ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND -, PROCEEDINGS T< OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. VOLUME XXII, 1911. MAJOR JOHN EATTON LE CONTE, 1784-1860. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M. D., Editor Emeritus. ADVISORY COMMITTEE : EZRA T. CRESSON ERICH DAECKE. I- A. G. REHN. PHILIP LAURENT WILLIAM J. FOX H. W. WENZEL. PHILADELPHIA : ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. 1911. The several numbers of the NEWS for 1911 were mailed at the Philadelphia Post Office as follows : January . . . Dec. 31, 1910 February . . . Jan. 30, 1911 March . . . Feb. 28, " April . . . Mar. 31, " May . . . Apr. 28, " June . . . May 31, " July June 30, " October . . . Oct. 6, " November . . Oct. 30, " The date of mailing the December, 1911, number will be announced in the issue for January, 1912. PRESS OF P. C. 8TOCKHAU8EN PHILADELPHIA INDEX TO VOLUME XXII. (Notes and articles on geographical distribution are indexed under the names of the States or countries concerned, and not under the species listed therein, except in the case of new or redescribed forms. * indicates new generic, specific or subspecific names.) GENERAL SUBJECTS. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Entomo- logical Section, 46, 138, 237, 379- Td., Entomological Lectures at 86 African Entomological Re- search Committee 181 American Association Eco- nomic Entomologists, 190, 421 American Entomological So- ciety 138, 284, 335, 479 American Society of Zoolo- gists 95 Animal Behavior, Journal of 84 Antilles, Expedition to 423 Arcadia 326 Arizona, Collecting in South- ern 339 Rat as host of earwig 469 Bermuda. Insects of 384 Birds following insects, 287, 420 Birds, Insect parasites of ..19, 75 'Books, Insects injurious to, 41. 37i. Bromeliadicolous animals. 405-411 Brooklyn Entomological So- ciety 139 Cell-studies on Insects 95 Coition between different spe- cies 272 Colorado State Biol. Survey 277 Disease and Insects, 45, 92, 181, 228, 333, 432, 467, 469, 471. Editorial Changes l Editorials, 41, 83, 130, 177, 225, 276, 325, 369, 417, 465- Entomological building for Massachusetts Agricultural College 13, 97 Entomological Literature, 39, 40, 42, 84, 86, 87, 131, 134, 177, 179, 1 80, 182, 183, 232, 279, 326, 328, 369, 371, 374, 423, 471- Entomological Society of America 187. 416, 421 Faeces and flies 228 Feldman Collecting Social, 47. 04. 188, 285. 383, 477- Fish captured by Bug 372 Fungi transported by Am- brosia beetles 470 Gall insects (see under Dip- tera and Hymenoptera). Genotypes, Determination of. 278 Georgia, List of Insects of.. 39 Guiana, Expedition to 423 Gypsy Moth, Destroying the. 225 Hamster-rat, Orthopterous parasite of 468 Honorary degrees for Ento- mologists 371 House-flies, Campaign against 373 Instruction, Entomological, in Europe, 188, in U. S., 97. International Anti-Locust Commission 327 International Entomological Congress 66 Jelly rain [of eggs] 420 Labeling specimens 465 Lake Laboratory, Ohio State University '79 Le Conte, J. E 276 11 INDEX. Le Conte, J. L., Portrait of... 277 Local Distribution, Possible Causes of 229 Mershon expedition to the Charity Islands, Lake Huron 230 Mimicry 336, 384 Myrmecophilous insects, 274, 466, 468. Newark Entomological So- ciety 139, 286 New Species, Publication of.. 325 Nomenclature question 130 Number of Eggs laid by in- sects 14 Nursery stock in Europe, In- spection of 144 Obituary : Coquillett, D. W 337 Giron 192 Leveille, E. A 192 McAllister, J. W 479 McCook, H. C 433 Meichel, J 479 Palmer, E 239 Perrin, E. A. de 192 Piaget, E 288 Plateau, F 239 Reed, E. C 192 Scudder, S. H., 288. 289, 479- Selys-Longchamps, M. F. R. de 179 Tutt, J. W 191 v. d. Weele, H. W. ... 287 Personals : Aldrich, J. M ., 180 Avebury, Lord 133 Bond, F. E 131 Bradley, J. C 373 Brown, S 131 Busck, A 4 Calvert, P. P 2 Crampton, G. C 216 Cresson, E. T., Jr 2 Daecke, E 2 Fenyes, A 227 Gates, B. N 178 Geddes, J. M 423 Gillin, T. F 131 Girault, A. A 373 Hardenberg, C. B 41 Hebard, M 47 Holland, W. J 226 Howard, L. 0 371 MacGillivray, A. D. .. 373 McMillan, D. K 230 Michelson, A. A 83 Moore, J. P 87 Newstead, R 371 Pilsbry, H. A 86 Porter, A. F 423 Rehn, J. A. G 47 Robinson, W 357 Schwarz, E. A 4 Scudder, S. H 224 Skinner, H. . . .2, 82, 86, 3/1 Snodgrass. R. E 178 Trimen, R 217 Wellman. C 413 Wheeler, W. M 27 Willing, T. N 41 Wright, W. G 12 Phoresie 194 Plants attacked or visited by in- sects : Agaricus 274 Agropyron glaucum . . 441, 442. 443- Alder 210 Apple 173. 174 Artemisia dractmculoidcs. 444- Ash 174 Bean 176 Birch 176 Blackberry 114 INDEX. in Blue-stem 441, 442 Bromeliads, 96, 381, 402-410 Buck bush 172 Bugle weed 173 Carynota mera 143 Citharexylum quadran- gulare 301 Coffea lib erica 305 Colorado blue-stem, 441, 442 Crataegus 467 Enchanter's nightshade, 173 Euphorbia robusta .... 462 Evening primrose .... 112 Eeverwort 176 Eiddlewood 301 Fra.rimis velutina 129 Grape 384 Grindclia sqiiarrosa . . . 440 Hickory 172, 480 Hicorea pecan 134 Hop tree 174 Hydrangea arborescens 478 Japanese Hemlock .... 386 Lafhyrus 359 Ledum groenlandicunt ..217 Lycopersicum esculen- tum 303 Lycopus europaeus .... 309 Maple 173, 176 Mentha spp 309 Mimusops Jie.vandra . . 224 Oaks (see Quercus) Oenothera biennis ... 112 Oleander 167, 168 Olive 167, 168 Orange 167, 168 Peach 383 Pecan 134 Pepper 167, 168 Peppermint 173 Persimmon 172, 176 Pitcher plant 194 Poplar 173 Plum 174, 176 Prickly ash 174 Quercus, 82, 242, 245, 477. 478. Ranunculus acris 309 Rhododendron cataw- biense 273 Rose 477 Sarracenia sledgei 194 Sassafras 172, 176 Smilacina racemosa . . . 346 Sweet gum 143 Tomato 303 Trumpet vine 286 Tsufja 386 Veronica becrnbunsn. 300 Viburnum accrifoJitim. . 477 Walnut 176 Wheat 442 Willow 176 Post card. Entomological . . . 370 Preparation of Scientific papers 360 Preservatives against Der- mestids 418 Puget Sound Marine Sta- tion 292 Rat fleas and tapeworms 469 Reviews : Banks' Manual of Phil- ippine Silk Culture.. 47? Blatchley's Coleoptera of Indiana 46 Boyce's Mosquito or Man 92 Burr's Orthopt. of West Europe 185 Doane's Insects and Disease 45 Hancock's Nature Sketches in Temper- ate America 334 IV INDEX. Harris' List of N. Amer. Cicindelidae . . 283 Horvath's Taxonomy of Family Names 431 Howard's House Fly —Disease Carrier . . . 333 Kellogg's The Animals and Man 335 Kirby's Catalogue of Orthoptera 158 Ross' Reduction of Domestic Mosquitoes, 432 Smith's Report on the Insects of New Jer- sey 93, 182 Walden's Euplexoptera and Orthoptera of Connecticut 4/6 Week's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 284 Salt and Alkaline Lakes of U. S., Investigation of 180 Sexual dimorphism. Great, 480 Silk Culture, Banks' Manual of Philippine 475 Simplified spelling 262 Sleeping Sickness Commis- sion 226 Snails, Dipterous larvae para- sitic in 326 St. Louis Entomological Club, 383 Students in Entomology, Number of 17 Tapeworms, Fleas as inter- mediate hosts of 469 Termitophilous insects 274 Theses for doctorates, Ento- mological 464 Transvaal, Entomology in ... 41 Tropical Entomology, Liver- pool chair in 84, 371 Venezuela, Bond Expedi- tion to 131 United States Dep't of Agri- culture 131 ARACHNIDA. Aranens, Use of name 418 Costa Rica, A. of 405 Courtship in Tarantulas 127 llpeira 461 Erlophyes 129 Illinois, Spider from 461 Number of eggs laid by Spider 461 Peckham collection of Spiders, 460 sericata, Epeira 461 COLEOPTERA. abruptus, Enoclerns 121 acerbus*, Enoclerus 119 Allendesalazaria 132 Ambrosia beetles transporting fungi 470 analis, Enoclerus 120 Arizona, C. of, 71, 117, 122, 271, 326. Athous 275 australis*, Pleocoma 65 Axion 71 bagoiformis, Listronotits .... 178 bcyeri, Plusiotis 326 Biologia Centrali-Americana, Curculionidae of 223 bipunctata, Cymatodera 117 bituberculata, Hydnocera .... 123 brevis, Dorcus 354 California, C. of, 64, 117, 118, 119, 227. Calotillus* 115 carolinae*, Scaphisoma 275 Carrion-feeding C 324, 336 castoris, Platypsylla 227, 288 Catalogus Coleopterorum ... 86 Clirysomela 305 Cicindela 271, 283 Colorado, C. of 72, 118 Costa Rica, C. of 405 Cymatodera 1 16, 117 damicornis, Orthopleura 134 INDEX. delicatula, Cymatodera 116 Dermestids, Preservatives against 4^ Dorcus 354 ebttrneocinctus*, Calotillus ... 115 Ellipotonia 123 Enoclerus 118 Eurycranus 124 Fiori collection 374 Hammula* , Hyperaspis later- alis 72 Florida, C. of 1 16, 189 foveolatum, Tylodcrma 112 gigantea*, Hornia 16 Georgia, C. of 275 Hornia 16, 17, 132 Hydnoccra 122, 123 Hyperaspis 72-74 Illinois, C. of 72 incompletus*, A.vion 71 Indiana, C. of 46, 74 Kansas, C. of 15 koebelei*, Psyllobora 71 laticornis, Ellipotoma 123 lengi*, Athons 275 Leonidia 16 Maine, C. of 119 inanitlia*, Cicindela 272 ine.ricana*, Plydnocera 122 Mexico, C. of, 1 1 6, 117, 119, 122, 123, 125, 326. Montana, C. of 72 Xc-vada, C. of 73, 74, 117, 120 New Jersey, C. of 239, 354, 355, 383, 384. New Mexico, C. of 122 New York, C. of 272 North Carolina, C. of 273-275 Nova Scotia, C. of 306 ocreatus, Enoclerus 118 opife.r, Enoclerus 120 Pennsylvania, C. of, 47, 48, 0,4, or 134, 383, 384, 477, 478, 479- Phoresie .................... 194 Pleocoma ................... 64 plicata, Chlamys ............ 114 ploribunda*, Hyperaspis .... 74 Plus! otis ........... 326, 356, 479 Prionostichaeus* ............ 125 pulchellus*, Eurycranus ..... 124 Psyllobora ................. 71 rufivcntris, Enoclerus quadri- guttatus .................. 119 santa-clarae, Cicindela ....... 271 Scaphiomicrus .............. 275 Scaplrisoma ................. 275 Schilsky collection .......... 373 South Carolina, C. of ....... 226 spinolae, Enoclerus ......... 119 staphylea, Chrysomela ...... 306 snperba*, Hydnocera ....... 122 Texas, C. of ..... 120, 356, 478-9 turbata, Cymatodera ........ 1 17 Tyloderma .................. 1 1- Utah, C. of ............. 120, 178 t'irescens*, Pinacodcra ...... 275 rnlturina, Cicindela ......... 271 wellmani* , Hyperaspis ...... 7- wolcotti*, Hyperaspis ...... 73 u'oodii, Plusiotis ........ 356, 479 DIPTERA. abdoininalis*, Endaphis ...... Adclphomyia ................ americana*, Endapliis ....... . Inoplieles .................. Arizona, D. of .......... 129, Asphondylia ............ 109, California, D. of ........ 447. California, New flea from ... Cat flea .................... Cayor worm ............... Ceylon, D. of ............... Chironomid larvae parasitic in snails ................. coffeae*, Hyperdiplosis ...... 35- 95 480 301 Is" 447 --'" 467 326 305 VI INDEX. Contarinia 3°3 Costa Rica, D. of 4°S Criorhina 3*8 Ctenocephalus 226 Ctenophthalmus 445 Culex 95 Dasyneura 210, 346 Dog flea 226 Eggs of chironomids, Jelly rain of 421 Endaphis 128, 224 eupatorii*, Hyperdiplosis .... no Eustalomyia 321 fasciatus, Ceratophyllus 469 nsherii*, Syrphus 3T9 flava*, Sacandaga 35 J Fleas 226, 445, 469, 471 Flies and disease ...228, 333, 467 fronto, Tabanus 133 fungicola*, Toxomyia 302 Gall midges, 10, 109, 128, 210, 224, 301, 346. heiseri*, Ctenophthalmus .... 445 hirta*, Endaphis 224 Hyperdiplosis no, 305 Idana 32o infumatum, Clanoneurum . . . 480 laetus, Microdon 319 Lestodiplosis 10 Limnobia 85 lycopersici*, Contarinia 303 marginata*, Idana 320 melanocerus, Tabanus 133 Miastor larvae 227 Microdon 319 Mosquitoes fed by ants 466 New Jersey, D. of, 48, 182, 188, 285, 384- New York, D. of, 85, 227, 346, 349- 354- nigriventris*, Criorhina (Pen- thesilia) 318 oestriformis, Eristalis 299 parietina, Limnobia 85 pattersoni*, Asphondylia 301 Pennsylvania, D. of, 48, 188, 318- 322, 384, 477, 478, 480. Penthesilia 318 Peru, D. of 10, 128 peruviana*, Lestodiplosis .... 10 Phoresie 194 Pyrellia 321 v. Roeder collection and li- brary 373 Sacandaga* 349 senilis, Adelphomyia 352 serena, Pyrellia 321 serrulata, Dasyneura 210 smilacinae*, Dasyneura 346 Tabanus 133 Theobaldia 95 Toxomyia* 302 trimaculatus, Tabanus 133 Tse-tse flies 277 vincenti*, Asphondylia 109 vittipes, Eustalomyia 321 West Indies, D. of 109, 301-5 HEMIPTERA. (See Rhynchota). HYMENOPTERA. Amphibolips 198 amygdalina*, Caliroa 263 Anagrus 207, 209 Anaphes 364 Anaphoidea 215 Andricus 69, 70, 198 Anthophora, Parasites of ..17, 132 Ants 143, 405-7, 419, 4?8 Ants, Coleoptera associated with 274 Ants, Green Tree, of North Queensland 327 Ants, Mosquitoes fed by .... 466 Ants paralyzed by secretion of bug 468 INDEX. vn Apterostigma 406 fn. aspidioti*, Polynema ....358, 367 Biastes 26 Brazil, H. of 407 fn. brittanum*, Polynema 366 caepulaeformis*, Andricus .. 69 California, H. of 67-69, 357 calif arnica*, Philonix 69 Caliroa 263 chrysolepidis*. Holcaspis .... 68 clavula*, Dryophanta 67 Colorado, H. of ... .82, 210, 462-4 confertus, Sphecodes 211 consobrinus, Polynema 467 Costa Rica, H. of 405, 407 Cuba, H. of 27 cynipseus, Litus 363 diana*. Anaplioidca 215 Dicopus 347 Dryocosmus 197 Dryophanta 67, 357 durangensis*, Andricus 198 England, H. of 216, 363-8 enocki, Litus 363 Eriocamp aides 263 euchariforme, Polynema. .365, 368 favus*, Dryocosmus 197 felti* Osmia 18 Gall flies 67, 82, 197, 357 Genotypes of H 218 Georgia, H. of 467 Italitus*, Dicopus 347 I leminomada 26 lictcrus*, Sphecodes 212 Holcaspis 68, 82 incarnatus, Anagnis 207 Indiana, H. of 70, 211, 213 Utus 363 Lophyrus 95 Louisiana, H. of .... 198, 263, 265 Massachusetts, H. of 70 melitina*, Prosopis 214 Mexico, H. of 198, 358 Migration of Ants 419, Mimatomus 464 multipunctata*, Dryophanta . . 67 New Hampshire, H. of ...211-215 New Jersey, H. of 70, 95 New York, H. of 18, 211 nigra*, Amphibolips 198 .Vomadita 26 Nomadosoma* 24 Nomenclatural changes 218 North Carolina, H. of 214 Oregon, H. of 357 Osmia 18 paraplcsius*, Sphecodes 213 Pasites 24 peltatus*, Mimatomus 464 Pennsylvania, H. of .... 198, 321 Philonix- 69 Phoresie 194 pilipes, Pasites 24 pisiformis*, Andricus "0 Polynema 358, 365, 366, 467 pratensis, Anaphes 364, 368 Prosopis 213-215 pulchella*, Dryophanta 357 punctual, Anaphes 364 Quebec, H. of 349 Rhode Island, H. of 213 Saunders' collection 272 shawi*, Sphecodes 212 Sphecodes 211-213 spiritus*, Anagrus 20*1 striaticorne, Polynema ...365, 367 Syntoinaspis 82 telepora*, Prosopis 213 Tenthredinoidea, Genotypes of _M^ Texas, H. of 4" ^'nrreni*, Syntomaspis •s!- \\isconsin, H. of -'i? LEPIDOPTERA. Achalants 3 Acronycta 3°9 Adelpha 4 '-I Vlll INDEX. Alberta, L. of 108. 231, 400 amicora*, Acronycta 312 amnemonella*, Diatraea 203 Anacrusis 125 angustella*, Diatraea 205 Archylus 265 Argynnis 108 Arizona, L. of, 3, 266, 267, 293, 312, 379, 415. A tteva 229 aurea, A tteva 229 battoides, Lycaena 259 behri, Colias 220 bellifactella*, Diatraea 205 bellus, Mastor 267 berthellus*, Diatraea 206 beutenmulleri, Catocala . . 140, 180 Brazil, L. of, 125, 202, 203, 205- 207. bredowi, Adelpha 414 Breeding L 172-176 British Columbia, L. of, 108, 399, 400. California, L. of, n, 220, 228, 259, 293, 415. calif 'arnica, Adelpha 414 Canada, L. of 316 Cannibalism in L 174 carteri, Protambulyx 41 Catalogus Lepidopterorum, 379 Catalpa sphinx 47 Catocala ...139, HO, 175, 180, 371 cethura, Euchloe 1 1 Chilo 206 chlorina*, Stenoma 126 clytie, Thecla 293 Colias 220 Colorado, L. of, 220, 259, 268, 311, 400, 413, 462. Connecticut, L,. of 370 continent*, Diatraea 202 Costa Rica, L. of 258, 405 dacotac*, Pamphila sassacus.. 412 Dakota, L. of South 412 Datana 300 Diatraea 199 dissimilis*, Stenoma 126 enoptes, Lycaena 259 Erebus 37O Eresia 412 Euchaeria 13 Euchloe ii Eurycttarus 193. faunellus*, Cr ambus 207 Florida, L. of ...41, in, 226, 439 Gas lamps for attracting moths 87 Georgia, L. of 412 glaucon, Lycaena 259 grandiosella* , Diatraea 205 grenadensis*, Diatraea sac- cliaralis 200 Guiana, L. of 202, 203, 206 Gypsy moth 225 Heterodhroa 414 Hiibner's Exotic Butterflies.. 379 Hyperchiria 144 Idaho, L. of 413 iheringi*, Anacrusis 125 Illinois, L. of 359, 399 immaculata*, Parnassius .... 108 incarnata, Hyperchiria 144 ines, Thecla 293 instruct ella*, Diatraea 201 Iowa, L. of 412 /air, Catocala 140 Judith, Catocala 140 leda, Thecla 293 lopiusa*, Papilio 439 Lycaena 238, 259, 359 lygdamus, Lycaena 359 magnifactella*, Diatraea .... 201 Manitoba, L. of, 309, 314, 315, 399, 400, 401. Massachusetts, L. of 316 Mastor 267 INDEX. IX Megathymus 300 Mesocia 266 metra*, Acronycta 311 -Mexico, L. of, 144, 201, 202, 204, 205, 293, 415, 439. Microlepidoptera, Methods of capturing and breeding . . . 141 Migrations of L 48, 371, 415 minimifacta*, Diatraea 202 Mississippi, L. of 194 Missouri in 1910, L. of, 170, 322, 3/0. montana*, Pamphilct pawnee, 413 Myriads of moths 371 navajo*, Megathymus 300 neomexicana*, Datana 300 Nephelodes 397 Nevada, L. of 259 Xew Jersey, L. of. 47, 48, 140, 141, 142, 238, 383, 384. New Mexico, L. of ..268, 300, 413 Nicaragua, L. of 200 Norape 266 North Carolina, L. of 203 Number of yearly broods of L. in New Jersey 238 odora, Erebus 370 Oregon, L. of 259, 415 oslari*, Chionobas alberta . . . 220 Pairs, Pupation in 370 PamphUa 412, 413 Panama, L. of 200 pallida*, Pamphila mystic . . . 412 pallidostricta*, Diatraea 205 Palpi, Libythea bachmani without 3/9 Papaiema 140 Papilio 438, 439 pedibarbata*, Diatraea 202 pedidocta*, Diatraea 201 Pennsylvania, L. of, 229, 371, 399, 415, 422, 477- Phoresie 196 phylace, Mastor 267 Pinning L 285 ponceana*, Papilio 438 psendoccllus*, Achalarus .... 3 quinquemacula*, Pamphila .. 413 Ramaca 266 Resemblance of L. to a caddis fly 384 i Rhode Island, L. of 399 saccharalis, Diatraea 199, 200 sakuntala*, Argynnis 108 Saskatchewan, L. of 400 scminole*, Eresia tc.raiia . . . 412 socialis, Euchaeria 13 South Carolina, L. of 203 South Dakota, L. of 412 Starlings picking Arctia co- coons 287 Stenoma 1 26 streckeri, C 'alias nastes 231 strigipenella*, Diatraea 206 tabernella*, Diatraea sac- charalis 200 Tallant collection of Lep., 41, 81 tenet, Archylus 265 Tennessee, L. of 142, 316 Texas, L. of 415 Thecla 293 Timctcs in, 226 tracyi*, Eiirycttarus 10.; tristis*, Acronycta 316 / nrpis*, Acronycta 311 Utah, L. of 259, 312, 413 utahensis*, Pamphila sylrun- oides 413 Virginia, L. of 203 icarneri, Catocala 140, 180 Washington, L. of 311 Weeks' Illustrations of Diur- nal L 284 West Indies, L. of, 200. 2O2, 203 Wisconsin, L. of 370 \\ \oming, L. of 108 seacolella* , Dalraca INDEX. MALLOPHAGA. agonns, Goniodcs 23 Bolivian birds, M. from ... 19 Californian birds, M. from . . 75 Colpocephalum sp 77 Docophorus 19, 75, 76 epiphanes*, Lipeunis 21 fissi-signatus*, Docophorus . . 19 Lipeurns 21 nionaclms*, Docophorus per- tusus 75 stictum*, Colpocephalum .... 77 NEUROPTERA (excl. Mallophaga and Odonata). Bromeliadicolous caddis- worm 411 fasciatus, Chauliodes in Phila- delphia 478 North Carolina, Panorpa of.. 274 Pennsylvania, Trichoptera of, 384 Termes, Coleop. associated with 274 ODONATA. Aciagrion ? 344 angustipennis, Calopteryx ... 148 Anisopleura 149 Bayadera 150 Biologia Centrali-Americana, Odon. of 39 Brazil, O. of 393, 395 brimleyi*, Gomphus 221 Calopteryx 148 Causes of Local Distribution of Odon 229 •avillaris, Gomphus 222 cliinensis, Neurobasis 147 chirripa, Cora 51, 58 comes, Anisopleura 149 Cora larva 49, 96, 138, 153 Costa Rica, O. of, 49, 96, 380, 381, 402-410, 449-458. Cyclophylla 394 Gomphoides 79, 393 (iomphiis 221 High altitudes, O. from ..380, 381 Ictinus 395 Illinois, O. of 395 India, O. of, 147, M9, ISO, 153, 342- 344, 394, 395- indica Bayadera 150 iphigenia, Mecistogaster 457 Jamaica, O. of 151 Kentucky, O. of 148 lineatus, Onychogomphus . . . 395 Macrogomphus 396 Mecistogaster, 96, 381, 402-410, 449-460. Mexico, O. of 402, 449, 457 Migration of 0 419 modestus, Mecistogaster, 96, 381, 402-410, 449-460. Neurobasis 147 New Jersey, O. of 420 North Carolina, O. of ....79, 222 Nymphs, 49, 96, 138, 147, 153, 342, 392, 449- Ortholestes 152 Pennsylvania, O. of 336 Phenacolestes 479 Philoganga 153 Plant-dwelling larvae, 402-410, 449-458. Podagrion nymph 342 Pseudagrion? 344 ORTHOPTERA. abort ivits, Nemobius fascia- tus 10 Adimantus 251 Africa, O. of 480 Africa, O. of Lake region of Central 237 agraeaoidcs*, BertonieUa . . . 255 angustipennis, Melanoplus ... 0 atlanis, Melanoplus 8 atlas*, Hormctica 248 BertonieUa* 255 B la tell a 14 INDEX, XI collare, Spharagemon 3 Columbia, O. of District of, 37, 157 Connecticut, Walden's O. of, 4?6 Costa Rica, O. of 405 esau, Arixena, on bat 469 frigida, Arphia 7 Georgia, O. of 31, 32, 155 germanica, Blatella 14 gracilicornis, Sisantum 250 Hemimerus 468 Hormetica 248 Indiana, O. of 381 Illinois, O. of 381 Isophya 252 Kirby's Catalogue of 0 158 Lutosa 257 maculatus, Hippiscus 7 Manitoba, O. of 5 Massachusetts, O. of 28 melanochloris*, Isophya .... 252 Musical Habits of 0 28, 154 neglectus, Gryllus pennsyl- vanicus 9 New England, O. of 28 New York, O. of 28 Nomenclatural changes in O.. 158 North Carolina, O. of 238, 387 Ominexecha 251 Paraguay, O. of 247 paranensis*, Lutosa 257 Parasitic 0 468 Paratenodera feeding on Ci- cada 478 Pennsylvania, O. of 190, 237 Resemblance of O. to Mem- bracidae 336 Si'xual dimorphism, Great . . . 480 simplex, Eritettix 238 Sisantum 250 t'ircns, Ommexecha 251 z'itticeps, Adimantus 251 Western Europe, O. of 185 Western U. S., O. of . RHYNCHOTA. Africa, R. of 416 agropyronensis*, Chaitophorus, 44- Aleyrodes 462, 463 ameiricanus, Lethocerus (Be- lostoma) 373 Arizona, R. of 269-271 arisonensis*, Dendrocoris, 269, 270 artemisiae*, Chaitophorus . . . 443 Aspidiotus 385, 386 Atarsos* 440 Atlantic States, R. of 246 Belostoma captures fish 373 Black scale 167 Brachycolus 441 British Columbia, R. of 246 buenoi*, Gerris 246 California, R. of 167 Capyella 416 Chailophorus 442, 443 Cicada, Mantis feeding on ... 4/8 Coccidae, Parasites of, 10, 224, 358 Colorado, R. of 440-444, 462 Columbia, R. of District of . . 245 Conorhitnis 238 Costa Rica, Heteroptera of . . 405 Dendrocoris 268 euphorbiarum*, Aleyrodes pruinosus 462 Euschistus 95 Gerris 246 gr'nidcliae*, Atarsos 44° Illinois, R. of 241, 245 Kansas, R. of 443 ledi*. Pseudococcus 217 Membracidae Habits of .... 143 Membracidae, Models of ... 228 Menibnu-idae. Resemblance of Orthoptera to Moulting of Membnu-idar ... i \.\ Xrw Jersey, R. of 142. t^J New York, R. of i\7 . Capyella 1 1 ^ Xll INDEX. oleae, Saissetia 167 Periodical cicada ....142, 177, 189 Phyllaphis 243, 245 Pseudococcus 217 pteridis, Mastopoda 440 Ptilocerus ochraceus, Ants paralyzed by secretion of . . 468 querci, Eriosoma 241 reticulatus*, Dendrocoris, 269, 270 Saissetia 167 Saunders' "collection 272 Taxonomy of Family Names, 431 tritici*, Brachycolus 441 tsugae*, Aspidiotus 385 SIPHONAPTERA. • (Indexed under Diptera). AUTHORS. Alexander, C. P 86, 349 Allard, H. A 28, 154 Banks, N 194, 419 Barber, H. G 268 Barnes, W 265, 267 Bergroth, E 416 Beutenmuller, W 67, 197, 357 Bishop, S. C 346 Bower, H. M 359 Brehme, H. H 144, 287 Brimley, C. S 133, 3^7 Britton, W. E 373 Bueno, J. R. T 246 Burgess, A. F 422 Calvert, P. P., 40, 49, Si, 83, 130, 177, 223, 325, 335, 370, 402, 417, 420, 438, 449, 465 and Index. Caudell, A. N 159 Champion, G. C 132, 178 Clemence, V. L 3, 11, 226 Cockerell, T. D. A., 18, 82, 217, 462. Coolidge, K. R., 3, 11, 40, 226, 327, 339- Cresson, E. T., Jr., 42, 87, 134, 183, 233, 279, 328, 338, 374, 423, 471- Davis, J. J 241 Dod, F. H. W 397 Doll, J 300 Dow, R. P 139, 271 Dury, C 273 Dyar, H. G 199 Fall, H. F 64 Felt, E. P., 10, 109, 128, 227, 232, 301. Fenyes A 227 Gillette, C. P 440 Girault, A. A., 14, 112, 114, 207, 215, 347, 358, 363, 4H, 46i, 467. Greene, G. M., 48, 95, 190, 286, 384, 479- Grinnell, F., Jr 293 Grossbeck, J. A 143 Haskin, J. R 293 Hebard, M 5 Hill, M. D 421 Howard, L. 0 97 Ilg, C 220 Jones, J. M 193 Kearfott, W. D 125 Kellogg, V. L 19, 75 Kirkaldy, G. W 246 Knab, F 306 Lovell, J. H 211 MacGillivray, A. D i SS Marlatt, C. L 385 McCoy, G. W. 445 McDunnough, J. ...180, 265, 267 Meiners, E. P 370 Montgomery, T. H., Jr 437 Morton, K. J 411 Muttkowski, R 221, 460 Needham, J. G 145, 342, 392 Nunenmacher, F. W 71 O'Brien, R. A 327 Osborn, H 179 Paine, J. II 19, 75 INDEX. Kill Petrunkevitch, A 127 Pilate, G. R 371 Pollard, C. L 79 Porter, A. F 87 Quayle, H. J 167 Read, E. W 370 Rehn, J. A. G., 5, 42, 87, 134, 164 fn., 165 fn., 183, 187, 233, 247, 279, 291, 328, 374, 423, 471, 477- Reinick, W. R 41 Riiey, W. A 93 Rohwer, S. A 24, 218, 263 Rowley, R. R 170 Ruthven, A. G 230 Sanders, J. G 370 Schaus, W 206, 207, 438 Schroers, P. A 322 Schwarz, H 383 Scudder, S. H 277 Sherman, F., Jr 387 Skinner, H., i, 46, 47, 94, 108, in, 138, 139, 220, 225, 226, 231, 277, 283, 284, 292, 300, 334, 354, 381, 412, 414, 415, 432, 476, 480. Slosson, A. T 41 Smith, J. B 309 Stamm. J. C 423 Stiles, C. W 131, 278 Van Duzee, E. P 432 Van Dyke, E. C 220 Walton, W. R 182, 318 Washburn, F. L 422 Wellman, C 15 Wheeler, W. M. . . .406 fn., 407 fn. Wickham, H. F 17, 46 Williamson, E. B 229 Wolcott, A. B 115 Wolf, H. T 420 JANUARY, 1911. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Vol. XXII. No. 1. Major John Eatton Le Conte, 1784-1860. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M. D., Editor Emeritus. 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CONTENTS: Editorial Changes i Coolidg;e& Clemence — AnewHesperid 3 Rehn and Hebard — Orthoptera found about Avveme, Manitoba 5 Felt — A new Lestodiplosis Jo Coolidge- A dav with Euchloe cethura n Girault— Standards of the number of eggs laid by Insects — IX 14 Wellman— A new American Sitarine Beetle (Col., Lvttid.) 15 Cockerell— A new Bee from N. Y. State 18 and Paine— Mallophaga from Bolivian Birds 19 Rohwer — A new genus of Nomadine Bees 24 Allard— The Musical Habits of some New England Orthoptera in Sep- tember 28 Editorial 40 Notes and News 41 Entomological Literature 42 Doings of Societies 46 Editorial Changes. (Plate I) On the thirteenth of October, nineteen hundred and ten, the Chairman of the joint Publication Committee of the Entomo- logical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- adelphia and of the American Entomological Society, having in charge ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, received the following letter : "Philadelphia, Oct. I2th, 1910. "MR. E. T. CRESSON, "Chairman Publication Committee. "DEAR MR. CRESSON : ''I hereby tender my resignation as editor of ENTOMOLOGI- CAL NEWS to take effect December fifteenth, 1910. At that time, if I am alive, I will have served twenty-one years as editor of the journal, and the NEWS may be considered to be of age and over the nursing period. I will still have a warm interest in its welfare, and will do what I can to make its future a success. I suggest that you call a meeting of your Committee in the near future for the purpose of selecting an editor and an associate editor. "Very sincerely, "HENRY SKINNER." 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll The Committees held a meeting on October twenty-seventh and, knowing that it had been Doctor Skinner's intention for many months past to lay down his editorship, accepted his resignation, and elected him Editor Emeritus. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, associate editor since January, 1893, was chosen editor and Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., associate editor. To the vacancy created in the Advisory Committee by Mr. Cresson's election as associate editor, Mr. Erich Daecke was chosen. The new editors think that they may fittingly present to their subscribers and readers at this time a portrait and brief sketch of the Editor Emeritus to whom this journal is chiefly indebted for its past life. Henry Skinner was born in Philadelphia, March 27, 1861. He studied in the college and medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He en- gaged in the practice of medicine until 1901, when he devoted his whole time to entomology, becoming in that year an as- sistant to the Curators of the Academy of Natural Sciences, in charge of the Entomological department of that institution. Previously, from December, 1889, on, as Curator of the Amer- ican Entomological Society and Custodian of the Entomolog- ical Section of the Academy, he had given only a part of his time to the care of the collections of insects. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS was begun with the number for January, 1890, with Eugene M. Aaron as editor and an Ad- visory Committee consisting of Messrs. George H. Horn, M.D., Ezra T. Cresson, Henry Skinner, M.D., and Philip P. Calvert. With the number for March, 1890, Dr. Skinner began his editorial connection with this journal which he has now loos- ened, but not severed. Volume I of the NEWS comprised 168 pages and no plates; Volume XXI, 484 pages and 14 plates, an increase for which we thank our numerous friends and supporters of the past score of years. May they continue to give us the support which they have given to our Editor Emeritus. May he enjoy many years of health and strength and the happiness of seeing his "nursling" grow and prosper ! Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3 A. New Hesperid. By KARL R. COOLIDGE and VICTOR L. CLEMENCE. Achalarus pseudocellus, spec. nov. $, Upper surface of primaries, brownish-black, somewhat lighter along the external margin, and sparsely dusted with whitish atoms; a macular band extending from costa across end of cell and abruptly terminating about 2.5 mm. from lower angle ; this band is divided by the nervules into five spots as follows: first, quadrate; second, elon- gate; third, with the nervules, y-shaped, and projecting outwardly; fourth, quadrate; and the fifth, triangular; the formation of this band is similar to that of cellus and is quite regular, the fifth spot, however, varying considerably in size and shape; color of first spot, pure yellow; the second, orange, slightly tinted with yellow anteriorly; the others all orange; midway between this band and the apex a small procurved whitish-yellow bar; otherwise immaculate. Secondaries concolorous with primaries, immaculate. Fringes of primaries at lower angle whitish, becoming black checkered as they approach the apex, where there is usually a distinct whitish patch of fringes. Fringes of sec- ondaries checkered black and gray. Primaries beneath with spots re- produced; color as above but considerably lighter along outer margin and dusted sparsely with grayish scales; inner angle clouded with buff; in some specimens a distinct whitish point below bar of costa, and in others another similar point immediately outward of end of costal bar; one or both of these may reappear faintly on the upp^r surface. Sec- ondaries beneath brownish ; two irregular, wavy dark brown bands, heavier than the ground color; between these bands and along the outer margins the coloration is pallid ; scattered gray scales, heavier at anal angle than elsewhere. Fringes of primaries beneath as above; on secondaries the fringes are brownish, the whitish of above being greatly diminished. Antennae brown, with a white color at base of club; beneath whitish-yellow; thorax and abdomen dark brown; palpi yellowish-gray. Expanse. — 1.30 to 1.50 inch. 9--— We do not discover any essential differences in the female, either as to size or ornamentation. Type Loc. — Ramsey Canon, Huachtica Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona. 5.000 — 7.000 feet altitude. Described from 2 $ $ and 259 types in the collections of Coolid^e and Clemence, and from 67 co-types, five of these in the collection of Dr. Barnes. 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Our first specimens of pseudocellus were taken on June 7th, and from then on until July loth it was on the wing in abun- dance. Ccllus first appeared about the middle of June, but was not plentiful until July. We at once noted that there were two distinct species, and upon careful examination we found very striking characters. The white color at the base of the club in the new species is distinctive, and the undersides of the secondaries are not flecked with the prominent blue metal- lic scales of ccllns. Pseudocellus is also of a considerably smaller size, although varying somewhat. The band of the primaries above in cell us is clear yellow, but orange in pseudo- cellus. The fringes of the upper surface of the secondaries in cellus are yellow, but gray in pseudocellus. The above differences will at once serve to distinguish the two species. Moreover, Dr. William Barnes writes us that, "We have looked over our box of cellus, and find that we have about one hun- dred of the large form and thirty or forty of the smaller. Have series of each and find they are very uniform. There is no doubt but there are two species, and I think without doubt the larger one is cellus, as it agrees quite well with the figure of Boisduval and Leconte, and we can go no further as there is no description." Dr. J. McDunnough has very kindly examined and drawn the genitalia of both species, and we find them to be obviously different. We shall deal with this in a future article. He also writes that a specimen of pseudocellus in the Barnes collec- tion bears the label, "W. Va.," while all the others are from Arizona. It is rather astonishing that such a striking species should so long have escaped notice. Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and August Busck, of the Bureau of En- tomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, will leave for Panama in January to search for parasites of the citrus white fly (Aleyrodes citri) and the cotton boll weevil and allied species, and to make a study of the entomological fauna of the canal zone. Vol. XXl'i] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 5 Orthoptera found about Aweme, Manitoba. JAMES A. G. REHN AND MORGAN HEBARD. During the season of 1909 the following series of Orthoptera was taken by Mr. Norman Criddle, and is now in the collection of the junior author, with the exception of sets from the larger series, which are in the collection of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. A collection was also made by Mr. Criddle for Dr. E. M. Walker, and the records have been published in the Canadian Entomologist, Volume XLII, Nos. 8, 9, 10 and n. Dr. Walker records the following species from Aweme, which are not in our series: — Labia minor (L.), Tctrix ornatus (Say) Cordillacris cincrca (Brun.), Philobostroma quadriin- uculatum (Thorn.), Encoptoloplnts parz'iis Sc., Camnula pel- lucida (Sc.), Hippiscns ncglcctus (Thorn.), Scuddcria curvi- cauda (DeG.), Idionotus brevipes Caud., Udeopsylla nigra Sc., and Oecant hits nigricornis quadripunctatus Beut. The species in our series not before recorded from Aweme are as follows: Akentetits unicolor McN., Mecostcthus lineatus (Sc.), Melanoptits fcmur-rubntm (DeG.), Mclanoplus pack- ardii Sc., Melanoplus Inridus Dodge, Melanoplus bivittatus (Say), Conocephalus saltans Sc. Of these Melanoplus luridus Dodge is recorded from Western Canada for the first time; Akentetits unicolor McN. and Melanoplus packardii Sc. are first records for Manitoba. The notes on habitat have been supplied by Mr. Criddle. Acrydium granulatum Kirby. June 3 ; 2 $ . Acrydium acadicum (Sc.) June 2, 3, 4 ; 2 $ , 5 9 . 3 in dry woodland, I in damp open woods. Acrydium hancocki (Morse). June 2, 4 ; 2 ? . i damp open woods ; i in dry woodland. Akentetus unicolor McNeill. Aug. 22 ; i ? . On dry prairie. This species has formerly 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll been recorded from but one Canadian locality, Walsh, Sas- katchewan. There is no trace of rudimentary accessory lateral carinae of the pronotum. Amphitornus coloradus (Thorn.) Aug. 22; I $ , 7 ? . Grass prairie land. Chloealtis abdominalis (Thorn.) July 29; i$ ; Aug. 3; I $ ; Sept. 15, 29; i $ , 3 $ . One specimen was taken in meadowland, the rest from the prairie. This species appears late in the season ; July 29 is the earliest date among numerous records given by Dr. Walker for the capture of an adult. The junior author also found that at Pequaming, Michigan, the species did not appear until August. Chorthippus curtipennis (Harr.) Aug. 3, 9, 18, 21, 27, 29; 16$ , 109 ; Sept. 25; 55, 7$. The series was taken in meadowlands. 3 $ and 6 $ only, have long wings ; but two specimens have the lateral lobes of the pronotum distinctly green. Gomphocerus clavatus Thorn. June 29; T$ ; July 10; i $ , i 5 ; Aug. 3, 22, 25 ; I $ , 5 5 . Four specimens were taken in damp meadowlands, the rest on the dry prairie. Stirapleura decussata Sc. June 7, 9; 3 $ , 3 3 ; July 9, 21, 29; i $ , 7 9 . The speci- mens were taken on dry sandy land and on a dry hillside. Ageneotettix deorum Sc. Syn. — A. scudden (Brun.) Aug. 22 ; 4, 5 . Taken on the dry prairie. The Eremnus scudderi, recorded by Dr. Walker, is based solely on McNeill's combination of these names. The genus Eremnus, as later shown by McNeill, is invalid and must be replaced by Ageneo- tettix. Mecostethus lineatus (Sc.) Aug. 30; i $ . Meadow. This is the first definite Canadian record for this species. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 7 Mecostethus gracilis (Sc.) Aug. 9, 18, 19, 30; 7 $ . Damp meadowland. Arphia frigida (Sc.) May 1 6, i 5 ; June 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29; 2a<2 , 19 5 ; July i, 29; 3 $ , 2 9 . As in Dr. Walker's series from Saskatchewan, these specimens exhibit a great variability in the color of the wings. The great majority of the speci- mens are yellow-winged ; one specimen has wings of quite as deep a shade of red as A. psendonietana, while specimens hav- ing wings of a color intermediate between these two types number quite a few. The yellow sutural stripe of the teg- mina is present in but two specimens. Arphia pseudonietana (Thorn.) Aug. 13, 1 8, 27, 30; $$ , 3 $ . Sept. 6, 30; 2 $ , i 9 . All taken on the prairie. Hippiscus tuberculatus (Pal. de B.) May 26, i $ ; June 3, 5, 9, 10, 19, 21, 23; 95 , 5 9 . Label- led : damp meadow, near woods, dry land, open meadow in woods. Hippiscus maculatus Sc. June 2, 9, 19, 23 ; 7 $ , 5 $ . Labelled : dry prairie, dry sandy hill, dry sandy land. All the specimens before us have the disc of the wing very pale lemon yellow, with the exception of one male which has that part of the wing colored pale sal- mon pink. With the small amount of material at hand we are unable to decide the validity of the several closely allied species: Hippiscus maculatus, tigrinus, latifasciatiis and zapotccus (?). The series before us belongs assuredly to but one species ; we have used the name "maculatus" as the spec- imens agree with the description of that species, and of the species above mentioned this name has priority of date. As Dr. Walker has mentioned in his recent paper, Scudder's char- acters for this genus are almost wholly useless, and, in con- sequence, it probably contains numerous synonyms. Dissosteira Carolina (Linn.) July 30, 2 $ , i $ . All taken on a sand bank. 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Spharagemon collate (Sc.) Aug. 18, 27, 30; ii $ , 10 9 ; Sept. 6, i $ ; Oct. i, 2$ . Few of this series have the collar of the pronotum marked lighter than the general color of the insect. All taken on the prairie, many in sandy situations. Spharagemon bolli Sc. July 26, i $ ; Aug. 19, i 9 . Both specimens captured on the prairie. Mestobregma kiowa Thorn. July 26, 29; 12 $ , 5 5 ; Aug. 3, 26; i $ , i 9 . All taken on dry hillsides and prairie land. Trimerotropis agrestis .McN. Aug. 22; 17 $ , 8 9 . All taken in drifting sand. Circotettix undulatus Thorn. July 25, 26; 2$ , 3 9 ; Treesbank, Manitoba. The specimens were taken on a sand beach. Melanoplus atlanis Riley. July 10, 13, 14, 15, 1 6, 24; 105,99 : Aug. 11, 14, 18; 53, 3 9 : Sep. 15, 16, 18, 25 ; 4 5 , i 9 : Oct. i ; 2 9 . All but six specimens of this series of thirty-four, have the caudal tibiae colored pale glaucous. Taken in dry fields, cultivated land, low lands and on the sandy prairie. Melanoplus dawsoni (Sc.) Aug. 3 ; r 9 : Sep. 15, 29 ; 3 $ , i 9 : Oct. i ; 3 $ , 2 9 . The series was captured on the dry prairie, on the edge of wet land and in meadowlands. All are brachypterous. Melanoplus gladstoni Sc. Aug. 15, 21, 22, 23 ; 6 5,3 9 : Sep. 15, 16, 18, 25, 29 ; 3 $ , 6 9 : Oct. i, 2, 3 ; 3 $ , 3 9 . Almost the entire series was cap- tured on the prairie. A very few specimens were taken in the dry scrub and in damp meadow lands. Melanoplus femur-rubrum (DeG.) Aug. 30 ; i 9 . In meadow. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 9 Melanoplus extremus (Walk.) July i ; i 5 . In damp meadow. In this individual the teg- mina extend to the base of the genicular arch. Melanoplus angustipennis (Dodge). July 14, 15, 19; 4' $, i$ : Aug. 15; 4$, 2 9- : Sep. 8, 16; 2 $ , 2 $ : Oct. i, 6; 8 $ , i 9 . Captured in the following locali- ties : dry field, dry edge of bush, low open bush, prairie, damp meadow, edge of wood. The low bush land seems to be the favorite habitat of this species. All the specimens in this series have red tibiae. Melanoplus packardii Sc. July 14, 15:45,9$. All taken in a dry field. Melanoplus minor (Sc.) June 22, 23 : i $ , i $ . The male was captured on dry land, the female in a damp meadow. Melanoplus luridus (Dodge). Aug. 3, 15, 30; 2 $ , i 5 : Sep. 16; i $ . Taken in low open bush, dry field and dry sandy land. Melanoplus bivittatus (Say). July 14, 15; 2$ , i $ : Aug. 19, 30; 5 $ : Oct. 1,6; 4$ . This series was captured in meadowlands and cultivated areas. Scudderia pistillata Brunn. Aug. 8, 9, ii, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27; ii $ , 5 9 . Labelled; in meadowland, in high weeds in meadow, among sandy hills, in dry bushy land; the last situation being apparently pre- ferred by this species. Conocephalus fasciatus (DeG.) Aug. 21, 22; i $ , 8 $ , i nymph. All taken in meadowland. Conocephalus saltans (Sc.) Aug. 3 ; i $ , i 5 - Taken on the prairie. Anabrus simplex Hald. July 18, 23 ; 4 $ . Captured on the prairie. Gryllus pennsylvanicus form neglectus Sc. June 21 ; 3 $ , 2 $. : Sep. 12, 13, 22, 23 ; 5 $ , 2 9 . IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll 9 Caudal Femur. Ovipositor. June 21 9.5 mm. n June 21 9.5 mm. n Sep. 12 9.5 mm. 16.5 Sep. 23 10 mm. 17 Nemobius fasciatus form abortivus Caud. Sep. 22; 4$ : Oct. 5, 6; 3°.. The series was collected in meadowlands. Length, elytra, male, 4 to 4.5 mm., female 3 to 5 mm., poste- rior femora, male 4.5 to 5 mm., female 5.2-6 mm., ovipositor, 5 to 8 mm. Two of the females have short rounded tegmina, these two' have ovipositors 5 and 7 mm. in length. A New Lestodiplosis. BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The species described below was reared by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend of Piura, Peru, from Hemichionaspis minor Mas- kell, and submitted to the author for determination through Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Entomol- ogy- Lestodiplosis peruviana n. sp. Male. — Length, i mm. Antennae twice the length of the body^ rather thickly haired, yellowish, the basal nodes of the flagellate seg- ments slightly fuscous ; fourteen segments, the fifth having the two portions of the stem, each with a length about three and one-half times the diameter, the basal enlargement subglobose, with a sparse sub-basal whorl of long, stout setae and a well developed circumfilum, the loops of the latter extending nearly to the base of the distal en- largement, which latter is pyriform, has a length one-half greater than its diameter, a sparse whorl of long, stout setae and basal circumnlum with rather short loops; the distal node with loops reaching nearly to the apex of the segment; terminal segment having the basal por- tion of the stem with a length six times its diameter, the distal en- largement subcylindric with a length three times its diameter and nar- rowly rounded apically. Palpi; first segment probably quadrate, the second rectangular, with a length over twice its diameter, the third as long as the second, more slender, the fourth one-half longer than the third, more slender. Face probably yellowish. Mesonotum pre- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS II sumably light brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and post-scutellum presumably yellowish. Abdomen sparsely haired, apparently yellowish, with a fuscous spot basally. Wings faintly spot- ted near the middle of the third vein and along the branches of the fifth ; subcosta uniting with costa near the basal third, the third vein just before the apex, the fifth at the distal fourth, its branch near the basal half. Halteres yellowish, reddish orange subapically. Coxae yellowish; femora, tibiae and tarsi a variable fuscous straw; claws slender, evenly curved, simple, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment long, slender, with a small, triangular lobe at the internal basal angle; terminal clasp segment somewhat swollen basally ; dorsal plate long, deeply and triangularly emargin- ate, the lobes rounded and sparsely setose ; ventral plate probably broadly rounded, setose. Other structures indistinct. Larva. — Length, 1.5 to 2 mm.; probably yellowish orange. Head long, tapering to a narrowly rounded apex. Antennae slender, taper- ing and with a length nearly twice the diameter of the head ; breast- bone apparently wanting, ocular spot indistinct. Skin finely shagreened, the segments dorsally, each with subdorsal, sublateral and lateral setae near the anterior third, the longest having a length equal to about half the body diameter; terminal segment reduced, with a diameter about half that of the preceding segments and distally with a median, rounded process. Conical, fleshy prolegs occur on body segments 2-10. The above descriptions were drafted from balsam mounts and the color characteristics as a consequence are hardly those of the living insect. A Day with Euchloe cethura. By KARL R. COOLIDGE. Euchloe cethura, a butterfly confined to Southern Cali- fornia, is a much to be desired prize. About Pasadena we looked for it minutely, but always without success, and it seems at the present time to have disappeared. In former years, however, it was taken here in considerable numbers and is said to have been abundant at Elysian Park, between this city and Los Angeles. Learning that it occurred quite commonly in the vicinity of San Bernardino, we decided to pay a visit there in quest 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll of the little beauty, and incidentally pay our respects to Mr. William Greenwood Wright, the pioneer Lepidopterist and author of the "Butterflies of the West Coast." March 6th found Pasadena wrapped in a dense fog, and for a time we feared that our prospects were very meagre. However, after an hour's ride from Pasadena, passing through mile after mile of citrus groves, we were greeted by the sun shining forth un- hindered by fog or clouds. San Bernardino, with its snow capped mountains looming up behind it, was reached about ten, and we proceeded at once to F Street, where we were fortunate in finding Mr. Wright at home. Hearing we were fellow "bugologists" he greeted us with open arms and de- voted himself entirely to our entertainment. Several hours was spent in looking over his valuable and extensive collec- tions, with exception of his types which he has wisely placed in safe storage. Then, hitching up "the old hoss shay," we drove to Little Mountain, about two miles to the north of the city, accompanied by our host, who assured us we would be successful. After a hard scramble we reached the summit, and Mr. Wright, though he must be well along in the sixties, kept pace with us, giving one of the best illustrations of what the study of entomology accomplishes for her students, per- fect health in old age. In less than half an hour our first cethura was bagged, and before the day's hunt was over, seven more fell victims to our butterfly nets. One of the specimens taken is typical of E. cethura descrti which Mr. Wright, in his Butterflies of the West Coast, describes as a desert form of cethura. It seems, however, to be but an individual variant. Little atten- tion was paid to other species, but occasionally a specimen reached the "Happy Flying Grounds" via the unlimited Cya- nide Route. Thecla dumetorum was in its prime, flying in large numbers, and T. iroides was not uncommon. Up on the summit the little Alypia riding sii gyrated about and we could have taken a large series had we so desired. Now and then the swift Cotias eurydice whizzed by, and a stray Papilio soli- Vol. XXJi] KXTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 13 caon flew lazily about. Tlwuaos jnrenalis we found abundant, and several early Melitaea u'rightii and M. an gust a were net- ted. The everywhere P. rapac, E. sara reakirti and others were noticed. We had an additional pleasure in having the exact type localities of Melitaea zvrightii, M. an gust a and M. ccrrita pointed out to us. About three o'clock our appetites got the best of us, and in a half falling-sliding manner we returned to the buggy, where cold chicken, pie, and other related species of edibles awaited us. Needless to say, we were quite as successful with these as we had been with the butterflies. Still another pleas- ant hour remained before our train pulled out, and we found the time all too short. Mr. Wright ceremoniously labeled the day "Cerrita Day," after M. cerrita, over whose type locality we had sacrilegiously tramped. The laws of nomenclature compels us, to our regret, to change the name to "Wrightii Day," perhaps more appropriate, as cerrita was taken in com- pany with and appears to be but an extreme aberration of M. leanira wrighti Edwards. Truly, we shall look back with pleasure to "Wrightii Day" —our first introduction to the dainty Euchloc ccthura, and to William Greenwood Wright, one of the few men now living who had for his contemporaries and friends such men as Wm. H. Edwards, Henry Edwards, Samuel H. Scudder, Hermann Strecker, and Dr. Behr. Euchaeria socialis — The larval nest of this interesting species, closely allied to our Neophasia, is put to a curious use by the Mexicans in the Sierra Madres of Sonora. The nest, being of a tough and leathery texture, is deprived of its occu- pants and becomes metamorphosed into an excellent tobacco pouch. Many a senor, senora and dark-eyed senorita defty roll their cigaritos from species of "My Lady Nicotine" drawn from plundered larval nests of E. socialis. The Trustees of the Mass. Agric. College dedicated the new building for Entomology and Zoology Friday, Nov. n, 1910, at Amherst, Mass. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'ii Standards of the number of eggs laid by Insects — IX." Being Averages Obtained by Actual Count of the Combined Eggs from Twenty (20) Depositions or Masses. BY A. ARSENE GIRAULT. 13. BLATELLA GERMANICA Linneus. No. Date 1910 No. counted per mass Successive Totals Av. per Egg Mass Max. Min. Range I Sep. 20 38 38 38. 2 40 78 39 3 40 118 39-3 4 40 158 39 5 5 48 206 41.2 48 6 38 244 40.6 7 42 286 408 * 8 44 330 41.2 9 38 368 408 10 42 410 41. ii 40 450 40.9 12 Oct. i 42 492 41. 13 36 528 40.6 H 38 566 404 15 39 605 403 16 44 649 405 I? 44 693 40.7 18 34 727 40.3 34 19 40 767 40.3 20 44 811 40.5 14 811 40.5 48 34 U Finals The egg-capsules used here were taken from living females occurring in a kitchen of a hospital at Dunning (Chicago), Illinois, September 15, 1910; they had all been rotated. When the embryos neared perfectness they were dissected out and counted. This procedure is not necessary, however, for the outline of each egg is well denned exteriorly and their num- ber is easily determined. As a rule there are an equal number of eggs in both sides of any single capsule, hence the even numbers shown in the table. Wheeler (Journal of Morphology, Boston, III, 1889, p. 292) states that oviposition occurs at all times of the year. The same author (Ib., p. 301) gives the average number of eggs * For the first eight of this series, see ENT. NEWS, 1901 , p. 305 ; 1904, pp. 2-3 ; 1905, p. 167 ; 1906, p. 6 ; 1907, p. 89 ; 1908, pp. 4, 383 ; 1909, pp. 355-357- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 15 iii a capsule (taken from 34 specimens) as being near 40 and the range from 28 to 58. "The number varies in different localities and is doubtless dependent on the food of the female insect. In several capsules obtained where amylaceous food was abundant the average was much higher than in a much greater number of capsules obtained from a place where fatty food was the only diet." In the same place on a later page (p. 302) he again states: "Taschenberg (46) claims that the female regularly lays only one capsule and dies soon after its deposition. My observa- tions on fifty females, whose wings were clipped as soon as they had formed their first capsule, have convinced me that they certainly lay two perfect capsules as a rule, and possibly more, in the course of the year." Wheeler is also certain that the young hatch without assistance from the female a fact easily observed by keeping egg-capsules isolated and protected from dryness. The young escape without difficulty from them. It follows from what has been written in this connection that the total number of eggs deposited by single females of this species will have to be determined by observation on living females kept under as natural conditions as possible. The number must average at or above 80. A New American Sitarine Beetle (Col., Lyttid.). BY CREIGHTON WELLMAN, Oakland, California. The writer recently received for determination from Pro- fessor S. J. Hunter, of the University of Kansas, a collection of Lyttidae secured last June by Mr. F. X. Williams, of the same University, in Gove County, Kansas. Among the speci- mens are a series found by Mr. Williams in bees' nests and which represent an interesting new species described in the following paper. These insects belong to the genus Hornia Riley (hitherto known to contain but a single species) which is the only genus representative of the Sitarini yet found in the western hem- l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll isphere with the exception of the Old and New Mexican genus Lconidia Ckll. (containing two species) from which Hornia may be separated by the following table : 1. (2) Antennae of 10 articles, abdomen partly membranous, claws unarmed • • Hornia Riley. 2. (i) Antennae of 10 articles, abdomen entirely subcorneous, claws armed with a long basal spine Leonidia Ckll. The new Hornia may be characterized as follows : Hornia gigantea n. sp. Color, head dark castaneous with irregular ferrugineous markings on the frons and vertex, thorax black clouded with castaneous, scutel- lum brownish black, elytra transparently ferrugineous the sutural mar- gins slightly infuscate, abdomen with chitinous portions colored much as head and thorax, legs black ; head broadly triangular, back and sides with black pubescence ; labrum transverse, somewhat excavated on its upper surface, apically broadly rounded, the free edge thickly fringed with short golden hairs a few of which are paler and subsetac- eous, the lateral margins slightly raised, the punctuation finer and thicker towards the center; clypcus transverse, anterior border almost straight, sides and posterior border somewhat convex, punctuation rather stronger and more irregular than that of labrum; mandibles black, robust, rather sharply truncate ; labial palpi with last article longer than the other two and fusiform, the extreme apex knobbed; maxillary palfii with first article minute, second very long, obconical, third shorter, also obconical, the last rather shorter than preceding, fusiform (slight- ly obconical) apex broadly and roundly truncate; antennae submonili- form, first article shortly subglobose, second similar but smaller, third to tenth gradually becoming more cylindrical and slenderer, last article slightly loneer, apically narrowed and truncate, the joint between the tenth and eleventh articles indistinct; eyes small; neck distinct, head and thorax not closely joined; pronohim convex, almost subglobose, narrowed in front and behind, posterior margin everted, pubescence black and most abundant at sides; scuteUum transverse, roundly tri- angular, with a few deep punctures; elytra irregularly and roundly triangular, ora somewhat raised but not prominent, surface irregular- ly rugose, with a few erect black hairs; abdomen large, as in Meloe L., membranous, nine dorsal and seven ventral chitinous plates obvi- ously visible; legs with femora robust, sparsely pubescent, tibiae more strongly pubescent ; tarsi small, claws slender. Sexual characters : $ , the punctuation of the head is sparse, fine and deep, the antennae reach to the middle of the elytra (5.5 mm. in Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 17 the type), the thorax is sparsely and finely punctured, a few coaise punctures intermixed in the center of the disk, the eyes are reniform, the scutellum small, the elytra about twice as large as in the 9 , and the front tibiae armed ; 9 , the head is more coarsely sculptured, the punctures being larger, thicker and more irregular, the antennae reach not quite to the middle of the thorax (3.5 mm. in type), the thorax is very coarsely and strongly punctured, especially on the anterior por- tion of the disk, the eyes are longly oval, the scutellum large, the elytra much smaller and more hairy than in the $, and the front tibiae unarmed. Early stages: Exuvia of third larva hairless and unarmed, nymph Calmost completely transformed), $, much as in imago but not chiti- nized. Length, $, TO mm.; width, 6.7 mm.; 9, length, 19 mm.; width, 7.2 mm. (types); extremes, 24x9.5 mm. $, 14x5.1 mm. 9. Geog. Dist., Gove Co., Kansas (2813 ft.), June, 1910, "para- site in the nests of Anthophora occidentals," 17 specimens (F. X. Williams). Types ( $ , 9 , nymph, larval skin) in the collection of the University of Kansas; cotypes: eight in the collection of the University of Kansas, six in the writer's collection. The variation in the size of the elytra, in the color and in the dimensions of the specimens is considerable. They may be told at a glance from the only other species in the genus (minutipennis Rilev) by the marked difference in facies. The following table will facilitate the more exact separation of the two species : 1. (2) Light ferrugineous, head slightly wider than pronotum, which is subparallel at sides minutipennis Riley. 2. (i) Dark castaneous, head almost a third wider than pronotum, which is markedly arcuate at sides gigantea Wellm. The species just tabulated represent the extreme of degen- eration from parasitic habits as it occurs among the Lyttidae, and Mr. \Yilliams' discovery is most important, suggesting as it does that further careful examination of bees' nests may reveal other striking additions to our coleopterous fauna. PROFESSOR H. F. WICKHAM, Professor of Entomology at the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, wrote in November : "Although entomology is entirely elective here, I have 100 students working at it." l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll A new Bee from New York State By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. I have just received from Dr. E. P. Felt a couple of speci- mens of Osmia, collected at Karner, N. Y., June 24, 1902. Dr. Felt writes that he has reared a parasite from the species, and is anxious to know its name. It proves to be new, and may be described as follows : Osmia felti n. sp. ? . Length about 12-13 mm. ; head and thorax strongly and closely punctured, dark blue, suffused with green, especially on supraclypeal area, front, mesothorax, scutellums and metathorax ; head rather large. broad, cheeks large and swollen ; clypeus normal, very densely punc- tured, with the lower margin black, smooth and shining, straight, with- out teeth or emargination ; mandibles thick, tridentate; antennae black, scape punctured; no distinct malar space; hair of head and thorax above white, with a faint creamy tinge; a little fuscous hair about ocelli ; hair of face white, but of clypeus largely or moderately mixed with dark fuscous; lower part of cheeks with some fuscous hair: hair of thorax nowhere mixed with dark, that of pleura, metathorax etc. all white; area of metathorax wholly dull, granular, faintly rugulose at base; tegulae shining piceous; wings strongly brownish infuscated; b. n. going basad of t. m. ; legs black, not even the hind coxae metallic; middle femora swollen and obtusely angulate below ; hair of hind tarsi dark fuscous; abdomen shining, rather sparsely punctured, dark steel blue, with white hair on first segment, very short thin fuscous hair on the others, and a slight fringe of minute shining hairs (not making a visible band) on the third and following segments; sides with some white hair; ventral scnpa black; last dorsal segment with appressed pale yellowish hair. In all thin,?? this is very close to 0. densa Cresson, but densa has much long- coarse black hair on the face and front, the dark hair of the abdomen is longer and more evident, while the shining red or pale hair so evident on the middle basitarsus of densa is scarcely or not developed in felti. The type locality of 0. densa is Pike's Peak, Colorado. It ex- tends thence northwestward to Washington State. O. felti might be regarded as a geographical race or sub-species, but even so it would deserve recognition. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 19 Mallophaga from Bolivian Birds. By V. L. KELLOGG and J. H. PAIXE, Stanford University, California. The following" determinations and descriptions of new spe- cies of Mallophaga refer to a small collection of specimens from Bolivian birds in 1901 by the late Perry O. Simons. (This unfortunate collector of birds for the British Museum was murdered by Indians in the Bolivian mountains in 1902 (?) In Simons' notes the birds are listed only under Bolivian vernacular or descriptive English names, and we are unable to ascribe them with certainty to their proper species. The English names reveal at least their general sort, as duck, hum- ming bird, eagle, etc. Docophorus laticeps Giebel. Several specimens from the "white-headed oriole" (Choro, Bolivia, 3500 metres, dry season). Docophorus communis Nitzsch. Specimens from "bird" (Choro, Bolivia). Docophorus fissi-signatus n. sp. (Fig. 1.) Two females from "desert curlew" (Lagonillas, Bolivia). This species belongs to Piaget's type fisignati from the Spoon bills and Ibises and is the second of this type that we have found on curlews in this country. Description of female. — Body length, 2.4 mm. ; width, 1.06 mm. Signature double. Head : Length, .66 mm. ; width, .68 mm. ; quite dark in color except for the clypeus ; signature double, somewhat lighter in color than the rest of the head except for its two posterior pro- longations ; margin and space between the portions of the signature transparent. Clypeus truncate; rounded on the angles, sides slightly diverging, suture distinct. The antennal bands extend over half the length of the clypeus. A prominent hair arises just forward of the termination of the antenn.-il band and another shorter one on the margin at the termination of this hand; also a short hair near the suture with another long one arising on the dorsal surface further forward ; a hair arising from the ventral surface extending beyond 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'n the lateral margin near the center. On the margin just behind the clypeal suture are three rather long hairs, a short one on the base of the trabeculae and a long one on the margin near the basal segment of the antennae. Temples broadly rounded with three long hairs and three short spines; a hair and one spine arising from the prominent eye. Occiput nearly straight, very slightly sinuous ; the occipital bands are prominent and are prolonged in the antennals. Second seg- ment of antennae nearly as long as the last three; third shortest; sec- ond and third very light in color, the basal and terminal two being somewhat darker. Thorax shorter than head and nar- rower; length, .4 mm. Prothorax, a trifle less than half that length; quadrangular with a lateral marginal band which also extends along the posterior margin nearly to the center. Median portion of segment light in color. Metathorax with sides di- verging, posterior angles broadly rounded and posterior margin con- vex ; a row of pustulated hairs ex- tends around from the straight diverging sides half way to the center of the posterior margin. There are two blotches leaving a narrow un- colored line down the center ; darker marginal bands extend from the an- terior angles to the median uncolored FIG. i — Docophorus fissi-signatus n. s. 9 line. Abdomen elliptical with segments of nearly equal length except the ninth, which is very small and bilobed; color pale except for the dark, sharply denned, triangular transverse blotches on the first seven segments which extend in about two-thirds of the way to the center; These segments also have pitchy lateral bands. A spiracle occurs in a clear space on segments two to seven. The eighth segment is dark in color except along the margin ; two hairs arise near the center of this segment from clear pustules. The last two segments are round- ed, the eighth with straight, almost parallel lateral sides, and a fringe of hairs on the posterior margin. There is a row of hairs across the middle of each of the preceding segments and several in each posterior angle. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 21 Nirmus fuscus Nitzsch. Several specimens from "hawk" (Cochabamba, Bolivia) ; also from "hawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. Several specimens from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Lipeurus epiphanes n. sp. (Fig. 2.) Male and female from "desert curlew" (Lagonillas, Bo- livia). Description of female. — Body length, 2.88 mm. ; width, .56 mm. Head : Length, .6 mm. ; width, .34 mm. ; conical. Clypeus parabolic in front, sides almost straight and parallel ; edge transparent with signature concentric to it ; suture distinct ; a rather long hair at the FIG. 2— Lipeurus epifihanes n. sp.— a, female; 6, tactile hairs ( f the postero-latcral angle of the metalhorax ; c, head of male ; d, last abdominal segments of male. angle between the straight side and the parabolic front, and three long ones at the suture. Sides of head behind the clypeal suture straight, diverging to the antennae and bordered by the prominent antennal bands; these bands turn inward at the clypeal suture, fol- 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll lowing it and almost meeting at the center; three hairs, evenly spaced, on the margin between the clypeal suture and the short trabeculae and another one arising on the ventral surface extending beyond the margin at a point between the anterior two of those mentioned above. From a point near the posterior ends of the antennal bands arise two internal bands which extend obliquely inward a short distance, then curve forward and run parallel to the posterior lateral angles of the clypeal signature. A narrow dark band extends entirely around the posterior part of the head connecting the ocular bands ; temples al- most straight and slightly converging behind the eyes, rounded at the posterior angles ; occipital margin concave ; occipital bands nar- row, distinct. Eye prominent with a short hair on the dorsal sur- face and a short spine at its posterior margin ; six short hairs and spines on the temples. Antennae pale, second segment as long as the last two, third segment shortest. In the male antenna the first seg- ment is large and about as long as the following three segments to- gether ; the second segment comes next in length and the fourth is the shortest; the third has a narrow pointed appendage; there is a horseshoe-shaped blotch at the base of the first segment. Thorax trapezoidal ; prothorax quadrilateral, with sides slightly di- verging behind; coxae show through plainly; length, 16 mm.; width, 28 mm. Metathorax length, .36 mm. ; width at posterior angles, .4 mm.; sides diverging behind; posterior angles rounded; lateral mar- gins notched at a point about one-third the distance from the an- terior angles with a dark blotch, probably marking the suture be- tween the metathorax and mesothorax. There are six hairs arising from the dorsal surface in the posterior angles ; the outer one is very long and arises from a large curious papilla; the second is short, arising from a small papilla ; the other four are very long and close together in a group. (See b, Fig. 2.) The abdomen is long and rather narrow, expanding slightly to the fourth segment which is widest ; last segment bilobed, straight across the posterior margin in the male. There are narrow dark lateral bands on each segment except the last and transverse .blotches, which extend about a third the way across the body, and there are also faint lengthwise median blotches. Each lateral band extends into the segment in front and has two long appendages which curve back making a clear space in the anterior margin of the transverse blotch of the segment to which the lateral band belongs. The blotch on the last segment is median and bilobed ; the margin of this segment is transparent. There are about six hairs on each segment except the last, and several hairs in the posterior angles. In the male the pos- terior margin of the last segment is straight. The genitalia of the male are as shown in Fig. 2, d. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 Goniodes aliceps Tasch. Four specimens from "Colloma" (San Ernesto, Bolivia), "Colloma" being merely the local name, we are able to make from it no determination of the bird, but from the kinds of its parasites we can say, almost with certainty, that it is some species of Tinamou, probably Cryf>tnrus sp. Goniodes agonus Nitzsch. Six specimens, including one male, from "Colloma" (San Ernes- to, Bolivia) collected with G. ali- ceps. The male of the curious species has not heretofore been re- corded. Our male specimen unfor- tunately has the head damaged and FIG. 3 —Last abdominal segments of Goniodes agonus Nitzsch. c? the antennae lost. We figure (fig. 3) the last segments of the abdomen which differ greatly from the female. Colpocephalum osborni Kellogg. Several specimens from "red-headed bustard" (Choro, Boli- via, 3700 metres, dry season). Colpocephalum flavescens Nitzsch. Two females from <|lhawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia, 1350 metres, dry season) : Menopon maestum Kellogg and Chapman. Three specimens from "bird" (Choro, Bolivia). Menopon sp. (juv.). One specimen from "blue finch" (Choro, Bolivia). Trinoton luridum Nitzsch. One specimen from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Trinoton lituratum Nitzsch. Two specimens from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Laemobothrium sp. Two specimens from "grasshopper hawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Although this species differs obviously from any Laemobothrium yet described in satisfactory manner, we shall not add a new species to this genus until the existing species determinations have been thoroughly revised. The genus is at present in a simply impossible condition. Physostomum doratophorum Carriker. Several specimens from three (three species?) "humming- birds." (Choro. Bolivia.) A New Genus of Nomadine Bees. BY S. A. ROHWER, Washington, D. C. Some time ago Professor T. D. A. Cockerell requested in- formation as to the generic position of Pasites pilipes Cresson. Late in October, Mr. J. C. Crawford, Jr., examined Cresson's type, which is in Philadelphia, making sure that the speci- mens in the U. S. National Museum were the same species as the type. On examination it was found that this species rep- resents a new generic, or subgeneric, group in the family Nomadidae, differing from Pasites and the other genera in a number of points. The accompanying figures were made from camera lucida sketches : Nomadosoma new genus. Type of the genus: Pasites pilipes Cresson (Cuba). Rather small bees of Nomadine habitus ; smooth and shin- ing; mandibles simple; maxillary palpi as in figure i; labial palpi four-jointed, the two basal joints as in figure 2, the two apical joints were accidentally broken ; third antennal joint but little shorter than joints four and five; frontal carina almost wanting; scutellum flat, level with the mesonotum, somewhat depressed in the posterior middle ; anterior coxae with short tubercles, which are more distinct in the male, legs of the fe- male more hairy than in male, and more hairy than in most Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Holarctic species of Nomada; gaster as in Nomada, except that it is more flattened in female, with the venter more than / •normally pubescent, tergal segments shining very sparsely punctured; last apical segment of the male entire; fore wing as in figure 3, hind wings normal for Nomada. FIG. i.— Maxillary palpi of Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson , with the articulating maxilla. The shining appearance, flat scutellum and two cubital cells distinguish this at once from its allies. In Robertson's tables (Can. Ent. Vol. 35, 1903, p. 173, etc.) Nomadosoma runs in with Plwr Robertson and Holonomada Robertson. The male FIG. 2.— Two fo basal joints of labial palpi and tongue of Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll runs to Holonomada Robertson. If the cox?e were said to be spined both sexes would run. to Ciphen Robertson. In Ashmead's tables (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. 27, 1899, p. 49, etc.) it will not run satisfactorily. In Cockerell and Atkin's table based on the trophi (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. 10, July, 1902, p. 42, etc.) Noma- dosoma runs to Nomada fucata Panzer. Pasites Jurine, Biastcs Panzer and Nomadita Mocsary be- long to the Nomadinse and have two cubital cells. Pasites and Biastes have the gaster of the female of the cylindrical Noma- dine type, the third antennal joint is much shorter than four plus five, the frontal carina is strong, the body is strongly punctured ; Pasites has the radial cell truncate and the scutel- lum bilobate ; Biastes has the scutellum rounded. Nomadita Mocsary, which is known from the male only, may have the venation as in Heminomada Cockerell, but as it is compared with Biastes perhaps has the venation as in that genus. It has, however, a strong frontal carina and the "scutellum bitubercu- latum." Heminomada Cockerell has the first transverse cubitus (not the second) wanting, and differs in many other ways from Nomadosoma. Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). Cresson (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. 4, 1865, p. 183) de- scribed his Pasites pilipes as follows : "Chestnut-brown, polished; sides of face, clypeus, collar, tubercles, two spots on pleura, postscutellum and narrow bands on abdomen, white; hind legs of $ densely pilose; wings hyaline, costa- apical mar- gin fuscous. "Female.— Chestnut-brown polished, clothed with pale pubescence; face flat, highly polished, impunctate ; sides of the face obscurely, and the clypeus, whitish; cheeks and labrum densely pubescent; anten- nae piceous, paler at base. Thorax indistinctly punctured, pleura and metathorax rather densely clothed with silvery-white pubescence; a line on the collar, tubercles, two spots on pleura, two small spots on scutellum, and the post-scutellum, white; scutellum slightly subbilo- bate; tegulce brown, the outer margins pale. Wings hyaline, faintly tinged with fuscous, slightly iridescent, the costa-apical margin broad- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ly fuscous. Legs chestnut-brown, clothed with pale pubescence, which is long and dense on the posterior tibiae and tarsi; posterior coxas dilated and flattened, with a whitish spot at tip. Abdomen broadly ovate, convex, polished, rather densely clothed with short pale pubescence on the sides and apex; on the middle of the first, second, fourth and fifth segments above, a narrow, rather uneven, whitish fascia, that on the fourth segment interrupted on the middle ; on each extreme side of the third segment a short, narrow, whitish line ; apical segment trun- cate, densely clothed with fuscous pubescence ; beneath chestnut-brown, immaculate. Length 3^ lines; expanse of wings 6l/2 lines. "Male. — Resembles the female, except the abdomen is longer, not so broad, and pointed at tip as in males of Nomada; the posterior legs are not densely pilose as in the $ . Length 3 lines ; expanse of wings 5l/2 lines. "Collection. — Ent. Soc. Phila. Two specimens. "This species has much the general appearance of a Noma- da, and in the $ specimen, the only difference I can see is, that the anterior wings have only two submarginal cells, instead of FIG. 3.— Anterior wing of Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). three ; but in the 9 , the form is more robust, and the hind legs are densely pilose, which is never the case in the females of Nomada." The chestnut color in the specimens in the U. S. National Museum is replaced almost entirely by black. The female came from Cuba, the male was collected by Mr. A. Busck at Baracoa, Cuba, Aug., 1902. PROFESSOR W. M. WHEELER, of the Department of Economic Ento- mology Bussey Institution, Harvard University, started on his vaca- tion November i and spent some days in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll The Musical Habits of Some New England Orthop- tera in September. By H. A. ALLARD, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Primarily to become better acquainted with the call notes of some New England katydids and grasshoppers, the writer spent the first three weeks of September, 1910, at Oxford, Mass. Throughout this period the days and evenings were pleasantly occupied in rambles through the fields and pastures in the beautiful Fort Hill region.* The stridulations of a num- ber of musical Orthoptera were carefully studied. Observa- tions concerning these may be of some aid to those who have become interested in the habits of musical insects. The following species, including a few unmusical ones, were observed or captured: In the fields and meadows : Orchelimum vulgar e Harris ; ConocepJialus ensiger Harris; Amblycorypha rotiindifolia Scudd. ; Scudderia texensis S. & P. ; Scudderia furcata Brun- ner ; Xiphidium fasciatuin DeG. ; Xiphidium brevipcnne Scudd. ; Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burm. ; Nemobins fasciatus (vittatus) Harris; Stenobothrns curtipcnnis Harris; Melanoplus femora- ius Burm. ; Encoptolophus sordidus Burm. In weeds, vines and shrubbery: Occanthus niveus DeG.; Oecanthus angusti- pennis Fitch; Oecanthus nigricornis Walker; Oecanthus quad- ripunctatus Beut. Beneath leaves in damp localities: Ne- mobius palustris Blatchley. In wells, beneath stone piles, etc. : Ceuthophilus maculatus Harris. In lofty trees: Cyrtophyllus perspicillatus Linn.t * About Sept. 22 the writer spent several days at Crestwood, Yon- kers, N. Y. During warm, sunny afternoons many males of Con- ocephalus triops, Linn., were stridulating in the fields and meadows. In a small area hardly larger than 25 square feet, and overgrown with grass, weeds and asters the writer captured half a dozen specimen^. The note is a keen continuous z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z. This Conocephalus is probably common throughout western and southern Connecticut, as the writer heard the same stridulation in this region on his way into New York from Providence. f. The writer is indebted to Mr. A. N. Caudell, of the U. S. Nation- al Museum, who has kindly confirmed or made all identifications of Orthoptera listed in this paper. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2Q The writer arrived at Mr. Howard's farm on Fort Hill in the afternoon of August 29, 1910. At this time the nights had become very cool, damp and autumn-like. Light frosts were expected in low grounds in some localities. As far as the eye could see across the hills, the fields were a fresh, alluring emer- ald green. Hosts of stridulating creatures were active by day and by night, producing a chorus of soothing sounds and har- monies. In the clover fields and in the weeds by the roadsides were small colonies of Orchclimum nil gar e Harris. The notes of this locust are rather soft, and are delivered in a leisurely man- ner, tsip-tsip-tsip-tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. This locust is a late sum- mer species and stridulates persistently by night as well as by day. At night, especially if the weather is chilly, its notes are not as brisk and as persistent as the day notes. Scudder says of its notes : "The night song differs from that of the day simply in its slower movement ; the pitch of both is at B flat, two octaves above middle C." I. ate in the evening and well into the night Conocephalus ensiger Harris, adds to the noisy chorus of insect sounds. This locust prefers the fresh herbage of cultivated fields, and is es- pecially to be looked for in the fields of corn. One oftentimes finds a noisy singer verched 6 or 7 feet from the ground on a corn stalk or tassel. The call notes of this Conocephalus are intermittent and fol- low each other Bather briskly, tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip. These stridu- lations are continued indefinitely, and. to the writer's ears, lack any decided harshness or buzzing characteristic of C. bnineri and others. They are rather soft and lisping, recalling to mind the staccato lisps of an Orchelimum. C. ciisigcr is the only species with which the writer has become acquainted in this regior It is a very common species in nearly all upland lo- calities. One sometimes meets with it in large colonies among the luxuriant weeds and grasses in lowlands. McNeill says of this Conocephalns: "Its song is a loud rasping zip-zip-zip repeated indefinitely." He also states that 3O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll it recalls the staccato lisps of Orchdimum vulgare. The last comparison is more accurate, since the notes of this Cono- cephalus do not impress me as at all rasping. A very common katydid at this season is the pretty Ambly- corypha rotundifolia Scndd. Its notes may be heard at all times during the day as well as during: warm nights. This Amblycorypha occurs everywhere in the grass, weeds and shrubbery of fields and pastures. It was especially abundant among the shrubby pasture growths, consisting mainly of spe- cies of Vaccinium, Gaylnssacia, Kahma angnstifolict, and the two species of Spiraea, i. e., tomcntosa and salicifolia. Its notes are soft and lisping and continue indefinitely. They may be expressed thus : Tsip-i-tsip-i-tsip-i-tsip-i-tsip. These stridu- lations recall the dainty lispings of part of the song of Am- blycorypha ithleri. The writer's observations of its stridula- tions are very similar to those of Scudder. Scudderia texensis S. & P. prefers particularly the open grass and clover fields. At Oxford, Mass., the writer has studied two distinct methods of stridulation produced at will by this Scudderia. The usual note heard from Massachusetts to Geor- gia is a soft sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh occasionally repeated. This note is produced by a rapid shuffling of the wings very briefly. At other times and much more rarely the call consists of a succes- sion of sharp, keen, distinctly rasping notes slowly delivered, /eet-zeet-zeet-zeet. These notes, which are so unlike the usual call, are usually answered at once in a similar manner by an- other individual elsewhere. One is at first tempted to assign them to some other insect. By creeping carefully toward a musician, the writer has watched this mode of stridulation close at hand. The tegmina are very slowly and deliberated opened and rasped upon each other slowly several times. These notes are really more in keeping with the incisive notes of other Scudderias. It is evi- dent that these notes are not accidental. They probably convey some definite meaning to other individuals within earshot. Scudderia texensis becomes noisy as soon as the afternoon Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 31 sun gets low, and continues to stridulate into the evening. These locusts sometimes congregate in small colonies of half a dozen or more in favored spots. It is a persistent singer, al- though its notes are delivered at rather irregular and infrequent intervals, a characteristic of most Scudderias. I have as yet noted only the usual sh-sh-sh-sh at Thompson's Mills, Georgia, where it is very common. Scnddcria fnrcata Brunner, is possibly less common in cen- tral Massachusetts than the preceding species. At least it is much less frequently heard in stridulation. Its calls are de- livered only at long and irregular intervals, and consist of a single, keen, incisive zeep, or sometimes three slowly in suc- cession, zeep-zeep-zeep. One warm, sunn}' afternoon in early September, 1910, in order to locate and capture one of these katydids which had just produced its single zeep. the writer lay down on the grass in the vicinity and waited. The insect did not repeat its note until nearly two hours later, after which the capture was easily made. This katydid stridulates during afternoons and less frequently at night. Its call is delivered only at long and ir- regular intervals, so that much patience must be exercised to locate a singer. Riley's description of the notes of Scndderia fnrcata is very exact: "It consists of a softer zeep, zeep, sometimes uttered singly but generally thrice in succession." A few times the writer has heard in this locality as late as the last week of October the single incisive zeep of some be- lated katydid. The call usually issued from the green foliage of some shrub or apple tree which had delayed shedding the leaves. It is possible that this was the call of Scndderia fnr- cata. Scndderia texensis had long since become silenced by the cold days and nights of this season. The tiny Xiphidhun fasciatnm DeG. prefers the tangles of weeds and grasses bordering the grass fields, and may often- times be found in large colonies. Its notes are extremely faint, and in manner of delivery are the exact counterpart of an Orchelimum's notes. The staccato lisps nearly always precede 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll the phrase tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The entire song may be writ- ten thus: Tip-tip-tip-tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The entire stridula- tion is so faint as to escape the hearing. The staccato lisps, tip-tip-tip, were so faint the writer could hear them only by the closest attention, although the wings could be seen in mo- tion at the time. At this season of the year, with the usual New England breezes stirring the herbage violently, and accompanied by the incessant chirpings of Gryllns pcnnsylvanicus and Nemobius fasciatns rittatus, the attenuated lispings of Xiphidium fascia- turn became quite inaudible. It seems as if the notes of the New England individuals are considerably fainter than those the writer has studied in Northern Georgia. Representing graphically the preceding staccato lisps by dots and the pro- longed phrases tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee by dashes, the successive notes of an individual which the writer observed in a box were thus: It is evident that from three to six staccato lisps preceded each time the phrase tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. This method of repre- senting the notes at once shows the relative frequency of the staccato lisps and the longer phrases, as these vary greatly with different species, both Xiphidiums and Orchelimums. McNeil says of Xiphidium fasciatum : "Its song is a faint echo of that of Orchelimum vulgare. with the zip-zip omitted." He speaks also of its "faint little quaver." It is evident that McNeil had failed to catch the staccato lisps which are always present in the call notes of this tiny locust. Another tiny Xiphidium occurring in all situations in com- pany with Xiphidium fasciatum is Xiphidium brcvipenne Scudd. It is possibly less common in this locality than fascia- tum. The writer could not determine its stridulations in the field, so a number of males and females were placed in a paste- board box together with some grass. In a few minutes a num- ber were in continuous song throughout the afternoon and night. The stridulations of this Xiphidium are the least audi- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 33 ble of any locust the writer has ever observed. Although a persistent singer, the notes become inaudible only a few feet away. In the fields they are quite lost amidst the sounds of rustling foliage, the chirpings of crickets, etc. The notes of Xiplridiiim brcvipcnne are very brief and much more hurried in their delivery than those of X. fasciatum. In this respect they approach more nearly the dainty stridulations of X. nemorale Scudd. In the song of X. brevipenne usually only one or two almost inaudible staccato lisps precede one, two or even three of the brief, faint phrases, tseeeeeee-tseeeeee. The phrases tseeeee are of much longer duration in the song of X. fasciatum, and are rarely heard without the preceding stac- cato lisps which are of indefinite number. Graphically represented, the notes of an individual X. brevi- penne were as follows: .— .- • • Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burm., at this season may be found in great numbers crawling over the grassy upland fields chirp- ing incessantly in the sunshine. Its notes in New England are always a brief intermittent musical chirp-chirp-chirp. Nemobins fasciatus (t'ittatus') DeG. occupies the grassy fields and pastures everywhere, trilling incessantly during the hours of sunshine. In some localities the trill is very brief and shrill tiiii-tiiii-tiiii. In others the trill is exceedingly high and indefinitely prolonged ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti. The prolonged tril- lers appear to be confined almost entirely to dry, grassy, up- land situations. The intermittent singers seem to prefer low, wet grounds. This distribution is rather clearly defined. 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Piers who has carefully studied some of the Nova Scotia Orthoptera, found this Nemobius exceedingly abundant in the fields around Halifax.* His excellent description of its inter- mittent notes is as follows: "Its notes are one of the most familiar sounds of autumn and are heard both during the day and night. The stridulation is produced by lifting the wing covers about 45 degrees above the abdomen and then shuffling them together producing a sound resembling the word plee-e-e-e plee-e-e-e plee-e-e-e or cree-e-e-e. It has been suggested that these notes can be reproduced by taking a silver half dollar be- tween the fingers and striking the coin with the edge of a nickel." A very common little grasshopper in nearly all warm, sunny, grassy situations is Stcnobothrus cnrtipennis Harris. The writer found this insect particularly common in dry upland fields with a sunny southern exposure. Small colonies were always evident by their brief faint silken lispings several times repeated at irregular intervals. This little Acridian is heard only during the day. Its stridulations are produced by sawing the inner surface of both thighs simultaneously against the edges of the tegmina. Blatchley finds it more abundant in In- diana in damp grounds near tamarack swamps. Melanoplns fcmoratus Burm., and Encoptolophus sordidns Burm., are two common field insects in late summer and early autumn. The former is clumsy and apparently unmusical. The latter is a vigorous flyer and produces a lively crepitation during its flight movements over the fields. Four fragile-bodied musical tree crickets occupy almost ex- clusively the shrubbery and vines. These are all species of Oecanthus, namely, 0. mveus, O. angustipenms, O. nigricornis and O. quadripimctatus. Oecanthus niveus DeG. is usually called the fall cricket. This beautiful pearly-winged creature takes up its abode in our grape arbors, hedges, etc. Its notes are low, deep-toned. *. '''Preliminary Notes on the Orthoptera of Nova Scotia," hy Harry Piers, in Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, Vol. IX, 1895-96. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 and solemn in their effect upon the mind. Single singers some- times continue to stridulate by day, but the great synchronal chorus begins at evening. If the night is warm and moon- light, waves of solemn, rhythmical music soon swing backward and forward between the hedges. It is worth while to hear this grand, antiphonal serenade, for it induces a peculiar, in- describable psychic state — an intermingling of sadness and re- poseful meditation. It is a "slumbrous breathing" to the mind of Thoreau. Hawthorne calls it an "audible stillness" which "if moonlight could be heard, it would sound like that." Laf- cadio Hearn in Japan may as well have heard these same sol^ emn cricket sounds when he wrote: "The pleasure-pain of autumn's beauty, the weird sweetness of the voices of the night, the magical quickening of remembrance by echoes of forest and field." This tree cricket sings until the nights be- come so cold that the intermittent c-r-e-a-k — c-r-e-a-k is very slowly delivered. The notes of this cricket have been more carefully described than the notes of most other species, by Davis, McNeil, Fitch, Burroughs, Thoreau, Hawthorne and others. Scudder's description of the song of Oecanthns niretis does not well apply to the intermittent notes of this cricket. He says : "The song of the male is an exceedingly shrill and rapid continuous trill ; its 'dry rosined wings' must play upon each other with wonderful rapidity, for at its slowest, and the rapid- ity varies somewhat, there are at least sixteen beats a second ; the trill is nearly uniform and lasts for from two or three sec- onds to a minute or two."* The shrill pitch and the prolong- ed trill make it very probable that Scudder had heard the trill of 0. nigricornis or 0. quadripunctatus. McNeil aptly re- marks that Scudder's description and musical notation of ui; ens "seems to be the song of fasciatus." Oecanthns angnstipennis Fitch, is considerably less com- mon than the other species of Oecanthns at Oxford, Mass. It prefers the abundant foliage of the sweet fern, and is very *. "Some American Crickets," by S. H. Scudder, in Harper's Maga- zine, Vol. XCIII, October 1896. 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll musical on cloudy days and at night. It may sometimes be heard in low trees. This tree cricket appears to be more sus- ceptible to cold than the others, and sooner becomes silent at the approach of autumn. Its notes are a faint, intermittent phrase — treeeeeee — with nearly equal intervals of silence in- tervening. Davis accurately describes it as "a faint, continu- ous whir, lasting- only about five seconds, with an equal inter- val of rest." Blatchley's description is very similar. W. Faxon* describes them as "consisting of a trill of several seconds' duration succeeded by a short pause; this song suggests the spring note of the toad heard afar off." Occanthns nigricornis Walker is not as arboreal in its habits as the preceding species. It dwells among weeds, grass and golden rods nearly everywhere in fields and pastures. Its song is a steady, quavering, sustained trill. The trill of some in- dividuals is strong, deep and rich-toned, recalling the mellow trill of 0. latipennis. The pitch and volume of sound vary noticeably with different individuals of this species. This Oecanthus is a common species at Oxford, Mass., in August and September. Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beut. is also a common species, preferring the same environment of weeds and low shrubs as 0. nigricornis. The writer has been unable to find any con- stant differences which serve to distinguish the trills of these two species. That of 0. quadripunctatus is long sustained and sometimes shrill. The notes of other individuals are stronger and deeper-toned, recalling the melodious trill of O. latipennis as do those of 0. nigricornis. The stimulations of 0. qnadri- punctatus in New England have always seemed louder and lower-toned to the writer than the weaker and shriller trilling of the same species in Northern Georgia. This Oecanthus is a persistent triller throughout the days and nights. Faxon says: "Song similar to No. 3 (meaning 0. nigricornis} but clearer in tone and no doubt sufficiently distinct on close ac- *. "Habits and Notes of the New England Species of Oecanthus," by Walter Faxon, in Psyche, Vol. 9, No. 300, April 1901. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 quaintance." The writer has not yet been able to distinguish them this readily. Beneath the matted leaves and grass in damp spots and gullies by the roadsides, and in low, wet grounds the little Nemobius palustris Blatchley, dwells. In such situations small colonies of four or five individuals may be heard in stridulation. The striclulation of this pretty Nemobius is a faint, quavering, high pitched trill almost indistinguishable from the trill of the more southern Nemobius janus Kirby. The notes of these two species are so closely alike that the writer thought he had heard N. palustris around Washington, D. C. It proved to be the trill of N. janus, however. Its \veak trill and the habit of keeping well concealed beneath stones and leaves, together with its local and irregular distribution in any locality have no doubt caused this little cricket to be many times overlooked. In comparison with N, fasciatus vittatus, it is not an especially common species at Oxford, Mass. A naturalist, howrever, familiar with its habits and stridulation could capture a fair supply of specimens in this region. It is a very shy cricket and can rarely be seen in stridulation. The writer has taken Ceuthophilus maculatus Harris, several times at Oxford, Mass. Once or twice it was found deep down in the crevices of a stone pile, and at other times in crannies in covered wells. It is an unmusical insect. At Oxford, Mass., the big katydid, Cyrtophyllus perspic Hia- tus L., is not especially common judging from the numbers heard in song at different localities. In some localities it is en- tirely absent, especially in the West Oxford district. Each year one or two small colonies may be heard in some big maples on Mr. Howard's farm near Fort Hill. It is an ex- ceedingly common and noisy insect in some big woods near Quinnebaug, Connecticut. This katydid stridulates almost entirely after dark, although its notes are sometimes heard during the day. There are few insect stridulations as loud, rasping and grating as those of Cyrtoplivllus perspicillatus. It is not by any means an easy 3§ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll matter to locate and capture one of these insects on the topmost branches of a maple. The writer heard a few of these katy- dids on Fort Hill as late as September 20, 1910. At this season when the nights were coolest the notes of this katydid were so slowly and difficultly delivered that they had become almost painfully rasping- and grating in character. One dark, windy night the writer spent an hour or more trying to locate a male in the top of a lofty maple. By the aid of lighted matches the position of the insect was located. The insect was so benumbed with cold that it could barely rasp its tegmina upon each other. Scudder says that its stridulation "has a shocking lack of melody * * so that the air is filled by these noisy trou- badours with an indescribably confused and grating clatter." In many respects autumn is a particularly favorable season for the study of musical insects. Insects are very susceptible to changes of temperature. Many musical insects, which in midsummer stridulate almost entirely after dark, gradually cease their nocturnal stridulations as the autumn nights become colder. Day by day, as the season advances, and the chill of evening becomes more noticeable, the musical katydids and crickets usher in their chorus a little earlier each afternoon, until practically all the nocturnal singers are in full chorus shortly after midday. At Oxford, Mass., the writer entered the following notes in his journal concerning lower tempera- tures and insect stridulations. September 15, 1910, "following recent rains the nights have become very cold. They would be almost silent but for the slow, painful raspings of a few individuals of Cyrtophyllns perspicillatus and the synchronal music of Oecanthus niveits. Amblycorypha rotundifolia becomes quite silent, or at least barely audible if the nights are not too cold. Conocephalus ensiger is less sensitive to the cold and continues to stridulate persistently, even after Amblycorypha rotundifolia has been silenced by the evening chill. Insects which I heard almost entirely after dark a few weeks Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 39 ago I now hear from midday until sunset, when most species again become practically silent. If the afternoon is warm and sunny, however, the fields and pastures are filled with various insect sounds. By the roadsides, in the fields among golden rods and asters, the happy musicians disport themselves. Am- blycorypha rotundifolia, Conocephalics cnsiger, Orchelimum ndgare, Scudderia tc.vcnsis, Scudderia furcata, all are as noisy as they can make themselves. It is a simple matter now to observe and capture almost any musician, for all seem less inclined to fly after experiencing the cold nights of this season. If the weather moderates suddenly and the evenings become warm with threatening thunderstorms, the usual nocturnal awakening follows. Oecanthus nivcus suddenly starts the warm night air into an almost audible pulsation; the big Cyr- tophyllus perspicillatus rasps out a faster tune ; Conocephalus cnsiger, Ainblycorypha rotundifolia and Scudderia furcata lisp their loudest each in his own manner, until it seems as if the silent shrubs of a few nights ago had transformed their leaves into living, lisping creatures." Although the stridulations of insects become noticeably slower and fainter in cold weather, the pitch and manner of delivery characteristic of each species does not materially change. MR. J. CHESTER BRADLEY, Special Assistant Entomologist of the Georgia State Board of Entomology, Atlanta, Georgia, has undertaken the preparation of a preliminary catalog of insects of that State, and will appreciate greatly any co-operation on the part of those possessing r.ecords of Georgia specimens. DR. F. D. GODMAN has acknowledged the receipt, in London, of the first and principal set of his own Mexican and Central American Odonata, described and enumerated in the Blologia Ccntrali Ameri- cana, from Dr. P. P. Calvert. The specimens will be placed in the British Museum of Natural History. MR. R. J. TILYARD'S recently published "Monograph of the genus Synthemis" (Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 1910, Vol. XXXV, pp. 312-377, 6 plates, 2 of them colored) contains some observations on Corduline dragonflies and their affinities, of interest to students of this group in all parts of the world. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a 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 \yith the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged? — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1911. In another place in this number attention has been called to editorial changes in the NEWS staff and the hope has been ex- pressed that the friends^nd supporters of this journal in the past will continue their ^Rd as contributors to its pages and as subscribers to its resources. We ask not only for the systematic, life-history, anatomic and physiologic papers on insects, arach- nids and myriopods, but also for the proceedings of entomolog- ical clubs and societies and all notes, brief or longer, which, to quote the original prospectus of the NEWS, dated December I, 1889, "will keep entomologists en rapport with what is being accomplished in serials and by monographs at home and abroad, and which will also give the items of interesting news concerning explorations and explorers, collections and col- lectors." NOTICE that after January 10, 1911, the NEWS will be mailed only to those who have renewed their sub- scriptions. — • <«» • — SINCE the NEWS is not strictly adverse to the publication of non- scientific entomological articles, I have to record a brief contribution which may not be without interest. Most entomologists are, I pre- sume, without sympathy for the average novel, but two recent books from the pen of Gene Stratton-Porter, "Freckles"' and "A Girl of the Limberlost," may not only offer some entertainment to Lepidopterists, but the beginner may possibly gain some knowledge from them. Such statements as are made in the latter work, however, that Citheronia regalis is the rarest moth in America and "worth a dollar apiece" are unfortunate, as they may prove misleading to any who might be influenced by these two books to enter the study of entomology.— KARI, R. COOUDGE. 40 Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 41 Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. THE Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State University, lately issued an invitation to its friends to call and in- spect the collection of Butterflies and Moths recently donated by Mrs. Catherine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana, to the Department ; a special exhibition of this collection was given on December 8th, gth and loth, 1910, in Biological Hall, of the University. THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN promises to be a magnificent foundation when entirely completed. It contains two colleges — the College of Arts and Science and the College of Agriculture. Prof. T. N. Willing, the well known entomologist, is Professor of Natural History and Secretary of the College of Agriculture. The college is indebted to Prof. Willing for the use of his well-chosen museum, con- sisting of plants, insects, birds, fur bearing and other animals peculiar to Saskatchewan. The University is locked in the flourishing town of Saskatoon. PROTAMBULYX CARTERI. — In Dr. William Barnes' List of North American Sphingidae, recently published in Psyche (Vol. XVII, No. 5), he refers to Protambulyx oarteri R. & J. He writes: "Rothschild and Jordan give Florida as a locality for this new species on the strength of a single $ received from the Kny-Scheerer Company." I, myself, captured this specimen and sent it to Baron Rothschild, Dr. Lagai of the Kny-Scheerer Company kindly including it in a lot of Lepidqptera he was sending at the time. After some delay and an offer from the Baron to purchase the specimen it was returned to me. It is now in my collection, having a label in the handwriting of its describer. I have several others of the same species, taken by myself at light in Miami, Florida. — ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. THE undersigned has been working upon the subject of "Insects Injurious to Books" for a number of years, and would be thankful for any information of this character that the readers may be able to give him. — WM. R. REINICK, The Free Library of Philadelphia, I7th and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. WE HAVE lately received an interesting letter from Prof. C. B. Hardenberg, M.A., Government Entomologist, Transvaal Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, Africa. He has fourteen men in the Ento- mological Department, seven being employed as fruit and plant in- spectors. The entomologist is inaugurating a system of note-keeping 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll and recording like that used in the Bureau at Washington. Up to date methods for the care of specimens are also being introduced and new collections are being made as rapidly as possible. "Collecting goes on here all the year, especially in the northern parts of the country and the 'low veld' and I am papering a lot of duplicates for future use. This country is a paradise for Orthoptera, especially Locustidae and Mantidae, the latter often attaining the most absurd shapes and configurations. They are most abundantly found in the wild Acacias, or thorn bushes which dot the veld. "Taking everything into consideration it is a very interesting country entomologically. Very little life-history work or scientific investigation has been done, in fact only the surface has been skimmed here and there, and there is an exceedingly large field for an enthusiastic worker."' Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. |^^"A11 publications noted in the following list are dated 1910 unless otherwise noted. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 3 — The American Naturalist. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 7 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 9 — -The Entomologist, London. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural His- tory, London. 14 — Proceedings, Zoological Society of London. 35 — Annales, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 38 — Wiener En- tomologische Zeitung. 40 — Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 47 — The Zoologist, London. 55 — Le Naturaliste, Paris. 86 — Annales, Societe Entomologique de France, Paris. 89 — Zoologische Jahr- bucher, Jena. 92 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiolo- gie, Berlin. 97 — Zeitschrift fur wissenchaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 123 — Bulletin, Wisconsin Natural History Society, Milwaukee. 128 — Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sidney. 141 Vol. xxil] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 43 — Proceedings, Indiana Academy of Sciences, Indianapolis. 142— Report, Michigan Academy of Sciences, Lansing. 181 — Guide to Nature, Sound Beach, Conn. 186 — Journal of Economic Biology, London. 198— Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 218 — Mikrokosmos. Zeitschrift fur die prak- tische Betatigung aller Naturfreunde, Stuttgart. 239 — Annales, Biologic Lacustre, Brussels. 297 — Bulletin, Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indianapolis. 298 — Ofversigt, Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Forhandlingar. A. Mathematik och Naturvetenskaper, Helsingfors. 299— Mitteilungen der Natur- historischen Gesellschaft zu Hanover. 300 — Ontario Natural Science Bulletin, Guelph. GENERAL SUBJECT. Blatchley, W. S.— The life zones of Indiana as illustrated by the distribution of Orthoptera and Coleop- tera within the state, 141, 1908, 185-191. Brocher, F.— Les phe- nomenes capillaires. Leur importance dans la biologic aquatique, 239, iv, 89-138. Observations biologiques sur quelques Dipteres et Hymenopteres dits "aquatiques," 239, iv, 170-186. Burrill, A. C. — Pine-cone willow gall abundant. Grape-vine gilbert gall, 123, vii, 130-131. Doane, R. W. — Insects and disease. A popular ac- count of the way in which insects may spread or cause some of our common diseases, 227 pp. 1910. Henry Holt & Co. Girault, A. A. — Notes on variation in duration of similar periods of em- bryonic development; its bearing on the theory of effective tem- peratures, 123,, viii, 10-20. Smith, J. B. — The insects of New Jer- sey (list). Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum for 1909. 880 pp. APTERA & NEUROPTERA. Bugnion, E.— Observations rel- atives a 1'industrie des termites, 86, Ixxix, 129-144. Calvert, P. P. — Zoological researches in Costa Rica. Old Penn. Weekly re- view of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. ix, pp. 165-170. Dampf, A. — Mesopsylla eructa n. g. n. sp., ein neuer Floh von der Spring- maus nebst Beitragen zur Kenntnis der gattung Palaeopsylla, 89, Suppl. 12, 609-664. Fahrenholz, H. — Neue Lause. (II Die Larven von Pediculus capitis, 299 D, 1st Jahrb., 57-75, 1910. Frieden- thal, H. — Haarparasiten und Haarkrankheiten des Menschen, 218, viii, 156-163. Muttkowski, R. A. — New records of Wisconsin Dragonflies, 123, viii, 53-59. Tillyard, R. J. — Studies in the life- histories of Australian Odonata, 128, xxxiv, 697-708, 1909. ORTHOPTERA. Schleip, W.— Der Farbenwechsel von Dixip- pus morosus, 89, xxx, 45-132. Walker, E. M. — The Orthoptera of Western Canada, 4,, xlii, 333-340, 351-356 (*). HEMIPTERA. Cockerell, T. D. A.— A new Aleyrodes on Am- 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll brosia, 4, xlii, 370-371 (*). Herrick, G. W. — Tragionia celtis n. sp. 4, xlii, 373-374. Pierantoni, U. — Ueber den Ursprung und die Struktur des eiformigen Korpers von Dactylopius citri und des grunen Korpers von Aphis brassicae, 40, xxv, 61-62. Poppius, B.— Neue Ceratocombiden, 298, Hi, No. 1, 1-14 (*). LEPIDOPTERA. Barnes & McDunnough.— A new Thecla from Texas, 4, xlii, 365-366 (*). Coolidge, K. R.— Notes on the genus Thecla, 4, xlii, 374-375. Cosens, A. — Lepidopterous galls on species of Solidago, 4, xlii, 371-372. Dampf, A. — Zur Kenntnis gehausetragender Lepidopterenlarven, 89, Suppl. 12, 512-608. Forbes, W. T. M. — Larva of Ptochoryctis tsugensis, 4, xlii, 364. Frohawk,, F. W. — The number of larval stages of Lycaena acis, 9, xliii, 305-306. Gibson, A. — A list of butterflies taken at Toronto Ontario, 300, 1910, No. 6, 35-44. Kutschera, G. — Die Larchentrieb- motte, 218, viii, 163-165. Mitterberger, K. — Zur Kenntnis der ersten Stande von Cacoecia histrionama, 92(, vi, 353-354. Pierce, F. N.— Value of genitalia, 9, xliii, 304. Prout, L. B. — New Neotropical Geometriedae (continued), 11, vi, 232-247, 316-333, 432-440, 508-526. Reiff, W. — Ueber das Zirpen der Raupen, 123, vii, 109-110. Richter, V. K. — Beschreibung der Eier von Pieris rapae, Agrotis forcipula, und Mamestra reticulata, 92, vi, 352-353. Rowland-Brown, H.— A note on the new classification of certain Hesperid butterflies, 9, xliii, 306-309. Russell, H. M. — The pecan cigar case-bearer (Cole- ophora caryaefoliella), 7,, Bull. No. 64, pt. x. Smith, J. B. — New species of Noctuidae for 1910, No. 2, 2, xxxvi, 251-266. Thierry- Mieg, P. — Descriptions de lepidopteres nouveaux, 35, liv, 384-390. Descriptions de lepidopteres nouveaux, 55, xxxii, 235, 247-248. Wol- ley Dod, F. H. — A new Autographa from the Alberta rockies, 4, xlii, 349-350 (*). DIPTERA. Brues, C. T.— Some further remarks on the sys- tematic affinities of the Phoridae, with descriptions of new species, 123, vii, 102-108 (*). Coquillett, D. W. — .Corrections to my paper on the type-species of the No. American genera of Diptera, 4, xlii, 375-378. Graenicher, S. — A preliminary list of the flies of Wisconsin belonging to the families Bombyliidae, Syrphidae and Conopidae, 123, viii, 32-44. Reeves, C. D. — A remedy for the Black- fly pest in certain streams of the southern peninsula of Michigan, 142, xii, 77-78. Speiser, P. — Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Dipteren- Gruppe Heleinae, 89, Suppl. 12, 735-754. COLEOPTERA. Blatchley, W. S.— The Coleoptera or beetles of Indiana, 297, i, 1386 pp. (*). Bowe, M.— Beetles and how to col- lect them (popular account), 181, iii, 289-293. Buhk, F. — Stridu- lationsapparat bei Spercheus emarginatus, 92, vi, 342-346. Gebien, Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 45 H.— Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 22: Tenebrionidae II, 167-354. Holste, G. — Das Nervensystem von Dytiscus marginalis, Ein Beit- rag zur Morphologic des Insektenkorpers, 97, xcvi, 419-476. Kolbe, H.— Ueber die Phileurinen Amerikas, 35, liv, 330-354 (*). Lameere, A.— Revision des Prionides (cont.), 35, liv, 368-383. McDermott, F. A. — A note on the light-emission of some American Lampyridae, 4, xlii, 357-363. Moser, J. — Beitrag zur kenntnis der Cetoniden, 35, liv, 355-367. Netolitzky, F. — Bemerkungen zur Systematik in der Gattung Bembidion Latr., 38, xxix, 209-228. Wolcott, A. B.— The Cleridae of the public museum of the city of Milwaukee, 123, vii, 93-102 (*). Xambeu, C. — Moeurs & metamorphoses des especes du genre Rhizotrogus, 55, xxxii, 233-235. HYMENOPTERA. Brues, C. T.— Notes and descriptions of N. A. parasitic Hymenoptera VIII, 123, viii, 45-52 (*). A prelim- inary list of the Proctotrypoid Hymenoptera of Washington with descriptions of new species, 123, vii, 111-122 (*). Butterfield, E. P. —Bees killed by wasps (note), 47, xiv, 396. Cockerell, T. D. A.— Some insects from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, II., 4, xlii, 366-370 (*). Ferton, C. — Notes detachees sur 1'instinct des hymenopteres melliferes, 86, Ixxix, 145-178. Lovell, J. H. — The color sense of the honey-bee: can bees distinguish colors? 3, xliv, 673-692. Managan, J. — Some remarks on the parasites of the large larch sawfly Nematus erichsonii, 186, v, 92-94. O'Brien, R. A. — Remarks on the habits of the Green Tree-Ant of Australia (note), 14, 1910, 669-670. Schrottky, C. — Neue sudamerikanische Arten der Bienengattung Anthidium, 38, xxix, 267-271. Turner, C. H. — Experiments on color- vision of the honey bee, 198, xix, 257-279. INSECTS AND DISEASE: A popular account of the way in which insects may spread or cause some of our common diseases, with many original illustrations from photographs, by R. W. Doane, A. B., Assistant Pro- fessor of Entomology Leland Stanford Junior University. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1910. Price $1.50, net; by mail $1.62. The wonderful growth of the study of insect-carried disease has necessi- tated a book of this character. While the literature of the subject is very large it is scattered through many publications in this country and abroad and not very accessible to the lay student. This work epit- omizes the subject in a clear manner and affords the interested reader a general knowledge of this important subject. The illustrations are numerous and well chosen and there is a selected bibliography append- ed. It is not so many years ago when the writer of this notice made the remark that house-flies carry typhoid fever, to one of the now prominent students of the subject, who said he did not believe such a 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'iT thing possible. The same thing happened in regard to malaria. The subject of the insect transmission of disease is not a new subject, but its great importance has only been realized in the last ten years. The time is rapidly approaching, when the necessity will arise for books on this important subject relating to one insect, for instance, the house- fly. We are glad to see the present work as we believe it will occupy a useful place. H. S. THE COLEOPTERA OR BEETLES OE INDIANA, BY W. S. BLATCHLEY.— This work is characterized by the author as an illustrated descriptive catalogue of the beetles of his State, exclusive of the Rhynchophora. It represents an enormous amount of labor, which, however, seems fully justified by the results. Its chief importance lies in the fact that it is the only American work yet published which will serve to give, within a single volume, really efficient aid in identifying the Coleopter- ous fauna of a large district. It is a difficult matter to get a publisher for so extensive a treatise unless it deals with a subject much more popular than this one. Mr. Blatchley has followed, in the main, the "Classification" of Le Conte and Horn, relying for specific keys chiefly upon the papers of monographers whose works are cited in the proper places. The result, therefore, is a very orthodox production in which the beginner will find little in conflict with views already published. Following the keys, more extended descriptions of each species are given, with notes upon rarity, modes of occurrence and dates. The whole forms a book of nearly 1400 pages illustrated by 590 figures. In it are treated 3312 species. 2512 of which are known to occur in Indiana and 79 are now described as new to science. The typography is good, so are the figures which are largely original and will be a most welcome addition to the stock available for future writers. The book is just what has been needed by students of this order in the central States, and will certainly be much sought after by public and private libraries. It is handled by the Nature Publishing Co., of Indianapolis, although it was brought out by Mr. Blatchley as Bulletin I of the Indiana Department of Zooloey and Natural Re- sources, in his capacity of State Geologist. — H. F. WICKHAM. Doings of Societies. ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. Meeting of November 17, 1910. Mr. H. W. Wenzel, Vice- Director, presided. Ten persons were present. Mr. Rehn made some remarks on the trip made by Mr. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 47 Morgan Hebard and himself during the past summer in, search of Orthoptera. Portions of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas were visited and extensive collections made. The object of the expedition was to extend the reconnaissance work done in previous years by the same individuals, paying particular attention to certain previously unstudied or poorly studied regions such as the Snake River desert, Idaho ; eastern Oregon ; Mt. Hood, Oregon ; the Walker Lake region, Nevada; Ventura Mts., California; the Gila desert, Arizona, and the Baboquivari Mountains and surrounding valleys, Ari- zona. The returns exceeded the great expectations and hun- dreds of field notes were made, bearing on the distribution and plant relation of many species. A number of new species are known to be included in the collection. Numerous photographs illustrating the types of country visited were exhibited. Mr. H. S. Harbeck was elected an Associate of the Section. HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Recorder. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. A regular meeting was held October iQth, 1910, at 1523 S. 1 3th Street, Philadelphia. Thirteen members were present; Messrs. Dickerson, of New Brunswick, N. J., and Viereck and Crawford, of Washington, D. C., visitors. President Harbeck in the chair. Dr. Skinner said he had noticed the scarcity of insects, even of the common species, on his recent trip to Europe. He de- scribed the various collections in the British Museum and gave an account of the meetings of the World's Entomological Congress in Brussels. Mr. Dickerson said the Catalpa sphinx seems to be traveling in a northeasterly direction in Ne\v Jersey, he having seen specimens from Springfield. He described the parasites' at- tack on the larvae. Mr. Daecke exhibited a male Dytiscus harrisi Kirby (Col.) collected at Highspire, Pa., June 17, 1910, by W. R. Fischer, which seems to be the only Pennsylvania record ; also two 48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll specimens of Calobata geoinetra Desv. (Dip.) collected by him- self at Eberlys Mill, Pa., July 12, 1910, and July 14, 1910. This latter species was first turned up in Pennsylvania by Mr. Champlain, It is a Texas species and is gradually working its way north. Mr. Daecke also said he was in the vicinity of the place where he had found Lema se.vpunctata Oliv. (Col.) on the Virginia day flower last year, and upon examining them found the same species this year. Mr. Laurent described a yard in Wildwood Crest which con- tains several flower beds and covers about half an acre. He said that on October 6th, this year, this bed contained about 5000 specimens of Danais pie. rip pus Linn. (Lep.) evidently gathering to migrate, because when he visited the same place next day none were to be found. There then followed a general discussion by all present on the common house fly. Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following Dip- tcra collected by himself: Phortica alboguttata Wahlberg, from Lehigh Gap, July 12, 1906, a European species which Osten Sacken's Catalog says occurs in N. A. on authority of "Loew in litt" ; Phorantha calyptrata Coq. Castle Rock, Pa., September 26, 1909, listed from District of Columbia, Virgin- ia and Kentucky; Alophora nitida Coq., Pemberton, N. J., July ii, 1909, listed from Potomac Creek, Virginia and Can- ada. Dr. Skinner said he had been elected president of the sec- tion on Nomenclature at the Entomological Congress, in which all the discussions were in English, German, French and Span- ish. He said it was the practice in many parts of Europe to label all the specimens which are under the eye at the time of description "type," but after much argument, pro and con, it was finally decided upon that a rule be passed to have only a single type. Adjourned to the annex. GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. ERRATA IN VOLUME XXI. Page 467, line six from the bottom, for foeresteri read foerstcri. Page 469, for Pterygophorns civetus read P. cinctus. Page 470, seventh line from bottom, for discordal read discoidal. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR VOLUME III OF THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY Official Organ of the Association of Economic Entomologists Editor, E. Porter Felt. Albany, N. Y., State Entomologist, New York. Associate Editor, W. E. Britten, New Haven, Conn., State Entomologist, Conn. Business Manager, E. Dwight Sanderson, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va. ADVISORY BOARD. L. O. Howard, Chief, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept Agr. S. A. Forbes. State Entomologist, Illinois. C P. 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No. 2. CONTENTS: Calvert — Studies on Costa Rican Odo- nata 49 Fall— The Tenth Pleocoma (Col.) 64 Beutenmuller — Descriptions of New Species of Cynipidae ( Hym.) 67 Nunenmacher— Studies Amongst the Coccinellidae, No 2 (Col.) 71 Kellogg and Paine — Mallophaga from Californian Birds 75 79 Pollard — A Remarkable Dragonfly .... Cockerell — A new Chalcidid from an Oak Gall (Hym.) 82 Editorial 83 Notes and News 84 Entomological Literature 87 Doings of Societies 94 Studies on Costa Rican Odonata. I — The Larva of Cora. By PHILIP P. CALVERT, PH. D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. (With Plates II and III) In the course of our entomological researches in Costa Rica, a brief outline of which has already appeared in ENTOMOLOG- ICAL NEWS,* I collected some Odonate larvae of a form hith- erto undescribed and which, it now appears, are certainly of the genus Cora. One of these was found at Peralta, Costa Rica, March 24, 1910, in a shallow brook in the woods west of the railroad station, clinging to a submerged stone. The altitude was about 335 meters, or iioo feet. This larva died a few days later and was preserved in alcohol. A second is recorded in our diary, from Juan Vinas, April 27, 1910, as follows: "About half a mile farther [westward from the farther waterfall along the railroad from Juan Vinas station] is a third fall, or rather cascade, reached by a little trail through a bit of exceedingly thick damp woods full of wild ginger [Costus sp., Costa Rican name canagria], heliconias, * Vol. XXI, pp. 334-337, July, 1910. 49 50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll ferns and caladiums. The stream is extremely pretty and ought to be a favorite haunt of many forest-loving species, but the day was very dark with intervals of rain and we saw no adult dragonflies. After long hunting among the fallen leaves and stones of the brook, P. found a larva with extra gills along the sides of the abdomen. This we suspect may be the larva of Cora, a point still to be determined however." The diary for April 29, 1910, also at Juan Vinas, reads: "To-day was exceedingly dark and at times with very thick mist, altho' there was no heavy rain. While A. wrote in the morning, P. collected some food for some living dragon-larvae gathered here. While so doing he found another and some- what larger larva of the sort which we suspect to belong to the genus Cora. It is remarkable in having attached to each side of some of the forward abdominal segments a finger-like gill, a peculiarity possessed by no other American dragon-larva as far as known. Our chief interest in larva-raising now centres on these two individuals." Still at Juan Vinas, the diary of May 2, 1910, records: "With a lunch, rubber poncho and umbrella, the latter two for investigating the farther waterfall, I set out for that spot, examining the ditch along the [railroad] tracks which carries the water from this fall. In going and coming, I found in all three of the supposed Cora larvae in this outflow. Those found last week lacked the caudal gills which, altho' forming part of the proper' equipment of a whole suborder of dragonfly larvae, seem to be of indifferent use and value, for many larvae lose them by accident or by the bite of a brother or an enemy and yet pass their larval existence as tranquilly and accomplish their transformations as successfully as their brethren. * * * The three larvae found to-day have their caudal, as well as their lateral, abdominal gills, which latter have already been briefly mentioned. The three caudal gills are very odd-looking. They appear as if cut off straight across the tip, instead of tapering as usual, the straight edge [i c. tip] then scalloped into three points. Each gill is much inflated and, as the gills Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 51 are each [a fifth] as long as the short 'pudgy' body, the effect is to give the larva the appearance of 'tail-heavy.' When first taken into the hand these three larvae remained motionless, 'playing 'possum' as it were for a minute or two, and then took to their legs with some speed. In spite of their double equipment of gills, the Cora (?) larvae found do not frequent a different abiding place from less richly 'engilled' dragons, their fellow inhabitants being larvae of Hetaerina, Argia and common types of Libellulinae." The ditch in which these larvae were found was at this time one to two feet wide and rarely as much as eight inches deep ; it contained many small stones on the under sides of which the larvae were found. The waterfall, whose outflow it was, was perhaps thirty feet high and was in turn fed by a stream descending in occasional cascades through forest from a height of several hundred feet higher. We took or saw images of Cora chirripa at this waterfall in different months, at previous visits, and on April 30 and May 2, 1910. The altitude at which all the Cora larvae from Juan Vinas were found was about 1000 meters, or 3300 feet. On April 30, 1910, Mrs. Calvert went from Juan Yinas to our headquarters at Cartago, taking with her the Cora larvae of April 27 and 29, and placed them in our rearing jars. I followed on May 4 with the three larvae of May 2. At 6:50 P. M. of the same day occurred the great earthquake which destroyed Cartago. Its effect upon our larvae in rearing has been briefly described in the NEWS as quoted, but by the great- est good fortune the bottle containing the Cora larvae of May 2 was the single one — of all our living Odonata — that rolled out and escaped destruction from the fallen wall. Two of the larvae were alive and were carried in safety to our steamship at Port Limon. A second died May 7, and the third, with a supply of mosquito eggs to furnish food, started with us on the voyage to New York, but expired on May 14, three days be- fore we landed. Each larva, as soon as its death was discov- ered, was placed in alcohol, but evidently was not in a condition for histological study. This fact must be remembered in judg- 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll ing of the shrunken condition of some parts, e. g. the tissues represented in figs. 20 and 25. There thus have been available for the present description four larvae which may be designated as follows : No. I. $. Peralta as above, total length including antennae and caudal gills 16.5 mm.; length of body excluding the parts named 11.5 mm. No. 2. $ . Juan Vinas, May 2, in fragments. No. 3. $. Juan Vifias, May 2, measurements as above, 20.5 and 17 mm. respectively. No. 4. 9 . Juan Vinas, May 2, measurements the same as those of No. 3. No. 3 has furnished dissections of internal organs. Nos. i and 4 have been kept almost intact. DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVAE. Head deeply concave posteriorly (Plate III, fig. 21) for reception of the prothorax. Compound eyes and ocelli distinct. Six pale yellow- ish spots indistinctly visible on the upper surface of the head, two in front of the median ocellus, one anterior to and one posterior to each lateral ocellus ; some of these spots wanting in some specimens. Antennae 7-jointed, but the last joint only visible under the com- pound microscope (PI. II, fig. 10) ; ratios of the lengths of the joints, in a detached antenna under a cover-glass. 21, 26, 17, n, g, 5.5, 3; joints i to 6 successively decreasing in thickness; joints i and 2 clothed with a dense pile, which is longest in larva No. i, and consists of flat- tened scales as shown in fig. 5. A similar pile is found on many other parts of the body, such as the anterior margin of the nasus, the lateral margins of the head posterior to the middle of the compound eyes, margins and ridges of the thoracic and abdominal segments, of legs and of wing-pads, a transverse ante-apical line on abdominal segments i-io for the entire width of the dorsum, much of the surfaces of the caudal gills, etc. This pile is longer and more conspicuous on larva No. i than on the other three. Joints 3-7 of the antennae have a decreasingly smaller amount of pile. Mandibles stout two-branched, external branch larger, its apex with five teeth, first two teeth, counting from the dorsal margin, less distinct from each other than are the other three, fourth tooth longest. In- ternal branch in larvae Nos. i, 3 and 4 larger on the left mandible than on the right mandible (right mandible lacking in larva No. 2) and on the left mandible its apex is truncated and with seven teeth or crena- tions, dorsal-most largest (Plate II, fig. 16). On the right mandible the apex of the internal branch is pointed and has only two teeth. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 53 Maxillae with the inner lobe attenuate at tip, which bears three short internal teeth, and three long, slender, curved, internal processes and a row of strong setae. (PL III, figs. 29, 31). Lubiitm, when fold- ed at rest, reaching back to the bases of the prothoracic legs but not as far as the hind ventral prothoracic margin ; median (mental) lobe but very slightly produced distad in the middle and with a very slight median cleft, distal margin crenulate with a very short seta between each crenulation and its neighbor; just within the crenulations a short distance on each side of the median cleft is a small pointed tooth (fig. 28, /*) on the dorsal surface; mental setae few (2-4 on each side of the median line both on dorsal and ventral surfaces) and short; lateral lobes with a long curved tapering terminal spine and three distal teeth of which the most internal (mesial) is shortest and is truncate while the other two are pointed. (PI. Ill, figs. 27, 28, 30). Prothorax with three lateral tubercles, a dorso-lateral (a) which is dorsal to an antero-lateral (b) and, posterior to (b), a postero-later- al (c). On the mesothorax the place of a of the prothorax is occupied by the spiracle, b is present while c is represented by a double tubercle. None of these tubercles are represented on the metathorax which has an indistinct spiracle on its lateral surface (PI. II, 14, msp). Front wing pads reach to the hind end of abdominal segment 6 in larva No. I, to the hind end of segment 4 in larvae Xos. 3 and 4. Hind wing-pads reach almost to the mid-length of segment 7 in larva No. i, to mid-length of segment 5 in Nos. 3 and 4. (In PI. II, fig. 14, the wing-pads have been divaricated and are not in exactly normal positions, hence the difference between the preceding sentence and the figure). Legs not of a burrow- ing type, tarsi 3-jointed with an empodium-like structure (PI. II, figs. 6. 12). Abdomen triangular in cross-section, of ten complete segments, which decrease slightly in width from I to 8; 9 and 10 distinctly narrow- er owing to their lateral margins not being produced laterad as far as on the segments preceding (PI. II, fig. 15). A curved, caudad-directed, mid-dorsal hook on segments 2-9 (larva No. i) or 1-9 (larvae Nos. 3 and 4), hooks increasing in length from segment i or 2 to segment 7 or 8, that of 9 slightly shorter than that of 8. (PI. II, fig. 14). Hind dorsal margin of segment 10 with a wide median notch whose depth is half, or less than half, the length of the segment. (PI. II, fig. 8). Segments 2-7 each with a pair of tapering, finger-like ventral gills. Rudiments of $ genitalia on the ventral side of segment 2 indistinct in larva No. i ; in larva No. 3 they consist of two distinct black lines reaching from the intersegmental groove of 1-2 to behind the hind end of the sternite of 2. Rudiments of $ gonapophyses are present on segment 9 of larvae Nos. I and 3 (PI. II, fig. 18). Rudiments of $ gonapophyses are shown in PI. II, figs. 7, 8, 14, 15. 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll The three caudal gills together are much wider than the abdomen at its widest part. Each one is petiolate at base and much enlarged in all diameters beyond the petiole. Median gill approximately equal in length to that of segments 8+9+10, much enlarged dorso-ventrally and less so laterally immediately after the petiole, thence increasing in height gradually and slightly to the apex which is triangulate in profile view, the ventral angle most obtuse, the median angle most acute, the dorsal angle projecting not as far caudad as the other two. At a little less than half length from the base there is an angular protuberance on each side at about one-fourth height of the gill from the dorsal crest, so that there are in all five angular projections on this gill. Most of the chitin of this gill is brown and opaque, or at most only translucent, and is covered with scales, but on each of the two lateral faces there is an area of colorless transparent chitin occupying the ventral two-fifths of the height and about four-fifths of the length from the base caudad (PI. II, fig. 14) lacking scales. Each lateral caudal gill is somewhat longer than the median gill, roughly triangular in cross-section, one surface being convex, the other two approximately plane. These latter two are ventral and internal (mesial) respectively, the convex surface is lateral (external) and dorsal and greater in extent than either of the other two. There are four angular protuberances : one at half-length, or a little less than half-length, of the gill on the middle of the convex dorso-external sur- face; one at three-fourths of the length of the gill on the convex sur- face close to the margin of the mesial surface; one at seven-eighths of the length of the gill on the middle of the convex surface ; and one, the most obtuse, forming the apex of the gill. The convex dorso-external surface of the gill is of brown chitin and scale-covered, the ventral and mesial surfaces chiefly of colorless, transparent chitin and lacking scales, except along the margins where each meets the dorso-external sur- face respectively. (PI. II, figs. 3, 4, 9, 14, 15). Between the bases of the three caudal gills are the rudiments of the superior appendages or 'cercoids' of the imago (PI. II, figs. 7, 8, sa) and the supra-anal (spl) and sub-anal (sbl) laminae. The rudi- ments of the 'cercoids' are simple, cylindrical or conical, with rounded apices, and vary in length, in the four larvae, from about one-third to more than one-half of the length of abdominal segment 10. The sub- anal plates reach to about mid-length of the 'cercoids' ; each one is de- pressed, its apex squarely truncate but produced apparently into a short spine at its mesial angle when viewed dorsally or ventrally; this ap- parent spine is the end view of a vertical lamina. The main abdominal traclieal trunks and their branches are shown in PI. Ill, figs. 22, 20; PI. II, figs. 9, 17, 19. The ventral gills of ab- dominal segments 2-7 receive each two tracheae from two separate Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 55 branches of the main lateral trachea and the gill tracheae divide and redivide inside each gill (PI. Ill, figs. 20, 25, 26). Owing to the opacity of the chitin, the thickness of the gills and the obstacles met in clear- ing them, I have not been able to make out more than the main branches of the tracheae supplying the caudal gills (PI. II, fig. 9). The stomach is supplied from two anterior and two posterior tracheae, one anterior and one posterior on its right side and similarly on its left side. The right and left anterior gastric tracheae lie parallel and close together on the dorsal surface of the oesophagus and crop ; each is probably a derivative from the main dorsal trunk of its own side of the body, but this was not definitely ascertained. At the anterior end of the stomach each anterior gastric trachea divides into a set of (two) dorsal and a set of (four) lateral branches as shown in PI. II, figs. 13 and 17. The fourth, or ventralmost, lateral branch apparently forms an anasto- mosis with the corresponding branch of the opposite side of the stomach. The hind-gut or intestine is likewise supplied by branches from the main dorsal tracheal trunks. The trachea which passes to the ileum also furnishes the posterior gastric trachea for the same side of the stomach. The rectal epithelium appears to form three (glandular?) dorsals and two laterals. (Fig. 19, rdrt, Idrt, rlrt, llrt). After the drawings forming figures 13, 17 and 19 were made, the alimentary canal was slit open lengthwise, stained, dehydrated, cleared and mounted in balsam. No definite indications of rectal tracheal gills were found and the rectal walls appear much less richly tracheated than those of the stomach. The rectal epithelium appears to form three (glandular?) areas. The gastric epithelium was disintegrated. No food was found in the alimentary canal. The three thoracic pairs of ganglia are clearly distinct from each other. Posteriorly are seven pairs of smaller ganglia, located as fol- lows : I in metathorax, 2 in anterior part of abdominal segment 2, 3 in hind part of segment 3, 4 at the articulation of segments 4 and 5, 5 in anterior end of segment 6, 6 in anterior end of segment 7, 7 in the middle of segment 8. The nerve cord in the male larva dissected (No. 3) passed to the right of the distinct rudiments of the genitalia pro- jecting dorsad into the cavity of segments i and 2. DISCUSSION OF THE MORE INTERESTING FEATURES OF CORA LARVA. In current classifications Cora is placed in the Caloptery- ginae or Calopterygidae ( = : Agrioninae of the catalogues of Kirby, Muttkowski, etc.). Most of the Calopterygine larvae 56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll hitherto described (Cf. Karsch, 1893, pp. 42, 48; Needham, I9°3^ P- 220) have the first antennal joint very long, as long as all the other, or as several of the other, joints added together. Cora larva has the first antennal joint shorter than the second and in this respect, as in others mentioned below, shows a re- semblance to the Old World larvae described by Hagen (1880, p. Ixv) as pertaining to the legion Euphaea* of de Selys, and to a Mexican fragment doubtfully referred to Cora (1. c., p. Ixvi). The scales forming a more or less dense pile on different parts of the body of Cora larvae are structures which have met little or no notice in the literature on the Odonata. They occur in shapes varying from almost hair-like to that in which the width is at least more than half the length (Cf. PL II, figs. 4, 5, n, 3 in the order named). The central and more or less arborescently-branched portion of each scale is thicker than the often hardly discernible marginal areas. Biramous mandibles hitherto have been noted only in Euphaea larvae of all the Odonata, and that very briefly • (Needham, 19030, p. 743). I am not able at present to de- termine whether the two-branched condition there is the same as that here described for the larvae of Cora or not. The re- markable features of these mandibles is the possibility of inde- pendent movement of the inner branch along the dotted line shown in PL II, fig. 16, and the difference in the form of this branch in the right and left mandibles of the same individual noted above. Heymons (1896 b, taf. II, fig. 29) has figured the mandibles in a young larva of Ephemera vulgata which are also two-branched but, in contrast to the larval mandible of Cora, the inner branch is larger than the outer. The very shallow median cleft of the median lobe of the labium was hardly to be expected in larvae so apparently primitive in other features as our Cora larvae are. In this respect also it agrees with Euphaea larvae, as far as can be * The name of the type genus of this legion, Euphaea, is now re- placed by Psendophaea Kirby. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 57 judged from Hagen's description (1880, p. xlv). If Miss But- ler's theory (1904, pp. 114, 119) of the homologies of the labium be correct, then the small, pointed teeth (PI. Ill, fig. 28 /*) near the middle of the distal margin, would represent the apices of the original laciniae. The interpretation of Bor- ner (1909, p. 113) is different and is essentially that of Ger- stacker, Heymons and others. Hagen (1880, p. Ixv) noted the existence of "une plantula entre les onglets" of Euphaea larvae and remarked (p. Ixvii) "La presence d'une plantula entre les onglets est aussi un caractere unique chez les Odonates." The empodium-like structure mentioned above for Cora and shown in PI. II, fig. 12, appears to be an homologous part. The existence of tracheal gills on abdominal segments 2-7 is the most interesting feature of Cora larvae. The only Odonata previously known to possess such structures are the larvae referred to Euphaea and Anisoplcura in the very brief description of Hagen (1880). One of these larvae was figured by Folsom in Packard (1898, p. 469). Hagen stated that there were gills on abdominal segments 1-8, Folsom found them on 2-8 only. There are, therefore, one pair less in Cora larvae. Hagen compared these gills of Euphaea and Anis- opleura to those of Sialis, but makes no mention of Ephemerid larvae in this connection. Heymons (1896 a, pp. 88-90) com- pared the abdominal gills of Ephemerid and Sialis larvae, re- garded them in both cases as derived from abdominal ap- pendages and noted the agreement in the pointed form of the gills of the early larval stages of both groups. The gills of the second to seventh abdominal segments of Cora larva fur- nish an addition to this parallel. That the lateral gills of Ephemerid larvae are homologous with the thoracic legs is not universally accepted, however. Diirken (1907, 1909) and Borner (19090) are the latest representatives of the two views which look upon the Ephemerid lateral gills as dorsal and not homologous with legs and as ventral and homologous, respec- tively. We may not compare the lateral gills of Euphaea, 58 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Am&opleura and Cora larvae with those of the Ephemerid larvae until much fuller data are at hand regarding the de- tailed structure, position, musculature and tracheation of each. The present study of Cora larvae supplies much fuller informa- tion than exists for either of the other two Odonate genera mentioned. The markedly ventral position of the gills in question in Cora is in itself some evidence against homolo- gizing these structures with those of the Ephemeridae and in favor of their own serial homology with thoracic legs. No traces of these gills are present on the exterior of the abdo- men of images of Cora preserved in alcohol immediately after capture. The caudal tracheal gills of Cora larvae are very different in shape from the similarly situated gills of all other Odonate larvae yet described, including those of Euphaca (cf. Folsom's figure, /. c.) and Aniso pleura, of which latter I possess a pho- tograph from Hagen's specimen, taken and given to me by Prof. J. G. Needham. In both of these latter two genera the caudal gills taper posteriorly to an acute apex. As related in the opening pages of this paper, the attempt to rear these larvae to transformation was unsuccessful. That they are the larvae of Cora and, so far as the Juan Vinas specimens at least are concerned, the larvae of Cora chirripa Calvert (1907, p. 348) is rendered practically certain from a comparison of the wing-rudiments of larva No. 4 with those of an imago of this species taken at the same ditch April 30, 1910. The left hind wing-pad of larva No. 4 was slit open, the wing rudiment removed from within and examined in alcohol under the compound microscope. The inner and outer surfaces of the rudiment gave the views represented in PI. Ill, figs. 23 and 24 respectively. The veins shown in these figures are bands of reddish-brown pigment granules in the rudiment itself. The left hind wing of the imago mentioned was com- pared with camera drawings of the two surfaces of the wing- rudiment of the larva. At first the identification of the larval wing veins proceeded slowly until it occurred to me that per- Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 59 haps the two surfaces of the wing rudiment might present only convex and concave veins respectively. Turning then to the imaginal wing the following lists were made proceeding in every case from the anterior toward the posterior wing margin. Convex veins: proximal half of the wing, C, Ri, Rs, M/}., A and Cu2; distal half, C, Ri, Mia, two supplementary sectors, Rs, three supplementary sectors, M/|., Cu2a, Cu2b. Concave veins: proximal half of wing, Sc, Mi, M3, Cui ; distal half. Mi, two supplementary sectors, M2, one supple- mentary sector, M3, two supplementary sectors, Cui, one sup- plementary sector between Cu2a and Cu2b. As is well known the inner surface of the wing-pad and wing-rudiment of an Odonate larva corresponds to the upper surface of the imaginal wing, and the outer surface in the larva to the under surface in the imago. On comparing the list of convex veins with the drawing of the inner surface of the wing-rudiment and the list of concave veins with that of the outer surface of the wing-rudiment, it was seen that a close correspondence existed with these exceptions : that C (costa) showed on both surfaces, as also did a thickening all along the posterior margin and to greater or less extents Sc (sub-costa), Ri (first branch of radius), Mi (first branch of media), A (anal), Cu2b and the supplementary sector between Cu2a and Ci\2b. The wing-rudiment was then cleared in cedar oil and examined in strong transmitted sunlight, when the vein-rudiments of both inner and outer surfaces could be seen from either surface by proper focussing, whereas before clear- ing only those of the surface turned up toward the lens could be discerned. All the vein-rudiments now appeared in their proper sequence giving the alternation of convex and concave veins so easily seen in an imaginal wing. Careful focussing also revealed the fact that at this stage the veins are developed only upon one surface of the wing-rudiment, either inner or outer, except in the case of the costa and of the thickening along the hind margin. The other exceptions noted above are all veins near the margins where the wing-rudiment is thinner 60 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll and where they can be seen through it. Even in these ex- ceptions the veins appear fainter and narrower on one sur- face than the other and are stronger and wider on their proper surface, e. g. Sc and Mi, concave veins, on the outer surface; Ri, A and Cu2b, convex veins, on the inner surface. Another fact shown by these comparisons and the figures is that the cross-veins only appear continuous from one longi- tudinal vein to another when the two longitudinal veins so connected are two, one of which immediately follows the other in the imaginal wing. (Cf. the cross-veins between Ri and Mi and between Mi and M2 in PI. Ill, fig. 24.) It would thus appear that each longitudinal vein develops on one surface of the wing-rudiment before it appears on the other surface. Before transformation is reached each vein has formed on both surfaces of the future wing but not neces- sarily equally on both surfaces, as may be seen from Hagen's figures (1889) from photographs of wings split into their two laminae immediately after transformation and expansion. These facts of the development of the veins on one surface of the wing-rudiment before the other have a practical value in identifying Odonate larvae by this method and do not seem to be included in Prof. Needham's (1904, p. 687) suggestions on this point. In the larva of Cora there exist the following generalized features : antennae with no hypertrophied joint, biramous man- dibles, paired ventral tracheal gills (if they be morphologically equivalent to legs), and perhaps the empodium-like part, side by side with specialized features in the form of cuticular scales, almost completely fused halves of the labium and thick- ened, shortened caudal gills. If to these generalized parts of the larva we add the generalized features of the imaginal venation pointed out or implied by Prof. Needham (19030, pp. 731, 746), we have good grounds for looking on Cora and its allies as being in many respects the most primitive of living Odonata. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 6l AUTHORS QUOTED. BORNER, C. 1909 a. Die Tracheenkiemen der Ephemeriden, Zool. Anzeig. XXXIII, Nr. 24-25. Jan. 5. IBID. 1909 b. Neue Homologien zwischen Crustaccen vnd Hexa- poden. Die Beissmandibel der Insekten und ihre phylogenetische Be- deutung. Archi- und Metapterygota. Zool. Anzeig. XXXIV, Nr. 3-4. Mar. 2. BUTLER, H. 1904. The labium of the Odonata. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XXX. CALVERT, P. P. 1901-1909. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Neuron- tera : Odonata. DiiRKEN, B. 1907. Die Tracheenkiemenmuskulatur der Ephemeri- den unter Beriicksichtigung der Morphologic des Insektenfliigels. Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. LXXXVII. IBID. 1909. Zur Frage nach der Morphologic der Kiemen der Ephemeriden-Larven. Zool. Anzeig. XXXIV. June 29. HAGEN, H. 1880. Essai d'un Synopsis des Larves de Calopter- ygines. Comp. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. ler Mai. IBID. 1889. Spaltung eines Fliigels urn das doppelte Adernetz zu zeigen. Zool. Anzeig. Nr. 312. HEYMONS, R. 1896 a. Ueber die Lebensweise und Entwicklung von Ephemera vulgata. Sitzungsber. Gesell. naturforsch. Freunde Ber- lin. IBID. 1896 b. Grundziige der Entwickelung und des Korperbaues von Odonaten und Ephemeriden. Anhang Abhdl. Konigl. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. KARSCH, F. 1893. Die Insekten der Berglandschaft Adeli im Hinter- lande von Togo (Westafrika). Berlin. Ent. Zeit. XXXVIII. NEEDHAM, J. G. 1903 a. A Genealogic Study of Dragon-fly Wing Venation. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVI. IBID. 1903 b. Life Histories of Odonata, suborder Zygoptcn. N. York State Museum, Bulletin 68. IBID 1904. New Dragon-fly nymphs in the United States National Museum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVII. PACKARD, A. S. 1898. A Text-book of Entomology, New York. The Macmillan Co. EXPLANATION OF PLATES II AND III. Larva of Cora. Fig. i. Left latero-ventral view of larva No. 4 9. Fig. 2. Dorsal view of larva No. 3 $ . Right caudal gill lacking. Figs, i and 2 from photographs of alcoholic specimens. X 2.6. 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Fig. 3. Small fragment of surface of left caudal trachea! gill, larva No. 3, showing two scales and four articular pits for others. X 2IO. Fig. 4. Scale from same gill as fig. 3. X 210. Fig. 5. Scale from first antennal joint shown in fig. 10. X 210. Fig. 6. First left tibia and tarsus of larva No. 4. X 8.5. Fig. 7. End view, hind end of abdomen of larva No. 2 $, caudal gills removed. X 8.5. Fig. 8. Dorsal view, hind end of abdomen of larva No. 2 $ , caudal gills removed. X 8.5. Fig. 9. Left caudal gill, ventro-mesial view, combined from draw- ings from larvae Nos. i, 2, 3, to show tracheation. The dotted line in- dicates the boundary between a central, clearer, unsealed area and an opaque, scaled margin. X 5.8. Fig. 10. Right antenna, dorsal view, larva No. 3, $ . X 16.5. Fig. ii. Scale from tibia or tarsus of fig. 6. X 210. Fig. 12. Ventral surface of distal end of tarsus. X 8.5. Fig. 13. Dorsal view of branches of left anterior gastric trachea shown in fig. 17. X about 12.5. Fig. 14. Right lateral view of metathorax and abdomen of larva No. 4, $ . X 5-5- Fig. 15. Ventral view of same. X 5.5. Fig. 16. Left mandible, mesial surface, larva No. 2, $ . X 21. The dotted line shows the line of flexure of the internal branch. Fig. 17. Left side of stomach to show tracheation, larva No. 3, <5 . X about 12.5. Fig. 18. Ninth abdominal segment to show gonapophyses, larva No. 3, $• X 5.5. Fig. 19. Left latero-dorsal view of intestine to show tracheal sup- ply, larva No. 3, $ ; Malpighian tubules omitted. X about 12.5. Fig. 20. Right gill of fifth abdominal segment, larva No. 3, $ . The gill has been left untouched, the viscera of the segment removed with the exception of the tracheae supplying the gill. To the left of chr a portion of the chitinous ventral wall of the segment is shown, to the right of chr is a portion of the tergite which has been turned out- ward (laterad) to show the structures within the segment. The por- tions of the two main tracheal trunks rdt and rlt have been turned outward to give a clearer view of the branches to the gill. Compare with the fifth abdominal segment in fig. 22. X about 23. Fig. 21. Dorsal view of head, larva No. 4, 9. The dotted lines show the outlines of pale marks. X 7.8. Fig. 22. Dorsal view of chief thoracic and abdominal viscera, larva No. 3, $ . The body has been opened along the mid-dorsal line. The ganglion has been omitted from second abdominal segment, the Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 63 wing-pads from left side, the dorsal longitudinal abdominal muscles from the right; not all of these muscles (dim} are shown even on the left side. X 7.8. Fig. 23. Inner surface of left hind wing-rudiment ( = : upper sur- face of imaginal wing) with the outline of its enveloping wing-pad, wp, larva No. 4, $ . X 12.4. Fig. 24. Outer surface of the same (=: under surface of imaginal wing). X 12.4. Fig. 25. Transverse section of right gill of sixth abdominal seg- ment of larva No. 3, $ . X 55.5. Fig. 26. Transverse section of chief tracheal trunk of same gill in section immediately following that shown in fig. 25. X 55.5. Fig. 27. Distal end of lateral lobe from fig. 30. X 28. Fig. 28. Inner (dorsal) surface of distal end of median lobe from fig. 30. X 28. Fig. 29. Distal end of left maxilla from fig. 31. X 25. Fig. 30. Ventral (outer) surface of labium, larva No. 2, $ . X 8. Fig. 31. Left maxilla and hypopharynx, ventral view, larva No. 2, 9. X 13. Abbreviations Used in the Plates. A, Anal vein (= proximal part of second sector of triangle of Selys). clir, Chitinous ridge forming lateral margin of an abdominal segment. GUI, Cu2, First and second branches of cubitus vein (= first and distal part of second sectors of triangle of de Selys). d, di, d2, Dorsal branches of lagt. dim, Dorsal longitudinal muscles. gm, Gill muscle fibres. gp, Gonapophyses. gt, Gill trachea. im, Interarticular membrane between first antennal joint and head. IX, Ninth abdominal segment. /, /I-/4, Lateral branches of lagt. lagt. Left anterior gastric trachea. /t-£. Point of attachment of left caudal gill. Idt, Left dorsal trachea. Idrt, Left dorsal rectal trachea. ///, Left lateral trachea. //;•/, Left lateral rectal trachea. Ipgt, Left posterior gastric trachea. Mi, M2, MS, A/4, Branches of media vein ( == principal, nodal, median and short sectors of de Selys respectively). Mia, Branch of Ml ( = ultra-nodal sector of de Selys). meg, Median caudal gill. 64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll mg, Metathoracic (+ first abdominal?) ganglion. msp, Metathoracic spiracle. wit, Malpighian tubes. oc, Oesophagus. Ri, First branch of radius vein (= median vein of de Selys). 1-4, Fourth lateral branch of right anterior gastric trachea. rcg, Point of attachment of right caudal gill. rcgt, Right caudal gill trachea. rdrt, Right dorsal rectal trachea. rdt, Right dorsal trachea. rlrt. Right lateral rectal trachea. rlt, Right lateral trachea. Ks, Radial sector (= sub-nodal sector of de Selys). so, Superior appendages of imago ('Cercoids'). Sc, Subcosta vein. sbl, Sub-anal lamina. sp, Site of future spiracle. spl, Supra-anal lamina. tab. Tendon of abductor mandibulae. tad, Tendon of adductor mandibulae. ts, Testes. t*, Tooth on median labial lobe. u, Undetermined tube. rd, Vas deferens (beginning of). wm, Wing muscle. wp, Outline of wing-pad. X, Tenth abdominal segment. The Tenth Pleocoma (Col.). BY H. F. FALL. On the 1 2th of last October, Mr. Chas. Camp, a student in the Pasadena High School, while repairing a trail in a small canon in the mountains near Sierra Madre, cut into a large beetle a few inches below the surface, the remains of which he brought to me for identification. The specimen proved to be a female Pleocoma; a most in- teresting discovery, inasmuch as no representative of the genus had ever been found in this vicinity. One hundred and fifty miles north, along the South Fork of the Kaweah River ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXII. Plate III. LARVA OF CORA (ODONATA)— CALVERT. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 65 is the home of P. hoppingi; from the Cuyamaca Mts., one hun- dred miles south came the unique type of P. puncticollis, and in the Santa Monica Mts., near the coast, and not more than thirty miles distant a single wing cover of a Pleocoma has been picked up, showing the presence of the genus in that somewhat isolated range. The Sierra Madre Mts. ought then by good rights to harbor a species of this remarkable genus, but the obscure habits, and the ephemeral existence of the perfect insects has enabled them to escape detection up to this time. In the absence of the male it was not possible to identify Mr. Camp's specimen with certainty, and he was urged to keep a sharp lookout for males during or immediately follow- ing the next rain. This was done, and on the I5th of Novem- ber during a drizzling rain nineteen males were taken in about an hour at the same spot in an area not more than one hun- dred feet across. The beetles flew slowly and apparently aim- lessly, keeping as a rule a foot or two above the ground. Mr. Camp was unable to define the extent of the flight, either in time or space, but there is little doubt that both were quite lim- ited. Unfortunately no special attempt was made to locate the females, and it is doubtful if it will now be possible to secure any this season. A careful study of the males indicates rather close relation- ship with fimbriata and puncticollis, but with a sufficiently marked and constant deviation from either to warrant a dis- tinctive name. The following description and comparative notes are therefore offered: P. australis n. sp. Male. — Black, shining, glabrous above, the long hairs of the marginal fringe and under surface reddish brown. Antennae and cephalic structure very nearly as in fimbriata. Prothorax slightly more than twice as wide as long in horizontal projection, sides arcuately con- vergent in front, subparallel and feebly or barely perceptibly sinuate posteriorly, the hind angles obtuse but well defined and usually slightly prominent ; disk flattened and obliquely declivous in front, the median line broadly vaguely impressed anteriorly and again more narrowly 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll so for a short distance at base ; sides with the usual impression ; sur- face closely moderately coarsely punctate throughout. Elytra obvi- ously wider at base than the prothorax, varying from a little less to a little more than 3-10 longer than wide, sides nearly parallel, surface finely lightly punctured between the feebly defined geminate striae. Length, 241/2-28 mm.; width, 14-1554 mm. Female. — Castaneous, of the usual robust form; the clypeus more narrowly but very distinctly triangularly emarginate ; surface sculpture rougher than in the male, as is usual. Habitat. Bailey Canon, San Gabriel Mts., near Sierra Ma- dre, California; elevation 2500 ft. Compared with fimbriata the present species differs most conspicuously in the more coarsely and closely punctured tho- rax and smoother elytra ; there are, however, a number of other differences which are evident on closer attention. Three males in my collection from Eldorado Co. are undoubtedly typical representatives of fimbriata; all these agree in being relatively broader than any of the new series ; the prothorax is scarcely narrower than the base of the elytra, with the sides more rounded posteriorly and with ill defined hind angles, the cephalic horn is also longer and more slender than in australis, in which it is distinctly more triangular when viewed laterally. In all my typical fimbriata the third antennal joint is shorter than the next two combined ; in australis it is equal to the next two, and in puncticollis it is said to be longer than the two fol- lowing. Puncticollis differs conspicuously in having the long hair of the under body black. THE COMMITTEE appointed to represent and look after the interests of the International Entomological Congress for the United States consists of Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. Prof. T. H. Comstock, Prof. H. C. Fall, Prof. C. P. Gillette. Dr. W. J. Holland. Prof. A. D. Hopkins, Dr. L. O. Howard, Prof. C. W. Johnson, Prof. V. L. Kellogg, Prof. Herbert Osborn, Dr. John B. Smith, Dr. Ch. W. Stiles, Dr. Creiehton Wellman. Dr. W. M. Wheeler. The committee for Canada is Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, Dr. C. G. Hewitt, Henry H. Ly- man. The Permanent Executive Committee consists of Dr. Malcolm Ilurr, Dr. Walther Horn, Dr. K. Jordan, P. Lesne, G. Severin, Henry Skinner. The Executive Committee will meet in Paris in August of this year to arrange for the Second International Congress to be held in Ox- ford, England, in 1913, Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 67 Descriptions of New Species of Cynipidae (Hym.)- By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Dryophanta clavula, sp. nov. Female.— Head rufous, infuscated along the face and on the vertex around the ocelli,, evenly and finely reticulately punctate, sparsely hairy, eyes black. Antennae i4-jointed, first joint stout, short, second joint much smaller and stout, third to sixth joints long and slender, third longest; remaining joints short and subequal, dusky brown, some- what darker toward the tip. Thorax pitchy brown, rufous posteriorly and anteriorly at the sides, microscopically pitted, especially anteriorly, shining and with scattered decumbent, yellowish hairs. Parapsidal grooves deep and distinct, widely separated anteriorly and running obliquely backward to the scutellum, where they are close together. Median groove wanting. Anterior parallel lines broad, shining, smooth and scarcely extending to the middle of the thorax. Grooves at base of wings scarcely evident. Scutellum subopaque, dull rufous, finely and evenly rugose with an almost imperceptible basal groove. Abdo- men pitchy brown, somewhat rufous ventrally, smooth, shining ; ventral sheath yellowish with long hairs. Legs dull yellowish brown with short hairs. Wings hyaline, pubescent, veins brown, heavily marked, especially the cross-veins ; apical region with about seven small brown dots and a larger brown patch, and with three large brown clouds about the middle of the wings. Radial area closed with the veins thickened at the costa. Areolet present. Cubitus faint and extending to the first cross-vein. Length 1.5-2 mm. Gall. — On the under side of the leaves of a species of white oak (probably Qucrcus douglasi). -Monothalamous. Narrow and almost parallel to about the middle, thence suddenly becoming inflated into a club with the apex pointed. At the extreme base it is slightly broader and is attached by a point to the leaf. The gall very much resembles a miniature Indian club in shape. Brown in color, and the larva lives in the inflated part of the gall in a rounded cell. Length, 5-7 mm. ; width of narrow part, I mm., of thickened part, 1.75 mm. Habitat: — California (Napa and Sonoma Countries). De- scribed from twelve specimens. Type — Collection U. S. National Museum. Dryophanta multipunctata sp. nov. Female. — Head yellowish brown, face broadly infuscated, eyes and ocelli black, microscopically, evenly granulose and pubescent. Antennae J4-jointed, first joint stout, second joint stout and much shorter than 68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll the first; third joint very long and slender, fourth to sixth joints slen- der, subequal and shorter than the third; remaining joints gradually becoming shorter and slightly thicker toward the tip, pitchy brown black and pubescent. Thorax shining, finely and evenly pitted, with decumbent yellowish hairs, pitchy brown, somewhat rufous between the parapsidal grooves at the scutellum. Parapsidal grooves rather deep, widely separated anteriorly and converging at the scutellum, where they are moderately, widely separated. Anterior parallel lines very fine and indistinct. Lateral grooves distinct. Median groove wanting. Scutellum pitchy brown inclined to rufous, finely and evenly pitted, with yellowish hairs, basal groove not distinct. Abdomen pitchy black or dull rufous, smooth and shining dorsally, and covered with short pale hairs at the sides and venter. Legs pitchy brown or dull yellowish brown, pubescent. Wings hyaline, veins brown, cross-veins very heavy, outer portion of wings beyond the middle with many small brown spots, except in the radial area; about the middle of the wings two brown clouds situated on the veins. Areolet present. Cubitus con- tinuous to the first cross-vein. Length, 2.75-3 mm. Gall. — On the under side of the leaves of a species of oak. Mono- thalamous. Gray brown, spherical, sometimes slightly flattened at the base where the gall is attached to the leaf. The gall is irregularly wrinkled and covered with a dense, short and compact wooly substance and hairs. In general appearance it resembles the gall of Philonlx lanaeglolntli. Diameter about 5 mm. Habitat — Kern County, California, December 6th, 1892. Type — United States National Museum. Described from two specimens and two galls. Holcaspis chrysolepidis sp. nov. Female.— Head, thorax and scutellum pale yellowish brown, abdomen somewhat darker with the dorsal region infuscated ; legs slightly paler with the claws black. Antennae yellowish brown, terminal joints darker. Head very finely and evenly granulated, pubescent; ocelli and eyes black. Antennae 14- jointed. Thorax finely and evenly punctate with pale decumbent hairs. Parapsidal grooves very fine, less distinct anteriorly and almost parallel. Anterior parallel lines distinct, shining and extending to the middle of the thorax. Lateral grooves sharply defined, long and shining. Scutellum hairy, finely and evenly rugose. Abdomen shining, smooth, with a small patch of hairs at the base later- ally. Legs pubescent. Wings long, yellowish hyaline, veins yellowish and are usually closely pressed together. Width 5-10 mm. Height 4-7 mm. Gall. — On the twigs of oak (Quercus chrysolepidis}. Monothalamous. Hard woody. Irregular in shape, somewhat rounded, sides flattened, Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 69 slightly oblique, ridged around the upper part of the sides, apex rounded. They occur singly and in rows of two, three, four or more, and are usually closely pressed together. Width 5-10 mm. Height 4-7 mm. Habitat — Placer Co., California, November and December. Types — United States National Museum. Described from nine examples. The gall of this species was figured by me in the Bulle- tin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXVI, plate VIII, figs. 8 and 9. Philonix californica sp. nov. Female. — Head pitchy brown black, minutely rugose with scattered, short hairs. Antennae 13-jointed; first joint stout, cylindrical; second joint shorter, stout and rounded at the tip; third joint very long and slender; fourth, fifth and sixth joints slender and shorter than the third; remaining joints gradually becoming shorter and thicker toward the thirteenth, all pitchy brown and pubescent. Thorax pitchy brown or dull rufous, evenly rugose, somewhat wrinkled and with a few scattered hairs. Parapsidal grooves very fine and somewhat lost in the rough surface anteriorly, convergent at the scutellum. Scutellum evenly rugose like the thorax, and of the same color. Abdomen com- pressed convex at the sides and rather sharply keeled on the dorsum and venter, dark pitchy brown, smooth and shining. Legs pitchy brown, somewhat paler than the abdomen and pubescent. Wings aborted, not extending to the middle of the abdomen. Length i mm. Gall. — On the upper surface of the leaves of a species of white oak. Monothalamous. Rounded, flattened disc-like, becoming slightly ele- vated toward the middle. The sides are flat and very thin, and the gall rests closely on the leaf. The larva lives in the center of the elevated part. The color is pinkish or purplish, with the apex sometimes yel- lowish. Width, 3 to 4 mm. Height, i mm. Habitat — Kern Co., California, January. Type — United States National Museum. Described from fiv.e females. Andricus caepulaeformis sp. nov. Female. — Head large, broader than the thorax, reddish brown, evenly and finely granulose. Antennae 14-jointed; first joint very stout and inflated; second joint short, subcylindrical; third joint very long and slender; fourth joint also slender, shorter than the third, remaining joints subequal, all blackish except the basal one which is rufous. Thorax minutely granulose with a few hairs. Parapsidal grooves pres- TO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll ent, but not prominent, almost parallel. Anterior parallel lines scarcely evident. Median line running from the scutellum to about the middle of the thorax, not distinct. Pleurae with a large, smooth shining area. Scutellum rufous, rugose, foveae at base oblique and opaque. Abdomen reddish brown, posterior half piceous, smooth and shining. Legs red- dish brown, long .and slender, pubescent. Wings (immature) hyaline, veins brown. Length, 4 mm. Gall. — In clusters around the twig of black oak (Qucrcus velutina). Monothalamous. Rounded with the apex pointed, and the sides longi- tudinally grooved. The rounded part is hollow and rather thin walled, and the base of the gall is imbedded in a cavity in the twig. Rose colored, hard and woody (when dry). In general appearance the gall resembles a very small seed onion. Length 5-8 mm. Width 4-5 mm. Habitat — Indiana. (Mel. T. Cook). Andricus pisiformis sp. nov. Female. — Head dark reddish brown, finely granulated and with short pale hairs. Antennae i3-jointed, reddish brown, terminal joints black- ish. Thorax dark pitchy brown, reddish brown along the parapsidal grooves and laterally, minutely reticulated and with many pits, from each of which arises a short, decumbent, yellowish hair. Parapsidal grooves deep and well denned. Median groove distinct, and less so anteriorly. Lateral grooves deep. Anterior parallel lines not extend- ing to the middle of the thorax. Scutellum reddish brown, rugose and with two large, deep, shining black foveae at the base. These are sep- arated by a fine ridge. Pleurae pubescent, with a rather large shining area, pitchy brown. Abdomen subglobose, inflated, pitchy brown, smooth and shining. Legs brown, punctate and pubescent. Wings hyaline, veins brown, cross-veins heavy. Areolet small. Cubitus not reaching the first cross-vein. Length 2-3.50 mm. Gall. — On the terminal twigs of white oak {Quercus alba) and post oak (Quercus minor) from the middle of May to early in June. Mono- thalamous. Spherical or pea-like. Milky white or pale greenish white, speckled and marbled with green or lilac. Fleshy when fresh, hard and woody when old and dry. It is hollow inside with no separate larval chamber. It is evidently a bud gall. Diameter 3-6 mm. Habitat — New Jersey (Lakehurst) ; Massachusetts (Bos- ton). The flies mature in the gall during the latter part of Sep- tember and in October, but do not emerge until the following spring. The gall is a pretty object and looks like a very small marble. The specimens on white oak from Boston were col- lected by Miss Cora H. Clarke at the Arnold Arboretum. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 71 Studies Amongst the Coccinellidae, No. 2, (Col.). By F. W. NUNENMACHER, Piedmont, California. Since my last paper on Coccinellidae* several friends and correspondents have sent me material in various genera in- cluding several species new to science, and as some of these are of considerable interest it seems worth while to publish the following descriptions at this time: Genus PSYLLOBORA Mulsant. Psyllobora koebelei n. sp. $. — Color: Whitish yellow with chocolate brown markings disposed as follows : Pronotum with the five common discal spots, each elytron with one juxta-scutellar and one median basal dot, one marginal small dot placed a little before the middle, and one irregular blotch roughly quadrate in form, placed its own width from the margin and close to the suture and rather behind the middle. Mouth parts testaceous; ventral surface black except mesothoracic episterna, which are white and last four ventral segments, which are testaceous, as are the legs. Form convex, subovate; head, impunctate; pronotum very finely and sparsely punctured ; elytra moderately coarsely punctured ; ventral sur- face, sternum moderately coarsely punctured ; abdomen smooth. Length, 2.25 mm. Width, 2 mm. Type — $ in my collection. Type locality — Nogales, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. vi. 02. (Koebele) This species, which feeds on the scale infesting mistletoe, comes nearest to P. luctuosa Muls., from which it can readily be told by the elytral design. The type was kindly given me by Mr. A. Koebele in whose collection there are several speci- mens. According to his observations (No. 2426), this species, when alive, has a ground color of beautiful shimmering sil- very green. Genus AXION Mulsant. Axion incompletus n. sp. $. — Color: Head light ferrugineous, pronotum and elytra black, the former with the anterior angles ferrugineous and a beaded line of the same color along the entire anterior margin, each elytron with a median double coalescing spot at the callus, nearer the margin than the suture, the shape of this spot being obliquely and roundly oblong with a prolongation towards the base of the elytron; ventral surface uni- * See ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for April, 1909, p. 161 ff. 72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll formly ferrugineous except the head, which is infuscate, mesosternum, tibiae and tarsi piceous. Form as in tripustulatus DeG., head slightly nitid, almost impunctate ; maxillary palpi black, last article inflated, somewhat flattened, truncate and excavated at apex ; pronotum some- what shining, almost impunctate ; scutellum very small ; elytra with texture as in head and thorax; -ventral surface with sternum finely and thickly punctured, except the mesosternum, which is smooth and very nitid, ventral sternites finely, thickly and striately punctured except the base of the segments, which are smooth ; fifth ventral rather deeply notched ; legs with femora slightly rugose, tibiae smooth and sparsely pubescent. Type — $ in my collection. Type locality — Lincoln Park Beach, Chicago, 111., (Wol- cott). This form can be told at a glance from tripustulatus DeG. by the absence of the sutural spot. I owe the type to the kindness of my friend, Mr. Frederick Knab, of Washington, D. C. Genus HYPERASPIS Chevrolat. Hyperaspis lateralis, var. flammula n. var. Color, structure and ornamentation as in lateralis Muls., except that the marginal vitta of each elytron is longer and is connected with the common discal spot by an isthmus of the same color as the vitta and spot ; this isthmus rises from a point at about the posterior third of the vitta. Type — $ 5 and one cotype ( 2 ) in my collection. Type locality — Montana. Geo. Dist. — Montana, 2 specimens ; Golden, Col. vii, 18. 09. one specimen (W. J. Gerhard). I have seen examples of this variety in several collections in the east including the Horn collection of the American Entomological Society. The $ 2 type was kindly given me by Mr. Chas. Liebeck of Philadelphia, the cotype from Col- orado by my friend Mr. A. B. Wolcott. In the latter the elytral pattern shows slight signs of a reversion towards the typical design. Hyperaspis wellmani n. sp. Color: Shining black, elytra with reddish yellow markings, disposed similarly to those of lateralis Muls., except that the marginal vittae distinctly increase in width posteriorly and do not reach as nearly the Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 73 base of the elytra as in the species mentioned, also the discal and sub- apical spots are constantly smaller and regularly circular, ventral sur- face black except that portion of the reflexed margin of the elytra occupied by the marginal vittae. Form regularly oval ; head very sparsely and minutely punctured; pronotum a little more heavily and thickly punctured; scutellum large with a few coarse punctures; elytra more thickly punctured than head, but less thickly than pronotum ; ventral surface with mesosternum smooth, episternum of mesothorax very coarsely punctured. Head of $ chrome yellow, the anterior bor- der of the pronotum narrowly, and the lateral borders heavily mar- gined with the same color, the lateral margin not quite reaching the base, anterior pair of legs and tarsi of all yellowish. $ . — Entirely black except elytral markings, tarsi dark fuscous. Length. — $ 2.5 mm., $ 3.1 mm. Width. — $ 1.7 mm., $ 2.1 mm. Type — $ $ and five cotypes, one $ and four $ $ , in my collection. Type locality — Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, vi. 27. 07 (Nunenmacher). In general form and markings the specimens are remark- ably constant. I have many times bred lateralis and the larva of wellmani is strikingly different from that species. The fol- lowing table will aid in separating the adults : 1. (2) Marginal vittae broad, not increasing posteriorly, episternum of mesothorax mediumly punctured, foveae for reception of hind tibiae rather shallow, size large and form more convex than the following species lateralis 2. (i) Marginal vittae narrow, distinctly increasing posteriorly, epi- sternum of mesothorax very coarsely punctured, foveae for reception of hind tibiae deep, size smaller and less convex than preceding species wellmani Hyperaspis wolcotti n. sp. 9- — Color: Head, pronotum and scutellum black, the pronotum with rather wide stramineous lateral margins, elytra piceous with stramine- ous markings arranged as follows : A wide marginal, strongly sinuous vitta extending from the humeral angle of each elytron to a point near the suturoapical angle ; for about its posterior third, this vitta does not entirely reach the margin of the elytron ; a narrow edging of the elytral ground color appearing outside of the vitta ; the apical end of the vitta is constricted near the extremity tending to form an apical spot ; a sec- ond straight juxta-sutural oblique vitta extends from the base of the elytron to about two-thirds its length, the obliquity being from near 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll the scutellum outwards and backwards ; ventral surface uniformly dark- fuscous, legs dark testaceous. Form narrowly oval, not very convex with sides subparallel ; head shining, very sparsely and minutely punc- tured; maxillary palpi dark testaceous, last article securiform, the apex strongly pointed; pronotum very shining, rather more strongly densely punctured than the head ; scutellum small with a few minute punctures ; elytra much more coarsely and thickly punctured than the pronotum ; •ventral surface, sternum moderately coarsely punctured except meso- sternum, which is smoother in center; episternum of mesothorax more heavily punctured, abdominal segments with bases rather smooth but becoming more coarsely punctured and pubescent towards the sides ; legs with ridges, somewhat pubescent. Length. — 9 2.25 mm., width 1.25 mm. Type — 9 and two cotypes in my collection. Type locality — Buffiington, Ind. (Pine Barrens) vii. 26. 10. (A. B. Wolcott). This species can be readily separated from any of the oth- er species by the elytral pattern and less convex subparallel form. The type was received from my friend, Mr. A. B. Wol- cott. Hyperaspis ploribunda n. sp. $ 9 — Color : Head, pronotum and scutellum black, elytra dark fus- cous, palpi, antennae, tarsi and inflexed sides of elytra very dark testa- ceous. Form, oblong oval, depressed, somewhat widened posteriorly; head extremely finely, sparsely and shallowly punctured; pronotum finely and closely punctured ; elytra less thickly and closely punctured than pronotum, the punctuation being thickest and coarsest towards the scutellum ; the punctures are all very shallow ; ventral surface sparsely and shallowly punctured. $ smaller than $ , with sixth ventral slightly notched. Length. — $ 1.5 mm., $ 1.75 mm. Width. — $ i.i mm., $ 1.25 mm. Type — $ 9 in my collection. Type locality — Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, vi. 29. 07. four specimens. (Nunemnacher'). When I first collected these insects I thought they were specimens of H. arcnatus Lee. I wish to express my thanks to my friend Dr. Creighton Wellman, of Oakland, for advice and criticism during the preparation of this paper. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 75 Mallophaga from Californian Birds. By V. L. KELLOGG and J. H. PAINE, Stanford University, California. The following determinations of Mallophaga and records of hosts are based on specimens taken from various birds at Monterey, California, by Mr. Jos. Clemans, Chaplain of the I5th Infantry Regiment, stationed at the Presidio. Docophorus pertusus Nitzsch, var. monachus n. var. One male from the Virginia rail, Rallns virginianus (Mon- terey, California). The type, D. pertusus, has been found on the following birds in Cali- fornia : Fulica americana, Erismatura rubida, and Colymbus nigricollis cali- fornicus. The sinuous posterior mar- gin of the first abdominal segment shown in the figure of the variety is also found in the type, though it has not been referred to heretofore. The variety differs in the greater number of hairs found on the clypeus and on the abdomen. On the clypeus of the type there are two small hairs near the trabeculae while in the vari- ety there are about eight on each side extending from the trabeculae to the expansion of the pincer-like organs. On the posterior margin of each seg- ment of the abdomen in the type are found not more than four hairs while in the variety they are numerous, sixteen occurring on the fifth segment with the number diminishing anteriorly and posteriorly. Docophorus pertusus Nitzsch. One young specimen from the American coot Fulica ameri- cana (Monterey, Cal.) Fig. i.— Docophorus pertusus Nitzsch. var. monachus n. var. Female. 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Docophorus icterodes Nitzsch. Specimens from the American coot, Fulica aniericana (Monterey, California.) Docophorus platyrhynchus Nitzsch. Specimens from the western red-tailed hawk, Buteo bore- alis calurus (Monterey, Cal.) Docophorus communis Nitzsch. Specimens from the shumagin fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Monterey, Cal.) Docophorus mirus Kellogg. Specimens from Townsend warbler, Dendroica toivnsendi, (Monterey, Cal.) Docophorus singularis Kellogg and Chapman. Specimens from the varied thrush, Hesperocichla naevia naevia. (Monterey, California). Docophorus incisus Kellogg. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Polidyinbus podiceps, cidentalis, (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus fuscomarginatus Denny var. americanus Kellogg. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Monterey, Cal.); also (straggler?) from the varied thrush, Hesperocichla naevia naevia (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus furvus Nitzsch. Specimens from Wilson snipe, Gallinago delicata (Mont- erey, Cal.) ; also from Virginia rail, Ralhts virginianus (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus fuscus Nitzsch. Specimens from the western red-tailed hawk, Buteo bore- alis calurus (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus foedus Kellogg and Chapman. Specimen from the black phoebe, Sayornis nigricans semi- atra (Monterey, Cal.)' also (straggler?) from the pied-bill- ed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Monterey, Cal.) Vol. XXl'ij ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 77 Nirmus vulgatus Kellogg. Specimens from the Shumagin fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Monterey, Cal.). Oncophorus minutus Nitzsch. Specimen from the American coot, Fnlica americana (Monterey, Cal.); also (straggler?) from the western blue- bird, Sialia mexicana occidentalis (Monterey, Cal.) Cncophorus bisetosus Piaget, var. californicus Kellogg and Chap- man. Specimens from the Virginia rail, Rallus virginianus (Monterey, Cal.) Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. Specimens from the shoveller duck, Spatula c&ypeata (Monterey, Cal.) Laemobothorium sp. Two specimens from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) Until this genus is thoroughly revised we shall not attempt to make any species determination in it. Physostomum sp. One young specimen from Townsend warbler, Dendroica townsendi (Monterey, Cal.) Trinoton luridum Nitzsch. One specimen of this duck-infesting species, accredited, but certainly wrongly, to a desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) The insect probably came from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata. Trinoton lituratum Nitzsch. One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata, (Monterey, Cal.) Colpocephalum stictum n. sp. (Fig. 2). A single male specimen from Gallinago dclicata, Wilson's snipe (Monterey, Cal.) This is an elongated species with conspicuous blotches on head, thorax and abdomen. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '11 Description of Male. — Length 1.4 mm., width across abdomen .42 mm. Yellow brown in color with conspicuous dark chestnut markings. Head. — Length .34 mm., width .4 mm., thus being unusually long in comparison with its width. Front slightly convex with three short spines on either side and two short hairs on the angles where the front merges into the diverging sides The prominent ocular emargination is al- most filled by the eye and the last seg- ment of the antennae. Ocular blotches dark chestnut; ocular bands indistinct except where they broad- en to form light brown blotches at their anterior ends. The ocular fringe extends around the angle on to the temples. Temples broadly rounded, occiput concave. Two oc- cipital triangles of dark chestnut col- or connected by a dark band on the occipital margin and extending for- ward. Occipital bands wanting. There are four hairs on the angle before the ocular emargination, one larger than the others ; five hairs on the temple, three long and two short- er ; also two hairs on the occiput near the center. Thorax. — Length .34 mm., width 34 mm prothorax lenticular, the anterior margin more flattened than the posterior, which latter bears a row of about twelve hairs. Meta- thorax trapezoidal ; very dark chestnut blotches occurring in both an- terior and posterior angles, and the latter angles bearing two hairs and a spine ; also about six hairs on the posterior margin which is straight. Legs pale with a fringe of hairs on the outer edge of the tibia. Abdomen.— Length .78 mm. Last segment rounded; lateral band of each segment, except the last, with two dark chestnut appendages curving inward, one at each end of the segment, becoming lighter in color in the posterior segments. Very long hairs in the posterior angles of some of the segments. A row of hairs across each segment and numerous short hairs around the posterior margin of the last seg- ment. Transverse blotches slightly darker than general ground color of insect. Genitalia inconspicuous, being only slightly chitinized. n. sp. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 79 Colpocephalum flavescens Nitzsch. Two males from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco sparver- ius dcserticohis (Monterey, Cal.) Menopon tridens Nitzsch. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Monterey, Cal.) Menopon tridens Xitzsch, var. pacificum Kellogg. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, the common loon, Gavia linker, the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata, the American coot, Fnlica americana and (strag- gler?) the desert sparrow hawk, Falco s parvenus desertico- Ins, all from Monterey, California. Menopon sp. One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata (Monterey, California.) A Remarkable Dragonfly (Odon.). By CHARLES Louis POLLARD, Public Museum, Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, New Brighton, New York. In the account of a collecting trip in North Carolina last year, presented before the New York Entomological Society on December 21, 1909, by Mr. George P. Engelhardt and myself, reference was made to the capture of a dragonfly, Gomphoidcs ambigua Selys, as being the first record of the occurrence of this tropical American species within the Uni- ted States (see Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. v. 18, p. 130). The specimen, a male, was taken with numerous other Odonata on the shores of Greenfield Pond, near Wilmington, N. C, on August I, 1909. I am unable to recall the circum- stances of its capture, as I was engaged in general collecting at the time, and did not recognize the insect as unusual. It was sent with other species to Mr. R. P. Currie, of the Uni- ted States Department of Agriculture, who made the follow- ing comment in returning it : 8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll "Gomphoides ambigua has been reported hitherto only from Mexico and Guatemala and is thus new to the United States. It seems strange that it should have been taken in North Carolina." When recently examining the collection of Odonata in the museum of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Charles Schaeffer was inclined to question the identification, basing his opinion on two Mexican specimens in the Brooklyn museum, which had been determined by Pro- fessor Philip P. Calvert, and which differed from the Wil- mington insect. I thereupon sent the latter to Professor Cal- vert, who courteously replied at length, giving the results of his examination. The letter is of such interest that it is quoted in detail : "The dragonfly from Wilmington, N. C, which you sent me for determination falls under Gomphoides ambigua Selys, by my key to the Mexican, Central American and West In- dian species of this genus in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, volume Neuroptera. A comparison with specimens shows, however, that the Wilmington example, while possessing the very distinct median notch in the posterior dorsal margin of the last abdominal segment of ambigua, differs from ambigua and agrees with producta Selys of the West Indies in having the somewhat dilated lateral margin of the Qth segment (viewed laterally in profile) convex throughout, instead of being convex in its anterior half and concave in its posterior half. The sheath of the penis of the Wilmington male is pro- jecting, viewed laterally, as^it is in producta but not in am- bigua. There is also a slight difference in the shape of the hind dorsal margin of the loth segment ******_ The lab- rum, being chiefly pale green with only a narrow brown bor- der on its free edge, is different from that of either ambigua or producta. "Producta being the West Indian species, is what one would expect at Wilmington. From the above data your specimen seems to be intermediate between ambigua and producta. It is not outside the range of possibility that the Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 8l Wilmington male may belong to some species described from the female only. This is a difficult matter to decide in the absence of actual specimens of those species. I am, therefore, not able to say more than that your male does not agree with the descriptions or specimens of any male Gomphoides. * * "In any event, your Wilmington specimen is the most northern record for this genus known to me, and therefore a very interesting capture." It is to be hoped that entomologists visiting the Wilming- ton region, and particularly the neighborhood of Greenfield Pond, will keep a sharp lookout for species of Gomphoides and related genera, as it is quite possible that the individual taken by me had been bred in the vicinity, and was not an accidental migrant from the West Indies.* THE Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State University has recently received as a donation a fine collection of Lepidoptera from Mrs. Catherine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana. The collection was made by Mr. W. M. Tallant during a series of years in the nineties and up to about 190.=;. It contains mainly species occur- ring in central Ohio, especially at Columbus, but has also a number of species from different parts of the United States and also some fine examples of species occurring in South America, Japan, China, India, Ceylon and Africa. The collection contains about 10,000 specimens in most excellent condition, very beautifully mounted, and many of the species contain very full series, showing variations, etc., which will make them of special value for scientific study. They are, for the most part, carefully identified, well preserved and will be kept under the name of the "Tallant Collection" in good cases and cabinets. Taken with the other collections in Lepidoptera, the collection of Odonata left by Professor Kellicott, and those in various groups which have been accumulated by the efforts of the members of the Department, the university is now provided with an excellent collection of insects in- cluding representatives in all the different orders. The total number of specimens probably approaches close to 100,000. — H. O. *[ According to Mr. Muttkowski's new catalogue of the Odonata of North America (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Mil- waukee, Vol. i, art.i) the name Gomphoides Selys must be transferred to what de Selys and others have called Progomphits Selys. For the old Gomphoides Mr. Muttkowski proposes Negomphoides. If my view, set forth in the 'Biologia,' that Gomphoides Selys, Cyclophylla Selys, and Aphylla Selys are but one genus be accepted, the name Negomphoides is superfluous as Cyclophylla has priority. — P. P. CAL- VERT.] 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll A new Chalcidid from an Oak Gall (Hym.)« By T. D. A. COCKERELL, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. The beautiful Chalcidid here described was bred by Mr. E. R. Warren, the well-known Mammalogist, from galls of Holcaspis on an oak (Qnercus undulata Torrey) at Trinidad, Colorado. The galls are like those of H. rnbcns, Gillette, but the single fly obtained seems different. Syntomaspis warreni n. sp. 9 . — Length (exclusive of ovipositor) 4 1-3 mm. ; ovipositor 5 2-5 mm. ; wings ample, perfectly clear, venation pale fulvo-f erruginous ; head broad, peacock green, with faint crimson tints, frontal depressions behind antennae shining golden ; eyes bright terra-cotta red ; mandibles red except at apex ; sides of face very minutely rugosopunctate, sides of front becoming striatulate ; scape and ring-joint ferruginous; fla- gellum black, the joints very minutely longitudinally keeled; meso- thorax and scutellum with large thimble-like punctures, variegated with green and crimson, the posterior part of the scutellum minutely granular, with microscopical punctures, and with a marginal sulcus crossed by fine ridges ; other parts of thorax variegated with green and purple ; anterior coxae brilliant green ; hind coxae very large, crim- son-purple ; femora and tibiae bright chestnut red ; tarsi cream color, rufescent subapically, black at apex ; lower margin of hind femora minutely denticulate beyond the middle, but with no large tooth ; abdo- men brilliant magenta, with blue-purple shades, first segment with a very large flap, which is strongly notched posteriorly; second segment carinate, deeply notched in middle; third segment also deeply notched; hind tibiae with two spurs ; stigma sessile ; ovipositor chestnut-red, its sheath black. Type in U. S. National Museum. Mr. J. C. Crawford has kindly compared this insect with the material in the National Museum, and writes that it comes very close to Syntomaspis californicus Ashm., which is green- ish or golden greenish, without the purple tints. The species is one of those which might be assigned either to Torymus or Syntomaspis. — *- •-• — AT THE ANNUAL MEETiNf, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society held December soth, in Philadelphia. Dr. Henry Skinner was re-elected Professor of Entomology for 1911. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a 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. — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1911. The versatility of insects is well shown by the inducements which they hold out to man to serve as the objects of his most varied study. From papers and references in this number of the NEWS we find them continually increasing his catalogues of animal forms, exercising his ingenuity to escape their un- welcome personal attentions to his body, serving as the mate- rial for experiments on the method and manner of inheritance or for the examination of minute details of the structure of the living cell, illustrating complicated problems of physics, disturbing his ideas of the operations of climatic influences upon life. All these branches of human intellectual activity are of the larger Entomology wherein each of us who reads these lines tries to do his part. DR. A. A. MICHELSON, of the University of Chicago, delivered the seventh lecture upon the J. C. Campbell Foundation of the Sigma Xi Society of the Ohio State University on the evening of December 2. TTis subject was "Metallic Colors in Birds and Insects." The lecture was amply illustrated by lantern and reflectoscope and was concluded by an explanation of the most probable cause as found by the lecturer as a result of his researches. — Science, Dec. 23, 1910. 83 84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. THE Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been able to offer Liverpool University $50,000 for the establishment of a chair in Tropi- cal entomology. At a meeting of the Council of the University it was resolved gratefully to accept the offer. — Science, Jan. 6, 1911. ANNOUNCEMENT of the Journal of Animal Behavior and the Animal Behavior Monograph Series. — In response to a widely felt .and urgent need for a periodical in which studies of the behavior and mental life of organisms may satisfactorily be published a journal and a mono- graph series have been planned. The Journal of Animal Behavior will accept for publication field studies of the habits, instincts, social rela- tions, etc., of animals, as well as laboratory studies of animal behavior or animal psychology. It is hoped that the organ may serve to bring into more sympathetic and mutually helpful relations the "naturalists" and the "experimentalists" of America, that it may encourage the publication of many carefully made naturalistic observations which at present are not published, and that it may present to a wide circle of nature-loving readers accurate accounts of the lives of animals. Be- ginning with January, 1911, the Journal will appear bi-monthly in numbers of approximately 75 pages. Each annual volume of six num- bers will consist of not less than 450 pages. The subscription price will be $3.00 per volume (foreign, $3.50). This low price to subscribers can be maintained only if those who are interested in the study of the behavior and psychology of animals promptly subscribe and work for the support of the Journal. The Journal is under the editorial direc- tion and management of I. Madison Bentley, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cornell University; Harvey A. Carr, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago ; Samuel J. Holmes, Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin ; Herbert S. Jennings, Henry Walters Professor of Zoology, Johns Hopkins University; Ed- ward L. Thorndike, Professor of Educational Psychology, Teachers' College of Columbia University; Margaret F. Washburn, Professor of Psychology, Vassar College; John B. Watson, Professor of Experi- mental and Comparative Psychology, Johns Hopkins University; Wil- liam M. Wheeler, Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard Uni- versity, and Robert M. 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The Animal Behavior Monograph Series will be published in connection with the Journal as a provision for papers which are too length)-, or, for other reasons, too costly to be accepted by the Journal. The mono- graphs of this series will appear at irregular intervals, and they will be grouped in volumes of approximately 450 pages. The separate monographs will be sold at prices determined by the cost of manufac- ture, and the volume will be sent to regular subscribers for the price of $3.00 (foreign, $3.50). Subscribers to the Journal are urged to sub- scribe also to the Monograph Series. The Journal of Animal Behavior and the Animal Behavior Monograph Series will be published for the Editorial Board by Henry Holt and Company, New York. Manu- scripts for the Journal may be sent to the managing editor, Professor Robert M. Yerkes, Emerson Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, or to any other member of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts for the Monograph Series should be sent to the editor, Professor John B. Watson, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, from whom informa- tion may be obtained concerning terms of publication. Books and other matter for review in the Journal should be sent to the editor of re- views, Professor Margaret F. Washburn, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. All business communications should be addressed to the Journal of Animal Behavior, Cambridge, Mass. NOTES ON LIMNOBIA PARIETINA O. S. — The splendid crane-fly, Limnobia parietina O. S., has always been regarded as some- what of a rarity. It was described by Baron Osten Sacken in 1861, from specimens taken at Trenton Falls, N. Y., "on fences, in September, numerous $ and 9 specimens." It has since been recorded from the White Mountains, New Hampshire, and more recently (1909), Prof. C W. Johnson has added a few more records: Prout's Neck, Me. ; Intervale and Hampton, N. H., and Lake Ganoga, North Mountain, Pa. I have mentioned the occurrence of the species in Fulton County, N. Y., in ENT. NEWS for June, 1910. I have the following notes to add : In early September, 1910, a friend and I were on a long fishing tramp up into Hamilton Co., N. Y. On the morning of the 2d, while passing from Silver Lake, near Arietta, to the White House on the 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll west branch of the Sacandaga River, I noticed an abundance of a large Tipulid flying about in the dense woods. They proved to be Limnobia parietina. The woods along Nine-Mile Creek were dark and gloomy, and very little sunshine penetrated to the ground below. When the parietina passed from the shadows into the bright sun- light they looked very large and conspicuous. There were hundreds of specimens about, and they were the only large crane-fly in this sort of habitat. They would fly lazily from some resting place, and usually alight on the trunk of some nearby tree, head upward. I picked seven $ 's and one 2 from such places, or seized them as they flew slowly past. It is a notable late summer species, all of the records be- ing for late August or September. — CHAS. P. ALEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. THE COLEOPTERORUM CATALOGUE, published by W. Junk, Berlin, edited by S. Schenkling, began publication September 15, 1909. Up to January i, 1911, the following parts have appeared: i. R. Gestro, Rhysodidae ; 2. F. Borchmann, Nilionidae, Othniidae, Aegialitidae, Petriidae, Lagriidae; 3, Alleculidae; 4, M. Hagedorn, Ipidae; 5, R. Gestro, Cupedidae et Paussidae; 6, H. Wagner, Curculionidae, Apioni- nae ; 7, H. von Schonfeldt, Brenthidae; 8, van Roon, Lucanidae : 9, E. Olivier, Lampyridae ; 10, E. Olivier, Rhagophthalmiclae, Drilidae ; ii, A. Leveille, Temnochilidae ; I2t E. Csiki, Endomychidae ; 13, Sca- phidiidae; 14, M. Pic, Hylophilidae ; 15, H. Gebien, Tenebrionidae I; 16, P. Pape, Brachyceridae ; 17, Ph. Zaitzev, Dryopidae, Cyathoceridae, Georyssidae, Heteroceridae; 18, E. Csiki, Platypsyllidae, Orthoperidae, Phaenocephalidae, Discolomidae, Sphaeriidae ; 19, M. Bernhauer et K. Schubert, Staphylinidae I ; 20, A. Schmidt, Aphodiinae ; 21, K. Ahlwarth, Gyrinidae ; 22, H. Gebien, Tenebrionidae II; 23, H. Bick- hardt, Histeridae. Part 24, S. Schenkling, Cleridae. is announced for immediate publication. All the other families are in preparation. The publisher thinks that there is little doubt that the "Catalogus" will be completed in about six years. Supplements will be published regularly after completion of the work. The literature on the biology and development of beetles, chiefly of the injurious species, will be listed with special care. THE announcements of the Free Lectures of the Ludwick Institute to be given in 1911 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia, contain the following references, direct or indirect to Entomology. Scientific Explorers of America and Their Discoveries. By Henry A. Pilsbry, Sc.D., Special Curator, Department of Mollusks, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Illustrated by lantern slides. Mon- days at 8 P. M. February 13 : Voyages of the XV., XVI., XVII. Cen- turies and their Geographical Discoveries. Illustrated with reproduc- tions of interesting early maps and charts, showing the progress of knowledge of western geography. February 20 and 27 : Zoological and Botanical Explorers and Writers of the XVI. and XVII. Centuries- Hernandez, Sir Hans Sloane, Bartram, etc. March 6: The Great Ex- plorers of South and Central America and their Zoological Discov- eries. March 13: Early North American Explorations. Entomology. By Henry Skinner, M.D., Conservator, Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Illustrated by Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 87 colored lantern slides. Thursdays at 8 P. M. February 16 : Lepidop- tera, Butterflies and Moths; their life histories, habits, transformations and distribution. February 23 : Economic Entomology : Insects of the Household and the Farm ; Crop and Fruit-tree Pests ; the San Jose scale, gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, tussock moth and other shade-tree pests. March 2 : The Social Insects or Hymenoptera, Bees, Wasps and Ants; their habits, architecture and communities. March 9: Insects and Disease. Parasitism. Ticks and mites in relation to Texas fever, spotted fever and relapsing fever. Horse-flies, stable-flies, punkies, blow-flies, jigger-fleas, bed-bugs. House-flies in relation to typhoid fever and tuberculosis. March 16 : Insects and Disease. Mosquitoes, their life history ; mosquitoes in relation to malaria, yellow fever and filaria. Sleeping sickness and the tsetse fly. Some tropical diseases transmitted by insects. Animal Coloration and Its Significance in Evolution. By J. Percy Moore. Illustrated by lantern slides. Thursdays at 8 P. M. March 23 : Physical and Physiological Basis of Animal Color. Color in Rela- tion to Function and Environment. Color Patterns. March 30: Non- adaptive and Adaptive Coloration. Types of Adaptive or Useful Col- oration. April 6: Concealing Coloration. April 13: Warning Colors. Mimicry, etc. Changeable Colors. Dichromatism and Related Phe- nomena. April 20 : Behavior of Color in Heredity. Conclusion. HAS anyone had any experience with gas lamps used for attracting moths? I am thinking of buying a 2,ooo-candlepower gasoline lamp to use in catching moths. A friend of mine in Chicago thinks a gas lamp will not attract moths, at least not nearly so many as an electric or kerosene lamp will do. He claims the light is too white. I am an- xious to hear from someone who has had actual experience. — A. F. PORTER, Decorah, Iowa. Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR.. AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 5 — Psyche, Cambridge. Mass. 6— Journal, New York Entomological Society. 1 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 16 — Bulletin, Societe Nationale d'Ac- 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll climation de France, Paris. 18 — Ottawa Naturalist. 22 — Zoologis- cher Anzeiger, Leipzig. 24 — Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 38 — Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 40 — Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 45 — Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 47 — The Zool- ogist, London. 55— Le Naturaliste, Paris. 81 — Biologisches Cen- tralblatt, Erlangen. 84 — Entomologische Rundschau. 92 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, Berlin. 97 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 102 — Proceedings, Entomo- logical Society of Washington. 143 — Ohio Naturalist, Columbia. 179 — Journal of Economic Entomology. 180 — Annals, Entomolog- ical Society of America. 183 — The Glasgow Naturalist. 189 — Po- mona Journal of Entomology, Claremont, Cala. 193 — Entomologis- che Blatter, Nurnberg. 216 — Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart. 278 — Annales, Societe Zoologique Suisse et du Museum d'Histoire de Geneve, Revue S'uisse de Zoologie. 279 — Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft, Jena. 287 — Proceedings, Royal Society of Victoria (new Series), Melbourne. 301 — Verhandlungen und Mit- teilungen des Siebenburgischen Vereins fur Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 302 — Mitteilungen, Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins an der Universitat Wien. 303 — Entomologiske Meddelel- ser, udgivne af Entomologisk Forening, Copenhagen. 304 — An- nals. Carnegie Museum. 305 — Deutsche Entomologische National- Bibliothek, Berlin. GENERAL SUBJECT. Bablu, E.— Die wirbellose terrestrische Fauna der nivalen Region, Ein Beitrag zur Zoogeographie der Wirbellosen, 278, xviii, 761-916. Jacobson, E. — Hilfsmittel beini Fang und Praparieren von Insekten, besonders in den Tropen, 305, i, 91-95. Kerr, J. G. — List of species of insects described by J. C. Fabricius from specimens in Dr. Hunter's collection, 183, ii, 101-111. Przibram, H. — Experimental-zoologie, 3. Phylogenese (inklusive Hereditat), 315 pp., 1910, Leipzig. Rhumbler, L. — Ueber eine zweckmassige Weiterbildung der Linneschen binaren Nomenklatur, Ein vorlaufiger Vorschlag, 22, xxxvi, 453-471. Skinner, A. — The use of insects and other invertebrates as food by the No. American Indians, 6, xviii, 264-267. Swinton, A. H. — The vocal and instru- mental music of insects, 47, xiv, 299-306, 426-432 (continued). APTERA & NEUROPTERA. Bottger, O.— Das Gehirn eines niederen Insektes (Lepisma saccharina), 279, xlvi, 801-844. Cham- berlin,, R. V. — Diplopoda from the western states, 180, iii, 233-276 (*). The Chilopoda of California I., 189, ii, 363-374 (*). Crawford, D. L.— American Psyllidae II (Triozinae), 189, ii, 347-362 (*). ORTHOFTERA. Bruner, L.— South American Tettigidae. 304, vii, 89-143. Criddle, N. — The migration of some native locusts, 18, xxiv, 164-166. Severin & Severin — The effect of moisture and dry- Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 89 ness on the emergence from the egg of the walking-stick (Diaphero- mera femoratus), 179, iii, 479-481. Zacher, F. — Tiergeographische, phylogenetische und biologische Bemerkungen zu Malcolm Burr's Dermapterenfauna von British Indien, Burma und Ceylon, 84, xxvii, 174-176. HEMIPTERA. Chittenden & Marsh— Note on the oviposition of the tarnished plant-bug, 179, iii, 477-479. Davis, W. T. — The periodical cicada on Long Island, N. Y., in 1910, 6, xviii, 259-260. Distant, W. L. — Description of a new species of Cicadidae (from Central America), 189, ii, 346 (*). Essig, E. O. — Aphididae of Southern California V.. 189, ii, 335-338. The citrus mealy-bug (Pseudocaccus citri), 189, ii, 289-320. A new mealy bug infesting walnut, apple, and pear trees, 189, ii, 339-345 (*). Heidemann, O. — Description of a new capsid, 102, xii, 200-201 (*). New species of Leptoglossus from N. Am., 102, xii, 191-197 (*). Henrich, C.— Die Blattlaus, Aphididae der Umgebung von Hermannstadt mit einen Index und Figurenerklarung, 301, lix, 1-104, 1910. Iches, L.— Une punaise geante de 1' Argentine (Belostoma annulipes), 16, Ivii, 468-470. Matausch, I. — Entylia Germar and its different forms, 6, xviii, 260-263. Schumacher, F. — Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Biologic der Asopiden, 92, vi, 376-383 (continued). Die Discocera-Arten des Konigl. Zool. Museums zu Berlin, 22, xxxvi, 471-475. Wilson, H. F. — A second paper on the genera in the subfamily Callipterinae, 4, xlii, 384-388. A Key to the genera of the subfamily Aphidinae and notes on synonomy, 180, iii, 314-325. LEPIDOPTERA. Andre,, E.— Elviages de Lepidopteres Seri- cigenes, 16, 1910, 500-510. Barnes & McDunnough — Notes on life- history of Anisota skinneri, 4, xlii, 400-403. Coolidge, K. R. — A Cali- fornia orange dog (Papilio sps), 189, ii, 333-334. Melitaea alma, and its synonymy, 4, xlii, 403-404. Dyar,, H. G. — Notes on Megalopygidae, 102, xii, 161-176 (*). On Professor Smith's treatment of the forms of Graphiphora (Taeniocampa) allied to hibisci, 4, xlii, 399-400. Some moths from Claremont, Cala., with notes on certain allied species, 189, ii, 375-378 (*). Two new species of Graptolitha, 102, xii, 190 (*). Ely, C. R. — New Phycitinae and Crambinae, 102, xii, 202-204 (*). Evers, J. — Insekten als Wetterpropheten, 92, vi, 401. Forbes, W. T. M. — The aquatic caterpillars of Lake Quinsigamond (Mass.), 5, xvii, 219-227. Furstorfer, H. — Neues ueber die Geni- talorgane der Rhopalocera, 216, xxiv, 150-151 (continued). Gross- beck, J. A. — New species and one new genus of Geometridae, 6, xviii, 199-207 (*). Hammar, A. G. — Life history of the codling moth in northwestern Pennsylvania, 7, Bull. No. 80, pt. vi. Henniger, W. F. — The Macro-Lepidoptera of Seneca County, Ohio, 143, xi, 233- 242. Luderwaldt, H. — Vergiftungserscheinungen durch Verletzung 9O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll mittelst haariger oder dorniger Ranpen, 92, vi, 398-401. Lyman, H. H. — Notes on certain species of Graptolitha, 4, xlii, 381-383. Martin, L. — Die ersten Stande von Elymnias panthera, 305, i, 95-96. Postel, G. — Nouvelles observations sur la ponte de Malacosma (Bombyx) Neustria La Livree, 55, xxxii, 278-280. Reiff, W. — Argynnis cybele, forma bartschi f. nov., 5, xvii, 252-255 (*). Rus- sell, H. M. — Notes on the geometrid Gypsochroa sitellata. 102, xii, 177-178. Schaus, W. — New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica III, 11, vi, 561-585 (*). Smith, J. B. — New species of Noctuidae for 1910. No. 2, 2, xxxvi, 251-266 (*). Stichel, H.— Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der Riodinidae, 24, Iv, 9-103 (continued). Strand, E. — Nevter Gattungsname in der Lepidopterologie. (Nereidania for Nereis Warren). 40, xxv, 72. Swett, L. W. — Geometrid notes. A new variety of Nyctobia, 5, xvii, 255-256 (*). DIPTERA. Bepzi, M. — Zur Synonymic und systematischen Stel- lung einiger Dipteren, 40, xxv, 66-67. Zwei neue sudamerikanischc Microdon-Arten, 38, xxix, 319-320. Crawford, D. L. — The Mexican orange maggot (Anastrepha ludeus), 189, ii, 321-332. Haseman, L. — The structure and metamorphosis of the alimentary canal of the larva of Psychoda alternata, 180, iii, 277-313. Hendel. F. — Ueber die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratenogattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der palaarktischen Dipteren Bd. 4, 48, xxix, 307-313. John- son, C. W. — Some additions to the dipteran fauna of New England, 5, xvii, 228-235. Knab, F.— Coquillett's "The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera," 102, xii, 197-200. Krober, O.— Abnormitaten bei Fliegen, 92, vi, 181, 244-246 (continued). Licht- wardt. B. — Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Nemestriniden. Theil V. Ueber Americanische Arten. Th. VI. Ueber Afrikanische Arten, 45, 1910, 589-624. Michl, E. — Eine monstrose Kopfbildung bei Echino- myia fere, 302, viii, 58-61. Einiges ueber das sogenannte Ptilinum der schizophoren Dipteren, 302, viii, 85-89. Tolg, F. — Billaea pec- tinata (S'irostoma latum) als Parasit von Cetoniden und Ceramby- ciden-Larven, Metamorphose und aussere Morphologic der Larve, 92, vi, 278-283, 331-336, 387-395 (continued). COLEOPTERA. Anon. — Liste neuerdinags beschriebener oder gezogener Parasiten und ihrer Wirte, 40, xxv, 63-64, 68. Bick- hardt, H. — Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 24; Histeridae, 137 pp. Boving, A. — Nye Bidrag til Carabernes Udviklingshistorie, 303, iii, 319-376. Buhk,, F. — Lebensweise und Entwicklung von Sper- cheus emarginatus, 84,, xxvii. 127-128 (continued). Chittenden, F. H. — The oak primer (Elaphidion villosum), 7, Circ. No. 130, 7 pp. Frost, C. A. — Ethological notes on Elaphrus cicatricosus, 5, xvii, 256-257. Hunter, W. D. — The status of the cotton boll, weevil in 1909, 7, Circ. No. 122, 12 pp. Kleine, R. — Biologische Beobachtun- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 9! gen an Dendrosoter protuberans, 9, vi, 289-292, 346-349 (continued). Die Lariiden und Rhynchophoren und ihre Nahrungspflanzen, 193, vi, 261-265, 275-294, 305-339. Kerremans, C. — Monographic des Buprestides. Lampetis, Tome V. 129-192. Monographic des Bupres- tides. Tome V, 193-256 (Damarsila). Lea, A. M. — Australian and Tasmanian Coleoptera inhabiting or. resorting to the nests of ants, bees and termites, 287, xxiii, 116-230, xxv-xxvii. Marsh, H. O.— Biologic notes on species of Diabrotica in Southern Texas, 7, Bull. No. 82, p. 67-84. Ohaus, F. — Neue sudamerikanische Dynas- tiden, 45, 1910, 671-690. Schaeffer, C. — New clavicorn Coleoptera, 6, xviii, 210-216 (*). Schenkling, S. — Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 23. Cleridae. 174 pp. Spaney,, A. — Beitrage zur Biologic un- serer einheimischen Rosskafer, 45, 1910, 625-634. Titus, E. G.— On the life history of the alfalfa leaf-weevil, 179, iii, 459-470. Well- man, C. — The generic and subgeneric types of Lyttidae (Meloidae S. Cantharidae), 4, xlii, 389-396. Xamben, C. — Moeurs & metamor- phoses des Coleopteres de la tribu des Chrysomeliens, 55, xxxii, 164-167, 179-181, 249-250. Moeurs & metamorphoses des especes du genre Rhizotrogus, 55, xxxii, 263-264, 1910. HYMENOPTERA. Banks, N.— A few new Psammocharidae, 5, xvii, 248-251 (*). Brauns, H. — Biologisches ueber sudafrikanische Hymenoptera, 92, vi, 384-387 (continued). Brun, R. — Zur Biologie und Psychologic von Formica rufa und anderen Ameisen, 81, xxx. 524-528 (continued). Cockerell, T. D. A. — Some bees from Eldora, Colorado. Some bees from Ecuador, 5, xvii, 244-247 (*). Friese, H. — Neue Bienenarten aus S'ud-Amerika, 45, 1910, 693-711. Gahan, A. B. — Some synonymy and other notes on Aphidiinae, 102, xii, 179-189. Girault, A. A. — Synonymic and descriptive notes on the chalcidoid family Mymaridae, 6, xviii, 233-259 (*). Hoppner, H.— Zur Biologie der Rubusbewohner, 92,, vi, 161-167, 219-224 (con- tinued). Metzer, C. — Studien ueber die Honigbiene (Apis mellifica) III, Die Verbindung zwischen Vorder-und mitteldarm bei der Biene, 97, xcvi, 539-571. Pierce, W. D. — On some phases of para- sitism displayed by insect enemies of weevils, 179, iii, 451-458. Quayle, H. J. — Scutellista cyanea, 179, iii, 446-451. Rudow, Dr.— Afterraupen der Blattwespen und ihre Entwicklung, 84, xxvii, 105- 109, 119-121, 128-129, 136-137, 142-143 (continued). Schrottky, C.— Der Wirt von Pedinopelte Kriechb. (Ichneumonidae), 92, vi, 402. Neue sudamerikanische Grabwespen, 40, xxv, 69-70. Neue sud- amerikanische Hymenoptera. 84, xvii, 168-169 (continued). Two new Nomadidae from S. America, 6, xviii, 208-210. Wheeler, W. M. — The No. American forms of Camponotus fallax, 6, xviii. 216- 232 (*). The North American forms of Lasius umbratus, 5, xvii, 235-243 (*). 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll MOSQUITO OR MAN? THE CONQUEST OF THE TROPICAL WORLD. — In spite of all the interest aroused in the past decade on the subject of the re- lation of insects to disease, authoritative discussions, which, at the same time are thoroughly interesting for the non-technical reader, are rare. There has recently appeared such a book, which holds one's interest from beginning to end, — Sir Hubert Boyce's "Mosquito or Man."* By ability to present the facts in a readable, popular style, no less than by a broad first-hand knowledge of his subject, the author, who is dean of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is peculiarly qualified. It is in the field of tropical medicine that the application of the dis- coveries of the relations of insects to the transmission of disease has been most far-reaching, and Sir Rubert has fittingly given his book the sub-title "The Conquest of the Tropical World." After a brief dis- cussion of the foundation of the tropical medicine movement in Eng- land, he traces the growth of general and applied sanitation in the tropics and emphasizes that the greatest value of measures along this line has been in the fact that indirectly and incidentally they resulted in a reduction in numbers of disease-carrying insects. For instance, modern methods of obtaining water supplies have resulted in a great reduction of yellow fever throughout the West Indies in the past fifty years. But, "the significance of the relationship of the diminution of yellow fever to the introduction of pipe-borne water is due entirely to the fact that there has been of necessity a diminution of the common breeding places of the house mosquito— the Stegomyia calopus — the sole carrier of yellow fever." An entertaining and concise account of the discoveries which under- lie our present knowledge of insects as carriers of disease is preceded by a chapter on "Miasm, Tradition and Prejudice." As one who has taken part in many campaigns against disease Dr. Boyce has good rea- son to know the depth to which the old doctrine of the miasmatic origin of malaria and yellow fever is rooted. t The popular mind is not yet freed from the idea of "the deadly miasm, which surrounds you on all sides, which you encounter at its worst in the cool eventide or early morning," and even yet, in many regions, it is regarded as a mat- ter of course that the newcomer must fall a prey to the "acclimation fever." On account of this deep-seated belief in man, the pioneer finds it far more easy to overthrow the strongholds of the disease-carrying * Mosquito or Man? The Conquest of the Tropical World. By Sir Rubert Boyce, M.B., F.R.S. London, 1909. John Murray. $3.50. f One of our best dictionaries in its revised, 1909 edition, defines ma- laria as a fever produced by "morbific exhalations arising from swamps or effluvia from the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter." Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 93 mosquito than to overthrow this deep-seated prejudice, which begets apathy and indifference, characteristic of the tropical countries where these diseases are so prevalent. But now, in all parts of the world the campaign against insect car- riers of disease is being waged. Most instructive are the accounts — often from personal experience — which the author gives of the re- sults of this movement. For instance, the early history of yellow fever shows in some epidemics a mortality rate of 69 per cent. It was not from want of good food or water, or accommodation that men perish- ed. "No, they were struck down by some unseen hand, and medicine said that that hand was the miasm. Today we know it to be the mos- quito and whereas formerly, acting on the miasm theory not one life was ever saved, today, armed with the new knowledge, we visit the mias- matic countries with the same feeling of security that we do when we ppv a visit to the continent." A valuable feature is the discussion of plans of campaign against the guilty mosquito. Especially interesting to the American reader is the detailed account of the fight against yellow fever in New Orleans, in 1905, in which Dr. Boyce, as volunteer, played an important part. The hook is not limited, as its title would imply, to a consideration of the mosquito in the transmission of disease but considers also, though briefly, the part played by other insects — the tsetse-fly, the rat flea, ticks, and the housefly. The hookworm, too, is briefly included in the discussion. Altogether, the volume is a fascinating one and should be read by every one who wishes to keep in touch with the advances of preven- tative medicine. He will put it down with the conviction that the author is justified in his claim that the tropical world, long retarded in its development by its reputation as "the white man's grave," is today be- ing steadily and surely conquered. "The three great insect-carried scourges of the tropics — the greatest enemies that mankind has ever had to contend with, namely malaria, yellow fever and sleeping sick- ness— are now fully in hand and giving way, and with their conquest disappears the awful and grinding depression which seems to have gripped our forefathers. * * * The tropical world is unfolding once again to the pioneers of commerce who now do not dread the unseen hand of death as did of old the Spanish Conquistadores of Columbus and Cortes." — WM. A. RILEY, Cornell University. ANNUAL REPORT of THE NEW JERSEY STATE MTSEUM. INCLUDING A REPORT OF THE INSECTS OE NE\V JERSEY, 1009.— This contains the Cura- tor's Report ; Insects, their Classification and Distribution and a Sys- temic List of the Insects of the State, Alphabetical Index to Localities, 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Explanations of Abbreviations and Acknowledgments, Summary and Index. This is another edition of Prof. John B. Smith's well known New Jersey list of insects. Two previous lists have appeared, the first in 1890 and the second in 1900. The first list contains the names of 6098 species, the second 8537 and the present list 10385. The work is intended to aid students and collectors and also to encourage the study of entomology, particularly economic, among teachers, farmers, fruit growers and other persons who should be interested in this important subject. The success of this State list has led to similar records being kept in other States, with a view of publication, and sooner or later, we will see them in print. Work of this kind will greatly enhance our knowledge of distribution and will be useful in the study of many prob- lems connected with both economic and systematic entomology. — H. S. Doings of Societies. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. At a regular meeting held November i6th, 1910, at 1523 South Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, fifteen members were present. President Harbeck in the chair. Mr. H. A. Wenzel spoke of a collecting trip made in August to Pocono Lake, Pa., in company with Mr. Greene, of E'aston, and mentioned the interesting species collected. Among the rarer were Aphodius Icopardus Horn, A. rubripennis Horn and Dialytcs striatnlns Say, all collected in cow manure along the trails in the thick woods. The latter was also taken under the fallen needles of the pine. These three species had been pre- viously taken by himself and father at high altitude in Balsam Mountains, N. C. He went thro' five or six ant hills with no success. Found three or four species of Necrophorus on dead animals and in traps. Mr. H. W. Wenzel said that A. rubri- pennis was a mountain species and by no means common ; had previously been recorded as found only under bear dung ; also made some remarks on and displayed his collection of Geotrupes and a pupa of one, probably G. scnriopacus Tec. ; de- scribed the tunnelling of species of this genus and, when they strike an obstruction in the shape of a stone, the manner in which they dig around it. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 95 Mr. Daecke said he had found Cicindela mfiventris Dej. on the top of a mountain near Harrisburg; was surprised to find it there as it is found in just the opposite conditions in New Jersey. Mr. Harbeck said since finding at Trenton, N. J., the sawfly with "four antennae" recorded at the October, 1909, meeting, he had found another at the same place and one at Mana- hawkin ; he questioned whether they were all freaks or whether there was a genus with this characteristic.* This led to a general discussion on the subject of freaks including mammals, plants and insects. Adjourned to the annex. GEO. M. GREENE, Sec'y. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS. At the eighth annual meeting of the Eastern Branch, held at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, December 28-30, 1910, the following papers of an entomological character were read: Dr. N. M. Stevens CBryn Mawr College) Hetero- chromosomes in Mosquitos. Contrary to. the previous exper- ience of the speaker that when heterochromosomes were found in one member of a genus or family of Coleoptera, Diptera or Hemiptera. they are also to be found in other members of the same group, she found heterochromosomes clearly differ- entiated in Anopheles but not differentiated in Cule.r and Theobaldia; this non-differentiation was used as an argument against the idea that heterochromosomes are sex-determinants. Prof. T. H. Montgomery, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania), Origin and significance of Mitochondria. This granular con- stituent of cells was studied in living sperm cells of Enschistits (Hemipterqn) and was considered to be due not to an extrusion of chromatin from the nucleus but probably to a chemical in- teraction between nuclear and cytoplasmic material ; it was suggested that cells receiving much mitochondria may become somatic cells, those receiving little mitochondria may become : Mr. E. T. Cresson stated, without having seen these specimens, that they were perhaps males of Lophyrus. — Ens. g6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '11 germ cells. Prof. P. P. Calvert (University of Pennsylvania), Newly Found Odonate larvae of special interest from Costa Rica. Larvae of Cora with anterior abdominal tracheal gills and of Mecistogaster modestus from water between leaf bases of arboricolous bromeliads were described and the transfor- mation of the latter species shown by a series of photographs from life. Dr. A. Petrunkevitch (Yale University) The senses, courtship and mating in tarantulas, and A case of re- generation in tarantulas, illustrated by very interesting photo- graphs and demonstrations. Prof. T. H. Morgan (Columbia University), The origin and heredity of four wing mutations in Drosophila, and The heredity of red eyes, white eyes and pink eyes in Drosophila. At the meeting of the American Society of Naturalists held in conjunction with the Eastern Branch of the Zoologists, Prof. Morgan contributed a paper also dealing with Droso- phila under the title : The application of the conception of pure lines to sex-limited inheritance and to sexual dimorphism, while Prof. J. H. Gerould (Dartmouth College) spoke on Polvmorphism and inheritance in Collas phllodice. For the meetings of the Central Branch of the American Society of Zoologists in conjunction with Section F, Zoology, A. A. A. S., held at Minneapolis, Minn., December 28, 29 and 30, IQIO, the following entomological papers were announc- ed: J. F. Abbott (Washington University), Poulton's Theory of the Origin of Mimicry in Certain Butterflies ; S. R. Wil- liams (Miami University), Comparison of the Arrangement of the Eggs in the Nests of Japy'x sp. and Scutigerella im- maculata ; S. J. Hunter (University of Kansas), On the Transition from Parthenogenesis to Gameogenesis in Aphids. IT. 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Owing to the fact that the above mentioned material in conjunction with a large series of rhodope has been made available for study, it seems advis- able to name this form. What relation it bears to rhodope in nature can't be foretold, but it is sufficiently distinct to call at- tention to it in the hope that future study will establish its true relationship. Parnassius immaculata n. sp. Male. Expands 1.25 inches. Primaries marked as in Parnassius clodius. Secondaries devoid of spots, the only marking is formed by the black scales on the inner margin and on the inner side of the dis- coidal area. Described from one specimen taken at the Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, by Mr. W. Judson Coxey, and kindly presented by him to the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. \Vhat relation this bears to clodius I am not prepared to say. Additional material and study in its habitat will be necessary to solve the problem. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ICK} Two new Gall Midges (Dipt.). BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The two West Indian species described below were reared by Mr. W. H. Patterson, of the School of Agriculture, St. Vincent, and recently sent to the writer for determination. Asphondylia vincenti n. sp. This species was reared from the fruits of Jussiaea linifolia and /. suffrutiosa, at St. Vincent, W. I. Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely short-haired, dark brown ; 14 sessile segments, the fifth with a length about five times its diameter; circumfili distinct, very tortuous. Palpi : first segment irregularly oval, with a length over twice its diam- eter, the second slender, nearly three times the length of the first. Mesonotum a nearly uniform slaty brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, postscutellum darker. Abdomen sparsely haired dark brown. Wings hyaline, costa light brown, sub- costa uniting therewith just before the basal half, the third vein at the apex of the wing, the fifth just beyond the distal third, its branch just before the basal half. Legs mostly a variable fuscous yellowish, the tarsal segments being darker, except the yellow- ish brown tibiae and first four tarsal segments of the posterior legs ; simple claws rather slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment short, greatly swollen ; terminal clasp segment short, swollen, bidentate apically ; dorsal plate divided, the lobes narrowly oval and thickly setose apically; ventral plate small, apparently bilobed. Female. Length 2 mm. Color characters nearly as in the male. An- tennae : the fifth segment with a length about five times its diameter, the I2th with a length l/4 greater than its diameter, the I3th a little short- er, the I4th flattened, subglobose. Palpi : the first segment with a length nearly three times its diameter, the second slender, l/2 longer ; posterior tibiae and first four tarsal segments markedly lighter than in the male. Ovipositor when extended about as long as the body, the acicula slender, acute ; dorsal pouch moderate sized, the lobes thickly setose and narrowly rounded apically. Pupa. Length 2 mm. Oval, stout, yellowish brown ; cephalic horns moderately long, stout, the inner oblique margins finely serrate ; antennal cases extending to the first abdominal segment, the wing cases to the fourth and the leg cases to the sixth. Just below the base of the an- tennae and on the venter there is a median, triangular, chitinous pro- HO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll cess, and a little behind that a bidentate, chitinous process with a mi- nute median tooth. Pupal skin thickly set with chitinous points or cor- rugations. Abdominal segments each with the dorsum ornamented with two sparse, transverse rows of stout spines, these becoming irreg- ular on the terminal segment, the apex being marked with a group of two or three divergent, sublateral spines. Larva.. Length 2 mm. Rather stout, white, distinctly segmented ; head extremely broad, only the tips of the slightly protuberant mouth- parts being fuscous; antennae short, extremely minute, the whole great- ly obscured by the large, strongly chitinized breastbone, which latter is broad, anteriorly, quadridentate, being divided by a median incision into two groups of minor teeth; shaft rather indistinctly chitinized and sup- ported by submedian, chitinous, rounded lobes ; skin coarsely shagreen- ed. Type Cecid a2i:8, N. Y. State Museum. Hyperdiplosis eupatorii n. sp. This species was reared from a green, conical gall with a length of about 4 mm. and a diameter of 1.5 mm., on the upper surface of the leaves of Enpatorium, the insects pupating within the deformity. This form is provisionally referred to Hyperdiplosis, because it agrees therewith in the triarticulate palpi, the reduced circumfili and the deeply and roundly exca- vated ventral plate. The antennal stems of the typical Hyper- diplosis are more produced and the claws more strongly bent than in this West Indian form. Male. Length i.i mm. Antennae l/2 longer than the body, thickly haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth having the basal por- tion of the stem with a length l/2 greater than its diameter, the distal part with a length 2l/2 times its diameter ; basal enlargement subglo- bose, a sparse subbasal whorl and a subapical circumfilum, the loops short and reaching only to the middle of the stem; the distal enlarge- ment with a length J^ greater than its diameter, a scattering whorl of setae, subbasal and subapical circumfili, the loops of each short, those of the distal filum not extending to the tip of the segment ; terminal segment having the distal enlargement subcylindric, with a length 2l/2 times its diameter and a stout, finger-like process apical!}'. Palpi ; first segment short, irregular, the second with a length three times its width, the third nearly twice the length of the second, more slender. Mesono- tufn light brownish red, the yellowish submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen yellowish red, the fifth to seventh segments yellowish ; genitalia reddish. Wings hyaline. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS III costa light brown, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal third, the third vein well beyond the apex, the fifth just before the distal fourth, its branch near the basal half. Halteres whitish transparent. Legs a nearly uniform fuscous yellowish, the simple claws slender, slightly curved, the pulvilli shorter than the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp seg- ment long, stout ; terminal clasp segment rather long, stout, irregularly curved; dorsal plate broad, broadly and roundly emarginate, the lobes irregularly rounded, sparsely setose ; ventral plate long, broad, broadly and very deeply emarginate, the lateral angles rather stout, finger-like, setose apically; style long, stout, broadly rounded distally. Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, dark fuscous ; probably 14 segments, the fifth with a stem 1-3 the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length about three times its diameter. Palpi : first segment rather stout, with a length twice its width, the second a little longer, more slender, the third l/$ longer than the second. Coloration nearly as in the male, except that the abdomen appears to be deep red. Ovipositor short, stout, when extended with a length only about 1-3 that of the abdomen ; terminal lobes narrowly elliptical, with a length three times the width, rather thickly and coarsely setose. Pupa. Length 2.75 mm. Yellowish white ; cephalic horns stout, yel- lowish brown ; thorax with a yellowish cast, thoracic horns rather stout, curved ; antennal cases extending to the first abdominal segment, wing cases to the third abdominal segment, the leg cases to the sixth ; abdomen whitish, each of the segments dorsally with a short, trans- verse row of two to five stout, chitinous spines, the posterior extremity apparently unarmed. Type Cecid a2ii6, N. Y. State Museum. TIMETES. — In rearranging the American Rhopalocera in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia recently, I became interested to know whether one or two of the red species of Timetes were found in the United States. I found that we only had one au- thentic specimen from the United States and it was taken by Mrs. Slosson at Biscayne Bay, Florida. This specimen proves to be T. peleus Sulz. (petreus Cramer). The other species in our lists is eleuchea Hubn, and it is said to have been taken in Texas and Florida. It is a species found in Cuba and would be likely to be also found in Florida. It is not recorded from Mexico as far as I am aware. Peleus and eleuchea are closely related and it is likely that the two have been confused. Exact records for these insects are desirable as well as ex- act identifications so that we may determine whether we are to list both species or only one. I will be pleased to identify any material and would also be glad to have exact data of correctly determined specimens. — HENRY SKINNER.. 112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll Notes on Tyloderma foveolatum (Say) (Col.). BY A. A. GIRAULT, Urbana, Illinois. On June I, 1909, at Centralia, Illinois, along a fence around a meadow on a farm there were found in a tangle of weeds an occasional clump of evening primrose (Oenothera biennis L.). every plant in which had been attacked by this common weevil. Eggs were then very abundant ; thus on a random plant sixty- seven egg-scars were counted. The eggs have the following characters : Length, 0.80 mm. ; width, 0.65 mm. Short-oval to oval ; surface cov- ered with a greyish, deciduous substance not unlike a coating of thin sugar and which is opaque and without sculpture. When this is rub- bed off, the surface of the egg is polished yellow, with no marked sculpture but slightly coriarious or like the surface of some leathers. Soft, pliable, easily crushed. Inconspicuous. General color greyish yellow; when seen in its natural position, the upper side (and also the lower) is slightly flattened. Deposited singly. When examined with transmitted light, the egg is liquid yellow or amber, opaque cen- trally ; this color persists until hatching. The pruinose coating is eas- ily removed by gently rolling the eggs between the fingers. The micro- pyle is not conspicuous. Several females were observed laying eggs ; the manner of doing this is extremely interesting. In the cases observed the males were not present. The mother weevil faces toward the top of the plant and takes a firm hold. She then proceeds to eat out of the stem of the plant a quadrate or oval cavity, making it about a half of a millimeter deep. When this is completed, she turns about, fits the end of the abdomen into the cavity and places an egg. Then assuming her former po- sition by turning about, she advances, breaks the skin of the plant writh her beak and peels a short strip of it down to the cavity and tucks it over the egg; this is repeated a number of times. Then she commences to peel off in the same manner longer strips from above and to one side of the cavity ; these longer strips are peeled dow7n as far as the bottom end of the egg cavity, bent over it and packed with the beak around the egg. Finally, she turns about, after crossing over the nidus. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 113 and commences to peel the long strips from the opposite direc- tion, pulling them up as far as the top of the cavity, bending them back over it and packing them in and around the egg as formerly. In this manner, at the end, she has the egg securely protected by a closely kneaded and interwoven network of plant tissue which becomes conspicuous by being in the center (axially) of a well-defined, denuded area and also because it is convex. The whole operation may require from forty-five to seventy-five minutes, or perhaps on the average about an hour. This method of protecting the egg is certainly ingenious. The following general notes were recorded : On June 20. 1909, females were still laying eggs. To show the compara- tively enormous number of these which a single plant may re- ceive, two random plants were examined on this date. In the case of the first, the main stem bore 204 egg-scars and three branches, 22, 13 and 28 respectively, a total of 267. The main stem of the second plant bore 97 egg-scars and its three branches, 7, 7 and 4 respectively, or a total of 115. This means in the case of the main stem that not many areas occur which are not entirely covered with the nidi. Most of those occurring on the branches faced inward or toward the main stem. June 28, a female accompanied by its mate, riding upon its back, was observed making an egg-cavity and also a similar pair was observed at the same time engaged in completing a nidus after deposition ; the males were passive in both in- stances. By this date, the adults were less common, the eggs, however, still commonly found in the plants ; the larvae were more common, perhaps, than the eggs. Two weeks later (July 15), adults were still present, engaged in oviposition, though noticeably less abundant. The majority of plants now opened for examination have their pithy in- teriors, especially near the ground, hollowed out and filled with brownish frass and debris, like moist ground cloves, those larvae which are full-grown at this time (6.25 mm.) being buried within the pith and partly concealed by the frass. Far- 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll ther up the stem, the hollowed-out channel gradually narrows, widening occasionally for some older larva (we may infer that first oviposition is done near the surface of the ground, later the eggs placed higher up on the stems), so that half way up the stem of the plant, merely the narrow, oblique chan- nels of the smaller larvae are usually present at this time, none of which lead directly from the nidus to the pithy center of the stem but instead are more or less diagonal and curved, sometimes irregular or tortuous. No pupae have been found as yet. The larvae were, of course, in various stages of de- velopment. On August 7, a badly infested plant taken from the field and examined contained full-grown larvae and also pupae. No adults have been noticed since the fifteenth of July. No other notes were obtained. It is easily inferred that but a single generation of this wee- vil occurs during a season, the adults emerging in the late summer and early autumn and without attempting reproduc- tion, hibernate. The next spring, they feed and mate, then con- tinue to lay eggs for about two months, and in. course of about a month and a half after the first eggs the adults may com- mence to emerge, continuing for a month or so. At Butler, 111., eggs were found on July 16, 1910. Larvae, then, were in all stages of development. Mr. E. A. Schwarz, U. S. N. M., kindly authoritatively identified the specimens. A NOTE ON CHLAMYS PLICATA FABRICIUS. — This peculiar chrysomelid was abundant on wild blackberry plants at Centralia, 111., during 1909. These notes were made concerning it : Larvae present during June ; first pupa found in the larval case attached to the stem of a weed, two feet up from the ground, on June 28. The first beetle emerged from pupae kept in confinement but collected outdoors, on July 7 to 9. On July 19, 1909; 10 beetles which emerged a week and a half earlier were transferred to a breeding-cage containing fresh foliage of blackberry: although they lived for at least a month, they did not reproduce. They had been well attended to as regards food. — A. A. GIRAULT, Urbana, 111. Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 115 New American Cleridae, with notes on others (Col.). By A. B. WOLCOTT, Chicago, 111. The material forming the basis of the present article was recently received from Prof. H. F. Wickham, by whom it was collected and to whom my thanks are due for having gener- ously placed in my hands for study all his unique and most valued specimens. Nearly all the species herein described as new are forms differing greatly from their nearest allies and should prove of easy recognition. CALLOTILLUS gen. nov. Body elongate, moderately convex, winged. Labrum short, transverse, truncate; eyes small, finely granulate, internally deeply emarginate ; last joint of maxillary palpi subcylindrical, of labial palpi securiform ; antennae lo-jointed, joint one mod- erately large ; joint two small, suborbicular ; joint three elon- gate, triangular, longer than joint one ; joints four to nine tri- angular, much larger than preceding joints, as broad as long; joint ten compressed, longer than the two preceding joints to- gether, obtusely rounded at apex. The species for which this genus is erected is Clerus-like in form. The structure of the antennae recalls both that of Tiliits and Monophylla. The third joint of the antennae is elongate triangular, but much narrower and more elongate than the suc- ceeding joints. The legs are slender and moderately long. The tarsi, five joints of which are visible from above, are scarcely one-half as long as the tibiae; they are feebly dilated and joints two, three and four are lamellate; the claws are bifid, the inner division slightly shorter than the outer portion and furnished with a strong tooth at base. Five segments of abdomen visible. The structure of the tarsi and the antennae bring this genus into the group Tillini, where it is best placed between Mono- phylla Spin, and Tillus Oliv. Type of the genus is the following new species: Callotillus eburneocinctus sp. nov. Rufous, subopaque; meso- and metasternum rufo-piceous; abdomen black, shining, posterior margins of ventral segments pale; antennae Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll pale testaceous ; elytra with a narrow, slightly recurved, elevated, median fascia pale yellowish, apical half of elytra blue black. Head including the feebly prominent eyes not wider than the thorax at apex, moderately clothed with whitish pubescence, rather finely very densely punctate. Thorax longer than broad, much narrower at base than at apex, apical margin arcuate, sides broadly rounded to behind the mid- dle, thence gradually convergent to base, less densely but a little more coarsely punctured than the head, clothed with short, recumbent, gray- ish pubescence, and in apical half with long erect black pilosity which Right antenna of Callotillus eburneocinctus n. sp. is dense each side of middle, forming a large indefinitely limited rounded spot. Elytra broader at base than the thorax at widest part, sides parallel in basal half, behind this arcuately broadened then nar- rowed to the conjointly rounded apices, humeri moderately prominent, each elytron strongly tuberculate at base midway between scutellum and humerus, the tubercles clothed with erect black pilosity, basal half of elytra rufous, clothed with sparse black pilosity, finely densely punctate, apical half blue black, densely clothed with short grey pu- bescence with some longer erect black hairs intermixed, as densely but more coarsely punctate than basal half, a narrow, slightly elevated somewhat recurved, pale yellow median fascia attains the flanks but not the suture. Body beneath and abdomen sparsely, finely punctate, clothed with sparse whitish pubescence. Legs moderately clothed with whitish hairs. Length 5 mm. One specimen. Key West, Florida. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham. Cymatodera delicatula Fall, Canad. Ent., xxxviii, 1906, p. 113. A specimen taken at Tepehuanes, Durango, Mex., I refer to this species with slight doubt. It differs in no discernible structural character from the typical form from Lower Cali- fornia. The color in the example before me is, however, so different from that of the Lower Californian form that no doubt they would be considered distinct were specimens of the species from the type locality not before me. In the Tepehuanes specimen the body beneath is pale testa- ceous, the head entirely black, the thorax as in the type, but Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 117 the elytra are black with a much narrower ante-median fascia, which is slightly interrupted at the suture ; the apices of elytra not pale. The specimen is 3.5 mm. in length. Cymatodera turbata Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xii, 1885, p. 151. This species was also taken at Tepehuanes, Mex., by Prof. Wickham. The specimen is typical in every respect with the exception of a very slight infuscate cloud at extreme apices of elytra. This species has not been recorded as occurring else- where than in Texas, if we exclude a Panama record of a spe- cies doubtfully determined as turbata. Cymatodera comans Wolc., Publ. Field Mus. Chicago, vii, 1910, p. 351, pi. 6, f. 14-16. Two male specimens of this species have been sent me by Prof. Wickham since the description was published. Both ex- amples were taken at Salton, Cal., August 20, and form an interesting record as they were found at 265 feet below sea level. A female from Peach Springs, Ariz. (Wickham), is considerably smaller than the type, being but 7.5 mm, in length. A male from Yerington, Nev. (Baumberger), is of the same size as the female from Peach Springs. The present known distribution of the species is Utah, Texas, Arizona, Cali- fornia and Nevada. Cymatodera bipunctata Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Ameri., Col. Ill, 2, 1882, p. 135, pi. vii, f. 16. A specimen of this very rare species labeled "Jalapa, Mex.," was sent me by Prof. Wickham. The species was originally described from Oaxaca, Mexico, two specimens being all that were known. The specimen at hand agrees in every way with the descrip- tion with the exception that the sutural margins from the mid- dle to apex are very narrowly bordered with black. The struc- ture of the antennae is as in inornata, but the outer joints are even less dentate. The specimen is a female, hence the termi- nal segments of the abdomen furnish no characters of im- portance. The length of the specimen is 9.5 mm. Il8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll ENOCLERUS Gahan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), v, 1910, p. 62 and 65. Clerus Schklg., Gen. Ins., Cleridae, 1903, p. 48 (nee. Fabr.). The term Enoclerus proposed by Prof. Chas. J. Gahan for the American species formerly placed in Clerus is suppressed by Sigm. Schenkling in the Coleopterorum Catalogus (W. Junk), Cleridae, 1910, p. 51, and placed as a synonym of Clerus Fabr. Prof. Gahan has, I think, plainly demonstrated that the type of the genus Clerus is the European mutillarius Fabr., a species not congeneric with the American species. Prof. Gahan used both the "first species" and "elimination" methods and both gave the same result. Se.vguttatus Fabr., which must be ac- cepted as the type of Clerus, if the classification of Mr. Schenkling be approved, was not included as one of the original species, apparently being unknown to Fabricius at the time he characterized the genus, the description of se.vguttatus appearing in an appendix to the volume. Mutillarius was the last of the species originally included in Clerus by Fabricius to be removed to another genus. Jacques du Val in 1861 made it the type of his genus Pseudoclerops. Therefore there seems to be no other course than to consider Pseudoclerops a syno- nym of Clerus Fabr., and to retain the name Enoclerus for the American species. Enoclerus ocreatus Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xii, 1885, p. 154. Specimens of this species occur in Colorado in which the antennae and tibiae are quite dark ; these specimens bear a great deal of resemblance to an immaculate humeralis Schaeff., but the elytra are slightly more depressed and the punctua- tion much less inclined to become seriate. Enoclerus humeralis Schaeff., Sci. Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Mus., I, 1905, p. 155. This species originally described from Tulare Co., Califor- nia, appears to be confined to the Pacific coast region. In the collection of Mr. F. S. Daggett there is an example from San Bernardino Mts., California, elevation 6,400 ft. My friend, Mr. F. W. Nunenmacher, has recently sent me a specimen Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 119 from Del Norte Co., northern California, and from Prof. Wickham I have received a specimen for identification which is labeled Vernon, B. C. In all these, as in the type, the red humeral markings are strongly limited and of the same form. Enoclerus quadriguttatus var. rufiventris Spin., Mon. Cler., I, 1844, p. 264, pi. xxiii, f. 3. A specimen of this variety from Mt. Katahdin, Maine, 5,000 feet, sent for examination by Prof. Wickham has the usual coloration of this variety excepting that the apical margin of the prothorax is dull testaceous and the median elytral fascia is bright orange-yellow ; a subapical fascia of the same color is less evident, being more thoroughly hidden by the dense grayish pubescence clothing this part. Enoclerus bombycinus Chevr., Col. Mex., cent. I', fasc. 1, 1833, No. 42. Three specimens from Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico, sent by Prof. Wickham, are as variable in size as the examples from eastern Mexico, but remarkably constant in coloration. Enoclerus spinolae Lee., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vi, 1853, p. 230. A specimen of this species taken by Prof. Wickham at Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico, has the post median fascia nearly complete, the interruption at the suture being very nar- row. This species has on two or more occasions been recorded as occurring in Mexico, but no definite locality has been given. Enoclerus acerbus sp. nov. Closely allied to ichnenmoneus Fabr., from which it differs as fol- lows : Form broader and depressed, head and prothorax rather coarse- ly rugose, elytra very finely confluently punctate, the general color black, a broad median fascia and the abdomen yellow. Head, pro- thorax, base of elytra and legs clothed with long erect and semi-erect greyish hairs ; these are wanting upon the disk of the prothorax where they are replaced by very short, dense black pubescence and longer black hairs. Elytra black, a broad median fascia yellow, the anterior and posterior margins of fascia sub-parallel but arcuate upon each elytron, the convexity being toward the base of elytra, a sub-apical ob- lique fascia composed of short greyish pubescence as in ichneumoneus, I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll the black portions clothed with short velvety black pubescence, and with the fascia with sparse long black hairs. Length 10 mm. Elko, Nevada. Type in cabinet of Prof. Wickham. A smaller specimen (8.2 mm.) which is not before me at the present time is in the collection of the Illinois State Labora- tory of Natural History. This specimen is from the "Pea- body colln." and bears the locality label "Ut." and the name label analis, from which it is entirely distinct. Enoclerus opifex Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Amer., Col., iii, 2, 1882, p. 156, pi. viii, f. 3. Two specimens of this interesting addition to our fauna were taken at Alpine, Texas (4400-6000 ft.) by Prof. Wick- ham. Gorham described opife.v from Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. It is quite unlike any other species in our fauna. The color is black, shining, the elytra red, a large rounded subapical black maculation on each elytron sometimes confluent at suture, the black bordered anteriorly by a narrow pale red fascia, the extreme apex is black and with the legs is densely clothed with gray hairs. The specimens before me are 7.5-8 mm. in length. Gorham gives the length of this species as 5.5-8 mm. Enoclerus analis Lee., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1849, p. 20. This appears to be a much misunderstood species, others than the proper species usually bearing this name in collec- tions, while analis is as often placed under another name. I have even found them placed as abrnptus, a species to which they bear but little resemblance. Analis is variable in regard to the coloration of the legs and abdomen, the elytra are on the contrary quite constant, being in all specimens examined red at base and dark before the median fascia which has a form not found in any other species occurring in North America, and which is somewhat similar to that of rosmarus but more deeply and regularly concave and greatly prolonged posteriorly at the suture, reaching nearly, or quite to the sub- apical fascia; the apex is black (pale in most specimens of rosmarus'] and the black space intervening between the pale Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 121 fasciae is much wider than in rosmarus. The legs are usually black, but the color varies to the extent of all the tibiae red and in some individuals the anterior and sometimes a portion of all the femora as well as the tarsi are also red. The color of the abdomen as given in the original description and as given in the notes subjoined is contradictory, but as due to actual variation in color the statements are true ; the abdomen varying- from entirely pale red, the apical segment sanguineous red, to entirely black, usually, however, with the apical seg- ment red. The specimens at hand show that the basal seg- ments are the first to become darker, these having at times merely an infuscate cloud ; the most common form has the three apical segments red. Enoclerus abruptus Lee., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1858, p. 72. This is undoubtedly the most variable species of the genus. The typical form has the head, thorax and legs red, but forms are at hand with the same parts black ; in other specimens the head and thorax may be black, the legs red or again these conditions may be reversed. The basal maculations of the elytra are always present, but in some individuals they are but little paler than the basal portion of the elytra ; the width and form of the median fascia is very variable, and is usually but not always interrupted at the suture. The color of the pale parts varies from red to yellow. It is probable that two or more of the species now standing as valid are but varieties of this species. Enoclerus abruptus var. coccineus S'chklg. Clerus coccineus Schklg., Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1906. p. 272, pi. II, f. 7- Clerus corallinus Fall. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XXXIII, 1907, p. 240. This is one of the many forms deserving of a varietal name. Coccineus was described from northern Mexico but occurs in our fauna from Duluth, Minn., through Nebraska and Colorado to Texas and New Mexico. 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll Enoclerus palmii Schaeff., Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xi, 1904, p. 218. This recently described species seems to be not rare in col- lections. It is in my collection from Las Vegas, New Mex., and Prof. Wickham has taken it at Gallup, New Mex., and at Williams, Ariz. There is some variation in size but the markings and sculpture are constant. Hydnocera superba sp. nov. Moderately robust, cyaneous, shining; head and thorax with slight greenish tint, the latter sometimes aeneous; elytra violaceous; antennae pale testaceous at base, gradually infuscated toward apex; legs blue black. Head including the eyes wider than the prothorax, very densely but not very coarsely punctate, front impressed each side of middle, clothed with short sparse whitish pubescence, with a few long erect black hairs intermixed. Thorax broader than long, densely, rather coarsely punctate, middle of disk at base impunctate ; sides strongly constricted at apex, moderately dilated at middle and straight and par- allel at base, lateral fovese deep and distinct, pubescence greyish, short sparse and inconspicuous with a few long erect black hairs intermixed. Elytra normally covering the abdomen, feebly narrowing to apex ; humeri distinct ; surface coarsely, subcribrately punctate, the individual punctures mostly well separated, apical two-fifths more finely and densely punctate, becoming scabrous toward apex ; apices obtusely separately rounded, non-serrate, slightly dehiscent at suture ; clothed with short, recumbent greyish pubescence which is most conspicuous toward the apices and also forms an indistinct fascia at apical two- fifths, also with longer dark hairs which are erect before the fascia and semi-recumbent behind it. Body, abdomen and legs very finely and densely punctate, moderately clothed with whitish pubescence, the legs quite densely. Length 6 mm. Two specimens. Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham ; cotype in my collec- tion. Hydnocera mexicana sp. nov. Robust, aeneous, moderately shining; antennae (except club), tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous, the tarsi more or less infuscate; abdomen black with cupreous reflexions. Head, including the eyes, distinctly wider than the prothorax, rather coarsely, very densely punctate, clothed with short, whitish, recumbent pubescence and longer sparse black pilosity. Thorax wider than long, discal area sparsely, the flanks coarsely and densely punctate; sides strongly dilated before the middle, strongly constricted near apex, feebly convergent at base; lateral Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 123 foveae moderately distinct ; pubescence and pilosity similar to that of head but more dense. Elytra scarcely shorter than the abdomen ; flanks slightly convergent posteriorly; wider than the head; humeri distinct; disk feebly convex ; coarsely, densely punctate, an area behind the post- median fascia confluently punctate, becoming granular at the apices ; sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, whitish hairs, long erect black hairs conspicuous on basal half; a post-median transverse spot or fascia dull testaceous, clothed with long, recumbent, posteriorly directed whitish hairs, these also extending anteriorly on suture to about basal one-third, thence sinuately to the humeri, behind the fascia these hairs also evident, extending nearly half way to apices thence forming an arcuate fascia with its convexity toward the apices, the latter obtusely, separately rounded, non-serrate and dehiscent at suture. Body beneath and abdomen finely, sparsely punctate, clothed with moderately long, sparse hairs ; legs clothed with short whitish and longer erect black hairs. Length 5. — 5.5 mm. This species bears a striking resemblance to the North American sub fa-s data, the size, color, general form and espe- cially the markings being very similar. The upper surface more coarsely punctate throughout, the more distinctly mark- ed elytral pattern with the post-median color fascia and non- serrate elytral apices render it impossible to consider it as other than a distinct species. Two specimens. Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham ; cotype in my collection. Hydnocera bituberculata Chevr., Rev. Mag. Zool., 1874, p. 71. A specimen of this graceful but oddly formed little species was taken at Jalapa, Mex., and sent me by Prof. Wickham. In the original description the color of elytra is given (by im- plication) as black, while in the Var. B. the prothorax and elytra are said to be blue. In the present specimen the head and prothorax are shining dark bluish green and the elytra are purplish black. The length is 4 millimeters, agreeing with the type in size. The basal tubercles of the elytra are quite con- spicuous. Ellipotoma laticornis Say. Enoplium laticornis Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., I, 1835, p. 164. Ellipotoma laticornis Wolc., Bull. Ind. Dep. Geol. Nat. Res., I. 1910, p. 859. 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll This species, which I have referred to the genus Ellipotoma Spinola, has the antenna? eight-jointed in the male, while in the female they are ten-jointed. EUipotoma (Apolopha] tri- lineata Chevr. (Rev. Mag. Zool., 1874, p. 324) is very doubt- fully distinct from laticornis. Our species is in any event bet- ter placed in Ellipotoma than in either Apolopha or Ichnca, I agree with the expressed view of Prof. Gahan that Ellipo- toma should be removed from the group Hydnocerini and be placed near Phylloboenus in the group Enopliini of the sub- family Corynetinae. Eurycranus pulchellus sp. nov. Elongate, bluish-green, shining; abdomen, femora and pronotum dark aeneous green, apical margin of the latter dark violaceous ; eyes, antennae, parts of the mouth (labrum, mandibles, palpi), tibiae and tarsi black ; prosternum and apical half of prothoracic flanks rufous ; elytra brilliant green with slight metallic lustre and very shining. Head not wider than prothorax at apex, rather finely and densely punctate ; eyes feebly convex ; front biimpressed ; clothed with short, sparse, whitish pubescence and long, moderately dense erect black pilosity ; antennae shorter than the head and thorax. Thorax distinctly wider than long, widest at basal third, base and apex sub-equal in width, subapical constriction feeble ; sides broadly rounded ; subapical trans- verse impressed line feeble; basal impressed line deep; a feeble fovea each side at middle ; disk at middle longitudinally sulcate ; surface coriaceous, rather coarsely and irregularly punctate; clothed with very sparse, recumbent whitish pubescence and long erect black pilosity. Elytra subparallel ; apices conjointly rounded ; rather strongly convex ; humeri protuberant ; a distinct post-humeral fovea ; scutellar region depressed ; coarsely, densely irregularly punctate at base, the sculpture becoming scabrous toward apex ; entire lateral margin and apical two- thirds of sutural margin bicarinate ; rather densely clothed with long, semi-recumbent, coarse, yellowish white pubescence with longer, erect black hairs intermixed. Body beneath moderately coarsely, sparsely punctate ; legs finely, densely punctate. Venter and legs moderately clothed with yellowish white pubescence. Length 6 mm. This is the second species of the genus to be made known from elsewhere than Chili, which country is the metropolis of the genus Eurycranus. Rev. Mr. Gorham (Biol. Centr.- Amer., Col. Ill, 2, p. 165) described a species from Guate- mala, to which he gave the name viridiaeneus. The present Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 125 species differs from Gorham's species by having- the prothorax broader than long (longer than wide in viridiaeneus} ; the mouth, antennae and palpi black and the legs dark (these parts red in viridiaeneus) and the sculpture of the thorax and elytra is quite different. One specimen. San Angel, D. F., Mexico. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham. PRIONOSTICHAEUS nom. nov. The above term is here proposed to replace the generic name Prionodera Wolc., (Publ. Field Mus., Chicago, VII, 1910, p. 396) which I find is a homonym of Prionodera Chevr. (Dej. Cat. Col, 2nd ed., 1834), a genus of Chrysomelidae. Three new Brazilian Micro-Lepidoptera. By W. D. KEARFOTT, Montclair, N. J. Anacrusis iheringi sp. n. Exp. $ 25-26 mm., $ 28-30 mm. Head and collar dark chocolate brown, mixed with black ; face and palpi pale clay-yellow, speckled with dark brown; antennae clay-yel- low, dark brown above ; thorax, abdomen and legs, light clay-yellow. Forewing $, pale clay-yellow, transversely finely strigulated with a darker shade, the strigulations forming faint costal dashes. On the outer half of wing, above middle is a long horizontal chocolate brown triangular streak, beginning at end of cell, its upper edge nearly reaches apex, but bends acutely downward toward middle of termen, the lower edge is broadly concave and below it is a cloud of brownish scales. This brown mark is bordered anteriorly by a broad and outwardly by a narrow silver white edging. In some specimens there is a tendency of the brown mark to become broken near its inner end. In the apex is a small white spot transversed by a narrow chocolate brown line. Cilia clay-yellow. Hindwings light clay-yellow, with a few brown flecks in apex. The 9 is generally darker than the male. The triangular mark on forewing is replaced by a dot of brown at end of cell in middle of wing and half way between this dot and apex is a silvery white round spot, enclosing on its inner side a lunate spot of chocolate brown. Be- tween these and reaching to costa the ground color is much darker, forming a quadrate costal spot. 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll The 9 forewing is strongly incised between apex and middle of ter- men and below middle is strongly concave, in the $ the upper incision is much slighter and the lower half of termen is convex. Described from one $ and two $ 's from Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Dr. R. von Ihering, of the Museo Paulista, for whom the species is named (No. 10-650). Types in my collection. Stenoma chlorina sp. n. \o C> Exp. 24-27 mm. Head sordid yellowish brown, face hoary white, palpi dark bronzy green with scattered white scales on upper side of both 2nd and 3rd joints; thorax light gray; abdomen light yellow, anal tuft ochreous; legs, ochreous, tarsi ringed with dark brown. Forewing of a shining chlorina-green, the $ in certain lights and from certain angles, a lighter, whitish shade is visible, especially be- tween upper edge of cell and costa, at end of cell and in a narrow terminal line. In the ? this white shade is permanent and parallels costa from extreme base to middle of termen ; it is interrupted at mid- dle of costa and sends a narrow curved spur to the dot at end of cell, and thence to hindmargin ; it is somewhat speckled through its length by ground color; in the 9 the terminal whitish line is much more dis- tinct. There is a dark brown, almost black, spot on the fold at two-fifths of wing length from base; at the end of cell is a more intense dot of the ground color, surrounded by whitish scales. Hindwing dull ochreous brown, cilia clear yellow. Described from six specimens from Dr. R. von Ihering, Sao Paulo, Brazil (No. 10-860) ; two in Meyrick's collection. The forewings of this species are broader than the schlac- i group, and more nearly the shape of sciaphilina Z. Stenoma dissimilis sp. n. Exp. $ 17-22 mm., $ 23-27 mm. Head white, suffused with lavender gray in front, face white ; palpi white, with an ochreous brown spot, above, at base of 2nd joint, a suf- fusion of the same shade in the middle of the terminal joint; thorax gray ; abdomen whitish yellow. Porewing, ground color, pure white; the lower half of wing bounded by fold is gray, with a pinkish-lavender suffusion, its upper edge is bordered above by four quadrate spots of a darker degree of the same shade, the dorsal margin from base to middle of this patch is dull gray; Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS between the outer end of patch and tornus are two flatly triangular indian red spots ; from the outward one arises a curved transverse line of six gray dots, paralleling the termen. Above the patch, and con- necting it to the costa, at inner sixth, is a broad fascia of light brown, containing a dark brown streak at its lower edge and inner side of the upper half. The costa is washed with pale yellow, and there are small shades of this color and gray, between costa and dorsal patch, the most prominent is a yellowish gray spot at end of cell, near costa, below it a smaller and fainter spot, and beyond the latter is a curved mark of light gray. Between the row of sub-terminal dots and termen is a curved shade of yellowish gray. Hindwing white, inwardly shading into ochreous-white. $ differs from male in the dorsal patch, which is heavily overlaid with blackish brown, especially on the outer half. The shades of ochre- ous, red and lavender are also entirely absent. Described from seven $ 's and five $ 's from Dr. R. von Ihering, Sao Paulo, Brazil (No. 10-631). This species belongs to the schlaegeri group, with narrow forewing. In the $ there is a distinct narrow dorsal fold or roll, and in this sex the scales of the basal patch are long and specialized. A pair in Dr. Edward Meyrick's collection, and I gratefully acknowledge his kindness in comparing this and preceding spe- cies with British Museum collections. COURTSHIP IN TARANTULAS. — The instincts of the male tarantula change suddenly at the period of maturity. From a creature with domestic habits he develops into a vagabond. Disregarding personal danger he constructs a sperm-web into which he throws out his sperm and pumps it then into both of his palpi. In the search for the female he is entirely dependent upon his sense of touch, his sense of sight being entirely inadequate for the purpose. The courtship is therefore very short and consists in beating the female with his front legs. The danger of being hit by the fangs of the excited female is prevented by catching them with the hooks on the front legs. The coitus lasts not longer than one half minute, after which the spiders cautiously separ- ate. A few weeks later the males die apparently a natural death,— ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH. 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll Endaphis Kieff. in the Americas (Dipt.). BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The discovery of species referable to this genus from widely separated points in the New World is interesting. Last fall we received from Prof. C. H. T. Townsend, Piura, Peru, two specimens of a small midge reared by him from cotton leaves badly infested with galls containing mites. It is possible that these cotton leaves were also infested by small aphicls, though none were observed. The North American species has also been reared. The two forms are characterized below. Endaphis abdominalis n. sp. Male. Length .25 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, thick- ly haired, yellowish; 14 segments, the first antennal segment greatly produced ventrally and probably dorsally, extending to the middle of the subglobose second antennal segment, the fifth binodose, the two parts of the stem, each with a length over twice its diameter, the en- largements subglobose, each with a thick subbasal whorl of long, stout setae and a well developed subapical circumfilum, the loops of the lat- ter extending to the base of the succeeding enlargement. Palpi quadri- articulate, the first and second segments short, the third with a length about three times its diameter, the fourth as long as the third. Mesono- tum fuscous, the submedian lines yellowish. Scutellum yellowish, postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen light yellow, fuscous basally. Geni- talia yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa pale straw, subcosta uniting therewith at the basal third, the third vein distinctly before the apex, the fifth, indistinct distally, at the distal third, its branch near the basal third. Halteres yellowish transparent. Coxae and femora yellowish ; tibiae fuscous yellowish, the tarsi, especially the distal segments, dark- er. Claws long, slender, evenly curved, simple, the pulvilli narrow, nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia indistinct. Female. Length .3 mm. Antennae extending to the second abdom- inal segment, rather thickly haired, fuscous yellowish ; 14 segments, the first antennal segment produced, the dorsal tooth extending to the mid- dle of the subglobose second antennal segment, the fifth subsessile. cylindric, with a length about twice its diameter and thick subbasal and subapical whorls of long, stout setae ; terminal segment broadly oval, with a length about ^ greater than its diameter, broadly rounded api- cally. Palpi probably as in the male. Mesonotum fuscous, the sub- median lines yellowish. Scutellum yellowish, postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen yellowish, the basal three segments a variable fuscous. The Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 12() slender pulvilli nearly as long as the slender, curved, simple claws. Ovipositor short, the lobes narrowly oval, sparsely setose. Other char- acters as in the male. The colors are approximate, since the descrip- tions were drafted from balsam mounts. Received through Dr. L. O. Howard, from Prof. C. H. T. Townsend, Piura, Peru, and numbered by him 7009. Easily distinguished from E. perfidus Kieff. by its much smaller size and the presumably yellow color of the abdomen. Endaphis americana n. sp. The first North American representative of this European genus was reared September 2, 1910, from what appeared to be galls of Eriophyes jraxinijlora Felt on Fra.rinns velutina collected by Dr. R. E. Kunze, Prescott, Arizona, August I5th. There was no doubt as to the foliage having been deformed by Eriophyes, since mites were rather abundant and relatively large. There may have been a few aphids in addition. Description. Female. Length i mm. Antennae extending to the sec- ond abdominal segment, yellowish transparent, slightly fuscous; 14 segments, the first excavated and with the margins produced dorsally and ventrally, the se<«ond subglobose, the third and fourth free, the fifth with a stem about l/± the length of the cylindric basal enlarge- ment, which latter has a length about 2l/2 times its diameter ; subbasal and subapical whorls sparse; terminal segment slightly produced, with a length about 2l/2 times its diameter, broadly rounded apically; mouth- parts slightly produced, having a length about 1.3 the diameter of the head. Palpi : first segment subquadrate, the second Y2 longer, the third a little longer and broader than the second, the fourth a little longer and more dilated than the third ; thorax and base of the abdomen dark fuscous yellowish, the latter yellowish white apically. Wings hyaline, the membrane rather thickly clothed with narrow, curved, hair-like scales ; costa dark brown, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal third, the third vein at the distal fourth, the fifth before the distal third, its branch at the basal third. Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs whit- ish transparent, the distal tarsal segments slightly fuscous ; claws slen- der, strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Ovipositor when extended about 1-3 the length of the abdomen, the terminal lobes narrowly lanceolate, with a length about 2^/2 times the width and sparsely setose apically. Type Cecid 32066, N. Y. State Museum. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form and without covers, will be given free, when they are wanted; if more than twenty-five copies are desired, this should be stated on the MS. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Proof will be sent to authors for correction only when specially requested. — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1911. THE NOMENCLATURE QUESTION. Dr. C. W. Stiles, Secretary of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, has addressed a letter to the Edi- tor of Science, published in the issue of that journal for Jan- uary 20, 1911, on the subject of Special Committees for Zoo- logical Nomenclature. He writes : "The International Commission on Zoological* Nomenclature is try- ing a plan of cooperation with international committees representing the various branches of zoology in an effort to determine in how far it will be possible to reach a unanimous agreement upon the names of the most important zoological genera, together with the type species of the genera in question The plan adopted is for the secre- tary to select three or more specialists of unquestioned international reputation in a given group, and to request these workers to add to their committee any colleagues whom they may desire. It is hoped that by this means preliminary studies of fundamental and permanent value may be conducted, and that the contending factions in respect to nomen- clature, may be harmoniously united. The secretary of the commission on nomenclature is adopting the plan of taking man as a center, first working out, so far as may be done unanimously, names to be adopted for the animals most intimate- ly associated with man, and while the undertaking may require years of patient labor, it is hoped eventually to establish a list of not less than ten thousand generic names, agreed upon unanimously, first by the spe- on nomenclature. It is hoped, further, that by this plan an immense cial committee, and then passed upon unanimously by the commission number of useless synonyms can be unanimously agreed upon as such, and gradually eliminated from general zoological literature. The scheme naturally depends upon the amount of cooperation on the part of the special committees, which will be formed as rapidly as the work will justify." 130 Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS This seems to us a step in the right direction. To establish names by common consent and the sanction of a supreme in- ternational body, instead of by the ever uncertain appeal to priority, will do away with one of the chief reproaches to zoological work. We hope that entomologists will do their utmost to assist the Commission, so that our nomenclature will no longer speak a different language this morning from that which it uttered last night. Notes and. Ne\vs ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. DR. E. P. FELT has reviewed the fifth volume (1910) of F. V. Theo- bald's Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes in Science for Jan. 27, 1911. MR. FRANCIS E. BOND, a retired Philadelphia broker, accompanied by Mr. Stewardson Brown, botanist of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Thomas F. Gillin, an amateur naturalist, are on their way to Ven- ezuela, where they will devote at least four months to the collection of specimens for the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and for the Philadelphia Zoological Garden. Although the expedition is for the purpose of enriching the collection at the museum and the Zoological Garden, the entire expense of the journey will be defrayed by Mr. Bond. THE scientific services of the United States Department of Agricul- ture are described by M. G. Severin (Conservator in the Royal Museum of Natural History at Brussels and Secretary General of the recent In- ternational Congress of Entomology in that city) in a paper of forty pages extracted from the Bulletin de la Societe centrale forestiere de Belgique, Brussels, 1910. His account of the history, organization and ac- complishments of the department, in which the Bureau of Entomology occupies a prominent place, concludes: "Such is a very fragmentary view of the department whose activities are very popular in the United States. Not only that great country can pride itself on the fruitful work of the bureaus, but also the entire world owes it recognition for the great value of the scientific and economic works which it pub- lishes, for these works contain information useful to all those concern- ed with the enrichment of national agricultural productions. Such labor satisfies the two principal conditions which science ought to fulfil; to understand the secrets of nature — pure science, and to be- come master of them — applied science." 132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll NOTE ON THE MELOID-GENUS HORNIA, RILEY, AND ITS ALLIES.— [Apropos of Dr. Wellman's recent article in the NEWS for January 1911, on a new species of Hornia, the following from Ent. Monthly Mag., XLVII, pp. 16, 17, London (Jan. 1911) is of interest.] — My friend, Manuel Martinez de la Escalera, during a visit to Horsell last week, showed me two living examples of a remarkable Sitarid he had just bred from pupae found in the cells of an Anthophora in walls at Mogador, Morocco. This insect has recently been described by him as a new genus and species under the name Allendesalasaria nymphoides (Boletin Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., 1910, pp. 379-382), but he was ap- parently unaware of the fact that there were two extremely closely allied known American forms. One of these latter, Hornia minutipen- nis, Riley, from Missouri, has simple tarsal claws, the other, Leonia rileyi, Duges, from Mexico, has the tarsal claws armed with a very long tooth, and both insects also attack Anthophora. Allendesalazaria has the tarsal claws formed as in Hornia, and there can be little doubt that these two genera must be very closely related.* The American insects have been very fully described and figured, and their habits noted in detail by Rileyt and DugesJ respectively. Duges placed them under a separate section (Horniidcs) of the Meloidae, mainly on account of their minute elytra, and this arrangement was adopted by me when dealing with the Mexican forms (Biol. Centr.- Am., Coleopt, iv, 2, p. 370). The two genera, however, are very nearly related to Sitaris, which also attacks Anthophora. The American and Moroccan insects are recorded as having been found upon walls in the vicinity of the nests of these mason-bees, after the manner of our own Sitaris muralis. According to M. Escalera, the female of A. nymphoides does not leave the gallery of the bee. It would be interesting to com- pare Hornia minutipennis with the Moroccan A. nymphoides, but un- fortunately this is not possible. I saw a co-type of Leonia in Paris many years ago, in the collection of A. Salle. Hornia is known to me from description alone. — G. C. CHAMPION, Horsell, Woking: December, 1910. *Since this note has been in type M. Escalera writes me as follows : Allendesalazaria is valid, and may be separated from Hornia by the fol- lowing characters : Scutellum cordiform; wings one-fifth shorter than the elytra; anten nse short (in the 9- a little longer than the head, in the $ as long as the head and thorax together), the third joint longer than the others Hornia, Riley. Scutellum transverse; wings wanting; antennas longer (in the 9 reaching the posterior border of the prothorax, in the $ extending considerably beyond it), the third joint not longer than the others Allcndcsalazaria, Esc. t Trans. Acad. St. Louis, iii, p. 564, t. 5, figs. 13, a — d (1877). $ Insect Life, i, no. 7, pp. 211-213, figs. 47, b — / (1889). Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 133 LORD AVEBURY (Sir John Lubbock) has been elected a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the section of anatomy and zoology. NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORIES OF TABANIDAE (DIPTERA). — On April 15, 1009, I found two larvae of Tabanus, under the bark of a soggy log lying in the water of a swamp, the surface of the log being an inch or two above the water. One died before I reached home, the other was put into a bottle with some wet dirt and rotten wood, and from this a male of Tabanus trimaculatus was bred on May 18 of same year. The larva that died and which was presumably the same species was preserved in alcohol. It measures 37 mm. in length and is white with- out markings. Late in March of the same year while looking under stones in a small, clear woodland stream, I found another Tabanus larva under a stone, which was quite lively, and seemed thoroughly at home in the clear water. This I kept in a bottle with some wet leaves and practically forgot it. However, on May 18 it had transformed to a pupa, and thirteen days later, on May 31 a male of Tabanus melanocerus emerged from the pupa. The larva was approximately the same size as the trimaculatus larvae, and was like them, white without darker bands. I have" also on several occasions bred a third species of Tabanus, namely T. fronto. ' The larvae of this species occur in the soil of my garden, which is rather dry and right on the crest between two water sheds, the nearest permanent water being at least a quarter of a mile away. These larvae are white with pale brown transverse bands, and transform into pupae in June or July, and into flies some two or three weeks later. The earliest date on which an adult has emerged is July 4 which is also the earliest date on which I have seen the species in the field. Two larvae which I have in alcohol are yellower than the trimaculatus larva mentioned above, but show no trace of the pale brown bands which exist in life. The largest of these two meas- ures 36 mm. long and was taken July 5, while the smaller one is 33 mm., taken on March 31. Both, as also the preserved triinaculatus? larva, are well, but not abnormally, extended. The only pupa which I have found of this species was under a stone in my back yard. Although horseflies do not generally breed away from water, T. fronto seems to be an exception, as larvae have been taken in my garden in several different years, while the adults occur more com- monly in my garden and in my house than any other species of the family, the flies quite frequently entering the house, while newly emerged specimens have been noted on a number of occasions. I sent detailed notes on this species to Prof. J. S. Hine some years ago, but do not think he has published anything on the subject as yet. — C. S. BRIMLEY, Raleigh, N. C. 134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'n ORTHOPLEURA DAMICORNIS..— During July, 1909, at Craighead Station. I chopped a Buprestid larvae (Chrysobothrid?) from a dying limb of a pecan tree (Hicorea pecan Britt.) The larva was placed in its bur- row and kept caged until it shriveled up and died. A few days later a small parasite emerged measuring about 6 or 7 mm. in length and subsequently grew in size to about 10 or 12 mm. It was observed as pupated on April 25, 1910, emerging an adult Ortlwplcura damicornis May 19, 1910. This insect was kindly determined for me by Mr. A. B. Wolcott of Field Museum, Chicago.— F. C. CRAIGHEAD, State College Pa. Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 1 — Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 7— U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, Bureau of Entomology. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 11— Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 22 — Zoologi- scher Anzeiger, Leipzig. 35 — Annalen, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. .46 — Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, The Hague. 47 — The Zoologist, London. 50 — Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 54 — Journal, Royal Horticultural S'ociety, London. 67 — Entomo- logiske Tidskrift, Stockholm. 89 — Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 92 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, Berlin. 143 —Ohio Naturalist, Columbus. 148— New York Agricultural Experi- ment Station, Geneva. 166 — Internationale Entomologische Zeit- schrift, Guben. 181 — Guide to Nature, Sound Beach, Conn. 186 — Journal of Economic Biology, London. 187 — Jahrbucher des Nas- sauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde, Wiesbaden. 193 — Entomologi- sche Blatter, Nurnberg. 216 — Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stutt- gart. 238 — Anales, Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires. 285 — Natur-Study Review, Urbana, Illinois. 305 — Deutsche Ento- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 135 mologische National-Bibliothek, Berlin. 306 — Journal, College of Agriculture, Imperial University of Tokyo. 307 — Annales, Societe Linneene de Lyon (n. ser.). 308 — Bollettino, Societa di Naturalist! in Napoli. 309 — Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn. 310 — L'Echange, Revue Linneene, Moulins. 311 — La Science au XXe S'iecle, Paris. 312 — -American Journal of Pharmacy. 313 — Bulletin of Entomolog- ical Research, London. GENERAL SUBJECT. Anon.— Cinematographic du vol des In- sectes, 311, ix, No. 97, 3 pp. Reinick, W. R. — Insects destructive to books, 312, 1910, 551-562. Swinton, A. H. — The vocal and instru- mental music of insects, 47, xv, 14-24. Tragardh, I. — Om Berlese's apparat for snabb och effektiv insamling of sma leddjur, 67, xxxi, 35-38. Tucker, E. S. — Random notes on entomological field work, 4, xliii, 22-32. Xambeu, C. — Moeurs et metamorphoses des insectes. 16 Memoire, 3d fasc., 307, Ivii, 67-116. APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Bagnall, R. S.— Notes on some Thysanoptera, 35, liv, 461-464. Sasaki, C. — On the life history of Trioza camphorae n. sp. of camphor tree and its injuries, 306, ii, 277-286. Van der Weele, H. W. — Collections Zoologiques du Baron E. de Selys Longchamps. Catalogue systematique et de- scriptif. Megaloptera, Fasc. v, pt. 1, 93 pp. ORTHOPTERA. Anon. — A Locustid injurious to man, 313, i, 227. Rehn & Hebard. — Records of Georgia and Florida Orthop- tera, with the descriptions of one new sp. and one new subsp., 1, 1910, 585-589 (*). Preliminary studies of No. Carolina Orthoptera, 1, 1910, 615-650. HEMIPTERA. Crosby, C. R.— Notes on the life-history of two species of Capsidae, 4, xliii, 17-20. Osborn, H. — Remarks on the genus Scaphoideus with a revised key and descriptions of new American species, 143, xi, 249-260 (*). A n. sp. of Tinobregmus, 143, xi, 261 (*). Pierantoni, U. — L'origine di alcuni organi d'Icerya purchasi e la simbiosi ereditaria, 308, xxii, 147-150. LEPIDOPTERA. Busck, A.— On the gall-making moths on S'olidago and Aster, with description of two n. sp., 4, xliii, 4-6 (*). Chagnon, G. — Lepidoptera taken at St. Fabien, Que., 4, xliii, 1-3. Coolidge, K. R.— On the genus Master. G. & S., 4, xliii, 6-8. Cour- voiser, Dr. — Entdeckungsreisen und kritische Spaziergange ins Gebiet der Lycaeniden, 216, xxiv, .VJ-60, 70-71, 77-79, 81-82, 88-89, 92-94, 99-101, 106-108, 112, 125-127, 131-132, 135-137, 141-142, 147- 149, 156, 167-170, 175-177, 181-182, 185, 192, 196-214, 234-236. Elt- ringham, H. — African mimetic butterflies. Oxford at the Claren- don Press, 1910, ]36 pp. Fountaine, M. E. — An autumn morning in the Alleghany Mountains, 9, xliv, 14-15. Frohawk, F. W. — The 136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll number of larval stages of Lycaena acis, 9, xliv, 13-14. Grossen- bacher, J. G. — Medullary spots: a contribution to the life history of some Cambium miners, 148, Tech. Bui. No. 15; 49-65 pp. Haver- horst, P. — Over de Staartspitsen onzer Heterocera-poppers, 46. liii, 283-304. Isemann, S. — Massenflug einer brasilianischen Cos- side, 216, xxiv, 231-232. Jacobson, E. — Anlaszlich der "Beobach- tungen ueber den Polymorphismus von Papilio memnon, 46, liii, 234-277. Joseph, E. G.— On the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera collected by W. J. Burchell in Brazil, 1825-30, 11, vi, 9-18. Lindemans, J.— Een merkwaardig Cethosia Wijfje van Yule-Island (Eng. Nieuw- Guinea), 46, liii, 280-281. Rangnow, H.— Lebensweise und Zucht einer neuen palaearktischen Noctuide (Polia philippsi), 166, iv. 231-233. Schaus, W. — New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica, 11, vi, 33-84 (*). Scheele, M.— Instinkt oder Gedachtnis? 166, iv, 216-217. Sheldon, W. G. — Notes on the life-history of Pararge hiera, with description of the full-grown larva, 9, xliv, 1-4. Thierry- Mieg, P. — Descriptions de lepidopteres nouveaux, 35, liv, 465-469. Tragardh, I. — Larktradsmalen (Coleophora laricella), 67, xxxi, 258-264. Clercks minerarmal (Lyonetia clerckella), 67, xxxi, 266- 271. Walsingham, Lord. — Biologia Centrali-Americana. Lepidop- tera, Heterocera, iv, 41-48 (*). Weymer, G. — Die Grossschmetter- linge der Erde. Fauna Americana, 22 Lief, vi, 177-192. Pierella, Antirrhaea, Taygetis. DIPTERA. Anon.— Catching "Flies" by tons a lost industry, 181, iii, 374-375. A campaign against flies in a town of 6,000, 285. vi, 10-14. Mosquito larvae and their natural enemies, 313, i, 213- 218. Aldrich, J. M. — A decision on Meigen's 1800 paper, 4, xliii, 34-35. Boyce, R. — The prevalence, distribution and significance of Stegomyia fasciata in West Africa, 313, i, 233-263. Carpenter, G. H. — Notes on the warble-fly of the reindeer (Oedemagena ta- randi), 186, v, 149-156. Cresson, E. T., Jr.— Studies in No. Am. Dipterology. Pipunculidae, 2, xxxvi, 267-329 (*). Davey, J. B. — Notes on the habits of Glossina fusca, 313, i, 143-146. Enock, F.— Two insects affecting wheat and barley crops, 54, xxxvi, 323-330. King, H. H. — Some observations on the bionomics of Tabanus par, and T. taeniola, 313, i, 99-104. Some observations on the bionomics of Tabanus ditaeniatus and T. kingi, 313, 1, 265-274. Rothschild, N. C. — A synopsis of the fleas found on Mus norwegicus decu- manus, Mus rattus alexandrinus and Mus musculus, 313, i, 89-98. Sharpe, A. — Notes on the habits of Glossina morsitans in Nyasa- land and the adjoining territories, 313, i, 173-175. Thienemann. A. —Das Sammeln von Puppenhauten der Chironomiden. Noch ein- mal eine Bitte urn Mitarbeit, 22, xxxvii, 62-63. Weber, E. I.— Ueber regeneratahnliche Flugelmissbildung einer Stubenfliege Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 137 (Musca domestica), 22, xxxvii, 1-7. Wesche, W. — On the larval and pupal stages of West African Culicidae, 313, i, 7-54. COLEOPTERA. Arrow, G. J.— Notes on the Lamellicorn bee- tles of the genus Golofa with descriptions of three new species, 11, vii, 136-141 (*). Bernhauer, M. — Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Sta- phyliniden-Fauna von Zentralamerika, 44, Ix, 350-393 (*). Bow- ditch, F. C. — Notes on Diabrotica and descriptions of n. sp. (con- tinued), 4, xliii, 9-16. Brethes, J. — Coleopteros Argentines y Boli- vianos, 238, Ixix, 205-227. Champion, G. C. — Some new Curculi- oninae from Central and South America, 11, vi, 94-98 (*). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhynchophora: Curculionidae (continued), Vol. IV, pt. 7, 151-221 (*). Dalla Torre, K. W.— Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 25: Cebrionidae, 18 pp. Deibel, J. — Beitrage zur Kenntnis von Donacia und Macroplea unter besonderer Beruck- sichtigung der Atmung, 89, xxxi, 107-160. Hopkins, A. D. — Con- tributions toward a monograph of the bark-weevils of the genus Pissodes, 1, Tech. Ser. No. 20, 1-68 pp. (*). Kleine, R. — Biologi- sche Beobachtungen an Pyrochroa coccinea, 193, vii, 13-16. deLa- pouge, G. V. — Tableaux de determination des formes du genre "Carabus," 310, 1910, 4-5, 11-12. Pic, M.— S'ur divers Cantharides (Telephorides) de 1'Amerique meridionale, 310, 1910, 3-4. Coleop- terorum catalogus. Pars 26: Scraptiidae, Pedilidae, 27 pp. Tolg, F. — Billaea pectinata (Sirostoma latum) als Parasit von Cetoniden und Cerambyciden-Larven. Metamorphose und aussere Morpho- logic der Larve (Schluss), 92, vi, 426-430. HYMENOPTERA. Adlerz, G.— Stekellarver som ytterparasiter pa fritt kringstrofvande spindlar, 67, xxxi, 97-100. Cockerel!, T. D. A. — Some bees from Western Canada, 4, xliii, 33-34 (*). Craw- ford, J. C. — New So. Am. parasitic Hymenoptera, 50, xxxix, 235- 239. Emery, C. — Einiges ueber die Ernahrung der Ameisenlarven und die Entwicklung des temporaren Parasitismus bei Formica, 305, ii, 4-6. Hoppner, H. — Beitrage zur Biologic niederrheinischer Rubuswohner, 309, Ixvi, 265-275. Roman, A. — Notizen zur Schlupf- wespensammlung des schwedischen Reichsmuseums, 67, xxxi, 109- 196 (n. gen.). Schulz, W. A.— Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Le- bensweise, Systematik und geographischen Verbreitung der Tri- gonaloiden, 67, xxxi, 103-108. Strand, E. — Ueber einige amerikani- sche Hymenopteren des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesba- den, 187, Ixiii, 9-18. Tragardh, I. — Roda tallstekeln (Lophyrus ser- tifer), 67, xxxi, 272-279. Tullgren, A.— Vaxtsteklar, som angripa vara frukttrad, 67, xxxi, 286-295. Viereck, H. L. — New sp. of reared ichneumon-flies, 50, xxxix, 401-408 (*). Wasmann, E. — Gibt es erbliche Instinktmodifikationen ini Vcrhalten der Ameisen gegen- uber ihren Gasten? 22, xxxvii, 7-18. 138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'iT Doings of Societies. AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A meeting was held December 22nd, 1910. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President in the chair. Ten persons present. The reports of the Treasurer, Curator and Librarian were read. This being the annual business meeting, the following officers for 1911 were duly elected: President, Philip P. Calvert ; Vice-President, Henry W. Wenzel ; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Recording Secretary, Henry Skinner; Corresponding Secretary, E. T. Cresson, Jr. ; Curator, Henry Skinner ; Librarian, E. T. Cresson, Jr. ; Publication Committee, E. T. Cresson, C. F. Seiss and B. H. Smith; Ex- ecutive Committee, Philip Laurent, H. W. Wenzel and D. M. Castle; Finance Committee, ]. W. McAllister, C. S. Welles and D. M. Castle. HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. A meeting was held December 22nd, 1910. Ten persons present. In the absence of the Director and Vice-Director, Dr. D. M. Castle presided. The annual reports of the officers were read. Mr. E. T. Cresson, Chairman of the Publication Com- mittee, stated that on October 2/th last he had received the resignation of Dr. Henry Skinner as Editor of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS and that it had been accepted with regret. Dr. Philip P. Calvert was elected Editor, E. T. Cresson, Jr., Associate Editor, Erich Daecke was elected a member of the Advisory Committee and Dr. Henry Skinner Editor Emeritus. Dr. P. P. Calvert exhibited a larva and an adult of the Odonate genus Cora from Costa Rica, interesting as possess- ing tracheal gills along the ventral side of abdominal segments 2-7 of the larva. It is the first American species known to pos- sess such gills, although Hagen in 1880 described larvae of the Oriental genera Euphaea and Aniso pleura which have gills Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 139 similarly situated. Such gills are probably modified abdominal legs. The existence of such gills is held to indicate the descent of Odonata and Ephemerida from animals with abdominal legs. The following were elected to serve as officers for the en- suing year : Director, Philip Laurent ; Vice-Director, H. W. Wenzel ; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Recorder, Henry Skinner, Secre- tary, E. T. Cresson, Jr. ; Conservator, Henry Skinner ; Publ. Committee, E. T. Cresson and E. T. Cresson, Jr. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting at 55 Stuyvesant Ave., January 12, 1911, was attended by 22 members and four visitors. The officers, with the exception of the Librarian, were re-elected : President, Dr. John B. Smith, Vice-President, Geo. P. Engelhardt : Treas- urer, Chris. E. Olsen ; Recording Secretary, R. P. Dow ; Cor- responding Secretary, A. C. Weeks; Curator, Geo. Franck; Librarian, Silas C. Wheat ; Delegate to the New York Aca- demy of Sciences, John B. Smith. A dinner is to be held some time during February by the Brooklyn, New York and Newark Entomological Societies. Mr. William Wasmuth described the eggs of the genus Catocala, of which he has bred nearly all the local species. The eggs of elonympha and nnbilis differ radically from the others, supporting the contention that these species belong to different genera. A number of species hibernate as pupae. R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. NEWARK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of September u, 1910; thirteen members and two visitors, Messrs. Matausch, of Newark, N. J., and Bird, of Rye, N. Y., present. Mr. Bird read a paper on "New York City's fifty-mile I4O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll faunal zone as relating to the Noctuid genus Papaipema." He dwelt chiefly upon the habits of the various species, and re- lated his experience in discovering their life histories. To date he has worked out the life histories of all the known species in the area treated with the exception of two. The pa- per was illustrated by a box of specimens showing the seven new species he has discovered within the confines of New York City, together with their larvae, pupae and parasites, and samples of their work in the plants into which they respectively bore. Mr. Buchholz reported the capture, at Lakehurst, of Cato- cala similis June 24 and July 10, Hyperaeschra georgica, May 30, and A crony eta tritona, May 30, July 10 and Sept. 3. He remarked that the latter was apparently triple brooded. Cato- cala similis larvae were not rare on a species of scrub oak, all the larvae collected producing very dark specimens of the adults. Meeting of October 9, 1910; nineteen members and two visitors, Messrs. Beutenmuller and Matausch, present. Mr. Beutenmuller exhibited a small box of Catocalae on which he commented as follows : C. Judith he had previously made a synonym of C. orba of Russia on the strength of Strecker's excellent figure of the up- per side, the two, as he pointed out, being identical above. Up- on the receipt of a specimen of the former species, however, he discovered them to be very different beneath and on struc- tural characters proved to belong to different sections of the genus, orba falling in with the ultronia group while Judith as- sociates with the members of the robinsonii group. From Tex- as he received a dark form of C. fair which he said may be passing current as C. arnica. C. beutcnmullcri B. & McD., re- cently described, is the male of C. zvarneri Poling. Mr. Buchholz said that the specimen of Catocala jair taken by him at Lakehurst and reported at the April meeting of the Society, was an example of the dark varietal form shown by Mr. Beutenmiiller. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Mr. Kearfott spoke at some length on the methods employed in capturing, rearing and preparing Micro-lepidoptera and of the magnitude of the field for the ardent worker. As an il- lustration of what might be done anywhere he said that in New Jersey, the insect fauna of which is better known than that of any other State, over 50 per cent, of the species recorded during the past ten years were new to the State, and that eventually the present number of species known from that region — about 1500 — will be increased to 3000. Micro-lepidoptera in general are very easily bred. The larvae are simply collected and placed in small screw-top vials in which the food keeps fresh from ten days to two weeks. In that period of time most micro-lepidoptera, if not too small when collected, will have reached the pupal stage. Occasional- ly mould sets in ; but this is unusual, and when it occurs the screw-top should be removed and a bit of cheese cloth sub- stituted. All breeding notes may be put on 8xio cards and filed away, the name of the species being added when obtained. Very interesting in their life history are certain species of Micropterygidae which were discovered mining in the leaves of oak, birch and chestnut. The larvae cause blotches on the leaves as large as a silver dollar. They become full grown in about ten days when they drop to the ground and remain as larvae until the following April when the pupal condition is assumed. Beyond this stage the species were not reared, the group determination being made by the pupae which show the peculiar long folded maxillary palpi. Equally interesting are the species of Nymphula which have been bred by Dr. W. T. M. Forbes. The larval life is spent beneath the surface of the water and tracheal gills are develop- ed, though functionless spiracles are present as well. All Micro-lepidoptera are test captured as adults in the evening just after sundown. Mr. Kearfott has taken between 200 and 300 specimens representing dozens of species in a space fifty feet square at this time of day. 142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll The condition of the white birch forests of Vermont, Massachusetts, and to some extent, Maine, is serious as a re- sult of the attacks of a species of Bucculatrix which causes them to appear as if swept by fire. The minute larvae between one-fourth and three-eighths inch in length are at first leaf miners, but later come outside to feed. Three to six larvae were on each leaf and every leaf on each tree was infested. By estimate there were about 100,000 examples to a tree. Betula lenta was also sparsely attacked but only where there was a dearth of white birches. Mr. Brehme reported the occurrence of Catopsila eubule at Beach Haven, Ocean Co., on Sept. 27 and the capture of a perfectly fresh example of Argynnis idalia at Fairton, N. J. on Sept. 16. Meeting- in Turn Hall, on November 13, 1910; fourteen members present. Mr. Buchholz showed two boxes of Catocala gracilis and similis which were taken by himself and Mr. Keller at Lake- hurst. He also reported Glca trcmula, G. viatica and G. seri- cea from the same locality on Sept. 25, and Caripeta angus- tiorata on May 30. He took a specimen of Papaipeina duavata Bird, at Elizabeth, and P. stenocelis Dyar, a species recently described from Virginia, at Lakehurst. Mr. Brehme made a few remarks on the Periodical Cicada which is due to appear in New Jersey in 1911. He said the towers which are usually constructed by the pupae in moist situations were extremely abundant in Cape May Co. at the present time (Nov. 13, 1910). Millions of them from one to three inches high were erected in moist and in absolutely dry places. An attempt was made to secure some of the pupae by digging into the ground, but apparently they had retreated to a considerable depth as none could be found even two and a half feet below the surface. Mr. Lemmer said he took a specimen of Acronycta cliza- bcti at Irvington, N. J. Mr. Grossbeck exhibited a specimen of the rare Sphin.v franckii from Johnson City, Tennessee. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 143 Meeting- in Turn Hall, December u, 1910; ten members and one visitor, Mr. Matausch, present. Mr. Brehme exhibited a box of Hemileuca, showing in small series all but three of the North American species. Mr. Matausch spoke concerning the Membracidae and showed many enlarged water color sketches of both nymphs and adults. He outlined his experience in breeding Ceresa taurina and Campylenchia curvata. Moulting always takes place, so far as his observations went, in the early morning hours and the full coloration of the individuals in attained in about two hours after moulting. The fact that he has re- peatedly found skins of young nymphs on the same twig as the fully grown individual indicates that the entire nymphal life is passed on one stem. Ants frequently attend membracids and particularly the young nymphs. He has observed three species attending Van- dnzia arcuata and stated that some species of membracids are preferred to others. A few species apparently have no ant at- tendants at all. Among the species that were bred from nymphs by Mr. Matausch were Ceresa paltneri which occurs on sweet gum, Carynota mera which feeds on black oak and a species of Cyrtolobus which developed on oak. The officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows : President, Otto Buchholz; V ice-President, F. Lemmer ; Sec- retary, H. H. Brehme ; Financial Secretary, T. D. Mayfield ; Treasurer, Geo. J. Keller; Librarian, Wm. H. Broadwell. JOHN A. GROSSBECK, Secretary. Meeting at the Newark Turn Hall, Sunday, January 8, 1911, seventeen members present, President Buchholz in the chair. Mr. Grossbeck was appointed a Committee of one to repre- sent the Newark Society in arranging for a supper and meeting of Entomologists with the New York and Brooklyn Societies. .Mr. Kearfott's invitation to have the Society meet and look over his collection of Micro-lepidoptera on February 12th was accepted. Mr. Buchholz exhibited a very interesting series of Pseudo- 144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'n hazis eglanterina, nuttalli, shastaensis and denudata which brought forth a lengthy discussion between Messrs. Angelman Franck and Prof. Smith, about the geographical range and variations of these species. Mr. Franck stated that he has received a large number of Hyperchiria incarnata from the northern border of Mexico, which comes so close to H. pamina that he thinks it is only a dark form of pamina and that pamina is a geographical form of incarnata. Prof. Smith gave a very interesting talk on Entomology in Europe. He spoke on what he learned on his recent trip to Germany, Holland and Belgium where he went for the in- terest of the American Nurserymen to protect them from fur- ther importation of destructive insects, and to find out under what conditions Asolla grows. Prof. Smith said that all nur- sery stock that is shipped into Germany is closely inspected and the least trace of scale or other insects is sufficient to condemn the entire shipment, and the man to whom it is addressed is notified and his choice is given to send it to some other State or have it destroyed. On the other hand no attention is given to stock which leaves Germany, no matter how bad the same may be infested, and therefore a constant watch has to be kept on nursery stock imported from European countries into the United States to prevent further importation of destructive in- sects. The Azolla, which was to be introduced into New Jersey to plant out in pools, ponds, etc., to prevent mosquitoes breeding, will be of no use in New Jersey, as it will not grow on salt marshes and cannot survive our cold winters. About five hundred specimens were donated by members for the new cabinets. HERMAN H. BREHME, Secretary. Erratum: Line 20 from top of page 55 (February NEWS) should read: stomach (PI. II, figs. 17, 19, Ipgt). The rectum has four tracheae, two SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR VOLUME III OF THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY Official Organ of the Association of Economic Entomologists Editor, E. Porter Felt. Albany, N. Y., State Entomologist, New York. Associate Editor, W. E. 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I (Hemip.K . . 167 Rowley — The " Crop " of Lepidopters of 1910 170 Editorial 1 77 Notes and News 178 Entomological Literature 183 Doings of Societies 187 Obituary— James William Tutt 191 Descriptions of Dragonfly Nymphs of the Subfamily Calopteryginae (Odonata). BY JAMES G. NEEDHAM, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. (Plates IV, V.) The basis of our present knowledge of the immature stages of this group of dragonflies was laid by Dr. Hagen in a paper but a few pages in length, published in 1880,* under the title "Essai d'nn Synopsis des Larvcs des Caloptcrygines." Nymphs of Calopteryx had been described earlier, and in that genus and in Hetacrina fuller descriptions have appeared since ; but with the exception of a few undetermined forms described by Karsch in 1893 f and a few figures of nymphal labia pub- lished by Miss Hortense Butler in 1904, t that little paper has until quite recently represented all our knowledge of the sys- tematic relations of the immature stages of the group. Yet that paper was merely synoptic, without other descriptions than mere diagnostic statements of group characters, and it was not illustrated. *In C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. 23, pp. Ixv-lxvii. Abstracted by Mc- Lachlan, in Ent. M. Mag., Vol. 17, p. 90; also in Zool. Anz., Vol. 3, pp. 304-305- t Berl. Ent. Zeit., Vol. 38, pp. 47-48. J Trans. Amer. Ent Soc., Vol. 30, pp. 127-128, pi. V, figs. 1-6. M5 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll During 1907 I had the privilege (due to the courtesy of Mr. Samuel Henshaw) of studying Hagen's specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Of two of the species of the Synopsis, (the Euphaca splcndcns of Ceylon and the fragment doubtfully referred to the genus Cora} I could find no trace. The others I found and studied, and also two addi- tional members of the group here treated, not noticed by Hagen in that paper, and perhaps of later acquisition by him. By the study of the venation of the developing nymphal wings I was able to make closer determination of some of the forms, confirming his determination of Ncurobasis, but finding his Anisoplcura comes to be in fact a species of Bayadera, and his Euphaca disparf to be probably Anisoplcura comes. The new descriptions and figures of these forms made at that time were laid aside because other matters were more pressing. Recently Mr. Tillyard's rearing of the nymph of the Austra- lian Diphlebia lestoidcs, * and Dr. Calvert's still more recent and most welcome discovery of the nymph of Cora f have re- vived my interest in the matter, and have led me to offer these notes and figures for publication in the NEWS. The greatest interest has attached to the nymphs of the "Legion Euphaea" of de Selys, doubtless because of their pos- session of paired lateral filamentous tracheal gills on most of the abdominal segments (a character appearing in somewhat altered form in Cora}. On this account one of Hagen's types was figured in Packard's Text-book of Entomology (p. 469). The figure is small and inadequate for specific determination ; but since it shows no spines on the frons it perhaps represents the "Euphaea splendens" of the "Synopsis," which Hagen says was verified by Nietner, and which I was unable to find re- posing in the collection at the time my studies were made. Tillyard has shown that Diphlebia lacks external paired lateral gills ; and I am here describing another member of the "Le- gion" that lacks them, from Jamaica. The wing venation is not well enough preserved to render determination very cer- *Proc. Linn. Soc., N. S. Wales, Vol. 34, pp. 370-383, pi. 33, 1909. t Entom. News, Vol. 22, pp. 49-64, 1911. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 147 tain, and no Calopterygine other than Hetaerina is at present known from Jamaica. The characters of the caudate gills and of the mandibles are sufficiently interesting, even though the nymphs are not fully determinable. Herewith I describe briefly and illustrate nymphs, I judge to belong to the following species: Neurobasis chinensis Linn ;• Calopteryx angnstipenms Sel. ; Anisopleura comes Hagen ; Bayadera indica Sel. ; Unknown nymph from Jamaica. Neurobasis chinensis (supposition). (Plate IV, figs. 1-4.) Hagen, C. R. Soc. Ent, Belg., Vol. 23, p. Ixv, 1880. Several well grown nymphs in which the venation of the adult could be in part recognized in the wings enabling me to verify generically, at least, Dr. Hagen's supposition. No. 302, M. C. Z., "Billespur, Himalaya, India, Carleton, 1872." Length, 30; lateral gills, 13 additional; median gill only 9 mm.; abdomen, 20 ; mind femur, 7 mm. ; width of head, 3 mm. ; of abdomen, 2.2 mm. Body very elongate, slender and smooth. Head depressed, longer than wide, narrowed both ways from the laterally prominent eyes, and without dorsal tubercles. Antennae very long, the basal segment being about twice as long as the head is wide, fusiform, and pubescent, espe- cially upon the inner side, the second segment about one-eighth as long as the first, and the remainder comprised in an unjointed slender and tapering nagellum, that is somewhat longer than the second joint. Labium slender, the hings reaching posteriorly to the mesothorax, basal half of the mentum with parallel sides, suddenly widening just beyond the middle to the bases of the lateral lobes, and then regularly narrowing to the greatly produced tip, the anterior half being occupied by a deep and wide oval median cleft, that is closed in front by the close apposition and partial adherence of the slender lobes that bound it ; these lobes show a slight constriction near the tip, and there is a pair of spinules on the inner margins of the cleft at two-thirds its length. The median cleft descends through somewhat more than half the length of the mentum. The lateral lobes are very slender, almost linear, with doubly and finely serrate inner margin, ending in a slender and nearly straight hook, above which are two similar but larger hooks on end, and above these three that togethei terminate the lateral lobe is the usual movable hook on the external margin, with three minute spinules just before its base above. 148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll Legs not remarkably long, but slender. Wing cases reaching the fourth abdominal segment. Abdomen long, cylindric. Gills long, straight, slowly tapering and then suddenly enlarged just before the tips, after which they are abruptly narrowed to the end, the lateral ones triquetral, the median flat, with a carina each side, ar"1 one-third shorter than the laterals. Calopteryx angustipennis (supposition). (Plate IV, figs. 5-8.; A single immature female specimen, M. C. Z., No. 307, "Green River, near Mammoth Cave, Ky., 4-11-74, Putnam." Length 20 mm., lateral gills 12 mm. additional, the median gill 9 mm., abdomen 13 mm., antenna 8 mm., of which the basal segment measures 5 mm., hind femur 8 mm., width of head 3 mm., of abdomen 2 mm. Body very long and slender. Head about as long as wide, depressed and very flat above, with a prominent, angulately elevated and an- teriorly directed tubercle behind each eye. Eyes small and situated at the midlateral margin of the head, and laterally prominent. An- tennae very long, the basal segment densely pubescent and longer than the head is wide, the second segment one fourth as long as the first and the third to the seventh successively shorter and more slender. Labium very long and slender, the hinge reaching posteriorly to the metathorax ; mentum with sides parallel in basal half, deeply and widely cleft in the greatly widened apical half into two slender lobes ; these lobes are apposed at apex making an oval inclosure of the cleft ; a pair of spinules, one each side, arise from the inner edges of the cleft at three-fourths its length. The lateral lobes are slender, with nearly parallel sides, the inner margin slightly convex and finely and doubly serrate, ending in a short arcuate end hook, that is separated by a deep cleft from two other larger similarly shaped hooks upon the end ; above these hooks there is on the external margin the usual movable hook, which is larger and stouter and regularly arcuate; there is a pair of spinules on the lateral margin just before the base of the movable hook. Legs very long and slender, each femur with a flattened prominence at the end upon its anterior face, that rests against the side of the tihia at its base, and is doubtless for leverage in these long legs. Wing cases reaching the middle of the 3d abdominal segment (young). Abdomen cylindric, or very slightly tapering posteriorly, the lateral margins becoming prominent and spinulose on the 8th and Qth seg- ments. Gills long, widest near the apex and suddenly tapering to the tips, spinulose margined, all slightly decurved, the middle one more Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 149 decidedly so, and becoming oblique at apex ; lateral gills triquetral, the median, flatter and with a longitudinal carina upon either face. General color yellowish green ; some narrow longitudinal streaks and minute spots in pairs on the top of the head, and a broad black band extends from the base of the antenna to the thorax, including the eye. There are indications of paler transverse bands upon the gills and of subapical rings on the femora. This species differs markedly from those hitherto known* in the form of the middle caudal gill-lamella, its greater brev- ity and apical widening and obliquity being very noticeable. Anisopleura comes Hagen (supposition). (Plate V, figs. 1-3.) Hagen, C. R., Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. 23, p. Ixvi, 1880, "Euphaea dispart" Carleton, M. C. Z., No. 301, India. Length 21 mm., gills 9 mm. additional, abdomen n mm., hind fe- mur 5 mm., width of head 5 mm., of abdomen 4 mm, Body rather stout. Coloration lost, owing to action of alcohol. Antennae rather stout, 7-jointed, the relative lengths of the segments being as i :i :i.3 :i :.8 :.6 :.5. Mandibles conspicuously biramous, the outer branch about as large as the inner projecting forward at the sides of the mouth outside as in generalized members of the Ephe- merinae. Labium very similar to that of Bayadcra shown in fig. 6 of plate V. Its lateral lobe differing slightly in the proportions of the end hooks, fig. 3. Legs stout, thinly fringed with hairs along the superior longitudinal carinae. Wing-cases reaching the middle of the 5th abdominal seg- ment. Abdomen slowly tapering posteriorly, bearing simple paired filamentous gills at the sides of the 2nd to the 8th segments. Caudal gills (middle one wanting) inflated at base with a ciliate superior carina, tapering to a long slender tail-like apex nearly as long as the swollen basal part and clothed with long soft hairs. The only clue to the identity of this nymph is found in the venation of the developing wings, which are, unfortunately, but poorly preserved. These things are evident. Ante- and post-nodals in the fore wing are 14 and 16 respectively, and *Dr. Fr. Ris has recently characterized the nymphs of the two commonest European species (Die Siisswasser-fauna Deutschlands, p. 47, 1909) and I distinguished two of the commonest N. American forms in 1903 (Bull. 68 N. Y. State Museum, P. p. 222). This is the fifth species cf Calopteryx nymphs to be made known. 150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll the latter in the hind wing are of about the same number. There are five or six cross veins behind the stigma, with no brace vein, nor any apparent furcation of vein Ri at its inner end. Quadrangle and sub-quadrangle of the hind wing are without cross veins, and the wing ceases to be petiolate (i. e., the anal vein separates itself from the anal margin) at the third cross vein before the sub-quadrangle. Bayadera indica (Plate V, figs. 4-7.) Hagen, C. R., Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. 23, p. Ixvi, 1880, "Anisopleura comes?" M. C. Z., No. 300, "India, Carleton." The nymph measures in length 22 mm., abdomen 12 mm., hind fe- mur 5.5 mm., width of head 5.5 mm., of abdomen 4 mm., gills 6 mm. Body rather stout, moderately depressed. Head widest across the eyes, the hind angles rather large, well rounded, scurfy hairy, and be- tween them there is a strong concavity of the hind margin. Antennae 7-jointed : ratio of length of segments from base outwards is as i : 1.5 :2.2 :i.s :i.2 :i :.J. Frons slightly convex, covered with prickly granu- lations, its front border, and likewise that of the labium somewhat denticulate. Mandibles obscurely biramous, the outer branch a broad lateral prominence armed externally with four prominent sharp and strong, anteriorly directed teeth. Labium short and broad, the hinge reaching posteriorly to the middle of the prothorax. Lateral borders of the mentum serrate in the middle, the median lobe well rounded, with a narrow, closed median cleft : no raptorial setae : lateral lobes short and narrow, with finely denticulate inner margin that ends in a truncate prominence scarcely forming an end hook, and above which are two sharp incurved hooks on the distal margin, the lower one the larger. Movable hook stout, arcuate. Prothorax almost as wide as the head, the lateral margins of its dorsal shield spinous. Legs short and thinly hairy. Tarsi 3,-3,-3- jointed, with a minute plantula between the claws. Wing cases ex- tend posteriorly to the apex of the 5th abdominal segment. Abdomen stout, with conspicuous lateral gills on segments 2-8, one pair on each segment, simple, filiform-conic, constricted at the base, each except the 8th longer than the width of its segment. Segment 10 dorsally excavate behind. Caudal gills three, thick, inflated at base and scarcely triquetral, scantily pubescent, contracted at base, widest before the middle, and suddenly constricted, and tapering in their apical fourth to an acute point. An examination of fore and hind wing of one specimen re- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS vealed the venation poorly preserved in the basal part, but well enough preserved in the outer two-thirds to show the points of origin of sectors, the number of included cell rows, the points of doubling of the rows. I made careful comparison with the wings of adult Bayadcra indica from the same local- ity, and found such close likeness in every part as to leave scant doubt as to the species and none at all as to the genus. Ante- and post-nodals in the fore wing were 24 and 21 re- spectively and the cross veins behind the stigma were, in fore and hind wing, 5 and 6 respectively. In examining the costal region of the hind wing I noticed that the outer edge of it was thinly clothed with intermingled hairs and flat scales. At the middle of the inner face of the mandible in this spe- cies there is a tooth surrounded in part by thin membrane at its base and perhaps more or less movable, comparable to the articulated appendage to be described in the next species fol- lowing. Unknown nymph from Jamaica (PI. IV, figs. 8-12). A few immature nymphs from Wag-water River, Jamaica, Mar. 7 and 10, '77., M. C. Z., 329 and 322. Length 15 mm., abdomen 9 mm., gills 5 mm.; width of head 2.5 mm., of abdomen 2 mm. Body rather stout, somewhat depressed. Head squarish, the hind angles a little less prominent than are the eyes at the midlateral mar- gins. Hind margin concave between the obtuse hind angles. Top of head very flat. Frontal ridge, border of labrum and external lobe of the mandible finely denticulate. Antennae 7-jointed, the segments from base outward being as to length in the following ratio: I :3 :2 :i.5 :i.2 :i : .6. Labium as in Bayadcra. Thorax depressed. Legs short, stout, thinly hairy. Wing cases reaching (in these immature specimens) only to the middle of the third abdominal segment. Abdomen cylindric, or very slightly tapering, the first and tenth segments somewhat shorter than the intermediate segments. No lateral gills : caudal gills three, each cylindric or somewhat inflated in its basal three-fifths, scarcely triquetral, but with a thin marginal fringe of hairs, the apical two-fifths suddenly contracted and then tapering into a long hairy lash-like point. 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll There is a trapezoidal dark mark across the dorsum of abdominal segments 2-8 or 2-9, narrowly divided on the median line : and there is a row of )-or (- marks, either side, concave externally. Mandibles short and thick, not biramous, but with a spinous tu- bercle standing in the place of the outer ramus, and with a bifid palp- like movable tooth upon the middle of the inner face. This nymph while agreeing in many respects with the two preceding, differs markedly in the absence of lateral abdominal gills and of mandibular tusk ; also in the sharpness of the con- struction of the middle of the caudal gills dividing them as if two-jointed and the greater length of the second antennal seg- ment. There is no known Jamaican Calopterygine with which this nymph can be associated. The imperfectly preserved venation of one specimen shows that quadrangle and subquadrangle are without cross veins. There are about 15 post-nodals, and there is no brace vein to the stigma. Vein M2 arises a little beyond the nodus, and is closely parallel with the radial sec- tor throughout a rather undulate course. All the long diagonal areas traversing the disc of the wing are occupied by single cell rows, and there is a sudden considerable apical divergence between veins Rs and M3. In all these characters there is considerable resemblance to the Agrionine Ortholcstes, but I cannot believe that a nymph so unlike all known Lestinae in labium, in gills and in stature is referable to that genus. It accords so well with Bay ad era, Diphlebia, etc., that I prefer to believe there remains in Wagwater River, Jamaica, an undis- covered Calopterygine genus, with rather sparse venation. As in the Anisoptera so in the Zygoptera, it is the form of the labium that furnishes the most constant and reliable char- acters for distinguishing the major groups. The presence or absence of lateral gills is of small moment, and the form of the caudal gills is unpredictable. Plate IV of this paper rep- resents the group which in 1903* I recognized as a sub-family under the name Vestalinae ; plate V represents another, that I *A genealogic study of dragonfly wing venation. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 26, p. 744. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXII. Plate Y CALOPTERYGINE NYMPHS-NEEDHAM. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 153 named Epallaginae. Surely the characters contrasted upon these two plates are sufficient to justify the separation of these two groups. Clearly the Epallaginae are the more primitive. Their biramous* mandibles and their lateral abdominal gills ally them with the sub-family Ephemerinae of Mayflies, and their venation is vastly more primitive than that of the Vesta- linae. Since the foregoing- was written I have examined a nymph of still another Calopterygine genus from India — a single nymph from Simla Hills collected and sent me by Dr. N. Annandale. It is, unfortunately, a young nymph, perhaps about two-thirds grown (the wing tips reach only to the base of the third abdominal segment), with no venation showing, the specimen being near a moult, its wings crumpled within their sheaths. It is more elongate than Bayadcra or Anisopleura with slenderer legs, and would be larger when grown (length of head and body in the present specimen 18 mm., gills 6 mm. additional.) It may perhaps belong to Philoganga. The in- flated caudal gills are intermediate in character between those of Bayadcra and Anisopleura, being more pointed than the one and less so than the other and being without constriction at the base of the attenuate apical portion. The mandible is also intermediate in the character of the external ramus, which is not quite simple, but nearly so, with only minute serratures upon its outer side — not a row of subequal teeth. The lateral abdominal gills are very similar in form, but they are decurved beneath the abdomen and scarcely visible from above. They occur, as in the others, on segments 2 to 8. *The mandible of Cora is not biramous in the sense in which I have used the word in this paper : the outer ramus of the forms here de- scribed is wanting. The more or less movable piece upon the inner face of the mandible, perhaps a little better developed as a movable part in Cora than in any of those I have seen, apparently has no coun- terpart in the Ephemerine mandible, although there is rather regularly a movable palp-like piece situated at the base of the outer ramus of the mandible on its inner side in Mayfly nymphs. 154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE IV. Fig. i. — The head and prothorax of Neurobasis chinensis?, from above. Fig. 2. — End of labium of same, from within. Fig- 3- — Lateral lobe of the same, from within. Fig. 4. — End of abdomen, with caudal lamellae, from the side. Fig. 5. — Head and prothorax of Calopteryx angustipennisf, from above. Fig. 6. — End of labium of same, from within. Fig. 7. — Lateral lobe of same, from within. Fig. 8. — End of abdomen with caudal lamellae, from the side. PLATE V. Fig. i.. — The nymph of Anisopleura comes?, middle gill wanting. The outer ramus of the mandible is exposed at the side of the mouth. Fig. 2. — Lateral lobe of labium of the same. Fig. 3. — Head and prothorax of Bayadera indicaf, from above. Fig. 4. — Lateral caudal gill of the same. Fig. 5. — Mandible of same: a, external ramus; b, internal ramus; c, articulate tooth of the inner face. Fig. 6. — End of labium of same, from within. Fig. 7. — Lateral lobe of same from within. Fig. 8. — Head and thorax of nymph from Jamaica, from above. Fig. 9. — Mandible of same, from above, a, b, c, as in fig. 5. Fig. 10. — End of labium of same, from within. Fig. ii. — Lateral lobe of same, from within. Fig. 12. — An unknown nymph from Jamaica. The Stridulations of Some Eastern and Southern Crickets * (Orth.). BY H. A. ALLARD, U. S. Dept. Agric., Washington, D. C. In all parts of our country musical species of crickets are more or less common. Although the notes of locusts and katydids are strident lispings and raspings, the Stridulations of nearly all crickets are characterized by true musical tones. These insects have become adapted to a wide range of en- *The crickets mentioned in this paper have been identified through the kindness of Mr. A. N. Caudell of the U. S. National Museum, and all material collected has been added to the U. S. Museum collec- tions in his charge. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 155 vironmental conditions. The mole crickets (Gryllotalpa} dwell in subterranean burrows in wet soils. The numerous species of Nemobius and Gryllus are almost strictly terrestrial in their habits, preferring the grass and dry leaves of fields and pastures. In the low herbs and tangles of vines and shrubs dwell species of Ana.i'ipha, Phylloscirtus and Oecan- thus. In the foliage of the higher shrubs and trees may be found Orocharis, Cyrtoxipha and arboreal species of Oecan- thus. The notes of all crickets may be classed as either intermit- tent or prolonged. The intermittent "singers" include all species which chirp or trill briefly, as Oceanthus niveus, 0. angustipennis, Cyrtoxipha columbiana and many others. The prolonged trillers are always recognized by their uninterrupt- ed trillings which may continue indefinitely without pause. Oecanthus latipcnnis, O. nigricornis, Phylloscirtus pulchellns, Anaxipha exigua and many others have the prolonged trilling habit. The habits, range and stridulations of many of our crickets are almost entirely unknown. More careful collecting, es- pecially throughout the South, will probably add a number of new species to our fauna and, at the same time, greatly extend the range of many other little known species. Casual collect- ing in Northern Georgia by the writer has brought to light in this region a number of little known species of locusts and crickets. By his discovery of Cyrtoxipha columbiana and Orchelimum minor in Northern Georgia the known range of these insects has been extended six or seven hundred miles farther southward. Likewise, the writer's records of Nemo- bius ambitiosus in Northern Georgia extend the range of this interesting cricket about 250 miles northward into the upper piedmont belt. MwgryUus saussiirii, Scudd. The writer first met this crick- et at Thompson's Mills, Georgia, late in July 1910. It is a ground-dwelling species, and keeps itself well concealed be- neath the matted leaves and grass of gardens and orchards. It is very irregular in its distribution at Thompson's Mills and 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll appears to be more or less solitary in its habits. The writer heard it most frequently in a peach orchard near the settle- ment and also beneath the soil and leaves in a garden. Its notes are very brief, high-pitched musical trills, tzeee-tzeee- tzeee with brief intermissions. One individual delivered from 38 to 39 trills in a minute. This cricket may be heard in stridulation very early in the morning and more or less throughout the day and at night. It is rather difficult to locate and capture one of these crickets by its notes, for these are quickly silenced by one's approach. It is usually found beneath clods of earth, matted leaves, flat stones and boards. This cricket is very lively, and if uncovered leaps about vigorously. Its light brown coloration makes it very inconspicuous among the similarly colored leaves and soil. This species ,does not appear to be especially common at Thompson's Mills. It is first heard in midsummer. Nemobius ambitiosus, Scudd. The writer first captured this little cricket at Thompson's Mills, Ga., early in April, 1910, al- though he had heard its stridulations one or two years before in the same locality. This pretty Nemobius is the first species to appear at Thompson's Mills and dwells among leaves in decidu- ous woods. This cricket is especially common on a warm, heavily wooded slope bordering a small brook just east of the settlement. Its trill is very brief, high-pitched and shrill, tiiiiiiii-tiiiiii-tiiiiiiiii-tiiiiiiii. Late in July the writer also met with small colonies of this cricket in other localities around Thompson's Mills. It is one of the commonest species of Nemobius in this vicinity and begins to stridulate as soon as spring opens in March and April. In April 1910 very cold periods of weather with considerable sleet and snow complete- ly silenced these hardy crickets. Notwithstanding this in- clement weather these crickets were always in active stridula- tion as soon as the clays became warmer. Rehn and Hebard have said of this Nemobius in Southern Georgia : "The sound produced by the males is quite different from that of any other species, but it would be indeed impossible to describe the pitch which makes it so." Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 157 The range of this Nemobius extends practically all over Florida, since Rehn and Hebard report it from Leon County, Orange County, Duval County, Volusia County, Hillsboro County, Bade County, and other points.* In Georgia it has been found by Hebard and Rehn at Thomasville, southern Georgia, and by the writer at Thompson's Mills, northern Georgia, which is the second record of Nemobius ainbitiosiis in this State. A very common Nemobius around Washington, D. C., in autumn is Nemobius janus Kirby. This Nemobius is usually found in the grass and leaves of damp soils by the roadside and in fields. In such situations, if flat rocks are present, numbers of the males and females find shelter beneath these. The note of Nemobius janus is a weak, low-pitched, prolonged trill, al- most indistinguishable from the trill of Nemobius palustris of New England, except possibly a little louder. Around Wash- ington this cricket continues to trill until December, if the weather is mild. Gryllus pennsylvanicus var. abbreriatus Serville, also oc- curs around Washington. Not infrequently it takes up its quarters in the house, announcing its presence by its stridula- tions, which are intermittent chirps, possibly louder than the chirp of Gryllus pennsylvanicus. Gryllodes sigillatus Walker. This cricket is exceedingly common at times in the greenhouses of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. This cricket is distribut- ed throughout the tropical region of both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, but has been rather widely introduced into colder regions where artificial tropical conditions are ap- proximated, as in many greenhouses. This cricket is a very persistent singer. Its stridnlations are rather shrill, brief chirps, so rapidly delivered as to produce an almost continuous trill. The notes, though louder, recall the notes of a Nemo- bius. *See the following papers bv Rehn and Hebarcl. both in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. "The Orthontera of Thomas County, Georgia, and Leon County, Florida," Vol. LVI, 1904. "Orthoptera of Northern Florida," Vol. LIX, 1907. 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll Some Remarks on Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, Vol. Ill, with Additional Notes on Vols. I and II. BY A. N. CAUDELL, of the Bureau of Entom., U. S. Dept. Agric., Washington, D. C. Having reviewed the first two volumes of this excellent work,1 I now wish to present some critical notes on the third volume. Most of the notes here made pertain to North Amer- ican forms. Some miscellaneous notes on volumes I and II, additional to my former review of those two volumes, are appended. P. 4. — Mr. Kirby has overelooked the fact that Phyllotetti.v Hancock is a synonym of Choriphyllum Serville.2 That this is true, however, there can be no doubt and the species listed under Phyllotetti.v by Kirby should be catalogued under Zaphyllonotum Caudell while the genus Phyllotettix and its equivalent Phyllonotus Hancock should be listed in synonymy under Choriphyllum Serville. P. 48. — Acrydium abbreviatus Morse is listed as a synonym of hancockl. It is really a variety well worthy of a name. The same is true of affinis Hancock and costatus Hancock, which are varieties respectively of crassum Morse and arenosuin Burmeister. As a matter of fact but few varieties are listed by Kirby other than as synonyms of the species of which they are really varieties. P. 50. — Tehnatctti.v burri Hancock is here catalogued as a species of Hedotettiv but the describer of the species has shown it to be a synonym of ParatettLv scaber.3 P. 59 — Here Mr. Kirby has entered a Tcttigidea gracilis Scudder. This seems to be an error as no such species appears to have ever been described, no name gracilis, either new or otherwise, appearing at the reference cited by Kirby. Thus Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. vii, p. 84-88 (1905) ; Can. Ent, vol. xl, p. 287-292 (1907). 2 Caudell, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. xi, p. 113 (1909). 3 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 410 (1909). Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 159 the name gracilis of Bruner is not shown to be preoccupied and the name e.vigua, which is proposed by Kirby, p. 58, to replace it, is unnecessary and falls into synonymy under the name it was proposed to replace. P. 87. — Ta.riarchns septentrionalis was described by Bruner, not by Rehn as here listed. P. 104. — The Tru.valis angusticornis of Stal is a synonym of Dichrpmorpha viridis. It is correctly listed on page 125. P. 105. — Prof. Bruner's paper in Proc. IT. S. Nat. Museum. Vol. XXX, p. 613-694 was published June 5, 1906, not in Feb- ruary as quoted by Kirby. Thus Bruner's H. lamcllipes should be listed in synonymy under Hasinus Rehn, which was de- scribed in May of the same year, giving it precedence by a month over Bruner's species. P. 107. — The species enslavae and valida of Rehn are refer- red to Syrbula without question by Rehn and Bruner. P. 108. — The Pedioscirtetes pulchclla of Bruner has been referred to the genus Acrocara for the last twenty years. P. 109. — Acrocara maculipennis is found in the United States, having been recorded from Arizona by Rehn and Snow. Specimens from that state are in the United States National Museum. P. no. — The genus Gymnes of Scudder is a synonym of Bootettix Bruner as first suggested by Bruner4 and later de- finitely established by Caudell.5 P. 112. — Eupedetes is a synonym of Eritetti.r and Eupedctes carinatus Scudder is a synonym of Eritettiv variabilis Bruner." P. 115. — The Stenobothrus subconspersa of Walker is very likely a synonym of Amblytropidia occidentalis Saussure. P. 118. — Oeonomus Scudder is a synonym of Napaia Mc- Neill and Oeonomus altus is a synonym of Napaia gracilis Bruner.' P. 122. — Kirby omits Orphidclla losamatensis Caudell, Proc. 4 Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. ii, p. 52 (1904). " Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xxxiv, p. 73 (1908). 'Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., vol. lix, p. 331 (1907). 1 Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. ii, p. 90 (1904). l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. XI, p. 113 (1909), a specific name pro- posed to replace the walkeri of Bruner, 1906 which was shown to be preoccupied by the O. zualkeri of the same author pro- posed in 1904. Mr. Kirby erroneously lists this later walkeri under the date of 1904 and quotes it, together with the walkcri of 1904, in synonymy under punctata DeGeer. The later de- scribed walkcri, that of 1906, has nothing to do with the one of 1904. It is a distinct species for which the name losani- atensis will have to be used. P. 125. — Dichromorpha brunnca Scudder is a color variety of Dichromorpha viridis, not a distinct species as here listed. P. 127. — Fencstra cannot be credited to Brunner as it was used by him in an invalid manner, having1 no species connected with it.8 The first writer to validate this genus by referring to it a valid species was Giglio-Tos9 who referred to it the single new species bohlsii. which is therefore the type. The genus Dichroatetti.r of Bruner, based upon the single species viridifrons, is a synonym of Fencstra Giglio-Tos, its type being synonymous with that of Fencstra as pointed out by Rehn.19 Mr. Rehn was perfectly correct in replacing the genus Fencstra as used by Bruner in 1900 bv the new name Cocyto- tctti.v and this genus should be used for the species listed by Kirbv under Fencstra: these are pitlchripennis, intermedia, and argentina of Bruner and Hncaris of Rehn. P. T2&,.—Cn!oradeIIa was established by Brunner in 189^ but was invalid, having no included species. The next use of the name was by Bruner11 who questionablv referred to it the Stenobothriis brunnens of Thomas. This species, being a questionably included one, cannot become a geno type accord- ing to commonly accepted usages of nomenclature and thus 8 Such genera are quite generally considered by entomologists as nomina ntida. This is certainly the only satisfactory way of treating such genera. "Zool. Jahrh., vol. viii, p. 807 (1895). 10Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 31 (1906). 11 Ann. Kept. Nebr. Board of Agric., 1896, p. 129 (1897). Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l6l the genus is yet invalid. Now Mr. Kirby uses the genus and includes one species which he calls Coloradella brunnea Bruner, giving- as the original reference the place where Bruner ques- tionably referred Thomas' brunneus to the genus, apparently considering that Bruner misidentified Thomas' species. But misidentifications should not be perpetuated as distinct names and besides a misidentification on Bruner's part is not evident. Bruner never having described such a species there is no Coloradella brunnea Bruner and therefore the generic name Coloradella is still invalid. P. 129. — Psoloessa buddiana, ferruginea and maculipennis are synonyms of P. texana" P. 130. — Stirapleura mescalero Rehn belongs to the genus Psoloessa and as a synonym of texensis" P. 134. — Scyllma calida Bruner has been recorded from Arizona." P. 135. — Ageneotettix arenosus Hancock is a synonym of A. scudderi." P. 135. — The genus Aulocara is, by nearly all essential char- acters, Oedipodiian as shown by the writer some years ago." P. 159. — Gomphocerus clepsydra and carpenteri are syno- nyms of davatus. P. 166. — Staurorhectus glaudpes Rehn has been removed to the genus Amblyscapheus and A. lineatus Bruner falls into synonymy under this species, glaudpes being the older by a month." P. 172. — The Stetheophyma doranii of Goading has long since been sunk in synonymy under Chortophaga viridifasdata DeGeer. "Rehn & Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 381 (1908); id, p. 144 (1909). "Rehn & Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 145, foot-note (1909). "Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., p. 34, 71 (1907). Hart, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 259 (1907). 1 Caudell, Can. Ent, vol. xxxv, p. 302 (1903). Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 167 (1907). IB 18 , IT l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll P. 188. — Chorthippus coloradensis McNeill is a synonym of C. curtipennis Harris.18 P. 1 88. — Stenobothrus occipitalis Thomas has long been referred to the genus Cordillacris (Alpha}. It is correctly entered on p. 116. P. 188. — Stenobothrus olivaceus Morse has long been re- referred to the genus Cor dillacris (= Alpha}. It is correctly p. 119. P. 195. — Records of Arphia fall ax from Florida are probably mistakes, the locality intended probably being Mexico. P. 196. — Arphia teporata is a synonym of A. arcta. P. 198. — Arphia hesperiphila Rehn is a Lactista and a syn- onym of Lactista gibbosa Saussure.19 It is correctly entered on p. 236. P. 198. — The Oedipoda differentiate here listed is only a reference under this name by Riley to the common Melanoplus differ entialis. P. 204. — Hippiscus sierra Rehn belongs to the genus Xanthippus if that genus is to be used. In the writer's opin- ion the characters used for the differentiation of Sticthippus Cratypedes, Xanthippus and Pardolophora, while useful in separating species, are not of generic value. The retention of these groups as subgenera is not to be encouraged as the ten- dency is, at least in Orthoptera, to either suppress subgenera or raise them to generic rank. P. 205. — The generic name Cratypedes was first put into print by Scudder20 but was used in an invalid manner, having included only an undescribed species. The next writer to use the name was Thomas21 who validated it by describing under it a new species, C. putnami. Thus the genus is creditable to Thomas but it is a synonym of Xanthippus Saussure and both of these genera, in the reviewer's opinion as stated above, should be sunk under Hippiscus Saussure. 18 Bruner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. ii, p. 92 (1904). "Bruner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. ii, p. r68 (1905 ~). 20 Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. ii, p. 267 (1876). *Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. i, p. 257 (1876). Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 P. 216. — The type of Chloebora Saussure is given as species No. 6 while but four species are listed, a good illustration of this unsatisfactory method of type citation. Ch. grossa may be taken as the type of Chloebora. P. 234. — The Oedipoda belfragii of Stal is best sunk defi- nitely in synonymy under Spharagemon aequale as has been done questionably for over a decade. Likewise the Dlssosteira texensis of Saussure is best disposed of definitely in synonymy under Spharagemon aequale as Morse did questionably in i895.22 Bruner23 quotes this species as a probable synonym of Spharagemon cristatitin, but the original diagnosis does not seem to justify this, the relationship being more clearly with aequale. P. 236. — Mr. Kirby has here, species No. 3, confused two distinct species. The species described by Bruner in 1889 as Oedipoda ( ?) occidentalis is a species of Circotetti.r while the Scirtcttlca occidentalis of the same author described four years later is a quite different species and is a true Scirtcttica. P. 238. — Lactista boscanus Rehn is a synonym of Tomonotus aztecus as shown by Bruner24 and admitted by Rehn.20 P. 244. — Dcrotmema lentiginosum Scudder belongs to the genus Trimerotropis and is a synonym of T. gracilis™ P. 249. — Oedipoda kioiva Thomas belongs to the genus Trachyrhachys, not to Trcpidulpus as here listed. The same is true of Mestobrcgma pulchella Bruner. P. 251. — Psinidia amplicornis Caudell is a true Psinidia. Conosoa melleola Scudder is a species of Trepidulns. Agonozoa McNeill, as shown by Rehn27 is a synonym of T rimer otro pis s. s. Trimerotropis texana Bruner may be con- sidered as the type of Agonozoa. P. 255. — Pseudotrimerotropis Rehn, of which Trimerotropis B Psyche, vol. vii, p. 293 (1895). 23 Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. vii, p. 166 (1905). "Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. ii, p. 169 (1905). MProc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 149 (1909). 28 Caudell, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. xi, p. 113 (1909). "Rehn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. xxvii, p. 334 (1901). 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll vinculata Scudder may be taken as type, is based upon char- acters which are not, in the reviewer's opinion, of generic im- portance and the genus should be sunk in synonymy under Trimerotropis.* P. 263. — Hadrotettix mundus Scudder belongs to the genus Trimerotropis.23 Hadrotettix gracilis Bruner was a nomen nudum until it was validated by Bruner in 1897. It is now referred to the genus Trimerotropis where it is preoccupied and is replaced by Trimerotropis bruneri McNeill, a name proposed for that pur- pose. P. 278. — The Oedipoda venusta of Stal has long been located in the genus Spharagcmon. It is a common Pacific coast spe- cies. P. 341. — Here is another example of the ill working of type citation by number, the type of Charilaus Stal being given as No. 4, while but three species are catalogued. C. carinatns Stal is the type species. P. 369. — The use of the emended form Rhomalea instead of Romalea as originally spelled is not in accordance with the laws bearing upon such matters. P. 370. — The Romalea gloveri here introduced is but a color variety of Romalea microptera. P. 370. — The locality California under Litoscirtus insularis should be Lower California. P. 434. — Ommatolampis brevipennis Thomas is a species of Hesperotetti.v. It is correctly entered on p. 499. P. 461. — Acridium ambigua Thomas is a synonym of Schis- tocerca americana Drury. P. 462. — Acridium frontalis Thomas is a synonym of Hes- perotetti.v speciosus Scudder. It is correctly entered on p. 500. [* The name Pseudotrimerotrofis was proposed to replace the re- stricted Trim erotro pis of McNeill, true Trimerotropis being equal to his Agonosoa. The author of the name has never considered it of more than subgeneric rank. (J. A. G. R.)] "Caudell, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. xi, p. 112 (1909). Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 P. 462. — Acridium milberti Serville has long been placed in synonymy under Melanoplus femoratus Burmeister. P. 468. — Sauracris hcusta is a misspelling for 5". lacerta. P. 493. — The Pezotcttix humphreysii of Thomas is a species of Melanoplus. P. 500. — The type of Aeoloplus Scudder is, by original designation, Caloptenus regalis Dodge,* not Caloptenus turn- bulli Thomas as here stated. P. 507. — Scudder's Revision of the Melanopli in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xx, quoted by Kirby under the various genera of this group as 1898 was really published December 28, 1897, as stated in the list of papers in the completed and bound volume of that publication. P. 507. — The species bruneri Caudell here listed in the genus Ascmoplus is catalogued wrongly, its proper position being in the genus Aeoloplus. P. 542. — Pezotettix flavoannulatum LaMunyon is a synonym of Dactylotum pictum Thomas. Dactylotum picturatum Bruner is to be used for the purpose for which it was erected, that is to replace the preoccupied pictum of Gerstaecker. Dactylotum longipenne Townsend is a Poecilotettix and a synonym of P. sanguineus Scudder and replaces that name, being the older and properly established. The synonymy of these species was first indicated by Bruner,29 but he used Scud- der's name, wrongly considering longipennis as a MSS name. Additional notes on Vol. I. The genus Photina is duplicated, appearing on p. 257 and again on p. 273. The first reference should be eliminated. The types of Hestiasula Saussure, Harpagomantis Kirby and Menexenus Stal, like all the genera in this catalogue, are indicated by number and, as so often the case, the number quoted as that of the type species is greater than the number of species included. Error is evident. " Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. ii, p. 329 (1908). [* This should be Aeolopliis regalis Scudder, not Caloptenus regalis Dodge, which Bruner has shown to be a Melanoplus. The regalis of Scudder has been renamed bruneri by Caudell. (J. A. G. R.)] l66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll Additional notes on Vol. II. The genus Ephippigera of Serville seems properly establish- ed and should be used in place of Ephippigerida Buysson. Ephippigera was first proposed by Latreille in 1825 but lacked validity, having no species included in it. Serville validated the name in 1831 by including under it several valid species. Orocharis terebrans Saussure & Zehntner30 was omitted from the catalogue. The genus Platy.ryphus of Walker is properly established, being the raising of Haan's species platy.vyphus to generic rank. The genus is valid, in spite of Walker's apparent hazi- ness regarding the matter, and the type is Gryllus platy.vyphus Haan. This genus antedates and replaces the genus Ptero- plistes of Brunner and the three species listed under that genus should be catalogued under Platyxyphus, and Pteroplistes sunk in synonymy under that genus. Pseudonemobius Saussure, p. 13 of Kirby, should be used in place of Paranemobius as this last name is an error and is corrected in the list of errors in the back of the work in which it is made. Besides the name Paranemobius is a nomen nudum, occurring only in a table of genera and without cita- tion of described species. Paranemobius was, however, giv- en standing by Bolivar in 1900 and thus preoccupies the Para- nemobius of Alfken described in 1901. Kirby has replaced Alfken's genus by Caconemobius. Gryllus lineaticeps Walker, 1869, is preoccupied by Gryllus lineaticeps Stal, 1858. Walker's type is apparently lost as it is not marked as present in the British Museum. A new name for it is needed if it is to remain in our lists as a valid species, but, owing to its doubtful status, I think it best to consider it eligible for listing only as an unrecognizable species. Pterolepis caucasica Fischer is listed on p. 180 under the genus Paradrymadusa and on p. 199 under the genus Pnoli- doptera. The former is the proper disposition. The genus Thliboscelus of Serville was established with a single included species, the Locusta camellifolia of Fabricius. 80Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., vol. i. p. 277 (1897) Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 167 That species is therefore the type of the genus. That Serville misidentified Fabricius' species does not alter this fact ac- cording to sound nomenclatural reasoning. Thus Thliboscelns falls as a synonym of Ptcrophylla Kirby & Spence, both gen- era being based upon the same species. The Brazilian insect wrongly considered as the camellifoUa by Serville without a name as a mere identification is not to be perpetuated as a distinct species, though Kirby, p. 345, has followed Brunner, Monogr. Pseudoph., p. 148, in doing so in this case. I pro- pose the specific name brasiliensis for this insect and refer both it and the Cyrtophyllus crepitans of Redtenbacher to the genus Pterophylla, considering neither generically distinct from the other members of that genus. The Male of the Black Scale (Saissetia oleae Bern.) (Hemip.). BY H. J. QUAYLE, Berkeley, Cal. While the black scale (Saissetia oleae Bern.) is very widely distributed over the world, little has been known and practi- cally nothing published about the male. It was first described by Dr. B. W. Griffith, of Los Angeles, in 1893. It was then said to be limited to a small area in the vicinity of Los An- geles, California. During the past year or two we have taken it at various places in the citrus belt from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It seemed to be especially abundant during the season of 1909. In places where it occurred that year, it was not nearly so abundant in the previous year or the year following. As many as ninety-seven puparia, from all of which males had emerged, have been seen on a single orange leaf. The males have been taken from the leaves of orange, oleander, pepper and olive. They emerged during the months of June, July, August, September, October, November, Decem- ber, January and possibly other months, though not yet observ- ed. The Second Stage Male. Up to the time of the first moult there is no difference between the sexes. After the first moult l68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll the male becomes decidedly more elongate, resembling more nearly a partly grown soft brown scale. Its length is 1.5 mm. and width .64. It is of a light brown color with the eyes visi- ble in the latter part of the stage as small dark areas on the front margin. The anal plates together form a triangle with rounded corners, and from the tip of each of these there arises three or four small spines, and one large one on the central dorsal surface. The length of time spent in this stage is about four weeks. During this time it is feeding and grows to about five times the length of the just-hatched larva. At the end of the stage a puparium is formed which completely covers the insect, al- though it is transparent and not so readily discernible. The Male Puparium. This puparium is a glassy like covering that is formed from the secretion of numerous pores over the body surface of the insect. Its length is 1.5 mm. and width .5 mm. The surface is slightly roughened with a row of granular projections along the dorsal line. Two lines beginning at the anterior end converge upward for a short distance and then run more nearly parallel, with but a slight con- vergence toward the posterior end. Within this the surface is more convex, forming a ridge along the dorsal line. Not quite y\ of the distance from the anterior end and at a point where the lines begin to run parallel, is a cross line or carina. Another lateral carina crosses this dorsal strip, or coronet, at J4 the distance from the posterior end. Immediately posterior to this cross line are two spiracular channels extending to either margin. The other two spiracular channels, ex- tending from the coronet to either side, are just before the middle line. There is a triangular opening for the anal plates and a cleft from this to the posterior end. Along the margin is a series of circular areas from which secretions extend to the surface of the leaf thus holding the puparium in place. When a puparium was removed 3 or 4 weeks after the male had emerged, these connecting threads were still capable of being stretched considerably as was observed upon lifting the pu- parium. These are found usually on the under side of the leaves of the orange, pepper, olive and oleander, chiefly, since these con- stitute the principal foot plants of the scale. When the in- sect is still beneath it can be detected through this transparent covering. If it has not yet transformed to the propupa it oc- cupies the entire space beneath extending well out to the mar- Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 169 gins, but in the case of the later stages the insect beneath is somewhat narrower. These puparia may remain on the leaves for months after the scale has emerged. The second stage male is capable of moving up to the time the puparium is secreted, which is the preliminary step in the change to the propupa. But it is only rarely that any move- ment occurs in this stage and hence the males are nearly al- ways found on the leaves where the young first settle. The Propupa. Length 1.4 mm., greatest width .4 mm. Color light brown with red pigment scattered about particularly at posterior end ; head reddish ; eyes dark red or brown. Sheath of style short and blunt . on either side of the style are two more slender and pointed appendages, the cerci extending beyond the style. At the tip are a few short hairs or spines. The sheaths of the antennae and legs are scarcely visible on the dorsal surface, excepting a broadening, where these lie on the ven- tral margin. On the ventral side these are plainly visible and lie in close contact with the body. The length of the propupal period is from 5 to 8 days during the warmer weather. The Pupa. Length 1.2 mm., width .4 mm., general color, same as that of propupa excepting that there is a larger amount of pigment at the anterior end. The head is entirely red. A marked constriction forms the neck, making the head appear as arrow-shaped. Eyes black. The wing pads are conspicuous and extend to 3rd abdominal segment. The style has increased in length so that it is slightly longer than the cerci on either side. The antennae, legs and wing pads, while naturally ly- ing close to the body, are distinct and readily separated from it. Eight to twelve clays are spent in the true pupal stage when it changes to the adult. In all the moults after the second stage the skin is split at the anterior end and pushed back be- yond the puparium. The Adult Alale. — The fully developed male remains from one to three days beneath the puparium before emerging. The adult stage can be determined without the removal of the pu- parium by the appearance of the long white caudal filaments which project out beyond the tip of the puparium. The life of the adult male is from one to four days. The following description of the male is copied from the notes of Prof. R. W. Doane, who worked with the writer during the summer of 1910. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll Length exclusive of style i mm.; style .4 mm.; caudal filament .8 mm.; antennae .5 mm. ; wing i mm. long, .5 mm. wide ; honey yellow ; head darker yellow; anterior pair of upper eyes dark red, posterior pair black, smaller ; ventral pair black equal in size to the upper anterior pair. Antennae whitish, lo-jointed, first joint short, thick cylindrical; second joint about equal to first but oval; third joint about as long as second but much more slender, slightly swollen toward the tip ; re- maining joints all slender, cylindrical, fourth as long as fifth and sixth together ; others sub-equal in length, collar long, cylindrical ; prothorax broad shield shaped ; mesothorax more strongly chitinized and wholly brown except a yellow shield-shaped area above, between the bases of the wings ; metathorax with a slight brownish tinge, legs brownish yel- low ; style yellow ; caudal filaments white, slender, tapering, twice as long as style ; wings hyaline with a yellowish tinge, with a microscopic close-set pubescence. The above description is given in detail because the original description given by Dr. Griffith is incomplete. The only fig- ures of the male that have appeared from original specimens are given by Marlatt in the U. S. D. A. year book for 1900. "In the figure of the adult there given the black bands are not properly placed. Both are too far forward, the first is not broad enough, the second too broad, and the yellowish spot be- tween the wings does not reach to the base of the wings."- DOANE. When the males emerge the females that hatched at the same time have completed their second moult and the letter H is evident. Summarizing the length of the life cycle of the male it will be during the summer months as follows : First stage, \l/2 months; second stage, i month, propupa 8 days, pupa 10 days, adult 3 days. Total, 96 days, or about 3 months. The "Crop" of Lepidopters of 19 10. BY R. R. ROWLEY, Louisiana, Missouri. The early part of the summer of 1910 was anything but en- couraging to the collector of lepidopterous insects, barring the greater silk moths. There were no butterflies on the wing and no larvae on the food plants. True, the first sunny days of spring had warmed the chrysalids of ajax and turnus and a Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS I /I few swallow tails were in the air and the papaws in full leaf but, alas, the frosts, sleets and snows of the latter half of April stripped the trees of their foliage and froze the larval life al- most to extinction. There was some compensation for these losses in the rather abundant appearance of cccropia, litna and polyphenins, but, all in all, the prospect was gloomy. Everything had to begin over again after April 25th ; the trees to releaf and the hardier larvae to struggle through a starvation period, but the fruit was gone. We measure everything by the crop of fruit out here. Common as aja.r usually is here all through the sum- mer and as plentiful its eggs and larvae, there was a dearth of its every life stage till August. The even more plentiful andria was scarce throughout the entire season. Not till July was there anything at the electric lights. Then the hawks began to come. The freeze that killed the earlier larval life also killed many of their enemies, for the later broods of caterpillars appeared in unusual numbers and fairly healthy, except the Sphinx larvae. In August and September larvae were to be found every- where. Luna and rcgalis on all their food plants, imperialis even more plentiful still, for all the shade trees yielded them and the sassafrases. Cecropia was not so much in evidence, but polyphenins was abundant. Then, too, in August and throughout September the great Papilios hovered over their food plants or settled in great bunches about the wet, sandy pool margins or the muddy roadside. From one small butter- nut tree, scarcely eight inches in diameter, thirteen larvae of C. rcgalis were taken, eight of them well grown, three on a small persimmon tree and others on sumach. It \vas on an east hillside in an old abandoned field where the three of us, Harold Davenport, Virgil Smith and the au- thor, spent a Saturday in September and came back laden with spoils. It was the 24th and a splendid day, and \ve had de- cided to make a picnic of it, but we forgot the lunch till it was time to quit the woods. The persimmon trees, the sassa- 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll fras bushes and the sumach, the hickories and the buck bushes were too alluring. We filled all our cans, boxes and paper bags with larvae. The hickories gave us luna, juglandis and excaecatus ; the persimmons, regalis and lima, and the sassa- fras, imperial/is, troilus and crispata. The buck bushes were alive with the larvae of diffinis. The yield was four "hickory horned devils," four gigantic imperialis, eighteen lunae, two juglandis, one excaecatus, thirty troilus, fifty diffinis, five Lagoa crispata, and numbers of other "worms." Elated with our success we spent the next day in the woods, but our selection of locality was unfortunate and we did poorly. We still found the larvae of troilus, diffinis and luna abundant, but the larger caterpillars were nearly wanting. We took two imperialis and eight juglandis, but we wandered over much territory. We were not herpetologizing, but we killed two gigantic copperheads on the hillside and the next day an equally gigantic spreadhead. Throughout the days of late August we collected regalis larvae, and all through September, even to the loth of Octo- ber, we gathered up imperialis "worms." Of the hawk moths the most abundant were modesta, diffinis, excaecatus and geminatus. Hylacus was not so abund- ant as usual, pandorus and myron larvae badly parasitized. At light, drupiferarum, Carolina, cclcus, pandorus and one myops, a rare moth here. Out of twelve eggs and twenty larvae of Cressonia juglandis collected during the summer, three moths and three chrysalids were obtained. These larvae suffer terribly from the microgasters, and it is no wonder the species is so rare. Even in the absence of para- sites, the larvae of juglandis seem delicate, for the author col- lected a number of fertile ova and freshly hatched caterpil- lars in early August, and every "worm" of them died before the third moult. Of the few geminatus larvae picked up in September, all, save two, "broke out with parasitic cocoons" and the two later died, one even after pupation. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS One day while hunting regal larvae the writer, much to his great delight, found two caterpillars of Sphinx kalmiae feed- ing in a low ash bush. One of them was attempting to cast his skin in the last moult but he was too weak and died. The other was later riddled by microgaster larvae. A few larvae each of Daremma nndulosa and Ccratomia ani- yntor succumbed to their internal enemies. It seems such a shame that the great caterpillars of our most beautiful moths should suffer so from foes so insignificant. This law of bal- ance in nature probably means much to life in general and cer- tainly to the vegetable world, but it is hard to convince the collector of larvae that his losses are payments to nature of any apparent indebtedness. That the delight which one experi- ences on finding some treasure of a larva should be turned to bitter disappointment in the claiming of this same treasure by some parasitic enemy is not much calculated to win an ardent admirer of this same so-called eternal fitness of things. The author brought to pupation a fine colony of Sphinx eremitus larvae from eggs collected by Miss Lulu Berry, of Vinton, Iowa, feeding them through on common peppermint, although the eggs were found on the leaves of bugle v^ed. There was practically no loss in these larvae. From eggs furnished by the same collector and found on the leaves of Enchanter's nightshade, the writer fed the larvae of Amphion nessus on wild grape and secured seven pupae. A full grown larva of Smerinthus c.rcaccatus was picked up under a maple tree on November 3d, after a number of frosts and several severe freezes. It fed on the yellowed leaves of soft maple, poplar and apple till November 29th, when it ceased eating and died. Of course, it was kept in a jar in the house by a fire. The disappointment in the searches for Papilio larvae in the early part of summer was more than balanced by the abund- ant finds in August and September. Harold Davenport handled more than two hundred eggs and larvae of ajax and obtained a goodly number of chrysalids ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll while Virgil Smith, Verner Pinkerton and the author collected a goodly number of cresphontes larvae. Larvae of turnus were found on hop tree, prickly ash, plum, apple and ash, but not plentifully. No searches were made for asterias though the imagoes were not rare. As usual, from the scarcity of its food plant, phllenor, even in the winged state was very scarce. While feeding three larvae of re galls in a roomy breeding cage and with an overabundance of fresh leaves, the smallest caterpillar mysteriously disappeared nor could any trace of it be found. The cage was close and no possible show of escape, so the only conclusion as to its fate Avas that the larger two worms devoured it. Repeatedly has the author lost Catocala larvae in the same mysterious manner and Mr. Davenport re- ported similar losses among well grown larvae of several genera and species. Why caterpillars with an abundance of food should resort to cannibalism is inconceivable, and yet there is no other way to explain the disappearance of some of our "worms." From over one hundred pupae of the first brood of Tripto- gon modesta (Rothschild and Jordan call this Pachysphinx modesta) quite seventy produced imagoes with crippled wings, although all chrysalids were on damp earth and strips of cloth hung down the sides of the cages. The freshly hatched imagoes all climbed up the cloth and yet with everything in their favor, they -failed to mature. Thinking the trouble was caused by keeping the pupae together in the cages, they were separated so that one would emerge in a can or jar per night and still there was little improvement in the quality of the moths. It is true there was a slight increase in the number of per- fect moths after the separation of the chrysalids, but the trouble was not obviated. As a matter of fact there were a few more deformed females than males. Out of ten moths that emerged together, one night, there were but two perfect specimens. It is possible that this is another means that nature takes to check overproduction. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 175 Out of two lots of eggs of the second brood of modesta (nearly two hundred eggs in all) but three chrysalids were se- cured, the larvae dying before the third moult. However, one lot of these eggs was from a female that mated with a male from the same parents. Of the first brood, mentioned above, about a fifth failed to give imagoes with the rest and are holding over till next spring. Three imagoes that appeared fully a month after the rest, were very pale in color, while the first moth that emerged had an unusually red hind wing, in fact the wing was red all over. From a half drowned female Smerinthus excaccatus found floating on a tub of water after an all night's rain, one hun- dred and five eggs were obtained and from the larvae fed on apple, about fifty chrysalids secured. The losses were largely when the larvae were small. This is one of the hatches of larvae where cannibalism was apparent. By far the most interesting larvae of the summer's work were the Sphinx eremitus "worms," so hardy and so grotesque with their dorsal hump and the black dorsal spot. It is often asked if Catocala moths ever come to light like most other moths. It is generally denied that they do and yet twice this summer in early July the writer saw a Catocala on an electric light pole in the full glare of the light but too high to be reached. It is almost certain that the species was ilia. Now that the summer is gone and the trees are stripped of their leaves, cocoon hunting is no mean sport but probably more interesting still is the search for Catocala eggs. A few boxes and a small chisel are the necessary paraphernalia and the loose outer bark and the cracks in the bark of hickory, wal- nut, white and bur oak, honey locust, willow, maple, plum and crab, are carefully searched for the small ova. In our searches for cocoons on the shade maples we had to use long fishing poles with end hooks, and the fall on the peb- bles of some of the polyphemi proved disastrous. Little or no trouble was experienced in collecting the prometheae as most of them were found dangling from the twigs of low 176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll sassafras and persimmon bushes. Frank Caldwell reported eight cocoons of promethea from one sassafras, while the au- thor took seven from a small bush. The remarkable likeness among the cocoons of promethea, cynthia and the gigantic atlas is rather surprising inasmuch as all three belong to different genera. The caterpillar of each of these moths spins an elon- gate cocoon inside a single leaf securely fastened to the twig or compound leaf stalk by silk and left to dangle in the breeze. One polyphenws cocoon was found on a sassafras bush and one on willow, but the latter just under a small birch tree which yielded another. The author in the course of three or four hours collected ninety-nine promethea cocoons from sassafras bushes along a small stream valley that had its 'source in a cul- tivated field. Down where the stream flowed through a pas- ture not one cocoon was found, although there was an abund- ance of the food plants. Near towns cocoons of this moth are always rare here in Missouri, and the author has the first one yet to find in the city limits of Louisiana, although he has of- ten searched for them on persimmon trees. Still, a number of years ago, he found them not uncommon on the shade per- simmons inside the city limits of Fort Smith, Arkansas. This year cecropia cocoons seem scarce and most of our finds have been on soft maple and willow, Lowell Pinkerton securing the greatest number. While most of our large moths are more or less general feeders in the caterpillar stage, we expect to find them more abundant on special plants, promethea on sassafras, cecropia on plum, polyphcmus on maple, luna on walnut, imperialis on maple and rcgalis on walnut, and yet all of these except poly- phemus and imperialis may be found on persimmon. The au- thor has even found the larva of cecropia feeding on fever wort, and once fed one through on walnut, securing therefrom the darkest moth he ever bred. The larva of io will feed on almost any leguminous plant, having been found on garden bean vines. It does well on Amorpha. T am again under obligations to Miss Margaret Haley for the careful typing of this article. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form and without covers, will be given free, when they are wanted; if more than twenty-five copies are desired, this should be stated on the MS. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Proof will be sent to authors for correction only when specially requested. — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1911. THE PERIODICAL CICADA IN 1911. Circular No. 132 of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, by Mr. C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Chief of the Bureau, dated February 13, 1911, calls attention to the Period- ical Cicada of the present year. Two important broods of this insect, misnamed "locust," will appear. "One of these belongs to the 17-year race and extends from New York south- ward into North Carolina, in general lying east of the Alle- gheny Mountains." Technically it is known as Brood II and, although occurring in part of the same territory, must not be confused with the great brood — X-- of the years 1902 and 1919. Brood II seems not to have appeared in any locality in sufficient abundance to receive a star (*) in Mr. Marlatt's records, f the device employed to indicate places (counties) where "the cicada occurred in one or more dense swarms." Observations made by Mr. H. H. Brehme, in Cape May County, New Jersey, in November, 1910, and published in the NEWS for March, 1911, page 142, hold out the possibility of such a dense swarm next summer. The other brood due in 1911 is XXIII "of the southern, or 13-year race, and covers the lower half of the Mississippi Val- fSee especially Bulletin No. 71 of the Bureau, 1907. 177 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL XE\VS [April, 'll ley. . . .this is one of the largest of the 13-year broods, divid- ing this honor with Brood XIX" of 1907 and 1920. On account of the overlapping of broods of the 1 7-year and 13-year races in different parts of the country, some uncer- tainty exists as to whether certain records of previous years are properly credited to the two broods due this year. Mr. Marlatt therefore calls especially for observers in North and South Carolina, in northern Missouri, southern Illinois and Indiana to note particularly the occurrence or non-occurrence of this insect this year. Records and specimens should be forwarded to the Bureau at Washington or to competent local entomologists and then published. As to the protection of nurseries and young orchards from the cicadas, the most reliable means "is by collecting the in- sects in bags or umbrellas from the trees in early morning or late evening, when they are somewhat torpid. Such collec- tions should be undertaken at the first appearance of the cicada and repeated each day." It would seem possible to use poul- try to a large extent to destroy the insects on their emergence from the soil. Note. — "1908" in line 13, page 4, of this Circular is an evident error for "1898." Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. Messrs. R. E. Snodgrass (whose excellent monograph on the Anatomy of the Honey Bee appeared in Technical Series No. 18, of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, of last May) and B. N. Gates have resigned their positions with the Bureau. LISTRONOTUS BAGOIFORMIS Champ, in Utah. — Amongst some Curculion- ide sent me some ago by Mr. H. F. Wickham I have found a specimen of this species from Provo, Utah. It was described and figured by me in the "Biologia" (Col. iv, 4, p. 120, pi. 8, fig. i), in December, 1002, and has perhaps not yet been recorded from north of the Mexican frontier. The types were found near the City of Mexico. The insect is closely related to L. lathtscnlus, Boh.— G. C. CHAMPION, Horsell, Woking, England. January, 1911. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 179 THE WORK announced for the Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State University for the coming Summer includes a course in Entomology and the opportunity to carry on research work in problems upon insect life. The entomological work will be in charge of Professor Osborn, Invertebrate Zoology under Professor Brookover and Ecology under Professor Jennings, all including matter which is of distinct interest to entomologists. The session opens June 19, and additional informa- tion as to particular courses or the general announcement may be ob- tained upon application to the Director. — HERBERT OSBORN, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. A THREE-VOLUME FESTSCHRIFT to Professor Richard Hertwig, of the University of Munich, in commemoratiom of his sixtieth birthday (Sept. 23, 1910) has appeared (Fischer, Jena). Of entomological interest among its contents are: Minchin, E. A. On some parasites observed in the rat flea (Ceratophyllus fasciatus}. Schtschelkanowzew, J. P. Der Bau der mannlichen Geschlechtsorgane von Chelifer und Chernes. Zur Kenntniss der Chelonethi im System. Sasaki, C. Life History of Schlechtendalia chinensis Jacob Bell (a gall-producing insect). Schwangart Ueber die Traubenwickler (Conchylis ambiguella Hiibn, und Polychrosis botmna Schiff) und ihre Bekampfung, mit Beriick- sichtigung natiirlicher Bekampfungsfaktoren. UNDER THE WILL of the late Baron Edmond de Selys Longchamps, his sons have been publishing a Catalogue Systematique et Descriptif des Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps in quarto form with colored plates and half-tone text figures. The fol- lowing entomological parts have appeared : Fascicules VI. Trichop- tera, pts. i and 2, G. Ulmer (Hamburg) ; XVII Cordulines and XVIII- XX Aeschnines, R. Martin (Paris) ; V, ist part, Megaloptera and VIII Ascalaphidae, H. W. van der Weele (The Hague) ; IX-XI Li- bellulines, F. Ris (Rheinau). In manuscript ready for printing are Fascicules II Orthoptera, M. Burr (Eastry, Kent) ; III Psocidae, G. Enderlein (Stettin), and Termitidae, J. Desneaux (Brussels) ; XII- XVI Libellulines, F. Ris; XXIV-XXV Calopterygines, R. Martin. In preparation are Fascicules IV Ephemeridae and Perlidae, F. Klapalek (Prague) ; V, pts. 2 and 3 Mecoptera, Planipennia and VII Myrmeleon- idae, H. W. van der Weele; XXVI. pt. i, Agrionines, F. Forster (Bret- ten, Baden). Each group is treated monographically and its considera- tion is not limited, in most cases, to the material in the Selys collec- tions. The elder son of Baron Edmond de Selys, Baron M. F. Raphael de Selys Longchamps, died at the family chateau of Longchamps at Waremme, Belgium, January n, 1911, in his seventieth year. l8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll VOLUME 22 of the Journal of Morphology (Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia), originally intended as a testi- monial by former students and colleagues to the founder of the Journal, Professor Charles Otis Whitman, will, in consequence of his untimely death, become a Memorial Volume to him. The following entomological papers are announced as to be among its contents : Moenkhaus, W. J. The influence of inbreeding and selection on the fertility and sex ratio in Drosophila. Montgomery, T. H. The spermatogenesis of the Hemipteron Euscliistus. Morgan, T. H. Fur- ther studies of ovogenesis and spermatogenesis in Phylloxerans and Aphids. Wheeler, W. M. The ant colony as an organism. Wilson, E. B. A review of the chromosomes of Nezara with some more general considerations. PROFESSOR J. M. ALDRICH, Moscow, Idaho, has received a grant from the Elizabeth Thompson Fund "to investigate the fauna of the waters and shores of western salt and alkaline lakes," and will spend a por- tion of next summer in a field trip, commencing his studies at Great Salt Lake and extending them westward at least as far as Mono Lake, Cal. The investigation will include all orders of insects as far as they exhibit adaptation to a salt or alkaline environment ; the problems of greatest interest, perhaps, are those pertaining to several partially-known species of Ephydra, the larvae of which breed in salt and alkaline lakes. Professor Aldrich plans to visit all the lakes from which material of this kind has been reported, four or five in number, and any other lakes of like character along his route. He will be glad to receive sug- gestions from any entomologists who have made observations on the subject in view, or who may wish to have attention given to any col- lateral entomological problem in the interesting field to be visited. CATOCALA BEUTENMULLERI AND C. WERNERI. — At the meeting of the Newark Entomological Society of Oct. Qth, 1910, as recorded in the Ent. News, March, 1911, p. 140, Mr. Beutenmuller is credited with the statement that Catocala beutenmiilleri B. & McD. is the male of C. zvarneri Poling. I presume the species Mr. Beutenmuller had in mind was C. werneri Bied. (Ent. News XX, 76, '09). At the time of de- scription both $ and 9 of C. beutenmiilleri were before the writer and also the unique type of C. werneri, which is contained in Coll. Barnes. While both belong to the veriUiana group, the two species are totally unlike in the appearance of the primaries; C. werneri is largely suffus- ed with dark brown blotches, whereas C. beutenmulleri in both sexes is a clear bluish gray, without traces of brown patches. Their distinctness is without question. — J. McDuNNOUGH, Decatur, Illinois. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l8l THE STUDY OF DISEASE-TRANSMITTING INSECTS. — With a view to furthering the work of the African Entomological Research Commit- tee, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has been good enough to place at its dis- posal a sum of £1,000 a year for three years to defray the cost of send- ing a few suitably qualified young men to the United States to study the practical applications of entomology which have received so much attention in that country. Three of these Carnegie Scholars, as they are to be called, have been selected, and two of them are already at work in the States. The fact that Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, is personally interesting him- self in the matter is a sufficient guarantee that all possible facilities will be given to the scholars, and it may be confidently expected that the scheme will be of great value to British administration in Africa and elsewhere by providing a body of well-trained entomologists available for employment in the services of the different Colonial Governments. It may be mentioned that the Research Committee was appointed in June, 1909, by Lord Crewe, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, with the object of promoting the study of the insects which play so prominent a part in the spread of disease among men, animals, and plants in Africa; that Lord Cromer is its President; and that it includes some of the most eminent authorities on entomology and tropical medicine in this country. During the short period of the Committee's existence satisfactory progress has been made. The scheme has been energetically taken up by the African Colonies and Protectorates, and the large quantity of material already received at the Committee's Office in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington has very materially increased our knowledge of the insect pests of Africa. The collections of in- sects, after being properly identified and recorded, are being distributed to the Schools of Tropical Medicine, Universities, Museums, or other institutions where they are likely to be of value for the purpose of teaching or scientific study. Two skilled entomologists are being em- ployed under the direction of the Committee in East and West Africa respectively, for the purpose of interesting and instructing the local officials in the work, and also of carrying out special investigations. The Committee has issued quarterly a scientific journal, entitled the "Bulletin of Entomological Research," of which the first volume is just completed. It contains many important articles by well-known authorities, and is obtaining a wide circulation. Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary of the Committee — Mr. Guy Marshall, British Museum (Natural History) ; South Kensington, London. Colonial Office, 23rd February, 1911. l82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll A NEW WORK ON GALLS. — The E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuch- handlung (Nagele & Dr. Sproesser), of Stuttgart, announce the un- dertaking of a pretentious work on galls : Die Zoocecidien, durch Tiere erzeugte Pflanzengallen Deutschlands und ihre Bewohner, by Ew. H. Riibsaamen, with the collaboration of Messrs. Thomas, Nalepa, Kiister, von Schlechtendal, Dittrich, Borner, Griinberg, Mees, Schmiede- knecht, Kolbe, Ritzema-Bos and others. The chief value of the work- is to lie in 150 plates of large quarto size, for the most part in 13-15 colors, by Werner & Winter, of Frankfurt-on-the-Main, from Riibsaamen's drawings. The text will amount to about 150 sheets (Bogen), and will include text-figures. The undertaking has the financial support of the German Imperial Ministry of the Interior. The first part is announced and the whole is to be finished in 1917. CORRECTIONS IN DIPTERA of the New Jersey List of Insects, 1909.— I have noted the following minor corrections in the list of the order Diptera contained in Report on the Insects of New Jersey, 1909, by Dr. Jno. B. Smith. Page 740, third line from bottom of page, read Therioplectes for "Therioplectus." Page 745, genus Spogostylum, fourth species, read limatnlus for "limatula." Page 752, genus Laphria, third species, read aeatus for "areatus." Page 753, figure 312, "Asilns missouriensis." This name is a synonym of Proctacanthus milberti and the figure, which is an old one, does not delineate either the habitus or generic characters of the genus Asilus as at present defined. Dr. Smith expresses the wish that the illustra- tion may be eliminated from the literature, to which we say, Amen ! Page 755, third genus read Campsicnemus for "Campicnemus." Page 755, seventh genus, read Nematoproctus for "Nematoprotus." Page 812, genus Agromyza, sixth species, "dimidiatus" Walk. I can find no record of any such American species of either Agromyza or the old genus Phytonomus in Walker's lists or any of the other dip- terological catalogs of more recent date. This species is evidently diminuta Walker which is known to mine the leaves of cabbage. In Bulletin No. 10, new series, Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Mr. D. W. Coquillett records the larvae of this species mining the leaves of potato in Missouri, leaves of white clover in Washington, D. C., and leaves of cabbage in California. It was also bred from a stem of cabbage at Ames, Iowa, by Mr. H. Osborn. In Aldrichs' "List of Diptera" Agromyza diininuta is recorded as a synonym of A trifolii Burgess on the authority of Mr. Coquillett who now recognizes it as a valid species. — W. R. WALTON, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.* ' * Published by permission of the Chief of the Bureau. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 183 iDntomologiCcil Liters tu.re. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 7 — U. S. Department of Agri- culture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 22 — Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 35 — Annales, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 38 — Wiener Entomologis- che Zeitung. 40 — Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 45 — Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 90 — Revue Scientifique, Paris. 92 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie. 99 — Cor- nell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 104— Mittheilungen, Naturhistorisches Museum in Hamburg. 159— Bollettino, Laboratoria di zoologia generale e agararia della R. S. Superiore d' Agricoltura in Portici. 179 — Journal of Economic Entomology. 189 — Pomona Journal of Entomology, Claremont, Cala. 191 — Natur, Munchen. 194— Genera Insectorum, Diriges par P. Wytsman, Bruxelles. 216 — Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart. 251 — Annales, Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Paris. 305 — Deutsche Entomologische National-Bibliothek, Berlin. 314 — Atti del R. Istituto d'Incoraggiamento di Napoli. 315— Memoires, Academic Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences, 2d ser., Brussels. 316 — Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey Branch, Ottawa. GENERAL SUBJECT. Fernald, Osborn, Bruner, etc. — Present methods of teaching entomology, 179, iv, 63-90. Handlirsch, A.— Canadian fossil insects, 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of Br. Columbia collected by Lawrence M. Lambe in 1906, 316, Mem. 12-P, 93-129 (*). Meissner, O- Kurze Bemerkungcn ueber cinige neuere naturwissenchaftliche Theorien, 40, xxv, 87-88. Pierantoni, U.— Sulla utilizzazione dei ragni quali predatori d'insectti nocivi in agricoltura, 314, Ixi, 317- 321. Plateau,, F.— Recherches experimental stir les fleurs ento- mophiies peu visitees par les insectes, rendus attractives au moyen de liquidcs sucres odorants, 315, ii, fasc. 7, 55 pp. I&4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. A. L.— L'Industrie des Ter- mites, 90, xlix, 150-151. Crawford, D. L.— American Psyllidae III (Triozinae), 189, iii, 422-453 (*). Holmgren, N.— Versuch einer Monographic der amerikanischen Eutermes-Arten, 104, xxvii, 171- 325 (*). Ulmer, G. — Einige sudamerikanische Trichopteren, 35, lv, 15-26. ORTHOPTERA. Shelford, R.— Fam. Blattidae, Subfam Blat- tinae (= Periplanetinae), 194, 109 fasc., 27 pp. HEMIPTERA. Bergoth, E. — On some controversial items concerning a few Hemiptera, 35, lv, 28-29. Butler, E. A. — A con- tribution towards the life-history of Miris laevigatus, 8, xxii, 36-40. Crosby, C. R. — The apple red bugs (Heterocordylus malinus and Lygidea mendax), 99, Bull. No. 291, 213-225. Davidson, W. M.— Notes on some Aphididae taken in Placer County, Cal., 189, iii, 398-399. Enslin, E. — Gargara genistae und Formica cinerea, 92, vii, 19-21. Essig, E. O. — Aphididae of So. California V, 189, iii, 400-403. Notes on Coccidae VI, 189, iii, 404-411. Marlatt, C. L.— The periodical cicada in 1911, 7, Circ. No. 132, 5 pp. Wilson, H. F. — Two new genera and seven n. sp. of the family Aphididae, 4, xliii, 59-65 (*). LEPIDOPTERA. Bird,, H.— New histories and species in Papaipema and Hydroecia, 4, xliii, 37-47 (*). Comstock, W. P.— Thecla chrysalus, and its variety citima, 4, xliii, 65-66. Coolidge, K. R. — Melitaea theona Menetries and its synonymy, 4, xliii, 50- 52. Fischer,, E. — Ei, Raupe und Puppe von Argynnis pandora, 40, xxv, 79-80. Gerwein, E. — Kopula von Taeniocampa stabilis male and gothica female, 92, vii, 27. Ihering, H. V. — Ueber sudbrasilia- nische Schadlinge der Feige, 305, ii, 20-21. Leigh, H. S. — A biolog- ical inquiry into the nature of Melanism in Amphidasys betularia, 216, xxiv, 240. Linstow, V. — Der morphologische Geschlechts- dimorphismus der Schmetterlingsflugel und seine Bedeutung, 45, 1910, 45-53. Meyrick, E. — Heterocera (Pyrales) Fam. Orneodidae, 194, 108 fasc., 4 pp. Schaus, W. — New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica, V, 11, vii, 173-193 (*). Stichel, H. — Rhopalocera, Fam. Riodinidae. Allgemeines-Subfam. Riodininae, Teil 1, 194, 112a fasc., 238 pp. Unzicker, Dr. — Citheronia regalis und ihre Zucht, Ein Beitrag nach Studien in ihrer Heimat, 92, vii, 21-23. DIPTERA. Bezzi, M. — Un nuovo genere di Asilidi 159, iv, 174- 179 (*). Coquillett, W. B. — A decision on Meigen's 1800 paper, 4, xliii, 66. Kieffer, J. J. — Description de quelques Dipteres exotiques. (Sciara), 159, iv, 327-328 (*). Martelli, G. — Alcune note intorno ai costumi ed ai danni della Mosca delle Arance (Ceratitis capitata), 159, iv, 120-127. Notizie sulla Drosophila ampelophila, 159, iv, 162-174. Rothschild, N. C. — Liste des Siphonaptera du Museum Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 185 d'Histoire Xaturelle de Paris, accompagnee des descriptions des especes nouvelles, 251, xii, ^Jj-xllG. Sanders, G. E. — Xotes on the breeding of Tropidorpria conica, 4, xliii, 48-50. Summers, S. L. M. —Entomological notes from the London School of tropical medi- cine.— No. 1, Description of a n. sp. of Tabanidae from Br. Guiana, 11, vii, 213-215. COLEOPTERA. Anon.— Das Gehirn eines Kafers, 191, 1911, 143. Blunck, H. — Zur kenntnis der Xatur und Herkunft des "milchigen secrets" am Prothorax des Dytiscus marginalis, 22, xxxvii, 112-113. Bowditch, F. C. — Xotes on Diabrotica and descrip- tions of n. sp. (cont), 4, xliii, 53-58. Essig, E. O. — The natural enemies of the citrus mealy bug, III, 189, iii, 390-397. Hagedorn, M.— Fam. Ipidae, 194, 111 fasc., 178 pp. Kissel, F.— Bie Kissel'sche Russelkafer Falle, 92, vii, 23-25. Raffray, A. — Coleopterorum cata- logus. Pars 27: Pselaphidae, 222 pp. Schmidt, A. — Lamellicornia, Fam. Aphodiidae, 194, 110 fasc., 155 pp. Schubert, K. — Neue exotische Staphyliniden, 45, 1910, 1-39. Silvestri, F. — Metamorfosi del Cybocephalus rufifrons, e notizie sui suoi costumi, 159, iv, 220- 227. Contribuzioni alia conoscenza degli insetti dannosi e dei lori simbionti 1. Galerucella dell' olmo (Galerucella luteola), 159, iv, 246-289. HYMENOPTERA. Howard, L. O.— A note on the Indian enemies of Aleyrodes citri, with description of a n. sp. of Pros- paltella, 179, iv, 130-132 (*). Kieffer, J. J.— Description de nouveaux Hymenopteres, 159, iv, 105-117 (*). Nouveaux Cynipides exotiques, 159, iv, 329-342 (*). Fam. Scelionidae. Addenda et corrigenda, 194, 80b fasc., 61-112. Schmeideknecht, O.— Opuscula Ichneumo- nolgica Fasc., xxvii, p. 2081-2160. Strand, E. — Zwei neue suda- merikanische S'tenophasmus (Stephanidae), 38,, xxx, 14-15. Trani, E. — Di un nuovo Proctotrupidae parassita delle larve degli An- threnus musaeorum, 314, Ixi, 19-24. Viehmeyer, H. — Hochzeitsflug und Hybridation bei den Ameisen, 305, ii, 28-30. A SYNOPSIS OF THE ORTHOPTERA OF WESTERN EUROPE. — By Malcolm Burr. London, 1910. 160 pages. Oliver Janson, 44 Great Russell Street, W. C. Price 3*. 6d. This most useful handbook first appeared in parts in the Entomolo- gist's Record and Journal of Variation, forty-three installments having been published between 1903 and 1909. In the present little volume the matter is presented as first published with several pages of addenda dealing with corrections of classification and nomenclature and certain additional more recently described species. The treatment is concise, yet full enough to serve the purpose of the work, which the author says "does not claim to be more than a pocket-handbook for the use of collectors in the field." ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll The geographic scope of the work covers the region "west of Vienna," to pass beyond which "would mean the inclusion of Eastern Europe, with Russia, and the Balkans." It might be well to emphasize even more' strongly than the author does the fact that the present work is the first of anything of a similar character published in the English language, our great works of reference on European Orthoptera be- ing in German, French and Spanish. The generic tables seem to be very carefully constructed, while the specific tables present in most cases a wealth of differential characters instead of the meagre alternatives so frequently found. Under the species are given very graphic descriptions with beclouding technicali- ties reduced to a minimum, while such as are used are explained under the family headings. The geographic information is of the sort which makes one who is more than a taxonomist happy, as the author has the ability to give in a few terse sentences a clear yet fairly detailed statement of the range of a species, generally prefacing the limitations of the range with the general region or regions inhabited. The number of species of Forficulidae treated is twenty-four, of Blattoclea twenty-two, of Mantidea thirteen, of Phasmidea four, of Acridiodea one hundred and thirty-five, of Locustodea one hundred and sixty-one, of Gryllodea thirty-five. On tabulating the species accord- ing to the sections of Western Europe to which they are restricted one is first struck with the great number of Iberian (Spain and Portugal) forms, thirty-three Acridiodea, sixty-three Locustodea and fourteen Gryllodea being found nowhere else in the territory covered, a few of them being found in northern Africa as well, although the vast ma- jority are indigenous to the peninsula. The next numerical element in a tabulation of the species is a Mediterranean one, including species found in Spain and Portugal as well as the south coast region of France, Italy and the portion of the Adriatic country covered by the work. The Acridiodea of this element number twenty-eight, the Locustodea forty-eight and the Gryllodea ten. The boreal element is numerically far less than either the Iberian or Mediterranean elements. In the reviewer's opinion the splitting up of the old blanket genus Stenobothrns (pp. 27-28, 32-47) is greatly to be commended, al- though the author may not be universally followed in according the divisions generic rank. Although Bolivar had previously applied these divisions in a subgeneric sense to the Iberian species, the present work is the first to assign the more numerous extra-Iberian forms. A curious lapse occurs near the bottom of page 16 where Blatta germanica is used instead of Blatta orientalis, germanica being properly used on the middle of the same page. The latter species, our familiar Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l8/ Croton-bug, \ve are told is called "Prussian" in Russia and "Russian" in Prussia. To our brother Orthopterists we would commend this Synopsis as a model of what such a condensed manual should be, and we earnestly hope the day may soon come when our own country will have such handbooks of not only the Orthoptera but other orders as well. To our English friend, who has put so much time and love into the com- piling of this work, we give our grateful thanks for what we know will be well thumbed by others as well as ourselves. — J. A. G. R. Doings of Societies. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. The fifth annual meeting was held at the University of Minn- esota, Minneapolis, December 27th and 28th, 1910, in the School of Mines building. The president, Dr. J. B. Smith, presided throughout the session. In the absence of the Sec- retary-Treasurer, Professor J. G. Sanders was elected Secre- tary pro tern. The following papers were read during the session : E. L. Dickerson.— "Notes on the Tingid Leptobyrsa ex- planata Heid." J. B. Smith.— -"Notes on Sanninoidea e.vitiosa." J. P. Jensen.— "The structure of spermatophores in crick- ets." S. J. Hunter. — "The biological survey of the insect life of Kansas." H. C. and H. H. Severin.— -"An experimental study of the death-feigning habits of Belostoma (7.aitha) flnmincitm and Nepa apiculata Uhler." C. H. T. Townsend.— -"Announcement of further results secured in the study of Tachinidae and allies." T. D. A. Cockerell. — "Some suggested rules to govern en- tomological publications." The report of the Committee on Nomenclature was received and ordered printed. The report of the Executive Committee showed that nine- teen new members had been received during the year and four lost through death. l88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll The result of the mail vote ordered by the Society at the Boston meeting was, that the annual dues of the Society should be two dollars, this to include a subscription to the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. The following officers were elected : President, Professor Herbert Osborn; First Vice-President, Professor Lawrence Bruner; Second Vice-President, Professor Alex. D. Mac- Gillivray ; Secretary-Treasurer, Professor Alex. D. Mac- Gillivray. Additional members of the Executive Committee: Profes- sor J. H. Comstock, Professor J. B. Smith, Professor C. J. S. Bethune, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Dr. H. Skinner, Dr. A. D. Hopkins. The Annual Public Address was given in Handicraft Hall by Professor F. L. Washburn : "The Typhoid Fly in the Minnesota Iron Range." ALEX. D. MACGILLIVRAY, Secretary- Treasurer. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. Meeting of Dec. 2ist, 1910, held at 1523 S. I3th St., Phila- delphia. Twelve members present; Mr. Lewis H. Traun- weiser, visitor. President Harbeck in the chair. Prof. Smith commented on the different departments of the colleges he visited in Europe and said he was surprised at the amount of entomology taught in connection with the medical courses, which of course is mostly on insects which are car- riers of disease. He gave details of his trip, which was for the purpose of looking up the water plant Azolla to be used in exterminating mosquitoes, and which was described in the NEWS for December. A copy of the new New Jersey list of insects was shown. Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following Diptera, all collected by himself: Masiccra albifrons Town., Castle Rock, Pa., VIII-29-'o9; Chactona nitcns Coq., Weno- nah, N. J-< IX-5~'io; Tachytrechus mocchus Loew, Bromall, Pa., VII-i-'io; and Gymnoplernus clialcochrus Loew, Weno- nah, N. J., V-is-'io. Dr. Castle said that on his trips to Florida he had taken Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 189 twelve species of Chlacnius and had succeeded in adding two to this on his latest trip, C. ma.villosus Horn and hcrbaceus Chev. Of the former he believed that only two specimens were known and that it was not represented in the Horn Collection, while the latter was represented by one specimen. Mr. Haimbach invited the Social to hold its next meeting at his home, 150 Sumac Street, Wissahickon. Adjourned to the Annex. Meeting of January 18, 1911, at the home of Frank Haim- bach, 150 Sumac Street, Wissahickon, Philadelphia. Thirteen members present. Prof. F. M. Webster, of Washington, D. C., visitor. President Harbeck in the chair. The President read his annual address which was ordered to be incorporated in the minutes. The following officers were nominated and elected to serve for the year 1911: President, F. Haimbach; Vice-President, H. A. Wenzel ; Treasurer, H. W. Wenzel ; Secretary, George M. Greene; Assistant Secretary, C. T. Greene. Prof. Smith said that two or three months ago, just before the bad weather, he had received word that something was turning up the ground in Cape May County. He sent Mr. Brehme down to Sea Isle Junction, and found that it was as he had supposed, the Periodical Cicada, but these insects in- stead of making chimneys, had made mounds like ant hills, the openings of which did not come through to the top but just caused upheavals of the ground. The burrow was followed for six feet but did not reach the bottom and therefore no larvae were secured. In one place Italians were making a cut of eight feet but still the bottom of the burrows had not been reached. He stated that later some larvae had been sent to him from a locality where there was shale and they could only go to the depth of a few inches. Mr. Wenzel described the manner in which he had dug for Bledius. Prof. Webster mentioned the collectors and collections in a 1 9/3 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll general and humorous manner and then gave an interesting talk on imported species of several orders, particularly as to their wide distribution. One species, a fly, was bred by Mr. Johnson, from the University grounds here and later turned up in Arizona. He stated that many varieties of insects were imported to this country by the Spaniards, years ago, and also that the distribution of the different species was largely aided by the Jesuit priests in their travels through different coun- tries when they carried with them grains and fruits gathered at points where they stopped. Mr. Wenzel exhibited a live, wingless female grasshopper, Aptenopedcs sphcnarioides Scudder, collected by Mr. Schmitz in the street at noon of the date of the meeting, the tempera- ture at that time being about 25 deg. Fahrenheit. After an elaborate musical program furnished by Mr. Haim- bach's family and friends, the members were invited to the dining room, where they were again well entertained. GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTO- MOLOGISTS. The twenty-third annual meeting of the American Associa- tion of Economic Entomologists was held at Minneapolis, De- cember 28 and 29, 1910. The full proceedings are published in the Journal of Economic Entomology (the official organ of the Association) for February, 1911. Some of the more interest- ing features of the proceedings were : The consideration of a committee report on a proposed affiliation of the Association with ten other non-entomological societies under the name of the Affiliated Societies of Agricultural Science, a general meeting to be held biennially ; each affiliated society to retain its own organization and to hold such other meetings as it may elect and to issue its own Proceedings, but the Proceed- ings of all to conform to a uniform style of page, paper and type. The report of the committee was received and the com- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS mittee continued. The President's address by E. Dwight San- derson, was "The Work of the American Association of Eco- nomic Entomologists." Prof. T. S. Headlee presented a brief report on the work now being prosecuted by some economic entomologists in the State universities, agricultural colleges and experiment stations of the United States, listing the names of 101 projects, and the investigator undertaking each one. with his address. The adoption of a preamble and resolution that, "Whereas, there now exists a great lack of properly trained men for the work in economic entomology in the country at large, be it Resolved, by the Association that universities and agricultural colleges within whose province it naturally falls to supply this need, be urged to provide adequate facilities for the thor- ough training of capable men for the profession of economic entomology." A symposium on the present methods of teaching entomol- ogy, is represented by four papers by Profs. J. H. Comstock, H. T. Fernald, Herbert Osborn and Lawrence Bruner respec- tivelv, followed by an extended discussion. The same number of the Journal of Economic Entomology contains the Proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the American Association of Official Horticultural Inspectors, in- cluding an extended paper by C. L. Marlatt on the need of a national control of imported nursery stock, and shorter ones by Dr. L. O. Howard, G. G. Atwood and F. Windle. OBITUARY JAMES WILLIAM TUTT, English Lepidopterist, and Editor of the Entomologists' Record and Journal of Variation (Lon- don), from 1890 to IQIO, died January 10, 1911, at Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe Hill. From a sympathetic notice of his life by Dr. T. A. Chapman, in the Entomologist for February, 1911, we learn that he was born at Strood, Kent, April 26, 1858. Most of his mature years were spent as a schoolmaster 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll in London. He began contributing to the Entomologist in 1884, was an active member of the City of London (President 1896-1899) and South London (President 1899) Entomo- logical and Natural History Societies, a Fellow of the Ento- mological Society of London since 1885, and President-nomin- ate of this last at the time of his death. His chief papers and books are on Melanism; Tlic Britisli Ptcrophorina; Migration of Insects; The British Noctuae and their varieties (4 vol- umes) : Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist (3 vol- umes) ; British Butterflies ; British Moths; Randoms in Al- pine Valleys; Woodside, Burnsidc, Hittside and Marsh; Ran- dom Recollections and, lastly and chiefly, A Natural History of the British Lcpidoptera, of which six thick volumes have appeared, I-V, 1899-1906, treating of Moths, and VIII, 1905- '06, of Butterflies. These last, says Dr. Chapman, "are note- worthy not only for their encyclopedic character in relation to each species handled, but also for the critical discussions on many points of classification and nomenclature. This, how- ever, is not the place for further review, beyond noting the evi- dence afforded of Tutt's amazing industry, and the width and vigor of his mental grasp." Elsewhere Dr. Chapman re- marks, "It was simply impossible for him to be idle; he must work away at full steam all the time." "His extensive collections, occupying some dozen cabinets are less remarkable for the rarities they contain than for pre- senting many long series, and for being very largely of his own collecting. It is stated that they are to be disposed of during the next two years." From our contemporaries also we learn of the deaths of the following entomologists : E. A. LEVIELLE, at the age of 70 years ; EDWYN CARLOS REED, Director of the Museo de Concepcion, Chile, on No- vember 5, 1910; ELZEAR ABEILLE DE PERRIN, Coleopterist, at Marseilles, aged 68 years, and Prof. GIRON, Lepidopterist, of the Belgian Entomological Society. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOB VOLUME III OF THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY Official Organ of the Association of Economic Entomologists ,Mor, E. Porter Felt. Albany, X. Y., State Entomologist, New York. Associate Editor, W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn., State Entomologist, Conn. Business Manager, E. Dwight Sanderson, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va. ADVISORY BOARD. L. O. Howard, Chief, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr. S. A. Forbes, State Entomologist, Illinois. C. P. Gillette, State Entomologist, Colorado. H. T. Fernald, Prof, of Entomology, Mass. Agr. College. Herbert Osborn, Prof, of Zoology, Ohio State University. Wilmon Newell, State Entomologist, Texas. 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CONTENTS: Jones — A new North American Moth of the Family Psvchidae I Lepid. ) . . 103 Banks — Cases of Phoresie 194 Beutenmuller— Three new Species of Cynipidae (Hvm ) 197 Dyar — The American Species of Dia- traea Guilding (Lepid., Pvralidae) 199 Girault— A Supposed Occurrence of Cockerell — A new Coccid on Ledum (Hemip.) 217 Rohwer — Additions and Correctionsto "The Genotypes of the Sawflies and Woodwasps or the Superfam- ily Tenthredinoidea tHvmen.) 218 Skinner — A new Variety of Chionobas 220 Muttkowski — A new Gomphus (Odon.j 221 Anagrus incarnatus Haliday in the Felt — Kndaphis hirta n. sp. (Dipt.).... 224 United States ( Hym.) 207 , F.ditorial 225 Lovell — New Records of Bees: Sphe- ' Notes and News 226 codes and Prosopis (Hvm.) 211 Entomological Literature 232 Girault — The Occurrence of the Myma- Doings of Societies 237 rid Genus Anaphoidea Girault in ' Obituary— Dr. Edward Palmer 239 England (Hymen.) 215 I Prof. Felix Plateau 239 A New North American Moth of the Family Psychidae (Lepid.). BY FRANK MORTON JONES, Wilmington, Delaware. (Plate VI.) Eurycttarus tracyi nov. sp. Male. — Antennae larger and more broadly pectinated than in confed- erata, each pectination terminated with a bristly tuft ; thorax heavy, densely hairy; abdomen hairy, in dried examples barely exceeding sec- ondaries ; wings broad ; primaries short, costa full, apex so rounded that no angle is discernible ; secondaries broad, evenly rounded ; color smoky brownish gray, the primaries and thorax slightly darker than the sec- ondaries and abdomen ; wings without markings, not very opaque, in some lights with a brilliant purplish-blue reflection beneath, fainter above; expands 17-19 mm; vein 6 absent on both wings, which refers this insect (Neum. and Dyar, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. u, 118) to Euryct- tarus Hamps. ; the anal vein of primaries forks at half its length from base, the upper branch arching in a regular curve, not angled at its point of widest separation as in confederate.; vein 8 of primaries not stemmed with 9 before reaching cell, or in some examples very shortly stemmed (in confederata the stem is as long as the remaining length of 8 from stem to margin of wing) ; on secondaries the oblique vein from 8 divides the vein at about half its length from base; in confed- erate this oblique vein is about one third distant from the base ; other differences, due to the widely different wing-shape, will appear by com- parison. 193 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'n Larval Case: Length 21-27 mm., and of almost uniform diameter; thatched outside with short flat pieces of dried grass, closely applied, and overlapped or shingled longitudinally. Described from four males bred (May, 1910) from larvae and numerous cases collected at Biloxi, Mississippi. Types are deposited in the U. S. National Museum and in my own col- lection. The female is wingless and grub-like as in the related spe- cies; a single female was bred but was not secured in condi- tion for detailed description. Like confederata, this insect passes the winter as a larva, apparently always in the last lar- val stage, and feeds for a short time in early spring, suspend- ing its case to some tree, fence, or twig for final transforma- tion. Though apparently by choice a grass-feeder in swampy places, the spring-time food is often the petals of flowers, and several larvae were found devouring the tender yellow petals of pitcher plants (Sarracenia sledgei}. Though of less ex- panse, this is a much more robust insect than the well-known E. confederata G. & R. and its larval case is proportionately larger. I take pleasure in dedicating this interesting species to Prof. S. M. Tracy, whose hospitality and knowledge of the district and its flora added greatly to the pleasure and profit of my stay at Biloxi. Cases of Phoresie. BY NATHAN BANKS, East Falls Church, Va. The cases where insects are transported by other insects are comparatively few. Among the mites, there are long series of forms in which it is the rule that the mite is in some of its stages transported by insects. The well-known case of the triungulins of Meloidae, being carried by bees, is found in all text-books. But there is a considerable number of records of other insects being transported by larger insects. Some years ago Mrs. Slosson sent me some Chrysopids from Mt. Washington that had, clinging to their wings, some small flies. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 195 Since then I have been interested in listing articles on this sub- ject, and the titles, with comment, are herewith presented, rec- ognizing, of course, that the list is not complete. Meigen, J. W. — Systematische Beschreibung der europaischen zwei- flugelischen Insekten VII, p. 409, 1838. Describes 'Limosina sacra, a Borborid fly found on the under surface of the sacred Scarabaeus (Ateuchus saccr). Xambeu, P. — Bull. Soc. Ent, France, 1877, p. Ixix. Records finding a specimen of a Chalcidid. Podagrion pachyincnts Dalm., attached to the under wings of a Mantis rcligiosa L. ; it waits till the female makes an egg- mass, and then deposits its eggs therein. Moult on, J. T. — Flies riding on a tumble-bug. Amer. Entom., vol. Ill, p. 226, 1880. Xoticed in Missouri, a small fly (possibly Limosina, from the brief description), riding on a tumble bug. Sharp, D. — Proc. Ent. Soc., London, 1890, p. xxx. Exhibited a specimen of one of the bird flies, Ornithomyia avicularia, to which were attached by their mandibles several specimens of Mallophaga. Eaton, A. E. — Flies riding on beetle back. — Ent. Mo. Mag., 1896, p. 139. Borborid fly on back of a coprophagous beetle in England. Walker, J. J. — Flies riding on beetle back. — Ent. Mo. Mag., 1896, p. 161. Notes Ateuchus variola sus at Gibraltar with Borborid flies upon them. Lesne, P. — Moeurs du Limosina sacra. Phenomenes de transport mutuel chez les animaux articules; origine du parasitisme chez les insectes Dipteres. — Bull. Soc. Ent., France, 1896, p. 162-165. Gives account of Limosina sacra on specimens of Ateuchus laticollis; also notes that larvae of Anther ophagus (Crypto- phagid beetles), ride on bees like triungulins of Meloids. Lesne proposes the term "phorcsie" for this transportation of one insect by another. 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Chobaut, A. — Observations sur un Diptere vivant sur les Ateuchus.— Bull. Soc. Ent, France, 1896, p. 166. Confirms the observations of Lesne. Bloesch, Ch. — Physapodes se sont transporter par les guepes. — Feuille Jeun. Natur. (3) vol. XXV, p. 75-?6, (1896). Slosson, Mrs. A. T. — Singular habit of a Cecidomyid — Ent. News, 1896. p. 238. A Cecidomyiid attached to Chrysopa; suggested that the cecidomyiid is predaceous on plant lice, that are also preyed upon by the Chrysopa larvae. Cummings, H. A. — Parasites of the house-fly. Science Gossip, 1899. — (Amer. Mo. Micr. Journ., Oct., 1899, P- 3i8.) Notes that in Bermuda a small red ant is carried by the fly. Kertesz, K. — Dipterologisches aus New Guinea. Termes. Fiizetek. XX, p. 611-613, 1897. Small flies riding on a large one. Biro, L. — Commensalismus bei Fliegen.. — Termes. Fiizetek. XXII, p. 200, 1899. (Also Rovartani Lapok, 1897, p. 129). Two Agromysa minutissima carried by an Ommatius minor, in New Guinea. Mik, J. — Merkwiirdige Beziehung zwischen Desmometopa m.- atrum Meig. aus Europa und Agromyza minutissima V. d. Wulp. aus New Guinea. — Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 146-151. Found 13 specimens of a small fly (Desmometopa (Agro- mysa) m-atrum) attached to a dead worker bee, that was still fresh. Reviews papers by Biro and Kertesz. Warner, W. V. — Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V. p. 308-309, 1903. Exhibited specimen of S cello (Scrphidae} clinging by jaw« to the side of a grasshopper, Dichromorpha viridis. The genus Scelio is parasitic on the eggs of grasshgppers. Schulz, W. A. — Dipteren als Ektoparasiten an stidamerikanischer Tag- faltern. — Zool. Anzeiger, XXVIII, p. 42-43, 1904. Notes Phoridre attached to butterflies of genera Morplw and Helicopsis in Brazil. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 197 Fletcher, T. B.— Ent. Mo. Mag., 1909, p. 168. He exhibited at meeting of Ent. Soc. Lond. 2 June, 1909, an example of Scarabaeits gangeticus taken on wing, carrying small Borborid flies. The habit of certain Borborid flies in attaching to copro- phagous beetles is evidently world wide, and undoubtedly aids them in locating suitable breeding places. The habit of cer- tain Hymenopterous egg-parasites of clinging to parents of the eggs is quite possibly confined to certain groups. The other cases are difficult of classification, and some may be accidental. Three new species of Cynipidae (Hym.). BY WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Dryocosmus favus sp. nov. Female. — Head black, finely rugoso-punctate, mouth parts dull rufous. Antennae 14-jointed, first joint quite stout, second much shorter, third long, slender at base and broad at end, fourth about one-half as long as the third, fifth shorter than the fourth, sixth to last short and almost uniform in size, deep brown, terminal joints al- most black. Thorax jet black, smooth and shining, very minutely punctate anteriorly and laterally, which parts are slightly hairy. Parapsidal grooves sharply defined, with a few short hairs along the outer edges. Median groove wanting. Anterior parallel lines very short and scarcely evident. Lateral grooves wanting. Pleurae very finely rugose, with a rather large polished area. Scutellum finely rugose, with a lateral ridge which extends around the apex, foveae at base not distinct. Abdomen black, smooth and shining with a few short hairs at the base dorsally. Legs pitchy brown pubescent, coxae black. Wings hyaline, veins pitchy brown. Radial area partly open. Areolet distinct. Cubitus extending to the first cross-vein. Length, 3 to 3.50 mm. Gall. — In clusters from about fifty to one hundred on the trunks of young red and scarlet oaks (Quercus rubra and coccinea), immediately above the ground, in autumn. Hard and woody (when dry) probably soft when fresh, monothalamous. Oblong, narrower at base than at apex, which is flat. In form they are somewhat like square tubes or five or six-cornered tubes, giving them the appearance of cells of a honeycomb. Hollow inside and rather thin-walled. The fly emerges 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll from the apex of the gall. Length, 5 mm.; width of apex, 3 mm.; diameter of cluster, 28 mm. Habitat: Phillips Bluff, La.; Fleetwood, Pa. The fly was described from many specimens loaned to me by Prof. A. D. Hopkins. The species belongs to the European genus Dryocosmns Giraud not heretofore recorded from North America. The fly emerges very early in spring and the gall reaches maturity late in fall. Amphibolips nigra sp. nov. Female. — Head rugose more so on the cheeks and vertex. Ocelli large and smooth. Antennae rather short and stout, i6-jointed. Thorax black, coarsely rugose with the parapsidal grooves lost in the rough surface. Anterior parallel lines and lateral grooves present, pubescent. Pleurae rugose but less so than the thorax on top. Scutellum black, coarsely rugose with two large somewhat shining foveae at the base separated by a fine ridge. Abdomen black, slightly shining, minutely punctate and covered with very short, whitish hairs. Legs black, punctate and hairy, tarsi brown. Wings dusky hyaline with a darker streak beyond the radial area, veins brown and thick, second cross- vein in a brown cloud. Areolet large, cubitus extending to the first cross-vein. Radial area open. Length, 5 mm. Habitat: Durango, Mexico. February 1-7, 1897 (Dr. Edward Palmer). Type: United States National Museum. Andricus durangensis sp. nov. Female. — Head very deep reddish brown, cheek and vertex granu- lated, face more coarsely sculptured. Antennae 14-jointed, slender. Thorax coarsely granulated, very deep reddish brown, almost black. Parapsidal grooves, anterior parallel lines, median and lateral grooves present distinct, but not sharply defined owing to the rough surface of the thorax. In one example the median and parapsidal grooves are scarce!}' evident. Pleura rugose. Scutellum coarsely rugose with the foveae at base not distinct. Abdomen smooth, shining red. Legs dark reddish brown. Wings glassy hyaline, veins brown, first radial vein not reaching the costa. Areolet present. Cubitus not touching the first cross-vein. Second transverse vein curved. Length, 4 mm. Habitat: Durango, Mexico. April 3 — May 6. (Dr. Edward Palmer.) Type : United States National Museum. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 199 The American species of Diatraea Guilding (Lepid., Pyralidae). BY HARRISON G. DYAR, U. S. Nat. Mus., Washing-ton, D. C. I have referred (Proc. ent. soc. Wash., xi, 29, 1909) to the fact that Sir G. F. Hampson, in his revision of the Crambinac (Proc. Zool. soc. Lond., 1895) describes the genus Diatraea in his synoptic table as having a frontal prominence, whereas the type species, saccharalis Fabr., is really without this struc- ture. It is true that in the text the frontal prominence is not mentioned, the statement being "frons with a tuft of hairs." I was formerly inclined to regard this as an error in the diagno- sis, subject to correction, but the examination of further mater- ial has convinced me that the frontal prominence is a variable character, of less than specific value. The generic table will need correction, but the genus Diatraea may include species with or without the frontal prominence. In the same paper Hampson recognized but three American •species of Diatraea. This number will have to be considerably amplified. I arrange the species at present in the following manner : § i. Saccharalis group. Diatraea saccharalis Fabricius. This species is divisible into a number of well-marked geo- graphical forms. Two of them occur in the United States. The typical saccharalis reaches us by the way of the West Indies and occurs in Florida. The race crambidoides Grote comes from Mexico and occurs in the Gulf States. The fol- lowing subspecies are before me : Diatraea saccharalis saccharalis Fabricius. Phalaena saccharalis Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Ill, 2, 238, 1794. Crambus leucaniellns Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., XXVII, 161, 1863. This form is small, the wings rather narrow, but squarely tipped and not especially pointed. The front is smooth and flat, scarcely at all projecting before the eyes and without any trace of the frontal cone or tubercle. Specimens are before me from French Guiana (W. Schaus), Cuba (W. Schaus, 2OO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll E. A. Schwarz), Trinidad (F. W. Urich) and a single female from Peru. Also a female from southern Florida (H. G. Dyar). Walker's Crambus leucanicllus was described from Santo Domingo and so must belong to this form; but I have not seen any males from Santo Domingo. The two females before me (A: Busck) agree with Cuban females. Diatraea saccharalis grenadensis, new variety. A single male is before me. The front is distinctly protub- erant, but smooth, without any cone; the hind wings are white, the fore wings pale straw color and pointed at apex. The specimen looks like a little female. Grenada, British West Indies (Schaus collection). Type, No. 13610 U. S. National Museum. Diatraea saccharalis obliteratellus Zeller. In this the front is strongly roundedly protuberant and there is a minute cone towards the upper part of the front. It was described from Brazil. I have females only from Castro, Parana, Rio Janeiro and Nova Friburgo (Schaus col- lection), besides one from Sapucay, Paraguay (W. T. Foster). Diatraea saccharalis tabernella, new variety. The front is rather flat, but is drawn out above into a distinct point- ed cone, somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally. The hind wings are white in the male as well as in the female. The fore wings are straw- color, the two lines of dots present in both sexes, but rather weak in the females or partly obsolete. The wings are rather narrow, squarely shaped, the apex pointed. Canal Zone, Panama and Nicaragua. Types, male and female, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (A. Busck). Type, No. 13611, U. S. National Museum. This form may possibly be a distinct species. Diatraea saccharalis crambidoides Grote. Chilo crambidoides Grote, Can Ent, XII, 15, 1880. ? Crambus lineosellus Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., XXVII, 162, 1863. In this form the front is roundedly prominent, slightly projecting above beyond the eyes, but without cone or tubercle. The male has the hind wings dusky, those of the female are white. The wings are Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2OT narrow, outer margin oblique, apex pointed. The male is brownish ochre in color, the female straw yellow; the two rows of brown dots are distinct in both sexes. Range: Mexico, numerous localities. Gulf States and lower Mississippi Valley. Grote's crambidoides was described from Kansas, so there can hardly be any doubt of the application of the name. Walker's lineoselhis was described from Honduras, whence I have no material. If the names shall be found to refer to the same form, Walker's name would have priority. Diatraea pedidocta, new species. Similar to D. saccharalis crambidoides. The females are even nar- rower-winged, brownish ochre instead of straw yellow, while the outer row of dots runs closer to the margin and anal angle and is darker in color. The fore wings resemble those of male crambi- doides rather than those of the female. The hind wings are white. Two females, Cordoba, Mexico, January 27, February 27, 1908 (F. Knab). Type, No. 13612, U. S. National Museum. This is perhaps only a dark variety of the female of crambi- doides Grt. Diatraea instructella, new species. A large species resembling crambidoides, much larger, the mark- ings coarser, the lines of dots distinct, diffused, almost continuous, the inner line drawn in at its termination almost to the base of the wing. Discal dot distinct, black; terminal dots minute. Hind wing w^hite. The front is smooth, rounded, gently convex. One female, Popocatepetl Park, Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). Type, No. 13613, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea magnifactella, new species. Another large species of the crambidoides type. Male brownish ochreous, the hind wing dusky, almost blackish ; lines of dots on the fore wings distinct, approximated. The wings are rather broad, square at the apices. Female pale straw yellow, the markings much less distinct than in the male. Hind wings soiled yellowish, slightly shaded with fuscous toward anal region. The front is prominent and has a small central cone, the tip of which projects through the vesti- ture. 2O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Male and female, Orizaba, Mexico, April, 1908 (R. Miiller) ; Male and two females Cuernavaca, Mexico, June and August, 1906 (W. Schaus) ; one female, Jalapa, two females, Oaxaca, Mexico< (Schaus collection). Type, No. 13614, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea minimifacta, new species. A small square-winged species. The wing is darkly shaded through the middle, obscuring the lines, which are sub-continuous and not re- solved into dots ; veins brown-lined beyond this shade, terminal black dots between the veins with white points before them relieved on the brown ground. Hind wing white. Expanse, 18 mm. The front is smooth and nearly flat. Two females, Trinidad, British West Indies (Schaus col- lection, A. Busck). Type, No. 13615, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea continens, new species. Fore wing straw yellow, the veins lined in brown, with faint lines between; two brown oblique parallel lines joining a brown cloud at apex ; terminal dots small black, discal dot brown. Hind wing white, nearly pure. Front smooth and nearly flat. One female, Castro, Parana, Brazil (Schaus collection). Type, No. 13616, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea pedibarbata, new species. Front smooth, rounded, slightly prominent; hind tarsi short, the tibiae with a large tuft of hairs. Dark brown, the lines as usual but not relieved, obscure against the dark ground. Body parts also dark, but hind wing whitish, with only a slight straw-color tinge. Expanse, 23 mm. One male, St. Laurent, Maroni River, French Guiana (W. . Schaus). Type, No. 13617, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea canella Hampson. Diatraea canella Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XVI, 349, 1895. This species has a strong frontal prominence in the form of a plate with a point in the center. The general color is reddish gray without any of the straw yellow tint. The dots on the fore wing are larger and less strigose than usual in the saccharalis group ; they are nearly obso- lete in the female, which is of a nearly uniform reddish gray. Vol. XXli | ENTOMOLOGICAL \K\VS 2C>3 Specimens are before me from Grenada, Trinidad and the Guianas. Hampson gives also Brazil, but Brazilian specimens before me are separable specifically. The species feeds on sugar cane in the larval state, as proved by a bred specimen from Mr. F. W. Urich. ngth of the second The latter nearly globular, small, only a third the : funicle ; funicle 3 funicle joint which is the longest joint of tilling distad ; 5 and u slightly shorter, 4 still somewhat shorter but wide ovate, as long as the subequal, slightly longer than the preceding. Club -ger than the scape. combined lengths of funicle joints 5 and 6, loffh optic, Bausch and (From i specimen, two-thirds inch objective, i-inc Lomb). tip. Male: — The same but the abdomen is blunt at tlagellum, gradually Antennae 13-jointed, filiform; joints of the rter than funicle 2; lengthening distad but funicle I is a third sho'y longer; 10 to 11 funicle 2 to 5 subequal; 6 to 9 subequal, slighlhe first funicle joint. equal, very slightly longer; pedicel shorter than t>- (From 2 specimens, the same objective and optic, specimens a pair Described from two male and one femalttte mounted on a first received from Professor C. P. Gilldple twigs. Proba- single slide labelled "Parasites found on ap" The third speci- bly from eggs of Aphis pomi, 1904, S. A. J.. Felt, of the New men, a male, was received from Dr. E. PrJst of Xew York, York State Museum and State Entomolo^Schodack, 24, Apr., also mounted on a slide labelled, "a 1456, E. '07." v York (E. Scho- Habitat: United States — Colorado, Nev dack). ;tate Laboratory of Types: Accession No. 40.809, Illinois Sde and one female Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, one mv — Cotype No. T v mounted on a single slide in balsam. Cofy^hington, D. C., one 650, United States National Museum, Wa< male on a slide in balsam (New York). common species of This species is distinguished from the unusually long cilia- the genus as I find them in Illinois by its hcate appearance of tion of the wings and the finer, more del this ciliation. , me in a letter that Postscript: Dr. E. P. Felt has stated t<, previously writtm the male specimen received from him, a^nra scrntldttt ( ). S.. above, was reared from the galls of Dasyn^rk, March 20, 11)07, taken on alder at East Schodack, New Ycfollowing. the parasites emerging the 24th of April 1 Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 211 New Records of Bees : Sphecodes and Prosopis (Hym.). BY JOHN H. LOVELL, Waldoboro, Maine. Sphecodes persimilis Lov. & Ckll. 9 . — Hampton, N. H., Sept. 12, 1909, S. A. Shaw. The specimen is a little smaller than the type, but otherwise is characteristic. The type is an unusually large bee for this genus, as it is nearly ten millimeters in length. Sphecodes ranunculi Robt. 9 . — Hampton, N. H., June 25, 1908, S. A. Shaw; also both sexes from Elkhart, Ind., R. J. Weith. When a bee is mono- tropic or oligotropic, the use of the generic name of the flower, which it visits, as a specific name for the insect is, at least, descriptive and may offset the objection to a noun in the geni- tive ; but when the bee is polytropic such names are misnomers and should be avoided. Sphecodes confertus Say. 9 . — Hampton, N. H., May 10 and 30, S. A. Shaw. Speci- mens of both sexes have been collected by R. J. Weith at Elk- hart, Ind. Say states that this species was collected in Indiana. While his description is very brief and indefinite, he mentions twice that the punctures are "dense" and twice that they are "close set," a degree of punctation which applies to the mesothoracic disc of 5\ falcifer Patton much better than to that of S. arren- sis of the same author. In the latter species the punctures are rather small and far apart, and the whole disc is smoother and more shining. S. confertus appears to be identical, therefore, with S. falcifer. The Indiana specimen before me, referred to S. confertus Say, has the disc of the mesothorax very densely and closely punctured so that it is nearly opaque. The female of S. falcifer Patton, according to the description, has the mandibles "unarmed" and the "labrum deeply emarginate." The Indiana specimen has simple mandibles" and the long 212 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll labrum is notched at the apex. There seems to be no other spe- cies with which confertus can be identified, and I would, there- fore, regard S. falcifer Patton as a synonym of S. confertus Say. Sphecodes shawi sp. nov. 9 . — Length 6 mm. Head and thorax black ; abdomen red, the apical segments tinged with black. Face finely and densely punctured, clothed with pale buff-colored pubescence ; clypeus with large dense punctures ; mandibles simple, red, the apices darker. Antennae black, the flagella largely red. The disc of the mesothorax finely and rather sparsely punctured, shining. Wings dusky hyaline, nervures and stigma dull ferruginous ; tegulae partially red ; the second submarginal cell is ex- tremely narrow, the distance between the ist and 2nd tranverse cubital nervures not much exceeding the width of the basal nervure. Legs black, clothed with buff-colored, plumose hairs, the apical tarsi red, exteriorly on the center of each hind tibia there is a long red spot. The enclosure on the disc of the metathorax is not well defined, coarsely reticulated. The abdomen is impunctate except for minute hair punctures. One specimen from Hampton, N. H., June 8, 1909, S. A. Shaw. In a part of its characters this species resembles S. pimpinellae which has the second sub-marginal cell very short, but the latter has the mandibles bidentate, the tegulae, tibiae and tarsi red, and is 7 mm. long. The species is dedi- cated to Mr. S. A. Shaw, a most diligent collector of the in- sects of New Hampshire, and whose specimens are more care- fully mounted than any others I have ever had the privilege of examining. Sphecodes heterus sp. nov. 9. — Length =; mm. Head and thorax black: abdomen red, 4th and 5th segments black. Face densely and finely punctured, clothed with erravish-white pubescence: mandibles red with darker apices, bidentate ; labrum long with an apical median groove; clvpeus with a few sparse punctures. Antennae black, flagella brownish in front. Mesothornx shining, with rather small, sparse punctures. Wings hvaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma dark brown ; tegulae testaceous. Legs black. tarsi largely dark. Enclosure on disc of metathorax large and well defined, finely reticulated, rugae small. First abdominal segment nearly impunctate, 2nd and 3rd finely punctured at extreme base. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 213 Hampton, N. H., Sept. 9, 1909, S. A. Shaw. This species is allied to S. Icvis, but differs in the hyaline wings and the sculpturing of the metathorax ; in S. levis the ridges are paral- lel. Sphecodes paraplesius sp. nov. $. — length 3*/2 mm. Head and thorax black; abdomen red, apical segments black. Face closely and very finely punctured ; mandibles yellowish-red, apices darker; clypeus shining with a few sparse punc- tures. Antennae black, flagella reddish. Mesothorax smooth and shining, with fine, sparse punctures. Wings hyaline, the margins cloud- ed with dusky, nervures and stigma dark brown ; tegulae reddish testaceous. Enclosure on metathorax distinct, finely reticulated. Ab- domen impunctate, segments 1-3 bright red, the apical margins with yellowish reflection ; apical segments black. Kingston, R. I., June 10, received from Professor John Bar- low. This species and S. banksii are the two smallest species of Sphecodes known to me. The resemblance between them is so close that I should be inclined to refer them to the same species were it not for the fact that the mandibles of S. banksii are simple and those of S. paraplesius are distinctly bidentate, which according to some taxonomists would place them in different genera. In an attempt to segregate the genus Sphe- codes into a number of minor genera, the dentition of the man- dibles has been employed as a generic character ; but it does not appear well adapted for this purpose since it would separ- ate species apparently very closely allied. Sphecodes arvensis Patton. 9 . — Elkhart, Ind., R. J. Weith. This species is closely al- lied to S. dichrous Sm. Sphecodes illinoensis Robt. $ . — Elkhart, Ind., R. J. Weith. A Small species with simple mandibles; enclosure on metathorax with parallel ridges. Prosopis telepora sp. nov. $ .—Length 4 mm. Face marks pale yellow, elliptical ; the upward extensions tapering to a narrow streak along the eye margin ; tubercles nearly white, collar and tegulae upspotted ; tibiae in front more or less 214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll yellow, tarsi dark. Face closely and finely punctured ; clypeus im- punctate except for a few minute hair punctures, marked with very fine longitudinal striae. Antennae black, flagella chestnut brown be- hind. Disc of mesothorax finely and very closely punctured. Wings nearly hyaline, nervures and stigma chestnut brown ; tegulae black. Enclosure on metathorax well defined, with about six, short parallel rugae, the apical half without ridges but marked with minute, irregular, transverse striae. Abdomen broadly oblong, finely punctured all over, the lateral apical margins of segments 1-3 with thin fasciae. $ . — Length 4 mm. Clypeus, supraclypeus and sides of face lemon yellow ; the lateral face marks are obliquely truncated opposite the sockets of the antennae, and from the center of each there extends perpendicularly upward a narrow stripe, sometimes slightly enlarged at the end ; the supraclypeal mark is longer than wide and terminates in an unnotched point between the antennae. Collar and tegulae un- spotted ; the tubercles are largely pale yellow ; the tibiae at base ex- teriorly and the tarsi are yellow. One female, May 31, and two males, April 9 and May 29, North Carolina, Southern Pines, A. H. Manee. A stout, little bee, not closely allied to any other species. Prosopis melitina sp. nov. $ . — Length j1/! mm. A large robust bee only surpassed in size among New England species by P. basalis. Black ; the lateral face marks irregularly triangular, the upward extensions narrow, obliquely truncated opposite the eye sockets, lemon yellow. Collar and tegulae black; yellow spots on tubercles; anterior and intermediate legs black, but base of posterior tibiae pale yellow ; tarsi dark brown. Face and mesothorax closely and rather coarsely punctured, nearly opaque. Antennae wholly black. Clypeus with large, indistinct, shallow punc- tures. Wings nearly hyaline, their margins slightly clouded with fuscous, nervures and stigma dark brown. Enclosure of metathorax well defined, coarsely reticulated. Abdomen oblong, stout, nearly smooth, with white apical fasciae on the extreme lateral margins of the first segment ; segment i with microscopic hair punctures, punctures on segments 2 and 3 coarser but very fine. Hampton, N. H., July 4, 1907, S. A. Shaw. Prosopis ziziae Robt. Female, August 20, male, July 19 and Sept. 5, Hampton, N. H., S. A. Shaw. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 215 Prosopis pygmaea Cr. Male, June 8 and July 19, Hampton, N. H., S. A. Shaw. Prosopis variifrons Cr. Female, July 19; male, June 6, Hampton, N. H., S. A. Shaw. Prosopis modesta Say. The female was taken June 25, the males, July 19 and Sept. 6, at Hampton, N. H., by S. A. Shaw. One of the males has the first abdominal segment faintly and sparsely punctured all over; but in two other specimens the disc of the first segment is impunctate. The characters of this species are very well shown in a male and female from Washington County, Wis- consin, received from Dr. Graenicher. The Occurrence of the Mymarid Genus Anaphoidea Girault in England (Hymen.). BY A. A. GIRAULT, Urbana, Illinois. In a collection of beautifully prepared slide mounts of Brit- ish Mymaridae, loaned to me for study by Dr. L. O. Howard, I found a pair of specimens labelled Eustochus atrip ennis which, upon more recent examination, were found to represent a species of the genus Anaphoidea and hence wrongly identi- fied and labelled. The fact that these specimens were not Eustochus had been brought to my attention separately by both Dr. Howard and Mr. Fred. Knock, of London, more than two years ago, but their letters had been mislaid and were not found until I had reached the same conclusion independently. The specimens represent a new species which is described here- with. Anaphoidea diana sp. n. Female. — Length, 0.65 mm. Moderately small ; normal. Similar to the other three species of the genus but at once distin- guished from the type species in being smaller, the funicle joints of the antennae shorter, the second funicle joint of the antenna distinctly 2l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, *IT shorter than the third, not more than twice the length of the first, in having slightly narrower fore wings and in being brown* instead of black. From conotracheli it differs first in being brown in color, sec- ondly and of more importance, in having a shorter second funicle joint, not slightly but distinctly shorter than the third, also narrower and in having from 8-14 cilia in the midlongitudinal line of the posterior wings nearly as in sordidata. From the species pullicrura it differs also in being brown in color but more noticeably, as in conotracheli, in having the proportionally shorter second funicle joint, the longer midlongitudinal line of discal cilia in the posterior wings ; also slight- broader fore wings (from 10-13 longitudinal lines of discal cilia across the widest blade portion). The male is similar to the female excepting the secondary characters of sex. The following details are all considered necessary to add here : Color uniformly brown, the abdomen darker, the antennae and tibiae somewhat lighter, the trochanters, knees, tips of tibiae and proximal three tarsal joints pallid yellowish; distal joint of club longer than the other. Male. — The same. Antennae 12-jointed, normal; funicle joints shorter than in sordidata, nearly as in conotracheli. Described from one male and one female mounted in bal- sam on separate slides, each slide labelled, "Fred. Knock, Pre- parer. Order Hymenoptera, Family Mymaridae, Genus Eus- tochus, Species atripennis. $ (or $~). A Fairy Fly. Spot lens 2-inch to */2-inch." Habitat. — England (London or vicinity ?). Types. — Type No. 13,663, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. One male, one female in balsam, two slides. At the Massachusetts Agricultural College Dr. Guy Chester Cramp- ton has been appointed associate professor of entomology. Dr. Cramp- ton is a native of Alabama. He graduated from Princeton in 1904, took two years of graduate work at Cornell University, receiving his M.A. there in 1905, followed by two years at the universities of Frei- burg, Munich and Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. in 1908. He was an instructor in biology at Princeton from 1908 to 1910 and since the summer of 1910 has been professor of zoology at Clemson College.— Science. * It must be taken into consideration that the specimens have been in balsam for many years and may have faded from black to brownish Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 217 A new Coccid on Ledum (Hemip.)- BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. I have just received from Dr. E. P. Felt a small Dactylopiine Coccid collected on small twigs of Ledum groenlandicum (fam. Ericaceae) at Sand Lake, N. Y., July 14, 1910. To my aston- ishment, it proves to belong to that section of Pseudococcus represented by the widely-spread tropical P. filamentosus (Ckll.) and P. hymcnoclcae (Ckll.) of the Arizona desert country. Lcdum groenlandicum, according to Britton, occurs from Greenland to British Columbia, Massachusetts, New Jer- sey and Wisconsin. Pseudococcus ledi is very much like P. filamentosus, but differs in various details ; the most noticeable peculiarity is the hump near the base of the tibia on the outer side. The legs and antennae are very short and stout. The microscopic measurements are in microns. Pseudococcus ledi n. sp. $ . — Length about 2 mm., broad oval, densely covered with mealy secretion, which is strongly tinged with pale yellow ; on boiling in caustic potash the insect appears dark blue-green, but the skin is colorless and transparent ; antennae and legs very pale brown ; an- tennae short and stout, first joint very large, last joint with both hairs and curved spines, as in the genus Rhisoecus (cf. Newstead, British Coccidse, vol. 2, pi. LXIX. f. 8) ; antennas 7-jointed, the joints measur- ing (i.) about 50 long, (2.) about 28 long and 30 wide, (3.) 25 long, (4.) 25 long, (5.) 20 long, (6.) 25 long, (7.) 63 long and 23 wide; ter- minal hairs of seventh joint about 28 long; so-called mentum dimerous, not elongated, about 120 long and 85 wide at base, its bristles very small; anal ring with six stout bristles, about 158 long; caudal lobes low, with bristles little longer than those of anal ring, and the usual round glands and short spine-like structures ; legs very short and stout, claw stout, with a rudimentary denticle or protuberance near the base, not always evident ; claw digitules well knobbed ; femur with trochanter about 163; tibia about 75, humped near base; tarsus (ex- cluding claw) about 53; width of femur 53. MR. ROLAND TRIMEN, F. R. S., well-known for his work on South African Lepidoptera was recently the recipient of the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society of London. 2l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Additions and Corrections to " The Genotypes of the Sawflies and Woodwasps, or the Super- family Tenthredinoidea '' (Hymen.). BY S. A. ROHWER, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. In the paper above quoted, published as Part 2, Technical Series No. 20, Bureau of Entomology, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, March 4, 1911, certain corrections and additions are necessary. A careful study of Panzer's "Faunae Insectorum Germanicse initia, oder Deutschlands Insecten gesammelt und herausgege- ben," discloses the fact that some of the genera were described earlier than they had heretofore been supposed to have been. The results of this study make certain changes necessary. Cer- tain generic names heretofore overlooked are also added. To make the work complete, with the corrections, the species should be added to the list of genotypes. P. 73. Replace Allantus as it is with : Allantus Panzer, Fauna. Insect. German. VII p. 82, T. 12, 1801. Type: Tenthredo (Allantus) togata Panzer, Monobasic. P. 74. Accredit Astatus to Panzer not Jurine. P. 76. Insert following Celidoptera : Cepha Billberg, Enumeratio Insectorum p. 98, 1820. Type: Sirex tibida Fabricius (Monobasic). =Trachelus Jurine (isogenotypic). P. 76. Replace Cephaleia as it is with : Cephalcia Panzer, Fauna. Insect. German. VIII p. 86, T. 9, 1805. Type : Cephalcia arvensis Panzer. = Tenthredo signata Fabricius. Insert following Cephalcia : Cephaleia Jurine, Nouv. Method. Class. Hym. p. 68, 1807. Type : Cephalcia arvensis Panzer. = Tenthredo signata Fabricius. = Cephalcia Panzer, Isogenotypic. P. 77. Insert following Corynophilus : Cristiger Gistel, Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs p. 144, 1848. Type: Diprion pini (Linnaeus), Monobasic. = Diprion Schrank. Isogenotypic. Vol. XXli] F.XTOMOLOGICAL XEXVS 2IQ P. 77. Strike out " = Nematus Jurine" following Croesus Leach. Croesus, Leach is a good genus. Replace Cryptus as it'is with: Cryptus Panzer, Fauna. Insect. German. VIII p. 88, T. 17, 1805. (non Fabricius 1804.) Type: Cryptus segmcntarius Panzer, Monobasic. =Arge Schrank. P. 78. Replace Dolerus as it is with : Dolerus Panzer, Fauna. Insect. German. VII p. 82, T. 11, 1801. Type : Tenthrcdo (Dolerus) pedestris Panzer. = Tenthredo pratensis Linnaeus. P. 79. Following Einphytus insert : =Allantus Panzer. Insert following Erythraspides : Eudryas Gistel, Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs, p. viii, 1848. n. n. for Cladius Rossi (not Cladium Schrader in plants). = Cladius Rossi. P. 80. After Holcocneme Konow insert : = Nematus Panzer. P. 84. Replace Neinatus as it is with : Nematus Panzer, Fauna. Insect. German. VII p. 82, T. 10, 1801. Type : Tenthredo (Nematus) lucida Panzer, Monobasic. P. 87. Following Poecilosoma add : not Hubner 1816; not Stephens 1829, etc. P. 87. Insert following Polystichophagus : Polytaxonus MacGillivray, Can. Ent. vol. 40, p. 368. 1908. Type: Taxonus robustus Provancher (designated). P. 88. Insert following Probleta : Prosecris Gistel, Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs p. X, 1848. n. n. for Poecilostoma Dahlbom. =Empria Lepelletier. Replace Pier onus as it is with : Pteronus Panzer, Fauna. Insect. German. VIII p. 87, T. 17, 1805. Type: Tenthredo pini Linnaeus, Monobasic. = Diprion Schrank, Isogenotypic. P. 89. Insert following Spaecophilus : Sterictiphora Billberg, Enumeratio Insectorum p. 99, 1820. Type: Hylotoina furcata Fabricius (designated, monobasic). = (Schizocera Lepelletier 1828, isogenotypic). P. 99. The remarks about Croesus Leach being a synonym of Nema- tus are incorrect. Nematus must date from Panzer 1801, where it is monobasic and will replace Holcocneme Konow. The remarks under Nematinus Rohwer are not in accord with these findings, but since Nematus Panzer must replace Holcocneme Konow, Nematinus Rohwer still replaces Nematus Konow. P. 101. For Schultz read Schulz. 22O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll A New Variety of Chionobas. By HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Chionobas alberta oslari n. var. Male expands 41 mm. and the female 45 mm. Male. — Primaries : Upperside smoky brown with a wide reddish brown band crossing the wing from near the costa to the inner margin, broken into quadrate spots by the nervures. On the first and third of these are distinct black spots or points and sometimes a faint black point on the central quadrate spot. Primaries. — Underside yellowish brown with the upper and lower black point repeated; a black line extends from the costa to the inner margin, running parallel to the end of the discoidal cell, then bends inwardly to the lower point of the cell and thence to the inner margin. The outer end of the cell is black. Secondaries. — Above smoky brown with margins edged with fuscous and a distinct black spot near anal angle. Below marbled with black and white with two black parallel stripes or lines crossing the wing from the costa to the inner margin; they commence near the middle of the costa about 5 mm. apart. The females are similar in markings to the males. This variety is larger than any alberta I have seen. In color and markings on the upper side it very much resembles C. katahdin. On the under side it is the exact counterpart of C. alberta. It probably expresses the relationship between a mountain and a plains form. Described from two males and two females taken by E. J. Oslar in Deer Creek Canyon, Colo- rado, September 25, 1909. Types in collection of the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. COUAS BEHRI. — From observations which I made, I am inclined to believe that the natural haunts of these Alpine insects is in the high Southern Sierras and that * * * Mt. Lyell (Middle Sierras) is prac- tically their northern range. They are not uncommon at altitudes above 10,500 feet in the Southern Sierras (you can almost say that you have reached this altitude by the abruptness with which they com- mence there) and may be seen on pleasant days— the usual thing there— in early July, flitting from place to place along the meadow-like margins of the Alpine streams and lakes (no true meadows are there —it has too recently recovered itself from the ice cap). I neglected to trace a female to find the food plant, but believe that it must be a spe- cies of alpine lupine, as that was the only leguminous plant there and it was quite abundant. — EDWIN C VANDYKE, San Francisco, Cali- fornia. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 221 A new Gomphus (Odonata). By RICHARD A. MUTTKOWSKI, Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gomphus brimleyi sp. nov. Colors olivaceous green and brown on head and thorax, yellow and black on abdomen. $. — Face olivaceous green, a line of pale brown at the upper end of the labrum and on the suture of nasus and f rons ; otherwise immacu- late. Frontal ridge narrowly edged with yellow. Vertex black, the postocellar ridge each side with a rounded spot above the lateral ocel- lus, the two spots connected by a fine line of green. A ring of white around the base of each antenna. Occiput olive, flatly curved. Head yellow behind, a vague black stripe from the occipital edge of the eyes to the foramen, which is narrowly margined with black. Prothorax brown above, the anterior edge lined with olivaceous green ; a median geminate dorsal spot, a latero-dorsal and latero-inf er- ior spots of olive. Posterior lobe short, straight, olive, the extreme edge lined with brown. Thorax olivaceous green, marked with brown. Dorsal carina pale. a stripe of brown on each side, both coming together to a point at the antealar sinus, each stripe widening in front to twice the width at the carinal spine, but not reaching the olive collar. Antehumeral brown, narrowed above to a point, separated from the humeral by a pale stripe one half its width. Humeral as wide as the antehumeral, but widening above to twice the medial width. Sides with a stripe of brown on the first and second lateral sutures, the first as wide as the antehumeral, the second half as wide; each extending in a fine sutural line to the coxae. Interalar spaces olive, the wing bases tipped with yellow. Legs brown, the femora beneath and the tibiae externally, olivaceous. Tarsi uniformly brown, except the first and second joints of the hind tarsi, which have a superior yellow line. Abdomen black and yellow, olive at the sides on the basal segments. Dorsum with a well-defined line of yellow on i to 8, l/i mm. wide, growing brighter yellow toward the apical segments, interrupted nar- rowly at the joints. The line ends on 8 at two-thirds in an elongated triangle, which is continued to the apex of the segment in a very nar- row line. Segments 7-9 with the extreme apex edged with yellow. Sides of 1-2, and 3 basally, with lower half olivaceous yellow, 4-6 with indeterminate yellow laterally, 7-10 with inferior half bright yellow. Segment 9 black above, 10 brown. Appendages brown, black at tips. Appendages as long as 10. Superiors divaricate, externally truncate, an inner triangular prolongation one half the length of the appendage. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'ii Inferiors slightly shorter, straight, the extreme apex upturned. Viewed laterally, the superior appendage angled at one half, then emarginate to three fifths, a small tubercle at the distal end of the emargination, an obtuse angle shortly before the acute apices. 9 . — Similar to the male. Occiput very flatly trilobed, the median lobe occupying the middle two fourths. Abdomen with more yellow on the sides, 10 with a vague line of yellow above. Vulvar lamina very short, one eighth the length of 9, emarginate, the lobes somewhat rounded. Gomphus cavillaris Needham, cf $, figs, i, 3, 5, 7. brimleyi n. sp., cf ?, figs. 2, 4, 6, 8. Wings hyaline, stigma rufous, costa green. Antenodals, fore wings 9-10, hind wings 7-8. Postnodals 6-7 on all wings. Rows of cells be- yond triangle in fore wing extremely variable, some specimens having only one row to close to the level of the nodus, others having two com- plete rows, while some are intermediate. Abdomen: $ 26-27 mm., $ 24-27 mm. Hind wing: $ 20-22 mm., $ 21-22 mm. Described from four males and three females, all from White Lake, Bladen Co., North Carolina, mid-April, 1910, sent to me by Mr. C. S. Brimley. $ holotype, 9 allotype, and paratype $ and ? in collection Milwaukee Public Museum. The remaining three paratypes in collection Brimley. In a recent letter Mr. Brimley writes: "The Gomphi were all collected by Mr. Franklin Sherman, our State Entomolo- gist, in open pine woods, near the banks of White Lake in Bla- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL XEWS 223 den County. He says that they frequented the more open spots in the woods, settling on the ground. Years ago he and I collected some of the same species at Lumberton, along the banks of the Lumber River and in the adjoining mixed woods. These last acted in the same manner as G. e.rilis and sordidus; that is to say, they kept in the woods, settling on the ground in open spaces, but not flying out over the river. "I have also a spread specimen from Southern Pines, mak- ing three localities (Southern Pines, White Lake and Lumber- ton), all in southeastern North Carolina, from which we have had this species." With great pleasure I dedicate this new Gomphus to Mr. C. S. Brirnley, the collector, whose painstaking collections have furnished the basis for frequent Odonatological notes by vari- ous authors. This is the smallest Gomphus known.* It is closely related to G. cavillaris Needham, but undoubtedly distinct. Besides its smaller size, it can be readily recognized by the well defined line of yellow on a black background on the abdomen — vague and on a brown background in cavillaris. The appendages of the $ are narrower and the prolongation more attenuated than in cavillaris. The 9 vtilvars are rounded, the emargination not angled ; angulate, and the emargination angled in cavillaris, as can be readily seen from the figures. (The vulvars of G. cavillaris are somewhat overdrawn, as their true proportion to the length of the segment is I :io). THE CURCULIONIDS of the Biologia Centrali- Americana, worked out by Mr. G. C. Champion, have been presented by Dr. F. D. Godman to the British Museum of Natural History; they number 2.617 species and about IQ.OOO specimens. Mr. Champion is now working at the remainder of the Curculionids (Otiorhynchids) commenced by Dr. David Sharp, and hopes to get through them this summer. This will finish the whole of the Coleoptera of the Biologia. [*The dimensions given for Gomphus naci'ius Hagen, from Maine, by the late Professor F. L. Harvey, are smaller than those here stated for G. brimleyi. See Ent. News, IX, p. 63, 1898.— P. P. C.] 224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May. 'll Endaphis hirta n. sp. (Dipt.). BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The species described below was reared by Mr. E. E. Green in June, 1894, from a Dactylopius on Mimiisops hexandra, Tan- galla, Ceylon, and transmitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, through whose courtesy we are permitted to describe it, under date of December 3, 1895. The form is so unique that we feel justi- fied in describing it though the specimen is in poor condition. Male. — Length 1.5 mm. Antennae as long as the body, thickly haired, light fuscous yellowish, yellowish basally.; 14 segments, the first broad- ly obconic, somewhat excavated and with a slight tooth dorsally, the second short, subhemispheric, the third slightly fused with the fourth, the fifth binodose, the basal portion of the stem with a length a little greater than its diameter, the distal part with a length twice its diameter; basal enlargement a very oblate spheroid; 'the subbasal whorl very thick, the setae long, stout and almost approximate basally; the circumfili stout, the loops numerous and extending nearly to the base of the practically identical distal enlargement; terminal segment having the basal enlargement subglobose, the basal portion of the stem with a length nearly twice its diameter, the distal enlargement slightly produced, with a length about 34 its diameter and with a short, stout apical appendage. Palpi yellowish, the first segment subrectan- gular, the second narrowly oval, the third a little .longer and more slender, the fourth as long as the third, somewhat dilated. Mesonotum fuscous yellowish. Scutellum and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen fuscous yellowish. Wings thickly clothed with long, scale-like hairs. Costa yellowish brown, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal third, the third vein well before the apex. Halteres yellowish trans- parent, fuscous apically. Coxae yellowish, femora fuscous yellowish, tibiae and tarsi mostly fuscous. Claws very strongly curved, probably simple, the pulvilli not visible in the preparation. Genitalia wanting. Type in the United States National Museum. This species is easily differentiated from all other forms known to the writer by the extremely thick sub-basal whorl of long, stout setae on the enlargements of the flagellate seg- ments. These setae are so numerous as to be almost approxi- mate basally and arranged in a practically straight row. DR. SAMUEL H. SCUDDER has been elected a foreign member of the Zoological Society of London. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form and without covers, will be given free, when they are wanted; if more than twenty-five copies are desired, this should be stated on the MS. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Proof will be sent to authors for cotrection only when specially requested. — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1911. DESTROYING THE GYPSY MOTH. Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist of Connecticut, in his report for the year 1910, gives a most interesting account of his efforts to rid the State of the Gypsy Moth, discovered at Wallingford in December, 1909. It is to be hoped that he has eradicated this terrible pest in the locality mentioned. The work was thoroughly done and nothing omitted that knowledge and experience of the subject made possible. "While working in a tree, one of the men, Mr. R. W. Bol- ton, observed a Gypsy caterpillar crawling along a telephone cable which passed between the branches of the tree. This method of spreading may account for the caterpillars appear- ing in certain trees where all egg-masses had been destroyed and a tanglefoot band placed around the trunk. Telephone wires passed directly from infested trees into these described." One egg-mass was said to contain 1,485 eggs. A summary of the work may prove interesting. Egg-masses destroyed, 8234: trees banded with burlap. 10,000; trees band ed with tanglefoot, 365 ; trees pruned, 904 ; cavities filled with cement. 27; cavities covered with tin patches. 1050: caterpil- lars destroyed at burlap bands, 8936 ; cocoons destroyed, 95 ; number of trees found infested. 248 ; amount of lead arsenate used, pounds, 768; tanglefoot used, pounds. 120; burlap used, yards, 2493: number of men employed, maximum, 18; cost of the work at Wallingford, $3823.24. If these insects had been left to their own devices the next generation of moths would have produced over two hundred millions of caterpillars. — H. S. 225 226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. CICINDELA UNICOLOR Dej. — Mr. Edw. D. Harris writes from Camden, South Carolina, under date of March 19, "I am taking very fine spec- imens of this species here." A SPECIAL COMMISSION, to be despatched by the British South Africa Company to investigate sleeping sickness in Rhodesia, will include Mr. O. Silverlock as entomologist. — SCIENCE. THE article entitled "A Day with Euchloe cethura," published in the NEWS for January, ign, page 11, should be credited to Messrs. Karl R. Coolidge and Victor L. Clemence as joint authors, and not to Mr. Coolidge alone. DR. W. J. HOLLAND, director of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, author of the Butterfly Book, the Moth Book and numerous other works on Lepidoptera, has received from the Czar of Russia, the insig- nia of a knight of the order of St. Stanislas, second class, in recog- nition of his services to science. DOG AND CAT FLEAS NOT IDENTICAL. — At the meeting of the Entomo- logical Society of London, on Nov. 16, 1910, the Hon. N. C. Rothschild exhibited examples of two species of fleas, Ctenocephalus canis (dog flea) and C. felis (cat flea), and stated that, although still frequently considered to be identical, they were really quite distinct species. Under the microscope it was seen that whereas the head of the dog flea was rounded, that of the cat flea was long and flat. The two had been united by Dr. Taschenberg under the name of serraticeps, a name which most certainly could not be retained. TIMETES. — Since the publication of the note on Timetes peleus, on page in, of the NEWS for March, 1911, I have received additional information from Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson and Mr. Philip Lau- rent. Mrs. Slosson writes as follows : "Your note on Timetes inter ests me. I have recognized but one species in Florida and that you identified for me as eleucha years ago. I am sending you three spec- imens. Their habit of flight is so peculiar that they are difficult to capture. They fly very high in the tops of the highest trees, rarely coming lower and their thin, delicate, fragile tails break so easily that it is hard to secure perfect specimens." I was in error in calling the specimen eleucha that Mrs. Slosson sent me from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Mr. Laurent says he found the spec- ies very common south of Miami, Florida. The specimens he has sent me were taken on various days during the month of March. Mr. Lau- rent says that all he took were more or less damaged. All of these specimens were peleus Sulz. (petreus Cramer). — HENRY SKINNER. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 227 PLATYPSYLLA CASTORIS Rrrs. IN CALIFORNIA.— Prof. Joseph Grinnell, of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley, has been kind enough to send me a bottle with 46 specimens of this curious beetle. The bot- tle had the following label : "Taken from fur around nose and face of Beaver (Castor canadensis) from Graycom, Stanislaus Co., Calif, (on San Joaquin R.) March 25, 1911." DR. A. FENYES, of Pasadena, California, recently elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, has presented four boxes con- taining an admirable collection of North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera) to the Society which, in the absence of any collections belonging exclusively to the Society, have been transferred to the British Museum of Natural History. — ENTOMOLOGIST (London), Jan- uary, 1911. I shall be pleased to exchange specimens of this interesting species for beetles of the Staphylinid subfamily Aleocharinae, in which latter group I am especially interested. — ADALBERT FENYES, M.D., Pasadena, California. MIASTOR LARVAE. — These remarkably interesting larvae, reproduced by pedogenesis, are available for laboratory work to a marked degree and must be widely distributed as well as allied forms. Very little is known concerning American species, largely because their habitat is one rarely explored by entomologists. They breed mostly in decaying vegetable matter. We have been very successful in finding them under partially decayed chestnut bark of stumps, fence rails and sleepers which have been cut one or two years earlier. European species have been observed under the bark of a variety of trees and even in sugar beet residue. These Dipterous maggots with diverging antennae have a flattened, triangular head quite different from the strongly convex, usually fuscous head of the Sciara larvae occurring in a similar envir- onment. They have a length of from 1-20 to ]4, of an inch and may be found in colonies containing a few large, white larvae with numer- ous smaller, yellowish individuals, though the latter appear more com- mon at the present time. Early spring with its abundance of moist bark appears to be the most favorable season for finding the larvae. The writer would welcome the co-operation of entomologists and others in searching for these forms in different parts of the country. He will be pleased to determine specimens found under various con- ditions, make rearings therefrom if possible, and thus add to our knowledge of the sub-family Heteropezinae, a group which should be fairly abundant in North America and one deserving careful study.- E. P. FELT, State Entomologist's Office, Albany, N. Y. [Dr. Felt has published a more extended note on Miastor larvae in Science for Feb. 24 1911, page 302.— ED.] 228 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll A NEW HEMILEUCA. — At the November 2ist, 1910, meeting of the Man- chester (England) Entomological Society, as reported in the Entomo- logist (London) for January, 1911, Mr. J. H. Watson exhibited "a new moth belonging to an aberrant group of the Saturnidae (HemileucJ sp.) allied to H. neunwegeni (H. Edwards), the specimens bred from pupae collected in the neighborhood of the Truckee Pass, on the Cal- ifornia-Nevada divide of the Rocky Mountains." FLIES AND DISEASE. — At the December, 1910, meeting of the newly organized Helminthological Society of Washington, Dr. C. W. Stiles discussed the subject of rural sanitation with special reference to the disposal of faeces. In comparing the relative merits of the dry and wet systems of disposal, he said : "Flies feed and breed in the dry sys- tem. In one place about 80 privies were examined. Although lime was furnished free, it was only used generously in three cases, and flies were breeding in these places as in the others. The faeces are collected in wagons and buried; burial under a foot of soil being recom- mended. The carts carry and distribute flies. Experiments showed that flies developed and crawled up to the surface from fly-blown faeces buried under six and a half inches of sand ; they came through 17 inches in 24 hours ; and flies issued after burial under 48 inches of sand. Flies were obtained even after burial under six feet of sand. In the last two cases, the sand used was not sterilized but was pure sand carefully selected. These are final arguments against the dry system. The system favors the sporulation of amoebae. Flies can bring to the surface and distribute amoebae spores or typhoid bacilli. Under some circumstances privies may be more important than the manure piles as breeding places for flies." — SCIENCE, Feb. 3, 1911. EXHIBITION OF MODELS OF MEMBRACIDAE. — At the meeting of the New York Academy of Science, Section of Biology, Dec. 12, IQIO, Mr. Ignaz Matausch exhibited a series of six enlarged models in wax which he had prepared for the American Museum of Natural History, as well as a series of twenty-three colored drawings and a collection of typical specimens which had been sent him by Professor F. Silvestri, of Portici, Italy. The Membracidre, or tree-hoppers, are among the most interesting of insects. Very little is yet known concerning their life histories, a subject to which the speaker said he had devoted consider- able attention. They are remarkable for their extraordinary variation in the form of the prothorax. In order to make an enlarged model it is necessary to dismember the insect and to prepare drawings of the different parts to a selected scale. The separate parts are then copied in clay; plaster molds are then prepared and casts made in wax. These are then finished, the details put in, and the whole put together and colored. — Science. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 22Q POSSIBLE CAUSES OF LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF ODONATA. — [The follow- ing suggestion occurs in a recent letter.] I want to get more observa- tions on our old gravel pits especially. They offer a great opportunity, but my time has always been too limited to avail myself of it. I be- lieve, however, that these old pits have a richer dragonfly fauna a few years after they are abandoned, than they have in later years. The dragonflies reach the ponds first — their enemies or checks of some sort come later. This may go a long way to explain the uniformity of odonate life in old marshes — such as coastal brackish marshes — a few widely distributed species — a dead level of adaptation. — no ebb or flow of new odonate life across it. In the newly made pools (ox bow bends, bayous, pools at foot of cliffs along rivers, pools in parks, gravel pits, etc.) occur the rarer (i, e., more isolated, scattered) species to last a greater or lesser number of years and give way to a few common, wide- ly distributed species. I don't mean that the common widely distributed species necessarily drive away the others — possibly in later years fish get established in the ponds, and the first dragonfly occupants are checked or exterminated by fish, which do not prey on later arrivals.— E. B. WILLIAMSON, Bluffton, Indiana. THE LIFE HISTORY OF ATTEVA AUREA FITCH. — It was at the later part of August when I was out collecting, that my attention was called to a web which looked to me like a spider's nest, on a small ailan- thus bush. By investigating more closely, I saw a chrysalis suspended in the web. Not knowing what it was, I took it home, and several days after, a small moth emerged and proved to be Atteva aurea. As I knew the food plant now, I looked in the same neighborhood and found several similar webs containing newly hatched, as well as full grown, larvae and also chrysalids in them. The full grown larva is about i% inches long, blackish, with a distinct brown stripe all along its back, while the sides are dotted with fine white spots. When dis- turbed the larva moves quite actively in the web. Looking for eggs, 1 found some attached to the web, distributed half an inch apart from each other, and this method of laying the eggs very likely accounts for the finding of newly-hatched caterpillars, as well as full grown larvae in the same web. The larva turns into a chrysalis in the same web. Previously to finding these, I occasionally took the moths in July, sitting on the flowers of the button ball bush, iron weed, etc.. but never later. But this proves that the moths must be double brooded around Philadelphia, as all the moths hatched in September and October. As far as I could find out, there is no record as to food plant or life history of this little moth, but should any other col- tors have made any observations in this respect, I would like to hear from them.— CARL ILG, 2728 Somerset St., Philadelphia. 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'it DINNER IN HONOR of MR. D. K. MCMILLAN. — The departure from Brownsville, Texas, of Mr. D. K. McMillan, Bureau of Entomology, was the occasion of a farewell dinner given in his honor by other entomologists stationed there. Matamoros, Mexico, just across the river from Brownsville, was the scene df the entertainment, which was held on the night of March 8, 1911. The dinner was given in the French restaurant, and was followed by a theatre and "Boliche" party. Mr. McMillan was engaged in truck crop insect investigations in the Brownsville country. He will go North to take a position in Illinois under Dr. Forbes, and will investigate insects injurious to vegetables in the vicinity of Chicago. Besides the guest of honor, the following were present: Mr. R. A. Vickery, of the Cereal and Forage Crop Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology ; Mr. M. M. High, of the Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect Investigations, Bureau of En- tomology, and Mr. T. E. Holloway, at present on furlough from the Bureau and engaged in parasite investigations for the Deli Experiment Station, of Sumatra. THE MERSHON EXPEDITION TO THE CHARITY ISLANDS, LAKE HURON.— For several years the University of Michigan Museum and the Mich- igan Geological and Biological Survey have been co-operating in a biological survey of the State. The survey has had a small annual appropriation for this work, and has deposited the collections in the museum, but the expeditions sent out from the latter have nearly all been made possible by gifts from persons interested in the progress of the work or in the institution. In the summer of 1910, Hon. W. B. Mershon, Saginaw, Mich., placed in the hands of the chief field naturalist of the survey, who is also the head curator of the museum, a sum sufficient to send a small party to the Charity Islands in Saginaw Bay, for the purpose of investigating the fauna and flora. The men engaged to do the work and the groups to which they de- voted most of their time were as follows: W. W. Newcomb (butter- flies and moths), N. A. Wood (vertebrates), A. W. Andrews (beetles). Frederick Gaige (ants), C. K. Dodge (plants). The museum and survey are greatly indebted to these men, for they did the field work without other remuneration than their expenses, and are now preparing their results for publication. The results of the expedition will be published in various journals and in the annual reports of the Michigan Academy of Science under the common title "Results of the Mershon Expedition to the Charitv Islands, Lake Huron." As most of the field work was done in the late summer and fall, the survey plans to continue the work in the spring and early summer of 1911.— ALEXANDER G. RUTHVEN, University of Michigan Museum (in Science). Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23! COUAS NASTES STRECKERI Gr. Grum-Grshimailo. — Mr. Henry H. Ly- man has sent me the following: "I see in your supplement* a reference to a species streckeri described by Grote. Has his description ever been published in any American journal? If not, I wish you would get the editor of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS to re-publish this description in English, if the original description was in any other language, as I know nothing of this form." Gr. is the abbreviation used for Gr. Grum- Grshimailo and Mr. Lyman can't be blamed for taking it to stand for Grote. The International Entomological Congress, I believe, has a project on foot to adopt a uniform plan for authors' names. We have three specimens of Colias nastes in our collection, taken in the vicinity of Laggan, Alberta, by Mr. Thomas E. Bean. Mr. Bean also supplied Strecker with the material that found its way to Europe. I have compared our Canadian nastes with specimens from Europe and do not find any difference. In my opinion they do not deserve even a varietal name. — HENRY SKINNER, M.D. [The original description by Gr. Grum-Grshimailo was published in Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 29,290, 1895, and is as follows : "Colias Nastes var. Streckeri. Forma ad. Col. cocandicam transitum efficiens. Alae $ 9. virescenti-sulphureae ; anticarum limbo externo latiore, disco in nervis rarius nigrescenti-consperso ; posticarum macula dis- cocellulari supra lurida, subtus permagna ad marginem externum ut in Col. cogene et cocandica bidentata rufa. Specimen unum hujus varietatis sub nomine 'Colias beliriif a lepidopterologo germanico D-re O. Staudinger anno 1891, quattuor specimina, in provincia Alberta ad Laggan collecta, a lepidopterologc americano Dom. H. Strecker, cujus in honorem hanc forman nomin- avi, accepi." This may be rendered into English as follows : Colias nastes var. streckeri. A form transitional to C. cocandica. Wings $ $ greenish-sulphur; external margin of the primaries wider, veins in the disc more thinly sprinkled with blackish; discocellular spot of the secondaries lurid above, below very large at the external margin bidentate reddish as in C. eogene and cocandica. I received one specimen of this variety under the name "Col:as behriif" from the German lepidopterologist, Dr. O. Staudinger in 1891, and four specimens, collected at Laggan in the province of Alberta, from the American lepidopterologist, Mr. H. Strecker, in whose honor I have named this form.] *A Synonymic Catl. North Am. Rhop. Suppl. No. i. Publ. by Amer- ican Entomological Society. 232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, *II NEW YORK STATE ENTOMOLOGIST'S OFFICE NOT DAMAGED. — [We are very glad to publish the following reply from Dr. Felt to our inquiry concerning the fire in Albany. — ED.] April 3, 1911. Thank you very much indeed for your query in regard to the recent fire in the State Capitol. The office of the State Entomologist is in Geological Hall and there- fore was not directly affected by the recent disastrous fire in the State Capitol. Unfortunately, we depend largely upon the reference works in the [State] library [in the Capitol] and it is probable that our bibliographic work will be seriously hampered for some months to come. It is gratifying to state that the office library, exceptionally efficient along economic lines in particular, escaped intact. — E. P. FELT, State Entomologist. Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 5 — Psyche, Cambridge, Mass. 6 — Journal, New York Entomological Society. 7 — U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 — The Entomolo- gist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 10 — Nature, London. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 14 — Proceedings, Zoological Society of London. 22— Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 35 — Annales, Societe Entomolo- gique de Belgique. 38 — Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 40 — So- cietas Entomologica, Zurich. 50 — Proceedings, U. S. National Mu- seum. 62 — Handlingar, Konglige Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademi- ens, Stockholm. 64 — Annalen, K. k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien. 69— Bolletino, Societa Italiana Entomologica. 81 — Biologi- sches Centralblatt, Erlangen. 90 — Revue Scientifique, Paris. 97— Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 123 — Bulletin, Wisconsin Natural History Society, Milwaukee. 143 — Ohio Nat- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL XE\VS 233 uralist. 148 — New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva. 163 — American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn. 172 — The American Museum Journal, New York. 180— Annals, Entomologi- cal Society of America. 182 — Revue Russe d'Entomologie, St. Petersburg. 184 — Journal of Experimental Zoology, Philadelphia. 186 — Journal of Economic Biology, London. 193 — Entomologische Blatter, Nurnberg. 196 — Arkiv for Zoologie, Stockholm. 198 — Bio- logical Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 200 — Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, Paris. 216 — Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart. 227 — Memorias, In- stitute Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. 240 — Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono. 248 — Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, Honolulu. 259 — Publications, Carnegie Institution of Washington. 279 — Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft, Jena. 284 — Bulletin, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Re- union Mensuelle des Naturalistes du Museum, Paris. 317 — Mittei- lungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Winterthur. 318 — Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. 319— Annual Report and Transactions of the Manchester Entomologi- cal Society, Manchester (England). 320 — Der Tropenpflanzer, Berlin. 321 — Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 322— Journal of Morphology, Philadelphia. 323 — Annales de 1'Univer- site de Lyon. Nouvelle serie. I. Sciences, Medecine. 324— Journal of Animal Behavior, Cambridge, Mass. 325 — Skandinavisches Ar- chiv fur Physiologic, Leipzig. GENERAL SUBJECT. Anon.— Insect and fungoid pests (re- view of work done, etc.), 10, Ixxxvi, 161-162. Fullaway, D. T. — Insects attacking the sweet potato in Hawaii, 248, Bull. No. 22, 9-31. Hartzell, F. Z. — A preliminary report on grape insects, 148, Bui. No. 331, 485-581. Kirchner, O. von. — Blumen und Insekten. Ihre Anpassungen aneinander und ihre gegenseitige Abhangigkeit. 436 pp. Leipzig und Berlin. B. G. Teubner, 1911. Pearse, A. S. — The influence of different color environments on the behavior of certain arthropods, 324, i, 79-l]<). Picado, C. — Documents sur le mimetisme recueillis en Costa-Rica, 200, xliv, 89-108. Preuss, P. — Ueber Schad- linge der Kokospalme, 320, xv, 59-91. Rosa, D. — L'opera zoologica di E. H. Giglioli, 69, xli, 19-27. Washburn, F. L.— 13th Report of the state entomologist of Minnesota to the governor for the years 1909-1910. 184 pp. APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Alderson, E. M.— Notes on Chrysopa dorsalis, 8, xxii, 49-54. Atmore, E. A. — Further Notes on Chrysopa dorsalis, 8, xxii, 54-56. Escherich, K. — Termitenleben auf Ceylon. Neue Studien zur Soziologie der Tiere, zugleich ein Kapitel kolonialer Forstentomologie. Jena. Gustav Fischer, 1911. 234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll 262 pp. Handlirsch, A. — New paleozoic insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois (cont.), 163, xxxi, 297-326 (*). Jones & Horton. — The orange thrips (Euthrips citri) : A report of the prog- ress for the years 1909 and 1910, 7, Bull, No. 99, pt. i, 16 pp. Mutt- kowski, R. A. — Miscellaneous notes and records of dragon flies, 123, viii, 170-179 (*). Rimsky-Korsakow, M. — Ueber die systema- tische Stellung der Protura, 22, xxxvii, 164-168. Schmutz, K. — Zur Kenntnis einiger neuen Thysanopterengenera (Tubilifera), 64, xxiii, 273-281, 342-347. Wolley Dod, F. H.— Habits of Smerinthus gemi- natus and cerisyi, 4, xliii, 104. Zawarzin, A. — Histologische Stu- dien ueber Insekten. I. Das Herz der Aeschnalarven, 97, xcvii, 481-510. ORTHOPTERA. Borelli, A.— Mission geodesique de 1'equateur. Forficulides, 284, 1910, 156-158. Jensen, J. P.— The structure and systematic importance of the spermatophores of crickets, 180, iv, 63-66. Pocock, R. I.— Remarks upon, and exhibition of two draw- ings illustrating an instance of ant-mimicry by the larvae of a species of Mantis; with a note on the mimicry of the larva of the Ceylonese Leaf-insect (Phyllium sp.?), 14, 1910, 837-840. .Zacher, F. — Studien ueber das System der Protodermapteren, 22, xxx, 303- 400. HEMIPTERA. Barber, H. G.— Descriptions of some new He- miptera-Heteroptera, 6, xix, 23-31 (*). Bedau, K. — Das Facetten- auge der Wasserwanzen, 97, xcvii, 417-456. Bergroth, E. — New Neotropical Ploeariinae, 5, xviii, 15-20. Distant, W. L.— Rhyncho- tal notes, LIII: Neotropical Pentatomidae, 11, vii, 242-258. Fulla- way, D. T. — Description of a new Coccid species, Ceroputo am- bigua, with notes on its life-history and anatomy, 318, xii, 223- 240 (*). Gadd, G. — Contributions a 1'anatomie comparee des cigales et de Tettigonia viridis (Russian), 182, x, 205-213. Hodgkiss, H. E. -The apple and pear membracids, 148, Tech. Bui., No. 17, 81-112. Muir & Kershaw. — On the homologies and mechanism of the mouth-parts of Hemiptera, 5, xviii, 1-12. Neiva, A. — Beitraege zur Biologic des Conorhinus megistus, 227, ii, 207-212. Wilson, H. F. —Notes on the synonymy of the genera included in the tribe Lachnini, 180, iv, 51-54. LEPIDOPTERA. A. L.— Les diverses especes de Vers a Soie, 90, xlix, 184. Barnes & McDunnough. — Additions to list of Sphin- gidae of America, north of Mexico, 5, xviii, 34. Coolidge, C. R. — Western Lepidoptera, IV, 5, xviii, 32-34. Druce H. — Descriptions of some n. sp. of Heterocera from tropical South America, and two n. sp. of Geometridae from West Africa, 11, vii, 287-294. Her- rick, G. W. — Notes on the life-history of the larch case-bearer (Coleophora laricella), 180, iv, 68-70. Johnas, W.— Das Facetten- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 ^ auge der Lepidopteren, 97, xcvii, 218-261. Newcomer, E. J.— The life histories of two Lycaenid butterflies, 4, xliii, 83-88. Nurse, C. G. — The duration of the larval stage in some of the Sesiidae, 9, xliv, 94-95. Peterson, E. — Beitrage zur Anatomic und Histologie des Darmkanals der Schmetterlinge, 279, xlvii, 161-216. Schaus, W. —New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica, VI, 11, vii, 262-286. Stierlin, R.— Der Kiefernspinner als Waldverwuester, 317, 1910, 14- 24. Strand, E. — Notes on the cocoons and descriptions of four n. sp. of the genus Trichostibas, 11, vii, 237-241. Swett, L. W.— Geometrid notes on the genus Hydriomena, 4, xliii, 73-82. Verson, E. — Beitrag zur naheren Kenntnis der Hautung und der Hautungs- drusen bei Bombyx mori, 97, xcvii, 457-480. Watson, J. H. — Notes on the life histories of certain species of the Saturnidae. Descrip- tion of a new species of Hemileuca from western Nevada, 319, 1910, 22-34 (*). DIPTERA. Aldrich, J. M. — Meigen 1800 once more, 4, xliii, 108. Austen, E. E. — On the occurrence in N. Am. of the European Eristalis oestraceus, 8, xxii, 63-64. Chittenden, F. H. — The Aspara- gus Miner (Agromyza simplex), 7, Circ. No. 135, 5 pp. Coquillett, D. W. — Ueber die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratengattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der palaarktischen Dipteren. Bd. 4, 38, xxx, 62-64. Felt, E. P. — A generic synopsis of the Itonidae, 6, xix, 31- 62 (*). Summary of food habits of Amer. gall midges, 180, iv, 55-62. Fulton, B. B. — The Stratiomyidae of Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio. 143, xi, 299-301. Handlirsch, A. — Zur Phylogenie und Flugelmor- phologie der Ptychopteriden, 64, xxiii, 262-272. Hendel, F.— Ueber von Prof. J. M. Aldrich erhaltene und einige andere amerikanische Dipteren, 38, xxx, 19-46 (*). Herms, W. B. — The photic reactions of Sarcophagial flies, especially Lucilia caesar and Calliphora vomi- toria, 184, x, 167-226. Hine, J. S. — A new species of Nothomyia, 143, xi, 301-302 (*). Holmes, S. J. — The reactions of mosquitoes to light in different periods of their life history, 324, i, 29-32. Johannsen, O. A. — The typhoid fly and its allies, 240 (University of Maine. Four insect pests. Pamphlet 401-1-11), 24 pp. Krogh, A. — On the hydrostatic mechanism of the Corethra larva with an account of methods of microscopical gas analysis, 325, xxv, 183-203. Lutz, A. — Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der brasilianischen Simu- liumarten, 227, ii, 213-267. Lutz, F. E.— Flea carriers of the plague, 172, xi, 95-98. Experiments with Drosophila ampelophila concerning evolution, 259, No. 143, 40 pp. Massonnat, E.— Contri- bution a 1'ettule des pupipares. 323, Fasc. 28, 388 pp. Moenkhaus, W. J. — The effects of inbreeding and selection on the fertility, vigor and sex ratio of Drosophila ampelophila, 322, xxii, 123-154. Pat- terson T. L. — Investigations into the habits of certain Sarcophagi- 236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [.May, 'll dae, 7, Tech. S'er., No. 19, pt. 3, 25-32 pp. Shipley, A. E.— Rat fleas, 186, vi, 12-20. Stevens, N. M. — Further studies on hetero- chromosomes in mosquitoes, 198, xx, 109-120. Thienemann, A.— Das Sammeln von Puppenhauten der Chironomiden, 40, xxv, 99- 100. COLEOPTERA. Aurivillius, C.— Neue oder wenig bekannte Coleoptera Longicornia, 196, vii, No. 3, 44 pp. Bowditch, F. C. — Notes on Diabrotica and descriptions of new species, 4, xliii, 89-97. Champlain, A. B. — Some Carabidae taken in Connecticut, 5, xviii, 35-36. Chittenden, F. H. — A list of insects affecting stored cereals, 7, Bull. No. 96, pt. 1, 18 pp. Fassl, A. H.— Tropische Reisen, III. Die Erforschung des Monte Tolima, 216, xxiv, 263-264, 267-268. Girault & Zetek. — Further biological notes on the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa 10-lineata, including observations on the num- ber of generations and lengths of the period of oviposition. II, Illinois, 180, iv, 71-83. Jordan, H. — Die Wirkungsweise der Mund- werkzeuge bei Seidenraupen, 81, 'xxxi, 111-114. Kerremans, Ch.— Monographic des Buprestides (Damarsila), v, 257-320. Kleine, R. — Biologische Beobachtungen an Pyrochroa coccinea (Schluss), 193, vii, 62-66. Leng, C. W. — A new species of Dineutes, 6, xix, 11 (*). Notes on Coccinellidae, IV. Variable maculation, 6, xix, 6-10. Pic, M. — Mission geodesique de 1'equateur. Ptinides, Anthi- cides, et Hylophilides, 284, 1910, 154-156. Volker, H.— Ein Sonder- ling aus der Kafergilde, 193, vii, 44-47. Weise, J. — Dritter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen, 35, Iv, 39-78. HYMENOPTERA. Adlerz, G.— Lefnadsforhallanden och in- stinkter inom familjerna Pompilidae och Sphegidae III, 62, xlv, No. 12, 75 pp. Brues, C. T. — Notes on some genera of Ophioninae with toothed femora, 5, xviii, 21-26 (*). Cockerell, T. D. A.— De- scriptions and records of bees, 11, vii, 225-237 (*). Bees in the collection of the U. S. National Museum, 50, xxxix, 635-658 (*). Crawford, J. C. — Descriptions of new Hymenoptera, I, 50, xxxix, 617-623 (*). Ducke, A. — -Terzo supplemento alia revisione dei Cri- sididi dello stato Brasiliano del Para, 69, xli, 89-115. Girault, A. A. —Descriptions of three new North American species of the myma- rid genus Polynema parasitic on membracid eggs, with a list of the sp. described since 1898, 6, xix, 12-23 (*). Graenicher, S.— New Zealand's experience with the red clover and bumblebees, 123, viii, 166-169. Kieffer, J. J. — Nouveaux Cynipides exotiques du British Museum de Londres, 69, xli, 244-254. Krausse-Heldrungen, A. H. — Enbiontische Fahigkeiten bei Insecten, 69, xli, 84-87. Mann, W. M. — Notes on the guests of some Californian ants, 5, xviii, 27- 31 (*). Pietschker, H.— Das Gehirn der Ameise, 279, xlvii, 43-114. Rohwer, S. A.— The genotypes of the sawflies and woodwasps, or Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL XKWS 237 the superfamily Tenthredinoidea, 7, Tech. Ser. No. 20, pt. 2, 69-100 pp. Santschi, F. — Formicides recoltes par Prof. F. Silvestri aux Etats Unis en 1908, 69, xli, 1-7. Stenton. R. — On the economy of the ichneumon id Monoblastus palustris, 9, xliv, 87-90. Strand. E. — Fine echte Eucera von Sudamerika? 38, xxx, 78-79. Turner, C. H. —A notice on the hunting habits of an American Ammophila, 5. xviii, 13-14. Wheeler, W. M. — The North American ants of the genus Camponotus Mayr, 321, xx, 295-354 (*). Yerkes, R. M.— Wheeler on ants (review), 324, 1, 74-77. Doings of Societies. ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, ACADEMY OF NATU- RAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. Meeting of. January 26, 1911 ; Mr. Philip Laurent, Director, presided ; eleven persons present. Mr. Rehn made a few remarks on a study of the Orthoptera of the Great Lake region of Central Africa in which he is now engaged. By the aid of an outline map he indicated the east- ern limit of the great Congo Forest, the fauna of which is strongly represented in the Great Lake region. Specimens of Polyspilota validissima, a Mantid which the speaker found ranged almost across the Congo State, individuals of Amor- phoscelis, an aberrant Manticl not previously examined by the speaker, and the type of the first African species of Hittn- berticlla, a genus previously known only from the East Indies, were exhibited. Mr. H. W. Wenzel reported the capture of Aptcnodcs sphenarioides in Philadelphia on January the i8th. He also spoke of the good work shown in some recent papers in which the species were well studied, particularly the life histories, as by Prof. Hopkins, in Dendroctonus. He also spoke of the value of a recent paper on Pissodes. Dr. Skinner spoke in appreciation of the work being done by the African Entomological Research Committee and of the Bulletin they are publishing. He also exhibited specimens of Argynnis sakuntala, a species he had recently described, and compared it with rhodope and allied forms. 238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Meeting of March 23, 1911. Mr. Philip Laurent, Director, presiding; fifteen persons present; Mr. Nathan Banks, of Washington, D. C., visitor. Mr. Banks said he came to Philadelphia to study some Hymenoptera in the Cresson collection. He was pleased to meet the members and would like to have a collecting trip with them in this locality and would also gladly exchange specimens. Mr. Rehn exhibited specimens illustrating the variability in structural and color characters found by him in the Acridiid Eritetti.v simplex. One hundred and forty-eight specimens from Sulphur Springs, North Carolina, were the basis of his work. The supplementary carinae of the pronotum were found strongly or faintly indicated or lacking, while two marked, dom- inant, color phases were found, connected by a number of intermediates. The same speaker also exhibited the type of a remarkable new genus and species of African Mantidae. Dr. Skinner exhibited a large series of Lycaena enoptcs, battoides and glancon. He considered them variants of one species. Dr. Calvert gave a very interesting description of the coun- try on the Pacific side of Costa Rica. There are no railroads in the province of Guanacaste, and in the wet season it is prac- tically untraversable. While sleeping in a school house at Santa Cruz, he had been bitten by an insect and in the morn- ings found two specimens of a Conorhlnus (which were ex- hibited), and attributed the bites to them. Mr. Banks referred to the severe disease carried to man from monkeys by these insects in Brazil. Mr. Laurent stated that some lepidopterists were under the impression that Danais plc.rippus was three-brooded in the State of New Jersey, which the speaker said was a mistake, and that he was sure that no species of Rhopalocera or butter- fly, found in New Jersey, unless it was Pieris rapae or Lycaena pseudargiolus, was more than two-brooded, and that a number of species were represented by only one brood in a season, as for instance Pamplnla metea, pontiac, leonardus, etc. The Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 239 speaker then went into details concerning the migrating habit of Danais ple.vippus. Mr. Harbeck referred to the fact that insects are not infre- quently cited and recorded in error. As an instance of this he mentioned Carabus neinorellns reported from Maplewood in the "New Jersey list." Mr. Banks cited the Coddling Moth as illustrating the liabil- ity of error in stating the number of broods of an insect from dates of capture without actual breeding experiments from known females. The question of variation was generally dis- cussed.— HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. OBITUARY DR. EDWARD PALMER. The daily newspapers announce the death of this veteran botanical explorer and collector at his home, 207 Twelfth Street, Southwest, Washington, D. C., on April 10, 1911. He was born in England, January 12, 1821, came to America at the age of eighteen and settled first at Cleveland, Ohio. An interesting sketch of his life by W. E. SafTord, read in cele- bration of his eightieth birthday, was published in the Popular Science Monthly for April, 1911. Although Dr. Palmer was primarily engaged in botanical researches, he made collections of animals also, including insects, some of his specimens of these last being in the Museum in Cambridge and Washington (see page 198 of this NEWS). His most noteworthy expeditions were to various parts of the southwestern United States and to Mexico. His zeal was maintained throughout his long life, as in 1910 he collected near Tampico.-Tamaulipas, Mexico. PROF. FELIX PLATEAU. A recent number of the Zoologischer Anzeiycr informs us of the death of this distinguished physiologist and entomologist on March 4, 1911, in Ghent, where he had long been a Pro- 240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll fessor in the University. He was born June 16, 1841. His researches were largely directed to the little cultivated and technically difficult field of the functions of Arthropod organs and of the relations of these animals to the surrounding media. Some of his principal memoirs are Snr la force musculaire dcs insects (1865, 1866), Recherches sur les Crustaces d'eau douce de Belgique (1870), Recherches physico-chimiques sur les ArticuUs aquatiqiies (1871), Qu'cst-ce que I'aile d'un Insecte? (1871), Recherches expcrimcntales sur la position du centre de gravitc chez les insectes (1872), Recherches physico- chemiques sur les articulcs aquatiqiies. II. Resistance a I'asphy- xie par submersion, action du froid, action de chaleur (1872) ; Recherches sur les phcnomenes de la digestion chez les Insectes (1874-77), chcz les Myriapodes (1876), ches les Phalangidcs (1876), chcz les Araneides dipneurnones (1877) ; Sur les moui'ements et I'innervation de I'organe central de la circulation chcs les animdux articules (1879) ; Influence de I'cau de mcr sur les aniniaux d'eau douce et de I'eau douce sur les aniniaux niarins (1883), Recherches expcrimentales sur les inouvcments respiratoires des Insectes (1884), Experiences sur le role dcs palpcs chcz les Arthropodes maxilles (1885), Recherches cx- pcriincntalcs sur la vision ches les Arthropodes (1885-1889), Les Myriapodes niarins et la resistance dcs Arthropodes a res- piration aericnne a la submersion (1890) ; articles on the Arach- nids (1895) and Crustacea (1900) in Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologic; Les flcurs, comment attirent-ils les insects? 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CONTENTS: Davis— The Woolly Aphis of Oak (Phyl- laphis ? querci Fitch) (Hemip.).--. 241 Kirkaldy— A new Species of Gerris (Hemip.) 246 Rehn— Notes on Paraguayan Orthop- tera, with descriptions of a new Genus and four new species 247 Skinner — Lycaena enoptes, battoides and glaucon (Lepid. ) 259 Rohwer — A new Sawfly of Economic Importance (Hymen.) 263 Barnes and McDunnough — Concerning Archylus tener Druce (Lepid.) 265 Barnes and McDunnough — Some re- marks on Mastor bellus and M. phylace ( Lepid.) 267 Barber— Arrangement of the Species of Dendrocoris Bergr., with the de- scriptions of two new Species 268 Dow — On some rare Cicindela (Coleop.) 271 Dury — Some new Beetles from North Carolina, with Ecological Notes (Coleop.) 273 Editorial 276 Notes and News 277 Entomological Literature 279 Doings of Societies 285 Obituary— Dr. Herman Willem van der Weele 287 Dr. Edouard Piaget 288 Dr. Samuel Hubbard Scud- der 288 The Woolly Aphis of Oak (Phyllaphis? querci Fitch) (Hemip.)* BY JOHN J. DAVIS. * (Plate VII) A woolly aphis, which is possibly the species described by Fitch as Eriosoma querci, has been collected by us on oak foli- age from various localities in Illinois, definite collections hav- ing been made at Chicago, Joliet, Aurora, Rockford, Peoria and Danville. I have also received this species from Mr. W. P. Flint, who collected it on oak at Normal, Illinois. Doctor Fitch described this species in his Fifth Report t as follows : — "Oak Blight, Eriosoma querci, new species. "A species of blight, or a woolly aphis upon oak limbs, puncturing them and exhausting them of their sap, was met with in northern Illinois ,but I have never seen it in New York. It is very like a simi- lar insect upon the basswood. The winged individuals are black throughout, and slightly dusted over with an ash-gray powder re- sembling mold. The fore wings are clear and glassy, with the stigma- *Formerly of the office of the State Entomologist, Urbana, Illinois ; now at the Experiment Station Building, Lafayette, Indiana. t Fifth Report of the State Entomologist of New York. Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. f. 1858 (1859), P- 804. 241 242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll spot dusky and feebly transparent, their rib-vein black, and their third oblique vein abortive nearly or quite to the fork. It is 0.16 long to the tip of its wings. I find no woolly aphis mentioned by European authors as infesting the oak, except the Eriosoma quercus of Sir Oswald Mosley (Gardener's Chronicle, i. 828), which, in the List of Homop- terous Insects of the British Museum, p. 1083, is supposed to be the Coccus lanatus of Geoffrey, and would hence appear to be a very dif- ferent insect from the one now described." Walsh! next lists the species from the United States, and Thomas* some years later quotes, in part the description as given by Fitch, and placing it in the genus Schizoneura, in which genus it has been placed by all writers since. In his list of Minnesota Aphididaet Oestlund states that he found apterous forms of what he supposes to be this species in Min- nesota, and the next year (1887) tt he again reports with some doubt, this species, quoting from the original description. Packard lists the species § among the forest insects, quoting from Thomas. Cowen** questionably determines as this spe- cies, immature wingless forms collected in Colorado, "August 19, in woolly patches on young shoots of Quercus undulata," and briefly describes them. Clarkeff next lists the species from Cali- fornia, giving no descriptive notes other than color, which is said to be black. Davidsontt reports it as abundant in Califor- nia on live oak (Quercus agrifolia}. In a letter dated No- li On the Genera of Aphididae found in the United States. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. i (1862), p. 303. *Eighth Report of the State Entomologist of Illinois. Trans. Dept. Agr. 111., Vol. XVI (1880), p. 139- t List of the Aphididae of Minnesota. Fourteenth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., 1886, p. 55. tt Synopsis of the Aphididae of Minnesota. Bull. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., No. 4 (1887), p. 29. § Insects injurious to forest and shade trees. Fifth Rept. U. S. Ent. Com. 1890, p. 212. **A preliminary list of the Hemiptera of Colorado. Bull. Colo. Agr. Exper. Station, No. 31, Tech. Ser. No. i (1895), PP- 116-117. tfA list of California Aphididae. Can. Ent., Vol. XXXV (Sept., 1903), p. 248. it Further notes on the Aphididae collected in the vicinity of Stan- ford University. Journ. Econ. Ent., Vol. Ill (Aug., 1910), p. 374. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 243 vember 15, 1910, Mr. Davidson writes: "I found Schizoneura querci Fitch in flocculent masses on the under side of the leaves and also on the twigs of live oaks (Q. agrifolia and Q. wis- lensii}. I have taken a few winged specimens, and the vena- tion is that of Schizoneura!' The present writer listed § this species from Illinois, upon Fitch's authority and refers to a Phyllaphis collected in Illinois on oak leaves which he consid- ers probably distinct from querci of Fitch. It is with considerable doubt that I place the species found in Illinois the past few years as identical with the species de- scribed by Fitch as querci. The species which we have found and describe later in this paper lives on the upper- and under- surfaces of the leaves in small colonies, which are completely covered with a rather dense flocculence. During the summer only wingless viviparous females were found, while winged males and oviparous females were collected in October. In one instance a wingless male was taken. The species is quite variable, but evidently does not belong to the genus Schison- eura. Neither does it fully agree with the genus Phyllaphis, although it is more nearly related to this than it is to Schison- eura. From the unusually loose description given by Fitch, it is impossible to positively recognize the species. The prin- cipal characters of querci as given by Fitch are its habitat and color, the former agreeing quite well with the species before us, but the color being quite different, our species being pale greenish in the viviparous to pale brownish in the oviparous forms. Ashmead* described a black aphid on oak which he called Phyllaphis niger, which agrees more nearly with the spe- cies characterized by Fitch as querci. Full descriptions are herewith given, hoping that they will be an aid to future in- vestigations. As the writer has above indicated, he is of the opinion that Fitch's species is possibly different from the one here described, but that this one is the same as the species considered as querci Fitch by Oestlund, Cowen and Davidson. §A list of the Aphididae of Illinois, with notes on some of the spe- cies. Journ. Econ. Ent., Vol. Ill (Oct., 1910), p. 413. *On the Aphididae of Florida, with descriptions of new species. Can. Ent, Vol. XIII (1881), p. 155. 244 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June. 'll Wingless viviparous female. — Head and thorax usually yellow or yellowish brown, the fore part of the head being pale dusky. Abdo- men, after removal of the white flocculence, usually pale green, but sometimes pale yellow or yellowish green, and usually darkest on the sides. Eyes blackish. Beak not reaching, or barely reaching, the coxae of second pair of legs. Antennae very pale greenish or yellowish, ex- cepting distal ends of IV and all of V and VI, which are dusky to blackish; rather short, being a third or less the length of the body; segments vary in length as will be noticed from the accompanying fig- ures ; usually 6-segmented, but often only 5 ; as a rule III and VI sub- equal, II and IV sub-equal, V longer than IV but shorter than VI; sensoria only at distal ends of V and VI. (Fig. i drawn from speci- mens collected in Chicago, October 22, 1908, show two antennae from the same specimen, one being 5- and the other 6-segmented ; figs. 2 and 3 were drawn from different individuals, but both from same colony collected in Chicago September 15, 1008; fig. 4 drawn from specimen collected by Mr. W. P. Flint at Normal, April 9, 1908). Legs pale greenish excepting distal half of tarsi, which are black. Abdomen with six longitudinal rows of wax glands, three on each side of the median line, one of these being on the lateral edge. Cornicles very slightly elevated above the surface, but quite distinct, being represent- ed by dusky to blackish rings. Style sub-obsolete. Wingless male. — A single specimen was collected at Chicago, Sep- tember 15, 1908, and no color notes were taken. The size and general appearance of the body much resembles that of the winged male de- scribed below. Antennae barely reaching to cornicles ; the last four segments sub-equal, V being invariably shorter than II or IV, and VI invariably longer than III or IV; segment III with 3-4 circular sen- soria in a row, IV with 3-5, V with 2-4 in addition to the usual one at distal end, and VI with 2-4 and the usual one at end of basal por- tion. (PI. VII, fig. 5}. Winged male. — Head and thoracic shield dusky brownish to black- ish, neck yellowish, abdomen pale greenish to yellowish. One speci- men had indistinct irregular dusky markings. (PI. VII, fig. n). In colonies beneath a heavy flocculence, and individuals covered with a fine pulverulence. Beak reaching a little beyond coxae of first pair of legs but not to coxae of second pair. Eyes dark red to black. An- tennas dusky, paler at base ; reaching about to cornicles ; last four segments about sub-equal; III with 3-8 circular sensoria; IV with 4-7, V with 6-n, and VI with 5-10. (PI. VII, fig. 6). Legs pale ex- cepting joints and the tarsi, which are dusky. Wing veins blackish. Venation variable, as follows : Of the five specimens before me, two individuals have the discoidal of both wings twice branched (PI. VII, Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 245 fig. 7) ; another specimen has one wing with discoidal twice branched and in the other wing it is only once branched (PI. VII, fig. 8) ; one specimen has a once-branched discoidal in one wing and a partial sec- ond branching in the other wing; the last individual has both discoi- dals only once-branched. Summing up, there are five twice-branched discoidals, one with partial second branch, and four only once-branch- ed. Mr. J. T. Monell very kindly loaned me a slide bearing two winged males of this species. Two of the wings have discoidal twice branched, another no branching (PI. VII, fig. 9), and the fourth wing is missing. The specimens from Monell's collection were collected by Mr. Theo. Pergande on Quercus alba and Q. prinus, Washington, D. C, October 24, 1882. Cornicles very slightly elevated above surface abdomen, dusky, with blackish line indicating the opening. Described from five individuals collected at Chicago, October 22, 1908, and at Danville, 111., October 8, 1910. Measurements. — Average: Length of body, i.oi mm.; width, 0.43 mm.; length of wings, 1.42 mm.; width, 0.54 mm.; antennae III, 0.20; IV, 0.20; V, 0.18; VI, 0.19; average total, including segments I and II 0.88 mm. Wingless oviparous female. — Entire body covered with a rather heavy pulverulence, beneath which the body color is greenish to pale brownish, more often the latter, especially late in the season. Head dusky. Prothoracic segment with two dusky spots near the anterior and two near the posterior margin. Body with two longitudinal rows of dots close together on each side of the dorsal median line and a single row on each side at the margin. Eyes dark red. Beak not quite, or barely, reaching the coxae of the second pair of legs. An- tennae dusky, more uniform than in the viviparous female, and are, as a rule, of a type shown in fig. 4. Legs short and dusky, hind tibiae with many circular sensoria on the basal two-thirds. (PI. VII, fig. 12), Cornicles indicated by dark circular rings. In size and other respects it has the appearance of the viviparous female. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. Phyllaphis (?) querci Fitch. — Figs, r, 2, 3 and 4, antennas of wing- less viviparous female; 5, antenna of wingless male; 6, antenna of winged male; 7, 8 and 9, fore wing of winged male; 10, hind wing of winged male; n, winged male; 12, hind tibia of wingless oviparous female. Camera lucida drawings, figs. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 12, with a one- inch eyepiece and two-thirds objective; 9, 10 and u, with a two-inch eyepiece and two-thirds objective. In other words, 9, 10 and u are drawn to three-fifths the size of the others. 246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll A New Species of Gerris (Hemip.). By the late G. W. KIRKALDY, F. E. S.* Garris buenoi n. sp. Belongs to sub-genus Gerris. Middle tarsi moderately slender with the first segment three times as long as the second; hind tibiae and tarsi together scarcely as long as their femur. Sternites in the male flattened, not carinate, the seventh doubly emarginate at the apical margin, the middle (ad) emargination broad and somewhat roundedly angular; not produced into a spine at the angles of the sternite; eighth sternite in the female transverse. Meta- sternal tubercle small, black ; pronotum not suffused on the disc with reddish or yellowish but with the fore lobe with a marginal flavescent line. Length, males, macropterous form, 7 to J1/- mm. ; apterous form, 7 mm. Length, females, macropterous form, 7^-2 to 8 mm. ; apterous form, 7^4 mm. [Note by J. R. T. B. — This species is a very near neighbor of Gerris marginatns Say, with which it has often been con- founded in collections. Aside from the correlated structural characters, however, the flavescent margin of the anterior lobe of the pronotum serves to distinguish it at once. It can also be separated by its smaller size, pronounced sutures between the abdominal segments, and more or less flattened abdomen in the male. My good friend, Mr. E. P. Van Duzee sent me specimens of this species labelled "Gerris snlcatus Uhler," but neither he, Kirkaldy, nor myself have succeeded in finding a description by this author anywhere, hence Kirkaldy concluded that it was merely a manuscript name and decided to describe it, naming it after me. The last I much deprecate, since my views are decidedly against the practice of giving to insects some form of the name borne by an individual. The species is widely distributed and ranges from British Columbia to the Atlantic States.] *This is one of several fragments left by my lamented friend. It is, as may be seen, a rough preliminary diagnosis, which I have gone over, but it is distinctly not to be regarded or considered as in any way my work, as my share in it has been that of a transcriber only. — J. R. T. B. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 247 Notes on Paraguayan Orthoptera, with Descriptions of a new Genus and Four new Species. BY JAMES A. G. REHN, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. The following notes and descriptions are based on a small but very interesting collection of Orthoptera submitted to me for study by the well-known naturalists, A. de Winkelried Ber- toni and Prof. C. Schrottky, of Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay, from which locality the greater portion of the material was se- cured. Prof. Bruner has already reported* on a collection of Acridoidea from this locality. FORFICULIDAE. Pyragra brasiliensis (Gray). Puerto Bertoni. — One female (Schrottky). Pyragra paraguayensis Borelli. Paraguay. — One male (Schrottky). This specimen is slight- ly smaller than the original measurements of the species, but otherwise it is typical. Demogorgon bates! Kirby. Puerto Bertoni. — One male (Schrottky). BLATTIDAE. Pseudomops sp. Puerto Bertoni. — November. One broken specimen. (Ber- toni, No. 715). Ischnoptera bilunata Saussure. Asuncion. — 1900. Two males. This species was described from Chiquitos, Bolivia. Nyctibora sericea Burmeister. Puerto Bertoni. — October, 1904. (Bertoni, No. 413). Panchlora thalassina Saussure and Zehntner. Puerto Bertoni. — December, 1909. Two females. (Bertoni, No. 401 ) . *ENT NEWS, XXI, pp. 301-307. 248 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll Caudell has recorded this from Sapucay, Paraguay, while Giglio-Tos reported it from Tala and San Lorenzo, Argentina. Tribonium spectrum (Eschscholtz). Puerto Bertoni. — October, 1909. One female. (Bertoni, No. 402). This species has been recorded from Brazil (numerous au- thors), and Caiza, Bolivian Chaco (Giglio-Tos), while a record of a larva of an undetermined species of this genus from Villa Rica, Paraguay (Giglio-Tos) may refer to this species. Monastria biguttata (Thunberg). Yaguarasapa. — 1892. One male. (Bertoni, No. 479). Blaberus minor Saussure. Paraguay. — 1904. One female. (Bertoni, No. 412). Giglio- Tos has recorded this species from San Lorenzo, Argentina and Aguairenda, Bolivian Chaco and numerous authors have cred- ited it to Brazil. Blaberus sp. Yaguarasapa. — 1892. One female. (Bertoni, No. 475). This species is probably new and related to B. rufescens on one hand and the postica group on the other. It seems inadvis- able to make a definite determination of this specimen until more material belonging to this extremely variable genus is in hand. Blaberus sp. Puerto Bertoni. — 1905. One nymph. (Bertoni, No. 743.) Hormetica atlas n. sp. Type. — $ ;Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. — 1905. (Bertoni, No. 420). [A. N. S. P. type, No. 5174.] Allied to H. lacvigata Burmeister, but differing in the more elongate pronotum and tegmina, the blackish coloration of the "horse-shoe" on the pronotum and in the non-annulate an- tennae. Size, large ; form moderately depressed ; surface of pronotum rugulose ; of abdomen tuberculate. Head completely hidden under the pronotum ; interspace between the eyes very great and equal to that between the antennal bases ; face considerably flattened. Pronotum Vol. xxiil ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 249 with the lateral and cephalic margins strongly arcuate and slightly produced cephalad. The margin proper cingulate and strongly ele- vated and sub-lamellate cephalad ; caudal margin arcuato-truncate, rather narrowly rounding laterad in the lateral margins, surface with an elevated swollen horseshoe-shaped design, the "heels" directed cephalad and thicker and more elevated than the other portions of the pattern, having at their internal angle a blunt tubercle; area within the "horseshoe" biundulate and with seven low more or less parallel ridges, cephalad of which are several low diverging sub- arcuate folds, of which the distal is sub- tuberculate, while immediately cephalad Fig. i.-Hormetica atlas n. sp. Dor- of the elevated "heel" of the pattern is sal outline of pronotum of type a iow |jut acute tubercle; lateral por- showing general form of the ele- \ vated " horse-shoe " pattern. tions of the pronotum distinctly deflect- ed. Tegmina slightly exceeding the length of the pronotum, subovate, width nearly three-fourths of the length, coriaceous ; costal margin hardly arcuate proximad, strongly arcuate distad, apex well rounded, sutural margin straight; anal sul- cus reaching slightly distad of the middle of the sutural margin. Wings falling but little short of the tegmina. Abdomen with the greatest width slightly exceeding the tegminal length, dorsum dis- tinctly but finely tuberculate mesad ; supra-anal plate damaged ; cerci short, depressed, sub- fusiform; sub-genital plate distinctly emarginato- sinuate on the right side, styles lateral and extremely short. General color tawny, darker and more rufescent on the head, pro- notum, tegmina and limbs ; pronotal pattern seal brown, the enclosed area dark chocolate; antennae with the proximal joint of the color of the head, followed by seal brown fading into fawn color distad ; eyes of the general color ; base of the tegminal vein trunk blackish ; dorsal abdominal segments with the median section of their distal halves darker than the other portion of the segments ; tibial spines blackish. MEASUREMENTS. $ Type. $ Paratype. Length of body 45.5 mm. 35.5 mm. Length of pronotum 15.5 mm. n. mm. Greatest width of pronotum 19.5 mm. 14.5 mm. Length of tegmen 18.5 mm. 12.8 mm. Greatest width of tegmen 14.2 mm. 10. mm. Greatest width of abdomen 20.5 mm. 16.2 mm. 250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll A paratypic female (Bertoni, No. 704) has also been examined, the measurements for it being given above. It differs from the type in the characters usual in that sex of species of this genus, viz. : The smaller size, the great suppression of the pronotal "horseshoe" pat- tern and the absence of the marked lamellato-elevate character of the cephalic pronotal margin. The supra-anal plate is perfect in this speci- men and transverse arcuate in form with the faintest possible median emargination. Dasyposoma nigra Brunner. Puerto Bertoni. — 1905. One female. (Bertoni, No. 421). This specimen is somewhat smaller than Brunner's measure- ments (type from Brazil), but otherwise the Puerto Bertoni in- dividual does not appear separable. MANTIDAE. Acanthops sinuata (Stoll). Puerto Bertoni. — One male. (Schrottky, No. 3). Puerto Bertoni. — 1909. One male. (Bertoni, No. 398). This species has been recorded from Sapucay, Paraguay, and Paraguay without further locality. ACRIDIDAE. Apotettix bruneri Hancock. Puerto Bertoni. — One female. (Schrottky). This is the first record of the species with exact locality. Sisantum gracilicornis (Bruner). 1910. — Orphula gracilicornis Bruner , ENT. NEWS, XXI, p. 301, [Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay.] Puerto Bertoni. — One female. January 18, 1910. (Schrott- ky, No. 2). Puerto Bertoni. — One female. No date. (Schrottky). When compared with a paratype of Sisantum notochloris, the type of the genus Sisantum, and specimens of Orphula pagana, the type of the genus Orphula, we cannot agree with the origi- nal author in his generic assignment of this species. While it is true that the apex of the tegmina is narrowly oblique trun- cate, it is by no means the obliquely truncate apex of O. pagana, Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 251 while the apex of the same in Sisantum notochloris is not decidedly rounded, much approaching that seen in gracilicornis. Again the caudal femora and fastigio-facial angle are far nearer the type found in notochloris than in 0. pagana, the quite elongate, little inflated femora found in pagana being quite different from the more robust, distinctly inflated charac- ter of these parts in Sisantum notochloris and gracilicornis. The two specimens in hand are slightly larger than the meas- urements of the female sex given by Bruner. Orphulella punctata (DeGeer). Puerto Bertoni. — One female. (Schrottky). This individual belongs to the form elegans. Ommexecha virens Serville. Puerto Bertoni. — One female. December 13, 1909. (Ber- toni, No. 394 part). Puerto Bertoni. — One female. No date. (Schrottky). One of these specimens is suffused with ferruginous, while the other has a "salt and pepper" effect of gray on brownish. In response to a query regarding the color variation of individuals of this and other species of the genus, Senor Bertoni writes that "the Ommexechae live in communities, are very variable in color and the green and obscure individuals are encountered in copula." Tropinotus discoideus Serville. Puerto Bertoni. — Three males, two females. (Schrottky). Two of the males have green on the dorsum as previously de- scribed by Rehn.* Chromacris Stolli (Pictet and Saussure). Puerto Bertoni. — January, 1910. One male, one female. (Schrottky, No. i). Adimantus vitticeps (Blanchard). Puerto Bertoni. — One female. (Schrottky, No. 6). The following notes on the nymphal condition of this speci- men have been supplied by the collector. *Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 170. 252 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll No. 6. Nymph $ (the same individual I sent you after its trans- formation.) Food-plant: Sugar cane. January. Not common. Head above yellow with two green stripes with a black center, behind the eyes a large green spot. Face green with black shades, mouth- parts whitish, palpi with black points at apex. Pronotum yellowish green ; on each side two longitudinal stripes composed of blackish green specks ; mesopleurae yellow with three blackish green transverse stripes ; wings clear green. Abdomen above yellowish green, each segment on both sides with two longitudinal stripes of dark green color, so that four stripes, more or less complete, run over the dorsum of abdomen, the last segment yellow with black cerci. Legs greenish and with black spots in regular intervals; femora III yellowish, the outer side with a dark green longitudinal stripe ; tibias and tarsi III spotted with black. Sternum yellowish with a black margin and a red patch. Ven- ter greenish, each sternite with lateral triangular black spots. TETTIGONIIDAE. Isophya melanochloris n. sp. Type. — $ ; Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. — November 2, 1909. (Bertoni, No. 397). [A. N. S. P. type, No. 5175.] A very distinct species of the genus with bidentate cerci, sharply pointed processes to the subgenital plate and a most striking livery of green and black. Size somewhat large (for the genus). Head short, occiput roundly declivent to the fastigium, very slightly inflated; fastigium about half again as broad as the proximal antennal joint, sub-quadrate, sulcate mesad, distal margin broadly in contact with the broad truncate facial fastigium ; eyes small, rather tumescent, ovate in outline ; antennae ex- ceeding the body in length. Pronotum deplanate dorsad, the disc slightly expanding caudad, the caudal width contained about one and one-quarter times in the length, cephalic margin of disc sub-truncate, caudal margin arcuato-subtruncate, caudal section with a very short but decided medio-longitudinal carina; lateral angles of disc rounded cephalad, de- cided caudad ; lateral lobes about one and one-third times as long as deep, ventro- cephalic angle sub-rectangulate, ventro- caudal angle and caudal margin regularly arcuate, humeral sinus hardly indicated. Fig. 2. — Isophva melanochlons n. sp. Dorsal view of apex Tegmma very slightly shorter than the of abdomen of tvpe (x 5). •> , , ., r ,, dorsal length of the pronotum, apex at the extremity of the principal veins and rounded, sutural margin regularly arcuate to the apex, costal margin sub-arcuate; tympanum covering al- Vol. xxii] FXTOMOLOGTCAL XF.WS 253 most the entire tegmen, transverse vein moderately robust. Abdomen inflated; terminal dorsal abdominal segment semi-elliptically depressed, medio-longitudinally sulcate, distal margin slightly obtuse-angulate ; cerci straight, rather robust, apex bluntly pointed, internal face with a pre-apical and a median tooth, of which the former is slightly re- curved and distally spiniform; sub-genital plate* with a pair of slightly divergent styliform processes, between which the margin is sub-truncate. Cephalic, median and caudal femora unarmed on ventral surface and without genicular spines ; cephalic tibise with the tympanum open, all four margins of median and distal sections of tibiae armed with spines ; median tibise with the margins spined ; caudal tibise very slightly longer than the femora ; all tarsi without arolia between the claws. General color apple green laterad, becoming olive green on the sides of the head and face and bistre on the dorsum of head and pronotum. Dorsum of abdomen with a moderately broad medio-longitudinal stripe of velvety black, reaching to the terminal abdominal segment. Teg- mina with the costal field blackish narrowly edged with ferruginous, the area of the principal veins slightly ferruginous, discoidal field oil green, tympanum varied with rufous, seal brown and pale greenish. Antennae black, more or less ferruginous proximad; eyes chestnut. Limbs burnt umber, more or less lined and washed with seal brown ; caudal femora with a broad lateral area of seal brown, proximal ex- tremity of the same apple green ; caudal tibiae largely seal brown. MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 22. mm. Length of pronotum 4.5 mm. Greatest dorsal width of pronotum 3.8 mm. Length of tegmen 5.5 mm. Width of tympanum of tegmen 3.8 mm. Length of caudal femur 20.5 mm. The type of this species is unique. Scaphura nigra (Thunberg). Puerto Bertoni. — November, 1909. One immature male, one immature female. (Bertoni). Gymnocera fasciata (Brunner). Puerto Bertoni. — October, 1904. One female. (Bertoni. No. 411). There is some uncertainty regarding the determination of *This is considerably mutilated in the type, but its structure is evi- dent. 254 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll this specimen, as it has lost a good portion of the original coloration. Phylloptera alliedea Caudell. Puerto Bertoni. — October, 1907. One male. (Bertoni, No. 405). Theudoria nigrolineata Brunner. Puerto Bertoni. — One female. (Bertoni). This species was described from Buenos Ayres, this being the next record for the species. Theudoria melanocnemus (Stal). Puerto Bertoni. — November, 1907. One female. (Bertoni, No. 414). The previous records of this form were from Buenos Ayres (type) and Montevideo. Dasyscelis normalis Brunner. Puerto Bertoni. — November, 1905. One female. (Bertoni, No. 418). Lichenochrus hilaris Brunner. Puerto Bertoni. — November, 1905. One female. (Bertoni, No. 417). This species was previously known only from Matto Grosso, Brazil. Lichenochrus sp. Puerto Bertoni. — November, 1909. One immature female. (Bertoni, No. 407). Paroxyprora tenuicauda Karny. Puerto Bertoni. — One male. (Schrottky). Puerto Bertoni. — 1905. One female. (Bertoni, No. 705). This species was recently described from Rio Grande do Stil. Brazil, and there is some little uncertainty regarding the deter- mination of the specimens in hand. Xiphilimum amplipenne Caudell. Puerto Bertoni. — January, 1910. One female. (Bertoni, No. 408). Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 255 This species was previously known only from Sapucay, Para- guay. BERTONIELLA n. gen. A member of the Agraeciini allied to Lobaspis Redtenbacher. from which it differs in having the tegmina and wings no long- er than the body, in having the genicular lobes of the cephalic femora and cephalic one of the median limbs non-spinose, and in the decidedly abbreviate limbs in the male. From Gonata- canthus Karny it can be immediately separated by the non- spinose cephalic genicular lobes, from Anthracites Redtenbach- er by the longer tegmina and shorter limbs, from Paralobaspis Giglio-Tos by the absence of the peculiar fastigial development of that genus, from Nannagroecia by the arcuate ovipositor and from Alphopteryx Redtenbacher by the different tegmina. Fastigium spiniform, contiguous ventrad with facial fas- tigium, antennae greatly exceeding length of body ; eyes sub- globose. Pronotum in male produced caudad over tegminal tympanum ; humeral sinus hardly indicated. Tegmina sub- coriaceous, no longer than body, apex rounded. Prosternum long bispinose. Supra-anal segment of male sub-angulate, fis- sate ; cerci of male short, strongly incurved, apically toothed : sub-genital plate of male with paired styliform appendages sur- mounted by true styles. Ovipositor falcate, acute, margins en- tire. Limbs short and robust ; genicular lobes of cephalic fe- mora and cephalic lobe of median femora rounded, non-spinose, caudal lobe of median femora spinose, genicular lobes of caudal femora spinose ; ventro-lateral margin of caudal femora spined. ventro-cephalic margins of cephalic and median femora each with several spines. Type. — B. agraecioides n. sp. We take pleasure in dedicating this most interesting genus to Senor A. de Winkelried Bertoni, who collected the type and who has done so much to make known to science the rich fauna of Paraguay. Bertoniella agraecioides n. sp. Type. — , $ ; Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. — November, 1909. (A. de Winkelried Bertoni.) [A. N. S. P., type No. 5176.] 256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'n Size, rather small ; form, robust. Head broad, occiput nearly hori- zontal ; fastigium narrow, spiniform, apex rounded, not extending ce- phalad of the proximal antennal joint ; eyes globose, but little prominent ; antennae with proximal joint swollen on internal face. Pronotum with greater dorsal width contained more than twice in length of same, caudal section of disk produced caudad in an arcuate extension cover- ing almost the entire tympanal field of tegmina ; cephalic margin of disk truncate ; lateral lobes with their greatest depth contained over Fig. 3. — Bertoniella agrarcioides n. gen., n. sp. Lateral view of male type (x 3). one and one-half times in greatest length; ventral margin oblique truncate, ventro-caudal angle obtuse-angulate, caudal margin oblique truncate, humeral sinus hardly appreciable. Tegmina sublanceolate, about reaching base of supra-anal segment, costal margin arcuate distad, apex rounded, structure coriaceous, subreticulate. Wings dis- tinctly but not greatly shorter than tegmina. Supra-anal segment (ter- minal dorsal abdominal segment) very narrowly fissate for about one- third of its length, margin very obtuse-angulate ; cerci with lateral face of proximal portion decidedly and roundly excavate ; subgenital plate with styliform appendages fairly robust, parallel, separated by about the width of one appendage, true styles short. Cephalic femora about two-thirds as long as the pronotal disk, armed with three spines distad on the ventro- cephalic margin, ventro-caudal margin un- armed ; median femora slightly shorter than cephalic pair, similarly armed ; cephalic tibiae with tympanum cleft-shaped, cephalic and Fig. 4.— Bertoniella agrae- cioides n. gen., n. sp. median tibiae unarmed dorsad, armed on both Dorsal outline of prono- tum of male type x 3). margins ventrad ; caudal femora about as long Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 257 as the tegmina, decidedly inflated in the proximal two-thirds, distal portion narrow, lateral margin with five to six distal spines, internal margin with one or two distal spines ; caudal tibiae subequal to the fem- ora in length, very slightly bowed. General color ochraceous, the limbs approaching tawny ochraceous; dorsum of head and entire dorsum of pronotum brownish black, this narrowing cephalad and extending over the dorsal surface of the fastigium ; genicular regions of the femora and tibiae, a spot at the distal extremity of tympanal slit and less clearly defined areas at the tips of the tibiae brownish black; eyes chestnut; antennal scrobes brownish black ; tegmina with the anal field strongly suffused with dark brownish, costal and discoidal fields with a few scattered irregu- lar spots of brownish black. MEASUREMENTS. Type $ 5 Length of body 22.5 mm. 26.5 mm. Length of pronotum 9.2 mm. 8.5 mm. Greatest (caudal) dorsal width of pronotum 4.2 mm. 4. mm. Length of tegmen 13.5 mm. 16. mm. Length of caudal femur 13. mm. 16.2 mm. Length of ovipositor 13. mm. A female of this species taken by Schrottky at the type locality (without recorded date) gives the measurements entered in the above table with those of the type. The characters of disagreement with the male description are here given. Pronotum with caudal development of disk much less than in male, although of similar shape; caudal margin of lateral lobes slightly sigmoid, the humeral sinus hardly marked. Ovipositor nearly equal to caudal femora in length, rather broad, of ovipositor of female type faicate ; subgenital plate small, produced \ X 2 ). trigonal ; apex rather broadly fissate. Color as in male, ovipositor of general color. Lutosa* paranensis n. sp. Type. — $ ; Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. — October, 1909. (Bertoni, No. 410). [A. N. S. P., type No. 5177.] Allied to L. brasiliensis (Brunner), from Santa Catharina, Brazil, from which it differs in the hardly curved caudal tibiae and considerably smaller size. *Pherterus of authors. 258 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll Size medium; form robust, moderately compressed; surface polish- ed. Head with the occiput roundly declivent to the subvertical fasti- gium, which is slightly broader than the proximal antennal joint; margin bluntly acute-angulate ; antennas over twice the length of body, proximal joint elongate, cylindrical; eyes not at all prominent, pyriform; apex ventrad. Pronotum with the greatest width con- tained about one and one-third times in the length ; cephalic and caudal margins, subtruncate ; lateral lobes arcuate- angulate ventrad, ventral angles rounded. Cerci moderately elongate, slightly tapering, apex acute ; subgenial plate rectangulate emarginate caudad, styles flanking the emargination and of fair length. Cephalic and median limbs similar in size and spine development. Caudal femora very robust, the proximal three-fourths inflated, margins unarmed, external face with a regular pattern of oblique arcuate dorso-caudad impressed lines ; caudal tibias nearly straight ; principal internal caudal spur reaching to the apex of the third tarsal joint, claws without arolia. General color deep tawny ochraceous, ventrad becoming buffy and dorsad becoming suffused with seal brown ; a medio-longitudinal line on the abdomen is deep ochraceous rufous ; pronotum with the seal brown narrowed and much of the dorsum deep ochraceous, a narrow median line and large lateral patches of this color being present ; eyes, black; antennas ochraceous; fastigium and dorsum of head of the dor- sal color; face dirty clay color with the ocelli clear buff. MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 19.5 mm. Length of pronotum 7.2 mm. Greatest width of pronotum . 6.2 mm Length of caudal femur 18. mm. The type is the only specimen of the species seen by us. GRYLLIDAE. Khipipteryx brullei Serville. Puerto Bertoni. — Two females. (Schrottky, No. 4). Eneoptera surinamensis (DeGeer). Puerto Bertoni. — October 5, 1909. One female. (Bertoni. No. 406). ABUNDANCE OF COSTA RICAN BUTTERFLIES. — Mr. William Schaus re- ports that he took 150 species of Thecla in Costa Rica (64 are men- tioned in the Biologia as from that country) and over 300 species of Hesperidse. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 259 Lycaena enoptes, battoides and glaucon (Lepid.). BY HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. This is a comparative study from the specimens at hand, no types having been seen and the descriptions being relied on. These three names represent the great difficulties encountered in a study of our butterflies, especially species of some of the earlier authors. The name species represented quite a different idea from what it does to-day, and slight differences in appear- ance were often taken to represent distinct entities in nature. I could never with any degree of satisfaction find butterflies that would adequately fit these three names as distinct species. The type of battoides Behr, I assume, was destroyed in the San Francisco fire. The type of enoptes Boisduval may, or may not, be in the Oberthur collection in Rennes, France, and the type of glaucon Edwards is doubtless in Dr. W. J. Holland's collection in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. After a careful study of the original descriptions, in conjunc- tion with a fair amount of material, I have come to the con- clusion that the three names represent but one species. Bat- toides I take to be a variety of enoptes, and glancon also a slight variety. I have studied sixty-five specimens from the fol- lowing localities : California material has been received from Havilah, June n (F. Grinnell, Jr.), also June 19, Pasadena; June 7 and 13 (Louis Wanka) ; Soldiers' Home (Max Albright) ; Brodie, July 3 (H. F. Wickham) ; Truckee, Sierra Nevada; Los An- geles, June 7; Eldorado County, June 19 (6800 ft.). There are also specimens with only a State label. Las Vegas, Nevada, May I and June 5 (Thomas Spalding). Fort Klamath, Oregon, June 12 to 26 (B. L. Cunningham). Chimney Gulch, Colorado, June 18 and 20 (E. J. Oslar). These are the only Colorado specimens with accurate data, the others bearing a label "Colorado, Bruce." Park City, Utah, July i and 3 (A. J. Snyder) ; City Creek Canyon, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 5 (Henry Skinner) ; Stock- ton, LJtah, June 10 to 26 (Thomas Spalding), also July 3; Provo, Utah, July 28, 30 (Thomas Spalding). 260 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Tune. 'IT I have compared descriptions : Enoptes. Primaries above. Violet blue, with a rather wide black bor- der ; the fringe inter- sected with white and black. them according to the following original Primaries below. Ashy white, with a great number of black ocellate points. Secondaries above. Violet blue, with a rather wide black bor- der. Secondaries below. Ashy white, with a Battoides. Primaries above. Wings of male of this species above blue, broadly margin- ed with black, fringes checkered. Primaries below. Whitish, with two basal dots in a trans- verse black band hard- ly bent backward and confluent with the dis- coidal line, a series of ordinary quadrangular black dots, a double submarginal series and no black margin. Secondaries above. Blue, broadly mar- gined with black, frin- ges checkered ; provi- ded with several yel- low submarginal lun- ules. Secondaries below. Three basal black Glaucon. Primaries above. Male expands o 95 inch. Pruinose blue, color of corny ntas ; blackish border to hind margin of equal width throughout and even edged within ; fringes short, white, cut with black at ends of nerv- ures. Primaries below. Grey-brown, .a mar- ginal series of brown spots or imperfect lun- ules, preceded by a submarginal series of larger, distinct, black- ish spots, the two next inner angle suffused with fulvous; a median row of large blackish spots, the uppermost ones much advanced on costa ; a subreni- form spot on arc and a smaller spot in cell, both blackish. Secondaries above. Pruinose blue, color of comyntas ; rather wider border (than in primaries), lunate within and less dis- tinctly defined, the two lunations before anal angle surmounted with fulvous. Secondaries below. A distinct marginal Vol. xxiij ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 26l great number of black ocellate points ; the two striae of posterior points are separated on the secondaries by a series of five yellow lunules. " It is found in May on dry hills " (Califor- nia). dots and a fulvous band which reaches to an internal series of submarginal dots, but not to the external ser- ies of dots nor to the anterior apex. " Head-waters of San Joaquin Valley, California, eleven thousand feet." row of round brown spots, preceded by a second similar row, but which are partly lost in a bright orange stripe that occupies the space between the two rows from anal angle nearly a ,ross wing; median row sim- ilar to that of primar- ies ; a bent bar on arc; two rounded blackish spots a little posterior to this bar and be- tween it and costa ; a third spot on costa nearer the base and a fourth below cell. " Allied to batloides Behr. From two males and one female taken by Mr. Henry Edwards in Nevada." The larger number of specimens examined are males and the above descriptions refer to males only, the females not pre- senting any discoverable differences except in size. The males differ in expanse from 14 mm. to 25 mm., the smallest speci- mens being from Pasadena, Los Angeles and Havilah, Califor- . nia, and from Las Vegas, Nevada. The largest came from Prove, Utah. The specimens taken in July are all large and are the only ones having fulvous on the underside of the primaries. These are evidently a second brood, the first appearing in May. Enoptes may be taken as the species, having been described previous to the other two. The black border varies consider- ably in width, being from i mm. to 2 mm. One specimen from Fort Klamath, Oregon, has the border 3 mm. in width. The amount of orange on the underside of secondaries varies con- siderably and in some specimens it is entirely absent. Variety battoides has sub-marginal fulvous spots on the secondaries 262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [JllIlC, 'll above. In the series from Fort Klamath, Oregon, some show this character and some do not. I restrict the name battoides to the specimens having this fulvous. This form is well figured in Dr. W. J. Holland's Butterfly Book, Plate 32, fig. 11. Glau- con I have restricted to the variety having two sub-marginal fulvous spots near anal angle of upperside of secondaries and having on the underside of the primaries the two spots next inner angle suffused with fulvous. Having fulvous markings on the underside of the primaries is an unusual condition judg- ing from the material at hand. It will be noted that the types of glaucon came from Nevada. whereas Mr. Edwards in his Catalogue of 1884 credits it to Colorado only. The Utah specimens are somewhat lighter in color than those from California, Nevada or Oregon, and there is more of a tendency for the marginal border of the second- aries above to break into spots. Some specimens from Havilah, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, have a more brilliant lus- ter (Morpho-like) and are quite small. I would like very much to have additional specimens of any of these forms from any locality and I will also be pleased to name specimens. The student can make his own deductions from the original descriptions presented; my own studies and conclusions are here given for what they may be worth. INTENSIV AGRICULTURE. — The letter-beds used by the Iowa State Col- lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Department of Zoology, in- cluding the Offis of the State Entomologist, bear the legend "Spelling authorized by the Simplified Spelling Board used in this offis." Strange to relate, the agricultural and mechanic arts, the cultivation of agri- cultural zoology, and the regulation of the insects of the State, go on just the same — indeed a little better. Because scientific simplification applied to one department of life is sure to promote simplification in other departments of life. Spelling in accordance with reason will thus lead to the reduction of insect pests, and therefore increase the crops. If you do not believe this, state the opposit case, and tell us whether you believe that. Agriculturists have always tended toward simplicity of spelling, and here is a financial reason to confirm their views.— Simplified Spelling Bulletin, March, 1911. Vol. Xxii] KXTOMI (LOGICAL XEWS 263 A new Sawfly of Economic Importance* (Hymen.). BY S. A. ROHWER, Washington, D. C. Some time age Mr. R. A. Cushman, who was at that time stationed at Tallulah, Louisiana, sent to the Bureau of Ento- mology a sawfly which was found defoliating the peaches in that locality. The specimens sent represent a new species be- longing to the genus Caliroa (sub-genus Erio camp aides), and are herewith described. The habits of this species have been studied by Mr. Cushman, and will be described in a paper to be published by the Bureau of Entomology. Mr. Cushman states that they differ in a number of ways from those of the com- mon pear slug, although the larvae and work are superficially similar. The accompanying figures were prepared from camera lu- cida sketches, and the description was made with the aid of a Carl Zeiss binocular with a magnification of thirty-five diame- ters. Caliroa (Eriocampoides) amygdalina new species. Related to C. (Eriocampoides) quercus-coccinca (Dyar), but the frontal fovese are small, well denned, punctiform, not large and poorly defined; the third and fourth posterior tarsal joints have projections beneath; the stigma is shorter; the wings uniformly dark; the trans- verse radius is received basad of the middle of the cell, not beyond the middle ; and the saw has small, separate dorsal teeth, and larger ventral ones. Female. — Length 3.5 mm. Labrum broadly rounded, granular ; clypeus broadly emarginate, somewhat angular, the lobes broad, triangular ; supraclypeal area convex throughout its entire length, not mound-like; antennal foveae rather small ; middle fovea not sharply denned, large, somewhat circular in outline ; frontal foveset small, sharply defined, punc- tiform; sides of the pentagonal area ridged as in qncrcus-coccinea; ocel- lar basin shallow, circular in outline; postocellar furrow wanting; posto- cellar area twice as wide as its cephalo-caudad length ; antennre hairy, the third joint much longer than the fourth, but shorter than the fourth * Contributions from the Division of Forest Insects, Bureau o\ Entomology, Department of Agriculture. t The term "frontal foveae" is used for the fove;e which occur in some species, in the antennal furrows near the frontal crest. 264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, ' and fifth combined ; stigma robust, about three times as long as the greatest width, widest where the transverse radius leaves it, oblique from the transverse radius; the third cubital cell but little broader apically, receiving the transverse radius distinctly basad of the middle ; hind wings without closed discal cells; the third and fourth joints of the posterior tarsi with long apical projections beneath; sheath rather narrow, straight above, broadly rounded below, the apex with a tuft 2 Caliroa (Eriocampoides) amygdalina. — Fig. i, anterior wing of female ; 2, third and fourth joints of the hind tarsi of female; 3, saw; 4, apex of the sheath; 5, antenna of female; 6, dorsal aspect of the genital armature of male. of white hair; saw slender, dorsally with small teeth apically, ventrally the teeth are large and are themselves dentate (see Figure 3). Black; the four anterior tibiae and tarsi, the basal half of the posterior tibiae and the post-basitarsus white, or whitish; wings uniformly blackish, venation dark brown. Male. — Length 3 mm. Very like the female, but the middle fovea is Vol. XX'ii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 265 rather smaller and more sharply defined, and the sides of the pentagon- al area are not as sharply denned. The hypopygidium is rather short, and is broadly rounded apically ; the genital stipes are large and broad- ly rounded apically, greatly exceeding the hypopygidium. The posterior tibiae, beyond the middle, and the posterior tarsi are black or strongly infuscated. Type-locality. — Tallulah, Louisiana. Many specimens rear- ed by Mr. R. A. Cushman from larvae on peach. Some of them under the Bureau of Entomology number "Hunter 1936." Type. — Cat. No. 13,371, United States National Museum. Concerning Archylus tener Druce (Lepid.). BY WM. BARNES, M.D. and J. McDuNNOUGH, Ph.D., Decatur, 111. In the Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash., Vol. VI, p. 65, Dr. Dyar re- cords this species from southern Arizona, expressing at the same time some doubt as to the correct generic position of this insect. In the Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash., Vol. XII, 1910, he places the species in the genus Norape, stating (p. 167) that "the single type specimen has veins 3 and 4 of hind wing con- nate, 4 and 5 of fore wing separate, although very shortly so. It therefore must be placed in this genus. The Arizona form, supposed to be the same as the Mexican tener is referred to here under the genus Ramaca." On page 173 of the same journal he creates the genus Ramaca with pascora Schaus as type species, merely stating that this genus differs from Mesos- cia Hbn. "in having veins 4 and 5 of fore wing and 3-4 of hind wing connate." He then describes as a new species R. achriogelos from a single male specimen from southern Ari- zona, remarking, "Very like Norape tener Druce, but differ- ing in venation." If, as must be inferred from Dr. Dyar's remarks, the only point of difference between tener and achriogelos is in the venation, we fear that our worthy friend, from lack of material probably, has created a synonym. We have examined a series of 37 specimens from Cochise 266 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll Co., Arizona, in the Collection Barnes, and have found a sin- gle specimen among them in which veins 4 and 5 of the fore wing are distinctly separate, although very shortly so just as Dr. Dyar states is the case with the type of tener. The re- maining specimens fall in about equal numbers into two groups, having veins 4-5 either stalked or from a point. In one case there was an extra vein between veins 3 and 4. The specimen with veins separate differs in no respect from the others, and all agree exactly both with the description and the figure given in the Biol. Cent. Amer. Dr. Dyar's descrip- tion of achriogelos would also apply equally well to tener. With regard to the hind wings of the specimens before us, most of them have veins 3-4 from a point (connate.) Sev- eral specimens however show these veins very distinctly but shortly separate. As the genera Mesoscia and Ramaca are separated by Dyar on the strength of veins 3-4 of hind wings being separate or connate, it is rather doubtful whether Ra- maca Dyar will hold. As however we have no South Ameri- can material before us, we leave this point to be decided by more competent authorities than ourselves. To return to tener, we consider then that achriogelos Dyar is an absolute synonym, the slight difference in venation in the type of tener being due to mere accidental variation. As to the genus into which this species should be placed we are rather at a loss to decide. Dr. Dyar has removed it from Archylus and placed it in Nor ape; it cannot remain there, however, as veins 4 and 5 of fore wing are more often con- nate or stalked than separate ; it is shut out from Ramaca owing to the fact that veins 3-4 of hing wings are sometimes separate, which would place it in the genus Mesoscia. It seems to vacillate between these two last named genera and has become an outcast and a wanderer, surely a harsh fate for such a delicate species. Let us hope it will find a firm abiding place without the necessity of creating still another new genus. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 267 Some Remarks on Master bellus and M. phylace (Lepid.). By WM. BARNES, M.D., and J. McDoNNOUGH, Ph.D., Decatur, 111. In the January number of the Canadian Entomologist for 1911, page 6, Mr. Coolidge, in an article on the genus Mastor, arrives at the conclusion that M. bellus and M. phy- lace are but the spring and summer broods respectively of one and the same species. He bases his conclusion on the fact that he has taken bellus abundantly in the Huachuca Mts. of Cochise Co., Ariz., from the end of May until about the middle of July and that Mr. V. L. Clemence has given him several specimens taken July i8th and 26th in the Chiricahua Mts., Cochise Co., Arizona, which "have the fringes of a pale, dirty, creamish color, answering perfectly to the de- scription of phylace Edw." Without stating any reasons he jumps to the conclusion that these second specimens must be the second brood of bellus, in other words, that a species tak- en in one locality in the latter half of July is but a seasonal form of another species taken in an entirely different locality by a different person from the middle of May until the mid- dle of July. Without additional proof such a statement as this is absolutely worthless; in fact, until satisfactory evi- dence is given that ova deposited by the early females pro- duce imagines corresponding to the other form, seasonal dimorphism cannot be definitely accepted. In the case in point it is our opinion that we are dealing with two nearly related but clearly distinct species. We have examined carefully series of both species, contained in Col- lection Barnes, and including specimens which have been compared with the actual types. The bellus are all from the mountain districts of southern Arizona and include specimens taken in May and June and others taken July 24-30, show- ing the species is probably double-brooded, as stated by Coolidge. No difference however between the two broods can be noted. 268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ J UIlC, 'il Our phylace are from southern Colorado and New Mexico, several bearing the date June, which would tend to upset the seasonal form theory. As further evidence for the distinctness of the two species, we would call attention to the great and constant difference in the stigma on the fore wing of the males, a point which has always been considered of excellent specific value, and which is used in Europe with great success in separating the nearly allied species lineola and thaumas. In bellus the stigma is long and narrow, consisting usually of three distinct tufts of black hair, extending in a line from the space between veins Cui and Cu2 across the former to the anal vein. In phylace the stigma is much shorter and somewhat stouter: it con- sists of two tufts of hairs and is largely confined to the space between Cui and Cu2, extending but for a short distance across Cui and never reaching the anal vein. With regard to M. anubis G. & S. and M. bicolor Mabille, which Coolidge is also inclined to place as synonyms of phylace, we are unacquainted with either of these species, but would advise great care in making synonyms of species merely because the descriptions or figures appear to fit in fairly well with each other. Sufficient confusion has already been caused among our North American Lepidoptera by such procedure, and unless one has had access to the actual types themselves, or to specimens compared with the types by some reliable authority, it would be well to hold before one the motto advocated by the guides in the Alps of Switzerland, "Hurry slowly." — • «»» • — Arrangement of the Species of Dendrocoris Bergr., with the Descriptions of two new Species (Hemip.). BY H. G. BARBER, Roselle Park, N. J. In my paper on the "Hemiptera from Southwestern Texas," published in the "Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn In- stitute of Arts and Sciences," Vol. I, No. 9, 1906, I described Dendrocoris schaefferi and gave a synoptic key for distin- Vol. .XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS guishing the known species of the genus. At that time I did not have Dr. Bergroth's paper in which he had described D. fruticicola, and I depended for my diagnostic characters upon a specimen labelled as such, received from the National Mu- seum. The recent acquisition of Dr. Bergroth's paper and several specimens of the true fruticicola from Florida, kindly presented to me by Mr. Van Duzee, has shown that the species so indicated in my key is distinct, which I here describe as D. reticulatus. I collected several specimens of this species in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, in 1905, as well as an- other undescribed species which I have called D. arizonensis. This brings the total number of species of the genus Dcn- drocoris up to seven, which may readily be separated by the following synoptic table : Head incised in front, with lateral lobes not in contact. Humeri strongly prominent and very acute schaefferi barb. Tex. Head rounded in front with lateral lobes more or less in contact. Humeri rounded, not at all prominent, barely projecting beyond lateral margins of hemelytra. Lateral margins of prothorax somewhat convexly arcuated. pini Mont. — S. W. States Humeri more or less rounded or obtuse, projecting well beyond costal margins. Lateral margins of prothorax concavely arcuated. Anterior one half of pronotum infuscated; connexivum with- out a small black spot at incisures. contaminatus Uhl. — S. W. States. Anterior half of pronotum concolorous ; connexivum with a black spot or band at incisures humeralis Uhl. — U. S. Lateral margins of prothorax nearly straight. Veins of membrane reticulated. Lateral margins of prothorax impressed and impunctate reticulatus n. sp. — Ariz. Veins of membrane normal. Surface of pronotum punctured to the margins, which are not impressed. The stigmata, extreme apical angle of abdominal segments above and below and large spot at each incisure of the con- nexivum, next the costal margin, black. fruticicola Bergr. — Fla. The stigmata concolorous; extreme apical angle of abdomi- nal segments below and with a band at base and apex of each abdominal segment of the connexivum, black or fus- cous arizonensis n. sp. — Ariz. 27O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'iT Dendrocoris reticulatus new species. Color pale ochraceous. Form short and broad. Head short and broad, lateral lobes slightly in contact before tylus and leaving the rounded apex slightly incised. Lateral edges lined with black and slightly concave before eyes. Whole surface of head coarsely and even- ly punctured with pale castaneous, punctures becoming blackish to- wards sides. Antennas except for straminously colored basal segment. pale rufous; second joint slightly longer than basal, third about one- third longer than second, slightly incrassate, fourth and fifth joints subequal in length and somewhat longer than third. Head beneath except anteriorly and laterally coarsely, concolorously punctate. Pro- notum and scutellum coarsely punctured with pale castaneous, punc- tures arranged somewhat in irregular broken transverse rows. Sharp- ly impressed lateral edge of pronotum almost straight, concolorous impunctate. The median longitudinal ridge very faint. Humeral angles rather prominent, rounded ; surface elevated within. Scutellum short and broad, with apex narrowly rounded. Pale castaneous punctures of the corium, more scattered on the disc, leaving some irregular smooth areas between exterior vein and clavus. Membrane suffused with pale fuscous and with the nervures pale and much reticulated. Expanded surface of the connexivum concolorous with the corium, rather sharply and coarsely punctured with pale castaneous, these sometimes more 01 less blackish next the incisures ; apical angle of each segment tipped with black. Beneath paler with prosternum coarsely punctate with pale castaneous, meso- and metasternum except posteriorly with few punc- tures. Legs pale stramineous, shaded with rufous towards apex of tibiae and tarsi. Disc of venter smooth, laterally with scattered rufous punctures. Rim of spiracles and outer apical angle of segments 2-6 black. Lateral impressed lobes of the genital segment of the male punctured. Length of $ 6.5 mm., 9 7-5 mm. Humeral width about 5 mm. Described from five males and three females in my collection taken in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, and one 5 speci- men in the collection of the United States National Museum from Oracle, Ariz., which bears the label Dendrocoris frutici- cola Bergr. In some specimens the punctures on the sides of the head, pronotum, corium and venter are blackish. Dendrocoris arizonensis new species. Very closely related to D. fruticicola Bergr. It will average a little larger and proportionately broader. Ground color pale stramineous closely punctured with castaneous. Humeri are equally prominent as in fruticicola but usually more rounded. The connexivum is pale Vol. XXli] KXTOMOLOG1CAL XKWS 27! fulvous, closely and concolorously punctate except at base and apex of each segment where the surface is smudged with fuscous encircling the smooth pale callosed edges of the incisures ; lateral margin of con- nexivum either side of incisures black. All beneath and legs entirely clear pale stramineous, with lateral edges of abdomen either side of incisures of segments 2-5, tip of 6th and edges of genital segment of 9, black. Spiracles concolorous. In the female the side pieces or lateral lobes of the genital segment are placed in a line with the long axis of the body and elongate, while in fruticicola these pieces are set more obliquely and not so much drawn out to an acuminate apex. Length of $ 7.5 mm., $ 8.5 mm. Described from one male and two females collected by me in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, July, 1905. On Some Rare Cicindelae (Coleop.). BY R. P. Dow, New York City. Among the material received last year from Mr. John Wood- gate, Ft. Wingate, New Mexico, were long series of a Cicindcla labelled by him mlturina. All were taken in July and August, and were about equally divided between black and green forms. The former agree perfectly with the description of santo- clarae Bates. The earlier insects are generally green. A month later the black predominates. Both forms are the same insect, beyond a doubt, but examination of elytra under a strong lens with transmitted light shows that the amount of pigment in the black form is easily twice that of the green, and the color of the former mainly due to broken light rays, rather than pigment. The black color is piceous. In over 300 specimens there are no intermediates. I therefore suggest the varietal name anita for the black form. It is not ill known already to collectors. In the same material I found two specimens which are be- yond a doubt sperata. I have a good share of the color forms recognized in the E. D. Harris catalogue. The amount of pigment in all these forms is about equal and the color due al- most entirely to broken light rays. My two specimens are light emerald green. All others of the species that I have seen 2/2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Time, 'll range through the gray, red and brown tones. I understand that Dr. Henry Skinner first noticed this emerald form and wrote to some specialists suggesting that it ought to be named. Both Mr. C. W. Leng and Mr. E. D. Harris concurred in that opinion, but both were generous enough to suggest that I name it. Hence the proposed varietal name marutha. Any- one who understands the spectrum can hardly expect an inter- mediate between two colors so far removed. A year ago last June I caught a few Cicindelas in rny hand, (having left net at home), at DeBruce, Sullivan County, New York. Three specimens were distinctly olivaceous. They were, however, ancocisconensis, as all agree in New York. I gave one such to Mr. Leng and Mr. Harris and retain the third. Next year I went back in June. Mr. Harris and Mr. W. T. Davis went in June and August, the last week in each. We took large series of ancocisconensis, but all typical in color. They are extremely local, found only on the roadway along the Mongaup river for the first three miles from DeBruce vil- lage. It is to be hoped that some collector will make a catch this year. Anyone interested will receive full information about locality if he will enclose postage for reply. Repanda and tranquebarica fly with them. Se.rguttata is common in the fall months on the Mongaup road. In June the form on the Willowemock road is entirely harrisii. So far as I can observe these two forms do not meet. I took one harrisii (which I gave to Mr. Leng), with head and thorax colored like purpurea. They fly together and I have seen male purpurea and female harrisii with unmistakable un- derstanding between them. Punctulata is common over the same road, but from midsummer only. I have never seen sex- guttata on this road. The evidence so far tends to substanti- ate Mr. Leng's claim for harrisii rather than Dr. W. Horn's curt dismissal. It is worthy of speculation whether harrisii did not originate from natural hybrids of purpurea blood. THE entire collections of British and exotic Hymenoptera, the Palae- arctic Hemiptera and the microscopical preparations of the late Ed- ward Saunders, F. R. S., are now in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, London, S. W. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2/3 Some new Beetles from North Carolina, with Eco- logical Notes (Coleop.). By CHARLES DURY, Cincinnati, Ohio. From June 16 to July 6, 1910, I collected insects in the Plott Balsum Mts., N. C. Every day of that time it rained. Some- times it poured for hours at a stretch, frequently all night, though generally there were a few hours each day when the sun was shining. But few diurnal Lepidoptera were seen, and they the most common species. Diptera and Hymenoptera were also very scarce. Coleoptera were more abundant, though mostly of common well known species. The rainfall at this season in these mountains is tremendous. The superintendent of the fibre mills at Canton told me that it rained one summer 90 consecutive days since he had been there, at least a shower each day. A few new species of Coleoptera were secured, three of which are here described. Tn addition, I enumerate some of the more interesting and desirable species taken. Cychri were not abundant. They were canadensis, bicar- iiiatus, andrcu'sii and gnyotil. About a dozen species of Ptcr- ostichus were identified among which were P. sfloliatus. blanch- ardi, and pal mi. P. ado.vus was very abundant as was Platynus an gH status, which merged into the one described as gradient us bv intergrading forms. Three times I climbed to the top of "Tones' Knob" (over 6.000 feet"), each time to be driven back by a deluge of rain. From the trunk of a felled balsam tree some huge blue Anthophila.v had recently emerged : T found dead and broken ones but none living. A few Emmcsa con- nect ens Newm. were taken from under bark. Beating the large flowers of Rhododendron cataivbicnse brought down showers of beetles mostly Longicorns of five or six small species. Coiled under the bark of a fallen tree. I counted 14 beautiful little snakes of three species. The male snowbirds (Junco} were singing and several nests were found, all located on the ground. One of July i. had four fresh eggs in it. The concealment of this nest was so ingenious and perfect, it never could have been found had I not noted the bird fly out of it. It was on 2/4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll a sloping bank with a lace-like screen of ferns hanging down to hide the entrance. The growth of fungus was prolific, and some of the plants huge in size. O.vyporus and other Staphylinidae were plenty in these fungi. From one small Agaricus, about 2 inches in diameter, 24 O.vyporus ^-maculatus were taken. Under bark a few Hypoteles capito Lee. were found, in company with Rhizophagus minutus, and other flat species modified for an existence in the narrow crevices of close-lying bark. Beneath a flat stone in a nest of Termes were a number of Trichopscn- ius, curious little Staphylinids that are only found associated with Termes. When I had picked up three of the active little beetles, the rain came down in torrents. I replaced the stone over the nest, but next day when I went back hoping to get more, the Termes had departed, and their guests had gone with them. Of Pselaphidse, Adrancs coccus was found in a nest of black ants under a slab. Euplectus crinitus and a large Batri- sodes, perhaps a new species, together with B. globosus and virginiae occurred under bark. Centrodera decolorata was beaten from foliage and came down amid a shower of water. Flying about among the wet weeds on the mountain sides were many scorpion flies, of the genus Panorpa, P. signifer and P. maculosa especially abundant. At night many moths and beetles came to light and some fine ones were captured. In this work I was ably assisted by a setter dog belonging to the manager of the Lodge. The in- telligence of this dog was a marvel. After chewing up several specimens, his master told him not to bite them. He evidently understood for after that he knocked the beetles down with his paw and held them until we bottled them. The only Acan- thocinus nodosus taken, was caught in this way by the dog. This dog seemed to understand what we were doing better than the mountaineers, one of whom said to the manager of the Lodge, "What was the matter up to your house last night? I seen a feller jumping around on your porch waving a white flag." He had evidently mistaken our butterfly net for a flag of truce. Four species of Lachnosterna came to light, the most common of which was L. corrosa Lee. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 275 Less than 250 species of Coleoptera, and most of them com- mon, were identified on the trip. Rather a disappointment con- sidering the hard work done. Among the unidentified species the following seem to be new : Pinacodera virescens n. sp. Head and thorax piceous black, shining. The thorax with wide pale border, wider behind. Hind angle obtuse, margin punctured and transversely wrinkled. Elytra dull opaque green, strongly alutaceous. Legs and antennae pale. Length 9 mm.; width 4.50 mm. One male. — Plott Balsam Mts., North Carolina, June, 1910, As compared with the other North American species, this is a shorter and broader insect. Scaphisoma (Scaphiomicrus) carolinae n. sp. Black, shining. Punctures of prothorax very minute, those of elytra slightly coarser. Each elytron with a sharply defined rufous spot near base, rounded in front and extending obliquely back to apex, leaving a triangular black area on dorsum of elytra, which area extends three- fourths way to elytral apex. Sutural striae flexed outward at base in male, straight in female. Beneath strongly punctured, except the last four ventral segments. Postcoxal plates not reaching one-half the length of basal segment. Parabolic in form behind. Three specimens, I — 9 mm. Balsam, North Carolina, June. IQIO. Tn fungus. This species recalls Mr. Fall's S. ornata from Alabama, but is larger, much broader, elytral maculation different and punctures finer. Athous lengi n. sp. Color ochre-yellow with an oblong piceous cloud in middle of thorax, extending from base to apex, and another along elytral suture from scutellum to apex. Thorax closely and strongly punctate, elytra and body beneath more finely so. Antennal joints of male more serrate than in female. Second joint short, third to eleventh subequal in length. Front coxae covered with dense fine pale buff-colored pubes- cence. Male 13 mm., and female 16 mm. long. One from Balsam, North Carolina, and one from Clayton. Georgia. One also taken at Clayton by Dr. Lore of New York, June. A large stout species that recalls in facies the female of Corymbites longicornis from North Carolina, and Athous znttiger from the State of Washington, though very different structurally. Named in honor of Chas. W. Leng, of New York. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form and without covers, will be given free, when they are wanted; if more than twenty-five copies are desired, this should be stated on the MS. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Proof will be sent to authors for correction only when specially requested. — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1911. It will probably be of interest to the younger entomologists to know something of Major John Eatton LeConte, whose pic- ture appears on the covers of this year's issues of the NEWS, and will be placed on the title-page of the completed volume. "He was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1784 and died in 1860, having lived most of his life in New York. Entering the corps of topographical engineers of the United States Army with the rank of captain, at the age of thirty-four, he remained in the government service until 1831, attaining the rank of brevet-major in 1828, for ten years' faithful service. His tastes were many sided, but his special studies, those which were the passion of his life, were in natural history. Before he entered the engineer corps he published a catalogue of the plants of New York City in the journal edited by Dr. Hosack, under whom his brother had studied medicine, and in subsequent years, during his connection with the army and afterwards, he published special studies on Urtricularia. Gratiola, PuclUa, Tillandsia, Viola and Pancratium, as well as on our native grape-vines, tobacco and pecan-nut. He published also a variety of papers on mammals, reptiles, batrachians and crus- tacea, mostly of a systematic character, and collected a vast amount of material for the natural history of our insects, as may be seen by a single installment that was published in 276 Vol. X.xii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 277 Paris in conjunction with Boisduval upon North American butterflies (Histoire Generale et Iconographie des Lepidopter- es et des Chenilles de I'Amerique Septentrionale). Coleop- tera, however, may be said to have been his specialty, par- ticularly in the latter part of his career, though he published only four papers on them, and mainly upon a single family, the Histeridae. He not only amassed a considerable collec- tion, but left behind a most extensive series of water-color il- lustrations of our native insects and plants made with his own hands." * He was the father of Dr. John Lawrence LeConte, the dis- tinguished Coleopterist, who died in 1883. Notes and Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL, QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. AN oil portrait of Dr. John Lawrence LeConte, the distinguished American Coleopterist, was presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, on Tuesday, April 18, 1911, by Mrs. LeConte. Dr. Henry Skinner made the presentation on her behalf. A STATE Biological Survey has been organized at the University of Colorado, the work being in the hands of a committee consisting of Professors F. Ramaley, T. D. A. Cockerell and J. Henderson. The work of such a survey has been carried on for a number of years past, but until now there has been no definite organization. The work in- cludes fossil as well as living species of plants and animals. — Science. TAXONOMIC VALUE of the Genital Armature in the Tse-tse flies (Glossina). — Mr. Robert Newstead gave an address on this topic to the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, December 19, 19 10, an abstract of which occupies nearly a page each in theEntomolo- l.ist and the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for March, 1911. He finds the male armature to be "the true and almost only natural ana- tomic elements that can at present be found in these insects." On this basis the eleven species now known fall into three very striking and distinct groups. *S. H. Scudder, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XI. (Appendix). The superb collection of Major LeConte's drawings of insects are now the property of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and it is a great pity they have never been published, as they could be splendidly reproduced by tlit half-tone process. — H. S. 278 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll WHAT is THE GENOTYPE OF X-us JONES, 1900, BASED UPON A SPECIES ERRONEOUSLY DETERMINED AS ALBUS SMITH, 1890? — Statement of Case. — Jones proposes the new genus X-us, 1900, type species albus Smith, 1890. It later develops that albus Smith, 1890, as determined by Jones, 1900, is an erroneous determination. What is the genotype of X-us, 1900; albus Smith, 1890, or the form erroneously identified by Jones as albus in 1900? , Discussion. — -The nomenclatorial problem expressed in the caption of this note is solved in two diametrically opposite ways by different authors. Some writers maintain that the original albus Smith, 1890, is the genotype, while others maintain that the genotype is represented by the species actually studied by Jones and misdetermined as albus Smith. Cases of this general nature have given rise to considerable confusion in nomenclature, and several such cases have been referred to the International Commission on Nomenclature for opinion. At the last meeting of the commission, the principles involved came up for dis- cussion, but it was impossible to reach a unanimous agreement. On account of the differences of opinion, the secretary was instructed to make a careful study of a number of cases, and to report upon the same to the commission. It is not difficult to foresee that no matter how the cases are finally decided, great dissatisfaction will arise among zoologists because the opinion rendered is not the direct opposite of what it eventually will be. Recognizing that this is one of the most difficult cases that has ever been submitted to the commission, and recognizing the fact that regardless of our action we shall probably be criticized more on basis of our decision on this case than because of any other opinion that we have rendered, I am desirous of studying at least one hundred cases if possible, that would come under such ruling, before my report is formulated. In view of the foregoing premises, I respectfully request zoologists in different groups to call my attention to as many instances of this kind as possible, with which they are acquainted in their different specialties. Further, since the arguments on both sides of the problem appear to be almost equally valid, it does not seem impossible that the final decision will have to be based upon an arbitrary choice between the two possible rulings and on this account I am desirous of obtaining all possible arguments on both sides as they occur to different zoologists, and also any per- sonal views based upon convenience or inconvenience, or other grounds, which may be held by different colleagues. I will hold the case open at least until September i, for the presentation of arguments by any persons who may desire to submit their views. — C. W. STILES, Secre- tary of the Commission. Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Dept. Agric., Washington, D. C. (Reprinted from Science}. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 279 Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 3 — The American Naturalist. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 7 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Mag-azine, London. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 19 — Horae Societatis Entomologiae Rossicae. 22 — Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 35 — Annalen, Societe Ento- mologique de Belgique. 45 — Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 46 — Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 50 — Proceedings, U. S. Nation- al Museum. 73 — Archives, Zoologie, Experimentale et Generale, serie 5, Paris. 84 — Entomologische Rundschau. 89 — Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 92 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insekten- biologie. 143 — Ohio Naturalist. 148 — New York Agricultural Ex- periment Station, Geneva. 163 — American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn. 179 — Journal of Economic Entomology. 185 — Journal, Quekett Microscopical Club, London. 193 — Entomologische Blatter, Nurnberg. 204 — New York S'tate Museum Bulletin. 216 — Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart. 220— New Jersey Agricul- tural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 240 — Maine Agri- cultural Experiment Station, Orono. 272 — Memorias, Real Aca- demia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona. 285 — Nature Study Re- view, Urbana, Illinois. 305 — Deutsche Entomologische National- Bibliothek, Berlin. 310 — L'Echange, Revue Linneene, Moulins, 326 — Le Progress Agricole et Viticole, Villefranche, France. 327 — Scientific Memoirs by Officers of the Medical and Sanitary De- partments of the Government of India, (new Ser.), Calcutta. 328 — Anales del Museo Nacional de Montevido. 329 — Zoologica, Stutt- gart. 330 — London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Maga- zine and Journal of Science, London. 331 — Annual Report, Ex- perimental Farms, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. 332 — Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles. 280 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll GENERAL SUBJECT. Felt, E. P.— 26th report of the state entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York, 1910, 204, No. 147, 104 pp. Handlirsch, A. — New paleozoic insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois, (continuation), 163, xxxi, 353-377 (*). Hartzell^ F. Z.— A preliminary report on grape insects, 148, Bui. No. 331, 489-581. Hawkins, L. S. — Studies of aquatic insects, 285 vii, 91-96. Hewitt, C. G.— Report of the Entomologist (of Experimental farms of Canada), 331, 1910, 223- 250. Johannsen, O. A.— Insect notes for 1910, 240, Bui. No. 187, J.-10. Michelson, A. A. — On metallic coloring in birds and insects, 330, xxi, 554-567. Muller, R. — Die uebertragung von krankheiten durch insekten, (cont.), 216, xxv, 17-19. Murtfeldt, M. E.— Why collect insects? 179, iv, 229-230. Sherborn & Durrant — Note on John Curtis' British Entomology, 1824-39; 1829-40; and 1862, 8, xxii, 84-85. Smith, J. B. — Insects injurious to the peach trees in N. J., 220, Bui. No. 235. Sorauer, P. — Handbuch der pflanzen- krankheiten. Lief. 23, 401-430 pp., Berlin. Wilson, H. F. — Some old methods applied in a new manner to a collecting machine, 179, iv, 286-288. Zweigelt, F. — Das sammeln in der natur und seine wissenschaftliche und psychologische bedeutung (cont.) 84, xxviii, 57-58. APTERA & NEUROPTERA. Alderson, E. M.— Notes on the life-history of Chrysopa flava, 9, xliv, 126-129. Hoffmann, R. W.— Zur kenntnis der entwicklungsgeschichte der Collembolen, 22, xxxvii, 353-377. Krauss, H. A. — Monographic der Embiden, 329, Heft 60, 78 pp. Lewis, R. T. — Note on the larva of Mantispa, 185, xi, 213-216. Patch, E. M. — Insect notes for 1910. Psyllidae, 240, Bui. No. 187, 10-20 (*). Schirmer, C.— Libellen-studien, 84, xxviii, 49-50. ORTHOPTERA. Bruner, L.— Report on an interesting collec- tion of locusts from Peru, 19, xxxix, 464-488. Burr, M. — Vorlaufige revision der Labiiden, 305, ii, 58-61 (n. g.). Caudell, A. N. — De- scription of a n. sp. of Orthoptera from Texas, 4, xliii, 137-138 (*). Heymons, R. — Ueber die lebensweise von Hemimerus, 45, 1911, 163-174. Parrott, P. J. — Oviposition among tree-crickets, 179, iv, 216-218. Zacher, F. — Die schadelbildung einiger Eudermaptera nebst bemerkungen uber die gattungen Elaunon und Diaperasticus, 45, 1911, 145-148. HEMIPTERA. Davis, J. J.— A list of the Aphididae of Illinois, with notes on some of the species, (cont.) 179, iii, 482-499. Dis- tant, W. L. — Rhynchotal notes LIV. Pentatomidae from various regions, 11, vii, 338-354. On some controversial items concerning Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 28l a few Rhynchota, 35, Iv, 88-89. Herrick, G. W.— The cabbage aphis, Aphis brassicae, 179, iv, 219-224. Kershaw, J. C. — Notes on the salivary-glands and syringe of two spp. Hemiptera, 35, Iv, 80-83. Lindinger, L. — Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Schildlause und ihrer Verbreitung, II (cont.), 92, vi, 437-441; vii, 9-12. Lohrenz, H. W.— The woolly Aphis, Schizoneura lanigera, 179, iv, 162-170. Murt- ieldt, M. E. — Habits of the honeysuckle aphis, Rhopalosiphum xylostei, 179, iv, 227-228. Patch, E. M.— Plant lice of the apple in Maine, 240, 11-22. Insect notes for 1910, Aphididae, 240, Bui. No. 187, 20-23. Poppius, B. — Zwei neue nearktische Miriden gattungen, 35, Iv, 84-87 (*). Schumacher, F. — Beitrage zur Kennt- nis der Biologic der Asopiden (cont.), 92, vi, 430-437. LEPIDOPTERA. Bethune,, C. J. S.— Smerinthus cerisyi Kirby, (not cerysii), 4, xliii, 132. Busck, A. — Descriptions of tineoid moths from So. America, 50, xl, 205-230. Foster, S. W. — Life history of the codling moth and its control on pears in California, 7, Bull. No. 97, pt. 2, 13-51 pp. Fyles,, T. W. — Gnorimoschema gallaediplopap- pi and G. gallaeasterella, 4, xliii, 135-137. Gerould, J. H. — The inheritance of polymorphism and sex in Colias philodice, 3, xlv, 257-283. Gibson, A. — The preparatory stages of Phragmatobia as- similans, variety franconia, 4, xliii, 125-128. Grinnell, F., Jr. — Notes and additions to the list of Southern California Lepidoptera, 332, x, 12-13. Kopec, S. — Ueber den feineren bau einer zwitterdruse von Lymantria dispar, 22, xxxviii, 262-270. Kusnezov, N. J.— On the probable viviparity in some Danaid, i. e., Pierid, butterflies. (Rus- sian, summary in English), 19, xxxix, 634-651. Patch, E. M. — Cut worms in Maine, 240, 23-24. Picard, F. — Les micrilepidopteres de la vigne, Pyrale, Cochylis, Eudemis, 326, xxxii, 448-469. Schaus, W. — New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica, 11, vii, 355-372. Thiele, R. — Die aufzucht der seidenraupen mit schwarzwurzelblat- tern, 45, 1911, 220-221. Tremoleras, J. — Apuntes lepidopterologicos, 328, i, 89-95. Webster, R. L. — Notes on the wheat-head army worms (Meliana albilinea) as a timothy pest, 179, iv, 179-184. Wheeler, G. -The Athalia group of the genus Melitaea, (cont.), 9, xliv, 10-13. Wildermuth, V. L. — The alfalfa caterpillar (Eurymus eurytheme), 7, Circ. No. 133. DIPTERA. Banks, N.— Four n. sp. of Asilidae, 4, xliii, 128-130 (*). Cunningham, J. — The destruction of fleas by exposure to the sun, 327, No. 40. Dean, W. H. — The sorghum midge (Contarinia sorghicola), 7, Bull. No. 85, pt. IV revised. De Meijere, J. C. H. — Ueber in farnen parasitierende Hymenopteren-und Dipteren-larven, 46,, liv, 80-127. Felt, E. P.— Miastor larvae, 4, xliii, 134-135. Hen- del, F. — Bie arten der Dipteren-subfamilie Richardiinae, 45, 1911, 282 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll 181-212 (*). Hine, J. S.— New species of Diptera of the genus Erax, 143, xi, 307-311 (*). Johannsen, O. A.— The typhoid fly and its al- lies, 240, 1-7. Schnabel, J. — Ueber die gattungsrechte der gattung Pegomyia, 19, xxxix, 105-114. Schoene, W. J. — Notes on the life history and habits of Pegomya brassicae, 179, iv, 210-216. Thiene- mann, A. — Das sammeln von puppenhauten der Chironomiden, 45, 1911, 161-162. COLEOPTERA. Arrow, G. J.— On lamellicorn beetles belong- ing to the subfamilies Ochodaeinae, Orphninae, Hybosorinae, and Troginae; 11, vii, 390-397 (*). Bofill y Pichot, J. M.— Algunos datos analomicos y biologicos del Anthrenus verbasci, 272, viii, No. 26, 11 pp. Britten, H. — Coleoptera from underground wasps' nests, 8, xxii, 89-90. Chittenden, F. H. — The broad-nosed grain weevil (Caulophilus latinastus) and the long-headed flour beetle (Lathe- ticus oryzae), 7, Bull. No. 96 pt. 2. The lesser and larger grain- borer (Rhizopertha dominica and Dinoderus truncatus), 7, Bull. No. 96 pt. 3. Felsche, C. — Coprophage Scarabaeiden, 45, 1911, 133- 141. Franck, P. — Ueber einen argentinischen russelkafer, der im wasser schwimmen kann, 45, 1911, 141-144. Gahan, C. J. — On some recent attempts to classify the Coleoptera in accordance with their phylogeny, 9, xliv, 121-125. Gebien, H. — Die gattung Phrenapates, 45, 1911, 149-161. Coleopterorum catalogus, Paris. 28: Tenebrioni- dae III, 357-585 pp. Hinds & Turner — Life history of the rice weevil (Calandra aryza) in Alabama, 179, iv, 230-236. Holdhaus, K. — Die Oekologie und die Sammeltechnik der terricolen Coleop- teren, 193, vii, 6-9, 47-55, 76-86. Kelly, E. O. G.— The maize bill- bug (Sphenophorus maidis), 7, Bui. No. 95 pt. 2. McDermott & Crane — A comparative study of the structure of the photogenic organs of certain American Lampyridae, 3, xlv, 306-313. Morris, F. J. A. — Beetles found about foliage, 4, xliii, 109-118. Nusslin, O.— Phylogenie und system der Borkenkafer, (cont.), 92, vii, 1-5. Phil- lips, W. J. — The timothy stem-borer, a new timothy insect, (Mordel- listena ustulata), 7, Bull. No. 95, pt. 1, 9 pp. Pic, M. — Coleopteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus, (cont.), 310, 1910, 5-7, 12-14, 20-22, 28-30, 36-37, 45-47, 53-54, 60-63, 69-71, 74-78, 86-87, 94-95. Webster, F. M. — The lesser clover-leaf weevil (Phytonomus nigri- rostris), 7, Bull. No. 85, pt. 1. The alfalfa weevil (Phytonomus murinus), 7, Circ. No. 137. HYMENOPTERA. Bradley, J. C.— A new Thynnid wasp from Brazil, 45, 1911, 131-132. Brauns, H.— Biologisches ueber sudafri- kanische Hymenopteren, (cont.), 92, vi, 445-447; vii, 16-19. Cock- erell, T. D. A. — Some new bees from flowers of Cactaceae, 4, xliii, 131-132 (*). Bees in the collection of the U. S. Nat. Museum, 2, Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 283 50, xl, 241-264 (*). De Meijere, J. C. H.— Ueber in farnen para- sitierende Hymenopteren-und Dipteren-larven, 46, liv, 80-127. Girault, A. A. — An egg-parasite of the codling moth belonging to the family Mymaridae, 4, xliii, 133-134. Howard, L. O. — A n. sp. of Coccophagus, with a table of the host relations of those species of the genus known to the writer, 179, iv, 276-277 (*). Kaye, W. J. —New species of Syntomidae from Br. Guiana and So. Brazil, 9, xliv, 142-146. Popovici-Baznosanu, A. — Contribution a 1'etude bio- logique des sphegiens (Trypoxylon et Psenulus), 73, vi, xciii-ciii. Rohwer, S. A. — Notes on Tenthredinoidea, with descriptions of n. sp. Paper XIII, Miscellaneous notes, 4, xliii, 119-123. Rudow, Dr. — Afterraupen der blattwespen und ihre entwicklung, (cont.), 84, xxviii, 53-54, 61-62. Schon, A. — Bau und entwicklung des tibia- len chordotonalorgans bei der honigbiene und bei ameisen, 89, xxxl, 439-472. Turner, R. E. — Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera III, 11, vii, 297-310. Viereck, H. L. — Descriptions of six n. g. and thirty-one n. sp. of Ichneumon flies, 50, Ix, 173-196 (*). LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN CICINDELIDAE IN THE HARRIS COLLECTION. By Edward Doubleday Harris, Truan Press, Yonkers, New York, 1911. The advent of the printed pin-locality-label marked a distinct ad- vance in the study of entomology, as many interesting problems will be solved by a study of geographical distribution and seasonal appear- ance. Mr. Harris has given the student of distribution a useful guide and has made his splendid collection of these beetles of use to the scientific world. There are too many collections that are only a source of pleasure to the owners and contain a large amount of valuable data tliat may or may not become of use. The genus Cicindela is a very interesting one from the standpoint of evolution and illustrates the words of LeConte spoken many years ago : "The prevailing character of tropical faunas is individuality, the production of peculiar forms within limited regions, while the distinguishing feature of temper- ate and Arctic faunas is the repetition of similar or identical forms through extensive localities." The Coleopterists have been prone to poke fun at the Lepidopterists, alleging lack of anatomical characters ir descriptive work, and undue reliance on color. A careful study of specific values in the Cicindelidae will show some surprising things, and I am afraid, in some instances, the best method of determining species is to rely on the locality label. This work by Mr. Harris will be found very useful to the systematist, and the student of distribu- tion and geographical variation. — H. S. 284. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll ILLUSTRATIONS OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA with Descriptions. By An- drew Gray Weeks, Jr. Second volume. University Press, Cambridge, Mass. This work contains twenty-one beautiful and accurate illustra- tions of new species lithographed in color. The species were taken in the neighborhood of the Suapure River in Venezuela. Mr. Weeks is to be congratulated on this excellent work as it is a valuable contri- bution to the literature of exotic Rhopalocera. The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the late distinguished student of the butterflies, Mr. William Henry Edwards. There is given a list of the writings of Mr. Edwards and a list of the species received from Suapure. We hope to see additional volumes by Mr. Weeks. If all new species were illustrated in this way the study would be relieved of many difficulties. It may be well in this connection to call attention to the joint work "Illustrations of North American Lepidoptera Sphingidae," by J. W. Weidemeyer, S. Calverley and W. H. Edwards, published by the American Entomological Society in 1903. — H. S. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, PHILADEL- PHIA, 1859-1909. Prepared by request of the Society by E. T. Cresson with an introduction by the Rev. Henry C. McCook, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. — This pamphlet of sixty pages has been issued by the society whose name and seal it bears on the title-page as a result of the meeting held February 15, 1909, in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary. At that meeting, Mr. E. T. Cresson, sole survivor of the three founders of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, read a history of the earlier years of its existence and then moved that a Committee be ap- pointed to bring the history up-to-date. This action having been de- cided on, Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook, Mr. Benjamin H. Smith and Dr. Henry Skinner were charged with this duty, and the present pamphlet is the result of their labors. Its contents are: an Introduc- tion by Dr. McCook, the history of the Society, 1859-1909 (18 pages), the proceedings of the fiftieth anniversary meeting, statements of the contents of the Society's collections of insects and library, lists of the names and terms of officers, a list of the past and present resident and corresponding members, and a copy of the act of incorporation of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by the Legislature of Pennsyl- vania in 1862. (By action of the Court, this charter was on petition amended in 1867, and the Society's name changed to "The American Entomological Society"). The pamphlet is illustrated by three por- traits— those of Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, (died March 15, 1865), its early and greatest benefactor; Dr. John L. LeConte (president 1859-60, 1870- 83), and Dr. George H. Horn (president 1867-68, 1884-97). Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 285 Doings of Societies. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. Meeting of February I5th, 1911, at 1523 S. I3th St., Phila- delphia. Twelve members were present. President Haim- bach in the chair. Prof. Smith read a very interesting article entitled "Entomol- ogy— the Old and the New," contrasting the older and young- er generations. This led to a general discussion on collectors and the lack of knowledge displayed by the majority of these. Mr. Daecke recorded the following species of Diptera which did not appear in the latest New Jersey List: Diachlorus fer- rugattts Fabr., "The Yellow Fly of the Dismal Swamp," col- lected by himself at Weymouth, VII-3O-'o4 and Stone Har- bor VIII-3-'o7. Mr. Harbeck exhibited five species of Tachinidae, showing their extremes in size and mentioning their hosts ; they were : Archytas aterrima Desv., Wintheinia quadripustitlata Fabr., Senotainia trilineata V. d W., Cryptomeigenia tJientis Walker and Cistogastcr immaculata Macq. A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Haimbach for the manner in which he entertained the Social in January. Adjourned to the annex. Meeting of March i5th, 1911, at 1523 S. i3th St., Phila- delphia. Eight members were present. Vice-President Wenzel in the chair. Mr. Laurent mentioned the different broods of the Periodi- cal Cicada, and said that they could be easily traced, but it was hard to understand their overlapping. The same speaker also made some remarks regarding the collecting of Lepidop- tera while away on a long trip, stating that all specimens of one inch or less expanse should be pinned with the wings hanging downwards, as such specimens were easily relaxed and good mounts could be made. This was particularly the case with the butterflies of the genus Pamphila, as where the specimens 286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'l I had been papered it was almost impossible to make a good and perfect mount. The pin in the field should be two sizes smaller than the one finally used for the collection. This led to a general discussion on the different modes of mounting other orders. Mr. Wenzel exhibited several boxes of his recently re- mounted and re-arranged weevils. Adjourned to the annex. — GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. NEWARK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The regular meeting that was to be held on February 12, 191 1, at the Newark Turn Hall was dispensed with, and in- stead the following fifteen members Angelman, Brehme, Broad- well, Buenson, Doerfel, Doll, Erhard, Franck, Keller, Lem- mer, McCormack, Mayfield, Porter, Schmich and Schleckser, on the invitation of Mr. Kearfott, visited him at his residence in Montclair. Mr. Kearfott invited the "boys" to look at his collection of Micro-lepidoptera which contains about 150,000 specimens, and which without doubt is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Several hours were spent in looking over the tiny insects, and then Mr. Kearfott invited the visitors to take lunch and refreshments. The members appreciated the hospitality very much and a vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Kearfott. Meeting of March I2th, 1911, at the Newark Turn Hall. President Buchholz in the chair; eleven members present, Mr. H. Kircher and H. Schwandke, visitors. Mr. Herpers presented the Society with a set of the Bulle- tin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, Volumes 1-2-3 and 5, and also a copy of Explanation of Terms used in Entomo- logy, published by the Brooklyn Entomological Society in 1883. A series of seventeen year locusts, collected by Mr. Herpers in 1894, were donated to the Society's collection. Mr. Kircher reported finding a Ccratomia midnlosa cater- pillar feeding on Trumpet Vine. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 287 Meeting of April gth, 1911, at Newark Turn Hall. Presi- dent Buchholz in the chair ; twelve members present. On the motion of Mr. Keller to hold a field meeting on May 30th, the President appointed Messrs. Keller, Brehme and Er- hard as a committee to select a suitable place for the meeting. The Field Committee selected Springfield, New Jersey, for this meeting. Mr. Keller reported that he had seen the Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) picking the soft Arctia cocoons from sides of houses. A general discussion on Forestry and Collecting in the United States and Germany by Messrs. Keller, Kircher and Buchholz was very interesting. The general belief was that more collecting is done by beating trees in Germany than in the United States. — HERMAN H. BREHME, Secretary. OBITUARY DR. HERMAN WILLEM VAN DER WEELE. From a memorial notice (in Dutch) contributed to the latest issue (Volume 54, first Aflevering, April 8, 1911) of the Tijd- sckrift voor Entomologie by Dr. Ed. Everts, we learn some particulars of the life of this young Dutch neuropterist. Van der Weele was born October 8, 1879. His education was ob- tained at the Leyden High School, especially under Prof. A. C. K. Hoffman, and later at the University of Berne, Switzer- land, at which latter, under Prof. W. Studer's direction, he pro- duced his dissertation Morphologic und Entwicklnng der Gon- apophysen der Odonaten and obtained his doctor's degree. He became second conservator of insects at the Leyden Mu- seum of Natural History, and went thence to the Dutch East Indies where he succumbed to cholera in Batavia, Java, August 29, 1910. His bibliography comprises twenty-seven titles of papers in English, French and German, the most extensive among them being two fascicules, on Ascalaphides, Sialides and Rhaphidides, of the Catalogue Systematique et descriptif 288 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 'll des collection zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Long- champs. The memorial notice is accompanied by a portrait of van der Weele. , DR. EDOUARD PIAGET. The same number of the Tijdschrift contains also a bio- graphical notice (in Dutch) of Dr. E. Piaget, with two portraits at different periods of his life, by Dr. H. J. Veth. Dr. Piaget was born November 3, 1817, at Les Bayards, canton of Neucha- tel, Switzerland. He went to Holland about the age of eight- een, and studied law at the University of Leyden, intending to return to Switzerland as an advocate. He remained in Holland, however, until 1882, much of the time as lector in the Erasmian Gymnasium and in the Higher Burgerschool, at Rotterdam. Returning to his native land, he remained there until his death in the hospital at Couvet, September 10, 1910. He was interested in Botany and Entomology, in the latter be- ing chiefly known for his work on the Pediculina, his principal memoir being Les Pediculines, Essai Monographique (Leide, E. J. Brill, 1880, pp. xxxix. 714, and atlas of 54 plates) with a Supplement thereto in 1885 (pp. xii, 162, 17 plates). His entomological papers date from 1869 to 1895. His entomolo- gical collection, herbarium and library were presented to the city of Neuchatel in 1905. He was also the author of a history of the Jesuit order. DR. SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER. 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Dip- Haskin and Grinnell — Thecla clytie, tera. with two new species of Syr- leda and ines fLepid.) 293 ' phidae . . 318 Skinner — A new Variety of Megathy- ; Schroers — Observations on the Lepid- mus yuccae CLepid.) 300 t optera of St. Louis, Missouri, and Doll— A new Datana 300 , vicinity during 1910 322 Felt — Four new Gall Midges (Dipt.). . 301 Fditorial 325 Knah— Chrvsomela staphylea Linne in North America 306 Smith— Notes on the species of Acro- nycta ; Descriptions of new species 309 Notes and News 326 Entomological Literature 328 Doings of Societies 335 Samuel Hubbard Scudder. (Portrait, Plate VIII) This distinguished American entomologist died May I7th, 1911, aged seventy-four years. He was born in Boston, Mass., April I3th, 1837, and lived in Cambridge, at 156 Brattle Street. He was educated at Williams College and received honorary degrees from Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh. From 1864 to 1870 he was Custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History, and from 1879 to 1882 Assistant Librarian at Harvard University. From 1886 to 1892 he was Paleontologist to the U. S. Geological Survey; he served as General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1875, and was a Vice President of the Association in 1894. He was the greatest Orthopterist America has produced. His first paper on recent Orthoptera, in 1861, in the Proceed- ings of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume VIII, was "On the genus Raphidophora, Serville," etc. ; his last on recent Orthoptera was published in April, 1902, in conjunc- tion with Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, entitled "A first list 289 290 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll of the Orthoptera of New Mexico" in Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, volume IX. The total number of his writings on North American Or- thoptera is 131, and his work was chiefly upon the North American forms of the order, but over one hundred exotic spe- cies also were described by him. The most noteworthy of these North American papers were the following: Entomological Notes, which ran in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, volumes XI to XIX, (1868-78) and treated of Lepidoptera as well as Orthoptera. A Century of Orthoptera, Decades I-X, in the same Pro- ceedings, volumes XII-XX, (1868-79). Some of these ap- peared also as portions of the Entomological Notes series. Catalogue of the Orthoptera of North America described previous to 1867. Washington, 1868. Various papers based on the collections made by Packard, Hayden, Wheeler and others in the government survey and expedition work of the '6o's and '70*5. Guide to the Genera and Classification of the North Ameri- can Orthoptera found North of Mexico. Cambridge, 1897. Revision of the Orthopteran Group Melanopli, Wash., 1897. Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada. Davenport, 1900. Alphabetical Index to North American Orthoptera describ- ed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Boston, 1901. His work on the Orthoptera may be summed up by say- ing that it was the basis on which the present classification of North American Orthoptera was developed. J. A. G. R. Dr. Scudder began writing on the diurnal lepidoptera about fifty years ago, and contributed very largely to the literature of the subject. His papers are to be found in most of the Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS entomological journals of the country, and also in the most of the publications of the learned societies of New England. He described a goodly number of our butterflies, and the students of the future will often think of him in connection with such interesting species as Argynnis montinus, Melitaea harrisii, Anaea andria, Colias interior, Pamphila metea, mystic, mana- taaqua, panoquin, hianna, Amblyscirtes samoset, Pyrgus tes- sellata, Thanaos martialis, etc. He described about thirty species of butterflies found in the United States. His writ- ings cover practically all phases of the subject and show mark- ed originality : they number about one hundred papers and some valuable books and memoirs, the work entailing the greatest amount of labor, and research being his Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, with special refer- ence to New England, in three volumes, Cambridge, 1889, (published by the author). This is a mine of information, from all sources, and will be invaluable for many years to come. Special attention was given to the distribution, habits, and life-histories and careful descriptions of the various stages of life. An important feature is the mention of the "desiderata" or the gaps in our knowledge of the species in any particular. Other works are as follows: The Life of a Butterfly (Anosia plexippus) (1893) > Butterflies: Their Structure, Changes and Life Histories, with Special Reference to Ameri- can Forms, (1881) : A Brief Guide to the Commoner Butter- flies of the United States, (1893) ' Fossil Butterflies; Histori- cal Sketch of the Generic Names Proposed for Butterflies; Frail Children of the Air (1895); Every-Day Butterflies, A Group of Biographies ('1899); Entomological Correspondence of Thaddeus William Harris. He was for many years the editor of Psyche, the organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club, and contributed largely to its pages, and was Editor erf Science, 1883-1885. Another invaluable work and one that entailed an immense amount of 292 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Uuly> *ir labor was the compilation of The Nomenclator Zoologicus or Universal Index to the Genera in Zoology (1882). In 1890 appeared The Tertiary Insects of North America, a work of 663 pages and 28 plates. Mr. Scudder was the foremost student of fossil insects in America, and in addition to this large work wrote other important papers in this branch of study, such as the section on fossil Myriopods, Arachnoids and Insects in Zittel's great Handbuch dcr Paleontologie (1885, English translation 1900). He contributed largely to our knowledge of the fauna of the New England States, and particularly of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His studies in classification were largely accepted the world over. In conjunction with Edward Burgess he was a pioneer in the study of the genitalia of the butterflies ; on antigeny or sexual dimorphism, on androconia and other parts of the minute anatomy, he did important work. In a brief notice it is im- possible to even mention all his activities. He was perhaps the greatest scholar and man of the great- est literary ability among the entomologists that America has produced. His biography of John Lawrence LeConte well illustrates this ability and his painstaking care in research. He was a man of culture, refinement and gentlemanly instincts, and in his home was hospitable and kindly to all that came to seek knowledge and consult the wealth of material in his collection. He added great lustre to the study of entomol- ogy in America, and his high abilities were recognized with honorary or corresponding membership by leading scientific societies of the Old World.— H. S. THE PUGET SOUND MARINE STATION established by the University of Washington at Friday Harbor, Washington, in the summer of 1004, and since 1908 placed upon a co-operative basis, (practically all of the educational institutions of the Northwest participating in the organization), will this year offer courses in Botany and Zoology, from June 26 to August 3, opportunities for research, etc. For in- formation apply to Professor Trevor Kincaid, University of Washing- ton, Seattle, Wash. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2Q3 Thecla clytie, leda and ines (Lepid.). By J. R. HASKIN, Los Angeles, Cal., and F. GRINNELL, JR. In May and June, 1908, Mr. Grinnell took twenty specimens of a small Thecla near Dos Palmos Spring, in the Santa Rosa Mountains, southern California, at an elevation of 3500 feet. In July, 1910, Mr. Haskin took seven specimens of the same species at Cananea, Mexico, thirty miles south of the Ameri- can border, at 5000 feet elevation. In June, 1908, Mr. V. L. Clemence collected a number in the Chiricahua Mountains, of southern Arizona. In June and July, 1910, Messrs. Coolidge and Clemence collected others in the Huachuca Mountains, of southern Arizona, at about 5000 feet elevation. Mr. W. G. Wright, in his Butterflies of the West Coast, fig- ures the same species as Thecla ines from specimens taken in the Santa Rita Mountains, of Arizona and southern California, in October, 1892-3. Dr. Holland figures the same as Thecla clytie, Plate XXX, fig. 6, ? . This we presume is from the Edwards unique type specimen. Again in Thecla ines, Plate XXIX, fig. 35, $ , we find the same species. Mr. W. S. Wright, in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, XVI, Sept., 1908, P. 162, mentions Thecla ines as taken by Mr. G. H. Field in July, at Jacumba, San Diego County, California. He supposes there are two broods, one in July and the other in October. An attempt by us to name correctly our specimens, together with others taken by Mr. Clemence, has led us to the conclu- sion that clytie, leda and ines are one and the same butterfly. We first made use of Holland's Butterfly Book and found that the ines description and figures most nearly approached our specimens. All of ours, however, are very distinctly marked with a line clear across both wings in which bright red is predominant. The details of this line are given in the de- scription which follows. In a general way we can describe it by saying that it is like the extra-discal line on Thecla me- linns with which all collectors are familiar. In fact, our speci- mens on the under side look very much like diminutive, pale- gray melinus. 294 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'II co £ « § i to « O a in w fc *-4 H o te t imens Cananea, Mts. and hern Ari- ke a ua ou n ah , S ta iric ts. c n s h M Spe Specimen Mexico; C Huachuca zona ; and Santa Rosa Mts., Southern California, in June and July. 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Lacta's description men- tioned red on the under side, but the figure showed a differ- ent species. Edwards' description of lacta in Butterflies, I, 141, Plate 47, proved that we did not have laeta. We next turned to Papilio, Vol. 2, pages 23-4-5, where we found W. H. Edwards' original descriptions of Theda leda, clytie and ines, clytie being reprinted from Field and Forest, Vol 3, page 232, 1877. A very close reading of these descrip- tions showed, that while our specimens most nearly resembled leda, still there was really less difference outlined in the three descriptions than could be found in a good series of T. melinns from one locality. They seem to be three different word pic- tures of the same object. In clytie Mr. Edwards polished off his description with great detail, and evidently made consid- erable use of a low power microscope. Leda was well finished but not quite so much attention was paid to detail. Ines was treated quite crudely, as compared with the others. Again the various details were not described in the same order in any two of the three descriptions and this, with the use of different words for the same things, gives the reader a first impression of a very different species. We have rearranged the order of the details, omitting nothing in any of them, however, and then compared them with our specimens. The results are given above and we believe will be of inter- est to other students. Concerning the body, legs, palpi, etc., these insects are so minute that a magnifying glass is required to follow the de- scriptions. We find that most of the specimens, having been dried and relaxed for spreading, have suffered a loss of fresh- ness. We feel that minute descriptions of one or two speci- mens under these conditions are of no value, and we therefore omit them. As nearly as we can gather from our best speci- mens the description should conclude as follows : Body above covered with blue scales and hair ; abdomen above white with a slight amount of light orange. Beneath white with a yellowish tinge on abdomen. Legs generally Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 299 white, palpi white, antennae annulated black and white, club black tipped with ferruginous. Conclusion — A careful comparison of these descriptions will show that the specimens described had only such minute dif- ferences as could be expected from different sections and different seasons. In fact there is as much or more difference between our description and the others as there is between them. If they are all legitimate we would be justified in giv- ing still another name to our set of specimens. We might conclude to call this butterfly leda, the descrip- tion of which most nearly approaches our specimens, with a lowland form clytie and a fall form ines. This, to our minds would be as justifiable as Edwards' fine differentiation of the eastern pseudargiolus forms. Clytie has apparently a distinct orange spot on anal angle, while our specimens show only a minute orange patch in the best. In clytie the thread-like line along under edge of wings is red, while in ours it is brown. And finally clytie has an almost microscopic wholly white an- terior tail as against our black tipped with white. Ines, on the other hand, is not so fully colored as our specimens. The red of the extra^discal line on under side disappears except for some ferruginous scales on certain specimens. Other minute color details also seem to be subdued as might easily occur in fall specimens. These differences, however, are really so minute that we consider even form names a superfluity. Thecla clytie was described in 1877. Leda and ines were described in 1882. Mr. Aaron has stated that clytie might possibly be adria Hewitson. Until this is demonstrated by some one, we believe that the synonymy of this butterfly is : Thecla clytie Edwards. Syn. leda Edwards. Syn. ines Edwards. ERISTALIS OESTRACEUS L. a North American insect. — Mr. E. E. Aus- ten finds that E. (Syrphus) oestriformis Walker, described from the Albany River, Ontario, is a synonym of Linnaeus' oestraceus. (Ent. Mo. Mag., March, 1911, pp. 63-64). , 3OO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u> ll A new Variety of Megathymus yuccae (Lepid.)* By HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Megathymus navajo n. var. The specimens appear to be all males. They are black in color, while all the specimens of yuccae 1 have seen are chest- nut brown. They range in size 40, 45, 47 and 50 mm. in ex- panse respectively. The specimens of yuccae in our collection range in size from 62 to 68 mm. This variety is similar to coloradensis Riley, but is quite different in color. The speci- mens were sent to me by Mr. W. C. Wood of New York, along with a lot of specimens of Megathymus streckeri Skin- ner, and at first I took the four small, black specimens of navajo to be males of streckeri as they are the same color (black). They came from Fort Wingate, New Mexico and were taken May I3th, 25th, 3ist and June I3th. One speci- men's label says "on mountain back of Fort." The name navajo was suggested by Mr. Wood. The but- terfly comes from the home of these Indians. The specimens of streckeri were taken on various dates through the month of June and make a new record for the species. Yuccae and its two varieties may be distinguished from the other species of the genus by the distinct triangular white spot below the centre of the costa on the under-side of the secon- dary wings. — • •» • — A new Datana (LepicL). By JACOB DOLL, Brooklyn, N. Y. Datana neomexicana n. sp. Very near Datana integerrima var. cochise Dyar in coloration but differs in having the fore wings of almost uniform pale gray color, sprinkled more distinctly with small, dark punctures ; the costal shade rather feebly contrasted and of pale ochreous color; distal spot obsolete ; the lines as usual ; the oblique dash near apex obso- lete; the form of fore wings as in Datana calif arnica Dyar. Habitat — New Mexico. Type — One pair in the collection of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute; cotype, one pair in my collection. This species is very distinct from D. integerrima var. cochise Dyar, which it resembles at first sight more than any other Datana, by the characters given above which are constant in the specimens I have seen through the kindness of Messrs. Brehme and Erb. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3OI Four new Gall Midges (Dipt.)- By E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The four species described below, including the representa- tive of a new genus, were reared by Mr. W. H. Patterson, St. Vincent, W. I. Our knowledge of the gall midges of Tropi- cal America is exceedingly fragmentary. Careful collecting and rearing would result in the finding of numerous unknown forms, some of which would doubtless throw much light upon taxonomic questions. Asphondylia pattersoni n. sp. This reddish brown midge was reared February 3, 1911, from the flowers of fiddlewood, Cltharc.vylnm quadrangular c. Male. — Length, 1.75 mm. Antennae distinctly longer than the body, sparsely haired, light brown ; 14 segments, the fifth cylindric, with a length five times its diameter; terminal segment wanting. Palpi: first segment subquadrate, the second with a length three times its diameter, somewhat expanded distally, the third fusiform, slightly curved, as long as the second. Mesonotum reddish-brown, the submedian lines an obscure yellowish. Scutellum yellowish brown, postscutellum fuscous yellowish. Abdomen rather thickly haired, yellowish brown, the basal segments darker, the genitalia slightly darker than the apex of the abdomen. Wings hyaline, costa light brown, the third vein uniting with the margin at the apex of the wing. Femora and tibiae mostly dark- brown ; claws moderately stout, strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. Genitalia: basal clasp segment greatly swollen, stout ; terminal clasp segment short, greatly swollen, bidentate apically; dorsal plate divided, the lobes orbicular, sparsely setose. Other organs indistinct. Female. — Length 1.75 mm. Antennae a little shorter than the body, sparsely haired, light brown : 14 segments, the fifth cylindric, with a length about five times its diameter; the thirteenth segment subqua- drate, the fourteenth subglobosc. Palpi : first segment short, sub- quadrate, the second subglobose. the third with a length four times its diameter and somewhat dilated. Ovipositor, when extended, about as long as the abdomen, the aciculate portion moderately stout ; dorsal pouch apparently represented by an indistinct, thickly setose lobe hardly comparable with the highly developed organ observable in most species of Asphondylia. Type. — Cecid a2i32, N. Y. State Museum. 3O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS TOXOMYIA n. g. The unidentate anterior claws and two circumfili indicate a relationship to Erosomyia Felt from which it is easily separated by alar characters. The dentate anterior claws prevent the reference to this form to Contarinia and the same is true of the genitalia, which latter approach in structure those of The- codiplosis. Type. — To.i'omyia fwigicola n. sp. Toxomyia fungicola n. sp. The small, yellowish midge was reared February 3, 1911, from the teleutospores of Puccinia species on Emilia sonchi- folia. Male.. — Length .75 mm, Antennae twice the length of the body, thickly haired, light brown ; 14 segments, the fifth having the two por- tions of the stem with a length 2^/2 and 3^2 times their respective diameters ; the basal enlargement subglobose. the subbasal whorl thick, the circumfilum with long loops, those on the dorsal surface produced to extend beyond the subglobose distal enlargement, which latter has a scattering subbasal whorl of stout setae and a circumfilum with long loops, likewise somewhat produced on the dorsal surface and extend- ing beyond the base of the following segment ; distal segment produced, the basal portion of the stem with a length fully seven times its diameter, the distal enlargement subglobose and with a slightly taper- ing, finger-like process having a length five times its diameter; mouth- parts somewhat produced. Palpi : first segment short, subquadrate, the second with a length twice the first, rather slender, the third as long as the second, the fourth a little longer than the third ; the entire body a pale yellowish or yellowish red ; the genitalia somewhat fuscous. Wings hyaline, costa light straw, subcosta uniting with the margin at the basal third, the third vein a little beyond the apex; the fifth vein uniting with the posterior margin at the distal fourth, its short branch near the basal third. Halteres yellowish transparent, fuscous apically. Legs mostly pale straw, the distal tarsal segments darker ; claws long, slender, evenly curved, the anterior unidentate. the pulvilli rudimentary. Genitalia : basal clasp segment moderately long, slender, with a distinct, broadly rounded, setose lobe at the internal basal angle ; terminal clasp segment slightly swollen basally, long and evenly curved ; dorsal plate short, roundly and triangularly emarginate, the lobes broad, truncate and sparsely setose ; ventral plate a little longer, rather broad, tri- angularly emarginate, the lobes rather stout, slightly diverging and Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 303 setose apically ; style moderately long, tapering, broadly rounded apically. Female. — Length .75 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, thickly haired, dark brown ; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem one- third the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length over twice its diameter; subbasal whorl of setae stout and sparse ; subapical band scattering ; terminal segment produced, the basal enlargement subcylindric, with a length fully four times its diameter and apically a rather stout, finger-like process. Ovipositor short, the terminal lobes narrowly oval, slightly constricted basally and sparsely setose. Other characters nearly as in the male. Larva. — Length 1.25 mm., rather stout, pale yellowish with pinkish extremities. Head rather long, narrowly triangular, the anterior third chitinized. Antennae rather stout, with a length five times their diame- ter and arising from distinct elevations ; breast-bone wanting. Skin coarsely shagreened, the segments each with a lateral seta near the middle; posterior extremity contracted, the thirteenth segment half the width of the twelfth, the fourteenth about a third narrower than the thirteenth, truncate, with a long seta at each latero-posterior angle and two pairs of submedian short, stout, semi-transparent tubercles at the dorsal extremity. Type. — Cecid 3.2134, N. Y. State Museum. Contarinia lycopersici n. sp. The species described below was reared February 3, 1911, from the flowers of tomatoes, Lycopersicum cscnlcntum. It appears to be allied to C. solani Rubs, though there are marked differences in colorational characters, and a comparison with a female specimen of the European form, kindly sent us b\ Prof. Rubsaamen. shows certain structural differences. The West Indian species has relatively longer and more slender antennal segments. Male. — Length .75 mm. Antennae twice the length of the body, thickly haired, light brown ; 14 segments, the fifth having the basal portion of the stem with a length one-half greater than its diameter, the distal part with a length 2^ times its diameter; basal enlargement subglobose, the subbasal whorl sparse, the loops of the circumfilum long, those on the dorsum produced and extending to the apex of the segment, the distal enlargement slightly produced, broadly oval, with a sparse whorl of setae and a similar circumfilum, the loops of the latter extending to the tip of the basal enlargement on the following seg- 304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ment; terminal segment produced, the basal portion of the stem with a length four times its diameter, the distal enlargement fusiform, with a length nearly three times its diameter and apically with a long, fin- ger-like process. Palpi : first segment short, subquadrate, the second narrowly oval, with a length about twice its diameter, the third one-half longer than the second, more slender, the fourth a little longer and more slender than the third. Mesonotum reddish brown, the sub- median lines yellowish. Scutellum and postscutellum fuscous yellow- ish. Abdomen mostly fuscous yellowish. Wings hyaline or nearly so. Halteres yellowish transparent, fuscous apically. Legs mostly dark brown, the basal third of the tibiae, especially those of the posterior legs, yellowish ; claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. Genitalia : basal clasp segment rather long, stout; terminal clasp segment stout, tapering; dorsal plate rather long, deeply and roundly emarginate, the lobes diverging, sparsely rounded ; ventral plate deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes diverging, taper- ing, both sparsely setose ; style short, tapering, acute. Female. — Length I mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, rather thickly haired, dark brown ; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem one- quarter the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length 2r/2 times its diameter ; subbasal whorl sparse, subapical band rather long, the setae long and strongly curved; terminal segment produced, with a length four times its diameter and apically with a rather stout process, having a length fully twice its diameter. Palpi : first segment subquadrate, the second narrowly oval, with a length twice its diameter, the third a little longer and more slender than the second, the fourth longer and more slender than the third. Mesonotum reddish brown, the submedian lines yellowish. Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum probably darker. Abdomen dark brown. Wings subhyaline, with rather distinct fuscous spots on costa and at the posterior margin near the basal third, at the distal fifth on the third vein and on the posterior branch of the fifth, some specimens showing a rather indistinct fuscous band near the distal fifth of the wing. Ovi- positor, when extended, distinctly longer than the body; terminal lobes very slender, with a length five times the diameter and sparsely setose. Larva. — Length 1.5 mm., yellowish white, rather stout. Head small; antennae short, stout ; breast-bone with a subquadrate head, bidentate ; the short, obliquely truncate, blunt teeth widely separated, yellowish brown, the remainder of this structure semi-transparent, the shaft be- ing slender. Skin nearly smooth, posterior extremity broadly rounded. Type. — Cecid a2i35 and 32090, N. Y. State Museum. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 305 Hyperdiplosis coffeae n. sp. The midge described below was reared February 3, 1911, from the fruits of the Liberian coffee tree, Coffea libcrica. It is tentatively referred to this genus, since the claws are less strongly bent, while the circumfili are more produced than in other species placed in this group. M^ale. — Length i mm. Antennae nearly twice the length of the body, thickly haired, light brown : 14 segments, the fifth having the two por- tions of the stem, each with a length about thrice the diameter; the basal enlargement subglobose, the subbasal whorl rather thick, stout, the circumfihim with loops extending to the produced distal enlarge- ment, which latter has a length twice its diameter, a sparse whorl of rather long setae, subbasal and subapical circumfili, the loops of the latter extending to the apex of the segment; terminal segment pro- duced, the basal portion of the stem with a length four times its diameter, the distal enlargement subcylindric, tapering distallv and with a length four times its diameter and apically a loner, finsrer-like process with a length four times its diameter and subacute distallv. Palpi : first segment probably subquadrate. the second slender, with a length four times its diameter, the third a little longer than the second, more slender; the fourth as long as the third, dilated : eves large, black. Entire body a pale yellowish. Wings yellowish white, costa very pale yellowish, the third vein uniting with the margin well beyond the apex of the wing. Halteres whitish transparent. Legs mostly a light straw, the distal tarsal segments darker; claws stout, strongly bent and swollen subapically, simple, the pulvilli shorter than the claws. Genitalia: basal clasp segment short, stout, obliquely truncate; terminal clasp segment as long as the basal clasp segment, swollen basally, curved: dorsal plate nearly as long as the ventral plate, trian- gularlv incised, the lobes obliquely emarginate and sparselv setose; ventral plate long, broad, very deeply and roundly emarginate, the slender lobes diverging, narrowlv rounded and sparsely setose apically; style long, stout, broadly rounded. Female. — Length i mm. Antennae about as long as the body, thickly haired, yellowish brown ; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem about three- quarters the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length thrice its diameter; subbasal whorl sparse, the subapical band thick, the setae long and strongly curved ; terminal segment pro- duced, the basal enlargement subcylindric, with a length four times its diameter and apically with a long, finger-like process. Ovipositor short, the terminal lobes narrowly lanceolate and sparsely setose. Other characters nearly as in the male. Type. — Cecid a2i33, N. Y. State Museum. 306 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll Chrysomela staphylea Linne in North America (Col.). By FREDERICK KNAB, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C. In order to settle, if possible, the identity of certain Coleoptera, described by Kirby, from Nova Scotia, I wrote letters to several collectors at Halifax. As the result of this correspondence I received a box of beetles kindly collected for me by Mr. Joseph Perrin, of MacNabs Island, near Hali- fax. They were all larger beetles, mostly familiar species, and none of the species I wished to see were among them. There were, however, three specimens of a Chrysomela (re- stricted sense) which I at once recognized as distinct from any of the species attributed to our fauna. Yet the insect had a strangely familiar appearance, and naturally the suspi- cion arose that it might be one of the numerous European species. So it proved, and the specimens were quickly identified as Chrysomela staphylea Linne, a very common species in Northern Europe. In fact, the species is one of distinctly boreal distribution, extending through Siberia and Northern Europe, and ranging southward to the Caucasus, Dalmatia, the Tyrol and the Pyrenees. Comparison with European material and with descriptions showed that the Nova Scotia specimens agree in every respect with typical European ones. The beetle is uniformly ferrugin- ous brown in color, with a slight brassy luster on the upper surface. Immature specimens are a lighter, opaque rust-red, without the metallic luster. In form it is similar to our Chrysomela auripennis, although slightly broader and with less prominent humeri. The pronotum is very finely, and rather densely punctured. The elytral punctuation is coarser and more sparse, in more or less confused double series ; in some specimens two or three impunctate intervals appear. There appears to be but one previous record of the beetle from North America, and this with a query. A single speci- men is reported by Mr. J. D. Evans as taken at Halifax in Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 307 Mr. Evans had some doubt that his specimen belong- ed to the European species, for he had only a single European specimen for comparison and this showed differences in the punctuation and in size. A good series of European speci- mens of Chrysoinela staphylea before me shows considerable variation in these respects, fully covering the differences noted by Mr. Evans. The three specimens recently captured by Mr. Perrin remove all doubt that Mr. Evans had the European species. The occurrence of Chrysomela staphylea at a seaport in constant communication with Europe naturally leads to the supposition that it was introduced through commerce. It is barely possible that we have here an additional circumpolar species, but in this case it should have been found in other northern localities ; however, our knowledge of the insect fauna, past and present, of boreal America is too limited to warrant a conclusion. All three specimens sent by Mr. Perrin were captured on MacNabs Island near Halifax. I wrote to Mr. Perrin to ascertain if much European shipping touched at this point, and the presence of the beetles could be account- ed for in this way. Mr. Perrin replied as follows : "The beetle you refer to may have been imported with some farm and gar- den seeds that we have had, or else by the former owner of this place. There being no shipping to the island, I cannot account for it in any other way. Of course there is much shipping from Europe done at Halifax, but that is at least two and a half miles from the nearest point of land from here." Entomologists will agree with me that the probability of the beetle having been introduced with garden seed is rather remote — it probably reached the island indirectly, as it seems from the above record that it was previously established on the nearby mainland. At all events the insect is well established on the above named is- land, specimens having been captured at considerable intervals, one of them on June 18, 1910, the other two on August 5 of 1 List of Coleoptera from Halifax, N. S. Can. Ent., vol. 31, p. 320- 321 (1899). 308 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Juty> >I1[ the same year. Chrysomela staphylea should be looked for elsewhere in eastern Canada. If the beetle proves to be restrict- ed to a limited area about Halifax, it will be evident that it is an importation. On the other hand, wide distribution will indicate that the species is indigenous. The beetle is one that would not be diffused rapidly, as it is sluggish in habits and incapable of flight. Although pro- vided with wings, these are reduced in size and not functional. They are narrow, corneous pads, no longer than the elytra, and lie under these without folding. Several specimens that I examined, from both sides of the Atlantic, all showed the same condition. About the only chance for rapid distribution of such an insect would be along some river, where the hibernated beetles would be carried down stream by the spring floods ; but this cannot operate in the case of a species which has become established at the seaboard. Although Chrysomela staphylea is a common species in Europe, very little appears to be known of its habits. Rosen- hauer2 and Buddeberg3 have bred the beetle and described the early stages. Both obtained their larvae from eggs feid by captive females. Rosenhauer obtained eggs in September, and again in March from the hibernated beetles. The eggs laid in the fall did not hatch until the following spring4, a rather remarkable occurrence in a chrysomelid. We can hardly im- agine the eggs surviving the rigorous winters of Nova Scotia. Eggs were obtained in March, by both Rosenhauer and Bud- deberg, from females taken in flood drift. Rosenhauer states that these eggs hatched very irregularly during April and May ; the larvae avoid the light and, particularly when young, are very sluggish. "Entom. Zeitung, Stettin, vol. 43, p. 151-152 (1882). "Jahrbiicher Nassau. Ver. Naturk., vol. 41, p. 33-34 (1888). 4 Tt is interesting1, in this connection, to note the observation of Bird- deberg on the hibernation of the eggs of Timarcha tenebricosa F. (I.e., p. 43). He found that the eggs deposited in the summer hibernated regularly, in spite of the fact that in July the young larvae were al- ready fully developed within. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 309 There appear to be no records of the food-plants of the beetle in nature — Buddeberg remarks that he has never found the beetle on a plant and most writers speak of the beetle as being found under stones, or running on the ground. Probably, like many other European species of Chrysomela, it is crepus- cular or nocturnal. The beetle was called "staphylea" by Linne, not because it was supposed to feed on the plant of this name, but on ac- count of its resemblance in color to the seeds of the plant. Rosenhauer fed his larvae with Mcntha crispa from the green- house, and later with Mentha sylvestris and Ranunculus acris — Buddeberg offered a great variety of plants to his beetles and found that they preferred Veronica beccabunga, leaving the other plants untouched. The larvae showed a preference for the same plant, but also ate Mcntha aquatic a and Lye opus europaeus. Notes on the Species of Acronycta and Descriptions of new Species (Lepid.). By JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey. Incident to the preparation of a paper on the California!! species of Acronycta, I found it desirable to compare my collection with the revision by Sir George F. Hampson, in Vol. VIII of his Catalogue of British Museum Noctuidae. The receipt of a number of species for determination, including a little lot from Mr. E. Firmstone Heath, of Cartwright, Mani- toba, gave further opportunity of comparing some of the species rather closely, and these notes are the result. As a rule, I am inclined to follow Hampson in his identi- fications and synonymical references, even when I am not fully agreed, because of the desirability of getting at some fixed determination of species. Furthermore, he is usually right where he has had sufficient material upon which to base a satisfactory conclusion. Finally, there are some cases where a number of specimens marked types by the original describer 3IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS []uty, 'll and distributed in different collections, are not really the isame species, and in most of such cases the British Museum specimens have the best claim to be considered the determin- ing forms. And so in the case of the Acronycta, I have ac- cepted the references of Vol. VIII, except where I feel reasonably certain that they will not stand the test of future comparisons, or where for some reason an error would follow an acceptance of the conclusion. With the method of arrangement adopted by Hampson, I do not agree at all ; but that is a purely subordinate matter based on a difference in the fundamental characters used in making the subdivisions. My own views are sufficiently given in the Monograph of the genus, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, i — 194, 1898. Acronycta hastulifera S. & A. Hampson records this species as unknown to him. Under the name insita Wlk., he figures on PL CXXVII f. 3, a species that is almost certainly the species in my collection and in others under the name hastulifera. My denvera is cited as a synonym of insita, which it is not, if insita is really hastulifera, as I believe. The descriptions of larvae differ ; but whether Dyar, who furnished both descriptions, had the larva of the Colorado form or not, I have no way of determining. I believed my denvera to be a form of dactylina; in that I was probably in error, and it may be nearer to hastulifera. If there is a species insita, so near to hastulifera that neither the description nor the picture avail to separate the two, I do not know that species. I saw insita in 1900, and at that time compared the $ with $ dactylina. Acronycta lepusculina Gn. This species had been altogether misidentified in American collections and is the form I had determined as insita. Hampson has pointed this out after an examination of the type and gives the name chionochroa to the form mistakenly characterized in the monograph under the Guenee name. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 311 Acronycta felina Grt. My identification of this was erroneous. The scant material from the original locality led to an error in estimating range of variation. This error extended also to the author in labelling the original type series; hence the types are not conspecific. The British Museum material, containing the specimens from the author's own collection, must be accepted as having the true type, and that is as figured by Hampson. I have only one example, which had been associated with my pacifica. Acronycta metra n. sp. Head, thorax and primaries very dark blue gray, powdered by black atoms, but not roughened or irrorate. Sides of palpi black, and a black line to base of primaries. Thorax without markings of any kind. Primaries without trace of transverse maculation : veins only a trifle darkened, so that the wing appears almost uniform in color. A narrow black basal streak, extending about one third across wing in sub-median interspace, and a slightly more conspicuous streak not continuous with it, through outer third of same space, not quite reach- ing the outer margin. Orbicular wanting, reniform indicated by a small blackish dot at outer angle of cell inferiorly. Fringes very narrowly cut with black over the interspaces. Secondaries soiled whitish, darker and with the veins marked in the female. Beneath whitish ; all wings with a discal spot and a broken extra-median line. Expands 41-49 mm. = : 1.65-1.95 inches. Habitat — Seattle, Washington: Colorado (Bruce). The $ is the smaller, lacks the abdomen, but is otherwise in good condition. The female, from Bruce, is an old specimen that I had kept questionably as felina for many years, and is in fair condition. The thoracic vestiture is hairy, as in the oblinita series, the collar and patagia not well marked, the wing form trigonate, apices somewhat drawn out, much as in frigida Sm., and cyanescens Hampson. Acronycta turpis n. sp. Head, thorax, abdomen and primaries very pale bluish gray, with a scant powdering of black scales. Palpi at sides and a narrow line to base of primaries black. Primaries with all the veins marked by black scales so as to make them traceable throughout their course. A narrow black streak from base through sub-median interspace, al- 312 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July> 'H most lost before the middle of the wing, then better marked again through outer third, almost to the outer margin. Orbicular lost; reniform a very narrow dusky crescent at end of cell. T. a. line lost. T. p. line traceable across the wing as a rather broad though vague whitish sinuate line. Secondaries white. Beneath almost snow white, with small discal spots, primaries with a trace of an extra-median line. Expands 42 mm. = 1.70 inches. Habitat — Provo, Utah, VII, 24. A single male, in good condition, from Mr. Thomas Spald- ing. The species is an ally of metro,, with similar habitus, vestiture and wing-form, but much paler and whiter through- out, with the narrow, crescent-like reniform and pale s. t. line. The simplicity of the maculation should render it easily recognizable. Acronycta amicora n. sp. Head, thorax, abdomen and primaries ashen gray, with a faint yellowish tinge. Palpi black at sides, with a narrow black line ex- tending to the base of the primaries. All transverse maculation of primaries lost; all the veins slightly darker and feebly relieved. A narrow black line extends from base to outer margin through sub- median space, traceable only as a line of black scales at the middle of its course. Another short black streak is in the interspace beyond the cell, and the fringes are rather distinctly cut with black on the Inter- spaces. Orbicular elongate, decumbent, pointed anteriorly, obscurely outlined by black scales. Reniform a dusky lunule at end of cell. Secondaries soiled whitish, with a yellowish suffusion. Beneath whitish with a yellowish tinge, somewhat powdery, all wings with a good sized, round, somewhat diffuse discal spot, but without extra- median line. Expands 46 mm. : : 1.85 inches. Habitat — Senator, Arizona. One female, an old specimen and perhaps a little discolored. It is obviously related to metra and turpis, but differs from both by the black streak opposite cell and by the narrow, de- cumbent orbicular. , , There is nothing on the specimen to indicate the source from which I originally received it. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 313 Acronycta hasta Gn. This species as described by Hampson in Vol. VIII, p. 73, and figured on PI. CXXIV, f. 22, is not the hasta of my collection or of my Monograph, nor, I believe, of Guenee. It is the species that for many years masqueraded as clarescens Gn., and was subsequently referred by me to pruni Harr. The type of hasta is not in the British Museum, and there is no statement by Hampson that he has seen it. Guenee's descrip- tion does not in the least fit pruni, which is never a deep violaceous ashen — "cendre violatre fonce," but rather "gris- cendre clair saupoudre de noiratre." Nor could pruni ever be called "tres voisine" of fnrcifera. As the matter stands, I prefer to retain pruni Harr., as representing the species now known to us in all stages, while for hasta I prefer to retain the dark blue gray species which is really a very near neighbor of furcifcra. I might add that Hampson apparently includes under fnrcifera, the species that I have separated as hasta. Acronycta telum Gn. Noct. 1, 45. This species has not heretofore been definitely identified in collections. Guenee described it from a single male out of his own collection, comparing it with furcifera and hasta, and giving the locality as "Amerique Septentrionale." Walker turned the original description into Latin, abbreviating and laying stress upon the character of the secondaries, as by the terms of the original he was justified in doing. He gives the locality as "United States," but apparently knew nothing more of the species. Mr. Grote, in the Bull U. S. Geol. Surv. VI, 571, 1883, translates Guenee's description into English, omitting, probably by accident, a portion of the description of primaries. He adds that "I do not identify this description." In Papilio, III, 67, he remarks that this must resemble hasta and furci- fera. In my Catalogue of 1893 no progress is recorded and the species yet stands unindentified. In my revision of Acronycta, p. 87, 1898, telum is referred 314 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll as a synonym to hasta without explanation or comment. I do not at this time remember my reason for this action which has been followed without question by later writers, including Hampson in 1909. Two female specimens received from Mr. Heath, one dated VI, 29, '08, the other, VIII, 19, '09, attracted my attention at once by their resemblance to hasta and their immediate suggestion of a different species, based first, upon the brilliantly clear maculation of primaries, and second, upon the pearly lustred blackish secondaries. On the underside especially, the secondaries are very strongly marked, and comparison with the original description of telum makes it as certain as an identification from a description can well be, that the real "telum" has been at last discovered. It gives us the three species in the order described by Guenee — furcifera, hasta and telum, — close allies in a way, in the order seen by him, and makes his descriptions clear. Furcifera is the largest of the species and has a decided yellowish shading throughout, but more conspicuous in the secondaries, which are strongly mottled beneath and often have, in the best marked examples, a longitudinal black streak in the cell near base. Hasta is decidedly smaller, the primaries are blue gray, the black markings thicker and more con- spicuous, the secondaries whitish with very little yellow shad- ing, especially on the male. On the under side the mottling is much reduced, and in none of my specimens is there a longi- tudinal black bar in the cell. Telum is as intense a blue gray as hasta, but is distinctly more black powdered, and the maculation seems more in- tensely black. The secondaries are really blackish, especially toward outer border and the pearly lustre is obvious. The under side is as heavily marked as in the best furcifera and the streak in the cell is obvious. It is more than likely, how- ever, that this is a somewhat variable feature and may not be nearly so well marked in all examples. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 315 Acronycta exilis Grt. and A. modica Wlk. In the monograph I united these two forms. After seeing the types, in 1900, I admitted their possible distinctness (Can. Ent. XXXII, 335). Hampson describes and figures them as separate. After looking over the series before me, I am as undecided as ever and cannot find a single reliable character on which to base two series. There are always some three or four examples that will not fit better into one series than into the other. With the British Museum material only at hand, the two forms seem distinct enough ; exilis being smaller, paler and apparently rare. Acronycta inclara Sm. This name was proposed by me in 1900, Can. Ent. XXXII, 335, for the species theretofore known as hamamelis in collec- tions, and it has no type. There is a considerable range of variation in this aggregation, and it may be convenient to fix more definitely the one to be covered by this name. Hampson in his Catalogue Vol. VIII, p. 8, describes, and on PI. CXXIV, 28, figures one of the common types, and this may be accepted as the type of the name. There seems almost no end to the variations in this species, and many of these seem local ; but there is on the whole a characteristic facies that distinguishes a series, and that is not well brought out in the figure. There is an obscure streak crossing the s. t. line in the sub-median interspace, beginning a little beyond the middle of the wing. From the be- ginning of this line a triangular dusky shade extends above it, reaching the outer margin at vein 7 and forming a darker triangular patch, which is traceable in every specimen and characteristic in a large series. There are variations in ground color from white to gray, mossy shadings, brown shadings and yellowish shadings, and no end to the differences in con- trasts; but this one feature remains throughout. I have had from Mr. Heath, at various times, nearly a dozen examples of what seems to be a local race, at least, and which he is inclined to consider specifically distinct from 3l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll inclara. It is a little smaller than the normal examples, lacks all reddish or mossy suffusions, and has the maculation a clearer, more contrasting white and black or blackish. The secondaries also are decidedly more blackish gray without the distinct yellowish tinge. I cannot, however, draw any line at present and call attention to the matter here for the benefit of those who may be so situated as to work out the relation of the two. As a race it may be called inconstans. Acronycta tristis n. sp. With all the normal maculation of inclara; but without contrasts, the lines and markings just enough darker than the ground to be easily made out. Ground color a uniform dark smoky ashen gray, the pale annulus to the round orbicular being usually the only obvi- ously relieved feature of the wing. Secondaries sub-transparent white, soiled with blackish, tending to blackish in the female, the lines and discal spot of underside showing clearly. Beneath with a pearly lustre, blackish outwardly, both wings with discal spots and conspicuous, more or less lunulate, extra-median lines. Expands 35-37 mm. = 1.40-1.50 inches. Habitat — Canada VIII, 5; Cohasset, Mass., VII, i, 4; Johnson City, Term., VII. Four males and two females, in fair condition. These specimens had been included as uniform examples of inclara in my collection ; but they differ obviously in lacking all trace of the triangular dark shading, which is characteristic of that species. This is not the hamamelis figured by Hampson, despite its uniform dark tint. Hampson's figure shows correctly, the small, round, white-ringed orbicular which is characteristic of affticta and its immediate allies. In none of the forms of the inclara series does this type of orbicular ever occur. Acronycta haesitata Grt. = = A. clarescens Gn. In the monograph I concluded that these two names re- ferred to one species, basing my opinion on the best available information as there set out. In 1900, when I saw the types, I wrote myself in error, (Can. Ent. XXXII, 335) and con- cluded that the species were distinct. Mr. Crete's species was Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 317 as I had it; but darescens Gn., I concluded, was really the species that had been called so by Mr. Grote, and for which I had resurrected pruni Harris. This "pruni" is a common enough species, I had dozens of bred specimens, and I thought I knew it under all circumstances. Hampson cites, in consequence, A. darescens Gn., : : pruni Harr. (Smith) ; A. hacsitata Grt., : : darescens Sm., nee Gn. He figures darescens and haesitata on PI. CXXIV, figs. 29 and 21, respectively, apparently from the types, and of a certainty neither of these figures nor the descriptions can possibly re- fer to pruni Harr., which is the species figured and described by Hampson as hast a Gn. In looking carefully over my series of hacsitata, I have ex- act duplicates of the figures of both haesitata and darescens, and find it possible to separate the series passably into two forms, satisfying the requirements of Hampson's tables and descriptions. The figures are characteristic, and I do not see how an error is possible ; but if Hampson is right in his identi- fication of these two forms, then my original conclusion that hacsitata Grt. : = darescens Gn., is correct. That would make necessary an admission on my part that with two specimens of a form so well known to me as haesi- tata, I positively declared one of them to be a distinct and equally well known other species, and that admission T am not ready to make. Hampson refers to two females from Tren- ton Falls as the types of darescens, and that is in accord with Guenee's record. The female type of haesitata is from Penn- sylvania. In my notes I refer to a "type" of darescens. and a possibility remains that the two Guenee specimens are not specifically identical. The two certain points are that dares- cms Hamns. : r hacsitata Hamps. and that darescens Hamps. is not pruni Harr. , Acronycta hamamelis Gn. Hampson lists this as a good species, closely allied to afflicta, based on one male and one female. The figure is based on the type, and from my recollection and notes it seems to be accu- ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll rate. I yet believe that it is not different from aMicta, all the characteristic maculation being obvious. The only disturb- ing feature is in the smoky secondaries, those of all the aMicta that I have ever seen being whitish. I am ready, under the circumstances, to admit a species that I have never seen, and which is the true hamamelis Gn., as distinct from afHicta Grt. Acronycta speratina Smith. Hampson refers this as a synonym to sperata, mentioning it again under Ab. i, as larger and paler, fore wing with the markings more diffused. As species go in this genus, I am not ready to assent to this disposition of speratina, which is at least a very good geo- graphical race, and I am inclined to hold out for its rank as a good species. Notes on Pennsylvanian Diptera, with two new Species of Syrphidae. By W. R. WALTON, Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C* (Plate IX). Criorhina (Penthesilia) nigriventris n. sp. Habitat Pennsylvania. $ Length 17 mm. Antennae blackish, ist joint black, shining, a little longer than second which is black verging to brown on apical end. Third joint distinctly broader than long, front border convex. Front and face golden yellow pollinose, some- what more dense on sides. Cheeks and oral margin shining black. Sides of antennal tubercle and transverse impression of face sparsely clothed with long black hairs. Pile of ocellar triangle black, that of vertex yellow. Thorax black with a median opaque band, also an elongate opaque spot extending from post alar callus nearly to but not touching the transverse suture. Elsewhere shining and covered with long pale yellow pile excepting a faint transverse band of black hairs just caudad of the transverse suture. Scutellum black, shining, covered with long pale yellow pile. Pleurae yellow pilose. Abdomen broad, entirely shining pitchy black, covered with long *Published by permission of the Chief of Bureau. Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 319 black pile excepting a triangular area on the disc of second segment which is nearly bare. All femora black, shining, bearing long black hairs. Tibiae black, apical ends brownish. Hind tibiae strongly bent ventrad. Front and middle tarsi light brown, apical joints darker. Hind tarsi black above and brown below. Wings smoky, stigma yellowish. Type a unique $ . Deposited in U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. Collected by W. S. Fisher, Harrisburg, Pa., March 24, 1910, resting on a tree trunk. Mr. D. \Y. Co- quillett has kindly compared this and the following species for me. Syrphus fisherii n. sp. Habitat Pennsylvania. 9 Length 8 mm. Antennae brownish, eyes glabrous. Face yellow with whitish pollen ; in the middle a shining brown stripe extends from the oral margin across the facial prom- inence but ends abruptly before the base of antennae; oral margin brown. Front, shining pitchy black with a band of grayish pollen forming a continuous Gothic arch above antennal tubercle ; the sides of this arch run down along the eyes and coalesce with the facial pollen. Antennae inserted on a distinctly yellow ground. No part of face or front shows any trace of metallic color. Thorax black with a faint green metallic tinge, scutellum and halteres dull yellow, scutellum brown at extreme ends. Abdomen rather narrow, some- what constricted at base, first segment black; second segment, yel- low cross band very broad, narrowly interrupted forming two large, lemon yellow, quadrate spots reaching anterior margin, remainder of segment shining black ; third and fourth segments shinins: black, with basal, narrow, nearly straight, interrupted, cross bands of ochre yellow, reaching laterad but not touching anterior margin of seg- ment : fifth segment black with small ochre yellow triangle at outer corners touching anterior margin, also a very narrow lunule border- ing posterior margin : remainder of abdomen black. Front and middle legs testaceous, femora brown at base. Hind legs blackish, knees brown. Type a unique 9 , from Tnsrlenook, Pa., September 12. The species is named in honor of Mr. W. S. Fisher, who collected it and to whom the author is indebted for this and many other fine Diptera. Microdon laetus Loew. Type locality, Cuba. The validity of this species seems previously to have been somewhat doubtful. The specimens 32O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll from which the following descriptions are drawn were taken in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pa., and have been determined by Mr. D. W. Coquillett. $ Length 10 mm. Slender, shining metallic green. Face me- tallic shining green, narrow, sides parallel, sparsely clothed with pale yellow pile; front rather strongly constricted midway between ocelli and base of antennae, metallic shining green excepting ocel- lar tubercle which is violaceous : pile of front black sprinkled with yellow. Antennae black, third joint somewhat shorter than first. Ocelli quite remote from vertex. Eyes shortly and sparsely pilose. Thorax, dorsum and pleurae metallic shining green, thinly cover- ed with pale yellowish pile which is more dense on pleurae. Scu- tellum subconvex, metallic green, impressed, sparsely pale yellow pi- lose, bearing an obtuse concolorous tubercle upon each side of apex. Abdomen slender, metallic green, punctulate and thinly clothed with pale yellow pile ; apical segment blackish. Femora and tibiae me- tallic green ; tarsi blackish above and brown beneath. 9 Differs as follows from $. Pile of face nearly white, sides of front parallel. Color of entire body of somewhat bluer cast. Disc of thorax with violet tinge; last two segments of abdomen violaceous. One specimen, Carlisle Junction, Pa., F. Craighead. One specimen, Enola, Pa., H. F. Adams. One specimen, Rock- ville, Pa., author. Idana marginata Loew. In life this is a very handsome species. Apparently it is quite local in distribution and exists but a short time in the adult stage. It is to be found in shady spots bordering road- sides or along the edges of wooded land, and seems to be par- ticularly fond of roosting on old rail fences, and is to be sought only upon warm, still days. It has the habit in common with many other Ortalids of strutting about with the wings held at right angles to the body, occasionally rotating them through a quarter circle forward and back while held in this position. The species flies swiftly but usually aliehts within a few feet of its original resting place. During life the darker portions of the wings and body have a metallic purplish luster which entirely disappears in dead and dried specimens. Taken rather plentifully some years in June near Harrisburg, notably at Progress, Pa., in 1909 by Mr. H. D. Bailey and the writer. KNT. NEWS, VOL. XXII. Plate IX. Criorhina details. Sapphao -jToheni i ; abdoraeo. Microdon laetao, heads 6 §> o PENNSYLVANIA DIPTERA-WALTON. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 321 Eustalomyia vittipes Zett. (Anthomyidae'). In describing the male of this species, Mr. P. Stein com- ments upon the rarity of the fly in collections. It may be of interest, therefore, to record the fact that this fly has twice been reared from material collected from the interior of rotten logs in the winter season at Harrisburg, Pa. The insect was in the pupal stage and upon both occasions was in close proximity to cells of hymenopterons. Collections made by Paul Myers and A. B. Champlain. The following hymenopterons were reared in connection with it. Crabro (Xestocrabro} trifas- ciata Say. Crabro maculatns Fabr., Thyreopns (Blepharipns) impressifrons F. Sm. and Pcmphredon concolor Say. The puparium is chestnut brown, 8 to 9 mm. in length and from 2 1-2 to 3 mm. broad. Dorsally extremely polished, ven- tral side minutely wrinkled between the segments. Ectecephala albistylum Macq. Type locality North America. This rather curious Oscinid seems to have escaped recording for some reason. It seems to be not uncommon in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pa., Mr. W. S. Fisher having swept it from grass on several occasions, and the writer has also taken it in Harrisburg. Mr. D. W. Coquillett has confirmed our determination. Pyrellia serena Meigen. = = (P. cyanicolor Loew.). This Muscid, apparently adventitious from Europe, appears to have been overlooked by collectors ; it is rather common in Pennsylvania, but as it resembles superficially the much more common Morellia tnicans, its presence in collections possibly remains unsuspected. The distinguishing characters may be summarized as fol- lows: Color of body, dark steely blue, occasionally greenish blue; thorax with three longitudinal, rather faint, hoary pollinose stripes. Sterno-pleural bristles 1-3; a stout bristle on the flexor surface of the middle tibia, first posterior cell rather widely open, 4th vein being only gently curved forward. I first recognized this species among some Muscids collect- ed by Mr. Erich Daecke, on the flowers of Trillium erectum, 322 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, *H near Harrisburg, and which were referred to me for identifi- cation. Subsequently it was found in both my own and Mr. Daecke's collections, having been confused with Morellia micans, which it quite closely resembles. From several collections made during the winter months by Mr. A. B. Champlain at Harrisburg, Pa., it is shown that at least some of the adults of both sexes hibernate in such places as old stumps and rotten logs. Observations on the Lepidoptera of St. Louis, Miss- ouri and Vicinity during 19 10. By THE MEMBERS OF THE ST. Louis ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. Compiled by PAUL A. SCHROERS, St. Louis, Mo. The salient feature was the scarcity of Rhopalocera and the abundance of Heterocera. Following several weeks of hot weather during March and early April, all the early species of Lepidoptera, double brood- ed and overwintering forms were on the wing. Then came a severe cold wave with blizzards and killing frosts which left the green garb of Spring burnt to a rusty crisp, and insect life practically annihilated. It was a dreadful blow, from which many species never recovered fully. Most of the ovi- positing was over and newly hatched caterpillars, as well as others that had hibernated, were found in icicles hanging from trees and shrubs. Those that suffered mostly were the : Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Papilionidae. The latter, however, recuperated some- what in the second brood. Here are the principle observations made on different spe- cies following the usual order : RHOPALOCERA. Phyciodes — Common in late summer only. Grapta — Unusually common ; the elms in and around the city being fairly covered with larvae, except progne and com- ma. Vanessa and Euptoieta scarce. Junonia coenia — Absent altogether. Not a single specimen seen by any member of the Club. Basilarchia as ty an ax — Normally common. Basilar chia disipptis — Very scarce, showing its larva to be possibly more sensitive to sudden extremes of temperature than that of the preceding species. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 323 Apatura clyton — This species outnumbered Apatura celtis; it is usually by far the reverse. Anaea andria — Mr. Hermann Schwarz found this insect very common at De Soto, Mo., on Oct. 12 to 17, 1910, but mostly males. In the near vicinity of St. Louis the appearance of both sexes was normal. Coenonympha enrytris — This species, which usually disap- pears in July, was yet very much in evidence in late Septem- ber. Sa-tyrus alope — Numerous specimens were taken by the members of the Club at West Kimmswick on their field day, July 1 7th. Thccla — Very scarce; Thecla titus was captured at West Kimmswick by Mr. J. Nelle on the same date. Chrysophunus — Very scarce, thoe as well as hypophleas. Pierinae — Fairly scarce around St. Louis. Mr. Hermann Schwarz, however, found the following species unusually common near De Soto : Colias philodice, eurytheme, Zerene coesonia and var. rosca; Eurema nicippe and enterpe. Hesperidae : normal. New species taken — Pamphila bellus and Thanaos naevius. HETEROCERA. The following species were unusually common : Hemaris thysbe and diffinis — This seems to indicate that their eggs withstood the intense cold of late April. Ampelophaga choerilus — Plentiful at Creve Cceur, Mo. Usually scarce. Smerinthiis geminatus, Marmnba modesta, Paonias myops and excaecatus, Cressonia juglandis in wide variations, Actias luna. Calloscimia promethea — This species seems to have had two distinct generations, one pupating in July and the other in Oc- tober. It was extremely common, 1745 cocoons being taken by the writer on the hills near Creve Cceur Lake. Two hundred was considered a good harvest so far. Citheronia recalls — Many females were caught by the writer at lights in the country and no males, while Mr. Hosenfeldt captured only males at light in the city. From the above fe- males 432 fertile eggs were obtained and larvae raised. Adelocephala bicolor and bisecta — Of these a fine series was obtained by Mr. Geo. Hosenfeldt. Other species very plentiful— Enthysanotia grata and unto Phoeocima hmifera, Homoptcra lunata and edusa. 324 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll New species recorded — Pygarctia spraguei, Schinia lynx and jagarina, Choephora fungorum, Lagoa crispata at West Kimmswick and the little day-flying Rheumaptera hastata. The collecting of Catocalae was remarkable for the sharp contrast between good and unproductive days. On July 4th Mr. F. Malkmus found almost every tree trunk occupied by them in a grove that had been given up as deserted by the other collectors after numerous fruitless expeditions. Amongst the most remarkable captures of last summer, the following are foremost : Catocala lachrymosa var. ulalume Strecker, one male taken at Meramec Highlands on the trunk of a white oak, Aug. 25th. C. lachrymosa var. zelica French, one female at the same locality, Aug. 2oth. C. parta Guenee, one male, same locality, July 25th. This is the most southern point at which this species was taken. C. serena Hy. Edwards, one male, on black oak, same lo- cality, July 25th. These captures all stand to the credit of Mr. Ernest Schwarz. C. viduata Grote. Four specimens were taken by Mr. Her- mann Schwarz near Columbia, 111., about fifteen miles from St. Louis, Aug. loth. Certain species of Sphingidae seem almost threatened with annihilation, through the unusual activity of parasites of the Ichneumon type. Dolba hylaeus larvae showed a percentage of 95 parasitized, while Ceratomla amyntor and undulosa cater- pillars were all lost. Even Citheronia regalis and some of the woolly bears which are usually irmmme from the attacks of these parasites, were attacked by them this summer. SO-CALLED CARRION-FEEDING COLEOPTERA OFTEN NOT CARRION-FEEDERS. —Observations reported by Mr. C. F. Selous, who watched the be- havior of insects attracted by small carcases (rat, mole, young rabbit), lead him to think that species of Alcochara, Creophilus, Leistotrophus, Silpha, Hister and Saprinus feed upon the Dipterous larvae to be found in the decaying bodies and not on the decaying substance it- self. He is not convinced that even Necrophorus is a true carrion- feeder, but thinks it possible that it feeds on "smaller Coleoptera as well as, or instead of, the fly larvae," nor does he think that "the burying of the carcase is due only to the Necrophori or that it is a purposive act." He suggests that its sinking into the ground is an accompaniment of the processes of decay and of the action of deleteri- ous juices on the vegetation which chances to lie beneath the cadaver. Notes on the manner in which Coleoptera approach the dead animals are included, and a suggestion is made as to the importance of the feeding habits of these beetles in the destruction of Diptera convey- ing human diseases. (Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 1911). ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully 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 reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form and without covers, will be given free, when they are wanted; if more than twe.ity-five copies are desired, this should be stated un the MS. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Proof will be sent to authors for correction only when specially requested. — Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY, 1911. The author of an article recently contributed to the NEWS asks, "Could you not write a short editorial along the line of indiscriminate naming of new species from one or two speci- mens?" The topic is an old one and probably most of us who have perpetrated descriptions of species novae have erred "along the line" complained of by our correspondent. It may, or it may not, be true that more of such mis judgments were made in the days when collecting in the United States west of the One Hundredth Meridian was attended with much risk to the collector's scalp, and as a result of that risk long series of varying specimens were the exception and not the rule. The temptation to make known what appears to be undescribed has always been strong in the possessor of an apparent rarity and, on the other hand, not a few entomologists have regretted the excess of caution whereby they or their friends have lost the opportunity of being first in the field or in the printed page. Here as elsewhere there is a golden mean to be sought, the over-timid to be encouraged to press onward, the hasty to be checked until it is certain that he has made himself acquainted with the many sources of information before he commits him- self and the journal to the announcement of a novelty. We would remind our readers of the statement printed on the second page of the cover of each month's issue of the NEWS that no numbers are published for August and Septem- ber. 325 526 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'n Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. THE RECENT CLASSIFICATIONS OP COLEOPTERA of Lameere, Gangl- bauer and Kolbe, not hitherto discussed in English, are described in articles by Mr. C. J. Gahan, beginning in the Entomologist for April, 1911. CHIRONOMID LARVAE PARASITIC WITHIN SNAILS. — Mr. K. H. Barnard reports, in The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for March and April, 1911, the finding of living, mottled green and red Chironomid larvae in the mantel and mantel cavity of the snail, Limnaea peregra, in the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London. He observed a larva entering the pulmonary orifice of the snail. The presence of these para- sites "inconveniences the host," resulting in some cases at least in its death, but apparently not producing dwarfing or deformity. WE regret to learn that "Arcadia" at Sound Beach, Connecticut, the home and laboratory of Mr. Edward F. Bigelow, President of the Agassiz Association and Editor of The Guide to Nature, must be vacated and that Mr. Bigelow is obliged to seek quarters else- where. The Agassiz Association, under the presidency of Mr. Har- lan H. Ballard, did a great work in interesting the young people of America in natural history in our own youth and Mr. Bigelow de- serves aid and encouragement in his endeavors to continue his pre- decessor's beneficial labors. A fund, amounting on June 8, 1911, to $826.75, has been started for a new Arcadia, and we wish it and our contemporary Guide every success. PLUSIOTIS BEYERI SKINNER. — This elegant beetle, described by Dr. Skinner from the Huachuca mountains of Cochise County, Arizona, appears to be abundant in northern Sonora, Mexico. Mr. J. R. Has- kins, of Los Angeles, has recently given me a small series from Cananea, where he reports it to be common about arc lights. His specimens were taken July 18, 19, 1910, near the Chivatena (Sheep Herder) Mine, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet. He also took a few lecontei and gloriosa. Mr. Haskins is not a coleopterist, and collected the speci- mens only on account of their beauty. No doubt a coleopterological collector visiting the lights there at the proper season could reap a rich harvest. I took a few beyeri in the Huachucas this last season, one the first day of June and others up to July 26, but they were few and far between. There seems to be no established rule as to obtain- ing them. I have taken examples at light and others flying at mid-day in the hot sunshine. Not a few deceased but mutilated remains were Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 327 found. The period of life in beyeri as an adult, is evidently rather hrief. Mr. C. R. Biedermann, Entom. News, vol. 18, p. 7, '07, has pub- lished an interesting account of his experiences with beyeri in the Hua- chucas. — KARL R. COOLIDGE. AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-LOCUST COMMISSION. — "J. Lawrence- Hamilton, M. R. C. S., of 30 Sussex Square, Brighton, England, sends us a reprint from the London Financial News of February 13, 1911, in which he urges the organization of an International Anti-Locust Commission. He points out what an enormous amount of capital is invested in Argentina and in the development of its agriculture, and then shows the immeasureable damage done by the locusts, thereby presenting a strong argument for a study of conditions which would result in the practical handling of the locust problem. He refers to the wonderful results which have come from the efforts to suppress the mosquito, and claims that similar success can meet a fight against the locusts." — Bulletin of the Pan-American Union (Washington), March, 1911, p. 401. THE GREEN TREE ANTS OF NORTH QUEENSLAND. — Dr. R. A. O'Brien, describing some of the habits of these insects at the meeting of the Zoological Society of London, of May 3, 1910, said: The Green Tree- Ant is found in the open forest country or "bush" on the edge of the thick jungle or "scrub," along the sea-coast of Northern Queensland. It is a very active pugnacious insect, from half to three- quarters of an inch long, living wholly or almost wholly in trees. The nest is built on the bough of a tree and consists of a very large number of leaves, generally fresh and green. These are matted to- gether with a gelatinous material exuded from larvae which the worker ants bring up to the site of the projected nest, where other ants hold the edges of adjacent leaves together. This process is repeated until the bundle may be several feet in diameter. The bridge formed of the bodies of the ants shown on the [lantern slide] screen was re-formed, when broken, by festoons of ants hang- ing from the upper leaf until some of them, dropping from the fes- toon, joined momentarily with others on the top of the leaf and twigs below. Others quickly joined in strengthening the bridge until it was about four ants' width and eight ants' length. Then the one leaf was seen to be dragged slowly nearer the other, decreasing the bridge to five ants' length, and at this stage it remained for several days, when I left the place. The ants "on duty" in the bridge over which other ants ran to and fro, carrying their "game" were watched carefully for eighty minutes, and none in the center of the bridge was relieved dur- ing that time — a rather remarkable feat of strength and endurance. 328 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 'll Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated, the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 5 — Psyche, Cambridge, Mass. 7 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 — The En- tomologist, London. 16 — Bulletin, Societe Nationale d'Acclima- tion de France, Paris. 18 — Ottawa Naturalist. 22 — Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 24— Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 25 — Bolletino, Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata d. R. Uni- versita di Torino. 35 — Annales, Societe Entomologique de Bel- gique. 36 — Transactions, Entomological Society of London. 38 —Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 40 — Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 44 — Verhandlungen, K. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesell- schaft in Wien. 50 — Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 56 — Mittheilungen, Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft. S'chaffhausen. 60 — Anales, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires. 65 —La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Paris. 73 — Archives, Zoo- logie Experimentale et Generale, Paris. 84 — Entomologische Rundschau. 86 — Annales, Societe Entomologique de France, Paris. 89 — Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 92 — Zeitschrift fur wissen- schaftliche Insekten-biologie. 97 — Zeitschrift fur wissenschaft- liche Zoologie, Leipzig. 119 — Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 143 — Ohio Naturalist. 153 — Bulletin, American Museum of Natur- al History. New York. 166 — Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben. 175— Aus der Natur, Berlin. 176— Archiv fur entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen, Leipzig. 189 — Pomona Journal of Entomology, Claremont, Cala. 191 — Natur, Munchen. 195 — Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard Col- lege, Cambridge, Mass. 197 — Proceedings, Royal Society, Biologi- cal Sciences, Series B., London. 198 — Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 201 — Memoires, So- ciete Entomologique de Belgique. 216 — Entomologische Zeit- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 329 schrift, Stuttgart. 227 — Memorias, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. 239 — Annales, Biologic Lacustre, Brussels. 243 — Year- book, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 266 — Sit- zungsberichte, d. k. B. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. Mathe- matische-naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Prag. 274 — Archiv fur Zellforschung, herausgeben von Dr. R. Goldschmidt, Leipzig. 303 — Entomologiske Meddelelser, udgivne af Entomologisk Forening, Copenhagen. 305 — Deutsche Entomologische National-Bibliothek, Berlin. 313 — Bulletin of Entomological Research, London. 333 — La Revue Scientinque du Limousin, Limoges. 334— Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. 335 — Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 337 — Meddelelser om Gron- land. Denmark Ekspeditionen til Gronlands Nordostkyst, 1900-08, Copenhagen. GENERAL SUBJECT. Brocher, F.— Observations biologiques sur quelques insects aquatiques, 239, iv, 367-379. Butler, A. G. — A few words respecting insects and their natural enemies, 36, 1910, 151-154. Clement, A. — Les insectes du cresson, 16, 1910, 158-159. Cockerell, T. D. A. — Some insects from Steamboat Springs, Colo. Ill, 4, 1911, 208. Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado, 153, xxx, 71-82 (*). Deegener, Dr. — Zur beurteilung der insekten- puppe, 22, xxxvii, 495-505. Fejervary, J. — Note a propos d'une simplification dans la nomenclature, 92, vii, 425-427. Gulick, A.— Ueber die geschlechtschromosomen bei einigen Nematoden nebst bemerkungen uber die bedeutung dieser chromosomen, 274, vi, 339-382. Hancock,, J. L. — Nature sketches in temperate America. A series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds and plants . _ .451 pp., Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. Hollande, A. Ch. — Etude histologique comparee du sang des insectes a hem- urrhee et des insects san hemorrhee, 73, xlvi, 283-323. Johansen. F. — General remarks on the life of insects and arachnids in North- ern Greenland. 337, xliii, 35-54. Morgan, A. C. — Insect enemies of tobacco in the U. S., 243, 1910, 281-296. Muller, R.— Die.uebertra- yung von krankheiten durch insekten (cont.), 216, xxv, 46-47. Nielsen, I. C. — A catalogue of the insects of Northeast Green- land with descriptions of some larvae, 337, xliii, 55-68 (*). Nus- sac, L. de — Les entomologistes Limousine. Maurice Noualhier, 333, 1911, 37-65. Slevogt, B.— Welche bedeutung hat der geriu-h- -inn fur insekten, 40, xxvi, 13-14. Wolff, P. — Der insektenbeo- bachter. Die farben bei Schmetterlingen, 191, 1911, 114-116. Zweigelt, F. — Das sammeln in der natur und seine \\issenschaft- liche und psychologische bedeutung, 84, xxviii, 77-79, 87. 330 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Crawford, D. L.— American Psyllidae IV, 189, iii, 480-503 (*). Sulc, K.— Monographia generis Trioza. Species regionis palaearcticae, 266, 1910, pt. xvii, 34 pp. Ris — Collections Zoologiques du baron E. de Selys Longchamps Libellulinen. Fasc XII Catalogue. Systematique et descriptif. 385-528 (*). ORTHOPTERA. Borelli, A.— Decrizione di una nuova specie di Forncola di Costa Rica, 25, xxv, No. 623. Burr, M. — A pre- liminary revision of the Labiduridae, a family of the Dermaptera, 36, 1910, 161-203. Caudell, A. N. — Notes on Orthoptera, 4, xliii, 156. Notes on some genera of Blattidae, 5, xviii, 88-89. Giglio- Tos, E. — Fasmidi esotici, 25, xxv, No. 625. Pemberton^ C. — Stridu- lation of the shield-backed grass hoppers of the genera Neduba & Aglaothorax, 5, xviii, 82-83. HEMIPTERA. Ball, E. D.— Additions to the Jassid fauna of N. A., 4, 1911, 197-204 (*). Essig, E. O.— Host index to California plant lice, 189, iii, 457-468. Notes on Coccidae VI, 189, iii, 469. Muir & Kershaw. — On the later embryological stages of the head of Pristhesancua papuensis, 5, xviii, 75-79. Sulc, K. — "Pseudov- itellus" und ahnliche gewebe der Homopteren sind wohnstatten symbiotischer Saccharomyceten, 266, 1910, pt. Ill, 39 pp. Sym- biotische Saccharomyceten der echten Cicaden, 266, 1910, pt. xiv, 6 pp. LEPIDOPTERA. Bastelberger, Dr.— Sechs neue Hemitheinae aus meiner sammlung, 166, v, 53-54. Chapman, T. A. — On Callo- phrys avis, (biological treatment), 36, 1910, 85-106. Closs, A.— Neue S'phingiden-formen in meiner sammlung, 166, v, 50-51. Cool- idge, K. R.— Notes on Rhopalocera, 189, iii, 511-514. Dervitz, J.— Ueber die entstehung der farbe gewisser schmetterlingskokons, 176, xxxi, 617-636. Dognin, P. — Heteroceres nouveaux de 1'Amer- ique du Sud, 201, xviii, 151-188. Frings, C. — Ueber einige mon- strositaten, 40, xxvi, 11. Gerwein, E. — Deskriptives und biolotj- isches uber Taeniocampa rorida, 24, Iv, 174-178. Gibson, A. — Studies in the life histories of Canadian Noctuidae. — I, 4, xliii, 157-159. Kosminsky, P. — Weitere untersuchungen uber die ein- wirkung ausserer einflusse auf Schmetterlinge, 89, xxx, 321-338. Leigh, S. H. — A biological inquiry into the nature of melanism in Amphidasys betularia, 9, xlvi, 162-165. McDonnough, J. — On the nomenclature of the male genitalia in Lepidoptera, 4, xliii, 181-189. Moulton, J. C. — A Lycaenid in attendance on an Homopteron. (note), 36, 1910, xxxviii-xli. Newcomb, U. W. — The life history of Chrysophanus dorcas, 4, xliii, 160-168. Pearsall,, R. F. — A new Geometrid genus, and a n. sp. from the extreme southwest, 4, 1911, Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 331 205-207 (*). Prout, L. B. — On the Geometridae of the Argentine Republic, 36, 1910, 204-345. Rothschild, N. C. — An entomological riddle, 40, xxvi, 18-19. Strand, E. — Sechs neue Gelechiidae aus Argentinien, 24, Iv, 165-173. Trimen, R. — Mr. A. D. Millar's Ex- perimental breeding from the ova of the Natalian forms of the nymphaline genus Euralia, 36, 1910, 498-513. Vogel, R. — Ueber die innervierung der schmetterlingsflugel und uber den bau und die verbreitung der sinnesorgane auf denselben, 97, xcviii, 68-134. Voss, H. V. — Die entwicklung der raupenzeichnung bei einigen Sphingiden, 89, xxx, 573-642. Wolley Dod, F. H. — Further notes on Alberta Lepidoptera, 4, xliii, 143-156. DIPTERA. Aldrich, J. M. — The dipterous genus Diostracus, 5, xviii, 70-73 (*). A revision of the N. A. sps. of the dipterous genus Hydrophorus, 5, xviii, 46-70 (*). Brethes, J. — Dipteros nuevos o poco conocidos de Sud-America, 60, xiii, 469-484. Cross, A. — Notes sur les larves de Stratiomyia anubis et leurs parasites, 65, xli, 99-103. Eysell, A. — Bas schupfen der stechmucke, 305, ii, 69-72. Felt, E. P.— Two new gall nudges, 4, 1911, 194-196. A n. sp. of Lasioptera with observations on certain homologies, 5, xviii, 84-86 (*). Hendel, F. — Ueber die typenbestimmung von gattungen ohne ursprunglich bestimmten typus. Ein protest gegen die anwendlung des artikels 30, punkt g, der Internationalen Regeln der Zoolog. Nomenklatur, 38, xxx, 89-92. Howard, L. O —Remedies and preventives against mosquitoes, 7, Farm. Bui, No. 444. Johnson, C. W. — Notes on the dipterous genera proposed by Billberg in his Enumeratio Insectorum, 5, xviii, 73-74. Keller, C. — Neues aus dem leben der S'yrphus-larven, 175, vii, 70-74. Kleine, R. — Variationserscheinungen im flugelgeader von Lepis vitripennis, 24, Iv, 193-202. Knab, F. — The food habits of Megar- hinus, 5, xviii, 80-82. Ludlow, C. S. — A new Alaskan mosquito, 4, xliii, 178-179 (*). Lutz, A. — Dipterologische notizen, 227, ii, 58-63. Metcalf, C. L. — Preliminary report on the life histories of two sp. of Syrphidae, 143, xi, 337-346. Morse, A. P. — Lucilia ser- icata as a household pest, 5, xviii, 89-92. Newstead, R. — A revision of the tsetse-flies (Glossina), based on a study of the male genital armature, 313, ii, 9-36. Ritter, W. — The flying apperatus of the blow-fly, 335, Ivi, No. 12, 76 pp. Stein, P. — Die von schnus in Sudamerika gefangenen Anthomyiden, 119, 1911, 61-189. Thiene- mann, A. — Das sammeln von puppen hauten der Chironomiden nuch einmal eine bitte um mitarbeit, 239, iv, 380-382. COLEOPTERA. Bernhauer et Schubert.— Coleopterorum cat- alogus. Pars 29: Staphylinidae II, 87-190. Boucomont, A. — Con- 332 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Juty' >X1 tribution a la classification des Geotrypidae, 86, Ixxix, 333-350. Boving, A. — Nye bidrag til Carabernes udviklingshistorie. (Lar- vae) 303, vi, 129-180. Brocher, F. — Recherches sur la respiration des insects aquatiques adultes des Dyticides, 239, iv, 383-398. Champion, G. C. — Note on the methods used to obtain minute blind Staphylinidae, 8, 1911, 138-139. Csiki, E.— Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 32; Hydrocaphidae Ptiliidae. 61 pp. Dalla Torre, K. W. V. — Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 30: Cioidae. 32 pp. Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 31: Aglycyderidae, Pro- terrhinidae. 8 pp. Gahan, C. J. — On some recent attempts to classify the coleoptera in accordance with their phylogeny, 9, xliv, 165-169. Hegner, R. W. — Experiments i\vith chrysomelid beetles. III. The effects of killing parts of the eggs of Leptino- tarsa decemlineata, 198, xx, 237-251. Joy, N. H. — The behavior of Coleoptera in time of floods, 36, 1910, 379-385. Kerrmans, C.— Monographic des Buprestides Tome. v. 11-12 livr, 321-384 pp. (Polybothris). Kleine, R. — Biologische betrachtungen an Gas- troidea (Gastrophysa) viridula, 166, v, 70-72. Kraus, E. J. — A revision of the powder-post beetles of the family Lyctidae of the U. S. and Europe, 7, Tech. S'er. No. 20, pt. 3 (*). McDermott, F. A. — The "eye-spots" of Alaus oculatus, 4, xliii, 190-192. Moser, J. — Beitrag zvir kenntnis der Cetoniden, 35, Iv, 119-129. Nusslin, O. — Phylogenie und system der borkenkafer, 92, vii, 47-51. Pan- gella, G.- — Viaggio del Dr. E. Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Viaggio del Dott. A. Borelli nel Chaco Boliviano, nel Matto Grosso e nella Republica Argentine. Buprestidi, 25, xxv, Nos. 618, 619. Pierce, W. D. — Notes on insects of the order Strepsiptera, with descriptions of n. sps., 50, xl, 487-511 (*). Thery, A. Buprestides nouveaux (2d. pt.), 201, xviii, 1-58. Titus, E. G. — Another imported clover weevil, 5, xviii, 74. Webb, J. L.— Injuries to forests and forest products by round headed borers, 243, 1910, 341-358. Wenzel, H. A. & H. W. — Coleoptera collected in Northern Ontario, 18, 1911, 48-56. Wickham, H. F. — Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant with descriptions of n. sp., 153, xxx, 53-69 (*). HYMENOPTERA. Beutenmuller, W.— Two new sp. of Cyn- ipidae, 4, 1911, 211-212 (*). Two n. sps. of Holcaspis from Mex- ico, 5,, xviii, 86-87 (*). Brethes, J. — Himenopteros Argentines, 60, xiii, 205-316. Buckingham, E. N. — Division of labor among ants, 334, xlvi, 425-507. Bugnion, E. — Recherches anatomiques sur Aulacus striatus. Tube digestif, ovaires, oeufs, pedicules, 56, xii, 43-48. Crawford, J. C. — Descriptions of new Hymenoptera. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 333 2, 50, xl, 439-449 (*). Doncaster, L.— Gametogenesis of the gall- fly Neuroterus lenticularis. Pt. II, 197,, Ixxxiii, 476-489. Donis- thorpe, H. K.— Some experiments with ants' nests. 36, 1910, 142- 150. Girault, A. A.— The chalcidoid parasites of the coccid Kermes pubescens, with desc. of two n. g. and three n. sps. of Encyrtinae from Illinois, 4, xliii, 168-178 (*). Heikertinger, F.— Wclche Halti- cinenarten gehoren Europa und Nordamerika gemeinsam an? 44, Ivi, 1-20. Kesenheimer, H. — Neues verfahren zum sammln von hornissen-, wespen- und hummelnestern, 84, xxviii, 81-84 Mokrzecki, S. — Biologische notiz uber Pimpla pomorum, 92, vii, 63-64. Morley, C. — On the position of the Rhopalosomidae with the description of a second sp., 36, 1910, 386-390. Rohwer, S. A.- Studies in the sawfly genus Hoplocampa, 7, Tech. Ser. No. 20, pt. 4, 139-148 (*). Descriptions of n. sp. of wasps with notes on described species, 50, xl, 551-587 (*). Rudow, Dr. — Afterraupen der blattwespen und ihre entwicklung (cont.), 84, xxviii, 71-72, 79-80, 87-88. Schmidt. A. — Funf neue Aphodiinen aus dem mus- eum zu London, 40, xxvi, 14-16 (*). Schumacher, F. — Beitrage zur kenntnis der biologie der Asopiden, 92, xii, 40-47. Strand, E. —Neue und wenig bekannte exotische arten der Chalcididengat- tungen Megastigmus, Mesodiomorus (n. g.), Polychromatium, und Leucospis, 38, xxx, 93-99. S'echszehn novitaten der gattung Sten- opistha und zwei neue gattungsnamen in Chalcididae, 119, 1911, 199-210. Eine neue sudamerikanische biene der gattung Corynura, 166, v, 35-36. Tanquary, M. C. — Experiments on the adoption of Lasius, Formica and Polyergus queens by colonies of alien species, 198, xx, 281-308. Viehmeyer, H. — Morphologie und Phylogenie von Formica sanguinea, 92, vii, 427-441. Wheeler, W. M. — Addi- tions to the ant fauna of Jamaica, 153, xxx. 21-29. Ants collected in Grenada, W. I. by Mr. C. T. Brues, 195. liv. 167-172. Zavattari, E. — Sulla posizione sistematica del genere Bradynobaenus, 25, xxv. No. 621. THE HOUSE FLY — Disease Carrier. — An account of its Dangerous Ac- tivities and of The Means of Destroying It. By L. O. Howard, Ph.D., New York. Frederick Stokes Company, Publishers. Price $1.60. In the last few years this insect has received a large amount of attention from many sources. A large number of articles have ap- peared in relation to it in scientific, medical and popular magazines and in the newspapers. The house fly has been found guilty of many offences and the general public has become interested in it. Dr. 334 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, *II Howard has taken 312 pages to tell the story of the species and its iniquities and has done the work admirably. There is a frontispiece showing Musca domestica in all its glory, and forty text-cuts. The scope of the work is shown by the main headings of the various chapters: Zoological Position; Life History and Habits; Natural Enemies; Carriage of Diseases by Flies (typhoid fever, cholera, dys- entery, diarrhea, tuberculosis, anthrax, yaws, ophthalmia, diphtheria, smallpox, plague, tropical sore and parasitic worms) ; Remedies and Preventive Measures; Other Flies Frequenting Houses; Bibliography and five Appendices as follows: Flies Frequenting Human Dejecta and those found in Kitchens ; On some Flies Reared from Cow Manure; Regulations of the Health Department of the District of Columbia Relating to House Flies; Orders of the Commissioners of Columbia; Directions for Building a Sanitary Privy; A Simple Ap- paratus for Use in the Safe Disposal of Night-Soil. Nothing of importance appears to have been overlooked and the volume covers the subject in all its phases carefully and accurately. -H. S. NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA. By Joseph Lane Han- cock, M.D., F.E.S. With 215 original illustrations in the text and 12 colored plates by the author. Chicago. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. 12 mo., pp. xviii, 451. $2.75. This book is divided into eight sections : I. Evolution and Natural Selection (Introduction) ; II. Adaptations in Animals and Plants, with examples; III. Protective Resemblance, with examples; IV. Mimicry, with examples; V. Warning Colors, Terrifying Markings and other Protective Devices, with examples; VI. Animal Behavior, with examples; VII. General Observations and Sketches Afield, with examples ; VIII. Ecology — Interpretation of Environment as ex- emplified in the Orthoptera. The method of treatment is set forth in the preface : "The work has been divided into sections mainly through an endeavor to show the philosophy of evolution. First, I have brought forward sketches showing special adaptations and animal behavior. Secondly, by walks afield I have attempted in a simple manner to show the appli- cation of evolution to the objects viewed. In the table of contents will be found other subdivisions of the subject. When not other- wise stated, these word sketches have been drawn from my diary notes covering many years, made at Lakeside, Berrien County, Michi- gan." On a frame-work of copious quotations, summaries and abstracts of the works of the great and well known evolutionary biologists, Dr. Hancock has hung his own observations as illustrations. He Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 335 treats many of the most fundamental and difficult problems in or- ganic nature and it is too much to expect that his views of the signi- ficance of the structures and habits which he describes will satisfy all his readers. The book will no doubt fulfill one of its author's aims in suggesting to field naturalists and nature lovers some of the deeper meanings of the phenomena all around us. More consideration is confessedly given to the insects than to other groups of animals. Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, Odonata and Spiders all figure in these interesting pages. As is quite appropriate to the author's well-known position as a specialist, the Orthoptera receive a larger share of attention than any other insects, the eighth section compris- ing 118 pages and including a list of Classified Habitats of Various Species of Orthoptera based on their egg-laying sites, to show their relation to plant formations in general (n pp.), and four pages of Definitions of common environmental complexes and the various habitats of plants grouped under formations. There is an apparent- ly full index of 17 pages. The plates are three-color reproductions from colored photographs, most of them presenting flower and insect groups. — P. P. C. PROF. Vernon L. Kellogg's THE ANIMALS AND MAN, An Elementary Textbook of Zoology and Human Physiology (New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1911, 16 mo.) devotes 70 pages to insects out of a total of 495, which is, perhaps, an instance of admirable self-control on the part of its distinguished entomological author. From a peda- gogical point of view it may be interesting to note how those 70 pages are distributed, in the different parts of the book : External structure of the grasshopper 3, Mosquitos and caterpillars 12, Insects in general 4, Fighting insect pests n, Mutual Aid and Communal Life 15, Colors and Markings of Animals 12, Insects and flowers 10, Collecting and Preserving 3. — P. P. C. Doings of Societies. AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of April 27th, 1911. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Presi- dent, in the chair, fifteen persons present. Dr. Skinner made some remarks on the classification of the Hesperidae and said he believed in using any available char- acters for keys, irrespective of natural affinities. Mr. Rehn 336 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS said he approved of using all available characters for such a purpose. Dr. C'alvert exhibited a small collection of Odonata from Pennsylvania, which Mr. E. Daecke had submitted for identi- fication. The most interesting specimen among them was a male Aeshna mntata Hagen (as defined by Messrs. William- son, 1908, and E. M. Walker, 1908), labeled "W. Fairview, Pa., VII, 4, 10, coll. by Kirk." This is the first record of the species for Pennsylvania, previously known localities be- ing Massachusetts and Indiana. Mr. Rehn exhibited representatives of a number of bizarre species of Acrydinae (Tettiginae of most authors), eighteen genera being shown. A number of the species in the series were new forms from Ruwenzori and the Virunga volcanoes, Central Africa. Particular attention was called to the super- ficial resemblance of species of Choryphyllum, Hypsaens, Xerophyllum and Trypophyllum to the species of Membraci- dae. Mr. Cresson exhibited a very large Acanthomerid fly taken by Prof. Stewardson Brown in Venezuela. It lives in the forest. Dr. Calvert read an extract from an article in the Ento- mologist's Monthly Magazine on Carrion-feeding Coleoptera, in which the author maintained that the beetles visited the carrion in search of dipterous larvae. Mr. Wenzel said the length of time the carcass has been dead largely determined the genera and species of Coleoptera in attendance. Mr. Laurent said Necrophorus came first and Silplia afterward. Dr. Calvert also called attention to articles by Mr. C. J. Gahan in The Entomologist on recent classifications of the Coleoptera, and to one in the Entomologist's Monthly Maga- zine, in which it was stated that certain Chironomid larvae were parasitic in snails. 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I 346 Girault— The Probable Occurrence of the Mymarid Genus Dicopus Knock in North America (Hymen.) 347 Alexander— Notes on Two Tipulidae (Dipt.) 349 damus Dpubleday (Lepid.) 359 Girault — Critical notes on some species of Mymaridae (Hymen.) 363 Editorial 369 Notes and News 370 Entomological Literature 374 Doings of Societies 379 Daniel William Coquillett. (Portrait, Plate X.) Daniel William Coquillett was born January 23, 1856, on a farm in Pleasant Valley, between Woodstock and Marengo, Illinois, and died July 7, 1911, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, of heart failure. It was with great regret that we heard of the death of our leading Dipterist. There are many who will miss his cheer, and his help in the determination of their finds in Diptera, and the United States National Museum has lost a valuable mem- ber of its staff. He had been interested in insects as a young man on his father's farm in Pleasant Valley, and he contributed liberally to the literature of applied entomology. In 1881 he became Assistant State Entomologist of Illinois, but was compelled to remove to California for his health, where in 1885 he be- came field agent for the Division of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, and continued as such until 1893, when he was transferred to Washington as an assistant to the Entomologist of the Department. In 1896 he was raised to the office of Honorary Custodian of Diptera of the U. S. National Museum, which he held at the time of his death. 337 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., IQI1 While in California he did valuable work in the suppression of insect pests which were causing much damage, particularly the scale insects and locusts. He discovered and perfected the hydrocyanic gas treatment which is used to-day for the control of most of the scale insects, by the fruit growers of California and elsewhere. He also perfected a mash which successfully checked the onslaughts of the locusts or grasshoppers in Cen- tral California. It was through his careful thorough work that the parasite of the cottony cushion scale was established to destroy that pest. Since 1883 he contributed many papers on biological and systematic Dipterology, especially the latter, which are inval- uable to the students of North American Diptera. Among these are papers on the Bombyliidae, Asilidae, Empididae, Therevidae, Culicidae and Tachinidae which are monographs or synopses of most of the genera and species of these fam- ilies. His last paper of note, entitled "The Type-Species of the North American Diptera" was completed a short time be- fore his death, as the result of many years' study, and is of the utmost importance to students of this order. His work is to be classed with that of Loew and Osten Sacken in its importance, and his connection with the U. S. National Mu- seum as custodian of Diptera gave him the opportunity to investigate and study along his special lines with the aid of the best collection. The work of determining the great mass of material received by the Museum, gave him little time to devote to the descriptions of new forms, so that we are now complaining of his short diagnoses. He described over 1000 species from North America and many from other parts of the world. His views regarding the limits of species, and on nomenclature were very conservative, and no amount of favor, sentiment or criticism would influence him in his opinions. That he was one of the greatest American Dipterists there is no doubt, and there are few if any who can fill his place as well as he did. He was a member of the Washington Academy of Science, the Washington Entomological Society (its president 1903-1904), the Entomological Society of America, the Association of Economic Entomologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. — E. T. C, JR. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Collecting in Southern Arizona. By KARL R. COOLIDGE, Ceres, California. One would scarcely think when viewing through a car win- dow the barren saline alkali plains of southern Arizona and the various mountain stocks that loom up on all sides, that such a region could afford anything of particular interest to the ento- mologist. Yet these mountains, and especially the Huachucas. are as rich, if not richer than any other collecting grounds in the United States. For the past thirty years or more, naturalists have collected here in all branches of biology, but new and interesting discov- eries invariably greet the latest arrival, and it will be many years before we shall have obtained a satisfactory faunal knowledge. As we have no way of judging the future but by the past, I may presume then that in the coming years ento- mologists will continue to visit this region, and my object in presenting the article is that it may be of some service to fu- ture collectors. For, having strenuously gone through the mill myself, I can assure the intending entomologist that experi- ence as a teacher here exacts heavy dues, and unless one is ac- quainted with the country and the conditions governed by its environment, he may lose much precious time, and otherwise suffer undesirable inconveniences. The Huachuca Mountains, on the Sierra Espuela, as they were termed by the early explorers, lie in the extreme south- west corner of Cochise County, and are almost wholly within the United States, extending from the International line in a northerly and somewhat westerly direction to a distance of about forty miles, reaching the Barbcomari River, which empties into the San Pedro at Fairbanks. The range is com- posed of a single backbone or ridge, the highest point of which is Hasslops, or Miller Peak as it is better known, an elevation of 9472 feet, and the mountains rise to this from a base level of nearly 5000 feet. The western canyons are quite short and with little or no water, as the slope on that side is steep and rugged. On the eastern slope, however, the canyons are broad- 34O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., IQI1 er and the majority of them well watered. Montezuma Can- yon borders on the line, and the canyons from there are Ash, Clark, Miller, Carr, Ramsey, Brown, Tanner, Rock and Fort. Of these Ramsey is by far the best and most logical, as it con- tains a good stream, is easy of access and is quite gradual in its ascent. Miller Canyon has also been collected extensively. Tanner Canyon, or Garden Canyon as it is now known, the Post garden being situated there, has the largest flow of water, which has been reported as containing fish. On the western slope the most prominent canyons are Cave, Bear, Copper Glance, and Old Mill, but in none of these would I consider it advisable to camp permanently. Cave Canyon, as the name in- dicates, contains a number of caves, in one of which I believe water has been found, and some interesting blind forms may possibly occur there. In Montezuma Canyon the collector is quite liable to encounter some new introduced cave subspecies, in the nature of Mexican mescal smugglers, who rendezvous in that locality. Ramsey Canyon can easily be reached from Hereford, the headquarters of the Green Cattle Company, the distance being about fourteen miles. A semi-weekly stage is run between these points. About two miles up the canyon there is a beautiful flower garden, the property of Mr. William Berner, and it affords excellent collecting. A small store is also kept in Ramsey Canyon, managed by the genial and able proprietor of the Hotel de Jack. The Huachuca Mountains are still a fairly well wooded range, notwithstanding the onslaughts of the lumber hogs who thrived here before this region was declared a forest reserve. The higher parts are covered by various conifers, including six species of pines, Finns arizonica, P. ponderosa, P. strobi- fortnis, P. cembroides, P. maryiana, and P. chihuchuana. Along the streams grow various maples, alders, ash, walnuts, madrones, and the splendid Arizona sycamore (Plat anus wrightii Watson.) Eight species of oak are found here, these being 0. hypolcnca, Q. chrysolepis, Q. emoryi, Q. reticulata, Q. arisona, Q. gambelii, Q. oblongifolia and Q. undulata. The latter is a scrub oak and occurs in extensive grooves, particu- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 341 larly about the foothills. Among other trees that might be men- tioned are the Douglass spruce (Pseudotsuga mucronata Sud- worth) ; one seed juniper (Juniper us monosperma Sargent) ; alligator juniper /. pachyphloea Torrey) ; four willows, 5. nigra Marshall, 5". occidentalis longipes Beff, S. lasiolepis Bent- ham, 5\ ta.vifolia Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth ; the quak- ing asp (Populns trcmuloides Michaux), and another Populous, the beautiful Fremont cottonwood (P. fremontii Watson) ; two species of Hackberry (C. occidentalis Linnaeus, and C. reticulata Torrey) ; the Mexican mulberry (Morns ccltidifolia Humb., Bonpland and Kunth), and two mahoganies (C. parvi- folius betuloides Sargent, and C. p. paucidentatus Watson) ; the Mexican cherry (Prunus salicifolia Humb., Bonpland and Kunth) ; Devil's claws (Acacia greggi Gray), and A constric- ta Bentham ; New Mexican locust (Robinia neomexicana Gray), hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata Linnaeus), wild china tree (Sapindus marginatus Wildenow), Mexican elder (Sambucus ine.vicana Preal.) There are many mescals and a few yuccas about the foothills, and both of these, when in blossom, attract innumerable insects and are of the greatest value to the lepi- dopterist, dipterist and hymenopterist. Along the water courses the gnarled manzanita, A. pungens H. B. and K., grows in profusion. There are a few clusters of mesquite, Prosopis glandnlosa Torrey, at the base of the mountains and on these there is excellent collecting, especially when in bloom. For the lepidopterist, August is the earliest month in which to visit the mountains, collecting from then on being at its best. While a number of single-brooded species will be miss- ed, yet the richness of the fall months more than make up the deficit. Arizona having two so-called rainy seasons — winter and summer— there is but little collecting save in the months immediately following these. The summer rains generally be- gin in early July, and sometimes continue considerably into September. The water question in the Huachucas, while not a serious one, is worthy of some consideration. A canteen will prove to be a very useful article. Moreover a small calibre rifle or re- 342 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., IQI1 volver should be part of the collector's paraphernalia, as the little hydrophobia skunk seems to be particularly partial to ento- mologists— and his visits are largely nocturnal. Tin boxes should be used in packing specimens, as they not only safe- guard the contents from the ravages of ants, but also to a con- siderable degree are mouldproof. For night collecting, an acetylene lamp is quite indispensable. Sugaring I have found to be highly unproductive. Notes on a few Nymphs of Agrioninae (Order Odonata) of the Hagen Collection. By JAMES G. NEEDHAM, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. (Plate XI.) Supplemental to the descriptions and figures of nymphs of Calopteryginae that were published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for March, 1911, I present herewith some descriptive notes and drawings of three nymphs of Agrioninae. The species are