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Kearfott i Stearns — Description of a new Species of the Family Cercopidae from Wis- consin ( Hem., Horn.) 3 Hebard — A Generic Assignment of Three North American Species of Dermaptera 5 Blaisdell — Studies in the Tenebrionidae (Coleop. ) 7 Howard — Moonstones in a Cecropia Cocoon ( Lepid . ) 15 Smith — A Key to the Known Species of South Carolina Ants, with Notes (H5m.) 17 Weiss— Isaac P. Trimble, M. D., Early Economic Entomologist of New Jer- sey 29 Malloch — Occurrence of a European Anthoim iid in Illinois (Diptera) ... 32 Editorial — The Present Crisis 33 New Color for Clothing Suggested by Butterfly (Lep.) . .'.' 34 Entomological Literature 34 Doings of Societies— Amer. Ent. Soc. (Lep.) 36 Eritorn Section of the Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila. (Odoti . Orlliop , Lep.) 37 Entomological Society of Nova Scotia. A Correction 38 Feldman Collecting Social (Lepid., Coleop., Orthop., Dipt.) 39 William D. Kearfott. (Portrait, Plate I.) William 1). Kearfott died suddenly on Monday night, No- vember the 1 2th, 1917, following an attack of apoplexy. During the ten years from 1902 to 1911 he was an active student of the Microlepidoptera, particularly the family Tor- tricidae. Previous to that time he had been interested in Lepidoptera generally. An indefatigable and keen-eyed collector and a master nf technic in the preparation of the small moths he studic 1. he amassed a very large collection and also received many speci- mens for determination from the United States and Canada. He also reared and studied the life histories of many of the-e insects. In addition he was a prolific writer of systematic articles and described many new specie-., one paper contain- ing 164. species and varieties new to science. I ie was very clever with the brush, and pen and copied many figures from books and made paintings of typ< - in museums for UM- in hi> studies. Ilis work \\as careful and accurate and ranked high. Exception, however, was taken to some of the name- he pro 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'l8 posed for new Tortricids and substitutes were suggested. Under the title "Microlepidoptera Suggestions" he published a series of valuable directions for pinning, setting, collecting and breeding. He was a jolly companion in the field and always extended a warm welcome to fellow students visiting his home and in- specting his collection. Several years ago his eyes failed him for work on these minute insects ; he gave up their study ; his Tortricidae be- came the property of the American Museum of Natural His- tory in New York, and Dr. William Barnes, of Decatur, Illi- nois, obtained his Pyralidae. Mr. Kearfott was born in Berkeley County, West Virginia, on January 12, 1864, and was the son of Robert and Anna Dunham Kearfott. He was educated in preparatory schools in Richmond and Philadelphia. In his earlier years he was connected with the Morton Poole Company, of Wilmington, Delaware, and the International Navigation Company, of Philadelphia. He was associated also with the Worthington Steam Pump Company and later with the Warren Steam Pump Company. Two years ago he formed the Kearfott Engineering Company. He was considered an authority on his branch of engineering. His home was at 220 Orange Road, Montclair, New Jersey. He took an interest in local affairs, being a member of the Montclair Club and the Montclair Golf Club. Mr. Kearfott is survived by his wife, Mary J. Kearfott ; a daughter, Marie, and a son, Thornton Kearfott.— HENRY SKINNER. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM D. KEARFOTT. In Entomological News: Notes on an Eriocranid Larva. 1002, XIII, 129. Microlepidoptera Susrgestions. 1904, XV, 89, 127, 165, 207. The Mirnilepidoptera in Dr. Holland's Moth Book. 1904, XV, 105. Notes on the Life History of Polychrysia formosa Grt, 1904, XV, 301. British Lepidoptcra by J. W. Tutt. 1904, XV, 312. Desmia funcralis. 1905, XVI, 238. Synonymy of Certain Tortricidae. 1909, XX, 52. V ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OK THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. VOLUME XXIX, 1918. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M. D., Sc. D., Editor Emeritus. ADVISORY COMMITTEE : EZRA T. CRESSON t. A. G. REI1N. ERICH DAECKE. PHILIP LAURENT H. \V. SVKNZEL. PHILADELPHIA: ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. 1918. The several numbers of the NKWS for 1918 were mailed at the Phila- delphia Post Office as follows : No. 1— January January ]2, 1918 " 2— February February 2, " 3— March March 2 " 4— April April 1 " 5— May April 30 " 6— June May 31 " 7— July July 5 " 8— October October 4 " 9 — November November 2 The date of mailing the December, 1918, number will be announced in the issue for January, 1919. PRESS OF P. C. STOCKHAUSEN PHILADELPHIA Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3 Three New Brazilian Microlepidoptera. 1911, XXII, 125. In tJic Transactions of the American Entomological Society: North American Tortricidae. Polychrosis Rag. 1904, XXX, 287. New North American Tortricidae. 1907, XXXIII, i. (164 new species and vars.) In the Canadian Entomologist : New Tortricids from Kaslo, B. C., and the Northwest. 1904, XXXVI, 109, 137- Coleophora tillaefoliella Clem. 1904, XXXVI, 324. New Tortricids. 1905, XXXVII, 9. A new Gelechid from Ontario. 1905, XXX VII, 15. Assiniboia Microlepidoptera, Collected by Mr. T. N. Willing. 1905, XXXVII, 41, 89, 119. Hemerophila kincaidiella Busck. 1905. XXXVII, 188. Manitoba Microlepidoptera. 1905, XXXVII, 205, 253, 293. New Microlepidoptera. 1907, XXXIX, i, 53, 77, 121, 153, 211. The Genera of the Tortricidae and Their Types by C. H. Fernald. 1908, XL, 334- A New Species of Japanese Microlepidoptera. 1910, XLII, 42. /;; the Journal of the \'ew York Entomological Society. Revision of the Xorth American Species of the Genus Choreutes. 1902, X, 1 06. Descriptions of New Tineoidea. 1903, XI, 145. New North American Tortricidae and Tineina. 1908, XVI, 167. Description of a new Species of the Family Cerco- pidae from Wisconsin (Hem., Horn.).* By Lours A. STEARNS, Alma College, Alma, Michigan. Philaenus parallelus n. sp. This species is distinguished readily from the two previ- ously described Nearctic members of the genus; from sf>u- marius (Linn.) bv its elongate form, parallel-margined elytra and constant color, and from lincatns ( Linn.) by its larger size and distinctive coloration, namely, a body color of uni- form pale yellow, with a conspicuous -tripe varving from dark brown to black extending from the anterior margin of the tylu-;. medially across the vertex and pronotum, and along the suture of the elytra to the apex. * Extract from monograph of family entitled "Tin- Xrarrtk- Ci-r- copidae" submitted to fulfill thesis requirement for M. Sc. demvr ;it Ohio State I'niversity. June, 1917. 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'l8 Length 8-10 mm.; width 2.5-3 mm- Vertex, length slightly greater than two-thirds width, disc slightly convex, sloping in line with pro- notum, medially weakly carinate, laterally depressed, margins between eyes and tylus deeply sulcate and somewhat reflexed; tylus deeply in- serted, disc distinctly elevated with depressions lateral to weak median carina, anterior margin rounding-angulate and produced; ocelli placed close to posterior margin of vertex, equidistant from each other and from posterior margin of tylus; front broadly rounded, acutely angled with vertex, inflation a slight curve, disc narrowly flattened in median line. Pronotum, disc weakly convex, medially weakly carinate, anterior margin broadly rounded, lateral margins short, equalling distance be- tween ocelli, parallel, posterior margin deeply emarginate; elytra cori- aceous, twice longer than wide, parallel margined, closely and finely punctate, the punctures setigerous. Genitalia : Female, last ventral segment one half length of preceding, convex; pygofers broad, length equalling combined basal width, outer margins incurved throughout basal third and indented at middle, ex- ceeded by stout ovipositor one-half their length. Male, last ventral segment twice length of preceding, convex; plates curved dorsally at nearly right angles to abdomen, long, broad at base, laterally extended here to one-half width of last segment, obtusely notched to one-half basal width at end of basal third, thence tapering to tip as cylindrical processes, black, sparsely clothed with white hairs. Color: Pale yellow: stripe from anterior margin of tylus, medially across vertex and pronotum, and along suture of elytra to apex, stripe extending from eye across lateral margins of pronotum, following and fading out posteriorly along outer sector of elytron, and sulcate anterior margin of vertex above and below, dark brown to black; front with disc laterally coarsely ribbed with light chestnut-brown. Described from seven specimens collected in Wisconsin and received through the kindness of Mr. D. M. DeLong. Three male specimens collected at "Medina, Wise., 8-23-16" were swept from sedges at the edge of a tamarack swamp ; one male and three female specimens collected at "St. Croix Falls. Wise., 8-15-16," on the St. Croix River, were swept from sim- ilar sedges in a swampy hollow in the State Forest Park Re- serve. Neither of these localities had ever undergone culti- vation apparently. Type, $ , St. Croix Falls, in author's col- lection ; paratypes in collections of Prof. Herbert Osborn and Mr. D. M. DeLong, Ohio State University, Department of Entomology, Columbus, Ohio. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5 A Generic Assignment of Three North American Species of Dermaptera.1 By MORGAN HEBARD, Philadelphia. LABIIDAE. LABIINAE. Barygerax auricoma (Rehn). 1903. Labia attricoma Rehn2, Ent. News, XIV, p. 2g2. [ ? ; Piedras Negras, Costa Rica, (Schild and Burgdorf).] This insect differs strikingly from the genotype, B. csau Hebard, in the decidedly smaller eye and similar but less strik- ingly flattened-moniliform antennal joints. The forceps are much heavier and shorter in auricoma, but as csau is known only from a male and the present species from a female, we are unable to determine the degree of difference in this feature for the same sex in each species. The following features are noted for the type. Head blackish brown; eyes small, one-third as long as cheek. Antennae with first joint three and one-half times as long as basal width; second minute, not as long as broad; third slender, about twice as long as broad; fourth and fifth joints heavier, appreciably longer than broad; suc- ceeding joints flattened bead-like, submoniliform, the longest twice as long as broad. Pronotum yellowish, about as long as broad, caudal margin evenly convex. Tegmina broad, convex, ample, leaving only the extreme tips of the wings projecting, much as in csau; tegmina and wings bluish black. Abdomen and limbs yellowish, discolored. Forceps reddish yellow, very short and heavy: length twice basal width; showing a short median flange dorso-proximad as in csau. Barygerax breviforceps (Caudell). 1907. Labia breviforceps Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIII, p. 174. [$; mouth of Rio Dulce, two miles from Livingston, Guate- mala, May 5, 1906, (H. S. Barber).] This species differs widely from both B. csau and B. anri- coiitu in its Imffy general coloration, tegmina similarly elon- gate but narrower, with costal and sutural margins parallel 1 It was intended to include the study of these forms in a recent paper by the author, "Dermapterological Notes," Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1917, pp. 231-250, but as the loan of types from the National Museum was not granted, the examinations were not made until a visit to that institution was possible, where the material discussed here was examined. - Assi-ned with a query to Prohibia by Burr in the Genera Insec- toruni. 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS and more projecting wings. The size of the eye and length of forceps agree closely with csau, but the very different type of tegmina and wings may compel generic separation of the present species when more material of this group has been secured. Whereas csau and auriconia have a similar general appearance, the present insect has a decidedly different facies, due largely to the coloration and form of tegmina and wings. The following features are noted for the type. Entire insect buffy; head, median portion of pronotum, exposed surface of wings and abdomen suffused with brown. Forceps tinged with reddish brown. Eyes of moderate . size, as long as cheek. Pronotum appreciably longer than broad, lateral margins very feebly diverging caudad, straight, with a few microscopic bristles and a larger bristle at the latero-cephalic angle. Tegmina elongate, sutural and costal margins parallel, distal margin feebly convex and feebly produced toward costal margin, truncate. Wings extending moderately beyond tegmina a distance nearly equal tegminal width. Forceps short, heavy, about two and three-quarters times proximal width, general form much as in auricoma. Head, pronotum and tegmina moderately well supplied with minute microscopic hairs, exposed surface of wings and abdomen heavily supplied with these, forceps moderately supplied with the same. SPARATTINAE. Sparatta diplatyoides (Caudell). 1907. Cylindrog aster diplatyoides" Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIII, p. 170. '[9 ; Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, April u, 1906, (H. S. Barber).] It is our opinion that the species is valid. The type female has the forceps and pygidium identical with those of S. biollcyi Borelli,4 except that the forceps are proportionately shorter a.nd these organs in diplatyoides are proportionate to its much smaller size ; length of body, exclusive of forceps, 7.5 ; of for- ceps, 2 mm. The original description is good. The pygidium was not described ; it is quadrate, with lateral margins very feebly con- cave to the very finely pointed latero-caudal angles, between which the caudal margin is transverse, showing a weak con- vexity mesad. R This species has been synonymized with a query by Burr in the Genera Inscctonim. under Sparatta pckimctra Serville, described from Brazil. 1 Material of both sexes of that species from Costa Rica is at hand. Vol. XXIX I ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 7 Studies in the Tenebrionidae (Coleop.). By FRANK E. BLAISDELL, SR., San Francisco, California. The following new species are based on facts observed in the field, by Messrs. Ralph Hopping and F. W. Nunenmacher respectively. Coniontis hoppingi n. sp. Oblong, smooth and shining; black, frequently nigro-piceous; tibiae and tarsi rufo-piceous, antennae and palpi rufous, pubescence minute and inconspicuous. Head equal to one-half the width of the prothorax, convex be- tween the eyes, vertex rather prominent, finely and sparsely punc- tate, the punctures frequently denser laterally and on the epistoma; fronto-clypeal suture is more or less evident, and the posterior can- thus of the eye is slightly more prominent than the anterior. Antennae extending to a point slightly behind the middle of the pronotum. Epistoma triangularly emarginate with the angles rather narrowly rounded. Setae absent. Antennae rather slender, the third joint dis- tinctly twice as long as the second, the fourth to the seventh inclus- ive, subequal in length and obconical, eighth to the tenth subtriangular, eleventh suboval and smaller. Pronotum about one-sixth wider than long, base one-third wider than the apex; disk evenly convex, finely and sparsely punctulate, the punctules becoming slightly larger and denser laterally; apex emar- ginate in circular arc, rather finely beaded, more strongly so later- ally; sides subparallel in basal half, thence evenly arcuate to the apex, or more distinctly arcuate to the base, bead rather strong; base as wide as the elytra, emarginate, moderately lobed at the middle third and sinuate laterally; basal angles slightly less than right; apical angles narrowly rounded. Elytra rather more than one-half to almost one-third longer than wide; sides snbparallel, distinctly and rather broadly arcuate in api- cal third, slightly so in basal two-thirds; apices swollen and reflexed, sub-tuberculate and slightly divergent; disk convex, moderately so on the dorsum, strongly and evenly rounded laterally, with a tendency to a slight inflexion, arcuately declivous posteriorly, sides of the de- clivity more or less slightly inflated, very finely and at times sub- obsoletely punctulate, setae only visible under high power. At times llu're is evidence of eroded grooves, occasionally there are evanes- cent corrugations. Proplcurae longitudinally rugose and smooth. Prosternal process strongly margined and feebly convex. Length 14.0-15.5 mm.; width 6.5-7.5 mm. 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan.,'lS A series of thirteen specimens collected at Colony Mills. Tulare County, California, elevation 5415 ft., by Mr. Ralph Hopping. Type in the writer's collection. A very distinct species. The tumid or tuberculate, everted and reflexed elytral apices, are unique characters by which the species can be quickly recognized. Under high power the sur- face of the insect appears very finely pitted or pseudo-punctu- late between the true punctures ; the elytral surface is mi- croscopically and densely granulate. According to Casey's table, the species belongs to the riatica group. The occurrence of eroded grooves and costae on the elytra is atavistic. The crumpling occasionally observed also, may in some individuals of other species of the genus Coniontis, amount to rugosities as evident as those of the elytra of Microschatia inacqnalis Lee. This form of sculpturing in Coniontis is purely anomalous, and can be experimentally produced by puncturing the elytral apodemes immediately after the casting of the pupal skin. The wrinkling is due to shrinkage on account of the loss of tension, which allows the inherent elasticity of the integumen- tary tissues to act. The rugulosities in their feeblest form can be also produced by the rapid evaporation of the body fluids immediately after the emergence of the insect from the pupa. These facts ex- plain this form of sculpturing so frequently observed in beetles, and which is to a greater or less extent a fortuitous physiological modification, and one which is usually considered of specific or varietal importance. Its constancy in certain species depends upon the stability of the meteorological con- ditions of the environment. When these conditions are fitful, the sculpturing is apt to be asymmetrical. Coelocnciuis pre- sents this condition more or less constantly, both in its symmet- rical and asymmetrical state in a certain per cent, of individ- uals. The crumpling of the elytra of Microschatia inaequalis is inherent and fixed, and is entirely of a different order from that observed in Coniontis. Vol. XXl'xj ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 9 In hoppingi it is to be noted that the prosternal process is strongly margined in all of the specimens; but three of them exhibit distinct evidences of the margin becoming obsolete at the apex. In part of the specimens the sides of the proster- nal process are parallel and no dilatation occurs behind the coxae; in others the apex is distinctly dilated with the sides arcuate. Three specimens are perfectly smooth, the others of the series show evidences of incipient crumpling ; in four there is evidence of the very slight costae and grooves. Ten of the specimens are oblong with the sides parallel ; three show evi- dence of being cuneate. This form is due to a relative widen- ing of the prothorax and a tendency of the elytra to narrow more or less from base to apex. I am not prepared to say whether this is of one or both sexes. Two of the specimens are more strongly punctulate, and one is broader behind than in front. In the types the elytral punctuation is finer than that on the pronotum. The variation exhibited by this small series is characteristic of nearly all the species of Coniontis, and should be noted by those who study the genus. Coniontis globulina, n. var. muscula. Oblong-oval, slightly elongate, black, dull to feebly shining; mouth parts and legs rufous to rufo-piceous; antennae rufous, more or less piceous in distal one-half; pubescence mouse-colored to yellowish, abundant and more or less conspicuous, moderately persistent, not dense, not hiding the general surface, rather less than moderate in length and recumbent. Head rather small, a little less than one-half the width of the pronotum, finely and sparsely punctate, punctures denser on the epistoma, labrum with thirty to forty sparsely placed punctures; front nearly flat, vertex distinctly convex; anterior canthus less prom- inent than the posterior and rounded, the latter scarcely more prom- inent than the posterior margin of the eye. Mentum transverse, almost smooth and obsoletely punctate; apex feebly and broadly emarginate to straight, angles not prominent and rounded. Antennae moderately short and thick, not reaching beyond the basal fourth of the prono- tum; outer joints broadened and compressed. Pronntinn transverse, length equal to about three-fifths of the width, evenly and moderately arcuate from side to side, scarcely con- 10 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan.,' I- vex antero-posteriorly; apex almost arcuate in circular arc, middle third of the arcuation somewhat straight; base subtruncate, feebly sinuate laterally; disk almost evenly punctate, punctures slightly lar.^er than those of the elytra; sides feebly arcuate in basal one-half, thence more strongly arcuate to apex, bead moderately fine; apex finely beaded; apical angles well rounded; basal angles subrectangular and somewhat more than narrowly rounded. Proplcura more or less longitudinally rugulose. Prostenium finely and sparsely punctate; process feebly margined between the coxae; apex rounded, not margined; varying in length and moderately constricted. Elytra one-half longer than wide, evenly convex from side to side, evenly and arcuately declivous in apical third; apex ogival; sides finely margined; disk somewhat irregularly and rather finely punctate, api- cal declivity scarcely rugose; there is slight evidence of longitudinal costae or smooth lines. Epiplcura smooth. Paraplcura, meso- and metasterna sparsely punctate. Abdomen finely and very sparsely punctate, last two segments more strongly punctate. Mctafemora very sparsely and finely punctate; metatarsi slightly shorter than the metafemora. $ . Form narrower than the females. Length 7.0-9.5 mm.; width 3.5-47 mm- Type locality — San Joaquin County (San Joaquin Valley), Calif. Collector, F. W. Nunenmacher. Type in the writer's collection. Habitat — Under leaves, cowchips, etc., and running over the ground. Distribution — California (San Joaquin Valley southward to the Tehachapi Pass). Remarks — Abundant. Described from a series of one hun- dred and thirty-five specimens. Several males are distinctly cuneate, others are less so and pass gradually into the normal oblong-oval form. Muscula is a race of the anomalous globulina Casey. Several years ago the writer received from Prof. H. F. Wickham a small series of the latter species, who collected them at the Tehachapi Pass. The series contained the short and stout form described as globulina with others that gradually connected the latter with those of a normal Coniontis-\'\kc form. It is Vol. xxi.\| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. II perfectly evident to the writer that the race mnscnla becomes broader to the northward and narrower to the southward. If the labels were removed from the normal form taken at Tehachapi Pass and mixed with those of the northern form it would be impossible to positively separate them again. The transition is complete from globulina to mnscnla. The sub- genus Brachyontis is without foundation when a large series is studied and the variations noted. Compare the descriptions of globulina and muscula. Bibliography. — Casey, Thos. L. A Revision of the Tenebrionid Sub- family Coniontinae. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sciences, Vol. X, p. 141. Coniontis montana Casey. According to Casey's description the salient characteristics of this species are its "oblong, stout and parallel form, conspicuous fulvous pubescence and dull lustre. "Length 10.8-13.0 mm.; width 4.9-6.2 mm." By these characters it can be diagnosed from all of the other species of Coniontis. The value of other characters as aids in diagnosis will be considered below. Mr. F. \Y. Nunen- macher has, by persistent collecting in southern Oregon, northern and northwestern California, amassed a series of forty-five specimens. These, with the results of the writer's own collecting, give a total of eighty specimens, from which the following observations have been made. Distribution. — The specimens were collected in the follow- ing States and counties: California (Calaveras, Alpine, El- dorado, Placer, Sierra, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta and Siskiyou Counties) ; Oregon (Josephine County.) A smaller series of twelve specimens have been separated as C. canonica Casey. These were collected in Klamath County, Oregon ; part of these are intermediates between montana and canonica. As considerable use has been made of the characters present- ed by the prosternal process, I shall give the results of an ex- amination of a series taken in the order in which they happen to be placed in the cabinet box, and therefore not selected to prove any preconceived notion. 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ Jan., 'l8 As the examination progressed the specimens were arrang- ed in the following groups with definitions : 1. Prosternal process longer, horizontal, finely and sparsely punc- tate, very feebly narrowed between the coxae, distinctly mar- gined at the sides and obsoletely so at the tip, the latter evenly rounded, i $ and 2 9 9 . 2. Process just the least convex longitudinally, sparsely punctate, scarcely narrowed between the coxae, distinctly margined throughout; surface distinctly and transversely convex be- tween the marginal snlci, tip evenly rounded, i 9 . 3. Process shorter, deeply margined throughout, sparsely, finely and distinctly punctate, longitudinally impressed at middle be- tween the coxae; surface convex behind the impression; tip broadly rounded, narrowed between the coxae as in Group I. i 9. 4. As in Group 2, but the process is shorter, strongly and more densely punctulate. I 9 . 5. Process feebly narrowed between the coxae, distinctly convex longitudinally and noticeably prominent between the coxae, otherwise as in Group I. I $. 6. Process not impressed, longitudinally convex; surface convex from side to side between the marginal sulci. Otherwise as in Group 3. i 9 . 7. Process longitudinally convex between the coxae, becoming con- cave behind the coxae, tip gradually deflexed ventrad. Other- wise as in Group 3. I $ . 8. Process shorter yet, just the least convex both ways, strongly margined at the sides, no evidence of a bead at tip; the latter broadly and less strongly rounded. 3 $ $ . g. Process distinctly narrowed between the coxae. Otherwise as in Group 2. i 9 . 10. Process longer, margin obsolete at tip. Otherwise as in Groups 3 and 7. i 9. 11. As in Group 3, except that the process is longitudinally convex, flat from side to 'side between the marginal sulci, marginal bead feeble laterally and obsolete at tip. 39 9 • 12. Process longitudinally convex, not marginal at tip; surface flat transversely between the marginal sulci. Otherwise as in Group 2. i 9 . 13. As in Group 11. except that the process is strongly margined throughout, narrowed between the coxae and with the tip more strongly dilated. 699. The taxonomical value of the characters presented by the prosternal process is self-evident. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 13 The relative prominence of the canthi cannot be relied upon for taxonomical purposes. The majority of the specimens have the anterior canthi slightly less prominent than the pos- terior ; in a few specimens the anterior are most prominent. Bilateral asymmetry is occasionally observed. The smallest specimen has the following dimensions : Length, 9.5 mm.; width, 4.3 mm. ( $ ). The largest specimen measures: Length. 14.0 mm.; width, 6.5 mm. ( $ ). It is probable that the subpnbcsccns group includes a num- ber of geographical forms that may be described as species or races when studied in large series. Each species and race will have a varying number of intraspecific variants, which should be grouped as formac. This is imperative and practi- cal. If not, the continuous founding of so-called species upon these intraspecific variants will in time clog our lists with useless synonyms. There is a crying need for conservatism. In the majority of cases the characters used to define a species have no more value than the variation of the malar promi- nences, nose, ears, etc., as specific or varietal taxonomical char- acters in human beings. Montana is as distinct a species as can be found in the snb- pube.sccns group. Canonic a Casey is only a narrower form of inojitaiHt. and thus far observed in the north, namely: — in northern California and southern Oregon. Montana is very closely related to sitbpnbesccns, and when followed southward along the Coast Range of mountains graduallv becomes indis- tinguishable from subpubcsccns, as observed in Marin County, California. The epistomal sinus is usually subtriangular, but occasion- ally it becomes broader, less deep and arcuately emarginate. Two specimens from Del Norte County agree in every wav with those from Eldorado County, except that the pubescence is shorter and therefore less conspicuous. In two specimens from Dutch Flat, Placer County, the suture between the episternum and epimeron of the meso- sternum is completely obliterated ; the two side pieces appearing as one. The specimens are more stronglv convex transversely. more oblong, with finer pubescence which is not as long as 14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS usual. In the latter character they resemble those from the Calaveras Big Trees. The pubescence increases in coarseness to the northward. Specimens from Lassen County, California, and Josephine County, Oregon, have the coarsest pubescence and punctuation, and where the narrower form becomes can- onica Casey. Specimens with coarse pubescence and punctuation are found among those taken in Eldorado and Calaveras Counties and to the southward ; but they are fewer in number than to the northward. The transition from one variant into the other is gradual in all directions, and therefore no limitation can be drawn between them. They are all included under normal specific variation. If there are different species or races they must be defined from larval or pupal characters— or from both. Analogy is found in the series collected on the south fork of the Kaweah River, Tulare County, California, by Mr. Ralph Hopping, whose entire collection of Coniontis is before the writer. Montana in that region gives a variation — pcrspicua Casey — that is the opposite of canonica in form. Canonica is narrower, and pcrspicua is much broader than montana. In Mr. Hopping's series the specimens gradate so evenly that it is impossible to tell where w.ontana ends and pcrspicua be- gins. Pcrspicua and globulina are anomalous forms ; canonica less so. It is unfortunate that globulina is a type species, for it is the same as if a dwarf or a hunchback was the type of Homo sapiens. These forms are undoubtedly due to certain physiological conditions induced by environmental phenomenon. Seasonal vicissitudes of unusual stress may be considered as factors in the production of unusual forms, which in all probability re- vert to the type-form when causative factors cease to operate. Some forms are due to mechanical interference, as when lar- vae are forced to pupate in places that do not offer sufficient space, for instance, where the cell is short so that the pre- pupal and pupal stages are under flection stress. It is a ques- tion of mechanics. Vol. XXl'x.l ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 15 Moonstones in a Cecropia Cocoon (Lepid.). By L. O. HOWARD, Washington, D. C. I recently received from a Florida correspondent two very beautiful moonstones found in the inner cocoon of a cecropia moth. They are about the same size, and the one measured is 13x8x9 mm. I remembered the notes in Volume II of the American Entomologist (1870) and at once turned to them. In an article on the cecropia moth, on page 100, Doctor Riley states that on the 2Oth of March, 1867, Mr. J. A. Jackson, of Goodings Grove, Illinois, brought in a cocoon from which the moth had not yet escaped. Enclosed in the cocoon with the chrysalis was a kernel of corn. Doctor Riley thought that the kernel had been accidentally dropped by some bird and had fallen through the meshes of loose silk and lodged while the worm was yet spinning its cocoon. He remarked, "It is one of those singular coincidences which occur once in a lifetime, and we mention it in this connection simply to place the fact on record." On page 177 of the same volume is a letter from Dr. Will- iam LeBaron, dated Geneva, Illinois, February 22, 1870. in which he stated that he had seen the note and that in two in- stances cocoons had been brought to him for examination by a young man of Geneva, each containing a grain of corn. Doctor LeBaron's explanation was that the corn was deposit- ed in the cocoon for safe keeping during the formation, or pos- sibly forced into the loose end after completion, of the cocoon, by some bird. He suspected the bluejay. Still later, on page 370 of the same volume, a correspondent, "S. F. C.," wrote, stating that during the fall of '69 he found five cocoons of the cecropia moth, all of which contained ker- nels of corn or of wheat and in a sixth was a small acorn. I It- had seen chickadees trying to store grains of corn and wheat, he said, and believed that the chickadee as well as the blue-jay used the cocoon of the cecropia moth as a storehouse. My original correspondent in regard to the moonstones was Dr. W. H. Howcll, Mayor of Leesburg. He sent me the inner cocoon of the cecropia moth, cut in half, with two of the moon- stones inside. The third, he stated, had been retained. On l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS writing to Doctor Howell, he placed me in correspondence with the original finder of the cocoon, Mrs. Neal Adams, of Lady Lake, Florida. I wrote her that I had consulted Mr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, who had told me that in that part of Florida the bluejay, the Florida jay, the white-breasted and brown-headed nuthatches, the tufted titmouse and red-headed woodpecker all have the habit of storing miscellaneous things. From the size of the moonstones, he suspected the bluejay. I asked her whether any one in her town had a pet crow, as that might have been responsible. I then described the cecropia co- coon, and asked whether this description corresponded with the recollection of the person who found the cocoon. The letter concluded as follows: "The cut moonstones found in its in- terior, while of no especial value, are very pretty and may have been prized by some one. I know that birds down there with you are apt to be very familiar, and it is not impossible that this especial thief entered a bedroom window and stole the stones from the top of a bureau. It is a very interesting case." Mrs. Adams replied that the cocoon corresponded exactly with my description, and that it was found near her house in the wheel-rut of a new clay road. The outer cocoon had been gashed in some way, but the inner cocoon was opened by her, and there she found the stones. She stated that no one to her knowledge had a pet crow, but that wild crows were numerous, as were the other birds mentioned in my letter. These moonstones were exhibited at the Entomological So- ciety of Washington and at the Biological Society of Wash- ington in the hope that some of the members might have found or heard of similar instances. At the Entomological Society, Mr. Schwarz stated that he remembered the notes in the American Entomologist and that he had an indefinite idea that he had seen something else published on the same subject, but could not particularize. At the meeting of the Biological So- ciety, Mr. Alexander Wetmore said that he had seen blue jays stuff grains of corn and small acorns into "big cocoons." The note is sent to Entomological News in the hope that it may result in a record of observations of a similar nature. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IJ A Key to the Known Species of South Carolina Antst with Notes (Hym.). By M. R. SMITH, Washington, D. C. The writer is very much indebted to Dr. W. M. Wheeler, of Harvard University, for the identification of several species given in this paper and also for the use of a number of his notes. Prof. J. S. Hine and Prof. C. L. Metcalf, of Ohio State University, kindly criticized the paper and offered suggestions. Key to Subfamilies of Formicidae. 1. Abdominal pedicel consisting of a single segment 2. Abdominal pedicel consisting of two segments 3. 2. Cloacal orifice terminal, surrounded by a fringe of hairs, CAMPONOTINAE Cloacal orifice ventral 4. 3. Frontal carinae very close together, almost vertical, not covering antennal insertions; eyes small or absent; species tropical and sub-tropical DORYLINAE Frontal carinae not as above; eyes rarely vestigial or absent; species numerous MYRMICINAE 4. No constriction between the first and second gastric segments, anal glands present, which produce a secretion with a rancid butter-like odor DOLICHODERINAE Caster with a distinct constriction between the first and second segments; frontal carinae separated or close together, PONERINAE Subfamily PONERINAE. Frontal carinae closely approximated; the tip of gaster strongly deflected downard; clypeus with a projection in the middle, Sysphincta S. pergandei Roger. This species is a member of the above genus, which was once common to the southeastern part of the United States, but is now nearly extinct. The writer has taken only one specimen during two years of collecting in South Carolina. This specimen is rather ferruginous brown in color, has a thorax without sutures, and the tip of the gaster is deflected downward. The specimen was taken from beneath some pine leaves. l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Ian., 'iS (Subfamily DORYLINAE.) Claws toothed Eciton E. opacithorax Emery. The workers of this species have vestigial eyes, hence lead hypogaeic or subterranean lives. Specimens were captured while they were trailing over the ground in single file. The species does not seem to be numerous in the northwestern part of the State, the writer only having taken specimens on two different occasions. Subfamily MYRMICINAE. 1. Postpetiole joined to the dorsal surface of the gaster, which is flattened dorsally, more convex ventrally and acutely pointed. Cremastogaster Postpetiole joined to the anterior basal portion of the gaster.. 2. 2. Meso-epinotal constriction usually faint or lacking 3. Meso-epinotal constriction distinct 4. 3. Antennae ii-jointed; workers monomorphic; head and thorax not rugose Leptothorax (in part) Antennae 12-jointed; meso-epinotal constriction as well as pro- mesonotal constriction absent; the head and thorax distinctly rugose Pogonomyrmex 4. Antennae 11 -(jointed 5. Antennae i2-jointed 6. 5. Head with one pair of occipital spines, thorax with three pairs of dorsal spines; integument rough, bearing stiff or hooked hairs. (At fa). (One subgenus in South Carolina, which has numerous tubercles on the head, thorax and abdomen Trachymyrmex) Thorax and petiole without any traces of teeth or spines; body slender; workers monomorphic Monomorium 6. Last four joints of the antennae forming a rather distinct club: workers with slender thorax and legs; monomorphic, Aphaenogaster Last three joints of the antennae forming a club 7. 7. The club very distinct; the workers strongly dimorphic; soldiers with large heads Pheidole The club not quite so distinct; meso-epinotal constriction deep and distinct; workers monomorphic, Leptothorax, sub-genus Dictothorax (in part) Head and prothorax distinctly striated; pro-mesonotal constriction absent; imported species Tetramorium Genus Cremastogaster Lund. I. Workers with distinct mid-dorsal thoracic carina 2. Workers without distinct mid-dorsal thoracic carina, virtima F. Smith subspecies missouriensis Vol. XXJx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IQ 2. Workers with distinct mid-dorsal thoracic carina extending from, the center of the pronotum to the center of the mesonotum, lineolata Say. var. lutea Workers with a distinct, short, mid-dorsal thoracic carina extend- ing partly or throughout the mesonotum lineolata Say. C. victima F. Smith, subsp. missouriensis. This is a small species which may be distinguished by the absence of a mid-dorsal thoracic carina. on the workers. C. lineolata Say, var. lutea. The workers have a distinct mid-dorsal thoracic carina ex- tending from the middle of the pronotum to the middle of the epinotum. C. lineolata Say. The workers of this species are very common, ranging throughout all parts of the United States. They build nests under stones, in galls, wood and under carton-like structures. These ants are exceedingly fond of sweets and it is no uncom- mon occurrence to find them in attendance upon aphids, coc- cids and similar insects. The workers when disturbed raise the tip of their gaster in a threatening manner as if they could sting. Genus Leptothorax Mayr. I. Thorax without meso-epinotal constriction; antennae eleven-joint- ed; color yellow, .curzrispinosus (Subgenus Leptothorax s. str.) Thorax with distinct meso-epinotal constriction; antennae twelve- jointed; color black, .pcrgandei (Subgenus Dictothora.v Emery) L. curvispinosus Mayr. The small yellow workers of this species build their nests in hollow limbs, galls, nuts, etc. They are easily identified from other species of this genus by their yellow color and by two black or brown spots on the first gastric segment. The species is very small and may be overlooked by the casual observer. L. pergandei Emery. The workers are black and considerably larger than those of L. curvispinosus. The habits of the two species are practical- ly the same. 2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'l8 Genus Pogonomyrmex Mayr. P. badius Latr. This is the only species of the genus that occurs in the southeastern states. Some of the workers have exceedingly large heads. The workers are dark rufous, very hairy, and have a much rugose head and thorax. Genus Atta. Fabr. Subgenus Trachymyrmex Forel. T. septentrionalis McCook. The workers of this form have a number of tubercles on the body, which gives them a rough spiny appearance. This species cultivates fungus in its nests for food. The nests are open from the first of April to the latter part of May. After this time the heat becomes too intense for the keeping of fun- gus without the closure of the entrance to the nest. The writ- er has often observed workers carrying apple blossom petals into their nest for the purpose of cultivating fungus from it. Their nest always has the excavated dirt placed a few inches from the opening in such a manner as to form a crescent. This is very characteristic. Genus Monomorium Mayr. M. minimum Buckley. The small, slender black workers of this species occur in the fields and in houses. In the fi^eld they build crater-shaped mounds. Often they occur in large enough numbers around houses to be considered pests. The writer has found them nesting in rotten wood. Genus Aphaenogaster Mayr. 1. Antennal scape with a shield-shaped enlargement at the base, treatac Antennal scape without a shield-shaped enlargement at the base. 2. 2. Femur and tibiae of legs distinctly enlarged and much darker, lamellidens Femur and tibiae not distinctly enlarged and much darkened. . . .3. 3. Head broad, occipital region with distinct lobes: general color dark brown fulra. Head slender, occipital region with rounded lobes: general color usually light ferruginous brown with gaster and legs yellow- ish texana. Workers smaller: epinotal spines shorter and directed more back- ward; general color brownish; base and tips of gaster paler, texana, var. carolensis. Vol. Xxix ! ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 21 A. treatae Forel. The workers are easily identified by the lobe-like enlarge- ments of their scapes. They are very common throughout the eastern section of the United States. The workers are carnivorous and forage singly. They nest beneath stones in the woods. A. lamellidens Mayr. This species has workers which are reddish in color and have much darkened femora and tibiae. The workers have always been captured by the writer on or around wood. •A. fulva Roger. The workers are dark brown in color and are slender in form. They nest in rotten logs in the woods. This species does not seem to be common in the northern section of the State. A. texana, var. carolensis. The workers are hard to distinguish from those of A. fulva. This variety seems to be very common throughout the State. Their nests have been found under stones. Genus Pheidole Westwood. 1. Epinotum with vestigial spines morrisi Forel Epinotum with spines well developed 2. 2. Ahdomen piceous; head and thorax dark rufous, crassicornis Emery Abdomen not as above 3. 3. General body color yellowish tysoni Forel General body color darker 4. 4. Size larger, 3 mm. -3. 5 mm.; workers with coarser, longer and more numerous hairs dcntata Mayr. Size smaller 2 mm. -2.5 mm.; workers with hairs smaller and not as numerous vinelandica Forel P. morrisi Forel. The workers are easily separated from those of allied spe- cies in having only vestigial spines on the epinotum. Their nests are very characteristic, consisting of a large mound from 4 to 6 inches high and from 6 to 8 inches in diameter, built around the base of a bunch of grass. When distributed the workers run franticallv to and fro over the nest. 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS P. crassicornis Emery. This species has workers that are distinctly more rufous colored than are those of any other species of this genus, the abdomen is very dark. The writer has found nests of this ant under pavement walks and around the roots of trees. P. tysoni Forel. Workers of this shining yellow species have been taken only once. The workers are easily identified from the other work- ers of this genus by their yellow color and smooth shining ap- pearance. P. dentata Mayr. The workers are easily confused with those of P. vinelan- dica, from which they differ in the sculpture of the head and in their larger size. The nests are small crater-shaped af- fairs ; sometimes they nest under stones or logs. The work- ers store seed in their nests. P. vinelandica Forel. The workers of this species are often confused with those of P. dentata, from which they differ in their smaller size, less numerous hairs, and the sculpture of the head. They build nests under stones or in the open. The field nests are small crater-shaped mounds only a few inches in diameter. The workers store small grass seeds in their nests. Genus Tetramorium Mayr. Subgenus Tetramorium s. str. T. caespitum L. This species has been introduced into America from Europe and occurs principally in our large cities. The workers have a striated thorax and head. From their habit of nesting be- neath pavement walks they are commonly known as the "pave- ment ant." Subfamily DOLICHODERINAE. 1. Chitinous integument hard and brittle; epinotum with declivity strongly concave; principally arboreal in habits. Dolichoderus, subgenus Hypoclinea Chitinous integument thin and flexible 2. 2. Epinotum with a conical elevation; terrestrial species building dome-shaped mounds in sunny spots Dorymyrmex Epinotum not as above 3 Vol. xxix i ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23 3. Petiole well developed, more or less inclined; workers generally brownish in color; nests usually under stones . . .Iridomyrmex Petiole vestigial or absent; workers black Tapinoma Genus Dolichoderus Lund. 1. Head and thorax with shallow punctures 2. Head and thorax coarsely and deeply punctured 3. 2. Epinotal concavity with a strong median longitudinal ridge; head, thorax and petiole yellowish red; body hairless above, marine Forel (Subgenus Hypoclinca Mayr) Kpiriotal concavity without such a ridge; at least the head black/4. 3. Base of gaster with reddish yellow spots, plagiatus Mayr (Subgenus Hypoclinea Mayr) 4. Body without erect hairs on the upper surface; body and ap- pendages deep black. . taschenbergi Mayr, var. atterina. Whir. Body with erect hairs on the upper surface; thorax reddish brown; base of gaster with reddish yellow spots, plagiatus Mayr var. pustulatus Mayr. D. mariae Forel. This beautiful species is very common in the State. The workers build nests in the soil at the base of broom straw. The writer has found several thousand workers in a nest. The nest has a peculiar odor. The workers are especially fond of aphids and coccids ; they were often found attending the aphis, Lachnus australis, on pine. In numbers this species is the most common throughout the State. D. plagiatus Mayr. It is very hard to distinguish between the workers of this species and the above. The habits of the two are practically the same. This species is not as numerous as D. mariae. D. plagiatus Mayr, var. pustulatus Mayr. This species is a variety of D. plagiatus, from which it dif- fers principally in its smaller size and its numerous coarse punctures on the head and thorax. This variety does not seem to be numerous in the State. D. taschenbergi Mayr, var. atterina Whir. This shining black species is very common. The writer has found its nests in the soil at the base of pine trees and in the soil at the base of broom straw. The habits of this species are the same as those of the above two species. 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS Genus Dorymyrmex Mayr. 1. Color dark brown 2. Color not as above, light yellowish 3. 2. Head and thorax reddish brown, abdomen darker, pyramicus Roger General color much darker, almost black, pyramicus Roger, var. niger. 3. Head and thorax reddish yellow; abdomen lighter with darkened tip . . pyramicus Roger, var. flavus Pergande. D. pyramicus Roger. This dark brown species builds crater-shaped nests in sun- ny spots. It is one of the most numerous ants in the State and is common throughout the southern states. The workers feed on other insects, but are also fond of aphid excretions. D. pyramicus Roger, var. niger Pergande. This is a much darker form than the above and has not been collected by the writer in the northern part of the State, al- though it is common in the warmer southern part. D. pyramicus Roger, var. flavus Pergande. This species is light in color, being reddish yellow with a lighter abdomen. It is also very common throughout the State. The habits of this variety and of D. pyramicus are the same. Genus Iridomyrmex Mayr. i. Color uniform brown; workers when crushed not odorous; im- ported species found generally in seaport towns, humilis Mayr. Color of head and thorax brown, abdomen lighter; workers when crushed give off a perceptible Tapinoma odor ....an-alis Andre I. humilis Mayr. This species has been imported into the United States from Argentina. It occurs principally in seaport towns. In South Carolina this species has not been found in any other towns than Charleston and Summerville. As a species of econom- ic importance this ant is second to none. The Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, has a large bulletin on the distribution, life history, control measures and other important point? of interest concerning this ant. I. analis Andre. The workers of this ant build their nests principally under stones. The ants have a characteristic odor. The workers are Vol. xxix| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 25 fond of attending plant lice. In one field of rye a large num- ber of this species had their nests in the soil at the base of rye plants, on which occurred the green bug, To.roptera grami- num, and were busily attending this species. Genus Tapinoma Forster. T. sessile Say. This slender black species builds its nests under stones, leaves and the bark of logs ; generally in sunny spots. The workers have a characteristic odor. The pupae are salmon colored. The workers of this form resemble those of Dor\mynne.\- pyratnlcus in appearance and action. This species may be distinguished from other ants by the presence of a ves- tigial petiole. Subfamily CAMPONOTINAE. 1. Workers polymorphic; no ocelli present Camponotus Workers not polymorphic, though often variable in size 2. 2. Clypeal fossa distinctly separated from the antennal fossa 3. Clypeal fossa confluent with the antennal fossa 5. 3. Mesonotum not constricted or cylindrical; ocelli present, Formica Mesonotum constricted 4. 4. Antennal scapes and tibiae without erect hairs: mesonotum sub- cylindrical; workers nest in moist places .. .Prenolepis s. str. Antennal scapes and tibiae with erect hairs: mesonotum con- stricted but not sub-cylindrical Subgenus Nylanderia 5. Maxillary palpi six-jointed Lasius s. str. Maxillary palpi three-jointed Subgenus Acanthomyops Genus Camponotus Mayr. 1. General color of body black 2. General color of body yellow and black, or red and black 3. 2. Form robust; workers polymorphic; head and thorax sparM-ly covered with large yellow hairs; the abdomen with numerous large and small hairs, the small hairs giving it a bronzed metal- lic lustre . . . .here ulancits L., Subspecies pennsylvanicus DeGcer Body slender; head, thorax and abdomen smooth, shining black; body practically devoid of hairs except on the abdomen, where the anterior and posterior edge of each segment bears a fringe of long hairs falla.r Xyl., var. ncarcticus Emery. 3. Form robust: workers polymorphic: color of body yellow ex- cept the head, which is piceous; abdomen with numerous long hairs castanciis Latr., subspecies anicricanns Mayr. 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS Form slender; color of head and thorax dark rufous, abdomen black; abdomen with a fringe of long hairs on the posterior edge of each segment fallar Nyl. var. decipiens Emery. C. herculaneus L., subspecies pennsylvanicus De Geer. These large black ants are found nesting in wood ; because of this fact they are commonly known as the "carpenter ant." The workers of this species seem to be very cosmopolitan, oc- curring throughout the eastern states. Sometimes they are very injurious to lumber and wooden constructions, through which they construct numerous galleries and chambers, C. fallax Nyl., var. decipiens Emery. These slender forms with red heads and thoraces and black abdomens are commonly found under the bark of trees or crawling over the surface of the bark. The writer found a large number of workers nesting in an oak gall. C. fallax Nyl., var. nearcticus Emery. The slender black workers of this species nest under the bark of trees. The habits of the workers are about the same as those of C. decipiens. The writer has never found but a few workers in the nests. C. castaneus Latr., var. americanus Mayr. The workers of this species may be recognized by their yel- low bodies and dark piceous heads. They build their nests under stones. These ants are very common in the woods. In size this species ranks with C. pennsylvanicus, which is the largest species in the State. Genus Formica Linn. 1. General color of body uniform black; head, thorax and abdomen with fine pubescence, giving a pruinose effect, fusca Linn., var. subscricca Say. General color of body not black, more or less yellowish 2. 2. Abdomen distinctly darker than the head and thorax, almost black; without hairs, except for the fringe of hairs on the pos- terior edge of each segment; head and thorax dark rufous, truncicola, subspecies Integra Nyl. Abdomen only faintly darker than the head and thorax, which are yellow or yellowish red 3. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2/ 3. Maxillary palpi, especially their last two joints, conspicuously long; color pale yellow; gaster slightly infuscated, pallidefuh'a Latr. Maxillary palpi shorter; color, reddish yellow with more or less infuscated gaster; pubescence and hairs long and abundant, pallidcfidra Latr., var. scliaufussi Mayr. F. fusca Linn, var. subsericea Say. The workers of this form are very common in South Caro- lina. They forage singly, living on the products of the chase. This form is very cowardly and has been made slaves of by other species of this genus. F. truncicola, subsp. Integra Nyl. The robust workers of this species have red heads and thoraces and black abdomens. This species nests in rotten logs. The writer has seen them so numerous in the woods that when the workers were crawling over the leaves it sounded much like rain pattering on the leaves. The workers are very pug- nacious when aroused. F. pallide-fulva Latr. These ants are very numerous throughout the State, being commonly called red ants. Nests have been found in the soil at the base of trees and in the open field. This species re- sembles F. fusca subsericea in habits. F. pallide-fulva, Latr., var. schaufussi Mayr. This variety differs from the typical form of the species by having a much more infuscated abdomen. It does not seem to be as common in the State. Genus Prenolepis Mayr. i. Workers from 3-4 mm. in size; abdomen often distended; color light yrlli >\\-ish, abdomen often darker; nests in moist places. imparts Say. Smaller species 1.8-2 mm. in size; color, dark brown to almost black; upper surface of body with prominent coarse hairs, parvula Emery (Subgenus Nylanderia Emery) P. imparis Say. This is one of the most numerous species of ants in the State. The workers are very fond of attending aphids. Some of the workers often have their abdomens so distended with 28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I Jan., 'l8 aphid honey dew that they can hardly walk. This species builds crater-shaped nests in moist spots, generally preferring clay soil, probably because of its capacity for holding moisture. The males and females remain in the nest over winter and take their nuptial flight in the spring. The writer has captured both forms in Ohio as early as March 27th. This form oc- curs around the house, where it often gets into the pantry and causes the housekeeper a great amount of trouble. P. parvula Emery. This form is smaller, more hairy, and of a darker color than P. imparts. The workers inhabit the fields, where they often build their nests under rocks. Genus Lasius Fabricius. 1. Maxillary palpi six-jointed; general color deep brown. nigcr Linn., var. americanns Emery. Maxillary palpi three-jointed (Subgenus Acanthomyops} , 2. 2. Petiole low and broad when viewed from above; hairs of the body short latipes Walsh Petiole higher and narrower; abdomen with longer hairs 3. 3. All but the last joint of the antennae broader than long, claviger Roger. All but the last joint of the antennae not broader than long; posterior edge of each abdominal segment with a fringe of long hairs inter jcctus Mayr. L. niger Linn., var. americanus Emery. This form is very common in the corn and cotton fields of the State. Professor Forbes, of Illinois, has published several interesting bulletins on this species' relation to the corn and cotton root louse, Aphis maidi-radicis. It has been definitely . proven that these ants are responsible for the spread of the root louse. The ants are very abundant throughout the United States, except the extreme southern and southwestern sections. The workers have an abdomen with a pruinose appearance, which when crushed gives off a strong formic acid odor. Prof. W. A. Thomas, of South Carolina, has found that the cotton root louse, to a large extent, may be controlled by shallow plowing the growing cotton at frequent intervals, thus disor- ganizing the ants. Vol. XXSX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. L. latipes Walsh. This form is found nesting under stones. The females are often dimorphic, one form being peculiar in having much flattened femora and tibiae. The species is not as numerous as L. interject us and L. claviger. L. claviger Roger. Wheeler states that this is the most common species of the subgenus Acanthomyops. The workers build their nests under stones along the edges of woods where they can find warmth and moisture. Solitary dealated females have been found under rocks during the winter. L. interjectus Mayr. This is the largest species of the subgenus. The workers build their nests under stones and in old logs. These ants are very fond of attending subterranean aphids. In numbers this is one of the most common species in the State. Isaac P. Trimble, M.D., Early Economic Entomo- logist of New Jersey. By HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, New Jersey. A trifle over fifty years ago there lived in Newark, New Jersey, a Dr. I. P. Trimble, who was interested in insects from an economic standpoint and whose chief contribution to entomology was a work of 139 quarto pages devoted to the plum curculio and codling moth. This was entitled "A Treat- ise on Insect Enemies of Fruits and Fruit Trees" and was published in 1865. Ninety-nine pages and eight of the eleven plates in tlie book are taken up with the plum curculio and this was the most complete account of that insect up to that time. In the introduction Dr. Trimble states that he- studied in- sects injurious to fruits for many years, at first for the pro- tection of his own crops and later for knowledge that he had been unable to find in books and. in addition, his interest was increased bv reading such works as those of Kirby and Spence, Iluber, T.atreille, Say. Harris and Fitch. From observation. 3O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'l8 recorded in his book he evidently traveled considerably throughout New Jersey and New York, always keeping a sharp eye open for the plum curculio and codling moth, and recording in a diary such observations on these and various other insects as he thought were worth while. Birds too in- terested him, as evidenced from several pages of his treatise, which are devoted to them. He was fully alive to the many valueless remedies proposed at that time for the control of the curculio and kept a collec- tion of them. He states (p. 52 of his Treatise), "I cannot imagine anything of less value, unless it should be a similar collection of quack remedies for consumption or rheumatism." He also experimented somewhat with various materials in order to determine their insecticidal value, and some of these results are recorded in his book. From reading his book one gains the impression that he was interested in all insects more or less, but especially those injurious to crops. Although de- voted mainly to the curculio and codling moth, various notes on numerous other species manage to appear, showing that he was widely informed for that period. In addition to his entomological work, Dr. Trimble evi- dently found time to practice medicine as the Transactions of the Medical Society of New Jersey for 1866 list his name from Newark as a registered physician in New Jersey, and as late as 1874 his address is given in the Newark City direc- tory as 645 High Street. From 1863 to 1867 he was a mem- ber of the New Jersey Historical Society and, according to the proceedings of that society for 1866, was on the library committee and in 1867 and 1871 made donations of books. He was also entomologist of the Horticultural Association of the American Institute and of the State Agricultural Society of New Jersey, and in 1863 made a report to this latter society on the habits of insects injurious to grains and fruits. He was also interested in politics, being assemblyman to the New Jersey legislature from Essex County in 1859, 1866 and 1869, and chairman of the House Committee on Agricul- ture in 1866. In the report of the executive committee of the Vol. XXl'x] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 31 New Jersey Agricultural Society for 1866 it is stated that the legislature had appropriated $3000 to the society for prepar- ing and publishing Dr. Trimble's "Treatise on the Insect Ene- mies of Fruit and Fruit Trees," and that this money was to be paid in yearly instalments of $1000, the secretary of the society being required to report annually the manner in which the money was expended. It is further stated that not a cent of this money went to the author, but was used by the society in publishing and purchasing copies of the book for distribu- tion. Eight dollars were asked for a copy with colored plates and five dollars for one without colored plates. In addition to being the author of Reports by the Committee on Agriculture of the New Jersey legislature for 1866, Dr. Trimble wrote for the newspapers and appeared on the lecture platform of various societies during his time. For the fol- lowing list of papers by Dr. Trimble I am indebted to Mr. Andrew J. Mutchler, of the American Museum of Natural History. Although aided considerably by the librarians at the Newark Public Library, Rutgers College, New Jersey His- torical Society and the State House, it was impossible to find anv reference to an obituarv notice of Dr. Trimble. J ^ However, at the suggestion of Dr. Philip P. Calvert, I wrote to Dr. Ewing Jordan, editor of the Medical Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, who very kindly and gen- erously supplied me with the following: "Isaac Pirn Trimble, son of Samuel and Amy (Pirn) Trimble, was born at West Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 1804, and died near Cornwall, New York, September 27, 1890. He entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in October, 1824, and was graduated with the degree of M.D., April 7, 1826. He was a general practitioner of medicine, having practiced in Chester County, Pennsylvania, but gave a large portion of his attention to fruit culture. He married on March 31, 1841, Jane Riggs, a daughter of Caleb S. Riggs, an attorney-at-law. It is unknown that he had any issue. Sources of information — 'Palmer & Trimble Genealogy' and Mr. Gilbert Cope, West Chester, Pa." 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'l8 Papers by Isaac P. Trimble. Injurious insects. Proc. Amer. Pomol. Soc., 1864, pp. 93-96. [Habits, ravages, and means against Carpocapsa pomonclla; habits of Conotrachclus nenuphar.} Spare the toad. [I. P. Trimble] Can. Farmer, 15 August, 1865. S.-b. No. i, p. 45. [Notes the insectivorous habits of the common toad.] A treatise on the insect enemies of fruit and fruit trees. N. Y., 1865, ii pis. [Treats of Conotrachclus nenuphar and Carpocapsa pomonclla.] Birds; their usefulness: An appeal to farmers and sportsmen. [I. P. Trimble] Newark Advertiser. Can. Farmer, i December, 1866. S.-b. No. 2, pp. 51-52. [Notes the usefulness of various birds and of the Ichneumonidae as destroyers of noxious insects.] Apple Maggot. N. Y. Semi-weekly Tribune, 17 July, 1867. [Distri- bution of Trypcta pomonclla.} An insect talk. Proc. Amer. Pomol. Soc., 1867, pp. 118-121. [Habits of and means against Conotrachclus nenuphar and Carpocapsa pomonclla.} The plum curculio will deposit in fruit which overhangs water. Amer. Ent. and Bot., February, 1870, v. 2, pp. 119-120. [Facts and arguments to prove that trees planted over water are not pro- tected from Conotrachclus nenuphar.} Radish maggots. Amer. Ent. and Bot., July-August, 1870, v. 2, pp. 273-274- [Abundance of Antlwinyia raphani; food habits.] Chip-trap Curculio catching. Amer. Ent. and Bot., July-August. 1870, v. 2, p. 274. [St. Joseph methods applicable in the early days of the season only.] Occurrence of a European Anthomyiid in Illinois (Diptera). On August 24, 1917, in company with T. H. Prison, I captured on the shore of Lake Michigan a large series of a very pale colored anthomyiid fly that structurally very closely resembles the common cilicrura Zetterstedt. On making a careful examination of the species I identified it as Phorbia albula Zetterstedt, a species recorded as occurring on sandy soils in Europe. The species was found on the bare sand along the shore of Lake Michigan, north of Waukegan. and was very common. Owing to its very pale color it was very difficult to see the insect on the dry sand, but large numbers could be taken by sweeping with the net very close to the ground. Along with this species were two others, Phyllogastcr littoralis Malloch and Tetra- mcrinx brcvicornis Malloch, both of which were much scarcer than albula. — J. R. MALLOCH, Urbana, Illinois. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1918. The Present Crisis. When we consider the vast number of deaths from diseases in previous wars, many of which diseases we now know to be wholly or largely diffused by insects ; when we reflect on the illness and death borne by these creatures to our civilian pop- ulation even in times of peace ; when we think of the truly enormous injuries inflicted on our crops, our forests, our stored food and our clothing, we must admit that insects exert an influence on civilization that has been totally, or almost totally, ignored by the professed historians of that subject. We must also concede the immense importance of entomolog- ical science (i) in discriminating the kinds of insects, for not all of those even closely allied are detrimental to human in- terests; (2) in elucidating their physiology and life-history, whereby alone we perceive their points of vulnerability, and (3) in learning their relations to the rest of the world and its changes, including its plant and its animal inhabitants. Unquestionably there is very much yet to be learned in all of these fields. The application of these general conclusions to the present crisis manifestly demands that all the insect problems which in any way touch upon the health and efficiency of the army and of the navy and of the civilian population which stands back of and supports them, should be investigated by men trained in entomological work. Will we heed and put to good results our previous lessons on insects and human mortality in war? Knowledge comes hut wisdom lingers, and he hears a laden hrra>t Full of sad experience passing to — the stillness of his rest. 33 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '18 New Color for Clothing Suggested by Butterfly (Lep.). One of the more than 30.000 butterflies that make up the collection of Prof. Levi W. Mengel, curator of the Reading, Pennsylvania', Museum, auxiliary to the public school system, was used in the de- velopment of a new color, woven gray with white, to be exploited shortly by a New York textile firm. Agents of the concern went over the collection and found the shade among specimens that had not yet been placed on exhibition.— Public Ledger, Philadelphia, October 30, IQI?. — • <•» • — 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 2 — Transactions American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 3 — The American Naturalist. 5 — Psyche. 6 — Journal, New York Entomological Society. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 11 — An- nals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 13 — Comptes Rendus, Societe de Biologic, Paris. 76 — Journal, Cincinnati Soci- ety of Natural History. 90 — Revue Scientifique, Paris. 99 — Cor- nell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 161— Proceedings, Biological Society of Washington. 198 — Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 240— Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono. 264 — Boletin del Ministerio de Agricultura de la Nacion, Buenos Aires. 355 — Smith- sonian Institution Report, Washington, D. C. 404 — Report of the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants. 447 — Journal of Agricultural Research, Washington. 519 — The Scientific Monthly, Lancaster, Pa. 548 — Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 554 — Quarterly Bulletin, State Plant Board of Florida, Gainesville. GENERAL SUBJECT. Berlese, A.— Gli insetti loro organizza- zione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti coH'uomo (Vol. II, fuse. 11-13). B ouvier, E. L.— The life and work of J. H. Fabrc, 355, l!Hr>, 5S7-97. Drz, A. — Polyembryonie et determinisme du sexe, 90, 11)17, ;V.Ki-7. Felt, E. P. — Entomological research and utility, 519, v, 551-3. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 Huard, V. A. — Historical notes on entomology in the Province of Quebec, 404, ix, 54-0. Jorgensen, P. — Zoocecidios argentinos, 548, iii, 1-29. Lahille, F. — Nota sobre una larva de insecto de respira- cion branquial. 548, iii, 247-8. Robertson, C. — Flowers and insects, XX: Evolution of entomophilous flowers. Botanical Gaz., Ixiii, 307-16. PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Hegner, R. W.— The genesis of the organization of the insect egg, II, 3, li, 705-18. Porter, L. T. — The spermatocytic divisions of Leptocoris haema- toloma, 198, xxxiii, 316-20. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Longinos Navas, R. P.— Algunos in- sectos Neuropteros de la Argentina, 548, iii, 186-96. HEMIPTERA. Baker, A. C.— Life history of Macrosiphum illinoisensis, the grapevine aphis, 447, xi, 83-90. Deletang, L. — Sobre la presencia de "B^lostoma grande L" en Tucuman, 548, iii, 99. Lizer, C. — Description d'une nouvelle espece d'Eriophyde (Eriophyes brethesi). Une nouvelle variete de "Chrysomphalus obscurus" (Coccidae) (Chrysomphalus obscurus var. lahillei). De- scription du male de "Icerya subandina," 548, iii, 241-44; 245-7. Wilson, C. E. — Some Florida scale-insects, 554, ii, 2-65. Knight, H. H. — A revision of the genus Lygus as it occurs in America, north of Mexico, with biological data on the species from New York [many new], 99, Bui. No. 391. Osborn & Drake- Notes on Tingidae [1 new], 5, 1917, 155-61. LEPIDOPTERA. Hampson, G. F.— Description of new Pyra- lidae of the subfamily Pyraustinae, 11, xx, 369-84 (cont.)- Ihering, R. — Observacoes sobre a mariposa Myelobia smerintha em Sao Paolo, 548, iii, 60-8. Lister, J. J. — Note on the influence of tem- perature on the development of pigment in Pieris rapae, 9, 1917, 241-4. DIPTERA. Brethes, J. — Description d'une nouvelle espece de moustique de Buenos Aires. Sur une cecidie de "Physalis viscosa": description de la cecidie et de la Cecidomyie, 548, iii, 226-9; 239-41. Joan, T. — Xota sobre tin estado larvario del Gastrophilus nasalis, 264, xxi, 42-5. Marchand, W. — Notes on the habits of the snow-fly (Chionea) [European species especially], 5, 1917, 142-5!!. Notes on the early stages of Chrysops, 6, 1917, 149-63. Serie, P. — Obser- vation biologica sobre la culebra aglifa "Liophis poecilogyrus," 548, iii, 237-.S. Severin, H. H. P. — Life history, habits, natural ene- mies and methods of control of the currant fruit fly (Epochra canadensis), 240, Fhil. 264. Thompson, W. R. — Sur un diptere parasite des isopodes terrestres, 13, Ixxx. 7S5-88. 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ Jan., 'l8 Felt, E. P.— New gall midges [2 new], 6, 1917, 193-6. Johnson, C. W. — A new sp. of Criorhina from New England, 5, 1917, 153-4. Metcalf, C. L. — Syrphidae of Maine, 2d series: Life history studies [1 new], 240, Bui. 263. Smith, H. E.— Five n. sp. North American Tachinidae, 5, 1917, 137-41. Townsend, C. H. T.— Genera of the dipterous tribe Sarcophagini [20 n. g. ; 6 n. sp.], 161, xxx, 189-98. COLEOPTERA. Bruch, C.— Metamorfosis de Pachyschelus un- dularius. Insectos mirmecofilos, 548, iii, 30-6; 141-9. Frers, A. G. —Dos palabras mas acerca de las variaciones de "Lema orbignyi" Guer., 548, iii, 220-3. Tremoleras, J. — Sobre cuatro casos terato- logicos en coleopteros, 548, iii, 94-6. Dury, C. — Synopsis of the coleopterous family Cisidae (Cioidae) of North America [2 n. g., 26 n. sps.], 76, xxii, 1-27. Fall, H. C. — New Dytiscidae [25 new], 6, 1917, 163-82. Schaeffer, C.— On Me- rium and some blue Callidium [2 new], 6, 1917, 183-7. HYMENOPTERA. Brethes, J.— Descripcion de dos nuevos hi- menopteros de Buenos Aires; 548, iii, 90-1. Bruch, C. — La forma sexuada femenina de "Cryptocerus ridiculus," 548, iii, 269-70. Frers, A. G. — Cuatro himenopteros parasites de "Pachodynerus argentinus" Saus. o de "Trypoxylon platense" Brethes, 548, iii, 88-9. Gallardo, A. — Notes critiques sur les "Formicides sud-ameri- cains nouveaux ou peu connus du Dr. Santschi," 548, iii, 48-51. Holmberg, E. L. — U~n caso de mimetismo en las Abejas, 548, iii, 234-7. Turner, R. E. — On Psammocharidae in the Br. Museum, 11, xx, 357-60. Cockerell, T. D. A. — Collecting bees in southern Texas [6 new], 6, 1917, 187-93. Viereck, H. L. — New species of No. American bees of the genus Andrena [many new], 2, 1917, 365-407. Doings of Societies. American Entomological Society. Meeting of October 26, 1917, in the hall of The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Dr. Henry Skinner, President, in the Chair, eight persons present. Lepidoptera.— Mr. Baylis exhibited specimens of Clilorippc ccltis collected at Perkiomen, Pennsylvania, and some Heterocera collected at Lake Pocono. Mr. Williams made some remarks on the male genitalia of the genus Thanaos, and gave the following records of species determined genitalically : burycssi (not brizn), Jemez Moun- tains, New Mexico, iv, 27 to v, 24 (Woodgate) ; Hints, Santa Cruz, Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 37 vi-6, and Dormer Lake, vii-6 (Dodge), California; jnrcnalis (not propertius), Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, iv to vi, 25 (Woodgate, and Louisiana, Missouri, v, 21 (Dodge); propertius, Salem, Oregon, vi, 26 (Dodge); clitus, Garcia, Arizona, v (Biedermann ) ; tcrenthis, Tampa, Florida, i, 30 (Williams): funcralis, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, viii, 30 to ix, 15 (Woodgate), and Woodward, Oklahoma, vii, 20 (Dodge). He also called attention to Thanaos pacuvius God- man-Salvin (Biol. Cent. Am. Rhop. T. 91 fig. 17) (not Lintner), which is scudderi Skinner. Mr. Laurent explained an easy and satisfactory method of clean- ing greasy Lepidoptera. White blotting paper is placed on each side of the groove of a setting board: the specimen to be cleansed is then placed in position with the under side of the wings resting on the paper. Blotting paper is now placed over the upper surface of the wings, and white twine is wrapped around board, paper and specimen to keep every thing in place. Gasoline is gently poured over the blotting paper, being careful that none gets on the body of the speci- men. This specimen is then placed in a box until the gasoline has evaporated, which takes but a few hours. At the end of this time if the grease has not all been absorbed by the blotting paper, the opera- tion should be repeated, using fresh paper. After the second operation, if not the first, we will find our specimen as bright and clean as the day it was captured. General.- Mr. Rehn spoke on the United States Government's publi- cations on Life Zones, and especially referred to the recently pub- lished valuable Report on Life Zones of Wyoming. He remarked en the close affinity between insect forms on the costal strip of Cali- fornia and those of the Sierra Nevada range in that State. Dr. Skin- rier gave a talk, illustrated by lantern slides, on economic entomology, particularly illustrating the local crusade against mosquitoes. — R. C. WILLIAMS, JR., Secretary. Entomological Section, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Meeting of September 27, 1917, Vice Director R. C. Wilbams, Jr., presiding, nine persons present. Odonata. — Dr. Calvert spoke of the value of larval exuviae in the study of geographical distribution as they furnish positive data that the species breed where the exuviae are found and are often obtain- able when the images are not visible. He illustrated these remarks by exhibiting a small collection which he had made at a pond near the ice-house, at an elevation of 3200 feet, on Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts, July 27, 1917, between 2 and 4 p. m. The ima^os secured were of 7 species (Enallagma cbriuin, \\-halennia ircnc, Isclnnini rcrticalis, 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'l8 Aeshna interrupta interrupta, Cordnlia shurtlcffi, Lcucorhinia intacta, Sympetrum rubicundulum) ; only one specimen of the Aeshna was captured, although one or two more may have been seen. The exu- viae collected were of N. irene, Ae. interrupta interrupta, L. intacta? and- of two, or possibly three, additional species of Aeshna: umbrosa. canadensis and something near interrupta. He called attention to the interesting position of Mt. Greylock at the southern end of an arm of the Canadian zone, as shown on the map accompanying Prof. A. P. Morse's article on the distribution of New England Locusts (Psyche, viii, 315, February, 1899). Orthoptera. — Mr. Rehn spoke about the collecting trip which he and Mr. Hebard made in Central Florida this summer, and stated that several new forms of the interesting genus Bcllaccphala were found, of which over 350 specimens were collected. Stopping off at Rabun Bald, Georgia, on their way home, some interesting catches in the genus Conocephalus were made. Lepidoptera.- Dr. Skinner exhibited two specimens, supposed to be Papilio machaonidcs, collected in Hayti and Tortugas Island, which showed several marked differences that may prove to be of systematic value; he also spoke about the collection made by Dr. Win. L. Abbott in these localities this summer. Mr. Williams made some interesting remarks on the genus Hespcria, especially regarding characters pos- sessed by the genitalia and illustrated them by drawings. He stated that, based on the genitalic characters, occidcntalis seems to be dis- tinct from tcsscllata. 'Mr. Rehn cautioned about the use of the second- ary sexual characters in generic separation, making special reference to the costal fold in certain Hesperidae, and illustrated his remarks by reference to some secondary characters that proved not to lie even of specific value in Orthoptera. — E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. Entomological Society of Nova Scotia. A Correction. EDITOR, Entomological News : Last year, with a view of increasing the membership of the Entomological Society of Nova Scotia, I sent copies of the Annual Report to our local members and others, whom I thought might be interested, enclosing a circular letter setting forth the aims and scope of the society. Through a mistake in the mailing department a number of these letters were enclosed with copies going outside the province. This has led to some misunderstanding and the impression has gone abroad that we are soliciting for member- ship outside the province, which is not the case. More unfortunately still, a copy of this letter, intended only for residents of Nova Scotia, was published in full in the November, 1917, issue of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Vol. xxix | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39 I would he glad if yon would correct the wrong impression to which this has given rise as, while we are pleased to arrange exchanges with other entomological journals, we are not looking for membership outside the province. The information regarding membership in the society contained in the circular referred to, applies only to residents of Novia Scotia. — W. H. BRITTAIN, Secretary. Feldman Collecting Social. Meeting of April 18, 1917, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 Stewart Street, Philadelphia; ten members present. President Wen/.el in the chair. Lepidoptera. — Mr. Laurent said that on his recent trip to Florida. Lepidoptera were abundant but difficult to catch, owing to the absence of flowers: the only species he captured worthy of mention was I.iincnitis Ursula Gdt., taken in Levy County, which he has taken before, but not in Florida. Coleoptera. — The same speaker said he had tried traps, but some animals either licked the molasses out of the jars or dug them com- pletely out of the ground. Mr. H. W. Wen/.el said he always thought that Dvnastes tityus Linn, was found around the roots of trees, but a lady in Southern Pines, North Carolina, where he had just come from, had seen them eating apples and had sent for Mr. Manee, who collected over two hundred and had collected over five hundred on the only ash tree in that part; they fly to the branches, scratch the bark and apparently suck the sap. Mr. G. M. Greene said on his first day in Virginia this year, April isth, he had collected on Miner's Hill, back of East Falls Church, fourteen specimens of Pytho plaints Oliv., (amcricanus Kirby) under pine bark; at the same place, April i/th, he had collected in the wagon ruts three specimens of Tricrania sanguinipcnnis Say. — G. M. GREENE, Secretary. Meeting of May 16, 1917, at the same place, seven members present, President Wenzel in the chair. Lepidoptera.- Mr. Daecke stated that he took a female specimen of Danais archippus Fabr. at Rockville, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1017; he said that while it is well known that females of this species return in the spring from the South, the date, April 29th, is remarkably early, and it would seem that this specimen hibernated in the North; he also exhibited a specimen of Bomolocha tarcuta Grt., taken at Rock- ville, April 29, 1917, and a specimen of Placjodis altruaria Pears., collected by Prof. Sanders at Dauphin. Pennsylvania, April 27, 1917. Coleoptera.— Mr. H. W. Wenzel said he had taken the usual spring Buprestids on several trips to Malaga, New Jersey, April 22d and 29th and May 7th; species taken included Clnilcophara libcna Germ., Diccrca JtO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS pwictn1ata Sch., and Buprestis nltraniarina Say. — J. W. GREEN, Asst. Secretary. Meeting of June 20, 1917, at the same place, nine members present, President Wenzel in the chair. Coleoptera.- Mr. Daecke reported taking in numbers Anthrcnus verbose i Linn, on pink Splrea in his garden at Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, on June 18, 1917, and suggested that it would be an economic feature to have Splrea growing and collect and destroy this species; also stated that Prof. Sanders had determined the following species of Lachnostcrna: L. inversa, tristis crcnulata, gibbosa, arcuata, fusca and hirticula feeding on willow at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1917, L. implicita at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, /,. dubia, inversa, fusca, hirticula and gibbosa at Northbrook, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1917, and L. fusca, dubia. illicis and gibbosa at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1917. Dr. Castle reported taking Brachystilits acutus at Glasgow, Delav;are, June 8, 1917. Mr. Wenzel reported the capture of Buprestis nltraniarina at Whitneys, New Jersey, May 20, 1917. — FRANK HAIMBACH, Secy, pro tern. Meeting of September 18, 1917, at the same place, eight members present, President Wenzel in the chair. Lepidoptera.-' Mr. H. A. Wenzel spoke of a flight of Danais arcJiip- pus on September 4th at Ocean City, New Jersey; they were flying in a southwesterly direction; toward evening he observed them settling on a tree, and there were so many specimens that the tree was prac- tically obscured. Mr. Daecke exhibited Brotolomia iris, which Dr. Castle beat from oak at Linglestown, June 28, 1917, a specimen of Hacmatopis ijrataria forma aunctaria Haimbach, taken at Pextang, Aug. I, 1917. and Pamphila sassacns, taken at Inglenook, June 3, 1917, all in Pennsylvania. Orthoptera. — Mr. Huntington spoke of a plague of locusts that he observed on the outskirts of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1917; entire fields were cleaned out. Coleoptera. — Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited a collection made this year by himself and son, H. A. 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CONTENTS: Garnett — Notes on Dinapate wrightii Horn (Col.) 41 Skinner — Selenis sueroides ( Lep. ) 44 Van Duzee — New North American Spe- cies of Dolichopodidae ( Diptera ). . . 45 Barber— Corrections to "New York Sco- lopostethi " (Family Lygaeidae : Heter.) 5: Van Dyke — New Species of Buprestidae (Col. ) from the Pacific States— No. 2 53 Cockerell— The Bembicine Wasps ( H ym. ) 59 Cole — A new Genus of Cyrtidae from South America ( Dip. ) 61 Material Desired (Coleoptera) 64 Girault— The North American Species of Cerchysius, females ( Hym.Chalcid. ) 65 Hebard — A Correction Concerning La- bia annulata and Labia dorsalis Dermaptera : Labiidae) 66 Skinner — Argynnis apacheana, a new name ( Lepid. ) 67 Stout — Variation in Labial Characters in the Nymph of Gomphus spicatus (Odonata) 68 Professor F. L. Washburn Ceases to be State Entomologist 70 Editorial — Entomology at the Convoca- tion Week Meetings 71 Benjamin Dann Walsh 72 Emergency Entomological Service 72 Changes of Address 74 Emerton — A New House Spider ( Aran.) 74 Marlatt — Interrelations of Different Spe- cies of Insects ( Horn., Col., Hym.).. 74 Rau — Maternal Care in Dinocoris trip- terus Fab. ( Hem. ) 75 Entomological Literature. ... 76 Doings of Societies — Entomological So- ciety of France 79 Ent. Sec., Acad. of Nat. Sci. of Phila. (Dip., Lep., Orth.) 79 Obituary Notes 80 Notes on Dinapate wrightii Horn (Col.).* By RICHARD T. GARNETT, Oakland, California. (Plate II.) This extremely rare Bostrichid, called by Hubbard the "dodo" of Coleoptera, was taken by the writer in Palm Can- yon on May 21 and 22, 1917. Every dead or unhealthy speci- men of the palm, li'ashincjtonia filifcra, in Palm, Murray, and Andreas Canyons was thoroughly examined. Of these only one log in the extreme lo\ver end of Palm Canyon contained the beetle. This log, covered by driftwood, was \vedged into a crevice in the rock strata fifteen feet above the summer stream level. From this log on the days mentioned 133 adults, *Geo. H. Horn— Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIII, 1886, pp. 1-4, pi. i. II. G. Hubbard— Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 4, pp. 228-230. H. G. Hubbard — Entomological Xews, 1899, Vol. X, No. 4, pp 83-89. B. Fenyes — Rovart. Lapok, VIII, p. 4. P. Lesne — Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Vol. 78, 1909, pp. 473-477, figs. 572 &573- 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l8 28 pupae and 17 larvae were taken. Of the adults Si were males and 52 females. When the log was discovered, one adult had made its exit, as was shown by the freshly bored exit hole. The colony therefore totaled 179. Many other logs in these three canyons had exit holes in them, but with the exception of the one above noted all were black with years of weathering. The average number of exit holes, making a count of 20 trunks, was 14, the highest num- ber being 21 and the lowest 2. A great many must perish and decay in their pupal cells if the colonies average anywhere nearly as many as the one which I found. A few of the adults were yet soft from their change from the pupae, but the majority were hard and would undoubtedly have emerged in 7-14 days. Thus, if there are any survivors of this species, the time of emergence must be the latter part of June or the first part of July. The galleries of the fully grown larvae averaged 18 mm. in diameter. This diameter was exceptionally constant for larvae of the curled type. The galleries crossed and recrossed each other in a confused manner, practically destroying all fibre in the region attacked, the powdered material being packed ex- tremely compactly. The galleries never approached closer than an inch to the hard outer layer of the trunk and the very centre of the log for six inches in diameter was untouched. All the wood in between was completely riddled by the bor- ings. The larvae were working usually at a depth of about 3 to 7 inches beneath the surface. Although the position of the log may have had something to do with it, almost all of the pupal chambers were either parallel to the surface of the log or nearly so. The exit holes were being bored almost perpendicularly from the pupal chamber to the outside. Two of the larvae were of a much smaller size than the rest, thus tending to show that the life cycle is at least of two years' duration. The weakening of the trunk bv the galleries often causes o - the trees to fall, 19 logs occurring in Palm Canyon alone. A great many of the standing trees have exits visible on them, but usually only two or three per tree, most of them situated Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 43 within ten or twelve feet of the ground, although a few were noted near the tree crown. When occurring in prostrate logs, the exit holes seemed to be indiscriminately dispersed. The attacks of this beetle are not always fatal as is shown by a number of standing and perfectly healthy trees with exit holes on their boles. If these holes are numerous the tree is generally dead. In the larval, and possibly the pupal, stages this insect must be very resistant to water, as the log had apparently broken off at the roots during the winter of 1916, been carried down the canyon and jammed into the crevice by the high water. In this journey down the stream the water must have seeped into the interior of the log. A live larva was placed in water and was drowned in 28 minutes. This, however, is a more severe test of vitality than the water-soaked log was. A live adult was drowned in 15 minutes 35 seconds. Three hours in a strong cyanide bottle was insufficient to kill three of the adults. Larva. — Robust, ventrally flat, dorsally convex; yellowish white, mandibles black; 9 abdominal segments, 3 thoracic; clypeus white, labrum darker and on anterior two-thirds densely, finely ciliate; labium and maxillae white with a line along their base chitinized; antennae 3-jointed, bisetose at tip. Body covered with short fine silky brown hair; body resembles that of a "white grub" being curled, however, the anterior segments are much the larger. Legs apparently 3-jointed (Horn says with 4 articulations), tarsal claw one and cleft. Length 46-63 mm. (All measurements following are from the anterior mar- gin of the thorax to the tip of elytra.) Pupa. — Resembles the adult, white: head, thorax, and elytra smooth, the latter bent under the abdomen between the middle and hind pair of legs; the most prominent costae and tubercles usually visible on the elytra; dorsal surface of the meso- and meta-thorax and of the abdomen visible: scutellum prominent: a row of fine recurved teeth across the dorsal side of each abdominal segment except the last, each row situated nearer to the posterior edge of the segment than to the anterior and on an elevated ridge; abdomen Q-segmented; on the end of the abdomen is attached the shriveled larval skin, the mandibles on the ventral side. Length 42-64 mm., width 15-20 mm. Adult. — Cylindrical, shining black: head concealed from above by the thorax; antennae to-jointed, first joint elongate and stout, over twice as long as the second joint which is also stout: joints 3 to 7 smaller and equal; joints 8 to 10 much wider and clavate, 8 and 9 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS. [Feb., 'l8 triangular, 10 more rounded. Eyes large, prominent. Labrum dis- tinct, anteriorly ciliate with silky brown hair. Thorax very convex, sparsely clothed laterally with short brown hair; middle of anterior portion without the distinct bulge shown in Horn's figure of adult female; posterior half granulate with a median longitudinal sulcus smooth: anterior half with recurved dentate tuber- cles (teeth less pronounced in the females), the extreme anterior edge granulate only. Elytra shining, glabrous; costae 4, the 2 outer indistinct; intervals of inner 2 costae foveolate, smoother towards sides; the 2 inner costae terminate in a tubercle (female), and in a robust tooth (male). Elytra bent downward behind the upper tubercle at an angle of 45-60 degrees. The declivity smooth in the male, granulate in the female. Abdomen 5-segmented, all segments equal and fully visible; entire ventral surface covered with fine silky brown pile. Legs more or less covered with hair, front coxae prominent, coni- cal, trochanters prominent, femora stout, tibiae flat and acutely dentate externally, tarsi 5 -jointed, claws simple and arcuate, 5th tarsal joint with a bristle-bearing pad. Length 38-51 mm.; width 14-18 mm. The adult is lumbering in its movements and has poor eye- sight as one of the beetles escaped and Avhile in flight collided with anything that came in its path, making its recapture easy. Although the wings are well developed, the heavy body im- pedes swift and unerring flight. EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. Dinapntc wrightii Horn. 1. Adults, dorsal view — X 26/25. (Male with robust elytral tooth.) 2. Adults, lateral view — X 26/25. 3. Larvae and pupae — Natural size. 4. Larval gallery in wood of Washingtonia filifcra — X 8/9. Selenis sueroides (Lep.). Mr. J. G. Bonniwell has recently sent me a specimen of Sclenis tnon- otropa Grote. It is labeled, "Bradentown, Florida, ex larva, August I7th." Mr. Bonniwell says: "My wife and I have raised quite a few of these from the larvae. It feeds on a variety of 'sensitive plant' and penetrates the stem to make its pupa." The species was described by Grote in the Canadian Entomologist, 1876, vii, 209. from Texas. We have specimens of the same moth from Cuba, in the Poey Collection, under the name, Sclenis sueroides Gueiiee. S'ucroidcs was described in 1852. — HENRY SKINNER. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45 New North American Species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). By M. C. VAN DUZEE, Buffalo, New York. Parasyntorinon lepus sp. nov. (Fig. 1). $ — Length 2.75 mm. Face narrow, with gray pollen; front brown with brown pollen, wide: antennae black, nearly as long as the head, third joint nearly straight above, rounded below with a pointed tip, excised above so as to have the tip curved upward (Fig. i), arista inserted on the upper edge at the point where the excision begins, shorter than the third joint; orbital cilia Mack above, brown below. Dorsum of the thorax bronze black with brown pollen which forms two slight vittae in front with a shining black space between; pleurae black with gray pollen. Abdomen dark coppery almost black with a few very short bristles at tip: venter yellowish: hypopygium small, its appendages are a pair of slender, nearly straight, pointed, brownish lamellae which are fringed with hair, back of these a short central filament about the same length as the lamellae. Fore coxae yellow with their bases infuscated and with black bristles; middle and hind coxae black; femora yellow, their tops black- ish: tibiae yellowish, the hind pair darkened towards their tips; tarsi darkened from the tip of the first joint; middle femora with a small bristle on each side near the tip: fore femora with delicate hairs on the lower side which are as long as the width of the femora; fore tibiae with a small bristle before the middle; middle tibiae with two strong bristles, one at first and the other at second third: hind tibiae with several bristles; fore tibiae about as long as the first three joints of their tarsi; first joint of fore tarsi with three small bristles at base below, second joint a little widened below, third and fourth joints about equal and without bristles. Halteres and tegulae yellow, the latter with black cilia. Wings tinged with gray, slightly brownish in front of the second vein; second and third veins slightly diverging: fourth vein parallel with third and ending in the apex of the wing. 9 — Differs from the description given above in not having the femora blackened above except the hind pair at tip: the front tarsi are plain; the face wider: and third antcnnal joint much smaller. Described from one male and one female in my collection, taken at Los Cerritos, Los Angeles County. California, March 2 1 st. ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS. [Feb.,'i8 Hercostomus unicolor Loew. Dr. J. C. Bradley took two males at Blue Lake, Humboldt County, California, and a female which seems to belong to this species in Colorado. I took both males and females at Kearney, Ontario. Loew described it from Hudson Bay, and Wheeler from Wisconsin. Asyndetus appendiculatus Loew. Dr. J. C. Bradley took a male of this interesting species at St. Petersburg, Florida, August 10, 1910. Loew described it from Rhode Island. Tachytrechus laticrus Coquillett (Figs. 3, 4). $ — Length 5.5 mm. Face covered with yellow pollen which gives it a velvety appearance, rather narrow in the middle; palpi and pro- boscis black; antennae wholly yellow, third joint rather small, slightly pointed; arista black, dorsal, with a small lamella at tip, about as long as the height of the head; front black, dulled with yellowish pollen; ocellar tubercle prominent with two large bristles; orbital cilia black. Thorax metallic black with bluish reflections on the dorsum, shin- ing but dulled with brown pollen on the dorsum and silvery pollen on the pleurae: this white pollen extends along the front over the humeri but is interrupted before reaching the acrostichal bristles, these bristles small but forming two close set rows which reach a little be- yond the middle of the dorsum; scutellum black with a slight de- pressed, pollinose space on each side, leaving a flat, shining, raised space in the center. Abdomen metallic greenish black with considerable white pollen on the sides; hypopygium rather large, black, shining on the inner -jide, covered with whitish pollen on the outer surface; lamellae nearly Fig-. i.—Parasyntormon lepns sp. nov., antenna. Fig. 2. — Hydrophorus cnriiipes sp. nov., fore leg. Fig. 3. — Tachytrechus laticrus Coq., fore tibia. Fig. 4.— " " Coq., fifth tarsal joint of fore loot. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 round, black, fringed with black hairs, inner appendages shining black. Coxae black, with white pollen; fore coxae with yellow pollen and black hairs and bristles on the front surface; femora greenish black with white pollen, the extreme tips yellow; fore tibiae pale yellow with white pollen, much flattened .on the distal two thirds (Fig. 3), inner edge of the flattened portion black and densely fringed with flattened, black bristles, near the base a more or less distinct brown ring; middle tibiae more or less yellow towards the base, sometimes mostly black; hind tibiae and tarsi black; middle tarsi somewhat yellowish at base: fore tarsi with the first joint mostly yellow, the following joints brown, last tarsal joint as figured (Fig. 4), claw with a very small tooth at base which would be difficult to see if the claw was not in a favorable position. Halteres reddish yellow; tegulae pale yellow with black cilia. Wings grayish hyaline, slightly darker between the second and third veins; tips of the third and fourth veins nearer together than in the other eastern species, about as in T. olympiac Aid. 9 — As in the male except that the face is wider; arista plane, nearly as long as the face; pollen of the face and fore coxae white; fore tibiae plane, rather stout, yellowish, more brown towards the tip, with three large bristles on the inner and five on the outer surface (in one specimen there is an extra bristle on the inner side of one tibia) ; ovipositor black. My specimens were taken by Mr. Harbeck at Manahawkin, New Jersey, July 3Oth. 1 publish this as I cannot find any record of Mr. Coquillett's describing it, and probably it is only a manuscript name. I am using the name he gave so as to save confusion, as this species has gone into several collections under this name. Paraclius nigrocaudatus sp. nov. m Hawaii and Porto Rico into any part of the United States, from January i, 1918: this is in relation to the spread of the sweet potato weevil, for which additional localities in Mississippi are reported. The report from California, occupying nearly three pages, consists of a statement by Mr. George P. Gray on the consumption and cost of the economic poisons employed against 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., '18 insects, fungi and rodents in that State. Mr. E. N. Cory, of the Maryland Experiment Station, proposes the installation of a large rotary dryer at each army cantonment for the drying of horse manure and the distribution of the dried article "through the help of the National Fertilizer Association at a cost plus percentage basis, thus relieving the soldiers and civilians of the menace of flies and provid- ing for the farmer a source of fertilizer in the time of scarcity. More- over, the number of cars required to handle this material will be greatly reduced from the number required under the old plan to handle daily the fresh manure produced at each camp." Changes of Address. C. W. Howard, Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Minnesota, will remove to Canton, China. Address: care of Canton Christian College, Hongkong, China. H. H. Knight, formerly of Ithaca, New York, and F. R. Cole, of Hood River, Oregon, have entered military service. I. S. Wade, Wellington, Kansas, to U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. Dr. J. Chester Bradley, of Cornell University, has accepted an assist- ant professorship of entomology at the University of California for 1918. A New House Spider (Aran.). One day in October, 1914, I was in a restaurant in Boston when a spider walked over the table and was caught. It looked different from any native species and I put it aside for further examination. In December, 1915, I stopped for a meal in the railroad restaurant at Cleveland, Ohio, and there a spider came onto the table and was caught. It turned out to be the other sex of the species found in Boston. In May, 1917, a friend who has a tannery in Danvers, Massa- chusetts, sent me another of the same species out of a bale of hides from Africa. I then consulted Mr. Banks and he was at once re- minded of Thatiafus coloradcnsls Keyserling and brought out a bottle of this species from Claremont, California, which on comparison proved to be the same as the eastern spiders. So it appears that we have here a western spider that takes readily to life about houses and is»spreading across the country. — J. H. EMERTON, Boston, Mass. Interrelations of Different Species of Insects (Horn., Col., Hym.). All things considered, the progress of Icerya control at New Orleans during the summer and fall [of 1917] has not been entirely satisfactory. Apparently several agents have retarded the successful propagation of the Vcdalia. Chief among them must be mentioned the Argentine ant. This ant undoubtedly aids in a very material increase of the Icerya. In the fall of the year they reach their maximum numbers and these hordes so effectively patrol and guard the scale infestations that the Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 75 adult lady beetles are not allowed a moment's peace. By means of a natural protection the Vedalia larvae are not molested by the ants, nor are the stationary pupae, but the adults seem to lack this protective quality and many of them are actually killed and devoured by the ants. The extremely high temperatures accompanied by relatively high humidity during the summer exerted a very depressing effect upon the propagation of the ]\-dalia. They died off in millions so ... that they could not entirely hold the scale in check. For about a month, from mid-September to the middle of October, the weather was ideal for their propagation and they did very nicely, then it turned much too cool and for the past six weeks [to Nov. 27] they have done very little outdoors Very interesting results have been obtained through the very effective control of the Argentine ant in and around the hothouse used for the propagation of the Vedal'm. Until the ants were controlled no difficulties were encountered in obtaining heavy infestations of the Icerya on three large Pittosporuni bushes which were planted in the hothouse and caged for Vedalia propagation. Since the control of the ant, however, the Icerya is not doing nearly so well. The honeydew which was assiduously gathered by the ants for food now remains attached to the scales and as it con- tinues to be excreted it drops down forming threads which "candy" in the dry atmosphere. So much of this honey-dew is in evidence that the plants have taken on a snowy appearance. — C. L. MARLATT in Re- port No. 9, Emergency Ent. Service, U. S. Dept. Agr., Dec. 3, 1917. Maternal Care in Dinocoris tripterus Fab. (Hemiptera). Early in February, 1917. in conversation with Ralph Rallin, a high school youth of this city, I learned that he had found on a banana, and still had in his care, a mother bug and her brood. T urged him to make what observations he could and later he presented me with the mother and her fifteen offspring. The adults and nymphs were identified by Mr. E. H. Gibson as Dinocoris triptcrnx Fab. Mr. Gibson writes that, so far as he has been able to learn, members of this genus occur only in Central and South America, and that the nymphs are in the second instar. Since there was some doubt in the mind of Fabre as to the ac- curacy of the observations on the maternal instinct in Hemiptera. and as Kirkaldy has unearthed much evidence (Entomologist, 36: 113-120, 1903) to show the unfairness of Fabre, I quote the following from a letter from Ralph Rallin in reply to certain questions, with a figure made from a rough sketch by this youthful observer: "Early in February I found the group, mother, empty egg shells and young, on part of the banana nearest the stalk: this was concealed by other bananas. The young were already hatched when I found 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l8 the group; they were ranged around the empty egg shells. These shells were all together, like the cells of a honey comb, and one end of each had been broken by the young as it emerged. "Close to the egg shells and the young bugs was the mother. The entire group for the most part remained motionless and apparently lifeless. She neither brooded over the young, nor did the young crawl over the mother's body. Occasionally, however, one of the young would move and in so doing would disturb the others; except for this they remained motionless. The mother remained in the same position almost all the time; only a few times did she slightly shift her position to one side or the other." With food abundant at hand, there was little occasion for much activity and still I hardly think it was entirely due to this cause that the mother remained with the brood into the second instar. While it is possible that the whole phenomenon is accidental, there is some probability that this is an actual case of maternal solicitude in this insect. Further observations will have to decide whether the mother's close proximity to her brood is one of maternal solicitude or only one of physical economy. — PHIL RAU, St. Louis, Missouri. Hntomological 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of E:xperiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Nat- ural History, London. 21 — The Entomologist's Record, London. 87 — Bulletin. Societe Entomologique de France, Paris. 99 — Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 164 — Science Bulletin, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 179 — Journal of Econo- mic Entomology. 180 — Annals, Entomological Society of Amer- ica. 189 — Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Claremont, Calif. 195 — Bulletin. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 198 Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 77 — Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 200 — Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique 223 — Broteria, Revista de Sciencias Naturaes do Collegio de S Fiel. (Ser. Zoologica). 324 — Journal of Animal Behavior, Cam- bridge. 344 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 407 — Journal of Genetics, Cambridge, England. 411 — Bulletin, The Brooklyn Entomological Society. 447 — Journal of Agricultural Research, Washington. 538 — Lorquinia, Los Angeles, Cal. 540 — • The Lepidopterist, Official Bulletin, Boston Entomological Club. GENERAL SUBJECT. Bordage, E.— Phenomenes de transfor- mation des tissus larvaires chez les insectes metaboles, 87, 1917, 270-2. Crampton, G. C. — The probable color of the ancestral winged insects, 411, xi, 116-18. Hilton, W. A. — Suggestions from the study of the central nervous systems of invertebrates, 189, ix, 141-46. Pemberton & Willard — New parasite cages, 179, x, 525-27. PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. May, H. G.— Selection for higher and lower facet numbers in the bar-eyed race of Droso- phila and the appearance of reverse mutations, 198, xxxiii, 361-95 Nabours, R. K. — Studies of inheritance and evolution in Orthop- lera, II-IV, 407, vii, 1-70. Rayburn, M. F. — The Chromosomes of Nomotettix, 164, x, 267-71. Robertson, W. R. B. — A deficient super- numerary accessory chromosome in the male of Tettigidea parvi- pennis, 164, x, 275-92. ARACHNIDA, ETC. Hirst, S. — On three new parasitic acari, 11, xx, 431-34. Howard, C. W. — New tick record for Minnesota, 179, x, 560. Lizer, C. — Une nouvelle coccidocecidie de 1'Argentine, 223, xv, 103-7. Chamberlin, R. V. — The Gosibiidae of America north of Mexico. 195, Ivii, 205-55. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Crampton, G. C.— A phylogenetic study of the larval and adult head in Neuroptera, Mecoptera, Diptera and Trichoptera, 180, x, 337-44. Hilton, W. A. — The nervous system of Thysanura, 180, x, 303-13. Walker, E. M. — The known nymphs of the No. American sps. of Sympetrum (Odonata), 4, 1917, 409-18. ORTHOPTERA. Hebard, M.— Notes on Mexican Dermaptera, 2, xliii, 409-32. HEMIPTERA. Funkhouser, W. D.— Biology of the Membraci- dae of the Cayuga Lake basin, 99, Mem. 11, 445 pp. Peterson, A. —Studies on the morphology and susceptibility of the eggs of Aphis avenae, A. pomi, and A. sorbi, 179, x, 556-60. Ross, W. A. — The secondary host of Myzus cerasi, 4, 1917, 434. 78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ['Feb., 'l8 Gibson & Wells — A key to the species of the genus Ceresa, oc- curring north of Mexico, and the description of a new sp., 411, xi, 110-13. LEPIDOPTERA. Clark, H. L.— Preparatory stages of Homop- tera unilineata, 411, xi, 103-<>. Cockerell, T. D. A. — The geometrid genus Barnesia [preoccupied]. 411, xi, 115. Klotz, H. — Butterflies of Elysian Park, 538, ii, 38-9. Lichti, Shallenberger & Johnson— A tentative list of moths from the Claremont-Laguna region, 189, ix, 125-137. Barnes & McDunnough — New No. American Phycitinae [1:6], 4, 1917, 404-6. Cassino, S. E. — A new Apantesis. A new variety of Catocala lacrymosa. Note on Catocala helena, 540, i, 100-101; 104. DIPTERA. Bishop, Mitchell & Parman— Screw-worms and other maggots affecting animals, 344, Farm. Bui. 857. du Buysson, H. — (See under Coleoptera.) 'Crampton, G C. — (See under Neu- roptera.) Crumb & Lyon — The effect of certain chemicals upon the oviposition in the house-fly, 179, x, 532-36. McCulloch & Yuasa — Notes on the migration of the hessian fly larvae, 324, vii, 307-23. Malloch, J. R. — Key to the subfamilies of Anthomyiidae, 4, 1917, 406-8. de Peyerimhoff, P.— Ceratopogon et Meloe, 87, 1917, S50-53. Ping, C. — Observations on Chironomus decorus, 4, 1917, 418-26. Felt, E. P. — Asphondylia websteri n. sp., 179, x, ,><)2. Greene, C. T. — Two new cambium miners, 447, x, 313-17. Guthrie, E.— New Mycetophilidae from California [1 n. g. ; 5 n. sps.], 180, x, 314-22. Malloch, J. R. — A new genus of Anthomyiidae [2 n. sps.], 411, xi, 113-15. COLEOPTERA. du Buysson, H.— Observations sur des nym- phes de Coccinella septempunctata parasitees par le Phora fa<=ciata, 87, 1917, 249-50. Martin, J. O— In quest of Dinapate wrightii, 411, xi, 107-10. Palmer, M. A. — Additional notes on heredity and life history in the coccinellid genus Adalia, 180, x, 289-302. Carnochan, F. G. — Hololeptinae of the U. S. [1 n. g.; 9 n. sps.], 180, x, 367-98. Fall, H. C.— Two new varieties of Cicindela tran- quebarica from California, 411, xi, 106. HYMENOPTERA. Cockerell, T. D. A.— Descriptions and rec- ords of bees— LXXVTIT, 11, xx, 436-41. Donisthorpe, H.--Tchneu- mons versus Apanteles, 21, xxix, 231-2. Ewing, H. E. — Partheno- genesis in the pear-slug saw-fly, 180, x, 330-30. Jones, T. H.— Oc- currence of a fungus-growing ant in Louisiana, 179, x. 5f>l. Kelly, E. O. G. — The biology of Coelinidea nieromvzae, 179, x. 527-31. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 79 Wheeler, W. M. — Jamaican ants collected by C. T. Brues, 195, Ixi, 457-71. Girault, A. A. — Notes on Hymenoptera Parasitica [1 n. g.; 2 n. sps.J, 411, xi, 118. Isely, D. — A synopsis of the petiolate wasps of the family Eumenidae, found in North America [9 new], 180, x, 345-66. Rohwer, S. A. — The No. American wasps of the subgenus Pemphredon [4 new], 411, xi, 97-102. Doings of Societies. Entomological Society of France. The treasurer's report of the Entomological Society of France for 1916 shows receipts to the amount of 27,670 francs and expenditures (including investments) of 25,400 francs. The capital of the Society December 31, 1916, was 139,038 francs. (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1917, No. 7). The Society awarded the Dollfuss prize for 1916 of 300 francs to Prof. Auguste Lameere, of the (University of Brussels, for his works on Prionidae, and the Constant prize of 1916 of 500 francs to J. Sainte- Claire Deville for his Catalogue critique dcs Colcopteres de la Corse (1914)- Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia. Meeting of November 22, 1917, Director Philip Laurent presiding and eight persons present. Henry W. Fowler was elected a contributor. Mr. J. A. G. Rehn made a communication on the physiography of sev- eral collecting regions of southern Arizona, illustrated by lantern slides. Diptera. — Dr. Skinner read an abstract of an article by McDunnell & Eastwood, relative to the overwintering of the house fly. Dr. Cal- vert exhibited larvae of Bibionidae (identified by comparison with fig. 225, p. 476, of Vol. vi, Cambridge Nat. Hist.), some of a very great num- ber found near Media, Pennsylvania, November n, 1917, by Dr. J. P. Moore. The larvae were observed in an area of about two square feet, at a depth of 2-3 inches, in soil near a peach tree, on which soil goat manure, mingled with decaying corn stalks and forest leaves, had been placed in the preceding winter. He referred to similar observations in the work cited, in Packard's "Guide to the Study of Insects," and in Kellogg's "American Insects." Lepidoptera. — Mr. Laurent presented two specimens of .-Ictha- loptcra ant'.caria Walker fn.im Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and blown larvae of three species of Dataua. He also exhibited an interesting ab- normal male of Saniia cccropia. also a female cccrofiia seven and one- eighth inches in expanse. The speaker stated that this was the largest 8O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l8 specimen, by a quarter of an inch, out of many hundred that he had bred. Dr. Skinner spoke about his work on the genitalia of Argynnis. Orthoptera. — Mr. Rehn commented on, and gave some illustra- tions of the genitalic characters of several Orthoptera, showing that the value of certain characters is not constant in the various groups or families. — E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. OBITUARY NOTES. ANTOINE GROUVELLE, specialist on the Clavicorn Coleop- tera, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, June 9, 1917, aged 74 years. He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1870, served as President in 1891 and 1897 and was elected an honorary member in 1911. Until his retire- ment, in 1907, he was Director of the State Tobacco Factory. His papers number more than 150, one of the latest having appeared in the Bulletin of the French Society for March 28, 1917. His collection of Coleoptera, said to be very large and valuable, was bequeathed to the Paris Museum. (Obituary notices in Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr., 1917, pp. 181-2, and Ent. Mo. Mag., August, 1917.) The deaths of Commandant PIERRE XAMBEU, "author of numerous works of compilation on the larvae of Coleoptera," at Ria, Pyrenees-Orientales, France, on June 9, 1917, aged 80 years ; of Dr. E. A. 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CONTENTS: Ewing— The Beetle-Mite Fauna of Mary's Peak, Coast Range, Oregon ( Acarina ) 81 Tillyard — The Micropterygidae Not of the Jugate Type (Lep.) 90 Robertson — Some Genera of Bees (Hym.) 91 Genuine Entomological Enthusiasm... 92 Sell — Notes on the Hibernating of the Belted Cucumber Beetle (Col.) 93 Williams — The Genus Lycaena, Enop- tes Group ( Lep ) 99 Rehn and Hebard— A New Species of the Genus Nemobius from Califor- nia (Orthoptera; Gryllidae; Gryl- linae) 102 Rohwer — Notes on and Descriptions of the Nearctic Woodwasps of the Genus Xiphydria Latreille ( Hym.) 105 The Rippon Collections go to the Nat- ional Museum of Wales in British Museum not to be used for Government Purposes in Editorial — An Appeal for Co-operation IT2 Malloch — Another European Antho- myiid in Illinois ( Diptera ) 113 One Hundred and Fifty Years of Col- lecting 113 New Entomological Officials in Minne- sota 113 Mr. Schaus's Collecting in Guatemala 113 New York Entomological Society Fund 114 Weiss— Gracilaria zachrysa Meyrick in New Jersey ( Lep. ) 114 Howard — An Unusual Bumblebees' Nest (Hym.) 114 Wickham— Feeding Habits of a Har- vest Spider (Phalangida) 115 Entomological Literature 116 Review of Oberthiir : Etudes de Lepi- dopt£rologie Compared 118 Review of Escomel : The Latrodectus mactans and the Gliptocranium gasteracanthoides in the Depart- ment of Arequipa, Peru 118 Doings of Societies — Feldman Collect- ing Social (Coleop. , Dipt.) 119 The Beetle-Mite Fauna of Mary's Peak, Coast Range, Oregon (Acarina). By H. E. EWING, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. (Plate III.) Studies of a mountain flora or fauna have usually had a j special fascination to most naturalists. Especially is this the case where the mountain flora or fauna studied is at such an altitude as to belong to a different life zone from that of the surrounding country. While located in Oregon the writer had such an opportunity of studying a mountain fauna and its relation to that of the surrounding region belonging to a differ- ent life zone. For several summers I made collections from the top of Mary's Peak, and also from surrounding regions. Mary's Peak is one of the Coast Range Mountains of western Oregon. Tt is in Benton County, and is situated about 15 miles southwest of the town of Corvallis, the county seat. Si 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'iS This mountain is the highest of the whole region in which it is situated. It rises to a height of about 4,000 ft. above the sea level, and can be seen from many points of the Willamette Valley, with its long "hog-backed" north spur and its precipi- tous south slope. Beginning at its base Mary's Peak is densely wooded, and continues so almost to its very top. The entire top, including a considerable region to the southwest, is quite bare of trees, but is thickly covered with a heavy growth of grass. The only places that are somewhat open below this grassy region are a few along the streams which rise from the base of the snowline. Snow stays on the top of the mountain for six or eight months of the year and, around the base of the grass land, drifts do not melt away until June or July. The forest trees found at the base are chiefly Douglas fir with a few Pacific coast white oaks. Higher up are cedars, and near the top the noble fir. Along the streams are thimble- berries and vine maples. There is a good rainfall over the whole of the mountain, and the vegetation is luxurious-. The types of the new species and varieties described below are in the author's collection. A LIST OF SPECIES AND VARIETIES RECORDED FROM MARY'S PEAK. TO- GETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW ONES. Family ORIBATIDAE. Eupelops monticolus n. sp. (PI. Ill, fig. 1). Color of species a chestnut brown. Lamellae very large, of about equal width throughout, and almost as long as the cephalothorax. Pseudostigmatic organs extending forward, clavate, and slightly pectinate. Abdomen about as broad as long, evenly rounded behind, and bearing a few minute hairs. Genital opening roughly rectan- gular and situated about one and one-third times its length in front of the anal opening. Anal opening larger than the genital opening, somewhat circular in outline, and situated about two-thirds its length from the posterior margin of ventral plate. Tarsus of leg I about equal to tibia in length. Integument of lamellae and pteromorphae irregularly tuberculate. Length, 0.48 mm. ; width, 0.33 mm. From top of Mary's Peak, Oregon : in moss ; by the writer. Three specimens obtained. Eupelops monticolus Swing, var. subborealis n. var. (PI. Ill, fig. 2). This variety is somewhat smaller than the type. The pseudo- Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. stigmatic organs are longer and subfusiform in shape instead of be- ing clavate. The lamellae, also, are not so conspicuous. Length. 0.46 mm. ; breadth, 0.32 mm. 1-Yorn Corvallis, Oregon; under a log; by the writer. Achipteria oregonensis n. sp. (PI. Ill, fig. 3 and text fig. 4). A very dark brown, smooth species. Lamellae extending beyond the tip of the cephalothorax. and each ending in a cusp-like point. Lamellar hairs reaching to about the tips of the lamellae, curved, pectinate, and each situated on the inner margin of the free part of the lamella near the base. Interlamellar hairs, long, curved, simple (or minutely pectinate), and not reaching the tips of the lamellae Pseudostigmatic organs extending forward, subfusiform, and simple. Abdomen almost as broad as long, evenly rounded behind, and hair- less above. The long cusps of pteromorphae are curved outward and downward toward their tips, and do not reach the tip of cephalo- 8 Fig. 4.— Achipteria oregonensis n. sp. Cusp of right pteromorpha, dorso-lateral aspect. Pig. 5. — Achipteria oregonensis n. sp., var. borealis n. var. Cusp of right pteromorplia, dorso-lateral aspect. Fig b.—Jugatala lamellata n. sp. Left pseudostigmatic organ seen from above. Fig. i.—Jugatala lamellata n. sp. Left lamella from above. FjK. %,— Oribatella acuta n. sp. Left pseudostigmatic organ from above. 84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '18 thorax. Genital opening subrectangular, smaller than anal opening, and situated a little more than its greatest diameter in front of the latter. Legs long; claws heterodactyle. Length, 0.71 mm.; width, 0.53 mm. From Corvallis, Oregon ; on ground under an old piece of wood; by the writer. Several specimens. This species has a variety, found at the top of Mary's Peak. Achipteria oregonensis Ewing, var. borealis n. var. (Text fig. 5). Differs from the type in being smaller, in having shorter cusps to the pteromorphae, and in having the lamellar hairs less curved. Length, 0.51 mm.; width, 0.39 mm. From the top of Mary's Peak, Oregon; under a rotting log; by the writer. Only a single specimen secured. Jugatala lamellata n. sp. (Text figs. 6 and 7). A rather large, chestnut brown species. Lamellae very large, at- tached to cephalothorax for about one-half their length, the free anterior part of lamellae about twice as broad as the attached pos- terior part, and ending in two cusps, the outer being the longer. Lamellar hair situated between lamellar cusps; curved, pectinate, and almost as long as the lamella. Pseudostigmatic organs capitate and simple. Abdomen almost as broad as long, and sparsely clothed with curved, pectinate setae. Pteromorphae large, rounded on their ven- tral margins. Genital covers smaller than anal covers and situated about twice their length in front of the latter. Posterior legs not extending beyond the tip of abdomen. All the legs provided with long, almost subequal claws. Length, 0.77 mm. ; width, 0.53 mm. From the top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under a moist stone ; by the writer. From Spenson, Oregon ; on rotting vegetable material, by H. F. Wilson. Three good specimens obtained. The type from Spenson, Oregon. Ceratozetes clavilanceolata (Ewing). Recorded from top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under rotting logs ; by the writer. Oribatella minuta Banks. Recorded from top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; in moss ; by the writer. Recorded also from Corvallis, Oregon : under bark of a log ; by the writer. Oribatella acuta n. sp. (PI. TIT, fig. 9, and text fig. 8). A smooth, dark chestnut brown species. Lamellae very large, at- tached to the cephalothorax for over one-half their length, and each Vol. XXJx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 85 ending in a sharp point. Lamellar hairs short, stout, simple, and curved ; slightly surpassing the tips of lamellae. Pseudostigmatic organs short, subcapitate, simple, and extending forward. Abdomen longer than broad, sparsely clothed with rather short, strongly curv- ed, simple setae. Pteromorphae large, attached to abdomen for over one-half its length, and rounded below. Genital opening circular, much smaller than anal opening and situated about one and one-half times its diameter in front of the latter. Legs rather short ; last pair not reaching the tip of abdomen; claws heterodactyle. Length, 0.54 mm. ; width, 0.39 mm. From the top of Mary's Peak ; under rotting logs and in moss ; by the writer. Many specimens. This species belongs to that group of Oribatellas that have the lamellae similar to those of the genus Achiptcria Berlese. Family NOTHRIDAE. Liacarus bidentatus n. sp. (PI. Ill, fig. 10). A rather large, chestnut brown, shiny species. Lamellae extending almost to tip of rostrum, their anterior third free, and each ending in a small inner cusp. Lamellar hairs long, straight, apparently simple ; each arising from tip of lamella outside of cusp, and extend- ing far beyond the tip of cephalothorax. Pseudostigmatic organs simple, swollen toward base, beyond which they are setiform. Ab- domen almost as broad as long, hairless above. Genital opening somewhat shield-shaped, very much smaller than anal opening, and situated about twice its greatest diameter in front of the latter. Legs long ; claws heterodactyle. Length, 0.91 mm. ; width, 0.62 mm. From top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under a rotting log, and under a moist stone; by the writer. From Corvallis, Oregon; under logs ; by the writer. From Cascade Mountains along Santiam River; under a log; by the writer. The description here given is based on the type specimen from Mary's Peak, under a moist stone. The specimens from Corvallis are slightly larger than the type. Liacarus robustus n. sp. (PI. Ill, tig. 11). A large, almost black, shiny species. Lamellae about four-fifths as long as cephalothorax, with their anterior third free, and not ending in cusps. Between the free ends of the lamellae is situated a cen- tral mucro, which surpasses the tips of the lamellae, but does not reach the tip of the rostrum. Lamellar hairs long, straight, minutely and sparsely pectinate; each arises from the tip of lamella. Pseudo- 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'iS stigmatic organs simple, swollen toward their middle, beyond which they are stoutly setiform. Abdomen very large, oval, and without hairs above. Genital opening somewhat shield-shaped, much smaller than anal opening, and situated over twice its greatest diameter in front of the latter. Anterior legs extending beyond the tip of rost- rum by about the full length of their tarsi ; posterior legs falling considerably short of the tip of abdomen. Length, i.oo mm.; width, 0.68 mm. From the top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under rotting logs ; by the writer. From Corvallis, Oregon ; under bark of stick lying on ground ; by the writer. The specimen from Corvallis is considerably larger than the others. The type from Mary's Peak. Liacarus aequidentatus n. sp. (PI. Ill, figs. 12, 13). A large, dark brown, shiny species. Lamellae large, practically as long as the cephalothorax, widest toward their middle, and each ending in two small, equal cusps. Lamellar hairs long, straight, sim- ple; each arising from the end of lamella between the two cusps, and extending far beyond the tip of the rostrum. Pseudostigmatic organs swollen toward their middle beyond which they are setiform and minutely and sparsely pectinate. Abdomen large, elongate, and hairless above. Genital opening somewhat shield-shaped, smaller than anal opening, and situated about twice its greatest diameter in front of the latter. Legs long but hind pair not extending beyond the tip of the abdomen. Length, 0.92 mm.; width, 0.61 mm. From top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under moist stones ; by the writer. From Corvallis, Oregon ; under an old piece of wood which was lying on damp ground ; by the writer. The single specimen which I have from Corvallis is larger than those obtained from the top of Mary's Peak, but appears to be the same in other respects. The type from Mary's Peak. Notaspis bipilis Hermann. Recorded from top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under a rotting log; by the writer. Recorded also from Corvallis, Oregon : on ground under an old piece of wood ; by the writer. Cepheus flavus n. sp. (PI. Ill, figs. 14, 15). A long, recticulated, rough species. Lamellae very large, covering much of the cephalothorax, and united along their median free part so as to form a hood-like structure overhanging the rostrum. Lamel- lar and apparently interlamellar hairs also wanting. Pseudostigmatic Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 87 organs moderate, recurved, simple, and clavate. Abdomen reticulated above around the margins and along the free-projecting margins of the shoulders, but toward the center above the reticulations pass intc a central pitted area. No hairs above. Genital opening subcircular in outline, about equal in size to anal opening, and situated about one-third its longest diameter in front of the latter, which is egg- shaped in outline. Posterior legs not reaching the tip of the abdomen. Tarsal claws subecjual. Length, 0.79 mm. ; width, 0.47 mm. From the top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under rotting logs ; by the writer. From Corvallis, Oregon ; under a log ; by the writer. Description based on type individual from Corvallis. This individual is considerably different from the two speci- mens from Mary's Peak in that the pseudostigmatic organs are more strongly clavate, also there is a difference in the reticula- tions of the integument. Hermanniella punctulata Berlese, var. septentrionalis Berlese. Recorded from the top of Mary's Peak, Oregon; under a rotting log; by the writer. Hermanniella punctulata Berlese, var. columbiana Berlese. Recorded from the top of Mary's Peak, Oregon ; under a rotting log; by the writer. From Mt. Jefferson, Oregon (eleva- tion about 5,000 ft.) ; under logs ; by the writer. From Coast Range Mountains, Oregon ; under a log ; by the writer. Hermanniella punctulata Berlese, var. robusta n. var. (PI. Ill, fig. 16). Differs from the type in being much larger. Measurements of type (Berlese) : "Ad 540 p. long., 380 (Grinnell). resembling the figure of cnoptcs and since named battoides bcnwrdino by Barnes and McDunnough, with which it agrees in the male genitalia. That their conception of baltoidcs Behr is correct, is confirmed by the fact that there is an insect in the Henry Edwards collection in New York, labelled "Lone Mountain. Lake Tahoe," and in his catalog marked by him "True to type" (of battoides), which agrees with the Barnes and McDunnough figure except that it is not quite so strongly marked below. I have battoides bcrnardino, genitalically determined, from Bodie ; Fredalba VII, 23 (Pilate) ; Southern California (Po- ling) ; Techachapi. VII, 4 (Haskin) ; Nellie, California, VII, 2T, (Hewlett) and battoides ccntralis from Jcmez Mountains, New Mexico, VII, 18, (Woodgate). Vol. X-xix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IOI The third species, glaucon Edw. or spaldingi B. & McD., I received from Mr. B. N. Lehman near Eureka, Utah, at 7500 ft. elevation, twelve years ago, and while recognizing it as unusual and genitalically distinct, I have been unable to con- vince myself that it is not Mr. Edwards' species. It is this form from Stockton, Utah, that Dr. Skinner had before him, and determined as glaucon, and there are two Colorado in- dividuals of this form in Dr. Holland's Edwards collection in Pittsburgh. The species is found in a number of the col- lector's localities in northern Utah. The type specimens prob- ably were collected near Virginia City, Nevada, and they ap- pear to be lost. Although this locality and the known Utah range of the species are widely separated, the physiographical conditions are similar, and the insect may have a wider range than now appears, especially as Nevada is a State in which relatively little collecting has been done. I have been unable to find any constant character of color or maculation by means of which to separate cnoptcs and battoidcs but, as pointed out by Dr. Skinner, all of the examples of glaucon I have examined show the orange band of the secondaries below, continued on the primaries, and while dimin- ishing in intensity as it approaches the outer angle, nevertheless gives the insect a decidedly inclissa-\\ke appearance. L\'cocna riia B. & McD. I have not examined genitalically. The genus Philotcs in which the above insects have recently been placed, was erected for sonorcnsis Feld., which differs in general appearance from all of our Lycaeninae, so that if Lycacna is to be split up, cnoptcs and its allies are entitled to a generic name of their own, but I am inclined to place all of the above, together with piasus Boisd., lygdamns Dbld., xerces Boisd., and the recently re-discovered pardalis Behr under Lycacna Fab., (type arion Linn.), on account of the close and distinctive characters of the aedeoagus, and also of the girdle, tegumen and dorsal hooks, sinking Pliacdrotes Scud, and Glaucopsyche Scud. Plates IV, V and VI show the armature of the four species enoptes, battoidcs, glaucon and sonorensis, in outline, drawn from microscopic projections. IO2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l8 The original insects and accompanying slides of genitalia referred to in this paper are deposited in the cabinet of the American Entomological Society. Thanks are due to Mr. Oberthiir and Dr. Reverdin for their kindness and assistance in clearing up the American nomenclature. EXPLANATION OF PLATES. Plate IV. $ genitalia of type of Lycaena cnoMcs Boisd. Plate V. Fig. i, 2, 3, Lycaena battoidcs bernardino B. & McD., Fredalba, California. Fig. 4, 5, Lycaena battoides ccntralis B. & McD., Jcmez Mts., New Mexico. Fig. 6, girdle Lycaena enoptcs Boisd. ; Benton County. Ore- gon. Fig. 7, 8, 9, clasp, aedoeagus and fulcrum; enoptcs, Eureka. Utah. Fig. 10, clasp; enoptes, Truckee, California. Plate VI. Fig. i, 2, 3, Lycaena glaucon Edw. Eureka, Utah. Fig. 4, 5, 6, Lycaena sonorensis Feld., Nellie, California. A New Species of the Genus Nemobius from Cali- fornia (Orthoptera ; Gryllidae ; Gryllinae). By JAMES A. G. REIIN and MORGAN HEP.ARD, Philadelphia, Pa. Nemobius eurynotus1 new species. The present remarkable species is readily separable from any other of the genus found in the United States by its large size, broad form, general coloration, sub-obsolete ocelli and ex- tremely short ovipositor, which in proportionate brevity is only equalled by that of AT. caroliuits brevicaudits Bruner. The un- equal disto-ventral pair of caudal tibial spurs, however, show the position of the species to be in the first section of the North American forms of the genus and, though very widely separated, it should be placed after N. pantcli Hebard. Addi- tional material is, in our opinion, necessary to determine whether the present insect should be placed in the same sub- genus as that species, Brachynemobius, or should be assigned to a distinct and yet undescribed subgenus. 1 From evpiWxos == broad backed. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIX. Plate IV. LYCAENA ENOPTES.— WILLIAMS. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIX. Plate V. LYCAENA ENOPTES GROUP. -WILLIAMS. 1-3, LYCAENA BATTOIDES BERNARDINO. 4, 5, L. BATTOIDES CENTRALIS. 6-10, L. ENOPTES. ENT. NEWS, Vol. XXIX. Plate VI. LYCAENA ENOPTES GROUP.-wiLUAMS. 1-3, LYCAENA GLAUCON. 4-6, L. SONORENSIS. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 103 The general appearance of the present insect resembles rather a diminutive and brilliantly colored example of Mio- gryllus vcrticalls (Serville), than any species of the genus Type of Nemobius eitrynotiis new species. Fig. i. — Dorsal view of insect, (x 4.) Fig. 2.— Lateral outline of ovipositor. (Greatly enlarged. I Fig. 3. — Latero-internal outline of caudal tibia and tarsus showing spines and spurs (Greatly enlarged.) Fig. 4. — Latero-external outline of caudal tibia showing spines and spurs. (Greatly enlarged.) 104 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '18 Nemobiits in the collections. The color pattern is, however, distinctive, while the excellent characters for the Group Nem- obiites prevent any possible confusion with the species of Miogryllus. Type: 9 ; Berkeley, California. November 18 to 20, 1906. (J. C. Bradley.) [Hebard Collection, Type No. 472.] Size large for the genus, larger than any of the North American species except Ar. (Argizala) brasilicnsis (Walker) ; form very ro- bust; surface shining; head and pronotum with hairs reduced in num- ber. Head large, very full and rounded, about as wide as pronotum, width slightly but distinctly greater than depth. Ocelli subobsolete, indicated by inconspicuous minute spots, the surface at these points showing no convexity. Eyes slightly less ample in proportion to size of head than in other North American species. Maxillary palpi as normal for North American species. Pronotal proportions interme- diate between those of pantcli and brasilicnsis, length distinctly more than half of width. Tegmina much reduced, very slightly longer than pronotum, slightly the more produced at humeral angle, the margin there broadly rounded, the distal margin thence weakly oblique to the very broadly rounded sutural angle ; longitudinal veins con- spicuous, cross-veinlets very few. Wings probably absent. Ovipositor very short and heavy, about as long as caudal metatarsus, straight." Subgenital plate small, scoop-shaped, the free margin divided into two evenly convex portions, the juncture of which forms a median acute-angulate emargination. Caudal tibia with four internal and four external dorsal spines, which are rather short and heavy for the genus, much as in pantcli: these have their ventral surfaces con- cave, with margins microscopically and very minutely serrulate. Cau- dal tibia with three pairs of distal spurs, of which the ventral pair are unequal in length ; longest, dorso-internal spur, two-thirds as long as metatarsus. Length of body 10., pronotum 1.95, exposed portion of tegmen 2.15, ovipositor 2.35, caudal femur 5.5, caudal tibia 4.2. Width of head 3., pronotum 3., dorsal field of tegmen 2., abdomen at widest point 3.3, caudal femur 2.1 mm. General coloration shining mummy brown and ochraceous-orange. Head with occiput ochraceous-orange, washed with mars brown caudad of lateral ocellar areas and between these flecks, mesad, sup- plied with three nearly attingent smaller flecks of the same color; 2The valves are distorted distad, each separating from the others, as has been observed in other species of \anobius (see Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1913, p. 453, footnote 51, [1913]), and are apparently much worn, no trace of teeth being found. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IO5 interantennal protuberance, face and mouth parts rich blackish chest- nut-brown. Maxillary palpi ochraceous-tavny, distal fifth of ulti- mate joint mummy brown. Pronotum blackish brown with an in- tricate pattern of ochraceous-tawny. Tegmina mummy brown, the veins dark, tinged with chestnut. Abdomen blackish brown, each dorsal segment with a pair of large cinnamon, irregularly trapezoidal markings which widen caudad. Cerci cinnamon. Subgenital plate and median portion of preceding segment cinnamon-buff. Limbs ochraceous-tawny, heavily washed with cinnamon brown. The type of this distinctive species is unique. Notes on and Descriptions of the Nearctic Wood- wasps of the Genus Xiphydria Latreille (Hym.). By S. A. ROHWER, Specialist in Forest Hymenoptera, Bureau of Entomology, U S. De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. This paper, which is a contribution from the Branch of Forest Insects, Bureau of Entomology, is based on a study of the species of Xipliytlria in the collections of the National Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Public Museum of Quebec and the British Museum. The work is based in the greater part on the collections of the National Museum but contains notes from the species in the other collections. The type of the new species described and the neotypes here designated are in the United States National Museum. The North American species of Xifhytlria have been tab- ulated by Konow (Syst. Zusam. Chalast., pp. 207-3 1 ; ::: ) , l)Ut- inasmuch as that author did not have a large collection or ac- cess to the types, there are some points which do not accord with the facts. Harrington (Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada sec. 4, iS()3) tabulates the Canadian species and MacGillivray (Bui. 22 Conn. Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey, 1917) tabulates the species of the Northeastern States. None of these papers include all of the species so it seems worth while to give a synopsis of the North American species. The larvae of Xif>li\'i1ria are wood borers and confine their attacks to dead <>r d\ in- branches * In Zeitschr. syst. Hym. u. Dip., V, 41-5'). 1 1^01-05. 106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '18 of deciduous trees. The following key includes all of the North American species except basalis Say and li'alshii West- wood. Table to the \Tearctic Species. 1. Females 2 Males 8 2. Abdomen rufous or rufo-ferruginous, without spots 3 Abdomen black, with pale lateral spots or bands 4 3. Head and thorax mostly black ; prescutum V-shaped, longer than its anterior width ; orbital carina extending well above the top of eye abdoininalis Say. Body entirely rufo-ferruginous ; prescutum U-shaped, the anterior width subequal with the length ; orbital carina terminating be- fore the top of eye crythrogastra Ashmead. 4. Flagellum white maculata Say. Flagellum black 5 5. Posterior orbits and superior orbital area shining, practically impunc- tate ; antennae extending beyond the tegulae, hicoriae Rohwer. Posterior orbits and superior orbital area opaque with distinct puncture* ; antennae short not extending beyond the tegulae,.. 6 6. Second antennal joint distinctly less than half as long as the third and shorter than the fourth ; prescutum V-shaped ; legs reddish proi'ancheri Cresson. Second antennal joint distinctly more than half as long as the third and subequal with or longer than the fourth ; prescutum U-shaped ; legs largely black 7 7. Front with irregular raised lines, the area between the antennae and extending to the clypeus with well-defined raised lines; prescutum depressed posteriorly so the transverse rugae of the notauli are complete or nearly complete from notaulus to no- taulus ; tergites three and four with nearly complete yellow bands canadcnsis Provancher. Front and face reticulate ; prescutum not depressed posteriorly, the notauli complete ; tergites three and four with lateral spots, tibialis Say. 8. Superior orbital area coarsely sculptured ; head sculptured above the supraorbital line ; legs reddish prnrancJierl Cresson. Superior orbital area and head above the supraorbital line smooth practically without sculpture (the area behind the ocelli in macnlata is sometimes somewhat sculptured) 9 9. Second antennal joint distinctly shorter than the fourth; small ferruginous or rufo-piceous species 10 Second antennal joint subequal with or longer than the fourth; black species 1 1 Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IOJ 10. PVescutum broad, the posterior width hall or nearly half as great as the anterior width ; mesepisternum and sternum yellow, erythrogastra Ashmead. Frescutum longer and more narrowed posteriorly, the posterior width distinctly less than half the anterior width; mesosternum black ; mesepisternnm black with a large pale spot, abdominalis Say. 11. First three tergites (not propodeum) and also the following highly polished and for the most part without sculpture ; prescutum coarsely reticulate, with a tendency to form longitudinally raised lines hicoriae Rohwer. First three tergites and the following more or less granular; prescutum finely reticulate with a tendency to form trans- versely raised lines maculata Say. Xiphydria abdominalis Say. Xiphydria abdominalis Say, Keating's Xarr. Exped. appendix vol. 2, 1824, p. 311; Leconte, Writings of Say, vol. 2, 1859, p. 208. Xiphydria attcnuatiis Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. I, 1862, p. 144- Xiphydria rufirentris Cresson, Tran. Amer. Ent. Soc. vol. 8, 1880, p. 34- The type of abdominalis Say is lost, but a female coming from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been chosen neotype. The types of attcnuatiis Norton and rufirentris Cresson are in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. In describing this species Say states that the wings are ful- iginous. The type of rufirentris Cresson has nearly hyaline wings, but a reared series shows that the color of the wings varies somewhat and some of the specimens have dark enough wings to agree with Say's definition of fuliginous. The author does not doubt that this is Say's species. The rearings also definitely associate attcnuata Norton as the male. Distribution: — Pennsylvania (Say, Norton); New York (Cresson) ; New Jersey (MacGillivray) ; Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania (Champlain and Kirk) ; Plummer's Island, Maryland (H. S. Barber). Host-plant: — Tilia aincricana Linnaeus. Parasites: — Pammegischia orclctii Bradley and Afcyarhyssa !u 1 111 id a (Say). Patton (Can. F.nt. vol. ir. iKj*), p. 14) records attcnuatus io8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '18 Norton as reared from twigs of Betula nigra collected in Con- necticut, and describes the female. His description does not agree well with the species here considered as attenuatus, but does agree with a female which is a different and undescribed species and bears a Bradley manuscript name. The author is inclined to believe that Patton did not have attcnuata as here determined, because the female of attenuata does not have pale marks on the abdomen. Xiphydria erythrogastra Ashmead. Xiphydria erythrogaster Ashmead, Can. Ent. vol. 35, 1903, p. 233. The type of this species is lost, but a male from Lyrrte, Con- necticut, which agrees with the description and is without doubt Ashmead's species, has been made a neotype. Distribution: — Avalon, New Jersey (type locality); Lyme, Connecticut (A. B. Champlain) ; Lancaster, New York (M. C. van Duzee) ; Washington, District Columbia (J. A. Hys- lop) ; Cabin John Bridge, Maryland (H. S. Barber) ; Dif- ficult Run, Virginia (T. E. Snyder). Host Plant: — Carpinns caroliniana Walt. Parasites: — Megarhyssa humida Say; Paiiiincgiscliia ovcl- Ictii Bradiev : l:-iir\toma species (not definitely proven). Xiphydria maculata Say. Xiphydria maculata Say, Bost. Jn. Nat. Hist. vol. i, 1836, p. 221 ; Le- conte's Ed., Say, vol. 2, 1859, p. 681. Xiphydria albicornis Harris, Treat. Ins. Mass., 1841, p. 392. Xiphydria mcllipcs Harris, Treat. Ins. Mass., 1841, p. 393. The type of maculata Say is lost, but a specimen from Plummer's Island, Maryland, which agrees with the descrip- tion and is the same as Indiana specimens, is considered neo- type. The types of Harris's species may be in the Boston Society of Natural History. Specimens of maculata having only four spots on the abdo- men agree with the description of melllpcs. Distribution : — Widely distributed through Canadian and Transition Zones in the eastern United States and Canada. pJost-plants: — Acer saccharinnm Linnaeus. Parasites: — Pammegischia Inirquci I'rovancher and Mcgar- h\ssa nil Ida (Cresson). Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Xiphydria hicoriae new species. This species is closely allied to maculata Say hut may easily he distinguished by the characters given in the foregoing key. The females are easily separated from those of macnlaia by the black flagellum and the males can he recognized from those of inoculata by the more shining abdomen. 9. Length to end of abdomen 12 mm.; sheath 2 mm. beyond the end of abdomen. Head between the eyes coarsely reticulate, with more or less distinct lines radiating from the ocelli: posterior orbits below obliquely striate ; posterior orbits above and head behind the ocelli polished, practically without sculpture; orbital carinae stronii almost complete; antennae rather long, extending to the tegulac. 17- jointed; second antennal joint more than half as long as the third and distinctly longer than the fourth; mesoscutum coarsely reticulate; prescutum well defined, V-shaped, longer than anterior width; scutel- lum reticulate: tergites shining, finely granular along the apical mar- gins, apical tergites polished. Black; inner orbits, posterior margin of head (interrupted at top) two lines on vertex, dorsal margin of pronotum, spot on lower margin of pronotum and small lateral spots on tergites two, three, four and five yellowish white ; wings sub- hyaline, venation dark brown. Paratypes indicate the species may be 18 mm. long, have the axillae and lateral spots on tergites six and seven yellowish-white. $. Length n mm. Agrees well with female but the legs are dark piceous and the tergal spots are on segments two to six in- clusive. In some males the four anterior legs below trochanters and the posterior tibiae and tarsi are rufo-piceous. Distribution: — Harrisburg (type locality), Shiremenstown, Pennsylvania (W. S. Fisher) ; Syracuse, New York (Black- man). The species has also been taken at Westbury, Long Is- land (A. R. Chamnlain). and at Castle Rock, Pennsylvania. Host-plant : — Hlcoria. Type:— Cat. No. -'1554 U. S. Nat. Mus. Xiphydria provancheri Cresson. Xiphidion canadcnsc Provancher, Nat. Can. vol. 7, 1875, p. 374 (not Xiphydria canadcnsis Provancher 1. c. p. 373). Xif>h\dria proranchcri Cresson, Trail. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 8, 1880, p. 49. Type in first Provancher collection, Public Museum, Quebec, bearing yellow label 138. JIO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l8 Distribution : — Canada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts (Cresson) ; Ithaca and Saranac Inn, New York; Roxboro, Pennsylvania. Host plant :— "White birch." Specimens from Ithaca. New \ ork, and the birch is probably Bctiila populifolia Marsh. Xiphydria canadensis Provancher. Xiphydria canadensis Provancher, NTat. Can. vol. 7, 1875, p. 373. Type in first Provancher collection. Public Museum, Quebec. bearing yellow label 137. This species although close to tibialis Say should be easily distinguished by the characters given in the above table. Distribution : — Other than the Canadian specimens in the Public Museum of Quebec the only other specimen seen is a female collected on the sand at Virginia Beach, Virginia, by A. D. Hopkins. Xiphydria tibialis Say. Xiphydria tibialis Say, Keating's Narr. Exped. vol. 2, 1823, appendix p. 312; Leconte's Ed. of Say, vol. i, 1859, p. 208. The type of this species is lost, but a specimen from New Jersey agrees well with the type and is considered a neorype. Distribution: — Pennsylvania (type locality); Canada (Har- rington) ; New Jersey (collection and Smith IQIO) ; Omega, Kansas (Crevecoeur). Species not recognized. Xiphydria basalis Say. Xiphydria basalis Say, Boston Jn. Nat. Hist. vol. i, 1836. p. 22; Le- conte's Edit. Say, vol. 2, 1859, p. 681. Konoiiia basalis (Say). MacGillivray, Bull. 22 Conn. Geolg. Nat. Hist. Survey, 1917, p. 169. The type of this species is of course lost and there are no specimens in any of the collections studied which can be this species. Judging from the description it is correctly placed, by MacGillivray, in the genus Konowia. Konow treats this as a good species with -a'alshii Westwood as a synonym. Xiphydria walshii Westwood. Xiphydria ivalshii Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 113; Kirby, Hym. Brit. Mus. vol. I, 1882, p. 371, pi. 14, fig. 14; Har- Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Ill rington, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. sec. 4, 1893, p. 138; Konow, Syst. Zusam. Chalas, p. 313. The type of this species is a unique male and is in the Brit- ish Museum of Natural History. It is, as Harrington sug- gested, probably closely allied to provancheri Cresson, but the antennae have fewer joints, there are two pale spots on the scutum (a variable character), and the description infers the mesepisternum is black. My notes from the type are inade- quate, they are in part ; head behind supraorbital line smooth and shining ; postocellar area parted by an impressed line ; venation in general very like fig. 85 of MacGillivray, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 29, pi. 41. It seems to the author that this is a species of Xifh\dria and it is possible that it is pro- rancher i Cresson. List of Xcarctic Species. abdominalis Say. erythrogastra Ashmead. albicornis Harris =maculata Say. maculata Say. atfenuata Norton = : abdominalis ntcUipcs Harris=maculata Say. Say. provancheri Cresson. basalis Say. ntfircntris Cresson=abdomiivxlis canadensis Prpvancher Say. canadcnsis (Provancher) — pro- tibialis Say. vancheri Cresson. \valshii \\"est\vood. The Rippon Collections go to the National Museum of Wales. The collections of the late Robert H. F. Rippon, author of the superbly illustrated I cones Ornithopterorum, have been presented tr the National Museum of Wales by Lord Rhondda. according to the London Times, as reported in Science for February 15, 1918. The majority of the specimens are said to be exotic, the insects to number over 100,000. including over 3,000 Papilionidae. over 5,000 Nymphalidae and over 40,000 Coleoptera, while dragonflies, mayflies, crickets, grass- hoppers, stick- and leaf-insects, Diptera and Hymenoptera are ex- pressly mentioned. British Museum not to be used for Government Purposes. It is stated by Xiitife that the British Government has abandoned the intention of using the British Museum building at Bloninshury and the Natural History building at South Kensington for government de- partments, a decision which will meet with approval throughout the civilized world. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1918. An Appeal for Co-operation. An editor is quite as likely to acquire a varied knowledge of human nature as those whose work is of a less literary character. There are the considerate and the inconsiderate contributors — appreciative and inappreciative respectively of the (often) wholly gratuitous labor which the editor performs for the journal, the authors and the subject or cause to which the publication is devoted. The topic is not a new one, nor have we any special present ground for complaint, but, as remarked on this page some years ago, it is well for all of vis to be reminded from time to time of our shortcomings, our carelessnesses, our sins (if we cared to use so strong a word). Our lives are brief, ovir working time is limited — these un- welcome truths become more vivid as we grow older. It seems as though almost half of that time were often wasted for us by the mistakes, the delays, the slipshod or careless do- ings of others, requiring many things to be done over again. Many a paper presented for publication in a given periodical has evidently been prepared without any regard to the form and other requirements of the journal in question, even stand- ing directions on the cover or elsewhere being, it would seem, utterly unheeded. It would not be unjust or too harsh to bluntly refuse such careless contributions, yet not infrequently the editor makes up the deficiencies, smoothes the asperities, writes to the author to send lacking data and so relieves the ^rter of drudgery 'from which he rightly should not be ex- empted. The present is a time requiring all the co-operation that is possible. Who is so far-seeing as to be able to detect all the reactions and interactions of our daily deeds? May we not appeal, with successful results, to all who work and write to so care for the details of their labor that others may not, to their own disadvantage, have to gather up the loose ends? 112 Vol. XXl'x] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 113 Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OP THE GLOBE. Another European Anthomyiid in Illinois (Diptera). Tn the collection of the Illinois State Natural Survey, there is a male of Phaonia ijucrccti Bouche, a European species not hitherto recorded from North America. The specimen was taken at White Heath, April 14, 1909. (Cf. Ent. News, xxix, p. 32). — J. R. MAI.LOCH, Urbana, Illinois. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Collecting. In noting the death of William H. Baker, a British collector of insects, in May, 1917, in his ninety-third year, the Entomologist (Lon- don) says that the 13,000 British moths, of which the united col- lections of his father and himself consisted, are said to represent the labors of no less than 150 years. (Vol. 1, p. 168, July, 1917.) New Entomological Officials in Minnesota. The Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, at their meeting on January iSth, elected Dr. W. A. Riley, of Cornell, Pro- fessor of Parasitology and Chief of the Division of Economic Zoo- logy. Associate Professor A. G. Ruggles was, at the same time, ap- pointed Station Entomologist, which position carries with it the office of State Entomologist. At the December meeting of the Board. Pro- fessor F. L. Washburn, who has held the position of State Entomolo- gist in Minnesota for nearly sixteen years, asked and obtained per- mission to be relieved of that position and its attendant police duties, and the action of the Board on the iSth was necessary to fill the va- cancy thus caused. Mr. Schaus's Collecting in Guatemala. Mr. William Schaus, who has been collecting Lepidoptera in Guatemala for the past three years, writes us under date of January 19, 1918: "We have had severe cold here [Motagua valley, not far from Puerto Barrios], 54 at night, and. as there was no collecting. I have been separating my catch into families and repacking, so much less work to do later. I find I have 40000 specimens which will take some time to classify and identify. Moreover, the cost of living is soaring, for here in the Motagua valley we are dependent upon the I'.nit Co. for many supplies and many articles are no longer obtain- able. Carbide has given out and no more will be received, so with- out my night work I am quite lost. We are only waiting for more favorable climatic conditions to go north and I hope to be in Well- ington before April is over." 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '18 New York Entomological Society Fund. Through the generosity of Mr. Wm. T. Davis, a permanent fund for the general purposes of the New York Entomological Society has been established by an initial contribution of $500. Gracilaria zachrysa Meyrick in New Jersey (Lep.). This species, which has already been recorded on azaleas in New Jersey greenhouses, was at first thought to be rather rare and limited in distribution, but is now known to occur in many private greenhouses in various parts of the state and considered somewhat of a pest. In commercial houses it is not so common, as such firms hold over as little azalea stock as possible from year to year. The larvae, which are about one-fourth of an inch in length, mine the leaves and also fold over the tips and in some cases have been suspected of eating through the buds. Felt, in his I3th Report as State Entomologist of New York, records it from that State and under the name Gracilaria azaleac Busck (Insec. Inscit. Menstr. 2; 1-2), which was later reduced to a synonym of Gracilaria zachrysa Meyrick. He also gives brief life-history notes and states that tobacco extract, either used as a spray or fumigant, appears to be effective in controlling it. In "Ziekten en Beschadigin- gen der Tuinbouwgewassen," by Brock en Schenk, it is stated that the species was introduced into Holland from Japan and infests all Jap- anese and Indira varieties of azaleas; that greenhouse azaleas are injured during the winter and that the life-history is unknown in Holland. Stomach poisons are recommended and nicotine extract is suggested as a fumigant. It undoubtedly occurs in Belgium, as it is frequently found in the larval and pupal stages on azaleas imported from that country and was evidently introduced into New Jersey largely in that way. To a less extent, it has been found on azaleas imported from Japan. Tn private greenhouses in New Jersey it is usually eotten rid of by hand- picking of infested leaves. In one large commercial establishment arsenate of lead paste at the rate of eight pounds to 100 gallons of water gave good results. — HARRY B. WETSS, New Brunswick, N. J. An Unusual Bumblebees' Nest (Hym.). Early in September, 1917, I received specimens of Botnbns /v;w- s\h'anicus DeGeer from Mr. Court W. Ranslow, of Garrison, Mis- souri, with the statement that the colony from which these bees came built its nest in an abandoned nest of an English sparrow, in a tall elm tree in his front yard. He wrote. "The nest was a large, bulky one, with a roof, as the sparrows sometimes build them, and was twenty or more feet from the ground. We did not know that the bees were building in the nest until it blew out and fell to the ground. Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 115 My sister picked it up, thinking it was an empty birds' nest, but drop- ped it again quickly. They (the bees) were so ill-natured that it was not safe to go near them; so at night we scalded them. Is it common for this species of bee to utilize such places for their nests? I do not know whether the bees drove the sparrows out, or the spar- rows deserted the nest voluntarily." The Washington entomologists whom I have consulted and Mr. E. \Y. Nelson, Chief of the Biological Survey, have never heard of bumblebees living in birds' nests. The case seems interesting and exceptional. I send this account to Entomological Xews in the hope that it may bring out other accounts of strange nesting places of this bee. In a later letter Mr. Ranslovv wrote that a neighbor had told him that a colony of bumblebees entered an upstairs room in her house through an open window and built a nest in a box of old clothing that had been put away to cut up for carpet rags. — L. O. HOWARD, Washington, D. C. Feeding Habits of a Harvest Spider (Phalangida). In the morning of the I4th of October I was seated on my kitchen step at Iowa City, cracking hickory nuts. After a few of them had been broken open a large Harvest Spider (apparently our common Liobunnm] came out from the nearby grass and made directly for the spot upon which the nuts had been cracked. Remembering what I had read of the carnivorous habits of these Arachnids, I offered a small Balaninus larva, about one-third grown, to see if it would be attacked, but no special response was evoked other than a rearing up of the Harvest Snider after the method common to this group when slightly excited. The larva was not picked up nor bitten. After a few moments the Harvest Spider picked up a piece of kernel, about a cubic millimeter in size, from a sound nut, holding it with the tips of the pedipalpi and nipping or scraping with the chelicerae, removing only minute particles which were evidently swallowed. This process continued for about 25 minutes and was watched through a low-powered lens. The observa- tion was terminated by the interference of a large cricket running acrosr, the walk and bumping into the Harvest Spider which then re- tired into the grass, carrying the rest of the nut fragment with it. This note is offered to indicate that the habit of eating vegetable matter at times is not always for the purpose of obtaining water (as suggested by Warburton in the Camhridi kr ran directly from cover to the cruslv-:! kernels and did not appear to be easily disturbed while feeding. — II. F. WICKIIAM, State University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa. ii6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '18 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring1 north of Mexico is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 5 — Psyche. 37 — Le Naturaliste Canadian, Quebec. 68 — Science, New York. 78 — Gardeners' Chron- icle, London. 87 — Bulletin, Societe Entomologique dc France, Paris. 99 — Cornell University 'Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 113 — Archives Italiennes de Biologic. 143 — Ohio Journal of Science, Columbus. 148 — New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva. 153 — Bulletin, American Museum of Natural His- tory, New York. 291 — Proceedings, Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 313 — Bulletin of Entomological Research, London. 449 — British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London. 480 — The Annals of Applied Biology. 524 — Technical Bulletins, Entomology, University of California, Berkeley. 532— Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington. 540 — The Lepidopterist, Official Bulle- tin, Boston Entomological Club. 546 — Illinois Biological Mono- graphs, Urbana. 553 — Florida Buggist, Gainesville, Fla. 555 — Archive de Anatomia e Anthropologia, Lisboa. GENERAL SUBJECT. Brown, N. E.— The defertilisation of flowers by insects, 78, Ixiii, 4. Emerson & Norton — Removing in- sects from greenhouse plants without spraying and without injury to the plants, 68, xlvii, 44. Harmer, S .F. — Alcohol and alcoholo- meters, 449, Instruct, for Coll. No. 13. Hov/ard, L. O.— A sugges- tion to morphologists and others, 68, xlvii, H3-4. Rocci, U. — Con- tribution a la connaissance des graisses des insectes, 113, Ixvi, 53-C>. Wilson, R. N. — Notes on some insects of South Florida in 191 r, 553, i, 40-3. Yothers, W. W. — The effects of the freeze of Febru- ary 2-4, 1917, on the insect pests and mites on Citrus. 553, i, 30-3.1. 39-40. PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Metz & Bridges- Incompatibility of mutant races in Drosophila, 532, iii, 673-78. Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IIJ MEDICAL. Bishopp & Wood — Preliminary experiments with sodium fluoride and other insecticides against biting and sucking lice. 5, xxiv, 187-9. Calvert, P. P. — Insects and human mortality in war. (Old Penn, Philadelphia. Dec. 21, 11)17, p. 297-302). Ed- wards, F. W.— Mosquitoes and their relation to disease, 449, Econ. Ser. No. 4. MacGregor, M. E. — A summary of our knowledge of insect vectors of disease, 313, viii, 155-63. ARACHNIDA, ETC. Hirst, S.— Species of Arachnida and My- riopoda . . . injurious to man, 449, Econ. Ser. Xo. 6. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Waterston, J.— Fleas as a menace to man and domestic animals, 449, Econ. Ser. No. 3. Smith, L. W. — Studies of North American Plecoptera (Ptero- narcinae and Perlodini), [10 new], 2, xliii, 433-89. ORTHOPTERA. Davis, W. T.— The local occurrence of Co- nocephalus strictus. 291, vi, 149. Fulton, B. B. — The tree crickets of New York: life history and bionomics, 148, Kept. 34, 433-77. HEMIPTERA. Adkins, W. S.— Some Ohio Heteroptera rec- ords, 143, xviii, 5S-G1. Cummings, B. F.— The bed bug, its habits and life-history and how to deal with it, 449, Econ. Ser. No. 5. Hollinger, A. H. — Phenacoccus stachyos Ehr. ( = : P. pettiti Roll.), 4, 1918, 23-4. Newstead, R. — Observations on scale-insects (Coc- cidae)— V, 313, viii, 125-34. de la Torre Bueno, J. R.— Some He- teroptera from the Parry Sound district, Ontario, 4, 1918, 24-5. Van Duzee, E. P.— Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America, north of Alexico excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae, 524, ii, 1-902. Knight, H. H. — A revision of the genus Lygus as it occurs in America, north of Mexico, with biological data on the species from New York [many new], 99, Bui. 391. Olsen, C. E. — North American Cicadellidae in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Subfamily Cicadellinae [1 new], 153, xxxviii, 1-G. Osborn & Drake — Some (7) new species of Nearctic Tingi- dae, 143, xvii, 9-15. LEPIDOPTERA. Maheux, G.— Sur les poils urticants des che- nilles, 37, xliv, 81-3. Preston, C. E. — Notes from Provincetown, 540, ii, 1-2. Rocci, U. — Sur une substance venereuse contenue dans les Zygenes, 113, Ixvi, 73-9(5. Stowers, N. — Hints for amateurs, 540, ii, 4-6. Verity, R. — Une nouvelle methode de montage et de conservation des lepidopteres par series, 87, 1917, 312-16. Wol- ley Dod, F. H.— Notes on Barnes & McDunnough's "Check list of lepidoptera of P.oreal America," 4, 1918, 8-16 (cont.). Cassino, S. E.— A new Apantesis, 540, ii, 2-4. Swett, L. W. Geometrid notes. On the genus Xanthorhoe [3 new], 4, 1917, 17-23. Geometrid notes [1 n. sp.], 5, xxiv, 190-1. IlS ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l8 DIPTERA. Bishopp, F. C.— The distribution of the nose fly and other species of Gastrophilus in the U. S.. 5, xxiv, 182-7. Guerreiro, L. — Notas sobre a Lucilia caesar sen estudo no Insti- tute de Anatomia de Lisboa, 555, iii, 1/3-201. Morris, H. M.— On the larval and pupal stages of Bibio johannis, 480, iv, 91-114. Hine, J. S. — Descriptions of robber-Mies of the genus Erax [:; new!, 143, xvii, 21-22. COLEOPTERA. Shelford, V. E.— Color and color-pattern mechanism of tiger beetles, 546, iii, 134 pp. HYMENOPTERA. Brues, C. T.— Note on the ichneumonid genera Cyanocryptus and Lamprocryptus. Note on the adult habits of some hymenopterous egg-parasites of Orthoptera and Mantoidea, 5, xxiv, 191-5; 195-C. Cockerell, T. D. A.— The bee- genus Erachynomada, 4, 1918, 26-8. Parrott & Fulton — The cherry and hawthorn sawfly leaf-miner, 148, Rept. 34, 403-32. Wheeler, W. M. — The temporary social parasitism of Lasius subumbratus. Notes on the marriage flights of some Sonoran ants. The pleo- metrosis of Myrmecocystus, 5, xxiv, 1G7-7G; 177-80; 180-2. ETUDES DE LEPIDOPTEROLOGIE COMPAREE. Vol. XIV, 1917. By CHARLES OBERTHUR. This volume consists of 474 pages and numerous plates. Probably the parts of most interest to the American student are the studies and genitalic illustrations of the genus Lycacna. Doctor Jacques Reverdin presents an illustrated article on Lycacna arans and its va- rieties. Dr. T. A. Chapman describes a new species, Lycacna acgns. This is closely related to our species, mclissa, and the author says aster from Labrador does not differ to a specific extent from incl'.ssa. The types of aster came from Newfoundland. Dr. Chapman's paper b illustrated by 20 plates. This is followed by a beautifully illustrated article on Actiiinte by M. Oberthiir. with n plates in color. M. F. Le Cerf contributes an article on the Aegeriidae with seven plates. This contains species of our fauna and also some new genera and species are described. Biological observations and figures of certain species of Lycacna are given. The work is up to the beautiful standard of those preceding it and is a splendid contribution to lepidopterologi- cal studies. — HENRY SKINNER. THE LATKODECTUS MACTANS AND THE GLIPTOCRANIUM GASTERACAN- THOIDES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AREQUIPA, PERU. By Dr. E. EsCOMEL, Arequipa. Peru. New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 70, P- 53°. IQ1?- This article refers to certain spiders whose hit: kills persons or makes them very sick. It has interest for readers ot Vol. XXl'x] ENTOMOLOGICAL NKYVS. I If) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS as one of the species is found in the United States. The author states that L. mactans is widely distributed over the globe, being found in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Oceania. Its habits, food and general zoological characters are con- sidered. The effect of the poison and the differential diagnosis are detailed. Three cases are described and the treatment given; they all recovered. The other species. G. gasteracanthoides, is also fully de- scribed and the death of a small child, nine days after having been bitten, is mentioned. Five other patients were bitten, but all recovered. The remedy advocated is a saturated solution of potassium perman- ganate used externally. The author also used the drug internally in solution in the strength of i to 4,000, — HENRY SKINXKR. Doings of Societies. Feldman Collecting Social. Meeting of October 17, 1917. at the home of H. \Y. Wenzel, 561 | Stewart Street, Philadelphia. Nine members present, President H. A. Wenzel in the chair. Coleoptera— Mr. Laurent exhibited a series of Papilio glaiicux Linnaeus, collected at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, showing great varia- tion in maculation; also recorded the capture of a male PapUio crcsphotitcs at Mt. Airy. August 24. and stated that this was the only specimen he had ever seen in the vicinity of Philadelphia in the forty years he had been collecting, but that occasional specimens had been captured by other collectors in years past. Mr. Daecke recorded the rearing of Pyrausta pcrtc.vtcills Led. from rolled up leaves of violet : he stated that he had collected in the past summer a caterpillar of Apatclodcs tnn-cfiicta S. & A. in its fifth stage, that is with yellow hair: it pupated on account of lack of food without going through the sixth larval statre which has gray hair; the ability of larvae to omit instars was discussed. Mr. Daecke further recorded having taken in a wheat-stubble field at Camp Hill. Pennsylvania. October 6th. a number of caterpillars of Friitnf>arcc quinquemaculata Haw. in all stages on ground cherry; he pointed out that the younger speci- mens on account of the advanced date could never reach maturity; all the specimens of the last instar were almost black, but tbcv had the usual lateral stripes. Coleoptera. — Mr. Daecke recorded Cicindela scrfniffa/a form har- i-isi from nil the hilly sections around Harrisburtr. Pennsylvania, the captures dating from July 4 to Sept. 22. Air. H. \Y. \Yenzel exhibited a cardboard box that had contained red pepper which was riddled by Sitodrcpa panlcca : the inside of the box was lined with the empty I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l8 cocoons. The same speaker reported from Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Sept. 23 and 29, Cicindcla punctulata, \2-gut- tata, and rcpanda, and remarked that this was after several hard frosts. Mr. J. W. Green recorded from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Languria lecontei on giant ragweed, July i: Saprimts fitcliii, May 20; and Dialytcs striatulus Sept. 9. — J. W. GREEN, Asst. Secy. Meeting of November 2ist, 1917, at the same place. Eleven mem- bers present, Pres. H. A. Wenzel in the chair. Diptera. — -Mr. Daecke exhibited the galls of Eurosta conspurcata Doane and E. clsa, Daecke, the differences being very striking. Mr. Hornig recorded fourteen species of mosquitoes found this summer within the Philadelphia city limits: — Malarial: Anopheles puncti- pcnnis Say and A. quadrimaculatus Say; Saltmarsh : Acdcs sollicitans Walk., A. taeniorhynchus Wied., A. cant at or Coq. and Culcx salinar- ins Coq.; Swamp: Psorophora ciliata Fabr., Aedes sylveslris Theob. and A. cantons Meig. ; Wood; Aedes triseriatus Say and Psorophora sayi Dyar and Knab ; House : Cnlcx restnans Theob., C. pipcns Linne and C. saxatilis Grossb. Coleoptera.— Mr. Hornig exhibited specimens of Popilia japonica Newm., an injurious insect which has recently gained a foothold at Riverton, New Jersey, having been introduced from Japan through Dreer's Nurseries. Mr. J. W. Green exhibited Laccophilus incon- spicuus Fall from Edmonton, Canada, vi-i2 and Nitidula nlgra Schaef- fer same place, viii-6, both collected by F. S. Carr. Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited the following species all collected this year by him- self; Panagacus fasciatus Say, East Falls Church, Virginia, vii-i, Zenoa picea Beauv., same place, vi-3, Bellamira scalaris Say, same place, vi-3, Eburia quadrifjeminata Say, at light, Plr.mmer's Island, Maryland, vii-2i, Chionanthobius schwarzi Pierce, same place, viii-s, on Chionanthus (fringe tree), Qctotoma plicatula Fabr., same place, vi-24, and A call odes ventricosus LeC., Maryland shore near Plum- mer's Is., vi-23. He also exhibited the series of Pytho and Tricrania recorded at the April meeting. (See p. 39, this volume). Meeting of December iQth, 1917, at the same place. Nine members present, Pres. H. A. Wenzel in the chair. Coleoptera. — Dr. Castle exhibited four specimens of a Pachnaens he had collected in Detroit, Florida, v-15 and 16, which do not agree with our two species. Mr. Geo. M. Greene called attention to an easily explained "minor" mistake occurring in the minutes in Ent. 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CONTENTS: Dickerson and Weiss— Corythucha spinulosa Gibson, a new Lace Bug on Wild Cherrv (Hem., Horn.) .. 121 Girault— New and Old West Indian and North American Chalcid-flies (Hym.) 125 Scudder's Tertiary Insects of North America 131 Kmill — A new Species of Eupogonius (Coleoptera) from Pennsylvania... 132 Cresson — New North American Dip- tera (Scathophagidae) 133 Knab and Van Zwaluwenburg — A Sec- ond Mycetophila with Dung-bear- ing Larva (Diptera; Mycetophili- dae) 138 Garnett— Beetle, Hippomelassphenicus, Prey of Wasp (Dip.) 142 Parker — Data Concerning Flies that Frequent Privy Vaults in Montana (Dip.) 143 Malloch— Two New North American Phoridae ( Diptera ) 146 Editorial— As to Types 148 Moths Lively after a Low Tempera- ture ( Lep. ) 149 Leussler — Interesting Butterfly Occur- rences at Beeville, Texas (Lep.)... 149 Leng — Genitalia of Rhynchophora — Material Wanted ( Col. ) 150 Skinner — Some Species of Copaeodes ( Lep. ) 150 Entomological Literature 151 Review of Van Duzee : Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America North of Mexico, excepting the Aphidi- dae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae... . 154 Review of Lutz: Field Book of Insects 155 Doings of Societies — Meeting of Ohio Entomologists (Arachnida, Ho- moptera, Hymen., Lep., Dip.) 156 Obituary — Dr. Samuel Gibson Dixon.. 157 Charles Arthur Hart 157 Charles Palm 159 Adolph Friedrich VI.. 159 Erratum . 160 Corythucha spinulosa Gibson, a New Lace-bug on Wild Cherry (Hem., Horn.). By EDGAR L. DICKERSON and HARRY B. WEISS*, New Bruns- wick, New Jersey. (Plate VII ) During the late summer of 1916 this species was first noted feeding on wild cherry (Primus scrotina) at Jamesburg, New- Jersey, and observations conducted since then have resulted in the following notes. Overwintering adults first appeared dur- ing the first few days in June, females being most abundant. Unfavorable weather undoubtedly delayed their appearance several weeks. At this time scattered feeding injuries were noted usually along the mid-ribs of the leaves showing that considerable feeding took place during egg-deposition. Egg- * The arrangement of the author's names has no significance and indicates neither seniority nor precedence. 121 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 laying started the first week in June, which was soon after emergence, and continued until about June 20, at which time only a comparatively few females were found and during which time most of the eggs were laid. The eggs are deposited in the mid-rib on the under side of the leaf, usually in the basal portion which is pubescent. This results in the eggs being partially hidden. Most of the eggs stick out parallel to the leaf surface although some appear to be inserted perpendicular in the leaf tissue close to the mid-rib while a few are inserted in the mid rib at an angle. Only the basal rounded end of the egg is inserted in the leaf and the outer projecting part of the egg is covered with the black varnish-like excrement of the female. From 4 to 35 eggs were found in a single mid-rib, these being distributed unevenly on both sides. As a rule, each leaf contained about 15 eggs. Hatching started about June 25 and the first adults appeared July 15, the egg stage requiring from 2 to 3 weeks. The ist, 2nd and 3rd nymphal stages required from 2 to 3 days, the 4th from 3 to 4 days and the 5th from 7 to 9 days. The 5th was undoubtedly prolonged by cool, rainy weather at that time. In fact, all stages are shortened or prolonged by favorable or unfavorable weather. The nymphs feed in colonies on the under surface of the leaf along the mid-rib and if the individuals of a colony are separated they will later collect and feed together. While there is a tendency for some 4th and 5th stage nymphs to migrate somewhat, most of them feed together. By the last of July many adults of the first brood are present and egg lay- ing starts, young leaves usually being selected for this purpose. By the latter part of August the first adults of a second brood are present and continue to appear well into September. On account of the length of time over which oviposition extends it is possible to find, during the summer, all stages of the nymphs at the same time. All stages feed on the under leaf surface which results in a whitish discoloration of the upper surface. The under surface is disfigured by varnish-like spots of ex- crement. In common with Stcphanitis pyrioidcs Scott, a few Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 123 females of a previous brood can always be found lingering on the plants long after the eggs have hatched and as late as the time when 4th and 5th stage nymphs are present. The adult was described by Mr. Edmund H. Gibson, who very kindly and generously permitted us to include his description in this paper. Egg. (Plate VII, fig. 2.) Length 0.55 mm., width 0.2 mm. Ellip- tical, basal half translucent, outer half dark brown. Basal end acute with rounded tip. Sides of apical half subparallel, slightly tapering toward tip. Extremity of apical end truncate with rim-like collar and central projecting cone-shaped nipple. First stage nymph. (Plate VII, fig. 3.) Length 0.62 mm. Shape elliptical, dorsal surface of body brown, posterior half darker than anterior half. Head bears three prominent tubercles arranged in a triangle on dorsal surface. Dorsal surface of body, especially posterior portion, and lateral margins of abdominal segments bearing compara- tively prominent secreting hairs. Antennae one-third length of body, white, sparsely covered with prominent secreting hairs. Rostrum white, reaching to posterior pair of legs. Legs white. Second sta;/e nymph. (Plate VIT, fig. 4.) Length 0.8 mm. Shape similar to that of first stage, but more oval in outline. Color darker than that of first stage. Tubercles on head more pronounced. Bases of hairs tuberculate. A single spine-like tubercle on lateral margins of first and second thoracic segments and the second and remaining abdominal segments, each tubercle bearing a glandular hair. A pair of spine-like tubercles tipped with secreting- hairs on the dorsal sur- face of the pro- and mesothorax and the second, fifth, sixth and eighth abdominal segments. Antennae white, comparatively slightly shorter than in first stage. Rostrum white, reaching to posterior legs Legs white. Third stage nymph. (Plate VII, fig. 5.) Length i.i mm. Shape oval, dorsal surface brownish black. Tubercles as in preceding stage. Sides of thorax and abdomen margined. Eyes prominent. Antennae one-third iength of body. Legs and rostrum as in preceding stage. Fourth stage nymph. (Plate VII, I'm. 6.) Length 1.42 mm. Shape oval, dorsal surface brownish black. Eine light median dorsal line on prothorax, broadening into a dorsal median spot on meso- and meta- thorax and first abdominal segment. First two abdominal segments slightly lighter at lateral margins. Tubercles similar to those of pre- ceding stage, glandular hairs becoming spine-like. Tubercles of head and thorax bearing several of these spine-like hairs. A spine-like Inir anterior to each tubercle on pro- and mesothorax. Tubercles mi lat- eral margins of abdomen each beariii:..' two spine-like hairs and some 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'iS finer glandular hairs. Lateral margins of pro- and mesothorax prom~ inently lobed. Lobes of mesothorax reaching second abdominal seg- ment. Eyes prominent, reddish. Antennae white, slightly more than one-third length of body. Rostrum white tinged with brown, reaching third pair of legs. Legs white, tarsi tinged with brown. Fifth stage nymph. (Plate VII, fig. 7.) Length 2.2 mm. Shape broadly oval. General color dark brown, almost black. Outer angles of prcthoracic lobes with conspicuous light spot; median portion of mesothorax light; light band extending across metathorax, first ab- dominal segment and posterior portions of the mesothoracic lobes. A pair of prominent tubercles on dorsal surface of head and one in mid- dle of vertex, a divided tubercle on apex of hood, one on the outer angle of margin of prothoracic lobe, one on either side of light spot on mesothorax, one on lateral margin of mesothoracic lobe, one on lateral margin of each abdominal segment beginning with the fourth, a pair on the median dorsal surface of the fifth and sixth abdominal seg- ments. Each tubercle bears 3 or 4 spines. There is a pair of spines on median dorsal portion of second and eighth abdominal segments. On the lateral margin of the prothoracic lobe there are three spines anterior to the tubercle and two anterior to the tubercle on the meso- thoracic lobe ; a median pair on the mesothorax posterior to the hood. Eyes distinct, granular, dark brown, showing just beyond lobes of prothorax. Antennae white, about one-third length of body, last two segments bearing number of long fine hairs. Rostrum extending to middle pair of legs. Legs white, tip of tibia and tarsus suffused with light brown, each segment bearing several minute hairs. Adult. Corythucha spinulosa (Plate VII, fig. 8). Edmund H. Gibson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xliv, p. 79 (1918). "Hood twice as high as median carina and noticeably longer. Height of hood equals about two-thirds the length of hood and not much greater than length of median carina. Median carina with two rows of areoles. Reticulation of hood large. Costal margins of elytra nearly straight. Spines on membranous margins normally long, not numerous on nervures. Size 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide. "Hood embrowned on top. Nervures of paranota yellow, with only trace of brown spots. Dark brown band across base and apex of elytra. Apical band slightly less in width than one-third length of elytra. Two or three large hyaline areoles in apical band and sev- eral partial hyaline. . Differs from associate! Osb. & Dr., in having a lower hood, fewer spines on nervures, two rows of areoles in median carina and a narrower apical band across elytra. Distinguished from cyrta Parsh., in having crest of hood more acute and angulate and top from crest forward nearly straight. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 125 Described from one female and three males collected by Dickerson and Weiss at Jamesburg, New Jersey, and in the Parshley collection and from one female and two males in the Weiss collection. Many other specimens from the same local- ity have been examined. Food plant of this species is wild cherry, Prunns scrotum." Up to the present this species has been found only at James- burg in New Jersey and appears to be rather well distributed over a small wooded section in that locality. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. Corythucha spinulosa Gibson. Fig. I, cherry leaf showing feed- Fig. 5, third stage nymph. ing. Fig. 6, fourth stage nymph. Fig. 2, egg. Fig. 7, fifth stage nymph. Fig. 3, first stage nymph. Fig. 8, adult. Fig. 4, second stage nymph. New and Old West Indian and North American Chalcid-flies (Hym.)« By A. A. GIRAULT, Glenn Dale, Maryland. GROTIUSOMYIA new genus. Belongs to the Ophelinini. Habitus and structure of the Entedonini. 5 . Head (cephalic aspect) triangular, the antennae in- serted at the ventral ends of the eyes, the scrobes forming a narrow, acutely pointed triangle ; antennae lo-jointed, short and clavate, two very thin ring-joints, the club 2-jointed and obtuse at apex. Mandibles broad, at apex with twelve equal, minute teeth. Pronotum distinct, of moderate size. Parapsidal furrows complete, much curved, narrow like a suture. Axillae a little advanced, with blunt apex. Scutellum simple. Propodeum with a very strong median carina and a "com- plex" lateral one consisting of two carinae diverging at once from base or nearly, opening disto-laterad, the cephalic arm forming the cephalic margin of the propodeum and nearly against which is the moderate, oval-reniform spiracle; the oth- 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 er arm, the true lateral carina, runs disto-laterad toward the hind coxa and well mesad of the spiracle ; it has a distinct, smooth sulcus along its lateral side. Abdomen sessile, flat above, its second segment occupying slightly less than half the surface, its caudal margin straight, the other segments short except 7. Marginal vein a little longer than the submarginal, about thrice the length of the well developed stigmal, the latter some- what shorter than the postmarginal. Tibial spurs of hind legs not enlarged, distinct. Gcuot\pc: Mlotropsls nigricans Howard. 1. Grotiusomyia nigricans (Howard). 9. Length, 1.15 mm. Dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the vena- tion pale, the antennae, tegulae and legs, golden brown except the hind coxae. Mandibles white, at apex narrowly reddish, broadly dusky at base. Head and thorax scaly punctate (that is scaly but the lines raised), the propodeum and the abdomen (except segment 2 entirely), scaly. Hind coxae above sculptured like the scutum. Bulla quadrate, dusky. Scape cylindrical, moderately long. Pedicel a little longer than wide, small. Funicle joints all distinctly wider than long, the distal two larger than the proximal two, the club about equally divided, the second joint smaller, i much wider than long. Scutellum with four bristles. One female reared from larva of Eudamus protcus, St. Vincent, British West Indies (F. Watts). United States National Museum, the female on a tag, the head, a hind tibia and a fore wing on a slide. 2. Grotinsomyia flavicornis Girault, Psyche, xxiv, p. 95, 1917. 9 . The same but the mandibles only 7-dentate, the pedicel is in- fuscated, the propodeum and postscutellum glabrous not scaly. Funicle i quadrate. Otherwise the same. Two females reared from a pyralid leaf-miner on oak, August 4, 1879, Washington, D. C. Secundeisenia (Eiseniella) mexicana (Ashmead). The postmarginal vein is distinct but very much shorter than the stigmal. Otherwise the species resembles a Blastophaga. Marginal vein somewhat shorter than the long stigmal. Antennae u -jointed, the first funicle joint with a process. Type in the I'. S. National Museum examined. Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 12J Stomatoceras unipunctatipennis new species. $ . Length, 2.35 mm. The red collar or prothorax is characteristic. Blood red, the following parts black : Head, antenna distad of funi- cle 2, scutum, parapsides, scutellum, axillae, abdomen except lower sides and venter, propodeum broadly along the meson and the middle part of the mesopleurum. Fore wings embrowned from the base of the bend of the submarginal vein to apex and with a perfectly round, rather small hyaline spot against the apex of the short stigmal vein; venation dark. Funicle I a little longer than wide, 2 longest, twice longer than wide, shorter than the pedicel, 8 quadrate; club a little longer than the pedicel. Marginal vein somewhat less than twice the length of the postmarginal, the latter over twice that of the stigmal which is di- rected distad. Black teeth on hind femur along basal half. Cheeks caudad margined. Umbilicately punctate; mesopleurum cross-rugulose; apex of scutellum emarginate only; abdomen (except segment 2) scaly, 7 with obscure thimble-punctures, the last segment with a me- dian carina. Propodeum with coarse, oblique rugae and a pair of median ones, all conspicuous. One female, January 27, 1897, Berkeley, West Virginia (E. A. Schwarz). Type : Catalogue No. 206/8, United States National Mu- seum, a female on a tag, antennae and fore wings on a slide. Stomatoceras unipunctatipennis Girault americensis new variety. 9 . Like the typical form but a third larger, the abdomen entirely black except the base beneath, the pronotum black except the caudal margin laterad, the cephalic part of propleurum black, the upper and lower parts of metapleurum and the propodeum except disto-caudad. One female, Camden County, New Jersey (W. J. Fox). Type: Catalogue No. 20680, United States National Mu- seum, the female on a tag. Stomatoceras tenuicornis new species. $. Length, 4.00 mm. Black, the filiform antennae except scape (ex- cept at apex) and the club (except at base), knees very narrowly, tips of tibiae, tarsi and the extruded part of the ovipositor valves, blood reddish; also the middle coxae. Fore wing infuscated as in the pre- ceding but instead of the round hyaline circle there is a hyaline stripe which reaches two-thirds the way across the wing. Funicle I over twice longer than wide, a little over half the length of the very elongate pedicel which is a little longer than any funicle joint; funicle 2 longest, a third longer than 2, slightly longer than 3, 8 twice longer than wide; club subcqual to funicle 3. Abdomen scaly 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 from the distal third of segment 2 (except the other segments broadly proximad) ; large punctures on 7 distinct Propodeum rugose but with five half-complete "median" carinae at base, all well separated. As in the other species. One female, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, May 21 (H. G. Hubbard). Type: Catalogue No. 20681, United States National Mu- seum, the females on a tag, a fore wing and an antenna on a slide. Pleurotropis kansensis new species. ' $. Similar to quercicola (Ashmead), but segment 2 of the ab- domen is entirely glabrous and occupies but one-fourth of the surface, the scutum is uniformly sculptured and the petiole quadrate. Lateral carinae straight, long, the pair of median very close together. One female, Onaga, Kansas ( Crevecoeur). Type : Catalogue No. 20694. United States National Mu- seum, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. Polycystus clypeatus new species. Characterized by not having the clypeus advanced but its apex tridentate, the teeth subequal ; moreover there is a very narrow, hairlike "tooth," longer than the others, between the third tooth and the sinus at lateral margin. Syntomopus americanus Ashmead has the clypeus tridentate, but the lat- eral teeth are very weak and short, the median one long and conspicuous. Syntomopus affinis Ashmead has the clypeus similarly armed. $ . Length, 0.85 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the venation yellow; knees very broadly, tarsi and tips of tibiae white, the tibiae yellow; flagellum beneath suffused with yellow. Antennae inserted below the middle of the face but above the ven- tral ends of the eyes, the scrobes inconspicuous; pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex, longer than any funicle joint; i of funicle quadrate, 6 nearly twice wider than long; ring-joints (2) short, a little unequal. Mandibles 4-dentate. Head and thorax densely scaly- punctate. Pronotum transverse. Parapsidal furrows about half complete. Axillae separated. Propodeum neckless, tricarinate, the carinae join- ing around the caudal margin, the cephalic margin to the spiracle foveate, the fovese bounded by carinae, the spiracle elliptical; a spiracular sulcus directly from the spiracle and along the lateral side Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I2C) of the lateral carina. Propodeum and petiole seal}', the latter about as long as the hind coxae. Abdomen smaller than the thorax, slightly scaly toward apex, widest at apex of segment 2, flat above, kneeled beneath; segment 2 occupying over a third of the surface, with a small, distinct incision at meson caudad; other segments much wider than long; the ovipositor valves extruded a little. Hind tibial spur slender. Postmarginal vein long, a little shorter than the marginal, distinctly longer than the elongate stigmal. One female reared from a leaf-miner on corn, St. Vincent, British West Indies (F. Watts). Type : Catalogue No. 20682, United States National Mu- seum, the female being on a tag; hind legs, the head and a fore wing on a slide. Mosolelaps cyaneiventris Ashmead. Genotype. One ring-joint, seven funicle, three club, the antennae 13-jointed. Female. From the type. Sycophila incerta Ashmead. The scutellum is flat and quite as in Kocbclca but the postmarginal vein is much shorter than the stigmal, yet distinct. Mandibles triden- tate. Propodeum plane, distinct, wider than long. Funicle joints all wider than long, shorter than the pedicel. Tzt'o ring-joints, contrary to the description. The abdomen bears four brown cross-stripes, the first at the apex of segment 2; body honey yellow. Type seen. Many females reared from Ficns laurina, Barbadoes, West Indies ( F. Watts). Idarnes carme Walker. Genotype. The antennae are II -jointed with one ring-joint, the club 3-jointed and with a slight nipple at apex. Mandibles with two equal acute teeth. Ovipositor about twice the length of the body. Scape yellowish except above. The original description is otherwise about correct. There is no minute fourth club-joint (or a nipple which has the ap- pearance of being articulated). Reared, together with a Blastophaga, from Fie us laurina. Barbadoes, British West Indies ( F. Watts). Compared with specimens in the United States National Museum. A syno- nym is my Idarnomorpha. Bruchobius laticeps Crawford. 9. Length, 2.30 mm. Short, robust. Differs from the description of the genotype of Metastenoides in that the postmarginal vein is a lit- I3O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 tie longer than the short marginal, the latter subequal to the stigmal; the spiracular sulcus is not present, the spiracle reniform and rather stouter; neck of propodeum prominent, the abdomen very shortly petiolate, the petiole vertical and hidden; segment 2 of the abdomen occupies somewhat over a third of the surface (its caudal margin straight); all coxae metallic: otherwise the same; distal half of hind tibiae white; funicle i nearly twice the length of the pedicel; ring-joints increasing in size; clypeus striate:- one hind tibial spur short; parap- sidal furrows three-fourths complete. $ . Femora more or less metallic, the abdomen with a large white blotch at base (beneath and above), two nearly equal ring-joints, funicle i a half longer than wide, a little shorter than 6, longer than the short pedicel, 2 longest, about twice longer than wide. Funicle and club darker. From several pairs associated with cowpea weevils at Col- lege Station, Texas (Paddock). The genus belongs to the Miscogasteridae and is closely allied with my Mctastcnoldes, if not identical with it. Pseudomphale eudami new species. 9. Differs from cuprcus in that the sculptured area on segment 2 of the abdomen is twice longer and mostly of fine punctures, the lateral grooves of the scutellum meet medially. From nuiroacncns in that segment 2 is punctate, the abdominal petiole is only weakly 'tricarinate. From apantelivorus in that the large area containing the spiracle is not wholly glabrous but coarsely scaly at its margins, the abdomen is shorter, the prepectus subglabrous (scaly reticulated, not punctured, in the other) and the sculpture of abdomen 2 coarse (in the other very fine and of minute punctures as in microgaster.) From cockerel! i (which is the same as apdntelivorus bui: differs in having the coarse sculpture on the abdomen), in that its prepectus is delicately scaly. Of the continental North American fauna, it runs to sardns Walker, but abdomen 2 in that species bears scaly sculpture as it does in all the varieties and allies of that species. The species producta Ash- mead has segment 2 of the abdomen punctured back to the middle or more. Funicle joints subequal, short, oval, a little shorter than the pedicel and than club i. $ . Scape compressed, its distal half metallic above, the lour funi- cle joints as in the female, more hairy, longer than the pedicel, shorter than the club. Three pairs reared from the larva of Eitd'iwits protcus, St. Vincent, British West Indies ( F. Watts). Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 13! Types: Catalogue No. 20662, United States National Mu- seum, two males, three females on tags. Types of the named species examined or else specimens. The table of species in the Proc. U. S. National Museum, 40, 1911, p. 446, is faulty in that the coloration of the femora and tibiae is not mentioned and the sculpture of the head is used ; I have been able to see no real difference in respect to the latter, though I have examined every species concerned besides all those from North America. However, citplcctri has the space inclosed by the V-shaped suture in front of the ocelli subglabrous ; in the genotype this is glabrous. Closterocerus utahensis Crawford (californicus Girault). One female from Symydobius chrysolepis on Oner ens chry- solcpis, Alpine, California, April 30, 1916 (A. F. Swain). Omphalchrysocharis petiolatus new species. 9. Similar to oricntalis but the mandibles only bidentate, the petiole nearly twice longer than wide and with lateral carinae (its surface scaly), the scutellum with a short sulcus at base, the propodeum with irregular carinae along its meson broadly. Funicle joints nearly twice longer than wide, subequal, each a little longer than the pedicel. $ . Scape dilated, black along its dorsal edge, otherwise pale. Three pairs reared from an Oscinid on daisy, March 5, 1890 (Washington, D. C.). Types : Catalogue No. 20665, United States National Mu- seum, two males, three females on tags, the head of each sex on a slide. Arthrolytus aeneoviridis Gfrault. One female. Phoenix, Arizona, from Bucculalrix thnrbcri- aclla on cotton (C. K. Wildermuth). Scudder's Tertiary Insects of North America. A few copies of Volume XIII of the final reports of the Hayden Sur- vey, entitled "The Tertiary Insects of North America," have been re- cently acquired by the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, and may be obtained on application to the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. This monograph is of in- terest to paleontologists. It contains 734 pages and 28 plates. 132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 A new Species of Eupogonius (Coleoptera, Ceram- bycidae) from Pennsylvania. By JOSEF N. KNULL, Bureau of Zoology, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As far as I know, five species of Eupogonius have been described, from the United States. Four of these, E. tomen- tosits Hald., E. vcstitus Say, E. pubesccns Lee. and E snb- aniuilus Lee. are found in the eastern part of our territory, while E. fitlvovestitiis Schaeffer was described from Texas. Eupogonius fraxini n. sp. Dark brown clothed with irregular patches of closely appressed fulvous hairs, intermixed with erect black and yellow hairs. Head irregularly clothed with fulvous hairs, densely and deeply punctured, each puncture bearing an erect black hair. Eyes black, prominent, coarsely granulate and fringed with short fulvous hairs along the margins. Female antennae shorter than body, male antennae extend- ing beyond the tips of the elytra, dark brown, sparsely clothed with fulvous hairs, coarsely and densely punctured toward the base, de- creasing toward the apex, each puncture bearing a long flying black hair, third joint longer than the first and second joints taken to- gether, fourth joint as long as the third, fifth joint one-half as long as the fourth, joints six to eleven gradually decreasing in length. Thorax narrower than the elytra, armed on each side with a rather prominent obtuse spine, clothed with irregular patches of closely ap- pressed fulvous hairs, deeply and densely punctured on dorsal surface and along the sides, each puncture bearing an erect black hair. Elytra broader than the thorax, densely clothed with irregular patches of fulvous hairs, showing the ground color in small shiny areas, irregularly coarsely and deeply punctured, finer toward the base ; each puncture containing an erect black or yellow hair, sides parallel for the anterior two-thirds and gradually tapering to rounded apices. Ventral surface convex, dark brown, covered with a uniform fulvous pubescence, segments fringed with fulvous hairs, sparsely and lightly punctate, punctures becoming more numerous along the lateral margin and on the fifth ventral segment, each puncture containing a long light-brown hair. Femora dark-brown, tibiae and tarsi much paler, legs clothed with fulvous pubescence intermixed with long light-brown hairs. Length, 8 mm. ; width, 3 mm. Described from two males and two females chopped from Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS. 133 the bark of a dead black ash (Fra.riuus niqra Marsh.) at Hum- melstown, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1917. Type: A male in the author's collection. The larvae had worked through the bark and transformed to the adult stage without entering the sapwood. I believe that Mr. F. C. Craighead took the same species from an ash tree at Great Falls, Virginia, in 1916. New North American Diptera (Scathophagidae). By E. T. CRESSON, JR., Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Grthacheta amoena new species. s and 1346 from the large trap. The number of species in- cluded was 26, — Muscidae, 13; Anthomyidae, 4; Sarcophagi- dae, 3 ; Syrphidae, 2 ; Tachinidae, i ; Culicidae. 2 ; and Orta- lidae, i. The reader should consult the table for the species totals and species percentages of the total catch. The data show one fact that is common to all the species, namely, that the females greatly predominate. This is espe- cially apparent in Lucilia sericatc (Meigen) and L. caesar (Linnaeus'), the former showing a ratio of I male to 678 fe- 1Contribution from the Laboratory of the Montana State Board of Entomology, State College, Bozeman, Mont. 144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, JiS males, and the latter only females. It is interesting to note this high percentage of females even in species that do not breed in excrement. Musca domcstica females were about three times as numerous as males, 564 to 197. The same re- lationship was found to hold good when flies were trapped out-of-doors with human excrement for bait, females being in that instance about four times as numerous as males. 1 have no data to show the comparative abundance of the two sexes in houses, but it is apparent that as a seeker of filth the female house fly is potentially more dangerous to the human species than the male. For this reason any bait that will at- tract more females than males should be considered more ef- ficient than one which will attract an equal number of both sexes. Several baits were tried with this in view and a com- bination of beer and oatmeal was found the most effective. TABLE GIVING DATA CONCERNING FLIES CAPTURED IN PRIVY TRAP EXPERIMENT AT LAUREL, MONTANA, JULY 20 TO AUGUST 21, 1914. HODGE TRAPS TRAP CLBAN- INGS SPECIES TOTAL SPECIKS PER CENT OF TOTAL CATCH Males Females Total Aftiscfl dotnesticci '97 274 o i o 0 17 o 19 o 1609 59 2 O I I O O O 564 1078 i 678 1 20 i 46 2 107 I 2949 319 8 i 5 32 4 5 82 761 1352 i 679 1 20 i 63 2 126 I 4558 378 IO I 6 33 4 5 82 '37 9 I i'3 222 O > 345 i 874 1574 i "45 64 2 :56 I 5067 378 JO I 47 4 39 166 '37 9 i 9-03 16.27 .01 11.83 .66 .02 1.61 .01 52.37 3-9' .10 .01 •49 .04 .40 1.72 1.42 .09 .01 Calliphora erythrocephala ~| C. coloradensis > C latifrons ) 30 0 509 o o o \ : o 34 84 0 0 o p sp J Ophyrct lencostotna Ravinia peniculata Sarcopliaga haemorrhoidalis.. Anacampla Icitiusciila ... ... Eristalis tenax TOTALS 8330 1346 9676 Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 145 From the standpoint of numbers, the comparatively small representation of Musca domcstica was most interesting-. It constituted but 9.03 per cent, of the total catch. Muscina sta- bnlans (Fallen) was unexpectedly abundant (16.27 Per cent, of the total). This is a fact of some importance because there are seasons of the year when this fly is almost the only one found in houses. The same applies to Phorinia tcrrae novae Desvoidy, which is one of the first flies found in house-; in the spring, preceding the species just mentioned. The observa- tions concerning these two species were made under rural conditions. These flies, however, together with Phormia re- gina (Meigen) and species of Calliphora, which appear later in the season, do not seem to frequent food to any great ex- tent when in-doors, but are most commonly seen on the win- dows. The species of Fannia, of which F. scalans Fabricius was, predominant, were the most abundant of the privy flies, possibly because the species just noted is such a prolific breed- er in latrines. The two species of Sarcophagidae, Ravin in pcniculata R. Parker and Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis Fallen, both excreta breeders, were present in less number than 5". coolcyi R. Parker, which breeds in carrion and decomposing animal matter. It should be remembered in discussing these figures that they represent the fly fauna for only a small part of the fly season. At an earlier or a later period the compara- tive abundance might be entirely different, — for example, Musca domcstica would be practically absent in the spring, while Muscina stabulans would be likely to be more numerous. Similarly the species of blow-flies vary greatly in comparative numbers at different seasons. For the purposes of comparison a list of the species reared from material from this same vault during the period of the experiment are given: Fannia scalaris, Ophyra Icucostoma, Limosina sp., Rhcgmoclcma atrata, and Ncmopoda cvlindrica. Other species reared from material taken from deep vaults were Dcsinametopa latipcs and Lcria scrrata ( Powderville. Montana, 1916). There is a considerable difference between species breeding in deep vaults and those breeding in surface privies and in excrement dropped in the open. This the writrr plans to discuss in another paper. Besides the Diptera, as noted above, a number of Lepidop- tera, Orthoptera and Coleoptera, as well as numerous Ara- neida and Phalangida were found in the Hodge traps. It is interesting to compare the data as given for the privy trap experiment with the comparative percentages of some <>i" the same species when trapped out-of-doors with human ex- 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 crenient as a bait: — Musca domestica, 21.81; Muscina stabu- lans, 21.26; Liicilia sericata, 26.07; L. caesar, 3.31; Phormia regina, n.66; P. terraenovae, .07; Calliphora spp., 1.34; Op- kyra leucostoma, .21 ; undetermined Anthomyidae, 5.25 ; Sar- cophagidae, 8.75. Under these conditions Mnsca domestica was found to exceed Muscina stabulans only by a fraction of one per cent. Luc ilia sericata was the most abundant. The two experiments were conducted at the same time. The writer desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. J. R. Parker of the Bozeman Experiment Station for the de- termination of the two species of Culicidae, and to Dr. W. A. Hooker, of the United States Bureau of Entomology, for the determination of Rhcgmoclcma atrata. Two New North American Phoridae (Diptera.) By J. R. MALLOCH, Urbana, Illinois. The two species described in the present paper were col- lected by the writer in 1917 in Illinois. The types are in the collection of the State Natural History Survey of Illinois. Both species are readily distinguishable from their congen- ers by the characters mentioned in notes at the end of their respective descriptions. Apocephalus pictus sp. n. $ . — Pale yellow, slightly shining. Frons black, subopaque ; anten- nae, proboscis, and palpi yellow ; arista brown ; cephalic bristles black. Thorax yellow with the exception of a dark spot just below squamae. Abdomen yellow, with a large velvety black mark on each side of segments 3 to 5 ; hypopygium shining black; anal process yellow. Legs pale yellow ; mid coxae with a black spot on posterior surface. Wings slightly yellowish; veins brown. Halteres yellow, apices of knobs black. Frons with 8 bristles proximad of ocelli, the upper 4 in a straight transverse line, the lower 4 in a curved line, the median pair much lower than the outer and very close together ; post-antennal bristles absent; frontal suture distinct; antennae very large, third joint pear- shaped and half as large as eye; arista apical; palpi smaller than third antennal joint. Mesonotum with one pair of dorso-centrals ; scutellum with 4 subequal bristles ; mesopleura bare. Second abdominal seg- ment twice as long as third, with several setulose hairs on each side ; hypopygium very similar to that of pcrgandcl Coquillett. Legs rather stout; all coxae with several strong black bristles on anterior sur- face; hind femora with a fringe of setulose hairs on apical portion of antero-ventral surface; hind tarsal joints 1-4 dilated at apices and Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 147 each armed with a long subapical bristle on anterior surface ; dorsal surface of hind tarsi with sparse, fine, upright hairs. Costa ending slightly before middle of wing, its divisions •j:21/2:\\ fringe very short and close ; fourth vein regularly arcuate, ending as far before apex of wing as fifth does behind it. Length, 2 mm. Type locality, Havana, Illinois, August 30. Taken in a sand "blowout." This species differs in the chaetotaxy of frons, color of abdomen and halteres, and number of scutellar bristles from automata Malloch, which it most closely resembles. The only species with black halteres which is known to me is aridus Malloch, which is I mm. in length and has the third an- tennal joint rounded. Aphiochaeta quadripunctata sp. n. $. — Black. Frons rather glossy, pleurae glossy, abdomen, with ex- ception of hypopygium, opaque. Antennae dark brown; palpi pale yel- lowish ; legs stramineous, mid and hind coxae and femora fuscous. Wings clear, veins black, 2 large oblong black spots near apex of wing, one on fourth vein and the other on fifth, both of which extend along the course of vein to margin of wing. Halteres black, knobs stramineous. Frons slightly broader than high; lower transverse series of bristles convex, the inner one on each side slightly lower than outer and much closer to the latter than to the upper post-antennals ; 4 strong post-antennals present, the lower pair little closer than the upper ; antennae of moderate size, third joint rounded; arista very slender, pubescent, nearly twice as long as height of frons; palpi larger than antennae, armed with a few strong setulae. Mesopleurae with a number of setulae on upper posterior third; scutellum with 2 strong bristles and 2 weak anterior hairs. Abdomen subconical, with very short setulae ; hypopygium small. Legs slender, fore tarsi short and distinctly thickened; hind tibiae with weak setulae on their postero- dorsal surfaces. Costa to middle of wing, first section slightly longer than 2+3, third slightly more than one-third as long as second; fringe of moderate length; fourth vein regularly arcuate, ending as far before apex of wing as fifth does behind it. Length, 1.5 mm. Type locality, Elizabeth, Illinois, July 8. No described species of this genus has the wings spotted as this one. In 1912 I described coiu/louicriila which has a black spot at apex of wing, but in this species the spot consists of numerous microscopic black hairs and n«>t of a dark pigmen- tation of the membrane as in quadripunctata. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1918. As to Types. Perhaps since the following list of kinds of types has gone to the printer it has been increased to at least 57 varieties : Type, Holotype, Allotype, Cotype, Paratype, Syntype, Mor- photype, Lectotype, Plesiotype, Neotype, Heautotype, Plasto- type. Monotype, Chirotype, Apotype, Hypotype, Autotype, Ideotype, Androtype. Gynetype, Topotype, Orthotype, Haplo- type, Logotype and Pseudotype. The invention of new names for kinds of types has followed the discovery that the word type in the past had no very exact meaning and now the pendulum, has swung to an absurd degree and has gotten perilously near to perpetual motion. The sensi- ble thing to do would be for some one to grasp the pendulum and swing it back to the word type and give the word its exact present meaning. The International Entomological Congress has accepted the principle of the single type. The Entomological Society of America has thus far not accepted the single type idea. It is foolish to expect anyone of ordinary mind to remember the meanings of such an aggregation of verbiage as the above list shows. We would advocate the use -of very few of these terms, probably three are quite sufficient for ordinary mortals- type, paratype and lectotype. Very learned individuals may wish to go the whole gamut and unfortunately there is no law to prevent people from being foolish. Lectotypes should be established with the greatest care. Our remarks, of course, do not apply to minute insects like the Coccidae. In such cases a single slide should be considered the type. The establishment of a single type is absolutely essential for systematic work, as the fixing of a name, in con- junction with a specimen of the insect it represents, is necessary for the founding of a sound and enduring nomenclature. Even the persons who use all the varieties appear to be a bit as to what they all mean. H. S. 148 Yol.xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I |< ) Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL, GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. Moths Lively after a Low Temperature (Lep.). Early in December, on the day after 8° of frost had been registered, some female Winter moths, Chcimatobia brumata, were found on an apple tree in a perfectly lively condition. One male was found on the same day. This appears to indicate that the pests can withstand a considerable severity of frost. — The Gardener's Chronicle, London, Jan. 12, 1918, p. n. Interesting Butterfly Occurrences at Beeville, Texas (Lep.). During the past few years I have received, from time to time, some interesting butterflies from Beeville, Texas, and as some of them are exceedingly rare in the United States, I feel that they should be recorded for the benefit of other lepidopterists. The insects were collected by Miss Pattie Hutchinson, who kindly furnished in addition to most of the insects themselves the data on which this article is based. Cydhiiou pocyi Gundlach — One specimen of this tropical swallow- tail was captured by Miss Hutchinson at Beeville, June 17, 1916. It agrees with figs. 6 & 7, PI. CXXI, in "Reise der Oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde." (Trip of the Austrian Frigate Novara around the World.) It is apparently a Central American species, as Dr. Wolcott of Lincoln, Nebraska, has in his collection a specimen taken at Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, by M. A. Carriker, June. 1902. Picris amaryllis var. josepha G. & S. — 2 $ & i 9 taken Sept. 18, 1916. Miss Hutchinson reports that she observed a good many more during a period of about a month, saying they were found on wild run flowers. Nearly all were more or less worn. Catopsilia [>hilca Linn. — Miss Hutchinson reports the capture of onp specimen at Beeville by Mary Miller, a school girl of that place. Catopsil'a anarithc var. maxima Neum. — A nice series, both sexes, collected during Aug. & Sept., 1916. Goncptcrw clnrinde Godt. — One specimen taken by Miss Hutchinson Sept. 6, 1916, and another by Miss Mary Miller, about the same date. Kricogonia Ivsidc Godt. — A nice series received. Collected during May, 1916. . The males are mostly form tcrissa. while among the females is one form uiiicolor and one form fantasia. Mclitaca thcona var. bolli Edw. — 2 $ & 2 9 received. These were reared from larvae found on a native shrub called "Ceniza blanca" (Snanish for white ashes) emerging Oct. 7 & 14. F.udaitnts dorantes var. rantcrbcrt/i Skin. — I $ & i 9 received. Collected Oct. 16, 1916. A number of others collected during October and a few in the spring. Eudamus albofasciatus Hew. — 5 specimens collected during Sept., 1916. Murgar'w albociliata Mai). — 3 $ & I 9 received. Collected during March & September, 1916. Celotcs ncssHS Edw. — i specimen collected Sept. 30. Systasrn pulrendaitn Feld. — T specimen collected Sept. 30, 1916. — R. A. LEUSSLKR, Omaha, Nebraska. ISO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 Genitalia of Rhynchophora — Material Wanted (Col.)- When Mr. Fred Muir was in New York there was naturally much conversation about the joint paper of Sharp & Muir,1 on the genitalia of beetles and I was glad to learn that Dr. Sharp was continuing the study, especially in the Rhynchophora, and that I could be of some service by sending him a few American forms that he needed for study. This has been done and I have now a letter reading in part as follows : "Ithyccrus is extremely interesting. It has most com- plicated and remarkable genitalia, which prove beyond a doubt that it must be associated with the Belidse; a family that is at present not recognized as represented in North America, though it is known to occur in the Andean region of South America. I have not yet been able to procure any of the South American forms, but shall try to do so and let you know about them. Meanwhile I will be much obliged if you will publish my statement and say that I shall be very much obliged if I can get some additional material of Ithyccrus to complete the in- vestigation which is very difficult in certain respects. Specimens killed in ether, and afterwards transferred to distilled water, would probably help, even more than dried specimens. Spirit specimens are good, but not so good as other ones, as the spirit causes the delicate muscles to stiffen." In addition to Ithyccrus. specimens of the genera Dirotognathus, Acamptus, Calandrinus, Honnops and Yuccaborus are needed and may be sent to me or direct to Dr. David Sharp, Lawnside, Brockenhurst. Hants, England, by anyone who h?<= them to spare and wishes to as- sist in the investigation. — CHARLES W. LENG, Staten Island, N. Y. Some Species of Copaeodes (Lep.). The first species described was aurantiaca Hew. No localitv was given and the description is remarkable for brevity. It is as follows: "Upperside oransre-yellow with the base of both wings brown. Under- side as above. Exp. 7-10 inch." Dr. J. H. McDunnough says he has seen the type in the British Museum and that the name is correct for the species generally known as procris Edw. Waco Edw. was described in 1868 from one male, from Dr. Lin- cecum. Dr. Lincecum at that time lived at Long Point, Texas. This place is in Washington county, southeast of \Vaco. Perhaps the name indicates that the types were taken at Waco. Minima Edw. WPS de=cribed in 1870 and the male type was from Waco, Texas, (G. W. Belfrage). Procris Edw. was described in 1871 and the type locality was given as near Waco, Texas, (G. W. Belfrage). In 1890 Wright described Candida and gave as the type locality "canons in the foothills of southwestern California." This is a pure synonym of aurantiaca. Barnes and McDunnough in their Contributions, ion. ITT, ion. described rayata as a new snecies and figured both sexes. Thev say the white dash on the under side of the secondaries renders their species very easily recognized. Tvpe locality, San Benito, Texas. The relationship of all these names is interesting. Godman and 1 The comparative anatomy of the male rrenital tube in Coleoptera by D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. and F. Muir. F.E S. (Trans. F.nt. Soc. Lond., Dec., 1912, pp. 477-642, plates XLTI-LXXVIII). Vol. xxixl ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. T^T Salvin in the Biologia figure the rayata form as aitrantuicn and put all the other names into the synonymy except rayata. which had not then been described. I have only seen the aurantiaca form from Cali- fornia and Arizona and both forms from Texas. Most of the Texan specimens we have show the white ray on the underside of the secon- daries. It is probable that all the names represent one species. Waco, minima and procris have the same type locality. Mr. Edwards in his description of procris, female, says : "On the under side of secondaries the yellow color only obtains next abdom- inal margin; rest of wing yellow brown, with a pale, whitish, streak running from base to middle of hind margin." Rayata is therefore a synonym of procris, unless it can be shown that the sexes of procris were different species. Even so we would then have to reckon with waco and minima. It would appear that the species is aurantiaca and with procris as a variety, characterized by a white ray on the underside of the secon- daries.— HENRY SKINNER. 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), including- Arachnida and Myriopoda. 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing- new species are all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied F,n- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 6 — Journal. New York Ento- mological Society. 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 11 — Annals and Maga- zine of Natural History, 9th series, London. 21 — The Entomolo- gist's Record, London. 34 — Proceedings, Iowa Academy of Sci- ences, Des Moines. 37 — Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec. 51— Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 60 — Anales, Museo Na- cional de Buenos Aires. 90 — Revue Scientifique, Paris. 115— Oversigt Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlin- ger Copenhagen. 172 — The American Museum Journal. New York. 181 — Guide to Nature, Sound Beach, Conn. 394 — Parasitology, Cambridge. England. 411 — Bulletin, The Brooklyn Entomological Society. 420 — Insectitor Tnscitiae Menstruus: A monthly journal of entomology, Washington. 438— Bulletin, Illinois State Labora- tory of Natural History, Urbana. 447 — Journal of Agricultural Research, Washington. 513 — South African Journal of Sciences, 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 Cape Town. 519 — The Scientific Monthly, Lancaster, Pa. 556— Zoological Society Bulletin, New York. 557 — Journal, Board of Agriculture, London. GENERAL SUBJECT. Beebe, W.— Label making in the field, 556, xxi, 1574. Bouvier, E. L. — Les guerres d'insectes, 90, Iv, 737- 741. Crampton, G. C. — A phylogenetic study of the terminal ab- dominal segments and appendages in some female apterygotan and lower pterygotan insects, 6, xxv, 225-37. Kearfott, W. D. — Obitu- ary notice of, 4, 1918, 71-2. Obituary notice and bibliography, 6, xxv, 238-9. Palm, C.— Obituary notice, 6, xxv, 237-8. Sheldon, W. G. — On a cure for entomological specimens affected by verdigris, 9, 1918, 30-3. MEDICAL. Brues, C. T.— Insects and the national health, 519, vi, 193-209. Nuttall, G. H. F.— The part played by Pediculus hu- manus in the causation of disease, 394, x, 43-79. ARACHNIDA, ETC. Eales, N. B.— Cheese mites, 557, xxiv, 1087-96. Sorensen, W. — Sur la morphologic de 1'abdomen des Araignees, 115, 1916, 351-93. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Carman, P.— The Zygoptera, or dam- sel-flies, of Illinois, 438, xii, 411-587. Hewlett, F. M.— Notes on head- and body-lice and upon temperature reactions of lice and mosquitoes, 394, x, 186-8. Nuttall, G. H. F. — Bibliography of Pediculus and Phthirus. The biology of Pediculus humanus, 394, x, 1-42; 80-185. Wells, L.— Odonata of Iowa, 34, xxiv, 327-333. ORTHOPTERA. Brethes, J.— Descripcion de una nueva mosca langosticida, 60, xxviii, 141-44. Caudell, A. N. — Homocoryphus malivolans in Texas, 411, xii, 21-2. Marelli, C. A. — Las diferentes larvas de langostas que acompanan a las grandes mangas de la saltona de Schistocera paranensis, 60, xxviii, 345-90. HEMIPTERA. Dickerson & Weiss — Idiocerus scurra. a poplar leafhopper, 6, xxv, 218-24. Fontanel, P. — Une nombreuse posterite. Le puceron de la rudbeckie (Golden glow aphis), 37, xliv, 115-123. Olsen, C. E. — Notes on Draeculacephala inscripta, 6, xxv, 215-18. Davis, W. T. — Sonoran cicadas collected by H. H. Knight, J. Bequaert and others, with descriptions of [.">] new species, 6, xxv. 203-15. Gibson & Wells — The genus Ophiderma [2 new], 6, xxv, 199-203. Knight, H. H. — New sps. of Platylygus with a note on the male of Largidea grossa [2 new], 411, xii, 16-ls. LEPIDOPTERA. Dyar, H. G.— Brabantia rhizoleuca rede- scribed, 420, v, 169. Engelhardt, G. P.— Papilio thoas feeding on Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 153 Ruta graveolens, 411, xii, 22. Gravatt, G. F.— Gipsy-moth larvae as agents in the dissemination of the white-pine blister-rust, 447, xii, 459-62. Jorgensen, P. — Las mariposas argentinias, Famila Pieri- dae, 60, xxviii, 427-520. Kaye, W. J. — New species and races of Ithomiinae in the Joicey collection, 11, i, 77-86. Prout, L. B. — New L. in the Joicey collection, 11, i, 18-32. Rothschild, L. — Some new moths of the families Arctiidae and Eupterotidae, 51, xxiv, 475-92. DIPTERA. Bacot, A. — A note on the period during which the eggs of Stegomyia fasciata from Sierra Leone stock retain their vitality in a humid temperature, 394, x, 280-3. Brethes, J.— Algu- nas notas sobre mosquitos argentinos, 60, xxviii, 193-218. Dyar, H. G. — A second note on the species of Culex of the Bahamas. The larva of Aedes idahoensis, 420, v, 183-87; 187-8. Hewlett, F. M. — (See under Neuroptera, etc.). Mally, C. W. — Note on the eversion of the ptilinum during the emergence of the housefly, 513, xiii, 599. Alexander, C. P. — New Nearctic crane-flies — IV. [10 new], 4, 1918, 60-71. Dyar & Knab — New American mosquitoes [4 new]. The genus Culex in the U. S. [2 new], 420, v, 165-69; 170-83. Malloch, J. R. — A new sp. of Hartomyia from Illinois. Notes on Chloropidae, with descriptions [of 2 n. g.; 1 n. sp.], 411, xii, 18; 19-21. Townsend, C. H. T. — New genera of Amobiinae [11 n. g.], 420, v, 157-65. COLEOPTERA. Champion, G. C.— Note on the curculionid genus Sysciophthalmus, with a description of a n. sp. from Tierra del Fuego, 8, 1918, 35. Notes on various South Am. C. collected by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the "Beagle," with de- scriptions of n. gen. and sp,c., 9, 1918, 43-48 (cont.). Blatchley, W. S. — On some new or noteworthy C. from the west coast of Florida— IV. [4 new], 4, 1918, 52-59. Van Dyke, E. C.— Some new beetles in the families Cantharidae, Ptinidae, and Sca- rabaeidae, from western N. A., with notes upon others [1 n. p.: 14 n. sps.], 411, xii, 1-15. HYMENOPTERA. Bigelow, E. F.— How honeybees produce honeycomb, 181, x, 259-72. Gallardo, A. — Las hormigas de la Re- publica Argentina. Subfamila Dolicoderinas. Notas acerca de la hormiga Trachymyrmex pruinosa. Notas complementarias sobre las Dolicoderinas argentinas. Notes systematiques et ethologiques sur les fourmis Attines de la Republique Argentine, 60, xxviii, 1-130: 241-52; 257-62; 317-44. Heslop Harrison, J. W.— The pair- ing habits of certain bees, 21, xxx, 11-12. Holmberg, E. L.— Las especies argentinas de Coelioxys, 60, xxviii, 541-91. McAtee, W. 154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 L. — The biting powers of ants, 172, xviii, 141-7. Perkins, R. C. L. —The synonymy of Andrena wilkella and its allies, with notes on habits, as confirming specific distinction, 9, 1918, 36-9. Verner, S. P. — Ant pests and ant-eating animals, 556, xxi. 1575. CATALOGUE OF THE HEMIPTERA OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO, EX- CEPTING THE APHIDIDAE, COCCIDAE AND ALEURODIDAE. By EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE. University of California Publications, Technical Bul- letins, vol. 2., pp. i-xiv and 1-902. (Paper $5.00, cloth $5.50. In the East it may be had at the University of California Press, 280 Madison Ave., New York.) Through this work, Mr. Van Duzee -definitely assures his leadership of present-day American hemipterists. I voice the mind of his col- leagues in this country in congratulating him and ourselves on this very valuable volume. For years to come this Catalogue will be the basis of all work in Hemiptera for our fauna ; all must refer back to it to agree or to disagree. It is indispensable. The Catalogue is carried out on the excellent plan of Oshanin's V erseichniss dcr palacarktischcn Hemiptercn niit besondcrcr Bcriick- sichtigung Ihrcr Vertheilung im Russischen Rciche,* the only work on a restricted fauna to which it may be compared. It diTers from Oshanin in that the references given are only such as are material. Oshanin lists every reference. The classification follows Reuter — with mitigations. Horvath is guide in matters of nomenclature. Many types are renovated or changed to agree with the author's interpre- tation or understanding of the International Code. This question of nomenclature and priority will always be with us to vex until we come to an agreement as to what constitutes priority, so framed that no room will be left for personal interpretation. We must also put the casual biologists — the science teacher, the sanitarian, the physi- cian— in a position where they shall not be able to dictate to the specialist what his names must be, lest a change compel the casual to learn perhaps three or four new names. The arrangement of the aquatic and semi-aquatic forms is not satisfactory, but this must be the subject of more extended com ment. Generic and specific indices add greatly to the completeness and usefulness of the work. The volume as a whole is surprisingly free from errors, except of typography ; a little more exacting editing would have done away even with these few. * Beilage zum Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Bd. XI-XIV, pp. i-xxiv, 1-1087, 1906-09; Bd. XI, XII, XIII, pp. i-xvi, 1-492, 1906-08; Bd. XV, pp. i-xvi, 1-217, 1910. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155 We shall doubtless have a series of articles correcting, expanding and improving this truly great work, of which one is threatened above. Meantime, no working hemipterist can afford to do without this, the first, real, authoritative Catalogue of our Hemipterous fauna. Some may get it to curse, but all will keep it to bless. — J. R. DE LA TORRE BUENO, White Plains, New York. FIELD BOOK OF INSECTS. With special reference to those of North- eastern United States, aiming to answer common questions. By FRANK E. LUTZ, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Dept. of Invertebrate Zool- ogy, American Museum of Natural History. With about 800 illustra- tions, many in color. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1918, Pp. ix, 509. $2.50. The very first thing the author of this attractive volume tells us is that ten years ago he felt sure there was little excuse for additional general entomologies. He doesn't admit that his opinion has changed, but rather throws the burden of this book on the publishers who evi- dently wished to extend a series of "Field Books" already in existence. We believe that this is the most convenient pocket book on all groups of North American insects that has yet appeared. It measures 7 x 4^4 x i inches, weighs 15 ounces, is printed in clear type of the same size as that in which these words are and well spaced, and deals (so it claims) with about 1400 species, of which nearly 600 are illustrated by one or more figures. In selecting the species to be discussed Dr. Lutz has been guided by what the public, in evidence at his museum, seem to want to know. The two extremes of desire appear to be, "How much is a moth worth?" and "Why are bed bugs?" An answer to the former is given on page 154, but we have looked in vain on page 106 (and elsewhere) for any response to the other, assuredly more philosophical, conundrum. We are far from laying anything against the author for this omission, however. The book is entertainingly written and every here and there the reader is made acquainted, by means of a well-chosen and not superfluous passage, with some of the best entomological liter- ature. Who will soon forget the venerability of the cockroach after reading page 62? Ever and anon the author gives us one of his own witty sayings as when, in discussing some of the difficulties of the classification of the Serricorn Coleoptera, he remarks that nature appar- ently does not use a card catalog (p. 306), while farther down on the same page is the delicious story of the Breakbacks. The insects are taken up seriatim by orders (24 of them), but the Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera occupy about 340 of the 509 pages. Here and there are keys to the more interesting fam- ilies, genera or species. Great reliance for identification is naturally placed on the figures, about 700 of which are new and the work of Mrs. E. L. Beutenmiiller. The colored illustrations are on 24 plates 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 which, curiously, are not numbered, except in the list on pages vii-ix, although the black and white plates bear their proper serial numbers. Many of the four-color figures have a slight blurred effect in the print- ing, unfortunately. The introduction tells very briefly of nomenclature, growth and structure and much more fully of collecting and preserving insects and the control of injurious insects. This book will do much for entomology. — P. P. CALVERT. (Advt.). Doings of Societies. Meeting of Ohio Entomologists. For some years it has been the custom for the entomologists of Ohio institutions to hold an annual meeting, the main purpose being to correlate the entomological activities of the State. Such meetings are open to active entomologists and students specializing in ento- mology. At the recent meeting held in the Botany and Zoology building of the State University, at Columbus, on January 29, 1918, thirty- seven entomologists were present and the following program was ren- dered : General. — Herbert Osborn: Entomological objectives in the Biological Survey. F. H. Krecker: Insect fauna of rock-bottom ponds. Economic. — E. W. Mendenhall: Observations on some insects in nurseries for the year 1917. J. S. Hine: Apicultural conditions in Ohio. D. M. DeLong: Remarks on work with tobacco pests and leaf-hoppers. D. C. Mote: Experiments with Sodium fluoride in controlling sheep lice. lA. J. Basinger: A survey of greenhouse pests for Columbus and vicinity. J. S. Houser: The insect out- breaks in southern Ohio woodlands, 1916-17. J. R. Stear: Geo- graphical distribution of the insect pests of Ohio for 1917. C. A. Weigel: On the penetration of insecticides. T. L. Guyton: The potato aphid outbreak of 1917. Richard Faxon: The control of animal parasites at the front. Arachnida. — Wm. M. Barrows: Observations on field and meadow spiders. Homoptera. — H. A. Gossard: The periodical cicada in Ohio in 1917. R. K. Fletcher: Observations on Miridae. J. C. Hamlin: Observations on Membracidae. (See also Hymenoptera). Hymenoptera. — F. A. Fenton: Notes on Leaf-hopper parasites. Lepidoptera. — R. S. McKay: The evergreen bag-worm, habits and food plants. Diptera. — C. L. Metcalf: Notes on Syrphidae. J. S. HOUSER, Scc'y. Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 157 OBITUARY. DR. SAMUEL GIBSON DIXON, President of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia since 1896, and Commis- sioner of Health for the State of Pennsylvania since 1905, died in Philadelphia, February 26, 1918, after an illness of eight months. He was born in Philadelphia, March 23, 1851. studied successively law and medicine in the University of Pennsylania. and bacteriology and hygiene in King's Col- lege, London, and Pettenkofer's laboratory at Munich. He was assistant demonstrator in physiology in the University of Pennsylvania 1886-88, professor of Hygiene 1888-90, and later a trustee of the same institution. His activity in The Academy of Natural Sciences began about 1890 in connection with bacteriological work and in the following year he became a curator, a function which he filled to the end of his life. Largely through his efforts the Legislature of Pennsylvania was induced to make a number of appropriations to the Acad- emy by means of which its buildings were greatly extended and strengthened. These additions and improvements were his chief contribution to the institution's progress and welfare and will stand as an enduring monument to his labor and devotion. As Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania he took much interest in the relation of insects to disease, directed the mak- ing of a mosquito survey of the State in 1906 by Mr. H. L. Viereck (to which references will be found in the NEWS xvii, 150; xviii, 29-30), and promoted investigations of the pos- sible role played by flies in the transmission of infantile par- alysis. CHARLES ARTHUR HART was born at Quincy, Illinois, Oc- tober 12, 1859, and from 1884 to the day of his sudden death, February 18, K)i8, was connected with tin- office now officially designated as the Illinois State Natural History Survey. That the collections of the Survey are among the largest. 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 and undoubtedly the most comprehensive, in the United States is largely due to the untiring efforts of Mr. Hart, while the arrangement and classification are almost entirely his. The handicap of a lack of an entomological course such as is now possible to students was to a very large extent over- come by studious application to the work of classification, and an exceptional natural aptitude. Always a keen and observant field collector, the opening of the biological station on the Illinois River, at Havana, in 1894, provided him with an ex- ceptional opportunitv to indulge in research into the life-his- tories of aquatic insects, and as a part result of this work he published his paper on the Entomologv of the Illinois River in 1895. This paper is a model for work of this nature, con- taining as it does, besides many statistical and systematic data, many observations on the life-histories of the forms dealt with which are presented in a readable and interesting manner. In addition to this paper Mr. Hart drew up manuscript keys to various orders of insects in their different stages, and to mol- lusca. for use in the summer school at Havana. Apart alto- gether from the knack of assembling in orderly array and uni- formly labeling the multitude of preserved specimens in the laboratory, which Mr. Hart possessed to a marked degree, he at all times bore in mind the biologic and economic habits and characteristics of these forms, something that is becoming undeniably rarer in these days of specialization. The paucity of Mr. Hart's publications is not to be accepted as a criterion of his knowledge of entomology, nor as an in- dication of inability to handle such undertakings, as his knowledge, in my opinion, was both ample and varied, and his published works show his ability to lucidly express himself, but rather denotes, at least to those who knew him, the degree of self -repression which he exercised in order that his ap- pointed task, the arrangement of our collections, should be accomplished. At the time of his death this task was still incomplete, being interrupted in the Orthoptera, but he left things in such condition that it will be possible to take up the work where it was left unfinished. Vol. xxixl ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159 He left one paper, the manuscript of which is fairly ready, on the Pentatomoidea of Illinois, and this I have undertaken to complete, mostly from his notes, and publish. From my four and one-half years of constant association with him. I conclude that, as a factor in broadening the scope of systematic entomology and in linking it up with other branches of nature study, he played a very important part, not only through his published papers but through the influence he exercised upon university students with whom he came in con- tact. He saw clearly that, in order to command attention and prove its economic value commensurate with the expenditure demanded for it, entomology should be considered in its broadest possible aspect, and the lack of published papers by him is in large measure due to the fact that the amount of work for which he assumed responsibility left him but little time for the preparation of papers. Although never robust he devoted many hours more daily to his work than he was called upon to do. a characteristic found almost exclusively among scientists who pursue their studies because of inclination and not of necessity. His earliest work was principally done on Coleoptera. but in later years he devoted much time to Odonata, publishing one paper in collaboration with J. G. Needham, and to the Orthoptera. His principal work during the last six years was done on the Hemiptera and it is unfortunate that his untimely death prevented him from publishing his results. — J. R. MAL- LOCH. CHARLES PALM, one of the founders of the New York- Entomological Society (organized June 29, 1892), born at Calbe. Germany, in 1836, died November 5, 1917. An obitu- ary notice and portrait are published in the Journal of the Society for December, 1917 (Vol. XXV, pp. 237-8. pi. 18). Despatches published in the daily press announced the death, from his own hand, of ADOLFH FRIEDRTCH VI, grand-duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on February 23, 1918, near his castle at Neu-Strelitz. He was born at Neu-Strelitz, June 17, i8Sj, l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 son of the grand-duke Adolf Friedrich V, whom he succeeded on his father's death, June n, 1914. He is said to have served brilliantly with Von Mackensen in Serbia in 1915, being the first officer to cross the Danube, and was credited with storm- ing Fort Elisabeth almost single-handed. The relationship of the deceased to the entomological world is chiefly through his leadership of two important African expeditions, both of which secured very extensive entomological collections. One of these expeditions, the German Central Africa Expedition of 1907-1908, of which Dr. H. Schubotz was the zoologist, traversed the country be- tween Victoria Nyanza and Lake Kivu in western German East Africa: explored the Virunga Volcanoes, the lower slopes of Ruwenzori and the Ituri River region of the northeastern Belgian Congo. The second expedition, the Second German Central Africa Expedition of 1910- 1911, on which Drs. Schubotz and Arnold Schultze were zoologists, visited the lower Congo basin and lower Ubangi River, one party going down the Shari River to Lake Tchad and returning to the west coast by way of the Niger River, another party traversed the southern Cameroons to the west coast and two other sections, by different routes, traveled the Uelle-Ubangi system, across the watershed and down the Nile. On the entomological collections of the first expedition twenty-three reports had appeared up until the time when communication with Ger- many was discontinued. Of these seven were on the Hymenoptera and the same number on the Coleoptera, while two were on the Orthoptera and one each on Plecoptera, Dermaptera, Collembola, Thysanoptera, Trichoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera, the authors being Kieffer, Strand, Bischoff, Stitz, Szepligeti, Lesne, Pic, Hintz, Kerremans, W. Horn, Bernhauer, Klapalek, Burr, Griinberg, Borchmann, Jacobi, Weise, Enslin, Gebien, Ulmer, Karny, Borner, Schulthess-Rechberg, Kolbe, Shelford and Rehn. These reports were published as sections of the natural history results of the expedition — IVissenschaftliche Ergcb- nisse dcr Dcntschcn Zcntral-Afrika-E.rpcdition 1907-08. The results of the second expedition have been appearing in a similar series — Ergcbnisse dcr TLrvciten Dcutschen Zentral-Afrika-E.vpedition 1910- IQII. To date nine entomological sections have been received in Phila- delphia, five on Coleoptera. one on Mecoptera, two on Hymenoptera and one on Hemiptera. The authors of these are : Weise, Enslin, Szepligeti, Melichar, Sjostedt, Gebein, Moser, Ohaus, Bickhardt and Kerremans. — J. A. G. REHN. ERRATUM. Page 119, line 18 (March, 1918), for Coleoptera read Lepidoptera. 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CONTENTS: Laurent — Notes on Variations and Ab- normal Forms of Three Species of Saturniidae ( Lep. 1 161 Blaisdell — Studies in the Tenebiionid Tribe Eleodiini, No. 3 (Coleop.)... 162 'Cockerell— Some Bees of the Genus Panurginus ( Hym.) . 169 Membership in the Association of Eco- nomic Biologists 171 Knight — New Species of Lopidea from Arizona (Hemip. Miridae I 172 Townsend A New Muscoid Genus from t he Chi ricahua Mountains, Ari- zona ( Dip. ) 177 Aldrich— The Anthomyid Genus Pogo- nomyia (Dip.) 179 Funkhouser — A New Membracid on Cypress ( Homop. | 185 McDunnough — A Review of Reviews (Lep.) 187 Mosquitoes and the War 191 Editorial — The Forms of Generic and of Specific Names 192 Weiss — Additional Acarina found in New Jersey 193 Entomological Literature 194 Doings of Societies — American Ento- mological Society (Dip., Orthop., Odonata. Lep.) 197 Entomological Section, The Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila. (Lep., Orthop. 198 Feldman Collecting Social — Coleop., Lep., Dip 199 Notes on Variations and Abnormal Forms of Three Species of Saturniidae (Lep.). By PHILIP LAURENT, Philadelphia. Pa. (Plate IX.) During the past forty years I have bred a few thousand specimens of Callosainia proinetliea, Philosauria cynthia and Emilia cccropia. and have obtained many specimens differing from the normal forms. A specimen of Callosamia promethea in which the basal half of all four wings is blackish, the color of the male, and the outer half of the wings purplish red, as in the female, is one of the interesting variations. Two speci mens of PJnlosauiia cynthia have the ground color of the wings dark gray instead of drab-grav : while the white and lilac col- on'd lines and markings are wauling. An oddity in the way of a five-winged Sninitt cecropia, with four perfect wings and 161 1 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'l8 one imperfect, was secured a few years ago. This year (1917) there emerged in one of my cages an abnormal Sainia cecropia differing from any specimen I have ever seen. The cocoon from which the moth was bred did not differ from any of the hundred or more other cocoons that I had, all of which were collected on the outskirts of Philadelphia. A description of this specimen is not necessary, as it is well figured in this num- ber of the NEWS (Plate IX, upper figure). Studies in the Tenebrionid Tribe Eleodiini No. 3 (Coleop.). By F. E. BLAISDELL, SR., San Francisco, California. Eleodes pimelioides Mann., var. brevisetosa n. var. Oblong-ovate, very densely and rather finely sculptured, dull black, the legs dark nigro-piceous. Head very densely and confluently punctate, punctures rather fine. Antennae moderate in length. Pronotwm about one-fifth wider than long; disc moderately convex, rather finely and very densely punctate, punctures more or less con- fluent, the intervals being mere lines ; sides more or less angulate at middle, thence evenly and moderately arcuate to apex, conversely oblique, convergent, straight or feebly sinuate to the basal constric- tion, the latter distinct and about one-seventh of the total length, with sides straight and parallel. Elytra slightly oblong, two-sixths longer than wide, vertically de- clivous posteriorly; sides broadly, evenly and moderately arcuate; Immeri obtuse and not in the least prominent ; disk widest at the mid- dle third, moderately convex on the dorsum. broadly and arcuately rounded at the sides; surface densely sculptured with tuberculiform granules, which are bright and shining at their summit?, each bearing a short seta. On the central part of the disk the granules are less de- veloped and more asperately punctate, the asperities are absolutely without an orderly arrangement. Otherwise as in brunnipes. Measurements. — $ — Length, n.o mm.; width. 4.75 mm. 9 — Length, 12.0-15.0 mm.; width, 5.0-7.5 mm. Types in my own collection. Collector F. W. Nunen- macher. Habitat. Lassen County, California (type locality), May; Verdi, Nevada, April. 21 specimens studied. In the male the first joint of the protarsi bears a moderate Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 tuft of golden pubescence at tip beneath ; the second joint has a narrow transverse tuft. The basal joint of the mesotarsi bears a very small tuft which does not wholly interrupt the plantar groove. The female referred to under bnmnipcs in my monograph of the Eleodiini (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.), and which was collected at Verdi, Nevada, belongs here. It was doubtfully referred to brunnipes and did not not agree with my speci- men of that species which was collected at Buena Vista, Colo- rado. Eleodes nunenmacheri n. sp. Robust, subovate, densely sculptured and dull black. Elytra tuber- culate throughout, body setigerous throughout. Head rather small, less than one-half the width of the prothorax, very densely punctate, punctures rather small, subperforate, and more or less coalescent: intervals very narrow or more or less obsolete; feebly and broadly impressed along the line of the frontal suture. An- tennae a little longer than the head and pronotum, moderate in stout- ness, outer four joints moderately compressed, very feebly incrassate ; third joint as long as the fourth and fifth taken together, fourth to the seventh inclusive subequal in length and obconic, eighth triangular, ninth and tenth about as long as wide, eleventh obovate. Pronotum wider than long, widest just in front of the middle; sides broadly and evenly arcuate anteriorly, oblique and converging posteriorly, and just noticeably arcuate to straight — not reentrant, constricted in basal twelfth, sides of the constriction straight and parallel, sinuate only at the junction of the obliquely directed sides and the constriction, arcuately subangulate at middle ; disk evenly and moderately convex, densely punctate, punctures moderate, subperforate, more or less coalescent and minutely setigerous, intervals very narrow to subobsolete, with scattered small smooth areas as if a puncture was now and then obsolete; apex very feebly sinuate and not beaded; base subequal to the apex, transverse and not beaded ; apical angles obtusely and narrowly rounded ; basal angles rectangular and not prom- inent. Proplcura opaque, densely and finely punctate, punctures minutely setigerous ; surface rugulose at the acetabula. Elytra slightly longer than wide, quadrato-ovate. widest in middle third ; base truncate, slightly wider than the contiguous prothoracic base ; humeri subangulate and not prominent ; disk moderately con vex on the dorsum, broadly and arcuately rounded laterally, arcuately and abruptly declivous posteriorly; surface strongly tuberculate 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS [^ay, 'l8 throughout, tubercles moderate in size, nearly simple, bearing small setae, laterally and on the apical declivity more distinctly muricate, setae longer, feebly reclinate, more strongly so at the extreme periphery, with minute tubercles scattered between the larger ones, all smooth and more or less shining, general surface minutely reticulate. Epiplcura very sparsely mtiricato-tuberculate, gradually narrowing from base to apex ; surface minutely reticulate. Sterna finely and densely punctate. Paraplcura finely and less densely punctate. Abdomen smooth and shining, rather densely punctate, first segments distinctly so, fifth finely and moderately densely punctate. Legs moderate in length and stoutness. $ . — Less robust, somewhat narrower. Abdomen rather less than moderately convex, impressed at middle of the first two segments, slightly oblique to the sterna. First two joints of the protarsi clothed with a tuft of golden pubescence at tips beneath. First joint of the mesotarsi without tufts. 9- — Robust. Abdomen quite strongly convex. First joint of the protarsi distinctly thickened at apex beneath and evidently clothed with coarse short setae; second joint with a narrow transverse tuft which is cleft at middle, plantar groove distinct basally, but obsolete on the first joint which is convex beneath. Measurements. — $ — Length, 9.5-11.0 mm.; width, 4.5-5.0 mm. 9 — length, 12.5 mm.; width, 6.5 mm. Habitat. — Klamath and Lake counties, Oregon ; Lassen and Modoc Counties, California. 17 specimens studied. Types $ and 9 in my own collection ; type locality, Klamath County, Oregon. F. W. Nunemnacher, collector. The males have the prothorax rather more strongly con- stricted before the base, but the sides in all instances are straight or feebly arcuate between the middle and the con- striction and not re-entrant, as in cordata and pijiiclioidcs. The prothorax appears relatively wider as a result. NitnenniacJicri differs from pimelioides in the shape of the pronotum and in its denser punctuation ; the tuberculation of tfK. elytra is also more regular and less muricate. It should follow pimelioides and its races in our lists. Eleodes nunenmacheri, var. verrucula n. var. Form as in nunenmacheri. Punctuation of the pronotal disk slightly finer. In the female the form of the pronotum is the same as in nunenmacheri, while in the male the basal constriction is more ab- Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL XK\VS 165 ruptly formed ; as a result the sides behind the middle are somewhat more strongly convergent and straighter, and the sides of the con- stricted portion are straight and parallel. The basal angles are rec- tangular. The elytral disk centrally and along the suture is somewhat sub- obsoletely tuberculo-rugulose, peripherally muricato-tuberculate, the tubercles being more reclinate than in nunenmacheri, their summits are bright and shining and about one-half as large as in the typical race; very small tubercles are scattered between the larger ones. • The general surface is microscopically granulato-reticulate. Laterally the tubercles are setigerous, the setae are reclinate and in length about equal to the height of the tubercles; on the central part of the disk the setae are more hair-like. The inter-coxal process of the prosternum is not mucronate in the specimens at hand. $ . — Abdomen oblique to the sterna, rather feebly convex and quite strongly impressed on the first two segments. The basal two joints of the protarsi bear tufts of golden pubescence at tips beneath ; basal joint of the mesotarsi bears a small transverse tuft. 9 . — As in nunenmacheri. Frequently the apical tarsal tufts are piceo-fuscous, but usually become golden yellow after immersion in chloroform. Measurements. — $ — Length, 9.5-11.0 mm.; width, 4.5-5.0 mm. 9 — Length, 12.5 mm. ; width, 6.5 mm. Habitat. — Lake and Klamath Counties, Oregon ; Lassen and Modoc Counties, California ; 78 specimens studied. Types $ and 9 in my own collection ; type locality, Lake County, Oregon. F. W. Nunenmacher, collector. The speci- mens were collected in May. Eleodes propinqua n. sp. Ovate, twice as long as wide, distinctly pubescent throughout, densely sculptured ; elytra moderately scabrous. Head rather finely and densely punctate, feebly convex. Antennae ex- tending a short distance beyond the base of the pronotum, slightly compressed and feebly dilated in the outer three joints, scarcely in- crassate ; third joint just the least longer than the combined lengths of the fourth and fifth, fourth to the seventh joints inclusive subequal in length and width, eighth triangularly obconical, ninth triangulo- oval, tenth slightly wider than long, the eleventh short obovate. Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest just in advance of the middle; disk moderately convex, more strongly so in the lateral thirds, closely and not finely punctate, intervals narrow, feebly convex but not rugose, somewhat scabrous laterally; base and apex subtruncate, i66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 scarcely margined; sides subangulate, more or less feebly arcuate and convergent before the middle to apex, somewhat oblique, straight or feebly arcuate to the marked constriction posteriorly, the latter about or less than one-sixth of the total pronotal length; apical angles ob- tuse ; basal angles rectangular. Proplcura rather densely punctato-rugose and submuricate. Elytra oval, about one-fourth longer than wide, widest at middle third ; base truncate, distinctly wider than the contiguous pronotal base ; .humeri obtuse and not in the least prominent ; sides evenly ar- cuate, apex not broadly rounded ; disk moderately convex on the dor- sum, evenly and broadly arcuate laterally and vertically declivous pos- teriorly ; surface densely sculptured, punctate-scabrous centrally about the suture, tuberculate laterally, tubercles rather small, somewhat muri- civte, more strongly so on the apical declivity, each tubercle or punc- ture with a moderately long semi-erect hair. Epiplewa subscabrous and not strongly defined from the elytral disk. Sterna and parapleura shining and densely punctate. Abdomen glabrous and shining, more or less densely punctate, especially on the first segment and basally on the others. Legs moderate and rather slender. Anterior tarsi dissimilar in the sexes. $ . — Somewhat narrow. Abdomen feebly oblique to the sterna and impressed at middle of the first two segments. Protarsi with the first two joints scarcely thickened at tips beneath, each with a tuft of pubescence, tufts piceo-flavous, that of the first joint rather broadly truncate, that of the second transverse and subtruncate ; first joint of the mesotarsi with a small rounded and truncate tuft at tip be- neath. 9. — Broader and ovate. Abdomen horizontal. First joint of the protarsi somewhat thickened at tip, with the apico-marginal tufts of spinules contiguous at the median plane and blocking the plantar groove. $ . — Length, 9.5-10.5 mm. ; width, 4.5-5.0 mm. 9 . — Length, 10.0-12.0 mm. ; width, 5.0-6.5 mm. Habitat. — Modoc County, California. Collected May 15, 1913, by F. W. Nunenmacher; 52 specimens studied. Types $ and 9 in my own collection ; type locality, Modoc County, California. In a single female the joints of the protarsi are wholly denuded of spinules. The plantar grooves are not de- fined on the first four joints, which are evenly and smoothly convex from side to side, the first is subhemispherically promi- Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l6/ nent in the apical two-thirds; the fifth joint is alone margined beneath. Proplnqua is related to caseyi, from which it differs in its coarser sculpturing, more strongly sinuate sides of the prono- tum and many other details which can be determined by com- parison of the two descriptions. The elytra are noticeably pubescent. Elcodcs brci'lsctosa, nnnenmachcri, verrucnla and pro pin- qua belong to the subgenus Blapylis. Eleodes hispilabris Say, var. imitabilis n. var. Syn. E. hispilabris forma laez'is. Tn order to express the relationships of the races of his- pilabris properly, it becomes necessary to consider the smooth form (forma lacz'is) as a race instead of a forma. The origi- nal diagnosis given in my Monograph of the Eleodiini is as follows : Robust, integuments decidedly black, thick and alutaceous, also quite smooth. Thorax rather large. Elytra usually evenly convex from side to side, sulci very shallow and subobsoletely punctured ; intervals very feebly convex and with a single row of widely spaced punctures, that become minutely but distinctly muricate laterally and on the apical declivity. Legs somewhat slender. Measurements. — $ — Length, 23.0 mm.; width, 8.0 mm. $ — Length, 23.0-26.0 mm. ; width, 9.2-10.0 mm. iiabitat. — Utah (Salt Lake, June, Coll. Hubbard and Schwarz) ; Oregon (The Dalles); State of Washington (Walla Walla, Coll. Chas. Fuch and F. E. Blaisdell). Types in my own collection; type locality. The Dalles, Ore- gon. While there are very close resemblances between the two sexes as to general form, a difference is obvious. The males are slightly narrower and the abdomen less convex. E. liispila- bris forma elongate of the Monograph ( Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.) is a variation of imitabilis and not of the type- species. Its relationship may be expressed as follows : E. hispilabris, var. imitabilis, forma elongata. The essential diagnostic characters are as follows : — General form distinctly elongate and narrower as compared with the typical race. :68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 Integuments thick, dull black and alutaceous. Elytra sulcate, but less so than in E. hispilabris var. scnlptilis, and slightly more so than in imitabilis. The elytral intervals are more or less feebly convex. The prothorax is noticeably larger and the legs stouter. The general form is the same in both sexes, — the female is depressed on the dorsum as in the male and the elytra are but slightly wider than those of the male. There is here less sexual differentiation, as has already been mentioned in connection with other species or races, as E. (Blapylis) ncotomac for instance. Eleodes hispilabris Say, var. attenuata n. var. Elongate, subfusiform, shining, black; elytra more or less slightly sulcate, moderately convex ; integuments weak. Head finely and sparsely punctate, punctures coarsest on the epis- toma and finest on the vertex. Antennae long and as in hispilabris. Pronotum widest at about the middle; disk smooth and more or less alutaceous, moderately convex, finely, very sparsely and irregularly punctured, narrowly granulate and opaque along the marginal bead ; apex slightly narrower than the base, feebly emarginate and obsoletely beaded ; sides evenly and broadly arcuate, becoming slightly sinuate before the basal angles, which are subrectangular, distinct but not in the least prominent, marginal bead more or less strong; base feebly beaded and feebly arcuate; apical angles subacute and not dentiform to moderately dentiform, not or feebly everted. Propleura smooth, subopaque, finely punctulate, and more or less feebly rugulose. Elytra ovato-fusiform, about twice as long as wide, widest at the middle; base very feebly emarginate and just the least wider than the contiguous base of the pronotum ; humeri minutely dentiform; sides evenly arcuate, feebly and broadly sinuate before the apex, the latter subacute, slightly dehiscent and the suture impressed; disk feebly con- vex on the dorsum, broadly and rather evenly rounded laterally, gradually and arcuately declivous posteriorly; surface more or less sulcate ; sulci shallow and with a single row of small, very closely placed punctures, intervals feebly to moderately convex and with a single row of widely spaced punctures. The deflexed sides are more coarsely, irregularly punctate, subsulcate and more or less asperate. Sterna and parapleura more or less finely punctate. Abdomen more or less glabrous, finely and sparsely punctate, punc- tures denser and rugulose on the first segment. Legs slender; profemora armed. Tarsi grooved and similar in the sexes. $. — Slender, fusiform. Elytral apex more attenuate and the disk more gradually declivous on the dorsum. Abdomen horizontal and feebly convex. Vol. XXl'x] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 169 9 • — Less elongate, broader. Abdomen more strongly convex. •Measurements.— $ — Length, 20.5-23.0 mm.; width, 6.0-6.5 mm. 9- Length, 20.0-24.0 mm.; width, 6.2-7.0 mm. Habitat. — Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, August and September, 1906. Eleven specimens studied. Collected by F. W. Nunenmacher. Types in my own collection; type locality, Nogales, Arizona. Attenuata can be recognized by its smoother sculpturing, more attenuate and fusiform body. Some Bees of the Genus Panurginus (Hym.). By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. It is a remarkable thing that the northern genus Panurginus has penetrated to Southern South America ; while Pcrdita, so rich in species in our southwest, appears to be wholly absent from the South American desert regions. Panurginus callurus sp. n. —Length nearly 5 mm., with broad abdomen; head and thorax black, abdomen clear orange-ferruginous, without hair-bands ; flagellum short, bright ferruginous beneath, darker above; mandibles bright fer- ruginous, with the apex broadly black; hair of head and thorax whit- ish, scanty, abundant on postscutellum ; facial quadrangle much broader than long ; head and thorax shining and finely punctured, the mesothorax and scutellum polished ; eyes gray ; tegulae light rufo-testaceous ; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma testaceous; b. n. falling far short of t. m. ; base of metathorax with irregular plicae, and the surface microscopi- cally reticulate; legs ferruginous, the anterior femora dusky; scopa of hind tibiae loose, of simple curved hairs, which are microscopically an- nulate; hind basitarsus about as long as the other joints together, and much broader; claws cleft; abdomen with very little hair except at apex. The stigma is smaller than in P. vagabiindus. Carcarana, Argentina (L. firnncr 76). United States Na- tional Museum. Easily kno\vn by the red abdomen. P. mft- t'cntris Friese has also a red abdomen, but the head and thorax are dark blue. It is from Mexico. Panurginus vagabundus sp. n. 5. — Length about 5 mm., anterior wing 4; black, the hind margins of the abdominal segments rather obscurely ra-.taneous ; pubescence scanty, whitish; eyes slaty black; clypeus pale lemon yellow \\ith two dark I/O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, ' 1 8 dots, the surface rugoso-punctate, not polished; mandibles rufescent; labrum black, polished and shining: facial quadrangle about as broad as long; flagellum bright ferruginous beneath, reaching as far as base of wings; mesothorax and scutellum shining, finely punctured; base of metathorax rugulose, dull, with feeble plicae; tubercles faintly red- dish or wholly black; tegulae rufotestaceous ; wings hyaline, very faintly dusky apically ; nervures and the large stigma ferruginous ; b. n. falling a little short of t. m. ; knees pale yellowish; anterior tibiae in front, and their tarsi, light reddish ; the other tarsi whitish on outer side and light ferruginous on inner; abdomen shining, finely punctured, without hair-bands. Claws cleft; hairs on hind tibiae delicately plu- mose. • Carcarana, Argentina (L. Bruner, 40 and 72.) United States National Museum. This is separated from its nearest relatives as follows, the table based on males : Legs black i. Legs partly yellow or pale reddish 2. 1. Clypeus yellow saltensis Friese. Clypeus white aeneiventris Friese. 2. Tubercles yellow, wings dark steinbachi Friese. Tubercles not yellow, wings clear vagabundus Ckll. In Meadow Valley, northern Mexico, Prof. C. H. T. Town- send took three species of Pamirgimts. One is the Rocky Mountain P. bakcrl Ckll., while the other two are new. Panurginus nitescens sp. n. 9 . — Length a little over 7 mm. ; shining black, with scant}' pale hair ; eyes obscure green ; clypeus polished, with large distinctly separated punctures, and a faintly indicated median groove; antennae black; an irnpunctate area on each side of the ocelli ; mesothorax polished, with distinct but widely scattered punctures ; area of metathorax rugosopli- cate, with a prominent smooth shining rim ; tegulae dark, with a large reddish spot ; wings clear, nervures and stigma dull rather pale red- dish ; legs black, with pale hair ; spurs ferruginous ; abdomen shining, hind margins of segments 2 to 4 broadly reddish. Meadow Valley, Mexico (Toivnscnd}. United States Na- tional Museum. This species is best distinguished by com- parison with several others which it greatly resembles, as follows : Middle of flagellum bright rufous beneath; wings brownish, perlaei'is Ckll. Flagellum not thus marked; wings clear, or (Birred) slightly dusky.. I. Vol. xxix") ENTOMOLOIIU Ai. .\K\vs I/I 1. Second s. m. narrowed fully half above, first r. n. joining second s. m. much more than twice as far from base as second r. n. from apex; mesothorax very smooth, without conspicuous punctin pic red Crawl". Second s. m. not thus narrowed above, first r. n. joining second s. m. nearer base (especially in innuptns) ; mesothorax distinctly punctured 2. 2. Area of metathorax without a shiny rim; tegulae testaceous. iiuntptus Ckll. Area of metathorax with a shiny rim; tegulae reddish fuscous. nitcsccns Ckll. Panurginus planatus sp. n. $ . — Length about 6 mm. ; slender, black ; quadrate spot on labrum, large spot at bast of mandibles, clypeus entirely, lateral face-marks (pointed above at an angle of about 50 deg.), a lobe on inner side of lateral marks (representing part of dog-ear marks) and lower part of supraclypeal area (pointed above), all pale yellow; the yellow patch on labrum is the process, which is broadly truncate, slightly emarginate, with a submarginal row of black spots; pubescence scanty and pale: antennae long, black; mesothorax polished, with strong punctures; area of metathorax with strong plicae, more or less branching, hue without a shining rim; knees broadly, tibiae at apex, anterior tibiae in front, and the basitarsi, light yellow; tegulae rufopiceous: wings dusky, nervures and stigma fuscous ; abdomen shining, sixth ventral segment with a large median depression. Meadow Valley, Mexico, September (Townsend.) United States National Museum. Related to P. concinnus Fox, but especially to P. rudbeckiae Rob. The three are separated thus: Flagellum pale testaceous beneath, .concinnus Fox (Lower California). Flagellum dark i. i. Clypeus with a strong median sulcus ..rudbeckiae Rob. (Illinois). Clypeus without such a sulcus pinna tits Ckll. Membership in the Association of Economic Biologists. EDITOR. EXTOMOI.OC.K-.M. XI-AVS: I beg to inform you that at a recent meeting of the Council of this Association it was decided to cancel the rule limiting its membership to those of British nationality. As foreign members will, therefore, have the same privileges as Britisli ones, including the right to receive the sliinals nf .Implied /.V.'/ri/v for the annual subscription of £i. i. o. (which is sold to the public at 25 sh.), the fact may possibly be of some interest to readers of your journal. — S. A. NEAVK. Honorary Secretary. S<), (Jneen's Gate, Lon- don, S. W. 7. 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 New Species of Lopidea from Arizona (Hemip. Miridae).* By HARRY H. KNIGHT, Ithaca, New York. ( Plate X.) The writer did considerable collecting in Arizona, while with the Cornell Biological Expedition, and in the present paper gives the results of his studies on the species of Lopidea taken in that region. This interesting genus presents a num- ber of species having great similarity of coloration and gen- eral form but with very distinct genital structures, characters which must be used if we are to determine the species con- sistently. Lopidea arizonae new species (Plate X, Fig. 1). Suggestive of marginata but much larger and with bright red on the basal half of the pronotum : genital claspers dis- tinctive of the species. $ . Length 7 mm., width 2.3 mm. Head white, the sutures, sides of tylus, heavy bar each side of the median line of the front and the base of the head black; rostrum blackish with pale on the first seg- ment, eyes brownish to black ; antennae black, second segment linear. Pronotum with the basal half bright red, shining, narrow basal margin fuscous, anterior margin white, calli black. Scutellum fuscous, pale median stripe on the apical half. Hemelytra dark red shaded with fuscous, more red bordering the embolium and on the inner half of the cuneus ; embolium and outer margin of the cuneus ivory white ; fine pale pubescence with short black bristles on the white embolium ; membrane fuscous. Coxae and femora more or less pale and marked with fuscous and black ; femora fuscous on the front margin with a row of black dots beneath and usually two rows on the upper side, tibiae and tarsi black. Venter marked transversely with alternating bands of fuscous, reddish and pale. 9 . Very similar to the male in coloration, only more robust, the pale color more extended on the venter. This species was taken by the writer on Robinia ncomc.vi- cana in Post Creek canyon near Bonita, Arizona. It occurs apparently in several mountain ranges of Arizona at altitudes of 6000 to 7500 feet. * Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell University. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Holotype — $, July 16, 1917, near Bonita, Arizona (H. H. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allotypc — Taken with the type. Paratypcs — 3 $ , 22 2 , topotypic; 2 $ . I 9 , July 2~] , Sa- bino Canyon, altitude 7800 feet, Mt. Lemon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona (H. H. Knight). $ 9, July 29, Hua- chuca Mountains, Arizona (H. G. Barber V 14 $ 9 . Arizona (H. K. Morrison, 1883, Cornell Collection). $, June 15, Jemez Springs, New Mexico (Woodgate). Lopidea apache new species (Plate X, Fig. 2). Very similar in general appearance to arizona but differs in having the anterior margin of the pronotum more reddish and the basal half of the disk more fuscous; male more reddish, including the embolium and cuneus. $. Length 6.8 mm., width 2.1 mm. Head nearly as in arizona but with the black on the tylus and front more extended. Pronotum deep dull red, calli black, the disk somewhat darkened with fuscous. Hem- elytra as in ariznna, but all white of the embolium, cuneus and scu- tellum replaced by red. Legs more fuscous and sides of the venter with more red than in arizona; genital claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 2). 9 . Length 7.2 mm., width 2.3 mm. Hemelytra with more fuscous than red, embolium and outer half of the cuneus pale, inner half of the cuneus red ; disk of the pronotum having the red darkened with fuscous, anterior margin more pale with reddish. This species was taken in company with arizonae on Robinia ncomc.vicana and at the time was thought to be the same spe cies. It is possible that apache was merely attracted to the plant to feed on the flowers and does not breed there. Holotype — $, July 16, 1917, near Bonita. Arizona (If. H. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allotypc — Taken with the type. Paratypcs— 6 <3 , 31 9 , taken with the types. Lopidea navajo new species (Plate X. Fig. ::). Very similar to apache but slightlv smaller, darker colored and with less red; male genital claspers distinctive of the species. i/4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 $. Length 6.5 mm., width 1.9 mm. Head marked nearly as in arizona, but the pale areas more yellowish. Pronotum with the disk more fuscous than reddish, the anterior margin pale yellowish and not conspicuously white as in arlznna. Scutellum and hemelytra mostly dark fuscous as in apache, but the embolium and more than half of the white, claval suture margined with pale. Legs and venter nearly as in arizona. 9 . Very similar to the male in coloration and only slightly more robust. This species was found breeding abundantly on Robinia nconic.vicana near Williams, Arizona. The writer has never seen any species of Lopidca so abundant as was this one on the trees of R. neomexicana around the camping grounds set aside in the forest preserve two miles west of Williams. Nymphs as well as adults were taken clustered on the tender flower shoots where they preferred to feed. Strangely enough L. arisonac was not taken here though the botanists determined the trees as identical with those from which arisonac was taken at Bonita. Holotypc — $, August 4, 1917, Williams, Arizona (H. H. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allotypc — Taken with the type. Parat\pes — Numerous specimens taken with the types. Lopidea lateralis new species (Plate X. Fig. 4). $ . Length 5.9 mm., width 2 mm. Black, the embolium and onter half of the cuneus ivory white. Pronotum with the side margins of the disk strongly margined, narrowly pale; basal angles of the disk and posterior half of the sides orange red: extreme base of the corium and the articulations brownish to orange. Second antennal segment slightly thicker at the base, tapering gradually to the apex ; genital claspers (fig. 4) distinctive of the species. 9 . Length 6 mm., width 2 mm. Very similar to the male in col- oration. A few females have the membrane much abbreviated, ab- ruptly rounded and scarcely reaching over the tip of the venter (length 4.7 mm., width 2 mm.). This species was swept from a wild raspberry (Rnbiis sp.) and a few from flowering herbaceous plants growing on the slopes of Mt. Lemon at an altitude of 7800 feet. Holotype — £, July 27, 1017, Sabino Canyon, altitude 7800 Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XKVVS 1/5 feet, Mt. Lemon. Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona ( H. H. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allotypc — Taken with the type. Paratypcs—26 $ , I? 9 , topotypic; $ , August 4, \Yilliams, Arizona ( H. H. Knight). 3 $.1 9, Arizona (H. K. Morri- son, 1883, Cornell Collection). Lopidea garryae new species (Plate X, Fig. 5). A small fuscous form having some of the color characters of nigridca but differs in several respects; genital claspers dis- tinctive of the species. $. Length 5.1 mm., width 1.5 mm. Fuscous, the head and anten- nae black, legs fuscous to blackish; bordering the front of the eyes, sometimes the sides of the face, sides and front margin of the pro- notum, dull pale yellowish. Hemelytra and scutellum fuscous, emho- liuin and frequently the base of the clavus and corium pale yellowish to reddish brown ; cuneus reddish, membrane fuscous. Venter fus- cous with reddish on the sides. 9. Length 5 mm., width 1.6 mm. Very similar to the male, the embolium paler with the head and venter more blackish. This species was found breeding on Garr\a icric/htii in Post Creek Canyon, altitude 7000 feet, near Bonita, Arizona. Holotypc — $, July 16, 1917, near Bonita, Arizona (H. II. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allntypc — Taken with the type. Paratypes — 5 $ , 2 9 , taken with the types. Lopidea lepidii new species (Plate X, Fig. 6). Very similar to media in size and coloration but differing distinctly in the structure of the male genital claspers. $. Length 52 mm., width 1.7 mm. Head and antennae black, juga. lorae, genae and bordering the eyes yellowish to reddish : second an tennal segment nearly linear. Thorax, hemelytra and venter bright red, with the calli, scutellmn. sternum, apical half of the clavus and inner half of the corium darkened with fuscous. Legs dark fuscous to blackish; genital claspers (fig. 6) distinctive of the species. 9. Length 5.6 mm., width i.Q mm. Slightly more robust than the male, the red color more of an orange. Thi< sptcies has vrry rarely if ever the white embolium so frequent in media. Hnlotypc — $, July 17, 1017. near Bonita, Arizona (TT. TT. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | May, 'iS Allotyfie — Taken with the type. Paratypcs — Numerous specimens taken with the types. 14 $ 9 , Arizona (H. K. Morrison, 1883, Cornell Collection). $ . July 13, Palmer Lake; 3 $ , July 31, Ridgway ; $ , June 10, Fort Lupton, Colorado. The writer found the species breeding on Lcpldiuiu thnrbcri which was growing around the adobe ruins of old Fort Gra- ham, near Bonita, Arizona. A short distance away was found an extensive growth of the same plant as determined by the botanists on the expedition, which was abundantly infested by Lygus clisus V. D., but no specimens of Lopidea lepidii were to be found. It would seem from this that the species breeds only in favored spots. The writer has seen specimens of both media and lepidii irom Colorado where the species appear to overlap. In the eastern States there is only one species that could be taken for media Say, it having the inner hook on the right clasper very long and more slender than in lepidii, the same clasper having also near the tip a distinct dorsal projection with five or six serrate teeth at the top. Lopidea minima new species (Plate X, Fig. 1}. Very small, reddish with fuscous and black, resembling media in coloration; genital claspers distinctive of the specu-s. $. Length 3.8 mm., width 1.4 mm. Black, the basal half of the pronotum orange to red ; hemelytra red, bordering the commissure, membrane and scutellum, fuscous. Holotyl>c — uln,l of M;I|,,. CM | IKll , the hilld OIKS father strongly projecting behind the front ones; halteres black; scutellum bare below; dorsum of abdomen hcarim-- rather Vol. XXIX] ro.MoLoCICAL NEWS l8l numerous long, slender, upright bristles, irregularly ar- ranged except a row along the hind edge of each segment; hind tibia bearing among others a ro\v of strong bristles down the inner hind side; no costal spine; third and fourth, veins al- most parallel; sixth vein well developed at base, becoming evanescent and disappearing at about two-thirds the distance to the margin. The male has a narrow front and the female has cruciate 'frontals ; but these are less important characters than some at least of the preceding' list. Schnabl and Dziedzicki include two species with yellow hal- teres, one with plumose arista, one with wide front in male. \Ye are not concerned with these at present. The four species herein treated agree very well in characters, and unquestionably belong together. The genus belongs to Phaoninae. differing from Phaonia mainly in the protuberant epistoma with up- curved bristles, the black halteres and the general intense black- color. Most Phaonias have hairy eyes, and none of the forty species in my collection has black halteres. Table of Species. Male and Female. 1. Parafacial as wide as the length of the third antennal joint; front tibia with 4 bristles on outer hind side in male, 3 in female.... 2 Parafacial narrower than length of third antennal joint; front tibia with 2 bristles on outer hind side (rarely 3 in female) ... .3 2. Front of male twiee as wide as distance between hind ocelli ; mid basitarsus with two rows of stont spines below, which in the male are longer than the width of the joint, in the female not quite so long ( Colorado ) spinitarsis n. sp. Front of male not as wide as the distance between the hind ocelli, mid basitarsus in both sexes without unusual spines (Europe. Colorado) alpicola Ron dan i 3. Eastern species (Ontario to Wisconsin and Illinois) ; parafacials sur- passing the width but not equaling the length of the third anten- nal joint; palpi elongate; wings yellow, especially the veins; abdomen in male brownish-gray pollinose with narrow median black stripe nitens Stein Western species ( llritish Columbia to Mexico and Colorado); para- facials as wide as third antennal joint; palpi usually not elon- gate; wings infuscatcd; abdomen subshining black, aterrima Van der \Vulp 1 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'l8 Pogonomyia aterrima V. d. Wulp. Van der Wulp, Biologia, Dipt., ii, 334, 1896. Stein, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xiii, 169, 1897 (? alpicola). $. (First see generic characters and table of species above.) \Yholly black, mostly subshining. Front only slightly protuberant be- low, at the narrowest above about as wide as the distance between the hind ocelli; orbits silvery, very narrow; about 12 pairs of erect frontal bristles, beginning slightly below ocelli; second antennal joint with three or four long erect hairs; parafacial silvery, about as wide as third antennal joint; transverse impression extending narrowly below the eye, very distinctly set off from the shining, bushy-haired bucca, which extends forward to form the side of the protuberant epistoma ; front edge of epistoma forms a sharp projecting rim; palpi of ordi- nary size, with a few hairs ; proboscis rather slender, with ordinary labella; back of head flat above, bulging below, covered with bushy hair. Thorax above with very thin brown pruinosity, almost shining, its hairs erect and long, not very numerous, its bristles large ; post dc 3, ant dc 2, inta 2, supa 2, posta 2, hum 3, inthmn i, presut i, npl 2; stpl i large behind and one more slender in front, together with several irregular slender ones. Mesopleura hairy and bristly above a diagonal line from the upper anterior to the lower posterior angle ; pteropleura and metapleura bare. Scutellum with one marginal and one apical pair of bristles, the latter close together. Calypters and their fringe white. Abdomen moderately broad and flat, the two middle segments about 2l/2 times as wide as long ; hypopygium small, rounded, turned under, both its segments subshining, the first with rather coarse, the second with very fine hair; inner forceps (obere Zangen, D. & S.) short and blunt, the outer (untere Zangen, D. & S., — homologous with the acces- sory plates of Parker's and my Sarcophagid work) shining brown, stout, not tapering, almost truncate at tip, straight, the hind edge excised to fit against the inner forceps. Fifth sternite not much devel- oped, with a shallow excision apically. Middle femur with a row of bristles on the whole length of the front lower edge, smaller at tip where there are some larger above them; and on apical third of front lower edge a row of about 5, be- ginning large and decreasing. Hind femur with an entire row of long bristles below, another on the upper front edge, and one on the hind side which dwindles toward tip. Front tibia with three setae on outer hind edge; middle tibia with about eight on outer hind side, three on inner hind side, one small or none on outer front side ; hind tibia with a strong row on outer hind side, another on inner hind side, four or five on outer front side (well outwardly), and usually a few erect hairs on inner front side. I'ulvilli grayish brown moder- ately elongated, on the front feet only. Vol. XXlxl ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 183 Wings strongly blackened on front and basal portion. Length 5.5-6 mm. 9 . Front nearly as wide as one eye, velvet black, a shining triangle in front of the ocelli; parafrontals and parafacials wider than in male; frontal bristles eight or nine, large. Middle tibia with three or four setae on outer front side, otherwise as in male ; hind tibia without erect hairs on inner front side. Wings slightly and rather evenly in- fuscated. Length 6-7 mm. 84 specimens, of both sexes: SASKATCHEWAN: 2 Farewell Creek, August, 1907. IDAHO: IT Moscow, April 23 to May 22; i Craig's Mt., June 21-25, l&94'< ~ Lawyer's Canyon, June 16, 1909. CALIFORNIA: 5 Claremont (C. F. Baker). COLO- RADO: 61 Tennessee Pass, July 24-26, 1917. Variations : The cruciate frontal bristles of the female are sometimes absent ; some females show the palpi lengthened as in a it ens; the pubescence of the arista is occasionally almost as long as in nit ens. Pogonomyia nitens Stein. Stein, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xiii, 199, 1897 (Spilogastcr ). Malloch, Bull. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., 1915, 356 (flarincrris). This species differs from atcrrima in so few characters that a full description is superfluous. The main differences have already been presented in tabular form ; I should add that the palpi in nitens are longer and more slender than is usually the case in atcrrima. Ten specimens, both sexes: one female, Algonquin, Illinois, paratype of flarincrris, from Mr. Malloch: eight specimens. Polk County. Wisconsin, collected many years ago by Prof. C. F. Raker, which 1 found in the collections at Stanford Univer- sity ; one female, Waubamic, ( hitario, June 14, 1915 ( H. A. Parrish. Coll.). furnished by Professor Melander. I have also seen several Wisconsin specimens in the collec- tions of Professors Marshall and Wilson, in the University of Wisconsin, and Mr. Malloch recently informs me that he has a long series from Illinois; but 1 have never found it in Indiana. All of the recorded dates of collection are in quite earlv sum- mer, and this is also true for atcrrima if the altitude is con- sidered. 184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 Pogonomyia alpicola. Rondani, Hull. Sue. Knt. llal., ii, 337, 18/0; Prod. Dipt. Ttal., vi. 33- i877 (both male only). Pokorny, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xliii, 7, 1893 (female). See list of generic characters already given, and also table of spe- cies. Front of male at narrowest somewhat wider than the anterior ocellus, widening rapidly toward antennae; in female about a third the head-width above, slightly more anteriorly. Parafacials silvery, parafrontals not; side of epistoma with about 20 long upcurved bris- tles in male only 6 or 8 shorter in female. Thorax and abdomen black with thin brownish pruinosity, same in both sexes, and upright long hairs in male which are but little devel- oped in female. Chaetotaxy : ps dc 3 or 4, ant dc 2, acr in female only a prescutellar pair, in male numerous tall hairs in front, those behind the suture becoming somewhat like slender bristles; hum 2 or 3, npl 2, intal 2, supal i and a long prealar, scutellum with 2 lateral and i api- cal, postal 2, mesopleura and sternopleura in male with abundant long hair approximating the length of bristles, no distinct separation be- tween them and the few bristles ; in the female stpl 3, mspl with a row behind and 2 or 3 in front. Calypters white with pale yellow rim and fringe. Abdomen unstriped, fourth segment longest in female, sternites in male with long, dense hair. Mid tibia of male with 3 bristles on outer front side, 5-6 on outer hind, 6-8 on inner hind, 4-5 slender on inner front; the female has one or two less in each of these rows. Hind tibia of male with numerous rows of bristles standing in all directions except directly toward the flexor and extensor surfaces, especially a few characteristic erect, long hairs on inner and outer flexor, an incipient "villosity" ; the calcar is one of a row on the inner extensor side. The female has on the hind tibia only three rows — 4 in meso-extensor, 5 on latero-extensor, and 5-6 on latero-flexor. A slight spine below on hind basitarsus. Wing strongly infuscated at base, gradually less so toward apex, no costal spine. Length 6 to 7^ mm. Two males, one female, Tennessee Pass, Colorado. Julv 24-26, 1917; one male, one female, Europe, from Profrs^nr Bezzi. Pogonomyia spinitarsis n. sp. Closely allied to alpicola, from which it differs by the characters given in the table and a few others. The upcurved bristles of the epistoma are only about 8 in male, 5 in female ; arista with very short pubescence ; palpi short. Thorax of male not with the striking long hair of alpicola male, ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIX. Plate XI. STICTOLOBUS TRILINEATUS SP. NOV.-FUNKHOUSER. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 185 more like the females of the two species. Tibiae in both sexes with bristles about as in alpicola, but with mid and hind tarsi more spin}' beneath, which attains its greatest development in the mid basitarsi of the male, where there are 10-12 striking spines in each of t\vo rows. Wings as in alpicola. Size the same. One male, one female, Square-Top Mt, Grant, (ieneva Park, Colorado, July 24, 1916. Altitude 11,500 feet. Collected by L. (). Jackson. Types in the Bureau of the Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. They were sent me for studv by J. R. Malloch. 1 » i A New Membracid on Cypress (Homop. ). By \Y. D. FUNKHOUSER, Cascadilla School, Ithaca, New York. (Plate XI.) Through the courtesy of Mr. H. H. Knight, of Cornell Uni- versity, I have been permitted to examine a series of specimens of a very interesting species of Membracidae collected from cypress in Louisiana in the summer of 1917. The insect has apparently not been described and is of inter- est not only because it is the first membracid recorded on this host but also because it proves to be another representative of the genus Stictolobits erected by Metcalf in K)i6* to accom- modate Membracis sitbnlata Say. This genus is peculiar in showing the pronotal characters of a Cyrtolobus and the wing structure of a Stictoccphala. The anterior elevation of the pronotum is obtusely rounded as in Cyrtolobus and the general appearance of the insect suggests that genus. The forewings, however, are entirely free, as in Stictoccphala, although there are no indications of carinate sides on the metopidium. The series consists of thirty-seven specimens. Seven males and thirteen females were collected at Bogalousa, Louisiana, on June 15, 1917, and eleven males and six females were taken at Colyell, Louisiana, on June 16. All were found on cypress. * Metcalf, Z. P. The Rediscovery of Membracis subulata Say, with a Description of a New Genus (Homop.). Entomological Xcu ^ Jan- uary, 1916, Vol. xxvii, No. I, 1-3 pp., PI. 1. 186 ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS I -May, '18 The species is reported as being comparatively abundant in the type locality on the dates given and may be described as follows : Stictolobus trilineatus sp. nov. (Plate XI). Near Slictolobus siibitlatus Say but differing in color, in markings, in punctuation and slightly in wing venation. Bright green with three longitudinal white stripes ; posterior process of pronotum castaneous, tip brown ; tegmina hyaline, bases slightly punctate, veins broadly marked with brown, tips fuscous ; thorax and legs greenish-yellow; under surface of abdomen yellow. Head yellow-green margined with lighter, impunctate, slightly stri- ate ; basal line adjoining prothorax much elevated in middle half; prominent swelling above each ocellus; median sulcus faint; inferior margin smooth ; eyes deep brown, prominent, extending laterally be- yond the humeral angles ; ocelli prominent, reddish, a little nearer to each other than to the eyes and situated on a line extending through centers of eyes ; clypeus long, extending as far below the inferior margin of the face as its projection above the margin, hirsute at tip. Pronotum bright green, deeply and uniformly punctate, gradually rounded in front with no indication of carinations on sides; meto- pidium wider than high, smooth callosities above eyes joining in nar- row line in center; humeral angles not prominent, rounded; posterior process gradually acuminate, deflexed, extending beyond tip of ab- domen but not reaching apices of tegmina, sharply carinate above, bright castaneous with tip brown ; semicircular impression on each side of pronotum very pronounced ; median carina not percurrent, be- ginning at about middle of dorsal line and becoming prominent and strong posteriorly; three prominent greenish-white lines extending longitudinally on the pronotum, one on the median dorsal line begin- ning at base and extending to the point at about the middle of the dorsum where the median carina begins, one on each side arising just above the eye. extending over the shoulder and ending at the middle of the lateral margin, all of these lines strongly punctate. Tegmina entirely free from pronotum, hyaline, base greenish and slightly punctate, tip fuscous in external border: middle half of radial and cubital veins broadly marked with brown, costal margin white : tip acute, middle apical cell triangular and petiolate, other apical cells varying greatly within the species ; bind wings entirely hyaline, exter- nal border wrinkled, apical cell usually but not always truncate. Sides and under surface of thorax greenish-yellow ; pubescent ; legs brownish-yellow, tibiae greenish, claws fuscous ; abdomen yellow, under surface concolorons yellow, apical end tinged with greenish. Sternal plate of male acute, smooth, tip brown; lateral valves fhcon- \ ol. XXJx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l8j spicuous ; apical terguin armed with a tooth on each side below; oedeagus long, narrow, brown, very slightly swollen at tip, styles nar- row and pointed. Last ventral segment of female sharply notched in middle, rounded on either side of notch; tip of abdomen green, lightly pubescent; ovi- positor brown. Length to tip of tegmen 6.7 mm. Width between humeral angle- 2.4 mm. Type — Male. Type locality: Bogalousa, Louisiana, Female does not differ in size or markings. Type, allotype and twenty-one paratypes in author's collec- tion; ten paratypes in Mr. Knight's collection; four paratypes in Cornell University collection. The wing venation in this species shows considerable varia- tion as represented in Plate XI, Figs, i, 6, 7 and 8. In the fore wing M3 and M4 are often separated, making six instead of the normal five apical cells (Fig. 8) and changing the shape of the cells in the apical end of the wing. In the hind wing R4+5 is usually coalesced with Mi +2 (Fig. 6) to form a truncate terminal cell, but occasionally they are separated, leaving the terminal cell petiolate (Fig. 7). The forewing in no case shows the three discoidal cells as found in the wing of Stictolobus siibnlatns Say. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. Stictolobus trilincatus sp. nov. Fig. i. Lateral view. Fig. 6. Hind wing, normal vena- Fig. 2. Frontal view. tion. Fig. 3. Dorsal view. Fig. 7. Ilind wing, showing va- Fig. 4. Male genitalia — caudal nation. view. Fig. 8. Fore wing, showing va- Female genitalia, ventral nation, view. A Review of Reviews (Lep.). By J. McDuNNOUGii, Ph. I).. Decatur, Illim is. My paper in KNTOMOLO<;ICAL NF.WS, xxvii, 393, has been the partial subject recently of three articles by well-known lepidopterists ; two of the authors, H. (}. Dvar (Ins. Insc. Menstr., v, 42) and (1. Bethune-Baker ( Knt. I\rc.. xxix. 219) i88 KNTOMOLOCICAI, M:\vs [May'iS commend my method of selecting generic types but are strongly against disregarding Hiibner's "Tentamen" as unpublished; the third writer, Sir George Hampson ( Ent. News, xxviii, 463), finds my action in discarding the Tentamen entirely jus- tifiable, but, as was to be expected, seriously objects to my method of fixing generic types. These three articles serve to further emphasize the great necessity for the leading systematic entomologists in each group of insects "getting together'' and trying to evolve some common method on which to base their work. Co-operation is just as vital in entomology as it is for the Allies in the pres- ent war, and the muddled synonymy and constant changes of nqmenclature in the Lepidoptera can just as certainly be traced to the insistence of each systematist on ''ganging his ane gait" as the allied reverses (according to military critics) are attribu- table to the lack of co-ordination of the several war fronts. Sir George Hampson expresses the hope that one of the minor benefits of the war may be to bring us back to a simple binom- inal nomenclature ; I should like to express the hope that ento- mologists will be taught by the war the necessity of co-opera- tion and the value of discarding possibly one of one's own pet theories for the sake of the general good. With regard to Hiibner's "Tentamen" I have already ex- pressed the hope that some definite action concerning this work may soon be taken ; my own reason for rejecting it at th^ time of issuing my list of Noctuid types and later in our "Check List" was not because I regarded the generic names as nomina intda but because there is no evidence in the pam- phlet itself, such as place or date of publication, to show that it was anything more than a sample sheet prepared for Hiib- ner's own use and of which possibly one or two copies fell at a later date into the hands of co-workers for some reason or other ; personally I should just as soon accept the names therein proposed as not, but with half the systcmatists clamor- ing for its rejection and the other half just as loudly insisting on its retention the only certainty is that, whichever course is followed, is going to cause adverse criticism. A few of the remarks in the critical articles above men- Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XF.WS i8g tinned call for n rejoinder by myself. Dr. Oyar's review, con- sisting as it docs largely of personal items, may be advantage- ously disregarded. Mr. Bethune-Baker comments on the ar- rangement of Aegeriidae in our "Check List": in this \ve fol- lowed, more or less blindly, Mr. A. Btisck's Synoptic Tables of the group published in 1909 (Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc., xi. 115) and must refer him to Mr. Busck personally for further details. Sir George Hampson charges that the type of the genus Phytouietra Haw. cannot possibly lie acnco as specified by Westwood, since it was based on larval characters, the only two larvae known to Haworth being those of fcstncac and ^(Uinna; he would therefore place the genus as prior to Auto- (jrapha; I must confess that Haworth's "Lepidoptera F>ritan- nica" is entirely unknown to me and I doubt if a copy exists in this country; if so, I have been unable to find it. This being the case, I cannot comment on Hampson's remarks but would note that he certainly raises a delicate point which may call for a special ruling by the committee on International Nomen- clature. With regard to Hampson's non-acceptance of Och- senheimer's generic names published in 1816 as notnina nuda I quote Article 79 of Hanks and Caudell's Entomological Code which says that "A generic name becomes valid when publish- ed in connection with or with reference to a valid (== described or figured) specific name or to replace a valid generic name." The first portion of this article clearly covers Ochsenheimer's generic names which were published in connection with sev- eral valid specific names ; I believe that the general entomolog- ical usage in this country upholds me in regarding them as valid and I must refuse to accept Hampson's reference of them to Treitschke (1825). With regard to Hampson's remarks on the dates of Hub- ner's "Vcr/eichni -•-•." I should like to point out that he has overlooked several important points in this connection. In the first place T would refer him lo a painnhlet published in 1005 by Trof. ' '. II. Fernald. of \mheM. M.-i.ssacliMsetts. on the dates of Ilubner's "Sammlung Eur Schmett." ; in thi- i are reprinted s< \eral of ITiibner's <{(it, // ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'l8 advertising his works for sale, which were found in the copy of Hiibner's "Sammlung" in the Royal Library at Berlin; Prospectus IV, dated Augsburg, 6th April, i8oq, contains a reference to "Beitraege zur Sammlung Ex. Schmett.," stating that two plates were completed and for sale at 36 kr. a plate ; obviously from this the "Beitraege'' or ''Zutraege, " as they were later called, were commenced at a much earlier date than that of the title-page to the first century (December 22, 1818) and it seems probable that this date indicates the completion rather than the commencement of the century, especially as Prospectus V, dated 22nd December, 1823, announces two complete centuries of the "Zutraege/' as it is now called, for 43 fl. 24 kr., and the date on the preface of the second century is 1822. Accepting this evidence as conclusive, Hampson's remarks concerning the incorrectness of Sherborn & Front'? fixation of the dates of the early pages of the "Yerzeichniss" as 1816 and 1818 are fallacious ; the text of the ''Yerzeichniss" preface distinctly shows that it was written prior to the re- mainder of the work and it is just as distinctly dated Augs- burg, 2ist September, 1816; the fact that he refers by number in the "Yerzeichniss" to certain plates of the "Zutraege" shows that these plates were issued prior to 1816 or 1818. as the case may be. Instead therefore of dating all the plates of the first century of the "Zutraege'' 1818 we must use the dates 1800- 1818 and for the second century 1818-1822. the reference to Lycns niphon (Zutr. 203, 204) on page 74 of the '•Yerzeich- niss," clearly showing (if we accept Sherborn's "Yerzeichniss" dates) that the first plate of the second century was ready late in 1818; up to page 160 of the "Verzeichniss" the latest refer- ence to the "Zutraege" I have found is on page 149 to figures 213-4 which at least would make 1820 the latest date possible for the first three plates of the second century. In the first 16 pages of the "Verzeichniss," for which the date 1816 is claimed, the latest reference to the "Zutraege" is Sic\'onia apseudes Hbn. (Zutr. 1^1, 142); 25 out of the 35 plates of the first century were therefore published prior to September. 1816, the first two plates being prior to April, i8oL(>I;H-.\I. .\K\VS 191 for American Lepidopterists this is important, a number of North American species having been figured on the early plates. I utterly fail to agree with Hampson that the whole of the "Verzeichniss" should be credited to 1827 simply because he has found no previous reference in the contemporaneous literature; I limner's method of distributing his work in small portions has been too fully commented on by Herrich-Schaef- fer ( Corr. Bl. Zool. min. Ver. Regens.. 1869, p. 209) and others to permit of the doubt that the parts were not distrib- uted as they appeared from the press but were held over until the completion of the volume. Until therefore some much more conclusive contrary evidence is given, I believe the dates given by Sherborn and Prout (1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix. 179-180) should be accepted as correct. In conclusion I should like to state my conviction that the generic names proposed in the "Zutraege" are perfectly valid : they are proposed in connection with a specific name of which a perfectly identifiable figure is given and in most instances are definitely monobasic ; in my opinion they should certainly take- priority over the same names often used at a later date in the "Yerzeichniss." 1 <•> i — Mosquitoes and the War. Freeing the Hog Island shipbuilding zone of disease-breeding; mosquitoes was decided upon at a meeting of the State war Ivir' in Harrishurg yesterday. The work will he done under the direc- tion of the State Department of Health with experts who aided Surgeon General William C. Gorgas in cleaning up the Panama Canal zone. It will he thr bigsrest fight against mosquitoes ever undertaken in Pennsylvania. The State war hoard has in charge the $2,000,000 war defense appropriation. It decided to contribute $75.000 to the $210,- ooo fund being raised to wipe out the oests. The State Health De- partment will put $25,000 into this project, the city of Philadelphia $50,000, the Emergency Fleet Corporation $50,000 and the Westing- house Klectric Company $10.000. The appropriation was made following conferences arranged In acting Commissioner of Health Rover and the engineer of the Fed- eral Government. Pennsylvania, New Jersev and this city relative to the elimination of the mosquitoes, which if allowed to hrrrd would stop the night shifts working on the Federal shins and c:it the effi- ciency of the plant down by half. The money will be expended in a drainage and pumping Station Two wells will lie dug and two numpinu -'ations erected -uid the swamp water treated with oil to kill the larvae. —Public Ledger, Philadelphia. April 18. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1918. The Forms of Generic and of Specific Names. In view of the forms of generic and specific names in arti- cles recently submitted for publication in the NEWS and in other entomological journals, it seems necessary to call the attention of authors and others to the rules of zoological no- menclature governing these forms. The examples are of our own selection. Of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature (Proceedings, Ninth International Zoological Congress, Mo- naco, 1913), Article 8 reads: "A generic name must consist of a single word, simple or compound, written with ar initial cap- ital letter, and employed as a substantive in the nominative singular." Example : Johannsenia, NOT Johannseni. Article 14 of the International Rules reads : "Specific names are : a. Adjectives which must agree grammatically with the generic name." Example: Lopidca minima, NOT minimus; Pogonomyia spinitarsis, NOT spinitarsus; Johannsenia aurea, NOT aurei. "b. Substantives in the nominative in apposition with the generic name." Example: Lopidca narajo. L. arirjona is, perhaps, admissable, but L. arizonae is better (see Article 16 quoted below). "c. Substantives in the genitive." Example: Lopidea garryae (because found breeding on the plant Garrya wrightii'). "If the name is given as a dedication to one or several per- sons, the genitive is formed in accordance with the rules of Latin declination in case the name was employed and declined 192 Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 193 in Latin. If the name is a modern patronymic, the genitive is always formed by adding-, to the exact and complete name, an i if the person is a man, or an ae if the person is a woman, even if the name has a Latin form ; it is placed in the plural if the dedication involves several persons of the same name." Examples: Eleodes niineninaclicri, Cydimon p»cyi. "Recommendation. The best specific name is a Latin ad- jective, short, euphonic, and of easy pronunciation. Latinized Greek words or barbarous words may, however, be used." Examples : Panurginus planatus, Tetragoneuria cynosura. Article 16: "Geographic names are to be given as sub- stantives in the genitive, or are to be placed in an adjectival form." Examples : Halictoides novaeangliac , Plcuroiropis kansensis. Article 20: "Recommendations. The prefixes sub and pseiido should be used only with adjectives and substantives, sub with Latin words, pscndo with Greek words, and they should not be used in combination with proper names. The terminations aides and ides should be used in combination only with Greek or Latin substantives ; they should not be used with proper names." Examples: Nemoria subcroceata, Lycaena pseudarginlus, Sphaeri- dium scarabacoides. Pscudamericana and pseudimitans are bad. Additional Acarina Found in New Jersey. To the lists of New Jersey mites published in the "Entomological News," vol. 26, p. 149 and vol. 27, p. 109, can be added the following: Trombidhim scricciiui Say. "Pine Barrens" of New Jersey. The "red bug." Eriophyes nyssae Trott. Lakehurst, August 18. Galls on leaves of sour gum. (Dickerson & Weiss). Eriophyes bn.ri. Rutherford. On boxwood. Eriophyes sp. Kingston, August 22. On flowering currant. (Dicker- son & Weiss). Eriophycs sp. or disease. Lakehurst, August iS. Witch's brnom on oak. (Dickerson & Weiss). Eriiipln'cs sp. or disease. Lakehurst, August iS. Witch's broom on A'hus copalliua. (Dickerson & Weiss). -HAKUV I'.. Wluss, New Brunswick, N. J. 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record. Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 2— /Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 3 — The American Naturalist. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 5 — Psyche. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9th series, London. 18 — Ottawa Naturalist. 37 — Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec 67 — Entomologiske Tid- skrift, Stockholm. 69 — Bolletino, Societa Italiana Entomologica. 68 — Science, New York. 73 — Archives, Zoologie Experimental et Generale, Paris. 121 — Archives des Sciences Physiques et Natu relies, Geneva. 128 — Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney. 141 — Proceedings. Indiana Academy of Sciences, Indianapolis. 142 — Report, Michigan Academy of Sciences, Lan- sing. 153 — Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 184 — Journal of Experimental Zoology, Philadelphia. 195 — Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 223 — -Bro- teria, Revista de Sciencias Naturaes do Collegio de S Fiel. (Ser. Zoologica). 238 — Anales, Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires. 259 — Publication, Carnegie Institution of \Yashington. 313 — Bulletin of Entomological Research, London. 322 — Journal of Morphology, Philadelphia. 324 — Journal of Animal Behavior, Cambridge. 344 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 405 — University of Toronto Studies, Biological Series. 407 — Journal of Genetics, Cambridge, England. 447 — Journal of Agricultural Research. \Yashington. 491 — Transactions. American Microscopical Society. Decatur, Illinois. 509 — Revue Generale des Sciences pures et Appliquees, Paris. 532 — Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washing- ton. 540 — The Lepidopterist, Salem, Mass. 558 — Journal, Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society. GENERAL SUBJECT. Cockerell, T. D. A.— Invertebrate pale- ontology, 68, xlvii, IMD-SO. Crampton, G. C. — A phylogenetic study of the terga and wing bases in Embiids, Plecoptera, Dermaptera and Coleoptera, 5, xxv, 4-12. Fagan, M. M.— The uses of insect Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS galls, 3, lii, 153-7(5. Lameere, A. — La vie des insectes aiix temps primaires, .509, xxix, 5-13. McMurrich, J. P. — Provancher chez nos compatriotes de langue anglaise, 37, xliv, 131-35. Moore & Graham — Toxicity of volatile organic compounds to insect eggs, 447, xii, 579-87. Provancher, L. — Notes biographiques, 37, xliv, 13(5-41. Sheldon, W. G. — Formaldehyde for fixing the wings of entomological specimens, 9, 1918, 68-9. Tavares, J. S. — Cecidologia Brazileira, 223, xvi, 21-48. Tullgren, A. — En enkal apparat for auto- matiskt vittjande av sallgods, 67, xxxviii, 97-100. Turner, C. H.— Literature for 191(5 on the behavior of spiders and insects other than ants. 324, vii, 405-19. Wells, M. M.— Literature for 1916 on ants and myrmecophils, 324, vii, 420-43. PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Hagan, H. R.— Ob- servations on the embryonic development of the mantid Parateno- dera sinensis, 322, xxx, 2S3-44. McEwen, R. S. — The reactions to light and to gravity in Drosophila and its mutants, 184, xxv, 49- 105. Nakahara, W. — Studies of Amitosis: its physiological rela- tions in the adipose cells of insects 322, xxx, 483-526. Payne, F. — The effect of artificial selection on bristle number in Droso- phila ampelophila and its interpretation, 532, lv, 55-8. Thompson, C. B. — Origin of the castes of the common termite, Leucotermes flavipes, 322, xxx, 83-155. MEDICAL. MacGregor, M. E. — Insects as carriers of disease, 491, xxxvii, 1-17. ARACHNIDA, ETC. Criddle, N.— Some habits of two burrow- ing spiders in Manitoba, 18, xxxi, 104-7. Hansen, H. J. — On the trichobothria (auditory hairs) in Arachnida, Myriopoda and In- secta, with a summary of the external sensory organs in Arach- nida, 67, xxxviii, 240-59. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Banks, N.— Xew neuropteroid insects [many newl. 195, Ixii, 22 pp. Brocher, F. — (See under Coleop- tera.) Clemens, W. A. — An ecological study of the mayfly, Chiro- tenetes, 405, No. 17. 43 pp. Horton, J. R. — The citrus thrips, 344, Bui. No. (516. Tillyard, R. J. — On the morphology of the caudal gills of the larvae of zygopterid dragonflies, 128, xlii. 31-112 (cont.). ORTHOPTERA. Glaser & Wilcox— On the occurrence of a niermis epidemic amongst grasshoppers, 5, vxv, 12-1 5 HEMIPTERA. Gibson & Holdridge— The genus Narnia and a key to the genera of Anisoscelini, 5, xxv, 1-4. Ferris, G. F. — A note on the occurrence of abdominal spiracles in the coccidae, 4, T.I18. 85-8. Richardson, C. H. — The pulsatile vessels in the legs of Aphididae, 5, xxv, 15-17. Gibson, E. H. — The genus Corythucha (Tingidae) [21 new], 2, xliv, (59-101. The 'jcnus Hadroiu-ma (Miridae) [2 n. sps.], 4, 1918, 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 81-4. Gillette, C. P. — Aphis saliceti, Siphocoryne pastinacea and allied species [2 n. sps.], 4, 1918, 89-94. Swain, A. F.— [Nine] new Aphididae from California, 2, xliv, 1-22. LEPIDOPTERA. Barnes & McDunnough— Life histories of N. American species of the genus Catocala, 153, xxxviii, 147-77. Beutenmiller, W. — Notes on the larvae of Catocala and their hab- its, 540, ii, 17-20. Hawkes, O. A. M. — Studies in inheritance in the hybrid Philosamia (Attacus) ricini x P. cynthia, 407, vii, 135-52. Ljungdahl, D. — Etvvas uber die oberflachen-skulptur einiger schmetterlings-puppen, 67, xxxviii, 217-28. Pictet, A. — Influence de la pression atmospherique sur le developpement des L., 121, xliv, 413-54. Tillyard, R. J. — The wing-venation of L. (Preliminary report), 128, xlii, 167-74. Ellsworth, A. — Three new forms, 540, ii, 21-2. DIPTERA. Ball, S. C.— Migration of insects to Rebecca shoal light station and the Tortugas Islands, with special reference to mosquitoes and flies, 259, No. 252, 195-212. Bergman, A. M. — Om renens oestrider, 67, xxviii, 1-32, 113-46. Cresson, E. T., Jr. — Costa -Rican Diptera, III— Ephydridae, 2, xliv, 39-68. Felt, E. P.— Notes and descriptions of Itonididae in the collection of the Am. Mus. N. H., 153, xxxviii, 179-82. Tetley, H. — The structure of the mouth-parts of Pangonia longirostris in relation to the probable feeding-habits of the species, 313, viii, 253-68. Malloch, J. R. — A partial key to species of the genus Agromyza [3 n. sps. 1 ; Supplementary note on the anthomyid genus Ph3'llo- gaster, 4. 1918, 76-80; 81. COLEOPTERA. Brocher, F.— Etude experimentale sur le fonc- tionnement du vaisseau dorsal et sur la circulation du sang chez les insectes. I. Le Dyticus marginalis. II. Les larves des Odonates, Nouvelles observations sur la respiration des Dyticides, 73, Ivi, 1-24; 247-58; 445-90. Champion, G. C.— The C. of the Falkland Islands, 11, i, 167-86. Goldsmith, W. M.— Field notes on the dis- tribution and life habits of the tiger beetles of Indiana, 141, 1916, 447-55. Grave, B. H. — Zeugophora scutellaris, 322, xxx, 245-61. Marshall, G. A. K. — A new weevil pest of sweet potatoes in Ja- maica, 313, viii, 269-72. Leng & Mutchler — Insects of Florida, V. — The water beetles [2 n. sps.], 153, xxxviii, 73-116. HYMENOPTERA. Bruch, C.— Costumbres y nidos de hor- migas, 238, xxxiv, 154-68. Burkill, I. H. — A note upon the way in which bees settle on flowers of Derris thyrsiflora, and the in- jury resulting upon their search for honey, 558, 1917, 263-4. Cock- erell, T. D. A. — Neotropical bees, principally collected in Argen- tina, 2, xliv, 25-38. Santschi, F. — Description de quelques nouvelles Vol. xxix] KNTOMOLOGICAL NK\\> fourmis, 238, Ixxxiv, 276-83. Wheeler, W. M. — A list of Indiana ants, 141, 1916, 460-6. Cockerell, T. D. A. — Descriptions and records of bees. — LXX1X [2 ne\vl. 11, i, 158-67. — «•» A STUDY OF THE JAPANESE LASIOCAMPIDAE AND DREPAXIDAE. By Kikujiro Nagano. Bulletin No. 2 of the Nawa Entomological Labora- tory, Cifu, Japan, December, 1917. — This important contribution is in English and Japanese. There are ten plates ; five delineate the species and larvae in color and the others show anatomical details. A num- ber of new genera and species are described. Valuable features of the work are the descriptions of the larvae, the life histories and dis- tribution. The excellent colored plates are the work of the author. -H. S. Doings of Societies. American Entomological Society. Meeting of December 10, 1917, in the hall of The Academy of Nat- ural Sciences of Philadelphia ; eight persons present, the President, Dr. Henry Skinner, in the chair. Donations to the collections of the Academy of 135 specimens of 37 species of Corytlnicha from Mr. E. H. Gibson, and 5 myriopods, n insects from the Belgian Congo from Mr. Morgan Hebard were reported. The following were elected to serve as officers and on standing committees for the year 1918: President, Henry Skinner; ] 'ice-Presi- dent, ]. A. G. Rehn ; Corresponding Secretary, Morgan Hebard; Re- cording Secretary, R. C. Williams, Jr.; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Publication Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, E. T. Cresson and P. P. Calvert; finance Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, D. M. Castle and Morgan Hebard; Property Committee. E. T. Cresson, Jr., Morgan Hebard and Philip Laurent. Meeting of February 28, 1918, in the same place; eleven persons present; Dr. Henry Skinner, President, in the cbair. A communication was read from Dr. Ann H. Morgan, of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., announcing the loss of their library and collections by fire, and soliciting material and literature. Mr. Rehn moved that the requirements of the College be ascertained through Dr. Morgan, with a view to assisting them with pamphle.s and material. This motion was carried. The following motion was ordered spread on the minutes : "The American Entomological Society hears with regret of the death of Dr. Samuel Gibson Dixon, President of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, on February -H*. miS." Diptera. — Mr. Hornig reported that the first flies of the season, presumably M itsea domestiea, emerged February JJtli. 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 Orthoptera. — Mr. Rehn exhibited specimens of four species ot the aberrant Tettigoniid genus Paraphidnia. These specimens repre- sented four undescribed species, the two previously known species being quite distinct, but unrepresented in the collections at the Acad- emy. The speaker cited this as an illustration of the frequently en- countered difficulty in securing material of the older species. Odonata. — Dr. Calvert exhibited a box of Odonata collected by Mr. E. Daecke in the central part of Pennsylvania, the most interest- ing of which were: Goniphits ainnicola Walsh, Inglenook, vii. 3, 1916, i $ (the first Pennsylvania records were published in the NEWS, xxvii, 380) ; Gtnnpluts rcntricosus Walsh, Inglenook, v. 25 and vi. I, 1913, 2 $ , i 9 (the only other Pennsylvania specimen known to the speaker being a 9 from York by George Miller, in the Academy's collection) ; Nenrocordiilia yamaskanensis Provancher, Perdix, vi. 8, 1913, i 9 (the second known specimen from the State, the first being the male from the same locality, also by Mr. Daecke, recorded in the NEWS, xxi, 429) ; Sninatochlora tcncbrosa Say, Rausch's Gap and Gold- mine, ix. 4, 1917, i $ from each locality, and Libcllula flarida Ram- bur, Linglestown, vi. 15, 1913, I 9 (the first record for Pennsylvania). Lepidoptera. — Dr. Skinner exhibited lantern projections of mi- croscopic slides of the male genitalia of species in the family Hes- peridae and remarked on the strong characters in the clasps or valvae. — R. C. WILLIAMS, JR., Recording Secretary. Entomological Section, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Meeting of December 10, 1917. Director Philip Laurent presiding, nine persons present. The death of Wm. D. Kearfott, a contributor, Nov. 13, 1917, was announced. Dr. Calvert made some interesting remarks on the disease mor- tality in recent wars, making special reference to typhus fever and its attributed transmission by the body louse, Pediculns vestimenti. The life history of the louse was given and various preventatives were discussed. Dr. Skinner mentioned some of the methods he recom- mended as being effective in repelling lice. Lepidoptera. — Dr. Skinner made a few remarks relative to Anthocharis genutia forma flavida, specimens of which were col- lected by W. J. Coxey, February 12, 1917, at Savannah, Georgia. This form differs essentially in having the orange apical area of the fore wing of the male including or attaining the black spot. Mr. Wil- liams reported receiving Pieris monustc, female form phileta from Miss Elizabeth O. Groves, Miami, Florida. She writes that she found pupae in quantities and collected a pint from which she se- cured 200 emergences the last week of June and first week of July. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS At this time there appeared what the natives called a "plague of but- terflies," about half being white and half the melanic form. Mr. Baylis exhibited a method of spreading Lepidoptera in which glass slips were used in place of card to keep the wings in place while drying. — E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. Meeting of January 24, 1918, with Director Philip Laurent presid- ing, nine persons present. Dr. Hecquaert gave an interesting account of the J. C. P.radley Scien- tific automobile trip across the United States. He mentioned collecting some Nemistrinidae in Texas, and of collecting a species of Apidat? at light. Orthoptera. Mr. Rehn made a few remarks on the Acridid sub- family Eumastacinae, illustrating the same with the series from the Academy collection and also representatives from the extensive North American series now being studied. Lepidoptera. Mr. Williams gave an interesting communication on his studies on the genitalia of Lycaeninae, illustrated by projections of the original micro-mounts of the dissections on the screen. — E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. Feldman Collecting Social. Meeting of January i6th, 1918, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 561.1 Stewart St., Philadelphia ; nine members were present. Pres. H. A. Wenzel in the chair. The following officers were elected to serve for the year 1918 : Pres- ident. H. W. Wenzel; Vice President. Wm. S. Huntington ; Treas- urer. H. W. Wenzel; Secretary. Oeo. M. Greene; Ass't Secretary, }.. W. Green. Coleoptera. Mr. J. W. Green stated that he had taken the genitalia from all his specimens named from external characters as L.ifjyrus gibbosus DeG. Those from the females were useless for identifica- tion, being mostly membranous, but in the males they all agreed ex- cept one from Florida, which is most likely neglectus LeC. Mr. Daecke exhibited a specimen of Adcloccra brevicornis LeC., collected by J. N. Knull at Charteroak, Pennsylvania, vi-2i-ij. Meeting of February 20th. 1918, at the same place; eleven members present, Mr. T. L. King, of Harrisburg, visitor. Pres. H. W. Wenzel in the chair. Prof. Sanders gave an interesting review of his official duties and staff in a general way. Lepidoptera. Mr. King remarked on the Angonmois Grain Moth, Sitotroga ccrcalclla Oliv., which causes the State of Pennsylvania an 2oo ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '18 annual loss of wheat exceeding in value one million dollars. It is spreading over the entire southeastern wheat region. It winters as larvae in grain in granaries and barns ; constructs cocoon within grain, and starts to transform to pupae in May. May 10-20 large number of pupae found. First generation emerges in late May and early June coincident with the heading of the wheat. Females deposit their eggs under the glumes which protect the green wheat. Number of eggs per female ranges from 36 to 148, with an average of 92. Most of the eggs are deposited the first and second days after mating. Hatching occurs in 7 to 9 days. Young larvae gnaw their way into the green wheat and feed on the milky contents. Life cycle requires 40 to 50 days, and in some instances longer. A second generation oc- curs at harvest time, and this for the most part emerges after the wheat has been carried into the barns. This leads to the development of three more broods, so that in all there are five broods of moths each year, and there is evidence that we have as many as six broods, as moths were found in the barns as late as mid-December. The great destruction of wheat by this insect is done while the unthreshed wheat remains in the mow. Mr. Daecke exhibited pitch nodules of Evctria virginiana Busck and E. comstockiana Fernald, stating that those of the latter are always found on one year old shoots, while those of the former are on two to five year old branchlets. This led to the observation that it takes 7'ii't/iniaua two years to mature. He exhibited also the small thin- walled nodules of virginiana at the end of their first year and at the time when the two year-old insects are emerging. Diptera. The larvae and pupae from pig manure exhibited by Air. Hornig at the December meeting have emerged and prove to be Chrysomyza dcmandata Fabr. Coleoptera. Mr. Hornig exhibited a bottle containing milk tablets which has been in a desk since 1912. Upon examination this was found to contain live Anthrcnus larvae. Prof Sanders said there is a record of Trogodcrma larvae living five years without food. Mr. J. W. Green exhibited the Ligyrus mentioned at the January meeting and a Florida specimen from Dr. Castle's collection, the genitalia of which agree with his specimen. Sketches of the genitalia were also shown proving that gibbosus DeG. and ncijlcctus LeC. are distinct. Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited four pairs of dents hictus King- (ab- rnfittis LeC.) which superficially appear to be four different species. Those from Boulder, Colorado, were light; from Southeastern Ore- gon had dark elytra; from Round Mt, Texas, had dark elytra and thorax, while the Chisos Mts., Texas, form had dark elytra and thorax but were much larger. — GEO. M. GREENE, Sec'y. The Celebrated Original Dust and Pest-Proof METAL CABINETS FOR SCHMITT BOXES These cabinets have a specially constructed groove or trough around the front, lined with a material of our own design, which is adjustable to the pressure of the front cover. 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No. 6. CONTENTS: Alexander— A new Interpretation of Brimley— Records of North Carolina the Wing-venation of the 1'ediciine Odonata from 1908 to 1917 227 Crane-flies (Tipulidae, Diptera).. . 201 i Malloch— A New Species of Johann- Weiss and Dickerson— The early sta- senomyia (Ceratopogonidae, Dip.) 229 gesof Conthucha pergandei Heid. Wilson— A New Species of Macrosi- (Hem.,Hom.) 205 phum ( Aphididae. Honi. ) 230 Knight— Old and New Species of Lo- ' Ireland— Coenonympha brenda(Lep. : pidea from the United States (He- Satyridae) 231 mip., Miridae) 210 Marchand— The Larval Stages of Ar- gyra albicans Lw. (Diptera, Doli- chopodidae> 216 McAtee— Psyllidae of the vicinity of Washington, D. C., with descrip- tion of a New Species of Aphalara ( Horn. ) 220 Goe— Life History and Habits of Gas- troidea caesia Rog. ( Col ) 224 Editorial — Making the Editorial of Greater Use to Entomology 232 Yuasa — An Extra Molt in the Nym- phal Stages of the Chinch Bug (Hem., Het.) 233 Emergency Entomological Service 234 Entomological Literature 237 Obituary— Ottomar Reinecke 240 , Dr. Emile Frey-Gessner. . . . 240 William Henry Harwood.. . 240 Richard S. Standen 240 A new Interpretation of the Wing-venation of the Pediciine Crane-flies (Tipulidae, Diptera). By CIIAS. P. ALEXANDER, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. (Plate XII.) Since the appearance of Needham's exhaustive work on the wing-venation of crane-flies* there has been a tremendous in- crease in our knowledge of the group, the number of new species described in the past decade being far more than half of all those discovered in the preceding century and a half. These novelties have included many interesting new types that give us additional and suggestive data on some of the critical points of venation. In other papers I have shown the probable true interpretation of the Cylindvotominae and in * Needham, James George. Venation of the whites of Tipulidae. 23rd Report of the State Entomologist "f New York for 1907, pp. 2\j- 248, pi. 11-30; 1908. 201 2O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June. 'l8 this article I wish to take up a similar problem in the Pediciini. The tribe Pediciini is one of the smaller groups of Tipulidae, in North America being made up as follows: Pcdicla (4) ; Tricy phono, (22); Ornithodes (i), constituting the Pediciae ; Rhaphidolabis (9) ; Dicranota (5) and Polyangacus (i), con- stituting the Dicranotae. The figures in parentheses are the numbers of apparently valid species at the present writing. The species described by Williston as Rhaphidolabis dcbilis is not included ; the type is a mere fragment and the species, to my knowledge, has not been rediscovered, the Alaskan speci- mens so considered by Coquillett being a Tricyphona that was later described as T. glacialis. It seems advisable to discuss at this time the reasons for interpreting the venation of members of this tribe as has been done in recent papers by the writer since the nomenclature of the radial field that was used is very different from that hitherto accepted. Stated briefly, it may be said that the author believes from the data that are now available that the vein that has been called Ri is, in reality, Ri + 2, the short, oblique branch of R.2 having been hitherto called the radial cross- vein. It has long been a striking character of this generalized group that the so-called radial cross-vein was situated far out at the tip of Ri, in some (as 'Polyangaeus Doane. to judge from the author's figure) being beyond the tip of Ri and appearing as a free branch of R2 ; in others (as Tricyphona vitripennis, Rhaphidolabis flaveola, etc.) it is oblique and not unlike the branch R2. Recently I have seen a remarkable crane-fly from the north-western United States (T. protca} that proves that the above interpretation is the correct one, the free portion of R2 being long, oblique and fused with 7?i only near the wing-margin (see diagram 2). This interpretation readily disposes of almost all the Pediciine genera, fitting the condition in Pcdicia and in most Tricyphona. It does not fit Ula because, as shown elsewhere, this genus is a Limnophiline type*. The apparent exceptions t Alexander, Chas. P. Biology of the North American Crane-flies, part 3. The Genus Ula Haliday, Pomona Journal of Entomology ang Zoology, vol. 7, pp. 1-8, plate; 1915. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NF.WS. 2O3 to the above interpretation occur in the commonest Eastern Tricyphona (inconstans O. S.), where veins R2 + 3 are fused basally with R^ for a short distance (see PI. XII, diagram 6) and the r-m cross-vein connects directly with the sector just before its fork, or just beyond the fork on vein 7?5 : some Dicranotae (see diagrams 7 and 10) are quite as in the above. It seems to me that this is due to the fusion of veins Rz + 3 with R^. Thus in Rhaphidolabis we get forms (modest a, fig. 8, rnbcsccns, cayuya, etc.) where the cell 7? 3 is sessile ; in R. major (fig. 9) it is very short-petiolate, an intermediate condition to that found in R. tcnuipcs (fig. 7). Even in the last named species alone there is considerable variation in the length of this fusion in a series of specimens. This length of the petiole of cell 7?3, i. e., vein Rz + 3+4 (according to the present interpretation) is one of the most variable features of venation in the Dicranotae. This interpretation of the venation would give the Pediciini a much more generalized venation than the earlier interpreta- tion, and other features of the adult and larval organization certainly confirm this belief. All four branches of the radial sector are present, the first, R2, being fused with 7?i for a varying distance back from the wing-margin. It will be seen that the Tanydcridac (diagram i), the only crane-flies known where the full complement of branches of the sector is pres- ent and attain the wing-margin unfused, lack the radial cross-vein and this certainly seems to me to be suggestive. If its anterior branch, 7?2, is swung slightly cephalad to fuse with Ri, then we have the apparent radial cross-vein formed. We must await more evidence before we can finally and accu- rately interpret the radial field of the wing in all crane-flies since it is by all means the most plastic field of the wing. In Dicranota (diagram 10) and Polyangaeus alone of this tribe the true radial cross-vein is present and here is located far before the tip of Ri, proximad of the upward deflection of R2. The diagrams herein shown (Plate XT!) illustrate the fol- lowing points : 204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 'l8 No. I shows a typical Tanyderine (Protoplasa), the radial field not unlike the supposed ancestral Pediciine type. No. 2. Tricyphona protea Alex. ; note the long, oblique free portion of R2, fused with Ri near the margin only (compare these two branches, Ri and R2, with the corresponding figure i). No. 3. T. diaphana and allies; including diaphana (Doane), exoloma (Doane) and frigida Alex.; here the posterior branch of the sector, R4, and RS are separate (compare this field of the wing with the corresponding one in fig. i). Brunetti (1912) erected the genus Amalopina for a small species from India that agrees somewhat in venation with this group of species. Later, Bergroth (1913) was inclined to admit this name as valid, but included with it the group of species just discussed. I do not believe that these three Ne- arctic species belong to the same group as Brunetti's species which has cell ist M.2 open by the atrophy of in and other venational differences. Brunetti describes this group as hav- ing the r-m cross-vein connecting with "the 2nd and 3rd longi- tudinal veins." By this I suppose he means the 3rd and 4th longitudinal veins since I know of no crane-fly where the r-m cross-vein is not connected posteriorly with the median vein (4th longitudinal). Or, it may be that Brunetti mistook the basal deflection of R$ for the r-m cross-vein since this sim- ulates a cross-vein and apparently connects the veins he de- scribes. If we recognize Brunetti's group Amalopina surely we must have other names for the many other groups, such as T. kni^anai (fig. 5), T. apcrta Coq. etc. No. 4. The common Tricyphona type with the branch R2 short and simulating a cross-vein and with veins R4 and RS fused for a varying distance to form a petiole for cell R4, this fusion being longest in T. brevlfurcatn, hannai and katahdin. The following Nearctic species come in this group : T. ampla (Doane), T. aiiripennis (O. S.). T. calcar (O. S.) and 7*. intinnnalis Alex. T. brciifurcata Alex.; T. hannai Alex. T. apcrta Coq.; T. degenerata Alex. T. hypcrborca (O. S.). T. glacialis Alex.; T. ritnpcnnis (Doane). T. scptentrionalis Rergr. ; T. ccn-ina Alex. T. vernalis (O. S.), T. katahdin Alex, and T. paludiciila Alex. No. 5. T. ktiwanai Alex. (Japan) has the r-m cross-vein connect- ing directly with the sector and the branches R2+3, R4 and R5 all arising from a single point. Vol. XXIX | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2O5 No. 6. The inconstans type. Often the r-m cross-vein connects di- rectly with the sector before its fork, as shown ; cell R3 is usually short-petiolate, reins R2+3 being fused with R4 for a short distance. Species included : Tricyphona inconstans (O. S.), T. constans (Doane). No. 7. The type of Rhaphidolabis tcnuipcs; the condition of the radial field not unlike the last. Species included : R. (Rhaphidolabina) fla-reola O. S. R. polymcroides Alex. R. tcnuipcs O. S., R. ncomexicana Alex. No. 8. R. modesta types ; cell R3 sessile. Species included : R. (Plectromyia) modesta O. S. R. sessilis Alex. R. rubesccns Alex. ; R. cayuga Alex. No. 9. R. major Alex. ; cell R3 very short-petiolate. No. 10. Dicranota pallida type; radial field of the type of No. / but the true radial cross-vein present. Species included : D. pallida Alex. D. argcntea Doane; D. noveboracensis Alex. D. rivularis O. S.; D. euccra O. S. Polyangacus maculatus Doane. If the above interpretation of a backward fusion of Ri with R2 is the correct one, as certainly appears from the data now available, it is the first case of such a fusion in the Tipu- lidae, the apparent fusion in the Cylindrotominae being no fu- sion at all but an atrophy of the tips of veins R I and of R2, so that the remaining vein, R$, simulates a long fusion of Ri + 2 + 3 back from the wing-margin. The early Stages of Corythucha pergandei Heid. (Hem., Horn.). By HARRY B. WEISS and EDGAR L. DICKERSON,* New Bruns- wick, New Jersey. This species is rather widely distributed in New Jersey, having been found by the writers on alder (Alnns ylntinosa) at Trenton, Morris Plains, Lakehurst, Jamesburg and Plain- tk-ld and in nurseries on birch (Betitla uigra, B. litiea, B. popu- li folia) at Springfield, Elizabeth and Princeton. White birch (B. alba) was examined at numerous localities with negative results. In Smith's List of the Insects of Mew Jersey it is further recorded from Roselle Park by Barber and from * The arrangement of the authors' names has no significance and in- dicates neither seniority nor precedence. 206 HXTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ( Tune, 'l8 Lakehurst by Torre Bueno. This list also includes a Staten Island record by Davis. Miss Patch, in Bull. 134 of the Maine Agric. Exp. Sta., records it as occurring on willow and alder between Bangor and Orono, Maine, and it also occurs in Ohio, according to Osborn and Drake, in Bull. 8 of the Ohio Biol. Survey. Heidemann, in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. viii, Nos. 1-2, cites records from Pennsylvania, District of Colum- bia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Illinois and Kansas and states that the National Museum contains specimens labeled as found on elm, crab apple and hazel. Van Duzee in his check list of the Hemiptera of America North of Mexico gives the general distribution as Eastern States and Canada. It was described by Heidemann in Vol. viii. Nos. 1-2, of the Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., in which brief mention is also made of the larval forms and eggs. The adult overwinters, having been found by Barber while sitting under alder during Novem- ber. Heidemann states "under fallen leaves and in crevices of the bark." In New Jersey the insects appear during the latter part of May or first of June, according to the weather, and eggs are deposited on the under sides of the leaves in the pubescent tissue found in the axils formed by the main rib and its side branches. From one to five eggs were found in each axil, each egg usually being inserted at right angles to the leaf surface and all being completely hidden. Eggs were found similarly placed in the leaves of birch. Heide- mann records finding the eggs on black alder (probably Al- ints rnhjoris). Considerable feeding takes place during egg deposition. The nymphs after hatching feed in colonies on the under sides of the leaves causing a discoloration of the upper surfaces, which, however, is not as pronounced on alder as the discoloration following the feeding of other species on other plants. On birch, however, the effects of the feed- ing were much more evident. By the middle of July adults of the first brood are present and copulation takes place followed by egg-laying during the last of this month. Erom five to six weeks are required for a complete life cycle and during the last of August or first of Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2O/ September, adults of a second brood appear and later go into hibernation. On account of the extended oviposition period, it is possible at times to find all nymphal stages feeding to- gether. Colonies of early stage nymphs move around very little. Colonies of fourth and fifth stage nymphs move around more than the younger ones, probably because the leaf tissue at one spot is more quickly exhausted by the larger nymphs. Egg. Length 0.5 mm., greatest width o.ii mm. Shape elliptical, broadest one-fourth from basal end. Base rounded forming an ob- tuse angle. Viewed from side one surface is slightly concave, the other side gradually rounded. Tip about one-half width of egg at basal fourth, with a conical cap, just below which is a constriction. Subtranslucent except for apical half, which is brown. ist Stage Nymph. Length 0.51 mm., greatest width exclusive of spines 0.16 mm. General shape elliptical, sides marginate. General color of dorsal surface brown. Fine median dorsal line on head and prothorax broadening out into a spot covering most of the dorsal surface of the meso- and metathorax and first two abdominal seg- ments. Posterior abdominal segments lighter at lateral margins. Pro- and mesothorax and each abdominal segment beginning with the sec- ond bears a spine on lateral margin. A pair of spines on vertex of head, a pair on front and a double pair on either side of a median line on top of head. A median pair on dorsum of mesothorax and on second abdominal segment. Four median spines in a transverse row arising from tubercles on fifth, sixth and eighth abdominal segments. Each spine tipped with a secreting hair. Eyes red, not prominent. Antennae white, one-third length of body bearing several compara- tively long hairs. Rostrum white, one-half length of body, extending beyond third pair of legs. Legs white, tinged with brown at apical ends of femora. 2nd Stage Nympli. Length 0.70 mm., greatest width exclusive of spines 0.3 mm. Shape broadly elliptical, head brown. Light median dorsal streak beginning on head and extending into ppithorax. Outer thirds of thorax brown, median third white beginning with posterior half of prothorax. This light median band extends through the first and second abdominal segments, which are also lighter at sides. Remainder of abdomen light brown, somewhat lighter at median posterior por- tion. Spines on head similar to those of preceding stage, save that the pair anterior to posterior margin of head rest on tubercles which also bear a few hairs. Spines on lateral margins of segments similar to those of preceding stage but more pronounced. A pair of tuhrr cles on dorsal surface of mesothorax and fifth, sixth and eighth al> d"ininal segments each bearing a spine and a few hairs. A pair of 2C)8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | Jt!Tie, 'l8 spines on dorsal surface of second abdominal segment. Eyes not prominent, consisting of four distinct, red ommatidia. Antennae, one- fourth of length of body. Legs and rostrum similar to those of pre- ceding stage. 3rd Stage Nymph. Length 0.88 mm., greatest width exclusive of spines 0.43 mm. Shape oval, somewhat pointed at both ends. Slightly narrow at anterior end. General color brown. Fine median line on dorsal surface of head and prothorax widening on meso- and meta- thorax and extending across the first three abdominal segments. Light median dorsal spot on 7th and 8th abdominal segments. Spines on lateral margins of segments similar to those of preceding stages save those on pro- and mesothorax which rest on tubercles bearing two or three smaller spines. Spines on remainder of dorsum similar to those of preceding stage, but more pronounced. Antennae slightly longer than those of preceding stage. Eyes, legs, rostrum similar to those of preceding stage. 4th Stage Nymph. Length 1.2 mm., greatest width exclusive of tubercles 0.67 mm. Shape oval, sides distinctly marginate. Brownish markings on dorsal surface variable. Lateral and posterior margins of head brown, dorsal surface light at centre. Prothorax brown on either side of centre, lobes light. Median portion of mesothorax light, lobes dark. Metathorax, first, second and third abdominal seg- ments all light in some specimens and a brown band on either side of centre in others. Remaining abdominal segments brown, save for lateral margins and median posterior portion of abdomen which are light. Head bears a pair of separated spines on front, a pair to- gether on vertex, a pair of separated tubercles bearing several spines and hairs on top anterior to posterior margin. Prothorax lobed at sides bearing a pair of spines on outer angle of lobe and two anterior to these. Mesothoracic lobes bearing a pair of spines at outer angle and a single one anterior to it. Spines on lateral margins of abdomen beginning with the second segment. Beginning with the fourth ab- dominal segment each lateral spine has an additional smaller spine ventral to it. Tubercles and spines on abdomen somewhat similar to those of preceding stage. Dorsal surface of lateral margin of each segment bears a brown hair. Eyes reddish. Antennae white, one- third length of body. Legs similar to those of preceding stage, ex- cept that outer extremities of tibiae and tarsi are tinged with brown. Rostrum extending to bases of third pair of legs. 5th Stage Nymph. Length 1.6 mm., greatest width exclusive of tubercles 0.92 mm. Shape broadly oval. Posterior extremity of ab- domen forms an obtuse angle. Head light, tinged with brown. Pro- thorax with a brown band either side of centre, lobes light. Meso- thorax light at centre, anterior portion and apex of lobes brown. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2CX) Metathorax, ist, 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments light. Remaining abdominal segments brown, save for margins and dorsal spines which are white. A pair of separated spines on front of head, a pair with united base on vertex. Tubercles on dorsal surface of head near lateral margins prominent, separated, each bearing three spines and Corytliucha pergandei, Heid.,5th stage nymph and adult (after Heidemann). two hairs. Prothoracic lobes with tubercles at outer angles, each bearing four spines and a hair. Anterior to these tubercles are two large spines with a smaller spine between them and one on either side. Wing-pads of mesothorax with tubercle on lateral margin, this tubercle bearing four spines and a hair; anterior to it are two smaller and two larger spines. Lateral margin of each abdominal segment beginning with the second bears a tubercle with three spines and a hair. A pair of small median spines on prothorax, a pair of smaller ones on mesothorax posterior to these. A pair of median tubercles on pos- terior margin of prothorax, each tubercle bearing two spines and two hairs. A pair of separated median spines on 2nd, 5th and 8th ab- dominal segments. Two or three hairs anterior to these spines on 5th, 6th and 8th abdominal segments. Kyes reddish. Antennae, one- third length of body, light, tinged with brown, bearing several long hairs. Legs, light; tip of tibia and tarsus tinged with brown. Rostrum reaching bases of third pair of legs. 2IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. f June. 'iS Old and New Species of Lopidea from the United States (Hemip., Miridae).* By HARRY H. KNIGHT, Ithaca, New York. (Plate XIII.) Lopidea media (Say). Heterop. Hemip. N. Amer., p. 22, 1831. (Plate XIII, fig. 1.). The various workers on Hemiptera have generally agreed on the species that represents Say's Media, type of the genus Lopidea, there being only one form east of the Mississippi that will fit the original description. Farther west, however, beginning with Colorado, and Texas to the southwest, media overlaps with two species, lepidii and intermedia, forms which could never be distinguished with certainty except by the gen- ital characters. The writer has figured the male genital clasp- ers (PI. XIII, fig. i) of a specimen from Missouri which is the same as the generally accepted media Say. Males of .this species have been examined coming from several States, rang- ing from Maine to Colorado with two specimens from farther west. The writer found media breeding on Solidacjo ritgosa at Four Mile, New York, in company with Ilnacora malina Uhler, but judging from the distribution of the species, he is of the opinion that it breeds on other plants also. Records: $9, Aug. 16, Ashland Junction, MAINE, 59, July 3, Hanover, NEW HAMPSHIRE (C. W. Johnson). $ 9, July 13, Swamn- scott, MASSACHUSETTS (H. M. Parshley). 59, July 4, Four MiU\ 59, July 12, Batavia (H. H. Knight); 59, July 3, White Plains (Torre Bueno) ; 59, July, Staten Island (Wm. T. Davis), XE\V YORK). 5, July 2, Jamesburg, NEW JERSEY, (W. T. Davis). 5. June 17, Brightwood, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; 9, Aug. 7, 1907, Hyattsville, MARYLAND (O. Heidemann). 59, May 30 to June 23, Plummer's Island, 59. June 4-15, Beltsvill", MARYLAND; 59, June 6, Mount Vernon, 59, June 23, Glen Carlyn, VIRGINIA (W. L. Mr- Atee). 5, Ames, IOWA. 59, Julv 15, Springfield, Mis.sm'M (H. H. Knight). 5, Aug. 15, Bozeman. MONTANA. 5 9, June 26, July 17, Fort Collins, COLORADO. 5, July 3, 1891, Ogden, UTAH. Lopidea intermedia new species. (PI. XIII, fig. 11). Similar in coloration to media and lepidii, to which species * Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell Uni- versity. Vol. xxix| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 211 it is very closely related ; differs in being shorter and more compact and in the structure of the male genital claspers. $. Length 4.9 mm., width 1.7 mm. Bright red with fuscous and blackish as exhibited in media, shorter and more compact, the an- tennae shorter also; second antennal segment linear, in length (1.31 mm.) less than the* width of the pronotum (1.48 mm.) at the base. 9 . Similar to the male in si?e and coloration. This species was found breeding on a purple flowering weed that grew in clumps along the small stream that flows by He- lotes. Few adults were out at the time of collecting, but tin- ny mphs were found rather plentiful. Holotypc: $ , July i, 1917, Helotes, Bexar Co., Texas (H. H. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allotypc : Taken with the type. Paralyses : 4 6,5 9 , taken with the types. Lopidea robiniae (Uhler). Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., 1:24, ls;i. (PI. XIII, fig. 2). This is a common and well-known species in the Eastern States, breeding on locust (Robinia pseudo-acacia} from which its name is taken. The writer has examined specimens from Georgia, North Carolina, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania. New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. This species has in the past frequently been confused with conflucns and even Uhler was willing to place his robiniae as a variety of media Say (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 19:406, 1878). The species is easily distinguished by the male genital claspers (PI. XIII, fig. 2) which are very characteristic; the number of teeth on the basal part of the right clasper and line spines at the tip of the curved part may vary slightly in number but the general form of the clasper is distinctive. Lopidea confluens (Say). Heterop. Hemip. N. Amer., p. 2:1, l^:;i (PI. XIII, fig. P.). This species is slightly more ovate and robust than robiniae, is frequently very similar in coloration bui usually more orange or reddish,. It has frequently been labeled robiniae in collec- tions and the onlv certain wax of determining the yellow is by examining the male genital claspers. 212 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | June. 'l8 The writer found confluens breeding on Polymnia uvcdalia in Missouri and the species doubtless lives also on P. cana- dcnsis. There appears to be little doubt but that the species here figured is the form described by Say. since this is the only common form in the Middle States, and the only one from Missouri that will fit the original description. Records: 2$, July 29-30, $, Aug. 13, Batavia, New York (H. H. Knight). 39. Aug. 28, Honesdale, Penn. (C. E. Olsen). 39, July 19 to Sept. 5, Plummer's Island, Maryland (W. L. McAtee). $ 9, Aug. ii, Springfield, Ohio (W. S. Adkins). 2$, 59, June 10, Flatwood, Alabama; 42 5 9, July 15-18, Springfield, Missouri (H. H. Knight). Lopidea sayi new species. (PI. XIII, fig. 5). $ . Length 6.1 mm., width 2.1 mm. Slightly smaller than staphylcac but very similar in coloration, the antennae being more nearly linear ; bright yellow to light orange, the scutellum and more or less on each side of the commissure, fuscous ; base of the head and each side of the median line of the front, tylus, rostrum, antennae, membrane, femora and tibiae, black. Sternum and sometimes part of the venter, fuscous ; genital claspers distinctive of the species. 9 . Very similar to the male but with more fuscous and less orange in the yellow. Holotype: $, June 6, 1917, Brown's Ferry on Savannah River, South Carolina (H. H. Knight) ; Cornell University Collection. Allotype : Taken with the type. Paratypes: $, taken with the types. $, June 15, 1902, Plummer's Island, Maryland (O. Heidemann). Lopidea caesar (Renter). Caps. Amer. Bor., p. 67, 1876. (PI. XTIT, fig. 4). This species was described by Renter (1876) under the new generic name, Lomatoplcura, with the type locality given a> Pennsylvania. It was later found that Uhler's Lopidea ( 1872) was very similar to Lomatoplcura and the only points of dif- ference between the type species that could be fixed upon in classification was in the linear and incrassate form of the an- tennae. The writer has shown in a previous paper that the thickness of the antennae varies in the different species, and Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 213 that the incrassate form cannot be taken as a basis for generic distinction. Reuter (1909, Bemerk. u. neark. Caps., p. 72) refers to cacsar, having before him a male specimen from Texas sent by Mr. Heidemann, and a female specimen which may or may not have been cacsar (1876). In the same note the author remarks that the second antennal segment of the male is "thinner" than in the female, again showing that he had two species under consideration. The male considered above, being the same as major n. sp. from Texas, does have more slender antennae than either caesar or re uteri. The writer finds that the sexes of a given species of Lopidca do not differ in the antennal characters. The writer has seen the more important collections of Miri- dae from the United States and, after a careful survey of the Lopidca material, he feels quite safe in saying that if the type of Lomatoplcura cacsar came from Pennsylvania, as stated in the original description, then it can be only one of two species, that which the writer figures as caesar (PI. XIII, fig. 4) or the species renteri. These two species are indeed very similar in general appearance, having prominent incrassate antennae, and are the only forms coming from Pennsylvania that could be taken for caesar. Reuter (1909) determined at least two species as caesar and it is not to be wondered at when one sees how closely together certain species run, the only apparent difference being found in the male genitalia. After a careful study of considerable material with reference to the color characters and distribution of the species, the writer has fig- ured what he believes must be caesar Reuter (1876). Lopidea minor new species. (PI. XIII, tig. f>). Smaller and more reddish than niyridca but larger than minima. $. Length 4.5 mm., width 1.6 mm. Fuscous, the exterior half of the corium, the cuneus, sides of the body and head, reddish, the etn- bolium paler; prominent dark brownish pubescence ; genital clasprrr^ distinctive of the species, showing a close relationship to dcK'isi whirh species is much larger. Holotypc : $ , "Colorado" ; Cornell University Collection. -T4 FXTOMOT.iV.lOAT. NEWS | TuilC. 'l8 A: es: S, topotypic: $, Dickinson. North Dakota ill. Osborn). This species stood in the Cornell Collection as /.,-. ;-\c/,v .:. being received in an exchange lot from C. F. Baker in 1806. It ditters from /.: in its small size, coloration, and genital claspers. Lopidea picta new species. . pupa, ventral view ; c, pupa, lateral view ; d, earthen cocoon with empty pupal shell projecting from it. spines. Similar rows of minute spines on ventral side. Otherwise the cuticle smooth, glassy, shining, not striated. Edges of segments 5-10 somewhat prominent, reminding of vestigial prolegs. Pupa. (Fig. i b and c). 3-3.5 mm. in length (with breathing-tubes 4 mm.). Length of the breathing-tubes I mm. Dorsoventral diame- ter of thorax 1.5 mm. Conical; thorax considerably thicker than ab- domen, the latter narrowing down towards the tip. Head large, two black tubercles at the front, placed narrowly together, two small ones Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. in front of these; a bristle on each side of this tubercle; two dark narrow lines extending1 from here downwards to the face. Above the region of the mouthparts two appressed bristles slightly converging with their tips. On anterior edge of prothorax two slender respira- tory tubes of equal length, projecting beyond the head, flattened and pale at base, pointed and shining black at the tip. General color of fresh pupa white, head more yellowish. Abdomen Q-segmented, white, on dorsal side reddish. Dorsally on each abdominal segment near its posterior border, a transverse row of very small, short, brownish spines. Lateral abdominal spiracles present but not very distinct. The spiracular areas with minute punctuation. On the ventral side of 8th abdominal segment a fleshy prominence corresponding to the larval anus. Last segment (of female pupa) short, with low wart- like prominences. Wing-cases rounded, smooth ; leg-cases free, con- siderably longer than wing-cases. Pupation in the mud, in oval-shaped, earthen cocoon, 5 mm. in length, with smooth inner walls. I notice that Baling, in his description of the larva of Arg\ra vestita, mentions not four but five integumental lobes on the 1 2th segment, counting three upper ones, the middle one of these, however, often being much smaller than the two lateral ones. In the pupa of Argyra vcstita Beling mentions on the front four, short stiff bristles ; he did not observe the cocoon formed for pupation. The habit of opening the pupal cocoon by means of a "cyc- lorrhaphous" cover, is of some interest and may throw light on the evolution of cyclorrhaphous from orthorrhaphous Dip- tera. While, as seen in this case, some orthorrhaphous Dip- tcra form cocoons, which they open after the fashion de- scribed, it is quite possible that in cases where pupation takes place within the larval skin, the instinct to detach the cover from a surrounding cocoon is transferred to the larval skin surrounding the pupa, and as this closely adheres to the pupal surface, the pupa opens it by the same means. If this is so, then all flies which became cyclorrhaphous originally made cocoons, a habit which would serve to explain the barrel-like shape of the puparia and also, to some extent, the fact that the last larval skin is not shed ; in some cases the skin may adhere to the inner side of the cocoon, especially if the latter 220 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 'l8 is made of hardened earth or clay, and the final molt may become mechanically dependent on this factor and impossible without it. In a later stage, when the insects have adapted themselves to a new environment, no cocoon is formed, but pupation takes place as if there were a cocoon surrounding the pupating larva ; the larval skin cannot be successfully shed, and the result is a puparium, but the latter, consisting of both larval and pupal skin, is opened after the fashion of a cocoon. LITERATURE. BRAUER, F., 1883. Die Zweifluegler des K. K. Hofmuseums zu Wien, Denkschriften der Wiener Akademie der Wissenchaftcn. BERLING, TH., 1882. Beitrag zur Metamorphose zweifluegeliger Insek- ten. Archiv fuer Naturgeschichte, Jahrg. 48, Heft 2, pp. 225- 226. MALLOCH, JOHN R., 1917. A Preliminary Classification of Diptera, Exclusive of Pupipara, Based upon larval and pupal characters, with keys to imagines in certain families. Part I., Bull. 111., Lab. of Nat. Hist., Vol. XII, Article III, pp. 403-407 (Dolichopodidae). March. Psyllidae of the vicinity of Washington, D. C., with description of a New Species of Aphalara (Horn.) By W. L. McAxEE, Washington, D. C. The list of species herein presented comprises the psyllids recorded from the District of Columbia region in the papers cited in the bibliography plus those obtained by the writer and other collectors whose names are mentioned in connection with their captures. The list totals 23 species, and may be compared with those for the vicinity of Ames, Iowa.1 15 spe- cies, of which 4 were described as new ; for New Jersey,3 18 species, of which one is cited merely as n. sp. and 3 are recorded on hypothetical grounds; and for Colorado, 18 spe- cies, 14 of them cited under manuscript names.3 Of the 23 species here listed 5 were originally described from material obtained wholly or in part from the vicinity of , C. W. Proc. Iowa Ac. Sci. 1894 (1895), 1'P- 152-171. 2Smith, J. B. Rep. N. J. State Mus. 1909 (1910) pp. 108-110. 3Gillette, C. P. and Baker, C. F. Bui. 31, Colo. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1895, pp. 113-115- Vol.xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEW?. 221 Washington. For the benefit of those interested in the fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, it may he said that 10 of the species have been collected on the island and 3 others nearby. Livia Latreille. L. maculipennis Fitch. — Obtained by sweeping in marshy situations in May and June and by beating pine foliage January to June, also in October. Abundant. L. marginata Patch. — The only specimens seen were collected at Falls Church, Virginia, July 24, by Nathan Banks. These were living in tufts of sedge, the upper leaves of which were entirely etiolated. L. vernalis Fitch. — Swept in marshy places in May and beaten from pine from January to September; has been taken also in October. Abundant. Aphalara Fo'rster. A. calthae Linnaeus. — A very abundant species; propagates here apparently exclusively upon Polygouuin, commonly on P. lapathi- folium. Has been collected on the food plant from June to Oc- tober and upon pine from January to April. A. eas new species. (Text figs.) Named in honor of Mr. E. A. Schwarz, who has done much careful study of Psyllidae, and published some excellent pa- pers on the family. A species of Aphalara, recognizable at a glance . by its chunky appearance, and broad milky fore wings with some of the veins "darkened distally. This species belongs to the section of Aphalara that has the clypeus rounded truncate and projecting but little beyond plane of face, and from compari- son with descriptions in Crawford's monograph and with speci- mens in the U. S. National Museum appears to be undescribed. Length of body, 1.74 to 2.31 mm.; of wing, 2.24 to 2.64 mm. Width of head, .<«; to .76 mm. ; of thorax, .82 to I mm. General color of the body yellowi^i- green to yellow-brown, with following brown to blackish markings: last 2-3 joint> of antenna, underside basal two joints; im- pressions of vertex and pronotum ; a divid ed semicircular spot on front of praescu- tum : 4 vittae on scutum, those of inner At>lialara_eas\\*v. Upper j)ajr curved and pointed anteriorly ; dist.tl ngure, lorewing. Lower ngure, male genitalia. ends of tiliial and tarsal joints; most of 222 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, 'l8 the thoracic sutures; ventral segments largely; and tips of geni- talia. Fore wings milky hyaline, veins thick; veins near apical margin and especially those bounding marginal cells, dark and bordered by nar- row brownish clouds. Male forceps almost boot-shaped in profile, the "toe" directed pos- teriorly. Whole genitalia of about the same shape as in A. picta Zett. Type male and allotypc (in my collection) from Plummers Island, Maryland, May I, 1914, W. L. McAtee. Paralyses include specimens from Plummers Island, April 23, 1916, L. O. Jackson; Maryland near Plummers Island, April 28, 1915; May 9, 1913; May 18, 1913, W. L. McAtee, and Great Falls, Maryland, May 6, H. S. Barber. Five specimens with the last data are in the National Museum Collection. My specimens were obtained by sweeping low vegetation, the particular food plant unfortunately not being determined. A. picta Zetterstedt. — Specimens labelled Washington, D. C, are dated from May 19 to October 15, and simply Virginia, from May 23 to September 7. Other specimens have been taken at Belts- ville, Maryland, June 15, 1913, Mount Vernon, Virginia, June 6, 1915, McAtee; and Dyke, Virginia, May 28, 1915, L. O. Jackson. Specimens in the National Museum collection bearing the cabinet name A. astcris Riley belong to this species. A. veaziei Patch. — Abundant; extreme dates of collection May 11 to September 23. A cabinet name A. solidaginis Riley indicates a food plant, though probably not the sole one. The species has been beaten from pine in June. In general appearance this spe- cies and the last seem almost to grade into each other, but the male genitalia are distinct. The form A. veazici mctzaria Craw- ford apparently has not been taken about Washington, but I have swept it from salt marshes at Wallops Island, Virginia, (May 25, 1913). Calophya Loew. C. flavida Schwarz. — Originally described from District of Colum- bia material. Occurs only upon Rhus ylabra where it has been collected from May i to August 4. Usually rather scarce. C. nigripennis Riley. — Abundant on Rhus copallina, May 4 to June 29. Mr. E. A. Schwarz says : *"Our eastern species hibernate as full grown larvae or pupae on the stems of their food plants and there is but one generation each year." * Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 6, 1904, p. 240. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 223 Trioza Forster. T. aylmeriae Patch. — Mt. Vernon, Virginia, February 28, L. O. Jackson; and March 21, 1915, McAtee. T. diospyri Ashmead.— Abundant on persimmon (Diopyros rir- giniana) ; March 26 to August 14. T. obtusa Patch. — Washington, D. C., April G and 27, 1885; Mary- land, February 22, 1884, A. Koebele ; Dead Run, Virginia, in flowers of Amclanchicr, April 23, 1916, L. O. Jackson. Cabinet name, T. ainelanchieris Riley. T. salicis Mally. — Common on willow from June to August, though nymphs have been collected as late as October ; found on pine foliage from November to April. T. tripunctata Fitch. — Probably the most abundant species of Psyllid in this region. Plants of the genus Rubus are said to be the true hosts, but it would seem hardly enough specimens are seen upon Rubus (May-July) to account for the great abundance of the species on pine (October-June). Neotriozella Crawford. N. immaculata Crawford. — Washington, D. C., October, 1883, E. A. Schwarz; Mt. Rainier, Maryland, November 14, 1915, L. O. Jackson ; Eastern Branch, near Bennings, D. C., on Finns lir- giniana, December 30, 1915, McAtee. Hemitrioza Crawford. H. sonchi Crawford.— Washington, D. C., June 13, 19, 22, 36; Virginia, October 9, 1881, E. A. Schwarz; Four-mile Run. Vir- ginia, June 29, 1913, A. Wetmore. All of this material except last lot, was used in connection with the original description of the species (and genus). Pachypsylla Riley. P. celtidis-gemma Riley. — Common on hackberry, May 8 to June 7. P. celtidis-mamma Riley. — Not very common: found on hackberry May 13 to August 15, and on red cedar (Junipcnis riryiniana) and other conifers from October to February. Specimens labelled P. c.-ininnta seem, to be only small individuals of this species. P. venusta Osten Sacken. — Department of Agriculture grounds, Washington, D. C., September, 1892. Miss M. Sullivan. Originally described from Washington, D. C. Psyllopsis Loew. P. fraxinicola Forster.— Washington. D. C., May 18 to August 10, Hubbard and Schwarz. Psylla Geoffroy. P. annulata Fitch.— Beltsville. Maryland. May 2s. I'.HC,; August It, 1914, McAtee. 224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | June, 'l8 P. carpinicola Crawford.- Common on Carpimts caroliuiaiw. May 15 to October u. P. cephalica Crawford. — Washington, D. C, July 1, August 17, E. A. Schwarz. BIBLIOGRAPHY. CRAWFORD, D. L. — 1914. A monograph of the jumping plant-lice or Psyllidae of the New World. Bui. 85, U. S. Nat. Mus.. 186 pp., 541 figs. [Records 15 species from the District of Columbia. Among them Hcmitrioza sonchi, new genus and species and Psylla cephalica new species are described from District ma- terial in part.] McAxEE, W. L. — 1915. Psyllidae wintering on conifers about Wash- ington, D. C. Science, N. S., 41, June 25, p. 940. [Five species discussed.] OSTEN SACKEN, C. R. — 1861. Ueber die Gallen und andere durch Insecten hervorgebrachte Pflanzendeformationen in Nord-Am- erica. Ent. Zeit. Stettin. 22, Nos. 10-12, Oct.-Dec. pp. 450- 423. [Describes Celtis gall and gall maker, Psylla (now Pachypsylla) venusta from Washington, D. C.] SCHWARZ, E. A. — 1904. Notes on North American Psyllidae, Part I. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 6, No. 4, Nov., pp. 234-245, figs. 6-12. [Describes Calophya flavida new species and records C. niyri- pcnnis Riley, from the vicinity of Washington, D. C.] Life History and Habits of Gastroidea caesia Rog. (Col.) By MILTON T. GOE, Portland, Oregon. These beautiful, little, dark-green beetles are to be found in countless numbers in and around Portland, Oregon, from the latter part of March until late in autumn. Plants of the Dock species, Rum ex crispus and Rnmcx obtusifolins, are their fa- vorite hosts, and on bright, warm days both adult and larva may be found feeding upon the leaves of these plants; but during cold or rainy days they take shelter in the ground near where they are feeding. From my observations, I find of the two Rumcx species, they prefer obtusifolins. The adult beetle and the larva both feed greedily upon the leaves of these plants ; the larvae eat the parenchyma off the upper and under surface of the leaves, but are more often found on the under side. The adults are even more devastating than the larvae, Vol. X\i.\| ENTOMOLOCIC \I. \K\YS. J_'5 frequently destroying the whole of the leaf except the midrib. The Gastroideas are so fond of these plants, and confine them- selves so closely to them, that they might well be given the common name of Dock Beetles. During my investigation of these Chrysomelids in their nat- ural surroundings and in captivity, rhubarb was the only culti- vated plant upon which I found that they would feed, though I tested them with lettuce, radish, beet and other plant leaves. They ate sparingly of the rhubarb leaves and readily left them when given access to dock. Although they have well developed wings they never fly and their protection from enemies is their color and habit of feign- ing death. The female deposits her eggs, which are elongated and of a dark-yellow color, in irregular masses on the under side of the leaves. The number of eggs in these masses varies, but is usually from thirty to forty. The eggs are always de- posited during the day, the individual laying later each day until the laying is quite late in the afternoon, then she begins in the early morning once more. One especially productive fe- male deposited a batch of thirty-four eggs in the early morning and thirty late in the afternoon of the same day. but this was an exception and the only instance in which I have known of more than one batch of eggs being deposited during the same day. Occasionally there are days of rest when no eggs are laid. One female deposited thirty-three eggs on the fifth day after reaching maturity, which shows how closely one generation may follow another. The first generation of females, which mature from pupae that have passed the winter in the ground, is the most productive generation of the year. While the aver- age number of eggs produced each day is less than the average number produced by later generations, the adult life period, and therefore the productive period, is longer than that of la- ter generations. During the height of the season of oviposit- ing, the abdomen of the female is so dilated that the elytra stand at almost right angles to the body, the female at this time being much larger than the male. At the end of the laying sea- son the abdomen returns to its normal sixe. There are four or 226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, '18 five generations of this beetle each year, the number of gener- ations depending upon the length of the warm season. The life of the male is much shorter than that of the female; from my observations I found the life of the female to be about three times the length of that of the male. Following are the dates and number of eggs laid by a female beetle of the first generation, the period of incubation, larval period and the time required for pupation : March 31 29 eggs April 14 32 eggs April 28 38 eggs April i 36 eggs April 15 None April 29 33 eggs April 2 31 eggs April 16 3i eggs April 30 None April 3 30 eggs April 17 32 eggs May i 34 eggs April 4 32 eggs April 18 None May 2" 33 eggs April 5 37 eggs April 19 38 eggs May 3 36 eggs April 6 None April 20 32 eggs May 4 30 eggs April 7 21 eggs April 21 37 eggs May 5 36 eggs April 8 37 eggs April 22 32 eggs May 6 None April 9 32 eggs April 23 32 eggs May 7 None April 10 32 eggs April 24 33 eggs May 8 33 eggs April ii 9 eggs April 25 35 eggs May 9 None April 12 24 eggs April 26 34 eggs May 10 None April 13 36 eggs April 27 None May ii None May 12 22 eggs Total, 1049 eggs. This female laid no more eggs after May I2th and on May iSth we found her dead on a leaf of dock; most of these bee- tles go into the soil to die. April 9th, fifteen larvae hatched from the batch of twenty- nine eggs laid on March 3ist. These tiny, black, worm-like larvae were kept in a jar containing about two inches of soil, and provided with fresh dock leaves daily. The larvae of these beetles do not seem to moult, but simply grow larger until they enter the soil for pupation. April 26th all of the larvae living at that time, ten in all, entered the soil to pupate. Nothing more was seen of them until May loth, when five fully developed beetles emerged from the soil, five having died during the pupal period. During the process of transformation these injects change in color from black to yellow, and from yellow to green. From notes taken at different times I find that the time for incubation is from six to ten days ; the larval period is from ten to sixteen days, and the pupal period is from fourteen to sixteen days. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 22/ Records of North Carolina Odonata from 1908 to 1917. By C. S. BRIMLEY, Raleigh, North Carolina. These records include those of species not hitherto taken in North Carolina, as well as any other records which materially extend the range of other species. The species new to North Carolina are marked with a star (*). Calopteryx dimidiata Burm. Wakefield, Wake County, eleven taken on Buffalo Creek, five miles from here, July 4, 1908, C. S. B. Lestes vigilax Hagen. Pine Bluff, Moore County, twenty-one taken in July, 1914, by J. D. Ives. *Amphiagrion saucium Burm. NRaleigh, May 18, 1909, one female. Sunburst, Hayvvood County, three in May, 1912, one in May, 1913, C. S. B. Argia fumipennis Burm. Raleigh, one, July 14, 1914. Pine Bluff, July, 1914, seventeen, J. D. I. Argia putrida Hagen. Pine Bluff, six in July, 1914, J. D. 1. Argia tibialis Rambur. Pine Bluff, July, 1914, J. D. I. Argia violacea Hagen. Wakefield, Durham and Fuquay Springs (in Wake County) are three new localities. *Enallagma geminatum Kellicott. Pine Bluff, a pair taken by Prof. Ives in June, 1914. *Ischnura prognatha Hagen. Raleigh, twenty-seven taken along pools in marshy stream running into Walnut Creek, August 1 to 29, 1914, C. S. B. Telagrion daeckii Calvert. Southern Pines, June 23, 1909 (1), C. S. B.; Pine Bluff, July, 1914 (5), J. D. I. Gomphus brimleyi Aluttkowski. Lumberton (as G. parrulus in Ent. News, March, 1904; identification changed to G. abbrcri- atus in Ent. News. March, 1906), also from Southern Pines, April 29, 1908; White Lake, Bladen County, May, 1910 (F. S.), and Raleigh, May 15, 1915, C. S. B. *Gomphus plagiatus Selys. Lake \Vaccamaw, September 20, 191.1, R. W. Leiby. *Gomphus vastus Walsh. Black Mt., late May, 1910, F. Sherman. *Hagenius brevistylus Selys. Raleigh, one male, August 22, 1914; also one seen mounted in collection of Mr. A. H. Manee at Southern Pines, and said to have been taken by him there. *Lanthus parvulus Selys. Andrews, Cherokee County, tenerals common in mid-May. 1908. C. S. B. Sunburst, rather common in late May, 19]:i, but none seen at same season in previous year, C. S. B. Black Mt., late May, 1910, two, F. S. 22tS ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |Jline, 'l8 Progomphus obscurus Rambur. Pine Blufif, July, 1914; Southern Pines, June 22, 23, 1909, C. S. B. Fuquay Springs, June 22, 1911, C. S. B. Tachopteryx thoreyi Hagen. Raleigh, two taken by H. Spencer, May 14, 1916, near Lake Raleigh. Aeshna umbrosa E. M. Walker. The specimens previously listed by me from Raleigh, Linville and Highlands as A. constricta should be referred here. Blowing Rock, September 4, 1915, one male. Epiaeschna heros Fabr. Southern Pines, May 15, 1909, A. H. Manee. Cordulegaster diastatops Selys. Andrews, late May, 1908. Sun- burst, a few in late May, 1912, and 1913, C. S. B.; three in mid- June, 1911, F. S. Southern Pines, April 8, 1910, A. H. M. Aquone, Franklin County, mid-May, 1911, F. S. Cordulegaster fasciatus Rambur. Ridgecrest, mid-July, 1916, taken by some boys and brought to Mr. Sherman's office. Didymops transversa Say. Greensboro, early May, 1913, C. S. B. Helocordulia selysii Hagen. Raleigh, March 18, 1908, and April 17, 1914, C. S. B. Macromia georgina Selys. Our Raleigh Macromias seem to be- long here, including those formerly listed as M. tacniolata and M. illinocnsis (Ent. News, May, 1903, and March, 1906). Rather uncommon at Raleigh, flying both over streams, and in open places in dry upland woods, from late June to mid-September, also Southern Pines, September 6, 1909. *Macromia australensis Williamson. Raleigh. July 26, 1916, one female lacking the antehumeral stripes, may belong here, if not merely a variation from M. (/corgina, which it otherwise resembles (C. S. B.). Neurocordulia obsoleta Say. Southern Pines, June 5, 1909, A. H. M. Tetragoneuria cynosura Say. Southern Pines, April 4, 1910, A. H. M. Tetragoneuria cynosura simulans Muttkowski. Here belong my "scmiaquca" records from Lumberton and Raleigh. Tetragoneuria semiaquea Burm. Here belong all my conihlamita records, also the scmiaquca records from Lake Ellis. Other localities are Southern Pines, late March and April, Manee; White Lake, May, 1910, F. S. Celithemis elisa Hagen. Southern Pines, August 11. 1909, three, A. H. M. Pine Blufif, June, July, 1914. J. D. I. Raleigh, August 29, 1914. August 8, 1916. Celithemis fasciata Kirby. Southern Pines, June 23, 1909, C. S. B. Lakeview, June 11, 1912, C. S. B. Pine Bluff, June, July, I'.UI, Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 22Q J. D. I. Raleigh, six in July and August, 1914 to lOir,, C. S. B. Celithemis ornata Rambur. Pine Bluff, June, July, l'.»14, J. D. I. White Lake, early June, 1915, F. S. Erythrodiplax minuscula Rambur. Raleigh, June 18, 1908, August 3, 1915, C. S. B. Pine Bluff, June, July, 1914, J. D. I. Ladona deplanata Rambur. Raleigh, April 21, 1916. Libellula auripennis Burm. Cape Hatteras, July, August, 1909. Libellula axillena Westwood. Raleigh, August 4, 1908, July 16, 26. 1917; Wakefield, July 1, 1908, C. S. B. Southern Pines, August 11, 1909, A. H. M. Libellula flavida Rambur. Fuquay Springs, June 20, 1911, two; Pine Bluff, three in June and July, 1914, J. D. I. Libellula pulchella Drury. Sunburst, late May, 1913, C. S. B. Libellula semifasciata Burm. Sunburst, late May, 1913, at 4000 feet elevation, C. S. B. Libellula vibrans Fabr. Southern Pines, June 23, 1909, A. H. M. Nannothemis bella Uhler. Southern Pines, June 23, 1909, abun- dant. Pine Bluff, twenty-six in June and July, 1914, J. D. I. *Pantala hymenaea Say. Raleigh, August 11, 1915, one female. These records are based on my own collecting, on collecting done by Mr. F. Sherman, Entomologist to the State Depart- ment of Agriculture, and his assistants, on specimens received from Mr. A. H. Manee, of Southern Pines, and on collections made by Professor J. D. Ives, formerly of Wake Forest Col- lege, at Pine Bluff, Moore County, in June and July, 1914. The total number of forms of Odonata which T now have on record from North Carolina is 104, of which 36 are Zygop- tera, and the remaining 68 Anisoptera. A New Species of Johannsenomyia (Ceratopogonidae, Diptera). By J. R. MALLOCH, Urbana, Illinois. In describing the present species I take the opportunity to correct an error in my synopsis of this genus.* The species stigmalis Coquillett should be placed among those with unspined fifth tarsal joint, and should run down to section / in the key. The characters cited under the first subsection of 12 should be transferred to J as an additional subsection. *Bull. III. State Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. X, art. 6, p. 332 (1915). 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 'l8 To include the present species, Section 12 should be changed to read as follows : 12. Tarsal claws exceedingly long, those of each hind pair very unequal, the inner about 4 times as long as the outer, annulicornis n. sp. Tarsal claws short, subequal on all legs 13 Johannsenomyia annulicornis sp. n. $. Black, slightly shining. Back of head and vertex brown, re- mainder of head and its appendages yellow, apices of the short flagellar joints, and all of the long joints except the bases of the first two fuscous. Thorax, except prothorax, and abdomen black. Legs yellow, mid and hind coxae, hind femora except bases, hind tibia on basal half, the extreme apices of basal four joints and all of apical joints on all legs fuscous. Wings clear, region of cross-vein in- fuscated. Halteres dark brown. Antennae very slender, longer than head and thorax combined. Thorax densely short-haired ; mesopleurae with similar short hairs on the greater portion of its surface. Legs very long, fore and hind femora thickened apically; tibiae not setulose ; basal joint of hind tarsi but little shorter than hind tibiae; apical tarsal joint on all legs with a double series of long bristles on basal half; claws each with a short tooth at base, inner claw on hind tarsi about four times as long as outer. Third vein ending about one-eighth from apex of wing, first at about one-fifth of distance from cross-vein to apex of third; media and cubitus forking before cross-vein. Length, 4 mm. Type. 9 , Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Type locality, Lake Villa, Illinois, July 21, 1916 (C. A. Hart). A New Species of Macrosiphum (Aphididae, Horn.). H. F. WILSON, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. This insect occurs commonly on the leaves of Rhododen- dron californicum Hook, along the coast region of Oregon. The description was made from specimens collected at New Port, Oregon, June 15, 1915. Apterous, alate and pupal forms were present in great numbers. Types mounted in balsam on slides, in my collection. Macrosiphum rhododendri, n. sp. Apterous i'ii iparous female, deneral color pale green, a few pinkish forms were also taken. The distal end of the fifth and the entire Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 231 sixth segment with unguis dusky. Distal ends of tibiae and tarsi also dusky. Hairs on antennae, legs and body short and heavy, spinelike, capitate at the tip. Antennae slightly longer than the body. Unguis slightly longer than the third antennal segment. Third segment with two or three small circular sensoria. Antennal tubercle prominent and gibbous. Nectaries more or less cylindrical, but with a slight taper and slightly curved toward the center. This latter character produces a slightly swollen effect which is accentuated by the constricted tip. Measurements. Body length, 2 mm. Length of antennae: total length 2.26 mm. Antennal segments III. 0.58 mm. ; IV. 0.38 mm. ; V. 0.38 mm.; VI. 0.13 mm.; Unguis 0.56 mm. Length of nectaries- inside 0.55 mm. Cauda 0.22 mm. Pupae. Dark grey to chocolate brown. Alate viviparous female. General color pale green, head and thorax dusky to black. Antennae with outer two-thirds dusky. Tibiae at distal end, and tarsi dusky. Antennae a little longer than the body. Fourth segment a trifle longer than the unguis. Third segment with 30 to 40 irregularly sized circular sensoria. Antennal Macrosiphum rhododcndri n. sp.— A, Nectary. B, Third antennal segment. tubercles large and gibbous. Nectaries as in the apterous form. Cauda turned upward and constricted toward the middle, as in drawing. Measurements. Body length, 2.22 mm. Length of antennae. 2.25 mm. Antennal segments. III. 0.578 mm. ; IV. 0.4 mm. ; V. 0.41 mm. ; VI. 0.09 mm. ; Unguis, 0.53 mm. Nectaries, 0.445 mm. Cauda, 0.24 mm. — ««» — Coenonympha brenda (Lep.: Satyridae). I spent the last of August, 1917, in the Greenhorns above Glenville, California. Noticing a pallid little Satyrid, I took half a dozen, more for purposes of identification than anything else. Because of limited opportunity to collect and miserable facilities for preserving a collec- tion in the oil-country, T usually foolishly disregard the insignificant sorts. Imagine my chagrin, on reaching home, to find my Satyrid to be Coenonympha brenda! While not gregarious, three or four were fluttering languidly over every high, grassy knoll, and a day's collecting would have yielded a hundred specimens. T wonder if C. brenda is a late-fall species, coming after we have about given up collecting, and thus has escaped notice? — W. IT. IRELANP. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1918. Making the Editorial of Greater Use To Entomology. In a recent (December, 1917) number of the Sigma Xi Quarterly, the literary editor of The Independent has some amusing remarks "From the other side of the Barricade." the obstacle in question being that which separates editors from non-editors. Many topics are touched upon but for our present purpose we wish merely to quote the following : And there are others, graduate students, assistants, teachers, men who stand at the very frontier of human knowledge, familiar with sources, knowing real science from fake science, eager and able to write, but when they come to me or I get after them they ask helpless- ly: "What do you want me to write about?" What do they take an editor for anyway? If I knew what they know I should not ask them to write. I should do it myself. Do they think that our correspondent somewhere in France cables to us : "Come over and tell me what there is here to write about"? Do. they think that our\ musical critic drops in to ask: "Have I heard any new com- posers lately whom you think I ought to write about and, if so, what should I say about them ?" Did Columbus go to King Ferdinand and inquire: "Has Your Majesty anything in the sea-faring line that you would like to have me do ?" To these extracts we should like to add the last sentence from the First Report of Committee on Zoology of the Na- tional Research Council : "The Committee .... invites from every zoological investigator in the country a statement of the things most urgently needed for the promotion of his own research work." The needs and problems of The Independent are not those of the NEWS or of other entomological journals, at the pres- ent time at least. Whatever opinions may be held as to the value of the articles published in the periodicals of our sci- ence, there is now no lack of material to occupy the available monthly or quarterly space. These articles are almost wholly technical, often narrowly so. But in the prosecution of such special and limited researches, difficulties, errors and hind- 232 Vol. XXl'x] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2$$ ranee? of various kinds continually appear. Many of these could be overcome, avoided, or removed by pointing them out and discussing them in a general and impersonal manner. Here the editorial page offers an opportunity and the NEWS will be glad to have suggestions, from those enumerated in the first sentence quoted above from the Quarterly, as to just what some of their problems are so that the editors may discuss them. Many of the editorials which have appeared in this journal have been based on such conscious or uncon- scious criticisms, contained in letters, manuscripts received for publication and other sources. But we should like to have more of them, for the editors of the NEWS do not know all that its readers and contributors know. By such co-operation our editorials can surely be made of greater use and assistance to the progress of entomology. Notes and ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. An Extra Molt in the Nymphal Stages of the Chinch Bug (Hem., Het.). In 1875 Riley in his Seventh Missouri Report published an original description of the four nymphal stages of the chinch bug accompanied by figures of the different life history stages. His de- scriptions and figures have been accepted as authentic and have been copied repeatedly by various writers. Professor Forbes improved the original figures immensely by publishing in the Twenty-third Illinois Report, 1005, an excellent colored plate illustrating "The Chinch-bug: five stages of development and the eggs." In the descriptions, however, he stated that "the chinch-bug molts four times after hatching." A careful examination of available literature on the subject failed to bring to light a single exception to the original four-stage notion of Riley. In the spring of 1916, I had an opportunity, at the Kansas Experi- ment Station to raise the insect under conditions which permitted close observations and obtained invariably five molts instead of four, as is generally believed. The extra molt or stage between either the first and second stages or second and third s of Riley. The exact sequence of this extra stage is difficult to state because of the inadequacy of the original description. The five nymphal stages, as I found them, are distinct and can he distinguished 234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June. 'l8 from one another on a definite structural basis. They can be readily distinguished by the degree of the development of the mesothoracic wing pads as follows : First stage, no wing pads discernible, no dusky bands on the mesothorax ; second stage, no wing pads visible but a dusky band on each side of the meson of the mesothorax, the caudal margin of the dusky areas straight ; third stage, rudimentary wing pads visible as a slight projection from the caudal margin of each dusky band on the mesothorax, the tip of the wing pads not reaching the caudal margin of the mesothorax; fourth stage, the wing pads distinct, extend on to but not beyond the first abdominal segment; fifth stage, wing pads very distinct, extend on to and some- times beyond the second abdominal segment. These five stages were found in the fields, indicating that the extra molt occurs in nature and was not an abnormality produced under artificial condi- tions. Detailed descriptions of different stages will be published later. — HACHIRO YUASA, University of Illinois. Urbana, 111. Emergency Entomological Service. Publication of the reports issued under this heading by the United States Department of Agriculture reporting co-operatinn between Federal, State and Station Entomologists and other agencies, sus- pended since early January (see the NEWS for February, 1918, pp. 72-74), has been resumed with No. 11 for May i, 1918, consisting of 40 mimeographed pages. As in the earlier issues, this number contains notes on many dif- ferent entomological topics, so that it is difficult to give a summary of its most important contents in a small space. The data given arc not only of direct economic value, but also of much ecological in- terest. The foreword says, "The general tenor of all the reports is th">t there has been considerable climatic control of insects during- the past winter. It will be of great interest to watch the conditions this year with a view to determining, if possible, what that control has been compared with other years." Thus, winter-killing, in large w- centages, of Coleopterous and Lepidopterous larvae is reported from Connecticut, of bag-worms in West Virginia, of scale insects in Michi- gan, Rhode Island and District of Columbia <»f the Argentine ant at New Orleans, of codling moth larvae in parts (but not all) of the Arkansas valley and in Illinois, of anhids in Virginia and Indiana; boring larvae in dead trees, however, are exceptions to this statement. Winter losses were unusually heavy aiming bees that were not properly protected in the clover region. In California, where the climatir con- ditions were less severe, aphids appeared in injurious numbers in January, and the cotton leaf -per foratoi ( Huccitlatri.r llun-l'cru'Ilu) has appeared "much earlier than ever before observed," as a "quite alarming" outbreak in the Imperial Valley. In southern Arizona "ex- Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XKVYS. 235 ceptionally cold nights" by interfering with the development of parasites has resulted in a very serious infestation of aphids in April. The citrus white fly (nialcitmdcs citri) has been checked in its development but not killed "to any material degree" by cold spells in Louisiana. The entomological department of the Florida Plant Board is preparing for distribution cultures of the Red and Yellow .•Ischersonia fungi which are specific enemies of this insect. Among insect enemies of special importance are noted the Sweet Potato Weevil (Cyclns formicarius') which has been found on an ad- ditional plant (Calonyotion bona-no.v) in Florida; certain varieties of the morning glory, especially Iponioea pcs-caprac. are considered !•> be the preferred host plants of this weevil am1 hence may serve as successful "catch crops." Heavy losses from this insect have been suffered in Texas. The acreage in Irish potatoes in Louisiana is unusually large with complaints of injury by the Colorado beetle. The Hessian fly began emergence in southern Illinois on April i, a week earlier than in 1917, and was in flight in southeastern Missouri on March 18; little damage from this insect to the winter wheaf crop of 1918 is expected, however. An interesting relation between this fly and joint worms is brought out, but is too lengthy for in- clusion here. The worst injury to wheat in Kansas has been caused by the false wire worm, Elcodcs of>aca. Abundant rains in parts of Texas in the first hall" of April are cred- ited with having killed nearly all the chinch bugs there. Outbreaks are possible in southern Illinois and parts of Missouri and Kansas. A European corn stalk borer (f'yruiisia nitbilalis Hiibn.) is very abundant in eastern Massachusetts, causing serious anxiety. It may be made a subject of quarantine by the Federal Horticultural Hoard. A warning of probable destructive outbreaks of white grubs in many sections north of a line from Philadelphia to Des Moines is sounded. Heavy infestations of canker worms are noted in Mississippi, the eastern part of Kansas and northeastern Ohio. The plum curculio is expected in large numbers in Georgia and in Ohio. The pear thrips has been more abundant than usual in the San Fran- cisco Bay region of California. Both the cottony cushion scale (Iccryii purchasi) and its enemy, Ibe /Y-9. Davis, W. T.— A new tiger-beetle from Texas, 411, xiii, 33-4. Ferris, G. F.— An apparently n. sp. of Leptinillus (Leptinidae), 4, 1, 125-8. Fisher, W. S.— A new Hoplia from Flor- ida, 4, 1, 140-2. HYMENOPTERA. Cockerell, T. D. A.— Some South American bees, 4, 1, 137- HO. Brethes, J.— Description d'un Chalcidien galli- cole de la Reptibli<|iu- Argentine, 87, 191S, S2-4. Bruch, C.— Hormi- gas de Catamarca (see also (u-ncral Subjects), 548, iii, 430-3. Fri- son, T. H.— Additional notes on the life history of I'.ombus auri- 24O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 'l8 comus, 180, xi, 43-50. Lecaillon, A.— Sur la maniere dont 1'Ammo- phile herissee (Psammophila hirsuta) capture et transporte sa proie, et sur 1'explication rationnelle de 1'instinct de cet hymenop- tere, 12, 1918, 530-2. Nelson, J. A.— The segmentation of the ab- domen of the honey bee, 180, xi, 1-8. Whiting, P. W. — Sex-deter- mination and biology of a parasitic wasp, Hadrobracon brevicornis, 198, xxxiv, 250-6. Wolcott, G. N. — An emergence response of Tri- chogramma minutum to light, 179, xi, 205-9. OBITUARY. The March, 1918, issue of The Oologist, of Lacon, Illinois, contains an obituary notice and portrait of OTTOMAR REI- NECKE, who, in cooperation with Frank H. Zesch, published a "List of the Coleoptera Observed and Collected in the Vicinity of Buffalo" (Bulletin, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., iv, pp. 2-15, July. 1881). This list gives the names of species only, collected ''within a radius not exceeding fifteen miles [during] . . . a period of nearly fourteen years." An ''Additional List of Coleoptera collected by Ottomar Reinecke," likewise of names only, appeared in January, 1882, on page 55 of the same volume. According to The Oologist, Reinecke was born at Sondershaven, Germany, November 26, 1840, settled in Buffalo at the age of twelve years, and died there, November 26, 1917. He was a printer, editor and a proprietor of the Freie Presse, park commissioner and business man, and a stu- dent of birds as well as of beetles. The death of DR. EMILE FREY-GESSNER, of Geneva, Swit- zerland, an honorary fellow of the Entomological Society of London since 1912, was announced at the meeting of that Society held October 3, 1917, but without further particu- lars. The English journals print obituaries of WILLIAM HENRY HARWOOD, English Lepidopterist and Hymenopterist, born February 25, 1840; died December 24, 1917, (Ent. Mo. Mag., Feby., 1918), and of RICHARD S. STANDEN, English Lepidop- terist and artist, born October n, 1835; died July 2i>, 1017 (Entomologist, Nov., 1917; Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec., 1917.) The Celebrated Original Dust and Pest-Proof METAL CABINETS FOR SCHMITT BOXES These cabinets have a specially constructed groove or trough around the front, lined with a material of our own design, which is adjustable to the pressure of the front cover. The cover, when in place, is made fast by spring wire locks or clasps, causing a constant pressure on the lining in the groove. The cabinet, in addition to being abso- lutely dust, moth and dermestes proof, is impervious to fire, smoke, water and atmos- pheric changes. Obviously, these cabinets are far superior to any constructed ot non- metallic material. 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CONTENTS: Hungerford — Concerning the Oviposi- tiou of Notonectae ( Hem. ) 241 Braun — New Genera and Species of Lyonetiidae ( Microlepidoptera). . . 245 Beutenmuller— Description of a New Periclistus ( Cynipidae, Hym.) 251 Cockerell— A Remarkable New Bee of the Genus Oxaea ( Hym. ) 252 Watson — Hemileuca burnsi, its specific validity and habitat (Saturnidae, Lepid. ) 252 Wickham — An Interesting new Species of Eleodes (Col.: Tenebrionidae). . 255 Caudell — Reg a rd in g Diapheromera veliei Walsh and Manomera blatch- leyi Caudell (Orth.: Phasmidae).. 258 Dunn— The Lake Mosquito, Mansonia titillans Walk., and its Host Plant, Pistia stratiotes Linn., in the Canal Zone, Panama (Dip.: Culicidae).. 260 Editorial—" Making the Editorial of Greater Use in Entomology" 270 Currie— Occurrence of the Damselfly Argiallagma minutum (Selys) in Southern Florida (Odonata) 271 i Emergency Entomological Service (U. S. Dept. Agric. ) 271 Fletcher— The Cottony Cushion Scale, Icerya purchasi, in Ceylon ( Ho- rn op., Coccidae) 274 Entomological Literature 274 Review of Fletcher : Report of the Pro- ceedings of the Second Entomolo- gical Meeting held at Pusa 277 Review of Barnes and McDunnongh : tt- Contributions to the Natural His-" lory of the Lepidoptera of N. Amer. 277 Doings of Societies — Ent. Sec. of The Acad. of Nat. Sci. Phila. (Orthop., Odonata) 278 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the New York Entomological Society 278 The Entomological Society of France 278 Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop. ) 279 Foundation of the Entomological Society of Spain 279 Obituary — Gustave Adolphe Baer 280 Charles Edwin Sleight 280 Erratum 280 Concerning the Oviposition of Notonectae (Hem.). By H. B. HUNGERFORD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. (Plates XIV, XV) This short paper is presented to clear up certain points concerning the oviposition-of the back-swimmers of the genus Notonccta in America. In a former paper the writer called attention to the diversity of statement in regard to the egg- laying of the European N. glanca and to the fact that the American species are said' to differ markedly from Ar. (jlunca as reported by Regimbart. In view of the careful work of this French writer, who stated that the European form inserts its eggs in the stems of plants, the writer regarded it as strange that all the American species should simply affix their eggs to plants and other sup- ports in the water. In view of the observations of Esseiilier^ in California and Bueno in New York, however, it appeared likely that such might be the case. 241 242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. In order to account for the apparent discrepancy the writer undertook an investigation of the ovipositors of such forms as he could find about Ithaca, New York, viz., N. undnlata, N. z'ariabilis, N. insulata and A:. irrorata. It was apparent at once that the first three possess struc- tures ill adapted to making incisions in plant tissues of suffi- cient size to receive the eggs. The last species, however, pos- sesses an ovipositor capable of performing such a function. (Compare Plate XIV, Figs, i and 5, and Plate XV, Figs. 9 and 5.) Upon the basis of this preliminary examination it was asserted that N' irrorata would be found to place its eggs in the tissue of plants. Nothing more was done about the matter until spring, when N. irrorata females were observed to place their eggs in the stems of moneywort (Lysimachia nummula-ria L.), luncus, • and dead Typha stems.* Here then was a member of the genus Notonccta in America that agreed with Regimbart's notes on TV. ghiuca, and the writer became interested in a little study of the form and function correlated with the activ- ity under discussion. N. ylanca was secured for study through the kindness of Edmund Gibson, of the National Museum. One female, a pinned specimen, was relaxed sufficiently to permit the re- moval of the drilling parts. An examination of these parts disclosed the fact that they resemble those of our N. irrorata rather than those possessed by the rest of the American series examined. (See Plate XV, Fig. 6.) Sufficient material of TV. irrorata, N. undulata a'.id TV z'ari- abilis was examined to establish the fact that there exists for these forms at least some constancy of size and form. An examination of the accompanying Plate XV will suffice to in- dicate that, although all are equipped to abrade the surface of the stems, only TV. irrorata** of our American forms pos- sesses an ovipositor comparable to that of the European glanca. * See Hungerford. Ento. News XXYIIT. p. 271, foot note. ** The palaearctic .V. lutra, reported for this country, also possesses this sort of a structure. (See Plate XV, Fig. i.) Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 243 In the rather compact tissue of Moneywort the eggs of N. irrorata are occasionally so placed as to resemble closely the figure presented by Regimbart. In one case, where Chara alone was available, two or three eggs were hidden in the mud lodged in one of the lower axils of the plant. As a rule, however, the eggs are placed at or below the surface level of the supporting tissue. In a water-soaked Typha leaf several cases were noted where two eggs had been deposited through one puncture. (See Plate XIV, Fig. 2.) On the other hand, N. undnhita. N. variabllis, N. insulata, N. indica and an undescribed species reported by Essenberg attach their eggs to the stems and the reader may draw his own conclusions for the others that have been figured. (See Plate XV.) The writer would be glad to receive notes con- cerning the habits of oviposition of any of the Notoncctac not hitherto recorded. BIBLIOGRAPHY. BERLESE, ANTONIO A. 1909. — Gli Insetti . . . Vol. I, p. 299. DUFOUR, LEON. 1833. — Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les Hemipteres. Mem. Savants etrang. Acad. Sc. Paris. Vol. 4, prj. 129-462. HEYMONS, R. 1899 — Beitrage zur Morphologic and Entwicklungsges- chichte der Rhynchotcn. Nova Acta. Acad. Leop. Carol. Vol. 74, PP- 349-456. HEYMONS, R. 1899. — Der Morphologische Bau des Insektenabdomens; Zool. Ctrlil. Vol. 6, p. 537. HUNGERFORD, H. B. 1917.— Egg Laying Habits of a Backswimmer, Bucnoa w.nrtjantacca. Entom. News. Vol. XXVIII, p. 174. REGIMBAKT, M. 1875. — Observations sur la ponte du Dytiscus mar- ginalis et de quelcjues atitres Insectes Aquatiques. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5), V. p. 204. SCHRODER, CUR. 1913.— Handbuch der Entomologie. Vierte Lieferung, Bd. Ill, p. no. SCHIODTE, J. C. 1870. — On some new Fundamental Principles in Mor- phology and Classification of Rhynchota. Annals of Natural His- tory, Vol. VI. SHEPHERD, FOREST. 1847. — On the Habits of Notonecta glauca. Silliman's American Journ., Ser. 2, Vol. 4, p. 423; also Ann. and Alag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2, Vol. I, p. 158. 1848. VERHOEFF, C. 1893. — Vergleichende Untersuchungen uher die Abdomi- nal-segmente der weiblichen I Icmiptera, Heteroptera und Homnp- tera ; Verb. Naturh. Yer. Rheinl. Westf. auch Diss. Bonn. 244 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ Jn^Y» 'T^ WESFEI SCHEID, HEIXIUCH. 1912 — Ueher die Biologic und Anatomic von Plea minutissima Leach. Zoologische Jahrbikher, Jena, XXXIII, p. 387. WESENBERG-LUND, C. 1913. — Fortpflanzungs-verhaltnisse ; Paarung und Eiablage der Siisswasserinsekten. Fortschritte der Naturwissen- schaftlichen Forschung, VIII, p. 195. EXPLANATION OF PLATES XIV AND XV. PLATE XIV. Fig. i. Ventral view of the genitalia of the female .V. irrorata show- ing the drilling parts of the ovipositor — indicated by V. It is one of these parts that is figured from three aspects in Plate XV, figure 9. Fig. 2. A portion of water-soaked cattail leaf showing two eggs of A", irrorata deposited through one puncture. Fig. 3. Egg of Ar. irrorata in Moneywort stem. The embryos usually develop with cephalic end at micropylar pole of the egg. This one is reversed as shown by the eyespot of the developing nymph within. Fiij. 4. Egg in Moneywort showing the nature of the rent through which the nymph escaped. Postnatal molt removed. Fig. 5. Ventral view of the genitalia of the female N. insulata, show- ing the drilling parts of the ovipositor — indicated by V. It is one of these parts that is figured from three aspects in Plate XV, figure 5. PLATE XV. This plate contains three views of the left member of the first pair of gonapophyses of the female of each of the species of the genus Notonecta available in this country. Two species have been omitted because of the lack of material. The views are from left to right : Outside or lateral view — ven- tral view showing the organ on edge — Inner view. All of the draw- ings were made with camera lucida and drawn to the same scale. The length of the adult, together with outside measurements of the ovi- positor are added for purposes of comparison of relative size of parts. The writer believes that a study of these organs should be taken into account in determining relationship of species. A study of a wide series would certainly establish the range of variability in size and shape of these parts and in some cases (if not all) aid in specific determinations. The drawings here presented are, however, intended to indicate merely the correlation of this organ with the habit of oviposition. Fig. I. Notonecta lutca. Size of adult, 13-17.1 mm.; valve of ovi- positor. 1.025 mm. \ .725 mm. Specimen loaned by Mr. Gib- son, of Nat. 'Mus. Taken in Finland by Sahlberg and determined by Kirkaldy. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIX. Plate XV. 11 GONAPOPHYSES OF NOTONECTAE (MET. I.-HUNGERFORD. 1. N. LUTEA. 6. N. IMSULATA. 9. N. IRRORATA. 2. N. RALEIQHII. 6. N. QLAUCA. 10. N. UHLERI. 3. N. UNDULATA. 7. N. MEXICANA. 11. M. INDICA. 4. N. VARIABILIS. 8. N. 8HOOTFRM. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 245 Fig. 2. Notonccta ralciyhii. Size of adult, ?; valve of ovipositor .4 mm. x .25 mm. Specimen given to me by Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno. Fig. 3. Notonccta undulata. Size of adult, 10-13 mm.; valve of ovi- positor, .5 mm. x .312 mm. Material from Ithaca, New York, and Lawrence, Kansas. Fig. 4. Notonccta rariabilis. Size of adult, 8.2-10.2 mm.; Valve of ovipositor, .4 x .312 mm. Fig. 5. Notonccta insulata. Size of adult, 12.6-15.5 mm.; valve of ovipositor, ./ x .425 mm. Material from Palo Alto, California. Fig. 6. Notonccta glauca. Size of adult, ?; valve of ovipositor, 1.125 x .55 mm. Loaned from Nat. Museum by Mr. Gibson; a specimen from England, collected by Uhler. Fig. 7. Xotonccta mc.vicana. Size of adult, 11-14 mm.; valve of ovipositor, .7 x .5 mm. Specimens from Arizona. Fig. 8. Notonccta shootcrii. Size of adult, 8-13 mm.; valve of ovi- positor, .65 x .375 mm. Specimen given to me by Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno. Fig. o. Notonccta irrorata. Size of adult, 11.8-14.4 mm.; valve of ovi- positor, 1.675 x -575 mm- Material taken at Ithaca, N. Y. Fig. 10. Nntonccta tihlcri. Size of adult, 12 mm.; valve of oviposi- tor, .65 x .35 mm. Specimen given to me by Mr. de la Torre Bueno. Fig. II. Notonecta indica. Size of adult, 10.5 mm.; valve of ovipositor, •5 x -375 mrn' Material from Douglas, Arizona, collected by Dr. Snow. New Genera and Species of Lyonetiidae (Micro- lepidoptera). By ANNETTE F. BRAUN, Cincinnati, Ohio. Opostega bistrigulella n. sp. Head and thorax white. Fore wings white ; an oblique fuscous spot at the middle of the dorsal margin with its apex pointing toward the apex of the wing. In the cilia before the apex are a very oblique costal and opposite dorsal streak, the dorsal a little the more oblique and running to the base of the black apical spot. A fuscous line in the cilia around the apex about equally distant from the apical spot above and below the apex, and leaving between it and the oblique costal streak a patch of pure white cilia. Hind wings and cilia almost white. Legs pale yellowish white. Abdomen grayish. Expanse: 12 mm. 246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, *l8 Locality : Loma Linda, California, April 23 and May 27. (G. R. Pilate.) Types in author's collection. Especially characterized by the shape of the apical line in cilia. Bucculatrix ceanothiella n. sp. Face and head white, the tuft with a few brown scales, antennae 'white, the stalk annulate with dark brown. Ground color of thorax and fore wings white, with sparse dusting of dark brown scales. The dusting becomes more dense along base of costa, and in the basal third of dorsum. Markings formed of groups of dark-tipped scales are situated as follows: a triangular costal spot just beyond one- third ; a large oblique streak beyond the middle, becoming attenuated in the middle of the wing and continuing as a line of dark scales to the middle of the hind margin; a scarcely denned grouping of dark-tipped scales before the apex on the costa; a rather large semi- circular spot on the middle of the dorsum, with a few darker scales on its inner side on the fold. Cilia whitish, with a dark line from apex to dorsum. Hind wings and cilia pale silvery gray. Legs whitish. Tarsal joints dark-tipped. Abdomen whitish. Expanse: 6.5 mm. Locality: Colton, San Bernardino County, California. Type in author's collection. The larva is a miner in the leaves of Ccanolhns, forming1 at first a small semi-transparent brownish blotch mine ; later it feeds externally on the under side of the leaf. Cocoon white, marked with indistinct ridges. Lo^va in February; imago April 5. Bucculatrix latella n. sp. Face and antennal eye-caps white; tuft on the head white, usually with a group of ocherous hairs in the middle posteriorly. Fore wings white, with scattered minutely brown-tipped pale ocherous scales ; a broad ocherous streak, sometimes nearly obsolete, from base along fold to one-fifth; on the middle of the dorsum a large conspicuous ocherous patch sometimes reaching the middle of the wing, and bordered internally just above the margin by a small patch of darker brown-tipped raised scales. A little beyond this on the costa, there is a more or less distinct patch of the pale ocherous brown-tipped scales. At the end of the cell is a minute, but distinct black dot. A patch of pale ocherous dark-tipped scales in the apex of the wing; the ocherous shade in the scales sometimes lacking, leaving only the dark tips. Hind wings grayish, cilia ocherous at their bases, shading outwardly to pure white. Legs whitish. Expanse : 10-12 mm« Vol. Xxix] l'..\ KlMOl.dCIC AL NKWS. 247 Locality: Loma Linda. California, April 21 to June 4. (G. R. Pilate.) Types in author's collection. Bucculatrix quadrigemina n. sp. Face and antennal eye-caps white, antennal stalk annulate with brown. Tuft whitish, mixed with pale fawn. Fore wings whitish. There are four rather distinctly defined costal patches of ocherous brown-tipped scales ; the first, within the basal fourth, oblique on its outer edge, passes into a pale ocherous shade below the fold ; the second, narrower and more oblique ; the third, broad and diffused, becoming pale ocherous toward the middle of the wing, where it meets the apex of the second spot, and a dorsal patch of darker brown-tipped raised scales occupying the middle of the dorsum oppo- site the space between the second and third costal spots. The fourth costal patch, lying just before the apex, is sometimes extended to en- close the entire apical portion of the wing. A. small patch of dark- tipped scales on the dorsum lies between the dorsal raised scales and the apical patch. Cilia white, dusted with dark-tipped scales, especially opposite the apex and beneath the apical patch of dark-tipped scales. Hind wings and cilia gray. Legs grayish buff, tarsal segments tipped with black. Expanse : 7 mm. Locality. Loma Linda, California, June 18 to 30 (G. R. Pilate). - Types in author's collection. Eucculatrix eupatoriella n. sp. Face pale yellowish. Tuft ocherous in front shading to reddish brown behind. Antennal eye-caps ocherous shading to reddish out- wardly; stalk, brown. Thorax and fore wings bright brownish or reddish ocherous; markings silvery metallic. At the basal two-fifths an oblique silvery costal streak; a little nearer the base an oblique silvery dorsal streak, followed immediately by a patch of dark brown raised scales. At two-thirds a second oblique costal streak, margined internally especially on the costa with dark-tipped scales, and oppo- site this a pair of almost confluent silvery dorsal streaks, the first margined internally, the second externally with dark-tipped scale^. In the cilia above the apex is an elongated dull white spot; beneath this a transverse streak of silvery scales forms the inner border of a small black apical spot. Cilia gray with a row of brown-tipped scales extending from the dull white costal spot to the dorsuni. Hind wings and cilia dark gray. Legs gray; basal and apical fourth of hind tibiae dark with black spurs, middle portion and hairs silvery ; tarsi black-tipped. Abdomen dark gray above, silvery beneath. Ex- panse : 5-5-6-5 mm- 2_|x> ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Localities: Cincinnati, Ohio; Balsam, North Carolina. The type is from Cincinnati and is one of the series of reared specimens. Type and paratypcs in author's collection; paratype in the collection of the Entomological Branch, Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa, Canada. The pale green larva feeds on Eupatorium pcrfoliatum, making at first a very long much-contorted linear mine, later feeding externally on the under side of the leaf, eating' small patches and leaving only the upper epidermis. A single leaf contains often twenty or more mines. The white-ribbed co- coon is spun on the under side of the leaf, usually up against the midrib. Larvae and cocoons collected August 13, pro- duced imagoes from August 16 to 24. An earlier generation of moths appears at the beginning of July. This species is allied to B. trifasciclla Clemens, but differs from it in the brilliant luster of the markings and the ab- sence of the costal streak near the base. Eucculatrix insolita n. sp. Face dark gray, tuft of whitish and dark gray or brown scales in- termixed ; eye-caps grayish, antennal stalk black. Thorax and basal third of fore wings white to a line extending a little obliquely out- ward from costa to dorsum. Costal edge from base almost to one- third black; a few scattered black scales near base of dorsum, and usually a patch of ocherous fuscous dusting on the fold within the basal third. Middle third of wing blackish, bordered outwardly by two oblique curved white streaks, meeting in the middle of the wing. Apical third of wing dusted with fuscous, black and tawny scales. A white costal streak precedes the apex, in which there is a small black spot. Cilia dark gray, with a line of black-tipped scales around the apex. Hind wings and cilia fuscous. Legs black, tarsal segments silvery at base. Abdomen blackish with silvery gray anal tuft. Expanse : 7-7.5 mm. Locality: San Bernardino Mountains, California (August 29-30), with the note "beaten from fir." Types in author's collection. The very striking contrast between the almost white basal third and the- black middle of the wing will assure immediate recognition of this species. Vol.xxix| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. _'4'j Bucculatrix pertenuis n. sp. -Face and head white. Tuft white with a few darker hairs in 'the middle, varying from pale ocherous to brown. Antennal stalk brownish. Ground color of the thorax and fore wings creamy white, markings varying from pale ocherous with sparse dusting, to brownish ocherous. The extreme edge of the costa near the base is black or dark brown, and just within the costa is some scattered darker dusting. An ocherous streak along the fold reaches one-third of the wing length. Just before the middle of the wing, there is a narrow curved very oblique costal streak, which, before reaching the middle of the wing, bends and runs parallel to costa; its apex meets a slightly less oblique and broader, more darkly dusted costal streak beginning at the middle of the costa and running more or less distinctly across the wing into the dusting just before and beneath the apex. A broad triangular costal spot before the tip of the wing Scattered dusting along the base of the dorsum joins an outwardly curved rather broad streak on the middle of the dorsal margin, marked on its inner side just beneath the fold by a black dot. Beyond this streak at the tornus is a dusted spot. A more or less distinct line of dusting in the apex extending obliquely toward base. A dark line around the apex in the cilia. Hind wings pale grayish ocherous. Legs whitish, anterior pair and tips of tarsi dark brown. Expanse: 6.5 mm. Locality: Winnfield, Louisiana, June 27 to July 9 (G. R. Pilate). Types in author's collection. EXEGETIA new genus. Head and face smooth ; tongue moderate. Antennae two- thirds, in male shortly ciliate, basal segment, enlarged, flat- tened, concave beneath, and further enlarged by a pointed flap of scales projecting anteriorly and at apex to form a rather large eye-cap. Labial palpi short, drooping, second joint with some rough projecting scales beneath. Fore wings narrow lanceolate with the apex slightly downturned ; ib furcate at base, 2 represented only by a short spur just before 3, 3 con- tinuous with lower margin of cell, lower angle of cell not well defined, 4 and 5 connate, 7 and S stalked to near costa, 7 to cos- ta, () and 10 from near end of cell, i i from before middle: cell open between 5 and 7. Hind wings two-thirds, lanceolate, cilia 250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, 'l8 3 ; 5 and 6 coincident, stem perceptible to base ; cell open be- tween 4 and 5 + 6. and between 5 + 6 and 7. Hind tibiae smooth. Genotype : E.regctia crocea n. sp. Allied to Hrioptris Meyr. and Otoptris Meyr., especially to the former. In general aspect, it resembles Tischeria, to which it is also related, but is relatively narrower and longer winged. Exegetia crocea n. sp. Face, head and antennal eye-caps light reddish ocherotis ; antennal stalk fuscous. Fore wings pale ocherous, reddish tinted at the base, with a little fuscous dusting on costa near base ; shading to reddish ocherous toward apex. Hind wings and cilia pale ocherous. Legs ocherous, irrorated with purplish fuscous. Abdomen ocherous, grayish toward tip. Expanse: n mm. Locality: Owen River Valley, California. Type in author's collection. DICRANOCTETES new genus. Head, smooth ; tongue present. Labial palpi long, slender, widely diverging, terminal joint two-thirds of second, acute. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae two-thirds, finely ciliated in the male, basal segment flattened,, scarcely enlarged. Fore wings ovate-lanceolate, apex sharply upturned; ib simple, 2 absent, 3 from angle and continuous with lower margin of cell, 4 absent, 5, 6 and 7 out of 8, 5 from near base of stalk, 7 to costa, 9 connate with stalk of 5, 6, 7 and 8, cell open be- tween 9 and 10, n from before middle of cell; cell narrow, margins becoming coincident at base. Hind wings one-half lanceolate, cilia 3 ; 4 absent, 6 absent, cell open between 3 and 5. Posterior tibiae with bristly hairs above. Genotype: Dicranoctetes ain/ularis n. sp. Allied to Hiero.YCstis Meyr., partiVularlv in general fea- tures of the neuration, but differing in the smooth head and absence of maxillary palpi. All the veins indicated in the de- scription as present, are distinct, showing no lendencv toward obsolescence. Vol. XXIX | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 25! Dicranoctetes angularis n. sp. Face and palpi silvery; a spot at the base, in the middle and tip of the terminal segment of palpus black ; head and antennae gray. Thorax and fore wings gray shading outwardly to brownish black. Just beyond the middle is an angulated white fascia almost inter- rupted in the middle by the blackish ground color. Costal and apical cilia white ; two nearly perpendicular black streaks in the costal cilia ; a black streak extending outward into the apical cilia, with a faint streak branching obliquely upward from it. A black apical spot. Cilia below the apex gray, with a black line through them starting a little below the apex. Hind wings and cilia gray. Legs silvery, fore and hind tarsi gray. Expanse : 7 mm. Locality: Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, July 26. Type in author's collection. Description of a New Periclistus (Cynipidae, Hym.). By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, New York. Periclistus castanopsidis, sp. nov. 9 . Head yellowish brown, face striately punctate, vertex and cheeks finely punctate. Antennae 14-jointed, yellowish brown, some- what darker terminally. Thorax black, collar yellowish brown or black, finely punctate and pubescent. Parapsidal grooves almost continuous, not quite extend- ing to the collar and most distinct at the scutellum ; the grooves arc parallel to about the middle, then curve inwardly to the scutclluni where they are moderately widely separated. Anterior parallel lint's exceedingly fine and scarcely evident. Median groove wanting. Lateral grooves scarcely evident. Pleurae black, striate, with a large black, glossy area. Scutellum black, rugose, basal fovea large. Abdomen yellowish brown with a large brown-black dorsal patch, smooth and shining. Legs pale yellowish brown. Wings hyaline. Radial area closed. Cubitus continuous. Areolet large. Length, 2.25 mm. Habitat: Truckee, California (H. G. Dyar). Described from two females reared from galls of Andricus castanopsidis Ueutm., on Castanopsis chrysophylla, March 14, 1914. It is a .^nest-fly. Type: Collection United States National Museum. Co- type: Collection of \Ym. Beutenmuller. 252 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | July, 'l8 A Remarkable New Bee of the Genus Oxaea (Hyrn.)- By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. I have just received a bee, collected by Dr. Eugenio Gio- comelli, at La Rioja, Argentina, which looks like a Ccntris, but actually belongs to the rare genus Oxaea. The superficial resemblance to Ccntris is such that I began running it through the tables for that genus, until I noticed the entirely different venation. We appear to have an excellent case of Miillerian mimicry. Oxaea haematura n. sp. 9 . Length, 19 mm. ; head black, with white hair, short fuscous hair on occiput; facial quadrangle about as broad as long; eyes green; labrum with a strong median ridge, the upper part of which is grooved ; clypeus closely punctured but shining ; antennae black ; thorax black, very densely covered with hair as in the similar species of Ccntris, this hair dorsally bright fulvous, ventrally creamy-white; tegulae clear fulvous ; wings strongly dusky, nervures piceous ; legs black; hind tibiae and tarsi with stiff black hair, but the tibiae with a large loose white scopa beneath ; abdomen with the first four seg- ments brilliant blood-red, dull, hairless, almost impunctate, but the second segment shows fine punctures; fifth segment black, glistening, well punctured, posteriorly with a thick black fringe, and on each side with a tuft of creamy-white hair; apex with black hair; apical plate very broad, the middle portion elevated ; venter dark, the first three segments with bright ferruginous hind margins. Quite unlike any other O.vaea; nearest to the Brazilian O. ritfa Friese, which has dark-brown hair, and is considerably larger. Type in the writer's collection. Hemileuca burnsi, its specific validity and habitat (Saturnidae, Lepid.). By J. HENRY WATSON, Withington, Manchester, England. Sir George Hampson has lately called my attention to a note by Dr. Dyar in Insec. Insc. Mens. of December, 1916. on the locality of //. burns!, which I described in Trans. Manch. Ent. Soc. 1910, as from the Truckee Pass, California, Vol. XXJx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 253 and in which 1 am rather "hauled over the coals" for having given an erroneous locality. For this reason only he accepted this as a distinct species from H. ncnmoegeni as it was from a different life zone from the latter species, its actual local- ity being Reno, Nevada, a town some thousands of feet lower down the pass. He, however, entirely ignores the fact that I distinctly stated Reno, Nevada, on two subsequent oc- casions (Ent. News XXIII, p. 97, and Ent. News XXIV, p. 130,) where I described certain forms of burnsi as having been bred from pupae collected by Mr. Burns at Reno, Neva- da, and which, according to Dr. Dyar's interview with Mr. Burns, appears to be its correct locality. Well, first I have yet to learn that an insect's title to rank as a separate species depends on its vertical distribution and, secondly, I, myself, am totally unacquainted with the dis- trict and gave the localities as I received them from Mr. Burns. But apart from this, this insect is not ncumocgeni, and I am not quite so surprised at Dr. Dyar's not identifying it correctly, for he states the specimen figured in Packard, Mon. of the Bomb. Moths of N. A., Vol. III., PI. LX, fig. 7, to be a male, whereas it is a female, as can be distinguished by its black and white banded body. The male of burnsi is described and figured by myself as well as ab. iluiac as having an all cream body, and the question is whether Dr. Dyar had seen a male. I am quite aware that, apart from my own col- lection, there were very few specimens of this insect in the U. S. A. collections ; just as on this side of the Atlantic there are very few ncniiiocf tin- Atlantic Coast speci- mens I took one in the woods on a stone and Mr. llarber took one on a post by the Club House on Plummer's Island, Mary- land. These are the only ones of which I know the exact 260 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, 'l8 local habitat, but my good friend, Wm. T. Davis, of Staten Island, New York, wbo has taken these insects in numbers, assures me that this is not a tree species. The following quo- tation is from a recent letter from him on this question: "I have collected a great many females of the Manoincra that occurs about New York, and have seen a great many more that I let stay in the low vegetation, so that they might not be exterminated. I have always found the insects on golden rods, Asters and such like plants, and can assure you that it isn't a tree species." This conforms with the known habitat of more western material and seems to make rather sure the determination of these eastern specimens as blatchlcvi. It is certainly singular that among the somewhat ample material of Atlantic Coast specimens found in various eastern collec- tions not a single male is to be found. Can it be that this in- dicates parthenogenesis ? The Lake Mosquito, Mansonia titillans Walk., and its Host Plant, Pistia stratiotes Linn., in the Canal Zone, Panama (Dip. : Culicidae)."" By L. H. DUNN, formerly Entomologist of Board of Health Laboratory, Ancon, Canal Zone. That the formation of Gatun Lake introduced new elements creating prominent changes in the flora and insect fauna of the Canal Zone, Panama, is manifest beyond all doubt. Prior to the beginning of the construction of the Gatun Dam and the Spillway, the area now covered by the lake was traversed by the swift-flowing Chagres River and the numerous smaller rivers forming its tributaries. The Chagres afforded good drainage throughout its valley with the exception of a low marshy area south of Gatun. This area was known as the "Black Swamp." It was several square miles in extent and of irregular formation. In the dry season this region con- sisted of a series of small lakes, pools and sluggish streams. * Read before the Medical Association of the Isthmian Canal Zone, January 18, 1918. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 26l In the rainy season nearly the whole of this area usually be- came inundated and formed a large swamp with considerable jungle growth. In 1910, when the construction of the dam and spillway had progressed sufficiently to cause an appreciable interruption in the flow of the Chagres River, great changes began to take place in the topography of the lower Chagres Valley. Dur- ing that year the Chagres changed from a swift rolling river with sea level at Gatun during high tide to a small lake, some current being still retained through the portion occupying the former river channel. This lake slowly widened and formed estuaries both to the east and west as the low valleys permit- ted. It also gradually extended southward with a quieting effect on the former swift current. During the wet season of 1910 this lake reached a depth of 18 feet. During 1911 sufficient water was retained to increase the depth to 20 feet. In 1912 a depth of 56 feet was present. In 1913 enough water was released to reduce the depth to 48 feet, and the water was at this level when the gates of the spillway were closed on July i, 1913. With the closing of all the gates the depth increased from month to month until January I, 1914, when the surface of the lake reached its required elevation, approximately 85 feet above sea level. At this elevation the lake has a surface area of more than 170 square miles and a depth of more than 87 feet in its deepest parts. At some points it extends south- ward to a distance of 9 or 10 miles outside the Canal Zone. The irregularities of its contour causes it to have a shore line of more than 1000 miles. Prior to the formation of this great artificial lake, Munsonia titillans, the "lake mosquito"-— as we are terming it on account of its abundance in the lake regions — and its host plant, the wild water lettuce, Pistia slraliotcs. wen- present in compara- tively small numbers in the Canal Zone. Before the waters of the lake flooded the "Black Swamp.'' a few scattered masses of the water lettuce occurred in the various small bodies of water found within the area of this marshy region. A few more small isolated colonies were also 262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | July, 'l8 to be found in a low-lying marshy area in the vicinity of An- con and Balboa. A few plants were also reported present in a marshy area in the vicinity of the upper Trinidad River. The spread of this plant at that time was very slow. The isolation of the colonies in shallow pools, which became almost devoid of water during the dry season, proved rather unfavor- able for its multiplication at the Pacific end of the Zone. The scattered small masses in the Chagres Valley were prevented from increasing to any great extent by the fact that when heavy rains occurred all colonies that had spread from the ponds and pools, in which they were growing, to the small streams, were invariably swept down by the increased current of the latter to the Chagres. They were then carried along on the surface of this river to the sea. However, with the rising of the lake and the cessation of the currents the rivers were gradually changed to sluggish bodies of water. The plants then left the small pools to which they had been previously confined and floated on the surface of the rising waters, driven about by the action of the winds. They were soon carried to the outer periphery of the inundated lowlands, where the thick forest growth and stagnant waters offered good protec- tion and opportunity to flourish under these altered condi- tions. Consequently they increased so rapidly that large float- ing islands were soon formed. This rapid expansion con- tinued until today in some parts of the lake these plants may be observed covering the surface of the water in masses sev- eral miles in diameter, reminding one of bright-green, level meadows. Before the increase of the Pistia took place in the Canal Zone, but few specimens of its associated mosquito, Mansonia titillans, were to be found here. In writing of this mosquito Knab1 remarks, "In working over the mosquito material from the Canal Zone collected by Messrs. Busck and Jennings from 1907 on, the absence of this characteristic species was most 1 Knab, Frederick. Changes in the Mosquito Fauna of Panama. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Vol. XV, No. i, page 41, 1913- Vol. xxix] KNTOMOUICK AI. xi'.ws. 263 striking. Mr. Busck reported it from only one locality. Lion Hill, and Mr. Jennings did not send it in at all." The same writer,2 in mentioning the abundance of this mosquito at a later date (1913), states, "In lots of mosquitoes taken recently and sent for determination by Mr. James Zetek, the entomol- ogist of the Canal Zone, both Mansonia titillans and Aedeo- inyia squamipennis appear in considerable proportion." That M. titillans has continued to multiply with consider- able rapidity is plainly shown by the number of this species found among the mosquitoes caught by hand in the habitations of the Canal Zone. From February i, 1916, to January 31, 1917, out of a total catch of 391,019 mosquitoes, 251,332, or more than 64 per cent., were of this species. The association of the larvae of M. titillans with the Pistia plant was first discovered by Prof. H. W. B. Moore,3 of Georgetown, British Guiana, in 1910. Later, in 1915, he4 succeeded in observing also the egg-laying habits of the adult female. The habits and life history of this mosquito are more peculiar and interesting than those of any other of the many varieties of whose habits and life history we have any knowl- edge.* The egg of this species is small and dark colored. One end tapers into a slender elongation which equals about one-half the length of the egg. This elongation gives the egg the gen- eral appearance of a minute Indian club minus the hand- grasp. Eggs freshly deposited by females confined in breeding jars, which did not contain plant life, were pale white but 2 Ihid. :; Moore, H. W. B. Found at last. The Daily Argosy Demerara, Jan. 27, 1910. Quoted by Dyar and Knab in Entomological News, Vol. 21, p. 259, 1910. 4 Dyar and Knab. Eggs and Oviposition in Certain Species of Mausonia. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Vol. IV, Xos. 4-6, p. 62, 1916. [*Comparison should, however, be made with the similar habits oi the larva of Cnlc.r pfrtnrbans. See Smith, J. I'-., Hnt. News, xix, pp. 22-25, P'S- iii-iv, Jan.. 1908, and Grossbeck, J. A., /. c., pp. pi. xxiii, Dec., 1908.— En.J 264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | 'July, 'l8 changed to a dark brown in a few hours. They were usually scattered over the surface of the water. Under natural con- ditions the eggs are attached to the under surface of a Pistia leaf lying flat, or nearly so, on the surface of the water. While ovipositing the female clings to the edge of the leaf or hangs suspended by her legs between two leaves that are nearly contiguous. The lower end of her abdomen curves be- neath the edge of the leaf and the eggs are attached in a mass to its under surface. Ordinarily mosquito larvae live free in the water and secure their air supply at the surface. This species adopts a some- what different mode of procedure. The breathing tubes in both the larval and pupal forms are so modified as to enable them to attach themselves to the roots of the Pistia and se- cure their air supply directly from the plant at some distance from the surface. When a young larva of M. titillans emerges from the egg it descends into the mass of rootlets of the plant and pierces the thin outer skin of one of them with its pointed air siphon. The siphon remains in this small opening and the larva grows and passes the larval stage at- tached to the host plant in this manner. The filamentous roots of the Pistia forms a mass heavy enough to cause them to hang straight downward in the wa- ter. The larvae, when attached, also usually hang with head downward. Naturally the anal gills extend outward in an opposite direction from the air-siphon. Occasionally the lar- vae are observed to change this position and lie extended at a right angle to the root. It has also been noted that while in this horizontal position they frequently swing around with a circular motion, the attached siphon acting as an axis. Very likely this latter position is assumed while feeding. It is very probable that they feed on the microscopic plankton, desquamations from the plant roots, and other vegetable de- bris found in such profuse abundance among these masses of roots. Larvae have been observed so thickly coated with small particles of decayed vegetable matter that, when in the water, they could hardly be recognized as larvae, if attention Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 265 were not directed to them by their motion. This covering usually consists of desquamated particles from the plant roots, which, becoming attached to the hairs of the larvae, causes them to resemble small pieces of decayed vegetable fibre. This is especially true of larvae found in small land- locked pools at the side of a river, where the water is usually stagnant. The young larvae that emerged from eggs deposited by fe- males in confinement rarely lived longer than twenty-four hours and never seemed to take any food. Although we have not been able to study the development of the larvae under natural conditions, it is nevertheless quite manifest from laboratory observations that they develop very slowly. Young larvae that have been removed from their en- vironment and placed in breeding jars containing Pistia plants readily attached themselves but never lived longer than eight days, showed no appreciable increase in size and did not pu- pate. Large larvae that were apparently mature and ready to pupate also readily attached themselves to the plants when placed under these conditions, but they also seemed to be rather short-lived when confined in breeding jars. Usually those that failed to pupate within seven or eight days after being placed in the jars died before pupation. A few lived for longer periods of time and succeeded in reaching the pupal stage. One full grown larva attached to a plant lived in a jar for nineteen days and then pupated. In confinement they seem to thrive better in water that is stagnant and quite foul with vegetable debris than in clean fresh water. Naturally this is clue in part to the increased food supply found in the water containing the extraneous matter. When placed in a dish containing no plant life the larvae are capable of living for a few days as free living larvae, somewhat similar to those of Cnlc.v. They hang head down- ward with the air-tube at the surface of the water, going back and forth from the bottom to the surface to feed and breathe. Very often they will hang from the surface for long ;>eriod> of time and they also seem to be capable of remaining at the 266 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (July, 'iN bottom under water for extended periods. They seem to have an aversion for sunlight and will descend and bury them- selves in the debris at the bottom of the container as soon as it is placed where the sun can shine on it. Usually when pro- gressing through the water they move backwards with a quick, jerking, sideways movement of the abdominal segments. They are rapid in movement and when at the bottom of a dish are difficult to take up in a pipette on account of being able to propel themselves through the debris so rapidly. They sel- dom live longer than five or six days in a jar which does not contain Pistia plants. That the pupa forms and makes it escape from the larval skin without causing the latter to become detached from the air-supplying rootlet is quite evident as the empty larval skins are frequently found still attached. Like the larvae, the pupae also attach themselves to the Pistia and secure their air supply from the porous rootlets. The respiratory tubes of a pupa are long and slender and curve backward, downward and slightly outward. When at- tached to a plant the tips of these tubes are sometimes direct- ed inward and inserted in the root so closely together that they nearly join in the plant tissue. At other times they are in- serted with nearly the width of the pupa between the two tips. We have never observed these tubes inserted widely apart as the outward curve of the tips would lead one to sus- pect would be the procedure. The pupae often hang sus- pended by the air-siphons with the head and dorsal surface proximate to the rootlet. When placed in breeding jars the pupae survive and seem to change to imagines as readily as under natural conditions, whether the plants are present or not. If plants are present the pupae soon affix themselves to the rootlets and remain attached during the pupal period. If no plants are present they obtain their air-supply at the surface of the water like other pupae, and are able to move about at either the surface or the bottom with apparently equal facility. The pupal period ranges from two to five days. A three-day period seems to be the average. Yul.xxixj ENTOMOI.OCICAL NEWS. 267 Although we have carefully observed a number of pupae, we have not been able to witness the actual emergence of an imago from a pupa when attached to a plant. When in con- finement it would seem that the greater percentage of adults emerge at night, usually between midnight and morning, pos- sibly during the early morning hours. However, from what we have observed on the emergence of the imagines, we are convinced that the pupae detach themselves and ascend to the surface when the time for the adults to emerge arrives. Pupae have been noted attached to the roots at certain points and after the ecdysis a close search has been made for the pupal skins; none were ever found attached to the points previously noted. When adults emerge in breeding jars containing Pis- tia, pupal skins are found on the surface of the water. Re- peated careful examinations of the plants for attached empty skins, after the emerging of the adults, always proved nega- tive. From laboratory observations we assume that a pupa at- taches itself to the roots so lightly that the first struggles of the imago, in attempting to escape from the pupal skin, alone suffice to detach the air-tubes from the plant tissue, and allow an ascent to the surface. An examination of an empty pupal skin discloses that the imago forces itself through the dorsal surface of the cephalothorax, and the position of the air siphons /;/ situ would not permit of the passage of the imago between them on its way to the surface — which would be the course indicated by the position frequently maintained by the pupa when attached — without causing them to become detached from the plant. The* adult mosquito of this species is easily recognized bv the narrow, light-colored band on the proboscis, large palpi, brown thorax, truncated abdomen, wings densely clothed with broad dark brown and yellow scales which give them a mot- tled appearance, and the yellowish white bands on the tarsi. While resting, the mosquito assumes a crouching position, with the thorax and abdomen held close to and parallel with, the surface on which it rests. The legs are held in such a position that the femorotibia! joint, or knee, of each leg ex- tends above the level of the thorax and resembles a small in- verted letter V. This gives the appearance of the body being suspended from the legs, rather than supported by them. This species of mosquito is tropical or subtropical in its habitat. It is widely distributed, being found in some parts of the Southern States, Mexico, Central and South America, 268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. and the Antilles. In Panama it is at present the most ubi- quitous mosquito of the Gatun Lake region. It is a strong flier, and travels for long distances and may be encountered in the jungle several miles from the lake shore. Between twilight and sunrise seems to be their favorite time of activity. In the evening, shortly after sundown, they begin their search for a blood meal. They may then be en- countered in towns and settlements, in the forests, and also flying about over the surface of Gatun Lake at some distance from the shore. They appear to be strongly attracted by light and the smell of man, and enter houses, either screened or un- screened, without any hesitation. Being sure and vigorous in flight, they are especially adept in entering screened houses. Alighting on the outside of the screens at points nearest to the lights, they dart through an opened door at the first op- portunity, or find holes or rents in the screening through which they can enter. They will fly over Gatun Lake and bite occupants of boats, if not at too great a distance from the shore, as readily as men in the forests. The writer has been bitten by this species while in a steam launch at least three-quarters of a mile from the nearest shore. This was during early twilight, about 6.30 P. M. Although the launch was traveling at the rate of eight miles an hour, they did not seem to be deterred from their attempts to gain a meal of blood. They could be plainly observed darting under the awning of the launch by the doz- ens. Although the most of their attacks were directed at our ankles near the bottom of the boat, where they were protected from the wind caused by the boat's passage, they did not neglect our hands and faces which were above the level of the boat's gunwales. Many of these winged hypodermics were also plainly visible darting around the light at the bow of the boat. It appeared that we were either going through large numbers of them flying in the air, or else a number were keeping pace with our boat and flying about the how light. The evening was calm with no appreciable wind blowing over the lake. Frequently these mosquitoes will also apparently without the least hesitation, enter railway trains, as they stop at the several stations in the lake region while en route across the Isthmus, and prey on the passengers. Although they will bite readily during all hours between sunset and sunrise, they shun the light as much as possible and do not usually bite in bright daylight. However, in a darkened room of a house, or along narrow trails through the Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 269 jungle where the luxuriant growths furnish ample shade they will attack one as viciously during the day as at night time. This mosquito is a persistent biter and thin clothing some- times offers but little protection against them. A thin shirt, if it fits closely, is no defense against their attacks. They will also pierce heavy drill riding breeches, and if the attacks are directed at the knees — where the breeches are usually tight when one is sitting down — they can extract a meal of blood without much difficulty. We have confined females of this species in a test tube and then applied the latter to the palm of the hand; the tough cuticle was pierced and engorgement took place as readily as on a thinner area of the skin. When biting the female usually lowers her head and buries the proboscis as deeply as possible in the skin, meanwhile ele- vating the abdomen. As soon as the proboscis is inserted to its full length, the abdomen is lowered until the posterior end practically rests on the skin. The head is then raised and the proboscis slowly withdrawn until only the tip remains in the puncture. The alternate insertion and withdrawal of the pro- boscis, which may be likened to the action of a plunger in a pump, continues until the female becomes gorged. One fe- male was observed to insert and practically withdraw her pro- boscis twelve times during a feeding of two minutes' dura- tion. Although this is the usual mode of procedure in feed- ing, a few females have been noticed to insert the proboscis as deeply as possible and remain almost motionless, filling with blood slowly but steadily and occasionally expelling a few small drops of bloody fluid per annm. This sometime^ con- tinues for a period exceeding ten minutes. Although females confined in breeding cages when allowed to bite unmolested, are slow in becoming gorged as compared with other vari- eties of mosquitoes, they are very persistent and will gorge themselves nearly to the bursting point. One female was noticed to take blood very slowly, with the mouth parts deeply inserted, and became apparently full of blood in six minutes. She then withdrew the proboscis, walked about a little, and after expelling a few drops of dark-colored fluid from the anus, again inserted the proboscis and began taking more blood. She remained 771 situ ten minutes this second time. At the end of this period she walked up on the side of the cage and rested, apparently so full of blood that she was unable to fly. (To be continued.) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY, 1918. "Making the Editorial of Greater Use to Entomology." As a result of the editorial under this title in the NEWS for June we have received the following: I noted in your editorial in the last issue of the Ent. News that you wished to know how the editorials might be "made of greater use and assistance to the progress of entomology." If in some way it would be possible for an editor to give information in his subject to those who wish to learn some of its phases with which he is un- familiar, I am sure yon would earn the "undying gratitude" of many a "would-be" investigator like myself, who knows little of what has already been done and lacks the necessary material to investigate phases of the subject which are worthy of further study. This, how- ever, would place an undue burden on the editor; but if he could undertake to put the applicant into communication with some one who would be willing to give information or lend material, it would certainly be a great help to anyone in my position, who has no one to consult with other than those he chances to hear of, or takes the liberty of writing to, and whose material for study is limited to what he can collect, or cajole some more fortunate individual to lend him. I have found entomologists to be wonderfully sympathetic and ready to help to the fullest extent of their ability; but I know of others who dislike to appear so shamelessly bold as to ask favors from utter strangers, and have therefore gone without the needed material and information which my brazen "cheek" has obtained for me, but if these persons had some way of getting in touch with entomologists through the medium of your editorial columns or otherwise, I think this would help one class of investigators, at any rate. I must admit, however, that I am "speaking two words for myself, and one for the other fellow," and this proposition is so onesided, that I imagine most people would not care to bother with it. ' As far as my own material is concerned, I'd be only too willing to lend it to anyone who needs it, in order to help on the good work and to pass on the assistance I have so freely received from others, and if you know of anyone who needs material I would be glad to help him out as much as I am able. The NEWS and its editors, through editorials or otherwise, will be glad to help our correspondents to get in touch with other workers whose assistance may be the one thing needful for the prosecution of researches on which they may be engaged. 270 Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 271 Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS PROM ALL QUARTERS OP THE GLOBE. Occurrence of the Damselfly Argiallagma minutum (Selys) in Southern Florida (Odonata). In a small collection of dragonflies made by Mr. C. A. Mosier on Paradise Key, Royal Palm State Park, in the Everglades of Dade County, Florida, November, 1917, and deposited in the National Mu- seum by the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, through Dr. \V. E. Safford, were two female specimens of this interesting little dragonfly. This appears to be the first record of the occurrence of this Neotropical species within the limits of the United States. The species was described from Cuba in 1857. Dr. Calvert, in the Neuroptera volume of Biologia Centrali-Americana, pages 3/6-377. records it from Calisco, Cuba, (one male and one female collected by Poey) and from Los Amates, Guatemala, (one male collected Janu- ary 16, 1905, by Mr. E. B. Williamson). The monotypic genus Argiallagma, as stated by Dr. Calvert, be- longs in the same division of the legion Agrion as do Hyponeura and Argia, but differs from those genera in that the long biserial hairs are less numerous (5-7 on the third tibiae), the postcubitals are fewer in number so that the nodal sector arises near the fifth postcubital on the front wings and near the fourth on the hind wings (origin of this sector one or more postcubitals farther distad in Hyponeura and Argia), and the female has an apical ventral spine on the eighth ab- dominal segment. No doubt additional collections made in this picturesque section of Southern Florida will bring to light other interesting dragonfly rec- ords.— ROLLA P. CURRIE, Bureau of Entomology, United States De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Emergency Entomological Service. (U. S. Dept. Agric.) In the following summary of number 12 of these reports, dated June I, 1918, topics are arranged in the same order as that followed in the summary of number 11 (£NT. NEWS, June, 1918, pages 234-236) for ease of comparison. Climatic Effects on Insects.— At the insectary at East Falls Church, Virginia, little winter killing of wood-boring Cerambycid larvae was observed and data are given for the conclusion "that a continued lm\ temperature is more fatal to these wood-boring larvae than fluctuating low temperatures and that the fatal low temperature is somewhere between 15-20 deg. [F.] below zero. Also there seems to be a greater mortality in exposed wood than in moist logs on the ground. The difference in humidity under these conditions may be an important factor." Milder winters around Washington seem to have more dis- astrous effects on the European Pine Sawfly (Diprion simile Hartig) 2/2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Juty, 'l8 than the severe winter of 1917-18. The past winter is thought to have had no appreciable effect in decreasing or retarding the appearance of the tent-caterpillar near Washington, D. C. Aphids. — "A few warm days in early April followed by a cool rainy April and a cool May have resulted in the most serious out- break of aphids that western Oregon has experienced in recent years. Practically no type of crop or plant has escaped infestation and in the majority of cases the attack is extreme" ; Macrosiphum pisi is espe- cially mentioned. Experimental work to destroy the insects took several forms. A wooden drag, 10 feet long, 18 inches wide, pulled by a horse through 12 acres captured 140 pounds of aphids. A fungus, "Empusa aphidis Hoffman, is killing aphids in great numbers, but ap- parently only in limited areas." The same Macrosiphum is doint? considerable damage to later pole varieties of peas in Louisiana. "After an unusually mild and open winter, followed by a cool and rainless spring," Macrosiphum creclii appeared in great numbers on alfalfa near Fernley, Nevada. The rosy apple aphis is unusually abun- dant in the Rogue River valley, Oregon, and has done injury to apples in West Virginia; the green peach aphis, Myzus persicae, is abundant at Wenatchee, Washington. Complaints of the melon aphis (Aphis gossypii} come from California, Texas and z\labama, of the bean aphis (A. rumicis L.) from California, Ohio and New Jersey. In New Jersey, "the rosy apple aphis and other aphids of the orchard, especially Aphis pomi, received such a severe set back from the April snow and sleet storm that injuries are inconsequential." Apple aphids "are relatively scarce" in Connecticut. The non-appearance of aphids at Wichita, Kansas, up to May 16, is noted as unusual; they "are very scarce throughout the entire western part of Michigan." Sweet Potato Weevils. — Observations on the Sweet Potato Weevil (Cylas formicarius Fab.) in flight are recorded, although it is believed not to fly long distances. Another weevil, which attacks this plant in Jamaica, has been found on Calonyction aculeatum and Ipomoea pes- caprac at Moore Haven, in extreme southern Florida. It is Euscepcs porcellus Boh., very closely related to the so-called sweet potato "scarabee" (E. batafae}. Control of the Colorado potato beetle in Louisiana appears to be succeeding. Damage by the chinch bug in Texas will depend much on weather conditions; in some counties they are very abundant. In May, in York County, Maine, Lachnosterna tristis "visited shade trees in such numbers that their flight made a noise that exceeds that of a dozen swarms of bees ... a very unusual record for Maine." Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2/3 Plum curculio attacks are mentioned for the Ozark region of Arkansas and Southern Indiana. The pear thrips continues its attacks in California, prunes being largely affected. Cotton boll weevil reports come from Arkansas, southeastern Ala- bama, southwestern Georgia and from Florida, Pradciiin ornithogalli, Diacnsia t'fginica and cutworms are injuring Texan cotton. While grasshoppers (Mclanoplus sp.) will apparently be especially abundant in western Montana this season, it is thought that the in- fested territory will not be so extensive as last year, as a large amount of the then vacant land has been ploughed up. From eastern Oregon comes the report: "Will make May n our first big drive when we expect out at least 500 people. Expect to mix and spread about 3000 pounds of poison then as about 300 acres of egg deposits will be ready to treat. The hoppers are not leaving the egg beds to any ex- tent yet, but remain massed up. In some places several acres will be completely covered with hoppers, several deep." Injurious Insects of Great Abundance. — Among other injurious insects special mention is made of the fall web worm in Florida and the pecan nut case bearer (Acrobasis hcbcscclla) in Texas, both on pecans ; the blackhead fireworm on cranberry in Washington ; cut worms in Texas on all kinds of plants, in Arizona, Oklahoma, Kan- sas, Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; the potato flea beetle (Epitrix cuciancris Harr.) in many localities; the larger stalk borer (Papaipema nitclci Guen.) on tomato in Mississippi; the asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi L.) in Mary- land and Virginia; mealy bugs (Pseudococcu.i) and Piik'inaria sp. on figs in Louisiana, the Argentine ant being a potent factor in the dis- tribution of the mealy bugs; grain weevils (Sik'anus surinamensis, Calandria nryzas') in warehouses in Oregon. The gipsy moth has gained additional ground in Connecticut. A class in the Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation composed of about forty members of the United States Bureau of Entomology has been formed. The course of study will consist of thirty or more lectures, about one-half hour in length, followed by reviews of important publications. The course is principally aimed at training a large group of men for army and municipal sanitary ento- mology. The proceedings arc mimeographed and will be sent to any one desiring to enrol! in the class. Teachers not now presenting courses in this subject may possibly desire to give the course to groups of advanced students. All correspondence should be addressed to the class secretary, Jacob Kotinsky, Bureau of Entomology, Wash- ington, D. C. 274 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, 'l8 The Cottony Cushion Scale, Icerya purchasi, in Ceylon (Homop., Coccidae). Information has recently been received from the Government of Ceylon to the effect that Icerya purchasi has become established in that Colony, and a leaflet issued by the Ceylon Department of Agri- culture gives further information, whereby it appears that this pest was first discovered in December, 1915, on Acacia decurrens on an estate in the Agrapatnas, Central Province, and that by October. 1916, it had increased in numbers and spread on to Acacia dcalbata. In August, 1916, it was discovered in enormous numbers in an Acacia forest at Ambawela and subsequently was found on Acacias at Galaha and Upper Hewaheta, appearing also on Citrus trees at Galaha. It has apparently also been found on other trees at Kandy. It thus becomes apparent that Icerya purchasi has obtained a firm footing in Ceylon and has evidently been present in that island for some time So far as we know at present, India is free of this scale. It is, however, quite possible that it may occur. If any readers should come across specimens answering to the description and figures here given, they will confer a benefit on the general public by informing me at once and sending specimens to Pusa for examination in order that prompt measures may be taken to prevent the spread of this noxious insect. — T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER, Imperial Entomologist, in The Agricultural Journal of India, vol. xii, pt. iv, pp. 525-531. Oct., 1917. •—*•»-•• Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. LTnder the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- toinology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted: but contributions to anatomy, physioloary and embryology of insects, how- ever, whether rein tins 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing new species are nil grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring1 north of Mexico is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic. Literature, see the Experiment Station Record. Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology. Series B. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 6 — Journal, New York Entomo- logical Society. 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Lon- don. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 21 — The Entomologist's Vol. X.\ix| KXTOMOUH'.ll AL XKU'S. -'75 Record, London. 143 — Ohio Journal of Science, Columbus. 161 Proceedings, Biological Society of Washington. 200 — Bulletin Bio- logique de la France et de la Bel. ORTHOPTERA. Criddle, N.^The egg-laying habits of some of the Acrididae. 4, 1!tis, 145-.")!. Fowler, W. W. — A combined in- stance of protective resemblance and mimicry in a locust. 8, L918, 92. Illingworth, J. F. — Notes on the mating of cockroaches. 263, iii, :{~4-5. Weiss & Dickerson. — The European mole cricket, Gryl- lotalpa gryllotalpa, an introduced insect pest. 6, xxvi, is-:2:t. HEMIPTERA. De Long, D. M.— The occurrence of a probable gynandromorph in the homoptera. 143, xviii, 226-8. Drake, C. J.— Two new tingids from the West Indies. 143, xviii, 174-<>. Hunger- ford, H. B. — -Notes on the oviposition of some semi-aquatic hemip- tera (Hebrus, Salda, Lamprocanthia). 6, xxvi, 12-1S. Knight, H. H. — Synoptic key to the subfamilies of Miridae. 6, xxvi, 40-1. Muir, F. — Homopterous notes. II. 263, iii, 414-29. Petherbridge & Hu- sain — A study of the capsid bugs found on apple tree-;. 480, iv, 179-205. Ball, E. D. — A nc\\' genus and three n. sps. of North American Membracidae. 161, xxxi, 27-30. Barber, H. G. — Concerning Lyga- 2/6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, 'l8 eidae — No. 1. 6, xxvi, 44-6. Van Duzee, E. P. — Report upon & collection of Hemiptera made by W. M. Gifford in 1916-191 7 chiefly in California [many new]. 534, (4), vii, 249-318. LEPIDOPTERA. Bartsch, R. C. B.— Notes on collecting, pre- paring and preservation of L. 540, ii, 25-7 (cont.). Beutenmuller, W. — The food-plants of Catocala. Notes on the eggs of C'atocala. 540, ii, 28-30; 33-4. Lathy, P. T.— Two n. sps. of Satyridae from So. America. 9, 1918, 82-3. Lindsey, A. W. — Notes on distribution. 540, ii, 30-17; 37-38. Turner, H. J. — A new method of mounting and preserving in series. 21, 1918, 76-7. Wood & Selkregg — Further notes on Laspeyresia molesta. 447, xiii, 59-72. Watson, F. E. — A large number of sps. of butterflies observed in one day's collecting. 6, xxvi, 3-7. Anon — A new form of Catocala minuta. 540, ii, 28. Barnes & McDunnough — Notes and new species [many new]. 373, iv, 61-180. Comstock, J. A. — Melitaea anicia: two new aberrations. 540, ii, 34-7. Swett, L. W. — Xanthotype crocataria, with a description of new sps. 540, ii, 38-9 (cont.). DIPTERA. Hutchison, R. H.— Overwintering of the house fly. 447, xiii, 149-69. Roubaud, E. — Precisions sur "Phormia azurea." Muscide a larves hemophages parasites des oiseaux d'europe. 200, Ii, 420-30. Wright, R. E. — The distance mosquitoes can fly. 536, xxv, 511-12. Alexander, C. P. — New nearctic crane-flies. Part V. [7 new.] 4, 1918, 158-65 (cont.). Dietz, W. G.— A revision of the N. A. species of the tipulid genus Pachyrhina, with descriptions of [23] n. sps. 2, xliv, 105-140. Malloch, J. R. — Key to the N. A. sps. of Agromyza related to simplex. [1 new.] 4, 1918, 178-9. Parker, R. R.— A new sp. of Sarcophaga from Niagara Falls, N. Y. 6, xxvi, 28-30. Sturte- vant, A. H.— Acalypterae collected in Mobile Co., Alabama. [1 new.] 6, xxvi, 34-40. COLEOPTERA. Champion, G. C. — New and little known salta- torial Dascillidae. 8, 1918, 93-102 (cont.). Garnett, R. T.— An an- notated list of the Cerambycidae of California. 4, 1918, 172-77 (cont.). -Leng, C. W. — Microclytus — a correction. Description of a new sp.''of Piezocorynus. 6, xxvi, 8-10; 11-12. Robinson, W. — Beetles collected on a dead black oak in Virginia. 6, xxvi, 30-3. Liljeblad, E. — Descriptions of eight n. sps. of C. in the family Mordellidae. 4, 1918, 153-8. HYMENOPTERA. Burrill & Smith— A preliminary list of the ants of Wisconsin. 143, xviii, 229-32. Chapman, T. A. — Prolonged Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 277 life in a headless ant. 21, 1918, 4^-4. Fenton, F. A.— The parasites of leaf-hoppers, with special reference to the biology of the An- leoninae. 143, xviii, 177-212. Lichtenstein & Picard — Etude mor- phologique et biologique du "Sycosoter lavagnei," hecabolide para- site de 1' "Hypoborus ficus." 200, li. 440-74. Mercet, R. G. — El genero C'entrodora. 208, xviii, 103-9. Roubaud, E. — Le venin et 1'evolution paralysante chez les hymenopteres predateurs. 200, li, 391-419. Wheeler, W. M.— Ants collected in British Guiana by C. W. Beebe. 6, xxvi, 23-28. Gahan, A. B. — An interesting new hymenopterous oarasite. 4, 1918, 151-2. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING- HELD AT PUSA on the 5th to 12th of February, 1917. Edited by T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial Entomol- ogist. Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, India. Cal- cutta, 1017. — This meeting was remarkably successful, the various en- tomological interests being represented by twenty-five members and two visitors. The report makes a handsome volume of 312 pages, with a very complete index. There are 34 colored plates, representing the life-histories of injurious insects. An additional plate is a group picture of those in attendance at the meeting. The conference covered a wide field, hill crops, leguminous field- crops, oil-seeds, Malvaceae, nonmalvaceous fibre plants, cane, cereals, grasses and fodder crops, fruit trees, palms, garden plants, drugs and dyes, cruciferous crops, pests of stored products, etc., were all con- sidered. The report impresses one with the great activity shown in regard to economic entomology in India and with the value of such meetings as a means of calling attention to the importance of the work. The excellent plates will also appeal to the systematist who is not interested in the economic features of entomology. — H. S. (.-Idrt.) CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LEPIPOI-TERA OF NORTH AMERICA, Vol. IV, pt. 2. By WILLIAM BARNES. S.B.. M.I), and J. H. McDuNNouGH, PH.D. There are 119 pages and 14 plates. This part consists of notes and descriptions of new species and varieties. Typical specimens are figured in many instances and also the new species and varieties. Species in most of the families of the Rhopalo- cera and Heterocera are considered. There is a decided imprm cnu-nt in the half-tone plates of this number. The authors still cling to the antiquated method of type citations. The single type method is im- perative. This work is of the greatest \alur to the students of thu Lepidoptera. — H. S. 2/8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |Jllly,'lN Doings of Societies. Entomological Section of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Meeting of March 28, 1918. Vice Director R. C. Williams, Jr., pre- siding. Eleven persons present. Orthoptera. — Mr. Rehn spoke on the distribution of some species of the Acridid subfamily Eumastacinae in California, Arizona and Nevada, making special reference to that of the short- and long-winged forms. Odonata. — Dr. Calvert exhibited some Odonata from Pennsyl- vania, collected by members of the State Zoologist's department at Harrisburg, forwarded by Mr. Daecke. They included Calopteryx amata Hagen,. one female from Charter Oak, Huntingdon County, June 20, 1917, by H. B. Kirk; apparently the first record of this species from Pennsylvania. From Charter Oak, were also specimens of Tachopteryx thoreyi, Ophiogomphus johannus, Cordulegaster obliquus, and Helocordula uhleri, — all more eastern records in Pennsylvania for these species than have been previously noted. After more or less extended discussions on the above subjects, the meeting adjourned. — E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the New York Entomo- logical Society. A special meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held on Friday evening, June 7th, at the Hotel Colonial, Sist St. and Columbus Ave., New York City, to celebrate the Twenty-fifth Anni- versary of the incorporation meeting of June 7th, 1893. The pro- gramme at 8.30 P. M. comprised the History of the Society; Remin- iscences by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, Mr. Henry Bird and oth- ers of the older members; and remarks by guests representing sister societies, among whom were Dr. Henry Skinner and Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. The Entomological Society of France. At its meeting of December 26, 1917, the Society elected J. de Joannis and J. Kiinckel d'Herculais honorary members to fill the vacancies due to the deaths of A. Grouvelle and M. Standfuss. The recommendations of the committee making the nominations, from which these two members were selected by the Society, based the claims of M. de Joannis to this honor on his systematic, synonymic, geographical and biological work on Microlepidoptera, tbose of M. Kiinckel d'Herculais on his fundamental memoir on Volucella, that on Brehm's collection, on "the best treatise on general entomology in the French language," and on numerous other works on taxonomy, Vol. XX'ix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2/9 anatomy, development, metamorphoses and biology of insects. Of the fourteen honorary members of the Society, eight are French (Bedel, Bouvier, Brolemann, Fauvel, Joannis, Kiinckel d'Herculais, Mabille, Raffray), one Italian (Berlese), one Spanish (Bslivar), one Ameri- can (Howard), one Belgian (Lameere), one Russian (the grand- dtike Nicholas Romanoff) and one English (Sharp). The committee on the Dollfus prize, of 300 francs annually, has recommended that the award for 1917 be made to Dr. J. Villeneuve for his collective works on Diptera. At the meeting of February 27, 1918, the treasurer reported that the Minister of Public Instruction had granted the So- ciety 350 francs for the support of its work. The President for 1918 is Dr. Paul Marchal. (From the Bulletins of the Society, 1917, 15— 1918, 4). Feldman Collecting Social. Meeting of March 20th, 1918, at the home of H. W. \Yenzel, 5614 Stewart St., Philadelphia. Twelve members present, Mr. Chas. Bertsch, of this city, visitor. Pres. H. W. Wenzel in the chair. Coleoptera.- Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited specimens of Mylabris amicus Horn from near Higley, Arizona, and a dried blossom of Agave pahncri Englm. on which they were collected, though this is not the food plant as pointed out by Cushman, J. Eco. Ent. iv, p. 498, Dec., 1911, where he states that it had been bred in company with M. sallaci Sharp from pods of huisache (1'achellia farnesiana) from Victoria. Texas. General. — Mr. Hornig gave an illustrated talk on the fly and mosquito problem about Philadelphia and the red tape encountered in getting any work done. This was preceded by slides of Mr. Feldman, the Jamesburg, New Jersey, and other groups of local entomologists, and some intimate views of the officers of the Social, past and present. These slides were afterwards presented to the Social. — GEO. M. GREENE, Sec'y. Foundation of the Entomological Society of Spain. The Sociedad Fntomologica de Espana was founded January o, 1918, as the result of a proposal sent out by an organizing committee consisting of Senores Hermenegildo Gorria, of the Royal Academv of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, President; Jose M. Dusmet, of the Royal Spanish Society of Natural History, J'ice President; and Longinos Navas, S. J., Secretary. The present official location of the society is at the Colegio del Salvador at Zaragoza (Saragossa). The statutes state that the object of the society is "the theoretical and practical study of insects in their different aspects. It will include then the study of the organography, biolo.uy and classification of in- sects, as well as of the uses which can be derived from them or their work and of the injuries which they inflict on animals and plants. 280 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Juty> 'l& Investigations on other lower animals, as arachnids and worms, hut excluding mollusks, are also admitted. The Society adopts as its motto 'Lahore et ordine.' By the word labore the biological and prac- tical work is indicated and hy ordine taxonomy. Both ideas are sym- bolized by a bee-hive, which will figure with the motto in the seal and medal of the society." The society will meet on the first Tuesday (not a holiday) of each month, except July, August and September, and will publish a monthly bulletin except in the three months named. A double number (Nos. i and 2 of Tomo I) of this Boletin, for Enerc, 1918, has appeared, containing the list of officers and members (2 honorary : Charles Oberthur and Antonio Berlese, and 48 ordinary or "numerarios"), the steps leading to the foundation of the society, the statutes, the first installment of a Systematic-Geographic Cata- logue of the Coleoptera observed in the Iberian Peninsula, the Py- renees properly so-called and the Balearic Islands by Jose M. de la Fuente y 'Morales, an annotated list of the Chernetida of Spain by Jose Fernandez Nonidez and two pages of brief notes — 32 pages in all. The officers for 1918, in addition to the president, vice-president and secretary, as named above, are Senores Pedro Ayerbe, Vice- Secretary; Jose Cruz Lapazaran, Librarian; Miguel Padilla, Conserva- tor, and Jose Garcia Crespo, Treasurer. OBITUARY. The death of GUSTAVE ADOLPHE BAER at Paris. January 13, 1918, aged 79 years, was announced at the meeting of the Entomological Society of France, January 23, 1918. A native of Aarau, Switzerland, he joined the Society in 1859, spent the years 1867 to 1882 at Manila, i896-'9S in Peru, crossed the Andes in 1900, and in 1905 made an expedition in the Province of Goyaz, Brazil. In 1886 he published a catalogue of Philippine Coleoptera in the Annales of the Society. (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1918, No. 2.) CHARLES EDWIN SLEIGHT, trichopterist and general ento- mologist, died at Ramsey, New Jersey, May 20, 1917. An obituary notice is published in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for March, 1918. He was born at Yonkers, New York, May 26, 1860. Erratum. 220, line 12 for BERLING read BEUNG. 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Not Over 4 Lines or 30 Characters ( 13 to a Line) Additional characters Ic each, per Line, per 500, Trimmed. C.-V. BLACKBURN, 12 Pine St., STONEHAM, MASS., U. S. A. • ENT. NEWS, Vol. XXIX. Fordo, olivacea. E formicaria. x 90 -CSSOM^SS^pi F. olivdcecL GRASS-ROOT APHIDS.-GILLETTE. • ; 0(;l I • ENTOMOLOGICAL NRWS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. XXIX. OCTOBER, 1918. No. 8. CONTENTS: Gillette— Some Grass-Root Aphids (Hem., Horn.) 281 Mai loch — Pyrrhoteshaematoloma H.S., and Leptocoris trivittatus Say in Illinois ( Hemiptera, Coreidae) 284 Alexander — New Species of Crane-flies from California (Dip.) 285 Dunn — The Lake Mosquito, Mansonia titillans Walk., and its Host Plant, Pistia stratiotes Linn., in the Canal Zone, Panama (Dip.: Culicidae).. 288 Dozier — An Annotated List of Gaines- ville, Florida (Coleoptera) 295 Death of Prof. S. W. Wjllislon 298 Jones — Dohrniphora venusta Coquillett ( Dipt.) in Sarracenia flava 299 The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge and his Collection of Arachnida 302 Van Dyke— New Inter-Tidal Rock- Dwelling Coleoptera from Calif 303 Weiss — Additions to Insects of New- Jersey, No. 6 309 Editorial— No Simple Life for Insects 313 Emergency Entomological Service 313 Entomological Literature 314 Doings of Societies — Feldman Collect- ing Social (Col., Dipt.) 319 Obituary— William Hague Harrington 320 Some Grass-Root Aphids (Hem., Horn.). By C. P. GILLETTE, Fort Collins, Colorado. (Plate XVI.) FORDA Species. When Heyden, in 1837, characterized this genus from the apterous form of his formic aria, he had not seen the winged lice. Other species have been described since, but still no one seems to have discovered that this root-feeding group of aphids develop winged lice in mid-summer that desert the grass roots to seek fresh food-plants. We have been rearing the winded migrants of, at least, two species of Fordo, at the Colorado Experiment Station for several years past. Believ- ing their characterization will be of service in classifying the group, I am giving descriptions of these alate forms with our data upon life habits, and am also including enough of a de- scription of the apterous forms to enable one who dpes not have the original descriptions to separate them. 281 V \ 282 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 Forda formicaria Heyden (Plate XVI, figures 1, 2, 3 and 4). Syns. : Rhizotcrus Tacca Hartig, Tychea graminis Koch, Forda occl- dentalis Hart. Apterous specimens of this species sent to me by Air. F. Y. Theobald, Wye, England, seem to be identical with one of the common species upon grasses and in ant nests in this country, and both agree well with the original description of fonnicaria, and also with the description given by Mr. Hart, Eighteenth Report of State Entomologist of Illinois, 1894, p. 95, for his occidentalis; the latter name, therefore, along with Rhizotcrns vacca Hartig and T. graminis of Koch, are probably syno- nyms. Alate Summer Migrant. About June loth, at Fort Collins, Colorado, the alate form begins to appear and to migrate from the grass roots. At the end of about four to six weeks, the entire colony become winged and leave the host plant, appar- ently to seek others of the same sort. At least, we find the lice later in the season upon grass-roots again, where they re- main all winter, and we have not taken them upon other plants. This early summer migrant may be described as follows: General color of prothorax and abdomen sordid straw yellow ; head, meso- and metathorax, antennae, a transverse line on pronotum, veins and stigma of wings, entire legs, cauda and anal plates, a transverse band on each abdominal segment and a small spot on either lateral margin of the segments of the abdomen, black or blackish; at th'e center of the meso- thorax above, a small yellow spot. Wings hyaline, cross-veins I and 2 of the fore wing unite at the base and the third ends abruptly at basal one-third of length, all veins with narrow blackish margin ; stigma short, stout, rounded distally, with stigmal vein rising near the middle at the thickest part ; hind wing with 2 transverse nerves, the second obsolete at base. Head and antennae well set with short, curved hairs ; head short, broad, vertex slightly bi-lobed ; beak reaching hind coxae : antennal joints I and 2 sub-equal, 3 about one-half the length of the entire antenna; joint 4 somewhat longer than joint .s with the small spur; joint 3 with about 30 oval sensoria extending along its entire length; joint 4 with usually 2 sensoria before the large terminal one: joint 5 with a very large sensorium at base of spur. Cauda broadly rounded and twice as broad as long ; see Plate XVI. figures 2 and 4. Length 2.70 to 3. ; antennae, .80 to .90 mm. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 283 We have taken the alate form from June 2 to July 12 on the roots of grasses. Apterous Form — The adult apterous form is sordid grayish green in color, is very plump, and set with rather plentiful long fine hairs; the beak reaches to a point half-way between the hind coxae and the tip of the abdomen, and joint 3 of the antenna is distinctly longer than joints 4 and $ with spur combined; length 2.80 mm. These characters easily separate this species from F. olii^cca. See figures I and 3. We have taken this species on the roots of Melica bnlbosa, Poa pratensis, Phlcuin alpinum, and Elymns sp. in Colorado. Forda olivacea Roh. (Plate XVI, figures 5, 6, 7 and 8). Alatc z'iriparons female. This is a very abundant louse upon the roots of different grasses. To the naked eye, or by the use of a hand lens, the alate lice appear entirely black. The real color is dark olive green. The head, thorax, antennae, legs, anal plate and a trans- verse band on each segment of the abdomen on the dorsum are black, or nearly so. In some, the legs, especially the middle pair, show considerable light brown color. The body is very robust, wings stout and short, stigma short, broad and blackish, especially along the lower margin ; cross-veins slender and brown in color, veins i and 2 rising near together, but not uniting as in formicaria : hind wing with 2 transverse nervures ; sub-costal vein very strong and black; transverse veins simple as in Pemphigus, stigmal vein rising at center of the under side of the stigma and extending to the tip of the wing. Joint 3 of the antenna with a poorlv defined double row of oval transverse sensoria, about 20 to 24 in number; joint 4 with 2 to 4 large oval sensoria, and joint .5 with i or 2 before the large one near the distal end; spur rather short; joint 3 as long as the two following, together, including the spur; beak attaining the second coxae. Cauda short, broad, rounded posteriorly. Length of body, 1.80 to 2.20; wing, 2.50 to 3; antenna, .65 to .70; hind tibia. .75 mm. Described from numerous specimens taken at Fort Collins, Colorado, by L. C. Bragg-, June 25, 1912, and by the writer. June 26, 1915, in both cases from Hordcnni sp. Apterous female : Color sordid greenish yellow, head and prothorax a little dusky; legs, antennae, anal and genital plates, and usually i or 2 transverse lines on terminal segments of abdomen above, dusky to blackish; antennae>.54 mm. long and s-jointed; joint 3 shorter than 4 and 5 together; joints 4 and 5 each with sensorium near distal end, 284 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 beak barely surpassing 3d coxae ; vertex very convex ; body of large examples 2.5 by I..S mm. very plump, almost globular; cauda very short, oval, set with short hairs only ; no cornicles, eyes dusky and small in size ; ocular tubercle large but not very prominent ; body and appendages very free from hairs. This is, by far, the more abundant of these two species in Colorado, and does considerable damage to grasses and grains every year. It is most common upon somewhat isolated clumps of grass along the roadside, the borders of the fields and upon ditch banks, where the ground is not often cultivated. The louse colonies work mostly upon the roots, close about the crown of the plants, for the most part within one-half inch of the surface of the ground, and always are accompanied by ants. As a result, the roots are often largely destroyed, the plants stunted and have the appearance of drying out, and are easily pulled from the ground. The lice, being wholly underground, are seldom noticed by the farmer. While this louse is a very general feeder among the grasses. Hordeum, or squirrel-tail grass, and the Agropyrons, or wheat grasses and Kentucky blue grass, seem to be favorites. We have taken this species also on wheat, oats, barley, timothy, Bromus inermis, B. tectorwn, and species of Elymus. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVI. Figures I and 2 — Apterous viviparous and alate viviparous forms of Forda formicaria; 3 and 4 antennae of the same; 5 and 6 apterous and alate forms of Forda olivacea, 7 and 8 antennae of the same. Original ; Miriam A. Palmer, delineator. Pyrrhotes haematoloma H. S., and Leptocoris trivittatus Say in Illinois (Hemiptera, Coreidae). The distribution of the above two coreids as given by Van Duzee in his recently published catalogue does not extend east of the Missis- sippi River. The first named species is represented in our collection by one specimen taken bv the writer at Havana, Illinois, August 30, 1917, in a sand blowout, and several specimens from Texas, one of which was taken at Brownsville by Mr. C. A. Hart. The other species is the very common box-elder bug in connection with the abundance of which in Illinois we receive many letters annually. J. R. MALLOCH, Urbana, Illinois. Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 285 New Species of Crane-flies from California (Dip.). By CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. The following new species of crane-flies were included in a collection of undetermined material sent to me for nam- ing through the kindness of Mr. Millard C. YanDuzee, to whom I am indebted for this, as well as many other favors in the past. The types are in the writer's collection. Family TANYBERIDAE. Protoplasa vanduzeei sp. n. Size small (wing under seven mm.) ; wing long and narrow, spotted and clouded with grayish, the pattern heaviest on the anterior half of the wing, including the entire costal cell. $ . Length about 5 mm.; wing 6.3 mm.; greatest width of the wing 1.2 mm. Rostrum brown; mouth parts and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown, short, apparently :6-segmented, the segments with pale hairs. Head light brown with a dark brown dorso- median line. Pronotum brownish. Mesonotal praescutum light grayish-brown with three brown stripes, the middle stripe broad, split by a narrow pale line; lateral stripes less distinct; remainder of the mesonotum grayish-brown ; the scutellum fringed with about 15 long hairs. Pleura light grayish-brown. Halteres dark brown, the .extreme base and the stem paler. Legs with the coxae and trochanters pale yellowish-brown, sparsely gray pruinose ; femora pale yellowish-brown, the apices dark- er ; tibiae pale brown tipped with darker ; tarsi dark brown. Wings long and narrow, subhyaline with a heavy gray pattern, as follows: costal cell; large clouds at the base of cells R and M. at the base of Rs, along the cord and at the fork of veins Ri+j; most of these markings lie on the anterior half of the wing, those on the pos- terior half located at the wing margin at the ends of the longitudinal veins and scattered along the veins as rounded spots. Venation : all veins long and slender, conforming to the extreme narrow shape of the wing; m-cu cross-vein obliterated; anal angle of the wing not as distinct as usual in the genus. Abdominal tergites light brown nasally, dark brown on the apical half, the extreme caudal margin narrowly ringed with pale; stcrnites paler. Hypopygium with the pleural appendages orange, bi-lobed, the dorsal lobe elongate, slender, the ventral lobe short, stout, obtusely rounded. 286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 Holotype: $, Los Cerritos, California, March 14, 1915. (M. C. VD.) This interesting fly is closest to P. vipio O. S. but is a very different species, being much smaller and showing unmistak- able signs of degeneracy of the wings. I take great pleasure in dedicating this interesting crane-fly to Mr. VanDuzee, who collected the type specimen. Family TIPULIDAE. Tribe Eriopterini. Erioptera (Erioptera) cinctipennis sp. n. Coloration gray, praescutum with four narrow brown stripes ; wings dusky, cross-banded with subhyaline. $. Length 4.5-5 mm.; wing 5.4-5.7 mm. Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black, short, the flagellar seg- ments short, oval, with a dense pale pubescence. Head dark gray. Pronotum gray, the scutellum more yellowish. Mesonotal praescu- tum brownish-gray with four narrow brown stripes, the intermediate pair longer; pseudosutural foveae elongate, conspicuous, jet black, ex- tending obliquely across the segment just in front of the lateral stripes ; scutum gray with two brown spots on each lobe ; scutellum and postnotum light gray. Pleura clear light gray. Halteres light yellow throughout. Legs with the coxae brown, sparsely gray pruinose ; trochanters and femora brown, the latter broadly darkened apically ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings comparatively narrow, strongly suffused with dark brown, the basal portion of the wings, a broad band before the ,cord and the broad subapical regions clearer, presenting an appearance of a clear narrow band before the cord and a broader brown band extending from the stigma across the wing; stigma distinct, dark brown; veins dark brown. Venation as in subgenus ; 7?^+-j? usually short, about equal to, or a little longer than, r or r-m; second anal vein not greatly sinuated. Abdomen dark brown, the apices and lateral margins of the segments narrowly pale and with sparse golden hairs. Hypopygium more red- dish. Holot\pe: S, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1915. (M. C. VD.) Paratopotypes, four $, April 26-May 3, 1915. Paratypes, two $ , Los Cerritos, California, March JT, 11)15. (M. C. VD.) Vol. XXIX | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 28/ This handsome species is readily told from related species of the subgenus by its handsomely banded wings, in this re- spect suggesting the South African E. pcringncvi Bergroth. Tribe Limnophilini Phyllolabis flavida sp. n. Coloration pale yellow; wings nearly hyaline, stigma lacking; vein Sc long, R2+3 arcuated, about equal to cell R* alone ; inner end of cell ist M:>, slightly proximad of r-m. $ . Length 5.3 mm. ; wing 5.5 mm. 9 . Length 4.8 mm. ; wing 5.8 mm. '! R| ^ Rostrum and palpi pale yellow. Antennae elongate, in the male, if bent backward, extending about to the base of the abdomen, the flagellar segments cylindrical, with moderately long hairs ; antennae pale yellowish, the terminal segments darker. Head brownish-yellow; eyes large, black. Thorax pale brownish-yellow, without distinct stripes. Halteres elongate, pale, the knobs brownish. Legs pale yellowish, the tarsi dark brown. Wings rather broad, pale, subhyaline, stigma lacking; veins brown. Venation: Sc long, ending just before the middle of /?_=>+.?,• in the other described species of the genus Sc is much shorter, ending just beyond the fork of the sector ; R2-\-$ arcuated, shorter than, or sub- equal to R2 alone; inner end of cell ist M* slightly proximad of r-m. Abdomen pale yellowish, the segments ringed caudally with darker. Segments eight and nine, and the posterior half of seven, black; hypo- pygium orange-brown. Male hypopygium with the caudal projection of the eighth sternite long, slender, narrow at the base, gradually and slightly expanded toward the apex, which is bilobed and pubescent; just dorsad of this blade are two needle-like blades. Lateral pro- longations of the pleurites elongate, curved, fringed at the tips and along the sides with long stout hairs, the apical portion of this arm expanded. Ventral inner pleural appendage sickle-shaped, with a slender handle, the blade widely expanded, curved outwardly, the acute lips directed inwardly; dorsal inner pleural appendages bifid, the inner arm longest and decussate with its fellow of the opposite side. Holot\[>e: £, Alpine, San Diego County, California, April io, 1915. (M. C. YD.) .•Illotypc: 9, with the type. Related to /'. cluriijcr C). S. in the lack of a stigmal spot to the wings, but very distinct in its pale coloration, vena- tional details, and, especially, the peculiar male genitalia. 288 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 Limnophila (Dactylolabis) nitidithorax sp. n. Wings deeply suffused with brown, unspotted ; body-coloration dark brown, somewhat shiny; legs at the base, including the coxae, yellowish. $. Length 6.2-7 mm.; wing 6.4-7.1 mm. Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae short, dark brown ; head broad between the eyes with long scattered black hairs ; head brown- ish-black, very sparsely grey pruinose. Thoracic dorsum dark brown, without distinct stripes, sublustrous, very sparsely pruinose ; dorso-pleural membranes dull brown. Pleura similar to the dorsum. Halteres short, yellow. Legs with the coxae yellowish, the outer faces at the base darkened ; trochanters yellow ; femora yellow, the tips dark brown ; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings with a strong brownish tinge ; veins dark brown. Venation as in the subgenus ; r at the tip of Ri; 7?."> (cont.). Hampson, G. F. — Descriptions of new genera and sps. of Amatidae, Lithosidae, and Noctuidae. 51, xxv, 93-217. Rothschild, L. — Catalogue of Zerynthiinae and allied genera in the 318 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 Tring Museum, with critical notes. Catalogue of the Parnassiinae in the Tring Museum [l new]. 51, xxv, 64-75; 218-62. DIPTERA. Andrews, A. W. — Diptera collected on Whitefish Point, Chippewa Co., Michigan. 507, No. 53, 8 pp. Cockerell & Scott— Culicidae of Colorado. 179, xi, 387-8. Keilin, Dr.— Sur quelques modes particuliers de resistance des larves de dipteres centre la dessiccation. 87, 1918, 102-4. Ludlow, C. S.— Tricho- prosopon (Culicidae). 5, 1918, 66-8. Muir, F— Pipunculidae and Stylopidae in Homoptera. 8, 1918, 137. Parker, J. R.— The life history and habits of Chloropisca glabra, a predaceous oscinid. 179, xi, 368-80. Rogers, J. S. — A collection of Tipulidae from Schoolcraft County, Michigan. 507, No. 55, 4 pp. Sturgis, W.— Claremont-Laguna D. from the collections of the Dept. of Zool. of Pomona College. 189, x, 27-31. Townsend, C. H. T.— Note on oviposition of Gasterophilus nasalis. 4, 1918, 246-8. Wesenberg- Lund, C. — Anatomical description of the larva of Mansonia rich- ardii found in Danish fresh water. 105, Lxix, 277-328. Whealdon, R.— The balancers of the house fly. 68, xlviii, 222-3. Cockerell, T. D. A. — (See under Coleoptera.). Felt, E. P.— New gall midges [6 n. sps.]. 179, xi, 380-4. A study of gall midges— V. [many new]. 204, Bui. 198, 101-268. Hine, J. S.— Notes on rob- berflies from southwest Texas . . . with a description of a nc\v sp. of Erax. 507, No. 61. Malloch, J. R. — Notes and descriptions of some anthomyiid genera [4 n. g. ; 2 n. sps.]. 161, xxxi, 65-68. Anthracophaga distichliae sp. n. 179, xi, 386-7. Melander, A. L.— The dipterous genus Drapetis (Empididae) -[many new]. 180, xi, 183-221. Parker, R. R. — A new sp. of Sarcophaga from California. 189, x, 32-3. COLEOPTERA. Andrews, A. W.— C. collected in northwestern Nevada by the Walker-Newcomb expedition. 507, No. 48, 3 pp. Barbey, A. — Evolution d'un Cerambycide xylophage. 475, li, 577- 82. Blair, K. G. — A note on the systematic position of the genus Tretothorax. 8, 1918, 152-4. Bordas, L. — Morphologic et contenu des tubes de malpighi de quelques Cetoninae. 292, vii, 25-7. Burke, H. E. — Biological notes on some flat-headed woodborers of the genus Buprestis. 179, xi, 334-38. Champion, G. C. — 'New and little- known saltatorial Dascillidae. 8, 1918, 139-49 (cont.). Mclndoo, N. E. — The olfactory organ of a coleopterous larva. 322, xxxi, 113-131. Morse, E. S. — Fireflies flashing in unison. 68, xlviii, 92-3. Muir, F. — (See under Diptera.). Parks, H. B. — Notes on Eleodes tricostata. 179, xi, 388. Perkins, R. C. L.— The assembling and Vol. XXIXJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS $19 pairing of Stylops. 8, 1918, 129-31. Pic, M.— Deux nouveaux Poe- cilesthus (S. Am.). 87, 1918, 123. Sharp, D.— On gynarchy in C. 8, 1918, 154-5. Cockerell, T. D. A. — New species of N. Am. fossil beetles, cock- • roaches, and tsetse flies. 50, liv, 301-11. HYMENOPTERA. Bordas, L.— Sur le regime alimentaire de quelques Vespinae (Vespa crabro). 292, vii, 5-7. Carr, E. G. — An unusual disease of honey bees. 179, xi, 347-51. Graham, S. A. — An interesting habit of a wax moth parasite. 180, xi, 175-80. Gautier, C. — Etudes physiologiques et parasitologiques sur les lepidopteres nuisibles. La ponte des Apanteles, parasites de Pieris brassicae. 13, Ixxxi, 801-3. Johnson & Ledig — Early specimens of H. from the Claremont-Laguna region. 189, x, 23-6. Malloch, J. R. — Oc- currence of a European solitary bee (Andrena wilkella) in the eastern U. S. 161, xxxi, 61-64. Viereck, H. L. — Notes on the bee genus Andrena. A list of the families and subfamilies of ichneu- mon flies or the superfamily Ichneumonoidea. 161, xxxi, 59-60; 69-74. Turner, R. E. — On Braconidae parasitic on Diatraea sac- charalis in Demerara (S. A.). 313, ix, 81-2. Fenton, F. A, — The parasites of leaf hoppers. With special ref- erence to Anteoninae [6 new]. 143, xviii, 243-78. Mickel, C. E.— New species of Sphecoidea from the central and western states. A synopsis of the Sphecoidea of Nebraska. 417, xvii, 319-456. Doings of Societies. Feldman Collecting Social. Meeting of April I7th, 1918, at 5614 Stewart St., Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve members present; Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, of Berkeley, California, visitor. Pres. H. W. Wenzel in the chair. Coleoptera. — Dr. Van Dyke spoke of the intertidal collecting on the islands along the Pacific coast, particularly of the genus .T,^ialitcs, which is found in the crevices of the rocks below high tide line, so that part of the time they live under water. Associated with these was a marine Hydrophilid of the genus Ochthebius (the only species found in this country and undescribed), a Carabid related to Pogonns and many Staphylinids. They are all supposed to feed upon the minute algae. He had seen a specimen of a cave-dwelling Carabid at Cornell University, collected years ago by Prof. Comstock in Texas, which is not related to any of the North American or European species generally found in caves. It is eyeless, with a long thorax, lon1^ hraded and lon.y K'.u^ed and is a new Lti/nus more closely related to Casnonia. 3-2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 Diptera. — Mr. Hornig gave more details of his mosquito crusade. Mr. Laurent exhibited a large series of Tabanus fuscopnnctatiis Macq. which he said were very common and annoying the early part of this month at Gunntown, Levy County, Florida. General. — Mr. Laurent said collecting was not so good this year *in Levy County, Florida, but he had succeeded in getting a couple hundred each of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He exhibited also a picture of Ottomar Reinecke, who died November 26th, 1917. Meeting of May I5th, 1918, at the same place. Ten members and one visitor present. President H. W. Wenzel in the chair. Coleoptera. Dr. Castle exhibited a peculiar small Staphylinid of the genus Micropeplus which he had colllected on his last trip to Miami, Florida, May 5. Diptera. Mr. Hornig stated that he had found a tree with a depression where the three main branches started from the trunk, which contained damp leaves but no water. These leaves were taken home and examined with a microscope but he could find no eggs ; they were placed in a jar and covered with water and it now contains about twenty mosquito larvae. Recorded the first local appearance of the following: Aedes canadcnsis Theob., March 26th to April 30th, A. syh'estris Theob., April ist to April 3Oth and A. sollicitans Walk., April i.sth to May oth. GEO. M. GREENE, Sec'y. OBITUARY. WILLIAM HAGUE HARRINGTON, born at Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, April 19, 1852, died at Ottawa, Canada, March 13, 1918. From 1870 to 1916 he served in the Canadian Post Office Department. He was one of the founders of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club in 1879 and a member of the Entomological Society of Ontario since 1877; in both associa- tions he held various offices, including the presidencies. His chief entomological work was on the Hymenoptera, but many articles from his pen on Coleoptera and on insects in general, especially those of economic importance, appeared in Canadian journals. — (From the obituary notice, accompanied by por- trait and bibliography, in the Canadian Entomologist for June, 1918.) The Celebrated Original Dust and Pest-Proof METAL CABINETS FOR SCHMITT BOXES These cabinets have a specially constructed groove or trough around the front, lined with a material of our own design, which is adjustable to the pressure of the front cover. The cover, when in place, is made fast by spring wire locks or clasps, causing a constant pressure on the lining ii) the groove. The cabinet, in addition to being abso- lutely dust, moth and dermestes proof, is impervious to fire, smoke, water and atmos- pheric changes. Obviously, these cabinets are far superior to any constructed 01 non- metallic material. The interior is made of metal, with upright partition in center. 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CONTENTS: Professor Samuel Wendell Williston... 321 Aldrich— Samuel Wendell Williston... 322 Beutentnuller — Notes on Cynipidae, with Description of a New Species (Hym.) 327 Dozier — An Annotated List of Gaines- ville, Florida, Coleoptera 331 Frost— Dragonfly Larva Feeding on a Living Snake (Odon.) 335 Faust— A New Tyroglvphid for West- ern Montana ( Acar. ) 336 Robertson — Proterandry and Flight of Bees ( Hym. ) 340 Hancock— A New Genus and Two New Species of Tettigids (Orthoptera), with a Note on Nomotettixborealis Walker 343 Fox— On a Long-Winged or Caudate Phase of Neotettix proavus Rehn and Hebard (Orth.) 347 Ferris— The Alleged Occurrence of a Seasonal Dimorphism in the Fe- males of Certain Species of Mealy Bugs ( Hemiptera ; Coccidae) 349 Editorial— En tomo logy in Central Europe 353 Ireland— Collecting Notes from Califor- nia ( Lepid. ) 353 Baerg— Key to Eastern Species of Rhy- phus ( Dip. ) 354 Hoplniger — Notes on Papilio indra Reakirt (Lep. ) 354 Entomological Literature 355 Doings of Societies — Ent. Sec., Ac.'d. of Nat. Sci. of Phila. (Lep., Dip.) 359 Feldman Collecting Social (Lep., Col.) 360 Obituary — Dr. Gustavo Leonardi 360 Professor Samuel Wendell Williston. We present herewith, as a frontispiece (Plate XVIII) to the present November number of the NEWS, a portrait of the late eminent dipterologist, Professor Samuel Wendell Willis- ton. The photograph from which it was taken is an old one, probably dating from the eighteen-eighties, which were the years when Dr. Williston was most active in his entomological work. In later years his appearance was very different, as those who saw him at recent meetings of the Entomological Society of America will recall. We understand that a more familiar portrait, of a date of four or five years ago, will prob- ably appear in another journal, but that which we offer here more nearly corresponds to that of the dipterologist than to that of the paleontologist. Klsewhere in this issue. Dr. Willis- ton's life and career is very appreciatively and sympathetically sketched by his friend and pupil, ProtY-^or \1drich. 321 322 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 Samuel Wendell Williston. Bv T. M. ALDRICH, West Lafayette. Indiana. ./ J J Samuel Wendell Williston, the eminent palaeontologist and dipterist, died in Chicago on August 30, 1918. At the time of his death and for some years previous he was Professor of Palaeontology and Director of the Walker Museum in the University of Chicago. He was born in Boston on July 10, 1852, and was therefore a little past 66 years old. His father was a blacksmith, un- educated but of native ability, who removed with his family to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1857. Here young Williston's boy- hood was spent, and in due time he entered the Agricultural College in his home town, graduating from it in 1872. But his college course was interrupted, for he ran away from home at 1 8 and went to work as a railroad laborer, from which humble position he rose before he was 20 to be a transit man at a handsome salary for that time. However, he suffered greatly from malaria, and had to resign and go back home ; after recuperating he finished his college course. Railroad engineering went flat in the panic of 1873, and he began to study medicine, "reading" in the office of a local doctor. In the summers of 1874 and 1875 he assisted Professor B. F. Mudge on fossil-collecting expeditions in Western Kansas, the work being done for Professor Marsh of Yale University. He spent the winter of 1875-6 in the medical school of the University of Iowa, and was invited to come to Yale to see Marsh in the spring ; this resulted in a contract to work for Marsh for three years at $40 a month, and in all to almost continuous employment with him for nine years, until 1885. He managed to finish his medical course and get his M.D. at Yale in 1880. But by this time his scientific bent was strongly developed, and it soon appeared that his work lay in following it rather than in the practice of medicine. He specialized in palaeontology, and received his Ph.D. under Marsh in 1885. His genius for anatomy led to an appointment as demonstrator in Yale Medical the following year, and after a short appren- Vol. Xxix] RXTdMD.MiC.ICAI, NEWS 323 ticeship to the full professorship in human anatomy in 1887,— a striking recognition of his ability. After three years in this position, he accepted a call to the University of Kansas in 1890 as Professor of Historical Geolo- gy and Palaeontology. Twelve years of his prime were spent in this institution, years crowded with productive labor. He helped organize the medical department of the University, and took on the deanship of it along with his other work ; this almost broke his vigorous health, and he had to slacken his pace, — perhaps never again quite regained it. The consciousness that he was working beyond his strength had something to do with his going to the University of Chicago in 1902 as Professor of Palaeontology. Here he was able to concentrate on a single specialty, officially at least, as he left medicine behind and thought he had left entomology also. In this place he spent the last fourteen years of his life, beginning under some unexpected handicaps and gradually working up to full recognition and honor. In the outline just given, entomology is hardly hinted at, for the reason that Williston never held an official entomological position. But he found time to do much valuable work as a pioneer in dipterology. His employer would not allow him to publish in palaeontology, and he sought a field outside where he could be free to work and publish ; this he found in the Diptera. His interest in the flies began to be serious about 1878. At this time Osten Sacken had returned to Europe, and there was not a single American student of the order but Edward Burgess, the Boston yacht designer, who published only one small paper. So Williston was vir- tually alone on the continent. In the absence of guidance, he plowed his way by main strength (as he often narrated to the writer) through descriptions of species until here and there he made an identification, which served as an anchor point for a new offensive. He had few definitions of genera, so had to work backward from the species. After a year or two of this tedious and time-wasting effort he came upon Schiner's Fauna Austriaca, in which the Austrian families, 324 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [NoV.,'l8 genera and species of Diptera as known up to 1862-4 are analytically arranged and succinctly described. To his immense relief and satisfaction, he now found that all his American flies could be traced to their families, and most of them to their genera, in this fine work. He was so impressed by the saving of time accomplished that his own publications coming later show the effect of this early experience on every page ; everywhere he has the beginner in mind and is clearing the way for him. In a few years he began publishing tentative papers analyz- ing the American families and genera of the flies. These he extended and enlarged in a pamphlet in 1888, and again in a bound volume in 1896; and in 1908 published a third edition still more complete, with 1000 figures, his well-known Manual of Diptera. This third edition is his main contribution to ento- mology. It is a handbook unapproached by anything else dealing with a large order of insects. From necessity he published it at his own expense ; it was eight years before the receipts from sales covered the cost of printing, but happily he lived to see this consummation. His other papers of his early period, 1881-89, dealt with Asilidae, Conopidae, Tabanidae, and smaller groups, and es- pecially with Syrphidae, in which his fine monograph of 1886 is still in universal use, and by the taxonomic genius of its author has created in the United States an ineradicable belief that the family is an easy one, well adapted for the beginner to publish in ; a mistaken belief, but highly complimentary to the monographer. From 1890 his more important papers were concerned with tropical Diptera (Mexico, St. Vincent, Brazil), and with bibli- ography. As his official duties grew more exacting, he gradu- ally abandoned entomology, but he had as many farewell ap- pearances as an opera singer, for he could not resist the temp- tation to come back again and again. Even as late as the spring of 1917, when he was visiting the writer and reveling once more in a collection of Diptera, his old enthusiasm came back so strongly that he planned describing some new genera, Vol. xxixj ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 325 and did in fact publish one (Annals Ent. Soc. Amer., x, 23). But after 1896 he did little work on the order except in prepar- ing the third edition of his Manual, which cost him two years of arduous work, as he drew 800 figures with his own hand. His deep interest in genera and his very wide acquaintance with them, together with his universally recognized taxonomic ability, made him in the period 1890-1900 the peer of Osten Sacken, Brauer and Mik as a world-authority in Diptera. The types of Williston's new species are much scattered. His Syrphidae were acquired by the National Museum ; the rest of his earlier collections by the University of Kansas ; his Biologia material and that from St. Vincent went to Lon- don, and 1 understand were finally deposited in the British Museum; the American Museum of Natural History obtained his later collections, including some duplicates of type series from St. Vincent and perhaps Mexico. Williston did not be- lieve in designating a single type specimen, hence in some cases his types of the same species are in two museums. He had no collection of Diptera in his last years, although he still re- tained his fine library in the order. Although he never gave any formal entomological courses, he gave informal and even more valuable assistance both in Kansas and Chicago to several entomologists who were special- izing on Diptera ; among them W. A. Snow. Hugo Kahl, C. F. Adams, A. L. Melander and myself. We all admired him, and our admiration grew into deep love and veneration with the passing years. He had students outside of entomology like E. C. Case and C. E. McClung, who achieved high scien- tific standing. His lecture courses in palaeontology were full of broad generalizations about evolution, and in the highest degree stimulating and profitable to students with biological training, as I am informed by Melander, who took them. He did not have large classes at any time, and his lectures were mostly informal in style, drawn from a rich experience and given in intimate association with the student, the kind that would make a deep impression. But his life work was mainly directed to the larger circle outside his institution. 326 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 While in New Haven he received a visit from C. V. Riley, who urged him to come to Washington as first assistant in the Division (afterward Bureau) of Entomology. But Williston entertained a shrewd doubt as to whether he could be happy in a position subordinate to Riley, and declined the offer, although its acceptance would have meant a permanent posi- tion at an increased salary. This incident was narrated to me several times by Williston; it occurred about 1885. In the last few years Williston published two volumes on fossil reptiles, his greatest specialty, and last winter was work- ing on a handbook of reptilia, which was probably near com- pletion when he was compelled to abandon it. If this volume can be printed, it will close up his work on the reptiles about as well as his Manual of Diptera did for the flies. My last mental picture of the man represents him on a day last winter, sitting at a table before a window in his study at home, in one hand a long-snouted reptilian skull, in the other a draw- ing pen with which he was rapidly making a sketch of it. He attended the Pittsburgh meeting of the Entomological Society of America last winter and gave reminiscences of his early work on Diptera to an interested audience. In physique he was large and vigorous, and mentally he was greatly endowed. I think I shall offend no living Ameri- can dipterist when I say that he towered above us all. The truth of the assertion will be more clearly evident if we con- sider that his work on Diptera was never more than a side line, an absolute gift to science, accomplished in odd times while he was attaining distinction in anatomy and world-wide reputation in palaeontology, his main specialties. Considering the positiveness of his opinions and his frank- ness in expressing them, his life was singularly free from sci- entific controversies, and especially from those leading down into personalities. In many long conversations with him, I do not recall that I ever heard him express a personal dis- like for a scientific colleague, except in one case where he felt that advancement in a teaching position had been obtained by servility, and another where he felt that his own matured opinion had been treated rather contemptuously. Vol. XX'ix] F.XTO.MOI.MC.ICAL XE\YS 327 His last years were full of honors. He was a delegate to the International Zoological Congress at Monaco; Yale University gave him an honorary D.Sc. ; he was chosen to the limited membership of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Entomological Society of America made him an Honorary Fellow, one of seven out of its membership of 600. He was married in 1880 to Annie I. Hathaway, of New Haven, who survives him together with three daughters and a son. I first knew him by correspondence in 1890, when on learn- ing that I was beginning to work on Diptera he sent me sepa- rates of his papers. In January, 1893, I went to the University of Kansas to study, drawn entirely by his presence there. He received me with open arms, and helped me in every way possible until I left in July to take up my work in Idaho. Then I saw him only a time or two in twenty years, and had few and short letters from him, for he was a notably poor cor- respondent. After coming to Indiana in 1913 I was so near that we were frequently together. My sketch would be en- tirely inadequate without some acknowledgment of my per- sonal obligation. In Kansas he lent me money; he wanted me to live in his house ; he could not do enough to further my scientific aspirations. More than any other of my teachers, he became my ideal of a scientific man; and if in later years my ideal took on larger proportions, so he too seemed to expand in his mature powers ; and at the close of his life I still feel that a splendid and inspiring example of scientific work and achievement is contained in his career. Notes on Cynipidae, with Description of a New Species (Hym,). By WILLIAM BEUTEXMUI.LEK, New York City. Biorhiza nigra Fitch. Hiorhiza n'ujra Fitch, 5th Rep. Xox. Ins. N. V. (Trans. N. Y. Agric. Soc., 1858 (1859), 782). Acraspis politus Bassett, Trans. Am. Fnt. Soc.. v<>1. XVII 1890 p. 85. 328 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 Fitch's type of Biorhiza nigra is in the United States Na- tional Museum and not lost as stated by me in my paper on the species of Biorhiza, Philoni.v and Allied Genera, and their Galls (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXVI, 1909, p. 246). I examined the type a few years ago and my notes say that it is the same as Acra-spis politus Bassett. Philonix fulvicollis Fitch. Philoni.v fuhncollis Fitch, 5th Rep. Nox. Ins. N. Y. (Trans. N. Y. Agricul. Soc., 1858 (1859), p. 783). Cynips q. erinacei Walsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. II, 1864, p. 483 (gall only). Philoni.v erinacei Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. XXVI, 1909, p. 247. The type of Philonix fuhncollis Fitch, is in the United States National Museum and Pliiloni.v erinacei is the same as P. fulvicollis. Philonix nigricollis Fitch. Philonix nigricollis Fitch; sth Rep. Nox. Ins. N. Y. (Trans. N. Y. Agricul. Soc., 1858 (1859), p. 873). The type of P. nigricollis is in the U. S. National Museum. It is a small, slender species, measuring 2 mm. in length. It is dark reddish brown with the collar darker and the legs yellowish brown. Philonix lanaeglobuli (Ashmead). Acraspis lanaeglobuli Ashmead. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., vol. XI \T, 1887, pp. 128, 139. I examined the type of lanaeglobuli in the U. S. National Museum and also have before me an example given to me many years ago by Ashmead. I strongly suspect that Acraspis gillettei Bassett will prove to be the same as lanaeglobuli. The galls of both are also exactly similar. Callirhytis agrifoliae (Bassett). Cynips q. agrifoliae Bassett. Can. Ent., vol. XIII, 1881, p. 53. Callirhytis clairmontis Kieffer. Invert. Pacifica, vol. I, 1904, p. 43. Mr. C. F. Baker kindly sent me specimens of Callirh\tis clairmontis, galls and flies and I find the same to be identical with Callirhytis agrifoliae. Mr. Baker's specimens are from Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 32Q the same material sent to Prof. KiefYer for description of clair- nwntis. Odontocynips nebulosa Kieft'er. Odontocynips nebulosa Kieffer, Boll. Lab. Agricol. Portici, vol. IV, IQIO, p. 112. This species was heretofore known only by the types from Georgia and Texas in the Berlin Zoological Museum and was unknown to American collectors until Prof. E. P. Felt sent me specimens of the flies and galls taken at \Yoodstock, Georgia, in February, 1917, on the roots of oak. Air. Lewis H. Weld was fortunate enough to collect the galls on the roots of Post oak (Qucrcus minor} at Palestine, Texas, Oct. 16, 1917, and sent me specimens from which 1 obtained a fine series of females. These were cut from the galls in December while others emerged January I9th to February 26th, 1918 (in- doors), and others are still in the galls. The gall is composed of large, rounded, hard, woody nodulus, closely grown together, so as to form a large mass, while others are single or in clus- ters. Each nodule contains a single large larval chamber. The fly is a beautiful creature. It is deep brownish black or almost black and covered with fine, silky, whitish hairs. The wings are marked with large blackish patches. The genus is allied to Cynips and may be characterized by having a large tooth on the under side of the hind femora. Andricus impositus sp. nov. $ . — Head dark rufous, evenly punctate and clothed with short white hairs. Antennae 13-jointed, pitchy brown-black. Thorax black, subopaque, evenly and finely punctate. Parapsidal grooves very fine, not continuous, extending forward to about the ends of the anterior parallel lines, and most distinct at the scutelhun. Median groove very fine and about as long as the parapsidal grooves. Lateral grooves scarcely defined. Anterior parallel lines shining and extending to the middle of the thorax. Pleurae punctate, hairy, with a polished, smooth area. Scutellum black, evenly rugoso-punctate, basal fovea large and deep. Abdomen black, slightly rufous at the extreme base and tip, smooth. polished and with a rounded patch of whitish hairs on each side at the base. 330 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 Fore tibiae brown, femora darker, middle and hind legs pitchy brow/i with the knees paler. Wings hyaline, veins delicate brown. Radial area closed. Cubitus exceedingly faint and not extending to the first cross-vein. Areolet large. Length, 2.75 to 3.25 mm. Gall. — On the under sides of the leaves of post oak (Qncrcus minor) in clusters from about 4-40 individuals closely packed together, on the mid-rib and lateral veins, September to November. Monothalamous. Green, sometimes tinged with red. Elongate, rounded at the sides, narrow at the point of attachment and concave at the apex with a small central nipple. Outside it is rather densely covered with small pustules. When young, the gall is almost solid, but as it grows older the larval chamber gradually occupies the entire interior. After it drops to the ground, late in the fall, the gall gradually changes its shape to almost globular (berry-like) with the concave apex flat- tened and the surrounding rim less prominent. The crystal-like pus- tules change, the gall becoming evenly rugose. The point of attach- ment becomes long, narrow and sharply pointed. The entire inside be- comes hollow with the outer wall thin and brittle. Length, 2.50 to 5 mm. ; width, 2 to 4 mm. ; length of clusters, 5 to 35 Habitat : Westchester, New York City. Type : female in the writer's collection. My observations on the galls were made from at least 500 clusters. At first I considered it to be that of Zopheroteras vaccinii Ashm., which it resembles when immature. But the flies are different, the female of vaccinii being apterous. The gall of A. impositus when mature resembles somewhat, those of Cynips dimorphus and C. vacciniiformis. My galls were collected during September and until November 1st, 1915, but they evidently also occur earlier in the season, because some of the flies emerged in June and July and others in September, 1916. But the majority remained over until 1917, the flies emerging indoors in January and February. My specimens were collected on a small rocky elevation in a, swamp, close to the Bronx River, near Westchester, New York City. This locality is gradually being filled in for streets and other improvement and soon will become extinct. I have also taken the gall at Lakehurst, New Jersey, and it probably will be found in other places where Quercus minor grows. Vol. XXlx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 331 An Annotated List of Gainesville, Florida, Coleoptera. By H. L. DOZIER, University of Florida. (Continued from page 298) BUPRESTIDAE. Chalcophora virginiensis Drury. A common species. The larvae bore in pine. Chalcophora georgiana Lee. Not as abundant as the above species. May. Dicerca obscura Fab. An adult taken on pine log, Jan. 3 (J. R W.). Dicerca punctulata Sch. A specimen in sandy road. (W. E. Pen- nington) Jan. Buprestis lineata Fab. Not an uncommon species. Buprestis connexa Horn. An undated specimen. (J. R: W.). Buprestis decora Fab. Two specimens on pavement near pine trees — one contained a large number of well-developed eggs — March 29. Melanophila notata L. & P. One in flight, Mar. 31. Anthaxia cyanella Gory. Always taken on foliage of oak. First of season taken March 27. Very abundant on young red oak bushes in open fields, April 15. 13. (J. R. W.). Chrysobothris femorata Fab. var. At dogwood blossom, April Chrysobothris chrysoela Illig. One in flight, Nov. 1. An uncom- mon species. Chrysobothris sp. An undated $. Actenodes auronotata Lap. This is a Cuban species found occa- sionally in Florida. Several specimens in flight, June 27-28. Acmaeodera ornata Fab. An uncommon species, May 1. Acmaeodera tubulus Fab. Taken in dew-berry blossom, March 2. Abundant at wild plum blossoms, Mar. 8. On bull thistle, April 11. Agrilus subcinctus Gory. Numbers taken in copula on ash leaves in hammock, April 4. Mar. 24-Apr. 4. Taphrocerus agriloides Cr. Numbers taken by sweeping nut grass and low herbage at hammock edge, April 1-3. Brachys cuprascens Blatch. Extremely abundant eating oak foliage from March 24-April 16. LAMPYRIDAE. Calopteron reticulatum Fab. This large handsome species is found rather commonly on the foliage of various shrubs and trees, Mar. 5-June 25. Celetes basalis Lee. On basswood leaf, April 2. Photuris pennsylvanica DeG. Taken on pine at night and on corn plants, June 9. 332 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 Chauliognathus marginatus Fab. Our most common species here and abundant everywhere, especially at the blossoms of chinquepin and flowers. Taken nearly the whole year round. Polemius limbatus Lee. Taken on needles of long-leaf pine, Dec. 4. MALACHIDAE. Melyris cribrata Lee. Abundant in blossoms of Cratcgus and dogwood, Mar. 3-11. Melyris basalis Lee. Taken with the above species but less abun- dantly. CLERIDAE. Enoclerus thoracicus Oliv. Beaten from oak foliage, April 18. Clerus lunatus Spin. One taken at chinquepin bloom, May 14. Priocera castanea Newm. One taken at hammock edge, March (C. P. Bishop). SCARABAEIDAE. Canthon depressipennis Lee. Very common around dung in roads from April to Sept. Canthon laevis Drury. Our most common dung beetle and is met with along roads, rolling their balls of dung, April-Sept. Canthon nigricornis Say. Not as abundant as the above species, May 3. Choeridium lecontei Harold. Taken occasionally at lights, May 27. Copris Carolina Linn. Most abundant during June. Copris minutus Drury. A common species abundant nearly the year round. Very abundant at lights Feb. 5. Copris anaglypticus Say. A specimen taken in ft. long tunnel beneath dung, March 12, evidently lying dormant (J. R. W.). Phanaeus igneus MacL. A rather common species the year round, flying around dung in roads. While in flight, their buzzing greatly resembles that of the bumble-bee. Jan. 5-March 26. Phanaeus carnifex Linn. Closely resembles the above species, but is not nearly so abundant. The males are rarely seen. Onthophagus hecate Panz. Found frequently in dung. Bolbocerosoma farctum var. tumefactum Beauv. A specimen taken from beneath bark of fallen pine Aug. 3. A specimen flying over grass of wet prairie, July 30 (J. R. W.). Trox suberosus Fab. Taken at dead rat, June 28. Diplotaxis languida Lee. Taken at night eating oak foliage, May 2. Mar. 12-May 2. Diplotaxis bidentata Lee. Numbers taken at night feeding on chinquepin foliage, April 24. Varies in color from brown to black. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 333 Diplotaxis frontalis Lee. Taken with the above species, April 24. Several at lights, April 6. Diplotaxis subcostata Blanch. Large numbers taken under arc- light, April 6. Ataenius imbricatus Melsh. Very abundant at lights, June 7. Ataenius alternatus Melsh. Also very abundant at lights, June 7. Aphodius lividus Oliv. Very numerous for several nights, June 7. Aphodius stercorosus Melsh. A single specimen at lights, June. Bradycinetus ferrugineus Bequv. Rather scarce. Lights, June 3- Aug. 30. Bolboceras lazarus Fab. Abundant at lights, July 21 and Sept. 3. Serica vespertina Gyll. A specimen taken eating foliage of young hickory, March 10. Lachnosterna prununculina Burm. Several at lights, June G. A swarm of hundreds was eating the foliage of pine at night, June 8. I was attracted by the loud buzzing of them over- head. Lachnosterna glaberrima Blanch. One at lights, June 6. Lachnosterna sp. nov. near nova. Three specimens taken beneath arc-light, April 6. Lachnosterna parvidens Lee. One at light, April 4. Lachnosterna latifrons Lee. At light, June 1. Lachnosterna micans Knoch. An uncommon species here, April 5. Polyphylla gracilis Horn. An uncommon species, but taken on pine, April 28-May 20. Polyphylla occidentalis Linn. This species is also a pine foliage feeder, April 25-May 31. Anomala semilivida Lee. A specimen on beggarweed, Aug. 13. Anomala marginata Fab. One taken beneath log at Hogtown Creek, May 23. This species feeds on the foliage of the grape and various trees. Strigoderma pygmaea Fab. Found abundantly on various weeds, corn and cotton, April 20-Aug. Pelidnota punctata Linn. Taken in small numbers at lights during May. Cyclocephala villosa Burm. A few at lights, June 7. Dyscinetus trachypygus Burm. Abundant the year round at lights. Ligyrus gibbosus DeG. Abundant at lights during May. Dynastes tityrus Linn. Found occasionally beneath old logs. Abundant beneath arc-lights in July. Stephanucha (Euphoria) areata Fabr. A rather rare species here. Taken only along sandy roads, Jan. 16-Feb. 19. Euphoria sepulchralis Fabr. An extremely abundant species, oc- ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 curring at the blooms of chinquapin and especially at bull thistle. Abundant from March 25-Aug. 16. Euphoria inda Linn. Occurs at blossoms of various plants, but is an uncommon species here, Oct. 9. Trichius delta Forst. First made their appearance, April 28, at chinquepin blooms. Taken at blooms of Sah'ia, cherokee rose, and other flowers. These beetles were more or less abundant through June. An adult was taken at golden rod bloom, Aug. 9. Adults of this species, together with T. piger, were reared from larvae collected in oak stump. The grubs greatly resemble those of Lachnosterna but are smaller in size and are of a more creamish color. Trichius viridulus Forst. A specimen taken in bloom of southern papaw along roadside. Occurs also at blooms of chinque- pin. A rare beetle here as elsewhere, May 23. Trichius piger Fabr. Occurs at flowers of various kinds, including New Jersey tea and the magnolia. Is not as abundant as T. delta and apparently has not as long a season as that species. May-June. Trichius texanus. Three taken at chinquepin blooms, May 20 (C. Nieland). CERAMBYCIDAE. Orthosoma brunneum Forst. Taken occasionally at lights. Criocephalus nubilus Lee. Taken at lights, March 10-April 20. Chion cinctus Drury. Common at lights, Jan. -April 15. Eburia quadrigeminata Say. Occasionally at lights. Eburia stigma Oliv. A specimen at light, June 11. Romaleum atomarium Drury. At light, June 15. Elaphidion mucronatum Say. Light, June 8. Elaphidion unicolor Rand. A specimen at light, June 8. Heterachtes ebenus Newm. A specimen at light, Sept. 25. Molorchus bimaculatus var. semiustus Newm. Rather common at blossoms of dogwood and Cratcgus, March 11-12. Molorchus bimaculatus var. corni Hald. A single specimen of this variety taken at dogwood blossom, March 10. Molorchus bimaculatus var. A specimen of a black variety of bimaculatus taken at Cratcgus blossom, March 12. Rhopalophora longipes Say. One taken at dogwood blossom, March 11. Callichroma splendidum Lee. A specimen of this uncommon beetle was taken in piny woods, flying from the bark of one pine tree to another, making a loud buzzing noise as it flew, April 21 (O. Manecke). Xylotrechus colonus Fabr. Rather common at lights. Vol. XXJx] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 335 Xylotrechus sagittatus Germ. A specimen taken on recently cut pine stump, Sept. 24 (J. R. W.). Neoclytus erythrocephalus Fabr. A pair collected in copula at Hogtown Creek, Feb. 20 (J. R. W.). Bred from Japanese persimmon. Strangalia famelica Newm. var. One specimen (J. R. W.) Strangalia strigosa Newm. Rather abundant at chinquepin blooms, May 7. Typocerus velutinus Oliv. Taken at chinquepin bloom, May 10 (J. R. W.). Typocerus zebratus Fabr. On pine foliage in March. On small thistle in open field, April 20. Monohammus titillator Fabr. A very common species that breeds in pine, June 9-Oct. 20. Dorcaschema alternatum Say. An undated specimen. Leptostylus planidorsus Lee. A specimen at light, Sept. 28. Leptostylus aculiferus Say. An abundant species. Liopus alpha Say. Taken at lights, Oct. 11 (J. R. W.). Liopus alpha var. floridanus Hamilton. A specimen at light. Aug. 21. Liopus minuens Horn. Two undated specimens (J. R. W.). Graphisurus fasciatus DeG. Several newly emerged adults and pupae were taken beneath bark of fallen oak, Feb. 7. A specimen at light, Sept. 25. Acanthocinus obsoletus Oliv. In flight at night, April 15-Oct. 11. Ecyrus dasycerus Say. A specimen collected on fig bush, April 4. Oncideres cingulata Say. The work of this beetle is very notice- able on pecan twigs. Its work has also been observed on blue beech. Hippopsis lemniscatus Fabr. Breeds in stems of ragweed (Am- brosia), Aug. 6. Saperda vestita Say. An undated specimen (J. R. W.). Ataxia crypta Say. Several undated specimens (J. R. W.). Oberea bimaculatus Oliv. An undated specimen (J. R. vV.). Oberea ocellata var. plagiata Casey. Taken in hammock, May 23- July 5. (To be continued.) Dragonfly Larva Feeding on a Living Snake (Odon.). On the property of F. H. Kennard, Newton, Massachusetts, in a tank with a basin making a sort of aquarium, a dragonfly larva, i-il/t inches long, bit pieces out of a water snake about 12 inches long. The snake died or was killed because of the wounds shortly afterward. — C. W. FROST, Philadelphia, Pa. 336 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 A New Tyroglyphid for Western Montana (Acar.).* By ERNEST CARROLL FAUST, Ph.D., University of Illinois. (Plate XIX.) Among the parasites found by the writer on the Balsam- root plant, Balsawiorrhiza sagittata, in Western Montana, was the interesting mite described in this paper. The creature was found in Missoula, in June, 1916, gnawing and sucking the juicy parts of the new leaves. Neither the rootstock nor the underground stem was infected, nor were any other plants in the vicinity attacked by this acarinid. The mite belongs to the Family Tyroglyphidae and to the genus Rhizoglyphus. It is most nearly related to the species R. hyacinthi (Boisduval) and R. rhlsophagus Banks, both of which have been reported for the same locality (Cooley 191,4, Banks 1906). However, marked differences in several points of structure in this mite justify the creation of a new species. Rhizoglyphus sagittatae nov. spec. (PI. XIX). Ovate oblong, creamy yellow in color, with a thin chitinous covering. 9 , 0.5 mm. long by 0.26 mm. wide ; $ , 0.47 mm. long by 0.24 mm. wide. The rostral platform stretches forward considerably anterior to the main cephalic portion of the body. On the dorsum of this structure is a single pair of prominent bristles. On each side just behind ap- pendage II is a single projecting bristle. In the posterior region of the abdomen are three pairs of bristles, one ventral and two slightly dorsal. The cephalothorax is separated from the abdomen dorsally by a distinct sutural groove. One of the distinguishing features of the species, both male and female, is the character of the appendage spines. They are flat plates, broadly elliptic at the distal end, and fit deeply into the appendage at the proximal end. The characteristic sickle-shaped grasping spine at the end of the tarsi in the female and at the end of tarsi I, II and IV in the male is also plate-like and broadly lunar. Tarsi I and II of both sexes have an apical crest, consisting of one lunar grasping spine and five elliptic spines. There is a single short bristle arising from their midst. From the tibia of segments I and II arise a large tactile bristle on the outside and an elliptic spine on the inside. The genual bears a single inconspicuous bristle on its outer margin. Tarsi I and II are appressed, so that they are broader than long. Tarsi III and IV in the female and IV in the male are, on the * Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Illinois under the Direction of Henry B. Ward. ENT. NKWS, VOL. XXIX Plate XIX. 6 / \ 7 8 \ \ -S NEW TYROGLYPHlD, RHIZOGLYPHU3 SAGlTTATAE. -FAUST. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 337 other hand, longer than broad. They bear a stout lunar grasping spine, a single elliptic spine on the outer side and three slightly smaller spines on the inner side. There are no bristles on tarsi III and IV. The tactile bristle of segments III and IV is small and inconspicuous. The tibia bears no spine in appendages III and IV of the female or in appendage IV of the male. Genuals III and IV of the female bear a single small bristle pointed outward. The third appendage of the male is heteromorphic (Fig. 6). The tarsus is practically reduced to a very large median hastate spine and a pair of smaller auxiliary spines. The tibia of male appendage III bears a small tactile bristle and a short broad spine. The palpus of the prehypopid nymph is slender and its tarsus is crowned with several small bristles (Fig. 8). This appendage changes in the adult mite, so that it is shortened and broadened, while the tarsus is bluntly triangular and heavily chitinized (Fig. 9). As in other Tyroglyphidae, the mandibles are chelate without any marked dentitions. The gravid female has from one to four large eggs, measuring about 170 by 90 /j.. The shell of the egg is moderately thick (Fig. 5). The contents of the egg consist of large, highly refractive granules, irreg- ularly oval in contour. The vulva is situated far cephalad between appendages III and IV. Around it is a broad horse-shoe shaped chiti- nous band, distinctly crenate anterior to the vulva. On this band are two pairs of genital suckers. The anus in the female is anterior to the ventral bristles. The male is characterized also by the genital suckers. In addition the copulatory suckers, entirely postanal, are conspicuous. They have a large central cavity (Fig. 7). Only heteromorphic males have been found. Type specimens are in the collection of the writer, Nos. 18. i and 18.2. Immature Stages. — There is a distinct hypopus. The prehypopid stage is a delicate creamy yellow octopod, whereas the hypopus has a heavy brownish yellow chitinous covering. The hypopus measures 0.26 mm. long by 0.16 mm. wide. The cephalothorax and abdomen are approximately equal. They are separated ventrally by a transverse suture. Appendages I and II are considerably larger than III and IV. Tarsi I and II are acute, ending in a spine. The round sucking plate at the posterior part of the ventrum consists of two inner rows of three suckers each and two outer rows of one sucker each. In addition, there is a pair of suckers anterior to the plate. The relation of R. sac/it tatac to R. Ji\acintlii and R. rhizo- phagus is shown in the following table: 338 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'iS Legs. Tarsus I Tarsi I and II Tarsus IV. Male. Bristles of female. Tarsus of hypopus Suctorial plate of hypo- pus R, sagittatae. short stout broader than long with one stiff bristle ; with five elliptic spine plates two and one-half times as long as broad; four spined, noapical hairs heteromorphic, leg III thickened ; terminal spine not sickle sha- ped ; one large and two elliptic flat spine plates six dorsal abdominal near tip, two ventral abdominal postanal terminated by long claw two inner rows of three suckers, two outer rows of one sucker, one pair anterior to plate R. hyacinthi. short, stout longer than broad R. rhizophagus short, stout longer than broad with two bristles ; with with two bristles ; with four acutely pointed five acutely pointed short spines short spines three times as long as three times as long as broad; three spined. two apical hairs broad ; three spined, two apical hairs heteromorphic, leg III homomorphic, leg III thickened ; terminal spine sickle-shaped six dorsal abdominal near tip, four sub- equal ventral abdo- minal terminated by stout sin- gle claw two longitudinal rows of three suckers, me- dian one largest, one outer row of one suc- ker, four corner suc- ers not thickened, termi" nal spine sickle-sha- ped eight dorsal abdominal near tip, four sub- equal ventral abdo- minal The various species of the genus Rhizoglyphus are noted for their root- or bulb-eating propensity. The cosmopolitan species, R. Jiyacinthi, is a serious pest to a great number of cultivated bulbs (Michael 1903). Tt was at first thought that this mite was merely a saprophyte or at most a parasite of pathological tissues. But the recurrent finding of the creature in otherwise healthy bulbs has caused the acarologist to dis- card that view and to consider it as a primary parasite. R. sagittatae is not a parasite of the root or underground stem of Balsamorrhisa sagittata. It is, on the contrary, always above ground, securing its nourishment from the aerial por- tion of the plant at the season when the leaves are succulent and juicy. It was even found on young seedlings some twenty to forty days old, taken from the field. R. sagittatae is Vol. Xxix | ENTOMOI.MC.ICAJ, NEWS 339 not an internal borer, channeling subdermal passageways, as R. hyacinthi is. Moreover, this species has always been found as a parasite on an indigenous plant, common to the Western uplands, while other rhizoglyphids described from this con- tinent have been found on cultivated roots and bulbs, usually imported stock. This fact argues favorably for the indi- geneity of R. sagiltatae. Records of Rhizoglyphus species as human parasites are not wanting. Dalgetty (1901) has shown that a dermatitis of coolies in the Indian tea fields during the wet season is at- tributable to a mite which has been designated as Rhizoglyphus parasiticus. However, the presence of a sessile caroncle, the lack of a distinct suture between cephalothorax and abdomen, the absence of heteromorphic males, and the plumose struc- ture of some of the spines, practically exclude this species from the genus Rhisoglyphus. Similar records in the United States (Pepper, Schnauss and Smith 1908) attribute cases of intestinal dysentery to a mite "either identical with or more probably a closely related species to Rhisoglyphus parasiticus Dalgetty." While the latter acarinid more nearly conforms to the tenus Rhizoglyphus, the data are too meagre to assign it to a definite systematic position. On the whole, true parasit- ism of Rhisoglyphus in man is questionable and not at all a settled fact. SUMMARY. 1. A new Tyroglyphid, Rhizoglyphus sagittatac, is de- scribed from western Montana. It is closely related to R. rhisophagus and R. hyacinthi, but is distinguished by the el- liptic plate-like appendage spines and the paucity of bristles on the appendages. 2. The mite is superficially parasitic on the aerial portions of an indigenous plant of the western range, Balsamorrliiza sagittata. 3. The study of this species tends to show a wide diversity of the genus Rhizoglyphus. 34O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 LITERATURE CITED. BANKS. N. 1906. A Revision of the Tyroglyphidae of the United States. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 13. 34 pp., 6 pi. COOLEY, R. A. 1914. Eleventh Annual Report of the State Ento- mologist of Montana. Bull. Mont. Agr. Coll. Exp. Sta., No. 98. 13 PP- DALGETTY, A. B. 1901. Water-itch, or Sore Feet of Coolies. Jour. Trop. Med., 4; 73-77; I pi. MICHAEL, A. D. 1903. British Tyroglyphidae. II. London. 183 pp., 20 pi. PEPPER, W., SCHNAUSS, F. S., AND SMITH, A. J. 1908. Transient Parasitism in Man by a Species of Rhizoglyphus. Univ. Penn. Med. Bull., 21 : 274-277. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIX. All the figures are of Rhizoglyphus sagittatac. Fig. i— Adult female, X 140. Fig. 5 — Egg, X 180. Fig. 2 — Hypopus, X 140. Fig. 6— Appendage III of male, Fig. 3 — Appendage III of female, X 440. X 440. Fig. 7 — Posterior ventrum of male. Fig. 4 — Appendage I of female, Fig. 8— Prehypopid palpus, X 140. X 440. Fig. 9 — Palpus, adult female, X 440. Proterandry and Flight of Bees (Hym.)- By CHARLES ROBERTSON, Carlinville, Illinois. That bees are proterandrous, the males appearing before the females, seems to be well known.1 But it does not seem to be so well known, if at all, that the females fly a consider- able time after the males disappear. In the Bombidae and Halictidae, except Proteraner, the females live all winter and come out in the spring. They belong to the males which pre- ceded them in the fall before. But these two families are excluded here on account of the difficulty in distinguishing the broods. Of 229 other local bees 184 (80.3 per cent.) are known in both sexes. As far as observed, they begin and end their flight as follows: JSee Loew, "Blumenbesuch von Insekten an Freilandpflanzen," /: 68, note 2. 1884. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 34! Begin Males and Males females Females first together first 69.0 12.5 18.5 End Males and Females females Alales last together last 87.5 2.1 10.3 The females are first in only 18.5 per cent, of the cases and the males last in only 10.3 per cent. The males were observed first in 127 cases and the females last in 161. This accords with the probabilities, for the males average 9.6 days before the females, while the females average 22 days later than the males. In 112 cases, 60.8 per cent, of those in which both sexes are known, the males are first and the females last. Of these 109 are taken as about correct, and normal, and three are ex- cluded here as incomplete. The following table gives the num- ber of normal species in each group and the average number of days under each heading: Nor- Males Females Spe- mal precede follow Males Females cies Prosopis 3 11.3 21.0 143.0 152.6 164.0 Colletcs 7 6.5 15.5 63.7 72.7 79.2 Andrenidae 16 6.8 22.5 33.6 49.4 56.2 Other short-tongued bees 7 6.0 26.1 29.8 50.0 56.0 Osmiinae 10 10.6 28.0 44.3 61.7 72.3 Megachilinae 10 6.5 25.1 63.8 82.4 88.9 Coelioxys 4 12.2 20.2 65.5 73.5 85.7 Stelididae 3 18.0 21.3 53.6 57.0 75.0 Nomadidae 1 1 9.1 22.2 35.8 49.0 58.0 Epeolidae and Melectidae ... 11 10.0 17.5 47.4 55.0 65.0 Tctralonia 4 3-7 14-0 37-2 47-5 51-2 Other Euceridae 18 10.8 12.1 59.0 60.2 71.1 Other long-tongued bees 5 10.4 17.8 58.4 65.8 76.2 Total 109 8.9 20.1 50.8 62.0 71.1 The males fly a shorter time before the females appear than the females do after the males disappear, and conse- quently have a shorter flight. In 109 cases there are only 27 342 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 exceptions. But as regards the exceptions, the presumption is that the observations are incomplete. Accordingly the average flight given in the table is too short for the females and the species. As a rule the early groups have a shorter flight than the late ones : the Andrenidae than the Panurgidae, the Osmiinae than the Megachilinae, Nomadidae than other Melectoidea, Tetralonia than other Puceridae. But Prosopls has a longer flight than Collctcs, and the Dasygastrae, although earlier, have a longer flight than the other long-tongued bees. In the case of 72 Pygidialia : 23 short-tongued species have an early maximum and average 56.1 days; 27 long-tongued hosts have a late maximum and average 68.0 days ; while 22 long-tongued inquilines average 61.6 days. In the case in which the inquilines are known they have a shorter flight than their hosts. As regards their beginning, the Andrenidae are quite pe- culiar, so that they essentially modify the general result. Com- pare : Begin Males and Males females Females first . together first Total Andrenidae 42.5 30.0 27.5 4° Other bees 76.3 7-6 15.9 H4 .According to Schmiedeknecht (Loew /. r.) Andrena clark- clla is proterogynous. According to my observations the local species -fall into the following three sets: Protcrandrous ; Andrena erythronii, salicacea, sayi, erythrogastra, pruni, dunningii, geranii, Ptilandrena g. maculati, Opandrena cressonii, Trachandrena forbesii, rugosa, crataegi, Pterandrena krigiana, rud- beckiae, pulchella, helianthi, asteris. "Synchronous: Andrena salicis, carlini, illinoensis, nubecula, salic- taria, platyparia, Ptilandrena polemonii, Parandrena andrenoides, Opandrena personata, ziziae, Trachandrena claytoniae, Pterandrena soKdaginis. Proterogyhous: Andrena mandibularis, nasonii, Ptilandrena eri- geniae, lomelissa violae, Opandrena bipunctata, serotina, Trachandrena mariae, nuda, hippotcs, spiraeana, aliciae. 'Vol. Xkix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 343 A New Genus and Two New Species of Tettigids (Orthoptera), with a Note on Nomotettix borealis Walker. By J. L. HANCOCK, Chicago, Illinois. (Plate XX.) Two new tettigids from the southern United States herewith described, are noteworthy as representing a new genus closely allied to Neotctti.v Hancock. Rehn and Hebard recently recorded1 under the genus Neotettix another species called proavns, from Georgia and North Carolina, which properly belongs to this new genus ; so that three species, one of which might possibly be a race, are known within our borders. Of these three species, nitllisinns, from Brownsville, Texas, is selected because of its clearly defined characters, as the type of the genus, to which I have given the name Cavotettix. All three members of the genus, namely : Cavotettix nullisinus sp. nov., Cavotettix proavus Rehn and Hebard, and Cavotettix aptcrus sp. nov., are easily separated from members of the genus Neotettix. CAVOTETTIX penus nov. Somewhat resembling in general aspect the genus Neotettix Hancock in the small size, the abbreviated pronotum, and the wide and nonproduced vertex as viewed from above, but differing as follows : the body apterous or subapterous ; the median carina of the vertex more compressed ; the somewhat wider scutellate frontal costa ; in the tectate dorsum, with the median carina of the pronotum compressed-cristate. This genus is also differentiated by the broad scapular area at the sides of the pronotum ; the lateral lobes of the pronotum ' bearing but one deep and angular excavate sinus, the superior tegtninal sinus being vestigial or entirely obliterated ; the teg- mina either absent, or minute, vestigial : the wings absent or rudimentary, normally covered from view ; the first joint of the hind tarsi nearly twice the length of the second and third combined. 1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, pp. 139, 140, HH(>, jilaU- XII, Figs. 1-2. 344 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 This genus borders on the Cladonotinae, as evidenced by the widely forked scutellate frontal costa ; however, the other general characters present, perhaps, a greater leaning toward the Tettiginae. Type: Cavotetti.r nullisinus sp. nov. Cavotettix nullisinus sp. nov. (PI. XX, figs. 1, la). 9 . — Description drawn from type. Stature moderately small, above coarsely granulate-rugose, sparingly scattered with tubercles on the disc of the pronotum. Antennae short, eyes moderately small but prominent, head having the cheeks depressed below the antennae. Vertex nearly twice the width of one of the eyes, the median carina prominent, compressed and elevated above the eyes, arcuate and forming with the frontal costa a subrounded advanced profile, yet flattened in front and sub- sinuate between the eyes and below at the median ocellus ; frontal carinulae of vertex interrupted and open in front on each side next to the median carina, but outwardly curved and little compressed at the sides next to the eyes ; surface of vertex between the eyes fossulate forward and mammilate backward on each side, the occiput partly covered behind ; frontal costa widely forked, sulcate and divergent above between the eyes, widely separated and scutellate between the antennae, between the latter, and below, the rami subparallel. Pronotum with the dorsum strongly tectiform, coarsely granulate- rugose ; median carina sharply compressed, translucent, arcuate for- ward before the shoulders, longitudinally flattened over the middle area, and convex declivent toward the pronotal apex ; dorsal front margin of pronotum truncate ; lateral carinae conspicuous, the humeral angles very obtuse angulate ; hind process stout, abbreviated, scarcely reaching to the knees of the hind femora; the lateral margins gradually convergent backward to near the apex, where they more abruptly con- verge to form an acute angle with an obtuse subtruncate apex, not at all emarginate ; the anterior prozonal carinae behind the front border little elevated and parallel ; sides of pronotal process with a broad somewhat undulate scapular area, widest above the articulation of the hind femora, narrowing backward to the apex ; lateral lobes of pro- notum posteriorly bearing only one large inferior sinus, deeply angularly excavate ; the superior or tegminal sinus rudimentary, represented by a slight excavation nearly the length of the tegmina, and with a very indistinct notching forward ; posterior angles of the lateral lobes broadly rounded externally, the lateral inferior margins little dilated. Tegmina visible but very minute, the part showing narrow, and nearly twice the length of one of the eyes, but lying partly covered in the recess of the vestigial sinus ; wings rudimentary, only extending Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 345 beyond the tegmina about the length of the latter, but normally covered by the hind process. Fore femoral margins above entire, below subundulate ; middle fem- ora little compressed, margins minutely crenulate, very indistinctly undulate above and below ; hind femora robust, the superior marginal carina crenulate, terminating in a pregenital tooth but not sharp ; and an inconspicuous genicular eminence ; the outer pagina rugose granu- late, bearing on the outer face above a series of large oblique granu- late tubercles; first joint of the posterior tarsi very much longer than the second and third combined. Length of body, 9 mm.; pronotum, 7 mm.; hind femora, 5 mm. Habitat. Brownsville, Texas. (Townsend). T\f>c : 9 Brownsville, Texas, in my collection. Cavotettix apterus sp. nov. or race (Plate XX, figs. 2-2c). 9 .—Description of type. Resembling Cavotettix proavus Rehn & Hebard in the form of the vertex and wide frontal scutellum ; size slightly smaller, apterous, the hind femora more elongate ; body above granulate, slightly rugose, sparingly sprinkled with coarser granu- lations. Pronotum having the dorsum compressed, angulate produced forward over the head to the middle of the eyes ; the median carina of dorsum cristate, quite highly arcuate longitudinally, highest between the shoul- ders, and bearing small translucent punctulations when viewed against the light, such as occurs in Nomotctti.v cnmprcssus Morse; the dorsal prozonal carinae behind the anterior border nearly parallel, yet sub- convergent backward ; surface between the shoulders granulate, with no indications of elevated ridges as in proarns; lateral lobes of the pronotum with but one inferior sinus, the usual superior tegminal sinus entirely obliterated, and completely obsolete (in proarns represented by a notch, in nullisinus by a slightly wider shallow excavation) ; the scapular areas between the lateral carina and inferior margin at the sides of the pronotum substraight, very broad forward, wider than in nnllisinns, the inferior margin near the sinus dilated opposite the artic- ulation of the hind femora, from this point backward the margins of the scapular area gradually contracted to near the apex of pronotum ; the blunt apex of the latter reaching backward beyond the middle of the hind knees nearly to their apices. Tegmina and wings absent, or entirely hidden from view ; a very minute vestigial tegmen, almost hidden, appears on one side only in the male allotype. Hind femora much less robust and more elongate than in proavus, the greatest diameter forward contained over two and one-half times in the length; first joint of hind tarsi nearly twice the length of the second and third combined. 346 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 Length of the body, 9.5 mm. ; pronotum, 8.5 mm. ; hind femora, 5.5 mm. $ . — A male paratype measures : body, 8.5 mm. ; pronotum, 7.5 mm. ; hind femora, 5 mm. This form may be only a race or variety, of proavus, yet the several characters which differentiate it warrants its de- scription as a distinct species. Habitat, Clarksville, Tennessee (Blatchley). Type $ and allotype $ , Clarksville, Tennessee, in the col- lection of W. S. Blatchley. Differential Synopsis of the Species of Covotctii.v. 1 (2) Crest of pronotum moderately low ; dorsal front margin trun- cate or nearly so, partly covering occiput, but not reaching to the middle of the eyes; minute tegmina of female much longer than one of the eyes ; median carina of vertex strongly compressed and prominent; median carina of pronotum thinly cristate, arcuate and translucent forward, longitudinally lower over the middle area, Cavotettix nullisinus sp. nov. 2 (l) Crest of pronotum rather high; dorsal front margin obtuse angulate reaching over the head to the middle of the eyes. 3 (4) Hind femora distinctly elongate ; superior tegminal sinus of the lateral lobes obliterated; tegmina absent in female (or when pres- ent in male very minute, vestigial) ; wings absent; scapular area at the sides of the pronotum substraight, very broad and slightly dilated forward Cavotettix apterus sp. nov. or race. 4 (3) Hind femora moderately robust; superior tegminal sinus rep- resented by a notch; tegmina of female about as long as one of the eyes ; absent in the male ; scapular area not dilated forward, Cavotettix praams Rehn & Hebard. THE STATUS OF NOMOTETTIX BOREALIS WALKER. Some years ago when E. M. Walker1 described the species Nomotettlx borealis, I was led to believe that this species was the same as Nomvtettix sinnfrons Hancock, described ten vears before.2 After a recent reference to this species by Rehn and Hebard3 where a synopsis of borealis is again given after a study of the type, I am more than ever satisfied that borealis and sinnfrons are identical. The type of sinnfrons in my collection is from St. Anthony Park, Minnesota, while Walker's type came from the Temagami District, Ontario. ENT. NKWS, VOL. XXIX. Plate XX. 2a NEW TETTIGIDS. -HANCOCK. •\--\A, CAVOTETTIX NULLISINUS; 2-2C, C. APTERUS. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 347 According to my conclusion, without having seen the type, the name borealls falls as a synonym.4 EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX. Fig. I. Cavotettix nullisinus sp. nov. 9 . Profile view; drawn from type in the author's collection. Fig. 10. Same, dorsal aspect, head and fore part of pronotum. Fig. 2. Cavolettix aptcrus sp. nov. 9 . Profile view ; drawn from type in the collection of W. S. Blatchley. Fig. 20. Same, dorsal aspect of head and fore part of pronotum. Fig. 2b. Same, face. Fig. 2c. Same, hind leg. On a Long- Winged or Caudate Phase of Neotettix proavus Rehn and Hebard (Orth.). By HENRY Fox, Entomological Assistant, U. S. Bureau of Entomology.* In 1916 Rehn and Hebard described Neotetti.v proavus on the basis of five specimens from the southeastern United States. f It is very evident from the remarks of these authors that they had to do solely with material in which the tegmina and wings were greatly reduced and with the caudal pro- longation of the 'pronotum not exceeding the tip of the abdo- men. During the early summer of 1917 the present writer found this species not uncommon locally in wooded areas in the vicinity of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee. Most of the specimens collected at this locality, and now in the collection of the writer and of the local -field station of the Bureau, agree with the form described by Rehn and He- JCan. Ent, XLI, p. 173, 1909. ^Ent. News. p. 278. i8oQ. s Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc.. p. 127. 1916. 4 No answer was received from Dr. Walker to a letter asking for the loan of his type for examination. Very recently Blatchley received from Walker'one of his two specimens of AT. borcalis, and finds, as I have above noted, that it is the same as my slnnfrons. * Published by permission of the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology. fProc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., LXVIII, pp. 137-141. 348 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., '18 bard,' but there are two specimens in the lot which are interest- ing as representing a long-winged or caudate phase of this species. Both of these specimens are females. One is shown herewith in the accompanying figure. With this should be compared the view of a typi- cal, short-winged individual as shown in Figure i, plate XII, of Rehn and Hebard's paper already cited. It will be observed that, in marked contrast to the latter, the form figured here has the tegmina quite well developed and external in position, whereas in the typical form they are greatly reduced and concealed from view beneath the pronotum. Correlated with the presence of well-developed tegmina is the presence Neotettix proavus R. and H., long-winged phase. of a clearly defined superior sinus on the caudal margin of the lateral lobe of the pronotum. This margin is therefore clearly bisinuate in the long-winged phase. In the typical phase the superior sinus is so inconspicuous that Rehn and Hebard have ventured to describe this margin as unisinuate. Other differences between the two phases — • such as those in the degree of development of the wings and in the caudal extension of the pronotum — are evident from a glance at the figures. It is obvious that the discovery of this long-winged phase of Neotetti.r proavus necessitates some modification in the statement of the differential characters of the species as given by Rehn and Hebard in their key to the species of this genus (op. cited, p. 138). Thus, as already intimated, the assertion therein that the lateral lobes of the pronotum have the caudal margin unisinuate applies strictly only to the typical form ; Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 349 in the long-winged form this margin is clearly bisinuate, as in most Tettiginae. The further assertion in the key that the tegmina in the female are hidden under the pronotum is also true only of the typical form of the species. The last differential character mentioned in the key, namely, the strong- ly arcuate and sublamellate form of the pronotal median cari- na applies to both the typical and the long-winged form. To the mind of the present writer the most reliable and con- venient character for separating Neotettir proavns from other members of the same genus is the form of the frontal costa, which appears to be quite constant in all the specimens ex- amined and has been fully and clearly described by the authors named. The Alleged Occurrence of a Seasonal Dimorphism in the Females of Certain Species of Mealy Bugs (Hemiptera ; Coccidae). By G. F. FERRIS, Stanford University, California. It has been asserted by various authors that the females of certain species of Phcnacoccus and Pscndococcus are sea- sonally dimorphic. It is said that in these species the winter female is viviparous and possesses a smaller number of anten- nal segments than does the summer female, which is oviparous. As far as I am aware, these claims have not been questioned by any one and Brain1 has even been led into a generaliza- tion to the effect that "I am inclined to associate the smaller number of antennal segments in these cases with retarded metabolism, as this is always found in the winter forms." It is the purpose in this paper to show that in certain of these cases this alleged dimorphism does not exist. Further- more, it is the intention to question that it ever exists in this group, at least as far as any morphological features are con- cerned. We may first consider the case of Pscndococcns agrifoliae Essig, in which the evidence is sufficiently complete to leave in, C. K. The Coccidae of South Africa. In Trans. Royal Soc. S. Africa, vol. i, pt. 2. (1915). 35° ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 no room for reasonable doubt. Through the kindness of Mr. Essig I have been permitted to examine the types of this species. There are certain details in connection with these types that may be passed over, and it will suffice for my pur- pose to state that the material examined contains specimens of three species belonging to as many different genera. Of these three species, one is nothing more than that previ- ously described by Ehrhorn as Ripersia villas a. Another is a Pscudococcus that I am elsewhere describing as P. quercicolus. The third is represented only by immature specimens, but is unmistakably a species of Pnto (=Ceroputo}. The first is the "winter form," the second is the "summer form" of P. agrifoliae. The only reason that appears for regarding these as forms of the same species is the fact that they were found upon the same host. However, the two are morphologically so very different as to render it most highly improbable that they have anything to do with each other. Furthermore, the evidence obtained from observations on the life history of one of the species is sufficient to remove any doubt that might remain. P. quercicolus, the "summer form" of P. agrifoliae, is quite common on oaks in the vicinity of Stanford University, and I have followed the species closely enough to be sure that it has but one generation per year. The winter is passed in the first or second larval stage, and maturity is reached in May or June. In one instance I have found mature females in February, but the conditions here were unique. The speci- mens were found beneath the bark in old and nearly over- grown borer workings in company with ants. No difference appears between these individuals and those taken in the sum- mer. Essig further states2 that "It is very probable that the same dimorphic forms exist in Pseudococciis artcuiisiae." The reasons for this assumption are not given. I have examined the types of this species, also, and find that it is identical with Erium lichtcnsioides (Ckll.), a species that I know to have 2Essig, E. O. Pomona Col. Jn. Ent. & Zool., vol. 2, p. 148. (1910). Vol. XXl'x] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 351 but one generation per year, at least in the vicinity of Stanford University. There is upon the same host a species of Pseudo- coccus (at present undetermined), and I suspect that this is the reason for Essig's statement. However, there is no more reason to assume that this is a form of E. lichtcnsioldes than to assume that the latter is a form of Phenacoccus artemi- siae. King has recorded an apparent case of such seasonal di- morphism in connection with his original description of Phena- coccus acericola. He states that specimens of this species taken in the summer had nine-segmented antennae, while speci- mens taken in the autumn had eight-segmented antennae. It happens that a species of Pscudococcus. that I identify as P. comstocki (Kuwana), occurs on maple in the eastern states, and there is every possibility that confusion has resulted from this. The last case that I shall consider (chronologically it is the first) is that of Pscudococcus trifolii (Forbes). This was described from a form with seven-segmented antennae. Later authors have regarded a form with eight-segmented antennae as the "summer form" of this species. The whole matter has been summed up by Forbes3, and consequently I need not review the literature here. Through the kindness of Prof. Forbes I have had the privilege of examining one of the origi- nal co-types of this species and am, therefore, in a position to form some conclusions in regard to the matter. The species described by Forbes proves to have six or seven segments in the antennae and to have but one pair of cerarii. These cerarii are' on the anal lobes, and each contains two conical spines and two or three small setae which are sur- rounded by many scattered pores. The descriptions of the "summer form" are all insufficient to permit the definite recog- nition of the species, but there arc certain points of value in which all agree and which may be summed up somewhat as follows: "A species with from fifteen to seventeen pairs of waxy tassels; with a crowded group of pores about the anal 3Forbes, S. A. Kept State Ent. 111., vol. ->?. pp. "7-1-23- 09°9)- 352 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 lobe cerarii, adult female with 8-segmented antennae." In other words, it is a species with 15-17 pairs of cerarii (for that is what the tassels mean) ; a perfectly typical species of Psen- dococcns. The only evidence that I have been able to find in the litera- ture tending to indicate that these may be forms of the same species is the fact that they occur upon the same host, and this I cannot consider to carry any weight whatsoever. A care- ful perusal of the paper by G. C. Davis4, who appears to have been responsible for the original assumption that these are forms of the same species, indicates that he did not have the species described by Forbes. Neither is there any evidence that any one has actually reared the one form from the other in a carefully controlled experiment. It does appear that the species examined by Davis was oviparous at one season of the year and viviparous at another, but this is not, after all, a very great difference. However, it does not appear that Davis' experiment was sufficiently well controlled to demon- strate even this beyond question. The morphological evidence alone is sufficient to indicate that here again two entirely distinct species have been con- fused. As I have already noted, the description of this "sum- mer form" is insufficient to permit the definite determination of the species, but it is possible that this is nothing more than Pscudococcus maritimus (Ehrh.). This is a species that was originally described from California, where it is found upon an extremely wide range of hosts, but which occurs through- out the United States. - 1 have seen specimens from wild cherry in New York, from osage orange and sycamore in Ohio and from clover in Oregon, as well as from numerous hosts in California. It is practically certain that this is the species de- scribed by Hollinger as P. omniverae from numerous hosts in Missouri. The various descriptions of P. trifolii all agree in speaking of the mass of pores about the anal cerarii, and this is a very characteristic feature of P. maritimus. If my sur- mise be correct, there remains no doubt that this is not a di- morph of the original trifolii, for its life history is well enough known, and it has never been suspected of any irregularities. It is to be hoped that the matter may soon be so effectually cleared up that no possible doubt mav remain. The difficul- ties in the way of studying the mealy bugs are sufficient with- out the interpolation of any that are wholly imaginary. 4Davis, G. C. Michigan Ag. Exp. Station, Bull. 116, pp. 58-60. (1804). ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER, 1918. Entomology in Central Europe. Recent military and political events in En rope raise one's hopes that the end of man's violent attack on the life of his own species is approaching and that among the blessings of peace may be a renewed cultivation of the constructive sciences. How thoroughly depressed entomology and, doubtless, other fields of study appear to those in Central Europe may be seen from the following extracts from letters from a correspondent in a neutral country, written the past summer. I have fallen into a kind of apathy regarding almost everything in connection with my foreign correspondents. This is part of a general mental disposition, prevailing in myself (and in many others!); one tries to do his daily work, to look for some distraction and comfort in direct contact with Nature (who is not changed) and leave the rest to kismet. May this unhappy condition change before it becomes un- changeable or worse ! I think I am not mistaken if I note the progressive atrophy of scien- tific work, here and elsewhere, as far as I can see ; no doubt it would be superficial to see the reason for this phenomenon in want of paper, increased expense for printing, want of working hands: all these things have their share, but the principal reason is the condition of minds. You" may scarcely imagine how much the condition of all our scien- tific periodicals — 1 believe not only here but all over Europe — is dis- couraging [to] writing any article of some length. They can neither live nor die, but I am afraid the prognostic is rather for death. The leading medical papers alone seem to make exception, the one 1 am subscribing [to] for more than thirtv years remains on a remarkably high standard and is even positively improved by the reduction of space. Epidemiology appears to be the branch of SCUMH-C that has taken most profit from the common disaster of all; also a si?/ninn tcniporis. — * Notes and Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. Collecting Notes from California (Lepid.). Dr. Holland and Prof. Comstock both insist that all Heterocera rest with wings spread flat, or rolled— never held erect in butterfly fashion. Out here we have several small Cjeometers (Hydriomena?) that often rest in true butterfly stvle, with wings erect, but they also frequently rest with outspread wings. Rut has anyone ever seen I:crnaldclla fintctaria C,. & R., resting with wings flattened out? T have taken dozens at light here in the past three vears. and seen hundreds of specimens, and have yet to see one resting in moth-fashion. The wings are always held erect and tightly together. 353 354 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 Possibly because of the evenly distributed rains of that year, this country swarmed with entomological prizes in the spring of 1915. The following usually uncommon moths were all abundant at light : Fernal- dclla fimetaria G. & R., Syneda howlandi Grote, Triocnemis saporis Grote, Trochoclea antica Smith, Fishca yoscmitae Grote, Copicucullia propinqua Smith. In 1916 and 1917 I failed to take a single specimen of any of the above named, although collecting at the same locality, and all other sorts were comparatively scarce. This year there again appears to be an abundance of insect life. This spring I captured a Papilio rutnlus minus both tails. These had not been broken off, but the hind wings were apparently deformed, being fluted and crimped at the anal angle, with a yellow half-moon where the tail should have been. — W. H. IRELAND, Maricopa, California. Key to Eastern Species of Rhyphus (Dip.). As there is no key giving the differential characters of the three species of Rhyphus occurring in the northeastern states, I submit the following. It is based on the study of a rather large series of specimens. a. Basal section of Mz as long as, or longer than, the median cross- vein ; i. e., the bases of the three veins arising from the apex of the discal cell about equidistant from each other. b. Wing with a distinct yellowish spot near the middle of the costal margin ; subapical hyaline spots sharply denned ; eyes of male holoptic ; median dorsal vitta geminate ; i. e., divided by a slender gray line, more distinct in the female altcrnatus Say. bb. Yellow and hyaline spots less distinct and more diffuse ; eyes of both sexes dichoptic ; median dorsal vitta only indistinctly, if at all, geminate fcnestralis Scopoli ao. Basal section of A/2 much shorter than the median cross-vein ; eyes of male holoptic ; no yellow spot near middle of costal margin. punctatus Fabr. — W. J. BAERG, Ithaca, New York. Notes on Papilio indra Reakirt (Lep.). According to most accounts, Papilio indra occurs only at high eleva- tions, around 10,000 feet. However, at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, in Washington, at an altitude of only 580 feet, I have taken 40 in one day, nearly all of them torn, owing to the strong north wind and their habit of flying among the hard sage brush and grease-wood. They are water-loving and seem to take to water imme- diately after transforming, as the only perfect ones were secured at the edges of puddles. They are strong fliers, and when aroused are gone for good. The food-plant of indra is supposed to be Artemisia dracunculoides. I believe, however, that in the locality mentioned, they feed on an umbelliferous plant, a wild parsley, which grows on Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 355 high, dry, sandy hillsides and dies down by the end of May. P. indra occurs and disappears simultaneously with it. I have noticed this during five seasons of collecting. During a light shower I took 2 5 on it, notwithstanding large sage brush being all around to hide in. P. zolicaon feeds on the same plant. The larva of zolicaon is orange and black, and I have found larvae almost entirely black, which I took to be P. indra. I had them pupate, but a small Ichneumon, about 2 mm. long, attacked the pupae and destroyed them, along with pupae of rntulus, delimits, bnicci. ciirymcdon and zolicann. all of which are found there. The pupae are nearly black, while that of zolicaon is a light brown. On July 20, 1916, I took one P. indra on Foggy Dew Creek, Okanogan County, Washington, at an elevation of about 2,000 feet, also at the same place a Parnassius and several Ocncis gigas. The male indra seems to prefer the tops of the foothills, where it is found in company with brucei and zolicaon, while what females I took were found at the water edge and low canyons. It is characteristic that indra when aroused always flies uphill. All my indra were taken from April 20 to May 25, by which time only old specimens are found. P. brucei in the same place raises 2-3 broods a season, but its food plant grows on irrigation ditches and is green all summer. The larva of brucei will eat the wild parsley, but zolicaon and what I believe to be indra will not eat the food plant of brucei, but starve instead. In the same region I took a hybrid of B. lorquini and B. disippus, which is in the collection of the American Entomological Society. — J. C. HOPFINGER, Bay City, Texas. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico Is given at end of title, within brackets. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, "Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. London, Canada. 6 — Journal, New York Entomological Society. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 10 — 356 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'l8 Nature, London. 50 — Proceedings, U. S. National Museum, Wash- ington, D. C. 68 — Science, Lancaster, Pa. 87 — Bulletin, Societe En- tomologique de France, Paris. 102 — Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington. 143 — Ohio Journal of Science, Columbus, Ohio. 153 — Bulletin, The American Museum of Natural History, New York. 238 — Anales, Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires. 272 — Memorias, Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Bar- celona. 273 — Proceedings, Royal Society of Edinburgh. 285 — Na- ture Study Review, Ithaca, N. Y. 322 — Journal of Morphology, Philadelphia. 411 — Bulletin, The Brooklyn Entomological Society, Brooklyn, N. Y. 438 — Bulletin, Illinois State Laboratory of Nat- ural History, Urbana. 447 — Journal of Agricultural Research, Washington, D. C. 490 — The Journal of Parasitology, LTrbana, Illi- nois. 540 — The Lepidopterist, Salem, Mass. 548 — Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 556 — Zoological Society Bulletin, New York. GENERAL SUBJECT. Beebe, W.— Insect tyrants. 556, xxi, 1670-73. Blackmore, E. H. — Rare and uncommon insects taken in British Columbia during 1917 (Rept. Provincial Mus. Nat. Hist., Br. Columbia, 1917, pp. 11-13). Crampton, G. C. — Probable ances- tors of insects and myriapods. 4, 1918, 285-8. Glaser, R. W. — • The polyhedral virus of insects with a theoretical consideration of filterable viruses generally. 68, xlviii, 301-:?. Harrington, W. H. —Entomological collections of. 4, 1918, 292. Walsingham, Lord —German naturalists and nomenclature. 10, cii, 4. ARACHNIDA, ETC. Barrows, W. M.— A list of Ohio spiders. 143, xviii, 297-318. Dunn, L. H. — The tick as a possible agent in the collocation of the eggs of Dermatobia hominis. 490, iv, 154-8. Simon, E. — Notes stir la synonymic de plusieurs araignees de la famille des Clubionidae. 87, 1918, 201-2. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Longinos Navas, R. P.— Algunos insec- tos neuropteros de la Argentina. 548, iv, SO-89. Rich, S. G. — The gill-chamber of dragonfly nymphs. 322, xxxi, 317-49. Folsom, J. W. — A new Isotoma of the snow fauna. 4, 1918. 291-2. Kennedy, C. H. — New sps. [5] of Odonata from the south- western U. S. 4, 1918, 256-61; 297-300. Longinos Navas, R. P.— Neuropteros nucvos o poco conocidos [1 new]. 272, xiv, 339-66. ORTHOPTERA. Davis, W. T. — Introduction of palaearctic preying mantids into the north Atlantic states. 411, xiii, 73-6. Howard, L. O. — Schistocerca tartarica taken at sea. 102, xix, 77. Lynch Arribalzaga, E. — La langosta voladora de Columbia y Vene- zuela. 548, iv, 49. McAtee & Caudell— First list of the Dermaptera Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 357 and Orthoptera of Plummers Island, Maryland, and vicinity. 102, xix, 100-22. Rehn & Hebard — Study of the N. A. Eumastacinae (Acrididae) [2 n. sps.l. 2, xliv. 223-50. HEMIPTERA. Baker, A. C.— Our birch Symydobius distinct from the European (Aphididae). 4, 1918, 318-20. Drake, C. J.— The N. A. species of Teleonemia occurring north of Mexico [3 new]. 143, xviii, 323-32. Notes on N. Am. Tingidae [2 new]. 411, xiii, 86-8. Lizer, C. — I'sylla erythrinae n. sp. (S. A.). 238, Ixxxv, 307-10. Stevens, H. M. — Contribution to the knowledge of the family Chermesidae. I. — Biology of the Chermes of spruce and larch and their relation to forestry. 273, xxxvii, 356-81. Barber, H. G. — Concerning Lygaeidae. — No. 2. [12 new]. 6, xxvi, 49-60. Knight, H. H. — Genus Sericophanes with descriptions of two n. sps. (Miridae). 411, xiii, 80-3. (See Drake above.) LEPIDOPTTRA. Ainslie, G. G.— Color variation in pupae of Terias nicippe. 102, xix, TS. Bonniwell, J. G. — Notes on collecting in Florida. 540, ii, 57-00. Blackmore, E. H.— New British Colum- bia L. (Rept. Prov. Mus. Xat. Hist., Br. Columbia, for 1917, pp. 14- 15). Davis, W. T. — A moth, Anacampsis innocuella, at Cold Spring, Long Island, N. Y. 6, xxvi, 111-12. Marlatt, C. L. — The origin of the pink boll worm. 68, xlviii, 309-1:2. Mayor, C. M. — Sugaring. 9, 1918, 188-90. Young, B. P. — Ecological notes on the spring can- ker worm (Paleacrita vernata). 4, 1918, 267-80. Zesch, A. — Study- ing butterflies. 285, xiv, 242-8. Beutenmuller, W. — Descriptions of new Catocalae [6 new]. 540, ii, 60-3 (cont.). Ely, C. R. — Revision of the N. A. Gracilariidae from the standpoint of venation [3 n. gen.]. 102, xix, 29-77. Hein- rich, C. — A new Coleophora injurious to apple in California. A note on the tortricid genitalia. 102, xix, 135-6; 137-8. Swett, L. W. — Geometrid notes — Hydriomena [1 ne\v|. 4, 1918, 293-6. DIPTERA. Brethes, J. — Description d'une nouvelle "Dexiinae" argentine. 548, iv, 115. Greene, C. T. — Contribution to the biology of N. A. Diptera. 102, xix, 146-61. Malloch, J. R. — Partial key to the genus Agromyza — IV. 4, 1918, 315-18. Snyder, T. E. — A pecu- liar habit of a horsefly (Tabanus americanus) in the Florida ever- glades. 102, xix, 141-6. Aldrich, J. M. — Two new Hydrotaeas (Anthomyiidae). 4, 191S, 311-14. Hine, J. S. — Descriptions of seven species of Asilus. 143, xviii, 319-3:.':.'. Malloch, J. R. — A new No. Am. species of Antli •• 358 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 myiidae. 4, 1918, 310. An undescribed N. Am. species of Hydro- taea (Anthomyiidae). 411, xiii, 93-4. Smith, H. E. — Notes on N. A. Tachnidae, including the description of one new genus. 102, xix, 122-6. Sturtevant, A. H. — Synopsis of the nearctic species of the genus Drosophila [1 new sp.]. 153, xxxviii, 441-46. Walton, W. R. — Three new tachinid parasites of Eleodes. 102, xix, 22-5. COLEOPTERA. Barber, H. S.— Notes and descriptions of some orchid weevils. 102, xix, 12-22. Beutenmuller, W. — Notes on the Cychrus found in the Black Mts., No. Carolina. 411, xiii, 89-90. Fisher, W. S. — A new sp. of longicorn beetle infesting cowpeas from Mexico. 102, xix, 173-4. Frers, A. G. — Metamorfosis de Tro- goderma pectinicornis (Dermestidae). 548, iv, 90-4. Greene, G. M. — A rare Coleoptera paper of T. W. Harris. 2, xliv, 251-61. d'Orchymont, A. — Note preliminaire sur la nervation alaire des C. 87, 1918, 170-2. Robertson, C. — Bees and Strepsiptera. 411, xiii, 83-5. Woodruff, L. B.- -Note on Cremastochilus. 6, xxvi, 110-11. Hyslop, J. A. — A new genus (Perissarthron) of Elateridae, and a revision of the American Elateridae of the genus Pyrophorus, with descriptions of [3] n. sps. Elaterid genus Oistus of Candeze [1 new]. 102, xix, 1-12; 126-8. Pierce, W. D.— The comparative morphology of the order Strepsiptera together with records and descriptions of insects. 50, liv, 391-501. Nicolay & Weiss — A re- view of the genus Buprestis in No. America [2 new]. 6, xxvi, 75- 109. Schwarz & Barber — Two new hydrophilid beetles. 102, xix, 129-35. HYMENOPTERA. Beebe, W.— (See under General). Burke, H. E.— Oryssus is parasitic. 102, xix, S7-9. CockereU, T. D. A.— The crimson Augochlora bees. 9, 1918, 211. Cushman, R. A.— Notes on the biology of Schizonotus sieboldii. A much described ichneumonid and its systematic position. 102, xix, 128-29; 162-5. Gallardo, A. — Hormigas dolicoderinas de los Andes de Mendoza. 548, iv, 28-31. Hall, W. B. — Notes on the immature stages of Hemi- taxonus multicinctus. 102, xix, 28. Holmberg, E. L. — Suplemento I a las especies argentinas de Coelioxys. 548, iv, 1-13. Middleton, W. — Notes on the larvae of some Cephidae. 102, xix, 175-9. Muese- beck, C. F. W.-— Two important introduced parasites of the brown- tail moth. 447, xiv, 191-206. Robertson, C. — How Emphor drinks. 4, 1918, 320. Bees and Strepsiptera. 411, xiii, 83-5. Rohwer, S. A. —American sps. of the genus Cephus. 102, xix, 139-41. Santschi, F. — Sous-genres et synonymies de Cremastogaster. 87, 1918, 182-5. Sladen, F. W. L. — Pollination of alfalfa by bees of the genus Me- gachile. Table of Canadian species of the latimanus group. 4, Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 359 1918, 301-4. Thompson, C. B. — Dual queens in a colony of honey bees. 68, xlviii, 294-5. BeutenmuJler, W. — New species [4] of Rhodites from Oregon. 4, 1918, 305-9. Crawford, J. C.— [Ten] new H. 102, xix, 165-72. Cushman, R. A. — Two new chalcids from the seeds of Amelanchier. 102, xix, 79-86. Malloch, J. R. — North Am. species of the genus Tiphia in the collection of the Illinois natural history survey ['21 new]. 438, xiii, 1-24. Rohwer & Cushman — Idiogastra, a new sub- order of H., with notes on the immature stages of Oryssus. 102, xix, 89-99. Doings of Societies. Entomological Section of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Meeting of May 23, 1918. Director Philip Laurent presiding, twelve persons present. Lepidoptera.- Dr. P. W. Whiting, of the University of Pennsyl- vania, made an interesting communication on his genetic researches with the common flour or grain moth, Epkcstia kuhni^lla. He found that there was quite an extension in the hatching of a single laying over a period varying from two to three months. The moth in its dif- ferent stages is verv susceptible to temperature and humidity, the best results in the rearing being obtained in a high temperature and humid- ity ranging near go per cent. There were three distinct types found in the course of breeding: a typical, nearly uniformly grayish brown form, a "black-shouldered" form having black areas at the bases and apices of the primaries, and an entirely black form. The degree of development of the adult mouth parts varied considerably, in some cases being almost wanting. There were also some noticeable malfor- mations in the genitalia, and a few cases of intersexes were noticed. The ravages of a coccidian, a protozoan parasite, which proved very destructive among the larvae, wiping out whole colonies, necessitated thorough sterilization of the apparatus and media. Another parasite of the larva was a hymenopteron, a species of Habrobracon, and the study of its life history and variations gave some very interesting re- sults. The communication was illustrated by drawings and series of the bred moth material. Diptera.- Mr. Hornig exhibited specimens of Aedcs, sqttainiiier Coq. as a new record for Philadelphia. He stated that two to three days elapse between emergence and the first feeding. He also mentioned rinding some eggs of A. triscnitus in moist dirt, not water, from a crotch of a tree, a medium in which he could not imagine the larvae could live. — E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. 360 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 Feldman Collecting Social. Meeting of June IQ, 1918, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 Stew- art Street, Philadelphia; all the members (thirteen) present. President H. W. Wenzel in the chair. Lepidoptera.— Mr. Huntington said he had been troubled by many clothes moths in his bedroom and was at a loss to find where they bred as he had examined all the clothes in wardrobe and chiffonier, but finally discovered they were breeding in the felt in the heels of his shoes, having completely eaten the pads from several pairs of shoes. Mr. Haimbach recorded a single specimen of Nacophora qucrnaria S. and A., which he collected on his place at Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, VI-3-i8. Coleoptera. — Mr. Laurent exhibited a series of Ncoclytus crythro- ccphalus Fabr. as well as a section from the trunk of a nine-inch per- simmon tree showing the borings made by the larvae of this beetle. From a twelve-inch log cut from the trunk of the tree eighty-one speci- mens emerged from May loth to June 3rd. The greatest number to appear in one day was on May 21 st, when eighteen beetles emerged. Previously he had bred this species from a three and one-half-inch limb of an English walnut, where they had bored through the entire limb, but in this case only the sap wood was attacked. Mr. H. W. Wenzel said insect life about here seems to be scarce this year, specially good material, and that he is specializing in Elateridae this season, having so far turned up twelve species of Melanotus. Recorded the following Coleoptera collected by H. A. Wenzel and himself: Castle Rock, Penn- sylvania, V-IQ: Lndius (Corymbitcs} tarsalis Melsh. on willow and young walnut, L. (C.) hamatus Say on hickory, Elatcr htcluosus LeC. on willow, their first record, and Lcptura nnitabU's Newm. on hickory, also their first record; Somers Point, New Jersey, V-26: Dicaclus pur- puratus Bon., Typophorus 6-notatns Say on cedar, also several species of Elateridac ; Broomall, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, VI-2: six species of Melanotus, Nothodcs ditbitans LeC., their first record, and Sapcrda puncticollis Say; Millville, New Jersey, VI-8: Aneflomorpha (Elaphidion') aculcatum LeC., Hclops cistcloidcs Germ, (their record for this latter species last year was VII-I5), Cinyra gracilipcs Melsh. on oak and Goes dcbilis LeC. ; Ardmore Junction, Pennsylvania, VI-i6, on elder blooms: four species of Lcplura, lbic, ;>!., 1918) LS 782.— Malloch (J. R.).— Diptera from the southwestern U. S. Part IV. Anthomyiidae. (New sps.]. (Trans., 44, 263-319, pi., 1918) 95 HYMENOPTERA. 2097.— Cockerell (T. D. A.).— A remarkable new bee of the genus Oxaea. (Ent. 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No. 4 (Coleop. ). 380 Schaus — A New Agrias from Guate- mala (NymphaliHae, Lep.) 387 Me Atee— Vaporous Discharge bv Ani- somorpha buprestoides (Orthop- tera : Phasmidae 388 Editorial— Rules and Suggestions for our Contributors Parshlev— Bibliography of the North American Hemipt'era in Prepara- tion Entomological Collections of the late W. H. Harrington A New List of Coleoptera of N. Amer. Huguenin — Early appearance of I.v- caena antiacis and xerxes (Lepid.) in 1917 The Annual Meetings of Societies in Convocation Week Entomological Literature Review of Bequaert : A Revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo Obituary— John W. Bradlev, Vernon King. David Ernest Lantz, Freder- ick Knab, V. A. E. Daecke and Stuart C. Vina! 3«9 39' 392 392 393 394 397 400 Miscellaneous Studies in the Family Aphididae (Hem., Horn.).1 By ALBERT F. SWAIN, University of California, Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. During the writer's study of the California Aphididae sev- eral questions relating to the identity and synonymy of various genera and species have arisen. A few of these questions are discussed and the writer's conclusions given herewith. There is always present the question as to the proper limita- tions of genera, which oftentimes is difficult to decide. As a general rule, the writer does not believe in the formation of a vast number of genera on slight structural diftVn'nces. How- ever, there are included in some genera species of such widely different characters that, although a specific determination may 1 Paper No. 50— University of California, Graduate School of Trop- ical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. " At 362 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 be readily accomplished, a generic determination is quite diffi- cult. The genus ApJiis Linn., as understood by American aphidologists, is an example of this. Macrosiphum Passerini is another. Occasionally one finds a species that does not fit into any genus, or that will fall into any one of a number of genera, according to which table is used for the determination. It is far simpler, and in the writer's opinion better, in such a case, to describe a new genus for that species. I. THE GENUS MACROSIPHON FELLA DEI, GUERCIO. In 1911 Del Guercio2 described the genus Macrosiphoniella, designating as the type species, Macrosiphum atnim (Ferr.). The following species he also placed in this genus : Siphono- phora absinthii Koch, Siphonophora artonisiae Pass.3 (tana- cctaria Koch), Aphis cainpanulac Kalt., Macros! phoniella chrysanthenii Del Guer., Siphonophora linariae Koch, 5\ littca Buckton, Aphis millcfolii Fabr., A. solani Walker and A. I'iciac Kalt. This genus is quite similar to Macrosiphum Pass., except that the cornicles are not considerably longer than the cauda ; in fact they are oftentimes shorter. Del Guercio separates it from Macrosiphum Pass, arid Meyoura Buckt. by the following key: "Sifoni corti presso a poco della lunghezza della codetta: "Sifoni distentamente clavati. .Mcgoura Buckton. "Sifoni cilindrici, piu o meno allargati, talvolta, all base Macrosiphoniella Del Guer. 2 Del Guercio, A. Redia 7: 331-333. 1911. 3 Theobald (Jour. Econ. Biol., 8: 71. 1913.) credits this species to Boyer de Fonscolombe, and from his description it would certainly fit into this genus. Wilson (Trans. Amer. Knt. Soc., 41 • 97. 1915) describes a species from Artemisia in Oregon under this name. He places S. frigidac Oestlund as a synonym. Tt is probable that he had Oestlund's species, but he could not have had this one, for in his material the cornicles were fully twice as long as the cauda. The measurements were: cornicles 0.73 mm., cauda 0.30 mm. (alate); cornicles 0.52 mm., cauda 0.27 mm. (aptera). Therefore Siphonophora frigidac Oestlund is distinct and belongs to the genus Macrosiphum Pass., while S. artcmisiac Fonsc. belongs to the genus Macrosiphoniella Del Guer. The latter species has, to date, never been reported from America. Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XK\YS. 363 "Sifoni lunghi o lunghissimi, sempre molto piu lunghi della codetta. .Ma-crosiphnm Passerini." The species in this genus have heretofore been considered as belonging to Macrosiphum, but the writer is in full accord with Del Guercio in placing them in a distinct genus. The question was brought to the writer's attention on taking specimens of M. sanbornii Gillette on chrysanthemums at Stan- ford University and in Riverside. This species cannot very well be placed in the genus Macrosiphum because of the short bottle-shaped cornicles which are not longer than the cauda (Text fig. i). It does fit the genus Macrosiphoniella of Del Guercio, however. Van der Goot4 adds another species, M. citricola v.d.G., to this genus, making a total of twelve species. Of these, ten occur in Europe, two in Australasia, and one in America. II. THE GENUS SIPHONATROPIIIA NOV. GEN. The writer has recently described an aphid from Monterey and Guadalupe cypress under the name of Ccrosipha cuprcssi Swain.5 At that time he was doubtful as to its generic posi- tion, so placed it provisionally in Cerosipha. Since then he has had opportunity to study it further and has come to the con- clusion that it does not fit into any described genus. Conse- quently he proposes a new genus for the species, naming it Siphonatrophla (from its atrophied cornicles). Below is a brief description of the genus. Body of alate small and of the shape of Aphis, but the body of the apterae with a very swollen and convex abdomen. Fore- head flat and without frontal protuberance. Antennae short, scarcely reaching to the abdomen, five- segmented, and without antennal tubercles. Segments three and five subequal, and the base and spur of five subequal. Body without lateral tubercles 1 Van der Goot, P. Zur Kcnntniss der Blattlause Java's. Contrih. a la Fauna des Indes Neerlandaises, i : 34. 1917. 5 Swain, A. F. New .Ipliididac from California. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 44: 19-22. 1918. 364 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 on prothorax or abdomen. Legs normal in alates, but short and stout in apterae. Cornicles merely pores, with the opening broader than long, slightly flanged near the mouth. Cauda of alates long and ensiform or triangular, of apterae short and conical. Anal plate distinct and fairly conspicuous, broadly rounded. Rudimentary gonapophyses two. Wings long and slender, being much longer than the body, and with an Aphis- like venation, in which the second branch of the third discoidal is nearer to the tip of the wing than to the base of the first branch. Type: Cerosipha cit'prcssi Swain, on Cuprcssiis guadalu- pensis and C. macrocarpa, Riverside and San Diego counties, California. This species lives singly on the tips of the leaves of cypress. The alates are very rare, which facts seems to indi- cate an alternation of host plants. The alternate host, if any, is unknown. This genus is somewhat similar to Slpha Passerini and to Cerosipha Del Guercio, especially in the five-segmented an- tennae and the aphidine venation. In Cerosipha Del Guercio the cornicles are longer, while in Sipha Passerini the cauda is knobbed and the body flat and covered with long fine hairs. In venation it resembles Aphis padi Linn, and ApJiis pruni- foliae Fitch. The cauda reminds one of Siphocoryne Passerini or Mysus Passerini. In Wilson's keys to the Aphidini6, this falls into either Brachycolns Buckton or Crvptosiphutn Buck- ton. From both it differs in the five-segmented antennae. The short pore-like cornicles and the shape of the body separate it from the former, and the shape of the cauda from the latter. From Setaphis v.d.G.7. which it resembles somewhat super- ficially, it differs in lacking the "Siphunculoidae" and in the typical Aphis venation with the twice-branched cubital vein. i. Cornicles cylindrical and as broad as long. Body slender Brachycolns Buckton. Type: Aphis stcllariae Hardy. 6 Wilson, H. F. A key to the genera of the subfamily Aphidinae and notes on synonomy. Annals Ent. Soc. Amer., 3: 321-322. 1910. 7 Van der Goot, P. Zur Kenntniss der Blattlause Java's. Contrib. Fauna des Indes Neerlandaises, i : 153. 1917. Vol. XXIX] I'.XTOMOI. ()C,I( AT. XF.WS. 365 Cornicles barely distinguishable, being only small pores. Body oval and distended, particularly in the apterae 2 2. Antennae five-segmented. Cauda of alates long and ensiform, and of apterae short and conical, but well developed Siphonatrophia nov. gen. Type: Ccrosipha cuprcssi Swain. Antennae six-segmented. Cauda short and tapering and not developed in the apterae C r\'ploxi[>lntin Buckton. Type: C. artcmisiac Buckton. III. THE GENUS MONELLIA OESTLUND. In 1887 Oestlund8 described the genus Monellia with Aphis caryclla Fitch as the type. He separated this genus from Calliptcnts Koch by the position of the wings when at rest. In the latter they are held roof-like as is typical in the Aphididae, while in the former they are horizontal, that is, laid flat on the abdomen. Following is Oestlund's description of the genus : Antennae longer than the body, on no frontal tubercles. Eyes pale red ; ocelli present. Beak very short. Thorax low and flat ; pro- thorax nearly as large as thorax proper. Wings held horizontal in repose; venation as in Calliptcnis. Honey-tubes not obvious. Style short, enlarged at apex. As just stated, Aphis caryclla Fitch was designated as the type. In this species the wings are said to lie horizontal when the insect is at rest. Many times in California there has been taken on walnut a species which has been considered as caryella Fitch. Careful comparisons with mounted specimens from Indiana show no structural differences, so that there can be no doubt that they are identical. However, the species in Cali- fornia does not have the habit of holding the wings horizontal when at rest. It would seem, therefore, that this habit is variable. Many of the American aphidologists have considered Callip- terns caryac Monell as belonging to this genus. Here is another species that does not have this habit, at least in California. Specimens from California agree perfectly with specimens in the writer's collection from Pennsylvania. The writer has been 8 Oestlund, O. W. Synopsis of the Aphididae of Minnesota. Bull. Minn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 4:44. 1887. 366 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [DeC.,'lS unable to find any authentic record as to the wing position in this species.9 In Moncllia californicus Essig, the wings are not held hori- zontal. The one other species in this genus, M. costalis (Fitch) is unknown to the writer, and in Baker's10 description no statement is made concerning this point. Inasmuch as this character of wing position is variable in the type species, it cannot be considered of importance in sepa- rating genera. Furthermore it is the writer's opinion that a character, such as this, which cannot be used in the determina- tion of mounted specimens, should not be considered. A large part of the systematist's study must necessarily be with museum specimens, and such a character cannot be of any use then. Therefore, the retaining of this genus does not seem justifiable. Practically all of the species considered by the earlier Amer- ican aphidologists as belonging to Calliptcrns Koch have been transferred to Myzocallis Passerini. In this latter genus are those species with the antennae set on more or less distinct antennal tubercles and with the cornicles, although small, dis- tinct and almost as long' as, or longer than, wide. This leaves, therefore, in Callipterus Koch only those species without anten- nal tubercles and with pore-like cornicles. Here, then, belong the four species of Monellia Oestlund. Baker11 gives a key to these American species. All four have as their hosts, species of either Carya or Juglans, or of both. C. californicus (Essig) is known to occur only in Cali- fornia, and C. costalis (Fitch) in New York and Connecticut. The other two species, C. caryae Moncll and C. caryclla (Fitch), are found throughout the north and middle Atlantic, the middle western, and the Pacific Coast States. In the west they are of rare occurrence, however. 9 Essig (Pom. Jour. Ent., 4: 771. 1912) in comparing his species, californicus, with Thomas's description of caryae Monell states that in the latter the wings are held horizontal. Thomas's note is not accessible to the writer, however. 10 Baker, A. C. Eastern Aphids, new or little known. Part II. Jour. Econ. Ent., 10:424. 1917. 11 Raker, A. C. Op. cit. Vol. X,\ix| ENTOMOLOGICAL NKW>. 367 IV. A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS THRH-SAIMIIS GILLETTE. 12 In October, 1917, specimens of a species of Thripsaphis were received by the writer from Mr. G. F. Ferris of Leland Stanford Junior University. These had been found on the leaves of Carc.v sp. near San Francisquito Creek, Santa Clara County, California. Not being able to identify them with any known species, the writer herewith describes them as a new species, Thripsaphis caricicola nov. sp. (Text figs. 2-fi). Cotype specimens are in the writer's private collection in Riverside, and in the U. S. National Museftm. Washington, D. C. Locality: Santa Clara County, California. Collector: A. P. Batchelder. Date: October 26, 1917. Host: Carc.r sp. Alatc znviparous female. — General body color yellow and dusky black. Head yellow with margins dusky. Antennae dusky to black, except base of segment three, which is pale. Eyes reddish brown. Beak yellow with tip black. Prothorax dusky with median yellow stripe. Thoracic plates black. Legs yellowish with tarsi and tips of tibiae and of femora black. Abdomen yellow with four rows of darker spots, two lateral and two sublateral. Cauda and anal plate dusky. Body rather long and narrow, resembling somewhat that of a thrips. Head about two-thirds as long as wide between the eyes. Front with a prominent semiquadrangular protuberance (fig. 2), which is about as wide as long, and as large as the first antennal segment. Antennae (fig. 4) about three- fourths as long as the body. No antennal tuber- cles. Segment III the longest, being but slightly shorter than IV and V, or V and VI combined. V about five-sixths as long as IV, which in turn is slightly shorter than VI. VI base and spur equal. The usual primary sensoria on V and VI and accessory sensoria on VI. Secondary sensoria only on III, being circular, equal-sized, and placed in a more or less straight row on the basal three-fourths of the segment: n to 12 in number Beak short scarcely reaching first coxae. No lateral tubercles on the prothorax or abdomen. Cornicles (fig. 5) merely pores, which are about one-sixth as wide at the mouth as the length of the hind tarsi. Cauda (fig. 5) distinct, knobbed, about two- thirds as long as hind tarsi. Anal plate (fig. 5) large, prominent, deep- ly bilobed. Legs long and slender, normal throughout. Wings (fig. 6) 12 Gillette, C. P. Two new Aphis genera and some new species. Can. Ent, 49: 193-196. iyi7- 368 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec.,'i8 long and slender, venation regular, the third discoidal of the fore wing being twice branched, and two distinct oblique veins being present on the hind wing. The second branch of the third discoidal of the fore wing is nearer to the tip of the wing than to the base of the first branch. ap Fig. \.-Macrosiphoniella sanborni (Gillette). Caudal end of abdomen. Figs. ?.-(>.— Thripsaphis caricicola nov. sp. Fig. 2.— Head, alate. Fig. 3.— Head, aptera. Fig. 4.— Antenna, alate. Fig. 5.— Caudal end of abdomen, alate. Fig. 6.— Wings, alate. Ca.,cauda; co., cornicle ; a. />., anal plate : r. s>\, rudimentary gonapophyses. All drawings were made with the camera lucida, and all except fig. 6, with the 25 mm. ocular and 16 mm. objective. Fig. 6. was made with the same ocular, but with the lower lens of the 16 mm. objective removed. Vol. XXl'x| K.NTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 369 Measurements: Body, length (including both cauda and frontal pro- tuberance) 2. ii mm., width of thorax 0.609 mm.; antennae, total 1.79- 1.81 ; III, 0.609-0.646 mm.; IV, 0.340-0.357 mm.; V, 0.297-0.306 mm.; VI, base, 0.174-0.187 mm.; VI, spur, 0.174-0.187 mm.; cornicles, width at mouth, 0.025-0.032 mm.; cauda, 0.119 mm.; hind tarsi, 0.170-0.187 mm.; wing, length, 2.77-2.86 mm.; width, 0.799 mm.; expansion, 6.14 mm. ; third discoidal from base of first branch to tip of wing, 0.837 mm. ; from base of second branch to tip of wing, 0.242 mm. Apterous rii'iparous female. — General color of body yellow. Ryes reddish brown. Antennae with segments I, II and III (except ex- treme tip) light straw-colored; IV, V, VI (except spur) and tip of III black. VI spur dusky but somewhat lighter than base. Legs with tarsi and joints black, remainder lighter. Structural characters as in alates, except no secondary sensoria. Measurements: Body, length (including both cauda and frontal pro- tuberance) 2.04-2.28 mm.; width of thorax, 0.51-0.54 mm.; antennae, total 1.22-1.62 mm.; Ill, 0.408-0.553 mm.; IV, 0.221-0.306 mm.; V, 0.204- 0.272 mm.; VI, base, 0.136-0.170 mm.; VI, spur, 0.136-0.170 mm.; cor- nicles, width at mouth, 0.032-0.035 mm.; cauda, 0.085-0.119 mm.; hind tarsi, 0.153-0.170 mm. This species seems typical of the genus except for the fact that both oblique veins of the hind wings are distinct. How- ever, as Gillette13 states, "the presence or absence of the vein should not be given generic importance." From the figures of T. z'ernicosa Gillette, the species seems very closely related to the one described here. As only apterous oviparous females of that species were described, it cannot now be determined whether or not they are synonymous. A Gynandromorph of Callosamia angulifcra and Melitaea phaeton aber. streckeri (Lep.). Doris M. Armstrong, of Brockett Point, Branford, Connecticut, has sent me for examination two very interesting specimens. One is a per- fect gynandromorph of Callosamia angulifera. The wings of the left side are of the dark color of the male and the antenna of this side is male. The wings and antenna of the right side are female in color and character. The specimen was a captured one. Perfect examples of gynandromorphism are evidently of rare occur- rence and they are more interesting when the sexes of the species are so different in appearance. The other example is an aberrant specimen of Melitaea [>haett»i Drury, and is very similar to the form described by Ellsworth in Hnt. News 1902, XIII, 104, under the name streckeri. Ah. streckeri was taken at Vestal, New York. — HENRY SKINNER. 13 Gillette, C. P. Op. cit.. p. 194. 3/0 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |DeC.,'l8 An Annotated List of Gainesville, Florida, Coleoptera. By H. L. DOZIER, University of Florida. (Continued from page 335) CHRYSOMELIDAE. Lema brunnicollis Lee. A specimen taken in live oak hammock, Aug. 20 (J. R. W.). Abundant on low oak bushes and weeds in open field, April 11-15. Lema trilineata Oliv. Adults and larvae of all stages were abun- dant feeding on a solanaceous weed, the ground cherry, in open field, April 11-15. Lema 6-punctata Oliv. One taken sweeping weeds at hammock edge, May 4. Lema conjuncta Lee. Taken in flight along road through ham- mock, May 1. A specimen swept from oak foliage, April 1. Lema solani Fabr. Numerous at Hogtown Creek, April 9, eating the foliage of a solanaceous weed. March 14-April 9. Anomoea laticlavia Forst. This species has been taken feeding on pine foliage, June 8, and on weed at Hogtown Creek, April 9. A specimen swept from oak, April 3. Coscinoptera dominicana Fabr. Beaten from oak foliage, April 18. Chlamys plicata Fabr. Numbers of this queer-looking beetle were taken on chinquepin blooms, evidently eating the pollen, May 20. Exema gibber Oliv. Taken in the hammocks, April 2. Bassareus congestus Fabr. Beaten from oak foliage, July 5-24. Cryptocephalus 4-maculatus var. flavipennis Hald. Beaten from wild cherry in bloom on road to Hogtown Creek, March 9. Taken also on oak and wild buckeye foliage, April 3-18. Cryptocephalus guttulatus Oliv. Taken on weed at Hogtown Creek, April 9. Beaten from oak foliage, April 3. Cryptocephalus obsoletus Germ. A specimen taken sweeping grass and low herbage in flatwoods, Oct. 29. Cryptocephalus badius Suffr. A number of specimens taken on linden, July 12-14. Griburius larvatus Newm. An undated specimen. Monachus auritus Hald. On oak foliage, April 4. Monachus thoracicus Cr. Large numbers of this little bronze chry- somelid were taken at wild plum blossoms, Feb. 18-20. Abun- dant at cherry laurel blooms, March 1, and at wild cherry blooms, March 7-9. Typophorus viridicyaneus Crotch. One taken eating sweet potato foliage, Aug. 18. Vol. XX1X| EXTOMOLOCICAI. XF.XVS. 37 1 Typophorus canellus Fabr. Beaten from wild grape. Metachroma marginalis Cr. Beating oak foliage, April 3. Lina scripta Fabr. Larvae taken on Carolina poplar, Aug. 20. An adult at light, April 20. Colaspis brunnea Fabr. A number on sweet potato foliage, Aug. 31. On cowpeas, June 15 (R. N. Wilson). Colaspis favosa Say. A specimen at light, June 9. This species is of considerable economic importance, feeding on eucalyp- tus and grape foliage. Ceratoma trifurcata Forst. Taken in abundance on cowpeas (R. N. Wilson). Trirhabda brevicollis Lee. This beetle makes its appearance every year about the first of April, having only one brood a year. Some years it completely defoliates all the prickly ash. The first larvae of the season have been taken April 1. The pupal stage lasts only a few days. Galerucella notulata Fabr. Taken on ragweed (Ambrosia}, July 6. Diabrotica 12-punctata Fabr. Taken abundantly on a number of plants. Oedionychis 6-maculata 111. Abundant on foliage of ash, together with O. scalaris, April 5. Extremely quick in its movements. Oedionychis scalaris Melsh. Taken on ash, but not as abundant as the above species, April 5-6. Oedionychis fimbriata Forst. Beaten from oak foliage, April 18. Disonycha glabrata Fabr. Abundant on bull thistle while in bloom, April 20. Large numbers riddling the foliage of pigweed (Amaranthus) , May 15. A few taken on corn plants, Aug. 16. Disonycha triangularis Say. Taken by sweeping low foliage — moist hammock edge, April 15. Taken hibernating under old log (C. Nieland). Disonycha abbreviata Melsh. Several taken sweeping low herbage, Feb. 26 and April 4. Phyllotreta picta Say. Very abundant on young oak foliage, March 10-April 2. Haltica chalybea 111. This species winters over in the hammocks in Spanish moss. An adult was taken at wild plum blossom as early as Feb. 18, and by the 27th large numbers were be- ginning to work on wild grape foliage. Hundreds were swarming everywhere, May 5. Haltica ignita 111. An unusual swarm of this flea-beetle occurred at lights, April 27. Crepe myrtle seems to be a favorite food plant, as this plant is simply riddled at times. Haltica marevagans Horn. The wild Ocnothcra is the favorite food plant of this species. They made their appearance about April 372 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., ?l8 26th and simply riddled this plant. After this plant was gone, they went to Jussicua. Abundant, April 26-Sept. 12. Blepharida rhois Forst. Adults and larvae were very abundant on young sumac, April 11-15. Larvae were also abundant, Sept. 29, so that there must be a number of broods per year. Chaetocnema confinis Cr. Occurs in abundance in the hammocks on the foliage of basswood, wild cherry, buckeye, and vari- ous other trees and shrubs, March 3-April. Chaetocnema pulicaria Melsh. Taken on corn (R. N. Wilson). Psylliodes elegans Horn. Taken on oats, April 15 (R. N. Wilson). Abundant by sweeping grass and low vegetation in open field, April 1-3. Octotoma plicatula Fabr. The first adult of the season was taken on buckeye leaf, March 6. The ash is their first choice as a food plant, and by March 25 large numbers are at work on this plant. They are to be found for only a few weeks and then disappear. As far as I have observed, they have only a single brood a year. Chalepus bicolor Oliv. Several specimens taken sweeping low foliage at hammock edge, April 1. Chalepus rubra Weber. Several have been taken between leaf- tyer's old nests in the hammocks on oak from Jan. 25-March 2. They begin to get abundant on linden, the foliage of which they eat, by the middle of March. As with O. plicatula, they are present for only a few weeks and then disappear. A specimen was taken on oak, May I, and a pair in copula on linden, June n. Chalepus notatus Oliv. A few were taken on blackberry, Ostrya and oak, April 4-5. Metriona (Coptocycla) purpurata Boh. This species has been taken on buckeye, oak and wild morning-glory vines, March is-May 15. It is rather uncommon and its favorite food plant is Ipomoea. Deloyala (Coptocycla) clavata Fabr. A specimen of this rough- backed cassid was taken on a weed at Hogtown Creek, April 9. Several taken on oak foliage, Dec. 2-3. This is more of a northern insect, and this record extends the distribution of the species for a considerable distance south of its usual range. Chirida (Coptocycla) guttata Oliv. Occurs on wild sweet potato vines. A specimen was taken on wild mustard foliage. April 20-Aug. 12. Coptocycla bicolor Fabr. An abundant species occurring on the foliage of Ipomoea and oak the year round, Dec. 4-Aug. 12. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XE\V>. 3/3 Porphyraspis cyanea Say. This species is found only on saw-pal- metto, Jan. 1-Oct. 28. Chelymorpha argus Licht. A specimen was taken in crevice of old log at hammock edge, Feb. 18 (C. Xieland). TENEBRIONIDAE. Nyctobates barbata Knoch. Found beneath loose bark of decaying tree trunks. It is typical of this habitat. Oct. 20. Epitragus tomentosus Lee. Taken beating oak. Extremely com- mon the year round. Polypleurus nitidus Lee. Very common under old logs and boards on the forest floor in both piny woods and at hammock margin. Simulates death when disturbed. Jan. 14-Feb. 3. Polypleurus geminatus Sol. Less common than the above species, but is typical of the same habitat. Jan. 14-Feb. 3. Uloma impressa Melsh. Large numbers beneath bark of fallen pine log, Nov. 19. Uloma punctulata Lee. Taken with U. impressa in abundance, Nov. 19. Diaperis maculata var. floridana Blatch. Found occasionally be- neath loose bark hibernating, April 27. Boletotherus bifurcus Fabr. Found occasionally on shelf fungi in the hammocks. Adelina lecontei Horn. Numbers taken beneath bark of oak limbs in pile, Feb. 4. Evidently not hibernating, as larvae presum- ably of this species were found working with them. Helops cisteloides Germ. Scarce. Characteristic of rotten logs and stumps both in piny woods and hammock, Jan. 15-28. CISTEI.IDAE. Hymenorus obscurus Say. Taken on oak foliage, May 2. OEDEMERIDAE. Oxacis thoracica Fabr. Found abundantly on chinquepin during its entire blooming period, April 27-May 24. MORDELLIDAE. Tomoxia lineella Lee. A specimen taken beating oak, April 18. ANTHICIDAE. Notoxus calcaratus Horn. Frequent on the foliage of oak, hickory and other trees, April 29. MELOIDAE. Pyrota sinuata Oliv. One taken at lights, Sept. 19. Nemognatha piezata Fabr. Very numerous at bull thistle blooms, May 2fi. Epicauta marginata Fabr. Taken on wild Gerardia plant, Aug. 31. 374 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [L\'C.,'lR Epicauta strigosa Gyll. Abundant at blooms of a composite, Sept. 25. RHIPIPHORIDAE. Rhipiphorus octomaculatus Gerst. A specimen taken on okra plant, Aug. 1. Rhipiphorus cruentus Germ. One taken at chinquepin bloom, April 26. CURCULIONIDAE. Attelabus analis 111. The adults of this little reddish weevil made their appearance about March 20. On this date they were few in number, and their work on oak was just beginning. By March 27 the adults were numerous, and their work could be noticed everywhere. Pterocolus ovatus Fabr. Several taken on oak foliage, April 13-15. Tachygonus lecontei Gyll. Beaten from oak, prickly ash and holly, Dec. 4 and April 18. Pandeleteius hilaris Hbst. Abundant on oak, in April. Anthonomus rufipennis Lee. Numbers taken on hickory foliage, April Ifi. Active at night running over the foliage. Prionomerus calceatus Say. Taken on oak foliage, April 5. Centrinus albotectus Casey. Abundant in blooms of composites, dewberry, and Cratcgus. March i-May 15. Craponius inaequalis Say. Taken on hickory foliage, April 2. Makes a squeaking noise when handled. Conotrachelus anaglypticus Say. A specimen found on newly cut oak stump in hammock, March 8. Several beaten from buck- eye at Hogtown Creek, March 5. Eugnamptus striatus Lee. On young oak foliage, March 10. Calandra oryzae Linn. This weevil is very abundant at chinquepin blooms, April 28-May 24. Chalcodermus collaris Horn. A specimen taken on corn plant, Aug. 16. Chalcodermus aeneus Boh. A serious pest of cowpeas, Aug. Taken eating tips of young oak shrubs. May. Wollastonia quercicola Boh. Taken at light. May 9. SCOLYTIDAE. Ips calligraphus Germ. Found in large numbers with its galleries in the bark of fallen pine, Aug. 3. On this date the majority were just issuing from the pupal stage, but large numbers of fullgrown larvae and pupae were present. Platypus compositus Say. Two females taken at light, Nov. 14. Xylobiops basilaris Say. A specimen taken at light, Sept. 17. This species was reared from Japanese persimmon wood. Xyleborus xylographus Say. A specimen taken at light, June 8. Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 375 A Note on Insects Found on Snow at High Elevations. By L. O. HOWARD, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. The literature of this subject is very considerable in quan- tity and widely scattered. Some day, I hope, some one will bring it together. This note is simply a contribution to the subject. Mr. Titus Ulke, of Washington, gave a lecture on this general topic before the Aquarium Society of Washington in the winter of 1916-17, in which he recorded observations which he had made in the Mount Rainier National Park ; and Mr. F. E. Matthes, of the Geological Survey, in a bulletin published in 1914, makes additional contributions. Mr. Matthes' bulletin inspired several letters from different cor- respondents. Writing to him myself, he replied in some de- tail and referred me to Dean W. O. Cone, of the Cathedral of Saint John, Ouincy, Illinois, who had written to him about certain observations which he had made some years ago, which interested me so much that I wrote to Dean Cone and re- ceived the following reply, which is of such interest that it should be published. (Copy) Cathedral of St. John, Quincy, Illinois, Feb. I, 1918. Mr. T.. O. HOWARD. Chief, Bureau of Entomology. My dear Sir : Your letter of Jan. 29 relative to my observations of Coreidae is at hand. I am blessed with sharp eyes and a retentive memory, and am reasonably certain that the following account is accurate: In company with Rev. Hudson Stuck, who afterward made the first ascent of Denali, or Mt. McKinlev. and several others, I began the ascent of Sierra Blanca from the western side in Aug., 1904. This is a group of the Sangre de Cristo, and consists of several peaks, the highest of which is about 14,500 feet. We pitched our camp at extreme timber line, and made our explorations from there. About 13,000 feet 376 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [DeC..'T>iiioli>. 379 Plate 80 contains a figure of Satynis balder which is re- ferred to by Boisduval himself in the Icones, p. 189 under the new genus Chionobas; it has been shown by Scudder (Hist. Sketch, pp. 98 and 140) that this portion of the Icones was published probably late in 1832; the same plate contains a figure of a species called Humane to.vea Godt. which Gucrin in the text (page 489) notes is a misidentification, referring the species to atala Poey, a name published in April, 1832, presumably after Plate 80 had been issued. Plate 81 contains Polvoinmatus tJioe which is referred to in the text of Boisduval's Lep. Am. Sept., p. 125, this portion of the work having been issued in all probability late in 1833 (znde Scudder, Hist. Sketch). In view of the above facts I believe therefore that these plates must be considered as having been published between j_829 and ^8_3J.; the ne\v N. American species contained on them have been variously credited to Boisduval, Gray or Guer- in, but, since it is the figure on Guerin's plate that holds the name, both Mr. Banks and myself are of the opinion that Guerin must be considered to be the author in all instances but one. This single exception is found on Plate 87, fig. 8, where the figure of a Limacodid larva is listed in Guerin's text as "Chen, de Lim. indeterminee" which is certainly no specific name ; Griffith in his copy of Guerin's plate first latin- izes this to Limacodes indetenninus. which name we presume will hold and should be credited to Griffith ; that Gray had nothing to do with the name is shown by the fact that there is no text description of the insect. I would further note that the description of Limacodes strigata imago in the text (p. 512) seems to refer to Sis\rosca Ic.rtnla H. S.. but the larva on which the name is based is cor- rectly referred by Dyar to dclphinli. Scricaria ranocccps ( PI. 87, fig. i) with habitat as N. America, according to the text, appears to have been omitted from all our catalogues: it is a Datana species, possibly floridaiia Graef, but an exact deter- mination from the figure seems impossible. Plat \ptcr\.\- glo- 380 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 bidariae (PI. 88, fig. 9) is also recorded in the text (p. 520) from N. America ; the species looks like a Geometer, but I fail to recognize it and think that possibly the locality given may be erroneous ; the figure is striking enough to make identifi- cation fairly easy. In the light of the above remarks the following changes should be made in our Check List : 123 balder Guer. instead of balder Bdv. 328 virginiensis Gucr. instead of virginiensis Gray. 404 thoe Gucr. instead of thoe Bdv. 670 jasminearum Gucr. instead of jasminearum Bdv. 709 to Guer. instead of io Gray. 1033 lecontei Guer. instead of lecontei Bdv. 3669 borealis Gucr. instead of borealis Bdv. 4813 indetermina Griff, instead of indetermina Bdv. 4816 delphinii Guer. instead of delphinii Bdv. strigata Guer. instead of strigata Bdv. 4889 sepulchralis Guer. instead of sepulchralis Bdv. lugubris Guer. instead of lugubris Bdv. 6755 asilipennis Guer. instead of asilipennis Bdv. Studies in the Tenebrionid Tribe Eleodiini. No. 4 (Coleop.). By F. E. BLAISDELL, Sr., M.D., San Francisco, California. The status of a part of the races described in the present contribution has been in doubt for a long time. The opportu- nity of examining larger series than had previously been at hand is clearing up slowly many enigmas in the genus Eleodes. Much credit is due Mr. Nunenmacher for his enthusiasm and persistency in exploring out of the way regions. Eleodes (Blapylis) parvicollis var. squalida n. var. Form oblong-oval to ovate, slightly more than twice as long as wide. Color deep black, elytra shining, head and pronotum duller in lustre. Head a little less than one-half as wide as the pronotum, compara- tively small, about as wide as long ; finely punctate, punctures some- what sparse centrally, denser laterally, with a small glabrous space at the epistomal base, that sometimes extends upon the epistoma; front slightly convex and not impressed. Antennae short, not quite extend- Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 381 ing to the pronotal base, almost slender, last three joints forming a feeble, parallel club; third joint not quite as long as the next two taken together, joints four to eight longer than wide and obconical, joints four to six increasing slightly in length, the fourth distinctly longer than the fifth, joints seven and eight subequal in length, ninth and tenth triangular, about as wide as long and slightly wider than the preceding joints, eleventh short oval, scarcely longer than wide. Pronotum slightly transverse, a little more than one-third wider than long; sides evenly arcuate in anterior four-fifths, more strongly so just before the somewhat suddenly formed basal constriction at basal fifth, here the sides are straight and parallel; apex a little wider than the base and truncato-sinuate ; apical angles obtuse and scarcely rounded ; base quite truncate, and the angles distinctly rectangular ; disk evenly convex from side to side, not strongly so, rather finely punctate, punctures evenly dispersed, separated by once or thrice their diameters, slightly denser and feebly asperate laterally. Proplcurae not rugose and sparsely punctate. Elytra oval, slightly oblong, less than twice as long as wide ; humeri distinct, narrowly rounded, and not in the least prominent; base trun- cate ; sides more or less moderately arcuate ; disk moderately convex, rather strongly rounded laterally, inflexed sides feebly arcuate, pos- teriorly arcuately declivous, punctures moderately coarse and strong, rather closely placed and more or less serial in arrangement, series rather closely placed, strial punctures scarcely coarser than those of the intervals and separated by about their own diameters, intervals sparsely punctate, all the punctures becoming more irregular and con- fused laterally, the strial series almost distinct to the lateral declivity ; surface scarcely asperate, setae not visible. Parapleura moderately coarsely and densely punctate. Sterna rather densely and not coarsely punctate. Prosternum not mucronate. Abdomen shining and not coarsely nor densely sculptured, slightly rugulose. Legs moderate in length and stoutness. $ . — Oblong-oval, slightly narrowed anteriorly, sides of elytra less arcuate, body narrower ; abdomen less convex and feebly oblique to the sterna. Protarsi with yellow pads on the first three joints, pads dense and convex on joints one and two, pad transverse and com- posed of straight golden spinules at apex of joint three; on the fourth joint the spinules are lateral and the plantar groove is open. Meso- tarsi with a small pad at apex of first joint. 9 . — Ovate, elytra broader. Abdomen horizontal and more strongly convex. Tarsi without pubescent pads beneath. Measurements. — $, length 12.8 mm., width 5.5 mm. 9 , length 13.0 mm., width 6.0 mm. 382 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 Types: $ and 9 in the author's collection. Collectors Blaisdell and Letcher. Type locality and habitat: Davis' Meadow near Railroad Flat, Calaveras County, California. Elev. 1400 ft., June. A series of fifteen specimens. Remarks : At first glance squalida resembles cordata in form and elytral sculpturing, except the serial arrangement ; the pronotal punctuation is that of parvicollis. It is of interest to note that the pronotum is exactly of the same form and proportion in both sexes — equally arcuate and equally con- stricted at base. Squalida is one of the many interesting geographical races of parz'icollis, and still more so when we consider that a race of cordata inhabits the same region and presents analogous variations of sculpturing— namely horrida, described below. The environment is a small meadow surrounded by pines (Pimts ponderosa Dougl.) with white oaks (Ouercns lobata- Nee.) in the open areas. The ground is more or less shaded and the usual mat of pine needles covers the ground among the pines, and in the open under the oaks, the oak leaves, dead branches and bark cove^ the ground. Since the series of squalida was collected, some twenty years ago, a fire has swept the region and greatly thinned out the pines. In this same spot Omits blaisdelli Casey was taken. Eleodes (Blapylis) pimelioides var. patruelis n. var. Moderately robust, ovate to ovate-oval, dull in lustre, and about twice as long as wide ; prothorax more or less strongly constricted at base, densely punctate, intervals mere lines ; elytra sculptured with small and more or less rounded granules or tubercles laterally, subasperately punctate each side of the suture; tubercles shining at summit, not reclinate or distinctly piliferous. Head densely and somewhat coarsely punctate. Antennae some- what shorter than in pimelioides, otherwise the same. Pronotum widest at the middle, about one-third of the length wider than long; sides evenly arcuate in front of the middle and convergent, slightly subangulate at the middle, and thence obliquely and feebly arcuate to become sinuate at basal seventh, and then straight and parallel to the basal angles, the latter rectangular; base feebly arcu- ate ; apex feebly emarginate with angles obtuse. Vol. xxixj K\T<'.M<>L<><;ic.\L XKYVS. 383 Elytra not broadly oval to suboblong, widest at the middle and about one-half wider than long; disk more or less evenly and feebly convex in the central area, broadly and stronglv convex laterally, and more or less vertically declivous posteriorly; surface sculpturing without any evidence of order, intervals between the tubercles not rugose, laterally the tubercles are feebly asperate and the setae minute. Otherwise as in pimclioides. $ . — Narrower and oblong-ovate. Abdomen feebly convex, first seg- ment somewhat impressed at middle ; feebly oblique to the sterna. First two joints of the protarsi with darkish tufts of pubescence, the tuft of the first joint is truncate at tip. larger and more rounded than that of the second, here the tuft is apical and transverse; the third joint has a divided tuft and the plantar groove is distinct, the meso- tarsi have a quite small, transverse, apical tuft on the first joint. 9. — Broader and ovate. First joint of the protarsi rounded and thickened at tip beneath; second and third joints transversely thick- ened at tips. Measurements. — Length, 10.0 ( $ } to 11.5 (9) mm.; width, 5.0 ( $ ) to 575 ( 9 ) mm. Types ( $ and 9 ) in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Type locality : Provo Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah. Collector J. R. Slevin, May 2ist, 1913. Number of speci- mens studied, 19. Remarks: Patnidis is rather more robust than pimclioidcs, the sculpturing finer, the sides of the pronotum are more broadly rounded and the constriction is distinctly shorter. Eleodes (Blapylis) cordata var. horrida n. var. Form as in cordata. Deep black, polished and shining. Head sculp- tured as in cordata. Pronotal disk coarsely, very densely, deeply and more or less confluently punctate ; intervals mere convex lines. Elytra very coarsely, densely and rugosely muricato-tuberculate throughout, with longitudinal series of punctures that are more or less distinct. $ . — Narrower than in typical cordata. 9 . — Elytra less broadly oval. Measurements. — $, length, 10.5 mm.; width, 4.5 mm. 9 , length, n.o mm. ; width, 5.7 mm. Types : $ and 9 in the author's collection. Collectors Blaisdell and Letcher. T\f>e lociilitv and luibitat: Davis' Mr;i\v, near Railroad Flat, Calaveras County, California; clcv. 1400 ft., June. 384 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 Remarks : Horrida is very coarsely sculptured and with longitudinal series of punctures on the elytra. The sculptural deviations from the typical form are analogous to those presented by squalida. In the monograph (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.) specimens from Calaveras County were referred to the typical form of cordata ; the latter is found on the San Francisco peninsula, and in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, but not extending into the foot-hills of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In horrida the pronotum is different in the two sexes as in typical cordata; in patrnelis the pronotum presents much less sexual differentiation and is almost simi- lar in form in the two sexes. Eleodes (Blapylis) inculta var. affinis n. var. Form of inculta, from which it differs as follows : Males rather more elongate ; pronotum narrower in both sexes, with the side mar- gins distinctly and briefly sinuate before the basal angles, the latter slightly prominent. Elytral sculpturing rather mere asperate, but not coarsely so. In the male type the pronotum is about as wide as long, with the sides evenly arcuate and just the least sinuate before the subdentiform apical angles; tarsi as in inculta. In the female the tarsal pubescence is somewhat heavier. Measurements. — Length, 12.5 to 15.5 mm. ; width, 5.7 to 8.6 mm. Types: <> and 9 in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Type locality: Santa Cruz Island. Collector J. R. Slevin, April 1 3th, 1913. Number of specimens studied, 7. Habitat: Santa Cruz and San Miguel Islands, off the coast of California, south of Santa Barbara. Remarks: The series of affinis have been compared with twenty-six specimens of inciilta, collected on the Island of San Miguel. These specimens of inculta are smaller than those previously studied from the Island of Santa Rosa (see p. 331, Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Museum). Eleodes vandykei Blais. This should be graded as a distinct species, as it is evidently more closely related to granu'lata than to letchcri. A series Vol. xxix] I:\TOMOLOGJCAL xi-:\v^. 385 of thirty-two specimens has been collected in Klamath County, Oregon, by Mr. Nunenmacher. The specimens exhibit a tendency to develop elytral tubercles as in grannlata. This is also the case in pari'iila, which should henceforth be recorded as a race of randykei. Specimens have recently been examined from Medicine Lake, Siskiyou County, California; they were collected on August 1 6th. Eleodes hornii Blais. Among specimens collected in Plumas and Eldorado Coun- ties, California, by Mr. Nunenmacher, were nine examples of this rare and distinct species. These agree every way with the types as regards form, but present some variation in punctuation and size. One male, however, agrees perfectly with the type. In the other specimens the prothoracic and ely- tral punctuation is slightly coarser, denser and more irregular in distribution. In the types there is no evidence of a serial arrangement of the elytral punctures, in four of those col- lected bv Mr. Nunenmacher there is. The largest male col- * o lected in Eldorado County has a length of 14.5 mm., and -j width of 5.5 mm. The largest female and the one presenting the greatest amount of variation in sculpturing, has a length of 14.5 mm., and a width of 6.0 mm. In hornii the hutneri are absent and the elytra evenly oval. Eleodes hornii, var. monticula n. var. Opaque, form as in hornii. Prothorax smaller and more finely punctured. Elytra more coarsely punctured, the punctures being some- what eroded and at times sublineate in arrangement. The elytra arc less evenly oval, being just a little more produced at apex and the latter more broadly rounded. In the male the humeri are slightly evident Monticula is more convex than is typical liornii. In the monograph of the Eleodiini (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.) the specimens now described were referred to hornii and collected at Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, California, elev. 1300 ft. Y'y/v in the author's collection. 386 ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS. |DcC.,'l8 Type locality : Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras 'County, Cali- fornia. Habitat: California (Calaveras County: — Mokelumne Hill, April. Shasta County : — Castella, July. Tulare County :— Cedar Creek, June; Rattlesnake Creek, July ( Hopping's col- lection) ). Eleodes dentipes, var. perpunctata n. var. Syn. E. denlipcs forma elongata punctata. Mr. Nunenmacher has quite recently collected an extensive series of perpunctata (60 specimens), in Tehama, Butte and Shasta Counties, California. The specimens are distinctly homomorphic and represent a valid geographical race. At the time that the Monograph of the Eleodiini was written, the specimens referred to the elongate punctate form of dentipes, came from several widely separated regions and were mixed with other races and forms. There were no data to indicate that perpunctata was capable of reproducing its characteristics with any degree of stability, as has been proved by the above series. The forma elongata laeris of the Monograph now becomes the smooth elongate form of perpunctata. In perpunctata the elytra are more or less minutely granu- lato-rugulose, more or less strongly punctate, with the punc- tures in series. Type in the author's collection. Type locality : Placerville, Eldorado County. Habitat: California (Eldorado County: — Placerville. Teha- ma County, April. Trinity County: — Haybrook, April, (Hop- ping's collection). Contra Costa County: — Martinez. San Ma- teo County: — San Jose). Eleodes gigantea Mann. A series of specimens taken in northern California by Mr. Nunenmacher, answers to Mannerheim's description— "Elytra finely granulate-punctate," and proves that the typical form of gigantea is northern and not southern in habitat. The pronotal disk is rather less sparsely hut distinctly punctate. Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XE\VS. 387 The elytra! surface is very finely rugulose, with punctures distinct and less than moderate in size, plainly serial ; in each series the punctures are separated by a space equal to a little more than their own diam- eters; the intervals are narrow, with a single row of irregularly placed punctures ; at the periphery the punctures are more irregular. In size the specimens are as large as any collected in southern Cali- fornia. The females have the pronotal sides less arcuate, as a result the pronotal width is less. Measurements. — $, length, 22.0 to 33.5 mm.; width. 7.75 to 9.5 mm. 9 , length, 24.5 to 29.0 mm. ; width, 10.0 to 13.0 mm. Fifteen examples collected in Tehama County, California, April 27th, 1913. Eleodes gigantea, var. meridionalis new var. The form of gigantea occurring in southern and Lower Cali- fornia, and from as far north as the Santa Cruz Mountains, should he considered a geographical race, to which I give the name meridionalis. The chief distinguishing characters may be stated as follows : Pronotal disk rather sparsely and feebly punctulate, sides more strongly arcuate in the female ; elytra! surface finely, irregularly and evenly punctate, rarely with closely placed series of punctures. Types: $ and $ in the author's collection. Type locality: San Diego, California. Habitat: California (Kern and Santa Cruz Counties south- ward to northern Lower California). A New Agrias from Guatemala (Nymphalidae, Lep.). P>y W. SCHAUS, Washington, D. C. In the supplement to the Rhopalocera of the Biologia Cen- trali- Americana reference is made on page 696, under Agrias acdon, to a letter from Senor Don Juan Rodriguez, who states that he has a male of this species captured in Vera Paz, Guatemala. After the death of Don Juan, his sons kindly gave me this specimen in remembrance of their father, and on examination I find it is a female belonging to a new species which I take pleasure in naming after mv late friend. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | Dec., 'l8 Agrias rodriguezi, new species. Body fuscous. Fore wings : apex broadly, outer and inner margins narrowly black ; a large crimson space at base, reaching nearly the middle of wing on costa, its outer edge oblique to vein 2 postmedially, then angled and inbent, followed by a broad blue shade from subcostal vein to submedian. Hind wings black with a large deep blue space, not extending above vein 6, leaving costal, inner margin and base broadly black, the outer margin narrowly so. Underneath the colora- tion is similar to the female of Agrias acdon given in the Biologia on PI. 31, fig. 6. Female : expanse 83 mm. Hab.: Vera Paz, Guatemala. T\pe: A female in the Schaus Collection in the United States National Museum. Vaporous discharge by Anisomorpha bupre^toides. (Orthoptera: Phasmidae). A review of information on the secretions of this phasmid and their ejection was published by Samuel H. Scudder in 1876 (Psyche, Vol. 1, PP- I37-9)- C. J. Maynard gives (Contr. to Science, Vol. I, 1889, pp. 31-35) a full account of the thoracic glands and their discharge. An interesting note on the subject will be found also under the name of H. M. Russell (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. Vol. XIV, No. 3, July-Sept., 1912, p. 117). Observations on the nature and source of the discharge by the insects vary; it is a milky fluid or a very fine mist; it is discharged from definite pores on the sides of the thorax or from some part of the abdomen. An observation differing somewhat from the previous accounts should be put on record, and the diversity of opinions should induce someone to make a thorough study of the matter and publish a full account. The observation to which I refer was made by Mr. C. H. M. Barrett, taxidermist of the United States Biological Survey, while on a collecting trip in Florida. At Miakka Lake, Manatee County, during a thunderstorm, June 19, 1918, Mr. Barrett found a number of pairs of Anisomorpha buprestoidcs, in copula, in the interstices of a pile of boards in a deserted cabin. When suddenly uncovered or other- wise disturbed, the insects discharged from the end of the abdomen vapor in the form of small puffs appearing two inches from the ab- dominal apex. The discharge in each case was immediately preceded by a crackling sound similar to that made by a small electric spark. Mr. Barrett's observation that Anismorpha buprestoidcs discharges a vapor from end of abdomen and that the discharge is preceded by a peculiar crepitation, differs, so far as I am aware, from any previously recorded. — W. L. McATEE, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, Washington, D. C. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1918. Rules and Suggestions for Our Contributors. The following letter was received from the Secretary-Treas- urer of the Entomological Society of Washington in April, 1918: The Executive Committee of the Entomological Society of Wash- ington has recently adopted certain rules and suggestions governing articles published in the Proceedings of the Society. A copy of these rules and suggestions, which are to be published shortly in the first number of Volume XX of the Society's Proceedings, is enclosed. In adopting these rules the Executive Committee passed the fol- lowing resolution: first, that copies of these rules and suggestions be sent to other periodicals publishing articles on Entomology ; second, that said copies be accompanied by a letter recommending the adoption (unless already in force) of these or similar rules and suggestions. In the days when there are so many workers in Entomology and so much is written it is believed that there should lie certain definite and understood policies which will tend to make it necessary for all authors to give in their papers certain definite information which is of great importance to contemporaneous and future workers and will assist in stabilizing our nomenclature. Rule 4 is one of the most necessary, especially when we consider that much of the indexing has to be done by persons with limited knowledge. Suggestion 6 is also of great importance and the subject it covers is most often considered of but little importance by those dealing with genereal biology, mor- phology, etc. We trust that you will give this matter careful consideration, and hope that you will believe it desirable to adopt similar rules which will help to build our science on a firm foundation. As the Rules referred to emanated from the Washington Society, the Editors of the XK\YS considered it as a matter of courtesy that we should withhold comment upon them until their appearance in the Proceeding. The first number of Volume XX ( for January, 1918) seems to have reached sub- scribers here on October 21 ; the first page contains the fol- lowing: 389 39O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec..'l8 RULES AND SUGGESTIONS GOVERNING PUBLICATION IX "PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON." RULE i. — No description of a new genus, or subgenus, will be published unless there is cited as a genotype a species which is established in accordance with current practice of zoological nomen- clature. RULE 2. — In all cases a new genus, or subgenus, must be character- ized and if it is based on an undescribed species the two must be characterized separately. RULE 3. — No description of a species, subspecies, variety or form, will be published unless it is accompanied by a statement which in- cludes the following information, where known: (i) the type-locality; (2) of what the type material consists — with statement of sex, full data on localities, dates, collectors, etc., and (3) present location of type material. RULE 4. — -No unsigned articles, or articles signed by pseudonyms or initials will be published. RULE 5. — The ordinal position of the group treated in any paper must be clearly given in the title or in parentheses following the title. SUGGESTION i. — All illustrations accompanying an article should be mentioned in the text and preferably in places where the object illus- trated is discussed. SUGGESTION 2. — It is desirable in describing new genera and species that their taxonomic relationship be discussed, and that distinguishing characters be pointed out. SUGGESTION 3. — In discussion of type material modern terms indicat- ing its precise nature will be found useful. Examples of these terms are: type (or holotype), allotype, paratype. cotype, lectotype, neotype, etc. SUGGESTION 4. — In all cases in the serial treatment of genera or species and where first used in general articles the authority for the species, or genus, should be given, and the name of the authority should not be abbreviated. SUGGESTION 5. — Where the title of any publication referred to is not written in full, standard abbreviations should be used. SUGGESTION 6. — When a species discussed has been determined by some one other than the author it is important that reference be made to the worker making the identification. So far as the NEWS is concerned, we have, we believe, ob- served most of these Rules and Suggestions for some years previous to the action of the Executive Committee at Wash- ington, and not a few letters have been sent out from ihe Editor's office to our contributors asking for fuller in forma- Vol. XXlx] KXTd.MOLOGICAL XE\YS. ,V ) I tion, of the kind mentioned in Rule 3, to be incorporated in their articles. As some of these cases are of very recent date, we take this opportunity to call the attention of all those send- ing in manuscripts to the NEWS to the importance and neces- sity of observing this and the other rules and suggestions printed above. In one respect only do we deviate from the Washingtonian formulae. We see no reason for discontinuing the Editors' prerogative of publishing unsigned editorials. In reply to a statement of our practice in this matter, the Secretary-Treas- urer of the Washington Society wrote : \Yhile at the time the editorials are written, everyone who reads them is familiar with the initials or with the fact that the editor is responsihle for them, years later, when conditions may have changed, these facts may he partly overlooked and the next generation may not he familiar with the initials. In other words, the point I am trying to make is merely this, that only the articles or editorials, which are signed hy the name of the author will be of a permanent nature. I helieve that by using the name of the author it will help to build science on a firmer foundation. }}'e shall not presume to say what weight should be attached to the editorials in the NEWS, but we still think they are better unsigned, even if speedy oblivion be the fate which is to over- take their authorship. Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. Bibliography of the North American Hemiptera in Preparation. As man}- of my correspondents know, I am engaged on a bibliography of the North American Hemiptera, designed to supplement Van Duzee's recent catalogue and undertaken at his suggestion.. It will be much appreciated as an aid in making the work complete, if authors will communicate with me regarding their works on this subject, more especially those whose publications are few in number or have appeared in the proceedings of state Academies or local societies. — H. M. Parsh- ley, Smith Collruc. Northampton, Mass. Entomological Collections cf the late W. H. Harrington. According to the Canadian I-'ntonii'lu^ist for September, 1918. the entomological collections of the late \Y. M. Harrington (whose death was recorded in the NEWS for October, page 320) have been acquired by the Entomological Branch of the Department of Avrii -ulture, ( ittaua. and will be incorporated in the Canadian National Collection of Insects there. 39-2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec.,'l8 A New List of Coleoptera of North America. As indicated elsewhere in this number of the NEWS, Mr. C. W. Leng, of New York, the well-known Coleopterist, has prepared a new list of the Coleoptera of North America, the publication of which will depend on the extent to which advance subscriptions shall be secured. As the list will be very useful, it is to be hoped that as many entomolo- gists as possible will come to the aid of this praiseworthy undertaking. Early Appearance of Lycaena antiacis and xerxes (Lepid.) in 1917. Following my usual yearly custom, I collected early in 1917 on the western slope of Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California (altitude ranging from 200 to 800 feet). My observations were as follows: February 5th — My first day out; white frost in A. M. No Lycaena to be seen, two C alias and one Anosia plexippus taken. February nth — White frost in A. M., weather bright but cold. No Lycaena to be seen, two C alias and one Anosia plc.vippus taken. March 6th — White frost in A. M., weather fine. One antiacis, one xerxes and two Anosia plcxippus taken. March nth — White frost in A. M., weather bright but cold. Two Colias and two Euchloe taken ; no Lycaena to be seen. March i5th — White frost in A. M. No Lycaena to be seen, two Euchloe and one Colin* taken. March iQth — White frost in A. M., weather fine. Two L. antiacis 9 9, two Euchloe ausonidcs, two Picris rapac, one plexippus and one P. atalanta taken. March 22nd — White frost in A. M., high wind. One Euchloe ausonidcs and two Lycaena acmon taken. Four Lycaena .rerxcs or antiacis seen, but could not be captured on account of the high wind. March 24th — White frost in A. M., weather warm. One xerxes 9 taken, many Pieris rapae and Anosia plexippus seen, not taken. March 27 — Two xerxes $ 9, one antiacis $, two Thccla dumcto- rum and one Euchloe ausonides taken. April 5th — Weather hot. One xerxes $ and two antiacis 9 $ taken ; numerous Colias, Pieris, plexippus seen but not taken. April I3th — Four xerxes 3 $ 9 , and five antiacis 3 ical Bulletin, Marine Biological Labora- tory, Woods Hole, Mass. 273 — Proceedings, Royal Society of Edinburgh. 420 — Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington. 530 Vol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 395 -Proceedings, British Columbia Entomological Society, Victoria. 540 — The Lepidopterist, Salem, Mass. GENERAL SUBJECT. Cameron, A. E.— Fos>il insects, with special reference to those of the tertiary lake deposits of the Simil- kameen Valley, B. C. 520, No. 10, 21-0. Chandler, A. C.— Animal parasites and human disease. (New York. John Wiley & Sons, 1918, 570 pp.) Chapman, T. A. — Racial and subspecific names. 21, 1018, 1G8-70. Crampton, G. C. — Thoracic sclerites of immature pterygotan insects, with notes on the relationships indicated. 102, xx, 30-65. Cushman, B. A. — A convenient method of handling large numbers of individuals in life-history studies of insects. 102, xx, 112-14. Cutler, D. W. — Natural and artificial partheno- genesis in animals. 118, Ixii, No. 2. Ely, C. R. — Recent entomo- logical chemistry and some notes concerning the food of insects. 102, xx, 12-18. Holland, W. J. — Shall writers upon the biological sciences agree to ignore systematic papers published in the German language since 1014? 68, xlviii, 469-71. Lochhead, W. — Few notes on the ecology of insects. 75, 1018. 85-91. Loeb, J. — Forced move- ments, tropisms, and animal conduct. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippin- cott Co., 200 pp., 1018.) Lyle, C. T. — An entomogenous fungus growing from the cocoon of a braconid. 9, 1918, 227-0. Tucker, E. T. — Determinations and records of insects collected at Piano. Texas. 72, xxviii. 201-H12. Wheeler, G. — Varietal and aberrational nomenclature. A protest. 21, 1018, 145-6. PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Hoy, W. E.— Tin- chromosomes in embryos of Epilachna horealis and Diabrotica vittata. 198, xxxv, 166-74. MEDICAL. Pierce, D. W.— Medical entomology a vital fact »r in the prosecution of the war. 102, xx. 01-104. ARACHNIDA, ETC. Emerton, J. H.— Transranadian spiders. 75, 1018, 76-8. Hutchinson, R. H.— Note on the life cycle and fer- tility of the body louse ( Pediculus corporis). 179, xi. 404-6. NEUROPTERA, ETC. Cockle, J. W.— Notes on the hyberna- tion of some larvae and the movement of Boreus in the snow. 520, No. 10, 14-15. Muir, F. — Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. — IT. Derbinae. 8, I'.ns. T.^-'HO (Com.) ORTHOPTERA. Allard, H. A.— Rhythmic synchronism in the chirping of certain crickets and locust^. 3, lii. 548-52. HEMIPTERA. Baker, A. C.— The identity of Aphis circe/andis. 102, xx. i::o-i. Barber, H. G. — Synoptic keys to the Lygaeidae of the U. S. 5, xxv, 71-88. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec.. 'iS Baker, A. C. — Another [new] Toxoptera feeding on sedge (Aphi- didae). 5, xxv, 88-93. Barber, H. G.— Genus Plinthisus in the U. S. [3 new]. 102, xx, 108-11. Ferris, G. F.— Notes on Coccidae, II. [4 n. g., 1 n. sp.]. 4, 1918, 323-32. LEPIDOPTERA. Blackmore, E. H.— Notes on Geometridae new to British Columbia. 520, No. 10, 16-20. Chapman, T. A.— The genus Hesperia. 21, 1918, 145, 161-8 (cont.). Corcoran, J. A.— Some notodontian larvae. 75, 1918, 47-9. Downes, W. — Notes on the L. of the northern Okanagan. 520, No. 10, 11-13. Durrant, J. H. — Key to Hubner's system of classification exemplified by the complete family Alucitae of Hubner's "Verzeichniss," pp. 428-31, sp. 4177-4198. 21, 1918, Aug.-Sept. issue. Dyar, H. G.— New moths from Mexico and Cuba. 420, vi, 130-40. French, C. H. — Notes on Catocala julietta and C. muliercula. 17, ii, 36. Riser, O. F. & J. S. —Life history of Catocala nuptialis. 540, ii, 66-9. Huie, L. H. — The formation of the germ-band in the egg of the holly tortrix moth, Eudemis naevana. 273, xxxviii, 154-65. Kopec, S. — Lokalisations- versuche am zentralen nervensystem der raupen und falter. 89, Abt. f. Zool., xxxvi, 453-502. Reiff, W. — Alorpho cypris f. mirandus form. nov. 17, ii, 58-9. Wormsbacher, H. — Collecting in Ohio during the spring of 1918. 17, ii, 75-7. Ehrmann, G. A. — New sps. and var. of butterflies [5]. Two new So. American Hesperidae. 17, ii, 21-22, 29-30: 66. Heinrich, C. — A new genus of L. allied to Leucoptera. On the lepidopterous genu^ Opostega and its larval affinities. 102, xx. 21-2; 27-38. DIPTERA. BalJowe, H. L. — Breeding of mosquitoes in alkaline water. 5, xxv, 96. Dunn, L. H. — A new mosquito from Colombia. 102, xx, 128-30. Dyar & Barret — Descriptions of hitherto unknown larvae of Culex. 420, vi, 119-20. Dyar A Knab — Bromelicolus Ano- pheles— A correction. 420, vi, 140-1. Hosier & Snyder — Notes on gadflies in the Florida everglades. 102, xx, 115-26. Pause, J. — Bei- trage zur biologic und physiologie der larve von Chironomus gre- garius. 89, Abt. f. Zool, xxxvi, 339-452, Aldrich, J. M. — New and little known Canadian Oscinidae [4 new]. 4, 1918, 336-43. Dyar, H. G. — [Twelve] new American mos- quitoes. Notes on American Anopheles. 420, vi, 120-9: 141-51. Greene, C. T.— Three new sps. of D. 102, xx, 69-71. Malloch, J. R. —Revision of the dipterous family Clusiodidae (Heteroneuridae), [1 new]. Genus Cnemedon in N. Am. (Syrphidae), [l new]. 102, xx, 2-8; 127-8. Pettey, F. W.— -A new sp. of Sciara bred from red clover crowns. 179, xi, 420. Townsend, C. H. T. — Some muscoid synonymy, with one new genus. 102, xx, 19-21. New muscoid Vol.xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 397 genera, species and synonymy [12 n. g., 8 n. sps.J. 420, vi, 151-56 (cont.). COLEOPTERA. Becker, G. G.— Cannibalism in Euetheola rugi- ceps. 179, xi. 431. Champion, G. C. — Notes on various species of the American genus Astylus. with descriptions of their sexual char- acters. 11, ii, 337-67. McGregor, E. A. — A new plant host of the boll weevil. 102, xx, 78-9. Morris, F. J. A. — A comedy of errors. 75, 1918, 68-75. Morse, F. — Fireflies flashing in unison. 68, xlviii, 418-19. Myers, L. — C. from the Claremont Laguna region. 189, x, 43-53. Pierce, W. D. — Case of the genera Rhina and Magdalis. 102, xx. 72-s. Ritchie, W. — The structure, bionomics, and forest importance of Myelophilus minor. 150, Hi, 213-34. Blaisdell, F. E. — Synopsis of the genus Tegrodera \1 new]. 4, 1918, 333-5. Fisher, W. S.— A new sp. of Agrilus from Florida. 102, xx, 67-8. HYMENOPTERA. Cockerell, T. D. A.— New halictine bees from Chile. A group of American halictine bees simulating the old world genus Nomioides. 4, 1918, 343-5; 348-9. Cushman, R. A. — Correct names for some of our common ichneumonid parasites. 102, xx, 9-12. Gatenby, J. B.— Polyembryony in parasitic H. 177, Ixiii, 175-90. Kutter, H. — Beitrage zur ameisenbiologie. 81, xxxviii, 110-16. Nelson, J. A.— An eyeless drone honeybee. 102, xx, 105-8. Wasmann, E. — Bemerkungen zur neuen auflage von K. Escherich "Die Ameise." 81, xxxviii, 116-29. Gahan, A. B. — Description of a new hymenopterous parasite (Braconidae). Three new chalcidoid egg-parasites. On Propachy- neuron (Chalcidoidea). 102, xx, 18-19; 23-6; 66. Rohwer, S. A.— Note on Chalcis abiesae. New sawflies of the subfamily Diprio- ninae. 102, xx, 18; 79-90. A REVISION OF THE VESPIDAE OF THE BELGIAN CONGO Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, with a List of Ethiopian Diplopterous Wasps. By J. BEQUAERT. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, XXXIX, article i, pages 1-384, plates I-VI, 267 text-figures. New York, Aug. 2, igiS. In common with other taxonomists to whom the description of new species is a necessary and time-consuming, yet not at all pleasurable, feature of their work, the reviewer always feels a distinct satisfaction in handling a comprehensive, well-balanced and adequately illustrated systematic treatise. This satisfaction is further increased if the work goes beyond systematics alone and adds valuable data on the habits and distribution of the species studied. The publication here noticed is distinctly in this category, being in addition clearly presented and 39$ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 admirably arranged, with its geographic information supported by the personal knowledge of the Congo possessed by the author. The material collected by Messrs. Lang and Chapin on the Amer- ican Museum Congo Expedition formed the basis of Dr. Bequaert's contribution. In other groups of insects the study of these collections will supply equally important, and let us hope equally satisfactory and comprehensive, works. The Lang-Chapin collection of Vespidae was made in the Belgian Congo between June, 1909, and October, 1915, and consisted of over 2700 specimens of the family, the most extensive col- lection of that group ever made in the Ethiopian region. We are in- formed the best series were from regions the wasp faunae of which were practically unknown previous to that time, among these being the Ituri forests and the savannahs of the northeastern Uele region. The collections studied contained representatives of 83 species and 24. "well marked color varieties," of which 21 species and 9 varieties are described for the first time in this paper. Of the remaining 62 species only 25 "had hitherto been found within the boundaries of the Belgian Congo." To summarize, on the basis of the present paper, we now know of 101 species of Yespidae from the Belgian Congo, 21 of which are here first described and 37 first recorded from that territory. According to Bequaert the Belgian Congo possesses "about one-fifth of the total number of Vespidae described from the entire Ethiopian region." The types of all the new species and varieties are deposited in the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History. Certain features of the paper deserve having attention called to them, both from their value in this paper and also their worth as models for other authors. On page 7 is given a list of approximate locations of places mentioned in the paper, with districts and latitude and longitude, which is supplemented on page 9 by a map of the Congo Basin, show- ing the localities mentioned and the limits of the West African Rain Forest. Under "Specific Characters in the Vespidae" we find an interesting resume on the relative value of structural and color characters, which is so presented that it applies to many groups of insects other than the Vespidae. The summary given on page 11 is to our mind so clearly stated and axiomatic we may be pardoned for quoting it. "The varia- tion of the color markings is always much greater than that of the structural characters. In many cases we find an almost constant struc- tural type presenting numerous, different color varieties; it seems evi- dent that these color forms are genetically related ; the color characters may be more recent and therefore less stable, or they may be more subject to modifications under the influence of external factors. At any rate, they may be considered as different clothes worn by the same morphological type, this type being of monophyletic origin. The prob- lem becomes still more interesting when we note the occurrence of the Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XKWS. 399 same color pattern, the same cloth, in very different morphological types, often belonging to different genera." Under "Peculiarities of the Ethiopian Wasp Fauna" we find a most interesting discussion, to illustrate which the author uses Engler's im- portant map of the botanical regions of Africa. This section of the paper has a value to any zoologist studying the Ethiopian representa- tives of any group. Here we also find included a distributional table of the numbers of genera and species of Vespidae found in the major faunal divisions of the world, which emphasizes the relative poverty of the Ethiopian region in diplopterous wasps, when compared with the Neotropical and Australian and Oriental regions. In the descriptive account of the species the method of treatment is well worthy of imitation elsewhere. After remarks on each genus in the Ethiopian region we have a summary of the known ethology of the genus, followed by a key to the Congo species and frequently maps showing the Ethiopian distribution of the genus discussed. The de- scriptions of species, new and re-described previously known forms, are particularly full, accompanied by well selected outline illustrations of the diagnostic features. In certain cases genera are fully re-de- scribed. Under certain genera, as Euincncs, summaries of the general types of coloration found in the genus are presented, while the ethological information is often very comprehensive. The treatment of the wide- ly distributed ftnmcncs inaxillosus is particularly exhaustive, and here we find tabulations of the parallelism of similarly colored forms in morphologically distinct genera on which phase of the subject are further data under the genera Odyncnis. Rhynchalastor and Synagris. The information concerning the acarid chambers of the species of the genus Nortonia is detailed and well illustrated. Under the genus Synagris is discussed the curious feature of loss of terminal palpal joints, which is of value in securing a proper concep- tion of the importance of these features in the taxonomy of the genus. The "Bibliographic and Synonymic Catalogue of the Ethiopian Ves- pidae" covers pages 266 to 350. In character it is clear and well ar- ranged, and also conforms with the best practice of the times in giv- ing both summaries of the distribution and the type localities of the species. A particularly full index closes the paper. As a whole the paper is an excellent one, which any entomologist, or in fact any systematic biologist, would do well to examine, if for no other reason than to profit by the method of presentation of the con- tents. The author, the American Museum of Natural History and the Congo Expedition members equally can feel pride in the publication of Dr. Bequaert's study. May all the Congo reports be as commendable as this one.— J. A. G. RKJIN. 4OO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l8 OBITUARY. Obituary notices of JOHN W. BRADLEY, of the United States Bureau of Entomology, died July 4, 1918, and of VERNON KING, of the same Bureau, died April 11, 1918, are given in the Journal of Economic Entomology for August, 1918. Both were in the aviation service. Professor DAVID ERNEST LANTZ, assistant biologist in the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, who died in Washington, D. C., on October /, 1918, took an active interest in the entomological fauna of Kansas during his residence in that State from 18/8 to 1904. He was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, March I, 1855. FREDERICK KNAB, of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, died November 2, 1918, after a long illness. He was born in Wurzburg, Germany, September 22, 1865, and after serving as zoological artist to the State Entomologist of Illinois in 1903-1905, entered the service of the Bureau in 1906. He was associated with Doc- tors L. O. Howard and H. G. Dyar in the authorship of the four volume work, The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, published by the Carnegie In- stitution of Washington, 1912-1917. A biography, bibliography, and probably a portrait, of Mr. Knab will be published in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of IVasliington, of which he was a member. His duties as Custodian of Diptera in the United States National Museum will be assumed by Prof. J. M. Aldrich. V. A. ERICH DAECKE, of the Advisory Committee of the NEWS, died at Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York, on October 28, 1918. We hope to give an account of his entu mological work in our next number. The death of STUART C. VINAL, of the Massachusetts Agri- cultural Experiment Station, on September 26, 1918, is an- nounced in Science. He was twenty-three years old. "He dis- covered the presence of the European corn borer, Pyraitsta nuliilalis, in this country last year and was engaged in the study of its habits when seized with influenza." INDEX TO VOL XXIX. (* indicates new genera, species or varieties.; ALDRICII, J. M. The anthomyid genus Pogonomyia. (Illus.; Samuel Wendell \Yilliston .......................... 322 ALEXANDER, C. P. A new interpretation of the wing-vena- tion of the Pediciine crane-flies. (Illus.) .......... 201 New species of Crane-flies from California .......... 285 BAERG, W. J. Key to eastern species of Rh\f>lins ........ 354 BARBER, H. G. Corrections to "New York Scolopostethi". 51 BEUTEXMULLER, \V. Description of a new Pcridlstus. . . .251 Notes on Cynipidae, with description of a new species. 327 BI,AISDELL, F. E. Studies in the tenebrionid tribe Eleodiini. Nos. 3, 4 ................................... 162, 380 Studies in the Tenebrionidae ........................ 7 BRAUN, A. F. New genera and species of Lyonetiidae .... 245 BRIMLEY, C. S. Records of North Carolina Odonata t'n-ni 1908 to 1917 .................................... 227 BRITTAIN, W. H. Entomological Society of Xova Scotia. A Correction .................................... 3^ CALVERT, P. P. An appeal for co-operation. ( Editorial ).. i 12 Entomology in Central Europe. (Editorial) ......... 353 Entomology at the convocation week meetings. ( Fciitorial ! /i The forms of generic and specific names. ( Editorial ) . . Hj2 Making the editorial of greater use to entomology. ( Editorial) ................................ 232. 270 No simple life for insects. ( Editorial) .............. 313 The present crisis. ( Editorial ) ..................... 33 Review : Lutx's Field book of Insects ................ 155 Rules and suggestions for our contributors. ( Editorial (. CAI'DKI.!., A. X. Regarding Dinphcrotucra rdici and Mmi- d hlalchlc\l ................................. •JOJ 402 INDEX COCKERELL, T. D. A. A remarkable new bee of the genus O.vaea 252 Some bees of the genus Pannrginns 169 The Bembicine wasps 59 COLE, F. R. A new genus of Cyrtidae from South Amer- ica. (Illus.) 6 1 CRESSON, E. T., JR. New North American Diptera 133 CRESSON & REHN. (See Entomological Literature.) CURRIE, R. P. Occurrence of the damselfly, Argiallagma minutum, in southern Florida 271 DICKERSON & WEISS, t'orythitcha spinuloso, a new lace- bug on wild cherry. (Illus.) 121 DICKERSON, E. L. (See also Weiss & Dickerson.) DOZIER, H. L. An annotated list of Gainesville. Florida, Coleoptera 205, 331, 370 DUNN, L. H. The lake mosquito, Mansonia titillans, and its host plant, Pistia stratiotes, in the Canal Zone, Pan- ama 260. 288 EMERTON, J. H. A new house spider 74 EWING, H. E. The beetle-mite fauna of Mary's Peak, Coast Range, Oregon. (Illus.) Si FAUST, E. C. A new Tyroglyphid for western Montana. (Illus.) ' .336 FERRIS, G. F. The alleged occurrence of a seasonal di- morphism in the females of certain species of mealy bugs . . 349 Fox, H. On a long-winged or caudate phase of Ncotctti.r proarus. (Illus.) 347 FROST, C. W. Dragonfly larva feeding on a living snake. .335 FUNKHOUSER, W. D. A new membracid on Cypress. (Illus.) .185 GARNETT, R. T. Beetle, Hippomelas splicnictts, prey of wasp 1 42 Notes on Dinapatc Bright ii. (Illus.) 41 GILLETTE, G. P. Some grass-root Aphicls. (Illus.) 281 GIRAULT, A. A. New and old West Indian and North American chalcid flies 125 The North American species of Ccrcliysins, females . . .65 INDEX 403 GOE, M. T. Life history of Gastroidea caesia 224 HANCOCK, J. L. A new genus and t\vo new species of Tet- tigids, with a note on Noniotctti.r borcalis. ( I Hits. 'i . .343 HEBARD, M. A correction concerning Labia uunulata and Labia dorsalis 66 A generic assignment of three North American species of Dermaptera 5 (See also Rehn & Hebard.) HOPFINGER, J. C. Notes on Papilla iinira 354 HOWARD, L. O. A note on insects found on snow at high elevations 375 An unusual bumblebees' nest 114 Moonstones in a Cecropia cocoon 15 HUGUENIN, J. C. Early appearance of Lycacna antiacis and .rcr.vcs 392 HUNGERFORD, H. B. Concerning the oviposition of Noto- nectae. (Illus.) 241 IRELAND, \Y. H. Collecting notes from California 353 JONES, F. M. Dorniphora rcnnsta in Sarraceuia flai'ci. ( Illus.) 299 KXAB & VAN ZWALUWENBURG. A second Mycetophila with dung-bearing larva. (Illus.) 138 KNIGHT, H. H. New species of Lopldca from Arizona. (Illus.) 172 Old and new species of Lopidca from the United States. (Illus.) 210 KNULL, J. N. A new species of Eupogonius from Penn- sylvania 132 LAURENT, P. Notes on variations and abnormal forms of three species of Saturniidae. ( Illus.) 161 LENG, C. W. Genitalia of Rhynchophora — Material want- ed 150 LKUSSLER, R. A. Interesting butterfly occurrence at Bee- ville, Texas 149 McArEK, \Y. L. Psyllidae of the vicinity of Washington. D. C., with description of a new species of Aphalara, ( Illus. ) 220 Vaporous discharge by Anisomorpha bnprcstoldcs 388 404 INDEX McDuNNOUGH, J. Dates of issue of the plate of Guerin's Iconographie du Regne Animal 378 A review of reviews 187 MALLOCH, J. R. Another European anthomyiid in Illi- nois 113 A new species of Johannsenomyia 229 Obituary : Charles A. Hart 157 Occurrence of a European Anthomyiid in Illinois 32 Pyrrhotcs hacmatoloma and Lcptocoris tririltatits in Illi- nois 284 Two new North American Phoridae 146 MARCHAND, W. The larval stages of Argyra albicans. (Illus.) 216 MARLATT, C. L. Interrelations of different species of in- sects 74 PARKER, R. R. Data concerning flies that frequent privy vaults in Montana 143 PARSHLEV, H. M. Bibliography of the North American Hemiptera in preparation 391 RAU, P. Maternal care in Dlnocoris triptcrus 75 REHN, J. A. G. Obituary: Adolph Friedrich, grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 159 Review : Bequaert's Revision of the Vespidae of the Bel- gian Congo . . 397 (See also Cresson & Rehn.) REHN & HEBARD. A new species of the genus Nemobius from California. (Illus.) 102 ROBERTSON, C. Proterandry and flight of bees 340 Some genera of bees 91 ROHWER, S. A. Notes on and descriptions of the Nearctic wood-wasps of the genus Xiphydria 105 SCIIAUS, W. A new Agrias from Guatemala 387 SELL, R. A. Notes on the hibernating of the belted cucum- ber beetle (»3 SKINNER, H. Argynms apachcana, a new name 67 As to types. (Editorial.) 148 INDEX 4°5 A gynandromorph of Callosainia ani/ulifera and .Mcli- tuca phaeton aber. strcckcri 369 ' >bituary notice of \\'illiam D. Kearfott I Review : Barnes & McDimnough's Contributions, \ ol. IV. Pt. 2 277 Review : ( )'berthur's Ktudes de Lepidopterologie Com- paree 1 18 Review: Escomel's The Lalrodcctns niaclans and the Gliptocranium gasteracanthoides in the Department of Arequipa, Pern 1 1 8 Review: Nagano's Study of the Japanese Lasiocampidae.iQ? Review : Report of the proceedings of the Second Ento- mological meeting held at Pusa, India 277 Sclcnis sucroidcs 44 Some species of Copacodcs 150 SMITH, M. R. A key to the known species of South Caro- lina ants, with notes 17 STEARNS, L. A. Description of a new species of the family Cercopidae from Wisconsin 3 STiinclio- idcs ii'-' brid-:\.'clli*. I'oci-Houota 53 P>upri -tidui- from tlic Pacific States, Xe\v 53 cacsia, (insti-oiilcii 224 culifiirnica*. Melanophila .... 54 californicHs, Hurystethes .... 307 Chrysobothris (see falli. l/iri- cis, e.rcsa). INDEX Coniontis (see hoppingi, mus- cula, montana). Diabrotica baltcata. Hibernat- ing of 93 Dinapatc u'rightii. Notes on (ill.) • 4i Eleodes, Interesting new 255 (See also brerisetosa, nun- cnmacheri, z'errucula, pro- pinqna, iinitabilis, clongata, attenuata, squalida, z'an- dykei, hornii, monticula, perpunctata, gig ant ea, meri- dionalis, patruclis, horrida, affinis). Eleodiini, Studies in the.. 162, 380 elongata*, Eleodes hispilabris imitabilis 167 Eupogonius from Pennsylva- nia, New 132 Eurystethes (see californicus, stejnegeri, fuchsii, subopa- cus}. exesa, Chrysobothris 58 falli*, Chrysobothris 56 fra.vini*, Eupogonius 132 fuchsii, Eurystethes 307 Gastroidea caesia, Life history and habits 224 Genitalia of Rhynchophora, Material wanted 150 yigantca, Eleodes 386 Hibernating of the belted cu- cumber beetle 93 Plippomelas sphcnicus, prey of wasp 142 hoppingi*, Coniontis 7 hornii, Eleodes 385 horrida*, Eleodes cordata... 383 imitabilis*, Eleodes hispilabris 167 Inter-tidal rock-dwelling cole- optera 303 Interrelations of different spe- cies 74 lapidicolus*, Ochtliebius 306 laricis, Chrysobothris 58 Life history and habits of Gastroidea caesia 224 List of Coleoptera of North America 392 List of Gainesville, Florida, Coleoptera 295, 331, 370 Material desired for study... 64 tncridionalis*, Eleodes gigan- tea 387 Melanophila (see calif ornica) . montana, Coniontis n monticula*, Eleodes hornii.. 385 muscula*, Coniontis globulina 9 nigripennis*. Thalassotrcclius. 304 nuncnmacheri*, Eleodes 163 Ochthcbius (see lapidicolus}. patruelis*. Eleodes pimelio- ides 382 pcrpuncata*. Eleodes dentipes 386 Poccilonota (see bridzvelli). propinqua*, Eleodes 165 Rhynchophora, Material want- ed for genitalia 150 Rock-dwelling coleoptera from California, New 303 sphenicus, Hippomelas 142 squalida*, Eleodes parricollis 380 stejnegeri, Eurystethes 307 subopacus*, Eurystethes .... 308 Tenebrionid tribe Eleodiini, Studies in 162, 380 Tenebrionidae, Studies in the 7 Thalassotrcclius* 303 randykci, Eleodes 381 rerrucula*, Eleodes nunen- inacheri 164 wrightii, Dinapatc (ill.) 41 DIPTERA Additions to New Jersey list. 312 ddrogans*, Cordilura 135 albicaiis, .-Irf/yra 216 INDEX 411 albnla, Phorbia 32 alpicola, Pogonomyia (ill.)... 184 altcrnatus. Rhyphus 354 amans*, Cordilura 134 amocna*. Orthacheta 133 ancylifonnans, Mycctophila (ill.) 139 annulicornis*, Johannsenom- yia 230 Anthomyid genus Pogonomyia (ill.) • 179 Anthomyiid in Illinois, Occur- rence of 32, 113 Aphiochacta (see quadripunc- tata). Apoccphalus (see pictus). appcndiculatus. Asyndctus .... 46 argcntatus*, Hydrophonts ... 50 Argyra albicans, Larval stages (ill.) 216 Asyndctus (see appendicula- tus). aterrima, Pogonomyia 182 caz'icola*. Chiricahuia 178 chilensis*. Villains (ill.) 63 Chiricahuia* 177 cinctipennis*, Erioptera 286 Cordilura (see ricrccki. amans, adrogans). Crane flies from California, New 285 Crane flies, Wing venation of 201 cun-ipcs*. Hydrophorus (ill.) 48 Cyrtidae from South America, A new genus of (ill.) 61 Dactylolabis (see Limnophila) . dintidiata*. Parallelomma . . . . J35 Dolichopodidae, New North American (ill.) 45 Dohrniphora venusta in Sar- raccnia flora (ill.) 299 1 >ung-hearing larva of Myce- tophila 138 I'.riopicra (see cinctipennis). l;.unjpean Anthomyiid in Illi- nois 32, 113 fciicstralis, Rhyfhns 354 flavicornis* , Paradius 48 fhrcida*. Phyllolabis 287 Flies that frequent privy vaults in Montana, Data concerning 143 Hcrcostoinus (see unicolor). Hydrophorus (see curi'ipes, argcntatus). Johannscnomyia. New spe- cies of 229 Lake mosquito (see Mansonia titillans). laticrus*, Tachytrechus (ill.) 46 Larval stages of Argyra albi- cans (ill.) 216 I c pits*, Parasyntormon (ill.). 45 Limnophila (see nitidithorax) . Mansonia titillans and its host plant in the Canal zone, 260, 288 mcrdigcra*, Mycctophila (ill.) 140 Mosquitoes and the war 191 Mosquito, Mansonia titillans and its host plant in the Canal zone 260, 288 Muscoid genus from Chirica- hua mountains of Arizona, New 177 Mycctophila with dung-hear- ing larva (ill.) 138 nigrocaudatus*, Paradius.... 47 nigrolanata*. Scathophaga.. . . 136 nigrolimbata*, Scathophaga... 137 nitcns. Pogonomyia 183 nitidithora.v* , Limnophila .... 288 nudicornis*, Parallelomma ... 135 Orthacheta (see amoena). I'aracliits (see nigrocaudatus, flavicornis). Parallclonnna (see nudicomis, diinidiata, I'icina). (see Icptts). 412 INDEX Pediciine crane flies, Interpre- tation of wing venation (ill.) 201 Phaonia (see qucrccti). Phorbia (see albula). Phoridae, New North Ameri- can 146 Phyllolabis (see flaiida}. pictus*, ApoccphaJns 146 Pogonomyia, Anthomyid genus (ill.) .". 179 Privy vault flies 143 Protoplasa (see vanduzeei). punctatus, Rhyphits 354 quadripunctata*, Aphiochaeta. 147 qucrceti, Phaonia 113 Rhyphus, Key to eastern spe- cies 354 Scathophaga (see nigrolanata, nigrolimbata) . Scathophagidae, New North American 133 spinitarsis*, Pogonomyia 180 Tachytrcchus (see laticrus}. titillans, Mansonia 260, 288 unicolor, Hercostomus 46 vanduseei*, Protoplasa 285 •venusta, Dohnriphora (ill.)--- 299 vicina*, Parallclomma 136 vierecki*, Cordilura 134 Fillalus* (ill.) 61 War, Mosquitoes and 191 Wing-venation of the Pedi- ciine crane flies, New inter- pretation of (ill.) 201 HEMIPTERA Additions to New Jersey list.. 309 agrifoliae, Pscudococcns .... 349 apache*, Lopidca (ill.) 173 Aphalara, New species of (ill.) 220 Aphididae, Studies in the fam- ily (ill.) 361 Aphids, Some grass-root (ill.) 281 arizonac*, Lopidca (ill.) 172 atlanticus, Scolopostcthus 52 Bibliography of North Ameri- can Hemiptera in prepara- tion 391 Brachycolus 364 cacsar, Lopidca (ill.) 212 calif ornicus, Monellia 366 caricicola*, Thripsaphis (ill.) 367 caryella, Monellia 365 Cercopidae from Wisconsin . . 3 Cerosipha (see cupressi). Chinch bug, Extra molt 233 confluens, Lopidca (ill.)..... 211 Corythucha pergandci, Early stages of (ill.) 205 spinulosa, a new lace-bug (ill.) 121 Cottony cushion scale in Cey- lon 274 Cryptosiphum 365 cupressi, Cerosipha 364 diffidcns, Scolopostcthus .... 52 Dimorphism in certain species of mealy bugs 349 Dinocoris tripterus, Maternal care in 75 Early stages of Corythucha (ill.) 205 cas*, Aphalara (ill.) 221 Forda (see formicaria, oliva- cca). formicaria, Forda (ill.) 282 garryae*, Lopidca (ill.) 175 glauca, Notonecta (ill.) 245 hacmatoloma, Pyrrhotcs .... 284 Icerya purchasi in Ceylon . . . 274 incurra*, Lopidca (ill.) 214 indica, Notonecta (ill.) 245 insulata, Notonecta (ill.).... 245 intermedia*, Lopidca (ill.)... 210 Interrelations of different spe- cies 74 INDEX irrorata, Notonccta (ill.).... Lace-bug on wild cherry (ill.) lateralis*, Lopidca (ill.) lepidii*. Lopidca (ill.) Leptocoris in Illinois Lopidca from Arizona (ill.). Lopidca from the L'nitcd States, Old and new (ill.) . . lutca, Notonccta (ill.) Macrosiphoniella Miicrosiplmm, A new (ill.)... major*. Lopidca ( ill.) Maternal care in Dinocoris tripterus Mealy bugs, Occurrence of a seasonal dimorphism in fe- males of media, Lopidca (ill.) Aiembracid on Cypress (ill.). mc.vicana, Notonccta (ill.)... Lopidca (ill.).. . nymphal stages bug of minima* Molt in chinch M osellia nai'ajo*, Lopidca (ill.) Notonectae, Oviposition of (ill.) nymphal stages of chinch bug, Extra molt I'liracca, I'orda (ill.) Oviposition of Notonectae (ill.) parallelus*, J'hilticinis pcraandci, Corythuclia (ill ). Philaenus (see parallelus). picta* , Lopidca (ill.) Psfudococcus (see agrifolitic. (jucrcicolus, trifolii). Psyllidae of the vicinity of Washington, D. C purchasi, leery a f'yrrhotes and Leptocoris in Illinois iji-iircicoliis, Psctidococcus.. . . 121 174 175 284 172 210 244 362 230 215 75 349 2IO 185 245 176 233 365 173 241 233 283 241 3 205 214 220 274 284 350 ralciuhli, Xotonccta (ill.).... 245 rh niodendri*, Macroslplnun (ill.) 230 rol-iniac, Lopidca (ill.) 211 .\nnhrtrn i, Macrosiplnnn (ill.) 363 suyi*, Lopidca (ill.) 212 Scolopostethi, Corrections.... 51 .lii. PscudococcHS 351 friiiiicdtus*. Stictolnbus (ill.) 185 triptcrns, Dinocoris 75 triritiatHX, Leptocoris 284 uhlcri, Xotonccta (ill.) 245 undnlata, Xotonccta (ill.) .... 245 rariabilis, Notonecta (ill.)... 245 HYMENOPTERA abdominalis, Xiphydria 107 Additions to New Jersey list. 312 ticncircntris, Panurifiimx .... 170 af/rifoliac, Callirhytis 328 americanus, Camponotus .... 26 a in eric aims, Lasius 28 amcriccnsis*, Stoinatoceras .. . 127 analis. Iridomynncx 24 .-Indrictts (see impositus). Ants of South Carolina 17 Aphacnogaster (see trcatae. lamellidens, fulra. carolcn- sis ) . .]tta (see septentrionalis) . attcrina, Dolichodcrus tasch- cnhenii 23 bad'ms, Pogonomyrmc.r Jo basalts, Xiphydria no Bees, Some genera of 91 Bembicine wasps 59 414 INDEX Biorhisa (see > i Ig r a ) . Boinbus, Unusual nest of.... 114 Bruchobiu'S (see laticeps). Bumblebees' nest, Unusual... 114 caespitum, Tetramorium 22 calif ornicus, Clostcrocerus . . . 131 Callirhytis (see agrifoliae). callurus*, Panurginus 169 Camponotus (see pennsylva- nicus, dccipiens, ncarcticus, amcricanus). canadensis, Xiphydria no carmc, Idarncs 129 carolensis, Aphacnogastcr 21 castanopsidis*, Pcrisclistus.. . 251 caudatus, Cerchysius 65 Cerchysius, North American species of 65 Chalcid-flies, West Indian and North American 125 claviger, Lasins 29 Closterocerus (see utahensis). clypcatus*, Polycystus 128 concinnus, Panurginus 171 coriacea, Halictus 91 crassicornis, Phcidole 22 Cremastogaster (see missour- iensis, lutea, lineolata). Curtisapis* 91 curvispinosus, Leptothora.v.. . 19 cyaneiventris, Mosolelaps. . . . 129 Cynipidae, Notes and descrip- tions 327 decipiens, Camponotus 26 dcntata, Phcidole 22 Dolichodcrus (see marine, plagiatus, pitstulatits, at- terina) . Dorymyrmc.v (see pyramicus, niger, flavus). Eciton (see opacithorax) . Eiscniclla (see Sccundciscnia). elasmoceri, Cerchysius 65 Epivnelissodes* 9- crythrogastra, Xiphydria 108 eitdami*, Pscudomphalc 130 flai'icornis, Grotiusoinyia 126 flarus, Dorymyrmex 24 Flight of bees 340 Formica (see subsericca, in- tegra, pallidc-fulra, schau- fussi). fuli'a, Aphacnogaster 21 fulvicollis, Philonix 328 georgicus, Megachile 92 Grotiusomyia* 125 haematura*, O.vaca 252 Hctcrosarus* 91 hicoriac*, Xiphydria 109 hubbardi, Cerchysius 65 humilis, Iridomyrmc.v 24 Idarncs (see carmc). imparis, Prenolcpis 27 impositus*, Andricus 329 incerta, Sycophila 129 innuptus, Panurginus 171 intcgra, Formica 27 intcrjcctus, Lasius 29 Interrelations of different species 74 Iridomyrmc.v (see humilis, analis). kansensis*. Pleurotropis 128 Key to ants of South Carolina 17 lamcllidens, Aphacnogaster... 21 hiiacglobnli, Philoni.r 328 Lasius (see americanus, lati- pes, clai'igcr, inter jectus.) laticcps, Bruchobius 129 latipes, Lasius 29 Leptothora.r (see currispin- osus, pcrgandci). lineolata, Cremastogaster 19 ligatus, Halictus 91 lutca, Cremastogaster lineo- lata 19 maculata, Xiphydria 108 mariae, Dolichoderus 23 INDEX 4'5 tnarylandicns, Cerchysius ..... maura, Pcrdita .............. mc.vicana, Secundeisenia ...... minimum, Monomorium ..... Mii>tmpsis (see Grntittso- myia). missouriensis, Cremastogaster rictima ................... Monomorium (see minimum), morrisi, Phcidolc ........... Mosolelaps (see cyancircn- tris). Nearctic wood-wasps of the genus Xiphydria .......... nearcticus, Camponotus ...... iiebnlosd. Odontocynips ..... Xcotrypctes* ................ nic/ra, Biorhisa .............. uii/cr. Dorymyrmex ......... nic/ricans, Grotiusomyia ..... ni(/ricollis. Philoni.v ......... nitcscens*, Panurginus ...... Odontalictits* ............... Odontocynips (see nebulosa). Omphalchrysocharis (see pet- iolatus). opacithorax, Eciton ......... O.raea, Remarkable new ...... pallide-fulva, Formica ....... pallipcs, Ccrchysins ......... Paintffiiiuis. Some bees of... pitrritla. f'rcnolcpis .......... pan us, Calliopsis ........... pennsyh'anicus, Rinnbits ..... pcnnsylvanicus, Camponotus.. pcrciandci, Lcptolhorax ...... pergandci, Sysphincta ....... Pcriclistus, Description of a new ...................... s*, Omphalchrysoch- ars gi 126 20 19 21 105 26 329 91 327 24 126 328 170 91 i8 252 27 65 169 28 9i IM 26 19 17 251 170 i.U Plici(I<>!c (see uiorrisi. cnissi- cnrni.'i. tysoui, dciitntti. I'inc- landica), Philonix (see fulvicollis, >ti£- rit'iillix, lanac globuli ) . pic'Tfi. Panunjinus 171 " pldi/idtus. [itilicliodcrus 23 plaiiatits*. I'aintrf/inus 171 Plcurotropis (see kansensis). Pogonomyrmex (see badius). Polycystns (see clypcatus) . Prctwlcpis (see imparts, par- Tula). productus, Trypctcs 91 Proterandry and flight of bees 340 provancheri, Xiphydria 109 I'sendomphalc (see cttdami). pustulatus, Dolichoderus pla- giatus 23 pyramicus, Dorymyrmex .... J4 rudbcckiac, Panurginus 171 saltensis, Panurginus 170 Sarogastcr* 92 schanfussi, Formica 27 Secundeisenia (see mexicana). Seladonia* 91 scladonia, Ualictns 91 septentrionalis, Trachymyr- me.r 20 rcssilc, Tapinoma 25 steinbachi, Panurginus 170 Stomatoceras (see unipuneta- tipennis, americensis. tenui- cornis). siil'sericea, Formica 27 Sycophila (see incerta). Sysphincta (see pergandei). Tapinoma (see sessile). tenuicornis*, Stomatoceras... i-'7 Tctramorium ( see caespitum). til'ialis, Xiphydria no Trachymyrmex (see septen- trionalis). traetae, . Iphacnogastcr 21 Tyjies of bembicine wasps. ... 59 lysoni, I'lieidole 22 unipunctatipennis*J Stonnito- ceras I-'/ 416 INDEX utaliensis, Closterocerus 131 vagabundus*, Panurginus 169 •vinelandica, Phcidole 22 U'alshii, Xiphydria no Wasps, Bembicine 59 -n'liitticri*, Ccrchysius 66 Wood-wasps (see Xiphydria). Xiphydria, Notes and descrip- tions of 105 Zaodontomcrus* 92 Zaperdita* 91 LEPIDOPTERA Abnormal forms of Saturnii- dae (ill.) 161 Additions to New Jersey list.. 309 Agrias from Guatemala, A new 387 ttngularis*, Dicranoctctes 251 angulifera, Callosamia 369 antiacis, Lycaena 392 apachcana*, Argynnis 67 Argynnis apacheana n.n 67 (see also nokomis). aurantiaca, Copaeodes 151 battoides, Lycaena 99 bcniardino, Lycaena battoides (ill.) ." 100 bistrigulclla*. Opostcga 245 brcnda, Cocnonyinpha 231 Bucculatri.v (see ccanothiclla, latclla, quadrigemina, cnpa- toriclla, insolita, pcrtcnuis). btirnsi, Hcnrilcuca 252 Butterfly occurrences at Bee- ville, Texas 149 caenothiclla*, Bucculatri.r. . . . 246 Callosamia angulifera, Gyn- andromorph of 369 (see also promcthca). Candida, Copamdrs 150 cccropia, Sainia ( ill. ) i(>i centralis, Lvcacua batloides (ill.) 100 Cocoon, Moonstones in C'ecro- Coenonympha brcnda Collecting notes from Cali- fornia Color for clothing suggested by butterfly Copaeodes, Some species of.. crncca*, E.regetia cynthia, Philosatnia Dicranoctctes* Enoptes-group of Lycaena (ill.) " eupatoriella*, Bucculatri.r. . . . E.regetia* glaucon, Lycaena (ill.) Gracilaria sachrysa in Xew Jersey Guerin's Iconographie du Regne Animal, Dates of issue of Gynandromorph of Callosa- mia a.igulifcra Hcmilcuca burnsi, its specific validity and habitat Iconographie du Regne Ani- mal, Guerin's indra, Papilio insolita*, Bucculatri.r Jugate type, Micropterygidae not of latclla*, Bucculatri.r Lycaena antiacis and .rer.res, Early appearance of Lycaena, cnoptes-group (ill.) Lyonetiidae, New genera and species Mclitaca (see strcckeri). Micropterygidae not of the jugate type (ill.) niinilna, Copaeodes Moonstones in a Cecropia co- coon 15 231 353 34 150 250 161 250 99 247 249 100 114 378 369 252 378 354 248 90 246 392 99 245 90 150 15 INDEX 417 Moths lively after a low tem- perature 149 nokomis, Aryyinris 67 Opostcya (see bistrujnlclla). f'apilio indra, Notes on 354 pcrlcnnis*. Bucculatri.v 249 Philosamia (see cyntliia). procris, Copacodcs . . 150 proincthca, Callosamia 161 quadrigemina*, Buccitlatri.v. . . 247 rayata, Copacodcs 150 Review of reviews 187 rodriguezi*, Agrias 388 Satnia (see cecropia). Saturniidae, Variations and ab- normal forms of (ill.) 161 Selcnis sucroides 44 sonorcnsis. Lycacna (ill.).... 102 s/rcclccri. .}fclitaca phaeton.. 369 siicrnidcs, Selcnis 44 Temperature, Moths lively after low 149 Variations and abnormal forms of Saturniidae (ill ) 161 Tv'flf 0, Copacodcs 150 .\-c;:vcs, Lycacna 392 zachrysa, Cracilaria 114 ODONATA Argiallagma munition in Flo- rida 271 Damselfly in southern Florida, Occurrence of 271 Feeding on a live snake, Larva 335 (.itniiplnts spicatiis. Labial characters in the nymph of (ill.) 68 Labial characters in the nymph of Goinphus spicatiis, Vari- ation in ( ill.) (>tf Larva feeding on a live snake 335 miiiHlinn. .Iri/iallat/ina 271 Xorth Carolina Odonata, Rec- ords Of 22J Nymph of Gomphits sp Labial characters in the (ill.) 68 Records of North Carolina Odonata from 1908 to 1917 jj/ spicatiis. Goiiiplnts .......... 68 ORTHOPTERA . Inisomorpha buprcstoidcs, Vaporous discharge by ..... annnlata, Labia ............. nptcnts*, Carotctti.r (ill.)... curicoma, Baryycra.v ........ Barynerax (see aitricoina. breviforceps). blatchleyi, Manomcra ....... borcalis, Nomotcttix ........ brciiforccps, Bary/cra.v ..... huprcstoidcs, Anisomorpha. . . Caudate phase of Xcotctti.r prnarus (ill.) ............. Camlctti.v* ................. Correction concerning Labia.. Cylindrogastcr (see Sparatta). Dermaptera, Generic assign- ment of three North Amer- ican species ............... omcra rclici, and Ma- iionicra blatchleyi, Regard- 388 66 345 5 346 5 388 347 343 66 ng diplatyoides, Sparatta ........ dorsalis, Labia .............. eurynotus*, Ncmobiiis (ill.).. Generic assignment of three species of Dermaptera ..... Labia (see ainiulata. dorsalis). (see also Barygerax). I.ong-winged phase of \cotct- ti.v pnmi'us (ill.) .......... Xcmnbins from California (ill.) ..................... (see also eurynotus). Xc<>tctti.\- pr<>a;'ns. Long- winged or caudate phase of (ill.) ..................... 258 <> 66 347 102 347 418 INDEX \T<»iiotettix borcalis, Note on 343 344 347 *, Cavotettix (ill.) . proaz'us, Ncotetti.v (ill.) Sparatta (see diplatyoidcs). Tettigids, New genus and species of (ill.) 343 Vaporous discharge by Auis- omorpha buprestoides 388 z'elici, Diaphcrouicra 258 EXCHANOKS. This column is intended only for wants and exchanges, not for advertisements of goods for sale. Notices not exceed- ing three lines free to subscribers. These notices are continued as long as our limited space will allow ; the new ones are added at the end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest in) are discontinued. 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