a difference in the semitropical and north temperate faunz, some small part of our fauna belongs to semitropical but nearly all to the North temperate. There is no distinction between the United States and Canada but there is a very distinct difference between north temperate and semi- tropical faunz. He would not exclude Mexican from American insects when they belong to the north temperate fauna. He thought we should define not the fauna of a political boundary but that of a zoological boundary. Dr. Riley remarked that the trouble is there is no definite nespdere The people of this country desire to study insects occurring in the country, no matter what their relationship outside. Include them in our faunal studies but indicate their relations. In short, do with them as Mr. Schwarz has done in making a special study of their limits. Mr. Osborn remarked that species of one fauna so lap over into the region of another that it is difficult to draw a line between zoological regions. Intermediate forms may occupy nearly equal territory in con- tiguous faunal regions. It is important that these intruding species should be included, perhaps with special note, for the very purpose of indicating their extreme limits. Dr. Riley suggested the practical question, should a resident of Florida expect to had such species mentioned in a work on Florida in- sects or must he search in foreign works for them. Dr. Peabody asked if the tropic of Cancer is a dead wall separating north temperate from tropical forms. He believed fixed lines do not exist in nature. Mr. Smith said in certain species limitation is fixed by food-plant and that may be fixed by temperature as a wall. Mr. Fletcher remarked that zoo-geographical lines are not strictly drawn like territorial boundaries but that such papers as the one by Mr. Schwarz are great helps in defining their limits. Mr. Howard stated that in the Coccrde a student would find re- presentatives of the Australasian, Asiatic and European faunee as well as the American represented here. This is an extreme case, but can we omit such species from monographic works ? Dr. Riley considered that introduced species become firmly establish- ed in our fauna and must be included in all monographic treatment. Mr. Smith said the Coccide follow their food-plants when introduced and as they become established must be considered as part of our native fauna. Mr. Westcott described a moth-trap by means of black-board figures and answered numerous questions as to its construction. The Club then proceeded to the election of Officers for the ensuing year which resulted as follows: President, James Fletcher, Ottawa, Canada; Vice-President, L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C.; Secretary, D. S. Kellicott, Columbus, Ohio. On motion the Club adjourned sie de. HERBERT OsBorn, Secretary. a ‘““A Monograph of the Sphingide of North America, North of Mexico. By Joun B. Smiru.” By Pror. C. H. FeErna.p. The above is the title of a very valuable paper in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. XV, consisting of 194 pages and 10 plates of structural details. After a pretty thorough characteriza- tion of the family, in which the genitalia are described and published for the first time, so faras I know, Mr. Smith gives a comparatively full history of the publications on this group, from the time of Linnzeus down. In this I fear Mr. Smith has been too much governed by prejudices, for the work of Mr. Grote is handled without gloves, while my own little paper on the New England species certainly receives too great commenda- tion. The work of P. Maassen receives no greater praise than it probably deserves. The subfamilies JZacroglossine, Cherocampine, Sphingine and Smerinthine are recognized and quite full characteristics given, but the lines of demarkation between them are not so clear but that some of the species may require further transposition. Mr. Smith does not seem to have found subfamily characters in the genitalia, which is quite remark- able since the Zor/ricide, in their genitalia, furnish subfamily, generic, and specific characters. —17§8— Keyes are given for the determination of the sub-families, genera and species, which will prove of great assistance. The genera are well characterized and the history of the name discussed more or less. A complete synonomy of each species is given and a full description, with the habitat. The early stages are not given but references are made to them. The work is a model in its way, and a similar work on the Woctur- de would be a god-send to American entomologists. A few typo- graphical errors have crept in which will doubtless be corrected. By a slip of the pen (or types) the first two letters of the generic name A e//o- pos are contracted into a diphthong thus doing away with one syllable, and the specific name ‘‘mscrip/um” should be in the feminine form to agree with that of the genus Dezdamza under which it is placed. Mr. Smith rejects the generic name PAlegethonhus and adopts the later name Pro/oparce, because, as he says, ‘‘Hiibner’s term is not one expressing a distinct idea, and the three American species now referred as congeneric, were placed in three distinct coiti by him.” What gen- eric name over twenty-five years old in any department of zoology can stand under this ruling! It has been the work of modern zoologists to take the old generic names and selecting some species under each as a type, bring together under it the conspecific names and thus purify them. Mr. Smith appears to have an especial hatred for Hiibner, but unfortu- nately there were Hiibners in every department of zoology, so that there is now no course to pursue but to observe the rules closely, and treat all authors alike, for unless this is done, some later writer will overthrow the work. Zoologists have formulated and crystalized their ideas on nomenclature very much within the last ten years as is shown in the Code of the American Ornithologists’ Union. The genus Daremma is sunk asa synonym of Cerafoma which I believe to be correct. I could find no satisfactory characters to separate them and I think Mr. Smith is right in writing them. ‘The system of venation adopted is that used by the entomologists on the continent of Europe and by most of the English and Americans. Dr. Packard claims that this method is unscientific and only used by amateurs. All I have to say on this point now, is that the professionals are in an ex- ceedingly small minority. At the close is given a List of the Sphingidz of Temperate North America, which introduces some few changes from the body of the book. With such an admirable work on the Sphingide we can afford to let these insects take a long breathing spell. la ia Partial Preparatory Stages of Dryopteryx rosea, W/,. By Harrison G. Dyar. Rhinebeck, N. Y. Egg.—Elliptical, flattened above and below, 8 mm. long and 4 broad, finely punctured. Color white. Laid singly, or in twos or threes on either surface of the leaf. When more than one is Jaid at once they are in a line in the direction of their longest diameters. Newly hatched larva. —Body somewhat wrinkled, swelled at joint 2 which has two short conical processes. A single process on top of joint 4. Body terminates in a single prolongation. Color brown, blackish laterally. Head rounded and black. Head and body thinly covered with very short and whitish hairs. ‘The larva eats the upper half of the leaf at the edge, resting on this portion which becomes withered and brown, much resembling the color of the insect at this stage. After rst moult, —Vransversely wrinkled, four wrinkles to each joint, and roughened with numerous small yellowish points. Color yellowish dorsally, brownish laterally ; two conical processes on joint 2, one on joint 4. Head notched on top, roughened. Color brown, Afier 2nd moult.—Similar to the preceeding. The larva now feeds on the entire leaf, but when not feeding rests on the withered portion After 3rd moult,—Color more even uniform brown but lighter dors- ally, the lateral color extending upward on joint 8. ‘The yellowish points are now very numerous. After 4th moult,—Simuilar, but nearly uniform brown, the head a little hghter and a narrow blackish dorsal line. Head surmounted by two conical processes, the process on joint 4 rather shorter in proportion than before, but the prolongation to the last segment one-third as long as the body. Body wrinkled as in the previous stages and rough. After this moult the larvae become lethargic and hybernate, resting on the stem of the plant. They spin a very slight web on the bark to which they cling. Their color closely resembles that of the bark. Mr. Grote has given a description of the mature larva in Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XIX, p. 50. There are probably two broods of the insect in a season as the moths occur in June and August, but I have not found any larve of the first brood. Food plants: lturnum centfolium and V. lentago. ———__—_ <> -— — NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The next number, January, 1889, will begin Vol. V, and the Volumes thereafter will correspond with the year. Vol. V will be com- posed of 12 numbers for which the usual subscription price of $2.00 will be charged. Subscribers will very much oblige the Society by a prompt remittance for the Volume to the treasurer, Curis. H. Roserts, 11 West 123rd Street, New York. INDEX TO AUTHORS AND SUBI=ECTs, Aaron, Eugene M. Hlesperide, determination of 142 Ashmead, Wm. H. Descriptions of Florida Chalcids 15 Genera and species of Eurytominee 41 Classification of Hemiptera 65 (reneric Table of Chalcidinze 87 Synopsis of Cicadzea 140 Beutenmueller, Wm. N. A. Tineidz 29 Food-plants of Lepidoptera 75 Bollman, Charles H. List of Myriapoda of Arkansas 1 Books received 59, 100. Brooklyn Ento. Soc. Reports of Meetings 59, 80 Bruce, David. Larva of Gnophela vermiculata 24 Butler. A. G. Note on Bolina fasciolaris 13 Casey, jas Le: Thorouvhness in Entomological Tables 1S OF. Crane, M. S. Note on Eugonia alniaria 13 Dietz, Ottomar. Callida purpurea 23 Dury, Charles. Elateridze of Cincinnati 163 Dyar, Harrison G. Dryopteryx rosea, larva 179 Edwards, Henry. Euproserpinus euterpe 25 Early staves of N. A. Moths 61 Notes on Lepidoptera 63 Entomological Club A.A. A. S. Report of Proceedings 101, 125, 145, 165. Fernald, C,H: Monograph of Sphingidz, Notice of 177 N. A. Pyralidze 37 Notes on Crambidz 44 The genus Diatrza 119 The genus Schcenobius 135 Fernald, H. T. Erebus odora 36 Fletcher, James. Canadian collections 145 Type specimens 146 Collecting Expedition to North Lake Superior 159 - Graef, Edw. L. Hyparpax aurostriata 58 Zeuzera pyrina 162 Grote, A. R. The genus Platythyris 73 Species of Boarmia 98 Cerathosia tricolor 121 Hagen, H. A. The genus Sympetrum 31 Hamilton, John. Thoroughness in Ento. Tables 78 Horn, Geo. H. Note on Chanopterus 48 Hubbard, H. G. Amphicerus bicaudatus 95 Hulst, Geo. D. Book Notices 38, 79, 99, 143, 160 Notes 45, 47, 48, 63, 64, 79, 85 Notes on Geometridze (No. 4) 49 Faunal limits of U. S. 70 Handling wasps without harm 86 New genera and species of Epipaschiz and Phycitidee 113 Jiilich, Wm. Phleophagus spadix 35 Kellicott, D. S. Hepialus argentiomaculatus 153 Liebeck, Charles. Collecting Notes 74 Marx, George. A new Spider 160 Moeschler, H. B. A more wicked worm 34 Osborn, Herbert. Aleurodes 147 Pearsall, R. H. Scopelosoma moffatiana 59 Rivers; ei) Aegeria impropria 99 Schaus, Wm., Jr. Larva of Phassus triangularis 64 Schwarz, E. A. Insect fauna of semitropical Florida 165 g *, 4 ad INDEX TO AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS. Smith, John B. Weed, C. M. Introduction to classification of N. A. Parasites of Hemaris diffinis 147 Lepidoptera 9, 27 Parasites of Phoxopteris comptana 149 A disclaimer 14 Book Notices 52, 56, 58 Weeks, A. C. Notes 86, 96. Acontia delecta 46 List of Sphingidze of N. A. 89 | Presidents Address, Ento. Club of A. | Weeks, A.G., Jr. eA Sep Collecting Notes 123 Cerathosia tricolor 122 Westcott, O. S. Uhler, P. R. Ento. Memoranda 154 Cicada of U S. 21,-81. Wright, W.G. Washington Ento. Soc. Lyczena sonorensis 71 Reports of meetings 20, 40, 60, 80 GENERAL INDEX. Acerata 65 Acidalia hepaticaria 49 Acontia delecta 46 Acrobasis albocapitella, n. sp. 116 Acrolophus mexicanella, n. sp. 29 Egeria impropria 99 fEgeridze, classification of 9 Agrotis, pupation of 154 Albuna 12 Alcathoe 11 Aletia argillacea 45 Aleurodes, wing origen 147 Altona, n. gen. 116 «¢ —ardiferella, n. sp. 118 Amphicerus bicaudatus 95 Anisopteryx vernata 51 Anoristia olivella, n. sp. 117 Antepione imitata 49 Apanteles limenitidis 149 Apatela americana, food-plants, 75, 85 Aphycus chrysopee, n. sp. 15 See Teresi). sSpaals “6 unicolor, n. sp. 15 Aplodes coniferaria 49 Bandera cupidinella, n. sp. 118 Bembecia 11 Bephrata 42, 43 Boarmia, species of 50, 98 Bolina cunearis 13 *« fasciolaris 13 ** nigrescens 13 “* ochripennis 13 Botis plumbosignalis, n. sp. 37 Brooklyn Ento. Society, Brooklyn Inst. 80 Bruchophagus, n. gen. 42, 43 Butterflies, attracted to carrion 154, 157. Calera punctilimbella 100 Calledapteryx dryopterata 63 Callida purpurea 23 Callimorpha 14 Calothysanis amaturaria 63 Calyria occidentis 82 Carmenta 12 a parvula 22 Cayuga, n. gen. 116 Cerata 65 Cerathosia tricolor 121, 122 Chalcidinz, Generic table 87 Chalcids, from Florida 15 Chanopterus 48 Chilo decorellus 44 *« plejadellus 45 Choreia flavicincta, n. sp. 17 Cicada rimosa 153 Cicada of U. S. 21, 81 Union with Cicadidze, Genera of 140 Citheronia mexicana 62 Classification of N. A. Lepidoptera, Seslidze 9, Thyrididz 27 Cleora pulchraria 50 Clisiocampa fragilis 62 * Collections of insects in U. S. 105-129, in Canada 145 Collecting notes 74, 86, 96, 123, 153, 154, 163 Coloradia pandora 61 Comys cyanea, n, sp. 17 Cossus alni 153 Crambidz, Notes on 44 Crambus decorellus 44 Craspedosoma flavidum, n. sp. 2 Cremastus cookii, n. sp. 150 Cryptolechia concolorella, n. sp. 30 Cryptops hyalinus 5 Cryptorhynchus lapathi 24 Cydosia 6U Dasypyga carbonella, n. sp. 117 Decatoma 42, 43 Diatreea alleni, n. sp. 120 ‘¢ differentialis, n, sp. 120 se Synopsis of 119 Dinocarsis pulcher, n. sp. 17 Diplax 31 Diphryx 45 Diplodontia, n. gen. 87 Diviana eudoriella 100 Dolichorrhinia 100 Dryopteryx rosea, larva 179 Eggs of butterflies, how obtained 19 Elateridz of Cincinnati 163 Empretia stimulea, food plants 75, 55 Entomology and Ento. Collections in U.S. 102 Entomology for beginners 164 Epipaschiaz, new species of 113 Erebus odora 36 Eubyia quernaria 50 ‘¢ penulataria 50 “ cupidinaria 50 ‘¢ mexicanaria 51 Eucyrtus pyralidis, n. sp. 15 Eudecatoma, n. gen. 42, 48 Eugonia alniaria 13 “ magnaria 49 Euhagena 11 Euproserpinus euterpe, n. sp. 25 ce phaeton 25 Eurytoma 42, 43 Eurytominze, genera of 41 Eurytomocharis, n. gen. 42, 43 Evoxysoma, n. gen, 42, 43. Exelis pyrolaria 50 GENERAL INDEX. Fatua 11 Fauna of Florida 20, 40, 60 Faunal limits of U. S. 70 Fidicina 21 Florida, Experiment Station Report 79 Florida, Insect life of semitropical 165 Food plants of Lepidoptera 75 Frontaria virginiensis 3 Galleriidz of N. A. 38 Geometridz, Notes on 49 Geophilus okolonz, n. sp. 5 Gluphisia tearlei 63 Gnophaela vermiculata, larva 24 Gracilaria nigristriella, n. sp. 30 us sanguinella, n. sp. 30 ss shastella, n. sp. 30 Bi ruptistrigella, n. var. 30 Glypta phoxopteridis, n. sp. 151 Halesidota tessellata, food plants, 76 Harmonia 12 Hemaris diffnis, Parasites of 147 Hemiptera, Classification of 65 * Henicops fulvicornis 7 Hepialus argentiomaculatus 153 Hesperidae, determination of 142 Heterogynidae, Classification of 28 se Note on 50 Heteroptera, Families of 67 Homoeosoma candidella, n. sp. 118 Homoptera, Families of 68 Honora fuscatella, n. sp. 118 « glaucatella, n. sp. 117 «© obsipella, n. sp. 118 Hydrocampa proprialis, n. sp. 37 Hyparpax aurostriata, n. sp. 50 Hyperchiria pamina 62 Hypochilidae, n. fam. 161 Hypochilus, n. gen. 161 ce thorellii, n. sp. 161 Ice worm 24 Insect fauna of semitropical Florida 165 Insect Life 143 Tsosoma 42, 43 Isosomocharis, n. gen. 42, 43 Tsosomodes, n. gen. 42, 43 Isosomorpha, n. gen. 42, 43 Katona, n. gen. 113 ** euphemella. n. sp. 113 Lachnosterna fusca 154, 157 % gibbosa 154, 157 vt species of 52 Larunda 11 Lepiodes interruptaria 49 Leptomastix tineaevora, n. sp. 16 Linotaenia bramneri, n. sp. 4 Oe robusta, n. sp. 4 Lipocosma fuliginosalis, n. sp. 37 Lipographis decimerella, n. sp. 117 Lipographis niviella, n. sp. 117 Lithobius celer, n. sp. 7 “s oedipes, n. sp. 8 oe pinguis, n. sp. 7 Loma, n. gen, 114 «© nephelotella, n. sp. 114 Lycaena sonorensis 71 Mecoceras peninsularis 50 Melittia 11 Metadontia, n. gen. 87 Mira longipennis, n. sp. 17 Mona, n. gen. 115 ‘© olbiella, n. sp. 116 Monograph of Sphingidze, Notice of 177 Myriopoda of Arkansas 1 Nebraska, Experiment Station Report 56 Nephopteryx filiolella, n. sp. 117 Oreana, n. gen. 115 Ortholophus variabilis 29 Penthetria, 28 Petaluma, n. gen. 114 Phaenodiscus armatus, n. sp. 17 Phassus triangularis 64 Phemenoe 11 Phigalia olivacearia 51 Philachyra 42, 43 Phlaeophagus apionides 35 se minor 35 fe spadix 35 Phoxopterys comptana, parasites of 149 Phycitidae, new genera and species 114 ce of N. A. 38, 99 Pima, n. gen. 114 «© fosterella, n. sp. 114 Platypedia, n. gen. 23 eg areolata 23 es minor, n. sp.. 81 ie putnami 23, 82 Platypsilla castoris 40 Platythyris 27, 73 Pleocoma 40 Podosesia 12 Polydesmus minor, n. sp. 2 Ot pinetorum, n. sp. 3 Prionomastix americana, n. sp. 16 Proarna, species of 83 és albida 83 ‘© pulverea 83 at valvata, n. sp. 84 Pronuba 80 Prunasis venosa, n. sp. 82 Psecadia monticola 29 as obscurella, n. sp. 29 ss subcaerulea 29 Pseudanaphora arcanella 29 Psilophrys armatus, n. sp. 16 ss pulchripennis, n. sp. 16 Pyralidae, new, 37 Pyrophila pyramidoiles, food p'ants 47 Pyrrhotenia 12 GENERAL Ragonotia 100 Rhogas funnipennis 148 Rileya, n. gen. 42, 43 ‘¢ proposed genus 80 Saluda, n. gen. 113 Sannina 12 Saturnia galbina 61 Schoenobius, species of 135 ee albocostellus, n. var. 138 me clemensellus 138 36 dispersellus 138 ce longirostrellus 139 4 melinellus 137 a sordidellus 136 ee tripunctellus 136 ae unipunctellus 136 Sciapteron 11 Sciota, n. gen. 115 « icroceella, n- sp. 115 Scopelosoma moffatii 59 Sesia 12 Sesiidae 9 Sphaeriodesmus pudicus, n. sp. 3 Sphingicampa 4-lineata 62 Sphingidae of N. 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Pryer, entitled “« Rhopalocera Nihonica,” which is to be issued in 3 parts, 4t0, upon Japanese ‘*‘untearable paper,” profusely and beautifully’ illustrated with colored plates, at $4.00 a part. Part I now ready for delivery. Address W. J. HOLLAND, Ph. D., sth Ave., Pitsburg; Pa. A New Material for Lining Insect Cases. Pressed Cork in sheets of 19 x 23 inches, and 4 inch. thick, readily pierced by the finest pins and firmly holding ali sizes; no hard spots or cavities. Price per sheet 50 Cents ; smoothly covered with white glaced paper 60 Cents. Send for sample. H. HERPERS, {S Crawford Street, NEWARK, N. J. LEPIDOPTERA & COLEOPTERA. In our new List XXX there are offered more than 7000 correctly named species of Lepidoptera from all parts of the world ; also 700 species of preserved larvz and a number of living pupe. Also large stock of rare Coleoptera (List V) for sale. Price Lists on application. Dr. O. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS, BLASEWITZ near DRESDEN, GERMANY. The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by exchange or purchase all species of U. S. Lepidoptera still wanting in his Collection. Very liberal Exchanges will be given. Send for List of my desiderata. EDWARD L. GRALF, 40 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. A.W. PUTMAN-CRAMER, 308 Macon Si., Brooklyn, N. Y.. desires to exchange with Collectors of Lepidoptera throughout North America. Noctuidze especially desired. — Will name Noctuidz Free of Charge. — C. H. ROBERTS, 11 West 123rd Street, N. Y. City, desires to obtain Coleoptera of North America by exchange or purchase. BUPRESTID and WATER BEETLES especially desired. I desire to purchase good American COLEOPTERA, unmounted preferred, especially BUPRESTIDA. Also any papers on Coleoptera not in my Collection. Gs WS ANGELL, 44 Hudson Street, New York. CEO. FRANK, 293 Ewen Street, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y.. desires to exchange Lepidoptera from all parts of the world. List of Duplicates sent on application. North American Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometride and Microlepidoptera. CEO. D. HULST, (5 Himrod St., Brooklyn, E. D. The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by purchase or exchange North and South American 7Z7neide. WM. BEUTENMUELLER, 182 E, 76th Street, New York, N. Y. The undersigned will pay good prices either in cash or exchange for perfect specimens of Pamphila and Catocala. PHILIP: LAURENT, 621 Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pa. fo SECT. SOs hs. Cork lined, papered, 9 x 13 inches, absolutely tight, $1.00, with label holder $1.05. Of the size and style made for the U. S. Nat'l Museum $1.10. Special sizes to order at correspondingly low prices. Insect Cabinets of all sizes at reasonable prices. References for boxes and cabinets: U.S. Nat’] Museum, Brooklyn Ento. Society, and many others. JOHN SCHMITT, 290 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. WILLIAMSBURGH CORK WORKS. IY 2 YE. OM AN: Manufacturer of CORKS, CORK SOLES, &c. Cor. Ainslie and Rodney Sts., Brooklyn, N.Y: SHEET CORK FOR LINING INSECT CASES A.SPECIALTY. PRICES FOR 34 x 12 INCHES. XX Quality. X Quality. aGnck thick, Por Bundle of 24 Sheets, = = S61'00 $0.60 5 a “6 - - 1.50 90 1 ‘ec 6s ‘6 oo. te ee tary? 7 Y 2.00 1.00 Other Sizes and Thicknesses at Proportionate Prices. Liberal Discount for Quantities. Scientific and Medical Books, Minerals and other objects of N atural History. A. E. FOOTE, M. D. z) (Prof. of Min. and Chem. ; Fellow Am. Ass’n. Ady. Science ; Life Member Am. Mus. Nat. _ ; History, New York, and Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia.) 1223 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Over 5000 Entomological books, pamphlets and excerpts in stock. ’ Largest stock of minerals in the world. Largest stock of Scientific Books in America. Copies of the ‘‘Naturalist’s Leisure Hour”, 32 pp., sent free on ap- plication. 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Sent by mail for $15.00. Terms 1 month. Exchanges accepted. Also a large assortment ot Brazilian Lepidoptera ! JULIUS MICHAELIS, Theresopolis, Province Santa Catharina, Brazil. COLEOPTERA OF PACIFIC COAST FOR SALE. Also Insects of other orders. L. E. RICKSECKER, P. O. Box 208, Santa Rosa, Cal, For Sale by the “4 BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. De ad “ bs - Br Bee aa td Bs tees le 1, Bulletin vol. I to VII, 1878 —1885, each : — $1.00 Vol. I is sold only with a complete set of 7 vols. ‘Sane 2. Exlipanation of terms, used in Entomology. 38 pp. 1883, 50 Cents. 3. Synopsis of the N. A. species of Platynus by J. L. Leconte. : 16 pp. Nov. 1879 50 Cents. 4. Synopsis of the Lucanide of the U.S. By Chas. Fuchs; with = plate. 10 pp. 50 Cents. 5. Synopsis of the genera of the Noctuids (of N. A.) by J. B. Smith. : 1882 and 1883. 50 Cents. 6. Check-List of the N.A. Mactolepidoptans (Diurnals, Sphingidz, Bombycidz, Noctuidz and Geometridz). 32 pp. 1882. 25 Cents. 7. Synopsis of the Cicindelide of the U.S. of North America by F. : G. Schaupp, with five plates (four colored) and weodents, $1.00 8. ‘Papilio’, vols. I to FV, 1880 —1884, each ~s $2.00 - ss 9. Lt. T. L. Casey's papers as follows: Z Contributions &c., Part I, 60 pp., 1884, - ; 50 Cents. —~ « ‘“« Part II, 138 pp., 1885, @1.00 Revision of the Stenini of America, north of Mexico. 206 pp.. 1 plate, 1884, — oA $1.50 10.. Check-List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera, by Ph. R. Uhler. 33 pp. 1886. 50 Xe: 11. Supplement to Henshaw’s Check List of Coleoptera. By Samuel 3 Henshaw. 8 pp. 1887. ; 25 Gis. <3 12. “Entomologica Americana”, vol. I to HI, each : $2.00 - : BLANK LABELS. Se Three sizes. No.1, 1$x }inch, 20 onasheet. No, 2,-%x }ineh, with or ~ without two guide lines for writing, 25 on asheet. No.3, {x 7% in., 48ona sheet. All kinds supplied either black or red; 1 Cent for 2 sheets. ee ea LOCALITY LABELS. = In sets of 12 sheets have been preqared and are for sale ‘at 15 Cents Ree set. 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PUBLISHED BY THE BRooxLYyN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. EDITOR: Rev. Geo. D. Hutst, 15 HIMROD STREET, Brookiyn, N.Y. ASST. EDITOR : Curis. H. RosBerts, 11 WEST 123Rp STREET, New York. A. C. HUENE & BRO., Printers, 103 Broadway, Brooklyn, N.-Y. eK Entered at the Post Office at Brooklyn, N. ¥.,.as Second Class Matter. Offigens off the Brooklyn Futomologiqul Sogiety. President, EDWARD L, GRAEF, - - - - = 40 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y¥. Vice-Pres., OTTOMAR DIETZ, - - - - - - 431 East 80th Street, New York. Treasurer, CHRISTOPHER H. ROBERTS, - - = 4 11 West 123rd Street; “New York. Rec. Sec., ARCHIBALD C,. WEEKS, - - - - - 182 Park Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Cor. Sec., G. W. J. ANGELL, eos ee ak Se » ~ 44 Hudson Street, New York. Librarian, RICH’D F, PEARSALL, - : - - - - 16 Broad Street, New York. MARTIN L. LINELL, (Coleoptera) - - 36 Doughty Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Curators, 4 WM. BEUTENMUELLER, (Lepidoptera) - - 182 East 76th Street, New York. A. CO. WEEKS, (Other Orders.) f ED. L. GRAEP, CHRIS. H. ROBERTS. | RICHARD F. PEARSALL. © TRUSTEES: | CHARLES PALM, - - - —- ~172 East 64th Street, New York. |. GUSTAV BEYER, ~~. -- | - ~ 511 East 117th Street, New York. FRANK H. CHITTENDEN, - 409 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NGLY. | ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS. Si [ GEO, D..HULST. .- —.-- - --15 Himrod Street, Brooklyn, N. ¥.- CHRIS. H. ROBERTS. $ PUBLICATION | G. W. J. ANGELL. “COMMITTEE: ; WM. BEUTENMUELLER. HY. EDWARDS. . - - r - 185 Rast 116th Street, New York. {Be NEUMOEGEN.: => -- ==> =. > - Box-2581, New York, > The meetings of the Brooxryn Enromonocican Society are held, on the Evening of the first Tuesday of each month in its rooms, . SHNGERBUND HALL, Cor. Smith and Schermerhorn Sts. BROOKLYN, N. Y. ENTOMOLOGICR AMERICANA. A combination of the ‘Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society and. ‘‘Papilio”. Subscription $2.00 per volume of twelve numbers; single numbers twenty Cents ;each. : A Aventigémibnts of six lines. or less at $3. 00 per annum ; larger advertise. ments at comparatively lower rates, single insertions 50 Cents. 79 Special attention is called to the following : Books or papers for notice or review, and articles for publication ‘should be sent to the Editor. Subseriptions and business communications to the Treasurer. Exchanges and donations to library to the Librarian. Insects for identification or as donations to the collection of the Society, to either of the Curators. Rev. J. W. HOLLAND, Pittsburgh, Pa., has on hand and for sale. or exchange, a limited quantity of magnificent specimens of the Lepidoptera of Japan of his own “collecting, also .a quantity of fine’ specimens-of the Lepidoptera of West Africa, Siam, Celebes, and Queensland, He has also con- sented to receive subscriptions for the ‘magnificent new w ork upon the Butterflies of Japan, by H. Pryer, entitled “ Rhopalocera Nihonica,” which is to be issued in 3 parts, 4te, upon Japanese ‘* untearable paper,” profusely and beautifully illustrated with colored plafes, at $4.00 a part.” Part I now ready for delivery. Address W.J. HOLLAND, Ph. D., sth Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. A New Material for Lining Insect Cases. Pressed Cork in sheets of 19 x 23 inches, and 4 inch. thick, readily pierced by the finest pins and firmly holding ali sizes ; no hard spots or cavities. Price per sheet 50 Cents ; smoothly covered with white glaced paper 60 Cents. Send for sample. H. HERPERS, {8 Crawford Street, NEWARK, N. J. LEPIDOPTERA & COLEOPTERA. In our new List XXX there are offered more than 7000 correctly named species of Lepidoptera from all parts of the world ; also 700 species of preserved larve and a number of living pupe. Also large stock of rare Coleoptera (List V) for sale. Price Lists on application. Dr. O. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS, BLASEWITZ near DRESDEN, GERMANY. © The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by exchange or purchase all species of U. S. Lepidoptera still wanting in his Collection. Very liberal Exchanges will be given. Send for List of my desiderata. EDWARD L. GRAEF, 40 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. A.W. PUTMAN-CRAMER, 308 Macon St., Brooklyn, N. Y.. desires to exchange with Collectors of Lepidoptera throughout North America. Noctuidz especially desired. — Will name Noctuide Free of Charge. — C. H. ROBERTS, 11 West 123rd Street, N. Y. City, desires to obtain Coleoptera of North America by exchange or purchase. BUPRESTIDZ and WATER BEETLES especially desired. I desire to purchase good American COLEOPTERA, unmounted preferred, especially BUPRESTID#. Also any papers on Coleoptera not in my Collection. G. W.J.ANGHLL, 44 Hudson Street, New York. CEO. FRANK, 293 Ewen Street, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y., desires to exchange Lepidoptera from all parts of the world. List of Duplicates sent on application. North American Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometridz and Microlepidoptera. CEO. D. HULST, 15 Himrod Street, BROOKLYN, E. D. GEO. W. PECK of Roselle, New Jersey, has for sale some rare Sphingidze and Bombycidz. Of the former—Smerinthus Astylus, Juglandis and Myops. Also D. versicolor, Pseudosphinx Tetrio, &c. The undersigned will pay good prices either in cash or exchange for perfect specimens of Pamphila and Catocala. PHILIP LAURENT, 621 Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pa. CLASSIFICATION OF HYMENOPTERA. The ‘Synopsis of the Families and Genera of the Hymenoptera of America, North of Mexico,’? compiled by E. T. CRESSON, and published by the American Entomological Society, containing synoptic tables of families and genera, catalogue of described species and bibliography, is now ready. Price, $3.00, Price List of Entomological Publications for sale, mailed on application. Address E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer P. O. Box 1577, Philadelphia, Pa. “Sweeping? and Water-Nets Made to Order. ye “WILLIAMSBURGH CORK WORKS. ; D.S. YEOMAN, . Manufacturer of CORKS, CORK SOLES, &c. = Cor. Ainslie and Rodney Sts., Brooklyn, N.Y. SHEET CORK FOR LINING INSECT CASES B SPECIRETT, se PRICES FOR 334 x 12 INCHES. | XX Quality. X Qualify. -- $1.00 may ¥ inch thick, per Bundle of 24 Sheets, : $0.60 % 3 ‘cc a cc a3 6c 6G 6e 4 = 1.50 -90 a 4 sé te ‘é “ 66 66 seas Es z 2,00 1.00 2a - Other Sizes and Thicknesses at Proportionate Prices, Liberal Discount for Quantities. “Scientific and Medical Books, Minerals and — 3 other objects of Natural History. | : A. E. FOOTE, M. D. : (Prof. of Min. and Chem. ; Fellow Am. Ass'n. Adv. Science; Life Member Am. Mus. Nat. b History, New York, and Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia. ) {223 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Over 5000 Entomological books, pamphlets and excerpts in stock. ~ Largest stock of minerals in the world. — Largest stock of Scientific Books in “America. Copies of the “Naturalist’s Leisure Hour’, 32 pp., sent free on ap- plication. If stamp is’ enclosed, the subscriber’s edition on heavy paper is sent. ‘Please state, what department of science you are specially interested in. . 4 ° BRASS FOLDING NET-RINGS $1.00. Fishing Tackle, ods: Reels, Hooks, &e. Ca. RECHT, No. 788 BOWERY, NEW DORK B. Neumegen, P. O. Box 2581, New York City, wishes to arrange with collectors in all parts of the world for the purchase or ex- ~ change of Lepidoptera. Western and Southwestern U- S. species especially desired, and liberal prices will be paid for material from Utah, Montana and Oregon. S FOR SALE , The collection of Lepidoptera of FRED. TEPPER, num- . ; ra bering about 12,000 specimens, among which are some * fine series and. many types principally in. the Noctuidze. Apply to - FRED. THPPER, P.O. Bor 8331, New York City. WATKINS & DONCASTER. 326 Strand, London, W. C., England, , “have a large stock of British Macro-Lepidopte:a, Exotic Butterflies, British Birds, Eggs, Apparatus for Entomologists, Ornithologists, Botanists, &c. A Catalogue will be sent post-paid to. any address on application. COLEOPTERA OF PACIFIC COAST FOR SALE. } Also Insects of other orders. Lo E. RICKSECKER, P. O, Box 208, Santa Rosa, Cal. For Sale by the “4 BROOKLYN. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, » 1. Bulletin vol, I to VII; 1878—1885, each 7 = ESE Sy Vol. I is sold only with a compiete set of 7 vols. ; ‘ 2 : 2. Explanation of terms, used in Entomology. _ 38 pp. 1883, 50 Cents. 3. Synopsis of the N. A. species of Platynus by J. L. Leconte. ~~ . 16 pp. Nov. 1879 re Fat os BOCentgre a 4.. Synopsis of the Lucanide of the U.S. By Chas. Fuchs; with aA plate. 10 pp. Be 50 Cents.» 5. Synopsis of the genera of the Noctuide (of N, A.) by J. B. Smith. ier 1882 and 1883. eS. - 50 Cents. 6. Check-List of the N. A. Macrolepidoptera (Diurnals, Sphingide, Bombycide, Noctuidie and Geometridx), 32 pp. — 1882. 25 Cents. 7. ~ Synopsis of the Cicindelide of the U.S. of North America by F. Son: G. Schaupp, with five plates (four colored) and woodcuts. $1.00 8. “Papilio”, vols: Ito.IV, 1880—1884, each $2.00 ae Ba ES Casey’s papers as follows: : . Contributions &c., Part I, 60 pp-, 1884, ° ' 50 Cents. ss “* Part II, 138 pp., 1885, $1.00 Revision of the Stenini of America, north of Mexico, 206 pp. 1 plate, 1884, 5 $1.50 10. Cheek-List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera, by Ph. R. Uhler.. 33 pp. 1886. 50 Cts. 11. Supplement to Henshaw’s Check List of Coleoptera. By Samuel Henshaw. § pp. 1887. ‘ 25 Cts. 12. “Entomologica Americana”, vol. I to UT, each - ‘$2.00 eee BLANK LABELS. Three sizes. No. 1, 1} x $ inch, 20 ona sheet. “No. 2,-x Linch, with or _ without two guide lines for writing. 25 on a sheet. No.3, 42x Sein., 480n a sheet. All kinds supplied either black or red ; 1 Cent for 2 sheets. SSS LOCALITY LABELs. 2a In sets of 12 sheets have been preqared and are for sale at 15 Cents per set.. Each sheet contains 42 lines and the sheets’ contain as follows : erat No: 1 Calz, So. Cal., Or., W, T., Vance: “No: 2 Me.;.N.H., Yt., Mass.;'R. I., - ti No.3 NY; Nik Penn. Del.; Md. . No. 4 Va., W. Va: D.C. NC. §. oe No. 5 Geo., Fla., Ala,, Miss., Tenn. No. 6 Ohio, Ind., S. Tll., Ky., Mo. No. 7 Minn., Wise., Mich., Ia., N. Tl: No. 8 La., Tex., Ark., I. T., N..M. “No.9 Col., Wy., Mon,, Dak., Neb. “No. 10 Ks., Nev., Ut., Id., Ariz, No. 14 Can. N..F., B.A, R.A, Alask.; Lab., Hud. B. | No. 19 S21 lines, © 21 lines. Any sheet sold separately @ 2 Cts. per sheet. Any State label separately @ * 1 Cent per 100 labels. Specials for local collectors have also been prepared. No, ESN TY 2.0.9 lines, N. J., 21 lines. NO. 2ST: I., 21 lines, C. I, 8 lines, S. TAS linés. These are furnished at 2 Gents per sheet. All neatly printed and on good paper. : é Address for any of the above - GEO. D. HULST, 15 Himrod Street, AOS: BROOKLYN, N_ y, Re i ee , PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Oo ee EDITOR : Rev, Geo. D. Hurst, 15 HIMROD STREET, Prooktyn, N. Y- ASST. EDITOR: Curis. H. RoBERTS, 11 WEST 123np STREET, New York. ooklyn, N.Y. ©) A CAHUENE & BRO.,-Printers, 103, Broadway, Br =~ Entered at the Post Office at Brooklyn, N. ¥.5 as Second Class Matter. Offigers aff the Brooklyn Hntomotonigul Sovicty. President, EDWARD L,-GRAEF> ~~. . . e ss 40 Court Stréet, Brooklyn, Ne: Vice-Pres., OTTOMAR DIETZ, = = - - - ~ = 431 East 80th Street, New York. Treasurer, CHRISTOPHER aH; ROBERTS, - - = = 11 West 123ra Street, New York. Rec. Sec., ARCHIBALD @, WEEKS, rete SPS at 5182 Dark Plage. Brooklyn, N.Y, Cor. Sec., G. W. J. ANGELL, RS gies hg 2 eS eS = aaa Street, New York. Librarian, RIGH’D F. PEARSALL, e - - Sh cates - 16 Broad Street, New York... = ( MARTIN L; LINELL, (Coleoptera) - _- 386 Doughty Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. : Curators, J WM. BEUTENMUELLER, (Lepidoptera) ees 182 ‘East 76th ‘Street, New York. (A.C. WEEKS, (Other Orders.) — : { ED. L. GRAEF, ee CHRIS. H. ROBERTS. ; : ; RICHARD F. PEARSALL; mene 5 CHARLES PALM, - 2 - 172 East 64th Street, New York. TRUSTEES: s i GUSTAV BEYER, = - - 511 East 117th Street, New York. | FRANK H. CHITTENDEN, - ~~ 409 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y, | ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS. ‘ : { GEO-D-HULST. ~ - - 15 Himrod Street, Brooklyn, N. Y, | “CHRIS, H. ROBERTS, : f PUBLICATION | G.W, J. ANGELL. ig? % COMMITTER 3) WM. BEUTENMUELLER, 3 ry a . ‘HY. EDWARDS, - - - --185 East 116th Street, New York. By NEUMOEGEN, = 3 ago Box 2581, New York. - Te The meetings of the Brooxuyn EnromoLocicar Socinry aré held on the Evening of the- first Tuesday of each month in its rooms, , S@NGERBUND HALL, Cor. Smith and Schermerhorn Sts. : = : BBOOKLYN,_N, y, ENTOMOLOGICR AMERICANA. A combination of the “Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society” and ‘Papilio’, Subscription $2.00: per volume of twelve numbers; single numbers twenty = Cents each. ; Advertisements of six lines or legs a3 09 per annum ; larger advertise- ments at comparatively lower rates, single insertions 50: Cents. Ren Ce aa Special attention is called to the following : S ; Books or papers for notice or review, and articles-for publication should be sent fo the Editor, i = Sar Subscriptions and business communications to the Treasurer, Exchanges and donations to library to the Librarian. Spey Insects. for identification oy as donations to the collection of the Society, to either of the Curators. Rev. J. W. HOLLAND, Pittsburgh, Pa., : has on hand and for sale, or exchange, a limited quantity of magnificent specimens cf the Lepidoptera of Japan of his own collecting, also a quantity of fine specimens. of the Lepidoptera of West Africa, Siam, Celebés, and Queensland, He has also. con- Sented.to receive subscriptions far the magnificent new work upon the Butterflies of Japan, by H. Pryer, entitled « Rhopalocera Nihonica,” which is to be issued in 3 Parts, 4to, upon Japanese ¢ untearable paper,” proiusely and beautifully illustrated with colored plates, at $4. 60°a part. Part Inow ready. for delivery, 2 Midress W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D. sth Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa, - is: A New Material for Lining Insect Cases. Pressed Cork in sheets of 19 x 23 inches, and % inch. thick, readily pierced by the finest pins and firmly holding ali sizes; no hard spots or cavities. Price per sheet 50 Cents ; smoothly covered with white glaced paper 60 Cents. Send for sample. H. HERPERS, {8 Crawford Street, NEWARK, N. J. LEPIDOPTERA & COLEOPTERA. In our new List XXX there are offered more than 7000 correctly named species of Lepidoptera from all parts of the world ; also 7co species of preserved larve and a number of living pupe. Also large stock of rare Coleoptera (List V) for sale. Price Lists on application. Dr. O. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS, BLASEWITZ near DRESDEN, GERMANY. The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by exchange or purchase all species of U. S. Lep‘doptera still wanting in his Collection. Very liberal Exchanges will be given. Send for List of my desiderata. LDWARD L. GRAEF, 40 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. A.W. PUTMAN-CRAMER, 308 Macon St., Brooklyn, N. Y.. desires to exchange with Collectors of Lepidoptera throughout North America. Noctuidz especially desired. — Will name Noctuide Free of Charge. — C. H. ROBERTS, 11 West 123rd Street, N. Y. City, desires to obtain Coleoptera of North America by exchange or purchase. BUPRESTID4 and WATER BEETLES especially desired. I desire to purchase good American COLEOPTERA, unmounted preferred, especially BUPRESTIDA. Also any papers on Coleoptera not in my Collection. Coa Waste AMG Lai 44 Hudson Street, New York. CEO. FRANK, 293 Ewen Street, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y., desires to exchange Lepidoptera from all parts of the world. List of Duplicates sent on application. North American Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometride and Microlepidoptera. CEO. D. HULST, (5 Himrod St., Brooklyn, E. D. The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by purchase or exchange North and South American Z7nerde, WM. BEUTENMUELLER, 182 E, 76th Street, New York, N. Y. BRASS FOLDING NET-RINGS $1.00. Sweeping- and Water-Nets Made to Order. Fishing Tackle, Rods, Reels, Hooks, &c. yee £5 C FT, A0. 182? BOWERY, NVEAW YORK. The undersigned will pay good prices either in cash or exchange for perfect specimens of Pamphila and Catocala. PHILIP LAURENT, 621 Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 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HOLLAND, Pittsburgh, Pa., 555 Se has on hand and for sale, or exchange, a limited quantity of magnificent specimens of oa the Lepidoptera of Japan of his own collecting, also a quantity of fine specimens of is the Lepidoptera ot West Africa, Siam, Celebes, and Queensland, He has also -con- se: sented to receive subscriptions for yhe magnificent new work upon the Butterflies ot | Japan, by H. Pryer, entitled “ Rhopalocera Nihonica,” which is to be issued in 3_ parts, 4t°, upon Japanese ‘‘untearable paper,” profusely and beautifully illustrated with colored plates, at $4.00 a part. Part I now ready for delivery. best Address W.J. HOLLAND, Ph. D., 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. : =e WILLIAMSBURGH CORK WORKS. D.S. YEOMAN, Manufacturer of ~k CORKS, CORK SOLES, &c.: Cor. Ainslie and Rodney Sts., Brooklyn, N.Y. SHEET CORK FOR LINING INSECT CASES A SPECIALTY. PRICES FOR 334 x 12 INCHES. XX Quality. X Quality. 4 sik thick, per: Bendre of 24 Sheets, = - $1.00 $0.60 ie ‘‘ re, 88 Gi ye 1.50 90 1 se “ ee ‘ce sc 66 Cr aes iP Pe 2.00 1.00 - Other Sizes and Thicknesses at Proportionate Prices. . Liberal Discount for Quantities. Scientific and Medical Books, Minerals and other objects of Natural History. A. E. FOOTE, M. D. (ere. of Min. and Chem. ; ; Fellow Am. Ass’n. Adv. Science ; Life Member Am. Mus. Nat. History, New York, and Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia.) {223 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Over 5000 Entomological books, pamphlets and excerpts in stock. - Largest stock of minerals in the world. Largest stock of Scientific Books in America. Copies of the ‘‘Naturalist’s Leisure Hour’, 32 pp., sent free on ap-~ plication. If stamp is enclosed, the subscriber’s edition on heavy paper is sent. Please state, what department of science you are specially interested in. Thave in duplicates (Henshaw List). Nos. 70, 77, 178, 237, 244, 248,..285, 710, 835, 1029; 1039, 1481, 1483, 1494, 1499, 1502, 1860, 2300, 2708, 2745, 3468, 4718, 5565; 5995, 6319, 6435, 6436, 6469, 8607 and many others, that I like to exchange. | Correct names promptly returned for any duplicate set of U. 5 Coleoptera sent to me for that- purpose. MARTIN L. LINELE, 312 Pacitic St., Brooklyn, N.Y. B. Neumcegen, P. O. Box 2581, New York City, wishes to arrange with-collectors in all parts of the world for the purchase-or ex- change of Lepidoptera. Western and Southwestern U. S. species especially desired, and liberal prices will be paid for material from Utah, Montana and Oregon. FOR SALE The collection of Lepidoptera of FRED. TEPPER, num- 3 "bering about 12,000 specimens, among which are some fine series and many types principally in the Noctuidz. Apply to FRED. TEPPER, P.O. Box 8337, New Lork City. WATKINS & DONCASTER, 36 Strand, Lendon, W. 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These are furniShed at 2 Cents per sheet. All neatly printed and on good paper. Address = any of the above eo : GEO. D. HULST, he : 15 Himrofl Street, ; BROOKLYN, N.Y. + 1 ‘ a Je ele ‘ 4 apr ipe we “Lh? =o a ea. dat “ASRS ae: ; ip eh oe ae ie oy vd A New Material for Lining Insect Cases. Pressed Cork in sheets of 19 x 23 inches, and 4 inch. thick, readily pierced by the finest pins and firmly holding ali sizes ; no hard spots or cavities. Price per sheet 50 Cents ; smoothly covered with white glaced paper 60 Cents. Send for sample. H. HERPERS, {S Crawford Street, NEWARK, N. J. LEPIDOPTERA & COLEOPTERA. In our new List XXX there are offered more than 7000 correctly named species of Lepidoptera from all parts of the world ; also 700 species of preserved larve and a number of living pupe. Also large stock of rare Coleoptera (List V) for sale. Price Lists on application. Dr. O. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS, BLASEWITZ near DRESDEN, GERMANY. The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by exchange or purchase all species of U.S. Lepidoptera still wanting in his Collection. Very liberal Exchanges will be given. Send for List of my desiderata. EDWARD L. GRAFF, 40 Court Street, Brooklyn, Nu: A.W. PUTMAN-CRAMER, 308 Macon St., Brooklyn, N. Y.. desires to exchange with Collectors of Lepidoptera throughout North America. Noctuidze especially desired. — Will name Noctuide Free of Charge. — C. H. ROBERTS, 11 West 123rd Street, N. Y. City, desires to obtain Coleoptera of North America by exchange or purchase. BUPRESTID and WATER BEETLES especially desired. I desire to purchase good American COLEOPTERA, unmounted preferred, especially BUPRESTIDA. Also any papers on Coleoptera not in my Collection. G. W.SJ. ANGELL, 44 Hudson Street, New York. CEO. FRANK, 293 Ewen Street, Brooklyn, E.D., N. Y., desires to exchange Lepidoptera from all parts of the world. List of Duplicates sent on application. North American Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometride and Microlepidoptera. , CEO. D. HULST, {5 Himrod St., Brooklyn, E. D. The undersigned is desirous of obtaining by purchase or exchange North and South American 7Z7etde. WM. BEUTENNMUELLER, 182 E, 76th Street, New York, N. Y. BRASS FOLDING NET-RINGS $1.00. Sweeping- and Water-Nets Made to Order. Fishing Tackle, Rods, Reels, Hooks, &c. eee CS ELT’, No. 183 BOWERY, VEW YORK. The undersigned will pay good prices either in cash or exchange for perfect specimens of Pamphila and Catocala. PHILIP LAURENT, 621 Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pa. INSECT BOXES, Cork lined, papered, 9 x 13 inches, absolutely tight, $1.00, with label holder $1.05. _ Of the size and style made for the U. S. Nat'l Museum $1,10. Special sizes to order at correspondingly low prices. Insect Cabinets of all sizes at reasonable prices. References for boxes and cabinets: U.S. Nat’] Museum, Brooklyn Ento. Society, and many others. JOHN SCHMITT, 290 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Patt MA *y SPUD. ni , a bt ag at Laks ret ‘VOL. IV—No. 9. DECEMBER, 1888. ON Ele AMERICANA ~ A MontTHLY JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY. PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. EDITOR: Rev- Geo..D; Hutst, 15 HIMROD STREET, BrooKtyn, N.Y. 4 S| ASST. EDITOR : Curis. H. Roperts, 11 WEST 123np STREET, New York. A. C. HUENE.& BRO.; Printers, 103 Broadway, Brooklyn, -N. Y. Entered at the Post Office at Brooklyn, N. ¥., as Second Class Matter. Offiqgens off the Byooktyn Hutomotogiqat Sogiety. — | bei President, EDWARD L, GRAEF, +s 9+) 25 9. 40 Court Street) Brooklyn, ‘N.Y. Vice-Pres., OTTOMAR DIETZ, - = - = - - 112 East 90th Street, New York. Treasurer, CHRISTOPHER H. ROBERTS, - - = = 11 West 123rd Street, New York. . Rec. Sec., ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS, - - - - - 182 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. ¥. : Cor. Sec., G, W. J. ANGELL, - - - = = - - 44 Hudson Street, New York, Librarian, RICH’D F. PEARSALL, - - - - - 16 Broad Street, New York. MARTIN:L.: LINELL, (Coleoptera) - ~ 86 Doughty Street, Brooklyn, Nu: Curators, / WM. BEUTENMUELLER, (Lepidoptera) - - 182 East 76th Street, New York. A. C. WEEKS, (Other Orders.) 33 ED. L. GRAEF, CHRIS. H. ROBERTS. RICHARD F, PEARSALL. : CHARLES PALM, - - - - 172 East 64th Street, New York. GUSTAV BEYER, - - - 511 East 117th Street, New York. FRANK H. CHITTENDEN, - 409 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS. GEO. D. HULST. - - - 15 Himrod Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. CHRIS. H, ROBERTS. Sata . G. W. J. ANGELL. WM. BEUTENMUELLER, : HY, EDWARDS. - - - - 185 East 116th Street, New York. . B. NEUMOEGEN, - - - - = - Box 2581, New York. f a SO TRUSTEES: PUBLICATION COMMITTEE: Nae ee I The meetings of the Brooxtyn Enromotoeicat Society are held on the Evening of the first Tuesday of each month in its rooms, BR:O:O:K- EY N VEN: SEPA Be 196 to 200 WASHINGTON STREET, [Near entrance to Brooklyn Bridge. } _ BROOKLYN, N. Y. Enromotocica AMERICANA. A combination of the “Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society” and ‘*Papilio”. Subscription $2.00 per volume of twelve numbers; single numbers twenty Cents each. Advertisements of six lines or less at $3.00 per annum ; larger adyertise- ments at comparatively lower rates, single insertions 50 Cents. ° Special attention is called to the following : Books or papers for notice or review, and articles for publication should be sent to the Editor. Subscriptions and business communications to the Treasurer. _ Exchanges. and donations to library to the Librarian. Tusects for identitication or as donations to be collection of the Society, to cipher OF the Curators. Rev. J. W. HOLLAND, Pittsburgh, Pa., has on hand and for sale. or exchange, a-limited quantity of magnificent spec imens of the Lepidoptera of Japan of his own collecting, also a quantity of fine specimens of the Lepidoptera ot West Africa, Siam, Ce’ebes, and Queensland, He has also con- sented to receive subscriptions for vhe ‘magnificent new work upon the Butterflies or Japan, by H. Prver, entitled “ Rhopalocera Nihonica,” which is to be issued in 3 parts, 4t, upon Japanese “‘untearabie paper.’? profusely and beautifully ilebtrahed with colored plates, at $4 00 a part... Part I now ready-for delivery. - Address W. J. HOLLAND, Ph. 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S. YEOMAN, Manufacturer of CORKS, CORE SOLES, 8&C. Cor. Ainstlic and Rodney Sts., Brooklyn, NM. Y¥. ~ SHEET CORK FOR LINING INSECT CASES A&.SPECIALTY. PRICES FOR 314 x 12 INCHES. XX Quality. .X Quality. 1 ineh thick, es ‘Bundle of 24 Sheets, é = $1.00 $0.60 7s sc : 6 66 77 - s; 1,50 90 A ec “é 66 ce ce Ge Tee = 2 200 1.00 “Other Sizes and Thicknesses at Proportionate Prices. Liberal Discount for Quantities. Scientific and Medical Books, Minerals and other objects of Natural History. A. E. FOOTE, M. D. ee of Min. and Chem. ; Fellow Am, Ass’n. Ady. Science; Life Member Am. Mus. Nat. History, New York, and Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia.) {223 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Over 5000 Entomological books, pamphlets and excerpts in stock. Largest stock of minerals in the world. Largest stock of Scientific Books in _~Ameriea.. Copies of the ‘‘Naturalist’s Leisure Hour”, 32-pp., sent free on ap- plication. If stamp is enclosed, the subseriber’s edition on heavy paper is sent. Please state, what department of science yeu are specially inter ested in. ‘I have in duplicates (Henshaw List) Nos; 70, 77, 178,-237, 244,248, 285, 710, 835, 1029, 1039,. 1481, 1483, 1494, 1499, 1502, 1860, 2300, 2708, 2745, 3468, 4718, 5565, 5995, 6319, 6435, 6436, 6469, 8607 and many others, that [like to exchanve. Correct names promptly returned’ for any duplicate set of. U.0 5. 5 Coleoptera sent to me for that purpose. MARTIN L. LINELL, 312 Pacitice St., Brooklyn, N.Y. B. Neumcegen, P. O. Box 2581, New York City, wishes to arrange with collectors in all parts of the eer Id for the purchase or ex- change of Lepidoptera. Western and Southwestern U. S. species especially desired, and liberal prices will. be paid for material from Utah, Montana and Oregon. FOR SALE , The collection.of Lepidoptera of FRED. TEPPER, num- rs s bering about 12,000 specimens, among which are some fine series and many types principally in the Noctuide. Apply to FRED. TEPPER, P.O. 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