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THE GENERAL SUBJECT, American Entom. Society, 31, 53, 79, 157, 184, 202, 262. Bible, Insects mentioned in the 224 Chestnut trees and Balaninus . 126 Doings of Societies 31, 53, 79, IOI, 126, 183, 157, 207, 229, 262. Early Entomological Publica- monsin the U:'S. °.. 22.5 2" 48 Economic Entomologists, As- sociationof .. . . 220 Economic Entomology by, a: I19, Notes and News 27, 47, 72, 96, 120, “150, 174, 201, 224, 256. Obituary : Behrens, Jo. 128 Camere: te 8 GS WO ee a 32 PIOTRG, Pi ee ee EB Kellicott, D. S. 128, 160 Ranther jo Tiaic 3 6 oe ae Patterson}. Poe 8S 10g Taschenberg, E.L.. . . 80 Osage orange injured by wood 200, 220, 255. borers -.62. eS Se Editorials 26, 45, 68, 90, 118, 149, Packing of insects. . . . . 149 173, 199, 218, 254. Peach tree pest, An important 255 Entomological Collections of U. Petroleum as an insecticide . 200 S. National Museum . . . 73 Physiologicalspecies. . . . 6 Entomological Literature 28, 49,74, Quarantine against injurious in- 98, 121, 152, 176, 203, 226, 257. sects... . - + 91, 119 Entomological Section, A. N. Specimens of Natural History S. 31, 54, 126, 183, 202, 231. in the foreign mails . . . 45 Feldman Collecting Social 31, 55, Utah revisited, etG.3- 55.) F388 79, 102, 127, 157, 229, 262. War, Effect of on Entomology. 173 ' Grafting insects. . . . . .152 Wyoming [Insects of] . . . 18 Herbarium pest, A ... . 15 : Horn, G. H., Resolutions on ARACHNIDA. : death of . 27, 32,53 A.from Alaska. . . ae Insect-catching plant. . . .169 Lycosa vulpina, Habits rs gr. eae Lady’s’ ear, Beetle removed Phlegmacera bryantii* . . . 16 aroma... . . .151 Phytoptid peach tree pest . . 255 Letters to the Niws te 48, 96,97 Spiders, Names of some com- Loaning specimens . . go ere. ss eo ER Mailing insects, On. 218, 254 Measurements, Entom. . . . 117 COLEOPTERA. Mexico, Collecting in the Tierra Alaudes singularis . . . .151 manente -.-. 24... 3, TAG eeAnchomma costaium. . . «. I5% Montana, Insects of S eo he 16 aeenames S.C. 202 Mt. Washington, Insects of .251 Arizona,C.of . . . . . .113 Newark Entomological Society Casnonia ludoviciana . . . 80 80, 104, 128, 159, 231, 263. Cephaloide, Studiesin . . .193 © Newspaper Entomology 175, 202, Chalcolepidius tartarus* . . 238 224, 225. Chlenius purpuricollis . . .157 * After generic or specific names indicates that such are new. ~." Hippoboscidz ©... s Saupunast House-flies, Habits of . 219 Lipocheta texensis* . . . . 168 Longurto testaceus . . . .229 Maritime D. of Texas . 167 Melanostoma glacialis*. . . ¥7 Ospriocerus, Synopsis of . . 37 e ventrais* . . . = Pennsylvania, D. new to . . 208 Rhagoletis ribicola* . . . 69 Sargus elegans and debilis . 103 Syrphidz from Alaska . . . 17 Syrphus bryantii*. . . 4 . 17 ii INDEX. Cicindela larve, Habits of . . 207 Coccinellids, Massing of. . . 117 Colorado desert, C. of . 195, 235 Conotrachelus fissunguis . . 263 CoERVMS ES. sy SE MZ stenostomus . . 103, 262 : WME oe hs ie. EFS Cyrtophorus verrucosus’. . .176 Dorcaschema spp. . . . . 33 IEE. scnie! W Pah: 3 193 5% simulans* . . . . 195 Epicauta cinerea monstrosity . 161 Lebia abdominalis. . . . . 32 Linodendron rugosum . . . 47 Longevity Of-C.. sg wey 388 Microhapla porcata . . . . 32 Monstrosity, A... . . . 161 Obrium rubidum . . . . .1795 Opatrinus notus . . . . .127 Panagaeus fasciatus . . . .262 Phyllopertha horticola . . .15t Pleocoma behrensii .. . . 47 Pyractomena luctifera . . .158 Recollections of old collecting grounds 22, 39, 81, 195, 235 Rio Grande valley, C. of lower 22, 39, 81. SOFUCER BOD: 28 oe) Bien Oe HEAT Smodicum cucujiforme . . .175 Spheridium scarbeoides . .172 Sponidium* . . . es 193 Tenebrionides ecsiehtaidiin. . 158 Typitium* . . . 193 Xyleborus affinis, Identity a cee | Xylophaga abdominalis . . . 158 COLLEMBOLA. Gnathocephalus aureo-fascia- . FUST AL seere es - .. 216 DIPTERA. Alaska, Syrphide from . . . 17 Chetotaxy, A studyin . . . 105 Cynomyia americana* . . .105 Re elongata* .. . . 106 = Aitla ee oa Secs EO Eriocera, Variation in . . . 229 Hermetiatllucens. . . . . 57 Tabanus abdominalis and exul 126 “ maritimus*, . . . 167 Texas, D. of . . . oyu oeeeee HEMIPTERA. California, New Coccide from . 185 Kermes cockerelli* . . . . 185 ‘“ nigropunctatus* . . 186 Lecanium magnoliarum* . . 145 Phiepsius fivenn. spp. . . . 65 Pulvinaria rhois* . . . . . 186 San José'scale. :.. ~.iweea- eee HYMENOPTERA. Agapostemon subtilior*. . . 27 ee LELANU SE ee a Agenia architecta. . . . . 47 Anastatus pearsalli* . . . . 24 Andrena marie . .. « .1%2I “ prunorum*. . . «372 dy rhodura*® ... jee Augochlora humeralis . 158, 230 Burrows of H.. 158, 208, 230 Colletes compacta. . . . .158 Crabro salicis . . 1 . . +125 Egg parasite ....°cedeeckeeel a eee FORGE * a3 Pen ere Foxia pacihene es aien'y Oey Hemihalictus* . e082 ves 2G Miscophinus* . . 187 ircknc. pi 188, 189 Miscophus from Florida. . . 184 Mutillidze of N. Am., Notes on — Perdita ‘iopaibou * * After generic or specific names indicates that such are new. = a ‘, a INDEX. Philanthus punctatus. +» + - 26 Sand wasps, Two new genera of 187 Trypoxylon albitarseé. . - ~-127 = politum and neglec- teeta, 2.3... 261 Wasp, Habitsof ....- - 47 LEPIDOPTERA. African Heterocera, New West II Anace melaleuca*. . . . . 13 Anthocharis genutia . . . «127 mematiciarve . . - .-. + 3$§ Argynnis atlantis . . . 230, 263 maina, LJ of . .. -.°..§7, 112 Callidryas eubule . . . «. «230 Cannibalism of Cerura . . . 225 Carphoxera plelearia . . . 15 Caterva catenaria.. . . . «224 Ceratomia catalpe. . . . .262 Monmas C2SOMIG. . ee 193 Cossula magnifica. .. . «214 Daremma catalpe. . . 231, 233 Distribution of Rhopalocera in New Hampshire. . 42 Egg stage of moths, fenetir ‘of 150 Empretia stimulea . . . .264 Eudamus lycidas, Food of 89, 174, 225. maorida, 1, of -:> .-~. 96,128, 174 Graptacomma. . . . 224 Hesperocharis, Two nn. hei. . 215 Flypoptaanna*. . . .-. «214 Inguromorpha slossonii . . . 213 Insect grafting . .. . wit, 190 Larve on railroad track 2 me. 26 Lasiocampa medusa* . . . 13 Leucarctia acreaeggs . . . 203 Mamestra laudabilis.. . . . 263 As Pickle PP Os. 128 e Nine nn. spp. 240-251 Migrations ... PEER & b Missouri, L. of . . E 143, 189 Neominois riding sii aad diony- SBS =, a ei aoe b+ | Pamphila idbjiss Hoel e . 163 bi hobomok, Food bts 174 “s Mee Pr SE ATG Paonias astylus.-. .-. . +. 232 Papilio cresphontes Pieris oleracea . Plusia formosa . Prodenia commeline . Pseudosphynx tetrio at sea . Pyrameis carye var. muellert*. Pyrgus tessellata . . «. 130, Sannina (Sanninoidea) exiti- Oo EN ante See. ae ey 5S Schinia arcifera . . . 232, Setting-block for L. Smerinthus = a nee site of Sphinges, Minsoort: Sphingidz, Notes on Aiheriea, Sphinx luscitiosa . Subterranean pupe, To rear Syneda graphica Syntomoides seminigra* : xanthopleura* Syntomis efulensis* st kerri* Tame butterfly, A . Tasema nox * Thecla telea . Theretra arpi* Vanessa antiopa MYRIOPODA. Polyxenus pugetensis* ODONATA. Agrion, Classification of Cannibalism~. Circulation of blood Cordulia shurtleffi . Enallagma cardenium s divagans. i First filling of trachez witht air Gomphus spicatus . Iowan O. . Ischnura exstriata te a kellicotti* -. . 209, Maine, O,of .-. . . 59, 85, Nehalennia posita . Ophiogomphus anomalus* . Somatochtlora oases var. mi- nor*®., .189 24 134 . 104 . 88 . 174 II 87 * After generic or specific names indicates that such are new. iv INDEX. ORTHOPTERA. Neotettix* . . 138 ss rotundafrons « bol- ae e ne . . 139, 140 Neotettix bolivari n n.nom. . . 139 Schistocerca americana. . . 262 Tenodera sinensis . 144, 170, 263 Tettigie, Genera of N. Am. . 137 AUTHORS. Ashmead, W.H. . . . 24, 187 Baker, C. F. . or OR IAt Banks, N. . Latest. Cee Sie Barner Me ars dw ipis Rad Barrett, OW. uke op. 5 Blandford, W.F.H.... . 3 Britton, W..B .. 35 ie ee Bruce, D. hae 5+ Senge Calvert, P. P. 7, 28, 45, 49, 73) 74; 87, 98, 121, 152, 160, 176, 203, 2IT, 226, 257. ae ee Pee ome. 116, 193 Cockerell, T. D. A. 26, 27, 96, 115, 120, 121, 145, 171, 215. Oe ee eee Fy Caquillet€yD: W, 2 sos. un SB? i, ery! Dodge, G. M. 89, 225 BOT Moe Nie ae oe) 5s. Say ee Oe Dyar, H.G.. . 163, 213, 214 Ehrhorn, E. M.. . 128, 185 DMN aie ae F hushs:sHWe (se eees 2 . 88 [ORT oa, ose Rete O08 Ee Sieve Rammer 2 * ESS ice te oe ie Fass se SSI aOR Es ee ctere eek. sie Sure ABA NN. Me ein ie hee? Fletcher, J. 4... > ah | Fox, W. J. 14, 49, So, 103, 128, 159, 202, 208, 230, 261, 263. Gilets, ©. Po sca. 3 Seuss 169 H., F. J. opie ca ew Bia we tia OF Bs Ais es att >, Se ion ves, BD Hall Melina eee. 2 143 Hancock, -J.staees -s. ae 6 on 37 Harvey, F. L. 59, 85, 216 Eoeg, Cx. heute a ues Holland, W. dais.) aad eo eke Hopping, Bocce ee i Sti aT Hough, G.deN. . . . 105, 165 Houghton, C. . .. . £2373 Howard, W.R. .. .. = + .97 Jacobs, EE. . ..... } Johnsou, C. W.%.. . 2) Sa Johnson; W..G.. . . . © sage Kellogg, Vili...) . . Kincaid, T/ta.S 4. oe Kircher, G, 4 Pian: ee Klages, E. A. .° . ea Gilat). 29m Knab, F.. ..s: 2 o ee 256. Kunze; :R. EE... as serene Laurent, P. . 3.435 Letcher, B. ....° . alee Moore, F., Jr. =... “ae Murtfeldt, M:.E.. . 1. 20aeaaerneee Newcomb, H..H:.... 2 ae Pearson, :A; W: .... casa ee Pilate; GER. . - «c+ <0 eee Robertson, C, . <: “ieee eee Rowley, R.R, . . . -. 34, 189 Sargent, A. B......s:sp eigenen de Saussure, H. . . 145 Schaus, W. ... io ian, 215 Schmitz, T. H. . “33 56 Schwarz, H. ‘ eet peD Skinner, H. 1, e ss, at; 55; 68, 79; gO, 102, 118, 120, 127, 149, 157, 173, 174, 184, 199, 218, 229, 231, 254, 262. Slosson, A. T. :.; . <:iiaeeee Smith, J. B. 69, 91, 95, 114, 119, 200, 220, 240, 255. . Smith, H. H. =. . =e Snyder, A.J. . | -) .aeeeeee Soule, C. G. . + 118, 150 Strecker, H. <) he Sees Titus, E.G. san sil eke ORE Townsend, C. H. T. ghatee? gs Wadsworth, M.. .°.. . > 341 Webster, F. M. ey g 160 Weidt, A. J. ae 80, 104, ie 224, 225, 232, 264. Welles, C.S.°° 3) 27. 3a Wickham, H. F. 22, 39, 47, 48, 81, 195, 235- Williamson, E. B.. . . . «2609 Wolcott, A. B. . * After generic or specific names indicates that such are new P 160 — i oe Pr ew. - Ent. NEws, Vol. IX. PEA Dr. GEORGE H. HORN. es ated) ie” I ron ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, VOL. IX. JANUARY, 1808. No. 1. CONTENTS: Mee Sere TIEIOTN, 62.05 ced sescecss's 1 | Johnson—Notes and descriptions of Blandford—The identity of Xyleborus néw Syrphidce, etic... secceccopees 17 «ffinis, with some synonymical notes’ 3 | Snyder—Utah revisited, etc............ Elrod—lowa Odonata............-...- 7 | Wickham—Recollections of old col- Holland—Descriptions of new West Af- Wetting Srounds.. osc...) cksececedan'c 22 meats PRCteroce las. . 6. cs obese eee ee 11 | Ashmead—An egg-parasite, etc........ 24, Strecker—Lasiocampa medusa........ DSP ORM e a pote xin Sos King e’naraw'temeese « 25 Fox—Notes onthe Mutillide of N.Am. 14 | Notes and NewS... .......eceeeceeecees 27 Kellogg—Carphoxera ptelearia........ 15 | Entomological Literature............. 28 Banks—Arachnida from the Malaspina Doings of Sopieties ..6 coy fea le reciees 31 IDS eet ae et 16 Dr. GEORGE H. HORN. GEORGE HENRY Horn was born in Philadelphia, April the 7th, 1840, and died at Beesley’s Point, N. J., November the 24th, 1897. He had an apoplectic stroke in December, 1896, which caused hemiplegia, from which he did not recover, and he was at the sea-shore for the benefit of his health and of this partial paralysis when the end came. He was a graduate of the Philadelphia High School, from which he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M., and in 1861 received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsyl- vania. From 1862 to 1866 he was in the service of the United States, being surgeon in the 2nd Infantry, California Volunteers, Department of the Pacific; serving in California, Arizona and New Mexico, where he collected extensively in entomology. Until within tke last few years of his life he practiced medicine, his specialty being obstetrics, in which branch he was an expert, not infrequently being called in consultation in difficult cases. Much of his scientific work was done at night during time stolen from sleep and after the day’s cares and professional engage- ments were over. The days were never long enough, and this close application to work and devotion to science may have been a factor in shortening his life. 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. { January, His entomological work was concerned almost exclusively with the Coleoptera, his first paper being entitled ‘‘ Descriptions of Some New North American Species in the Cabinet of the Ento- mological Society of Philadelphia,’’ published in the ‘‘ Proceed- ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,’’ in 1860. Seven species new to science were described and figured. In all over one hundred and fifty papers were contributed to the proceedings and transactions of learned societies, his last contri- — bution being an important one on the Coleoptera of Baja Cali- fornia, published in the ‘‘ Proceedings’’ of the California Academy of Sciences for 1895. After the death of Dr. John L. LeConte in 1883, Dr. Horn, who was a worthy successor, was elected President of the Amer- ican Entomological Society and Director of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences. These two offices he held at the time of his death. He was Professor of Ento- mology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1889, but did not. teach or lecture there, the position being an honorary one. | Among scientific bodies the following may be mentioned as _ having conferred special honors on him. He was elected a corre- sponding member of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1893; an honorary member (one of twelve) of the Entomological Society of Belgium; an honorary member (one of ten) of the Entomological Union of Stettin; an honorary member (one of eleven) of the Entomological Society of France, of the Russian Entomological Society, and of the Feldman Collecting Social of Philadelphia. At its commencement in March, 1897, the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, conferred on him the degree of Sc.D. He was a Secretary and Librarian of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia) at the time of his death. In 1866 he joined the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, held the office of Corresponding Secretary for fourteen years, and was a member of the Council and of the Finance and Publication Committees for long periods of time. Dr. Horn was a patient and untiring worker, and his loss will be keenly felt in the institutions in which he served as an officer so long and efficiently. The entomological world has lost a shining light and American Coleopterology its greatest votary. As a systematic coleopterist he probably did not have a superior in the world. His large collection of beetles was considered the 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3 finest extant in the field he cultivated. It, with his library and five thousand dollars for the care of the former, he willed to the American Entomological Society. The portrait here presented was the one he considered the best, and is the one he wished perpetuated. His memory, will always be cherished by those whom he was ever willing to aid by advice and assistance in their scientific studies. An extended biography will appear later in the ‘‘ Transactions of the American Entomological Society.”’ on VU THE IDENTITY OF XYLEBORUS AFFINIS, WITH SOME SYNONYMICAL NOTES. By W. F. H. BLANpForRD, London, England. In his admirable paper on ‘‘The Ambrosia Beetles of the United States’’ (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 7 (N. S.), pp. 9-30) Mr. H. G. Hubbard refers to a matter of some economic importance, the doubtful identity of X. affinzs Eichh., with the West Indian ‘“sugar-cane borer’’ and its distribution in North America. As this has been a vexed question (see Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iii, p. 171), and, as I have been concerned with the identification of the borer, I desire briefly to reply to Mr. Hubbard’s statements that my determination ‘‘ made from the females only cannot be reliable,’’ and that ‘‘ the sugar-cane borer is very probably a distinct and as yet unnamed species, the introduction of which into the United States is greatly to be feared. It cannot be iden- tical with X. affints, which is common in the Southern States, yet has never been known to attack sugar-cane.”’ That the ‘‘sugar-cane borer’’ is X. affin7s I have not the least reason to doubt. In my original report on it, it was thus identi- fied by the description alone (though that is unmistakable), but the name afinis, in deference to another opinion, was there treated as a synonym of the older X. pervforans Woll. (kraatzi Eichh.). Ina later ‘‘ Report on the Destruction of Beer-casks, ete.,’’ London, 1893, which Mr. Hubbard has perhaps over- looked, I pointed out that the range of the typical form of X. affinis is exclusively neotropical with the exception of Mauritius, and that of X. perforans is chiefly paleotropical, but that inter- mediate examples were before me from the West Indies and Ceylon; also that the material I had examined included typical 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. _ [January, examples of both sexes of X. affinis labeled by Eichhoff and in the Brussels Museum. (I now possess some by exchange and have seen others of Eichhoff’s own series). The question at issue has been not the identity of the ‘‘ cane- borer’’ with X. affinis, which has been controlled by repeated comparison of the two sexes with Eichhoff’s types; but the iden- tity of that species with X. perforans Woll.. Since 1893 the examination of some hundreds of specimens leaves me more strongly than before of opinion that a separate name may well be retained for each form, although one cannot always satisfactorily refer individuals to one or the other. The published evidence leaves the occurrence of X. affints in the United States doubtful. In the posthumous paper translated by Mr. Schwarz (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xviii, pp. 605-610, 1896) Eichhoff, writing to Riley in 1892, says: ‘‘ what X. pubescens Zimm., is, remains for the present unknown to me, since among - the specimens which you send me as such I believe I can distin- guish three species, viz., X. affinis Eichh., X. znermis Eichh., and a third one.’’ Now, inasmuch as a series of N. American Scolytids had been sent to Eichhoff, this seems conclusive until it is recollected that in the same year examples of the cane-borer were sent from the West Indies to Riley and identified at Wash- ington with X. pubescens. Were these included in the series forwarded to Eichhoff, and did his recognition of X. affinis refer to them ? No examples of X. affinzs from anywhere north of Mexico, where it is common, have yet reached me, and a series of X. pubescens sent by Prof. A. D. Hopkins are all referable to X. inermis. Possibly this latter species, which has not been found in Central America, has by some means become regarded as X. affinis, and is the one referred to as such by Mr. Hubbard. Whatever the cane-borer’s name is, the evidence of its distri- bution drawn from existing collections points to its being neo- tropical and having occurred throughout the West Indian islands long before it was noticed to attack canes. I cannot accept the suggestion (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iii, p. 171) that it was im- ported in ribbon-cane from Ceylon, because I have never seen its typical form from Ceylon, though I have examined many Scolytids from that island. Nor is any damage to canes recorded therefrom. 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5 A parallel case has occurred in Java, where Xyleborus destruens Blandf., has taken lately to riddling cacao trees. These have long been cultivated there, and the beetle, a large and well- marked species, can be no new importation, because I possess specimens taken years ago in Java and Gilolo by Wallace. A diseased condition of the canes, favored by the accumulation of fermenting trash, was probably the cause of the West Indian ° outbreak, and X. affints may yet be common in the Southern States without destroying canes, provided that they are not ina condition to invite its attacks. Much has been made of the difficulty of identifying the females of this group, and they have been said to: be indistinguishable. As Ejichhoff’s work was done on the females alone, either that statement is overdrawn, or he divided and characterized a mass of identical examples. For its size, Xy/eborus is really one of the easiest of Scolytid genera, and even this group presents no very great difficulty so far as the identification of the majority of examples is concerned ; most of Eichhoff’s species can be made out by the descriptions alone. The real difficulties are those of delimitation, which spring from the existence of indi- viduals bridging over the not very wide gaps between allied forms, and are such as are met with in most large genera of the Animal Kingdom. The publication of Eichhoff’s paper, just referred to, has an- ticipated several of the synonyms of North American Scolytids which I have noted at different times. There are, however, one or two points to be added hereon. It is known that some of Zimmermann’s and LeConte’s names (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Sept., 1868) clash with others of Eichhoff published in 1868 in the ‘‘ Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,”’ and the latter have been regarded as prior both by Eichhoff himself and by Mr. Schwarz. This is incorrect; reference to p. xi, or to the original wrappers of the ‘‘ Zeitschrift’ for 1868 shows that pp. 177-312, which include Ejichhoff’s descriptions, were not published till March, 1869. Therefore, the names /Yyastes opaculus ees , Hf. scabripennis Zimm., and Pityophthorus pullus Zimm., should be retained. The gelevic names Zomicus Latreille ( 1807 mec 1802) and Xy- loterus Er, (1836) should give place to 4s De Geer (1775) and 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, Trypodendron Steph. (1830) respectively, with which they are coterminous. As has been pointed out by Ejichhoff, his name Pterocyclon, (1868), should replace Monarthrum Kirsch (1866).° The latter's diagnosis is absolutely the same as that of Corthy/us Er., in which, too, a species of Pterocycion was included. Erichson, Kirsch and LeConte are alike incorrect in stating the funicle to be one-. jointed instead of two-jointed in these insects. Ferrari’s sub- genus Cosmocorynus is wrongly characterized by LeConte and has no North American representative. Fhylastes (Hylurgops) pinifex Fitch, is distinct from the Euro- pean A. decumanus, differing in the thoracic punctures of two sizes, the more rugose interstices and the longer and stouter bristles of the elytra. Crypturgus atomus Lec. This has been regarded as identical with C. pusillus Gyll. Specimens received from Prof. A. D. Hopkins appear to be distinct, having the punctuation finer and the ground sculpture different; but a more extensive comparison is desirable. Tomicus plastographus Lec. = T: integer Eichh. Californian examples sent by Mr. Ricksecker and corresponding with Le- Conte’s description conform to Eichhoff’s type. Tomicus cacographus Lec. = T. grandicollis Eichh. Xylocleptes concinnus Mann, With Eichhoff, I should refer this to Zomicus, or rather Jos. The structure of the mouth- parts is not that of a Xy/ocleptes, but of a Tomicus, with which genus its habits associate it. Pityophthorus lautus Eichh. Specimens forwarded by Prof. Hopkins under this name do not correspond with Eichhoff’s description. I conjecture them to be P. dzsudcatus Eichh., be- - cause they differ from the European P. micrographus L. precisely as P. bisulcatus is stated by Eichhoff to do. PHYSIOLOGICAL SpEciES.—-Does Prof. Cockerell hold that species exist which differ from other species only in physiological characters? If so, why does he not mention a single case and give the evidence? If not, why does he use term physiological species? Tome his article in the Decem- — ber News is not very clear.—CHARLES ROBERTSON. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 7 IOWAN ODONATA. By Morton J. ELrop, University of Montana. For several years the writer has been permitted to spend the _ month of July in Des Moines, Iowa. At intervals when other duties could be laid aside rambles were taken along the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers in search of specimens. - At this season of the year the water in these rivers is usually clear and shallow. As a consequence many species of fine Unios were secured. Lepidoptera and Odonata were the only insects sought. _ As no previous record has been made of collections of dragon- flies from this locality, the publication of the following list of 28 species, which by no means represents the Odonate fauna of the State, may be useful, and may serve those students of the State who are working upon this group of insects. Of this list at least 16 have not before been recorded from Iowa, though they are in some cases reported from adjoining States. It is also to be noted that many common forms, e. g., &. civi/e, are absent from the list. Other collectors may later report these, or at least some of them, from the State. It may be appropriate to add that all the species mentioned im the list are in the writer’s collection. Specimens reported from Clinton and Sabula were collected by J. S. Faaborg, [I have taken the liberty to add to Prof. Elrod’s notes records of a few species of Odonata collected for me, in 1889, by Miss Alda M. Sharp, of Gladbrook, Iowa, who labeled them ‘‘ Tama Co., lowa’’ Such additions are enclosed in brackets.— Philip P. Calvert. ] 1. Calopteryx maculata Beauv. In July, 1893, this species was quite abundant along a small rivulet a half mile north of Drake University. It was in a wooded, hilly region that had not as yet been much used for _pastyre. “The season was rainy, and every other day I visited the place, securing each time quite a number. In 1894 the season was quite the opposite of that of 1893, and the ravine had dried up. In 1895 I did not visit the place. In 1896 it was overrun with stock, and no maculata could be found. During the month of July, 1897, I secured a dozen or more at Dunreath, Iowa, some thirty miles from Des Moines. [One $ June 21, one 9 June 28 ‘‘on blackberry bushes in 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, ? garden,’’ one 2 June 29 ‘‘on currant bushes in garden,’’ Tama Co., Ia., Miss Sharp. } 2. Heterina americana Fab. At the dam of the city waterworks in the Raccoon River and © along the river above the dam, among the willows, taken in numbers in July, 1893 and July, 1894. . It was fairly abundant. I°also saw numbers of this species at Webster City along the Boone River in July, 1896, but as I had no net none were taken. 3. Lestes forcipata Ramb. I have a dozen-and-a-half specimens taken in July, 1896. They were secured near a small artificial pond; although I have hunted inthese same regions in previous years, I have no speci- mens save those taken at the time mentioned. 4. Lestes unguiculata Hag. Abundant; I have specimens taken Jiily, 1892, June 29, 1893, Aug. 4, 1896, and July 12, 1897. During the wet season in 1893 I was able to take many specimens at a single sweep, in the grass near artificial ponds. 5. Argia apicalis Say. This is the only Avgza taken in the several years over which these observations were made. A half dozen of these were secured during July of the past season at Des Moines. They were rare along the bank of the Raccoon River, flying among the grass and weeds, quite difficult to take. 6. Anomalagrion hastatum Say. In July, 1895, I tried the place where Z. unguiculata had formerly been taken so abundantly. The pond was drained, though there was.a little water, much mud, and a good deal of wire grass. In this grass I found about a dozen specimens of A. hastatum Say. ‘This extends its distribution westward. It has also been taken abundantly at Bloomington, III. 7. Ischnura verticalis Say. From Fulton, Ill., Sabula and Des Moines, Iowa. It does not. seem to be as common as one would suppose. 8. Enallagma ebria Hag. About a dozen specimens, June 29, 1893. As this species has been recorded from Missouri it is not surprising that it is found in Iowa. SC 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 9 g. Enallagma hageni Walsh. Fairly abundant, some twenty specimens having been taken. ro. Enallagma fischeri Kell. Not common, a half dozen being the entire number taken, from Des Moines. 11. Enallagma signata Hag. | A broken specimen from Clinton, Ia., taken June, 1897. t2. Nehalinnia irene Hag. A half dozen specimens, taken in same locality as A. hastatum Say, in 1893, anda single immature 9 from Clinton, Ia., in June, 1897. 13. Gomphus amnicola Walsh. A single female, collected in July, 1892, at Des Moines. 14. Gomphus vastus Walsh. Three specimens from Clinton, Ia., taken in June, 1897. 15. Anax junius Drury. This large ‘‘spindle’’ is quite abundant, a small surface pond at Dunreath, some thirty miles from Des Moines yielding a large number of specimens Aug. 4, 1896. They were caught in copu- lation and in act of oviposition. Specimens are in my collection sent from Clinton. [One 8, Tama Co., Miss Sharp. ] 16. Tramea lacerata Hag. A single female, taken at Clinton, May, 1896. 17. Celithemis eponina Drury. A single female from Clinton. 18. Plathemis trimaculata De Geer. Abundant; a small pond of stagnant water affording good collecting. [One % July 29, “‘ flying over still water,’’ one ¢ June 28, “blackberry in garden,’’ Tama Co., Miss Sharp. ] 19. Libellula pulchella Drury. Nine specimens, taken Aug. 4, 1896, at Dunreath. These were taken along the railroad, among the bushes, and were quite wary. There were numerous small ponds of water, and likewise numerous kingbirds, Zyrannus tyrannus. 1 could see no drag- ’ 10 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, onflies of any kind near any of the ponds where these birds were to be observed.* I have also specimens from Clinton. [Two ¢ July 29, ‘‘ flying over water,’’ ‘‘ on grass overhanging water,’’ Tama Co., Miss Sharp. ] 20. Libellula basalis Say. Rare. The only specimen I secured was a male, captured in the weeds in the bottom of Des Moines River, some thirty miles from the city. I have another female from Clinton. 21. Libellula quadrimaculata L. Two from Sabula, Ia., June, 1897. This seems to be a rare species. In nine years’ residence in Illinois I did not see a single specimen, though Mr. C. C. Adams has one or two. In eight seasons while at Des Moines I have not seen a specimen. 22. Pachydiplax longipennis Burm. Not common, five specimens being the total number collected, four taken Aug. 4, 1896, at Dunreath, Ia.; one at Clinton, Ia., June, 1897. 23. Mesothemis simplicicollis Say. A few specimens, taken from Sabula, Ia., June, 1897. 24. Diplax corrupta Hag. This widely distributed species is represented in my collection by three specimens, taken at Dunreath, la., Aug. 4, 1896. 25. Diplax rubicundula Say. var. assimilata Uhler. Quite common in August, 1892, but none taken after that, though they are undoubtedly to be had. [Three 3 eight 9 July 12 ‘‘dry meadow,’’ three 8 five 9 July 15 ‘‘wet meadow near standing water,’’ Tama Co., Miss Sharp. | 26. Diplax obtrusa Hagen. Four specimens, sent me from Clinton, Ia. 27. Diplax vicina Hag. Not common; I have only a few specimens, taken in Aug., ’93- 28. Leucorhinia intacta Hag. A single male from Sabula, Ia. * According to a note by J. L. Hersey, quoted in the “* Canadian Entomologist” for April, 1873, p. 160, dragonflies are a favorite food for kingbirds.—P. P. C. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. II DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW WEST AFRICAN HETEROCERA- Paper I. By Chancellor W. J. HoLLAND, Ph.D., LL.D., F.Z.S., etc. When starting for a short visit to Europe last May, I succeeded in finding a few moments’ time in which to hastily gather to- gether some five score of specimens from my collection of African Lepidoptera, which I had reason to think new to science, and took them with me. I found time in the midst of other duties to pay a number of visits to the British Museum and the Royal -Museum in Berlin, as well as to inspect a number of collections in private hands, which are rich in African material. As the result my opinion as to the nondescript character of most of the species was confirmed, and I propose from time to time, as I chance to have leisure, to publish descriptions of these things, possibly accompanied by illustrations, if I shall find time to prepare the latter. The types are all in my collection. Family SYNTOMID. Genus SYNTOMOIDES* Hampson. 1. §. xanthopleura sp. nov. ¢'.—The wings are marked exactly as in S. puncticincta Holl. (‘‘Psyche,”’ January, 1893), but the species in hand may at once be distinguished by the totally different markings of the body. The front is pale yellow, almost white, the collar and patagia are orange- yellow, the top of the thorax is black. The abdomen is orange-yellow, with a black dorsal line beginning on the third segment from the thorax, on which, as well as on the fourth segment, it is extended down on either side to the line of the spiracles, as a saddle-shaped mark. This dorsal _ line is narrow on the remaining segments of the abdomen, and disappears wholly before reaching the anal extremity. The underside of the thorax and abdomen is grayish yellow. The legs are black, marked with yellow- ish rings. Expanse 25 mm. Flabitat.—Efulen, Bulé Country, Cameroons (coll. A. C. Good, Ph.D.). 2. §. seminigra sp. nov. 2 .—The forewings are marked as in S. /eugalea *In “Psyche” for January and February, 1893, I described a number of West African Syntomidz, referring them to the genus Sy#tomis. In so doing I was foilowing well-estab lished precedents. After the descriptions had been prepared and published I received the first volume of Sir George F. Hampson’s work on the Lepidoptera of India, and found that he had erected a new genus, Syxzomoides, for the reception of a number of the forms hitherto placed by authors in Syxtomis. His arrangement is certainly natural, and I desire to state that of the species named by me at the time referred to, the following will naturally come under his genius Syntomoides :—S. leugalea, elasson, elachista, misera- bilis, puncticincta, leimacis, goodit, reutlingeri, cytogaster, leucerythra, crenophylax and eybelistes. 12 sand ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, Holl. (‘‘ Psyche,” January, 1893), but the dark markings are somewhat broader and heavier. The hindwings have the costal margin and the whole outer half broadly black, leaving only a relatively small translucent spot on the inner margin. The body is black. The front is white. There is a narrow ring of white on the abdomen back of the thorax. The pectus and the anterior segments of the abdomen on the underside are accentuated with white lines. Expanse 21 mm. Habitat.—Efulen, Bulé Country, Cameroons (coll. A. C. Good, Ph.D.). This is a well-marked and distinct species. It is, so far as I know, not as yet represented in'any European collection. Genus SYNTOMIS Iil. 3. S. kerri sp. nov. ¢'.—The anterior. wings recall S, /eucogastra Holl. (‘‘ Psyche,” January, 1893), but the white subapical spot and the white spot in the cell in S. £erri are small, whereas in S. Zeucogastra they are relatively large. The secondaries are marked with three white semi- translucent spots near the base, whereas in S. /ewcogastra the secondaries are solidly black. But the strongest points of difference between the two species are found in .the markings of the abdomen. The abdomen in both species is black, but in /eucogastra the anal extremity is heavily tipped with bright orange, whereas in 4erri it is narrowly tipped with dark crimson. The underside of the abdomen in /eucogastra is broadly and conspicuously white, in 4err7 it is uniformly deep black. The pectus and legs in /eucogastra are orange; in kerri they are black. Expanse 24 mm. ffabitat. —Cameroons (coll. Kerr). 4. S. efulensis sp. nov. 9.—The body, the antenne and the legs are black. The anterior segments of the abdomen are marked laterally upon their edges by short lines of metallic green. The primaries are black, glossed in certain lights with green. There is a large quadrate hyaline spot at the end of the cell and the intraneural spaces on the disc are pale semi-translucent green. The secondaries are heavily bordered on all sides with black, leaving an elongated hyaline spot in the middle of the wing below the cell. Expanse 32 mm. Habitat.—Efulen, Bulé Country, Cameroons (coll. A. C. Good, Ph.D.). This is a very distinct species. Family ZYGAENIDA:. Genus TASEMA Walker. 5. T. nox sp. nov. ¢’.—This obscure little moth is black, with a green- ish reflection in certain lights. The antennze are minutely tipped with white. There is nothing more to be said after having located it in the proper genus, as was kindly done for me by Sir George F. Hampson. Expanse 20 mm. Hlabitat.—Cameroons (coll. A. C. Good, Ph.D.). + 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 13 Family ARCTIIDA. Genus ANACE Walker. 6. A. melaleuca sp. nov. <'.—Antennz with a white shaft and pale brown pectinations. Front, collar and patagia pale red; thorax and abdomen luteous; and extremity of abdomen tipped with slaty gray. The lower side of the thorax and abdomen whitish ; legs white, with the tibize, of the anterior pair margined in front with gray. The anterior wings are white, lightly Javed toward the base with yellowish. The costa _ is narrowly edged with slaty gray, as far as the middle, and the whole outer half of the wing is marked with the same color, the inner line of demarcation sweeping around in a graceful curve from the middle of the costa to the inner margin before the outer angle. The secondaries are white, laved with yellowish on the inner margin and at the base. The wings on the under side are marked as upon the upper side. Expanse 24 mm. Hlabitat.—Cameroons (coll. Kerr). fe) LASIOCAMPA MEDUSA ». sp. By Dr. HERMAN SIrRECKER. I received about a year since from Mr. Max Albright, of the. Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles County, California, a female Laszo- campa (or Gloveria as the American authors have it); it was raised from the larva and is different from arizonenszs or any of the Mexican species known to me. It expands four inches; the thorax and primaries above are very dark smoky gray, basal part of wings and thorax heavily furred, the mesial part a shade paler, minute white hairs are sprinkled over the whole surface; a small white discal spot, as in av7zonensis and other species; inferiors -and abdomen almost as dark as the primaries, but more brownish in tint; under surface of all wings almost uniform dark brown with a sprinkling of white hairs, most noticeable towards the costal margins; abdomen darker and also with the sprinkling of white hairs. This insect is larger than any of the American species known to me, and will be easily known by its deep, almost black color and lack of ornamentation, except the discal spot as well as by its general heavy appearance. The wings are much less pointed apically than in avizonensis and broader in propor- tion to their length, the abdomen is much longer, extending far beyond the inferiors. I know of but this one example which was sent to me along with the cocoon and pupa case from which it emerged. 14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ Janua ry Notes on the Mutillida of North America. © By WILLIAM J. Fox. Through the courtesy of Mr. Samuel Henshaw | have had the oppor- tunity. of examining Blake’s types of Psammotherma ajax, Mutilla flori- dana and M. trisignata, all described as occurring in Florida. As to the first-mentioned species it has always been placed in our lists with doubt; — and a comparison of the type with the description of Psammotherma flabellata Fabr., shows that it is identical with that species, whose home is Africa. On glancing at JZ. floridana.and trisignata it was at once obvious that these species were strangers to our fauna. By the aid of Radoszkovsky ‘and Sichel’s ‘‘ Essai d’une Monographie des Mutilles de l’ancien Conti- nent,’’ JZ. foridana is found to be the European AZ. maura Linné, while M. trisignata is referable to WZ. arenaria Fabr., also of Europe and Africa. A written label attached to the specimens in question reads as follows: ‘Harris from Doubleday Fla?’ The facts that they came from Double- day, a European collector, and that the locality given is queried, are in © themselves evidence that the specimens never came from Florida. It seems remarkable that one should give a positive locality for a species when such does not exist. Mutilla rutilans and thoracica of Blake, and AZ. peculiaris Cresson, differ at once from the females of the other species of Mutilla, in having the thorax divided into two parts, whereas in Muéil/a (including Sphe-— vrophthalma Blake) the thorax of the female is solidified at least on dorsal surface into one piece. Mutilla rutilans is either a new genus, or the female of Brachycistis, of which only males are known. I would refer it to Brachycis¢is, notwithstanding that the medial tibiz are two-spurred, whereas in the male they are one-spurred. In JZ ¢horacica we have the long-sought American representative of the female AZyrmosa, which, in addition to the divided thorax, differs from Muti//a in having distinct ocelli. Jf peculiaris is a Chyphotes, and has recently been redescribed as Chyphotes mirabilis by Mr. Cockerell. . The thorax of female, and armature of abdomen of male, permit the division of the Mutillidz into two subfamilies, one having the thorax (Q) of one piece and male with abdomen supplied with two appendages at tip ; these forms constitute what may be termed the Mutilline, of which there is but one vast' genus, Mudti/la (= Ephuta, Spherophthalma, Pseu. domethoca, Photopsis, s.s.). The remainder of our genera, Myrmosa, Methoca, Chyphotes and Brachycistis, constitute the second subfamily, in which the thorax is divided into two or more parts in the female, and the tip of male abdomen is supplied with a stout, up-curved spine or hook, or unarmed (M/yrmosa). This latter subfamily I regard as analagous to the Thynnidz, of which no North American representatives were hereto-~ fore supposed to exist. These notes are preliminary to a revision of our Mutillida, in which the matter will be treated at greater length. 1898. ] . ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 15 Carphoxera ptelearia Riley.—Herbarium Pest. By VERNON L. KELLOGG, Stanford University, Calif. Last November (1896) Prof. W. R. Dudley, of this university (Stanford), discovered that several papers of herbarium speci- mens in his collection were infested by small Geometrid larvze and turned over to me a number of these papers. The plant specimens were in open cases and unpoisoned, This month (May) imagines have appeared from the papers revealing the pest to be Carphoxera ptelearia described by Riley (‘‘ Insect Life,’’ 1891, vol. iv, p. 108) as the representative of a new genus of Geometrid moths, and referred to occasionally since. From the papers given me by Prof. Dudley I have been able to get eggs, larvae and imagines. All of the stages were described by Dr. Riley and need no further special mention. The duration of the larval period was not determined by Riley, but in his ac- count it is stated that ‘‘ larval life extends in some cases certainly over a period of three months.’’ The larve, under my notice, were practically full sized when found, Nov. 6, 1896, but they did not pupate until April and May, 1897. Nor was this long period one of inaction. They moved about over the specimens in the papers feeding all through the Winter, though the feeding was far from voracious. How many weeks or months had elapsed between hatching and time of discovery of the larve cannot even be guessed at, but evidently the insect has a larval life of at least eight or nine months. The results of the insect’s presence in Prof. Dudley’s herbarium are distinctly in evidence, and the pest will have to be reckoned with in western herbaria. Dr. Riley found the insects in the herbaria of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, but confined to plant specimens from Southern California and Arizona, except in one instance. The habit of Carphoxera of feeding on dry and dead vegetation is, as pointed out by Riley, almost unique among the Geometridz, but one other instance of it, shown by a European species, being recorded. Dr. Riley suggests the probability that Carphoxera ‘ normally feeds on the dead or dry plants of Mexico and adjacent arid regions, and that it has simply adapted itself to the somewhat similar conditions prevailing in herbaria.”’ The infested papers in Prof. Dudley’s herbarium represent 16 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, many different species of plants, the Composite and Labiatz seeming to furnish specially acceptable food for the pest. No Eastern specimens were in the infested herbarium, so that no special confirmation of Dr. Riley’s observation that only Western specimens are attacked is derivable from the condition of Prof. Dudley’s herbarium. oO ARACHNIDA FROM THE MALASPINA GLACIER, ALASKA. By NATHAN BANKS. THERIDID-. Erigone sp. One specimen ( @ ) not determinable from this sex. LYCOSIDA. ; Lycosa fumosa Em. Canadian Spiders 1894. One specimen (2) appears to be this species, but differs in having a distinct yellowish mark or interrupted band on all of the femora, and the anterior pair have another yellow mark on the outside near the tip. The epigynum is perhaps a little narrower than Emerton figures it ; the eyes are as he describes them. Pardosa grenlandica Thor. Spiders from Greenland 1872. One specimen (@ ) is close to the ZL. sznzstra form described from Colorado. PHALAGID. Phlegmacera bryantii n. sp. Length 2.5 mm., femur IV 2.4 mm.—Blackish, abdomen rather paler, especially at the tip; clothed on the venter with stiff, erect, black bristles, those on coxz and mandibles longer ; palpi with short stiff hairs ; cepha- lothorax smooth ; eye-tubercle rather low, very broad, large eye each side ; mandibles large ; third joint of palpi nearly as long as width of the cephalothorax, cylindrical ; fourth a little longer, of same size; fifth not — half as long as fourth; clavate. ‘Trochanters slightly tuberculate ; (first and second pairs of legs lost), femur and tibia III with two false articula- tions, femur and tibia IV with five or six false articulations, numerous on metatarsi and tarsi, abdomen short, broadly rounded at tip. One specimen (¢@), July 4, 1897; collected by Mr. H. G. Bryant, in honor of whom the species is named. It differs from both of our known forms by its darker color, broader cyesoberay and false articulations in the posterior femora. I 1808. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 7 NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SYRPHIDA FROM MT. ST. ELIAS, ALASKA. By Cuas. W. JOHNSON. The following Syrphidz were collected by Mr. H. G. Aes during his explorations on Mt. St. Elias, in the Summer of 1897. By a strange coincidence the six specimens collected represented as many species, two of which are apparently new. Mr. M. D. Hunter, in his interesting paper (‘‘ Can. Ent.,’’ June, 1897, page 121), reviews the Syrphide of Alaska, and records twenty spe- cies; the following increases the number to twenty-three: Syrphus protritus Osten Sacken. Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 22. Described from California. Collected by Prof. L. L. Dyche near Cook’s Inlet (Hunter). Syrphus umbellatarum Schiner. Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 16. ‘‘In snow, altitude 1300 feet.’’ Also collected by Prof. Dyche. White Mountains, N. H. (Osten Sacken). Syrphus geniculatus Macquart. Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias. June 22. Not before recorded from Alaska. Newfoundland (Macq.). White Moun- tains, N. H. (Osten Sacken). Syrphus bryantii n. sp. 9. = Length 7.5 mm. Eyes minutely pilose, front dark greenish, shining, with an arch of black above the antennae, vertex black, shining, both front and vertex sparsely covered with black hairs, face of a uniform bright yellow, shining, with a few minute black hairs on the sides, tuber- cle very prominent, cheeks slightly extending upward along the facial orbits and the entire oval margin black, shining ; occiput greenish black with yellow pile, mouth-parts unusually large, antennz black, lower edge of the third joint brownish black, base entirely surrounded by yellow. Thorax and pleure greenish black with long yellowish pile; scutellum bright yellow, lateral angles black. Halteres yellow. Abdomen deep black, pile on the first, second and third segments yellow, on the fourth and fifth black, longest on the sides of the first and second, the bright yellow cross bands the same as Syrphus umbellatarum, venter yellow with obsolete blackish markings on the posterior edge of the third and fourth segments. Legs yellowish, basal half of the anterior and middle femora and the tarsi black, posterior femora (except the apical third), a medial band on the tibiz, and the tarsi black. Wings with a slight brownish tinge, stigma brown. 1* 18 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS... [ January, Great Melaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 16, 1897. ‘‘In snow, altitude 1300 feet.’’? Respectfully dedicated to its dis- coverer, Mr. H. G. Bryant, of Philadelphia. Platychirus peltatus Meigen. Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 22; Sitka (Loew). A widely distributed species, Northern Europe, White Moun- tains, N. H., New York, Pennsylvania, Colorada. Melanostoma glacialis n. sp. <%. Length6mm. Face greenish, shining, uniformly and densely covered (except the tubercle) with a grayish pollen. Tubercle prominent, black, shining, frontal and vertical triangle, black, with long blackish pile; occiput with grayish pile, antennz entirely black, mouth parts brown. Thorax dull black, with large black pile somewhat brownish on the anterior portion ; scutellum an obscure yellow, stained with brown, which becomes black at the lateral angles, pile long, black. Abdomen narrowly ovate, black ; opaque, with prominent grayish pile, longest on the sides, hind border of the fourth and the fifth segment shining, near the middle of the second segment on each side is a small round yellow spot, third and fourth segments with a large ovate, yellow marking at the anterior angles, reaching the lateral margins, those on the fourth somewhat smaller than those on the third, posterior margin of the fourth narrowly margined with yellow. Legs black, apical portion of the femora and the base of the tibiz of the anterior and middle legs yellowish. Wings hya- line, with a slightly grayish tinge, stigma an obsolete yellow. Great Malaspina Glacier, Mt. St. Elias, June 22. Resembling M. cerulescens Will. in abdominal markings but readily separated by the opaque black ground color. nD Vv UTAH REVISITED; WYOMING AND MONTANA.—Part i: By Prof. A. J. SNYDER. From Ogden, Utah, northward, no stops were made until we reached Beaver Canon, Idaho, or, as the place is now known, ‘‘ Beaver.’’ From this place some tourists travel northeast by wagon to Yellowstone Park. The country in the near vicinity reminded me of the rolling land of South Dakota, but the hills are larger and one need not travel far to find the country mountainous. The Wood Bro’s sheep ranch has a station some six miles out, to which one of their men invited us. I have seen few places more productive of butterfly life. It was almost impossible to advance for there were hundreds of = 1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 19 insects of many varieties all about us—Argynnids, Pamphilas, Lyczenas, Satyrids, Ccoenonymphas, etc. Most of the species, how- ever, were the same as those common to Utah. Soon, however, the ground became higher and on crossing one of the high knolls a gray butterfly sprang up, almost resembling a grasshop- per in its quick motions. It darted about and then dropped into the grass. Others of the same kind were soon started and after some careful maneuvering my first A/ipparchia ridingsii was safely landed in the cyanide jar. On these grassy round-topped hills many of this species were found, but the sport much resem- bled jack-snipe hunting, and I longed for a gun and some harm- less kind of ammunition with which to pepper the wily insects ; vidingsii often lights on bare spots of ground, but the gray color of its wings blends so well with the soil and dry grass that it is very hard to see. Its habit of folding the primaries within the secondaries and occupying the smallest possible place and even tumbling over on-one side so as to almost lie flat on the surface, resembles C. chryxus. Like that species, also, it not infrequently alights on bare rocks. This species was not seen elsewhere until, on the road from Livingston to Yellowstone Park, one darted up in front of my horse only to alight in the dust and formed so tempting a prize that I dismounted and captured it. Soon we came to a deep, well-wooded gully, probably one- quarter mile in width, and, while crossing this, a little brownish black insect started up from a small grassy glade, and after a rapid chase over logs and brush the first specimen of Ceno- nympha haydenii was being examined. While dinner was preparing, a little search near camp resulted in the capture of several more haydenzz. After dinner, with our friends, the ranchers, we collected on the higher ground back of camp and secured a number of fine insects. Argynnids *were probably most abundant, and the most common specie’ was eurynome. A few /eto were taken and examples of several other species or varieties. During the afternoon we worked our way back to Beaver, col- lecting en route, and on passing their metroplis again spent some time with the -Aipparchias. Mr. Wood and his men urged us to make our home at their camp while in the vicinity. Never has it been my fortune to be more generously entertained or made so welcome among strangers 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | [ January, as was our visit to these gentlemen whose life is one of hardship in a sparsely settled region. Only three days were spent in this vicinity, but enough to convince us that collectors might spend _a longer time there to the great advantage of their cabinets. After leaving Beaver, our next stop was Butte, one of the greatest if not the greatest of the mining camps in the United States. This great city is as barren as the crater of a great vol- cano, without a sign of vegetation—neither living tree nor blade — of grass. Butte is no place for an entomologist, and that night we started eastward—bound for Yellowstone Park. In our opinion, the proper way to see ‘‘ The Wonderland of America’’ is to go there with an independent “‘ outfit.’ To see the most and succeed best, especially from a collector’s stand- point, one should have saddle ponies and be able to follow the. various remarkable trails where it is impossible to take wagons. Almost any kind of an outfit may be secured at Livingston or Bozeman, and from the former the distance to the Park is only fifty-three miles. After hiring three ponies (two saddle and one pack animal) we were ready for butterflies or scenery and soon found both. News of sickness at home, unfortunately, shortened our trip and prevented our doing full justice to either the insects or sights. Along the road to the Park, Cleome integrifolia was abundant, and on the flowers were numerous Pamphilas—uncas being the most common species. In a meadow we found many of the common Satyrus, var. olympus. Grass and flowers are plentiful in the Park, as are also the butterflies ; although we saw many species common to the Rocky Mountains region, no remarkable captures were made until we entered Hayden Valley, Aug. rst. A storm had just passed. Suddenly the sun shone out brightly — and butterflies were everywhere. We immediately dismounted, and although both our nets had been ruined by accidents we spent a most interesting hour in the wet grass collecting with a piece of a net. C. haydenii and £. epipsodea were everywhere about us. Ccoenonymphas were common and a few Argynnids were seen. A single Zredia sofia was taken here—the only one seen during the trip. . While busy capturing insects a small herd of elk walked out of the timber not far away and watched us with curious eyes, alternately feeding and stopping to view us 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 21 until our mounting frightened them back into the forest. We longed for weeks in this beautiful valley but it could not be. | Even in the geyser region we found butterflies, and several were captured near the Riverside Geyser while waiting for an eruption. Several Chrysophanus mariposa were taken in the Upper Geyser Basin. Argynnis helena was found flitting along the road alighting in moist places in the neighborhood of the lower falls of the Yellowstone. A single Hupteeta claudia was taken beside the road. Two. Chionobas jutta and a single Melitea editha were also captured. Thecla sepium was common near Mammoth Hot Springs. Although we ascended no high mountains, Chionobas chryxus was seen several times. Satyrus charon was abundant. Several _Argynnis monticola and a pair of what seems to, be the var. pur- purascens, Hy. Edw. fell to our lot. A few Avgynnis eurynome were taken. In conclusion, the author wishes to record an opinion :—My observations lead me to believe that exrynome, artonis and argé* form a single species, and absolutely intergrade. I have captured about 800 eurynome and have studied specimens from Utah and British America, also some of the intermediate points (Yellow- stone Park and Idaho). Of the unsilvered form called arvtonis, I have captured over 150 examples. These two forms I have taken in coitu $ artonis and Q-eurynome; and @ artonis and % eurynome. 1 have seen specimens only partially silvered and resembling both avtonis and eurynome. In my collection are specimens of avge % from Oregon which seem to correspond exactly with Mr. Strecker’s description of this variety, and I have males from Utah which are certainly avge, and others which intergrade into the typical eurynome. I have never seen a 9 which positively belonged to the var. avge, but have noted a de- cided variation in the females of the so-called eurynome. If these so-called species naturally interbreed, and if all the inter- grades have been found as I have proved, it only remains to de- termine positively the result of this interbreeding and the ques- tion is absolutely solved. Mr. FREDERICK KNas reports the capture of Anisolabis maritima at Bridgeport, Conn, * To these may be added, in all probability, wacaria, clio, opis and bischofi.—Ep. 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ° [ January, RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. Il.—_THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. By H. F. Wricxuaw, Iowa City, Iowa. The region about Brownsville. Texas, is one of great interest, but only lately has it been explored entomologically with any degree of care. Within the past two years, however, the country ~ has been visited and worked by Prof. Townsend, Mr. Schwarz and the writer.* Its most striking feature is perhaps to be found in the little jungles or ‘‘ oases’’ of tropical vegetation, supporting corresponding insect faunz, these small areas being compassed around by the ordinary flora and fauna of southern Texas. It is by no means ready of access, since a visit implies either a long trip by steamer from New Orleans or Morgan City, or a. cross-country stage ride of some 160 miles from Alice The latter has the advantage of convenience since the stages are run ~glaily, while the steamer dates are about ten days apart. The writer made the trip by stage, reaching Brownsville on the evening of June 20th. A heavy rain had laid the dust and refreshed the country so that the broad prairies which alternate with patches of chaparral were gorgeous with many blossoms. But little time was had for collecting along the road, the thirty- six hours of travel consumed in covering the distance being broken only by such short stops as were necessary to change horses and to eat a hasty lunch. Nevertheless, a few observa- tions were made. Cicindela rectilatera abounded in swarms near rain puddles; Canthon levis was busily rolling balls about in sandy spots. In the mesquite scrub might now and then be seen a fine specimen of a great black Longhorn, Stenaspis solitaria; these, however, disappearing before reaching El Sawz. A short stop at Santa Gertrudes, the first relay station out of Alice, was the occasion of some rejoicing over the capture of a fine example of Eleodes ventricosa, one of the largest species of the genus, remarkable for its obese form and shining surface. No towns are passed through en route, the road running across great ranches thousands of acres in extent. An occasional Mex- ican hut is about the only sign of human habitation, except at the small settlement of El Sawz and Arroyo. Arrived, finally, * Cf. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv, p. 2; Trans, Texas ‘Acad, of Sci., 1895; and Bull. Nat. Hist. State Univ. of lowa, iv, pp. 96 et seq. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23 at the journey’s end it was a pleasure to meet a fellow-entomolo- gist in the person of Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend, who had already been in the field for some months. His aid in securing accommodations and readily given information as to the collect- ing grounds were of material advantage and greatly appreciated. He had already located many of the little tropical oases—if we -may give them that name—and had made large and interesting collections in the interests of the Division of Entomology at Washington. se _ As a result of the explorations carried on, many species not. hitherto recognized as inhabitants of the United States must be added to our lists. A few of these may be mentioned here, the remainder will be referred to in the author’s report on the Cole- optera of this valley.* A number of Cicindelidze were met with, the most interesting of which occurred at Point Isabel along the extensive beaches and salt mud-flats in that neighborhood. C. severa, togata, cir- cumpicta and pamphila all inhabit this little strip of sea-coast in company with some more familiar forms. C. pamphila is re- _ markable, from the fact that the elytra exhibit much the same range of variation in ground color as that displayed by the better known C. sferaia. Among the Carabidz, mention should be made of the occur- rence of Calosoma aurocinctum.Chaud., a species resembling our common scrutator, but a little smaller and of a brighter clearer green with less pronounced elytral striz and broader, flatter in- terspaces. It is a Mexican form and will probably not be found much to the north of Brownville. A large colony of the hitherto very rare Pogonus texanus was exposed on turning over a pal- metto log lying on a broad mud flat at the Point. A number disappeared at once into seams opened by the sun, but quite a supply was secured. In heavy thickets where the vines made their closest tangles, Agra oblongopunctata Chev. was occasion- ally beaten from some thick mass of foliage. It is an outre look- ing insect of slender form, the prothorax elongate, nearly conical, the narrow elytra deeply punctured in rows. The original lo- cality was Vera Cruz, Mexico. Micragra enea is another hitherto extra limital species ranging through Central America to Brazil. It is a small greenish or black-bronzed insect, something like * Now publishing in the “* Bulletin of Natural History,” State University of Iowa. 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, Metabletus in form, occurring on vines. Several specimens of a new Lebiide (Auproctus texanus Wickham) were obtained, chiefly in sweepings or by beating. Callida punctulata Chaud., was beaten from jungles in company with C. planulata and Pinaco- dera punctigera. A single specimen of Anatrichis oblonga was found on the river bank. This has hitherto been represented by a single example. oO An Egg Parasite of Smerinthus astylus Drury. By W1LL1aM H. ASHMEAD. Assistant Curator, Department of Insects, U. S: Nat. Mus., Washington, D. C. I have recently received, for identification, from Mr. R. F. Pearsall, of Brooklyn, N. Y., three specimens of a beautiful little chalcid, reared from the eggs of Smerinthus astylus Drury. This chalcid proved to belong to the subfamily Eupelminz, in Motschulsky’s genus Azastatus (= Antigaster Walsh) and to be quite different from the several other species described in our fauna. I have, therefore, named it in honor of the discoverer and submit the following description : Anastatus pearsalli sp. n. 2 .—Length 2.5mm. Blue-green; the scutel- lum, middle lobe and the elevated lateral lobes of the mesonotum and the face, including the frons, bronze-green ; scape, lobe in front of tegulz, apex of pronotum and the legs, with the exceptions to be noted, ferru- ginous ; anterior and hind coxz metallic-blue; anterior femora and tibiz, except knees and hind legs, except tarsal joints 2 to 3, which are yellow- ish white, dark brown or fuscous; the middle tibize and the tarsal joints 1, 2 and 5 brownish; front wings fuscous, with the basal one-third and two triangular spots opposite each other, the points of which almost meet and form a band just beneath the marginal vein, whitish hyaline ; abdo- men blue-black, with a white band at apex of first abdominal segment. f1fab.—Brooklyn, N. Y. Described from three female specimens, bred Aug. 20, 1897, from eggs of Smerinthus astylus Drury, by Mr. R. F. Pearsall. IN THE ENTOMOLOGICAL Section. Professor.—‘‘ What has become of Bugs? Wasn’t he studying with the class last year ?”’ : ‘‘Ah, yes; Bugs—poor fellow—a fine student, but absent minded in the use of benzine in cleaning specimens—very. That discoloration on the ceiling—notice it ?”’ » Vés;"’ ““That’s Bugs.”’ ~ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL News has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfet- ence, as to make it necessary to put ‘‘ copy’’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five ‘‘extras’’ without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.—Eb. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1898. A LETTER TO THE NEWS. ‘IT suppose I am one of a fairly numerous class who make the collection of insects a pastime and not a very serious study— ‘mere collectors’ I suppose we should be called. Nevertheless, what we see we know, and if we never get far beyond the ento- mological A B C it is not so much because we do not care to, as it is because business and other cares which ‘will not down’ are too tyrannical. All we know must come from observation, and we haven’t much time for that—the literature of our hobby is scarce and expensive, and over our heads as well. ** What we want in a periodical is the relation of the experi- ences of others of our class. If some fellow has a ‘sugar’ which he finds attracts more Catocalz than any other he has tried we’d like to know his recipe. We'd like to hear of another’s expe- riences in rearing the more common species—perhaps the suc- cessful method of one will show another how he failed. We want to read of various methods of preserving pupz over Win- ter. We would like descriptions of the perfect insect in cases where species differ enough from each other to make a written description of any value, and we want these things not once ina while, but every month. If we ‘mere collectors’ could have two pages a month devoted to us we would gladly take our chances on getting something of value out of the rest of the issue, Of course you can’t bother to edit and publish a paper 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January,. for the benefit of one or two individuals; but it seems to me that if you will publish something each month that may be of interest to the merest tyro, you might enlarge your sphere of usefainess and add to the income of the News ’’—W.R. H. We are perfectly willing to adopt the suggestions of our cor- respondent; in fact such has long been our desire and we have made every effort to get just such communications. We even went so far as to send out printed circulars soliciting articles of the kind mentioned—but they came not. It can’t be expected that the editors should write such articles each month as they also have matters to attend to that wont ‘‘down’’ and the time they devote to the journal is stolen from their own work. Now, W. R. H. we believe belongs to a large class of our subscribers and we turn the matter over to them to remedy, and await the result with much interest. On November 4th, after a day’s collecting, I had occasion to walk along the Erie Railroad track at Woodside, N. J., on my way home. I saw several larvze of Spilosoma isabella crawling along on the inside of the iron rail, evidently looking for a place to cross over the track. I thought nothing of it until I saw some larva of Arctia arge which I took, and from that time on I kept my eyes on the rails. At a rough guess I must have passed at least 200 larve during the walk of about a half of a mile S. isabella were the most numerous. I took the following: fifteen Arctia arge? four Arctia nats, three Spilosoma rubricosa and three different specimens of Agrotis. I had occasion to pass along the same place again a week later but did not see a sign of a larva.—A. J. WeEIpT, Newark, N. J. Philanthus punctatus var. cockerelli Dunning, ENT. NEws, 1896, p. 69. —Mr. Dunning gives no locality for this variety; the type specimens cited were from Las Cruces, New Mex., August 24 and September 3, the latter on flowers of Solidago canadensis. I have been comparing our Mesilla Valley punctatus (which frequents the flowers of Chilopsis and Sisym- brium as well as Solidago, and appears as early as April 16) with’speci- mens of typical punctatus taken by Mr. Robert Knetsch at Terra Cotta, Ill., and I find that our insect (var. cockered/i) constantly differs by the pale markings (light yellow to white), almost clear wings (with, however, a dusky apex), narrower head in the ,j’, and eyes closer together at the top in both sexes. It seems to be a good subspecies at least, but Mr. Dunning’s diagnosis should .be modified to include all our specimens — T. D. A. COCKERELL. 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 27 tes and News. . ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. A picture for the album of the American Entomological Society has been received from Andrew Bolter. AN ant which Sir John Lubbock, the English naturalist, has kept for observation many years died recently, whereupon the ‘‘ Indian Mirror’ published an obituary notice of his aunt. IN the collection of the late Dr. Geo. H. Horn there was a specimen of the large moth (Pseudosphynzx fetrio Linn.) which bore the following label: ‘‘ Large moth reached ship ‘ Earnmoor’ Saturday, Feb. 11th, 1888, at sea about two hundred miles from shore.’’--HENRY SKINNER. WaeEREAS, we have learned with infinite sorrow and regret of the death of Dr. George H. Horn, of Philadelphia. Resolved, By the Newark Entomological Society, in special meeting, November 28, that Entomological Science, particularly in Coleoptera, has sustained a most serious loss, that the Society has lost a well-wisher, and many of its members a personal friend. Resolved, Also that this expression of our sorrow be spread upon the minutes of the Society, that a copy be sent to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws for publication, and that another copy be sent to the personal representa- tives of the deceased. (Signed) JoHN ANGELMAN, Ep. A. BISCHOFF, Committee. JouN B. SMITH, NoTE ON AGAPOSTEMON TEXANUS.—Mr. Robertson, in his recent ex- cellent account of the common species of Agapostemon, gives to texanus ' avery wide range—from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It seems desirable to ask how uniform it is throughout this territory. I have before me six examples from Washington State (one from Olympia, June 29; five from Pasco, May 25), all collected by Mr. T. Kincaid; and while they agree with fexanus in almost every particular (including the punctures of the mesothorax), they are very easily separated from typical fexanus (as found in New Mexico) by the much more finely sculptured base of the metathorax. The radiating wrinkles, which in true fevanus are very large and distinct, are much smaller, more numerous, and less separated from one another. There is even a feebly indicated triangular enclosure. As the difference indicated is quite constant in a series, I propose to call the Washington form A. sudfi/ior n. sp. or subsp. Mr. Kincaid sent with the A. subtilior eighteen examples of A. radiatus, allfrom Pasco. Mr. Robertson gives that species as west to Dakota only. The Pasco exam- ples are larger and bluer than the Illinois form of radia/us.—T. D. A. COCKERELL, Mesilla, New Mex. 28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., Dec., ’97.—&. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., Dec., ’97.—10. Nature, London, ’97.—21. The En- tomologist’s Record, London, Nov. 15, ’97-—22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, No. 543, Oct. 21, ’97.—24. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, xlii, 1 and 2, Nov., ’97.—35. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, xl, 9, Brussels, Nov. 15, ’97.—47. The Zoologist, London, Nov. 15, ’97.—48. The International Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science (3), viii, 36. London, Oct., ’97.—49. Termeszetrajzi Fiizetek, xx, 4. Budapest, Nov. 1, ’97. : The General Subject.—Bethe, A. Comparative researches on the functions of the central nervous system of Arthropods, t pl., Pfluger’s Archiv fur Physiologie, Ixviii, 10-12. Bonn, Oct. 29, ’97.—Biro, L. Biological observations in New Guinea, 24.—Cockerell, T.D.A. A curious case of protective coloration, 5.—Heymons, R. Remarks on Verhoeff’s views on the abdominal appendages of insects, 22.—Poul- ton, E. B. Mimicry in butterflies and moths, 10, Nov. 4, 11.—Raf- fray, A. Occurrence of blind insects in South Africa. Transactions, South African Philosophical Society, ix, 1. Cape Town, 1897.—St. George, v. la Valette. -On sperm- and egg-formation in the silk- worm (Bombyx mori), 3 pls. Archiv fiir mikroscopische Anatomie, L, 4: Bonn, Nov. 15, ’97.—Suffert, E. Effect of the blood monad (Baci/lus prodigiosus) on insects, 24, Sitzungsberichte.—V. Insects and flowers, Revue Scientifique, Paris, Nov. 6, ’97. Economic Entomology.—Anon. Asclepias curassavica as an in- sectifuge, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew, No. 130, Oct., ’97.—Anon. Useful insect products, 10, Dec. 2.—Cha- pais, J. C. Some insects to be combatted, Naturaliste Canadien, xxiv, 10. Chicoutimi, Queb.—Coutagne, G. Summary report on the work done at the Sericulture Station of Rousset-en-Provence in 1896-97. Bul- letin Société Nationale d’Acclimatation de France, Paris, Oct., ’97.— Deprez, V. Principal insects injurious to tobacco of the Semois, figs., 35.—Dubois, L. On a bacterium pathogenic for the Phylloxera and for certain Acarines, Comptes Rendus, L’Academie des Sciences, Paris, Nov. 15, ’97.—Fletcher, J. Evidence before the Select Standing Committee of the House of Commons on Agriculture and Colonization Session of 1897. Printed by order of Parliament [Ottawa, Can.]; Re- 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 29 port of the Entomologist and Botanist 1896, figs. Annual Report on the Experimental Farms for the year 1896. Ottawa, 1897.—Krueger, F. The San José scale, a new danger for German fruit culture. Gartenflora, . Berlin, Nov. 15, ’97.—Lounsbury, C. P. Report of the Government Entomologist for the year 1896, figs. Cape of Good Hope Department of Agriculture. Cape Town, 1897.—Mayet, V. The cochineal of the vines of Chile (Margarodes vitius Giard), Anales de la Sociedad Cien- tifica Argentina, xliv, 4. Buenos Aires, Oct., ’°97.—-Morgan, H. A. _ Report of the Entomologist, figs., Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, (2) No. 48. Baton Rouge, La., ’97,—Newstead, R. Kermes variegatus Gmelin 2: a Coccid new to Britain, Entomologist’s Monthly. - Magazine, London, Dec., ’97.—Pearson, L. and Warren, B. H. ‘Diseases and enemies of poultry. [Pennsylvania] Dept. of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 17, Harrisburg, 1896.—S. Destructive animals, general con- siderations on their appearance and their destruction. Wiener Illustrierter Garten-Zeitung, Nov., ’97. Myriapoda and Arachnida.—Silvestri, F. Description of new species of Myriapods of the Royal Museum of Natural History of Brus- sels, figs. 35.—Trouessart, E. Onthe Acarine of blacking and on that of wine, Comptes Rendus, Société de Biologie, Paris, Oct. 30, ’97. Orthuptera and Neuroptera —Burr, M. The stridulation of Orthoptera, 47.—Bordas, L. The salivary glands of Pseudoneurop ‘tera and Orthoptera. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale (3) v, 2. Paris, 1897,—Saville-Kent, W. Remarkable termite mounds of Australia, 10, Nov. 25.—Zimmer, C. The facetted eyes of the Ephemeride, 2 pls. Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Ixiii, 2, Leipsic, Nov. 12, ’97. Hemiptera.—C ockerell,-T.D. A., and Quaintance, A. L. A new Lecanium on magnolia from Florida,* 5.—Cooley, R. A. New species of Chionaspis,* 4.—Distant, W. L. Stridulation and habits of Cicadidz, 47.—Handlirsch, A. On the systematic position of the Hemipterous genus Phimophorus Bergroth, figs., Verhandlungen, k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft, Wien xlvii, 8, Nov. 10, ’97.—King, G. B., and Tinsley, J. D. A newant-nest Coccid,* figs., 5.—Mar - shall, G, A. K._ Stridulation of Cicadidze in Mashunuland, 47.— Montandon, A. L. New Hemiptera of the collections of the Mu- _ seum of Paris, Bulletin du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, ’97, 4.— Rendall, P. Stridulation of Cicadide, 47.—Uhler, P. R. Contri- butions towards a knowledge of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of North America—No. 1.* Transactions, Maryland Academy of Sciences 1897, Baltimore. Coleoptera.—Belon, R. P. Remarks on the genus Luryptera Serv. of the group Lepturide and description of a new species from Bolivia, 35.—Blatter, P. Study of the histological structure of the accessory glands of the male apparatus of Hydrophilus 1 pl. Archives d’ Anatomie Microscopique i, 3. Paris, Nov. 10, ’97,—Heyne, A. Die 30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, exotischen Kaefer in Wort und Bild. 7. u. 8. Lieferung. Verlag von Ernst Heyne in Leipzig, 1897, 4 colored pls.—_Keen, J. H. Three in- teresting Staphylinidae from Queen Charlotte Islands, figs., 4.—Pic, M. First Supplement to my list of Anthicidz-addenda, 35.—Schaufuss, C. Bark-beetle studies—i, 24. Diptera.—Becker, T. Dipterological studies—v, 1 pl., 24.— Dahl, F. Pu/iciphora, a new flea-like genus of flies, 22.—Towns- end, C. H. T. Diptera from the Mesilla Valley of the Rio Grande in New Mexico—i, 5. : Lepidoptera.—Bacot, A. On the development and probable origin of certain ocellated spots in the larve of Lasiocampa quercus and Odo- nestis potatoria, 21.—Bowell, E. W. W. On the scales of European Zygeenides, t pl., 21.—Bull, J. The fluctuation in numbers of seden- tary species of Lepidoptera with some criticisms suggested by the list recently issued by the Protection Committee, 21.—Chretien, P. The first stages of Zortrix grotiana; Le Naturaliste, Paris, Nov. 15, ’97.— Davis, W. T. Notes on Staten Island butterflies, Proceedings of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island, vi, rr. New Brighton, N. Y., Nov. 13, ’97.--D6nitz, W. Preservation of larve in gelatine, 24, Sitzungsberichte.—Diiberg. North American and Asiatic species of Argynnis, 24, Sitzungsberichte—Dyar, H. G. The Jarve of two Saturnians; Note on larve of Gynephora grenlandica and G. rossii; Note on Cydosiine, 5.—Elwes, H.J. and Edwards, J. A revision of the Oriental Hesperide, ro pls. (4 in colors). Transactions. Zoological Society of London, xiv, 4, Oct., ’97.—French, G. H.° Preparatory stages of Pyrgus tessellata, 4.—Grote, A. R. On the value of larval characters, 21.—Hampson, G. F. On the classification of the Chry- saugine, a subfamily of moths of the family Pyralidz,* figs.; On the classification of the Thyridide—a family of the Lepidoptera Phaizenz, figs., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897, part iii, Oct. 1,’97-—~Hanham, A. W. A list of Manitoba moths, 4.—Hogg, J. The so-called jumping bean of Mexico, 3 pls., 48.—Langdale, A. Strange pairing of butterflies, 47.—Lyman, H. H., and Winn, A. F. Notes on Grapta interrogationis Fabr., 4.—Nagel, W. A. On the taste organ of butterflies, figs., 22.—Poulton, E. B. See General Works.-—-Prout, L. B. On the genus Oporadia (cont.); The Geometrid family Amphidasydz, 21.—Scudder, S. H. Dates of issue of some of Boisduval’s works, 6.—Soule, C. G. Notes on unusual food-plants, etc., 6.—Stevenson, C. Vanessa milberti, 4.—Ule, E. Symbiosis between an Asclepias and a butterfly (transl. from Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesell. xv), Journal of Botany. London, Nov., ’97. Hymenoptera.—C ockerell, T. D. A. On the generic position of some bees hitherto referred to Panurgus and Calliopsis,* 4.—F er - ton, C. Habits of gastrilegid Hymenoptera, Feuille des jeunes Natu- ralistes. Paris, Nov. 1,’97.—F.orel, Dr. A. Ants’ nests 2 pls. (trans- lated from Neujahrsblatt Naturforsch. Gesell. Zurich, 1893), 48 ; On the 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 31 habits of the ants of tropical America, 35.—Fox, W. J. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 3. Sphecidz (sens. lat.), Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1897.—Karawaiew, W. Preliminary communication on the internal metamorphoses of ants, 22.—King and Tinsley. See Hemiptera. —Konow, F. W. Systematic and critical revision of the Siricid tribe Oryssini, 49; On wood wasps, Entomologische Nachrichten, xxiii, 20. Berlin, Oct.;’97.—Parkin, J. A bee’s movements in a room, 10, Nov. 4.—Sch., S. The orchid wasp (/sosoma orchidearum) Naturwissens- chaftliche Wochenschrift. Berlin, Nov. 21, ’97.--Schmiedeknecht, ©. The Ichneumonid genus Hemiteles with a review of the European - species, 49. Doings of Societies. A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences was held November 18th, Mr. E. T. Cresson presiding. Mr. Herman Hornig presented two imagos, one chrysalis and two larve of Boletotherus bifurcus. Mr. Philip Laurent exhibited some fine photographs showing the destructive work of ants in chestnut and cherry wood. Mr. Robert Reif was elected an Associate. The following gentlemen were nominated for officers for the new year : Director, George H. Horn. Vice- Director, C. S. Welles. Treasurer, E. T. Cresson. sib i Henry Skinner. Secretary, W. J. Fox. Publication Committee, ae i Etat HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Recorder. A business meeting of the American Entomological Society was held November 18th. Nominations of officers were made for the year 1898. HENRY SKINNER, Secre/ary pro tem. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14, 1897.—A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held at the residence of Mr. H. 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ January, W. Wenzel, 1509 S. 13th Street. Meeting called to order at 9 p.M., Vice-president Castle in the chair. Minutes of the pre- vious meeting read and approved. : The chairman announced to the members the death of one of the Social’s honorary members, Dr. George H. Horn, which occurred on Nov. 24, 1897, upon which the following resolution was presented: ‘‘ The Feldman Collecting Social having learned of the death of Dr. George H. Horn, one of its honorary mem- bers, be it ; Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that science has thereby lost one of its brightest lights and American Coleopter- ology its foremost savant, and Resolved, That we herewith express our deep sorrow at the loss ot our friend and fellow member, whose death leaves an irreparable gap in the science of Entomology. Mr. H. W. Wenzel read a communication from Mr. Ottomar Reinecke, of Buffalo, N. Y., dated Dec. 11, 1897, in which he states he has forwarded for presentation to each Coleopterist of the Social a set of four specimens of Glycobius speciosus, each being accompanied by a picture of himself. Mr. Fox read some notes oti Mutillidze, which will be published in full in the News. Mr. H. W. Wenzel mentioned that, on November 2oth, his two sons, Harry and Elmer, had captured in the Philadelphia Neck ~ Lebia abdominalis in numbers, the species not having been taken before in this locality; also stating that on the same date J/icro- hapla porcata was taken: a great variety of species being found as the weather was very mild at the time. . It was moved by Mr. Fox that Mr. Wenzel be requested to convey the thanks of the Social to Mr. Ottomar Reinecke for his generous remembrance of the Coleopterists of the Social. == No further business being presented the Social adjourned to the annex at 10.10 P. M. woe CTE Tueo. H. Scumitz, Secretary. OBITUARY. WILLIAM Grey, gardener to the late Hon. Erastus Corning, [died at his home, Corning Farm, Albany, N. Y., Nov. 25th last, 69 years of age; deceased was a well-known collector of Lepidoptera for many years and leaves his collection of many thousand specimens to his son Robert, who is also interested in the same field. SELLER NE ENTOMOLOGICAL News for December was mailed December 1, 1897. Ent. News, Vol. IX. Pil OSAGE ORANGE INJURED BY WOOD BORERS. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOCICAL SECTION - -ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. Void tx: FEBRUARY, 1898. ; No. 2, CONTENTS: Laurent—Osage Orange injured by Fiske—Notes on the distribution of = wood borers...-..2-..eeceeeeeeees 33 | Rhopalocera of New Hampshire... 42 Rowley—Interesting collecting near | E@itorialines ss cccccuscccacscseenctccoe 45 hs ORES AY SEIS IRE arti er peieae 34 Notes and NewSs.........eeeseees teteees 47 Coquillett—Synopsis of the Asilid genus | Entomological Literaturé.............- 49 OSPri0Cerus ....seccdssscovecescees 37. | Doings of Societies.........cuseseses-- 53 Letcher—Variation of Pyrameis carye 38 : Wickham—Recollections of old collect- OGG Ga cn dgancesh aves depose. 39 OSAGE ORANGE INJURED BY WOOD BORERS. By Pui_ip LAURENT. In the suburban parts of Philadelphia the Osange Orage is ex- tensively used in forming hedges around fields and gardens, and for this purpose it excels all other plants, as aside from its fine appearance it forms an almost inipregnable barrier against tres- passers. It was on July 4, 1895, that I first had my attention called to the number of Dorcaschema wildii and alternatum that were in- festing a certain hedge near my homeat Mt. Airy. In the course of an hour’s time, with the aid of my friend, Mr. Horace Rodd, I secured seventy-five w/diz and about twice that number of alternatum. During the following Winter I secured from this hedge—which was about one hundred yards in length—two sec- tions from the limb of a tree, each section being about four feet in length and from three to five inches in diameter (see Plate II). On arriving home I cut the sections into smaller ones and placed them in the breeding cage. The first beetles made their appear- ance on June 18, and from that time until the middle of July they continued to emerge. Nearly all the specimens proved to be a/ternatum, only one or two wé/dii making their appearance. Two specimens of Neoclytus erythrocephalus also emerged. In all thirty-eight specimens emerged. 2 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, Prof. Riley, in the ‘‘American Entomologist,’’ vol. iii, p. 270, states that the larvee of w7/diz and alternatum no doubt feed in the roots of the plant. I admit, not without a doubt, however, that this may be true as far as the larve of w7/diz is concerned, but it will not apply to the closely allied species alfernatum, as my observations go to show. Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, in ‘‘Insect Life,’’ vol. v, p. 155, states that the larve of wi/diz bore the older wood of the tree, and I am very much inclined to accept this statement as being correct, for if wé examine the trunks of the trees in an old hedge we will often find them to contain many large borings, such as we would suppose the larvae of wz/dii would make. Messrs. Webster and Mally, of Ohio, have reared Cyllene pictus from the Osage Orange (see Bulletin No. 9, New Series. U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture), but as yet this beetle has not been found on the Osage Orange around Philadelphia; furthermore, in my experience, Cyllene pictus only attacks the dead or dying trees. I therefore think it more than likely that the large borings ob- served in the trunks of live Osage Orange trees are made by the larvee of Dorcaschema wildit. The specimens figured in the plate were cut from the sections mentioned in the fore part of this article. Oo INTERESTING COLLECTING NEAR HOME. By R. R. Row ey, Louisiana, Mo. It is gratifying, this hot weather, to have one’s collecting ground not far from the front door. There is a little enclosure of two or three acres just across the street and when I tire of other employment I scale the fence and wade into the weedy jungle. There are patches of Croton capitatum here and there, and I come away laden with eggs, larvae and pupe of An@a andria. In the past three weeks I have collected over two hundred well-grown larve of this butterfly. True, some have died, but I have already ten imagoes, besides the fifty-five pupe hanging in my boxes and nearly a hundred larve still feeding. This is a most hardy insect, well protected from its enemies in all its stages by mimicry, and rarely affected by parasites. Some grown ‘‘worms,’’ when ready to suspend, turn black and hang, ue Sy 1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 head down, a putrid mass. Some pupe are deformed, but not more than one finds in nature. Like the larve, putrid pupz occur, but they are few in number. The natural enemies of an- dria may attack it in the egg, but the loss even here is small in my experience. In the three weeks’ collecting in this pasture I have yet to see the first imago flitting about the plants. In fact, I haven't seen a single butterfly of this species inside the inclosure, save a few specimens just escaped from the pupe. It takes over twenty- four hours to pupate after the larva of azdria suspends. A short time after suspension the caterpillar has almost converted itself into a circle, the head nearly touching the extremity of the abdomen. About three-quarters of an hour prior to pupation the sus-, pended larva begins a slight motion that is mostly perceptible near the head and is up and down, with but little lateral move- ment. The extremity of the abdomen becomes whitish and there is a slight slipping forward of the newly formed pupa within. On each side of the second thoracic segment of the larva at this stage is a large, oblong dirty colored blister, but what purpose these serve is unknown to the writer. As the motions of the larva continue the skin may be seen to be loosening and the pupa within alternately expanding and relaxing in the effort to burst the larval skin. The splitting begins on the dorsal side of the second segment and extends forward and backward as the ante- rior part of the pupa is forced out. The weight of the pupa and its motions soon free it from the larval skin. Just as the slit in the skin begins the larva straighteus itself out. The ventral side of the skin not tearing retards motion on that side so that the ventral creases of the pupa are able to hold on to the old larval skin till the cremaster is free and finally well fastened to the white silk button above. It is interesting to see the pupa in the act of attaching itself to the silk button. It requires great muscular exertion, and if at first he doesn’t succeed he tries again and again. After the hooks are fast a vigorous circular movement of the pupa knocks the larval skin down, and motion, except an up and down one to shorten the chrysali§, ceases. The hardening and coloring processes require some hours longer. In general outline, the larva of andria reminds one some- what of Eudamus. Its chrysalis, though much smaller, is not 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, unlike that of Archippus. The imago is the dead-leaf butterfly of North America and with its wings erect defies detection, as the pupa, under its shelter of green leaves, escapes the notice of its enemies. The young larva of anzdria, with its perch made of excretory matter, allies the insect to Limenitis disippus, while its case-making gives it a kinship to the Papi/ios. The seed of Croton capitatum is a hemispheric nut and fur- nishes food for a small black weevil, a slender, long-snouted fellow, that doubles himself all up like a possum when -you dis- turb him. I have taken numbers of these small beetles in the early morning on the fruit heads, but hidden in the abandoned leaf cases as the day grows warmer. Just inside a neighbor’s fence is a small bunch of milkweed, and this has furnished a score of Danais archippus larve. From the pupze of a number of these, maggots of a dipter escaped by ‘‘glue’’ threads to the bottom of the box where they pupated and later emerged as flies. One archippus pupa fell, as it was “ born’’ without a cremaster. The posterior extremity of this pupa was well formed, a smooth black dot taking the place of the anchor. This peculiarity of structure was probably due to the diseased condition of the larva. Over on the hill, a few hundred yards away, are walnut trees that furnish larvae of Zuma and juglandis, while from the papaw bushes, on the side, I have taken the caterpillars of Papilio ajax and the hawk Dolba hyleus. To the south, a quarter of a mile, is Noix Creek bottom, and there numbers of Zerdas lisa, Nathalis tole and Callidryas eubule are found sipping at mud or flitting about the low weeds at mid- day. On the iron-weed blossoms are the Papzlios: cresphontes, turnus, troilus, philenor and ajax, while along the dusty road is Junonia cenia flies. A rare butterfly in’ this county is Melitea pheton, but a single specimen having been taken here, so far as I know. On the Hinkston Creek, in Boone County, early last June, I found this butterfly fairly common. Mr. Dodge reports a single specimen each of 7ertas mexicana and Feniseca targuinius from near Louisiana. Along the C. A. & St. L. R. R. track, halfway between the creek and home, the low willow bushes have given me thirteen fine larvee of the Sphinx, Smerinthus geminatus and many young 1898. ] “ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 37 caterpillars of Limenitis disippus, while from the trailing wild grape vines I have obtained a dozen magnificent achemon ‘* worms.”’ The full grown larva of Phi/ampelus retires to the stem of the plant after feeding at night and may be found by lifting up the vine. The larva of ajax, feeding on the big leaves of the papaw, makes no retreat for itself, but rests on the underside of the foliage. The caterpillar of ¢roz/us is always to be found on the upperside of the leaf of sassafras in a silken case made by draw- ing the edges of the leaf together. The habits of éwrnus are similar to those of ¢voz/us. The full grown larve of cresphontes are to be found on the body of the bush, near the ground, feed- ing wholly at night, perhaps. I have taken the latter on the hop tree and prickly ash. Oo SYNOPSIS OF THE ASILID GENUS OSPRIOCERUS. By D. W. Coquillett, Washington, D. C. The following table contains all the species of Ospriocerus known to occur in this country north of Mexico. Rhadamanthus Loew and minos O. S. are unknown to me in nature; @acides Loew is a synonym of aédominalis Say. The latter name is not preoccupied in this genus, and_there is, therefore, no necessity for replacing it with @acus, proposed by Wiedemann. Duummammetlarrely yellow . .0. .92) 2s 6 ee ee ee De Abdomen wholly black . . . ee e.g ee O'S. -2. Venter of abdomen wholly ick. a ee a. Venter largely yellow ; black, the entire abdomen except the Gost seg- ment, base of the second and the genitalia, yellow ; in the female the apex and sometimes the underside of the last segment is black; pulvilli and bases of tarsal claws yellowish, all hairs and bristles black except the short hairs of the abdomen, which are chiefly yellow ; wings blackish, with a strong purplish reflection ; length 20to 23mm. Arizona. Three males and two females. ventralis n. sp. 3. Sides of abdomen destitute of a row of black spots -. . 4. Sides of abdomen each marked with such a row rhadamanthus Loéw. 4. Hind corners of the second and following two or three segments of abdomen, at least ventrally, whitish pollinose § entrophus Loew. Hind corners of second and other segments of abdomen destitute of WHtenmONeone ss, | lw lw Cw a et. ~«.«COominalis Say. 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (February, VARIATION OF PYRAMEIS CARYE Hubner. By BEVERLY LETCHER, San Francisco. Pyrameis carye n. var. muelleri.—Varies from typical cavye in extension of fulvous markings at expense of black on primaries and the replacing by white of the blue and to some extent the black on secondaries. Pri- maries: apical white spots develop into dashes extending more or less to outer margin of wing, with the exception of the broad marginal band, which is black, and the inner margin and base of wing, which are dusky; the entire wing below the median vein is bright fulvous. Secondaries: the black encircled blue spots become white, or bluish white, the encir- cling black sometimes disappearing; the submatginel interrupted band is wanting. It is only within the last few years that any variation in this species, the commonest of our day flyers, was noticed by the writer. Previous to that time it had been considered the em- bodiment of constancy. I had, it- is true, taken in the Fall of 1892 a remarkable ‘‘sport,’’ but its like I never expected to see again. This specimen was forwarded to the late Mr. Neumoegen and without doubt is still with his collection. Sometime after this Mr. Ammon of this city, now deceased, pointed out to me in his collection two of the same form; then Mr. Rivers showed me at the University of California a specimen somewhat damaged, having been gathered in by hand. Later Mr. G. T. O. Mueller called my attention to three which he had, and last Fall I was fortunate enough to take,another myself. While this form: is: very rare, it is still found with such fre- quency as to entitle it to a name.’ Whether it is a remarkable case of ‘‘aberration,’’ a number taking the same form, or an example of the evolution of a true variety time only will tell. Mr. Mueller has several intergrades showing variation from typi- cal carye to this form in two directions. In the first, there is the gradual restriction of the black of the primaries and extension — of the red without change on the secondaries; in the other the blue spots of secondaries are replaced by white with but slight change in the markings of the primaries. With the exception of one, all of these variations have been taken late in the Fall. Ent. News, Vol. IX. PYRAMEIS CARYE anD var. MUELLERI. Le) pe tb ae 1898.] _ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39 RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. By H. F. WickuaM, Iowa City, Iowa. Ill._THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY (Continued). Water beetles were only superficially collected, chiefly by dragging out great masses of algze from sloughs and thus secur- _ ing the beetles which became entangledinthem. Several Hydro- philidz were obtained by simply stirring up the mud near the banks and picking out the floating specimens of Helophorini and Hydrobiini. One Dytiscid which seems to deserve especial ‘mention is Zyve/es sticticus. It inhabits, besides certain portions of the southwestern United States, also Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceanica, South and Centra! America. Several interesting species belonging to various small families of Clavicorns were obtained. Anzsosticta sertata was beaten from ‘‘sea oats’’ on Padre Island, a low sandy strip lying off Point Isabel, the port of Brownsville. The sand here was so hot that spiders or ants shaken from the plants died in a few seconds, _ going through the contortions exhibited by an insect which falls on a hot stove. I found that an Oxaczs frequenting these same **sea-oats’’ took flight so quickly on being disturbed that it ‘was a matter of some difficulty to capture more than a small percentage of those falling into my net ; but by closing the mouth of the bag and holding it flat on the sand they were soon over- come by the heat and rendered nearly helpless and could then be picked out with no trouble. Near the town Coccinella abdo- minalis was found abundantly; Ch7locorus cacti was met with . occasionally and three species of Scymnus: collaris, cinctus and terminatus were among the contents of the beating net. Quite a colony of Zfipocus cinctus was discovered on a polyporoid fungus growing close to the ground ona dead tree trunk, and several of them had strayed out among the dead leaves near by. This insect is not uncommon in Southern Texas, and I have else- where described the curious larva which is found in the same Situations as the beetles. Languria leta feeds on Argemone mexicana, and numbers may often be beaten from a single plant. Cryptorhopalum balteatum frequents the blossoms of mesquite. Two species of Zeretriosoma, chalybeum Horn and cornigerum Chevr., were found under bark or else in the beating net after working under dead vines. 40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, In the Serricorn series some of the more conspicuous forms only will be spoken of. The beautiful phosphorescent Elaterid, Pyrophorus physoderus, was rather rare at the time of my visit, though probably more abundant in proper season, Chrysobothris octocola was moderately abundant on hutsache* Collops vittatus was common near the river and about the margins of the sloughs (or vesacas as they are locally termed), while a pair of C. da/tea- ‘us was seen on the great alkali flats between Brownsville and the sea. Fence posts of native leguminous wood, were badly infested by Stxoxylon sericans and beating tangled thickets was certain to produce plenty of .S. dinoderoides which came no doubt from dead twigs and branches. Amphicerus punctipennis was found boring in the solid wood and occasionally just under the bark of hutsache, while Polycaon obliguus and plicatus were attracted to light. Two specimens of Zlasmocerus terminatus were captured, one in my room, another by beating. Clerus abruptus was rare, C. guadrisignatus more common, the latter chiefly about yuccas or under loose bark. Chariessa vestita, one of our most beautiful insects, with violaceous upper surface and . sanguineous abdomen was twice seen running about on fence posts in the hot sunshine. One Cregya vetusta and several C. oculata were taken by beating tangles of vines and bushes. A great number of Rhzpidandrus peninsularis (described from Lower California by Dr. Horn), inhabited a polyporoid fungus, boring through it like some species of C7s. Lamellicorns were few; Canthon levis was abundant along the stage line, especially in sandy spots, but much less common at Brownsville. C. ebenus occurred farther up the river at Laredo, whileasingle C. stmplex was found in July. Cheridium histeroides put in an appearance occasionally. Onthophagus cribricollis was found in small numbers under dung in the pastures attached to Fort Brown. Atentus abditus and strigatus, Aphodius vittatus, ruricola and lividus all came to hand at times, but nothing large or fine was seen with the exception of Strategus julianus, a single specimen of which flew across my path, to its own destruction on the evening preceding my departure. Cerambycidz were tolerably numerous and several forms prove to be new, either to science or to our fauna, while others are * A thorny leguminous tree, belonging to the group of Mimosas. It is abundant near Brownsville. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4I- very rarely seen in American collections. Achryson surinamum occurred once, Zéuria ovicollis often—both at light. Llaphidion meestum inhabits thickets and is to be obtained by beating tangles. A single example of £. irroratum was taken from a leguminose tree on the high barren ‘‘ yucca ridges.’’ /bidion exclamationis Thoms , was captured once. - Piezocera serraticollis was found in the same thickets as Llaphidion mestum—it is a very curious looking creature of a shining chestnut color and with broad flattened antennz which give it a characteristic appearance. Phy- ton pallidum and Euderces reichei were, together, beaten from the vines which seem to overgrow most of the hedges and bushes along the roadsides. Cyllene crinicornis was tolerably abundant on a certain fence, evidently ovipositing in the Auzsache posts. Every time I passed the place I got a few, and sometimes half a dozen might be seen at once. They are wary and rather hard to catch, flying at a slight alarm; eocl/ytus luscus and erythro- cephalus each occurred once. A remarkably fine example of Monilema ulket was found under a fallen yucca trunk high up on the ridges toward the Gulf. It seems to be the second specimen known from.the United States and is easily recognized by the pretty pattern of whitish pubescence ornamenting the upper sur- face. Ataxia crypta was rather common, especially in the cotton- fields ; Aporataxia lineata rather rare in the thickets; Ecyrus fasciatus is another jungle haunter, and by its coloration bears a most deceptive resemblance to a bit of mouldy wood, though Desmiphora mexicana (of which a single specimen was beaten from a vine covered hedge) is even more deceiving by the irregu- lar outline communicated by a covering of hairs in crests and lines of white, gray and brown. Dorcasta cineréa looks like a slender broken twig—I found it on cotton chiefly, but once on Solanum. Oncideres texana breeds freely in huzsache, and on the same plant I got one magnificent specimen of the hitherto unique O. pustulata, described from Laredo. Jfecas pergrata and M7. izornata were both met with, butrarely. In the wooded river bottom back of Fort Brown two specimens of Amphionycha amena and one of A. flammata var. ardens were beaten into my net. Several of the above-mentioned Longhorns have only lately been described in the works of Hamilton and Linell. 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF RHOPALOCERA OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. By W. F. FIske. The following notes are additions to those published in the News for October, 1896. Since those were written there has passed two collecting seasons, one of which was spent in Web- ster and the other in Durham. Webster is situated near the center of the State a few miles west of Concord. Durham is about fifty miles to the southeast, and is situated on an arm of the sea. The difference in the insect fauna of the two localities is great, considering their proximity, but may easily be explained to a great extent by the difference in the snowfall between the two localities. In Durham, owing to its proximity to the sea, much of the Winter precipitation, which falls in the form of snow in the interior, takes the form of rain, thus depriving hibernating in- sects of the necessary shelter. The following is a brief account of some of the more noticeable differences. All the large species of Avgynnis were comparatively scarce in Durham. This is especially true of zda/ia. The small species were not so much affected. MMelitea pheton and M. harrisizt were about equally common in both localities, but P. zycfezs, so common in Webster, did not occur at all in Durham, and ¢harvos was more abundant in the latter place. Vanessa milberti, one of the more common butterflies inland and known to occur there in its usual numbers, was at the same time so rare in Durham that not a single specimen was seen in the course of a season’s collecting. Limenztis arthemis was only represented by one speci- men in Durham, the place occupied by that species in Webster being taken by wrsada, which is rare, if not unknown there. The form proserpina seems to be about equally common in both locali- ties, but there is no dividing line between it and wrsuda. Satyrus alope was very common in Durham, but there was no trace of nephele in any specimens seen or taken. Neither Dedis port- landia nor Neonympha canthus was seen. Thecla strigosa was fairly common, but “tus, calanus and acadica were all wanting. Of the early Spring forms, henrict and augustus were very scarce, and nxiphon was but little more common. At the same time in Webster 2z7phon was in its usual abundance, and henrici and au- gustus were more common than I ever saw them before. I could 1808. ] -ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. A3 find no suitable locality for Chrysophanus epixanthe in Durham, so that its absence was no occasion for remark. C. the, which is one of the greatest rarities in Webster, appears not uncommon on thesalt marshes in Durham. Pamphila otho egeremet, though fairly common in Webster, was really abundant in Durham, but P. bimacula and manataagua were both absent. /P. hianna was quite common in Durham, though I never met with it in Web- ster. Besides P. hzanna I took the following species for the first time in Durham: T7hecla smilacis, several specimens in May; Junonia cenia, one seen August 24th, in fine condition; another taken September 14th, slightly worn; Zerias /isa, a perfect fe- — male, August 15th; Mésontades lucillius, or what I take to be this species, was quite common, though in poor condition, ina locality where its food-plant (Aguzlegia) grew in abundance, on May 11th. ; The following species were taken or seen for the first time in Webster during the season of 1896: Lycena scudderi, a single female in poor ‘condition, June 6th; MWeganostoma cesonia, sev- eral specimens seen during the month of June. Unfortunately none could be taken, but there can be no doubt as to their iden- tity. I think that this is the first time that either of the above species have been recorded from New England. Papzlio philenor. a single example in perfect condition was taken in Webster by Mr. C. F. Goodhue early in May; Auptoreta claudia, one speci- men, July 7th. During the first week in August, 1897, I had an opportunity to collect in Pittsburg and Stewartstown, N. H., and the adjacent porticns of Canada. As might be expected the insect fauna differed much from that at Durham. With the possible excep- tion of Colias philodice, Satyrus nephele was the most common butterfly. It swarmed on the flowers of golden rod in company with Avgynnis myrina in almost incredible numbers, but not one alope was seen, and only one or two that showed any signs of the yellow band in the form of a yellowish cloud around the eye- spots. Argynnis atlantis and A. aphrodite were both common on golden rod, but no cyde/e were seen. It appeared to be rather early for the Grapias, but several faunus and one or two each of progne and comma were taken. A'single gracilis was seen, but escaped my net by a very narrow margin. /vreris rape was extremely abundant everywhere, and oleracea appeared not 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, rare, but had an unpleasant habit of turning up unexpectedly in the most inaccessible places. One of the greatest surprises await- ing me was the occurrence of several fresh examples of Pam- phila mystic. This species is one of the most common skippers in the southern parts of the State, where it is double brooded, the first brood appearing the last of May and first of June, and the second the very last of August or first of September. This last brood is very scattering in numbers, not more than three or four being seen in any one season, in great contrast to the large numbers appearing in May and June. It is very rarely that a specimen of the early brood lingers into July, and the first record which I have of the appearance of the second brood is: August 24th, and the greater part of those that I have seen have been in September. The occurrence in the north of fresh specimens and in considerable numbers on the first of August denotes an en- tirely different life-history, and further information on this sub- ject would be of interest. Other butterflies seen were: Avgynnts bellona, scarce; Phyciodes tharos, common; Vanessa antiopa, Pyrameis atalanita, P. huntera, Limenitis disippus, Neonympha canthus, Chrysophanus hypophleas, Papilio asterias, Pamphila peckius, fresh; P. cernes, badly}worn. The day-flying moths were numerous, among them being: Lycomorpha pholus, com- mon; Scepsis fulvicollis, one; Ctenucha virginica, common; Rynchagrotis chardinyi, common; Hydrecia nictitans, Feltia subgothica, Carneades redimacula and several other noctuids which fly by night. Plusia dimacula was quite common, flying up out of the grass when disturbed. Rynchagrotis chardinyi was the most common moth on the flowers of Aupatorium pur- pureum in the evening. It was in poor condition, but scores of specimens could easily have been taken on one little patch of the herb. A MeEmorIAL MEETING, commemorative of Harrison Allen, M.D. and George H. Horn, M.D., was held in the library hall of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, on Friday evening, December 31, 1897. Addresses were made by Dr. E. J. Nolan, S. N. Rhoades, Dr. D. G. Brinton and Prof. J. B Smith. Dr. Henry C. McCook was to have delivered an address, but was prevented from being present by illness. The Entomological Society of Washington appointed Mr. Wm. H. Ashmead a delegate to represent that society at the meeting. a a a ee 1898. ] 45 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTomoocicat News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source, The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL News has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- ence, as to make it necessary to put “‘ copy’’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five “extras” without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of ali papers will be acknowledged.—Eb. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1898. Specimens of Natural History in the Foreign Mails. Those who were interested in the attempt to secure a reduction of postage on specimens of Natural History in the international mails, to which we have referred in the numbers of the NEws for October, 1893 (p. 266), February, 1894 (p. 42), and March, 1897 (p. 55), may desire to have a somewhat fuller statement of the success attained in May last, than was contained in the news- papers at the time. The references just given are all concerned with the labors of a Committee;appointed by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, September 5, 1893, to secure the admission of specimens of natural history to the mails of the Universal Postal Union as samples of merchandise and under the rates therefor—one cent for every two ounces. In December last, this Committee made its final report to the Academy and was discharged. Its report stated (cuter alza) : Your Committee have now but to make its official report of the generally well-known fact that the proposed modification as regards Natura] History specimens was adopted at the Washington Congress of the Universal Postal Union in May last. The adoption of this modification is referred to by the Superintendent of Foreign Mails of the U. S. Post Office, Mr. N. M. Brooks, in his Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, and dated Washington, Oct. 13, 1897. The reference is as follows: Alluding to the work of the Universal Postal Congress, Mr. Brooks says (p. 7), ‘“‘ The following are, however, matters of general interest or importance which it may be well to mention, viz.: e (4) Natural History specimens are admitted at the rate and under the 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ February, conditions applicable to samples of merchandise.’’ The same Report contains the full text of the convention concluded by the Congress, and on page 42 contains the paragraph in question (chap. iii, art. xvii, parag. 5) as follows: ‘‘ There are likewise admitted at the rate applicable to samples, articles of natural history, dried or preserved animals and plants, geological specimens etc., which are not transmitted for a com- mercial purpose, and which are wrapped in conformity with the general stipulations concerning samples of merchandise.’’ The rate for samples is fixed at 5 centimes for every fifty grams, that is 1 cent for every two ounces. According to art. 28 of chapter i, this Convention is not to be put into execution until January 1, 1899. ; Your Committee has, therefore, fulfilled its labors and congratulates the Academy that the end aimed at in the first circular [see the News for October, 1893, p. 266] issued by the Academy has been completely achieved. This result is the more gratifying in view of the predictions of failure freely expressed when your Committee entered upon its labors. It would, of aourse, be presumptuous to claim that the Acad- emy’s endeavors have been more than one of the factors in this achieve- ment, but in such an international matter every such factor is of great importance. It may not be amiss to add here, for the benefit of our readers, further extracts from the above quoted Convention of the Univer- sal Postal Union contained in Mr. Brook’s Report pp. 27 et seq. ‘« Packets of samples of merchandise may not contain any article having a salable value; they must not excéed 350 grams [12.35 Avoirdupois ounces] in weight, or measure more than 30 centimetres [11.8 inches] in length, 20 centimetres [7.87 inches] in breadth, and 10 centimetres [3.93 inches] in depth, or, if they are in the form of a roll, 30 centimetres [11.8 inches] in length and 15 centimetres [5.9 inches, in diameter.’’ (chap. i, art. 5, sect. 5). ‘Tt is forbidden: First, to send by mail: (@) samples and other articles which, fron their nature, may prove dangerous to the postal employees, soil or injure the correspondence; (4) explosive, inflammable or danger- ous substances, animals and insects, living or dead, excepting the cases provided for in the Regulations of detail.’’* (chap. i, art. 16, sect. 3). The conditions which must be observed for the transmission of samples of merchandise remain as before—the packages to admit of easy inspec- tion, not to ‘t bear any manuscript other than the name or the social posi- tion of the sender, the address of the addressee, a manufacturer’s or a trade-mark, numbers of order, prices and indications relating to weight — and size, as well as to the quantity to be disposed of, or those which are necessary to precisely indicate the origin and nature of the merchandise,”’ while articles of glass, liquids, oils, fatty substances and dry powders must ~ be packed to prevent their damaging, or escaping into, the other contents of mails (chap. 1ii, art. xvli). * The “ Regulations of detail and order for the Execution of thé Convention” form chapter iii, from which the most important—to naturalists—of our preceding quotations is taken. 1898. ] . ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS ; OF THE GLOBE. Paotocrapus for the album of the American Entomological Society have been received from William L. W. Field and Charles C. Adams. We have received one dollar for the News from Station E, Brooklyn, N.Y., January 3rd. Will subscriber please send his name and address? —Eds. Hasits of A Wasp.—A small blackish wasp (Agenia architecta Say), _ was noticed at Iowa City, Iowa, July 27th, dragging off a spider ( 7rache- das tranquilla Hentz) about one-fourth longer and much heavier than itself. The legs of the spider had been bitten off at the junction of the ‘cox and trochanters in order, no doubt, to render the body more easy to handle. The wasp dragged it by straddling the corpse and grasping it with her jaws near the tip of the ventral surface of the abdomen, thus allowing only the hard cephalothoracic dorsum to touch the ground and reducing the friction to a minimum. Both specimens are deposited in the National Museum and, through the kindness of Mr. F. W. True, the names were furnished by Messrs. Ashmead and Banks.—H. F. WicKHAm. READING the editorial note in the October number of the ENTomo- LoGicaL News on “Late Collecting’ I could not help thinking what a foreign sound to me there was in the expression ‘‘net and cyanide jar will be put away for future use.’”’ Here the cyanide jar is never in disuse. On sunny days, be the month December, January or June, butterflies and dragonflies are to be found, to say nothing of the beetles, of which there is always a daily quota for the cyanide bottle. In connection with this I would mention the capture of a specimen (flying) of Pleocoma behrensii on December 16th, not a weather-beaten specimen at the tag end of life, but a bright one just emerged. I would also record the finding of Linxo- dendron rugosum at an elevation of 3500 feet in dead trunks of A/nus rhombifolia. This is about two hundred miles south of its known south- ern limit I believe —RALPH Hoppinc, Kaweah, Tulare Co., California. THERE is a character in this city of pronounced German origin, who is an enthusiastic entomologist. Nearly every evening he may be seen with his net in hand, looking for favorable specimens of the insect world. His favorite places are against screen doors and windows, within the glare of the electric lights, where he secures many specimens. Thursday evening a crowd of bystanders who were watching his operations saw him sud-_ denly stoop down and grab at something on the floor. He gave a sharp exclamation andjumped back. He put his boot on the object and crushed it, then commenced sucking his thumb very solicitously. Joe Cramer, one of the spectators, said it must have been a scorpion. An exclama- tion of pain passed over the entomologist’s face as he exclaimed, ‘‘] found dot out.’”-—PHOENIX, ARIZ. 48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. _ (February, ANENT the letter from ‘‘ W. R. H.” I was thinking only a few days ago that the News seemed to run more to decsriptive matter than formerly and wondered if this change was made purposely or because of lack of any other sort of material. Maybe I am wrong in thinking that there is any change. I have not looked over the old numbers to see if I am right or not. Even now I always find more. pleasure in reading of someone’s experiences in the field or an account of the habits of even common insects than in the perusal of heavy descriptions of species or quarrels over the taxonomic value of a spine or a wing vein. Of course all these things have to go in to make up a journal which will appeal to all classes, But I wonder after all what do the ‘‘ mere collectors’”’ want? I started out in the collecting of insects with no more literature than a ‘‘continued story ’’ entitled: ‘‘ Rambles after Insects,’’ which appeared in an English magazine brought over with us when we first landed on the shores of America. I didn’t know where to get anything else nor what to ask for even, yet it wasn’t long before I was using a borrowed copy of LeConte’s ‘*Classification’’ and taking instructions as to mounting and collecting from Packard's ‘‘Instructions’’ published by the Smithsonian Institute. I well remember how pleased I was with my copy of Say’s ‘‘Entomology’” which represented my savings for a long time. Then one of my friends sent me a sample copy of ‘‘ Entomologica Americana’”’ and, through cor- respondence with those whose names I saw, I finally got some slight idea as to how things were done.—H. F. W. ENTOMOLOGISTs in general, and lepidopterists in particular, may be interested in learning that the little son of the late Rev. Dr. A. Good, who was his father’s companion and aid in collecting the many species of West African Lepidoptera, described by Dr. Holland, now resides with his widowed mother in Wooster, Ohio, and is fast developing into an enthusiastic and careful collector. Though but a boy of 12 or 13 years, he has already collected and carefully mounted nearly all of the common flutterflies and moths, occurring in his vicinity, and otherwise shows an aptitude that is surprising. He has very evidently imbibed or inherited from his father a love of entomology, and it seems to me that an encour- aging word from older lepidopterists would not only have a beneficial effect and be well bestowed, but also in future that they may have reason to feel gratified at having done so. Such may address Albert Good, Wooster, Ohio.—F. M. WEsBsTER, Wooster, Ohio. Prior to 1800 the entomological papers published in the United States numbered not more than half a dozen; and it is worthy of note that not a single description of a new species of insect appeared in print in this country until after the above date, although several naturalists in Europe had been for some time describing and naming insects sent to them by collectors in the New World. The following are all the papers published in the United.States on entomological subjects before 1800, that the present writer is aware of. In the Transactions of the American Philo- sophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 49 _yol. i, 1769-1771, there is apaper entitled, ‘‘ Observations concerning the -Fly-Weevil, that destroys the Wheat ; with some useful Discoveries and Conclusions, concerning the propagation and progress of that pernicious Insect, and the Methods to be used for Preventing the destruction of Grain by it. By Colonel Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall, Virginia, com- municated by Colonel Lee, of Virginia.’’ Pp. 208-217. Following this Do ed apa onthe ‘Same Subject, by the Committee on Husbandry.”’ ~Pages 224-230 are taken up with observations on the native Silk Worms of North America, by Moses Bartram, which was read before the Society March 11, 1768. A letter of economic interest is printed on page 243, and is entitled, ‘Extract of a Letter from Mr. Peter Miller, of _Ephratah, to Mr. Charles Thomson, on the time of sowing pease, so as to preserve the Crop from being Worm-eaten.” A second edition of this volume is dated 1789. Volume II of the same publication, dated 1786, contains one article relating to entomology ; it is entitled, ‘‘The whole Process of the Silk-Worm, from the Egg to the Cocon (sic), communica- ted to Dr. John Morgan, Physician at Philadelphia, in two Letters from ‘Messrs. Hare and Skinner, Silk Merchants in London, july 27, 1774, and February 24, 1775.”"’ Pp. 347-366: Im1799, Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., published his. “‘ Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania.” ~Ofthis werk. but one part seems to have been issued; this is devoted primarily to the birds of. Pennsylvania, but there are also observations on other animals. The concluding pages contain some notes on noxious “insects. Itissof interest to know that all these papers were published in -Philadelphia.—Witraw J. Fox. “Entomotlogical Literature. / Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., Jan., ’98.—5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., Jan., ’98.—6. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, December, ’97.—8. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, Jan., ’98.—9. The Entomologist, London, Jan., ’98.—11. The ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, Dec., ’97.—12. Comptes Rendus. L’Academie des map Paris, ’97.—13. Comptes Rendus. Societe de Biologie, Paris, ’°97.—15. Biologia Centrali-Amer- icana, part cxxxviii, London, Nov., ’97.—22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, Dec. 13, ’97.—25. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata d. R. Universita di Torino, 1897.—36. Transactions of the 2% ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, Entomological Society of London, 1897, pt. iv, Dec. 16.—50. Proceed- ings of the U. S. National Museum, xx, Washington, ’97.—51. Novitates Zoologice, iv, 3. Tring, England, Dec. 3, ’97. —62. Transactions of the S. African Philesophical Society, x, 1. Cape Town, ’97.—68. Transac- tions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, xxix, Wellington, June, ’97.—64. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, xxi, 2. Lon- don, Dec., ’97.—55. Le Naturaliste, Paris, ’97.—- 56. Mittheilungen der schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, x, 1. Schaffhausen, Nov., ’97.—57. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhzensischen Sammelreise herausgegeben vom Naturhistorischen Museum zu Hamburg, ii, ’97.— 58, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. Fundada el 1° de Octobre, 1897. Director i Redactor: Carlos E. Porter. Colaboran distinguidos especialistas nacionales i estranjeros. Valparaiso. This is a new journal of which two numbers have reached us, those for October and November, 1897. It proposes to deal with the fauna, flora, geology and mineralogy of Chile, and particularly of the province of Valparaiso, to publish original papers and bibliographical notices on biological subjects, to facilitate ex- change of specimens of natural history.and 1 to form a. taste for such studies in Chile’ In the number for November it is announced that the Revista will hereafter also be the organ of the Museo de Valparaiso." { bed duc The General Subject.—The Zoological I Record volum 1e th he eee Third. Being Records of Zoological Literature. eat ting ‘chiefly to - the year 1896. Edited (for the Zoological “Society “of. Lone on) by Da ay Sharp. London. Printed for the Society? Sat . 1897. asset: ~Myri poda and Prototracheata by A. W. Brown, rr eae by. D. Sharp. Bay thune,C. J. S.] James Fletcher, portrait, 4.—Dixey, rea *’Sum- mary of Dr. Standfuss’ experiments on hybridization, 36, Proceedinuae- Mr. Merrifield’s experiments on the relation of temperature to variation, figs., Nature, London, Dec. 23,’97.—Fleischmann, A. Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Nach morphogenetischen Gesichtspunkten bearbeitet. Spezi- eller Teil: ii, Die Wirbellosen Tiere. Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel’s Verlag. 1898.—Goeldi, E. A. Noteworthy mimicry in a Brazilian spider of the genus Cyclosa,1 pl. Zoologische Jahrbiicher, x, 5, Jena, Nov. 26, ’97.— {H enshaw, S.] George Henry Horn, 5.—Joutel e#a/. [Brief notes] see Proceedings of the New York Entomological Society for 1897 in 6.— Morse, A. P. Pacific coast collecting, 6.—Phisalix, C. Antago- nism between the venom of the Vespidz and that of the Viper, the first a vaccine against the second, 13, Dec. 4.—Plateau, F. How flowers attract insects—experimental researches, parts iv, v, 1 pl. Bulletins de l’Academie royale de Belgique (3), xxxiii, 9-10, 11, Brussels, ’97.—P or- ter, C. E. Data on the Arthropods of the province of Valparaiso, 58, Nov.; Id. and Edwards, A. [same], 68, Oct.—Tutt, J. W. Some considerations of natural genera, and incidental references to the nature of species, Proceedings South London Entom. and Nat. Hist. Society, ‘97.—Webb, S._ A freak of nature: Lasiocampa trifolii [andromor- phous female], 8. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5! Economic Entomology -—Bordage, E. On two Lepidoptera injurious ‘to sugar-cane in the Mascarene islands, 12, Dec. 20.—Drury, W. D. Garden insects, 54.—Johnson, C. W. Some of the injurious insects of Pennsylvania, 3 pls. Annual Report of Dept. of Agriculture [Pennsylvania ] for 1896. Harrisburg, Dec., ’97.-Lamb, S. C. The treatment of insects and fungi in the United States, 54.—Lounsbury, Coe Gas treatment for scale insects. Treating of the operations of the 1 1 Board's fumigating outfit, the applicability of the fumigation process in Cape Colony, and embodying a full description of the equip- ment necessary for fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas. Report to the Horticultural Board by the Government Entomologist. Cape Town, June, 1897,—Maskell, W. M. See Hemiptera. _Arachnida.—Berlese, A. Acari Myriapoda et Scorpiones hu- cusque in Italia reperta. Ordo Cryptostigmata (Sarcoptidz). Portici Sumptibus auctoris (Annis 1882-1897), 190 pp., 15 pls. —Goeldi, E. A. See General Subject.—Jourdain, S. On the development of 7rom- bidium holosericeum, 12, Dec. 6.—Maskell, W. M. On some tick- parasites of the Kiwi, 1 pl., 53. Myriapoda.—Attems, C. Myriapods, figs., 5%.—Giard, A. Echinospora labbei a new polysporic coccidium from the digestive tube of Myriapods, 13, Dec. 18.—de Saussure, H. Natural History of the Myriapods, atlas 12 col. pls. in Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Po- litique de Madagascar, etc., publiée par Alfred Grandidier, 44e fascicule. Paris, 97.- Apterygota and Neuroptera.—Schiaffer,C. Apterygota, 3 pls. [Collembola and Thysanura], 57.—McLachlan, R. Limnophilus affinis at sea ten miles from land, 8. Orthoptera.—Bordage, E. On the tetrameric regeneration of the tarsus in Phasmidz (transl. from CR>Acad. Sci. Paris), 11.—Gi glio- Tos, E. Orthoptera collected in Darien by Dr. E. Festa iii—Acrididze —Gryllide, 25, No. 301, Aug. 20; Orthoptera [from the] voyage of Dr. A. Borelli to Bolivia and the Argentine Republic, 25, No. 302, Aug. 31. —Hutton, F. W. The Stenopelmatide of New Zealand, 2 pls., 53. —de Saussure, H.and Pictet, A. Orthoptera,* pp. 321-328, 15. —Scudder, S. H. Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acridiidz), with special reference to North American forms* [421 pp., 26 pls., 30 genera (18 new), 277 species (115 new)], 60; Brunner’s genus Metalepiea, 5.—Zoubowsky, N. Note on the egg-laying of the Acridiodea. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l’Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersburg, 1897, No. 3. Hemiptera.—Breddin, G. Hemiptera, 1 pl., 57.—Cockerell, T.D.A. Anew Orthezia,* 4; New insects from Embudo, New Mexico,* 11.—Howard, L.O. See Hymenoptera—Kirkaldy, G. W. Re- vision of the Notonectidz; part i. Introduction, and systematic revision of the genus No/onecta,* 363; Notes on aquatic Rhynchota, No. 1, 9. —Maskell, W.M. Further Coccid notes: with descriptions of new 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, species, and discussion of points of interest, 5 pls., 63.—Montandon’ A. L. Hemiptera cryptocerata: revision of the subfamily” ‘of Crthenie.* 25, No. 297, June 11.—Tinsley, J. D. Two new species of Crthe. figs., 4.—Townsend, C. H. T. piceangey and food-plant catalogue of Mexican Coccide, 6. Coleoptera.—Blandford, W. F. H. Coleoptera,* vol. iv, part 6, pp. 169-176, 15.—Boileau, H. Descriptionof a new. Lucanid, figs., 55.—Lécaillon, A. Preliminary note on the germinal layers of the Coleoptera, 12, Nov. 29; 13, Nov. 27.—Linell, M. New species of Coleoptera of the family Chrysomelidz with a short review of the tribe Chlamydini,* 50.—Péringuey, L. Descriptive catalogue of the Co- leoptera of South Africa. Part iii, Pausside, 2 pls, 62.—Planet, L.. Note on a case of TetratoJogy observed in a large. Prionid, fig., 55.— Raffray, A. Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of SouthAfrica —Part iv. Pselaphide, 2 pls., 52.—Schoch, G. Supplement V to. the genera and species of my Cetonid collection, 56.—Stierlin, G. Coleoptera helvetica, pp. 577-624, 56.—Thomas, F. Otra gall-eating weevil and a control experiment in researches on insect injury to plants (Coprolysis), Entomologische Nachrichten, xxiti, 23, Berlin, Dec., ’97.— Webster, F. M. Notes on various species of Coleoptera, 1 pl., 6.— Wickham, H. F. The Coleoptera of the lower Rio Grande Valley i; Bulletin of the. Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa, iv, 2, Iowa City, Dec.,’97—Xambeu, Capt. Habits and metamorphoses of insects (Longicorns) (cont.), L’Echange Revue Lin- néenne. Lyon, Dec., ’97. ‘ Diptera.—Austen, E. E. Notes on the Oestrine parasites of British deer, 8.—Brown, B. Two new species of Asilids from New Mexico.* Kansas University Quarterly (A), vi, 2. Lawrence, Kans., April, 97. Rec’d Jan. 3, 1898.—Coquillett, D. W. On Czterebra emasculator, with descriptions of several allied species,* 4.—Miall, L. C. andShelford, R. The structure and life-history of Phalacrocera replicata, 4 pls., with an appendix on the literature of the earlier stages of the Cylindrotomina by Baron C. R. Osten Sacken, 36.— Townsend, C. H.T. Diptera from the lower Rio Granade or Tamau- lipan region of Texas—i,* 6.—van der Wulp, F. M. Diptera,* vol. ii, pp. 361-368, pl. ix, 15.—Webster, F. M. Notes and observations on several species of Diptera, 4. - Lepidoptera.—Anon. Anosia plexippus in Australia, 5.—Beu- tenmiiller, W. On the two species of Eudemonia, 2 pls , 6 —But- ler, A. G. A revision of the species of butterflies belonging to the genus 7eracolus Swains. (cont.), 11.—Dognin, P. New Heterocera from Loja and environs (Ecuador), Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, xli, 11, Brussels, Dec. 10, ’97.—Druce, H. Lepidoptera Heterocera,* vol. ii, pp. 417-424, pls. Ixxxi-ii, 15.—Dyar, H.G. Notes on the larva of Lagoa pyxidifera, 6; The life-histories of the New York slug caterpillars—xii, 1 pl: 6; A generic revision of the Lachneide ee ls 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 53 (Lasiocampide), 4; Microcelia diphtheroides Grote, 4.—Edwards, W. H. Notes upon Sphinx catalpe at Coalburgh, W. Va., 4; Further observations on Papilio bairdii Edw.. 4.—Fenn, C. e¢ ad, On keeping pupz through the Winter, Entomologist’s Record, London, Dec. 15, ’97. —Godman,F. D. and Salvin, O. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, vol. ii, pl. xc, 15.—Grote, A. R. An attempt to classify the Holarctic Lepidoptera by means of the specialization of the wings. Part i. The day-butterflies, 6; The changes in the structure of the wings of butter- flies, 36.—Ingenitzky, I. On the life-history of Psyche (Epichnop- teryx) helix Sieb., 22.—-Rippon, R. H. F. Icones Ornithopterorum: a monograph of the Rhopalocerous genus Ornithoptera or bird-wing but- terflies. Published by the author, London. Parts 8-11, rec’d Dec. 17, 1897. —Rothschild, W. Onsome new butterflies and moths, 51.—Schaus, W. New species of Geometride from tropical America,* 6.—South, R. Heliothis armigera,9.—Urech, F. Experimental results of the constriction of soft pupz of Vanessa urtice across the wings, 22.— Warren. W. New genera and species of Thyrididz, Epiplemidz and Geometridz, from South and Central America and the West Indies, in the Tring Museum, 51.—Webb, S. See General Subject. Hymenoptera.—André, E. Synopsis of the Mutillidz of France, Feuilles des jeunes naturalistes. Paris, Jan. 1, ’98.--Cockerell, T. D. A. See Hemiptera.—Dyar, H. G. New sawflies (Tenthredinide) with descriptions of larve,* @.—Friese, H. Monograph of the bee genus Panurginus (Nyl.) (Palzarctic forms), 56.—Howard, L. O. A new parasite of the harlequin cabbage bug,* 4.—Marchal, P. Con- tribution to the study of the embryonic development of the parasitic Hymenoptera, 13, Dec. 18:—Marshall, T. A. Supplement to Bra- _conidz in Species des Hyménopteres d’Europe and d’Algerie fondé par Edmond André et continué sous — .. Ernest André, 60e fascicule, Paris, Oct. 1, ’97.—Phisalix, C. See General Subject.—Taylor, G. W. Note on 7rigonalys canadensis Hargtn., 4. Doings of Societies. The regular annual meeting of the American Entomological Society was held December 23, 1897, the Vice-President, Dr. P. P. Calvert, in the chair. The reports of the various officers were read, received and filed. During the year volume xxiii of the Transactions of the Society, containing 496 pages and 14 plates has been completed. Of volume xxiv there has been printed 320 pages and 1 plate. The chairman announced the death of the late President of the Society, Dr. George H. Horn, on November 24, 1897. Dr. Skinner offered the following minute: ‘The American Entomological Society hereby records its deep 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ February, Sense of the great loss it has sustained in the death of Dr. George H. Horn, a member for thirty-seven years and its president for the last fourteen years. It gratefully acknowledges the lustre j which his attainments and honors reflected upon this Society by his connection with it and the benefits which his learning and liberality conferred. It rejoices in the successes which he attained, and cherishes the memory of his labors, which form so large a part of the progress of Entomology in America.’’ Mr. Ridings spoke of his early acquaintance with Dr. Horn, dating back forty years. Mr. Liebeck remarked on his personal acquaintance and help from the deceased. Dr. Skinner said the medical education of Dr. Horn had been of advantage in his study of the structure of insects. Mr. Welles and Dr. Calvert spoke of his personal kindness and willingness to assist the younger entomologists in their studies. On motion the above minute was adopted and ordered to be entered on the minutes of the Society. The following gentlemen were elected to serve as officers for the year 1898: ' President, Rev. Henry C. McCook, D.D. - Vice-President, Philip P. Calvert, Ph.D. Treasurer, Ezra T. Cresson. Recording Secretary, Henry Skinner, M.D. Corresponding Secretary, W. J. Fox. Curator, Henry Skinner, M.D. Librarian, W. J. Fox. E. T. Cresson, Publication Committee, C. F. Seiss, B. H. Smith. JAMEs H. RipinGs, Secretary. A meeting of the Entomological Section of The Academy of Natural Sciences was held December 23, 1897, Vice-Director Welles presiding. The chairman announced the death of the Director of the Section, Dr. Geo. Horn, on November 24, 1897, at Beesley’s Point, N. J Mr. Chas. Liebeck handed over to the Section two species of Coleoptera, probably European, Hadrus alpinus and H. carbonarius, presented by the late Dr. Horn. Same gentleman also presented a Rhynchophorid beetle, also a European species, which had been found in a can of_ Schultz EEE 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 55 powder. Election of officers being in order the following were elected to serve for the year 1898 : Director, Chas. S. Welles. Vice-Director, Philip Laurent. Treasurer, E. T. Cresson. Conservator, Henry Skinner. Secretary, W. J. Fox. Recorder, Henry Skinner. sso , C. W. Johnson, Publication Committee, | J. Hoagie: Dr. HENRY SKINNER, ecorder. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11, 1898.—A stated meeting of the Feld- man Collecting Social was held at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509 S. 13th Street. Owing to President Griffith’s ab- sence, who is at present visiting at Phoenix, Ariz., the annual address was necessarily omitted; it is, however, expected that he will forward a written address to be read at the next meeting. Prof. Smith called attention to some of the common scales found in New Jersey, consisting of the oystershell scale, San José scale, tulip scale and scurfy scale, twigs covered with the above- named varieties put up in glass tubes, the openings. being patched with cotton to prevent moulding, were given to the Social for _ presentation to the local collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Prof. Smith also exhibited some aquatic lepidopterous larvze found in Dreer’s nurseries, Riverton, N.. J., describing the in- sect’s destructive work on water plants in that locality. The speaker stated that the eggs were deposited on the underside of the leaves, the larvz cutting pieces from pads of lilies, with which they cover themselves while feeding, finally pupating on the stems beneath the water, so that when the moth finally emerged it was compelled to pass through from one to four inches of water before reaching the open air. All stages of this peculiar insect were shown, the species being unknown to him. Continuing he gave an interesting account* of an experiment in grafting lepid- opterous pupz, which resulted in the production of some curious monstrosities. The experiment was made with some of the large * Abstract of a paper read at the meeting of The American Society of Naturalists at Ithaca, N. Y. 56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, species of moths, the speaker mentioning that the success of the procedure depended greatly on getting pupz of the same age, so that they would mature at the same time; even though this” precaution was observed, the mortality reached about eighty per cent. The pupe were first thoroughly chilled, then quickly cut with a sharp knife, when the desired part of one pupz was soldered on to another (which had been likewise prepared) by means of melted paraffine which was in readiness. Prof. Smith also brought a series of Orthoptera to the Social for presentation to the local collection of the Academy. Mr. Fox called attention to a 3 specimen of the genus M/xz- tilla, in which the wings are rudimentary. Although all females so far known in the Mutillidze are wingless, and males rarely so, the existence of a specimen with rudimentary wings had not so far been recorded as far as was aware. As he had seen only a single specimen of the species in question, it was not possible to say whether the abbreviated wings were a specific or an individual characteristic. It is certain, however, that the specimen men- tioned represents a species distinct from those so far known from the United States. Mr. Johnson mentioned the capture of a specimen of Hermetia tllucens by Mr. Harry S. Viereck in Philadelphia, September 3, 1897, which species is common to the Gulf States and West Indies. Mr. Wenzel presented to the balance of the members, who were not included in the lists of coleopterists so kindly remem- bered by Mr. Ottomar Reinecke, at the last meeting, a picture of the said gentleman bearing his compliments for each one, for which each recipient desires to extend his sincere thanks to Mr. Reinecke through the medium of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws. There being no further verbal communications the chairman declared the meeting open to consider nominations and elections for officers to serve for the ensuing year, when the following names were presented : ’ President, David M. Castle, M.D. Vice-President, Charles W. Johnson. : Secretary, William J. Fox. Treasurer, Henry W. Wenzel. There being no opposition the secretary was instructed to cast a ballot in favor of the nominees, upon which the election was made unanimous. A vote of thanks was then tendered the retiring: secretary. complimenting him on the faithful discharge of his duties during his term of office. No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to the annex. THEO. H. ScHmitz, Secretary. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws for January, 1898, was mailed December 31, 1897. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VoL. Ix. MARCH, 1808. No. 3. CONTENTS: Kunze— Rare aves of the insect fauna FEO) cecwicecciees we ata aedUawaviweeo 68 MEE bot wre ccc csecevscctesse 57 | Economic Entomology .......+..+ssee- 69 Harvey—Contributions to the Odonata Notes and News.....e++-+eseeeeeeeeeees 72 Of Maine ... 1.06... cecccccecsescces 59 | Entomological Literature..............- 74 Baker—Five new species of Phlepsius.. 65 | Doings of Societies...........++ ioeveced 79 RARA AVES OF THE INSECT FAUNA OF ARIZONA. By Dr. R. E. Kunze, Phoenix, Ariz. _ Having for nearly two full seasons collected in Arizona, I wish to place on record a few of the good finds allotted to a passionate collector under sometimes very trying circumstances. Theseason never closes in S. Arizona; Coleoptera are found every month of the year. Whenever a longer breathing spell is at hand I will more fully describe the insect fauna and flora of this sun-kissed land. I will briefly refer to memorized notes, the vast amount of all material collected precluding detailed account, except for a little biological work. Of Sesiidz found one only in San Francisco Mountains, saw another of same species on flowers of Withia spec. which I failed to net. This Autumn found what appears to be a Sesi#d, beaten off a shrub, Aymenoclea monogyra, the arrow weed of bottoms; in all, two examples were secured early in November. Of Sphingidz, rare in S. Arizona, took at light in June, 1897, one 6 Dilophonota obscura, anda % Diloph. ello, middle of September. In July, 1896, took an Hemaris cyno- glossum near Prescott, and several more at headwaters of Has- sayampa River, near Senator Mills. One of these taken on Mount Union, head of this river, at 8600 feet elevation, near its 3 58 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. { March, peak on flowers of Monarda fistulosa or horsemint. A single example of a three-winged Smerinthus, form astarte, found on Mount Humphrey, Flagstaff, July, 1897, and one ophthalmicus, perfect %, taken in Phoenix at light. Sphinx chersis, found in but two or three examples, S. Arizona. Z7ipfogon, var. occi- dentalis, not uncommon. Of Syntomidz took Anatolmis fulgens, that scarlet gem of the mountains of Coconino County. Pericopide were represented by Gnophela hopfferi and Melanchroia inconstans, both visiting flowers of Withia spec. a plant resembling ZAvecampane, and Rudbeckia laciniata, or Thimbleweed of San Francisco Moun- tains; all taken in bright sunshine. Of, Arctiinz took a few Emydia ampla at light in Yavapai County, and Arctia var. ari- zonensts, in Southern and Central Arizona. A fine arctian so much like Eupseudosoma floridum, taken at light in September in Phoenix. That rare Halistdota ambigua, taken in two exam- ples; one in Yavapai County, in 1896, and the other in Coconino County, 1897, at light. Avachnis picta not uncommon in Central Arizona. . Liparide furnished me one of Artaxa ingenita, taken at light in Yavapai County, and now in collection of Mr. J. T. Mason, Denver, Col., and Mr. D. Bruce informed the writer that only one other had been taken in this country, belonging, as it does, to the Mexican fauna. I labor under the impression that I have put away another poorer specimen taken this Autumn at same locality. It is saffron-colored, size of Orgyia antigua %. Notodontidz furnished two surprises—now in the hands of Prof. A. S. Packard for determining; one a Datsana nov. spec. bred from a gregarious larva found on Quercus emoryi early part of August, 1896, in Yavapai County, the imago of which bears a resemblance to D. ministra of eastern United States, so Mr. Chas. Palm, to whom I sent all pupz, informs me. The larva is jet black, covered by long, fine white hairs all over its body. The other is Cerura nivea, in last synopsis accredited as a variety of Cinerea of the East. I bred from ova of two different females and obtained a number of fine cocoons. The larve of both moths are exactly alike in coloration, size and ornamentation— are unlike those of Cizerea excepting in first and second stages. In its third and fourth stages this larva more resembles that of C. multiscrifta. One of the females was almost immaculate, 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 59 excepting a fine black spot between veins of external margin of primaries, and the other bred from showed a few black markings on primaries near costa and basal parts. My notes taken of this, a true species, will soon be made public. Of rarer Saturniidz, obtained one 7. polyphemus var. oculea, in July, 1896, and two others in August, 1897; all three imper- fect. This variety is heavily overlaid with black scales, especially on primaries. The best example is in Mr. Mason’s collection, and others in possession of Prof. Packard for comparative study. Of Ayperchiria pamina, obtained only four or five larvae and cocoons in two years from Yavapai County. Bombycidz furnished me with several undetermined examples. Gloveria arizonensis | took in two examples in central Arizona; also a Heteropacha sp. which Mr. D. Bruce did not recognize. Of Cossidz, Mr. Bruce thinks I collected a new species, re- sembling a Ayfopta and quite small, now in the hands of Prof. Packard for determining. It was taken in Maricopa County, ’97. Of Geometridz, took four new species, 1896, in central Arizona, one of which, a Spodoptera, Dr. G. D. Hulst, named after its collector. Of Noctuidz, dare not speak; a large catch, season of 1897, has not been examined for lack of time Heterocera are better represented here than Rhopalocera, and on account of intense heat numbers of the latter are mtich localized; some even betake themselves, much as we do, to the shady side of the bush to escape a broiling sun. ; (To be continued. ) oO CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ODONATA OF MAINE.—III. By F. L. Harvey, Orono, Maine. (Continued from Ent. News, vol. iii, Nos. 4 and 5, 1892.) Tribe IL.—AGRIONINA. Subfamily 1.—CALOPTERYGIN2. 1. Calopteryx maculata Beauvois. Farmington (Miss Furbish), S. Lagrange (Harvey). 2. C. equabilis Say. Orono. June 17, 1897 (Bartle and Florence Harvey), Auburn (E. D. Merrill), Foxcroft and S. Lagrange (Harvey). 60 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (March, This species was rather common this season. The /eneral males are without the black tips to the wings. 54. Hetzrina americana Fabr. Chemo Stream, Bradley, Sept. 23, 1897 (E. D. Merrill). A ‘single headless male found on the shore below a fall. We have never seen this species before in Maine. This is the most eastern locality known. It has been taken in western Maine Subfamily 2.—AGRIONINZ. 55. Amphiagrion saucium Burm. ; Orono, June 10 and 18, 1892; Bradley, July 8, 1897 (Harvey); Frog pond, Orono, June, 1897 (Bartle Harvey). 8. Enallagma hageni Walsh. Rangeley (Miss Furbish), Foxcroft (Harvey). 56. E. calverti Morse. Orono, June 28, 1897 (Florence Harvey). 57. Nehalennia posita Hag. Orono, July 12, 1897, over Penobscot River (Bartle Harvey). g. N. irene Hag. Westbrook (Ricker). 58. Erythromma conditum Hag. Chemo Stream, Bradley, July 8, 1897; not common (Harvey). 13. Lestes unguiculata Hag. A single 9, N. W. Carry, head of Moosehead Lake, Aug. 26, 1897 (Harvey). 59. L. uncata Kirby. Over road June 28, 1897, Orono (Bartle Harvey). Many fe- males but few males. Some of the males lacked the yellow humeral stripe, others had the mid-dorsal carina yellow. 60. L. congener Hag. A single 9 Aug. 26, 1897, N. W. Carry, head of Moosehead Lake (Harvey). Subfamily 3.—GOMPHIN&. 61. Ophiogomphus anomalus n. sp. (PI. v, fig. 1). Length 42 mm.; abdomen 30 mm.; hind wing 24 mm. Black with bright yellow colors. Frons yellow, separated from clypeus by a black line. Clypeus and ~ ante-clypeus yellow; black bands running across the post-clypeus to the 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 61 . suture of the ante-clypeus dividing it into three yellow areas. The black bands continue along the suture of the ante-clypeus to the outer edge of the labrum, between the labrum and ante-clypeus, down the middle of the labrum and along its lower edge dividing the yellow of labrum into two areas. Base of mandibles and occiput yellow. Antennz and vertex black. The top of vertex straight and bearing on the crest black cilia. The face and vertex clothed with dark hairs. The basal joint of the antenne with a narrow yellow line on the upper edge. Back of head and eyes dark. Prothorax black; an anterior narrow line and two small median spots yellow. Thorax bright yellow; mid-dorsal stripe wider below, divergent above and joining the ante-humeral behind; ante-humeral and humeral stripes (separated below for half their length by a yellow line) and a double, interrupted stripe on the middle of the side, black. The humeral stripe joins the one on the side anteriorly. Wing hyaline, pterostigma brown; membranules very narrow and pale yellow; triangles not crossed and slightly angled at the origin of the cross- vein between the two upper discoidal areolets. Arculus straight, the sectors separated, and the spaces above and below equal. Legs black, the lower surface of the femora lighter, hind femora with numerous short spines. Abdomen black, with a mid-dorsal and a lateral yellow stripe involving the base of all the segments. The stripe on the dorsum of segments 3-9 narrow, on 8 club shaped, on 9 square, on to round, with a point behind. The stripe extends the whole length of the dorsum of 1 and 2. The lateral stripe conspicuous on 7-10. The spots on g and 10 involve the whole length of the side. That on 9 notched above and resembling a _ letter ©. The yellow on the side of to extends along the sutures at the base of the superior appendages. Segments 7-10 dilated, greatest width at base of 8 (2.5 mm.) Superior appendages black, a little longer than 10, broad at the base, the outer edges straight and parallel, the inner divergent, ending in a blunt point. Under surface bearing numerous tubercles arranged in irregular longitudinal rows, seven or eight of which appear as minute teeth in profile view. Inferior appendage light colored, stout, grooved on the outer sides near the base, the outer half abruptly curved upward meeting the superior appendages one-third from the end. Described from a single male taken June 15, 1892, at Orono, along the border of woods, by F. L. Harvey. Female ‘tnknown. Mr. Calvert makes the following comment on this species : “This male agrees with the characters given by Baron de Selys (Comptes Rendus, Ann, Soc. Ent. Belg. 1879, p. 64) for Ophio- gomphus excepting the branches of the inferior appendage, which are strongly upcurved in their apical half, as in Erpetogomphus, 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, instead of at the apex only, as in typical Ophiogomphus. This species is, therefore, to this extent, intermediate between the two genera named with stronger affinities to Ophiogomphus.”’ 62. Gomphus scudderi Selys (Pl. v, figs. 6-8). 3 (hitherto unknown).—Length 58 mm., abdomen 43 mm., hind wing 35 mm. _ Black, fuscous and greenish yellow. Frons greenish yellow with a black band on the lower edge above the articulation with the clypeus. Yellow of the post-clypeus divided into three areas by a black patch each side of the middle; ante-clypeus black. Labrum yellow, with anterior border black. Base of mandibles and labium greenish yellow; vertex and antennz black. The basal joints of the antennz with a yellow ring on the distal end. Occiput greenish yel- low, the crest slightly convex and armed with black hairs. Rear of eyes pale. Prothorax unicolored. Thorax fuscous, mid-dorsal carina black and prominently crested in the middle. The narrow anterior transverse stripe (interrupted at the mid-dorsal carina) and the narrow ante-humeral stripes (much divergent below), greenish yellow. Sides of thorax with three yellow stripes, the anterior best defined, the dark stripes alternating at the first and second lateral sutures. Three greenish yellow spots on dor- sum between the wings. Underside of anterior femora pale. Hind femora with numerous short bristles. Wings hyaline, pterostigma 4 mm., brown; ante-cubitals 15-16, post- cubitals 1o-11. All triangles and basal spaces free from cross-veins. Arculus angled, the spaces below and above the union of the sectors egua/. Outer side of triangle straight. Abdomen black. Segments 7, 8 and 9 much dilated. Eighth segment — nearly 7mm. wide. Segments 3-10 with basal yellow rings, those on 8, g and to reduced to sutural lines. An acute, triangular, mid-dorsal, basal spot on the eighth segment and a smaller spot with an obtuse angle on the basal dorsum of the ninth. Dorsum of 1 and 2 with narrow yellow stripes. Auricles and a round spot behind them on the sides of 2 yellow. A lateral yellow line, faint on segments 4-6, but prominent as large basal spots on 7, 8 and g. Superior appendages black, stout, longer than 10, very divergent at tip, where the acute points are 3 mm. apart and considerably wider than the breadth of 10. On the inferior surface, in their apical third, are about six low, broad crenules seen by microscope in profile view. Inferior appendage brown, nearly as large as the uppers, flattened at the base and excavated above, more widely divergent in the middle than at either end, wider in the middle than the superior appendages and equally divergent at the tip. The ends turned upward and approaching the superior appendages. Both appendages armed with bristles. Nearly related to Gomphus fraternus, but much larger, abdo- 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 63 men more dilated, and also with a dorsal basal spot on ninth segment, and the superior appendages have several crenulz on the inferior apical third. Described from a single male taken Aug. 25, 1897 (by F. L. Harvey), over Russell Stream, a tributary on the East Side of the West Branch of the Penobscot River, two miles above North- east Carry near the head of Moosehead Lake. 25. Gomphus nevius Hagen (PI. v, figs. 2-5, 9, 10). & (previously unknown).—Length 34-37 mm.; abdomen 25-27 mm.; hind wing 19.5-21.5 mm. Greenish yellow and black. Frons, clypeus and labrum greenish, with the sutures separating them more or less black, the black extending in a narrow line nearly half way across the centre of the labrum. Vertex and occiput black, the latter with a small yellow spot behind, and its straight hind margin with long black hairs. Eyes greenish. Apex of first joint of the antennz on the inside yellow. Rear of head black. Prothorax black with two minute yellow dots on the middle of the dorsum and a narrow yellow line on the anterior border. Thoracic dorsum black, excepting a transverse anterior, and two isolated ante-humeral stripes which are greenish yellow; the transverse anterior stripe interrupted by the mid-dorsal carina; the first ante-humeral stripes are oblong in form and divergent anteriorly. The second ante-humeral stripe, when entire, narrowed in the middle; when broken, the upper half is sometimes reduced to a small superior spot; to have this stripe entire is the exception. Sides greenish yellow. Black bands on the humeral and first and second lateral sutures. The metastigma black. The underside of the thorax and the coxe yellowish green. Legs black. Interior median surface of the femora of the fore legs greenish. Wings hyaline. Costa greenish yellow; pterostigma black, 3 mm. long on the hind wing; ante-cubitals 11, post-cubitals 8. Abdomen black, marked with yellow as follows: segment 1 with a narrow mid-dorsal stripe, a transverse stripe on posterior end of dorsum and lower half of side. Segment 2 with a mid-dorsal stripe, arrow-shaped, with the point backwards, the auricles and a patch behind them next the genitalia. Segment 3 with lateral proximal spots which may be contin- uous over the dorsum forming basal rings, or interrupted, leaving basal dorsal spots. The dorsal markings may be obsolete, especially on 4-6. Segment 10 unspotted. Suture between 8 and g yellow on dorsum. The spot on side of 8 conspicuous, larger than on the other segments, extending to the middle above and the whole length on the lower border. The ventral edge of all the segments pale colored. Segments 3-7 slender, widening to the apex of 8, which is 2 mm. broad, then narrowing to 10, which is 1.5 mm. broad. 64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. -[March, | Superior appendages yellowish white, with a narrow black band on the base as far as the inferior tooth. About the same width for one-third of the length, then abruptly narrowed from the outside to slender points, which are turned outward and upward at the ends; from the base curved outwards until, at one-third the length, the two are wider than the roth segment, then curving inwards, and at the apex outwards and upwards. An inferior obtuse tooth at one-third of the length from the base. , Inferior appendage dark brown, lighter above, the tips and base black, three-fourths as long as the superior appendages; bifid about one-half the length; the outer edges parallel and widest at the base, narrowing from — the inside to blunt, upturned tips, which approach the superior appendages and are equally divergent; sinus open. In profile view, curved down- wards in the basal third, then gradually upwards to the apical third, which curves rapidly upwards. Both appendages clothed with hairs, those on the upper pale, those on the lower dark. 2 .—The females are somewhat variable. Of three specimens before me two have the second ante-humeral stripe entire, but narrowed in the mid- dle; the other has the stripe interrupted in the middle, the upper part pale and hardly half so long as the lower. One of those with the full humeral stripe lacks the yellow dorsal spot on the 8th segment. The back of the vertex yellow, and also a triangular space on its front. The suture be- tween the frons and nasus is black only at the outer angles. The sides of abdominal segments 1 and 2 and the basal half of 3 yellow, also the sides of 7-9 yellow with black in the upper anterior part. Described from forty specimens taken at Chemo Stream below the bridge at the old mill, Bradley, Me., July 8, 1897, by F. L. and Bartle Harvey. The specimens were flying up stream, and were nearly all taken from a small rock six inches out of water, upon which they would almost invariably alight by preference, although there were several other rocks apparently equally favorably situated. It is hard to take them on the wing as they fly very close to the water. The whole day was occupied in watching the stream by the writer — and his son. Only three females were seen. One pair was taken in copula. My son spent the whole of the following day at the same place on the stream and did not see a single specimen. Two or three specimens were seen the last of July over swift water on Birch Stream in Greenfield, about eight miles from the other locality. The male of this species previously unknown is now represented by many more specimens than the female. 1808. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 65 FIVE NEW SPECIES OF PHLEPSIUS. By C. F. Baker, Ala. Polytechnic Inst. Auburn, Ala. Phiepsius dentatus n. sp. §.—Length 7 mm. Form of humidus. Head broader than thorax; vertex rather strongly angulate before, nearly as long as half the width between eyes, or three-fifths the length of the pro- notum; disc distinctly broadly depressed, anterior edge acute; front broad above, rapidly narrowing to clypeus, an eighth longer than wide, about _ two and a half times the length of the clypeus, sides obtusely angled just below antennal pits, then broadly shallowly incurved above; pronotum sparsely punctured on posterior half, slightly incurved behind; width little less than two and one-fifth times length. Elytra slightly narrowed toward tips. Color pale fulvous. Head and thorax thickly irrorate with deep fulvous, leaving a few very small lighter areas. Elytra whitish, veins light ‘brown, with several more or less extensive very pale fulvous clouds in three indistinct transverse bands; irrorations sparse and weak; fore and middle femora imperfectly biannulate with fulvous. Abdomen above and below somewhat darker. Plate subtriangular, produced at tip in a narrow projection as long as rest of plate; valves longer than entire width across base, sides rounded below, contracted at upper two-thirds, tip flaring and curved, the inner extremities each with a short, inwardly bent, dark brown tooth. Described from one male in the Uhler collection. It was taken on the Delta Railroad, eight miles northeast of Baltimore. This species differs from any other American Ph/epszus in the form of _ the male genitalia. Phiepsius pulchripennis n. sp. 2.—Length 5.5 mm. Small and slender, form more nearly of irroratus. Head slightly broader than thorax; ver- tex obtusely angulate, length half of the width between the eyes, or half the length of the pronotum; disc gently convex, anterior edge obtusely rounded onto the front; front rather long and narrow, a half longer than wide, two and three-fourths times the length of the clypeus, sides nearly straight; pronotum obscurely wrinkled on posterior three-fourths, nearly straight behind, width about two and one-sixth times the length. Elytra distinctly narrowed towards the tip. Color sordid cinereous. Head more or less irregularly smutted with blackish; pronotum with a few scattering irregular brown markings. Elytra milky white and veins brown, except a_ large portion of costal cell, which is transparent and without super- numerary veins or markings, the supernumerary veins moderately nu- merous elsewhere; three black spots on apical half of costa, one in mid- dle basal cell, and one on clavus next the clavus next the claval suture ; reticulations very unevenly distributed and confined mostly to median portion of elytra, being largely wanting along commissural margin and costa; fore and median femora biannulate with brown. Last ventral seg- ment as long as broad; hind margin shallowly trisinuate. 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, Described from two females, one collected at Opelousas, La., by Mr. G. R. Pilate, and one at Auburn, Ala., by myself. This is the only known northern representative of a group of Phlep- siids mostly confined to tropical and subtropical America. There are a number of undescribed species of this group in Mexico and Central and South America, all showing a strong resemblance. Phiepsius pusillus n. sp. 9.—Length 5mm. Small, but robust. Head slightly broader than thorax; vertex obtusely angulate, width between eyes about two and one-third times its length, the length about one-half that of pronotum; disc slightly depressed, nearly flat, anterior edge some- what obtuse, not at all thin and acute; front short, and very broad throughout, two-sevenths longer than wide, two and one fourth times longer than clypeus, broadly slightly bulging at antennal cavities; pro- notum finely, sparsely punctured and obtusely wrinkled on posterior half, hind margin nearly straight; width little more than two and one-fourth times the length. Elytra short and broad, but little exceeding abdomen, scarcely narrowed towards tips. Color pale fulvous. Face washed with heavier fulvous, leaving numerous lighter dots; vertex and pronotum irregularly irrorate. Elytra white, with very few distinct supernumerary veins; rather evenly, finely irrorate with brown, some darker dots along commissural margin and apex of costa; dorsum and vicinity of notch on last ventral segment blackish. Legs irregularly marked with dark ful- vous. Last ventral segment large, twice length of preceding, nearly truncate behind, with a large median notch. 3'.—Like the female, except venter darker. Plate triangular, as long as preceding segment; valves once and a half the length of plate, sides gently curved to an obtuse point. Described from two specimens in the Uhler collection, one collected September 25 at Caton’s Bush, two miles southeast of Baltimore, Md.; the other, September 20 at Odenton, sixteen miles southeast of Baltimore. This is one of the smallest of the more typical Phlepsiids. Ovatus has the head narrower than the pronotum. Uf/eri belongs to the group including s¢70dz and Eutettix seminuda. Phlepsius occidentalis n. sp. Q.—Length 6 mm. Short and broad. Head slightly broader than thorax; vertex obtusely angulate, length at middle but little less than half width between eyes, or about two-thirds of the length of the pronotum; disc depressed, anterior edge somewhat compressed, but not thin and acute. Front broad above, narrowed rapidly to clypeus, about one-fourteenth longer than wide, two and one-fifth times as long as clypeus, sides slightly bent outward at antennal cavities; pro- notum obscurely wrinkled and finely sparsely punctate posteriorly, hind margin nearly straight; width two and a half times the length. Elytra 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 67 rather short, scarcely narrowed towards tip. Color cinereous. Head and thorax irrorate with fulvous, the latter sparingly, the face with nu- merous light dots. Basal angles’ of scutel fulvous. Elytra whitish, sparsely and subobsoletely irrorate with brown, most distinctly so at ex- treme apex; fore and middle femora indistinctly biannulate with fulvous. Last ventral segment twice the length of the preceding, very slightly broadly produced at the middle, with a median notch, the lateral angles prominent, obtuse; portions of hind margin blackened. Described from a single female in the Uhler collection. It was collected in Washington Territory. It is nearer to humidus and nebulosus than to any other species, but differs widely from these as described above. Phliepsius mimus n. sp. ¢'.—Length 6.5 mm. Form and size nearly of texanus, somewhat more slender. Head slightly broader than thorax; vertex short, very bluntly angulate, disc convex, though slightly trans- versely depressed behind, broadly rounded onto the front; length at mid- dle slightly less than a third of width between eyes; front broad, length once and a tenth its width, twice and four-fifths the length of clypeus; clypeus somewhat broader than usual at base; pronotum finely, sparsely punctured on posterior three-fourths, hind margin very shallowly, angu- larly emarginate; width little less than twice and one-third the length. Elytra somewhat narrowed towards the apex: excepting a few in costal cell, the supernumerary veins are wanting. Color pale cinereous. Face finely confluently dotted with fulvous; vertex and pronotum coarsely ir- rorate with fulvous. Elytra milky white, with the irrorations, except sparingly along costa and apex, broken up into fine dots, something as in punctiscriptus. Several small darkerSpots along claval commissure and costa towards apex. Wings infuscate apically; fore and middle femora each with one distinct brown annulus near the apex, hind tibiz with dark tips. Abdomen somewhat darker above and below; some brown blotches on mesopleure. Plate large, triangular, the valves extending its length beyond it; valves with numerous stout white bristles, the sides incurved before the narrow, strongly divergent tips. Described from a single specimen from the Uhler collection, taken October 11 at Odenton, sixteen miles southeast of Balti- more. This species is nearest ¢exanus, from which it differs in coloration and structure of genitalia. 7eaxanus is more robust and darker. Its resemblance to punctiscriptus is but superficial, the structure of the head widely separating it from that species. _ Dominion oF Canapa—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.--I am de- lighted to notice that the magazine still continues to be of such high quality. I donot know what your arrangements are for paying for plates, but figures of new species similar to the exquisite work on Plate III of Pyrameis carye in the present volume would, I know, be acceptable to many entomologists besides me.—JAMES FLETCHER. 68 (March, ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTromMoLoGicaL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.-—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion, ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfe1- ence, as to makeit necessary to put “‘ copy”’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five ‘extras’? without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.—Eb. ~< PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1898. THE DISTRIBUTION OF ENTOMOLOGISTS. | as The subscription list of the NEws suggests to us some inter- esting points for study in relation to entomologists in this country - and Canada. It appears that entomology has grown from certain centres of interest, irrespective of population, although popula- tion is doubtless also a factor to a certain extent. As an illustra- tion, the States that produced Say, Harris Walsh and Fitch show for Pennsylvania 83 subscribers, Massachusetts 63, Illinois 47 and New York 88. The South and far West, except California, show a lack of interest due to want of centres or starting points and not lack of population. Wherever one person begins the study others sooner or later follow in the good work. Indiana, a populous State, shows but 6 subscribers. Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia give but 26, and most of these are in the city of Washington. The New England States, excepting Massachusetts, show little interest in comparison; Maine having 9 subscribers, New Hampshire 6, Vermont 2, Rhode Island 6 and Connecticut 19. Some States in the West show a surprising lack of interest; Nebraska, for instance, furnishes 2 subscribers, Dakota 2, Idaho 2, Montana 4, Nevada. The States that do not believe in the News, or who have no entomologists, are Wyoming and South Carolina. California shows the results of the work of some of its well-known entomologists of the earlier years as its subscribers amount to 41. Canada gives 27 and Europe but 31. Instead of having a subscription list of 550 it should be twice that many and we could then make the NEws a ~ journal of which to be proud. A NEW TRYPETED (See page 69.) EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. Fig. 4.—Larva. lan. sp. Q. 2.—-Ovipositor and sheath. is ribico Fig. 1.—Rhagolet 5.—First two segments of lary 6.—Pupa. “ “ 3.—External genitalia of male. “ 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. Edited by Prof, JOHN B, SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J. Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor, Prof. Joh B. Smith, Se.D., New Brunswick, N. J. A NEW TRYPETID OF ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE. By R. W. Doane. (Washington Agricultural College and School of Science.) . Since the publication of Loew’s Monograph, two new species belonging to the genus Rhagoletis have been described; one RX. zephyria Snow, in Kan. Univ. Quar. ii, 164; the other R. for- mosa Coquillett, in Canadian Entomologist, xxvi, 71. These with the species described herewith make six species belonging to this genus, which may be separated by the following table based principally on the wing markings. With three cross-bands and two spots; the first spot between apices of first and second veins, the second in apex of first posterior cell . , ; , ‘ ‘ ‘ ; . formosa Coq. With four cross-bands. First and second cross-bands connected posteriorly. Second and third cross-bands not connected anteriorly. tabellaria Fitch. Second and third cross-bands connected anteriorly. Length 3.5 to 4.5 mm. ; : : . - pomonella Walsh. Length 2.5to3mm. . ; . zephyria* Snow. First and second cross-bands ever fad not connected posteriorly. With a brownish spot at tip of vein three ; . Cingulata Loew. With no such spot ‘ f : : ; ‘ . ribicola n. sp. Rhagoletis ribicola n. sp. ¢ 2 .—Black, head and its appendages yellow- ish, a dark blotch on the vertical triangle. Last joint of the antennz very slightly concave on dorsal side, anterior corner rather sharp; moder- * I have not seen this species, and can find nothing in the description of zephyrza that is not true to a greater or less extent of Jomonella. As the depth of coloration varies considerably in both species, little dependence can be placed on this character. I have one speciinen of fomonella from Massachusetts in which the hyaline space between the second and third cross-bands reaches the fourth vein, and in which the fourth band fills out the tip to as great an extent as in Mr. Snow's figure of zephyria. The description of zephyria was drawn up from three males from Southern California. Two other specimens are mentioned from the same locality in which the cross-veins are more approximate, in fact just as they are in Zomonel/a, so that the difference in size seems to be about the only thing that would separate the species, and as this is subject to considerable variation in both instances it would seem that zefhyria is not a distinct species, 70 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ March, ately deep furrows for the reception of antennze; proboscis and palpi short; bristles black, three facial pairs convergent, the ocellar pair strongly proclinate, the two fronto-orbital and the vertical pairs strictly reclinate. Thorax shining black with four rather broad, longitudinal, whitish lines on dorsum, the outer pair longer and narrower than the inner pair; scu- tellum except the base and sides, halteres, and a line running from the humeri to the base of each wing, light yellow; the thoracic and four scutellar bristles black. Abdomen shining black, posterior border of segments two, three and four with a rather broad band of white; sixth segment of male small, partially or wholly concealed beneath the fifth; seventh segment of female a little longer than sixth, flattened or slightly concave, ventrally; sheath of ovipositor and ovipositor reddish brown; the sheath cylindrical and covered with fine triangular scales; ovipositor dagger shaped; a few short black marginal bristles on last three segments. Legs clay-yellow; posterior and middle coxz and femora except tips, black; anterior femora with only a little black. Wings hyaline, marked with four brown cross-bands, the first is somewhat oblique and runs from the humeral vein to the sixth longitudinal vein, along which it gradually fades out beyond the posterior basal transverse vein; the second is much broader, nearly perpendicular, begins on the costa between the tips of the auxiliary and the first longitudinal vein and extends across the middle of the fifth longitudinal vein, fading out before reaching the posterior mar- gin of the wing; the third is nearly parallel with the second, not quite as broad, runs over the posterior cress-vein, and reaches the posterior mar- gin just behind the tip of the fifth longitudinal vein; the fourth band is oblique, completely united with the third on the costal border and reaches the posterior border at the tip of the fourth longitudinal vein; first longi- tudinal vein with very short black bristles; the anterior cross-vein is a little more oblique and very slightly curved; anal cell not drawn out to a point. Length ¢' 3.5-4.mm.; 9 4-4.5 mm. Many males and females from eastern and western Washington and western Idaho. The marking on the wing closely resemble Figure 11, Plate X, Loew’s Monographs, Part III, but the spot at the tip of vein three is wanting, the first cross-band reaches farther down on vein six, the second fades out gradually a little nearer the margin than is indicated in Loew’s figures. The posterior basal transverse vein forms almost a right angle at its union with the fifth longitudinal vein, thus cutting the anal cell off squarely. In Loew’s figure these veins form an obtuse angle at their junction and the anal cell is drawn out toa point. This species also differs from the description of 2. céngudata in having the four light stripes on the thorax and in having more black on the femora. 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 71 It will be noted that in the description we have referred to the male as having six abdominal segments and the female as having seven. A careful examination of several species, together with Prof. Harvey’s remarks on Efochra canadensis (Report Maine State College 1895, p. 123), has led us to adopt this view. Of course what Loew called the first segment is made up of the first and second, closely united; the third, fourth and fifth are always easily distinguishable and more or less similar in appearance throughout the different genera of this family; the fifth segment of the male is, however, in some species more elongated and conical; the sixth segment of the male is always small and par- tially or wholly concealed underneath the fifth; a careful exami- nation, however, cannot fail to reveal it. In the female the sixth segment is similar to those preceding it, but the seventh is, in many species, more or less elongated, conical, or flattened, and often of a different color than the other segments. This is usually referred to as the ovipositor, or as the first segment of the ovi- positor. Of course if we consider the ovipositor as being made up of modified abdominal segments and we certainly must in this group at least, it is not a matter of any great importance how many of these segments we call abdominal segments and how many of them shall be referred to as the ovipositor, but it seems as if the use to which the respective segments are put should decide this. As the seventh segment takes no part in making the puncture, and, as in some species (2. ribricola, R. pomonella and others), it differs very little in appearance, shape or structure from the segments which precede it, we see no reason why it should be any longer referred to as the ovipositor, or as a part of the ovipositor. Retracted within the seventh segment is the sheath of the ovipositor, and within this the ovipositor proper. When not in use these are telescoped within the seventh segment so that ordinarily little or none of the ovipositor is visible. The female of Rhagoletis ribicola when depositing her eggs behaves in much the same manner as the female of Efochra cana- densis as described by Prof. Harvey. It is interesting to note, however, that after the ovipositor is withdrawn from the berry she often turns round and sips up the small drop of juice that flows from the puncture. This species is of considerable economic importance in this State (Washington) as each year the larve destroy much of the 72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ March, fruit on the cultivated currant and gooseberry. The adults are most abundant late in June, when they may be found in consider- able numbers around currant and gooseberry bushes. The eggs — are deposited in the berries in which the larve feed until full grown, of course destroying the berries, and usually causing them to drop to the ground. There is but a single generation each year, the insect passing the Winter in the pupa state in the ground or underneath rubbish under the bushes. In a bulletin, soon to be issued by this Station, the life-history of this insect is given in detail under the popular name of the Dark Currant Fly to distinguish it from the other currant fly (Zpochra canadensis) which also occurs quite abundantly throughout the State. Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL plata? a8 OF THE GLOBE. PicTuUREs for the album of the American Entomologicel Society have been received from Charles F. Goodhue, Webster, N. H., and Charles C. Adams, Urbana, IIl. Your journal is indispensable to working entomologists, either in applied or purely scientific fields, and I find the pages devoted to notes on Entomological Literature very convenient for reference.—MArRy 7 MURTFELDT. THE volume of News for 1897 was duly received. The eight volumes of the News form the most valued portion of my entomological library. They are valuable for reference, entertaining to read, and pretty to look at.—A. W. PEARSON. Oponata. A SYNONYM AND THE BEARING OF ITS DISCOVERY ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF AGRION.—An examination of some material from Mexico, recently collected by Mr. Otis W. Barrett, has shown me that the species which I described as /schnura exstriata (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. —2—iv, p. 493, 1895) is specifically identical with Agrion denticolle Bur- — meister, the type of which latter exists at Halle, Germany, where I have studied it. Denticolle is referred by Baron de Selys to the genus Veha- lennia, a genus belonging to that section of the ‘“‘ grand genre Agrion’’ in which the females have no apical ventral spine on the eighth abdominal segment. Jschnura belongs to the section in which such a spine is pres- ent, There is no doubt that the female type of Z eastriata possesses this spine, nor is there any reason for disbelieving that the females of den- ticolle seen by de Selys lacked it. Burmeister’s type, which de Selys did not see, has a suggestion of such a spine, while among Mr. Barrett’s specimens are some females with, others without, this spine. I have no Ye 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 73 hesitation in stating that exstriata Calvert is specifically identical with denticolle Burm., but it is evident that this discovery breaks down the _ only general distinction separating the two groups of genera represented by Jschnura and Nehalennia respectively. I find, moreover, that in Z _verticalis Say, I. perparva Selys and 7. cervuda Selys female individuals of one and the same species exist which have this spine absent, extremely small or quite distinct.—-PHiLip P. CALVERT. ODONATA. THE FIRST FILLING OF THE TRACHE WITH AIR.——-Within half an hour after hatching from the egg, the young larva of Sympetrum ' (Diplax) vicinum Hagen—and the same is true for Libel/ula quadrimacu- lata L. and Orthetrum cancellatum L., as | observed at Jena, in June, . 1896,—-makes its first moult. Previously its trachez, though visible, con- tain no air. In watching some larve of vicinum execute this first moult “recently ( January, 1898), I observed that air first appears in the tracheal system, in the thoracic portion of the right, main, dorsal trachea and flows thence both forwards into the cephalic, and backwards into the ab- dominal trachez, consequently filling the tracheoles of the rectal tracheal gills at a measurably later period. I believe that this observation is new, at least for the Odonata. I regret that I could not determine precisely where the air enters, nor how, nor whether the air which early appears in the left, main, dorsal trachea enters independently, or from branches ‘ connecting it with the right dorsal trunk. 1| hope that detailed statements may appear later.—PuILip P. CALVERT. NEWS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INSECTs, U. S. NATIONAL MuSEUM.— The collection of insects of the U. S. National Museum is rapidly increas- ing. A great donation, ihe details of which have just been completed, is the large Hubbard and Schwarz collection of Coleoptera. This is one of the first collections of Coleoptera in the United States. It comprises from 10,000 to 12,000 species brought together by Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz during the last twenty-five years. It has especial value from its fine condition and accurate labelling, affording possibly the best source of information regarding geographical distribution. This collection adds. about 3000 species to the collection of Coleoptera of the Museum. It contains a moderate number of types. but a large number of co-types of the species described by LeConte and Horn. _ It also contains some ex- otics, notably a good collection of West Indian micro-Coleoptera, and is practically unique in its large series of coleopterous larvze and pupz in alcohol. The death of Mr. M. L. Linell, in the spring of 1897, was a severe blow to the Department, but a re-arrangement has been effected by which an excellent working force has been secured. The Department has been extremely fortunate in attaching to it Dr. Harrison G. Dyar. Since the departure of Dr. John B. Smith there has practically been no lepidopterist in Washington, and Dr. Dyar’s advent is especially welcome. He has entirely re-arranged the collection of Lepidoptera and has deposited in sr oe tr 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, the Museum his own large co'lection of some 15,000 specimens. The force as at present constituted is L O. Howard, Honorary Curator; Wm. H. Ashmead, Assistant Curator and Custodian of Hymenoptera; Har- rison G. Dyar, Custodian of Lepidoptera ; E. A. Schwarz, Custodian of Coleoptera; D. W. Coquillett, Custodian of Diptera; and R. P. vite. Aid. For a Department which has bought no large collections, the Depart- ment of Insects is rich in type material. The catalogue shows the exist- ence of over 4000 types in the different orders. Recent accessions of special value are a collection of European bees, representing all of the genera known except one; the Hubbard material in all orders recently collected in Arizona; the African material collected in Liberia by Cook and Curne; the African and Siamese material col- lected by Dr. W. L. Abbott; a collection of Coccinellidz and Psyllidz made by Albert Koebele in Japan, Australia, China and Mexico; a col- lection of parasitic Hymenoptera made by the same collector in the coun- tries above indicated; a very large collection of Japanese insects in all orders presented by the Imperial University of Tokio through Professor Mitsukuri; the T. A. Williams collection of Aphididz, comprising over 800 slides of forms collected in the Northwest. Smaller donations are constantly being received from collectors and specialists and the number of those received in the course of the year form very important additions to the collection. The facilities for the preservation of specimens have been very con- siderably increased, several hundred of the permanent glass-covered drawers having been added. Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. Thenumbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., Feb., ’98.—5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., Feb., ’93.—7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Di- vision of Entomology, Washington; publications of, ’°97.—9. The Ento- mologist, London, Feb., ’98.--11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, Jan., ’98.—15. Biologia Centrali-Americana, London, part cxxxvil, Sept., part aie Dec., ’97.—19. Horz Societatis Ento- mologicze Rossice, xxxi, 1-2, St. Petersburg, ’97.—22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, ’°98.—38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xvi, 10, i . 1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 76 Dec. 25, 97; xvii, 1, Jan. 25, ’98—40. Societas Entomologica, Zurich- Hottingen, ’98.—41. Entomologische Nachrichten, Berlin.—45. Deut- sche Entomologische Zeitschrift, ’97, ii, Dresden, Jan. 12, ’98.—47. The Zoologist. London, Jan. 15, ’98.—59. Sitzungsberichte, Gesellschaft der naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin, ’97.—@O. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, v, ’96~-’97.—61. Natural Science, London, Jan., ’98.— 62. Konglige Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens, Stockholm. — 63. ‘Fauna.’ Verein Luxemburger Naturfreunde, vii, ’97.—64. Annalen der k. k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, xii, 1, Wien, ’97. The General Subject.—Insect World: A Monthly Magazine. _ Edited by Y. Nawa. Gifu, Japan. Appears on the 15th of each month, vol. i, No. 1, on Sept. 15, ’97; No. 4, Dec. 15, 97. Wholly in Japanese. —Claypole, A.M. Some points on cleavage among Arthropods, t pl., Transactions American Microscopical Society, xix, Buffalo, Dec., ’97. -—Comstock, J. H. and Needham, J. G. The wings of insects, i, figs., American Naturalist, Boston, Jan., ’98.—Daguillon, A. Ona leaf Dipterocecidium of Hypericum perforatum, figs., Revue Generale de Botanique, x, 109. Paris, Jan. 15, ’98.—Day, G. O. A new setting- board, figs., 9.—Eimer, G. H. T. and Fickert, C. Orthogenesis der Schmetterlinge. Ein Beweis bestimmt gerichteter Entwickelung und Ohnmacht der natiirlichen Zuchtwahl bei der Artbildung. Die Entste- hung der Arten. II Theil. Zugleich eine Erwiderung an August Weis- mann, Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1897. Pp. xvi. 513; 235 figs., 2 pls. This volume is ;the second part of the author’s ‘‘ Entste- hung der Arten auf Grund von Vererben erworbener Eigenschaften nach den Gesetzen organischen Wachsens.’’ We cannot—at present at least— attempt to review this volume, but it is almost obligatory to indicate its _ contents: General Introduction, on definitely directed development (Or- __ thogenesis) and on impotence of Darwinian selection in the formation of _ species; So-called germinal selection—criticism and reply; Origin of the similarity to leaves among butterflies; The most important directions of the development of butterflies, types of marking and pseudo-mimicry; Directions of the development in single families of butterflies and further [considerations] on mimicry; Directions of the development of the Het- erocera and Microlepidoptera ; Generalities on Mimicry in butterflies; Regular and varied stages of marking and color in the different wing- _ surfaces of day butterflies; Preponderance of one sex (male and female preponderance), Sexual Dimorphism, Sexual Selection, Origin of orna- mentation; External, especially climatic influences as causes of the forma- tion of species of butterflies; Experiments on the artificial action of heat and cold on development; Summary of the important results, Conclusion and Special Remarks, List of figures, author and subject indexes.— Emery, C. Instinct, intelligence and speech, Biologisches Centralblatt, Leipsic, Jan. 1, ’98.—Finn, F. Contributions to the theory of warning colors and mimicry, No. iii. Experiments with a Tupaia and a Frog. Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengdl, Ixvi, ii, 2. Calcutta, Aug. 13, ’97.— ‘ 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ March, Gahan, C. J. Dipedtis, a fossil insect? figs., 61.—Heymons, R. Composition of the insectan head, 569, No. 7.—Marlatt, C.L. A brief historical survey of the science of entomology with an estimate of what has been, and what remains to be accomplished. Annual address of the President for the year 1897. Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington, iv, 2, ’98.—Morse, A. P. Pacific coast collecting, ii, 5.—Schlechtendal, D. H. R. The galls (Zoocecidiz) of German vascular plants, ii, Jahresbericht, Verein fiir Naturkunde, Zwickau '95, ’96. _ —Smith, J. B. George H. Horn. Science, N. Y., Jan. 21, ’98.— Trimen, R. Mimicry in insects, Nature, London, Jan. 27, ’98.—Ver- hoeff, C. Still some words on segmental appendages of insects and myriopods, 22, Jan. 1.—Wiskott, M. Lepidopterous hermaphro- dites and abnormalities of my collection [two papers], 3 pls., 45. Economic Entomology.—Abstracts of some recent papers, 7, Ex- periment Station Record, ix, 3-5.—[Bergholz, L.] Destruction of Locusts [in Natal], Consular Reports, lvi, 209, Washington, Feb., *98.— Card, F. W. Observations on the codling-moth, figs., Bulletin 51, U. S. Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska, Lincoln, Dec. 20, ’97.— Decaux. Carpocapsa pomonana, 63.—H oward, L. O. The gipsy moth in America: a summary account of the introduction and spread of Porthetria dispar in Massachusetts and of the efforts made by the State ° to repress and exterminate it, 7, Bulletin No. 11, new series.—Jablo- — nowski, j. Directions for destroying the halmfly (Chlorops teniopus), Rovartani Lapok, v, 1, Budapest, Jan., ’98.—Lindau, G.. Ona cater- - pillar disease observed in the Berlin Botanical Garden, Verhandlungen, Botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg, ’97, Berlin.—S mith, J. B: The San José scale and how it may be controlled, Bulletin 125, New . Jersey Agric. Exper. Station, New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 27, ’97. Arachnida.—Cambridge, F. O. P.—Arachnida Araneidea, vol. ii, pp. 9-40, pls. i—ii, 15, pt. 137,—Cambridge, O. P. Arachnida- Araneidea, vol. i, 2 pls., pts. 137, 139, 15.—L6nnberg, E. A revision of the Linnean type specimens of scorpions and pedipalps in the zoolog- ‘ ical museum of the University at Upsala, 11.—Marshall, G. A. K. Spider versus wasp, 47.—Piersig, R. Hydrachnid forms from the heights of Tatra, 22, Jan. 10.—Pocock, R. I. Stridulation in some African spiders, figs., 47.—Simon, E. Arachnida collected in Terra del Fuego by M. Carlos’ Backhausen (2nd memoir), 60 —T rouessart, E. Mode of topographic distribution of the Entomostraca and marine © Acarina on the coasts of France and description of Acaromantis sqnilla Trt. Memoires, Société Nationale des Sciences naturelles et mathema- | tiques de Cherburg xxx, ’96-’97. Myriapoda.—Silvestri, F. Chilopods and Diplopods from the — voyage of Dr. E, Festa to Ecuador and neighboring regions, 1-pl., Bolle- tino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata, R. Universita di — Torino, No. 305, Oct. 18, ’97. Apterygota.—Heymons, R. Fortnation and structure of the woo 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 77 alimentary canal of lower insects, 59, No. 7.—Lie-Pettersen, O. J. Norwegian Collembola, 2 pls. Bergens Museums Aarborg for 1896, 1897. ° -Orthoptera.—Rordas, L. The digestive apparatus of the Orthop- ' tera—morphological, histological and physiological studies of this organ, - and its importance for the classification of the Orthoptera. Annales des: Sciences Naturelles-Zoologie (8), v, 1-3. Paris, Oct., ’97-Jan, ’98.—. Dominique, J. Orthopterological notes: On the development of the _ wings in the genus Nemodius, Parthenogenesis and parasitism in Bacillus - | gallicus. Bulletin, Société des Sciences Naturelles de l’Ouest de la: : France, vii, 3. Nantes, Sept. 30, ’97,—Giardina, A. First embry-’ onic stages of Mantis religiosa, Monitore Zoologico Italiano viii, 12. Florence, Dec., ’97,—H ancock, J. L. The food-habits of the Tettig- ‘ Idz, Entomologist’s Record, London, Jan. 15, ’98.—Kulwiec, C. v.: The skin glands of Orthoptera- and Hemiptera-Heteroptera, figs., 22, Jan. 24.—Rodzianko, W. See Dipteran—deSaussure, H. andi Pictet, A. Orthoptera,* pp. 305-320 pt. 137; 329-345, pl. xvi, pt. 139, ' 15.—Scudder, S. H. The Acridian subfamily Mastacine in the United States, 5. Neuroptera.—L. H. East Prussian ant-lions, 40, Feb. 1. Hemiptera.—Baker, C..F. Four new species of Phlepsius,* 4. —Berg, C. Contribution to the study of the Hemiptera of Tierra del Fuego, 60.—Bergroth, E. A new Tingid; New or little known: American Aradidz;* On some American Capside, 38, xvii, 1.—C ham - pion, G. C. Rhynchota Heteroptera vol. ii, pp. 1-32, pls. i, ii,* 15, pt. 139.—Cholodkovsky, N. On root-lice, figs. [In Russian], 19. —Fowler, W. W. Rhynchota Homoptera, vol. ii, pl. xii, 15, pt. 137. —Mordwilko, A. On the biology and morphology of the plant-lice {In Russian], 19.—Osborn, H. and Ball, E D. Studies of North American Jassoidea,* 6 pls. Proceedings Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, vii. Davenport, Iowa, Jan., ’98.—Tinsley, J. D. An ants’ nest Coccid from New Mexico,* fig., 4. Coleoptera.—Blackburn, T. Revision of the genus Paropsis, ii. Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales, ’97, pt. i, Sydney, Sept. 17, ’97.—Blandford, W. F. H. Coleoptera, vol. iv, pt. 6, pp. 153-168, pl. vi, pt. 137, pp. 177-184,* pt. 139, 15.—Faust, J. Revision of the genus Zpisomus Schonherr, 19.—Grouvelle, A. Note on the Pelonomus pubéscens Blanch. and simplex Berg. and description of some- new Dryopide and Helmide, 60.—Hopkins, A.D. On the history . and ‘habits of the ‘“‘wood engraver’? ambrosia beetle, Xy/eborus 2ylo- graphus (Say), X. saxeseni (Ratz.)—with brief descriptions of different Stages, 2 pls.. 4.—Luja, E. Cefonia aurata in ants’ nests, 63.— Reitter, E. The species of the coleopterous genus Notiophilus Du- meril of European and neighboring lands, 41, Dec., ’97 ;. Review of the known species of the coleopterous genus Sclevopatrum Seidl. of the palzarctic fauna, 38, xvii, 1.—Wickham, H. F. The Coleoptera of Canada: xxviii. The Cerambycide of Ontario and Quebec, figs., 4. 78 ; ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, Diptera.—Dahl, F. Puliciphora, a new flea-like genus of Diptera (transl. from Zool. Anz.), 11.—Mik, J. On gall-flies, 1 pl., 38, xvi, 10.—Rodzianko, W. On the parasitism of the larve of Raselia an- ziguq Meigen in the interior of the larvae of Furficula tomis Kolenati. — [In Russian] 19.—van der Wulp, F. M._ Diptera, vol. ii, pp. 345- 360, pt. 137; Pp. 369-376,* pt. 139, 15. Lepidoptera.—Berg, C. Description of three new Lepidoptera in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 3 figs.; On the geographical distribution of Ophioderes materna L.; Lepidopterological communications on twenty-five South American Rhopalocera, 60.— Butler, A. G. A revision of the Pierine butterflies of the genus 7erias. from the old world, 11.—Davidson, etal. [Extract]. Butterfly life in the tropics of India, 5.—Druce, H. Lepidoptera Heterocera, vol. ii, pp. 409-416, pls. Ixxix,.Ixxx, pt. 137, pp. 425-440, pls. Ixxxiii, Ixxxiv,* pt. 139, 15.—Dyar, H.G. The larve of the Australian Eucleidz (An- nual address of the retiring president of the Cambridge Entomological Club, 14 Jan’y, ’98), 6.—Godman, F. D. and Salvin, O. Lepid- optera Rhopalocera,* vol. ii, pp. 441-448, 15, pt. 137.—Grote, A. R. The classification of the day butterflies--i, 1 pl., 6l1.—Hanham, A. W. Notes on collecting ‘‘at light,’ 4.—Hofmann, O. Three new ~ Tinean genera, figs. 45.—Holmgren, E. Studies on the morphology of the testes and of cortical male genital organs of the Skandinavian Macrolepidoptera, 9 pls. [In Swedish] 62, Handlingar, xxvii, 4, ’95.— Pauls. To produce summer broods [of Lepidoptera], 40, Jan. 15.— de Rocquigny-Adanson, G. Retarded butterflies. Revue Scien- tifique, Paris, Jan. 15, ’98.—Schultze, L. S. Experimental researches on native Macrolepidoptera, Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift. Ber- lin, Jan. 30, ’°98—Sommer, C. Sciaphila osseana Sc. var. niveosana Packard, 45.—Staudinger, O. Some new species and varieties of butterflies, 46.—W alsingham, Lord and Durrant, J. H. Re- vision of the nomenclature of Microlepidoptera, Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine, London, Feb., ’98..-Wiskott, M. See General Subject. Hymenoptera.—Adlerz, G. Myrmecological studies, iii: Zo- mognathus sublevis Mayr. 1 pl. [In Swedish] 62, Bihang, xxi, iv, 4, ’96. —Cholodkovsky, N. Contributions to a monograph of the conifer-lice [ Chermes], chaps. v-vii, 6 pls., 19.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Panurginus clypeatus, 4; Synopsis of the North American bees of the genus Nomia,* 9.—Kohl, F. F. Evremiasphecium, a new genus of Hymenoptera, family Sphegide, 64.—Konow, F. W. Two new Siricidze and some palzarctic Tenthredinide, 41, Dec., ’97; Systematic and critical revision of the Sawfly tribe Lydini, 643; Further contribution to the synonymy of the Tentnredinide, 38, xvi, 10, xvii, 1.—K riech- baumer, Dr. The genus /oppa,* 41, Jan., ’98.—Luja, E. See Coleoptera.--Marshall, G. A. K. See Arachnida.—Stadelmann, R. Anatomical study of a hermaphrodite of Dendrolimus fasicatellus (Mén.), 59, No. 8. 1898.] — ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 79 Doings of Societies. A special meeting of the American Entomological Society was held Jan. 27, 1898, Dr. Calvert, vice-president, presiding. Mr. Stanley T. Kemp presented a specimen of Euphanessa mediana _ Slosson, new to the collection, from Anglesea, N. J. Dr. Cal- vert read a biography of the late Dr. Horn, which will shortly be published in the Transactions (American Entomological Society). Same speaker exhibited some larve of dragonflies hatched in the house and he thought the circulation of the blood, which could be well seen, might prove of interest to the mem- bers. The single blood vessei or aorta was described as well as the character of the blood and the corpuscles. Although the legs of the larve are long, the corpuscles do not go beyond the bases of the legs. The difficulty of observing the dorsal blood- vessel in imagos was mentioned. Mr. Johnson stated that in going over the literature of the Syrphidz he had found a num- ber of list names which were not now recognized in the literature. Among them was Bacca keenii Will. which is the tarchetius of Walker. This name 4eenzz was given in the local list published by Keen, a Philadelphian, in the Canadian Entomologist in Au- gust, 1884. Dr. Skinner called attention to an illustrated journal of entomology published in Japan in the language of the country. Mr. Liebeck called attention to a curious mailing box for insects. It was pasteboard, and was supported from the inside by a double wooden gallows-like arrangement. HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Secretary. At the last meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held on February 8, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 S. 13th St., Phila., the address of the retiring President, Dr. H. G. Griffith, was read by the Secretary. It dwelt on the value of fraternity and good-fellowship among entomologists, and on the loss to science in general by the petty jealousies and unfriendli- ness of co-laborers in that field. Prof. Smith exhibited sketches illustrative of structural details of the peach-borer, Sannina exitiosa. The antenne differ in the sexes, and possess at the base an ear-like sensory organ, the first and second joints being modified for its accommodation. Variation in the scaling of individuals was shown, and the presence of jointed mandibles _80 . ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (March, was dwelt on as an unusual character. In the female the maxil- lary palpi are 2-jointed, in the male 3-jointed; the presence of these palpi was apparently not before noted in the Sesiide. The difficulty of inducing the sexes of this species to mate was men- tioned, and although eggs were laid within twenty-four hours after the insect emerged from the pupa, none were fertilized. The females possess eight ovarian tubes, each containing about .sixty eggs. Mr. Wenzel remarked on the apparent seldomness of copulation in the peach-borer. Dr. Skinner spoke on the extensile structure of the club of antenna of butterflies, espe- cially in regard to a species of Avgynnis, in which a telescoping of that part was noticed. He presented to the Social on behalf of Mr. Geo. B. King, of Lawrence, Mass., a series of microscop- ical, slides containing coccids from ant’s nests. He also referred to the care of specimens from pests, etc. Napthaline is fatal to pests if the boxes be perfectly tight; otherwise it is likely to be ineffective. Mr. Aaron mentioned the efficacy of bisulphide of carbon in ‘destroying pests. The fumes will kill all stages but the egg. ‘He further spoke on the habits of eoclytus erythrocephalus and . Elaphidion. Discussed by Messrs. Smith, Johnson and Laurent. Mr. H. Wenzel reported the capture of thirty specimens of : Casnonia ludoviciana at Camden, N. J., on January 29; also two larvee of probably Pyractomena luctfer. Mr. S. Frank Aaron was nominated for membership. Wo. J. Fox, Secretary. The following officers were elected at the meeting of the Newark Entomological Societv held January gth: President, A. P. Schleckser. Vice-President, H. H. Brehme. Treasurer, Simon Seib. . Secretary, A. J. Weidt. Librarian, John Engelman. Curator, A. P. Schleckser. A. J. WeiIptT, Secretary pro. tem. ; De] | OBITUARY. Ernst. Lupwic TASCHENBERG, Professor of Entomology in the Uni- versity at Halle. Germany, died Jan. 19, 1898. He was born in 1818, and —° on Economic Entomology and on the Hymenoptera. ENTOMOLOGICAL News for February was mailed January 31, 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE fevioMoraeical SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. Ix. APRIL, 1898. No. 4. CONTENTS: Wickham—Recoliections of old collect- Editorial iicdvgiisitehe oie ssiee sa detenad en go ing groundS,......-.-eresseseereees 81 | Economic Entomology .......+..++ee 9 Harvey—Contributions to the Odonata Notes and News.....-.c.sescosccccccces 96 OF Maines. cece sii ceecesscecesecse 85 | Entomological Literature.............- 98 Eustis—Notes on Editorial............ 88 | Doings of Societies.......6...csscccees 101 Dodge—Food of Eudamus lycidas..... 89 RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. By H. F. Wickuam, Iowa City, Iowa. IV.—The Lower Rio Grande Valley (concluded). Chrysomelidz are quite numerous in these regions, but most of them rather inconspicuous. A few specimens of Megascelis texana Linell, an insect looking something like a small Lema, bright greenish above, testaceous or sometimes slightly greenish beneath, the elytral suture and margin brownish yellow, were found in the heavy thickets. With them dwelt Lema lebioides Linell, easily recognized by its reddish yellow color, and the elytral pattern, consisting of a large square scutellar spot and a longitudinal stripe which begins at the humerus and broadens obliquely towards the suture and apex, the latter of which it does not reach. The black color of the coxe and side pieces of the meso- and metathorax mentioned in Mr. Linell’s description is not constant. Some are almost unicolorous beneath. Anomea mutabilis was commonly seen feeding on mimosas, but became much rarer toward the end of my stay. urypcopa lecontei was rather seldom met with, chiefly on low bushes growing in sandy spots. Chlamys memnonia Lac. fed on mesquite, and was by no means uncommon both at Brownsville and Point Isabel. Axema conspersa was beaten from various weeds, where it might be seen 4 6G 82 ENTOMOLOGCAL NEWS. [April, lodging in the axils of the leaves for all the world like the excre- ment of some caterpillar; indeed, so close is this resemblance that, when not wishing to spare time to examine the things closely nor to wait for them to move, I have often practiced the plan of slightly pinching the suspicious object between my thumb and forefinger. If it then crushes it is not an Hxema, otherwise it may be one—and goes into the collecting bottle. Griburius larvatus feeds on mesquite in July, but I did not find it common. In the genus Cryptocephalus | got trizonatus Suffr. on Cassia, also numerous examples of fu/guratus, defectus and mutabilis on vine-covered bushes, while a few Jumz/us were obtained on shrubs on the open prairie. Dézachus chlorizans, a remarkable pretty little insect with yellow body and metallic-green wing covers was found among the vines. Zyfophorus viridicyanea was taken abundantly at Laredo under a morning-glory, while at Browns- ville it seemed quite rare. Several:specimens of Chrysomela dis- vupta came from a plant which I take to be an Amérosia. Pla- giodera thymaloides Stal was tolerably plentiful on quite a variety of plants throughout the whole length of my stay. It differs widely in facies from our other members of the genus being about the size and form of 7hymalus fulgidus, testaceous, pronotum with a dark median stripe, elytra piceous, slightly metallic, with yellowish outer margin. The thoracic punctuation is fine and sparse, deeper and coarser at the sides, and there is a well-marked lateral fovea about equidistant from the side and hind margins. The elytra are distinctly subseriately punctured; legs testaceous, tarsi blackish toward the tip. D¢zadbrotica balteata swarmed on flowers almost everywhere, in the fields and along the roadsides. Among the Halticini, Homopheta interjectionis was rather com- mon ; Cdionychis texana occurred once. Disonycha 5-vitiata fed in numbers on willows; D. crenicollis on Aster spinosus. Disonycha varicornis makes a departure from the usual food habits of this genus in feeding on a cactus— Opuntia leptocaulis— often swarming on these plants. Haltica burgessi was abundant at one spot out in the thorny chaparral, but I never met with it elsewhere. Of Odontota gracilis 1 took one specimen without any blue on the sides of the elytra. The Cassidini are well rep- resented, six species having been thus far identified from the Brownsville material while others, unknown, still remain. Cas-— sida pallidula was seen feeding on Solanum; C. nigripes was 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 83 beaten from vines in the government pasture, along with Cofio- eycla aurichalcea and C. extensa. C. bonvouloiriz was confined to the more tropical jungles and may be readily told from our other species by the small size and curious coloration. Cabinet specimens are yellowish, the antennal tip piceous, while on the _ upper surface of the body a broad black line describes a nearly circular figure extending forward onto the base of the thorax and backward somewhat less than two-thirds of the length of the elytra. Inside of this figure three black spots are usually seen; one common, anteriorly, and behind these a pair, one on each side of and close to the suture. In life the surface is golden; this is true also of another Coftocycla, of large size, found in the same situations and referred by Dr. Horn to C. /eprosa Boh. In this the color of cabinet specimens is yellowish except the an- tennal tips and the sides of the thoracic segments, which are dusky. The elytra are strongly elevated at base, forming a sutural and a humeral gibbosity, while from about the middle of eS the side margin a raised line runs diagonally up to meet the su- ; tural elevation. The insect reaches a length of nine millimeters and is by no means rare. The Tenebrionidz were not numerous in species, though cer- tain forms were very abundant—for example, leodes seriata and a Paratenetus, both of which were beaten from herbage. I never “noticed this habit of climbing plants strongly developed in other Eleodes, though it is no uncommon thing to see £. hispilabris and £. extricata in bushes on the plains of New Mexico and Arinona. Of £. ¢tricostata I met with a single dead specimen at Point Isabel and mo other species of the genus occurred to me near Brownsville. Two Anedus cribratus Dej. and longicornis Champ., both new to our fauna, were found amongst rubbish in the government reservation. Arrhenoplita Jerruginea was de- tected boring in polyporoid fungi with Rhipidandrus. Talanus dangurinus was quite abundant in thickets and numbers might be obtained by beating. Ae/ops farclus was shaken from mes- quite trees. Pyanisia tristis Casteln. (new to our fauna) was found under logs near a resaca in the woods. It may be distin- guished from /. opaca by the rather deeply bisinuate base of the prothorax. The remaining Heteromera are mostly inconspicuous or well- known species, though a few are of interest. Listronychus pili- 84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, Jerus Champ., is a very abundant species, being found on her- bage in the thickets and less frequently on the more open ground. It is active and takes flight very readily if disturbed. Polypria crux-rufa is new to our lists, and is provisionally referred to the family Melandryidz by Mr. Champion in the ‘‘ Biologia Centrali- Americana.’’ I took one specimen at Brownsville, and I think Prof. Townsend got another. It is recorded from various points in Central America, ranging from Mexico to Nicaragua. The insect is about eight millimeters long, blackish, the abdomen, legs, antenne and elytra yellowish, though not of equal depth of color. The elytral suture is marked with a dark stripe, some- what dilated at base and apex and crossed by a transverse post- median band. The color of these markings seems to vary; Chevrolat describes them as being rufous in his specimen; Cham- pion says they are piceous on the edges, while in my example they are entirely piceous. Pyrota tenuicostatus Duges (dubtitabilis Horn) was noticed in great numbers by Prof. Townsend early in the season, but being late I only got one. Zpicauta tarsalis fed in small swarms on mesquite. The Rhynchophora abound in species, most of which are, for the present, indeterminate. Coleocerus marmoratus was observed on mesquite and hutsache; Anthonomus ligatus on Aster spinosus. Anthonomus grandis, the destructive cotton weevil, was at work in the fields. Cylas formicarius, a sweet-potato pest, was seen but once. Several rare Scolytide and Anthribidz were beaten from dead twigs, but as they are small, and no definite record of food-plant can be given, they need no further mention here. Returning about the last of July—the trip,to Alice was made without entomological results ex route. However, a passing in- terest was aroused by the driver losing his way during the night, _ most of which was consequently spent in driving aimlessly over the wide prairies. Only daylight and the intervention of a Mex- ican cowboy sufficed to set him right after he had retraced much of the distance back towards Brownsville. From Alice the rail- road was called into service, and a short stop at Laredo served to show that the fauna there was chars of the arid Sonoran zone. A PHOTOGRAPH for the album of the American Entomological Society has been received from Charles A. Blake. ane oy ee Ent. News, Vol. IX. Pliiwve | Fig. 10. THE ODONATA OF MAINE (Harvey). (See page 85.) EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Right side view of Ophiogomphus anomalus_ Fig. 5.—Ventral view of G. nevius Hagen § X 8 n.sp. % X 10. * 6.—Dorsal view of G@. Scudderi Selys & X 4 Fig. 2.—Ventral view of Gomphus nevius Hagen * -7.—Ventral view of G. Seudderi Selys & X4 “ 8.—Left side view of G. Scudderi Selys & x 4. %X8 & x8 ° x8. Fig. 3.—Left side view of G. nexvius Hagen 9 x 8. “ 9,—Left side view of G. nevius Hagen “ 4.—Dorsal view of G. nevius Hagen 2 X 8. ** 10.—Dorsal view of G. nevius Hagen All of these figures represent the apical abdominal segments of the respective insects. i i PEs 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 85 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ODONATA OF MAINE.—III. By F. L. Harvey, Orono, Maine. (Continued from p. 64, vol. ix.) Remarks.—We have never seen the types of G. nevius, nor of _ G. albistylus. The single 9 taken in 1890, and the three taken this season, came from the same locality, and have been referred to G. nevius Hagen by Mr. Calvert and myself. The males taken this season certainly belong to the females taken, as they were captured the same day at the same locality, and one in copula. Both the males and females are variable in size, depth of color and markings. We cannot escape the conviction that G. nevius and G. albistylus belong to the same variable species. Mr. Calvert, who shares this opinion, says: ‘‘I have gone over your specimens again and compared them with the descriptions and with the data of variability mentioned in your letter. I now incline strongly to the opinion you suggest, viz., that G. nevius and adbistylus are specifically identical.’’ Selys says of G. nevius: ‘‘ Tres semblable a I aldzsty/us mais beaucoup plus petit.’’ As we have specimens that nearly agree in measurement with those mentioned and find the size quite variable in the males, the distinction of size would seem a trivial one. Again, G. albistylus was described from a single 9 from Maine and x@vius from a few females from Pennsylvania. The material was entirely inadequate to show variability. For the present we leave the species distinct, as our females agree more nearly with the description of G. nevus, but if the future shows that these forms should be merged then G. nevius Hagen would have to be dropped and the species will be known as G. albistylus Hagen, as this name has priority. Should the arrangement of Needham be adopted then the form would be Gomphus (Lanthus Needham) adéistylus Hagen. 63. Gomphus spicatus Selys. Taken July, 1896, in a pasture near Orono; also June 26, 1897, at S. Lagrange over a brook (Harvey). Both specimens were females. One specimen had the outer triangle of both of the hind wings crossed by a single vein. 22. G. exilis Selys. Common in wood-roads at S. Lagrange, June 26, 1897 (Har- vey). 86 ' ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 42. G. brevis Selys. Chemo Stream, Bradley. A scarce species, flying with G. nevius and Hagenius brevistylus over swift water. Two males July 8, 1897 (Harvey). 43. G. abbreviatus Hagen. June 26, 1897, S. Lagrange. Along wood-roads. A single pair in copula. A scarce species (Harvey). Subfamily 4.—/EscHNIN&. 16, Anax junius Drury. Aug. 15, 1897, Orono (Bartle Harvey). This was reported in a previous article from a specimen in the University collection. Several specimens were seen during August and September over grass and grain fields. : 17. Basieschna Janata Say. Western Maine (Miss Furbish). S. Lagrange (Harvey), Westbrook (Ricker), 1897. 18. Hischna constricta Say. W. Maine (Miss Furbish). 41. Boyeria vinosa Say. Penobscot River at N. E. Carry, Birch Stream, Sunk Haze, Greenfield and Orono. This species is a night-flyer, at least it is on the wing in the late twilight. Several specimens were taken about the home and sheds in spider-webs. Along streams they show a preference for falls, dams and sluices. Rather common during August and September. Subfamily 5.—CoORDULEGASTERIN&. 45. Cordulegaster diastatops Selys. A single ? taken at Sunk Haze Stream, Greenfield, in Au- gust, 1893. It is scarce in this part of Maine. Subfamily 6.—CorDULIN#&. 64. Somatochlora elongata Scud. August, 1892, fifteen miles at sea off Scoodic Point. This specimen, a %, came aboard of our yacht and lit on the main sail. It seemed wearied, and was easily taken (Harvey). 65. §. elongata var. minor Calvert’s MS. Bradley, July 8, 1897, over a small brook in a meadow (Har- vey). This form was referred to Mr. Calvert, who named it as 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 87 above, and said: ‘‘It is a MS. and collection name of my own as I have never been able to find any previous name for this form.’’* 28. Neurocordulia Uhleri Hag. — : . Western Maine (Miss Furbish). 29. Tetragoneuria cynosura Say. Rangeley (Miss Furbish). 65. Cordulia Shurtleffi Scud. A single % taken July 6, 1897, over a small pond in Colburn’s pasture near Orono (Bartle Harvey). 46. Didymops transversa Say. Rangeley (Miss Furbish), Foxcroft July 7, and S. Lagrange June 26 (Harvey). Subfamily 7.—LiBELLULIN~. 34. Leucorhinia proxima Calvert. This was reported in a previous paper from a single broken specimen in the University of Maine collection, but it proves to be an abundant species. Fully fifty specimens were taken over small ponds during June and July by the writer and his son, Bartle Harvey. The bloom on some males extended to the sixth abdominal segment. One male had, on the basal half of the dorsum of segments 4-7, a narrow yellow line. On two males these lines were wanting on even 6 and 7. On two males the bloom extended on to the fifth segment. The bloom is not con- tinuous on the segments affected, but there are bare places that show as black spots. 35. L. intacta Hag. Westbyook (Ricker), 1897. 36. Diplax rubicundula. S. Lagrange, June; N. W. Carry, Aug. 26, 1897 (Harvey); Rangeley (Miss Furbish). 32. Libellula exusta Say. Westbrook (Ricker), 1897. * P. S.—The chief characteristics of “ var. minor” compared with its nearest allies, elongata Scud. and Wadshii Scud., are the absence of an inferior, transverse orange band on the frons connecting the pale spots of the genz; vertex and nasus entirely metallic green; occiput black; yellow of the mesepimeron an oval spot; dorsum of 10 and the superior appendages black throughout ; the latter similar to those of elongata, but having (in addition to the two external, lateral, subbasal teeth seen when the appendages are examined from above) a third, larger, subbasal, iz/erior tooth at a level de¢ween those of ‘the two lateral teeth ; inferior appendage two-thirds as long as the superiors. Abdomen 30.5, hind wing 33. Maine, as above; Franconia, N. H., by Mrs. A. T.Slosson. I have -also a male and a female from Sherbrooke, Quebec, by l’Abbé Begin, which are interme- diate, to some extent, between Walshii and minor.—P. P. CALVERT. 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 31. L. 4-maculata L. Rangeley (Miss Furbish). 33. L. pulchella Drury. Reported from a specimen found in the University of Maine collection, but since found in great abundance over ponds and rivers. About Orono (Harvey), Auburn (E. D. Merrill) and Westbrook (Ricker). ; Remarks.—Species reported for the first time in this article are numbered from 54 to 66. The numbers lower than 54 refer to species reported in ENT. News, vol. ii, Nos. 3 and 4, 1891, and in vol. iii, Nos..4 and 5, 1892. This article includes thir- teen species not before reported from Penobscot waters. Several of these have been collected by my son, Bartle Harvey, my daughter, Florence Harvey, and by Mr. E. D. Merrill, of the Junior Class in the University of Maine. We have included for locality specimens taken by Miss Kate Furbish, in Western Maine, and by Mr. P. L. Ricker at Westbrook, Me. The remarkable finds are the males of Gomphus nevius and Scudderi previously unknown and a new species of Ophiogomphus. fa’ NOTES ON EDITORIAL. By H. W. Eustis, Minneapolis, Minn. The editorial in response to W. R. H. in the January, 1898, News leaves the impression that perhaps I am one of your list of subscribers who ought to contribute some article in the hope of benefiting others of our ‘‘ numerous class.’’ Hoping the appre- ciation of my effort will be evidenced by the subsequent appear- ance of many valuable papers I herewith offer a few suggestions: Use corrugated board instead of cork. It is cheaper and better. By using two thicknesses the pins are held at four points. Flow to get 95 per cent. results from subterranean pupe.—tin a wooden box bore several holes the size of a broom-stick on each side about two inches from the bottom, taking pains to get them well opposite. Through these holes put broom-sticks and then gradually cover with wet earth, packing hard as you proceed. Four or five inches of earth is sufficient. Now withdraw the sticks and after placing your pupz in the tunnels thus left cork up both ends and you have your insect in a cell just like the one he made, except that he has company. Keep in a warm room for early results, or a cold one if you intend to breed. Sprinkle once a week and occasionally allow to dry. I should be pleased to describe to any collector a little collect- ing box which fits the pocket. enabling me to carry home one hundred butterflies in ‘‘ the pink of perfection.”’ 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 89 FOOD OF EUDAMUS LYCIDAS. By G. M. DonGe, Louisiana, Mo. On Aug. 5, 1897, I had been walking in the woods and seated myself upon the grass to rest with hands clasped around my knees. Soon a Eudamus lycidas alighted on my hand. It moved over the tip of my thumb with quick sidling motions and I soon noticed that its proboscis was thrust back under its body. I then saw that it was feeding upon a fluid which it ejected from the tip of the abdomen. It would deposit a small drop and im- mediately begin to take it up as rapidly as possible. When the drop had been absorbed the insect would change its place a little by stepping to one side, sometimes only moving the hind legs, and at once repeat the ejecting and feeding process. It evidently changed its place so that it might deposit the liquor on a dry spot where it would not spread out and be lost before it could be secured, as it would have done on a surface already moistened. After taking a number of drops of this peculiar form of nourish- ment it flew away. I followed and saw it alight on a leaf where it remained quietly at rest without attempting to feed, doubtless digesting its dinner. I returned to my former head and, assuming the same posi- tion, the butterfly soon returned and perched upon my sleeve. Here it remained for some time, constantly feeding as before, and as the little drops stood up in a half globular form upon the dry, white surface, I could see that they were quite clear, with a slightly yellow or amber tinge. Then it finally flew away and returned no more. I hardly think that this butterfly was an entomological Edison who had discovered this unique method of feeding. The selection of a dry place for each succeeding globule must have been from the dictation of instinct, and such instinct could only have come from a long line of ancestors who manipulated their food in a similar way. Can it be that butterflies distil the crudé nectar which they gather from various sources, finding suitable food only in the refined product? ““Why did the fly fly?’ ‘‘ Because the spider spied her.” go [April, ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENroMOLoGIcAL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source, The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- ence, as to make it necessary to put ‘‘ copy’’ into the hands of the printer, for each number» three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five ‘‘extras’’ without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.—Eb. PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1898. LOANING SPECIMENS FOR STUDY. This is a subject with which societies, institutions and individ- uals frequently are obliged to contend. The object of our study should be to advance its interests, and from this standpoint the best use that can be made of specimens is to have them studied and put in scientific order.. One man says: ‘‘ The types in Phila- delphia might as well be in Central Africa unless they are loaned for study.’’ Space will not permit us to discuss this subject at any length. Now, what is our experience—the experience of thirty years. Some of the loaned material comes back in good order. Some comes back ruined, with such a mixture of heads, abdomens and legs that only on insect resurrection day might it be possible to make an allotment of these parts. Some never come back at all, as they are actually stolen. It seems that there are comparatively few entomologists in America who know how to pack insects for shipment and many others seem to know almost nothing about physics, as packing on two sides of a box seems to content them. Knowing these facts it is almost impose sible to discriminate among systematic workers. TOO SMART FOR THE CITY FOLKS.—‘‘ Me an’ the boys was workin’ ’roun’ the bee-hives, when one of them there dressed-up city gals comes up to the fence an’ she sez: ‘ You have a nice ape-e-ary, sir.’ ‘No, maam,’ sez I. ‘I haven’t no ape-e-ary—all the apes there is ’roun’ here comes from the city,’ sez I.’’--Harper’s Weekly. : 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. gI DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J, Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor, Prof. John B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J. Quarantine Against Injurious Insects.—This question is perhaps the most interesting and important in economic entomology to-day. Not only have several States passed laws which require the inspection of all plants in- troduced within their borders before they can be delivered to the pur- chaser, or in lieu thereof a certificate which is supposed to show that they have been inspected where grown and found free from injurious insects or plant diseases; but there has been also introduced in both branches of Congress a bill which provides for the exclusion of foreign fruits and plants, unless accompanied by a similar certificate, or until they have been in- spected at certain ports of entry to be designated by the Secretary of Agriculture. Of course all these acts are in restraint or regulation of commerce and only justifiable on the’ ground of necessity. It seems per- fectly clear that, after fruits or plants enter the boundaries of a State, they become subject to its police regulations. It seems also clear that in so far as the laws of a State require extra territorial action they are void. It is for that reason that the power of Congress has been invoked to secure legislation that shall be uniform. The desirability of restricting the dis- tribution of plant pests is unquestioned; but it is by no means so certain that the measures proposed will accomplish the result aimed at. In the first place, the question of diseases. Any one who has any knowledge whatever of plant diseases knows that some of them may exist for a considerable time in a latent state awaiting only favorable con- ditions to develop. It is also known that some diseases can be only dis- covered in certain stages of the plant’s growth, and that when the leaves are off, indications of peach yellows or peach rosette are practically indis- coverable, except in very bad cases. Different causes also produce similar results; thus starvation of a plant or an attack of root lice may produce an appearance similar to the yellows, and it may require microscopic examination to determine the question; hence an inspection that will enable a man to say that a block of trees is or is not free from disease is by no means a simple affair and not one that can be settled in the nursery in all cases. Putting that aside for the present let us see how the insect question stands, and leaving aside also the question of interstate commerce, let us consider the question of the possibility of excluding injurious insects from foreign countries. In his exceedingly interesting address before Section F, at the Detroit meeting of the A. A. A. S., the vice-president, Dr. Le- land O. Howard, handled the question of the spread of land species by the agency of man with special reference to insects. He showed, most 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, interestingly, that a very considerable number of insects are annually in- troduced which do not gain a foothold, and a moment’s consideration makes it certain that this must be so. It is the experience of every one who has frequented docks where foreign ships unload that a considerable number of foreign insects are found there. Dr. Lugger, when at Ballti- more, made a very interesting collection of such species; while in New York City and in Brooklyn I have seen a number of insects so taken. Practically, none of these species have gained a foothold here, and it is probable that many more than we have any record of have been intro- duced into this country and have died. In California there is a very rigid quarantine, established with the in- tention of preventing the introduction of foreign injurious insects. The quarantine officer, Mr. Alexander Craw, is a gentleman thoroughly fitted for the duties of his position and as little likely to let an insect slip in as any person known to me. He has a very interesting series of insects found on plants intended for California, and it illustrates what has been excluded; but it does not furnish one particle of proof that any of these insects, if they had been allowed to land, would have established them- selves and become troublesome. ~ There are in the United States at the present time a number of insect pests that were introduced from, foreign countries: some of them trouble- some in their native home, others not particularly so. Could they have been excluded by the inspection which is provided for in the act of Con- gress, to which reference has been made? One of them is the Hessian fly. It is an insect which passes a portion of its life in a ‘‘flax-seed”’ stage concealed in straw, and it might be introduced under present com- mercial conditions at almost any time from an infested district. Could it be kept out by the proposed inspection system? This provides only for the inspection of plants and fruits; but straw is neither a plant nor a fruit, and therefore not subject to inspection. Straw is used for packing in a great many cases; it is used in covering bottles, in protecting plants, and for a variety of different purposes. The inspector would have no right to open packages containing straw only, and straw would come in practically without any inspection. Therefore, any insects which could maintain life in the stems of such dried grasses as are used in packing would come into this country absolutely without hindrance. There is a wide open gate, therefore, for all creatures that may live or be concealed in or under plants of that character. The Hessian fly, it seems to me, could easily be introduced into this country in spite of the quarantine or inspection provided by this act. The pear midge is an insect not so long a resident of this country, and which was introduced in nursery stock originally imported into Connec- ticut. It has done considerable injury in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, and there has been a very heavy money loss on the part of many growers. We have learned to control it; but the question is, could it have been excluded and this money loss prevented by the inspection? The 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 93 pear midge winters underground in a little silken cocoon which is very inconspicuous. In order to make certain that every stick introduced from abroad does not contain the cocoons of midges it would be necessary to remove every particle of soil from the roots. The cocoon in its entirety is not over an eighth of an inch in length and may be concealed in any little pellet of earth. In fact, the cocoon is surrounded with particles of earth, which render it almost indistinguishable. Does any one claim that "it is possible to safely inspect thousands of pear stocks that are introduced annually in such a way as to make certain that not a pellet of the earth adhering to the roots contains a cocoon? No sign of the appearance of _ the midge can be detected upon the plant itself. If present at all it will be in the soil. Now, of course, the imported stocks do not contain any great bundles of earth; but in the angles formed by the roots there always is more or less soil attached and more than enough to shelter the insect under consideration. I do not think that any inspection can be sufficiently thorough to exclude any insect of this kind. Another species, recently introduced and still spreading, is the Wood Leopard Moth, Zeuzera pyrina, also called the Imported Elm Borer. It is an insect which is creating havoc with the shade trees in several Eastern cities around New York, and which, on Long Island, is causing serious injury to orchard trees as well. It requires the constant effort of the ento- mologist to the Department of Public Parks in New York City to keep the insect down in that-city and wagon loads of wood are cut each winter, because they contain borers; nevertheless many trees are killed, In Jersey City and Newark the trees along entire avenues have been de- stroyed ; not only elms, but maples and other varieties. Could this in- sect have been kept out by the system of inspection now proposed? The caterpillar of the Wood Leopard Moth has the habit of crawling from place to place when it gets tired of one situation. It does not, even in all cases, remain in the tree on which it has been feeding when it is ready for pupation. Mr. Southwick once upon a time brought in an infested stick and the larva disappeared fromit. I.ater on, when the moth emerged, he discovered that it had bored into the wood work of a window casing and had pupated there. The insect may have been introduced into this country in the woodwork of almost any box, barrel or crate, and not necessarily on a living plant at all. In fact, the chances are all against its having been introduced on a living plant. The probabilities are that it came in with some sticks of wood used on the steamers for packing or other purposes. Every living plant and every fruit on that steamer could have been inspected and passed and yet hundreds of pupz of the Wood Leopard Moth might have been in the sticks or planks that were used in the packing or for other purposes and that were thrown away as useless on the dock. I do not believe that any system of inspection would have excluded this borer. Certainly not that which is confined to living plants alone. Also a comparatively recent introduction is the Sinuate Pear Borer. 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. {April, This was introduced on pear stocks from France into Union County, N- J. ‘It has killed hundreds of trees, and if we have succeeded in checking its progress, at present, the danger was for a time a real one. Could this insect have been excluded by inspection? In the first place it works only beneath the bark of the tree. It makes no opening outwardly and the young borer produces practically no effect upon the appearance of the bark. There was nothing on the outside of these trees to indicate the presence of a borer underneath the bark. How could it have been dis- covered unless the bark of each tree had been actually cut into, and how could one be sure that the portion actually cut would reveal the presence of a borer if one existed? I claim that it would be impossible to discover insects of this kind by any method of ordinary inspection. The Sinuate Borer could come in in spite of the inspection provided by the act of Con- gress. In fact, this illustrates a class of cases: Insects that work between the bark and wood of young trees in such a way as to cause no outward sign, simply, cannot be discovered by ordinary inspection. According to an amendment adopted at the request of the florists— florist’s plants are exempt from inspection and from the requirements of a certificate: but are florist’s plants not likely to introduce injurious in- sects? Roses are florist’s plants; the brown-tail moth, which recently appeared in destructive numbers in Massachusetts, is said to have been imported on rose plants. I do not know how true this is, but it is quite _possible. Take a variety of lepidopterous insects that winter in the pupa state or in cocoons; some of them so closely resemble the bark of the trees that it requires the closest kind of examination to see them. Others conceal themselves under loose bits of bark. Can any inspection be suffi- ciently thorough to make it certain that some little angle among the roots or among the branches does not contain the cocoons of some Tortricid or Tineid? Moss and similar material is used in packing plants, and every one who has ever collected insects knows that moss shelters an enormous number during the hibernating period. Will it be possible to so examime the packing material around the plants as to make certain that no insects are there? I doubt whether any package of plants would be found en- tirely free from insects, and if not free are they to be excluded or treated? How can we tell whether a given insect will live in this country or will not? Consider the horn-fly, which has caused great alarm throughout the United States and a considerable money loss as well. Could that have been excluded? It does not come within the purview of the act at all. Only plants and fruits are to be examined, and there is nothing that would act as a bar to the introduction of creatures like this horn-fly. Root maggots would be almost indiscoverable in many instances, and in the winged stage could not always be destroyed, even if they were recognized, because flies have a habit of getting out of reach in a very exasperating way. In fact, the possibilities of importation under modern commercial circumstances are so great that I do not believe it possible to éxclude injurious insects except, possibly, scales. It is always the spe- 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ; 95 cies that is least looked for that becomes domesticated here. And how €asy it is to overlook things is illustrated in Massachusetts, where, in the very domain constantly covered by the Gypsy Moth workers, the brown- tail moth succeeded in establishing itself, and becoming a serious pest, was entirely unnoticed. The Secretary of Agriculture is empowered under the act to accept a certificate from foreign authority in lieu of the inspection provided for, but here we have this point: How can a foreign entomologist, looking over nursery stock, tell what is under ground? How can he tell what root lice may be working at the roots? No nursery is free from all in- sects, and there are sure to be in every foreign plantation a number which are never harmful there. They are things the entomologists are used to and pay no attention to; yet those very insects may be the ones which become most harmful here if they were introduced. A certificate could be given by such an inspector that no dangerously injurious insects had been found, and it might be perfectly true; but insects introduced under such a certificate might become dangerously injurious in this country and the certificate would carry the plants in without any question at this port. Another question arises, and that is, would those certificates be accepted _ in all States, and could their acceptance be compelled? I doubt whether a foreign certificate would land a plant or fruit in the purchaser’s ‘hand in California without inspection. In California the county inspectors do not always accept each other’s certificates, and I am strongly inclined to be- lieve that Mr. Craw would hesitate a long while before accepting a Japanese certificate that the plants contained in that case were free from injurious insects; yet if he did not he would be in direct conflict with the federal law. Is the game worth the cost? The bill carries an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars. In- spectors are to be appointed at ports of entry and to make examinations of nurseries. I believe that these examinations are to be made without cost to the nurserymen. Why? Why should the United States be com- pelled to pay for giving a nurseryman a commercial rating? I fully admit, as already stated, the desirability of checking the spread of diseases and insects, but I must confess that I am entirely skeptical as to the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed national legislation. “J. B. Situ. The San Jose Scale.—I have just read Dr. J. B. Smith’s excellent disser- tation on this subject in the Report of the New Jersey Station for 1897, and desire to make a few observations: 1. Since I wrote the bulletin on the San José scale and its allies, Mr. Craw has two or three times found Aspidiotus perniciosus on trees from Japan. For example, a plum tree which arrived Jan. 25, 1898, was in- fested by this and Diaspis amygdali. 2. I consider it probable that the scale is a native of the more or less elevated forest regions of Japan, not of the sea-coast. The scales found near sea-level in Japan seem to be oriental tropical types, with very little of the palaearctic element indeed. The enemies of scale insects found 96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, | at the lower levels might not be at all effective against the San José scale; and we do not know yet whether is is a fungus, a Chalcidid, a beetle, or what—that we have to look for. Hence I do not think it likely that any valuable enemy of the scale—supposing to exist—will be obtained unless a trained entomologist spends some months in the country. 3. As to the desirability of sending an entomologist to Japan, I think it admits of no dispute. Japanese Coccids, etc., are continually being sent to this country, and it is of the highest importance to obtain a know- ledge of their habits and parasites, quite apart from the San José scale question. If any one goes I shall be glad to supply him with information about Japanese Coccids, and if he can stop here on his way he can see them for himself and go over the whole subject in detail. 4. In the United States the scale is by no means uniformly destructive, as has been known for some time. In the Mesilla Valley, N. M., the San José scale has existed for a number of years in several orchards, and while it will kill trees, if left alone, it spreads very slowly, and is quite readily controlled if one is on the lookout for it. Very few points in New Mexico have been found infested, and it is now practically only injurious at Las Cruces. Thus, with us it is a second-class pest; while, on the other hand, the Codling Moth is much more troublesome than in the North- eastern States. 5. Some A. perniciosus on plum from Canada, sent by Mr. Fletcher, were much infested by a red-brown, moniliform fungus, not observed in fruit. Thus, it appears that there may be a second, and more Northern, fungus which attacks the scale. T. D. A. CocKERELL, N. M. Agric. Exp. Station. Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. I COLLECTED during December at Miami, Florida, two species new to our lists of Rhopalocera. Of T7hecla telea Hew. I caught two males; this small species, already known from Brazil, Central America and Mexico, is one of the most beautiful species, and I presume few are ac- quainted with it. Of Axc@a portia Fab. I took about twenty specimens in no way differing from those in the British Museum here, and which are from the island of San Domingo. I found 7hecla acis Dru, and 7. mar- tialis H. S. quite abundant, the former in the pine forests, the latter on the Cags and along the bay shore. Just after Christmas I took Victorina steneles and Timetes eleucha. Of the Heterocera I found a number of species known previously from tropical America only. The Hesperidz are not yet identified, there being five or six species quite new to my collection.—W. Scuaus, Twickenham, England. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE EpitTors.—‘‘ Can’t you find a few — of those beginners there in the East who have the nerve to contribute to 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 97 the News? Most of us chaps out here (the Western States) are beginners and would also like to hear a familiar voice now and then.’ Personally, however, I would object to cutting anything out of the NEws to make room for “‘tyro”’ matter, with the possible exception of matter not rela- ting to strictly United States insects. I do object very seriously to seeing the News filled up with descriptions of African, European, Alaskan, and other insects we will possibly never see and which, it appears to me, should go into ‘‘ Transactions.’? Such articles as those by Prof. A. J, Snyder are much appreciated by the tyro. Purely artificial tables to assist the collector in placing his species would be very acceptable additions to articles treating of a limited group. Every time one of your great entomologists die I groan involuntarily because I regret to see heads go out of existence taking with them so much know- ledge, much of which might have been given to us in little paragraphs of hints. It does seem that the more one knows the harder it is to get any- thing intelligible out of him. Everything must be technical in proportion to his reputation. Technicalities have done quite as much to mystify as to enlighten. I am not in favor of work so popular as to be inaccurate, but this endless terminology is quite discouraging. But I suppose these sentiments are not those of scientists, so we will say no more.’’-—F. Oss 7 Mr. Epriror—‘‘H. F. W.” wonders what the “ mere collectors”’ want. Well, I presume there are no two who want just the same things. Just at present there is one in my immediate vicinity who wants to know (1) the duration of the egg stage of /una, cecropia, columbia, imperialis, polyphemus and S. bisecta? (2) if larvee which, in nature, feed on large trees will, in confinement, do as well on small trees four or six feet high of same species ? (3) if pupze which have been kept all winter packed in moss need to be taken from the moss and placed in dirt before they emerge? (4) if cases made from pine or resinous woods will cause speci- mens kept in them to turn greasy? and (5) what is the appearance of 5S. bisecta? He thinks he has the pupe of some of that species which re- sulted from larvze found feeding on Pinus regida, but is not sure. For years I have been finding the larve of Zuna feeding on white birch, and not knowing to contrary supposed that to bea well-known food-plant of the species, but I am told recently that such has not been known to be the fact, so I give this information for what it may be worth. Would not the mere collector be pleased to have a standard cash price authoritatively fixed for each species? As it is now, one man says aste- vias, for instance, is worth ten cents, while another rates it at twenty-five, with others setting it at fifteen and twenty. It seems to me that if uni- formity in this matter could be brought about, it would greatly facilitate the making of exchanges.—W. R. HowarpD, Belfast, Me. We would be pleased to have our readers send us answers to these. questions for the benefit of all. Of course the answer to question 2 is yes. To questions 3 and 4, no.—Eps. 4* 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all arti- cles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in~ the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but when such articles are in other languages than Engiish, French, German or Italian, this fact is indicated in parenthesis. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., March, ’98.—&. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., March, ’98.—7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Washington; circulars, second series.—10. Na- ture, London, ’98.—11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, Feb., ’98.—15. Biologia Centrali- Americana, part cxl, London, Jan., ’98.—21. The Entomologist’s Record, London, Feb. 15, ’98.—22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, ’98.—36. Annales, Société Entomo- logique de Belgique, Brussels, ’98.—45. Deutsche Entomologische Zeit- schrift, ’97, heftii, Berlin, Dec., ’97.—61. Natural Science, London. Feb., ’98.—65. La Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes, Paris, March 1, ’98.—66, Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Braunschweig, Feb. 26, ’98.—67. Entomologiske Tidskrift, xviii, 1 Feb. 27; ’97, 2 Sept. 25, ’97, 3-4 Jan. 19, *98, Stockholm. 3 The General Subject.—Ackermann, K. Animal bastards: summary of the observations on bastardy in the anitnal kingdom with references to the literature thereon; xxxii Abhandlungen und Bericht des Vereins fiir Naturkunde zu Kassel, ’97.—Capper, S.J. Ashortsketch of entomological serial literature in Britain, 21.—Cockerell, T. D. A. The insect visitors of flowers in New Mexico-i, Zoologist, London, Feb. 15, ’98.—Combes, P. The distribution of insects according to altitude, Le Naturaliste, Paris, Feb. 15, ’°98.—C omstock, J. H., and Needham,'J. G. The wings of insects—ii. American Naturalist, Boston, March, ’98.—Dixon, W.A. Insusceptibility of insects to poison, 10, Feb. 17.—Hampson, G. F. Protective and Pseudo-mimicry, 10, Feb. 17.—Heymons, R. Remarks on Verhoeff’s ‘Still some words on segmental appendages of insects and myriopods,’ 22, Feb. 21.— Moffat, J. A. Some insects, rare in Canada, taken at Hamilton by Mr. James Johnston, 4.—Mortimer, C. H. Lively halves of a bi- sected insect, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, March, ’98.— Potter, H. B. Insusceptibility of insects to poisons, 10, March 3.— Poulton, E. B. Protective mimicry and common warning colors, 10, Feb. 24.—Reh. The influence of man on the distribution of terrestrial species, especially insects, Naturwigsenschaftliche Wochenschrift, Berlin, Vike 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 99 Feb. 27, ’98.—v. Seiler, C.K. Escherich on the exuvial hairs of in- sects after their change of function, Centralblatt fiir Physiologie, Leipsic and Vienna, Feb. 5, ’98.—Stevenson, C. The labeling of entomo- logical specimens, 4.—Trimen,R. The President’s address: Obituary -Mimicry in Insects, Transactions, Entomological Society of London, "97, pt. v, Feb. 2, °98.—Verhoeff, C. Some words on the European cave fauna, 22, Feb. 14. Economic Entomology.—Chittenden, F. H. The two-lined , chestnut borer (Agrilus bilineatus Weber), figs., 7, No. 24, July 14, ’97.— Howard, L. O. The Mexican cotton-boll weevil in 1897, 7, No. 27, - Dec. 31, ’97; The box-elder plant bug (Zepfocoris trivittatus Say), figs., 7. No. 28, jan. 8, ’°98.—Johnson, W. G. Answers to queries and notes on insects injurious in mills, xviii [cockroaches], figs.. American Miller, XXvi, p. 201, March 1, ’98; See Diptera.—Kerremans, C. Discourse on Economic Entomology, 35, xli, 13, Feb. 15.—K oningsberger, J. C. First review of the injurious and useful insects of Java, Mededeelin- gen uit ’sLands Plantentuin, xxii, Batavia—s’Gravenhage, ’98.—Lampa, S. [Report of the Entomologist for 1896] (in Swedish), 67,1.—Marlatt, C. L. The buffalo tree-hopper (Ceresa bubalus F.), 7, No. 23, May 10, *97; The ox warble (Hypoderma lineata Vill.), 7, No. 25, July 19, ’97; The pear slug, figs., 7, No. 26, Aug. 28, ’97,—Slingerland, M. V. The Codling-moth, figs., Bulletin 142, Cornell University Agric. Exper. Station, Ithaca, N. Y.. Jan., ’98.—Smith, J. B. Report of the Entomological Department of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station for the year 1897. Trenton, N. J., 1898. Pp. 395-492, figs. . Arachnida.—Cambridge, O. P. Arachnida Araneidea,* pp. 233-240, 15.—Hansen, H. J., and S6rensen, W. The order Pal- pigradi Thor. (Koenenia mirabilis Grassi) and its relationship to the other Arachnida, 1 pl., 67, 3-4.—Lénnberg, E. Scorpions and Pedipalpi of the Zoological Museum, University of Upsala; On the geographical — distribution of Scorpions and Pedipalpi (both in Swedish), 67, 3-4.— Piersig, R. The Hydrachnide of Germany (cont.), 8 pls., Zoologica, heft 22, lieferung 3, Stuttgart, ’97.—Simon, E. Descriptions of new Arachnids of the families Agelenide, Pisauridz, Lycoside and Oxyo- pidez,* 35, xlii, 1, Feb. 26. Myriopoda.—Silvestri, F. Preliminary note on the morphology of the Diplopoda, Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, anno cexcv, Jan. 2,’98. Rome. _ Thysanura.—Folsom, J. W. Descriptions of species of Machilis and Seira from Mexico,* 1 pl., 5. Orthoptera.—Blatchley,W.S. Some Indiana Acridide—iv,* 4. —de Saussure, H., and Pictet, A. Orthoptera* pp. 345-368, pls. Xvii, xviii, 15. Neuroptera,.— K. J.T. Porter on Trichonympha and other parasites of the Termites ( Termes flavipes), 66.—Wasmann,E. Termites of Madagascar and East Africa, 2 pls,, Abhandlungen, Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, xxi, 1, F rankfurt, ’97. 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, Hemiptera.—Baker, C. F. Athysanella, a new genus of Jassids,* 5.—Champion,G.C. Rhynchota Heteroptera* vol. ii, pp. 33-48, pl. iii, 15.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Notes on the Coccide, a family of Homoptera, with a table of the species hitherto observed in Brazil, figs.; Further notes on Coccidz from Brazil, Revisto do Museu Paulista, ii, S. Paulo, Brazil, ’97; Two new scale-insects quarantined at San Francisco,* 5.—Marlatt, C. L. See Economic Entomology.—Schwarz, E. A. The periodical cicada in'1897, 7, No. 22, May 1, ’97. Coleoptera.—Aurivillius, C. New or little-known Coleoptera Longicornia, 1 pl., 67, 3-4.—Blandford, W. F. H. Coleoptera,* — vol. iv, pt. 6, pp. 185-216, 15.—Chittenden, F. H. See Economic Entomology.—Davis, W. T. Notes on beetles preserved with Wicker- sheimer’s solution, Proceedings of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island, Feb. 12, ’98.—Gorham, H.S. Coleoptera* vol. vii, pp. 241-248, 15.—Jacoby, M. Descriptions of some new species of Dory- phora, Entomologist, London, March, ’98.—Linell, M. L. A new species of Aegialites,* 4.—Pic, M. Synoptic study of the Longicorn Coleoptera of the genus Cortodera Muls., 65.—Reitter, E. Analytic revision of the Coleopterous genus J/icrodera Esch., 45.—V erhoeff, C. On the coloring of the Coleopterous nymphs and imagos, Verhand- lungen d. k. k. zoologisch botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien xlvii, 10, Jan. 31, °98.—Wasmann, E. A new Xenodusa from Colorado with a table of the species of Xenodusa* figs.; On the biology of the Lomechusa group; A new myrmecophilous Silphid genus from Costa Rica,* 45. Diptera.—Becker, T. Contributions to the Dipterous fauna of Nova Zembla, Annuaire, Musée Zoologique Ge |’ Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersburg ’97, No. 4.—Bengtsson, S. Contribution to the knowledge of the larve of Phalacrocera replicata L., 4 pls. [In - Swedish], Acta Universitatis Lundensis, xxxiii, 1897,—C oquillett, D. W. On the Dipterous genus Zusiphona, 4.—Johnson, W. G. Notes on the Morelos orange fruit-worm, Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington, iv, 2, Jan. 6, ’98.—Trybom, F. Tracks of Tipulid- larve on sand beaches (in Swedish), 67, 1.—Wandolleck, B. Is the phylogeny of the Aphaniptera discovered? 22, Feb. 21.—Wheeler, W.M. A new genus of Dolichopodide,* figs. Zoological Bulletin i, 5, Boston, Feb., ’98. ; Lepidoptera.—A urivillius, C. Remarks on the Lepidoptera described by J. Chr. Fabricius from Danish collections, 67, 3-4.—But- ler, A. G. A revision of the butterflies of the genus Zvias, 11.— Druce, H. Lepidoptera Heterocera* vol. ii, pp. 441-448, pls. Ixxxv— Ixxxvii, 16; Description of some new species of Heterocera, 11.— Dyar, H.G. On the value of larval characters, 213; Description of a new species of Arctiida# with a table of the species of /dalus,* 5.-- Grote, A. R. The classification of the day-butterflies {concl.), 1 pl. — 61.—Hanham, A. W. Notes on collecting ‘at light’? (cont.), 4.— Lyman, H. H. A rare aberration of Vanessa antiopa, 1 pl. 4.— * ae 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 101 Peyron, J. On the developmental stages of Cheimatobia species, 1 pl. (in Swedish), 67, 2.—Reuter, E. Ona new classification of the Rho- palocera, 1 pl, 21.—Turner, A.J. The Xyloryctide of Queensland, Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. 4, Brisbane, ’97. Hymenoptera.—André, E. Synopsis of the Mutillidz of France (cont.), 65.—Aurvillius, C. A new Swedish egg parasite, 1 pl. (in Swedish), 67, 3-4.—Bethe, A. Ought psychical qualities be ascribed to ants and bees?, figs., 2 pls., Pfltiger’s Archiv fiir Physiologie, Ixx, r and 2, Bonn, Jan. 29, ’98.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Some bees of the genus Megachile from New Mexico and Colorado,* 11; Cockerell, _T.D.A. New and little-known bees,* 4.—Hanstein, R.v. C. Ver- _hoeff on the life-history of the genus Halictus, 66.—Janet, C. The habits of ants, Revue Scientifique, Paris, Feb. 19, ’°98.—Kieffer, Abbé. Cynipides in: Species des Hyménopteres d’Europe et d’Algerie fondé par Edmond André et continué sous Ernest André. 6/e fascicule. Paris, Vve Dubosclard, Editeur. Jan. 1, ’98, 2 pls.—Latter, O. H. Wasps {temperature and moisture], 61.—Marlatt, C. L. See Economic Entomology.—_W asmann, E. A new £ci¢on guest from North Caro- lina, fig., 45. Doings of Societies. A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held February 24th, Dr. Henry C. McCook, president, in the chair. Dr. McCook acknowledged his election as president and thanked the Society for the honor conferred upon him which he highly appreciated. Mr. Wm. J. Fox read letters from the following persons acknowledging their election as Corresponding Members of the American Entomological Society: L. O. Howard, Wash- ington, D. C.: Herbert Osborn, Ames, Iowa; Samuel Henshaw, Cambridge, Mass.; H. H. Behr, San Francisco, Cala.; John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.; Osbert Salvin, Haslemere, Eng- land; W. J. Elwes, Colesborne, England; Ernest André, Gray, France. The death of Herr Heinrich Ribbe was also announced by the Corresponding Secretary. Mr. Herman Hornig presented some slides representing the histology of insects. Dr. Calvert Stated that Mr. Henshaw’s bibliography of Dr. Horn had been received. Dr. Horn had proposed 154 genera, of which 140 had been retained; 1582 species had been described, of which number 1497 had been retained; of the 85, 35 were varieties and 50 Synonyms. The same gentleman read letters from Dr. David Sharp and Mr. G. C. Champion, giving a summary of the work of the late Dr. G. H. Horn. Dr. Calvert also read a letter from 102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, Mr. Herman Hornig, stating that the caterpillars of the larger Bombycidz store up food for use in the chrysalis state, which they gradually use up as they near the imago or perfect condi- tion. Dr. Calvert killed some chrysalids in hot alcohol and split them into halves—these showed the black substance to which Mr. Hornig alluded. It lies in the middle portion of the alimen- tary canal and is dark green, almost black and very hard. It consists of food in conjunction with some excretory substances, and is covered by a membrane, probably the remains of the lar- val alimentary canal. The speaker is studying the subject still further. Mr. Hornig said the substance was much less in bulk in the advanced stage of the chrysalis, which led him to think that the chrysalis actually lived on the substance. Dr. Calvert said that Lownes refers to a similar substance in the pupa of the blow-fly, as the yellow body. Dr. McCook mentioned that in the cocoon-spinning Formicidz there is found an excretory sub- stance in the anal end of the cocoon. The same thing occurs in other Hymenoptera, such as bees and wasps. Mr. Fox exhibited three sheets of a work from the library of Dr. Horn, entitled Monographia Amaroideum by Zimmerman, which was probably the second copy known. Dr. D. M. Castle was elected a member of the Society. HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Rec. Secretary. At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held on March 8, 1898, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, No. 1523 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, Mr. Seiss reported the presentation of 108 specimens of local Orthoptera to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in the name of the Social. Prof. Smith read a»paper on ‘‘ Quarantine against Injurious Insects.’’ The same speaker also read a note on the San José scale by T. D. A. Cockerell. (Both articles are in this number under Economic Entomology. ) Dr. Skinner admitted the force of Prof. Smith’s argument, but believed that inspection would exclude many injurious insects if not all. It is not certain that pests brought from abroad will not become acclimated.” Prof. Smith stated that among all the imported insects which have become pests in this country there is not one which could have been excluded by inspection. The history of the bill now before Congress was given by the same speaker. 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 103 Mr. Johnson exhibited a series of Sargus elegans Loew col- lected at Opelousas, La., and in New Jersey. The differences between the sexes were noted. Sargus debzlis Walker is prob- ably the same and has priority. Mr.A. Hoyer showed a moth caught flying on March 7, 1897. - Prof. Smith identified it as Xylina antennata, a hibernating species. Mr. H. Wenzel recorded the capture of Cychrus stenostomus on Feb. 26, 1898. He also exhibited a Carabid allied to Zoophium, and which he had not been able to identify. It is not in Dr. Horn’s collection, and was captured along the river front with numerous Zelephanus velox. Dr. Skinner referred to the appointment, by the city, of a for- ester, one of whose duties was purported to be the extermination of the tussock-moth, and spoke of the careless way in which the work has been carried on. He had seen city employees spraying trees while the moth is in the egg state. Mr. Aaron reported the examination of meal made from insect eggs from Mexico and the clothes moth, 7inzella biselliella was found therein. An ear of corn infested by St/otroga cerealella was shown, and a series of Bruchus g-maculatus. He referred to Prof. Smith’s communication, and asked if the Gallerucella luteola could not have been excluded by legislation. In reply Prof. Smith said it could not have been introduced in the larval or pupal stage, but perhaps in the imago. This also applies to asparagus beetles. He also stated that many Tineids infest insect boxes and attack the antennz of specimens eating off the hairs. The question of legislation against insect pests was further discussed by Messrs. H. Wenzel, Aaron, Skinner and Smith. The secretary exhibited a new species of M/util/a from New Jersey, Philadelphia and Florida. Also referred to the % of M. grandiceps, which has abbreviated wings. The specimen exhibited at the January meeting, with the same characteristic, is perhaps the & of IZ waco. Dr. Skinner made some remarks on variation caused by geo- graphical distribution and altitude, and remarked on the absence of definite explanation of the subject. Mr. S, Frank Aaron was unanimously elected a member. WILLIAM J. Fox, Secretary. 104 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, A regular meeting of the Newark Entomological Society was held at the Turn Hall Feb. 13, 1898, with twelve members present and President, A. Schleckser presiding. As agreed upon at the last meeting each member brought a series of the genus Ay- drecia, which was poorly represented, as some of the members had but from three to six species. Prof. Smith explained the cause of the rarity of this genus, saying that the moth does not fly very much and is not attracted to light, with a few exceptions, also that the larve bore in the stems and roots of various plants, such as the sunflower, thistle, etc. He urged the members to collect the larve where possible. Mr. Brehme read an article on the transplanting of the larva of Sphinx luscitiosa, a very local species. He said: The larva of Sphinx luscitiosa; a very local species, has of late years been found in but one place in the vicinity of Newark, N. J., and that spot is now being built up rapidly. I began to transplant the larva in other localities where its food-plant (willow) was plentiful early in June, 1887. In July I visited the places that I left the young larve and I found that they had made just as good head- way as in the old place. I intend to do no collecting in the places where I transplanted the larve for three years in order to give them a chance to get a good start. To my knowledge the species is moving further north, as in the years 1887, ’88 and 8g, I found the larve plentiful about a mile south of the present locality, and since then more were found there, although the place has never been built up. Last season I found a few about a mile further north. Mr. Doll remarked that the larva of S. duscitiosa was common, locally, in the vicinity of Brooklyn. Mr. Geo. Kircher proposed Mr. Herman Erb as a candidate for membership. The genus Callimorpha will be represented at the next meeting for study and comparison. No further business on hand the Society adjourned to the annex. A. J. WerptT, Secretary. FN Gem AN Leta Aas Va LED NSS | OBITUARY. Prof. JoHn P. Patrerson, President of the Cleveland (Ohio) Natural History Society, died of apoplexy on Feb, 2, 1898. Mr. Patterson was the leading spirit of the society, and under his management it grew and prospered. He was an active and enthusiastic collector and will be greatly missed. The deceased was born in Virginia in 1835. ENTOMOLOGICAL News for March was mailed February 28, 1898. , pee —_ es ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. Ix. MAY, - 1808. No. 5. CONTENTS: Hough—Two new American species of | Casey—Entomological measurements... 116 CPUAV ID CLC g's soe cos eecccececs TOS |) SSMS erial ... o50dnasec sia cies onme Manaus 118 Wadsworth—Fourth addition to the list | Economic Entomology.......-+.+++e0+ “TI9 of Dragonflies, etc .....---..+++-+++ 111 | Notes and NewSi.i......ccsceescveccces 120 Kunze—Rare aves of the insect fauna | Entomological Literature............ fae, 12I Of ATIZONA -.ceeeeeeeessecceseereees 112 | Doings of Societies..........ssseeeeeee 126 Smith—Notes on some structural pecu- liarities of Sanninoidea exitiosa.... 114 | TWO NEW AMERICAN SPECIES OF CYNOMYIA,—A STUDY IN CHATOTAXY. By Garry DEN. Houau, M.D. Cynomyia americana nov. sp.—Length seven to thirteen millimeters. Thorax blackish blue, opaque, with six faint whitish pollinose cephalo- caudal stripes (two achrostical, two dorso-central and two humeral) best ’ seen with very oblique illumination. Abdomen dark metallic-green to violet, often a brilliant metallic-violet, frontal vitta brown to black: geno- ' vertical plates (sides of the frcnt) and genz (that part of the side of the face which is dorsad the transverse impression of the face and ventrad the insertion of the antennz) of silky lustre, their color varying, accord- ing to the incidence of the light, from a rich brown to a shining brownish yellow; buccz (that part of the side of the face and head which is ventrad the transverse impression of the face and ventrad the eyé) black, except the anterior half, which varies, according to the incidence of the light, from black to a ferruginous red; antennz black to brown, with base of third joint and apex of second yellowish red to yellow; palpi reddish yel- low. Abdomen of male hairy, as in the European Cynomyia mortuorum L., the prominent hypopygium very densely beset with soft black hair, the two terminal chitinous hooks often quite prominent. Wing, antenna and chztotaxy shown on plate; tegulz white to pale brown. Legs black, anterior and posterior thighs have their lateral surfaces quite thickly clothed with long, fine, black hairs. I have 244 specimens, male and female. This species has a very wide distribution, my specimens being from Canada, Massa- 5 106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, chusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Colorado, S. Dakota and Illinois. It is found mostly in early Spring and late Fall. The larva feeds on putrefying animal matter. I have four specimens of a Cynomyia from Greenland which I refer, with a doubt, to this species. They are imperfect, but seem, on the whole, a little more like C. mortuorum than ameri- cana, possibly they represent a new species. The following points clearly distinguish this species from C. mortuorum: The face of americana is brownish yellow, that of mortuorum golden- yellow, and in the latter the yellow color extends much further caudad on the bucca, viz., to or beyond the caudal border of the CYNOMYIA ANERICANA. NOW. SP i al 4% 2 93 % 4. eve. The antennz of americana are darker in color than those of mortuorum. The occipital hair (nearly the whole occiput of Cynomyiez is beset thickly with soft hair and not with regularly arranged bristles) is white in americana, yellow in mortuorum. The hypopygium and its terminal hooks are of moderate size in americana, very large in mortuorum, and on this account the abdomen of mortuorum seems more elongate. The normal chetotaxy is identical, except that americana has two posterior achrostical macrochetz, mortuorum but one. Cynomyia elongata nov. sp.—Length twelve to fourteen millimeters. Resembles americana so much that I shall limit my description mainly to pointing out the differences between the two. Front of male one-fourth the width of the head, in americana one-fifth. According to the inci- dence of the light the color of the frontal vitta varies from dark brown to — pity . PME ei, on 2S 1808. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ; IC7 golden-yellow, that of the geno-vertical plates from light brown to golden- yellow, and that of the genz from reddish brown to golden-yellow; buccz black (anterior half golden-yellow in some lights), their beard black; the antenna has the second joint and the base of the third yellowish red, almost of an orange color, the rest of the third has a light brown ground color in the male (darker in the female) and the whole of the third is thickly white pollinose. In the male the third antennal joint is decidedly more slender than in americana. The thorax is rather longer in propor- tion to its width than in americana; its chetotaxy is alike in the two spe- cies, except that e/omgaza has a small anterior intra-alar macrocheta and both my female specimens have three anterior and three posterior achros- tical macrochztz (each of my males’ has two anterior achrosticals; one has one, the other two posterior achrosticals). The abdomen in all my specimens is green and has a slight, but distinct white pollinose coating, much more than I have ever observed in americana, its hairs are coarser and less numerous, and the lateral macrochztz more appressed than in americana; each abdominal segment is longer in proportion to its width than in americana. The hypopygium is less densely hairy than in ameri- cana, but its terminal hooks are of about the same size as in that species (far smaller than in mortuorum). The long hair on the outer surface of the fore and hind thighs is shorter and less dense than in americana. Two males and two females. One of the males and one of the females are mounted on the same pin, whence I infer that they were taken in copula; their locality label says So. Dakota, Sep. toth; I received them from Prof. J. M. Aldrich. One female (also from Prof. Aldrich) bears label, Brookings, So. Dakota. One male, from Prof. W. M. Wheeler, is labeled Torrey’s Lake, Wyoming. While most dipterists are aware that individual variations in cheetotaxy occur, I do not think that any observations have been 108 ‘ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, [May, published showing the frequency and character of these variations. In my 244 specimens of Cynomyia americana 44, or 18 per cent, show some variation. The variation is of three kinds: 1, deficiency in size of a macrocheta; 2, absence of a macrocheta normally present; 3, presence of a macrochzta normally absent. Two individuals show both the second and third kinds of varia- tions, no others had more than one abnormality. Leaving out these two we find that in the remaining 42 the abnormality was unilateral in 23, bilateral in 19. When bilateral the correspond- ing macrochetz on the two sides of the body were always the ones concerned. There were eleven specimens in which there seemed to me to be a deficiency in the size of a macrocheta. The third anterior dorso-central was always the one affected. In one male the ab- normality was on the right side; in four males and one female on the left side; in one male and four females on both sides. Five of the specimens were unusually small: male 7 mm., male 7.5 mm., female 8 mm., male g mm. and maleg mm. This macro- cheeta is always the smallest of the dorso-centrals. The amount of variation from the normal size differed much in the different individuals and in some cases seemed to be compensated for by the increased size of a macrochzta on the cephalic surface of the _ thorax which is nearly or quite in the line of the dorso-centrals. Similar variation in the size of the third anterior dorso-central occurs in the genera Calliphora and Lucilia. Absence of a macrocheta normally present occurred in twelve individuals (4.9 per cent). Of course, it is possible that in some cases the macrocheta had been originally present and had been broken off, but I was unable, with a magnifying power of twenty diameters, to discover any indication that it had ever been pres- ent. Two specimens which showed the presence of macrocheetze normally absent as well as the absence of macrochete normally present will be separately considered. The other cases that fall under the present head were as follows : Third anterior dorso-central absent; one male and two females. First left anterior dorso-central absent; one female. Second right posterior achrostical absent; one male. Second left posterior achrostical absent ; two males. Second pair posterior achrostical absent; three males. d 3 - * 7 - } 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 109 The occasional absence of the third anterior dorso-central or, to put it in other words, its reduction to such a size as to make it indistinguishable from the other hairs of that region, would be expected by one who had studied the eleven specimens of the first group wherein there was a deficiency in the size of this mac- rocheta. In regard to the absence of one or both of the second posterior achrosticals I would say that throughout the Muscidz (sens. strict.) I have found that the number of pairs of achrostical macrocheetz is usually a specific character, although sometimes variable, and that in Cynomyia mortuorum (as far as my limited amount of material enables me to determine) there is but one pair. Presence of macrochetze normally absent was observed in twenty-three cases (9.4 per cent), two of which showed also ab- sence of macrochztz normally present and will be separately considered. The abnormalities observed in this group were : A third right anterior achrostical present; one male and one female. A third left anterior achrostical present ; one female. A third right posterior achrostical present; two males and one female. A third left posterior achrostical present; one female. A third pair of posterior achrostical present; one female. A small pair of anterior intra-alar, right one half the size of the left; three females. A third left posterior intra-alar, about a quarter as large as the second; two females. A third pair of posterior intra-alars; two males and two females. A second left marginal scutellar ; one male and one female. A second left discal scutellar; two females. The presence of a third anterior-achrostical on one or both sides I have also observed in the typical Calliphorze, and it is present in both my female specimens of Cynomyia elongata. The third pair of posterior achrosticals occurs in my females of Cyz. elongata, and is always present in the typical Calliphore. The anterior intra-alar is present in all my specimens of Cyz. elongata and in all the Calliphore and nearly related genera. The third posterior intra alar is normal in an undescribed species of Cad/z- phora, of which I have numerous specimens, and is occasionally 110 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. {[May, present in Calliphora vomitoria and erythrocephala. Two mar- ginal scutellar macrochztz are normally present in Calliphora and some related genera. Two discal scutellar are occasionally seen (as an abnormality) in Cal/iphora and many other Muscidz (sens. strict. ) | Two individuals, out of the 244, presented both absence of normal and presence of abnormal macrochetze. These were: A female with a third pair of anterior achrosticals whose second left posterior achrostical was absent. She had, however, a very small achrostical on the left side in the position occupied by the third posterior achrostical when that is present. In one male the left apical scutellar was absent. The left mar- ginal did not have its usual direction, but that of the absent apical. There were three left and two right discal scutellar instead of the normal one left and one right. One of the left was much the largest and seemed, like the marginal, to be trying by its direc- tion to make up for the absent apical. This was the only specimen in which any macrocheta had other than its normal direction. Omitting this monstrosity from further consideration I would submit the following conclusions : 1. In Cynomyia americana there is very little variation in the size or number of the macrochetz of the thorax and scutellum. 2. Variations in size affect only the third anterior dorso-central. 3. It is very rare for any macrocheta. normally present to be absent, except the third anterior dorso-central and the second posterior achrostical. 4. When a macrocheta, normally absent, is present we find that it is, in eleven individuals out of twenty-two, one that is _ normally present in all the typical species of Calliphora; that in six other individuals it is one which is normally present in one species of Calliphora and occurs occasionally in others; that in the other five individuals it isan abnormality, which is also found in various species of Calliphora. 5. The presence in three females of an anterior intra-alar is of especial interest, because it is present in all my specimens of Cyn. elongata (although in them rather a small macrocheeta) and because it is always present, as far as my knowledge extends, in Calliphora and the genera closely related thereto. 6. The females of Cyn. elongata have, like all the typical Cal- liphorze, three posterior achrosticals. 5 a ete., than to Sarcophaga. 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Il 7. All the Cynomyiz have the lateral post-humeral macrocheta laterad the presutural macrocheta, as do also Ca//iphora and all its near relatives. The American, like the European species of CGynomyia, agree with Calliphora, too, in having the lower tegulz hairy. 8. From all the above I conclude, with Girschner, that from the standpoint of chetotaxy, Cyzomyza belongs to the Muscidz (sens. strict.) being more closely related to Calliphora, Lucilia, ray Fourth Addition to the list of Dragonflies (Odonata) of Manchester, Kennebec County, Maine. By Miss Mattie WADsworRTH. (See Ent. NEws, vol. i, pp. 36, 55; vol. ii, p. 11; vol. iii, p. 8; vol. v, p. 132.) No. 10b. Lestes vigilax Hag. 1895. July 1, one $ on marsh. No. 10c. Lestes inequalis Walsh. 1897, June 29, one % on marsh. No. 10d. Lestes congener Hag. 1891, July 20, one 8 over Snake Pond. No. 25. Somatochlora walshii Scud. The @ of this species has not previously been recorded from this locality. : 1897, June 24, one ? near woods. Four males also taken since my last report :—1895, June 20, two males over marsh; 1897, July 6, 12, one each day over marsh. No, 25a. Somatochlora linearis Hag. (probably) 1897, July 27, one 2 over marsh. No. 30), Neurocordulia obsoleta Say. 1897, July 5, one 8 in pasture near woods. All new species were identified by Mr. P. P. Calvert. Sixty-two species and an undetermined Enallagma have now been taken in this locality, all within a radius of two miles, and all by myself. The season of 1897 brought an abundance of dragonflies and great obstacles to their capture, as all marshes were covered with water until August, and all other hunting grounds were very wet and muddy. N otwithstanding these diffi- culties fifty species were captured, the largest number recorded in one season. 112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, RARA AVES OF THE INSECT FAUNA OF ARIZONA. By Dr. R. E. Kunze, Phoenix, Ariz. (Continued from p. 59, vol. ix.) Nymphalidz furnished a few fine species. Of D. archippus, var. fumosus, several were secured. D. berenice, var. strigosa, is notuncommon. Agraulis vanille | saw in isolated examples. Argynnis nausicaa is the only species seen, and took it in Yav- apai County, upper Hassayampa, in several localities on flowers of Monarda fitulosa. Melitea minuta found in small numbers on flowers of a species of Aster and Mountain Mint, in Coconino County, some on highest peaks of 12,860 feet altitude, in alpine zone. Grapta zephyrus, took two examples in central and northern Arizona. Synchle lacinina, saw only two or three. Limenitis hulstz with its mesial white spotted line of secondaries, flew in company with D. derenice in S. Arizona. Limenitis ursula, var. arizonensis, devoid of fulvous spots on upper surface, flew sparingly in canyons of central Arizona, sometimes in com- pany with Heterochroa californica. It always had a weather eye on its pursuer and usually flew high. Zzm. eros, var. obsoleta, should be stricken from the check list; Mr. Wm. H. Edwards does not recognize it any more. A want of sufficient and good material to describe from caused him to give two names to the same lepidopter, and he informed the writer that the name Au/stz¢ must stand for it. Took very few Afpatura leilia on flowers of Prosopis juliflora or mesquite, in Pima County, and; saw less here in Mariposa County, sipping on willows. Lemonias palmerii feeds on flowers of mesquite in S. Arizona. Lem. na7s, in Yav- apai County, is found on flowers of Ceanothus fendleri near watered mountain localities. Lycenas occur in valleys, and more so On mountains, always more abundant near a streamlet. Thecla in similar localities; 7. halesus sparingly on desert buttes. Pieris beckeri, took a few poor examples of it on Mt. Humphrey, some near snow fields, others on the peak, from 11.5co to 12,860 feet altitude. Anthocharis pima on high altitudes of Pima and Maricopa Counties. Have also met isolated specimens flying across desert. It is hard work climbing peaks for such beauties. Of Terias gundlachia, came across two examples late in No- vember or early in December this season, when I went without er 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 113 net to the desert for Coleoptera. Believe it was the first time the net was not at hand. Of other Papilionidz noticed a few Ca/opsilia spec. of a lemon- yellow, like exdul/e, but without markings on reverse side. It had one ocellus, or rather discal spot on secondaries; devoid of any other color or marking. I failed at first to secure any, taking it for eubule, and after securing a couple failed to see more. It could not have been agarithe; saw only two Meganostoma cesonia. Papilio daunus occurred on mountains of central and northern Arizona, flying high in the canyons. Papilio asteroides, I took two or three in S. Arizona on high peaks, although I saw one flying in the vicinity of Phoenix this Autumn within town limit. Noticed a single specimen of Papilio bairdii feeding on flowers of Wild Bergamot near Flagstaff; but could not capture the prize. In Yavapai County took two examples of the large, whitish Pyrgus ericetorum on flowers of Alfalfa. A few other Hesperidz fell to my lot, which are at best local and rare: M- Soniades afranius, Pholisora ceos, Nis. pacuvius, one Erycides spec., and a number still undetermined. For naming I am under obligations to Messrs. Wm. H. Edwards, D. Bruce and Dr. H. Skinner. Little time left to mention many of the rarer Coleoptera, the bulk of which it will take years to fully determine, as my first year’s collecting has taught me. In Yavapai County I secured that rare green-bronzed Plusiotis tecontei mostly in pine woods. Likewise the formidable looking Dynastes grantii, a hercules of Arizona, seeking mountain canyons for its habitat. In the pines of same localities of central Arizona occur the large Longicorn beetle, Ergates spicula. While here in S. Arizona we find Den- trobrachus geminatus, which seems to affect old stumps of Cot- tonwood, and also taken at light. On sap of Willows one finds here the blue and white Elaterid, Chalcolepidius webbii, and in the soft rotted tissue of the giant of our desert, Cereus giganteus that rare, black Hololepta cactii. Tenebrionidz are found in many species here, so are Meloidz, Melolonthidz, Carabide, Staphylinidz, Cerambycidz, Curculionidz, and many other families. All of my Coleoptera are in the hands of Mr. Charles Palm, of New York. After one is affected with the collecting fever of Arizona, it is well-nigh impossible to give it up. As Pat would say: It is a *‘ taking disease.”’ 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, NOTES ON SOME STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF SANNINOIDEA EXITIOSA Say. By JoHN B. Situ, Sc.D. In the course of my economic studies on the peach borer I took occasion to examine a considerable series of specimens for structural peculiarities among the adults. While nothing of any very striking importance was discovered there were a number of interesting facts observed that I considered worthy of being figured, and these appear on Plate VI. First of all the differ- ences in the size and character of the scaly vestiture of the wings and body attract attention. Ata, is a series of scales drawn by means of the camera lucida to exactly the same scale, and this will give an idea of the enormous range in size as well as in shape. The differences in sculpture are also well marked and while in some cases the longitudinal striations only are noticeable, in others a truly reticulated surface seems to be present. The arrow-shaped tufts at the end of the male abdomen are prominent and well known. It is not so well known that at the base of the last segment in the female there is a brush of hair ordinarily lying close to the body like a pencil, but capable of being ex- panded at the will of the insect. This is shown at &, on the plate. Giving this the usual interpretation we may take it to be a scent organ, or ‘‘duftapparat.’’ The virgin female soon after emergence from the pupa fixes herself at rest, elevates the ab- domen, projects the ovipositor with the genital organs directed downward, the tufts expanded and awaits the male. Actual copulation was not observed, the males for some reason or other ignoring the females entirely, in captivity. The antennae show considerable differences between the sexes. In the female the joints are not furnished with tufts of hair on the inner side as is the case in the male, but the joints seem to be thicker and toward the tip have somewhat the appearance of a series of bowls set one into the other. This is shown at 6 and c on the plate; the corresponding structure of the male being shown at d. At the — base of the antenna the differences between the male and female are yet more marked, and yet here the greatest modification is found in the female. At e and / these points are brought out and special attention is called to the occurrence of a sensory fovea marked s in the female. This is on the basal segment of the Pl. VI. Ent. News, Vol. IX. STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF SANNINOIDEA EXITIOSA Say. (See page 114.) & ; 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 115 antenna and is in the form of a considerable opening covered by a tight, drum-like disc. A series of sensory punctures is found at the base of the second segment and just above the sensory fovea there is an excavation which leaves that structure entirely free. Joint 3 is peculiarly modified so that a considerable open- ing appears between joints 2 and 3, the upper edge of joint 2 being ridged. This ridging is overshadowed by an expansion of the third joint, and on the third, fourth and fifth segments there are numerous sensory pittings. In the male the large sensory fovea is present, but hardly as well developed as in the female. There are no sensory punctures on the second segment, and while the edge is ridged above, yet the third segment is not modified in the same way as in the female. These points can be brought out by comparing the figures already cited. It is probable that this fovea is auditory in function. In the mouth- parts there is little that is of especial interest. The labial palpi are well developed in both sexes, though the labium is confined, as usual, to a small triangular plate. The mandibles are well developed, and are moveable, as shown at 4 for the female. The maxille differ quite strongly in the sexes at the base, and par- ticularly is this true of the maxillary palpi. The female at z and the male at 7 on plate illustrate these differences. In the female the maxillary palpus is 2-jointed, the basal joint very large and thick, the terminal joint of moderate size and much more slender. In the male the palpus is 3-jointed, the basal joint comparatively small, the second with a prominent lamellate expansion which is clothed with rather long hair; the terminal joint is plate-like and a little scoop-like in shape. Comparing the two, the maxilla in - the female is larger than that in the male and better developed, which may be due perhaps to the fact that the female, as a whole, is the larger insect of the two. No trace of lacinia is present in the specimens, so far as I have examined them, but the well- developed maxillary palpi and the division of the basal parts of the maxilla assign a comparatively low place in the scale of de- velopment to this insect. Further descriptive details seem un- necessary and reference is made to the plate for a better under- standing of the structures just referred to. CRABRO SALACIs (CkIl.). Syn. Ammoplanus salicis Ck\l., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., April, 1897, p. 402, 9.—T. D. A. CocKERELL. 116 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, ENTOMOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS. By Tuomas L. CAsEy. The dimensional measures published by the writer up to the present time have been obtained by a simple scale and the unaided eye, fractional parts of the unit being estimated. The most con- venient unit, even for division into tenths, has proved to be the single millimeter. Very lately, however, Prof. W. A. Rogers, of Waterville, Me., has ruled for me several scales in half millime- ters on thin glass for use as a micrometer, being laid for this pur- pose upon the diaphragm within the eye-piece. The value of a division of this micrometer with the 114-inch objective I find to be .12mm. It occurred to me to measure some types with this micrometer in order to practically compare the results with those given, for example, in my recent monograph of the Scydmezenidze (Col. Not. vii). The only three types which happened to be at hand at the time were those mentioned below; they were sepa- rated from my cabinet for a special purpose and without reference at all to a revision of their estimated dimensions, and may there- fore be regarded as a fair average of all the measures given in the monograph. The differences between the lengths and widths as observed by the unaided eye and scale, and the true dimen- sions as taken from the micrometer are as follows : LENGTH DIFF. WIDTH. DIFF. Obs. True. mm, Obs. True. mm. Noctophus schmitti... 2.1 2.16 —.06 0.78 0.84 —.06 Eutheia americana... 1.0 1.08 —.08 0.38 0.44 —.06 Veraphis capitata ... 1.25 1.34 —.09 0.5 0.56 —.06 It seemed difficult at first to account for the virtually constant personal equation, which is evident at once from these results, until it occurred to me that in measuring with the scale and ’ unaided eye, the scale could never be brought quite into the plane of the insect to be measured, but was always nearer to the eye by a very small but sensible distance, and therefore seen under a larger visual angle than the object; the dimension of the latter, as thus obtained, was therefore, of course, relatively too small by an amount corresponding to the difference in distance from the eye of the scale and insect. This amount is practically .06 mm., and it would be safe to increase all measurements hitherto given by the writer by this amount, but in future I shall use the micrometer for insects under 2 mm., or thereabout, in size. The a a Te > & : : 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 117 moral of it all is that sensible error may frequently arise from apparently trivial and wholly unsuspected causes, for in practice I have always been careful to place the scale as close as practi- cable to the object. : With the micrometer scale described above it is the easiest possible thing to measure accurately the minutest detail of an insect, the value of a division with the 24-inch objective being .059 mm., a tenth of which can be readily estimated. I find, for example, the diameter of the minute reticulations of the elytra _ in a small Discoderus before me to be .o12 mm., or .2 of a divi- sion. Ina truly scientific description a correct procedure would demand a statement of the actual dimensions of all the parts, exactly as in describing the skull of a mammal. The descriptions which we give to-day will probably be considered absurd a few centuries hence. I READ with interest the article—vol. viii, p. 49—regarding the massing of Coccinnelids on the summit of Moscow Mt. Idaho. Here in Los An- geles County, California, I have often seen two species of Lady-bird beetles: Megilla vittigera and Hippodamia ambigua so clustered that they could be gathered by the pint. I-believe they cluster to protect each other from the cold. It is their wont to seek crevice or cranny and in betaking themselves to forked branches or space between sheathing blade and slim of palm, they have touched and learned of and enjoyed the warmth, and so the habit of piling up as we frequently see them here. The cold nights here, so in contrast to the warm sunny days, I think may have gendered this habit. Since coming to California. I have witnessed one exceeding migration of our common thistle butterfly, Vanessa (Pyrameis) cardui. This cos- mopolite was flying all day in great flocks and all in one direction. I saw one such migrating flight, if such it may be called, of the common milk week butterfly, also a cosmopolitan species, Danais archippus, in Michi- gan. The numbers in that case were very great, but not comparable to the one of the other species seen here in Southern California. There is another insect that fairly swarms here in this section each season. It may well be called the prune beetle, as it often entirely defo- liates whole prune orchards. It is Serica mixta. Its handsome con- gener, Serica fimbriata, is larger, comes earlier, but in far less numbers. It is well that the latter comes late in August and September, else it would do serious harm. In habits and appearance it reminds one of the May beetle, Lachnosterna fusca, of the East in miniature.—A. J. Cook. 118 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfet- ence, as to make it necessary to put ‘‘ copy’’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five ‘extras’ without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.—Ep. PHILADELPHIA, PaA., MAy, 1808. I am in constant receipt of letters telling how much interest in caterpillars, pupze and imagos is felt by the boys and girls of some of the poorest schools in large cities and asking for infor- mation about rearing and collecting for these poor children. I have done what I could to supply cocoons, pupz and chrysalids, but of course have not been able to send half enough to ‘’ go around.’’ Would it be amiss to ask readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws to save common kinds—in the pupal state—and send them to me for distribution in the Autumn? It seems as if any col- lector would be willing to spare a few specimens for the benefit and pleasure of these children who have very few opportunities of collecting for themselves. I will gladly distribute any sent mein suchwise that they will be of much use and give great pleasure. — CAROLINE G. SOULE, 187 Walnut St., Brookline, Mass. An excellent work could be done in this way, as we are in- formed that in some large cities school children never see a patch of green or any natural history objects. In New York there are many children who have never been to Central Park. In one school a dead mouse created great interest among the children. Large museums frequently have duplicate mammals, birds and plants that are useless, and we know no better way to utilize them than to send them to the public schools. An interest in ento- mology could be readily created among children in the way sug- gested by our correspondent, and we hope she will receive many specimens for distribution.—Eds. | ; 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 119 DEPARTMENT OF EGONOMIG ENTOMOLOGY. Edited by Prof. JOHN “B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J. Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor, Prof. John B. Smith, Sc.D., New Bruuswick, N. J. Quarantine Against Injurious Insects.—Prof. Smith’s article in the April NEws contains much that is true and appropriate, but if I rightly under- stand the spirit of it, I think it is partly mistaken. Without attempting a general discussion of the intricate problems involved I wish to present a - few facts and arguments: 1. As to the plant diseases, due to fungi or bacteria, it is quite true that they could not usually be detected at the port of entry. The proper pro- cedure would be to ascertain which districts in foreign countries from which we receive plants are infested by troublesome fungi, etc., awd then to prohibit the importation of all plants from thence which could bear the diseases in question. For example, the grape vines in Jamaica are much affected by a rust-fungus (Uredo vitis), which is not now found in the United States vineyards. In my opinion Jamaica vines should not be brought to the United States at all. 2. Similarly with various insects. The oranges from the districts in Mexico where the Trypetid orange worm prevails should be altogether prohibited, for example. 3. It is, therefore, clear that, in order to effectually exclude many kinds of pests, it is of the utmost importance to have a full knowledge of their habits and distribution in foreign countries. This knowledge is not only needed for this purpose, but also to help us to deal with them should they become established here. Too little attention has hitherto been given to this phase of the subject, and we are still extremely ignorant of the insect pests of many regions from whence plants are continually imported. There ought to be a trained entomologist working on these lines on behalf of the United States in Mexico and the West Indies, and another in China and Japan. 4. Prof. Smith evidently does not appreciate the Californian quarantine work at its proper value. There is excellent evidence to show that with- out it the State of California would become much more badly infested by Coccide than at present. That several of the species, at least, would become established is shown by the fact that they have here and there passed the boundary lines and formed good colonies, which have been duly exterminated by the county authorities. To take only one species, Diaspis amygdali is continually being found on plants from Japan, and would unquestionably have overrun Southern California had not suitable measures been taken. Eastern experience has shown that this would “almost certainly have been a very serious matter for the State. 5. It is, of course, quite true that many pests infest florists’ plants, and to exclude these from the action of the law would be a serious blunder, 120 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. _ [May, rendering the quarantine operations nearly useless. The worst scale- insects are nearly all feeders on a number of different plants, including ornamental ones. Sometimes, also, scales supposed to be confined to ornamental plants will unexpectedly attack fruits and other crops. Thus, Apidiotus dictyospermi Morgan, is common on green-house palms, but Dr. Howard has just sent me quantities of it on fruit and leaves of orange and twigs of peach, found by Mr. Koebele at Oaxaca, Mexico, Aug. 20, 1897, and Cuautla, Mexico, 1897,—at the latter place only on orange. 6. I entirely disapprove of the clause in the bill referred to—leaving the inspection to foreigners. It ought, unquestionably, to be done at the United States ports; or when abroad, by agents of the United States government. The various interstate regulations are still, I think, in a more or less experimental stage, but I am very strongly of the opinion that the utility of inspection and quarantine at the ports of entry has been amply demon- strated by the Californian officers.—T. D. A. COCKERELL. COMMENT BY THE EDITOR. Mr. Cockerell and myself are in practical accord. The only difference is, that I talked to what was proposed; he is talking to what should be. His first three points hinge on the appointment of an expert in foreign countries and that is good policy. It is the policy pursued by Germany, which led to the exclusion of American fruits, etc., to prevent the impor- tation of the San José scale. Under 4 Mr. Cockerell is unquestionably right when he confines himself to scale insects. Scale insects are pecu- liarly easy of discovery, because of the fact that they are confined to the plants, and, as a rule, not capable of being transported, except on the plants that they infest. Aside from scale insects there is no telling how many foreign-insects were imported into California and have died out naturally. On 5 and 6 there is no difference of opinion. It may be well to note that Mr. Craw has taken a very strong stand in the same direction in a recent issue of the ‘‘ Los Angeles Times.”’ Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. A Picture for album of the American Entomological Society has been received from C. Few Seiss. I HAVE found feeding on beach, pea and smart-weed, what I take to be the larva of Mamestra picta. This larva has been called the zebra cater_ pillar by Dr. Melsheimer on account of its stripes. The larva of Papilio philenor 1 have found on cultivated Aristolochia, and have reared eigh- teen very pretty chrysalids, some of them being bright sulphur-yellow. The peculiar case-bearing larvae of Perophora melsheimerii were taken on oak last Fall and the larve are now hibernating in their cases.—I. Foster Moorg, Jr., Bridgeport, Conn. “ RN pir og 1898.] . ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 121 ANDRENA MARI&.—Mr. C. Robertson, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 1898, p. 47, says that A. sphecodina is probably a synonym of marie. This is certainly not the case, as apart from the constant difference in the color of the ¢/ abdomen, the @ is also different. Mr. Dunning sent me a 2 marie from Ames, Iowa, on Gooseberry (Z. D. Bait), and I noted that it came near to sphecodina, but was a little larger and stouter, with a more closely punctured abdomen, and the hind tibiz and basal joint of tarsi wholly dark. The abdomen is punctured much as in genevensis.— T. D. A. COCKERELL. As an enthusiastic entomologist it gives me great pleasure to announce the opening of the season here in Massachusetts. To-day (March 13) I captured a very fair specimen of Vanessa antiopa which was disporting itself by the roadside near my home in Dorchester. I was, of course, delighted to see this harbinger of Spring which gives such promise of the better days to come when I can be out with my net pursuing my hobby (Lepidoptera) to my heart’s content. This is the earliest capture in this vicinity that has come to my knowledge and thinking the fact worth re- cording I have written to you. Until I hear to the contrary I shall claim the distinction of having taken the first butterfly in the vicinity of Boston this year.—Harry H. NeEwcomes. In Rep_y:—A note in a recent bulletin by Prof. Gillette necessitates notice from me for the reason that it questions my honor as a conscientious scientific worker. Those who know me personally will understand that there must be too good sides to the question. I shall open up no public discussion of the matter, as this almost invariably results in a bandying of personalities which is burdensome alike to reader_and journal, and in no way adds to the sum of scientific knowledge. Any one enough inter- ested in the matter to address me will be given a view from a distinctly different standpoint than that taken by Prof. Gillette, and one which, in simple justice, is entitled to equal consideration.—C. F. BAKER, Auburn, Ala. Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all arti- cles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but when such articles are in shored languages than English, French, German or Italian, this fact is indicated in parenthesis. 1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1898.—2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Phila- delphia.—4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., April, ’98.— 5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., April, ’98.—6. Journal of the New York 5* 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May Entomological Society, March, ’98.—7. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Washington; publications of, ’98.—8. The En- tomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, April, ’°98.—9. The Entomolo- gist, London, April, ’°98.—11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, April, ’98.—12. Comptes Rendus. L’ Academie des Sciences, Paris, ’98.—17. Sitzungsberichte der kéniglich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, ’97.—35. Annales, Société En- tomologique de Belgique, xlii, 2, Brussels, Mar. 19, ’98.—38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xvii, ’98.—41. Entomologische Nachrichten, xxiv, Berlin, Feb., ’98.—44. Verhandlungen, k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellschaft in Wien.—G5. Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes, Paris, April-May, ’98.— 68. Science, New York, ’98.—69, Bolletino d. Societa Italiana Ento- mologica, xxix, 1-3, Florence, Sept. 10, ’97.—7O. Journal, Institute of Jamaica, ii, 5, Kingston, Dec., ’97.—71. Procés-Verbaux des seances, Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux, ’97. The General Subject.—A bafi-Aigner, L. On the causes of butterfly pigmies, figs. [In Magyar], Rovartani Lapok, vi, 3. Budapest, March, ’98.—Balbiani, E. G. On the conditions of sexuality in the plant lice [Aphidz], observations and reflections, L’Intermediare des Biologistes. Paris, Feb. 20, ’98.—Bethune, C.J. S. Professor J. Hoyes Panton, obituary, 4.—Cockerell, T..D. A. The insect fauna of Cinchona, 70.—Fletcher, J., Harrington, W. H., and Simp- son, W. Report of the Entomological Branch 1897, Ottawa Naturalist, April, ’98.—Hutchinson, H. Collecting at night, 4.—Massee, G. Revision of the genus Cordyceps (transl. by R. Ferry), 3 pls. Revue My- cologique, Toulouse, April, ’98.—Perez, J. Some effects of mechanical actions on the development of non-fertilized eggs of the silk-worm, 71. —Roule, L. I.’Anatomie Comparée des Animaux basée sur l’Embry- ologie. . . . Avec 1202 figures dont la plupart originales. Paris, Masson et Cie, 1898. 1971 pp., 8vo., 2 vols. Arthropods in vol. iii—Ruhmer, G. W. ‘The transitions from Araschnia levana L. to var. prorsa L. and the amount of cold employed in the experiment, 41, 3.--Stoll, O. Zur Zoogeographie der landbewohnenden Wirbellosen. Mit 2 Tafeln. Berlin. R. Friedlander & Sohn 1897; 8vo., pp. 114.—Willey, A. On Peripa- tus nove-britannia nv. sp., 11. Economic Entomology.—Abstracts of recent articles in Experi- ment Station Record ix, 7, 7.—Boyer, J. Struggle against injurious insects in California, figs., La Nature, Paris, March 12, ’98.—[Chastrey, H.] The tsetse fly, Revue Scientifique, Paris, Mar. 26, ’°98.—Chitten - den, F. H. The fruit-tree bark beetle (Scolytus rugulosus Ratz.) figs., 7, Circular 29, Second Series; The tobacco flea-beetle (Zpitrix parvula Fab.), figs.; On insects that affect asparagus, figs.; Notes on cucumber beetles, figs.; Notes on the strawberry weevil, its injuries and bibliogra- phy, 7, Bull. 10, n.s.—Craig, C. F. The transmission of disease by the mosquito, figs., New York Medical Journal, Mar. 19, April 2, ’98.— DelGuercio, G. On the larve mining in young pears and on the 1898. ] . ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 123 times and means best adapted to limit their diffusion, 1 p]., 69.—G ould, H. P. Notes on spraying and on the San José scale, Bulletin 144, Cor- _ nell University Agric. Exper. Station, Ithaca, N. Y., Jan., ’98.—H o ward, L.O. The fig-eater, or green June-beetle (A//orhina nitida L.), figs.; Further notes on the house-fly, 7, Bull. 10, n. s.; The San José scale in 1896-1897 (map), 7, Bull. 12, n. s.; Recent laws against injurious insects in North America, together with the laws relative to foul brood, 7, Bull. No. 13, new series:—H unter, W. D. Destructive locusts in 1897, 7, Bull. 10, n.s.—K riiger, F. Further on the San José [scale] question, Gartenflora, Berlin, March 15, ’98.—Marlatt, C. L. The peach twig- _borer (Anarsia lineatella Zell.), figs., 7, Bull. 10, n. s.—Matsumura, M. Two Japanese insects -injurious to fruit, figs., 7, Bull. 10, n. s.— Quaintance, A. L. Some strawberry insects, figs.; Three injurious insects: bean leaf-roller [Eudamus proteus L.], corn delphax [Delphax maidis Ashm.], canna leaf-roller. [ Hydrocampa cannalis Fernald ms.],* 3 pls. Bulls. 42, 45, F lorida Agric. Exper. Station, Deland, Fla., March, ’98.—Smith, J. B. The peach-borer (Sanninoidea exitiosa Say). Ex- periments with hydraulic cement, figs., Bulletin 128, New Jersey Agric. Exper. Station, New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 2, ’98.—Stedman, J. M. See Lepidoptera.—Wachtl, F. A. Cephaleia lariciphila n. sp., a new enemy of the larch (Larix europea DC.), 38, 3, Mar. 31.—Weed, C. M. Dept. of Entomology, figs., in Ninth Annual Report, Bulletin 48, New Hampshire Agric. Exper. Station, Durham, N. H. Nov., ’97.— Zehnter, L. The sugar-cane borers of Java, figs., 7. Bull. 10, n. s.— See many short notes by various writers, 7, Bull. 10, n. s. Arachnida.—Duerden, j. E. Identification of the ticks of Jamaica, 70.—H olland, W. J. Concerning ticks, 4.—-Wasmann, E. Cap- ture of ants by 7heridium triste Haha, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, Mar. 21, ’98. Myriopoda.—Cook, O. F. A revision of tropical African Diplo- poda of the family Strongylosomatide, Proceedings, U. S. National Mu- seum, No. 1137, Washington, ’98.—Heymons, R.. Communications on the segmentation and structure of the Myriopoda, figs., 17, Oct. 21. —Kenyon, F.C. A peculiar glandular structure found in a Mexican Diplopod, 68, Feb., 18. ' Orthoptera.—Blatchley; W. S.. Two new Melanopli from Les Cheneaux Islands, Michigan,* 5.—He ymons, R. On the organization and development of Bacillus rossii Fabr., figs., 17, Mar. 18.—v. Kima- kowicz, M. Abdominal fangs of the Forficulide, Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbiirgischen Vereins fiir Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt, xlvi, 1897.—Scudder, S. H. The Alpine Orthoptera of North America, 4 pls., Appalachia viii, 4, Boston, March, ’98.—Wal- - ker, E.M. A new grasshopper from Ontario,* 4. Neuroptera.—Calvert, P. P. Odonata (Dragonflies) from. the Indian Ocean, and from Kashmir, collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, figs., 1.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Chrysopa punctinervis McL., 9.—Currie, 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, R. P. New species of N. American Myrmeleonida, i,* 4.—Kempny, P. Contribution to knowledge of the Plecoptera, figs., 44, 1898, 1, Mar. 5. Hemiptera.—Baker, C. F.—Some new Bythoscopine with notes on others,* 56.—Balbiani, E. G. See the General Subject.—Car- penter,G. H. Anew marine Hydrometrid, 1 pl.,* 8.—Cockerell, T, D. A. Three new Coccide of the subfamily Diaspinze,* 6.—C ock - erell, T. D. A., and Tinsley, J. D. On a new wax-producing in- sect found in Jamaiea,* 70.—Cooley, R. A. New species of Chio- naspis and notes on previously known species,* 4.—Gillette, C, P. A few new species of Dedtocephalus and Athysanus from Colorado, figs.; List of original types of species in the superfamily Jassoidea now in the collections of the Colorado Agricultural College and Agricultural Ex- periment Station, Bull. No. 43 of same, Fort Collins, Col., Mar., ’98.— Hopkins, A.D. The periodical cicada in West Virginia, figs., map, 4 pls.; Bulletin 50 West Virginia Agric. Exper. Station, Morgantown, W. Va., Jan., ’98.—Johnson, W. G. Notes on the external characters of the San José scale, cherry scale, and Putnam’s scale, 4.—Montan- don, A. L. Hemiptera cryptocerata,* 44, xlvii, 7, Oct. 7, ’97.-New- stead, R. Observations on Coccide (No. 17), figs.,8.—Quaintance, R. See Economic Entomology (strawberry insects).—Smith, J. B. The mouth-parts of the Rhyngota, 68, Mar. 18.—Webster, F. M. Some recent additions to the insect fauna of Ohio, figs., 4. Coleoptera.—du Buysson, H. Boxes for raising larve of Cole- optera, figs., 65:—Chanipion, G. C. A list of the Lagriidz, Oth- niidz, Nilionidz, Petriide, Melandryidz, Pedilidz (part), Pyrochroidze and Mordellidz supplementary to the ‘ Munich’ Catalogue, 35.—C hit- tenden, F. H. See Economic Entomology.—Escherich, K. Con- tribution to the morphology and classification of the Coleopterous family Rhysodide, 1 pl., 38, 2, Feb. 28.—Howard, L. O. See Economic Entomology.—_de Lapouge, G. Rearing larvae of Carabids, 65.--- Pic, M. General list of the Coleoptera Heteromera of the genus J/a- cratria Newm. or Macrarthrius Laferté, 353 Synoptic study of the Lon- gicorn Coleoptera of the genus Corfodera Muls., 65.—Rengel, C. On the periodic casting off and regeneration of the entire mid-gut epithelium of Hydrophilus, Hydrous and Hydrobius, 1 pl., Zeitschrift fiir wissens- chaftliche Zoologie, Ixiii, 3, Leipsic, Mar. 29, ’98.—Rosenberg, W. F. Some new species of Coleoptera in the Tring Museum,* Novitates Zoo- logice, v, 1, Tring, Mar. 15, ’98. Diptera.—Baker,C. F. Notes on Siphonaptera, with descriptions of four new species,* 6.—Cholodkovsky, N. On some rare para- sites [ Gasterophilus] in man [in Russian], Travaux, Société Imperiale des Nattralistes de St. Petersbourg, Comptes Rendus, xxviii, I Sept. ’98. —Coquillett, D. W. Notes and descriptions of Oscinide,* 63; On the habits of the Oscinidz and Agromyzide reared at the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; The buffalo gnats, or black flies, of the United States,* figs., 7, Bull. 10, n.s.—Frauscher. The Tief Collection of Diptera, Carin- > a - = 1898.]__ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 125 thia, Ixxxviii, 1, 1898.—Mik,J. Dipterological notes (2), x, 38, 2, Feb. 28.—Snyder,Mrs. A.J. Trypeta solidaginis, 4.—Townsend, C. H. T. Diptera from the lower Rio Grande Tamaulipan fauna of Texas, ii,* 6. _ Lepidoptera.—Butler, A. G. A review of the species of the genus Hebomoia, a group of Pierine butterflies; Descriptions of some new species of butterflies of the subfamily Pierine, 11.—Dyar, H. G. Genus Zuschausia [for Schausia Dyar, preocc.], 4; The life-histories of the New York slug caterpillars, xiii, xiv, 1 pl.; New American moths and synonymical notes,* 6.—Fruhstorfer, H. Morpho metellus richardus nov. subspecies, 41, 4.—Gillette, C. P. Colorado Lepidoptera, Bull. - No. 43, Colorado State Agric. Coll. Exper. Station, Fort Collins, Col., Mar., ’98.—Grote, A. R. An attempt to classify the Holarctic Lepid- optera from the specialization of the wings, Part ii, The hawk and em- peror moths, 2 pls.; Reply to Dr. Dyar’s note,6.—Heath, E. F. Mani- toba butterflies, 4.—Holland, W. J. Notes on Lepidoptera, 6.— Linden, M. v. New researches on the development of the scales, colors and color-patterns on the wings of butterflies and moths, Biolog- isches Centralblatt, Leipsic, Mar. 15, ’98.—Marlatt, C. L. See Eco- nomic Entomology.—M oore, F. Lepidoptera Indica, pt. xxix. London, L. Reeve & Co.,’97. Rec’d Apr. 11, ’98. [vol. iii, pp. 97-112, pls. 223- 230, Nymphaline].—Ottolengui, R. A new Bombycid,* 4.—Pan- ton, E. S. The life-history of some Jamaica Hesperiide, figs., 7T0.— Perez, J. See the General Subject.--Quaintance, A. L. See Economic Entomology.—Reuter, E. On a new classification of the Lepidoptera (cont.), Entomologist’s Record, London, Mar. 15, ’98.—de Rocquigny-Adanson, G. Altitude of the habitat of Saturnia pyri Schiff., 65.—Schulz, O. Some Lepidoptera of gynandromor- phous form, Societas Entomologica, Zurich-Hottingen, Apr. 1, ’98.— Stedman, J.M. The fringed-wing apple-bud moth (Nofhris? mali- gemella n. sp.),* Bulletin 42, University of the State of Missouri, College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Agric. Exper. Station, Columbia, Mo., April, ’98.—Webster, F. M. Notes on the development of Drasteria erechtea Cramer, 2 pls., 6. Hymenoptera.—André, E. Synopsis of the Mutillidz of France {cont.), 65.—Carriére, J., and Burger, O. The developmental history of the wall-bee (Chalicodoma muraria Fabr.) in the egg, 13 pls., Nova Acta, Abhandlungen, Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Ixix, 2, Halle, 1897,—Cockerell, T. D. A. Notes on some bees of the genus Avdrena from Hartford, Conn., 4; Further notes on Andrena,* 9.—Davis, G. C. A review of the Ichneumonid subfamily Tryphoninz,* 2, xxiv, 3, Sept., and 4, Dec. ’97,—Dimmock, G.,and Ashmead, W. H. Notes on parasitic Hymenoptera, with de- scriptions of some new species,* Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington iv, 2, Feb. 19, ’98.—Fox, W. J. The species of Psen inhabit- ing America north of Mexico,* 2, xxv, 1, April, ’98 ; Contributions to a 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. . [May, knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 4. Thynninz and additions, 1.—Howard, L.O. A new egg-parasite of the periodical cicada,* 4.— Janet, C. Onthe morphological limits of the rings of the integument and on the articular membranes in Hymenoptera at the imago period, 12, Jan. 31.—Kenyon, F. C.. The daily and seasonal activity of a hive of bees, fig., American Naturalist, Boston, Feb.,’98.—K onow, F. W. Systematic and critical revision of the Siricid tribe Siricini, 38, 3, Mar. 31.—Kriech- baumer, Dr. ‘he genus /ofpa (concl.), 41, 2.—Marchal, P. An example of dissociation of the egg: the cycle of Ancyrtus fuscicollis, Comptes Rendus, Société de Biologie, Paris, Feb. 26, ’98; The dissocia- tion of the egg into a great number of distinct individuals and the evolu- tion cycle in Encyrtes fuscicollis, 12, Feb. 28.—Perez, J. On anew form of buccal apparatus of Hymenoptera, 71.—Quaintance, A. L. See Economic Entomology.—Reber, D. The enemies of the honey- bee in the animal and plant worlds, Bericht, St. Gallischen Naturwissens- chaftlichen Gesellschaft ’95-’96. .1897.—Robertson, C. Cockerell on Panurgus and Calliopsis,4.—T osi, A. Bivlogical notes on Apiariz, 69. Doings of Societies. A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was held March 24th, Mr. C. S. Welles, Director, presiding. Twelve members were present and Dr. John B. Smith, of New Brunswick, N. J., visitor. Dr. Calvert stated that a student at the University of Pennsylvania had been interested in chestnut growing, and was under the im- pression that isolated trees were less likely to be troubled by Balaninus larve. Dr. Calvert said he would take advantage of the presence of Dr. Smith to ask his opinion on the subject. The latter said a single tree standing alone would be likely to escape, but it would be of no advantage to plant a grove with the trees wide apart. The speaker further said the best way to prevent Balaninus injury is to gather the chestnuts as soon as they fall to the ground and send them to market, or else put them in a tight receptacle and kill all larve that come from the nuts. Mr. Wenzel said his experience had taught him that isolated trees always produce an abundance of all kinds of insects. Dr. Calvert also asked if Ada/ia dipunctata ever injured vegetation. Dr. Smith replied that he did not believe the species in question ever injured plants. Mr. Johnson exhibited specimens of Zabanus abdominalis and exul. The principal character distinguishing the species is that the posterior cell is covered in abdominalis and open in exu/. In two specimens the posterior cell was open in one wing and closed on the other, thus showing apparent running together of the species. Prof. Smith said variation was always to be expected in venation. Dr. Calvert said differences in vena- ee Ss - 1898. ] _ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 127 tion on the two sides of the body in the Odonata were not un- common, and the characters of the majority of specimens would decide the value of the characters. The same speaker called at- tention to a paper on the Odonata of Maine by Prof. F. L. Har- vey, in the current number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, stating that the male sex of Gomphus nevius, previously unknown, was described therein, and exhibited both sexes of this species, as also the types of Somatochlora elongata Scud., var. minor, de- scribed in a foot-note to the same. Dr. Calvert also reported the capture of Nehalennia posita (March 24th) in the green- house of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Smith asked if variation of moment occurred in the male genitalia of dragonflies. Dr. Calvert said in the American species he had not noticed va- riation of consequence, but in some European species consider- able variation had been found. Dr. Smith said that in the Noctuide the genitalia were unvariable, while in the genus Lach- nosterna the special value of studying the genitalia had been well illustrated. A number of good species had been confused before a study of the genitalia had been made. A vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Geo. B. King for his gift of slides showing various insects. ‘Dr. D. M. Castle was elected a member of the Section. ba th Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Aecorder. At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held on April 12th, Mr. H. Wenzel, on behalf of Prof. Smith, extended an invitation to the members to attend the April meet of the Newark Entomological Society to be held in New Brunswick April 24, 1898. Mr. Bland exhibited specimens of Ofatrinus, notus taken at Manayunk, on March 16th, and showing variation in marking and punctuation. Dr. Skinner, on behalf of Mr. Hornig, recorded the capture of Anthocaris genutia on April 3d, quite an early date for this species. Mr. Aaron exhibited a nest of common mud dauber, Sceliphron cementarius. His attention had been called to this nest in the field, because it had apparently been perforated in several places -and the perforations then filled with a.clay of a different color from that composing the body of nest. He had reared a 77y- poxylon albitarse from it and found, further, the larva of an Osmia, evidently parasitic on Trypoxylon-larve. The same speaker exhibited a drawing of Antherea yamamat, which pro- duces the wild silk of Japan. It is not subject to many diseases, as is the case with the silk worm of the United States, Bombyx mori, and the speaker believed the introduction of Antherea into the United States would be successful, inasmuch as the climatic con- ditions of the southern United States and Japan are known to be quite similar. Antherza feeds on oak. 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, Dr. Skinner referred to the record in April number of Ent. News by Mr. Schaus of the occurrence of the tropical 7hecla telea at Miami, Florida, and spoke of the beauty of the species. The secretary recorded the capture of a specimen of Mega- cilissa yarrowt in Florida by Mrs. Slosson. It had only been recorded from the southwestern United States. Dr. Skinner described the method of emergence of Actias luna from the cocoon. The cocoon is softened by an acid liquid excreted by the moth and is then perforated by a serrated spear- shaped attachment on the costa. In reply to Mr. Aaron he said these attachments are covered by dense hair in the emerged in- sect, but are easily observed on removing the hairs. WILLIAM J. Fox, Secretary. Newark Entomological Society, March 13, 1898, Mr. Herman Erb and Mr. O. Buchholz were elected members. The order for the meeting was an exhibit of the species of Cadlimorpha, all the members bringing their entire collections of this genus. The largest collection, showing the finest series, was shown by Mr. J. Doll. Prof. Smith showed a series illustrating typical forms of all the species and made blackboard sketches illustrating typical wing-forms and markings and showing how the variations were derived in each typical form. In comparing the collections it was found that Mr. Angleman had a species which differed from all that had been previously described and which was de- clared by Professor Smith to be new. Examples of this species _were found in several collections, but in such a way as to make them appear parts of other series. The series in Mr. Angleman’s collection showed that the type of maculation was different from that of any other species. Mr. Angleman stated in this connec- tion that the form was the common one in the region in which he had been in the habit of collecting and was what he had taken most abundantly. He further stated that in 1894 he took at light, in Newark, specimens of Euphanessa meridiana Slosson, and the species had been in his collection ever since. The special topic assigned for the April meeting was the genus Arefza, OBITUARY. JAMES BEHRENS, who was one of California’s early collectors in Lepid- optera, died on March €th at San gost at the age of 74. He was born in Liibeck, Germany, on June 30, 1824. Although he did not collect in late years he took a great interest in the progress of entomology. His fine collection he sent to Liibeck a few years ago and it is now in the Museum of Liibeck.—Epw. M. EHRHORN. . Dr. D. S. Kexticort, Professor of Zoology and Entomology in the Ohio State University, at Columbus, Ohio, died April 13th, at his home in that city. SER ora a a TT ED ENTOMOLOGICAL News for April was mailed March 30, 1898. Ent. News, Vol. IX. Pl. VII. JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER. ~~ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, oir. 1x. JUNE, 1808. No. 6. CONTENTS: Joseph Albert Lintner...............-- 129 | Hall—Somerare butterflies, etc........ 143 Sargent—Some observations on the A species of Orthoptera... bicdacre: Pee hunting spider, Lycosa vulpina..... 131 | Cockerell—A new desicinesal ness + 145 Schaus—Notes on Am. Sphingide..... 134 | Barrett—Collecting in the T. Caliette.. 146 Hancock—The species of thenew genus GEIR atc da aon ac ce cualeeelsceccs sts 149 SS EERE TaD OP) 137.1 Notes afidl News. scceine oie ocdecnsse ds Jee 150 Banks—Concerning the names of some Entomological Literature.............. 152 common spiders......--.-+s++++-+ 141 | Doings of Societies.............2ecceee 157 JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER. It is with sorrow and regret that we announce the death of Prof. Lintner on May sth at Rome, Italy. *‘Jos—EPH ALBERT LINTNER, Ph.D., of German descent, was a son of Rev. George Ames Lintner, D.D., who was born in Minden, Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1796, was graduated from Union College in 1817, and was pastor of the Lutheran churches of Schoharie, Middleburg and Cobleskill for many years. Prof. Lintner was born in Schoharie, February 8, 1822, attended the Jefferson Academy; was graduated from the Scho- harie Academy in 1837 and spent ten years in mercantile pursuits in New York city, where he also prosecuted his studies under the Mercantile Library Association. He contributed scientific arti- cles to the Tribune and other newspapers, and returning to Scho- harie in 1848, engaged in mercantile business. In 1853 he began a collection of insects, and in 1860 removed to Utica, where, for seyen years, he manufactured woolen goods. Meanwhile, he had steadily pursued his scientific studies, for which he had a natural taste and unusual capacity. In 1868 he became zoological assistant in the State Museum of Natural History at Albany; in 1880 he was appointed, by Governor Cornell, State entomologist; 6 aX 130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, in 1883 he was placed on the scientific staff of the Museum, a position he held until his death. He has written about one thou- sand papers on scientific subjects, published twelve Annual Re- ports on the Injurious and other Insects of the State of New York, and was widely recognized as one of the foremost ento- mologists of the world His services in the interests of agricul- ture and allied pursuits have been of great value to both the State and Nation. He was a forceful speaker, an accomplished writer, and a man of not only high scientific, but of rare per- sonal attainments. In 1884 the Regents of the University of the State of New York conferred upon him the honorary degree of Ph.D. He was president of the Entomological Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association of Economic Entomologists, two years each, has been president of the department of natural science in the Albany Institute since 1879, and was a member.of the American Ento- mological Society, the Entomological Society of Washington, D. C., the Entomological Society of Ontario, Canada, the New York Academy of Science, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- ences, the Cambridge Entomological Club, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Davenport, Iowa, the Oneida Historical Society, the Kansas State Horticultural Society, the New York State Agricultural Society, the Musée Royal d’ Histoire Naturelle de Belge, Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, and Société Entomologique de France, and since August 21, 1873, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For twenty-five years he was editor of the entomo- logical department of the ‘‘ Country Gentleman.’’ October 2, 1856, he married Frances C., daughter of Hon. Holmes Hutch- inson, of Utica, N. Y. Their children are George A., of Minne- apolis, and Charles H. (deceased), of St. Paul, Minn., and Mary C. and Laura B., of Albany, N. Y.’’ YEARS ago when I collected Lepidoptera in this locality I never saw a specimen of Pyrgus tessellata anywhere. On coming back here this Fall the first thing that attracted my attention were specimens of /esse//ata flying along the sidewalks and in our back yard; they seemed to be quite common.—G. R, PILATE, Dayton, O. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 131 - Some Observations on the Hunting Spider, Lycosa vulpina.* By Miss ANNIE B. SARGENT. (Communicated to the Naturalists’ Field Club, University of Pa., Nov. 12, 1897.) Among the hunting spiders found in the mountains of the centrai part of Pennsylvania, Lycosa vulpina is one of the largest. It excavates burrows or trenches under rocks and stones and sometimes under fallen trees. In the Spring this spider is espe- cially conspicuous because of the large yellowish-white egg-ball _ which it carries suspended from its spinnerets. The specimen about to be described was captured early in May, bearing its egg-ball. In captivity it was provided with a box resembling, as nearly as possible, the mountain home it had just left. For several days the spider roamed restlessly about trying to find a way of escape. If flies were put into the box they were devoured, but abundance of food and apparently com- fortable quarters did not suffice to make her contented. After several days I was dismayed to find the spider tearing the egg- ball open. The eggs were scattered, and the restless searching for an opening continued. Whether the eggs were unfertilized _and the spider’s instinct impelled her to destroy the ball, or whether it was the time when she would ordinarily have freed the young spiders is difficult to say. A sense of her captivity may have come into play here in some degree. However, she con- tinued to pry into the cracks of the lid, ever looking for a way out, for ten days more, and then something far more important began to occupy the spider’s time. She dug a burrow right down through the dry grass and earth, slanting it slightly toward the sun. Whether the object was to admit the sun or not is a ques- tion, for in the wild state all the burrows I have seen are entirely away from access of sunlight. Another noticeable feature about _ this burrow was that it had no protection whatever above it, al- though there were plenty of large stones in the box. The box was covered with glass, but it seems curious that the spider should realize sufficient protection in this. . After the burrow was finished the spider went through a most interesting performance in one corner of the box. She turned * A brief bibliography for the Lycoside, including some titles on habits, is given by Mr. J. H. Emerton in Proceedings of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences vol. vi, Pp. 482. 132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, around in a circle as if her body was fastened to the ground by a pivot touching her spinneret down to the ground at intervals. It became evident after a few circles that she was drawing out a strand of silk and fastening it down with every touch. This pro- cess was continued until quite a mat was made, when the whole thing was taken up and carried down the burrow. What went on in the burrow I do not know, but the next morning the mouth was sealed with a film of web. About three days later, in the morning, I found the spider standing in the mouth of the burrow twirling, with the hind legs, a brand new egg-ballin thesun. After some time she went down again and before the day was done a new film was made. From this time on I saw the spider at ir- regular intervals. She would stay sealed up in the burrow for two days or more, then in the morning—always in the morning— the film would be rudely torn away and the spider would stand motionless holding the ball in the sun or twirling it with her hind legs. Again, she walked about the box, took a drink of water, or ate a fly before returning to the burrow. She frequently detached the ball and, holding it in her jaws, made a sort of ‘‘shirred’’ ridge around it. What this process was for I could not make out. She may have been making the fastenings firmer, or she may have been testing the eggs in some peculiar fashion. After about a week of these proceedings the spider went into the burrow and remained sealed up for three or four days. One morning after this she issued forth to take a drink of water with her back literally crowded with tiny white spiders. After a short time she went into the burrow with her family and, as usual, was seen no more that day; but the burrow was not sealed. She came out every day after this and caught flies in spite of her family burdens. The little spiders had no share in these meals, but seemed to thrive notwithstanding. At this stage the glass was accidentally pushed off and the spider escaped. Several days later she was recaptured, but the little ones were gone ex- cept six. These I put into pill-boxes. Each spider had a box to itself. The boxes were partly filled with earth, and all were covered with a sheet of glass. They were fed on the tiniest flies to be found, at first, and grew rapidly, casting their skins at in- tervals. Before each moult they stopped eating for a day or two, built a little shelter of web and earth against the side of the box, and under this the skin was cast. At no other time did they i | a le ‘ FOO OO e 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 133 attempt to make a nest of any kind. They never ate their skins, as many insects, and even some of the vertebrates do. Mean- while, the mother spider made a new burrow and hatched a sec- ond brood. These were not quite so numerous, and as the Sum- mer was nearly spent I did not save any of them. The mother began one more egg-ball after this, but when it was only partly done she gave it up and spun no more. _ Of the six I had saved, three died and one escaped before they had outgrown the pill-boxes. One survivor was kept through the Winter and the next succeeding Summer, when I gave it its freedom. Having been raised in a box this spider never tried to get out, and did not seem to be aware of when the lid was off. When finally I let it go I had to poke it out of the box, and then it acted as if it were in a new country, feeling its way along through the grass then stopping to rest. Spiders that were cap- tured in the adult state always ran very briskly when they regained their freedom. In the matter of catching flies this spider was an acrobat, and I am sure could detect motion at a distance of at least two inches. There was one particular corner in which I always put the flies and if the spider was hungry it could see those flies coming through the hole and came up to seize them, as they came in, almost out of my fingers. I have seen it clinging to the top of the box and the instant a fly passed beneath, it dropped down right side up and caught its victim. Never once did I see this spider miss its mark. It did not spring until it was sure, but it never miscalculated. If the spider had eaten nothing for several days it would catch flies at long distances and in the most awkward positions. It would catch them in succession, too, until it held three in its jaws at the same time. If it was not very hungry it did not catch flies until they came within easy range. Some- times, when the spider was fasting, a fly might walk over its legs “and cause it to twitch them out of the way, but it would not catch the fly. One time I placed a large ichneumon-fly in the box. The spider stole up to it and barely touched it with the tip of its foot, as a cricket would feel with its antennz, then waited; the ichneumon moved and the spider touched it again. But the spider went no nearer and would not seize the ichneumon, although it flew right against the spider. The spider evidently appreciated something not to its taste in the ichneumon and this 134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, would go to show that the spider is guided by something more than the mere motion of a smaller creature in selecting its food. I noticed also that the older spider did not like metallic-green flies. She would not eat them unless very hungry indeed. On several occasions she dropped them uneaten, although usually they flew about the box unnoticed. That mere motion plays a large part in recognizing food, however, is evident from the fact that often when I moved my finger back and forth over the glass the spider came up to that place evidently expecting flies. That the spider followed the motion of the flies at times was also evi- © dent, for I have seen it elevate or lower its head in the direction of the fly, turn its entire body around as the fly moved, and in some cases follow it. On one occasion no flies were to be had, and finally I decided to try raw meat. As long as the meat merely lay in the box the spider would not touch it, but when I put a thread through it and swung it back and forth the spider rushed out and seized its supposed prey. The meat once in its jaws the spider deigned to eat it. After a few days, however, it refused to eat meat. I then offered it cooked meat and even bits of hash which satisfied it for a few days more, when I suc- ceeded in obtaining some flies. . Meanwhile the mother spider was unmistakably growing old. She could not catch flies unless they were very close, and even then she frequently lost her hold of them. . Her jaws seemed to have lost all their power and gradually stiffened, until finally she made no attempt to catch flies. Her legs and body came to have a shriveled, dried appearance, and she walked unsteadily, rolling from side to side. Her faculties were failing just as sutely as they do in higher animals, and one morning I found her stiff to the last degree and dead. oO NOTES ON AMERICAN SPHINGIDA.—II. By WILLIAM SCHAUS. The following notes are in continuation of a paper published in ENT. NEws vol. vi, p. 141. Theretra epaphus. Ya Cher. epaphus Bdv., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 267, 1875. [188r. Cher. cyrene Pruce, Biol. Cent.-Am., Lep. Het. i, p. 11, T. 1,5, Theretra drucei Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 658. : 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. > Ss My attention was drawn to the above synonymy by Mons. C, Oberthiir, who compared Boisduval’s type with the excellent figure in the Biologia. Theretra neoptolemus. Sphinx neoptolemus Cr., Pap. Exot. iv, t. 301, fig. F, 1780. Cher. trilineata Walk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi, p. 30, 1864. I can see no reason for separating Walker’s species from 7: neoptolemus. _ Theretra isaon. | Cher isaon Bdv., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 272, 1875. Theretra olivacea Roths., Nov. Zool. i, p. 77, 1894. My specimens of 7. zsaon, compared with type of Boisduval, agree with the description of 7: olivacea. Theretra pistacina. Philampelus pistacina Bdv., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 199, 1875. Cher. jocasta Druce, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), ii, p. 237, 1888. Of the above species I have a specimen compared with both types. Theretra aglaor. C. aglaor Bdv., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 275, 1875. C. fibya Druce, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv, p. 249, 1878. C. lelia Druce, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv, p. 249, 1878. C. libya is certainly the same as C. ag/aor, and in the B. M. collection the specimen labeled as C. e/a by Mr. Druce is in- separable from the specimen which he has labeled as C. /éya. Theretra arpi sp. nov. Head and thorax olive-brown; a white line in front of the antenne; patagize laterally streaked with white; a reddish brown spot on collar, a similar spot on patagize and some reddish brown shades posteriorly on thorax. Abdomen olive-green above, grayish below. Primaries light gray, heavily shaded with olive-green in the disc, and otherwise covered with greenish striz; an antemedial, geminate, dark green curved line not reaching the inner margin; a minute black point in the cell; three post- medial dark lunulate lines, followed by a row of points on the veins; an olive-green apical spot and a subterminal cluster of dark scales between 5 and 6. Secondaries dark brown; the costal margin, the apical portion of the fringe, the inner margin narrowly, and a broad subterminal shade at the anal angle, yellowish; the subterminal shade somewhat suffused with olive-green. Exp. 66 mm. Hab.—Rio Janeiro. 136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, Dilophonota cenotrus. Sphinx enotrus Cr., Pap. Ex. iv, T. 301, C. 1780. [f. 4, 1865. & Erinnyis melancholica Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v, p. 77, T. ii, J Anceryx janiphe Bdv., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 131, 1875. Q Erinnyis cinerosa Grote, Ann, Lyc. N. Y. viii, p. 201, 1867. Q Anceryx piperis Bdv., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 132, 1875. Much confusion has arisen from the careless identification of Cramer’s figure, but the description accompanying the plate leaves no doubt as to the species represented, for attention is drawn to the color of the abdomen below, which is white with four black points on either side. In the species heretofore con- sidered as enotrus, the abdomen below is brownish gray without any spots. For this latter form I propose the name of Dzlopho- nota crameri; it is well described by Boisduval in his Sphingidze, p. 129, under the name of Anceryx ewnotrus. D. crameri is found throughout tropical America and also occurs in southern Florida. Dilophonota domingonis. D. domingonis Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 258, 1875. D. festa H. Edw., Papilio ii, p. 11, 1882. The above names refer to the same species; it is abundant in Mexico and the sexes are more similar than is usually the case in this genus. This species has been considered a dark form of D. obscura = rhebus Bdv., but I have examined over a hundred specimens of each species without finding any intermediate forms; ‘moreover, in D. obscura the sexes are quite different. I find the species of Dzlophonota very constant in their markings, D. crameri alone showing some variability in the color of the mar- ginal areas of the primaries, the lines, however, remaining unal- tered. Isognathus scyron. Sphinx scyron Cramer, Pap. Ex. iv, iv, t. 301, E, 1780. Anceryx pedilanthi Boisd., Spec. Gen. Het. i, p. 124, 1875. On examination of the type I find Boisduval’s species the % of /. seyron. Isognathus papaye. Anceryx papaye Bav., Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 126, 1875. Isognathus laura Btl., Trans. Zool. Soc. London, ix, p. 601. Papaye type is the 9, /aura type, the % of the same species, and both will mo doubt prove to be a slight variety of 7 /eachti Swains. Ent. News, Vol. IX. Pl. VIII. 3a J lL HancockDe/ TETTIGIANS OF THE GENUS NEOTETTIX (Hancock). 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 137 THE SPECIES OF THE NEW GENUS NEOTETTIX WITH A KEY TO THE GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN TETTIGIA. By J. L. Hancock. (See Plate VIII.) In the present notes are described several species of Tettigians of a hitherto unrecognized genus from the southern United States. I have, furthermore, outlined a table of the genera of Tettigiz, including therein the new genus JVeofettix, together with the _ three already known to occur within our borders. These are namely: Nomotettix Morse, Neotettix gen nov., Paratettix Boli- var, and Zettix Charpentier. The species of eotettix are small in stature, in which particular they resemble Momotettix. The wings are frequently abbreviated, and macropterous as well as brachypterous forms are represented among them without the apical process of the pronotum being much of it at all extended further backwards than the knee of the hind femora. These dimorphic phases of structure are not considered separately. It will be observed that Bolivar, in 1887, described a species in his Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigide p. 246, as Tettix Jemoratus Scudder. That there is a discrepancy regarding the identity of the species seems fairly certain. A specimen which was identified by Prof. Bolivar as strictly this species was pre- viously kindly examined by Mr. Scudder, the author of the spe- cies, who informed me of a difference existing in the width of the vertex between the eyes as compared to the original femoratus. Partly on the strength of Mr. Scudder’s assertion: ‘‘ It is quite certain that the specimen you send cannot be that species from the width of the vertex between the eyes’’ and the knowledge gleaned from an examination of a considerable series, I have proposed the appellation Meotettix bolivari in deference to my distinguished colleague. The generosity of Mr. A. Bolter, of Chicago, who placed his collection of this group freely at my ‘disposal made it possible to include two of the three species here described. One of these I take pleasure in naming in his honor. It is quite probable that the species described by Scudder as Tettix femoratus in ‘‘ Transactions American Entomological So- ciety’ ii, p. 305, will, in the course of time, be restored, or as soon as sufficient material from Maryland, where the type came from, has been carefully studied. This species, of which the 138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, type is lost, undoubtedly belongs to JVeotettix, but being in doubt about its specific position in my table of species it is simply ap- pended at the end. Genera of Tettigiea of North America. Anterior femora more or less compressed, carinate above; antennz 12-14 articles I. (4) Pronotum with the front border anteriorly angulate produced, - median carina strongly cristiform, arched longitudinally, median lobule of posterior lateral lobe small; vertex in profile angulate produced . : : ; : . Gen. 1. Nomotettix Morse. 2. (3) Vertex in profile rounded anteriorly, a little advanced in front of the eyes; frontal costa strongly forked; median carina of pro- notum distinctly elevated, more or less convexly curved longitu- dinally, not cristiform . : . Gen. 2. Neotettix gen. nov. 3. (2) Vertex equal to or narrower than one of the eyes, not produced in front of them, truncate anteriorly . Gen. 3. Paratettix Bol. 4. (1) Pronotum generally not advanced upon the head to the eyes, median lobule of posterior lateral lobe usually well developed; vertex in profile anteriorly angulate, projecting beyond the eyes. Gen. 4. Tettix Charp. Neotettix gen. nov. Frontal costa strongly forked, median lobule of posterior lat- eral lobe of pronotum but slightly developed; vertex in profile rounded anteriorly, from dorsal view wider than one of the eyes. Pronotum advanced upon the head to the eyes, median carina elevated, more or less arched longitudinally, dorsal front margin truncate, or scarcely angulate, dorsum transversely tectiform or convexed; hind femora broad, rather stout. Species small, with antennez consisting of 12-13 articles. Type, Tettix femoratus Bolivar (not Zettia femoratus Scudder). Members of this genus recall brachypterous forms of Paratettizx, to which they seem to have a closer affinity than to either the Nomotettix or Tettix series. The crown of the head is posteri- orly mammillate. Representatives can be distinguished from Paratettix by the character of the vertex, which is wider than one of the eyes and is not truncate anteriorly. The 7e#tix group has one or two additional antennal joints, the pronotum is not advanced upon the head to the eyes, while the species comprising the Nomotettix group have the pronotum distinctly cristiform, besides the vertex in profile appears angulate anteriorly. Not the least important distinction is the sudden widening of the 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 139 frontal costa in Neotettix, which, with the other characters we have shown, will separate, with little difficulty, its members from any of the others named. Key to Species of Neotettix. 1. (2) Vertex in dorsal view with front border rounded, a little wider than one of the eyes. : . Sp. 1. N. rotundafrons sp. n. 2. (1) Vertex in dorsal view with the front border slightly convexed, _ much wider than one of the eyes. 3. (4) Pronotum strongly rugose, scabrous; frontal costa scarcely pro- tuberant . ¢ 4 : . Sp. 2. N. bolteri sp. n. 4. (3) Pronotum gtanalate ¢ or arenose; frontal costa rather strongly pro- tuberant . , é > ‘ . Sp. 3. N. bolivari nov. nom. ; Position? Sp. 4. N. femoratus Scud. 1. N. rotundafrons sp. nov. (Figs. 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, Pl. VIII).—Slightly smaller than do/ivari. Body granulate, or to a certain extent very little rugose; vertex not as broad as in do0/ivari, barely wider than one of the eyes, the front border rounded, crown inconspicuously mammillate poste- riorly; frontal costa not so roundly protuberant, branches of fork about as widely separated; pronotum truncate in front, posterior process ter- minating acutely, reaching to or slightly overreaching apex of femora when considering dimorphic forms together; median carina toward the front slightly arched longitudinally, distinctly elevated; dorsulum trans- versely tectiform, not broad between the shoulders, humeral angles ob- tuse or sub-straight, lateral carina slightly present. Wings shortened, not quite reaching to, or passing a little beyond the apex of process. Elytra oval, rounded apically ; second femur with margins somewhat undate, posterior femora broad, rather stout. Length entire 9 mm.; pro- notum 7.5-8 mm.; post-femora 5.5 mm. Described from two females. Locality Jacksonville, Florida (Bolter). In one specimen the body is reticulated with fuscous, contrasting with yellowish white; dimorphism occurs in the wing- lengths. This species probably nearest resembles 7. femoratus Scud. 2. N. bolivari nov. nom. (Figs. 2, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, Pl. VIII).—Body granu- late; vertex much broader than one of the eyes, crcown mammillate on each side posteriorly, front border slightly convex, rounding abruptly into sides, mid-carina disappearing posteriorly on the crown a little beyond the middle, in profile rounded, advanced but little in front of the eyes, continued unbroken with the frontal costa; frontal costa produced, seen n front strongly forked; pronotum truncate or scarcely angulate anteriorly, advanced upon the head to the eyes, apical process acute, extended backwards to posterior knee, dorsum rather sharply tectiform, median carina distinctly raised, slightly arched longitudinally, humeral angles 140 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, obtuse. Elytra elongate. Wings slightly overreaching apex of process in macropterous examples, or sometimes but slightly developed in bra- chypterous forms. Length entire: 2 9-10 mm.; pronotum 7.5-8.5 mm.; post-femora 5.5-6 mm. yA Ent. News, Vol. IX. 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 145 place where your specimen has been captured. One ought to let them live, to see if they will multiply. It is a useful insect, de- stroying the bed plant-insects and not at all noxious to vegetation. ‘‘ The same sort of transport was effected from North Australia to the hot-houses of Kew, England. The Cydindrodes, sort of Gryllotalpa, was found in those hot-houses making great ravages in the large herbaceous plants in which it makes canals and holes. **T received also from Java our Gryllotalpa vulgaris, certainly transported to Java in the earth of some pots of plants. “In the Hymenoptera those transports are frequent only by the ships, ¢. g., in 1854 our large Vespa crabro was caught for the first time in North America, and now several of our wasps have invaded the United States; they were not known at the time of Say who first gave a good account of the United States Hymenoptera. **T shall have your photographs placed in our museum with a notice explaining what they are. ‘If you occupy yourself with Orthoptera I should be indebted to you if you could send me a numerous set of the small Gry]l- lidze called 7ridactylus or Xya, of which I could not well make out the American species.’’ Dr. H. de SAuSsSURE. fe) A NEW SCALE-INSECT OF THE GENUS LECANIUM. - By T. D. A. CocKERELL, Mesilla, N. Mex. Lecanium magnoliarum n. sp. 9.—Scale, 8 mm. long, 4% wide, 2% high, elongate-oval, dark brown, the subdorsal area irregularly marked with black or blackish ; dorsum bluntly keeled; surface granular, little shiny, with low wart-like protuberances at intervals, reminding one of the skin of certain slugs of the genus Veronicel/a ; marginal area obscurely radiate by darker lines, but not plicate. Removed from the twig the scale leaves a white oval mark, the secretion abundant in the middle, and forming a very distinct outline where the margin of the scale was, but not indicating the place of the stigmatal incisions; 2 antennz 8-jointed, long and slender. Formula 3 (451) (28) 67; 4 about 3 length of 3, 2 hardly over half as long as 3, 6 very much shorter than 5, 2 with a pair of long bristles near the end, 5 with a long bristle not far from the end, 8 with several bristles; another example has 4 not over % length of 3, 8 short, decidedly shorter than 2, 5 not quite so long as 4; formula 3 (41) 52 (86) 7. Legs long and unusually slender, coxz and trochanter each with a bristle fe, 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. — [ June, near the end, coxz a little longer than trochanter; tibia at least as long as femur, tarsus about three-fifths length of tibia; claw small; tarsal digi- tules short, not extending as far as those of claw; claw digitules filiform, but with tolerably large knobs. Dermis chitinous, with scattered round gland-spots, which are most numerous and largest near the margin; anal plates of the same color as the dermis, not darkened; marginal spines small and entire; a short distance from the margin are numerous small tubular glands; newly hatched larva very pale yellowish, with a slightly translucent dorsal line, appearing dark when the ‘insect is on a dark ground; no true’ markings. . Hab.—Numerous on bark of twigs of deciduous magnolia in Japanese nursery at San José, Cal., June 12, 1897 (E. M. Ehr- horn). Presumably introduced from Japan. It is a species of Eulecanium,; from armeniacum it differs in the young as well as the adult; the scale is something like derderidis, but the antennz, and especially the legs, are quite different; it is also rather like genista, but differs in the antenne. The species has been alluded to in ‘‘ California Fruit Grower,’’ July 3, 1897, p. 5. a VU COLLECTING IN THE TIERRA CALIENTE. By O. W. BARRETT. All Mexico is divided into two parts: open barren upland, hot and damp lowland. An imaginary line may be drawn along the Atlantic slope of Central America from north to south and 500 feet above that line is temperate, while 500 feet below is tropical climate. The mesa is not a desert, neither is the tierra caliente a jungle in toto, but they are vastly different regions. The aspect is more varied in the low country—reedy, swampy areas alterating with primeval forest and chaparral wastes. From May to October the rivers rise and transform the broad grassy plains along their banks into shallow lakes; and the forests be- come dark, steaming hot-houses. During the Winter months, or dry season, a part of the flora dries up and Nature rests as much as she can. Can the collector work during the rainy season? By spread- ing his specimens in the sun every day or two and wrapping the boxes in oil-cloth at night with plenty of naphthaline he can save a good per cent. of the collected material; yet mildew and the accursed ants will get in somehow. Where storage is such a 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 147 momentous question in remote regions the tendency is to pack too closely, which favors decay among the larger specimens. What of the ‘‘hosts of insects??? I have traveled for hours up and down the rivers and walked for miles through the forests without seeing more than a very few insects (except the ubiqui- tous mosquitoes, of course). Along the larger rivers there is a small (?) insect fauna. In the depths of the forest where it is so dark that bats may often be seen flying at noon—collecting is naturally dull. But let the insect-hunter find some dark dell with a deep malarious pool and plenty of flowering shrubs about and he feels more enthusiastic, especially if there is twenty grains of quinine in him; there he may find game. Also, there game may find 42m; numerous species of ants give him samples of various solutions of formic acid; vipers and tree-snakes may give him an opportunity to test his latest snake-poison antidote; seven beau- tiful species of mosquitoes keep him busy; the tabano [ 7adanus sp. ?] bites hard; the various chaquistas bore deep; the rotodor makes an itching blood-blister; ticks stick to the death; the garapato begins to dig her den (under the nails): and the moya- cuil (human Oestrid) lays the larvae which at once proceed to establish themselves in his flesh for at least two weeks as ‘‘ howl- ing reminders’’ that ‘‘There’s a purpose in pain, else it were hellish.”’ The collector cannot begin work to good advantage before ten o’clock a. M. In the forest the atmosphere is usually very sultry during the middle and latter part of the day. About two ’clock in the morning the air gets cooler; then the stridulation of the Orthoptera becomes less violently obstreperous and, toward sunrise, ceases altogether. Exposure to direct sunlight is said to be very dangerous during the Summer months; not sunstroke, but various forms of malarial fever being the result. The tem- perature rarely gets above 190° F.; but it is the humidity that tells on the active collector. Rainy days are rare. Two or three inches of rain may fall in as many hours. In the densest forest where the sun never shines (because of the numerous leafy *‘behucos’’ which interlace the tree-tops) the collector may con- tinue his search for Hemiptera or Formicidz while the rain roars harmlessly above him. The air retains a marked hydrogenous odor for several hours after a heavy rain; the humidity penetrates 148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, all boxes and un-paraffined corks, and thus mold is sure to grow wherever there is ‘‘dead”’ air. Indeed, I doubt whether tin- cases could be used with any success for the storage of specimens. Leather leggings give protection from palm-thorns and snake- teeth, but when a few ants crawl beneath them-—well, they must come off at once. It is almost impossicle to cross a moving army of ants without suffering thereby. Water is usually all right if it runs. Fruits are dangerous un- less well cooked. An intolerable itching beginning at the ankles and spreading over the body lasts for a few weeks after entering ‘‘la tierra caliente;’’ unless the condition of the blood is very good it amounts to much more than a ‘‘heat rash.’’ Bilious, intestinal, and malarial diseases are the most common. The dangers from poisonous plants and insects, ‘‘ tigres’’ and ‘‘ In- dios’? may be overestimated, but the collector would be cet hardy to go about without his revolver. Although the country has many faults there are many rhinos about it to gladden the heart of the would-be entomologist. There the brilliant Worpho pelezdes flits about the tree-tops, the Ithomias hover on gaudy wings in the sunshiny vistas, and per- chance a royal Ca/igo floats across the forest path and folds its purple vesture upon the trunk of some rough-barked tree before the very eyes of the collector—safe in its mimicry. Huge flies, mighty Cerambycidz; beautiful Odonata, like the lazy Mega/o- prepus cerulescens, and ferocious Hymenoptera; they are there, and it is a wonderful thing to live there with them and get ac- quainted with them all. It is truly a great thing to live in the tierra caliente, in the ‘‘ rich faunal region’’ where one can see the species actually alive and in their proper environment, fresh and [occasionally] entire and ‘‘at their best.’’ However, it is a great thing to see the same specimens (z. ¢., the perfect ones) arranged over the white paper of a cabinet; to have a bed to sleep upon and something to eat; to live without fever and within reach of a physician. Idealization is an excellent thing in its place—in magazine articles, for example; but it wilts in the desert places and cannot thrive in a tropical forest. 1898. ] 149 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. {The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] -To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our - earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL News has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- ence, as to make it necessary to put ‘‘ copy”’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five ‘extras’? without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.—Eb. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1898. PACKING OF INSECTS. We think that it will be necessary to publish in the NEws an article on packing insects for shipment by mail or express for the benefit of professors of entomology, experiment station ento- mologists, beginners and others. We receive many packages of insects here and have a good opportunity of finding out how little some of our good friends know about the subject. Occa- sionally a box arrives by mail without any covering or packing whatever, and then we fasten a handle to it and give it to the baby for a rattle The sender in this case certainly has faith. Next comes a box with packing on two sides, The fellow that sends this kind reminds us of the ostrich who sticks his head in the sand and thinks he can’t be seen. Another variety is the kind with sufficient space between the outer and inner box, but the packing has evidently been hammered in with mallet and chisel. The fellow that sends this kind is evidently not a physi- cist. The commonest mistake of all is to have much waste space in the inner box. Don’t send a few specimens in a box that will hold fifty, as the smaller the box, as a rule, the greater its safety. There are really few people in America that understand the fine art of properly packing insects for shipment. We will publish an article on this subject in a subsequent issue. 150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. A REPLY to Mr. W. R. Howard’s query.—The length of the egg-stage of 7. Juna and ‘other moths. In looking over my notes of life-histories I find the following, which may interest some of your readers: Length of egg-stage. promethea . ; 5 F ‘ 12 days. luna ; : : ‘ “ee mS polyphemus . ; : ; ; 2-25 cecropia ; ‘ i ; : rif imperialis . : ; ; i csc regalis . : ‘ P - ; 76) yubicunda . ; : A {Zip stigma . . : ‘ ~ : da A. torrefacta. : é ; 5 © Rae A. biguttata . 5 P . : De: A. drexellii . ; ; ; s a N. gibbosa . : ; ; ‘ BANS A, virgo. ; f ; : ‘ tat x A. nais . : 4 ; : m THe 1st brood 2d brood S. excecatus : ; ; 8 Io days. S.astylus . ; ; ‘ II Gee S. myops . ; “ $ 15 a, D.hyleus . ; ’ rea | 6 1st brood 2d brood 3d brood E.myron . : s : 7 9 6 days. T. abbottii . - : A 6 sia Hi. affinis . ; ‘ 5 7 es E. harrisit . ; ; ‘ II i D. lineata . ‘ ; ; 6 “tute S. kalmie . ; ‘ : 36 3 D. undulosa > . 2 8 SY C. amyntor . ; . 6 ite C. juglandis ; 8 7 mf Different broods have varied. I also find that Miss Eliot and I have found Zuna on white birch more than on any other tree. Mr. Howard will find that larve need no ‘‘trees”’ at all. If he will keep them in tightly closed tin boxes, with twigs and leaves, they will thrive well. I have described this process fully in an article written for teachers and published in ‘‘ Primary Education” for March, 1898. In Massachusetts I think as¢erias chrysalids would be dear at five cents. In New Hampshire and Vermont I am sure they would.—CAROLINE G. — SouLE, Brookline, Mass. 1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 151 FourTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ZOoOLOGy.—The Reception Committee has issued a circular containing particulars with regard to lodgings and other accommodation at Cambridge during the meeting in August next, and giving other information as to the railway fares from various parts of the Continent, and other arrangements for the Congress. The circular is accompanied by a reply-form, to be filled up and returned to the Secretaries by any member of the Congress who wishes rooms to be taken for him. These circulars have been sent to all who have already informed the Reception Committee that they hope to be present at the meeting, and will be sent to other Zoologists who apply to the Secretaries of the Re- ception Committee, The Museums, Cambridge, England. A BEETLE REMOVED FROM A LaApy’s Ear.—May tg, 1897, Dr. A. S. Daggett, of Pittsburg, Pa., removed from the external ear of a German lady a beetle nearly one-half an inch long; it was in the auditory canal, close to the drum, and it was enclosed in a dense plug of wax. The drum was ulcerated, with considerable surrounding congestion. The lady did not know that she had an insect in her ear. The specimen, which was referred to me, was a mere shell, the soft parts having been dissolved; it was, however, perfectly recognizable, and it agreed with the European species Phyllopertha horticola Linn. (Scarabeidz). The determination was made by direct comparison of specimens from Switzerland. The species, so far as I know, does not occur in this country. The lady has not been in Europe since August, 1893, consequently this large beetle must have been in her ear at least three years and nine months; perhaps much longer.—HERBERT H. SMITH. INTERESTING CAPTURES.—The morning of Feb. 10, 1898, I found here, near the bed of a small mountain stream, in a grassy, damp situation on the lower surface of a stone a specimen of the curious blind Tenebrionid Alaudes singularis Horn. The beetle was in the society of a small black ant with black abdomen and reddish brown thorax and head. The ants and the A/audes were absolutely motionless, benumbed by the rather cold morning air, and it was only after some minutes of scrupulous searching that I discovered the minute beetle adhering to the lower surface of the stone. It feigned death even in the cyanide bottle quite a long time for his small size. Under the same stone was a specimen of Anchomma costatum Lec. During the month of January [ have taken on the banks of the above- described streamlet on meat hidden by me under stones, chips and leaves about two dozens of Cychrus mimus Horn. More than the half of the specimens were females.—A. FENvEs, M.D., Pasadena, Cal. NOTES ON NEOMINOIS RIDINGSII AND DIONYsIUS.—Dionysius exists at just the same altitude as ridingsii, so the differences are not the effect of altitude. Riding sii is very abundant everywhere around the city of Denver; even in the city in grassy places. This elevation is from fivé to six thou- sand feet; it also occurs up to eight thousand feet, and probably higher. 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. . [ June, Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado, where dionysius is abun- dant is just the same elevation as Denver with this difference: Denver is a gradual elevation of the plains, while Glenwood is a depression in the mountains worn by the rapid rivers. ARidingsii is found in the short grass, dionysius on sandy.and stony desert tracts, always sitting on the hot sand of the trails, and, when started, flying on the bare rocks either down to the riverside or the side of the cliffs above for a few minutes, then back to the hot dusty tracts. Both species occur at Salida, their habits and habitat still keeping distinct. This place is over seven thou- sand feet in altitude. Here I have taken dionysius in a volcanic patch, barren and desolate, and 7idingsii on the grassy meadow watered by the little Arkansas River.—Davip BRUCE. ‘‘INSECT GRAFTING.—A discovery which may lead to important re- sults has been made by Mr. Henry E. Crampton, Instructor in Biology in Columbia University. Mr. Crampton has been studying the works of a German scientist named Born, and has made a practical test of some of his theories, with extraordinary results. He has experimented on the embryo of the butterfly at the period of its existence when it lies inactive in its cocoon, after its life as a caterpillar. Every one has seen the grub spinning its delicate nest on a leaf or twig, and entering it, as into a grave, remaining there eating nothing and apparently dead for a few weeks, and then emerging from it a beautiful creature with wings. Mr. Crampton collected a number of these cocoons and operated on their insensible occupants. He found that he could cut the comatose creatures in half and join the half of one to the half of another without affecting the life of either. The chrysalids so joined accomplished the usual period of their retirement and emerged from it as two butterflies, with wonderful combinations of colors and organisms, apparently none the worse for the operation which had been performed. Prof. Smith, of the New Jersey Experiment Station, who has made the facts of Mr. Crampton’s work known, believes that the discovery will constitute an era in biological science. The principle has an endless variety in possible forms of appli- cation and may eventually reach to higher orders of life. The possibility of continuing two natures in a single living organism being once demon- strated, scientists will perceive how far-reaching may be the effects of such experiments.’’—Christian Herald. Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs. or con- taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published ; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all arti- cles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but wheu such articles are in other languages than Engiish, French, German or Italian, this tact is indicated in parenthesis. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., May, ’98.—5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., May, ’98.—8. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, May, ’98.—9. The Entomologist, London, May, ’98.—14. Pro- Pa 5" a - 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 153 ceedings of the Zoological Society of London, ’97, part iv, April 1, ’98.— 21. The Entomologist’s Record, London, April 15, ’98.—22. Zoolog- ischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, April 4, ’98.—36. Transactions, Entomological Society of London, ’98, pt. i, April 20.—41. Entomologische Nachrichten, xxiv, 5, Berlin, March, ’°98.—64. Annalen d. K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, xii, Vienna, ’97.—72. Transactions, Kansas Academy of Science xv, Topeka, ’98.—73. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale (3), v, 3, Paris, ’97.—74. Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift, Berlin, April 24, ’98.—75. Twenty-eighth Annual Report, Entomological Society of Ontario, Toronto, ’98. The General Subject.—A Text-Book or ENTomocoecy including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphoses of Insects for use in Agricultural and Technical Schools and Colleges as well as by the working Entomologist. By Alpheus S. Packard, M.D., Ph.D , Professor of Zodlogy and Geology, Brown University, Author of ‘‘ Guide to Study of Insects,’”’ ‘‘ Entomology for Beginners,” etc. New York. The Mac- millan Company, 1898. 8vo, pp. xvii, 729; 654 figs. Received from the publishers through John Wanamaker. Price $4.50. For some years past we have been expecting a new edition of Prof. Packard’s “‘ Guide,’’ but the present work is something entirely different. Nothing like it, in its scope, has appeared in English since Newport’s article on Insecta in 1839, while in other languages the only comparable works, during the same period, have been Graber’s “‘ Insecten,’’ 1877, and Kolbe’s “ Einfiihrung,’’ 1893. No one or two men could, out of their own experience, produce such a work, so that we are here given a semmary of the labors of several generations of anatomists, physiologists and embry- ologists upon insects, and treated from the standpoint of-morphology, of comparative anatomy and physiology. The first part, entitled ‘‘ Mor- phology and Physiology,” deals with the position of Insects in the Animal Kingdom (pp. 1-26), the External (pp. 27-210) aud the Internal (pp. 211- 514) Anatomy. The Second Part, on Embryology (pp. 515-592), is stated to be based on Korschelt and Heider’s Lehrbuch. The Third Part (pp. 593-708) treats of the Metamorphoses. At the end of. each section dealing with some special structure or function, following the model set by the German text-books, a bibliography is given with this improvement —that the entries are arranged chronologically. Needless to say these add immensely to the value of the book. The illustrations, whose wealth is indicated above, show signs of the improvement gradually appearing in English text-books, relieving them of the charge of inferiority com- pared with those in German. Being, from the nature of the case, chiefly a summary and a compilation, the value of the work must depend on the thoroughness with which this has been done. Few are ina position to judge of the degree of this thoroughness in the varicus groups, and we’ cannot therefore express an opinion on this point. Specialists will per- haps detect some omissions as, for example, any reference in the text to Ris’ researches on the proventriculus of Odonata, or the statement, re- 154 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, produced from Wheeler (p. 355), that the embryonic number of Malpighian tubules in Ephemeridea and Odonata has not been ascertained. In the latter group the number is three, as first stated in the News for June, 1895, p. 181, and subsequently expressly confirmed by Heymons, who also gives two as the number in embryonic may-flies. Yet these may be hypercriticisms, and the Text-Book is indispensable to scientific ento- mologists, forming a welcome complement to Dr. Sharps’ ‘‘ Insects”’ in the Cambridge Natural History.—P. P. CALVERT. Bethune, C.J. S. Sketch of James Fletcher, portrait, 75.—H¢ ow- ard, L. O. On the entomological results of the exploration of the British West India islands by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 75.—Knuth, P. How do flowers attract insects? Botan- isches Centralblatt 1898, No. 15, Cassel.—Moffat, J. A. Protective resemblances, 75.—Obituary, Johnson Pettit, 4.—Poulton, E. B. Theories of mimicry as illustrated by African butterflies; Protective mimicry as evidence for the validity of the theory of natural selection, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, To- ronto meeting of 1897, London, ’98, and 21.—Robertson, C. Flowers and insects, xviii. Botanical Gazette, Chicago, April, ’98.—Strickland, T. A. G. Further notes on the direct photographic enlargement of ento- mological specimens, with description of a new apparatus, 8. Economic Entomology.—Anon. The pernicious Aspidiotus, Re- vue Scientifique, Paris, April 23, ’°98.—Barrows. The present status of the San José scale in Michigan, 75.—Bethune, C. J. S. Some household insects, figs. ; Notes on the season of 1897, figs., 75.—Britton, W. E. Insect notes of the season, Twenty-first Annual Report, Connec- ticut Agric. Exper. Station for 1897. Part iv. New Haven, ’98. --Chre- tien, P. Natural history of Exnychia fascialis Hb., Naturaliste, Paris, April 15, ’98.—Dearness, J. Annual address of the President: The insects of the year, figs., 75.—Discussion on temperature experiments as affecting received ideas on the hibernation of injurious insects, 75.— Fletcher, J. The San José scale, figs., 75.—Harrington, W. H., Notes on the insects of the year 1897, figs., 75.—Hopkins, A. D- The periodical Cicada in West Virginia, figs., map, 4 pls. Bulletin 50, W. Va. Agric. Exper. Station, Morgantown, W. Va., Jan., ’98.—Huard, V. A. The Hemiptera in the Canadian Parliament; The plague of cater- pillars on the Saguenay, Naturaliste Canadien, Chicoutimi (Quebec), April, ’98.—H unter, S.j. Notes on injurious insects, 72.—Kenyon, F. C. Abstract of recent publications, Experiment Station Record ix, 9, Washington, 1898.—Kirkland, A. H. The work against the gypsy moth, 1897, 75.—Kriiger, F. The San José scale question. figs., 74. —Lintner, J. A. Twelfth Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York for the year 1896, 9 text figs., 15 pls., Fiftieth Re- port on the New York State Museum, Albany, ’97. Rec’d May 7, ’98.— _ Lowe, V. H. Inspection of nurseries and treatment of infested nur- sery stock, Bulletin 136, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Ge- 1808. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155 neva, N. Y., Dec., ’97; Plant lice: descriptions, enemies and treatment, 3 pls., Bulletin 139 of the same.—Marlatt, C. L. Notes on insecti- cides, 75.—Matzdorff, C. The San José scale, 1 pl., Zeitschrift fiir Pflanzenkrankheiten, vii, 1. Stuttgart, April 2, ’98.—[Description of a patented insect-catching tree girdle in the same journal.]—M offat, J. A. The value of systematic entomological observations, 75.—Nuttall, G. H. F. In explanation of the réle which piercing insects play in the distribution of infectious diseases, Centralblatt fiir Bakteriologie, Jena, April 16,’98.—_Stedman, J. M. A new orchard pest, the fringed-wing apple-bud moth (Nothris ? maligemmed/ia), figs.* 4. Myriopoda.—Dubosq, O. On the sensory nervous system of Tracheates (Orthoptera, Chilopoda), 1 pl., 73. Arachnida.—Pocock, R. I. The nature and habits of Pliny’s Solpuga, figs., Nature, London, April 28, ’98.—Simon, E. On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent, part iii,* 14. Orthoptera.—Bordas,L. The salivary glands of Pseudo-neurop~ tera and Orthoptera (concl.), 3 pls. 73.—Brancsik, C. Series of new Orthoptera, 3 pls., Jahresheft des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines des Trencsiner Comitates, Trencsen, ’98.—Brindley, H. H. On the re- generation of the legs in the Blattide, 14.—Duboscq, O. See Myrio- poda.—F yles, T. W. The locusts of the Bible, 75.—Lochard, W. A study of the Gryllidz (Crickets), figs., 75.—Lugger, O. Third Annual Report of the Entomologist of the State Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota to the Governor for the year 1897. St. Paul, 98. 297 pp., 187 figs. This is a monograph of the Orthoptera of Minne- sota.—Scudder, S. H. The Orthopteran group Scudderiz,* 1 pl., Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, xxxiii, 15, April, ’98.—W alker, E. M. Notes on some Ontario Acridiidez, 4. Neuroptera.—Bordas, L. See Orthoptera.—Currie, R. P. New species of North American Myrmelionide, ii,* 4.—Schenkling- Prév6t. The life of Termites (cont.) Insekten-Bérse, xv, 17, etc. Leip- sic, April, ’98. Hemiptera.—Bergroth, E. Diagnoses of some new Aradide, $.—Carpenter, G. H. Tvrochopus and Rhagovelia, 8 —Cham- pion, G.C. Notes on American and other Tingitidz, with descriptions of two new genera and four species,* 2 pls., 36.—Cockerell, T. D. A. The Cottonwood snow-scale of Nebraska,* 4; A Mexican wax-scale in England, 9.—Gerstaecker, A. On some noteworthy Fulgorinz of the Greifswald zoological collection, Mittheilungen, naturwissenschaft- lichen Verein fiir Neu-Vorpommern und Riigen in Greifswald, 1896.— Gillette, C. P. American leaf-hoppers of the subfamily Typhlocy- binz,* figs., Proceedings, United States National Museum, xx, No. 1138; Washington, ’98.—H andlirsch, A. Monograph of the Phymatide,* 6 pls., 35 text-figs., 64.—H opkins, A. D. See Economic Entomology. —Kirkaldy, G.W. Notes on aquatic Rhynchota—No. 2, 9. Coleoptera.—G eorgevitsch, J. Thesegmental glands of Ocypus, 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, figs. 22.—K naus, W. Additions to the list of Kansas Coleoptera, 72.—Reitter, E. Key to the European species of Pissodes, 41. Diptera.—Eaton, E. A. Supplement to ‘‘A Synopsis of British Psychodide,”’ 8.—Harris, W. H. Note on the teeth of Diptera, figs., 1 pl., Report and Transactions Cardiff Naturalists’ Society, xxix, ’97.— Hough, G.deN. The Muscidz collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Somaliland, Eastern Africa, figs., Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, ’98, pt. i; May.—Johnson, C. W. Diptera col- lected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Somaliland, Eastern Africa, figs., in the same.—v. Linden, M. On the discovery of Pudliciphora lucifera, 74.—Townsend, C. H. T. Diptera from the Mesilla Valley of the Rio Grande in New Mexico, ii, 5.—Williston,S. W. Notes and de- scriptions of Mydaidz,* 72. Lepidoptera.—Bacot, A. The British Liparid moths (cont.), 21.— Bird, H. Notes on the Noctuid genus Hydroecia, 4.—Fyles, T. W. Notes on the season of 1897, figs, 75.—Gibson, A. A few notes on the season of 1897, fig., 75.—Godman, F. DuC. and Salvin, O. Descriptions of new species of American Rhopalocera, 36.—Grant, C. E. Notes on the season of 1897, figs., 756.—Grote, A. R. The wing and larval characters of the Emperor moths, 4 figs. Proceedings, South London Entomological and Natural History Society, ’°97.—How- ard, L. O. Additional observations on the parasites of Orgyia leucos- tigma, 75.—Hulst, G. D. Descriptions of new genera and species of the Geometrina of North America,* 4.—Ly man, H. H. On butterfly books, 75.—Moffat, J. A. Cuatocala illecta Walk., 4; Notes on the season of 1897, figs., 75.—Ottolengui, R. Metallic species of Pasi- Jodes and new species of allied genera, 1 pl.,* 4.—Poulton, E B. See General Subject (two papers).—Reuter, E. Ona new classifica- tion of the Rhopalocera (cont.), 21.—Scudder,S. H. A study of the caterpillars of North American swallowtail butterflies, i (altered from his Butterflies of the East. U. S. and Can.), 1 pl., 6.—Stedman, J. M. See Economic Entomology.—T utt, J. W. Some results of recent ex- periments in hybridising 7ephrosia bistortata and T. crepuscularia, 36. Hymenoptera.—Bignell, G. C. Oak galls, 8.—Dyar, H. G. Description of an unusual saw-fly larva belonging to the Xyelinz,* 5.— v. Ihering, H. The foundation of new colonies and fungus-gardens by Atta sexdens, fig., 22.—Janet, C. Ona cavity of the integument of the Myrmicinz, serving to draw out a product of secretion, figs. Comptes Rendus, l’Academie des Sciences, Paris, April 18, ’98.— Konow, F. W. The exotic Cephini, supplementary to my work on the palzarctic Cephini, 1896, 41; Systematic and critical revision of the saw-fly tribe Lydini, ii, 64. 1898, ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 157 Doings of Societies. A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held April 28th, Dr. P. P. Calvert, vice-president, in the chair. Let- ters were read, acknowledging election to corresponding mem- bership, from James Fletcher, Ottawa, Canada; A. Handlirsch, Vienna, Austria; F. F. Kohl, Vienna, Austria. A letter from Dr. Henri de Saussure was read in relation to the finding of Tenodera sinensis at Philadelphia. Mr. Charles Liebeck reported finding one specimen of Chlenius purpuricollis, and also a spe- cies of Bledius in the yard at his home. Dr. Skinner called attention to the interesting and valuable list of Colorado Lepid- optera recently published by Prof. Gillette in the Bulletin 43 of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station. The list is valu- able on account of the exact localities and dates of capture being given. Dr. Calvert exhibited some alcoholic specimens of Odonata from Lower California which he had taken to Cam- bridge, Mass., for comparative study—and these studies showed that in some instances species as listed by authors had been im- properly placed as to genera. The differential characters in the wing and leg structures were pointed out in the genera Dythemis, Brechmorhoga, Paltothemis and Macrothemis. The same speaker ' also made some remarks on the character of the new Text Book of Entomology by Dr. Packard. The following persons were elected Corresponding Members of the Society: Prof. August Forel, Zurich, Switzerland; Dr. Gustav Mayr, Vienna, Austria; Sir John Lubbock, Kent, England; Prof. J. H. Comstock, Ithaca, N. Y. Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social on May roth a letter was read from Dr. H. G. Griffith dated Phoenix, Ariz., May 1, 1898, in which the collecting experiences of the writer in that region were described. The dryness of the past season and consequental scarcity of certain species were dwelt on, as well as certain social conditions of the region. A list of a number of his captures of Coleoptera was included. Prof. Smith showed plaster casts of the burrows of insects and spiders. The casts are made by pouring liquid plaster of Paris nto the burrows which is allowed to harden and then carefully 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, dug out. In Colletes compacta the burrows contain but one cell and extend 18 inches into the ground. Augochlora humeralis builds a burrow extending in one instance over 60 inches. At various places along the burrow offshoots or branches are put out which contain the cells, which are lined with clay and then stored with food. The present cells are evidently old and contained hibernating bees in many instances. Mr. H. Wenzel showed specimens of Pyractomena lucifer, and spoke of the light emitted by it, which exists in the pupa as well as in the larval state. The characteristics and food habits of Pyractomena were dis- cussed by Messrs. H. Wenzel, Smith and Aaron. The larve are carnivorous and probably feed on snails. Mr. Johnson exhibited specimens of Xylophaga abdominalts bred from the larva which were found under the bark of decay- ing pine at Riverton, N. J. The specimens differ from Texan examples in the extent of red on the abdomen of the female. The [larva of Zabanus atratus was also shown, the larva and pupa of a 77pulid, and a larva of Stratiomyza. Mr. Aaron asked for information regarding the coleopterous Jarva which bores into chestnut lumber, whose perforations are similar to shot holes. Prof. Smith referred to a recent paper on the subject by Prof. Hopkins, of the West Virginia Agricultural College, and said the larva was probably Lymexylon. Mr. Aaron also inquired of the members regarding the lon- gevity of insects and mentioned a larva of Tenebriodes mauri- tanica which he has had since October, 1897, and has apparently not grown whatever. Prof. Smith mentioned the record of a species of Pissodes which © lived for two seasons and oviposited in two successive years and is still living. The wainscoting of a house in New Brunswick, N. J., has been infested by a beetle larva for at least three years. Mr. Aaron spoke on the longevity of cerambycid larva and cited Packard as authority for the record of larve living for 24 and 40 years. He questioned this record, and stated that there was a likelihood that the larva were more recently introduced into wood than had been supposed. The same speaker remarked on the stucture of the mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron cementarius, after emerging from the pupa. 534 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159 The abdomen and thorax are connected by thin membranes, probably to brace the immature body of the wasp. _ Prof. Smith suggested these membranes are remains of pupal skin. . Mr. Aaron said another pupal skin is present in addition to this membrane. A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. G. B. King, of Law- rence, Mass., for his donation of microscopic slides. Mr. H. Wenzel and Mr. Laurent were appointed a Committee - on Field Meeting July 4, 1898. Wo. J. Fox, Secretary. Regular meeting of the Newark Entomological Society was held April roth at Turn Hall at 4 Pp. M. with Vice-president Brehme in the chair. It was decided to hold the next special meeting at the laboratory of Prof. Smith at New Brunswick. Mr. Rienecker presented a handsome collecting box, in the shape of a book to the Society, to be given to the member who brings the most candidates for membership from Jan. 1, 1898, to Jan. I, 18g9. Mr. Weidt exhibited a larva of a species of Sesta which he is breeding that had bored into the cork stopper of a small bottle in which it was kept since April 9th and is still alive at this writing, April 26th. Each of the members exhibited a series of the genus Arctia which was well represented, particularly in that of Mr. Angelman. Among the specimens brought by Mr. Erb was a Plusia for- mosa taken in the vicinity of New York city. Mr. Kircher exhibited a pair of Ayferchiria io taken from the pupal cage zx coitu, which he had mounted and spread as he found them. Mr. Weidt remarked that he found a pair of Lagoa crispata under similar circumstances Nov. 16, 1897; the weather was very cold and the pupe were kept in the attic. The next regular meeting will be held at Hemlock Falls, Orange Mountains, May 8th, which will be the first field meeting of the season. No further business the meeting adjourned. A. J. WEIDT, Secretary. 160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, OBITUARY. Professor Davip Simons KELLICOTT was born at Hastings Centre, Oswego County, N. Y., January 28, 1842, and died at his home in Co- lumbus, Ohio, April 13, 1898. In his boyhood his frail constitution and delicate health required him to spend much of his time out of doors, and it is to this, no doubt that in part at least, his love for nature may be traced. He graduated from Syracuse University with the degree of B. Sc., while the institution was yet known as Genesee College, teaching one year in southern Ohio, prior to his graduation. After graduating he — taught one year in Kingston Normal School, Pennsylvania, after which he was connected for seventeen years with the State University at Buffalo, N. Y., being Dean of the College of Pharmacy, and also Professor of Botany and Microscopy. He came to the Ohio State University in 1888, where, for ten years, he has occupied the chair of Zoology and Entomol- ogy. At the time of his death he was General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, President of the American Microscopical Society and Treasurer of the Ohio Academy of Science. He had served as President of the Buffalo, N. Y., Academy of Science and of the Ohio Academy of Science. Animal Parasites of Fishes and the Rotifera, from time to time, claimed considerable of Professor Kellicott’s attention, but his entomological work won for him the admiration of the entomologists of America. Patient, conscientious, and utterly devoid of selfishness, he was one of the most kind and lovable men the writer has ever met. Faithful and just with his colleagues and the idol of his pupils, seeking patiently and industriously after the truth, he won esteem while living, and, in his death, he has left numberless friends to mourn his loss. If there was ever a man who deserved the reward—‘‘ Well done thou good and faithful servant,” that man was David S. Kellicott; and the fruits of his labors on earth will stand as an enduring monument to his faithfulness among his fellow-men.—F. M. WEBSTER. Especially will the American students of the Odonata feel the loss of Prof. Kellicott. To him is due the recognition of the distinctness of Enallagma geminata Kell. from £. divagans Selys, the description of E. fischeri Kell., and—of greater value—a very considerable number of observations on the habits and conditions of life chiefly of the species recorded in his ‘Catalogue of the Odonata of Ohio,” published in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History for 1895, 1896 and 1897.—-PHILIP P. CALVERT. ; ENTOMOLOGICAL News for May was mailed April 29, 1898. Ent. News, Vol. IX. Pl, AN INSECT MONSTROSITY. : ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. c VOL. Ix. SEPTEMBER, 1898. No. 7. CONTENTS: Wolcott—An insect monstrosity....... 161 | Jacobs—Tenodera sinensis?..........- 170 Schwarz—A setting block for Lepidop- Cockerell—A southern type of Andrena EA pale cbip.n < and 6 isn oped > vebes 162 in-Connectiout v.s (1) by its much longer and denser coating of hair on the thorax, ab- domen and legs, and (2) by the much smaller size of the two terminal chitinous hooks of the hypopygium. The fe~ male may be distin- guished from that of mortuorum (1) by hav- ing four instead of three macrochete in the lat- eral row of the flexor surface of the hind tibize and (2) by the discal macrochetz of the fourth abdominal segment being stouter and more numerous. Chetotaxy ... That of the female differs from the normal chetotaxy of Cynomyia americana only in two points: (1) it has but two dorso-centrals in front of the transverse suture, and (2) it has but one achrostichal behind the suture. The thoracal macrocheete of the male are more slender than in the other spe- cies of Cynomyza that I have seen, and this with the unusual length and density-of the hair makes the chetotaxy of the male rather difficult to see. It does not, however, differ from that of the female except in having (1) an additional posthumeral macro- cheta laterad the presutural, (2) a very delicate third anterior dorso central, and (3) what is evidently an individual abnormality, viz., the presence of three marginal scutellar macrochztz on the left side, while on the right side there is but one, as in the female. I think it highly probable that the chztotaxy of the male will be found quite variable, because of its long, thick coating of hair, for in other Muscidae, under similar conditions, I have usually found it variable. $ 4 : - 7 4 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 167 Some Characteristic Maritime Diptera from the South end of Padre Island, and the Adjacent Texas Coast.—!. By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. In the Summer of 1895. during the month of June, the writer collected a few insects on the south end of Padre Island, which was visited on several occasions. This island belongs to the Antillean province, and to that fauna which should be known as the Mexican Maritime. The Diptera, especially, which occur here, bear a characteristic appearance indicative of the conditions of environment which surround them. They are mostly of a whitish or gray color, thus assimilating well with the stretches of sandy beach which they frequent. Some interesting species were collected here, as well as on the beach of the mainland. TABANIDE. 1. Tabanus maritimus n. sp.—Length 10o-10.5 mm. Differs from 7. psammophilus O. S. as follows: Face gray, with white hairs; palpi white; first two antennal joints pale yellowish, the third brownish with annulate portion darker. Thorax black, clothed with white hairs, and with three grayish white pollinose vitte. Abdomen evenly tapering to tip, blackish, hind edges of segments whitish yellow, the whole thickly clothed with a soft white pubescence. Legs pale yellowish, tips of tibiz slightly brown- ish, tarsi hardly so. Wings whitish, the stump of a vein near origin of upper branch of third vein is well marked in two of the specimens, being as long‘as the basal section of the branch, but in the other it is exceed- ingly short and barely perceptible; posterior cells all open, none of them narrowed ; halteres whitish yellow. Difference between the large and small facets of the eye is not marked, being gradual and slight, and the small facets cover an extensive area along posterior orbit, the large facets being confined to the inner central portion of the eye. In life this species presents a uniformly white appearance, being almost exactly the color of the sand and drift-wood upon which it habitually rests. Three males, June 29, 1895, on logs and sand on beach, at south end of Padre Island, Texas. T. psammophilus was taken by Hubbard and Schwarz on the sea-beach of the Florida coast, at Fort Capron. Mrs. Slosson has recently taken it at Lake Worth, Florida (det. Johnson). ~ It is quite possible that 7. xanuws Mcq., described from Texas, is identical with the present species. But should this be the case, the name zanus is preoccupied, as already pointed out by Osten Sacken, and cannot be retained. The size, 4 lines (= 8 mm.), more nearly coincides with the present specimens than with 168 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, psammophilus. The present species is certainly distinct from psammophilus in the character of the facets of the eye in the 3, as well as in the other points mentioned. It should be stated that there is no distinct process at base of third antennal joint, there being nothing more than a slight swelling which hardly affects the symmetry of the basal portion. EPHYDRIDZ. 2. Lipocheta texensis n. sp.—Length 3 to slightly over 4mm. Differs from the description of Z. s/ossone Coq. as follows: Head is even broader than thorax. Clypeus projecting fully the length of face. Front nearly as wide as oral opening in one specimen, in the other somewhat narrower; scutellum in one specimen one-third, in the other fully one- half as long as thorax. Claws are distinct, slender, and a little elongate, but not large or stout. The third and fourth veins converge toward their tips, but not strongly so. This fly may prove to be inseparable specifi- cally from s/osson@, but it will at least form a good variety, from its larger size, longer scutellum, etc. Two specimens, June 8, 1895. Taken on moist beach at south end of Padre Island. This is a sleek, densely whitish-pollinose, glossy ephydrid, of avery peculiar aspect. It occurred in large numbers on stretches of moist beach on the south end of Padre Island. The speci- mens were taken and observed just after a rain, and while a heavy wind was blowing. They flew up in numbers as one approached, but rose only an inch or so from the sand. The whole insect, save for the dorsal brownish pollinose portion, presents a marked whitish appearance, including the wings, so that it is very diffi- cult to detect it when alighted on the moist sand of the beach, the white and brown tints assimilating well with the colors of the beach. The Florida species has similar habits, and is doubtless a maritime or shore species. It is from Punta Gorda. The genus Lifocheta, described recently by Coquillett for the Florida species (ENT. News, September, 1896), is truly one of singular aspect and anomalous position, though clearly allied to the Ephydride. It is, however, totally different in several im- portant respects from that family as at present characterized. The excessively short face, greatly widened and enlarged oral cavity, the projecting clypeus showing in a wide semi-circle; the elongate, flattened, and widened head, wedge-shaped in profile; v 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 169 the wide front, round eyes and minute antenne; all these taken ‘together, with the absence of all bristles, give this fly from a front view a striking appearance, which can only be described as ‘‘frog-mouthed”’ or ‘‘ frog-faced.”’ In the shape of the head, this genus bears a considerable re- semblance to Pteremis nivalis Haliday. The appearance of the head from above is almost exactly the same, but the profile view at once shows marked differences. The striking similarity in the maritime faunas of the south Texas and Florida coasts, indicated by such forms as Macrancy- lus, Oxacts, etc., among the Coleoptera, is thus seen to be borne out also by the Diptera in 7Zadanus maritimus and psammophilus, Lipocheta, etc. “AN INSECT-CATCHING PLANT. By C. P. GILLETTE, Fort Collins, Colo. Any one who has attempted to collect the pretty blue flowers from Lactuca pulchella must have been annoyed by the disagree- able sticky exudation that covers the buds and stems near the flowers, and probably the latter were soon thrown away in dis- gust. This plant grows in great profusion along the railroad track near the college grounds at Fort Collins, where it vies with the entomological enthusiasts in the insect captures that it makes. In a few minutes’ time this afternoon I noticed the following insects stuck fast, and for the most part dead, in the gummy exudation above mentioned : Hymenoptera. Coccinella 9-notata Chalybion ceruleum ‘ sanguinea Ambyletes subrufus Nemia episcopalis Myrmica lobicornis Scymnus sp. Formica fusca Trirhabda canadensis “integra Ellychnia corrusca Chrysts sp. Epicauta cinerea. Coleoptera. Odonata. Hippodamia convergens Lestes congener. ¥ Sinuata There were also several species of Diptera and parasitic Hy- menoptera as well as other species of ants that I did not know. t 170 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, Ants, ladybeetles and the Lampyrid above mentioned were spe- cially abundant. Probably the ants and ladybeetles were at- ~ tracted by the green lice, a species of Nectarophora, that are abundant on the plants. The lice and a Syrphus larva that feeds upon them seem to experience no trouble at all from sticking to the plant. A few Coccinellid larvze were also seen, but in every case they were dead and quite small. fa’ Vv TENODERA SINENSIS? By Eta Jacoss, Philadelphia. While on a visit to Meehan’s nurseries in Germantown, in March, 1898, a party of us found, on some low spruce and cedars, several curious looking specimens of what we were not sure. They looked like galls—they were hemi-spherical in shape, with a diameter of about 114 inch. the flat side up, curved side down. I cut one of these whitish brown specimens open. It was rather tough, and contained a sticky fluid throughout. I was not sufficient of a scientist to discover what it was, so waited developments with the others. About the end of May, as I went to my office, the janitor greeted me with the pleasant news that my room was full of ‘‘bugs.’’ Rather startled, I proceeded to investigate, and discovered several hundred insects on the wall, over pictures and desk. I examined closely and decided it was the fault of my unnamed specimen. I noticed that it was broken open in ridges; I placed it in a box and in an hour I saw several of the insects emerge. The curious part is, that these insects appeared to be the Praying Mantis. A visit to Dr. Skinner, at. the Academy, confirmed this fact. It seems rather a coincidence to have found these in this lo- cality so soon after the report of Mr. Laurent’s (see ENT. NEws, for June, page 144) find of a somewhat similar character. I greatly regret that we took all of the cases we saw, six of them, as I know now that their contents would have been a valu- able acquisition to the nurseries as these carnivorous insects would have eaten other insects injurious to the plants. Undoubtedly | these Mantids must have been imported on some foreign plants. [The young mantids are not our Stragomantis carolina.—ED.] 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 171 A SOUTHERN TYPE OF ANDRENA IN CONNECTICUT. By T. D, A. CocKERELL, N. M. Agr. Exp. Station. Andrena rhodura n. sp. 2.—Length slightly over 10 mm., stoutly built, black, with the abdomen and tarsi largely red. Head broad, the facial quadrangle* broader than long, its sides parallel; pubescence of head and thorax moderately long, but not very dense, dirty yellowish white, shin- ing; clypeus rather prominent, with strong, rather close punctures; basal process of labrum broad, rounded, subtruncate at tip, not emarginate; mandibles feebly notched within near the end; antennz black, flagellum tinged with dark brown beneath; mesothorax rather shiny, minutely tes- sellate, with sparse, but strong and very conspicuous punctures; scutellum similarly sculptured, but the punctures are aggregated in the median line and again at the sides; pleura quite closely punctured; metathorax rather closely, but shallowly punctured; the enclosure indistinctly marked by a line only, minutely granular or rugose, only at the base slightly inclined to be plicate, produced to a point behind; the enclosure is duller than the sides of the metathorax; tegulz very dark chestnut-brown, minutely lineo- lately sculptured. Wings with a strong reddish yellow tinge, subcostal nervure black, the nervures and the stigma ferruginous. Legs black, with pale pubescence, the first four tarsi largely, and’ the hind tarsi entirely, ferruginous; the hind tibiz are ferruginous at the distal end. Abdomen rather broad, shining; without hair bands, but with pale, glittering yel- lowish hairs on the fourth segment at the sides, and densely on the fifth, the anal fimbria pale yellowish, upper surface of abdomen minutely tes- sellate, with sparse, very feeble punctures. Color deep chestnut-red, the base of first segment, and the bases of all the segments broadly black, a black spot on each side of the second segment; venter reddish, largely suffused with black. ffab.—-Hartford, Conn., June 2, 1895 (S. N. Dunning). The sculpture of the metathorax at once separates this from A. mari@g Rob. From A. erythrogastra Ashm. ( perezi Rob.) it will be readily known by the strong mesothoracic punctures and the strongly colored wings. A. rhodura is a very interesting species, quite alone among the forms taken in the New England States, but belonging to a series which becomes well developed in the southwest, with 4. jessice argemonis, prunorum, mellea and casad@, and extends far down into Mexico, as in A. discreta. It is, however, distinct from all these species, as might be expected from the widely different habitat. * The term “ facial quadrangle” is herewith proposed for the quadrangle formed by the facial margins of the orbits and imaginary lines drawn transversely connecting the upper and again the lower ends of the eyes. 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, The following form shows the northern extension of the same type of Andrena in the Rocky Mountain region : Andrena prunoram CkIl. subsp. gillettei n. subsp. ¢'.—Length 11 mm.; smaller and more slender than prunorum, antennz more distinctly crenu- lated, entirely dark, without any ferruginous, even on scape; pubescence of head and thorax very pale yellowish instead of fulvous; femora black, with only the apex ferruginous; second and third abdominal segments wholly ferruginous, except a small, oval, black spot on each side of second, fourth segment ferruginous laterally at base; venter ferruginous, dusky at apex; clypeus lemon-yellow, with two black spots. Thorax wholly black. Abdomen closely and distinctly punctured, Wings dusky at apex; stigma ferruginous; basal process of labrum emarginate. ffTab.—Fort Collins, Colorado, April 15, 1897 (C. P. Gillette, 2468). : fe) Spheridium scarabezoides Linn. By C. HouGutTon, Potsdam, N. Y. This interesting species, which I first discovered here during the Summer of 1896, is now quite common in this section of the country. It may be confidently looked for at any time during the months of June, July and August, provided one knows its habitat. Unless he does it is safe to say that he will know but little about the species, as I have never seen it anywhere except in one place, viz., about the cow-droppings in the pastures. On any pleasant day during the three months above mentioned, should one take a position near some fresh droppings, he would probably soon see one of these beetles come flying rapidly across the pastures and, hovering for a second over the spot, suddenly bury itself in the soft excrement. With a stick or paddle it is an easy matter to locate them, but one needs to be quite expert with the pincers else he will soon lose his specimens, as it is a very agile species and burrows out of sight with astonishing rapidity. As soon as the droppings begin to dry up, it is useless to look for them therein, as they immediately leave for other places more to their taste. As an instance of their numbers in this locality, I might say that I have taken, during the course of a quarter of an hour, as many as twenty-five of these beetles from a single pile of drop- pings. . . Associated with them 1 have found the following : Aphodius fossor, Aph. prodromus, Aph. fimetarius, Aph inqguinatus, Aph. varicola, Atenius cognatus, Onthophagus hecate, Hister abbre- viatus, Cercyon hemorrhoidalis, Cleochara bimaculata, Philon- thus longicornis and various other species of Staphylinidee. i ea 1898. ] 173 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- ’ ence, as to make it necessary to put ‘‘ copy’’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five ‘‘extras’’ without change in form will be given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.—Eb. PHILADELPHIA, PA., SEPTEMBER, 1898. The Effect of the War in Relation to Entomology. Now that the United States will add to its territory the ques- tion arises what will entomologists do in the matter? Undoubt- edly those in America will take a greater interest in the annexed countries and some that do not collect or have any regard for exotic insects at present may be induced by political reasons to do so. Our present faunal limit (America north of Mexico) is geographical, inasmuch as we include the country to the north of the United States to the Arctic Ocean. The proper plan for students to adopt, especially systematists, would be to ignore political and geographical lines and take up for study some genus, family, or order of the world. In this way the true relationships of genera and species may be properly understood. Work on geographical lines has caused an almost endless amount of trouble in generic relations and synonymy. Wevery much doubt whether our American lists will ever contain the names of Cuban, Porto Rican, Philippine or Hawaiian insects. ON June 15th a specimen of Papilio cresphontes Fab., was taken here in the greenhouse, It was somewhat rubbed and faded, showing that it was not a fresh specimen, but the wings were unbroken. This is the first time I have seen the species since coming to New Haven, Ct., four years ago. JP. philenor is very common in this locality. During June, 1896, I captured two specimens of Co/ias c@sonia Stoll., but have not observed it any other season.—W. E. BRITTON. 174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. Mrs. SLosson has taken the female of 7hecla telea Hew. at Miami, Fla. ANTHOCHARIS GENUTIA has been plentiful this season at Westville, N. J., which is only a few miles from Philadelphia. Prof. JAMES FLETCHER expects to take some fine things this season in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. We wish him great success. PAMPHILA METEA evidently has quite a wide distribution. Dr. Scudder mentions various places in New England where it is found, and also cites New York and Wisconsin. Mr. Edwards, in addition to the other lo- calities, gives Texas and Colorado. The Colorado locality is based on the female described by Reakirt under the name ridingsii: I have it from Missouri, and recently the Philadelphia collectors have found it in abundance at Clementon, N. J., where it is found on barren sandy patches, alighting on the sand and on the sand-myrtle. The full life-history may be worked out this year. Syneda graphica is also very abundant at. Clementon.— HENRY SKINNER. Mr. Wo. J. GERHARD, of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadel- phia, is studying our material in the Hesperidz of the world and arrang- ing them according. to the most recent classification. He is not quite sure whether genera or species are in excess, and when he gets through he may have a genus for every species, as is the case in our Eastern Pa- pilios according to one of our esteemed New England friends. According to the ‘‘ Biologia’? we must put (Zudamus) pylades and bathyllus in dif- ferent genera on the strength of the male sexual character, the costal fold, which is so common in the family. This question of genera, to say the least, is a very interesting one, and no man can tell where it may end. —H. S. YESTERDAY, when I was driving out in the country on professional business, a Pamphila sat down on the back of my left hand and began to feed in the same manner. as is told by Mr. J. M. Dodge in Ent. NEws, vol. ix, p. 89. At first I thought it was drinking the sweat, but then I remarked that it curved its abdomen a little between the legs and ejected a fluid, upon which it fed. The wings were kept together all the time, and I was not able to identify it surely, but I believe it was a P. hobomok. Last Winter I found a cocoon of Cecropia on a hazel bush, and as it felt empty I opened it and found an Indian corn in it. How did it get there? Birds?.—C. Horc, Decorah, Iowa. BUG STEALS A DIAMOND PIN.—A monster bug robbed Jesse P. Van Doozer, of Evanston, of a $200 diamond scarf-pin Saturday night. Mr. Van Doozer is the famous former captain and coach of the Northwestern 4 4 1898.] - ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 175 University football team, and is now assistant postmaster at Evanston. How he happened to loose his pin is told as follows: As Mr. Van Doozer was returning from the Summer evening party at the Country Club Sat- urday night his attention was attracted by a particularly large specimen of the genus beetle. In college Mr. Van Doozer was an ardent student of zoology, especially of the branch technically named entomology, but known to the uninitiated as ‘‘bugology ”’ He still retains his studious habits, and this struck him as an unusually choice heteropterous hemip- terous specimen. With practiced dexterity he captured the mean-looking insect and carried it squirming to his room. As no pin was convenient, _ he stuck the monster bug to the wall for a moment with his diamond scarfpin. He turned to his bug collection and spent some time in rear- ranging it and making a place for his new acquisition. A lively buzzing drew his attention to the beetle, which had worked itself loose from the wall and began to circle about the room with the pin sticking through his body. Van Doozer made for the open window, but the great beetle was too quick for him. As it darted through the opening the sparkle of the stone added a new brightness to its sheen. The diamond scarfpin is still missing.— Newspaper. - Cychrus viduus Dej.—This very handsome species, hitherto regarded as quite rare, has been taken in numbers about Pittsburgh, Pa., during the season of-1897. Every collector who really searched for the spe- cies at the right time was rewarded for his labor. One of them took as many as ninety specimens in five days—an average of eighteen a day. How many this same party took since, the writer does not know, but from information received the number must have been considerable. In the opinion of the writer the best time to look for viduus is from about the 25th of July until the middle of September. The fact that most, if not all, of the captures above alluded to were made during this period is of itself sufficient evidence. The condition of the weather has much to do as regards the abundance or scarcity of the species, a wet season always being much better than a dry one. Whether or not the former actually produces more specimens than the latter the writer does not venture to say, but it is highly probable that it does; at any rate it drives them to the surface where they are much more likely to be found. The weather the past Summer was unusually favorable, as we had rain almost every day for about six or seven weeks beginning July 5th. -I wish to place on record the following notes: Smodicum cucujiforme Kirby.—This species has been breeding for the past three years in some locust fence-posts which were entirely stripped of bark and set ten years ago. The beetles emerge from the latter part of June until the middle of July. Obrium rubidum Newm.—My collection contains one specimen of this very rare longhorn, which was bred from Robinia pseudacacia (locust), the beetle emerging May 3, 1894. Several other specimens which I have had were taken on locust trunks on as many different occasions. 176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, Cyrtophorus verrucosus Oliv.—This species also breeds in Robinia pseudacacia and is not unfrequently taken on the living trunks during May and early June. Sometimes specimens are taken in April if the weather be quite warm.—EpDwarD A. KLAGgs, Crafton, Pa. Entomological Literature.y Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted. Contribu- tions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are pub- lished ; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all articles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but when such articles are in other languages than Engiish, French, German or Italian, this fact is indicated in parenthesis. 2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia, xxv, I, ’98.—3. The American Naturalist, Boston, ’98.—4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., ’98.—5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., 98.— 6. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, June, ’98.—7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Washington; pub- lications of, ’98.—8. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, ’98.—9. The Entomologist, London, ’98.—10. Nature, London, ’98.— 11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, 98.—15. Biologia Centrali-Americana, pt. cxli, London, April, ’98.—21. The En- tomologist’s Record, London, ’98.—22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, ’98.—24. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, xlii, 3-4, July, ’98.—30. Memoires et Bulletins de la Société Zoologique de France, Paris, ’97.— 32. Bulletin du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, ’98.—35. An- nales et Memoires, Société Entomologique de Belgique, Brussels.— 36. Transactions, Entomological Society of London, ’98, pt. 2, June 29.—38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xvii, ’98.—40. Societas En- tomologica, Zurich-Hottingen, ’98.—44. Verhandlungen, k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellschaft in Wien, xlviii, ’98.—45. Deutsche Entomologische Zeit- schrift, Berlin, ’95, 1, June.—49. Termeszetrajzi Fiizetek, Budapest, xxi, 1-2, Mar. to, ’98.—55. Le Naturaliste, Paris, ’98.—61. Natural Science, London, May, ’98.—66. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Braun- schweig, ’98.—76. Journal, Cincinnati Society of Natural History, xix, 4, ’98.—77. Report, State Board of Agriculture on the work of extermi- nation of the gypsy moth, Boston, Wright & Potter Co., State Printers, Jan., ’98.—78. Gardeners’ Chronicle, London, ’98.—79. La Nature, Paris, ’9g.—80O. Annali, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2) xviii. Rec’d Aug. 8, ’98.—81. Biologisches Centralblatt, Erlangen, June + The Associate Editor is again indebted to Mr. W. J. Fox and to Dr. Skinner for caring for this department during his Summer vacation.—P. P. C. 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 177 15, °98.—S82. Centralblatt fiir Bakteriologie, etc., Jena, ’98.—83. Notes from the Leyden Museum, xix, 3-4, Dec. 30, ’97.—84. Insekten-Borse, Leipsic, ’98.—85. Bulletin, Société des Sciences naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, Nantes, viii, 1, ’98. The General Subject.—de Bruyne,C. Researches on the sub- ject of the intervention of phagocytosis in the development of Inverte- brates, 5 pls., Archives de Biologie, xv, 2, Ghent, ’98.—Calvert, P. P. A biographical notice of George Henry Horn (portrait), 2.—Comstock, J. H. and Needham, J. G. The wings of insects, iii, figs , 3, April, May, June-—Coupin, H. Flowers fertilized by bats and insects, 79, - May 14.—[Dixey, F. A.] Hybridization, 9, July—Garbowski, T. Brunner v. Wattenwyl’s ‘‘Observations on the coloration of insects’’, $1.—Hanstein, R. v. [On recent work on facetted eyes], 66, May 28.—Howard, L. O. The spread of land species by the agency of man; with especial reference to insects, Proceedings, American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, xlvi— H o wes, G. and Smith, W. W. Notes on Spheria larvarum Westw., 9, June.—Kienitz- Gerloff. Prof. Plateau and the flower-theory, $1.—v. Linden, M. Eimer’s ‘ Orthogenesis der Schmetterlinge’ (cont.), 81.—Marchal, P. Notes on an excursion in Algeria and Tunis, 1 pl., 30, Mem. x. See also Hymenoptera.—Needham, J. G. Outdoor Studies, a Reading book of Nature study (Eclectic school readings). American Book Co. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, 1898; 90 pp., 88 figs. Chapters on galls, golden-rod insects, dragonflies, eye-spot markings and ant-lions.—S alz- ner, A. Eimer’s ‘Orthogenesis der Schmetterlinge’, $4. June 30, July 7,14.—Schaufuss. Symphily is broodparasitism, Naturwissenschaft- liche Wochenschrift. Berlin, July 17, ’98.—Slingerland, M. V. Obit- uary of Dr. J. A. Lintner, 4, June.-- Taylor, G. W. Entomology, notes for April in Vancouver Island, Ottawa Naturalist, June, ’98.—T u tt, J. W. Books from the American masters [Packard: Text-book, Scudder: Melanopli, Fernald: Pterophoride], 21, June 15.—Webster, F. M. Obituary of Prof. D. S. Kellicott, 4, June.—Wheeler, W. M. Prof. Packard’s Text-book of Entomology, Science, New York, June 17, ’98.— Wickham, H. F. List of insects collected by Mr. Frank Russell in the Northwest Territory, Canada. Iowa City, June, ’98. Extract (pp. 276-280), from ‘Explorations in the far North’ by F. Russell. _ Economic Entomology.—Anon. An enemy of the migratory cricket of the Argentine Republic, Bulletin, Société Nationale d’Accli- matation de France. Paris, Jan., ’98.—Anon. The pest and the ants, Revue Scientifique, Paris, May 14, ’98.--For apiculture. The British Bee Journal, weekly, London, vol. xxvi, ’98.—Banks, N. Bibliography of the more important contributions to American Economic Entomology. Part vi. The more important writings published between June 30, 1888, and December 30, 1896. Prepared under the direction of the Entomol- ogist, 273 pp., 7-—Bellati, M. and Quajat, E. Influence of oxygen and of compressed air on the anticipated hatching of eggs of the silk- 7 és 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, worm, Archives Italiennes de Biologie, xxix, 1. Turin, ’98.—Davey, F. H. Notes on the bulb-mite, figs. Journal, Royal Institution of Corn- wall, xiii, 2. Truro, ’97.—Debray. Destruction of injurious insects, 55, May 15, June 15.—Fernald, C. H. Report of Entomologist ; Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, 77.—F orbush, E. H. Report of the Field Director, 77.—G. A. Bulb mite, 78, June 25.—Gillette, C. P. Colorado’s worst insect pests and their remedies, figs., Bulletin 47, State Agricultural College Exper. Station, Fort Collins, Col., July, ’98.—Kenyon, F. C. Abstracts of recent articles, 7, Exper. Station Record, ix, 1.—Kheil, N. M. Fight between grasshoppers and a loco- motive, 84, June 23.—Kirkaldy, G. W. An economic use for water- bugs, 8, Aug.—Kirkland, A. H. Experiments with insecticides; Danger from the use of arsenate of lead, 77.—Lesne, P. Description of the larva and nymph of Balanogastris kole in kola nuts, figs., 32, No. 3.—Lounsbury,C. P. Report of the Government Entomologist for the year 1897. Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: 1898.—Lowe, V.H. Cottonwood leaf beetle. Green arsenite, Bulletin No. 143, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y., April, ’°98.—Mar- latt, C. L. The periodical Cicada. An account of Cicada septendecim, its natural enemies and the means of preventing its injury, together with a summary of the distribution of the different broods. Bulletin No. 14 new series, 7, 148 pp. 57 text figs. (including maps) and 4 plates (one colored). An extensive monograph whose contents are well summarized in the tile —-McLachlan, R., R.M., Forbes, A. C. [Insect pests on forest trees] 78, June 25.—R. M. The present plague of insects, 78, June 18.—Slingerland, M. V. The quince curculio, figs., Bulletin 148, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., May,-’98.—Smith, F. J. Arsenate of lead: its manufacture and chem- ical composition, 77.—Webster, F. M. The importation of the San José scale, Aspidiotus perniciosus, from japan, 4, July.—W ood, E. W. and others. Report of Committee [on extermination of gypsy moth], 77.—Xambeu, Capt. Habits and metamorphoses of Lyctus canal- iculatus Fab., $5. Arachnida.—Banks, N. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico,* 5 pls., Proceedings, California Academy of Sciences, (3) Zoology, i, 7, San Francisco, May 28, ’98; Some new spiders,* 4, July—Cambridge, O. P. Arachnida Araneidea,* pp. 241-248, 15. —Carpenter, G. H. The smallest of stridulating spiders, figs., G1, —Carruccio, M. On some morphological characters of Sarcopies minor Fiirstenberg, and on some little-known cases of scabious trans- mission, 1 pl. Bolletino, Societa Romana per gli studi zoologici, vi, 5-6, ’97,—Kennel, J. How do spiders draw their threads between distant objects? Sitzungsberichte d. Naturforscher Gesellschaft bei der Univer- sitat Jurjew (Dorpat), xi, 3, ’98.—Kraepelin, K. On the Linnean species of the genus Scorpio, 22, July 18.—Neumann, G. Revision of the Ixodide, ii, Ixodinz, figs., 30, Mem., x.—Piersig, R. Hy- ae 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 179 drachnidz of Germany (cont.), 17 col. pls. Bibliotheca Zoologica, heft 22, iv, Stuttgart, E. Naegele. Rec’d June 27, ’98.—Pocock, R. I. Descriptions of some new scorpions from Central and South America;* The scorpions of the genus Vjovis contained in the collection of the British Museum,* 11, May; Descriptions of some new scorpions from ’ Ecuador, figs., 11, June; The Australian scorpions of the genus Urodacus Pet., 11, July—W olcott, R. H. New American species of the genus Atax (Fab.) Bruz., figs., Zoological Bulletin, i, 6, May, ’98. Prototracheata.—-Bouvier, E. L. New observations on /eri- patus, Comptes Rendus, |’Academie des Sciences, Paris, May 23, ’98.— Camerano, L. A newspecies of Peripatus from Ecuador, figs., Atti R. Accademie d. Scienze, Torino, xxxiii, 5, ’98; A new species of Peri- patus collected by Prof. L. Balzan in Bolivia, figs., 8O. Myriapoda.—Brélemann, H. W. Ona mysterious myriapod, Scolopendropsis bahiensis Brandt., 30, Bull. xxii.—Silvestri, F. Sys- tema Diplopodum; Descriptions of some new Diplopods collected in upper Paraguay by Cav. Guido Boggiani, figs., $O. Orthoptera.—Bessey, C. A. and E. A. Further notes on ther- mometer crickets, 3, April.—Bolivar, L. New cavernicolous species of Blattid, voyage of L. Fea in Burma and neighboring regions, fig., 80. --Bordage, E. Autotomy in the Phasmide, figs., 79, May 28.— Cockerell, T. D. A. The development of Mantis, 3, July.-—M orse, A. P. Notes on-New England Acridiide, iv, Acridiine, i, 5, Aug.— Scudder, S. H. A preliminary classification of the Tryxalinz of the United States and Canada, 5, July; The described species of Xiphidium in the United States and Canada, 4, July. Neuroptera.—Calvert, P. P. Burmeister’s types of Odonata (part), figs., 2; The Odonate genus MWacrothemis and its allies,* Pro- ceedings, Boston Society of Natural History xxviii, No. 12, July, ’98.— Kellogg, V. L. A problem in distribution [of Mallophaga], 5, Aug. —Needham, J. G. See the General Subject—Schenkling- Prevdét. From the life of Termites (cont.), 84, May 26 et seq. Hemiptera.—Bergroth, E. New Aradide, 32, No. 3.—Bogue, E. E. Two new species of Kermes from Kansas,* 4, July.—C ham- pion, G.C. Rhynchota Heteroptera,* vol. ii, pp. 49-88, pls. iv, v, 15. —Cockerell, T. D. A. Three new Aleurodide from Mexico,* 5, June; Some new Coccidz of the subfamily Lecaniine,* 9, June; New Coccide from Mexico,* 11, June; Some new Coccide,* 11, July; Note on Aspidiotus greenii, 8, Aug.—Coupin. H. Natural history of the cicada, figs., 79, July 23.—Handlirsch, A. Two new Phymatide,* figs., 44, July 21.—Kirkaldy,G.W. A guide to the study of British water-bugs (aquatic Rhynchota), 9, Aug.--—Kirkland, A. H. The species of Podisus occurring in the United States, 1 pl., 77.—Marlatt, C. L. See Economic Entomology.—M artin, J. Catalogue of the spe- cies of Phymatidz (Hemip. Heter.), of the Museum of Paris, 32, No. 3. —Melichar, L. Preliminary descriptions of new Ricaniide,* 44, 180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (September, July 21.—Montandon, A. L. New Hemiptera Heteroptera of the Museum of Paris, 32, No. 2.—Paulmier, F. C. Chromatin reduction in the Hemiptera, figs., Anatomischer Anzeiger, Jena, May 27, ’97.— Sulc, K. Studies on Coccide, ii [in Bohemian], 3 pls., Sitzungsberichte d. kénigl. bdhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenchaften. Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, ’97, ii.i—-Van Duzee, E. P. A pre- liminary review of the North American Delphacidz,* Bulletin, Buffalo Society of Natural Science, v, 5, ’97, rec’d June 15, ’98. Coleoptera.—Blandford, W. F. H. Coleoptera,* vol. iv, pt. 6, pp. 217-224, 15.—Brenske, E. The Serica species of the earth mono graphically treated [Palaearctic region only], 24.—Burgess, A. F. Notes on predaceous beetles, 1897, 77.—Casey, T. L. Studies in the Ptinide, Cioide and Sphindidz of America,* 6.—C hampion, G. C. A list of the AZgialitide and Cistelide supplementary to the ‘* Munich’’ Catalogue, 35, Mem. vi, ’97,-—Dury, C. Coleopterological Notes. Faunal changes in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, 76.—Everts, J. E. Coleoptera Neerlandica. De Schildvleugelige Insecten van Nederland en het aangrenzend gebied. Deel I. ’s Gravenhage. Martinus Nijhoff 1898. 368 pps. 27 figs. [in Dutch].—G rimshaw, P. H. On some type specimens [of Godart and Olivier] of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 1 col. pl. Transactions, Royal Society of Edinburgh, xxxix, 1, 1898.—Gestro, R. Materials for the study of the Hispide, figs., 80.—Henshaw, S. The entomological writings of George Henry Horn (1860-1896). With an index to the genera and species of Coleoptera described and named, 2.—Horn, W. New species of Cicindelidz, 833; Revision of the Cicindelidz with espe- cial regard to variability and geographical distribution, 45, Beiheft.— Kerremans, C. Buprestide of the voyages of M. E. Gounelle to Brazil,* 35, Mem. vi, ’97; Synonymic study of the genus Chrysochroa, $3.—Kolbe, H. J. A new genus of Cupeside, Entomologische Nachrichten, Berlin, xxiv, 12, June, ’98.—K uwert, A. The Passalidz monographically treated, part ii, Novitates Zoologice, v, 2. Tring, May, ’98.—Jacoby, M. Descriptions of eight new species of South Amer- ican Chrysomelide, 9, July.—Johnson, W F. and Carpenter, G. H. The larva of Pelophila, 36.—v. Lomnicki, J. R. Wing rudi- ments in Carabus; Erythropodism in running beetles, 22, June 2 —Pic, M. Description of new Coleoptera, 55, June 15; Xylophilidz (Coleop- tera Heteromera) of Brazil, 35, Ann., xlii, 6, June 25, ’98.—Reitter, E. On the known and some new palaearctic species of Agapanthia, 38, 4 and 5, May 31.—Schenkling, S. Revision of the Clerid genus Lemidia Spin. with descriptions of some new species, 45.--Schwarz;, O. Descriptions of new Elateride,* 45.—Semenow, A. Symbole ad cognitionem generis Carabus (L.), A. Mor, ii, Horae Societatis Ento- mologicae Rossicae, xxxi, 3, St. Petersburg, ’93.--Spaeth, F. De- scription of some new Cassididz with synonymic remarks, 44, 4, May 27.—Szepligeti, V. Contributions to the knowledge of the species 4 | . ’ we 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 181 of Chelonus, 49.—Wickham, H. F. On Coleoptera found with ants’ iv, 1 pl., &, June; The Goleoptera of Canada, xxix, the Oedemeridz and Cephaloidez of Ontario and Quebec, figs., 4, June; The beetles of scuthern Arizona, Bulletins, Laboratories of Natural History, State Uni- versity of Iowa, iv, 3, lowa City, June, ’98. Diptera.—Dah1, F. On Puliciphora lucifera, 22, May 2.—-Eaton, A. E. Supplement to ‘‘A Synopsis of British Psychodidz”’ (cont.), 8, June, July.--Koorevaar, P. Aypoderma bovis and its youngest larva, $2, June 1.—Mik, J. Noteworthy relations between Desmome- fopa M-atrum Meig. from Europe and Agromyza minutissima v. d. Wulp from New Guinea, 38, 4 and 5, May 31; Dipterological miscellany (2), xi, 38, July 10.--Minakata, Kumagusu. Notes on the Bu- gonia superstitions: the occurrence of Aris¢alis tenax in India, 10, June 2.--Osten Sacken, C. R. Identification of two genera of Nemes- trinidz published by Bigot, together with some remarks on Dr. Wandol- leck’s paper on that family; Ama/opsis Halid. (O. S.) versus 7ricyphona. Bergroth (not Zett.), 24.—-Schneidemiihl. On the development of Aypoderma bovis, 82, July 15.—Stein, P. North American An- thomyide,* 24, Lepidoptera.—Bacot, A. Notes on hybrid Simerinthus populi- ocellatus, 1 pl.; Notes on hybrids obtained by crossing 7ephrosia bistor- tata with 7. crepuscularia, 21, Aug. 1—Beutenmiiller, W. Re- vision of the species of Zuchloé inhabiting America, north of Mexico,* 2 pls., Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, x, 13, New York, ‘June 24, ’98.—Butler, A.G. Onthe butterflies of the genera Lepfopho- dia and Pieris, 11, July—Chapman, T. A. Some notes on the pupal moult of Lepidoptera, 21, May 15; Some remarks on Heéerogyna penella, 36; Some notes on the pupal moult of Lepidoptera, 21, Aug. 1.— Cockerell, T. D. A. A new Hemileuca,* 5, Aug.—Crampton, H. E., Jr. Coalescence experiments upon the Lepidoptera, Biological Lectures delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood’s Holl, 1896--1897.—D ognin, P. New Heterocera from Ecuador, 35, Ann., xlii, 5, May 24, ’98.—D ruce, H. Descriptions of some new species of Syntomidz chiefly in the Oxford Museum, 11, May.—Dury, C. Cal- Zidryas eubule ; A butterfly new to Ohio; Tomato worm parasite, 76. Druce,H. Lepideptera Heterocera,* vol. ii, PP. 449-464, pls. Ixxxviii- xci, 15.—D yar, H. G. The Epiplemide the lowest Bombycids, figs., 4, June; The life-histories of the New York slug caterpillars, xv, 1 pl.; Description of larve of Hemileucids from the Argentine Republic, 63 Six new or little-known larve of Pterophoride,* 5, Aug.—El]lwes, H. J. A revision of the genus Zreéia, 36.—Field, W. L. W. A con- tribution to the study of individual variation in the wings of Lepidoptera, Proceedings, American Academy of Arts and Sciences xxxiii, No. 21.— Frings, K. Experiments with low temperatures in 1897, 40, June 1, etseq.—Fritze, A. The genus Hedomoia, 1 pl., Zoologische Jahr- biicher, xi, Jena, May 2, ’98.—Fruhstorfer, H. Ona chief pleasure 182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ September, of the eyes named ‘ Agrias’, 1 pl., 24.—Griffiths, G. C. On the frenulum of the Lepidoptera, r pl., 36.—Grimshaw, P. H. See Co- leoptera.—G rose-Smith, H. Descriptions of new species of butter- flies from South America, 11, July.—Grote, A. R. The British Mu- seum catalogue of moths, 613 Classification of the Saturniades, 21, June 15; Specialization of the lepidopterous wing, the Pieri-Nymphalide, Proceedings American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, xxxvii, No. 157-—-Hanham, A. W. Notes on collecting at bloom, 4, July.—Hill, W.H.F. Notes on some Victorian case moths, part i, 1 pl., Victorian Naturalist, Melbourne, May, ’98.—Hulst, G. D. Descriptions of new genera and species of the Geometrina of North America (cont.),* 4, June, July—Kirkland, A. H. Digestion in the larve of the gypsy moth, 77.—Marshall, G. A. K. Seasonal dimorphism in butterflies of the genus Precis Doubl., 11, July.—Mc Corquodale, W. H. Horn- feeding larve, fig., 10, June 9.—Moore, F. Lepidoptera Indica. Part xxx. London, L. Reeve & Co., ’98. Rec’d June 27, ’98. [Pp. 113-128, vol. iii, pls. 231-238. Nymphalinz, group Euthaliina]._-Schaus, W. New species of Noctuidz from tropical America;* New species of Het- erocera from tropical America,* 6.—S chultz, O. Description of some gynandromorphous Lepidoptera, 24.—Scudder, S. H. A study of the caterpillars of North American swallowtail butterflies, ii, 6, June.— — Seurat, L. G. Metamorphoses of Papilio daunus, Memorias y Re- vista de la Sociedad Cientifica ‘‘ Antonio Alzate,’’ xi, 1-4, Mexico, ’98.— Smith, J. B. Notes on species of Noctua with descriptisns of new forms,* 1 pl., 6.—Urech, F. Some remarks on color alterations of the wing-scales produced by girdling soft pupez of Vanessa urtice, 40, June 1.—Verson, E. On the development of the digestive canal of the silkworm, ii, 22, July 18%—Voss, T. On hermaphrodite Lepidoptera, $4, June 23.—Walsingham, Lord. Descriptions of a new Mi-— cropterygid genus and species and a new Eriocraniad species from N._ America, 1 pl., 21, July 1; A review, with some critical notes of *‘ The Pterophoride of North America, C. H. Fernald,” etc., 8, Aug. Hymenoptera.—Ashmead, W. H. Classification of the horn- tails and sawflies, or the sub-order Phytophaga, i, 4, June, July; Thyn- nidz in the United States,* 5, Aug.—Cockerell, T, D. A. New bees from New Mexico,* 4, June; Philanthus henricus, 4, July; Synop- sis of the North American bees of the genus S¢e/is,* 9, July; The North American bees of the genus Prosapfis, 9, Aug.—Dominique, J- Glance at the South American Melliferze in the Museum of Nantes, 85. —Dunning, S.N. Monograph of the species of Aphilanthops in- habiting Boreal America,* 2; Notes on Philanthus,* 4, June.—Dyar, - H. G. On the larve of certain Nematine and Blennocampine with de- scription of new species,* 6; Notes on some sawfly larvee, especially the Xyelide, 4, July—Enock, F. Aquatic Hymenopteron [breeding of Prestwichia], 10, June 23; Notes on the early stages of Prestwichia aquatica, $, July.—F ox, W.J. The species of Psex inhabiting America : F | 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. . 183 north of Mexico,* 2.—Friese, H. New species of the bee genus Eulema Lep., 49.—v. Hanstein, R. A Bethe’s ‘Can we ascribe psychical qualities to ants and bees ?”’, 66, June 18.—Janet, C. Notice on the scientific works presented to the Academie des Sciences in the competition of 1896 for the Thore prize. [On ants, bees and wasps], 94 pp. Lille; Morphological limits and musculature of the post-cephalic annuli of Myrmica rubra. Lille, ’97, 8vo.; Relations of the myrmeco- philous animals with ants, figs. Limoges, ’97, 8vo.; Apparatus for the observation of ants and myrmecophilous animals, 1 pl., 30, Mem., x; Parasites and mess-mates in ant-hills (transl. abstract), 61.—_K onow, ~ F.W. Synonymical and critical remarks on Tenthredinid species of the older authors incorrectly or not referred, 40, July 1, 15.—-Marchal, P. A new method of non sexual reproduction in Hymenopterous insects (transl. from C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris), 61.—Marshall, T. A. Supple- ment to Braconidz, 3 pls., in Species des Hyménopteres d’Europe d’Al- gerie fondé par Edmond André, continué sous Ernest André, 62e fascicule, Paris, April 1, ’98—Robertson, C. New or little-known North American bees,* Transactions, Academy of Science, St. Louis, viii, 3, Mar. 3, ’98.—Wasmann, E. Thorictus foreli as ectoparasite of ants’ antennz, 22, July 18. Doings of Societies. A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was held May 26th, Mr. C. S. Welles, Director, presiding. A cabinet of beetles was presented by Dr. -J. Eckfeldt. Five new species of Mutillidz were pre- sented by Mrs. Slosson. Dr. Calvert exhibited a box of small Mantids collected near the city and made some remarks on the egg-case in the genus. The same gentleman also exhibited some dragonflies collected by Mrs. A. T. Slosson at Miami, Florida. finallagma cardenium % was collected for the first time in the United States; the species was described by Selys from Cuba. LZnallagma cecum Hagen, from Jamaica, was mentioned as an allied species. £. pollutum, of Hagen, from Florida, is either very variable, or there are two species confounded under that name. Gomphus minutus Q and other species were shown and interesting points mentioned. Mr. Johnson exhibited a mud wasp’s nest, Odynerus sp. collected by Mr. C. Moore on the Altamaha River, Ga. Mr. Fox recorded a second American 184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, species of Afiscophus from Florida. Dr. Calvert spoke of the oviposition of gall-flies and mentioned seeing a gall-fly apparently in the act, but did not see any eggs go through the ovipositor. Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Recording Secretary. A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held ~~ June 23d, Dr. P. P. Calvert, Vice-president, in the chair. The ~— Corresponding Secretary announced the death of the following correspondents of the Society : James Behrens, San Francisco, Cala. ; elected Oct. 14, 1872, died March 6, 1898. Johnson Pettit, Grimsby, Ont.; elected Nov. 12, 1866, died Feb. 18, 1898. J. A. Lintner, Albany, N. Y.; elected Nov. 10, 1862, died May 5, 1898. Osbert Salvin, elected June 28, 1897, died June 1, 1898. Dr. Calvert exhibited some dragonflies collected by Mr. C. W. Johnson on a recent visit to North Mt., Pa.: Cordulia shurtleffit = e@nea L.), described by Scudder from Hermit Lake, Mt. Washington, was of special interest on account of being a cir- cumpolar species and this the first record of capture in Penn- sylvania; Gomphus spicatus, also new to Pennsylvania, never before having been found this far south; and both sexes of Ophiogomphus rupinsulensis. Ischnura verticalis, a small drag- onfly was found at Kirkwood, N. J., feeding on Axallagma sp. which had just transformed from the larval condition and was | thus helpless. Mr. Needham finds that in some species larvee . are very abundant, but imagos scarce; facts like the above would account for Needham’s finding. xallagma divagans, a some- what rare local species, was also found at Kirkwood. Dr. David Sharp, of Cambridge, England, was elected a correspondent. Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Recording Secretary. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws for June was mailed May 31, 1898. — ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, VOL. Ix. OCTOBER, 1808. No. 8. CONTENTS: Ehrhorn— New Coccide from Califor- | Wickham—Recollections of old collect- Bc <6 bv dees -0n0763 bn gy an pe 185 162 BPOUNAS «5 oes ease e eases cae 195 Ashmead—Two new genera of sand HOOTIMacacecstomin ess tes se creaetiee 199 SR Giess Ss wplsirg (sis vn $005 10's 50550 187 | Economie Entomology ...........+..-- 200 Rowley—Notes oa Missouri Sphinges.. 189 | Notes and NewS........-..0+-seeeeeecees 201 Kincaid—A new species of Polyxenus. 192 | Entomological Literature.............. 203 Casey—Studies in Cephaloide......... 193 |. Doings of Societies. ..< oc... ccc cece cee 207 NEW COCCIDA FROM CALIFORNIA. By Epw. M. EHRHORN. Kermes cockerelli n. sp. 2.—Scale 5 mm. long 4.5 mm. broad and 4 mm. high, deeply segmented, dorsum usually marked with black lines and spots along the sutures, some specimens not showing any. There is a broad, median, longitudinal groove, where the segmentation is obso- lete; on each side of this the segments are strongly gibbous. Color light brown, without any conspicuous black specks; derm, by transmitted light, brown with numerous oval glands, several large pustulz on body. An- tennz very small, 6-jointed, 3 very large, longer than the three following together; the others short, very little longer than 5, 4 shortest. Larva elongated oval, rather more than twice as long as broad, yellow, greatest breadth behind the middle of body. Eyes ‘red, caudal tubercles quite large, each bearing one long bristle and three stout spines, one near bristle and one on the outer and inner margin of tubercle. On the ante- rior margin of the head are six bristles; the sides of the abdominal seg- ments are armed with stout, but not very long bristles. Antennz cylin- drical, 6-jointed, formula (36) (12) 45, last joint rounded at tip with several hairs, one very long; rostral loop extending half way between base of third pair of legs and anal ring. Legs quite large, claw long and curved; tibia shorter than tarsus. Ffab.—On twigs of Quercus lobata at Mountain View, Cal. Very much parasitized by undetermined Chalcid. 8 186 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ October, Kermes nigropunctatus Ehrhorn and Cockerell n. sp. 9.—Scale 4.5 mm. long, 5.5 broad, nearly 4 high, not very pale ochreous, speckled all over with black, the black specks so small as to be readily overlooked without the use of a lens; segmentation obscure, but discernible, the sutures slightly impressed and marked by more or less pallid transverse bands; an obscure median longitudinal depressed line; underside of scale where it touches the bark, flattened and entirely dark brown; derm by trans- mitted light yellow with numerous round glands. Antennz small, 6- jointed, 3 very long, about as long as 4, 5 and 6 together; joints 2 and 4 subequal and smallest. Formula 3165 (24). Larva oval, about one and a half times longer than broad, pink; greatest breadth about the middle: caudal tubercles large and distinct, each bearing a moderately long bristle and three stout spines, one on the outer and inner margin and one near bristle. The sides of the abdominal segments are armed with stout, short bristles. Antenne: cylindrical, 6-jointed, formula 361 (45) 2; last joint rounded at tip with several hairs; joint 5 with a hair; rostral loop extending beyond third pair of legs; anal ring with six hairs. Legs stout, claw long and curved; tibia much shorter than tarsus. Hfab.—Los Angeles, Cal., on twigs of Quercus. Collected by Mr. Craw. The larvee were found in body of ¢. It is something like X. galliformis, but distinguished by the impressed sutures. It is much smaller and paler than K. gillefte7. Pulvinaria rhois n. sp. 2.—Found on limbs and underside of leaves single and in clusters. Length of 92 with ovisac about 9 mm., width about 3.5 mm.; scale brown, largely covered with white secretion, ovisac snow-white, distinctly grooved longitudinally, sometimes curved, some- times lifting scale off limb; scale shrunken, broadly oval, clay color, 9 before forming ovisac something like Lecanium hesperidum, but more convex, reddish brown; anal plates distinct; dorsum covered with white, waxy secretion in rows, the mesal row has the largest secretions and they diminish in size as they approach the margin; edge of scale has short, simple hairs, in each anterior incision is a large spine with a short one on each side. Anal plates yellowish brown, longer than broad, forming a diamond when closed; two very small spines at tip; anogenital ring with six long hairs; rostral loop reaching to middle pair of legs. Antennz 8-jointed, formula 3 (124) 5867; joint 3 much the longest. Joints 2, 4, § and 6 each with long hair, 8 with several hairs. Legs ordinary, coxa and trochanter very stout, tarsus half as long as femur; tarsal digitules long fine hairs with knobs; digitules of claw very stout, gradually widening to large knobs. Larva light yellow, fla‘tish, elliptical, about’.5 mm. long. d scales small, oval, black, with numerous pale wart like prominences. Hab.—On Rhus diversiloba at Mountain View, Cal. 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 187 TWO NEW GENERA OF SAND WASPS. By WiLLiaAM H. ASHMEAD. (Assistant Curator Department of Insects U. S. Nat. Museum.) Family NYSSONIDE. ' FOXIA n. g. Habitus of Mysson Latr. (sens. str.), but differs as follows : The second and third submarginal cells each receiving a recur- rent nervure, the first received by the petiolated second before its middle, the second received by the third at its basal one-third; forehead at middle with a tubercle or carina just above base of antennz; ventral segments 4-5 in 2 with a lateral tooth, lateral margins of pygidium towards apex serrated; ventral segments 4-6 in % with a lateral tooth, the pygidium at apex tridentate, the middle tooth minute, otherwise hind tibiz, scutellums, etc., as in ysson Latr., but not Pavanysson, which I consider to be a distinct genus. Dedicated to my friend, the energetic young hymenopterist, Mr. Wm. J. Fox, of Philadelphia, Pa. _ (2) Foxia pacifica n. sp. J'2.—-Length 6-6.5 mm. Head and thorax black, rugoso-punctate, the head, except vertex, collar, mesopleura and meta- thoracic spines clothed with a dense silvery pubescence; mandibles, hind legs, except coxze and abdomen, mostly rufous; four anterior legs except the anterior tibia within and their tarsi and the middle tarsi, which are ferruginous, black; the dorsal abdominal segments are narrowly mar- gined with white at apex, while the three or four apical segments are more or less black or blackish. ffTab.—Los Angeles, Cal. Collected by D. W. Coquillett. Type No. 5017, U. S. Nat. Mus. | : Family LARRID. MISCOPHINUS n. g. Allied to Sa/zostethus Brauns, but the wings normal, the mar- ginal cell not triangular, but as in MZscophus, subtruncate at apex; submedian cell shorter than the median; cubitus in hind wings originating beyond the transverse median; eyes large, extending to base of mandibles, slightly convergent above; mandibles deeply excised beneath a little before the middle; maxillary palpi 6-jointed, the first joint the shortest, the following rather long, subequal; labial palpi apparently but 3-jointed; clypeus not sepa- 188 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, rated from the face by a distinct suture, the anterior margin slightly arcuate, with a triangular emargination or incision on either side; antennz filiform, the scape clavate; ocelli normal, arranged in a triangle; occiput with a transverse furrow between the raised occipital margin and the base of vertex; metathorax fully as long as the mesonotum with a delicate median carina; tibial spurs long, 1, 1, 2; iibize with a few black spines; anterior tarsiin 2 combed. Type Miscophinus laticeps. TABLE OF SPECIES. Black. Head not twice as wide as the thorax . 2 5°...) Se Head twice as wide as the thorax. — : Scape, pedicel, tegulz and legs rufous 9 . . . . (1) M. laticeps. 2. Abdomen black, the extreme apex of the second segment testaceous, ventral segments with a row of sparse, stiff black hairs at apical margins ; all coxz and femora above black, trochanters and rest of legs, and the scape, rufous . . . (2) M. californicus. Abdomen mostly rufous, the two or three terminal segments obfus- cated or blackish; legs, scape, pedicel, clypeus, mandibles, tegulz, ferruginous; prothorax brownish . . (3) M. texanus. (1) Miscophinus laticeps n. sp. 2.—Length 5 mm. Black, closely finely punctate, opaque; face, sides of collar and the meso- and metapleura sil- very sericeous; clypeus, mandibles, except tips and legs, rufous; tegulze and palpi paler; wings hyaline, the apical third fuscous. The head is unusually wide, twice as wide as the thorax; pronotum fully as long as the mesonotum; posterior face of metathorax transversely striate, with a median sulcus; tibia with some sparse black spines, their spurs long, black ; anterior tibiz with a sparse comb; transverse median nervure in front wings joins the median vein a little before the origin of the basal nervure; the marginal cell is only about two-thirds the length of the first submarginal, triangular petiolate, the petiole being as long as either side - of the cell. Hab.—Sacramento Co., Cal. Taken in July by A. Koebele. Type No. 5018, U. S. Nat. Mus. (2) Miscophinus californicus n. sp. ¢'.—Length 4 mm. Structurally, resembles the former species, except the head is not nearly so wide; the silvery pubescence is denser on the face, on the lower part of the meso- pleura and on the front coxe; the first, second and third dorsal abdominal segments /aterailly at apex also show more or less of the silvery pubes- cence; scape, mandibles, except tips, and tegule ferruginous ; all coxze and femora adove black, trochanters and rest of legs rufous or ferruginous; — . 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 189 anterior tarsi with rather short spines; tibial spurs black; extreme apex - of second abdominal segment testaceous; wings dusky at apex. Hab.—Alameda Co., Cal. Taken in Sept. by A. Koebele. Type No. 5019, U. S. Nat. Mus. (3) Miscophiuus texanus n. sp. 9 .—-Length5 mm. In general appearance this species closely resembles 1/. californicus, but the collar is brownish ferruginous, the clypeus, mandibles, scape, pedicel and legs ferruginous, the middie and hind cox at base behind, dusky or blackish; abdomen mostly dark rufous, the two or three apical segments blackish, the ventral segments blackish toward their base; the venation is similar to the two previous species, except that the submedian cell is somewhat shorter and the petiole of the second submarginal cell is much shorter, being scarcely one-third the length of the side of the cell. ffab.—Bosque County, Texas. Coll. G. W. Belfrage. Type No. 5020, U. S. Nat. Mus. It may be well to state here that the type of Wysson ? inerme Cr. is in the National Museum. Type No. 1714. As indicated by Cresson, it is not a true Vysson, but belongs to this group in the genus /Vitelopsis Saunders. I cannot agree with Herr Kohl in suppressing this genus and merging it with So/ered/a Spinola. It forms a natural group between Scaphentes Handl. and Sylaon Piccioli. ) NOTES ON MISSOURI SPHINGES. By R. R. Row.ey, Louisiana, Mo. Of all our hawk-moths the larva of Paonias excecatus is the most general feeder. In the Autumn of 1887 F experienced little difficulty in gathering together a great number of the caterpillars of this species, and while most of them came from apple and plum, others were found feeding on tame cherry, apricot, elm, sugar-maple, willow, sycamore and oak. The species is double brooded here and the larve may be found from June to mid- October, surviving severe frosts. It is a hardy ‘‘worm’’ and easily reared in bags or glass-jars, but suffers severely from the attacks of a small parasitic hymenopter whose cocoons we often see covering the whole body of the larva. There is some varia- - tion in the color of the imagoes, but the handsomest form and one of our prettiest hawks is a large female, the red of the hind wing beautifully blending with a rose-colored forewing. 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, Smerinthus geminatus is even more common than excecatus — at times, and I have found the larve abundant on Populus tremu- Joides and willow and sparingly on cottonwood and silver leaf. In searching for the eggs of this Sphinx on the underside of the leaves of aspen I was surprised to find many of them with pale pink blotches and occasionally entirely pink. Suspecting such eggs to have been attacked by some small parasitic hymenopter I was again surprised to obtain healthy larve from them—perfect pupz and imagoes in time. The larva of Gemznatus is more slender than that of excecatus and somewhat smaller, but of two well defined types—one yellowish pea-green, the other blue- green. The larve of all Smerinthoids occasionally have lateral rows of red spots or blotches not so well defined as in S. myops. Fully half the larve of Geminatus, found on willow, have this character. I have noticed but little variation in the imagoes. Have never yet found a specimen with a single instead of a double blue pupil in the eye spot. The pupa is easily distinguishable from that of excecatus, as it is almost black against the brown of that species. Smerinthus myops is rare with us, a single larva having been found by Mr. Ralph Sweet, of Curryville, Mo., on wild cherry. The caterpillar has lateral rows of beautiful and distinct red spots. I have found some variation in the imagoes, especially the males. Neither .S. astylus nor S. ceristi have been taken in Missouri by the writer, but the former might be sought for in the huckle- berry hills of Callaway County and the Ozark region south of the Missouri River. The larva of astylus feeds on low huckle- berry according to Miss Morton. Triptogon modesta is not uncommon with us, and the larva is found on cottonwood, silver-leaf and aspen. Mr. Sweet has handled great numbers of the larve and has found them hardy and easily managed in muslin bags. The great size of the ‘“worm’’ and its short caudal horn readily distinguish it. Cressonia juglandis is rather rare. I have found the larve on walnut and hickory. Like S. geminatus the ‘‘worm’’ is of two types of color, yellowish green and blue-green. The body is long and slender, and the larval head long and sharp pointed. The pupa of this species differs much from all other Sphinx chrysalids, having a flattened, triangular appearance, posteriorly. ee 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IgI Elema may be found on the pine ridges of southern Missouri. I have not found it here. I have not yet found Deidamia inscripta. The larva feeds on grape. Everyx cherilus is not uncommon about Curryville. There are two seasonal broods. The imago is larger, but not more handsome than £. myrvon. The larva is found here on black paw (Viburnum prunifolium) and snow-ball. Have never found it on other plants. It may be easily reared in bags on snow-ball, but is singularly subject to the attacks of a hymenopterous para- site, so much so that few of the first brood seem to escape. Of all our vine feeding hawks, Averyx myron is the com- monest. Larvze may be found from early Summer to late Au- tumn, and are easily recognized by the swollen thoracic region, small head and caudal horn, absent in the mature larva of PAz- lampelus. There is a very noticeable difference in the color of the imagoes. In the Summer brood (from Summer larve in June and July) many of the moths have the rust-red over both wings, more or less obscuring the otherwise olive-green of the Spring imagoes from Autumn larve. Patient search has thus far failed to find Averyx versicolor, though its food-plant, button bush, occurs along our streams. I am still sanguine of success. _ I feel sure it is among our hawks. The larve of all our species of Zveryx pupate on the surface of the ground in loose cocoons of leaves, dirt and silk. I have taken the imago of Chewrocampa tersa at light, but have failed to find the larva. It is said to feed on button-weed. Mr. Ralph Sweet once found an imago fresh from the. pupa, near a prairie brook or slough, but a search for the food-plant proved fruitless. In 1886 the writer collected 25 larve of Everyx myron, 24 of Ceratomia amyntor, 6 of Dolba hyleus, 40 of Paonias excecatus, 20 of Daremma undulosa. In 1887, 106 larve of Smerinihus geminatus, 24 of Hemaris thysbe, 12 of Everyx cherilus, 6 of Triptogon modestus, 36 of Daremma undulosa, 15 of Hemaris diffints, 15 of Paonias excecatus, 8 of Philampelus achemon. In 1897, 12 larve of Philampelus achemon and 13 of Smerinthus geminatus, 1 Cressonia juglandis, 4 Dolba hyleus, and an un- known Sphinx from trumpet creeper. r92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ October, A NEW SPECIES OF POLYXENUS. By TREvoR KINCAID, University of Washington. In 1821 Thomas Say described a diplopod from the Southern States to which he gave the name Polyxenus fasciculatus.* Since that time the geographical range of this species has been con- siderably extended, but it has remained the sole representative of the suborder Pselaphognatha found within the limits of the United States, although at least one species has been recorded from the West Indies. . During the past few years the writer has collected at various points in western Washington specimens of a small, hairy myri- opod belonging to the genus Polyxenus. A study of Say’s de- scription of Polyxenus fasciculatus, supplemented by specimens of the same supplied by Mr. Nathan Banks, showed that the Washington species was quite distinct from the form described by Say. In Polyxenus fasciculatus the antenne are short and clavate, whereas in the species described below these organs are elongate and filiform. In this respect the new form resembles the common European Polyxenus lagurus De Geer, as described by Bode. ft Polyxenus pugetensis n. sp.—Color above yellowish. white, the lateral portions of the dorsal segments and external margin of the head brown; ventral surface and legs pure white. Body narrow, sides of the dorsal segments parallel; head semicircular in outline, deflexed, the mouth-parts at postero-ventral margin; antenne elongate, filiform, widely separated at base, arising from beneath the anterior margin of the head, composed of eight joints; first and second joints cylindrical and equal, third joint a little shorter, the succeeding four somewhat swollen in the middle, eighth joint only one-fourth as long as penultimate and bearing distally a group of four minute processes. Ocelli six on each side; two groups of five each are borne upon dark oval prominences in the middle of the lateral margins of the head; the sixth members lie in lobate, ventrally- directed extensions of the main ocellar prominences, and are not visible from above, Vibrissz, two on each side, placed just anteriorly to the ocellar areas. Sete brownish, except terminal pencil, which is silvery; each of dorsal segments two to ten bears near its posterior margin two rows of oppositely-directed, serrated sete, the rows uniting externally, and the sete in this region being directed outwardly; on the first segment the setz are arranged in two irregular dorsal groups; from the middle of the posterior margin of the eleventh segment a loose tuft of long sete * Jour. Phila. Acad. ii, 108 (1821). + Zeitschr. fur d gesammte Naturwissensch. xlix, 1877. pee oe 1898.] | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 193 projects backward over the anal pencil; each lateral segment from two to ten is produced into an oval prominence from which projects a radiating fascicle of long setz similar to those forming the dorsal rows; the basal area dorsally, and the ventral surface of the head are glabrous, but the central-dorsal region is crossed by two transverse rows of setz, and the anterior region is thickly setate; a pair of setz is usually present on the occiput; anal pencil formed of two dense fascicles of long, slender, deli- cately-spined hairs that terminate distally in enlarged, recurved, fimbriated processes. Length of adult specimens 3.0 mm. Hab.—Western Washington. Usually found in damp places, beneath the bark of decaying logs, in moss, under dead leaves, etc. As a rule they are gregarious, and occur in colonies of considerable magnitude, but so far only females have been ob- served. oO STUDIES IN CEPHALOIDA. By Tuos. L. CASsEy. The very unexpected discovery of a remarkable divergence in tarsal and ungual structure, ina specimen from Placer County, California, recently sent to me by Mr. Fuchs under the name Cephaloon bicolor Horn, led me to investigate the material in my cabinet from a generic point of view, and to the conclusion that the genus Cephaloon, as heretofore known to us, is a complex of several genera having a strong family likeness among them- selves. These genera may be distinguished as follows : Tarsi slender, the penultimate joint unmodified, the claws nearly straight, arcuate at tip and pectinate within. Appendage of the tarsal claws broad and obtusely rounded at apex. Last joint of the maxillary palpi conical, the inner side but slightly shorter than the outer, the oblique apex short and straight ; an- tennz short, the last three aie broader, but not notably elon- ag eae . . . . + Cephaloon Newm. Last joint of the Maxillary pall wk the inner ae very short, the apex strongly oblique and arcuate; antennz longer and slender, the last three joints not notably enlarged or elongate, but differ- ing in form and color from those which precede . Sponidium n. g. Appendage of the tarsal claws very slender, acutely pointed at tip; an- tennz very long and slender, the last three joints greatly elon- gated, but notatall broader. . . . . . . . Typitium n. g. - Tarsi stouter and shorter, the penultimate joint quadrate, feebly bilobed and densely pubescent beneath, the claws subevenly arcuate, not at all pectinate within and non-appendiculate. . Drachylis n. g. 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, The genus Cepha/oon has for its type /epturides Newm., which is distinguishable at once from any other species of the family by its short clavate antenne. It inhabits the lake regions of North America. The species of Siippesidsieon are somewhat numerous, and are exclusively western, inhabiting the true Pacific coast faunal prov- ince. Those before me may be separated by the following char- acters from the female throughout : Eyes separated on the front by about their own width; antennz much - longer than the head and prothorax together, the eighth joint but little longer than the ninth. Washington (State) . tenuicorne Lec. Eyes separated on the front by very much less than their own width; an- tennz but little longer than the head and prothorax, with the eighth joint generally much longer than the ninth. Head shorter, the basal part, including the eyes, distinctly wider than long, the distance, from a vertical viewpoint, from the posterior limit of the eyes to the neck but little greater than the distance from the same point to the inner limit of the eye; prothorax but little longer than wide, broadly impressed along the middle ante- teriorly. British Columbia (Caraboo District) . . piceum Horn. Head more elongate, the basal part as long as wide, or very nearly; distance from the posterior limit of the eyes to the neck much greater than to the inner limit of the eye; prothorax distinctly longer than wide, generally unimpressed. Neck broader, as wide as the interantennal distance, the nuchal con- striction nearly straight across the dorsal surface. Idaho. ornatum Csy. Neck more slender, distinctly narrower than the interantennal dis- tance, the nuchal constriction strongly arcuate. Tempora straight; distance from the epistomal suture to the eyes almost as great as the length of the epistoma; body testaceous, the elytra black throughout. Coast regions of middle California. bicolor Horn. Tempora broadly and just visibly sinuate; distance from the epis- tomal suture to the eyes much less than the length of the epis- toma; elytra generally pale, with the suture narrowly blackish. Rocky Mountains . . . . .« versicolor Csy. A specimen of versicolor, ee repestly by Mr. Fuchs, is labeled ‘* British Columbia (Caraboo District).’’ The species may pos- sibly extend along the Rocky Mountains as far to the southward as Colorado. ; Cephaloon ungulare, of LeConte, is the type and only species of Zypitium; it is of unusually slender form and occurs in the northern Atlantic regions of North America. 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 195, The unique type of Drachylis may be described as follows from the female : Drachylis simulans n. sp.—Form as in Sponidium bicolor, but slightly broader across the humeri, rufo-testaceous throughout, the elytra. and metasternum black; pubescence minute, pale, decumbent and dense as usual. Head elongate, broadly convex, minutely, closely punctulate, the eyes separated on the front by very nearly their own width; palpi and antennz missing in the type. Prothorax slightly elongate, of the usual campanulate form, with everted and acute basal angles; median line very feebly impressed near the middle; surface convex and minutely, closely punctulate. Scutellum rufous, rather pointed behind. Elytra three times as long as wide, two-fifths wider than the prothorax, the humeri slightly prominent, but rounded; sides more rapidly convergent and rounded toward tip, the individual apices rounded; disc minutely, closely punctu- late, each elytron with two feeble, oblique ridges toward base; suture minutely margined ; fifth ventral with a small, rounded notch at apex. Legs long and slender as usual, the tarsi short. Length 12.0 mm.; width 3.1mm. California (Placer County). The possession of thick and rather short tarsi, with absence of ungual appendage and pectination, renders this species pro- foundly different from the others of the family, and, in view of the extreme similarity to Sponidium bicolor in outward habitus, is indeed remarkable. The resemblance is so great as to have deceived Dr. Horn, who, upon cursory examination, placed the type example—kindly lent me by Mr. Fuchs—with typical indi- viduals of his dzcolor from the coast regions of the State (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 2, vi, p. 381). The general characters of the family have been given in some detail by the writer (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. ix, p. 649). The paper of Dr. Horn, above referred to, was unknown to me at that time, and | am glad to find, from the types communicated by Mr. Fuchs, that there has been no confusion and redescription of species, the two described by me being amply distinct from those of Dr. Horn made known so short a time before. ra’ RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. By H. F. Wicxuaw, Iowa City, Iowa. V.—THE COLORADO DESERT AND ITS ENVIRONS. Along the boundary between California and Arizona lies a great valley traversed by the lower Colorado River. It is elevated but a few hundred feet above sea-level and is bordered on each side 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (October, by vast tracts of desert sand or hard-baked mud, with an occa- sional mountain chain raising jagged, irregular black peaks in the distance. The valley itself, in the immediate vicinity of the river, is more or less cut up by little sloughs or ditches, with a growth of willows along their banks, and the native Indians (Mojaves and Yumas) are able to produce crops of beans, melons and corn by irrigation. Except in close proximity to water the vegetation is of the dry, scrubby character peculiar to the south- ern part of our arid Sonoran region—the mesquite and screw- bean being about the only plants which can be said to attain the dimensions of trees. An occasional pond of alkaline water fills . some depression, and during the driest weather wide stretches of mud lie between the banks marking the bed of the river and the edge of the stream itself. The heat of this low-lying area is very great, although the drying winds from the adjacent deserts reduce the humidity and thus lessen liability to sunstroke. Still, when one is collecting in the thickets margining the water's edge, where no breeze is stirring, the sweat pours off in streams at the least exertion. When in the open an umbrella should be used as a protection. I have no means of securing any official data as to temperature, but have seen the thermometer standing, during an August after- noon, at 120° in the shade. On another occasion I noticed that it indicated over too degrees in an adobe house, about sunrise— so it had probably not gone lower, in the building, through the night. The valley is crossed by the Southern Pacific Railroad at Yuma, and again by the Atlantic and Pacific at The Needles, about one hundred and fifty miles farther north, measuring di- rectly across country. At the time of my visit a steamboat plied between these and other points. Comparatively little of the population is white, the majority being Indians or ‘‘ greasers,”’ as the mixed-blood Mexicans are called. My first trip to the region was made in 1888, when, coming from the adjacent portion of Arizona, I arrived at The Needles early in August and remained for the few days necessary in making a cursory examination of the coleopterous fauna. The altitude, at the railroad station, is about five hundred feet. The river bottom is broad and grown up in places with weeds higher — than a man’s head. Hot winds, almost like draughts from a | 1898. } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 197 furnace, come from the desert which rises in ridges to the west, and the rough pinnacles of The Needles Mountains lift—a black image of absolute desolation—to the southward. Not a prom- ising ground surely, nor one in which a collector might look for much physical enjoyment to offset any failings in luck. The season, also, wa’ far advanced, but still the results of my stay were not to be despised. By rising before the sun I found it easy to get numbers of a fine green Buprestid, Gyascutus plani- costa. \t was abundant on a common schrub with small, thick, glossy leaves, and a sticky surface. This bush grew in large patches on gravelly flats, out of reach of any freshet from the river. Before the sun warmed the beetles into activity their cap- ture was easy, but in the heat of the day it was almost impossible to approach them, since they took flight at such slight alarm. Beating bushes of other sorts brought me a great lot of Hemizp- tychus belonging to an undescribed species. They are of a - bleached appearance in common with some other beetles of this ill-favored spot. Ctenobium plumbeum occurred with it, and in the same company I noticed Cybocephalus californicus, Exocho- mus marginipennis, Hyperaspis lateralis and Coccinella abdomi- nalts. Leguminose—the screw-bean and its kind—yielded some Tychius setosus and an Apion, which, I suppose, is ventricosume. Search along the river banks and on the margins of standing pools in the bottom-lands was productive of some interesting forms. Cicindela fenutsignata was tolerably abundant on alka- line mud, not a very convenient place for working with a net since it soon becomes clogged up. Over the shores run dozens of the little ant-like Carabid, Ega letuda, while in burrows, safely concealed, lie C/ivina dentipes and Dyschirius analis, and these must be drowned out by flooding their dwelling. Under logs in damp spots I took Chlenius ruficauda, easily recognized by the reddish elytral tips. In like situations occur Zecnophilus crocet- collis, Tetragonoderus pallidus, a number of Brachinus, several Scarites subterraneus, of the small form called californicus, and one or two Thalpius. hornii. Other species, mostly small and inconspicuous, are not wanting. On the edges of the water in a shallow well, such as the Indians make, I took a few TJetracha carolina. in ponds water beetles were plentiful—Berosus sub- signatus, B. infuscatus, Tropisternus limbalis, Hydrophilus trian- gularis, Ochthebius lineatus, Calambus medialis, Laccophilus 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, mexicanus, Coptotomus interrogatus and Cybister explanatus. 1 have always thought this Cyé/ster seemed to move more lazily than any of our large northern water-beetles. . Under ties and other railroad rubbish were to be found some very fine Tenebrionidz, notably Aleodes armata, Asida confluens and Cryptoglossa verrucosa; Notibius puberulus and Euryme- topon rufipes were to be seen occasionally, but not in any num- bers. I had expected to find the family well represented here, but my hopes were unfulfilled, still it is quite likely that more might be taken during the Winter. Sphenophorus vomerinus (var. baridioides) was seen once, a small colony having head-— quarters under a log near the river. Atenius californicus was the only common Scarabeid, though I came across two or three Orsonyx anxius and a Polyphylla cavifrons. The most interesting task was catching the beautiful large click-beetle, Chalcolepidius webbti. This insect reaches a length of nearly an inch and a half, and is bluish with a broad cream- colored border. During the day it reposes on willows, usually too high up among the branches to reach by hand and the trees are too large to admit of the use of the umbrella or beating-net. In consequence it becomes necessary to climb for them, care being taken not to shake the trunk too much or the beetles take alarm and fly—first dropping a short distance—or else fall to the ground, where they are likely to be lost among the weeds.- The more pains have to be taken because of the wasps building their nests in these same trees and they do not like intruders. Since » few of the trunks are more than four inches or so in diameter it is no play to ascend them in a broiling sun. My entomologizing along the river did not attract so much attention from the Indians as might be expected, probably be- cause they have an inclination in that direction themselves. They pursue and catch the larger Acridiide, presumably for use as food, since I noticed that they placed them in receptacles as if for preservation. As this catching of locusts was done by adults it can hardly be considered simply a sport. A rather remarkable effect of the extreme dryness of the air manifested itself during the preparation of insects after returning from the field. Usually, I empty a bottle of its contents at once and mount, or otherwise treat, the specimens at leisure, but here the hot winds dessicate them so rapidly that only a few could be exposed to the air at a time, otherwise those last handled would become brittle (in only a few minutes) and break at a touch. 1898. | 199 © ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. {The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.--All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be,.will be published according to date of recep- tion. 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One dollar a year is a small sum, and anybody who does not take one dollar’s worth of interest in Entomology had better drop natural history. ‘* Before this meeting Papilio, so far as its present management was concerned, was doomed. An appeal to its subscribers, two months before, not for alms, but for money justly its due, had been answered by the receipt of the money owed it by three sub- scribers; in other words the princely sum of six dollars had been added to its treasury, though much over $150.00 was needed, and $200.00 was due,’’—Editor “Papilio’’ 4, 187, 1884. Then 7t died. Then came ‘‘Entomologica Americana’’ and existed awhile and then it died. Where is the fault? What is the trouble? Shall it be said of ENromoLoGicaL News, in the near future, and then it also died ? THE place of the lamented Dr. Lintner as entomologist of the State of New York has been filled by the governor by appointing to that position Mr. Mark Vernon Slingerland. 200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J. Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor, Prof. John B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J. ; Crude Petroleum as an Insecticide.—The use of kerosene against insects naturally turned attention to other oils of the same class and to different grades of the same oil. Experiments-were made, therefore, with a num- ber of them which have never been recorded, and as they all resulted in failures, probably never will be. The use of the crude petroleum was suggested to me by Mr. Lafayette T. Schanck, one of our Monmouth County fruit-growers, because he had employed it for many years in de- stroying lice on stock and for various garden insects. He claimed that it was as good an insecticide as kerosene and much less violent in its action on the subject, while kerosene would remove the hair from most of the animals to which it was applied, crude oil never did, but gave a better and cleaner coat, inducing a new and vigorous growth of hair on bare patches. His experiments on vegetation were too indefinite to quote, but there was enough in it to make me determine to try it if possible. In January I induced a grower to risk a row of dwarf pears, very badly infested with San José scale for dangerous experiments, and one of these trees was painted from the base to the tip of the twigs with crude petroleum. The application was as thorough as it could be made with a brush and the tree turned a dark chestnut-brown at once. eS eee . menetriestza Mots 3. RO OO ee striatus Mots. (= interstitialis Hiib.). . . 3 anda Horn oh). SNe eee 175 Menetriesii is the most variable in size, and some specimens show traces of pubescence. Each of these species is easily separated from the others by the shape of the thorax. The type of avdax was from Ronald- son’s Cave, Kentucky. It has the thorax wider than long and nearly as wide at base as apex. It is a small species. This is, I believe, the first record of the occurrence of awdax in Mammoth Cave. I searched the caves in Carter County, Kentucky, viz.: ‘‘ Bat,’ “‘X,” “Laurel” and ‘‘Saltpetre’”’ Caves, but failed to find Anophihalmus in either of them.— — CHARLES Dury, Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio. THERE are at present 2864 volumes in the library of the American Entomological Society, including 111 volumes of pamphlets averaging fiiteen titles to the volume. The various departments are represented as follows: Journals, 1436; Coleoptera, 389; General Entomology, 341; Le- pidoptera, 214; Economic Entomology, 122; Hymenoptera, tor; Dip- tera, 86; Miscellaneous, 61 ; Hemiptera, 49; Orthoptera, 40; Neuroptera, 25. This represents an increase of nearly 100 per cent since 1888, when the total number of volumes was 1445. In the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia there are 1221 volumes, exclusive of journals, and 1188 pamphlets, devoted entirely to Entomology. The pamphlets form 77 additional volumes.. While the books of one library are partially duplicated by the other, yet it is safe to say that the foremost collection of entomological books — in America is to be found in the building of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where both libraries are situated.—W.. J. Fox. pare. we ee 1988. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 203 May 14th a pair of Leucarctia acrea were captured tm coifu on a plum tree. They were put in a breeding-cage, and on the 15th and 16th the female laid 728 eggs in three patches. One on the day of the 15th, one that night, and one the following day. They were laid in almost a square. The rows of eggs were closely placed beside each other, but scarcely touching, while the eggs in each row were apparently joined. In size about mm. and about globular shape; color lemon-yellow and darker to a deep yellow; changed fast with age to a deep blue before hatching. All hatched on the morning of May 30. May 28 a stem of dead plum was found containing 598 eggs, all in one patch and in five rows lengthwise of the stem. Commenced hatching May 30; thirty-three failed to hatch. In both cases the young larve fed on the empty egg-shells first, cleaning them off to the surface of the wood. They were afterward fed on plum and a number were grown to maturity. —E. G. Titus, Fort Collins, Colo. Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted. Contribu- tions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are pub- lished ; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all articles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but when such articles are in other languages than English, French, German or Italian, this fact is indicated in parenthesis. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., ’98 —5. Psyche, Cam- bridge, Mass., Sept., ’98.-- 7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Washington; circulars, second series, ’98.—%. The En- tomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, Sept., ’98.—11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, Sept., ’98.—13. Comptes Rendus. Societe de Biologie, Paris, July 30, ’98.—26. Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly, New York, Sept., ’98.—40. Societas Entomologica, Zurich-Hottingen, ’98.—42. Journal of the Linnean Society, London, —45. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, ’98, I Lepidopt. Heft, Berlin, etc., Aug. 10.—46. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, xli, 1. The Hague, July 30, ’98.—81. Biologisches Centralblatt, Erlangen, ’98.— $6a Annales, S6b Bulletin, Société Entomologique de France, ’96. Rec’d. Aug. ’98.—87. Revue Scientifique, Paris, ’98.--88. Actes, So- ciété Linneenne, Bordeaux, lii, ’97,—89. Zoologische Jahrbiicher, xi, 5, Jena, Aug. 15, ’98.—90. Gartenflora, Berlin, ’98.—91. Il Naturalista Siciliano (n. s.), ii, 5-8, Palermo, July 15, ’98. The General Subject.—Beecher,C.E. The origin and signifi- cance of spines: a study in evolution (cont.), figs., American Journal of Science, New Haven, Sept., ’°98.—Bignell, G. C. Photographic en- 204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ October, largements, 1 pl., 8.—Bordage, E. On the probable mode of forma- tion of the femoro-trochanteric suture in Arthropods, 13.—C omstock, J. H. and Needham, J. G. The wings of insects, iii (concl.), Amer- ican Naturalist, Boston, Aug., ’98.—Constant, A. Necrological no- tice of E. L. Ragonot (portrait and bibliog.), $Ga, 1, Dec., ’96.—Fabre, J. H. A virus of insects, Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie, (8), vi, 4-6, Paris, July, ’98.—Hutton, F.W. A case of inherited instinct, Nature, London, Sept. 1, ’98.—K iinckel-d’Herculais, J. On the functions of the Malpighian tubules 86b.—Leoni, A. M. On the odors - exhaled by insects, $7, July 30.—Lubbock, J. On the attraction of flowers for insects, 42, Bot. xxxiii, 231, April 1, ’98.—Marchal, P. Remarks on the function and origin of the Malpighian tubules, 86b.— Mayet, V. Necrological notice of C. V. Riley (portrait and bibliog.), 86a, 4, Dec., ’97; A new function of the Malpighian tubules [ Cerambyx), 8$6b.—Perez. The attraction of flowers for insects, $$, Proces-ver- baux.—Weed, C.M. A game of hide and seek, figs., 26. _ Economic Entomology.—Chittenden, F. H. A new squash bug, 4, Sept.; The larger apple-tree borers, figs., 7, No. 32, July 1.— Felt, E. P. Elm-leaf beetle in New York State, figs., 5 pls., Bulletin New York State Museum, v, 20, Albany, June, ’98.--Frank and Krii- — ger, F. The European allies of the San José scale, 9O, Aug. 1.-- Howard, L. O. Remedial work against the Mexican cotton-boll weevil, 7, No. 33, July 1; House flies, figs., 7, No. 35, July 11r.—de Jo- annis, J. Cornivorous larve, 87, Aug. 13.—K enyon, F.C. Abstracts of recent publications, Experiment Station Record x, 1. U.S. Dep’t Agric. Washington, ’98.—Klein, O. Vedalia cardinalis as opponent of Zeerya Purchasi, 90, Sept. 1.—Marchal, P. On two new Cecido- myids living on the potato and on the Hedera, figs., 86b.—Marlatt, C. L. House ants, figs., 7, No. 34, July 6; The true clothes moths, figs., . 7, No. 36, July 18.—Mayet, V. Note on Margarodes vitium Giard, $6b; The scale-insect of the vines of Chili, Margarodes vitium Giard, $Ga, 3, May, ’97.—Placzek, B. Protection of birds or of insects? Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Briinn, xxxv, ’97.— Vayssiere, A. Description of Pentaphis marginata Koch, an Aphid which attacks wheat, 1 pl., Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Mar- seille, viii, ’98.—-Wilcox, E. V. Tne internal chicken-mite (Cytodifes nudus vizioli), Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, Philadelphia, August, ’98. Arachnida.—Bouvier, E. L. On the oviposition and develop- ment of a Pseudoscorpionid, Garypus saxicola Waterh.; Rectification to the same, 86b.-—-Buysson, H. du. Observations on the results pro- duced by the sting of the Acarine of the genus Avgas, $Ga, 2, April, ’97.—van Hasselt, A. W. M. Catalogue of the Aranez found in Holland, 46.—lhle, J. E. W. On the phylogeny and systematic posi- tion of the Pantopoda, $1, Aug. 15.—Michael, A.D. Report on the Acari collected by Mr. H. Fisher, Naturalist of the Jackson-Harmsworth ‘ { —_.~ " 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 205 Polar Expedition, at Cape Flora, Northbrook Island, Franz-Josef Archi- pelago, 1 pl., 42, Zool. xxvi, 168, Nov. 1, ’97.—Nalepa, A. To knowledge of the genus 7rimerus Nal., 1 pl., 89.—Pocock, R. I. The species of Scorpions of the genus Arofeas, 11.—Schenkling- Prévé6t. Cave spiders, Insekten Borse, Leipsic, Aug. 25, ’98, ef seg.— Simon, E. Descriptions of new species of the order of the Aranez, 2 pls.*, $Ga, 3, May, ’97.—Trouessart, E. New genus and species of pilicolous Sarcoptidze (Chirodiscinz)* (two papers); Description of new species of marine Acarina (Halacaride); On two new species and a new genus of psoric Sarcoptidz; On the classification of the plumicolous Sarcoptide, 86b. 'Myriapoda.—Brélemann, H. W. List of Myriapods of the United States and principally of North Carolina, making part of the col- lections of M. E. Simon, 3 pls., 86a, 1, Dec., ’96.—Heymons, R. On the developmental history of the Chilopoda, Sitzungsberichte, konigl. preuss. Akademie d. Wissenschaften, Berlin, Mar. 31, ’98. Orthoptera.—Bordage, E. On the localizations of surfaces of regeneration in the Phasmids, 13.—Brunner v. Wattenwyl. Or- thoptera of the Malay Archipelago collected by Prof. W. Kukenthal, 5 pls. Abhandlungen, Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Frankfort, xxiv, 2, ’98.—Giardina, A. On the nest of Mantis relig- joso91.—Morse, A. P. Notes on New England Acridiide, iv, Acrid- ° line, ii, 1 pl., 5.—Rabito, L. On the origin of the middle intestine of Mantis religiosa, 91.—Walker, E. M. A new alpine grasshopper from western Canada, 1 pl.,* 4, Aug. Neuroptera.—Barrois, C. etal. Observations on the phenomena of flight of dragonflies, 86b.—Currie, R. P. New species of North American Myrmeleonida, iii,* 4, Sept—Haviland, G. D. Observa- tions on Termites, with descriptions of new species, 4 pls., 42, Zool. xxvi, 169; April 1, ’°985.—Meunier, F. The fossil Agrionidz of the Mu- seums of Munich and Harlem, 3 pls.; Note on some insects of the schists of Solenhofen, 1 pl., 8Ga, 1, Dec., 96.—Williamson, E. B. Sep- tember dragonflies of Round and Shriner Lakes, Whitley Co., Indiana, 22nd Annual Report, Dep’t of coon and Natural Resources, Indiana, 797. Indianapolis, ’98. Hemiptera.—Baker, C. F. Notes on Chlorotettix, with some new species,* 4, Aug.; On some new and anomalous Tettigonine,* 5.— Blanchard, R. On the scale-insects of the genus Orthezia Bosc, $Ga, 4, Dec., ’97.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Supplementary note and notice of a new Zriococcus,* 4, Sept.; The Coccid genus Solenophora in the United States,* 5.—Cooley, R.A. Diaspis amygdali in. Mas- sachusetts, 4, Sept.—Distant, W. L. Descriptions of new species of Hemiptera-Heteroptera [Coreide*], 11.—Ehrhorn, E. M. New Coc- cidz,* 4, Sept—Klein, O. Jcerya Purchasi, fig, 90, Aug. 15.— Tinsley, J. D. Some new species of Coccidz,* figs., 4, Aug. Coleoptera.—Anon. A “‘rain of beetles,’ 40% Sept. 1.—Anon. 206 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ October, W. Biedermann on the digestion of the larva of Zenebrio molitor, Nat- urwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Braunschweig, Aug. 27, ’98.—Balbi, E- Deformities and monstrosities of Coleoptera, 91.—Belon, R. P. De cription of an unpublished Cerambycid of the group Disteniini, 86b.— Fletiaux, E. Note on the genus Fornax, 86b.—Gadeau de Ker™ ville, H. Sexual perversion in male Coleoptera, fig., 86b.—G ran - dis, V., and Muzio, G. On the process of assimilation. of Cal/adium sanguineum Fabr. Archives Italiennes de Biologie xxix, 2, Turin, ’98.— Grouvelle, A. Description of two Dryopide of the genus Lufro- chus Er. with a general table of the species; Remarks on the nomencla- ture of the Dryopide and of the Helmidz, 86b; Nitidulide, Colydiide, Cucujidz and Parnidz, collected by M. E. Gounelle in Brazil, and other new American Clavicorns, figs * 86a, 2, Apr., ’97; Clavicorns of Grenada and of St. Vincent (Antilles) collected by Mr. H. H. Smith and belonging to the Museum of Cambridge; Notes from the Leyden Museum, xx, ’98. —Keen, J. H. A new Cychrinid,* 4, Augy—Kerremans, C. Bu- prestide of the voyage of E. Simon to Venezuela; Buprestidz collected in tobaccos by the care of M. A. Grouvelle, 86a, 1, Dec., ’96.—Lesne, P. Revision of the Coleoptera of the family Bostrychide, i, figs , 2 pls., 86a, 1, Dec., ’96; Synonymic notes on the hypocephalic Bostrychidz, 86b.—Lewis, G. On new species of Histeride and notices of others,* 11.—Pic, M. Synonymic remarks on the Anthicidze of the United States; Description of a Heteromerous Coleopter from Brazil, 86b.— Raffray, A. Description of new species of Pselaphidz from southern Brazil collected by M. E. A. Géld; Synonymic notes on Pselaphidz, 86a, 1, Dec., ’96; New studies on the Pselaphidze and Clavigeridz,* 2 pls., $6a, 2, April, ’°97.—Viturat, l’ Abbé, and Fauconnet, L. Analytic and methodic catalogue of the Coleoptera of Saone-et-Loire and the neighboring departments, Bulletin, Société d’ Histoire Naturelle de Autun, x, ’97. Diptera.—_Blanchard, R. Contributions to the study of parasitic Diptera, iii, 3 pls., 86a, 4, Dec.,’97.—Chobaut, Dr. Observations on a dipter living on Ateuchus, 86b.—-Coquillett, D. W. Additions to my synopsis of the Tachinidz,* 4, Sept.—Janet, C. On the ‘ filets arqués’ of the antenne of Xy/odip/osis, figs., 86b.—Kieffer, J.J. On the ‘filets arqués’ of the antenne of Cecidomyide, figs.; On the trams- formations of certain organs in the larve of Cecidomyia, figs., $6b.— Lesne, P. Habits of Limosina sacra Meig. (fam. Muscidz), phenomena of mutual transportation in articulated animals, origin of parasitism in Diptera 86b.—W andolleck, B. The Stethopathide, a new wingless and haltereless family of Diptera, 2 pls., 89. Lepidoptera.—Badenoch, M. T. D. The case moths, figs., 26. —Dyar, H. G. Concerning Xanthorhe glacialis Hulst, 4, Aug.— Féré, C. Experiments on the sexual instinct of Bombyx, 13.--F ruh- storfer, H. Monographic revision of the Nymphalid groups Symphe- dra and Adolias; Agrias aurantiaca Fruhst.; A. bolivensis, 1 pl., 45.— _? 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 207 Gauckler , H. Experiments with low temperatures on Vanessa pupe, 45.—Grote, A. R. Note on the diurnals, 4, Aug.—-Hulst, G. D. Descriptions of new genera and species of the Geometrina of North America,* 4, Aug.--Lathy, P. L. A new species of Sphenogona from Jamaica, $.—Lucock, F. Food-plant of Euphanessa mendica, 4, Sept.—Moffat, J. A. Deidamia inscripta Harr. 4, Aug.—Piepers, M. C. New observations on the flights of Lepidoptera, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indié, lvii, Batavia and The Hague, ’98; The phylogeny of the colors of the Pieridz, Tijdschrift der nederlandsche Dierkundige vereeniging (2), v, 2-4, Leyden, June, ’98.—Staudinger, O. Some new South American forms of Papilio, 45.—T hierry-Mieg, P. Descriptions of nocturnal Lepidoptera, 86b.—Sykes, M. L. Nat- ural selection in the Lepidoptera, 8 pls., Transactions, Manchester Micro- scopical Society ’97, July 16, ’98. Hymenoptera.—Ashmead, W. H. Classification of the horn- tails and sawflies, or the sub-order Phytophaga, iii, iv, 4, Aug., Sept.— Cockerell, T. D. A. Note ona Chalcidid of the subfam. Encyrtine, parasitic on Phenacoccus minimus,* 4, Aug.; On some small bees from Arizona,* 4, Sept.; The North American bees of the genus Prosapis (cont.), Entomologist, London, Sept., ’98.—_Emery, C. Ants of the genera Sysphincta, Proceratium, Macromischa, 86b.—Ferton, C. New observations on the instinct of gastrilegid Hymenoptera of France and of Corsica, 1 pl.; New observations on the instinct of the Pompilide, $8.—Gounelle, E. Transportation of earth effected by ants in Brazil, $6b.—Gribodo, J. Notes on the biology of the Chryside, 86b.-- _Joannis, J. de. Ona new case of parasitism observed in Chrysis shanghaiensis Sm , a Chrysid parasite of a Lepidopter, 86b.—K ieffer, J.J. Cynipidz in Andre’s Species des Hyménopteres d’ Europe et d’ Al- eerie, vii, 63e fascicule, Paris, July r, ’98.—K onow, F. W. Synonymic and critical remarks on species of Tenthredinidz not, or incorrectly, re- ferred, 40, Aug. 1, 15.—Langhoffer, A. Contributions to the know- ledge of the mouth-parts of [lymenoptera, i, Apidz, 81, Aug. 15.—Was- maun, E. First supplement to the ant guests of Dutch Limburg, with biological notes, 46; A new reflex-theory of ant-life, 81, Aug. 1. Doings of Societies. At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, Prof. J. B. Smith described the habits of the larve of Cicindela generosa. Their burrows extend from 15 inches to 2 and 3 feet into the ground, ‘and is a long, goose-necked affair opening into a pit, which serves as a trap for their prey. Mr. Wenzel said that the larvae of C. dorsalis tunnels a straight burrow. 208 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, Prof. Smith gave further results of his examination of bee-cells. Dipterous parasites had been found therein. Axdrena, of which three species had been observed, showed that each species has characteristic burrows. Some species extend their burrow for several feet and build a cell at the bottom, which is covered, and another one built further up, until the burrow is lined with nu- merous cells. The newly-hatched imago must, therefore, in some instances, dig a considerable distance before reaching the surface of the ground. Dr. Henry Skinner showed unidentified larve from stems and leaf-petioles of sugar maple; it is very destructive, causing the leaves to fall in large numbers. Mr. C. W. Johnson exhibited Sevocomyia bifasciata, S. mili- taris, Brachyopa notata and a species of Helophilus from North Mountain, Pa., all of which were not recorded hitherto from Pennsylvania. The Helophilus may be H. porcus Walker. The date of meeting was changed from the second Tuesday to the third Wednesday of each month. Wi.uiaM J. Fox, Secretary. OBITUARY. PRO AE Se ERNEST CANDEZE, M D., F. E. S., the learned monographer of the Elateridz, an accomplished entomologist and writer, died at Liége on June 3oth, after a short illness from angina pectoris, in his 72nd year, deeply mourned by a large circle of personal friends.—Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine. 7 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws for September was mailed August 30, 1898. tT. News, Vol. IX. 1X vill 1X vin 9 10 1-4 ISCHNURA VERTICALIS, 5-13 |. KELLICOTTI. a ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. Ix. NOVEMBER, 1898. No. 9. CON TEN ES Williamson—A new species of Ischnura 209 | Harvey—A new Poduran of the genus Calvert—Further notes on the new Gnathocephalus...........0+seseee0s 216 dragonfly Ischnura Kellicotti....... 211 | Editorial...........s..ssseesceceeceseees 218 Dyar—Inguromorpha Slossonii........ 213 | Economic Entomology ..........++4-- 220 Dyar—A new Hypopta......-.+.-++-++: 214. | Notesand New5S........sccccccesesoceces 224 Schaus—Two new spicies of Hesper- Entomological Literature.............. 226 SE hagiis ay oe div occ ne sted bese 215 | Doings of Societies.........20+-eeseeee 229 Cockerell—Another Yellow Perdita.... 215 A NEW SPECIES OF ISCHNURA. . (Order Odonata.) By E. B. WiLLIAmson, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. Ischnura kellicotti n. sp. ¢.—Upper part of head and eyes, and antennz black ; postocular spots blue, large, rounded and not connected; genz blue ; frons blue, black above and at the middle; clypeus black above, blue below; labrum blue, black at base; head (except around the occipital foramen) and eyes below pale blue. Dorsum of prothorax black with the following blue : a transverse line on the anterior lobe ; two round spots on the middle lobe ; and the pos- terior margin of the posterior lobe. Propleuron blue. Thorax blue, black as follows: a wide mid-dorsal stripe; a humeral stripe which widens suddenly just posterior to the mesinfraepisternum, which it covers ; a very narrow interrupted line on the posterior half of the first lateral suture; a narrow stripe on the second lateral suture, widening anteriorly to cover the metinfraepisternum; a line connecting these stripes posteriorly ; under parts dark. Wings hyaline; antecubitals 2, postcubitals 8; pterostigma: of front wings black ventrally, 4/ve dorsally with the inner angle black and the outer angle pale; of hind wings pale brown. Legs black superiorly, blue and pale inferiorly. Abdomen above metallic or bronze black, with blue as follows : a wide apical ring on 1; a large cordate basal spot and a wide apical ring on 2, the extreme base and apex of the segment black; pale narrow inter- 9 oot M.S 210 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ November, rupted basal rings on 3-7; an apical ring widening into a quadrate median spot on 7; all of 8 excepting a very narrow basal ring; all of 9, the blue narrowed at either side near the middle ; two small round basal spots on 10, and the extreme tip of the elevated posterior margin of the segment which is also blue underneath. Sides of 1 and 2 blue and black ; of 3-7 and 10 brownish and yellowish with blue tinges ; of 8 and 9 black bordered below with blue. Dorsal posterior margin of the tenth segment moderately elevated and produced, the apex scarcely bifid. Abdominal appendages black, resembling those of 7. verticalis Say, but slenderer and longer. Superior appendages lamellate, sinuate, about half as long as the tenth segment, rounded triangular in form, the depth at base equal to the sides; the upper, outwardly rolled half scimitar- shaped in profile, and lying above and outside of the upper process of the inferior appendage; the lower, inwardly rolled half lying inside of the upper half of the inferior appendage. Inferior appendages longer than the superior ; the lower outer two-thirds produced into a slender process curving downwards, outwards and inwards, the extreme apex turned upwards and inwards and tipped with a small shining tooth ; the upper third produced upwards and backwards into a triangular lobe, about one- fifth as long as the lower process. Q.—Similar to the male. Frons not black at the middle; postocular spots larger. Median lobe of prothorax with an additional small gemi- nate spot in the middle. Thorax the same; wings hyaline; antecubitals 2, postcubitals 9; pterostigma on all the wings pale brown. Abdomen with the blue on 1 and 2 more extensive, on 2 the black is reduced to a triangular spot and narrow basal and apical rings; the apical ring on 7 not widened into a spot; 8 with a basal oblong spot on either side of the median line, and a dome-shaped basal spot, the double apex directed anteriorly ; the blue on 9 much narrowed, the black extending across the dorsum basally ; 10 narrowly blue. Sides of abdomen darker than in the male ; 3-and 4 with a distinct, and 5 with an indistinct blue apical spot ; 8 and g entirely black. Valves bluish, the apex and vulvular process light colored, extending beyond the tenth segment. Abdominal appendages pale. The ventral apical spine on the eighth segment is short and acute, less prominent than in Z. verticalis Say. Length of abdomen ¢' 2 23 mm.; hind wing 9’ 16 mm., 9 18 mm. Round and Shriner Lakes, Whitley County, Indiana: Sep- tember 2, 1897 ; June 7, June 24 and July 21, 1898. Named for Professor D. S, Kellicott, who first called attention to this species (footnote + to page 404 in ‘‘ September Dragonflies of Round and Shriner Lakes, Whitley Co., Indiana,’’ by E. B. Williamson, Indiana Geological Report for 1897). This species has been taken in New Jersey by Mr. Calvert. — He has kindly examined one of my male specimens, and it is by ~q 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2I1 his advice that I have referred the species to the genus /schnura. I am doubtful about the female, described by the late Professor Kellicott in the footnote mentioned above, being an orange form. In that description the yellow rings on 3-7 are erroneously referred to as apical. The following variations in the color of males of this species may be noted. The relative amounts of blue and black on frons, clypeus and labrum are variable. The two spots on the median lobe of the prothorax may be absent. The mid-dorsal and humeral stripes may be widened until the included blue is reduced in width to one-third the humeral stripe. The black on the dorsum of 2 may be reduced to a transverse line, or, on the other hand, the cordate spot may be reduced toa geminate spot, and the apical ring be very much narrowed. On 7 the apical spot may be separated from the apical ring. The narrow basal rings on 3-7 are always pale, and frequently yellowish in color. On 10 the two round blue spots may be wanting, may be of unequal size in the same specimen, or there may be four present, the additional ones being placed posteriorly and laterally to the other two. A teneral male was dull yellow and black in color- ation, and had the pterostigma of all the wings pale brown. In the fernales there is great variation in segments 1 and 2, and 8 and g; the dorsum of 8 and g may be entirely blue, narrowed at the middle on 8, and at the base on 9. O FURTHER NOTES ON THE NEW DRAGONFLY ISCHNURA KELLICOTTI. (Odonata). By Puivip P. CALVERT. (Supplementary to the preceding paper by Mr. E. B. Williamson.) On August 28, 1898, at a pond about one mile east of Millville, New Jersey, where the road to Cumberland crosses the small stream known as Petticoat Branch, I observed a small dragonfly flitting a few inches above the water’s surface from lily-pad to lily-pad. Its size and color suggested Exallagma geminatum, but, wishing to be sure, I captured an individual. Then I saw that I had a male /schnura of a species unknown to me. [at Once turned my attention to searching for the other sex, and in less than two hours had obtained six males, four black females and three orange females. So closely did they keep themselves 212 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ November, to the water and floating vegetation, that I was able to catch them only by dropping the net over each individual, sinking it below the water and withdrawing the insect with my fingers while it was still immersed. On my return to Philadelphia, Mr. Williamson’s paper on the Dragonflies of Round and Shriner Lakes was awaiting me. The brief footnote on an ‘‘ Enallagma sp. (?)’’, which he has quoted, seemed to apply to my orange /schnura females. As the result of some correspondence to which this idea led, Mr. Williamson kindly consented to my request to send a description of the species, based on material more lately obtained by him, for publication in the NEws, with the understanding that I should supplement his paper with any additional notes which my New Jersey specimens might suggest. These notes follow : 3.--The two round blue spots on the median prothoracic lobe are absent in five of the six males. There is no apical blue spot on 7 in one male, while in four others it is represented by a pair of small, isolated spots. There are no basal spots on 1o in five males. One individual, apparently fully colored otherwise, has the pterostigma on @a// the wings pale brown. Abd. 19 mm., hind wing 13-12.5:mm. Black 2 .—The blue postocular spots are prolonged backwards and downwards on the rear of the head. The two round blue spots on the median prothoracic lobe are very small in one female, while the geminate spot on the same lobe is wanting in two females. There is no apical spot or ring on 7, nor spots on the sides of 3-5. Some variations in the mark- ings of 2 and of 8:and g are shown in Pl. XI, figs. 10-13, but a great extent of black on 2 is not correlated with much or little black on 8 and g, and vice versa. Abd. 18.5-19, h. w. 13.5. Orange °.-—Like the black female but with orange replacing the blue. No geminate spot on the median prothoracic lobe. Very little dark color on the pectus. The black markings on 2 show the same variations as in the black 2; on 8 and g they are similar but of less extent, especially on g, although this may perhaps be due to immaturity. Abd. 18.5-20, h. w. 13-14. 3 2.—Front wings: postnodals 7-8 (—G. M. DonGE, Louisiana, Mo. THE noted murderess commits suicide by eatiug spiders—a notorious career.—Cora Smith, the noted murderess confined for life in Anamosa Penitentiary, this State (Iowa), is dead. The prison authorities pronounce her death the result of eating spiders, with suicidal intention. She was 24 years of age and in perfect health up to the time of her death. A handful of dead spiders in her handkerchief, obtained, it is thought while she was taking daily exercise, in the outer courts of the prison, was found in the cell beside her dead body. Her career in Iowa is notorious. Her mother several years ago had been convicted in Des Moines and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband. Cora Smith, then an inmate of a house of ill- fame in Omaha, decided to confess that she alone committed the murder. ' In doing so she secured a life sentence, but failed to effect her mother’s release. The latter’s case was appealed and reversed so that she got a new trial, but she was again convicted and sentenced for life. Her case has been appealed a second time.t— Newspaper. * Page 89. ¥ We would like to hear from those studying spiders, as we can’t credit the above tale.—Eds. 9* 226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | November, Entomological Literature. Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted. Contribu- tions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are lished ; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all articles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but when such articles are in other languages than English, French, German or Italian, this fact is indicated in parenthesis. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., Oct., ’98.—&. Psyche Cambridge, Mass., Oct., ’98.—6. Journal of the New York Entomologi- cal Society, Sept., ’93.—8. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, Lon- don, Oct., ’98.—9. The Entomologist, London, Oct., ’98.—11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, ’98.--21. The Ento- mologist’s Record, London, Sept. 15, ’98.—22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, ’98.—38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xvii, 7-8, Sept. 1o, ’98.-- 40. Societas Entomologica, Ziirich-Hottingen, Sept. 15, ’98.—53. Transactions and Proceedings, New Zealand Institute, 1897. Wellington, June, ’98.—55. Le Naturaliste, Paris, Sept. 1, ’98.—56. Mittheilungen der schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, Schaffhausen, x, 3, June, ’98.—79. La Nature, Paris, Sept. 10, ’98.—84. Insekten Borse, Leipsic, Sept. 29, ’98.—86b. Bulletins, Société Entomologique de France, Paris. —87. Revue Scientifique, Paris, ’98.—92. Illustrierte Zeitschrift fiir Entomologie, iii, 16,17. Neudamm, Aug. 15, Sept. 1, ’98. The General Subject.—B ouvier, E. L. On the geographical dis- tribution and evolution of Peripatus; New observations on FPeripatus (transl, from C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris), 11, Oct—Donisthorpe, H. St. J.K. The Fourth International Congress of Zoology, 21.—Tutt, J. W. The migration and dispersal of insects: general considerations, 21.--Wasmann,E,. The guests of ants and termites, 92, 16. Economic Entomology.—Chittenden, F. H. The striped cu- cumber beetle, figs. Circular 31, 2nd series, U. S. Dep’t. Agriculture, Washington, April 26,’98.—Coupin, H. The San José scale, figs., 79, Sept. 24.—Debray. The destruction of injurious insects, 65, Sept. 1. —Foa,E. The poisonous tsé-tsé fly, Bulletin, Societe Nationale d’ Accli- matation de France, Paris, April, ’98.—Hariot, P. The danger of im- portation of injurious insects into the United States, 65, Sept. 1.—How- ard, L.O. Danger of importing insect pests, figs. Year Book, U. S. Dep’t Agriculture for 1897. Washington, ’98.—Jablonowsky, J. The San José scale [in Hungarian], Rovartani Lapok, Budapest, June 1, ’98. ~-Johnson, W. G. Report on the San José scale in Maryland, and remedies for its suppression and control (116 pp., 22 figs.), Bulletin 57, Maryland Agric. Exper. Station, College Park, Md., Aug. ’98.—[Man- son, P.] Malaria and the theory of mosquitoes, 87, Sept. 3.—Rede- mann, G. The apple roller Carpocapsa pomonana, injuries, habits and ~. . 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 227 means of destroying, 40.—Rhoads,S.N. ‘Noxious’ or ‘beneficial’? false premises in Economic Zoology, American Naturalist, Boston, Aug., ’98.—Sch.,S. On the destruction of injurious insects, $4.--Sirrine, F. A. A spraying mixture for cauliflower and cabbage worms, 6 pls., Bulletin 144, New York Agricul. Exper. Station, Geneva, N. Y., Sept. ’98.—Strachan, H.and McCorquodale, W.H. Larvezin antelope horns, Nature, London, Sept. 15, ’98. Arachnida.—Acloque,A. Spiders’ silk, figs., 79, Sept. 17.— Banks, N. Three myrmecophilous mites,* 4; Some Mexican Phalan- gida, 6. Orthoptera.—C ockerell, T. D. A. New North American in- sects,* 11, Oct.—Hutton, F. W. The grasshoppers and locusts, Phas- midz, Hemiptera, of New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands, 1 pl. (3 papers), 53.—Morse, A. P. Notes on New England Acridiide iv, Acridiine iii, 5.—Walker, E. M. Notes on some Ontario Acridiide (cont.), 4. Neuroptera.--Davis, W. T. Preliminary list of the dragonflies of Staten Island, with notes and dates of capture, 6.—v. Linden, M. On the life of caddis-flies, figs. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Braun- schweig, Sept. 25, ’98.—-McLachlan, R. What is Libellula enea Linné?: a study in nomenclature, 8.—-Wasmann, E. See the General Subject. Hemiptera.—Aleman, J. Ona Mexican Aleurodes (A. dugesit CkIl. n. sp),* La Naturaleza, iii, -2, Mexico, ’98.—Cockerell, T. D. A. A new Aleurodes on oak,* 43 A new scale insect found on barberry,* 4; The Coccidz of the Sandwich Islands, 9; See Orthoptera.*—Davis, W.T. The seventeen-year locust on Staten Island in 1898 ; The hickory. tree Phylloxera at West New Brighton, Proceedings, Natural Science Association of Staten Island, New Brighton, N. Y. Sept. 10, °98.— Giard, A. On the scale insects of the genus Orthezia Bosc., 86b, ’98, No. 1.—Gillette, C. P. American leaf-hoppers of the subfamily Typhlocybinz,* 149 figs., Proceedings, U. S. National Museum, No. 1138, Washington, ’98.—Htieber, T. Synopsis of the German Capsi- dz iii, Jahreshefte, Verein fiir vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wiirttemberg, liv. Stuttgart, 98. Hutton, F. W. See Orthoptera. Lounsbury, C.P. Diaspis amygdali Tryon, 4—Maskell, W.M. Further Coc- cid notes: with descriptions of new species and discussion of points of interest, 53.—Townsend, C. H. T. and Cockerell, T. D. A. Coccidz collected in Mexico by Messrs. Townsend and Koebele in 1897,* 6.—de Varigny,H. The seventeen-year Cicada, $7, Sept. 17. - Coleoptera.—Brauns, H. A new Dorylid guest of the mimicry type, fig, 38.—Escherich, K. On the life-history of Thorictus Foreli Wasm. figs., 22, Sept. 5.—Fall, H.C. Acorrection [in Affa- lus|, 4.—Felsche, F. Verzeichniss der Lucaniden, welche bis jetzt beschrieben sind. Leipzig, Ernst Heyne, 1898. 89 pp., 8vo.—Gorham, H.S. On the serricorn Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada and the Gre- 228 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ November, nadines (Malacodermata, Ptinidze, Bostrychidz), with descriptions of new species, 1 pl.; On the Coleoptera of the families Erotylide, Endomychidz and Coccinellidz, collected by Mr. H. H. Smith in St. Vincent, Grenada and the Grenadines with descriptions of new species, Proceedings, Zoological Society of London, 1898, pt. ii, Aug. 1.—Lea, A. M. Revision of the Australian Curculionidz belonging to the subfamily Cryptorhyn- chides, Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales, ’97, pt. iii, Sydney, Feb. 11, ’98 (recd. Sept. 19).—Lesne, P. On the ‘ferrier’ of the larva of Cicindela hybrida L., fig., 86D, ’97, 17.—Schoch, G. Supplement VII to the ‘Genera and Species of my Cetonid collection,’ 56.—Weise, J. On new and known Coccinellidz, Archiv fur Naturge- schichte, xiv, i, 2, Berlin, Aug., ’98. Diptera.—Cockerell, T. D.A.* See Orthoptera.—Coquillett, D. W. On the Dipterous family Scatophagide* 6; A new Dipterous genus belonging to the Therevide, 6.—[Manson, P.] See Economic Entomology.—Mik, J. Some words on Dr. Wandolleck’s Stethopathidz and a new wingless and haltereless Dipteron, 1 pl., 38.—Townsend, C. H. T. Diptera of the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico,* 5. Lepidoptera.—Chapman, T: A. The structure of the spiracles in Lepidoptera, 21.—Cockerell, T. D. A.* See Orthoptera.—Druce, H. Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical America,* 11, Sept.—Dyar, H.G. Note on the larva of Me/anomma auricinctarium Grote, 4; A new Parasa with a preliminary table of the species of the genus,* 63; The life histories of the New York slug cater- pillars xvi, with certain additions and corrections, 1 pl.; Life-history of Calybia slossonie, 6.—Feredey, R. W. A Synonymic list of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand, 53.—Fernald, C. H. The Pterophori- dz of North America. Massachusetts Agricultural College, Jan., 1898. 80 pp., 9 pls.—Fischer, E. Contributions to experimental Lepidop- terology vii, viii, 2 pl., 92, 16, 17. Grote, A. R, The position of Pseudopontia (Gonophiebia), 21; Abbreviations of author’s names, 4.— Kathariner, L. Are flying butterflies persecuted by birds? Biolo- gisches Centralblatt, Erlangen, Sept. 15, ’°98.—Kunze, R. E. Life-his- tory of the two forms of Cerura nivea,6.—Lathy, P. I. A mewspecies of Terias from Haiti, 8.—Pierce, F. F. Recent investigations of the hair-pencils on certain male Noctue, $.—Pauls. Experimental zo- ological studies of Dr. M. Standfuss, 40.—Rebel, H. Dr. M. Stand- fuss’ experimental zoological studies on Lepidoptera, 22. Sept. 19.— Ribbe, C. Introduction to the collecting of butterflies in tropical countries, $4, Sept. 29,’98.—Seifert, O. Life-history of Feralia jocosa, 6.—Strecker, H. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indi- genous and Exotic. Supplement No. 1. Reading, Pa., U. S. A., 1898. Printed for the Author. (50 nn. spp. Noctuide,* 1 n. sp. Apatura—“the types are all carefully marked in my collection,’ and a characteristic preface). ee tiie) SS — -- 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 229 Hymenoptera.—Ashmead, W. H. Classification of the horn- tails and sawflies or the suborder Phytophaga, v, 4.—Beutenmiiller, W. Note on the nest of Vespa crabro, 2 pls.. 6.—Cockerell, T. D. A. The North American bees of the genus Prosapis (cont.), 93; See Orthoptera.*—Dufour, L. Bees and honeys, figs., 79, Sept. 10.— Dunning, S. N. Notes on Andrena,* 4.—Escherich, K. See Coleoptera.—Frey-Gessner, E. Fauna insectorum helvetiz. Hy- menoptera (cont.). Fam. xvi, Apide, 56.—Headley, F. W. Bees and the development of flowers, Natural Science, London, Oct., ’98.— Karawaiew, W. The postembryonal development of Zasius flavus, figs., 4 pls. Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Ixiv, 3, Leipsic, Aug. 30, ’98.—Kiaer, H. Review of the phytophagous Hymenoptera of arctic Norway, 1 pl., Tromso Museums Aarshefte 19, ’98.—K onow, F.W. New Contribution to the synonymy of the Chalastogastra ; On the Tenthiedinid tribe Lophyrini* (two papers), Entomologische Nachrich- ten, xxiv,15-16. Berlin, Aug., ’98; On the Tenthredinid genus Amasis Leach, 38; Synonymic and critical remarks on Tenthredinid species incorrectly, or not hitherto referred, 403; Analytical table for identifying the hitherto described larve of the Hymenopterous suborder Chalasto- gastra, 92, 16, 17.—Stoll, O. To knowledge of the geographical dis- tribution of ants, 56.—Wasmann, E. See the General Subject. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenous and Exotic. Supplement No. 1. By Herman Strecker, Reading, Pa., U. S. A, Printed for the author. This contains the descriptions of fifty new moths and one new butterfly. Next to the scientific interest of the paper we always look to Dr. Strecker for something racy in his remarks, and in the one page of preface we have this as in the days of yore. He was disappointed in an intended plate of the specimens and acknowledges he has joined the big band of sinners, dead and alive, who have published descriptions alone. If the gentle- man had made a good photographic negative, and from this a slightly underprinted bromide enlargement, and then retouched with india ink. and afterward reduced in the half-tone to natural size again, the result would have been excellent. No one would be more competent to do the slight retouching necessary than the author of this paper.—H. S. Doings of Societies. A meeting of Feldman Collecting Social was held September 21, 1898. Mr. Johnson exhibited a specimen of a species of Eviocera in which the discal cell is absent from one wing. A specimen of £. spinosus showed an accessory discal cell in one wing. Lon- gurio testaceus was shown from Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. In reply to Prof. Smith, Mr. Johnson said pinning is probably 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ November, the best method of preserving Tipulidz, although great care must be taken in handling them, because of their fragility. He did not prefer alcoholic specimens except for dissection. The preservation of the color of insects by alcohol and formalin was discussed by Messrs. Smith, Skinner, Johnson, Castle and Gerhard, the speakers agreeing that alcohol is. the better of the two for this purpose. Dr. Skinner reported the capture of Argynnis atlantis at North Mt., Pa. It had not before been recorded south of Catskills, NN: . He also referred to the abundance of Callidryas eubule at Cape May, N. J., in spite of the absence of the supposed food plant of the insect from the region thereabouts. He had found on investigation that it feeds also on Cassia nictitans. It has been asserted that it hibernates in the chrysalis, but this seems doubtful, as he had seen the species ovipositing very late in the season, so that it could hardly reach the chrysalis stage by cold weather. He suggested the possibility of hibernation in the larval stage. Prof. Smith referred to a previous communication on Augoch- lova humeralis. The burrow was described. Nests of broad cells lined with clay and surrounded by an air-chamber are put off at various places along the vertical burrow which may pro- ceed for several feet. The clusters of cells number from I to 11. The bees emerge about the middle of July and commence imme- diately to burrow, making a burrow entirely different from their parents in that instead of brood-cells they sent off from 1 to 3. short burrows or ‘‘fingers’’ along the vertical section. The bees are single brooded. Adult bees had been found in the burrows in September preparatory to hibernation. All burrows found from May to July have brood-cells, but those built after July have not brood-cells, which shows, in the speaker’s opinion, that the later burrow is made for hibernation only. The bright metallic color of the insect was commented on as being unusual for a species which spends the greater part of its life under- ground. . The speaker announced the coming issue of a new edition of the List of Insects for New Jersey and asked for codperation in its preparation from the members of the social. WILLIAM J. Fox, Secretary. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 231 A meeting of the Entomological Section of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was held September 22nd. Mr. C. S. Welles, Director, presiding. A number of blown- larve of Daremma catalpe were presented by Mr. Herman Hornig. Two boxes of Lepidoptra from Manchuria were pre- sented by Dr. A. D. Smith and the Farnum brothers. Dr. Calvert gave a summary of his paper on Burmeister’s Types of Odonata, now publishing in the current volume of the Trans- actions of the American Entomological Society. Mr. C. S. Welles stated that he had been informed that many caterpillars were swarming on the catalpa trees near his home (Elwyn, Del. Co., Pa.), and some of them were nearly defoliated by what he subsequently identified as the larva of Daremma catalpe. He exhibited the imago, larve and chrysalids of this moth and said it was a southern species and had not heretofore been noticed in this State in any such numbers, and if it continues to ‘prove so destructive it may become a subject for the economic entomologist. Mr. Liebeck mentioned a locality in the heart of the city where the Ailanthus trees had been denuded of leaves by the larva of Callosamia cynthia. The Director spoke of Mr. Gerhard’s journey to Bolivia and wished him don voyage and the good wishes of the Section. The latter said he expected to go to Mollendo and then to La Paz, which would be his head- quarters. Lepidoptra would receive first attention, but other orders would not be entirely neglected. All the material will be sent to Mr. A. G. Weeks, Jr. Mr. Liebick referred to the bird- flies (Hippoboscidz) which he had collected for Mr. Johnson. He had found them on the American bittern and the night-heron only. They are flat and look like a winged tick and slip side- wise spasmodically when an effort is made to pick them up. They try to slip up in narrow spaces like that between a loose cork and the neck of a bottle. They fly with great rapidity and are found under the wing feathers. Dr. Henry SKINNER, Recorder. A regular meeting was held by the Newark Entomological Society, Sunday, September 11th, at 4 P. M., at Turn Hall. The following members were present: Messrs. Seib, Broadwell, Angleman, Bucholz, Weidt, Bishchoff, Erb and Bunsow. Vice- President Brehme presiding. Mr. Weidt reported a capture of 232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ November, 35 specimens of Schinia arcifera in the Orange Mountains, August 28th, and remarked that it was locally common. Mr. Herman Erb exhibited a number of Paonzas astylus larva almost full grown. Mr. Weidt remarked having taken the larva in June. Mr. Broadwell exhibited some snap shots taken at the field meet- ing in August. Mr. Weidt reported that Prodenia commeline was common at light in Newark, September oth and roth. Mr. Herman Brehme read an article on rearing larva success- fully: After keeping the larvee in jars until two weeks old, I placed them in my new breeding cage, the top of which is made entirely of glass, and is 4 feet long, 15 inches deep and 14 inches wide. The bottom is made of wood, zinc lined, and is of the same dimensions as the top, excepting that it is 5 inches deep. In this bottom I put 4 inches of earth and spread manilla paper over the top to keep the cage clean. I then stick small branches of food plant in the ground and it keeps for a week. When the larva is full grown it crawls under the paper and pupates above the ground instead of burrowing it to it as is usually the case. Out of 125 larva of G. luscitiosa I have lost but three. The merits of different methods of breeding were discussed at some length by Messrs. Seib, Erb and Bucholz. _ Mr. Weidt proposed Mr. S. T. Kemp, formerly of Camden, N. J., who was unanimously elected a member. Meeting adjourned. A. J. WEIpDT, Secretary. The Newark Entomological Society visited the Brooklyn Insti- tute of Arts and Sciences Sunday, October goth, at 2.30 P. M. Most of the members brought a box of insects to determine, and all were kept busy untill 4 P. M., when a short meeting was held in a room reserved for the Society by Mr. Jacob Doll, the Curator, at the Institute. President Schlicksor presided, with the following members present: Messrs. Brehme, Weidt, Broadwell, Kircher, Rienecker, Stortz, Kemp, Erb, Angleman and Seib. It was decided that the special meetings which were well attended last winter be continued. Mr. Geo. Kircher proposed Mr. Wm. Straub, of Astoria, L. I., who was unanimously elected. Meeting adjourned. A. J. WeEIDT, Secretary. N. B.—We now have 14 active and 3 passive members. ee eT XII. PE: News, Vol. IX. ENT. — EE DEFOLIATED BY DAREMMA CATALPA LARVA. ne oo ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, VOL. Ix. DECEMBER, 1808. No. 10. CONTENTS: Welles—Destructive work of Daremma Slosson—Additional list of insects CET PS COR ee er ae 233 taken in Alpine region of Mt. Wickham—Recollections of old collect- MVABINESLON, eres ty aedpS oceas 251 ing grounds............ iaeeineedsg/s'>.- 235: [SPIN cance ssp 4 bRo cacy esinwepeowaue as 252 Fall—A new Chalcolepidius............. 238 | Economic Entoinology ...........+..-- 255 Smith—Notes on the genus Mamestra PEGKOS ANC NEWS: «(cc caer side ds. Sencend 256 Ochs., with descriptions of new Entomological Literature.............. 257 MUMIME beng is bes voces scccecvasccee 240 |“ Doings of Societiess.... 2.0.0.2... -.000 262 ; DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF DAREMMA CATALPA. By Cuas. S. WELLES. The readers of ENroMoLocicaL News will probably be inter- ested to know that there has appeared in our midst a new foe to one of our shade trees, the Catalpa bignioides, in the shape of a large sphinx, Daremma Catalpe Boisd. The Catalpa, though more suitable for planting on large lawns is, nevertheless, highly esteemed by arboriculturists as an ornamental shade tree on account of its large leaves, beautiful white flowers and peculiar cigar-shaped pods. Whether this pest, which menaces these trees with at least the destruction of their foliage, if not with permanent injury, has come to stay the future alone will divulge. The probability is that it has, though appearances are often deceiving. Many entomologists are well aware that the occurrence of an insect in large numbers one year is no criterion for the next, sometimes not even a single specimen greeting the eye. Now as to the actual facts in the case. One morning, in the latter part of August or the first of September, 1898, my man, returning from Media, informed me that he had seen large numbers of ‘‘ worms,’’ Io 232 234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, as he called them, down by the ‘‘Blue Bridge’’ which crosses Ridley Creek, equidistant betweeen Media and Elwyn Station, Delaware County, Pa. From his description I felt sure they must be the larvae of some moth. I was soon on the spot, and found that his ‘*thousands’’ were no exaggeration of the actual fact. Never in my life have I been permitted to see so many larve of a large insect, except in one instance, and those were of the sphinx Dezlephila lineata Fabr., which were present by the thousands upon the purslain in a large corn field in Illinois, which had not been thoroughly cultivated. I wish some of my entomological friends might have been with me on this present occasion to see the sight. Caterpillars everywhere, in every condition of molt; caterpillars on the trunks of trees; crawling over the dusty road ; on the herbage of whatever description, endeavoring to perfect their growth, so as to go into the pupal state, while other larvae, which had attained jtheir maturity, were seeking places where they might enter the ground to undergo their change. This is a southern species, and, as I have by me no book of reference as I write, I cannot tell its exact habitat, but I should say from Florida north- ward to Washington city, perhaps Baltimore, and westward to Kansas, would be its natural limits. I have recently learned that some larve of this moth were seen last year ; how much farther back its entrance into Pennsylvania can be traced I can- not say, neither can I speak, at this writing, of its life history | from the egg to the imago, but I should judge some six weeks © must intervene. There are evidently several broods of this insect, and the larvze were seen on the trees sometime after frost _ had set in. The scattering of these larve, as above described, was due to” the complete denudation of the trees, so they were obliged to seek food-plant elsewhere. Strange to say the trees, especially those near the creek, clothed themselves again with beautiful fresh foliage. The stripping off of leaves from the trees was noticed at points several miles distant from this locality, but the most complete defoliation was observed in this immediate vicinity. Through the kindness of my friend, Mr. Homer Hoopes, of Media, I am able to send you a photograph of one of these trees taken by him, showing how completely it has been 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 235 despoiled of its leaves, and its peculiar appearance, with noth- ing but its long slender pods depending from its branches. It is said that, in the South, Catalpa trees are planted in order that the larvee may be obtained for bait. I would call attention to to this fact so that those who may be piscatorially inclined can take advantage of it. = -—- RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. By H. F. Wickuawm, Iowa City, Iowa. VI.—THE COLORADO DESERT AND ITS ENVIRONS (Concluded). At Yuma, where I stopped for a few days two years later, a number of the same features were noticed that marked collecting at The Needles, but some species were taken that I had not met with at the latter place. In the willow trees along the river bottom I found considerable numbers of Chalcolepidius webbii and many specimens of a fine black and orange colored Long- horn, Dendobrias mandibularis. I think this Dendodrias must feed, as a larva, on willows, at least in those spots where the tree grows. The adults may often be seen pairing on the living trunks. Nevertheless, I have occasionally captured the beetles in the semi-desert regions of Arizona, far from water, and con- sequently distant from any willow trees. There is great variation in size, color and mandibular development, even in the same sex. Some males show scarcely any trace of the transverse post-median black band which isso characteristic of fully marked specimens. Some Staphylinide were obtained by throwing water on banks of pools or by rolling over pieces of wood in wet places. Among them I may enumerate Actobius pederoides, A. gratus, Stenus incultus, Cryptobium arizonense, Sunius similis, Trogophleus dentiger, T. gile and T. tantillus. Under bark I took Adelina lecontet, Ditoma ornata and D. sulcata. On mesquit trees or on posts of this same wood were secured specimens of Chrysobothris octocola, Acmaodera gibbula and Polycesta velasco. A magniti- cent Chrysobothris atrofasciata was seen at rest on a bush and created quite a flutter of excitement until safely landed in my bottle. The Buprestide are so active in very hot climates that they often escape after being located, and it is no easy matter to 236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, grasp them in a hurry if, as usual, the shrub on which the insect rests is a thorny one. Beating thickets in low-lying districts was not productive of many good things; however, I took one or two Stenosphenus debilis in this way. So few Tenebrionidz were secured (by the usual method of rolling logs and ties in dry spots) that I refrain from any remarks on them, more particularly since those taken were not characteristic. So much collecting has been done in this vicinity by many a good entomologist that the fauna is com- paratively well known and no lack of records exist. A much less known region lies to the westward of Yuma, where the Southern Pacific Railroad: crosses the desert proper and traverses for a long distance the dried-up bed of a salt lake or ancient sea. In some places this now lies not less than three hun- dred and sixty feet below the level of the waters of the Pacific. Near the northern rim of this great basin lies the station of Indio, fifty feet below sea level and surrounded by a sandy plain which rises into mountains at a distance of but a few miles. The sand forms curious little hillocks, apparently through being blown up against the stems of the bushes by the wind. As these bushes grow higher they are again partially whelmed by the sand and a repetition of this process finally results in the formation of a considerable dune. Since but a single day was spent here, only a cursory glance could be given the fauna. I saw specimens of Gyascutus plant- costa flying in the sun about the bushes, and got a large weevil, near Cleonus, about the roots of weeds near the railroad tracks. This weevil was new then, but has since been described. by Captain Casey as Dinocleus wickhamii. My spoils from this vicinity also include Apristus laticollis, Nocibiotes gracilis and an Eupagoderes which seems to be varius. Among the Tene- brionide I got some ELurymetopon rufipes and Tribolium ferru- gineum chiefly from the floor of a pump-house, built over a well. The owner slept in the shelter and complained that the Zury- metopon bit him at night. His suspicions may, however, have been unjust. leodes armata was taken sparingly ; one or two Cerenopus concolor and Cryptoglossa verrucosa were captured under logs in the palm grove lying some six miles away at the foot of the hills. A single Hymenorus grandicollis is also num- bered among my victims. a i ——_—_--- 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 237 The Mojave Desert is practically ‘‘all of a piece’’ with the Colorado. A day at the station of Mojave—which seems to have no excuse for existence other than the fact of being a junc- tion point for the Southern and the Atlantic and Pacific Railroads —resulted in an experience which, while interesting, was hardly pleasant. Itis necessary, in making trips across these dry sands, to carry water for drinking, and every one is supposed to know this. But having packed up my canteen and sent it with other baggage to San Francisco, I foolishly started out without any liquid provision to visit a large clump of yuccas some seven miles away. All went well for a few hours, in fact until after eating a dry noon-day lunch, I felt no sérious inconvenience and in order to make the most of the collecting delayed starting back until the need of water became too pressing to be put off any longer. The trouble began with the recrossing of miles of sand burning undera Julysun. I reached the station late in the afternoon with a mouth like an oven and the power of speech almost gone. Quarts of water were needed to satisfy my thirst, and as I drank spots and blotches—some of them as large as a dollar and accompanied by an intense itching—appeared on my body, the result no doubt of an overheated blood. This was followed by weakness and discomfort lasting several days, and it is probable that only a system inured to ordinary exposure by weeks of hard work in similar regions saved me from serious consequences. It is to be hoped that this account may deter any collector, under whose eye it may fall, from falling into a similar error. The insects taken were not numerous. Several species were found on flowers or in bushes, among them Ayferaspis lateralis, fHyperaspidius trimaculatus, Coccinella franciscana, Phalacrus penicillatus, Hyppodamia ambigua, H. 5-signata, Listrus ferru- gineus, Pristoscelis eupthropus, Attalus lobulatus, Zabrotes oblite- vatus and Synertha imbricata. Under ties along the track or beneath fallen yuccas farther out on the plains I took 77zorophus levis, Eurymetopon convexicolle, Notibius puncticollis, Contontis robusta, Eleodes dentipes and £. qguadricollis. Amongst the yuccas were captured Rhagodera tuberculata, Colastus yucce, Trogosita virescens, Cyneus angustus, Esthesopus dispersus, Eupagoderes varius and one or two Scyphophorus yucce. There was no chance to do any work along water-courses for the simple reason that none such exist. The adventure referred to prevented more than one day being spent here. 238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | December, Eastward of Mojave, about sixty miles, lies Barstow. A year before my above-related experience I had stopped off at the latter place for a day’s work in the middle of August with some results in the way of entomological booty. A few pools of water were then to be found in the river-bed, giving one a chance ata somewhat more varied fauna.and the few cottonwoods lining the banks also yielded some things. I took about twenty-five species of beetles, which may be mentioned as follows : Cyemz- dotus simplex, Laccophilus decipiens, L. mexicanus, Deronectes striatellus, Rhantus binotatus and Berosus punctatissimus in ~ pools. TZecnophilus croceicollis, Triorophus levis, Edrotes ventricosus, a Coniontis near opaca, Eurymetopon convexicolle, E. cylindricum, Eleodes quadricollis, Ulus crassus, Blapstinus pubescens and Eucyllus vagans under logs and rubbish. Cicin- dela pacifica on a muddy flat. Epierus regularis, var. vicinus, Hololepta populnea, Hesperobenus abbreviatus and a Cossonus from beneath cottonwood bark. Around roots of weeds a few Dinocleus molitor. On flowers, one Hippodamia convergens, one Pyropyga fenestralis and a lot of Nemognatha near apicalts. Oo A NEW CHALCOLEPIDIUS. By H. C. FALL. Among a lot of Chalcolepidius webbii taken by me in July, 1895, at Yuma, were two examples—% 9 —which appeared different from the rest of the catch, and were set apart for further developments. On examining a large lot of Chadlcolepidius received the past summer from Phoenix, Ariz., by Dr. H. G. Griffith, many of the specimens were at once recognized as being like my Yuma pair, and renewed examination shows it not only to be quite distinct from wedézz7, but also from any of the de- scribed Mexican forms. As specimens are soon likely to be quite generally distributed, it deserves to be formally introduced, and this may best be done by comparing it with wedd7z, to which it bears a general resemblance. C. tartarus n. sp.—Generally smaller, more parallel and less convex than webdii, the border of white scales much narrower throughout. On the thorax this border does not encroach on the disk as is the case in well preserved webdii, but is sharply limited within, and less than half as wide as the central darker area. On the elytra the white border is strictly marginal at base, but becomes submarginal behind the middle. The elytra are more strongly striate than in weddz7, the strize punctured _ 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 239 toward the base. Sides of prothorax and abdomen beneath widely clothed with white squamiform hairs like those of the upper surface. Third antennal joint a little wider than in wedd77,; scutellum transverse. Length 21—31 mm. My series of weddii varies from 26 to 38 mm. The habits of the two species are apparently identical, both frequenting the willows which line the banks of the Colorado River and its tributaries, and among which they may be seen flying in the hot sunshine of midsummer. Some of the pleas- ures incident to their capture have already been alluded to by Mr. Wickham—EntT. News, October, 1898—and are fully appreciated by the writer. The external sexual characters of Chalcolepidius are rather constant throughout the genus. LeConte does not mention them, but Candéze says that the $’s have the front tibiz and the last joint of the front and middle tarsi ciliate within. In addi- tion, it may be stated that the antennz are often obviously longer in the males, in which sex the last ventral segment is always rounded at tip, while in the female it is as constantly widely truncate and furnished with a dense brush of claviform hairs. This structure is remarkably like that in the @’s of certain Cer- ambycid genera—Tragidion, Oxoplus and perhaps others—and though I have not seen it mentioned, is so obvious that it can hardly have escaped notice. In one group, including our smaragdinus and viridipilis the antenne are pectinate in the males. In all the %’s of tartarus which I have examined the ciliation of the tibiz and tarsi above mentioned is so feeble as to readily escape observation, and the species appears to be peculiar in this respect. Our six species are easily separable by the following table : Antannz of males not pectinate. Elytra brownish red. (Lower California). . . . rubripennis Lec. Integuments black throughout. Thorax and elytra with white border. Body without or with very few white squamules beneath; elytra very freely striate. (Arizona, Southeastern California). webbii Lec. Body beneath densely clothed with white squamules at sides, elytra more deeply striate. (Arizona, Yuma, Phoenix). tartarus n. sp. Vestiture entirely olive green; thorax quite deeply sinute imme- diately before the hind angles, which are therefore unusually prominent. (Arizona, Tucson). . . . . . . behrensii Cand. Antennz of males pectinate. Vestiture of body bright green, of legs deep blue. (Arizona). smaragdinus Lec. Vestiture of body and members cheba olive green. (Atlantic SS) ee . . . Viridipilis Lec. 240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, NOTES ON THE GENUS MAMESTRA OCHS., WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. By Joun B. Situ, Sc.D. Since the publication of my Revision in 1891, Proc. U. S. N. M., xiv, pp. 197-276, few new species have been described in this genus. A number of forms not properly referable to any described species have gradually accumulated, and on a careful review of the material I find it necessary to separate some that heretofore I had been inclined to hold together. Several species not known to me in 1891 have been since identified, and the genitalia of the males of some species have been studied for the first time. _ This accumulation of material and its renewed study indicates that my arrangement of the species must be in some respects modified. The character of the antennal structure is not so important as I believed at first and would, if strictly adhered to now, separate species closely allied. As it appears now, the change from shortly pectinated to simply ciliated is so gradual that no dividing line is possible, and the rearranged groups will in some cases contain forms with simple and with pectinated antennz. On the other hand, all the genitalic groupings have approved themselves, and I am inclined to attribute increased importance to this character in arranging the species of a large | genus. There are yet in my collection and in some others, a few speci- mens, females or rubbed, which may be new. But these must await the arrival of more satisfactory material. Mamestra nugatis, n. sp. Ground color bluish ash gray over a somewhat obscure yellowish base, more or less powdery. Front with two blackish transverse bands. Collar with two obscure gray bands. Patagiz with a dusky submargin. Pri- maries with the median lines faintly marked on the costa only. S. t. line narrow, whitish, irregular, very close to outer margin, with outward teeth on veins 3 and 4, which reach the outer margin. The line is inwardly shaded with deep blackish brown or black, most emphasized in in the sub-median interspace opposite the anal angle. A more or less broken black terminal line, beyond which is a whitish line at the base of the fringes. Edge of wing a little scalloped and a little drawn in before the anal angle. There isa short black basal dash, connected by brown or black scales with a moderate claviform which is pale ringed, the outer edge of 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 241 the ring emphasized by black and deep brown scales. A blackish streak extends along the median vein forming part of the inferior margin of the ordinary spots. The orbicular is elongate, oblique, and tends to or actually does fuse with the large kidney-shaped reniform. Both spots are incompletely outlined, a little paler, tending to a pale defining line which is outwardly emphasized with black or brown scales. The blackish shade along the median vein extends a little beyond the lower angle of the reniform. Secondaries white, hardly soiled outwardly, veins a little smoky. A blackish terminal line is distinct from apex to vein 2 and is there lost before the anal angle. Beneath whitish, powdery, with a dusky terminal line. Expanse 1.75 inches = 44 mm. Hlab.—Montana ; Nevada. Two male specimens in somewhat rubbed condition were given me by Mrs. F. O. Herring, of Plainfield, N. J., some time ago. I have had them associated with purpurissata and junct- macula until the present time though convinced of their dis- tinctness. I find now that we really have three closely allied, yet suf- ficiently distinct species of the purpurissata group. The type form is found in New England and the northeast generally and extends through Canada into British Columbia. It is of quite a deep bluish ash gray or purplish and the secondaries are smoky in both sexes. All the usual markings are fairly distinct. M. juncimacula is from the mountains of Colorado, Dr. Barnes having sent me several specimens taken at Glenwood Springs in August and September. I have listed this as a variety of purpurrissaia in which the ordinary spots are confluent ; but I find now that this character is not uniform and that at least as many specimens have the spots normally separated. On the other hand, a series of other differences prove its specific distinct- ness. The secondaries are much paler in both sexes, almost whitish at base ; the primaries are much brighter in color with reddish shadings and a decided tendency to lose the median lines, while the wings themselves are distinctly narrower and less trigonate. Finally, in xzgatis, we have a distinctly smaller species, yet paler in color of primaries and with the secondaries white in the male at least. The forewings are as narrow as in juncimacula, with the outer margin yet more oblique and the apices yet more pointed. The median lines have disappeared and the wing has 242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, a strigate appearance which is aided by the black margined claviform ; a feature not evident to the same extent in either of the other species. The antenne in all of the species are shortly pectinated and no obvious differences appear from such examination as was made ; but the structure of the male genitalia, which will be figured in another paper, bears out the conclusions reached from the super- ficial characters. Mamestra mystica n. sp. . Ground color dark powdery ash gray with a bluish tint. Head with alternating dusky and paler transverse lines. Collar with a central black line, above which the tint is much darker than below it. . The discal tho- racic cresting is dusky at tip and so are the tips of the abdominal tufts. Patagiz black marked at the base of the primaries. Primaries quite uniformly powdered, save that as a whole the costal region is somewhat darker than the rest of the wing ; this feature being most obvious in the male now before me. All the markings present, but not well defined. Basal line geminate, smoky, fairly well marked on costa, but obscure below. T. a. line geminate, smoky, the inner portion scarcely defined below the median vein, its course straight to that point, thence outcurved to the submedian and again below it. T. p. line lunulate, geminate, smoky, the included space paler gray, only a little sinuate and as a whole parallel with the outer margin. A vague median shade line, most obvious between the ordinary spots and very slender below them. S. t. line pale, irregular, broken, defined by irregular black preceding blotches or spots which are the largest on the costa opposite the cell and in the sub-median interspace. A series of interspaceal, black, terminal lunules, beyond which is a pale line at the base of the fringes. The claviform is small, concolorous, defined by black scales. Orbicular large, ovate, of the ground color, somewhat incompletely black-ringed. Reni- form large, kidney shaped, with a smoky outline, inwardly marked by paler scales and a more or less obvious dusky central lunule. Secondaries smoky, a little paler at the base, with a dusky, followed by a paler extra median line, a dusky discal lunule and a blackish line at the base of the fringes. Beneath, primaries dusky, terminal space pale powdered, with or without a dusky and paler extra-median line ; secondaries white, powdery, with a median line and dusky discal spot. Expands 1.80--I.90 inches = 45-47 mm. Hab.—Winnipeg, Manitoba. One male and one female from Mr. A. W. Hanham, who has other similar examples. The specimens were in excellent condi- tion when shipped, but suffered in transit. I was at first inclined to consider this a dark nzméosa, but found afterward that this could hardly hold. It is somewhat intermediate between that re beac — 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 243 species and imérifera, but distinct from each by the dark ashen gray of the primaries as against the pale shade in xzmdosa and the luteous shading in zmdrifera. The markings are more nearly like zzmbosa, but better defined. In the structure of the male genitalia the species is nearer to imérifera, but differs by the absence of the spoon-shaped clasper as well as in other minor details. Mamestra plicata n. sp. Ground color a dull, very powdery reddish gray or brown, almost fawn color, more or less suffused by black or smoky. Head immaculate, collar with two brown transverse lines and tipped with gray scales. Patagie brown at the base of the wings and with a vague, darker sub- margin. Primaries with the maculation more or less obscured by the dark suffusion through the lower half of the wing, the costal region appearing paler by the contrast. There is a short black dash at base, above which the space is paler and from which a pale line is indicated to the inner margin. ‘The basal half line is not obvious in my specimens. T. a. line geminate, narrow, with a broad, almost even outcurve, the defining lines slender and brown, the included space paler and a little wider, thus relieving the line. T. p. line slender, geminate, very evenly bisinuate and as a whole nearly parallel with the outer margin. The defining lines are narrow, even, smoky ; the included space paler than the ground color. S. t. line yellowish, distinct, forming the most obvious ornamental feature and margined with a few black scales. It arises from a paler apical patch and is only a little uneven in its course to the hind margin. A series of small black terminal dots on a waved terminal dark line. Fringes a little scalloped, with a pale line at base and cut with pale beyond the veins. The claviform is long, outlined with brown scales and extends nearly across the median space. Orbicular large, gravy, irregu- larly oval, oblique, without obvious defining line ; but with a few black scales which emphasize the contrast of the gray spot. Reniform large, upright, a little constricted in the centre, a little paler than ground color, the lower portion filled with a dusky shade. It is outlined by black scales, within which is a pale annulus. Secondaries deep, even fuscous or smoky, the veins, a discal lunule and a terminal line yet darker brown. Beneath reddish gray, with coarse powderings and a large blackish discal spot on all wings. Expanse 1.40-1.60 inches = 35-40 mm. ffab.—Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in May; Dr. Wm. Barnes. One male, the smaller, and one female specimen are under examination. The description was mostly from the male, because in the female the blackish suffusion through the lower part of the wing obscured almost everything except the s. t. line. 244 _ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, This line and the large discolored orbicular are the most promi- nent characters of the insect. . The antanne of the male have the joints with short pointed teeth, which are furnished with tufts of stiff hair. The genitalia have the harpes simple, with oblique tip, inwardly fringed with a row of spinules. The clasper is double, arising from the middle - of the harpes and consists of a short twisted, somewhat spatulate process, below which arises a longer, evenly curved, pointedclaw. In this character the new species agrees with gussafa and segregata, which in turn are much more closely allied than I had suspected. It seems also that, either there is yet another species or the one now described has a considerable range of variation. A female specimen taken by Mr. Bruce in Garfield County, Colorado, at an elevation of 6000 feet expands 43 mm., and is therefore larger than any of the others. It is of a uniform fawn gray with red-brown shadings in the median space, and all the markings are well and uniformly written. There is none of the dark suffusion seen in the other specimens, but every detail of maculation agrees so far as they can be compared. It will require a male of this particular form to decide the question. Mamestra neoterica n. sp. Ground color dull, red-brown. Head and thorax without obvious markings, except that the patagize may have a deeper brown sabmarginal line. Primaries with a brighter, rusty brown shading which may be visible all over the wing, over the basal and s. t. spaces only, or may be entirely wanting. All the markings present but somewhat obscured. Basal line short, black, geminate, carrying a few black scales to base from its termination in the submedian interspace. T. a. line geminate, obscure, the outer line blackish, the inner hardly deeper than the ground color ; well removed from base, its course as a whole with a very even outcurve. T. p. line rather evenly bisinuate, geminate, the inner portion a little darker, feebly lunulate, the line as a whole rather defined by the pale included space. S. t. line pale, very feebly marked, sometimes with yellowish scales, sometimes scarcely traceable ; in course a little irregu- lar. A smoky line is at the base of the concolorous fringes. A median shade line is vaguely marked on the costa only. Claviform more or less black marked, usually well defined and extending nearly across the median space. Orbicular ovate, somewhat irregular, outlined by black scales within which is a series of white scales which hardly form an annulus. Reniform moderate in size, concolorous or a little paler than the ground color, more or less completely black ringed and also with a ring of whitish scales, which may, however, be entirely absent. Secon- daries even dull fuscous. Beneath, primaries dull, smoky fuscous ; secondaries paler, powdery, with a broken outer line. Expanse 112-128 inches = 28-32 mm. [ar 2 “ ees / 1808. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 245 Hab.—Winnipeg, Manitoba. One male and two females from Mr. Hanham, all somewhat different in ground color. The male isa little the brightest, with a tendency to fawn. One of the females has evident mossy yellow scales along the s. t. and t. p. lines and in the basal space, while the other has a distinct reddish shading throughout, over which black scales are arranged so as to tarnish and give the wing a sordid appearance. The species closely resembles a small detracfa throughout, and as such I was at first inclined to consider it ; but the uniform small size and vague dissimilarity led me to examine the sexual parts of the male which, while similar in type, proved very dif- ferent in detail. In this species the clasper is much longer, even, hook-like, with a pointed tip; the harpes have the tip very much shorter and more abruptly bent, while the lower membraneous process is closely set inside with sharp-pointed conical processes. It is more than likely that other specimens from this same general locality are confused with detracta in collections, and I may be responsible for some of these mistakes. Mamestra intentata n. sp. Ground color varying from pale ashen to very dark fuscous gray, black powdered. Head without obvious markings. Collar with a somewhat vague median darker line and a darker tip. Patagize with broken sub- marginal black lines. The disc is strongly powdered. Primaries with all the maculation broken and powdery, the median space with a yellow- ish suffusion which is most obvious in the submedian interspace. Basal line black, geminate, the included space whitish or with a yellow shading, well marked to the submedian vein. T. a. line geminate, the defining lines broken, black, included space whitish or yellowish, as a whole a little outwardly oblique, with moderate outcurves in the interspaces. T. p. line geminate, blackish or smoky, the inner part slightly lunulated, the outer even and followed by white dots on the veins ; included space with yellowish or reddish tint. As a whole the line is strongly bent on the costa over the reniform, then inwardly oblique, with a slight incurve, but practically parallel with the outer margin. S. t. line pale, somewhat contrasting, broken, irregular, and shaded on both sides with black or smoky. A series of black terminal dots. The fringes are paler, with a dusky interline and cut with smoky on the interspaces. There is a black median shade, fairly well marked on the costa and darkening the inner edge of the reniform ; then it becomes obscured to the submedian inter- space, where it reappears and remains distinct to the inner margin. The claviform is large, broad, dusky, extending about half way across the median space, which is luteous or red marked beyond it. Orbicular 246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, round, small, annulate with whitish and with a dusky central dot. Reni- form moderate in size, upright, a little constricted centrally, defined by black scales, within which is a whitish annulus which is incomplete above and below. Secondaries in the male white, with a dusky line at base of fringes and the veins a little soiled; in the female dull smoky gray, darker, almost blackish outwardly—the fringes white. Beneath, male, primaries with disk smoky, terminal space whitish ; secondaries white with costal margin powdery ; female, primaries blackish with a geminate exterior line in which the included space is gray ; secondaries whitish, powdery, with an extra median smoky line and a smoky line at the base of the fringes. Expanse 1.16-1.32 inches — 29-33 mm. Hab.—Estes Park, Colorado, about 8000 feet, No. 2693, Coll. Agl. College. a One male and two females are at hand: the male largest, pale ash gray, with white secondaries; the females smaller, deep smoky gray, with dull, smoky brown secondaries. The con- trasts are unusually strong for this genus and the large size of the male compared with the female is also a little unexpected. The species belongs to the group /audadézlis ; but the primaries are somewhat broader anda little more pointed than in the other species. The male antanne are simple, and the genitalia are almost exactly like those of zzcurva. In fact the differences are so small that I would consider them within the range of individ- ual variation if I could in any wise bring the species into accord superficially. The new species is, however, much larger, differs in wing form, has the secondaries of the female smoky instead of white and the primaries powdery instead of with smooth and even clothing. It adds another to those small forms which in a general way resemble olivacea. Mamestra mutilata n. sp. Ground color a pretty bluish gray, the primaries with yellow shades and powderings. Head inferiorly, palpi and breast, dark umber brown. Collar black tipped and with a smoky band above the middle. Thorax a little powdery. Patagiz with a short black line at the base of the pri- maries. Primaries with all the markings well defined, but not contrasting. . Basal line black, geminate, reaching into the submedian interspace, to an ochre yellow shading. The costa is smoky to the t. a. line, else the basal space is clear, bluish gray. T. a. line geminate, the inner portion dusky and barely traceable, the outer black on the costa, forming a little out- ward angle on the sub-costal: below it is more smoky, a little incurved in the cel], then a little outcurved to the submedian and again below it. T. p. line geminate, strongly outcurved beyond the cell, then inwardly fs gt ‘ = — i Bs. ‘as ‘ —e 1898. ] ENMOOTLOGICAL NEWS. 247 oblique and with a little incurve to the inner margin within the outer third. The inner line is crenulated, fine, with outward teeth on the veins which reach the faint, smoky, even outer line. A partial series of white yvenular points follow this line. S. t. line yellow, powdery, incomplete, preceded by a distinct black shade on the costa and further marked by blackish powderings on either or both sides, elsewhere in its course. A few black scales indicate a series of terminal lunules. The fringe is smoky, narrowly cut beyond the veins with very pale yellowish. A smoky median shade is marked on the costa, obliquely to the base of the reniform :; then it becomes lost in the ground color to re-appear on the internal margin. The entire median space is smoky, with yellow powder- ings beyond the reniform and claviform. Claviform concolorous, broad, outlined in black, extending half way across the median space. Orbicular large, round, of the gray ground color, outlined by black scales. Reni- form large, gray, kidney-shaped, outlined in black; the line becoming very slender superiorly. Secondaries smoky, with the outer line and discal spot of the under side showing through. Fringes smoky at base, white at tips, the basal dark portion cut with white on the veins. Beneath, primaries smoky, with a vague outer line beyond which the wing is more powdery. Secondaries powdery, fusceous gray with a round dark discal spot and a smoky outer line. Expanse 1.40 inches = 35 mm. _Hab.— British Columbia. A single male has been in my collection for some years await- ing a mate, and I have no meinorandum of the original source of the specimen. The antennz have the joints a little marked and furnished with short soft hair, hardly to be called tufts. In its general appearance the species recalls cuneata, but is larger, much brighter in color and quite different in ornamenta- tion. The yellow, powdery, s. t. line through the blue gray ground should identify the species. The sexual species are somewhat imperfect, but indicate a type which does not agree well with any series. It certainly does not resemble cuneata in the least. The harpes are expanded at tip, the margin inwardly fringed with spines and the clasper consists of a long claw from a broad, somewhat flattened base. Mamestra cervina n. sp. Ground color a fine mouse or fawn gray with a variable reddish suffu- sion. Head without markings. Coliar black or brown tipped above a series of gray scales. Patagiz gray, edged with a dusky or blackish submargin. Primaries with all the usual markings present: as a whole the costal region is a little darker and the median space is distinctly more reddish brown. Basal lines geminate, obscure, extending to a very narrow, short, black basal streak in the submedian interspace. T. a. 248 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, line geminate, the inner part vague, the interval gray, the outer blackish and with an even, moderate outcurve. T. p. line geminate, brown, not strongly marked, outcurved over the reniform, then almost parallel with the outer margin. The inner line is narrowly lunulate, the outer puncti- form, the intervening space gray. Median shade vague, diffuse, out- wardly bent between the ordinary spots where it is darkest, then inwardly oblique to the inner margin. S. t. line pale, even or only a little irregular, marked by a preceding brown shade on the costa and a following blackish shade during the rest of its course. This dusky tint shades into the ground color before it reaches the margin. The s. t. line is slightly more emphasized opposite the anal angle, forming a vague paler lunule. There is a broken blackish terminal line and the fringes are also inter- lined with smoky. Claviform very small, outlined with black scales, and beyond it the median space may be a little more reddish in tint. Orbicu- lar moderate or large, oblique, ovate or sub-quadrate, outlined with darker or blackish scales within which is a paler annulus. Reniform large, kidney-shaped, paler than the ground color, outlined by dusky scales within which is a more obvious pale annulus. Secondaries fuscous, a little paler basally and with a vague trace of a median line, The fringes are paler, with a dark interline. Beneath gray, more or less powdery, with a variably evident discal line and spot on all wings. Expanse I-!.20 inches = 25-30 mm. Hab.— Winnipeg, Manitoba. Two males and one female from Mr. A. W. Hanham, num- bered 297, 298, 299. This is a close ally to M. dustralis, of which it seemed at first, a small form. It is, however, a narrower winged species, coming nearer to meditata in this respect and with less well pectinated antenne. The markings, while much the same in all essential points, are less distinct. The sexual pieces of the male are much better developed than in the older species, a small accessory clasper coming out from below the large, obtuse, heavy main structure. I think it more than probable that this species may be labelled lustralis in some collections, for I believe I have seen something very like this labelled ‘‘ North Dakota’? in a collection recently. Mamestra naevia n. sp. Ground color dirty ash gray, with a smoky suffusion. Head blackish. Collar quite discolorous, yellowish gray, below a darker central line. Patagie with a blackish sub-margin, the disc and edges gray-tipped. Primaries with the maculation obscured. Basal line geminate, traceable chiefly by the gray included shade, and reaching to a narrow, short, black basal streak. TT. a. line geminate, evenly outcurved, blackish, the included space gray, very imperfectly defined. T. p. line geminate, smoky, the included space gray; the inner line lunulate, the outer even ; 1808. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 249 ‘sharply bent over the reniform, then rather evenly oblique to the sub- median vein where there is another sharp outward tooth. Median shade feebly marked on the costa only and lost in the dusky shading between the ordinary spots. S. t. line narrow, pale, irregular, defined by a dark shading on both sides, which merges into the ground color in each direction: this shading is most obvious opposite the anal angle. A broken dark terminal line. The fringes have also a dark interline and are cut with dusky and pale. Claviform extending half way across the median space, black margined. Orbicular large, gray, oblique, oval, outlined by black scales and touching the t. a. line. Reniform large, upright, indefined, powdery, touching the t. p. line above and below. ’ Secondaries smoky fuscous, with an indistinct discal lunule and a dusky line at the base of the fringes which are paler and have an almost white line at their base. Beneath gray, powdery, both wings with a discal spot and a somewhat crenulate outer dusky line. Expanse 1.20 inches — 30 mm. Hab.—Colorado, Bruce. A single male specimen in good condition has been in my - collection for some time. It is also an ally of dustradis ;. smaller, of the same general wing form, but with no trace of reddish or brown. There are a number of other minor differences in ornamentation, and the sexual pieces of the male are quite differ- ent: the clasper in this case being formed of a broad thick spatulate process. Mamestra ectrapela n. sp. Ground color a sordid fuscous gray, with more or less obvious whitish powderings. Head with a white line between the eyes; collar with a white central band and white tips ; patagiz with the disk gray and witha smoky or blackish submarginal line. Primaries with all the markings. obvious, tending to become somewhat obscured. Basal line geminate, black, reaching to the sub-median vein on which a black patch fills the line: included space more or less white powdered. T. a. line geminate, the inner line scarcely defined, the outer broken, black or blackish, included space with paler powderings. In course it is upright and only broken by a slight inward angle on the submedian vein. T. p. line geminate, the ovter portion narrow, smoky, not well defined ; the inner darker, marked with black scales below the cell and sometimes black marked throughout : the included space pale or whitish. As a whole the- line has a strong outcurve over the cell, and is a little incurved below. S. t. line narrow, white, sometimes a little broken, irregularly marked by broken, smoky preceding shades, which fill the s. t. space on the costa. It is modified into more or less sagitate marks between veins 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. The entire terminal space, except the apex, is a little darker, more: powdery, cut by the paler veins. There isa series of blackish terminal lunules, and a yellow line at the base of the fringes, which are brown and. 10* 250 ENTOMOLCGICAL NEWS. [ December, | cut with yellow. A median shade line is obvious on the costa; but lost - between the ordinary spots. The eclaviform is large, black-ringed and extends almost across the median space. The defining line is somewhat diffuse inwardly, so that nearly the entire spot is black filled. The orbicular is large, broadly oval, oblique, white ringed and powdery, the center being smoky. A somewhat paler shade extends below the orbicular, filling the median space to the claviform and lightening that part of the wing. The reniform is moderate in size, upright, kidney- shaped, defined by black and white scales, which are best marked on the inner border. There 1s a somewhat dusky shading along the inner margin to the t. p. line and, taken as a whole, the s. t. space gives the impression of being the palest part of the wing. Secondaries smoky, a little paler at the base, with a vague discal lunule. Beneath smoky gray, paler toward the base. Secondaries with the discal lunule well marked. Expanse 1.05 to 1.15 inches = 26.5 to 29 mm. Hab.—Agnes Lake, B. C., 6800 feet, August 21st, Mr. Bean. Garfield county, Colorado, 6000 feet, Mr. Bruce. The Colorado specimen is a male the other a female, and the male is the larger of the two, as well as by all odds the most brightly marked. The species has the wing form of ectypa and the same general type of maculation ; but it is of a somewhat sordid, dull brown and has none of the bright contrasts that led’ Mr. Grote to call the Eastern form ded/a. Thes. t. line shows a slight tendency to angulate on veins 3 and 4 ; but does not seem to form a complete W mark. Mamestra sutrina Grt. This species was unknown to me in 1891, and not until 1897 did I get two male examples which I felt safe in identifying with this name. The first specimen was received from Dr. Barnes, taken in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, July 8-15, and this agrees well with Mr. Grote’s comparative characterization. The second specimen was received from Mr. Dod, taken at Calgary, Canada, June 3oth. In the male sexual characters the resemblance to cuneate is very slight and they come closer to guadraia of another series with which the insect has not the least superficial resemblance. The harpes are bent, the tip oblique and fringed with spinules, the clasper corneous, very stout and clumsy, somewhat scoop- shaped. Mamestra ingravis Smith. Several specimens have been seen since the original descrip- 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 251 tion was published, and I am not yet able to place the species to my satisfaction. The male genitalia do not closely resemble any other species, while yet not unlike several others in type. The harpes are very large, broad at base, abruptly narrowed toward the tip and somewhat bent, the tip itself small and with a fringe and pad of spinules inwardly. The clasper is double, and con- sists of longer, curved, pointed process beneath a shorter, stouter, beak-like structure. on Vv ‘ ADDITIONAL LIST OF INSECTS TAKEN IN ALPINE REGION OF MT. WASHINGTON. By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. In the Summer of 1898 I made two visits to Mt. Washington, one in July when I remained two weeks, and another in August of a few days only. I captured many insects, and print here- with a list of 175 not included in former lists. I have been greatly aided, as usual, in the preparation of this list by Messrs. Coquillet, Licbeck, Ashmead, Banks, MacGillivray, Fernald and others. I am glad to acknowledge gratefully their assistance. ARACHNIDEA. Neuronia dossuaria Say. Saat Goniotaulius pudicus Hag. Neophylax concinnus WcLach. Diplostyla nigrina Wt. Chimarrha aterrima Hag. Microneta sp. ? SBS HEMIPTERA. Trombidium sericeum Heteroptera. Lzelaps sp. ? . Miris affinis Rezz. : Poecilecapsus lineatus /aé. Pseudoscorpiones. ? goniphorus Say. Chelanops sanborni Hag. Dicyphus agilis Uhder. NEUROPTERA. Aradus lugubris Fa//. Homoptera. Deltocephalus melsheimeri Fitch. Typhlocyba tenerrima H.-S. Aleurodes sp. ? LEPIDOPTERA. Psocus n. sp. ? Polymitarcys albus Say. Somatochlora forcipata Scud. Libellula pulchella Drury. Leucorrhinia glacialis Hag. * hunsonica Sely. ce intacta Hag. proxima Calvert. Chrysopa harrisii Fitch. “ce Heterocera. Crocota ferruginosa Wa/dk. Pyrrharctia isabella S. azd A, 252 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Gluphisia trilineata Pack. Acronycta impressa Wadk. Rhynchagrotis rufipectus Moor. Catocala cerogama Gz. Teras americana Fern. Tortrix albicomana Clem. Penthina septentrionana Curt. Peedisca transmissana Wadk. Phoxopteris discigerana Walk ? Incurvaria sp ? Gelechia sp. ? Gelechia sp. ? Pyralid gen. ? sp. ? - DIPTERA. Sciophila n. sp. ? Mycetophila sigmoides Ziz. Dynatosoma n. sp. ? Sciara sp. ? Chironomus viridis Afacg. Limnobia n. sp. ? Cylindrotoma nodicornis O. 5S. KS n. sp. ? Tipula abdominalis Say. Pachyrrhina pedunculata Zw. Rhyphus alternatus Say. Tabanus trispilus Wed. Leptis hirta Zw. Scenopinus fenestralis Zz. * CEdalea n. sp. Empis luctuosa A7zrby. ‘** rufescens Zw. Rhamphomyia n. sp. ? Chrysotus sp. Saucropus n. sp. ? Chilosia pallipes Zw. Melanostoma millina Zinn. Mesograpta marginata Say. Sphegina lobatta Zw. Crorhina armillata O. S. Clausicella tarsalis Cogz. Exorista helvina Cogu. Siphona geniculata DeG. Phoricheta sequax Wid. Thalaira leucozoma Panz. Lucilia sp. ? [December, -Pegomyia sp.? Hyetodesia sp. ? Ccenosia verna Fad. Blepharoptera biseta Zw. ee faaterna Lw. Sciomyra nana Fad//. Tetanocera pictipes Zw. Drosophila transversa Fad/. Elachiptera nigricornis Zw. Gaurax montanus Cog. Chlorops proxima Say. Rhicneessa n. sp. ? COLEOPTERA. Carabide. Cymindis cribricollis De. Amara sp. Dytiscide. Hydroporus americana Aude. Hydrophilide. Cymbiodyta blanchardi Horn. Staphyliuide. Falagria dissecta. Er. Homalota lividipennis Wann. “e sp. Aleochara bimaculata Grav. Myrmedonia sp. Quedius fulgidus /aéd. Xantholinus cephalus Say. Tachinus memnonius Graz. 2 nitiduloides Horn. Tachyporus scitulus Zr. ? Bryoporus rufescens Lec. Oxytelus sculptus Grav. Trogophlceus subpunctatus Fauv. [MSS. Arpedium gyllenhalli Ze7é. Homalium sp. Megarthrus americanus Sachse. Scaphidiide. Scaphisoma convexum Say. Phalacride. Phalacrus seriatus Zec. * Genus new to America. 1898. ] Coccinellide. Hippodamia 13-punctata Zinz. Hyperaspis undulata Say. Scymnus americanus J/u/s. Cryptophagidz. Atomaria ochracea Zimm. “a sp. Nitidulide. ' Ips confluentus Say. Nitidula bipustulata Zinn. Elateridz. Athous fossularis Lec. Corymbites fulvipes Bland. Cerambycidz. Microclytus gazellula Hadd. Chrysomelidz. Nodonota puncticollis Say. Plagiodera sp. Anthicide. Corphyra fulvipes Newm. Curculionide. Hylobius confusus A7rby. Calandride. Carphonotus testaceus Casey. Scolytide. Pityophthorus materiarius Fitch. HYMENOPTERA. Tenthredinidz. Cephaleia atrasomma Mac G. n. sp. ae slossonia Mac G. n. sp. Bactroceros perplexus Cy. Pamphilius montana Mac G. n. sp. Strongylogaster tacitus Say. sy pallicoxus Prov. Peecilostoma albalineata Mac G. n. sp. Peecilostoma maculata Nort. Emphytus inornatus Say. % mellipes Nort. Tenthredo rufopectus Nort. iv semirubra Nort. trinatus Mac G, n. sp. Kalioephince dohrnii 7isché. “ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 253 Pristiphora hyalina M/ac G. n. sp. Pteronus mendicus Nor?. :. tricolor Afari. Euura orbitalis Nort. Cynipide. Ceroptres tuber Fitch. Evaniide. Aulacus abdominalis Cy. Ichneumonide. Ichueumon extrematatis C™. = lividus Prov. de paratus Say. seminiger Cy. + rufozonatus Prov. Phygadeuon pumilus Megaplectes blakei Cr. Exolytus concamerus Davis. Exochilum acronyctze Ashm. oy tenuipes NVorz. Anomalon exile Prov. Mesochorus agilis CG. Banchus superbus Cr. Exochus sp. ? Promethus elongatus Prov. Ephialtes occidentalis CG. Theronia flavescens Cr. Stephanide. Stephanid gen. ? sp. ? Braconide. Bracon xanthostigmus Cy. Doryctes cingulatus Prov. Ascogaster nigripes Ashm. MS. Macroplitis hyphantize Ashm. Aphidius washingtonensis Ashm. Nn. sp. Chalcidide. Smicra albifrons Wa/sh. Megastigmus canadensis Ashm. Sympiesis nigrifemora Ashm. Chrysocharis albipes Ashm. Proctotrypide. Pantoclis similis Ashe. Proctotrypes flavipes Prov. Aclysta subaptera Ashm. MS. n. sp. 254 [ December, ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL News solicit, and will thankfully receive items of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author’s name will be given in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors.—All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- ence, as to makeit necessary to put ‘‘copy”’ into the hands of the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. 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Preliminary Notes upon an Important Peach Tree Pest.—In September, - 1896, while inspecting the nurseries of Maryland, I found many peach trees dwarfed and stunted, and at first glance attributed it to the black peach aphis—Aphis prunicola Kalt. Later inspections proved conclu- sively that the trouble was not caused by that insect, but by some other creature. A lot of trees were examined in my laboratory and I discovered a minute mite (Phytophidz) working behind and in the buds. In nearly every instance the terminal bud had been destroyed, thus forcing the laterals. These in turn would grow for a short time and were then killed. As a consequence, the trees were crooked, stunted and not salable, being less than three feet in height. They were, what I have termed, ‘‘ dog- legged” trees, on account of their very crooked condition. Over 125,000 peach trees were rendered worthless by the pest in this State in 1896 and’g7. Not knowing of any reference to similar injury, I assumed the creature was new, especially in this country. Mentioning the matter to Prof. M. B. Waite, of the Division of Vegetable Pathology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in his office, the Fall of 1897, I found that he had discovered the same pest several years ago, and had the original trees in his office upon which he made his observations ; but, at that time, had published nothing upon the subject. The credit of the dis- covery of this pest therefore belongs to Prof. Waite, and to him the spe- cies will be dedicated should it prove new. I have continued my observations this season, as Prof. Waite told me he did not intend studying its habits and life history. From recent observations I am now thoroughly convinced that the mite is carried back to the nursery in buds. I have seen the same species, or one very closely allied, at work upon plum trees in the nursery row this season. It is also quite common in many old peach orchards and is doing much damage to buds upon bearing trees. I am at work upon remedies for its suppression and control, as it is of great economic im- portance, having seriously injured more than a hundred thousand peach trees this season. I have in preparation a more extended article on the pest.—W. G. JOHNSON, State Entomologist. Md. Agr. Col., Oct. 7, 7898. C. F. BAKER will leave Auburn, Ala., on Nov. 1, 1898. He goes on a two years’ leave of absence as field botanist to the Herbert H. Smith Exploring Expedition, which will be engaged in biological work in North- western South America. All letters and packages for him should be ad- dressed to St. Croix Falls, Polk Co., Wisconsin. 256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. “Sta. I,’’ Cincinnatti, O., Oct. 3, ’98. Eps. NEws :— ; I notice in Oct. ’98 number some hints to subscribers which are doubiless timely, viz., that the News cannot be “‘run on wind.” This reminded me that it seemed quite a long while since I remitted. Please see if I am in your debt for the last year, or when my subscription will be again overdue. Always notify me when I owe anything. Jdon’t want the NEws to die a premature death ! CHARLES Dury. Mr. R. E. SNopGRASs, assistant in entomology in Leland Stanford Jr. University, sailed from San Francisco on November tst for the Galo- pagos Islands. Mr. Snodgrass will spend six months on the islands col- leciing insects and other animals for the entomological and zoological departments of the University. Mr. Snodgrass is accompanied by Mr. Edmund Heller, student in the department of zoology of the University. THE latest pictures received for the album of the American Entomo- logical Society are from Philip Nell, Phila.; Dr. A. Fenyes, Pasadena, Cala.; Max Albright, Soldier’s Home, Cala.; Andrew Bolter, Chicago ; W. L. W. Field, Mass. ; Chas. F. Goodhue Webster, N. H.; Charles C. Adams, Mass.; Chas. A. Blake, Phila.; C. Few Seiss, Phila.; J. A. Lintner, N. York ; Wm. J. Gerhard, Phila. ; F. M. Webster, Ohio ; Otis E. Barrett, Vermont. We are always pleased to receive photographs of entomologists. Our collection is a remarkable one, and we desire to make it as complete as possible. DuRING a visit to Hinsdale, Mass., on Aug. 21st, 22nd and 23rd, I was surprised to find Pieris oleracea quite abundant. They were in some numbers in a turnip field, together with the common P. rape and I should judge were in the proportion of one to four or five of the latter. Unfortunately most of the specimens were damaged and only a very few good ones were secured. During my collecting here, in the Connecticut Valley, I have never been able to secure this species, though diligently looked for year after year. According to Dr. Geo. Dimmock it was quite common here before the advent of P. rape. Scudder in his “‘ Butterflies of New England,” speaks of the disappearance of P. oleracea from many localities where it was found before the introduction of P. rape, and says it is now “confined to the less cultivated and especially the hilly districts of New England.” ‘‘I should be surprised to meet it elsewhere ; and even in the recesses of the White Mountains I have never in recent years seen it at all abundant, or so common as P. rape.’’ Another species seems also to have entirely disappeared from this region since the intro- duction of P. rape: P. protodice was regularly found here, according to Dr. Dimmock and sometimes abundant about Springfield, Mass.—FRED- ERICK KNAB, Chicopee, Mass. 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 257 Entomological Literature. - Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted. Contribu- tions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are pub- lished ; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. Titles of all articles in foreign languages are translated into English; usually such articles are written in the same language as the title of the journal containing them, but when such articles are in other languages than Engiish, French, German or Italian, this fact is indicated in parenthesis. 2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, xxv, 2, Phila- delphia, Oct. ’98.—4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., Nov. *98.—&. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., Nov., ’98.—9. The Entomologist, London, Nov., ’98.—12. Comptes Rendus. L’Academie des Sciences, Paris, Oct. 24 ’98.—13. Comptes Rendus. Societe de Biologie, Paris, Oct. 22, ’97.—15. Biologia Centrali-Americana, London, parts cxlii, June, cxlii, Aug., ’98.—21. The Entomologist’s Record, London, Oct. 15, ’98.—-22.—Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, 98 —34. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, v, Des Moines, ‘98.—35. Annales, Société Entomologique de Belgique, xlii, Brussels. —36. Transactions, Entomological Society of London, ’98, 3, Sept. 30.—50O. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, Washington, ’98.—51. Novitates Zoolo- gicae, v, 3, Tring, Aug. 15, ’98.—58. Revista Chilena de Historia Nat- ural, ii, 7-8, Valparaiso, July-Aug., ’98.—60. Anales, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.—G68. Science, New York, ’98.—84. Insekten Bérse, Leipsic, ’98.—87. Revue Scientifique, Paris, ’98.—92. Illustrierte Zeit- schrift fir Entomologie, Neudamm, Oct. 15, ’98.—93. Rendiconti, Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Oct. 2, ’98,—94. Das Thierreich heraus- gegeben von d. Deutschen zoologischen Gesellschaft, Berlin, ’98.—95. Memoires, Société Linnéenne du Nord de la France, ix, Amiens, ’98.— 96. Bulletin Trimestriel, Société d’ Histoire Naturelle de Macon [France], 798. The General Subject.—A non. Entomological subjects discussed at the International Zoological Congress, 1898, 21.—Carret, A. M. F. Guillebeau and his entomological works, Revue Echange Linnéenne, Lyon, Oct.,’98.—Claypole, A.M. The embryology of the Apterygota, Zoo- logical Bulletin, ii, 2, Boston, Oct., ’°98.—Comstock, J. H. and Need- ham, J.G. The wings of insects, iv, American Naturalist, Boston, Oct., *98.—_Crampton, H.E., Jr. An important instance of insect coales- cence, Annals, New York Academy of Sciences, xi, 11, Aug. 13, ’98.— Giesbrecht, W. and Mayer, P. Arthropoda in Zoologischer Jahres- bericht fiir 1897. Berlin, ’°98.—Henshaw,S. The entomological writ- ings of George Henry Horn (1860-1896) with an index to the genera and species of Coleoptera described and named, 2.—Kenyon, F.C. The occurrence in great abundance of insects ordinarily merely common, 68, Oct. 21.—Knuth, P. Handbuch der Bliitenbiologie unter Zugrundele- 258 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, gung von Hermann Miiller’s Werk ‘‘ Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten’’. I Band: Einleitung und Litteratur. Leipzig. W. Engelmann, 1898.—40o0 pp., 81 figs., 1 portrait.—Lyman, H. H. The freezing of insects, 4.—Poulton, E. B. Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, — Tenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1897). Oxford.—Rebel, H. On the biological significance of color in the animal kingdom, Schriften des Vereines zur Verbreitung natur- wissenschaftliche Kenntnisse in Wien, xxxviii, ’98.—Rousseau, E. Essays on the histology of insects, 36, 10, Oct. 29.—Steiner, J. Die Functionen des Centralnervensystems und ihre Phylogenese. Dritter Abtheilung Die wirbellosen Thiere. Braunschweig, F. Vieweg & Sohn, 1898. 154 pp., 46 figs. Insects and Myriopods, pp. 45-50, 85-87, 116-118. Terre, L. On the physiological troubles which accompany the meta- morphoses of holometabolic insects, 13.—Tutt, J. W. Migration and dispersal of insects: Coccids and Aphides, 21.—W oodforde, F.C. The protective mimicry of insects, Annual Report and Transactions, North Staffordshire Field Club, xxxii, Stafford, [’98]. Economic Entomology.—-André, E. Acclimatation of wild silk worms—sericulture in the Maconnais region, 1 pl., 96, Mar. 1.—Anon. Destruction of migratory crickets and grasshoppers, $7, Oct. 29.—Anon. Insect powders, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, No. 143, Royal Gardens, Kew, Nov., ’98.—Berlese, A. and Gustavo, L. Chermo- theca Italiana continens exsiccata, in situ, coccidarum plantis, preecipue cultis, in Italia occurrentibus, obnoxiarum. Fascicolo III. Species 51-75. Portici, 1898.— Bruner, L. The first report of the Merchants’ Locust Investigation Commission of Buenos Aires. Published in English and Spanish by the Commission. Buenos Aires, Mch. ’98. Engl. edit. pp. x, 100, 28 figs. and 1 col. plate—Cockerell, T. D. A. Two new Coc- * cide from Lagos, W. Africa, 9.—Craig, C. F. The transmission of disease by certain insects: ticks, bedbugs, ants, etc. New York Medical Journal, Oct. 22,’98.—Debray. The destruction of injurious insects (cont.), Le Naturaliste, Paris, Oct. 15, ’98.—Enock, F. Insect blights _ and blessings, Journal, Royal Horticultural Society, London, Oct. ’98.-- Gal, J. Influence of colored lights on the development of silk worins, 87, Oct. 29.—Grassi, B. Relations between malaria and certain insects (mosquitoes), 93.—Kenyon, F.C. Abstracts of publications on entomology, Experiment Station Record, x, 2, Washington, ’98. — Marlatt, C.L. The tenth annual meeting of the Association of Eco- nomic Entomologists, Boston, Mass., Aug. 19 and 20, 1898, 68, Oct. 28 — Redemann, G. Unfailing means of destroying the injurious wasp, Vespa vulgaris, Societas Entomologica, Zurich-Hottingen, Oct. 15, ’98.— Sch., S. The fight against the San José scale, Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift, Berlin, Oct. 9, ’98.—Truelle, M. and Anon. The San José scale [three notices], Bulletin, Société Nationale d’ Agriculture de France, lvii, 6, Paris, ’°98.—Weed, C. M. The winter food of the chickadee, figs. Bulletin 54, New Hampshire College Agric. Exper. Sta- tion, Durham, N. H. June, ’98. Ld "a 1898. ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 259 Arachnida.—Cambridge, O. P. Arachnida Araneidea,* pp. 249- 256, 257-280, 15.—Ch yzer, C. and Kulcezynski, L. Aranee Hun- gariae secundum collectiones a Leone Becker pro parte perscrutatas Tomi II di pars posterior Zodarioidz, Agelenoidz, Drassoide, Zoropse- oidz, Dysderoide, Filistatoide, Calommatoide, Theraphosoidez. Buda- pestini, 1897. Pp. 147-366, pls. vi-x. [ln LatinJ—Kramer, P. Acaridez, 1 pl., Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhzensischen Sammel- reise, 3, ’98.—Lo6nnberg, E. Still something on the Linnean species of the genus Scorpio, 22, Oct. 24.—Marshall, G. A. K. Notes on the South African social spiders (.Stegodyphus), Zoologist, London, Oct., *98.—Michael, A. D. Oribatide, 15 figs., 94, 3 Lieferung Acarina, July.—Nalepa, A. Eriophytide (Phytoptide), 94, 4 Lieferung. Aca- rina.—T rouessart, E. Onanew genus of plumicolous Sarcoptide, 13. Protracheata and Myriopoda.—Camerano, L. On the trans- verse striation of the muscles of the mandibles of the Onychophori, Atti d. R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, xxxiii, 11, ’°98.—Duboscq, O. On the blood globules and the carminate cells of Chilopods, Archives de Zoologie Experimentale, Notes et Revue (3), vi, I. Paris,’98.—Porter, C. E. Introduction to the study of the Myriopods of Chile [in Spanish], 58.—Silvestri, F. Onthe morphology of the Diplopods, 93. Orthoptera.—M orse, A. P. Notes on New England Acridiide iv, Acridiine iv, 5.—de Saussure, H.and Pictet, A. Orthoptera*, pp. 369-400, pl. xix, 15. Neuroptera.—Calvert, P. P. Burmeister’s types of Odonata, 1 pl., 2.—Currie, R. P. Newspecies of North American Myrmeleonide* iv, 4.—Hine, J.S. The North American species of the genus Bittacus, 2 pls., Journal, Columbus Horticultural Society xiii, 3,’98.—Os born, H. The occurrence of the white ant 7ermes flavipes in lowa, 34.—Schenk- ling-Prevot. The life of Termites iii, Litterature and Classification, $4, Oct. 6, 13; iv, Paleontological $4, Oct. 20. Hemiptera.—Baker, C. F. Notes on Jassini, with some new species*, 4. New Tettigoninze, with notes on others*, 5.—Berg, C. Hemiptera of Tierra del Fuego, 60, iv, ’95 and-v, Oct. 8, ’96, Descrip- tions of new Hydrometride from the Argentine Republic, Commun. of id. Aug., ’98—Champion, G. C. Rhynchota Heteroptera*, vol. ii, pp. 89-120, 121-152, pls. vi--viii, 15.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Two new species of Lecanium from Canada*, 4; See Hymenoptera.—King, G. B. and Cockerell, T. D. A. A new form of Pulvinaria*, 5.— Kirkaldy, G.W. On the nomenclature of the European subgenera of Corixa, 9.—Montandon, A.L. Hemiptera cryptocerata, family Nau- coridz, sub-family Limnocorinz *, Verhandlungen, zoologischbotanisch. Gesellschaft, Wien, xlviii, 7, Sept. 24, ’98.—Osborn, H. Notes on Coc- cidz occurring in lowa*; Additions to the list of Hemiptera of Iowa, with descriptions of new species*, figs., 34.—Reed, E.C. Synopsis of the Hemiptera of Chile [in Spanish], 58.—Riibsaamen, E. H. Greenland Mycetophilide, Sciaride, Cecidomyide, Psyllide, Aphid and 260 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, Galls, 2 pls., figs., Bibliotheca Zoologica, heft 20, Lfg. 4, Stuttgart, ’98. —Tutt, J. W.. See the General Subject. Coleoptera,—du Bois-Reymond, R. On the breathing of Dy#is- cus marginalis, Archiv fiir Anatomie u. Physiologie (Physiol. Abtheil.) ’98, 4, Leipsic, Oct. 2.—Hamann, O. The organs of smell on the antenne of Anopthalmus, 22, Oct. 10; The olfactory organs on the antenne of the Silphidz ; [and] The sense organs (sense-cylinders) on the - palps of the Silphide, 22, Sept. 26.—Henshaw, S. See the General Subject.—K. Escherich on the anatomy and biology of Paussus turcicus, with a contribution to knowledge of the Myrmecophile#, Naturwissen- schaftliche Rundschau, Braunschweig, Nov. 5, ’98.—Kuwert, A. The Passalidz dichotomically treated, ii, 61.—Lecaillon, A. Researches on the embryonic development of some Chrysomelide, 1 pl., Archives d’ Anatomie microscopique, ii, 2, Paris, Oct. 10, ’98.—Linell, M.L. On the Coleopterous insects of the Galapagos Islands, 50, No. 1143.— Rupertsberger, M. Oviposition of Labidostomis humeralis Schneid., 92.—Wasmann, E. Thorictus Foreli again as ectoparasite of ants’ antenne, 22, Oct. ro.—Xambeu, Capt. Habits and metamorphoses of insects, Annales, Société Linnéenne de Lyon, xliv, ’98. Diptera.—C oquillett, D. W. New species of Sapromyzide*, 4. —du Roselle. Note on the inconstancy of the conformation of the fourth posterior cell of the wing of the genus 7hereva Latr., figs., 95.— Ritibsaamen, E. H. See Hemiptera. Lepidoptera.—André, E. Callosamia angulifera var. of C. pro- methea, 96, June 1; See Economic Entomology.—Anon, An experi- mental enquiry into the struggle for existence in Ag/ais urtice 21.— Bartlett-Calvert, W. Revised Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Chile, 58.—Berg, C. Revision and description of the Argentine and Chilian species of the genus Zatochi/a Butl., 6O, iv, ’95; Description of three new Lepidoptera of the collection of the Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 60, v, May 8, ’96 ; Lepidopterological communications on twenty- five South American Rhopalocera, 60, v, Apr. 20, ’97.—-Beuten- mtiller, W. Descriptive catalogue of the Bombycine moths found within fifty miles of New York city, 9 pls., Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, x, 17, Oct. 14, ’98.—Chapman, T. A. A review of the genus Zredia based on an examination of the male appendages, 12 pls., 36.—Cockerell, T. D. A. Note on the Pyralid moths of the genus Fachyzancla, 5.—Dognin, P. New Heterocera from South America, 35, 9, Oct. 5.—Druce, H. Lepidoptera Heterocera*, vol. ii, pp. 465-480, 481-520, pls. xcii-xcv, 15.—Fyles, T.W. Teniocampa alia Gn. at Quebec, 4.—Gal, J. See Economic Entomology.— Hampson, G. F. The moths of the lesser Antilles*, 1 pl., 36.— Jordan, K. An examination of the classificatory and some other results of Eimer’s researches on eastern Papilios: A review and reply, 61; Contributions to the morphology of Lepidoptera, i. The antennz of butterflies, 2 pls.,51.—Karsch, F. Is therea classification of recent OL ee ee ee i 1898. ] ENMOOTLOGICAL NEWS. ; 261 Lepidoptera on a phyletic basis? Entomologische Nachrichten, Berlin, Oct., ’98.—Moore, F. Lepidoptera Indica, part xxxi. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1898. [Nymphalinz, vol. iii, pp. 129-144, pls. 239-246].— Ribbe,C. Introduction to collecting butterflies in tropical countries, $4, Oct. 6, 13.—Schultz,O. Gynandromorphous (hermaphrodite) Lepidoptera of the palzarctic fauna, 92.—Sharpe, M. E. and Christy, C. On a collection of Lepidopterous insects from San Domingo*, Proceedings, Zoological Society of London, ’98, part iii, Oct.1.—Walsingham, Lord. Horn-feeding larvez, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London, Nov., ’98. Hymenoptera.—Ashmead, W. H. _ Classification of the horn- tails and sawflies, or the sub-order Phytophaga (paper No. 6)*, 4; Some new genera of bees*, 5.—Bethe, A. How do ants retrace their way ? $7, Oct. 15.—Carpentier, L. Abnormal nervation of Tenthredinide, figs., 95.—Cockerell, T. D. A. A bright red parasite of Coccidz*, 4.—Fox, W.J. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 5 Vespidz, Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, ’98.—Howard, L. O. Onsome new parasitic insects of the sub-family Encyrtine*, 50, No. 1142.—Janet, C. On an unde- scribed organ serving to close the venom-reservoir, and on the mode of function of the sting of ants, 12.—Rudow. Relations of the sexes in some Hymenoptera, 84, Oct. 27.—Seurat. L. G. On the respira- tory apparatus of the larve of entomophagous Hymenoptera, 12.— Wasmann, E.—See Coleoptera. Weir, J. The herds of the yellow ant, figs., Popular Science Monthly, New York, Nov., ’98. A valuable paper by G. W. and E. G. Peckham, entitled ‘‘ On the Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps,’’ has just been issued by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, forming Bulletin No. 2 (Scientific Series No. 1), of that department. While written in a popular way, the work is full of facts for the scientific worker. It is fully illustrated with 14 plates, the figures as a whole being rather well done ; but, strange to say, all specimens figured are given 13-jointed antennze—a male characteristic—while it is well known that the building and storing of nests is always or usually done by the female. How impossible for the male of Ammophila urnaria to sting a caterpillar as is shown on Plate IV, and on Plate V we find the male sex of the same species represented pounding down dirt over its (?) nest with a stone! Plate VII shows a male of Pompilus quinguenotatus digging a nest, an impossible or ex- tremely difficult operation for a male of that species. Aside from these artistic inconsistencies the paper is the most important relating to the habits of our wasps that has yet appeared.—W. J. F. : Trypoxylon politum and T. neglectum have recently been raised from the same nest by the Rev. Richard Kraus, of St. Vincent Abbey, Beatty P. O., Penna., thus showing them to be sexes of the one species as had been suspected.—W. J. Fox. 262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ December, Doings of Societies. A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held October 27th, Dr. P. P. Calvert, Vice-President, in the chair. A vote of thanks was given to Mrs. Lewis Haehnlen for the pre- sentation of diplomas which the late Dr. Horn had received from various scientific societies abroad. Dr. Calvert gave an account of a journey he had made across New Jersey to Ocean City in search of species of Somatochlora, as these had been seen at Tuckahoe and near-by places. So far as species in this genus were concerned the trip was a failure, but a new species of /schnura was found which amply repaid for the journey.* Mr. Seiss asked the speaker if the fauna of the brackish ponds differed materially from that of the local fresh-water ponds. Dr. Calvert said there was no very decided difference. Mr. Seiss spoke of Schistocerca americana being killed by flying against the statue of William Penn on the city hall tower. This is about 550 feet above the ground, HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Secretary. At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held October 19th, 1898, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 South 13th street, Philadelphia, fourteen members were present. Mr. Laurent spoke on the recent abundance of the larva of Cera- tomia catalpe near Moore’s Station in Delaware County, Pa. He had searched carefully for the variety mentioned by Mr. Koebele (Brooklyn Bulletin, iv, p. 20), having white markings arranged so as to form two lines on the black dorsal stripe, and had found but three specimens approaching it. Photographs of catalpa trees completely defoliated by the larva were shown. The species had not before been recorded from the vicinity of Philadelphia. | a Mr. H. Wenzel recorded the capture of eight specimens of Cychrus stenostomus on October 8th in pairs, copulating. The speaker had only found Cychrii copulating late in the year. He also recorded the capture of a specimen of Panagaeus fasciatus on the same date. Mr. Laurent stated he had once found a pair of a species of Cychrus copulating early in the spring. He also * See last number of NEws, page 211. 1898. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 263 referred to a previous communication by Dr. Skinner on the distribution of Avgynnis atlantis, and recorded the capture of a specimen in Pike County, Pa. He had also recently taken four additional specimens of the Mantis Zenodera sinensis in nur- series at Germantown. The same speaker also reported that on October 2nd, Pyrgus tessellata had been taken abundantly at Woodbury, N. J., by Mr. L. Schneider. Prof. Smith exhibited newly hatched Conotrachelus fissunguts which had emerged early in October, thus proving that the species hibernates in the imago stage, contrary to the belief of some coleopterists. The specimens transformed from the larva to imago stage within four weeks. Mr. H. Wenzel called attention to the unusually small size of the specimens and stated that he had never found a specimen of the species during Winter in spite of careful sieving in likely places. Prof. Smith recorded the capture of Mamestra laudabilis in Cumberland County, N. J., on October 5th. -It is a rare species, and, as far as he is aware, was not before recorded from New Jersey. : WiLuiaM J. Fox, Secretary. _ A regular meeting was-held by the Newark Entomological Society, at Turn Hall, Sunday, November 13th. Vice-President Brehme presided, with the following members present: Messrs. Broadwell, Seib, Bischoff, Angleman, Kircher, Rienecker, Kemp, Buchholz, Weidt, Brenson and Prof. John B. Smith. Mr. Kemp exhibited the electric lamp he has adapted for night collecting. It would appear to be a convenient and reliable device for the purpose. Mr, Angleman and Mr. Weidt men- tioned having seen its efficiency in practical use. An invitation was received from Mr, Beutenmiieller to have the members attend the next meeting of the New York Entomo- logical Society. Prof. Smith asked for the assistance of the members in fur- nishing him, with data for the new list of Insects of New Jersey, and mentioned that in looking over Mr. Bischoff’s collection of Coleoptera, he found over 10c species new to the New Jersey list. 264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, Mr. Weidt read an article on Schinia arcifera as follows : Notes on Schinia arcifera. On September 5th, 1897, I took about thirty specimens of S. arcifera in an open field in the Orange Mountains, N. J. They were flying during the afternoon and were confined to a space of about two blocks. In their flight they closely resemble a bee, the motion of the wings being very rapid. The insect, however, flies slowly through, but never above the top of the high grass and flowers, unless disturbed. It was by accidentally seeing one alight on a flower that I discovered them at all. The specimens were badly rubbed and apparently had been flying for some time. Seven of the specimens taken were $ and twenty-three were 9. This year I took a perfect 9 at light in Newark, August 23rd, and the following Sunday, August 28th, I took another trip to the mountains with my friend Mr. Broadwell, and from sixty to seventy specimens were taken, mostly fresh. Out of thirty-five specimens sixteen were 9 and nineteen were &. A live 9 was taken and kept in confinement, but died in a few days without © laying eggs. The % has yellow secondaries with a broad dark- brown band and in the @ the secondaries are entirely dark. —A. J. WeIpT, Newark, N. J. Prof. Smith remarked that they were borers and would not lay eggs in confinement. _ Mr. Kircher read an article on Empretia stimulea and its Natural Check by Parasites. On September 18th, 1898, I took about 100 larva of &. stimulea at Greenville, N. J. They were full grown and appeared to be healthy. On arriving at home I placed them in a cage with their food plants. The following morning I found that most of the larva had left the food plant, apparently preparing to pupate. The next day I expected to see some cocoons, but was surprised to see about ten or more full of parasites. I removed the infected larva and left them until the next morning, when I found the same number of infected larva. By the following Sunday I | had but few left and I went to the same place that I had taken the others and brought home too more, but with no better suc- cess. Out of over 2co larva I got but one cocoon. I noticed some verv small flies in the cage later.—Gro, KtRCHER, Jersey City, N. J. Prof. Smith remarked on the importance of recording and taking the different species of parasites found on larva during the season. Meeting adjourned. A. J. WEIpT, Secretary. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws for November was mailed October 31, 1898. Mi, %, = of Pr — ad . - or . - 2 - r sf Be chee 7 2 ’ > as \- ae “g » . ig ‘ ie ‘ i P a, a . - a “