Sad Ait Mt ak i ee a i ee ee ee ee ee ee ee aww ESS SS es ee SS Se eee OOO OO are eae a es Fr ae : [ 4 deur Wei bs i ‘il os 4 : ste ss es 3 aN | f “on | idl i, J : ( Sn [PR Nt ; i Ty 8 ego fi \ R t 4 | te Foe he . suum | qh am i | : b vi ae) a 7) Xt} : ws Dah! oi 7] an U ——_ ue iy circ uth, 0 +e Lash yi AUG sah rv be bets VE pie e i Pies! ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS VOLUME LXXIII, 1962 R. G. SCHMIEDER, EpITor EDITORIAL STAFF J. A. G. REHN M. E. PHILLIPS H. J. GRANT, Jr. H. W. ALLEN S. S. 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Sects ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS JANUARY 1962 Vol. LX XIII No. 1 CONTENTS Wallis—Overwintering activity of Phormia regina ............. 1 Eyindla—Records of Epiophlebia larvae ..........0.--+-+-s+200- 5 Hubbard—North American chipmunk fleas, I] ................ 7 Scott—Collembola of New Mexico, VI ........-.0200escece nes 17 Sharma and Kevan—Folsomia similis in N. Amer. ............. 23 Rapp and Jones—Record of Percaroecus javalii ............... 25 Chamberlin—Gervaisicus nom. nov. (Diplopoda) .............. 26 Merewand Newsin Entomology i... 5.0060). 5 5. ee ee ce le eee 26 Snodgrass receives Leidy Medal Insecta Japonica, new serial Burdick Collection PUBLISHED MONTHLY, EXCEPT AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, BY THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRINCE AND LEMON STS.,"LANCASTER, PA. AND 1900 RACE STREET, PHILADELPHIA 3, PA. Subscription, per yearly volume of ten numbers: personal, $6.00; institutional, $9.00. Second-class postage paid at Lancaster, Pa. Biv. 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Authors must place their orders for such separates with the editor at the time of submitting manuscripts, or when returning proof. Copies 1—4 pp. 5-8 pp. 9-12 pp. Covers 50 $4.35 $6.96 $10.88 $4.74 100 5 Al 8.26 13.05 6.48 Add’! 100 1.74 2.60 4.33 3.48 Plates printed one side: First 50, $3.47; Additional 100’s, $2.61. Transportation charges will be extra. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS VoL. LXXIII JANUARY, 1962 No. 1 Overwintering Activity of the Blowfly, Phormia regina Rogpert C. Wattis, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven Blowflies are a common summertime pest in urban and sub- urban residential areas (1-4). In addition, evidence from recent research has established that these flies are capable of serving both as vectors and as reservoirs of enteric viruses (5-9). Recently it has been shown that the poliomyelitis virus multt- plies in the blowfly, Phormia regina, during short periods of incubation—even following simulated “hibernation” conditions (10). Furthermore, the infection spreads throughout internal organs of P. regina after ingestion of the virus (11) so that the fly qualifies as a “propagative vector” rather than merely as a mechanical transmitter. Theoretically, it could provide an ex- cellent extra-human season-to-season reservoir of the virus. However, while much is known of the physiology of P. regina, there is little in the literature concerning the critical part of its life history in which it overwinters in the adult stage. There- fore, a special study of overwintering activity was conducted. PROCEDURE In a residential area of New Haven, Connecticut, known to have a population of P. regina, a special study of fly activity was conducted during the period December 1, 1960, to March 31, 1961. A search for hibernation places revealed a site on the outside south wall of a two-story heated brick building where adult flies aggregated during the approach of cold weather. (1) 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS {Jan., 1962 “ Subsequently, daily observations on the activity of these flies were made until March 31, 1961. Daily weather conditions, time of emergence and duration of sunning periods were noted. When flies were disturbed or left their resting place on the wall, the sites to which they returned were noted to determine places used for hiding. Once a week throughout the winter specimens were captured for identification and determination of sex. From December 1 to March 31, the number of (1) days of sunshine at noontime, (2) cloudy days at noon, (3) days P. regina failed to come out of hibernation, (4) days they were active, (5) days observations were made, and (6) days no observations were made were noted. In addition, the local data from the U. S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau for the month of February were studied for evidence of correlation between meteorological factors and fly behavior. RESULTS Observations were made on each of 99 days during the four- month period. During this time there were 62 days that were cloudy at noon. Observations were made on 61 of these but no P. regina left their protected hiding places. There were 59 days with sunshine at noon, and observations made on 38 of these days revealed flies coming out and sitting in the sun. On the remaining 22 days of the period no observations were made. Sampling of the population revealed no predominance of either sex; both male and female flies exhibited the same type of daily activity. On warm sunshiny days they came out of their seclusion and rested on a vertical brick wall only during a short mid-day period. Activity was rarely seen prior to 11:00 A.M. and was usually ended between 1:00 and 2:00 P.M. The two factors correlated with daily fly activity throughout the four months of observations were temperature and a high percentage of the possible duration of sunshine when the low index of cloud cover occurred during the mid-day period. For example, comparing fly activity with data from the U. S. Weather Bureau for the month of February, it was found that even when the maximum temperature remained as low at 34° F, Ixxili | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3 the flies came out of hiding at mid-day if the sun was shining. On overcast days, even when the temperature was higher, there was no activity. During the coldest months, January and February, there were 22 days with sunshine at noon that the flies were active. In January, activity was seen on 12 such days, and inactivity on 14 cloudy days. On the remaining five days, no observations were made. Activity was seen on 10 days of sunshine in February, and inactivity occurred on 15 cloudy days; for the remaining three days, no observations were made. In March, activity was seen on 10 sunshiny days, and no activity was seen on 19 cloudy days ; for the remaining two days, no observations were made. DISCUSSION In recent years details of the overwintering activity of blow- flies have become of interest because of the role these flies may play in the ecology of enteric viruses. The question has been presented, “Can this blowfly be a host providing an extra-human reservoir for the overwinter survival of the virus in nature?” To answer this, it was not only necessary to know whether the fly overwinters in the adult stage, but also whether it becomes periodically active and can provide intervals of warmth compara- ble to the two-hour incubation periods that allowed virus build-up within the fly in the laboratory (10). This is similar to the situation that occurred years ago when the housefly, Musca domestica, still outranked the blowfly as a household pest, and its significance in disease transmission was under discussion. Although there was a great deal of contro- versy among entomologists, the story was summed up in 1915 by Hewitt (12). He outlined three categories of overwintering activity: (1) Dormant—in cold northerly latitudes where the adult fly remained inactive in protected hiding places; (2) Periodically active—in more temperate latitudes periods of in- creased temperature resulted in adult fly activity at times when they would usually be dormant; and (3) Permanently active—in southerly areas where warm weather permitted adult fly activity the year around. + ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1962 Hewitt’s conclusions about MW. domestica are applicable to the overwintering of the blowfly P. regina in that it is quite likely that investigators in different latitudes can observe blowflies in any of the three stages of adult overwintering activity. In southern communities where there is year around warm weather and breeding medium available, year around activity and breed- ing of the flies may generally occur. However, in more north- erly temperate and north temperate climatic regions, the classi- fication of intermittent adult activity most nearly fits the blowfly. This was observed in New Haven, Conn., during the coldest winter period in recent years. Since both males and females were present and periodically emerged from winter hiding places to bask in the sun, the term “hibernation”? as pointed out by Hewitt, is really not applicable. Rather, the term “overwinter- ing activity” is recommended for the cyclic adult activity ex- hibited during the winter months by P. regina. SUMMARY During an unusually cold winter season in New Haven, Conn., the overwintering activity of the blowfly Phornua regina was studied from December 1, 1960, to March 31, 1961. With the onset of cold weather the adult flies retreated to protected hiding places and emerged for brief mid-day periods regularly through- out the winter months. Daily activity occurred independently of air temperature (U. S. Weather Bureau recording) above 35° F; it correlated with days that sunshine occurred during the mid-day period. The flies remained in hiding on cloudy days even when air temperatures were above 40° F. This cyclic activity of the overwintering fly could not be truly called a winter “hibernation” and deserves more elucidation since recent studies involve the blowfly in the ecology of enteric viruses. REFERENCES 1. Power, M. E., J. L. Metnicx, and M. B. BisHopp. 1943. 39" \ uohues puwsg ° yO Y4sou S\W Asjroy snporyt> soqpAsdouoy) SOD J yMawdiys) UDorz2UL) bebl YPsee Snullord ‘9, U0PI29 OL }sam Si @prwosoy 16 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1962 munk in the panhandle of Idaho. It has the most pronounced upper lobe in the VII sternite outline of the series. Modified Segments: Female. Apical outline of VII sternite without apparent lower lobe, the upper lobe broadest of the series, being broad and rectangular. The spermatheca seems to be midway between kincaidi and ciliatus in shape. Length: Female 2.50 mm. Range: The range is not definitely known but it seems that the flea is probably limited to the panhandle of Idaho and adjacent eastern Washington. Deposits: The type bearing the describer’s number 2506 and dated July 22, 1945, is in the U. S. National Museum. The host was chipmunk, the locality Potlatch (10 miles north), Latah County, Idaho. Specimens Examined: Only the type specimens are known. Preferred Host: Probably the chipmunk is normal host. Key to Subspecies of Monopsyllus ciliatus by Range 1. San Francisco Bay Region of California............ ciliatus 2. *Gascade Mountains to..Pacihe Oceatt. .,.....035 ¢occee% protinus 3. Sierra Nevada Mountains and southeast........... mononis 4. Rocky Mountains north of Grand Canyon.......... kincaidi 5. Panhandle of Idaho, eastern Washington............ fastent Conclusions: As was the case in Monopsyllus eumolpi, the writer feels that as new isolated areas are found and studied new differences will appear, and new subspecies of Monopsyllus cilia- tus. At the moment only the above five have been recorded. Lxxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS I | The Collembola of New Mexico. VI. Isotominae: Guthriella, Proisotoma, Isotomurus * ° HAROLD GEORGE Scott Eleven species of springtail insects are recorded in this part. Two have been reported previously from New Mexico: Proiso- toma frisont (by Scott, 1958), and Isotomurus retardatus (by Folsom, 1937). Specimens will be deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Genus GUTHRIELLA Borner, 1906 KEY TO THE SPECIES OF GUTHRIELLA NOTE. All three known species of Guthriella are Nearctic. 1. Furcula reaching collophore..... muskegis (Guthrie, 1903) Purcola not reaching ‘collophores.. 0.5... .66..65.0e0e ss os ee Pendent fairs presemt xo. 1.2 cs esis - vetusta Folsom, 1937 Memenemairs ansemts «(2458 i oi. ev a sles 5 antiqua Folsom, 1937 Guthriella vetusta Folsom, 1937 New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of oak litter, 7,400 ft., Sandia Mts., Bernalillo Co., 29-v-1951. DIsTRIBUTION. Calif., N. M. Genus PROISOTOMA Borner, 1901 Key To SPECIES OF NEARCTIC PROISOTOMA ieviamieriitn, maked “ventranly. 2 2058 5% ve dies as sicicec 5 Fe oes 2 Mantubitmd setate- ventrally 22 oe. ie. cc eee ee eee cee 6 Pe DentesnsitGOta CORSA ed Wels eaten ewes alee be dia ae © 3) Wentesimned GOtSAllyetpess aiisias cores o's oe edie so Ss sie ass 4 > Meteti waits PLESeMt 32.22 se es 3 ewingi Folsom, 1937 Wenent hairs absent. 2.4... schotti (Dalla Torre, 1895) 1A portion of a dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Mexico, Albuerque, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 2 Part V appeared in Ent. News, 72(10) : 261-67. 3 Training Branch, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Serv- ice, U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Atlanta, Georgia. 18 4. 5. 20. Zi; ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1962 Abd III subsegmented.......... subsegmenta Scott, 1959 Aba tll not subseaimented : spat. s 2 see eee ene 5 Abd TV more than twiceas lone as, [Ele 2.. 2c «atest re ae ete eee a ae En a SE excavata Folsom, 1937 Abd IV less'than twice as lone as UID. 2. +. on ws ati Sleds see NR ee Sah ie Oe eae EOE I laticauda Folsom, 1937 . Abd III subequal to or slightly longer than IV........... 7 Abatl ir shorter than Ves ctc-s sutkne ose ee ee 12 ; entes shotter than mantbrium viii. Sk fee eee 9 Dentes subequal to or longer than manubrium........... 8 . Dentes subequal to or slightly longer than manubrium..... MOOR schafferi (Krausbauer, 1898) Dentes definitely longer than manubrium.............. 10 EES BIN oe ee kaa ts, wet ee laguna Folsom, 1937 yest sande ice de knee ee oe ee minima (Absolon, 1901) Pedi aaa DY sitbeqtal ta lenotis 2... wloc cee yee 11 Abd III longer than IV...communa (MacGillivray, 1896) vibe anid VT anikarlosed si Sesseacsls ie 32s) aso eee 28 Abd V and VI not ankylosed........ rainieri Folsom, 1937 NCO METOORIEG a. ois cto 4 okaeein Oe ee emma e 21 WinterO 2-0 OS tOOUNICM aay a's ath, caetetd Sued mah aie Se ee 13 : Dentes -with 10 or fewer coarse dorsal folds. ...7..%.4.5 15 Dentes with 15—20 coarse dorsal folds.........+.......- 14 . Furcula not quite reaching collophore. .titusi Folsom, 1937 Purcuia weachine-collophorets 4. ink ose ered ae one een PORE He SOON he longispina (MacGillivray, 1983) . Dens with lateral subapical bladder: ol similis James, 1933 VCS AA occg tate Sctateasicils i bud els duete igi hoffi sp. nov. Proisotoma aquae (Bacon, 1914) New Mexico Recorps. Two Berlese samples of Gambel oak and walnut litter, 6,900 to 7,600 ft., Rio Arriba and Socorro Co., July—Sept., 1952-1954. DisTRIBUTION. Calif., N. M., Utah. Proisotoma brevipenna (MacGillivray, 1896) New Mexico Recorp. Field Berlese sample of rotten cotton- wood stump, 4,100 ft., Dona Ana Co., 27—xi-1949. DisTRIBUTION. N. M., Ohio. Proisotoma communa (MacGillivray, 1896) New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of aspen-fir litter, 10,600 ft., Sandia Mts., Bernalillo Co., 22-ix—1951. DiIsTRIBUTION. N. M., Ohio. Proisotoma constricta Folsom, 1937 New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of walnut litter, 6,900 ft., Water Canyon, Socorro Co., 10—vii-1954. DisTRIBUTION. Fla., N. M. 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1962 Proisotoma frisoni Folsom, 1937 Discussion. The New Mexico specimens have only 2 mu- cronal teeth. Folsom (1937, p. 55) specified “mucro triden- tate.” Since in all other respects the New Mexico specimens agree with Folsom’s description, I am assigning them to this species. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of mixed aspen-fir litter, 9,700 ft., Rio Arriba Co., 13—viii-1953. DISTRIBUTION. Ga., Ill., N. M. Proisotoma hoffi sp. nov. Figure 1 Tyre Locatity. Holotype and nine paratypes from Nogal Canyon, near Nogal, Lincoln Co., NEw Mexico. The type specimens were taken from a Berlese sample of oak litter, 7,200 ft., date unknown. Specimens will be deposited with the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DescrirPTion. Body elongate, not subglobose; segmentation distinct, last 2 abdominal segments ankylosed, suture between Abd IV and V weak; integument smooth; light yellow with brown markings, intersegmental areas lighter; clothing of short setae, a few longer setae on abdomen; head prognathous; ratio of antenna to head 6:5; ratio of antennal segments 7:11:11:20; postantennal organs of the simple isotomine type; eyes 4 and 4, each ocellus with its own dark spot; mouthparts chewing ; ratio of body segments 4:14:12/9:10:9:20; tibiotarsus with distal subsegment ; claws not tunicate; ratio of unguiculus to unguis 3:7; tenent hairs absent; unguiculus and unguis without teeth; furcula without ankylosis; furcula reaching Abd III; ratio of manubrium to dens to mucro as 20:17:5; dental spines absent ; dentes dorsally crenulate; mucro with 1 tooth, non-lamellate ; anus ventro-terminal; anal spines absent; length 0.9 mm. Discussion. The eye number, antennal ratios and body ratio clearly distinguish this species from all other members of the genus. It is with great pleasure that I name this species for Dr. C. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS a Fic. 1. Protsotoma hoffi sp. nov. Clayton Hoff, Department of Biology, University of New Mex- ico, whose diligent collecting made this study possible. DistriBuTION. N. M. Proisotoma immersa (Folsom, 1924) New Mexico Recorps. Two Berlese samples of oak litter, 7,600 to 8,700 ft., Bernalillo and Rio Arriba Co., Sept., 1952. DistRIBUTION. N.M.,N. Y. Proisotoma sepulcralis (Folsom, 1902) New Mexico Recorps. Two Berlese samples of juniper- pinon and Yucca glauca litter, 5,700 to 7,000 ft., Sandoval and Bernalillo Co., Feb.—Sept., 1951-1952. DistriBuTION. District of Columbia, N. M. Proisotoma tenella (Reuter, 1895) New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of rotten fir log, 7,300 ft., Sandia Mts. Bernalillo Co., 23—vi-1951. a2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1962 Discussion. This species has been reported attacking young tobacco plants, hot-house lettuce, and mushrooms. The possi- bility exists that it might some day become a minor agricultural pest in the area of the Sandia Mountains. DistripuTion. N. M., Pa., Europe. Genus ISOTOMURUS Borner, 1903 Key TO THE SPECIES OF NEARCTIC ISOTOMURUS I? Wiaera:.3- footed oct Sexe S xucke cng atee bemakus Wray, 1952 NE ieTOsALOOEMEG,,. ust: sratasentaaes tac ints eee es eee en eee Z 2. Ventral margin of mucro broadened laterally.............. Pee See each A och lea menses Gs retardatus Folsom, 1937 Ventral margin of mucro not broadened laterally.......... 5 3. Snort dorsalsetae of abdomen, ciliate... 22 6. 4 <)n< ocean eX A Oak RAR Ey Sarre Ay) palustroides Folsom, 1937 Shortdorsal setae of abdomen smooth. ......25..sceeees ee A sh AREER EN oe ate ae a eee palustris (Muller, 1776) Isotomurus retardatus Folsom, 1937 New Mexico Recorp. Taken by W. P. Cockerell and T. D. A. Cockerell as Las Vegas Hot Springs, 6,500 ft., San Miguel Co., Feb. 16, sometime between 1893 and 1903. This is the type collection. DisTRIBUTION. N. M. REFERENCES CITED Assoton, K. 1901. Zool. Anz. 24: 209-216. Bacon, G. A. 1914. J. Ent. Zool. (Pomona) 6: 137-184. Borner, C. 1901. Abh. naturw. Ver. Bremen 17: 1-141. 1903. Sitz. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, vol. of 1903: 129-182. —. 1906. Mitt. naturh. Mus. Hamburg 23: 147-188. Datta Torre, K. W. 1895. Prog. St.-Gym. Innsbruck, sep. 46, 23 pp. Fotsom, J. W. 1902. Psyche 9: 363-367. —. 1924. American Mus. Novitates, no. 108, pp. 1-12. —. 1937. U.S. Natl. Mus., Bull. 168, iii + 144 pp. Guturigz, J. E. 1903. Rept. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Minnesota, zool. ser. 4, 110 pp. James, H. 1933. Trans. Roy. Can. Inst. 19: 77-116. KRAUSBAUER, T. 1898. Zool. Anz. 21: 495-504. Ixxiti | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 LInNANIEMI, W. M. 1907. Akad. Abhandlung, Helsingfors, 146 pp. McGriuivray, A. D. 1893. Can. Ent. 25: 313-318. 1896. Can. Ent. 28: 47-58. Mutter, O. F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, Hayniae, pp. 183- 184. Reuter, O. M. 1895. Acta Soc. Fauna Flora Fennica 11: 1-35. Scott, H. G. 1958. Ent. News 69(8) : 202. ——, 1959. Ent. News 70(1): 13-16. TuLiperc, T. 1871. Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 28: 143-155. Wray, D. L. 1952. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 47: 95-155. Folsomia similis Bagnall, 1939 (Collembola, Iso- tomidae), Apparently New to North America G. D. SHARMA?! AND D. K. McE. Kevan? So far as we are aware, Folsomuia similis has not hitherto been recorded from North America, but only from England, Poland and Switzerland (Bagnall, 1939; Stach, 1947; Gisin, 1949; 1960). It has been found in garden soil, flower pots and in vineyard soil. We are now able to report it from Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Province of Quebec, where it was discovered the summer of 1960 in pot soil in a greenhouse and in mull soil under sugar maples (Acer saccharum) in the Morgan Ar- boretum. Specimens were kindly determined for us by Dr. H. Gisin of Geneva, Switzerland. For descriptions, see the papers by Bagnall (1939), Stach (1947), and Gisin (1960). F. similis is about 1 mm long, or a little larger, when mature ; it is whitish with scattered blackish spots and has only one pair of ocelli (black pigmented). The postantennal organ is elon- gate, about four eye-diameters in length; the claws are without denticles ; the fifth abdominal segment is without sensory hairs. Further distinguishing features are that the manubrium bears 1 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, McGill University, Macdonald College, P. Q., Canada. 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ Jan.,. 1962 about eight setae * on the ventral side, the dens has fifteen ven- tral setae and the macrochaetae of the sixth abdominal segment are only three times as long as the mucro. The post-antennal organ is divided into two halves in most specimens and has transverse serrations. A few observations on the biology of this species may be of interest. At the time of hatching the body colour is almost pure white, but later it changes to a dirty white. Numerous small black spots first appear on the meso- and metanota, then on the head, and eventually on all the abdominal terga; those of the meso- and metanota are much darker than the others. On hatching the young measure 0.3 mm in length. When growth is regular they continue to grow fairly rapidly at room temperature (about 24° C) until, after 34 days, they attain approximately 0.95 mm in length, at which size they become mature and will oviposit after an interval of about three weeks. Increase in size usually continues very slowly thereafter. Mature specimens mostly measure between 0.95 and 1.3 mm, the greatest length recorded for our material being 1.45 mm in a specimen about one year old. This is the maximum size given by Gisin (1960). The life history from egg to egg is completed in 67 to 73 days at 24° C, but under cooler conditions (22° C) only 49 to 51 days are required; eggs take 9 or 10 days to hatch at either temperature. In our material there were always six moults before egg-laying occurred, but during the course of 110 days the species has been observed to moult ten times and to oviposit thrice. Cultures were reared in small individual cells and fed on yeast in the manner described by Marshall and Kevan (in press). We are indebted to the National Research Council of Canada for financial assistance in this and associated work. REFERENCES BaGNAaLL, R. S. 1939. Notes on British Collembola III (cont’d). Ent. mon. Mag. 75: 56-57. 2 Gisin (1960) mentions 3+ 3, or 4+4 setae. In our specimens the number is variable, usually being 8 or 9. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 25 Gistin, H. 1949. Notes sur les Collemboles avec description de quatorze especes et d’un genre nouveau. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 22: 385-410. —. 1960. Collembolenfauna Europas. Genéve: 312 pp. MarsHatt, V. G., and Kevan, D. K. McE. 196-. Preliminary observa- tions on the biology of Folsomia candida Willem, 1902 (Collembola ; Isotomidae). Can. Ent. (in press). SracH, J. 1947. The Apterygotan fauna of Poland in relation to the word! [sic]-fauna of this group of insects. (Family Isotomidae.) Acta monogr. Mus. Hist. nat. Krakow, 1: 488 pp. Another Record for Percaroecus javalii (Anoplura) WitiiaM F. Rapp, JR. AND DorLEN S. JONES, Nebraska State Department of Health, Lincoln, Nebraska In 1938 Babcock and Ewing (1938: 197) described Per- caroecus javalu from the collared peccary (Pecarii tojacu angu- latus (Cope) ) collected in western Texas between the Juno and Pecos River on January 29, 1932. No records of this species appeared in the literature until 1951 when Menzies et al. (1951: 150) reported collecting 25 specimens from a collared peccary (P. t. angulatus) taken in Terrell County, Texas on June 15, 1949. Recently we received a collection of ectoparasites from Mr. Herbert Tweedie of Phoenix, Arizona and among the specimens were twelve Anoplura which were identified as Percaroecus javalu., The specimens were from a collared peccary (P. t. sonoriensis (Mearns)) taken on Pusch Ridge, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, February 7, 1959. 7 males, 5 females. It is interesting to note that very few specimens of this species have been taken and yet there appears to be, at the present time, a large amount of interest in hunting collared peccaries. Specimens are in the ectoparasite collection of the Nebraska State Department of Health and at the U. S. National Museum. 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1962 LITERATURE CITED Bascock, O. G. and H. E. Ewinc. 1938. A new genus and species of Anoplura from the peccary. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 40: 197-201. Menzies, G. C., R. B. Eaps, and B. G. HicHtower. 1951. List of Anoplura from Texas. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 53: 150-152. Gervaisicus nom. nov. (Diplopoda) Gervaisicus nom. nov. is here proposed to replace Gervaisia Waga 1858 (Diplopoda) which is preoccupied by Gervaisia Bonaparte 1854 (Aves). R. V. CHAMBERLIN Notes and News in Entomology Under this heading we present from time to time, notes, news, and comments. Contributions from readers are earnestly solicited and will be acknowledged when used. Snodgrass Receives Leidy Award. Dr. Rosert Evans SNopGRASS, was awarded the Leidy Medal, given by the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, at a ceremony in the Academy on October 17th. The Medal is awarded every three years for the “best publication, exploration and discovery or research in the natural sciences.” The committee that selected Dr. Snodgrass consisted of Herbert Friedmann, Los Angeles Co. Museum, Adriance S. Foster, Univ. of California, Berkeley, H. Bentley Glass, Johns Hopkins Univ., George W. Wharton, Univ. of Maryland, and H. Radcliffe Roberts, Academy of Nat- ural Sciences. Among the thirteen recipients to date there have been two other entomologists, the late William Morton Wheeler, and Herbert B. Hungerford. The American Entomological Society, of which he is a Cor- responding Member, congratulates Dr. Snodgrass on this recog- nition. We may truly say that the entire present generation of entomologists is deeply indebted to him. His famous book, “Principles of Insect Morphology” (1935), has served as the [xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 27 standard reference not only on all matters of morphology, both external and internal, but also on histology and development, and on physiology. In this book, as in the numerous books and papers published before and since (totalling over 6000 pages and over 2000 illustrations), Dr. Snodgrass not only supplies our informational needs but because of his broad biological approach also captures our interest, for every organ is considered in the light of its use in the living insect and in respect to its ontogeny and its evolution. Insecta Japonica. This is a new serial publication of which the four parts of Series 1 have recently appeared (1961). Each part has a very full English summary that includes the keys as well as distributional and other data on the individual species. The illustrations, and especially the colored plates are excellent and the paper-bound books are in every respect of fine quality and handsomely executed. The page size is 7 X 10 inches. Series 1, Part 1 is by Syoziro Asahina on Odonata: Libellu- lidae, with 90 pages, 7 col. pls. (107 figs.), 78 text figs. 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Jordan trained to be a school master, taught until he was 32 years old, then was called to Tring by the Roths- child brothers to become curator of the museum which they had established there as an avocation, a place to get away from the trials of running the huge banking house which bears their name. The doors of Tring Museum opened to Jordan in 1893 and closed to him only upon his passing 65 years later. During 26 of those 65 years, Jordan was intimately associated with N. Charles Rothschild, the two dubbed by the writer the “English Duo.” Together they named 100 of the some 300 known American fleas. Ficures. On the left: Dr. Karl Jordan at 96 years of age working in his laboratory at Tring, England on the Stenoponia tripectinata complex. (Courtesy of The Sunday Times, by Douglas Glass.) On the right: Dr. Jordan at 95 years of age enters the door of the Zoological Museum, home of the British Museum’s Rothschild Collection of fleas, at Tring. (29) 30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 Although the writer uncovered those huge aplodontian (moun- tain beaver) fleas as early as 1918 while dismantling one of their nests as part of a master’s thesis at the University of Washington he did not become sufficiently interested in these insects to ever know N. Charles Rothschild who died in 1923. However, as he collected more and more fleas, somehow as the most naive of novices he came in touch with Dr. Jordan. During the next 25 years hundreds of letters, notes and illustrations came to the writer from the hand and the pen of the grand old man of siphonaptery who was never too busy to lay aside his work to give a helping hand to the beginner who needed it. The author began to make his mistakes, and has made them, only after he thought he knew the field well enough no longer to need the advice of the grand old man. Through the years Karl Jordan has become an ideal and an inspiration to the writer and to world flea men. In 1952 the writer was asked by the Fulbright operations to study the fleas in Iraq. He had never been abroad, had always confined his interests to the fleas of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. This offer seemed to be a climax in his life and provided the opportunity to visit and chat with the master of siphonaptery. And so the writer sat with the bearded, gentle old gentleman in his laboratory and his home during November of 1952 and August of 1953. After these visits the author felt that he knew why Karl Jordan had become such a great man. He was writing to forget or remember the tragic loss of his true friend and associate, N. Charles Rothschild many years before (1923) and Karl Jordan could not hear a thing. One communicated with him through simple little penciled notes. Even as early as these visits Dr. Jordan was working on “A Contribution to the Taxonomy of Stenoponia—” which was published by the British Museum as Entomology, Vol. 6, No. 7, London, February, 1958. Dr. Jordan’s fullfilment seems to have been in this paper and it seems to the writer that the will to finish it had kept Karl Jordan alive, for upon its completion the grand old man faded away and became a memory within a year. Ixxiti | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 31 The Stenoponia tripectinata complex of fleas is a series of giants, heavily combed on gena, pronotum and abdomen, usually off gerbils (hopping mice) which are found in the sandy wastes from the Azores east through all north Africa and into and through Iraq, thus being found in all the Arab World. Karl Jordan did not describe the first one; this was done by Tira- boschi in 1902 from specimens taken in Sardinia. However, most of the known specimens were collected by Jordan in Algeria, May, 1912, and April, 1914. The last of the series of eleven was taken by the writer at Baghdad, Iraq, January 28, 1953, and presented to Dr. Jordan. At the moment there are only the eleven subspecies offered by Jordan in the Complex from the Arab World, although he brings the total to thirteen with two additional ones from Israel. In this brilliantly executed paper on the Complex, there is not a comparative illustration. All are separate, isolated, for Jordan seemed never to have seen the need of comparative figures. As early as 1956 the writer had forwarded to the Iraq Museum of Natural History at Baghdad the manuscript of “Fleas and Plague in Iraq and the Arab World.” Part Two, the taxo- nomic portion, did not appear in print until November 1960; therefore, the pages and illustrations on the Stenopomia tripec- tinata Complex were obsolete before being published, for Dr. Jordan’s billiant paper had appeared in 1958. Although the writer had forwarded the here presented comparative illustra- tions of the Complex and a review of Dr. Jordan’s paper, por- tions of these became lost so are presented here for the first time. After his years of study on the Complex, Jordan decided shape of head, arrangement of spines on genal comb, shape and armature of the IX sternite of the male, and to some extent the apical outline of the VII sternite of the female would separate these giant fleas one from the other. THE MEMBERS OF THE COMPLEX A. Above the point where the left and right oral margins meet there is a more or less distinct projecting angle. I. One genal spine on antennal fossa. a2 I. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 Stenoponia tripectinata tripectinata (Tiraboschi), 1902 AtcERIA: Khenchela, east end Aures Mts., 7 dg, 3 99, May, 1912; Hamman Neskoutine, west of Guelma, 9 $3, 10 99, off house mouse and spiny mouse by Karl Jordan. II. Two genal spines on antennal fossa. Ue TM; Stenoponia tripectinata tenax Jordan, 1958 AtcERIA: Guelt-es-Stel, 3 fo, 19 off Meriones shawn (gerbil), April and May, 1912, by Karl Jordan. . Stenoponia tripectinata megaera Jordan, 1958 Labial palps longer than in tenax, as long as the oral margin. IX sternite male is dorsally more or less strongly convex, its apical margin slanting downwards and backwards, the most distal point being ventral or subventral. ALGERIA: Djebel Mourdjadja (behind Port Oran), 5 div, 12 99 off Dipodillus campestris (gerbil), April, 1913, by Alan Ruddle. Morroco: Casablanca, 25 miles northeast, 5 dg, 3 99 off Dipodillus campestris by J. Bruneau. No date. . Stenoponia tripectinata barcana Jordan, 1958 Forehead shorter than in preceding. Frontal tubercle not quite effaced. IX sternite male with apex rather strongly convex on upper side, apical margin rounded, without angle, most distal point below middle. The slanting upper margin of the lobe above the subventral sinus of VII sternite female somewhat abruptly incurved. Lisya: Barca peninsula, Cyrenaica, 2 pairs off Spalax (mole-rat), April, 1946, by W. Scott. Three or four genal spines along antennal fossa. . Stenoponia tripectinata tingitana Jordan, 1958 Three genal spines on antennal fossa. Dorsal surface of dilated apical portion of IX sternite male extended farther distad than underside. ALGERIA: Rabelais, 4 ¢¢', 19 off Meriones shawi (ger- bil), January, 1930, by Heim de Balzac. . Stenoponia tripectinata insperata (Weiss), 1930 Three or four genal spines along antennal fossa. Di- lated apex of IX sternite male is dorsally more convex than its ventral surface is concave. ALGERIA: Biskra, a series off Meriones shawi (gerbil), March, 1908, by J. Steinback. Tunista: Tunis (Carthage area), a series off Gerbillus campestris (gerbil) ; Bir Mellah, a series off Meriones shawi and Gerbillus campestris, 1933. No collector named. Ixxi1 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 33 3. Stenoponia tripectinata irakana Jordan, 1958 Three or four genal spines along antennal fossa. Apex IX sternite male almost symmetrical, proximally to the broadest point more incurved ventrally than dorsally. IRAQ: Baghdad, 1 ¢ off house mouse, January, 1953; 1° off Gerbillus lofthusi (gerbil), February, 1953, by C. A. Hubbard. Falluja, 19 off Jaculis j. lofthusi (jerboa), December, 1954, by D. L. Harrison. 4. Stenoponia tripectinata separata Jordan, 1958 Three or four genal spines along antennal fossa. Par- ticularly distinguished by the narrowness of the club of IX sternite male. Ecypt: Mersa Matruh, 37 miles west, 1 ¢; Sidi Barrani, 19 miles east, 1 9, January, 1933, by H. Hoogstraal from burrows of undetermined rodents. B. Head much more rounded than in the preceding, the frontal angle vestigial or effaced. Club of IX sternite male almost symmetrical. I. Spines in genal comb 14 in both sexes. Abdominal tergum V in both sexes with one or two spinelets on at least one side. 1. Stenoponia tripectinata blanda Jordan, 1958 Three or four genal spines along antennal fossa. Club of IX sternite male (measured from the upper long apical bristle forward) is nearly equal to width of club and the concave ventral area extends to the first long ventral bristle of the apical row. This subspecies is said to be morphologically inter- mediate between the preceding subspecies and the fol- lowing ones. Ecypt: Bir Bosslanga, 1 0, 399, October, 1953; Sidi Barrani, 1 ¢, off Gerbillus gerbillus (gerbil), April, 1954, by H. Hoogstraal. II. Spines in genal comb 15 or 16. Spinelets on abdominal terga average 15 in males, 20 in females. 1. Stenoponia tripectinata thinophila Jordan, 1958 Three or four genal spines along antennal fossa. The convex dorsal surface of the club of the IX sternite male is longer than in the next subspecies, and the underside, from the long apical bristle forward, usually a little more distinctly convex. AuceRIA: Ain-Sefra, 5 ¢', 699 off Gerbillus p. hir- tipes (gerbil), May, 1913, by W. Rothschild and E. Hartert. 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 2. Stenoponia tripectinata acmaea Jordan, 1958 The number of spines in the genal comb varies in the male from 14 to 16, in the females from 14 to 17. The club of the IX sternite male is nearly as convex below as above, its outline approaching symmetry. Eeypt: Giza Province. Large numbers of this flea have been taken throughout the Province during 1952 and 1953 off Arvicanthus, Gerbillus and Jaculus, collectors not named. The twelfth and thirteenth subspecies of the Complex are from Israel. These follow S. t. insperata in this study and have three or four spines along the antennal fossa. A.IIL.2a. Stenoponia tripectinata medialis Jordan, 1958 Club of IX sternite male dorsally convex as in inspe- rata but variable. IsRAEL: Rehoboth, near Jaffa, 6 J, 5 99 off Meriones shawi (gerbil), January, 1914, by J. Aharoni. A.III.2b. Stenoponia tripectinata spinellosa Jordan, 1958 Club of IX sternite male a little more rounded convex distally, slightly approaching symmetry. IsRAEL: Mt. Carmel, a series off Meriones shawi (gerbil), December, 1952. Collector not mentioned. In glancing through this paper the reader will notice that there are no records from the Arab states of Soudan, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Yemen. Little or no work has been done by the siphonapterist in these countries, so these areas should be a fertile field for the young Arab student who wishes to follow research in the field of fleas and public health. It should be remembered, also, that Dr. Jordan’s large paper on the Stenoponia covers the entire World distribution of this genus of fleas, while this paper is confined to that portion of it dealing with the Stenoponia tripectinata Complex of the Arab World. This is the ninth paper written by the author under National Science Foundation grant G14023. At the present time he is at British East African Malaria Institute, Amani, Tanga, Tanganyika, Africa, where he is working the fleas of Tangan- yika under Fulbright program and the National Science Foun- dation grants. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 Sfenoponia Tripectinafa Comphex from this en entire Comple ,vene qenera ily off Gomb Iraq Gerbils e; i S.T irakana / nn os SS = } a: SS A x Tonisia S.t.sepacala 5S ¥-thinophila 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 An Interesting New Species of Emphoropsis from California (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae) * P. H. TrmBertakeE, Department of Biological Control, University of California, Riverside While collecting insects at Walker Pass, California, on Sep- tember 26, 1957, Dr. E. I. Schlinger discovered a small cluster of bees in late afternoon but could capture only two as they dis- persed. This bee proved to be a beautiful species of Emphorop- sis, remarkable for the color pattern on the abdomen and for some of the male characters such as the swollen scape of the antennae and the swollen legs. Our other species fly in the spring and early summer instead of the fall. Emphoropsis excellens n. sp. Female——Black, the apical joint of tarsi brown, the tibial spurs testaceous. Pubescence fulvous yellow becoming paler on the face and changing to white on cheeks and underside of thorax and abdomen. Hair on dorsum of thorax short, dense, erect and almost concealing the surface; that on face rather dense, becoming much longer on occiput, the ocellar region and on the outer margin of the mandibles, but the vertex with a nude area between ocelli and eyes. Abdomen above with fulvous yellow pubescence, becoming bright fulvous as well as longer and denser across the disk of tergite 5, and long and erect on basal half of tergite 1 but otherwise appressed; base of tergites 2 to 4 almost nude and appearing black, with the black area gradually expanding outward on each side and with a narrowly triangular extension in middle almost to the apical margin of the segments, and the yellow-haired area at apex with a broadly rounded submedian lobe on each side. Hair of legs whitish at base, very short on the coxae, middle and hind femora, but long on posterior side of front femora and more fulvous in tibiae and tarsi, with hair on inner side of middle and hind basitarsi bright 1 Paper No. 1331, University of California Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 orange fulvous. Antennae black. Tegulae dark. Wings gray- ish dusky, the nervures blackish. Head broader than long. Mandibles stout, curved, obtuse at apex and with a small inner tooth. Proboscis moderate in length. Venation normal for Emphoropsis, with the first recur- rent nervure received near apex of second submarginal cell. Disk of wing beyond venation rather densely papillate. Pygid- ium much longer than wide and narrowed to apex with the disk convex from side to side. Head and thorax with fine dense punctures, those of clypeus very dense, but the nude area on each side of vertex shining and inpunctate. Abdomen slightly dullish and microscopically rugulose. Disk of pygidium with dense minute striae in transversely arcuate rows. Antennae moder- ately short, the first joint of flagellum about three times longer than thick at apex and nearly as long as the next three joints together. Length, about 14 mm, anterior wing, 11 mm. Male.—Black, with a large mark on mandibles, face below level of antennae and scape of antennae broadly beneath pale yellow. Clypeus with an oblique dark spot on each side above; supraclypeal mark concave below, and almost rectangular above ; lateral face marks extending on orbits at first broadly, then narrowly, almost to level of anterior ocellus. Antennae other- wise black. Legs black, the four apical joints of tarsi, underside of hind basitarsi and nearly the basal half of claws ferruginous. Pubescence ochraceous, less dense than in female, the face below antennae nearly bare and hair on middle of mesoscutum thin, with the surface well exposed, but hair on cheeks very dense, long and white. Basal half of tergite 2 nearly bare and black, with a quadrate extension in middle almost to the apical margin ; following segments similar but the black basal area not much exposed on tergites 4 to 6; apex of tergites with a band of long, appressed, whitish hair, somewhat dilated on each side of the nearly complete median interruption, but only feebly lobate in comparison with the pattern of the female. Tergite 7 with dense ochraceous hair on each side of a rather narrow median bare area. Venter with long white hair. Hair of legs whitish, very long on posterior side of front femora and middle tibiae, and 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 dense and fulvous on outer side of hind basitarsi. Wings as in the female. Head somewhat broader than long, the eyes large, with inner orbits diverging above middle of face. Mandibles rather small, with a small obtuse inner tooth. Labrum large, about twice as broad as long, and very convex but with a large flat median area. Clypeus large, evenly convex, with dorsal margin evenly rounded from close to the inner base of mandibles across the summit. Scape of antennae greatly swollen, hardly more than twice as long as thick, with the pedicel concealed in the apex; flagellum stout, the joints about as long as thick, flattened above and crenulate on outer margin, with the first joint a little longer than the second. All the femora and middle and hind tibiae of legs much swollen, but the hind tibiae contracted at apex ; middle basitarsi foveate on posterior margin at base and with a rather long conical spur on posterior side of apex; small joints of middle tarsi bluntly spurred behind, with a comb of long stiff hairs on posterior margin of the spurs. Hind basitarsi broadly and thickly dilated on apical half of inner margin, with the dila- tion ferruginous and somewhat bilobed. Claws of middle and hind tarsi very large, with a short tooth at middle of inner margin. Bare area of tergite 7 slightly bilobed at apex. Sev- enth and eighth ventral segments and genitalia similar to same parts in our other species ; eighth segment with apical plate much broader than long and only slightly rounded across the apex; apical process beneath parameral lobes (gonostyli) of genitalia broad and rounded on a little more than basal half of inner margin and produced into a short fingerlike lobe on outer margin (in other species quadrate or broadly oval in shape) ; parameral lobes slender at base, somewhat dilated on apical half and thinly hairy. Length, 13 mm; anterior wing, 11 mm. One female and one male (holotype female and allotype), Walker Pass, Kern Co., CALIFORNIA, September 26, 1957 (E. I. Schlinger), in collection of the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 39 A New Photurid Firefly, Photuris missouriensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera; Lampyridae, Photurinae. ) Frank A. McDermott, Wilmington, Delaware Twenty specimens of a Photuris recently sent to me by Mr. J. W. Green do not conform to any of Barber’s (1951) species, and I am therefore describing it below as Photuris missouriensis, sp. nov. Nineteen of the specimens were males and one a female. Type locality, Roaring River State Park, Missourr; collected on June 15, 1954, by J. W. Green. Habitat Conditions: “In grassy field, with few trees near river, some swampy ground.” (J. W. Green) Holotype male in collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Dimensions 12.7 mm long by 4.2 mm wide at elytral mid- length. Pronotum 2.5 mm long by 2.8 mm wide; semi-elliptical but margins slightly curved inward in basal fourth. Disk convex, limits of convexity roughly parallel to the external edges; coarsely punctate ; long and rather sparse, pale, diffuse villosity ; color dark orange, with a short, narrow, longitudinal black vitta from the base to ca. one third length, and an indefinite brown mark at forward end of the orange area, extending narrowly to apex. Sides obliquely upturned from margins of disk; apical third nearly flat ; transparent pale yellow mottled with irregular opaque ivory-colored flecks and bordered by a narrow trans- parent margin which is broadened somewhat apically. Angles rounded; a rather deep transverse submarginal groove between them along the base. There is a fringe of long hairs at the base of the disk extending over the base of the scutellum. Scutellum narrowly rounded at apex ; translucent yellow ; scat- tered short pale hairs. Mesonotal plates dull opaque yellow. Elytra 10.2 mm long, each 1.7 mm wide just back of base, then slightly constricted, then widening to 2.1 mm at midlength 40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 and tapering to separately rounded but rather acute apices; no explanate margins. Sutural bead pronounced and pale from scutellum to midlength. Villosity fairly dense, pale, oblique. Ground color a translucent light brown, becoming darker and more opaque in the basal fourth, and appearing much darker over wings. Lateral border paler to apical fourth, and a pale vitta beginning at humerus, slightly approaching the suture, and becoming indistinguishable at about midlength. Epipleura short, merging with the elytral edge at about basal fourth. Sur- face rugose, with a very fine dotted appearance between the coarser rugosity; at least some of the hairs arise from these coarser particles. Head: Frons and most of vertex yellow, somewhat brown under edge of pronotum. Eyes large, globular, black; 2.3 mm across and 0.6 mm between them at antennal sockets. Distal edge of clypeus tridentate, nearly black. Mandibles large and stout, ca. 0.76 mm across in closed position. Last article of maxillary palpus a dull brown, slightly curved conoid, flattened on the inner side; labial palpi dark yellow, the terminal article mitten-shaped or asymmetrically crescentic. Antennae 7.5 mm long ; 6th article the longest, 0.84 mm ; becom- ing more slender from the 3d; very dark brown, bases of articles paler. Sockets small and pale. Pro- and mesosterna dark yellow ; metasternum brown. Ventral abdominal segments 2 to 5 mostly dark brown, poste- rior edge of 5 yellow; 6 and 7 luminous, about one third longer than 5, and broadly emarginate ; 8th small, with a median poste- rior point. Villosity long, dense, and appressed on thoracic sterna; short on abdominal segments, and very dense on 8th. Coxae all yellow; legs partly yellow, but distal portions of femora and tibiae infuscate. Posterior tarsi 3.3 mm long. Aedeagus of the usual Photuris form. Flashing Conduct: “Flying low just at top of vegetation; flash single, repeated continuously while flying at two or three second intervals.” (J. W. Green) The female allotype is generally similar; 11.7 mm long by 4.3 mm wide; pronotum without distinct transparent border. Ixxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 41 Elytra with no trace of oblique vittae, but distinct, almost white, transparent lateral borders extending to apices; suture also pale to apices. Eyes smaller, 2.05 mm across and 0.7 mm between them. Antennae 6.35 mm long. Ventral abdominal segments 2 to 4 reddish brown; 5 brown in anterior two thirds, yellow in posterior third; 6 barely longer than 5, and feebly emarginate, with a long-elliptical luminous area and broad lateral and nar- rower posterior and anterior non-luminous borders ; 7 somewhat longer than 6, much narrower, slightly emarginate, and with a similar but smaller luminous area. The specimens varied from 11.25 to 13.7 mm long, averaging 12.6 by 4.2 mm. In 12 the black basal pronotal vitta was short, reaching only the midlength of the pronotum or slightly more, with a more or less indefinite median infuscation in the apical fourth; in the other 8 it was complete, or practically so, from the base to apical fourth, usually linear or narrow in the middle but in three specimens broadened so as to suggest a reduced form of the vitta in P. versicolor. Five specimens had no trace of a pale oblique vitta on the elytron, and in seven others this vitta was pale and short, becoming indistinguishable at about elytral midlength ; in the remaining eight it was traceable to the apical third or more of the elytra. The pro- and mesosterna were yellow, while the metasternum varied from yellowish to reddish to dark brown. Ventral abdominal segments 2 to 4 were mostly dark brown, but in the males, the 5th varied from nearly entirely brown to mainly yellow with irregular brown patches. Of the 18 specimens other than the holotype and allotype, 13 have been returned to the California Academy of Sciences as paratypes, and four deposited in the U. S. National Museum, one being retained in my collection. It is almost impossible to find distinct and constant structural differences between the various species of North American Photuris of the versicolor group. The principal differences other than in flashing conduct, are in size, pronotal pigmentation, the elytral coloration sometimes, and in some cases the season of prevalence. The aedeagi of all species so far examined—both North American and those from habitats further south—are 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 almost identical in form and structure, though varying in size. As mentioned below, there are some differences in the distri- bution of the luminous tissue in some females. The superficial coloration varies intraspecifically to such an extent that physio- logically different species overlap in this regard, and unless the flashing conduct is known, it is extremely difficult to distinguish them. The idea naturally arises as to whether some of these are valid species, or should be considered as subspecies, or even varieties. Aside from the versicolor group, P. divisa, P. fron- talis, P. congener, and the subtropical immigrant P. brunni- pennis, are undoubtedly valid species, recognizable as such in spite of the absence of definite data on their flashing conduct. In P. versicolor the courtship signals and eventual mating have been witnessed by the writer quite frequently in pure colonies, and at least once when P. hebes was also in flight nearby; and exchange of signals and approach have been seen in a pure colony of P. lucicrescens. (This latter colony, near a bridge south of Newark, Del., has been in existence for at least 12 years; there are occasional P. versicolor invaders from the nearby fields, but the breeding population appears to remain constant.) Around Wilmington, P. versicolor appears first, around May 25-27, followed in a few days by P. hebes, and a week or ten days later P. lucicrescens appears and except for stray females of versicolor, persists later. P. versicolor var. quadrifulgens appears to be a true variety, and has been noted as an occasional form in several localities around Wilmington where the normal versicolor was in flight. As I have recorded, Barber (1951, p. iv) could easily distin- guish some of the species prevalent around Wilmington, and when specimens of these species were arranged together, there was a definite difference in appearance (McDermott, 1958, p. 28). In some cases the distribution of the luminous tissue in the female furnishes at least some clue to the species. In the female allotype of P. missouriensis, the luminous tissue is re- stricted to elliptical areas. The same is true of P. versicolor 9, but the proportion of the ventral surface of the segment which is luminous is distinctly larger in the latter case. On the other xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 43 Fic. 1. Sterna of abdominal segments 6 and 7 of females, with luminous portions shaded. A. Photuris missouriensis sp.n. B. Photuris versicolor Fabr. C. Photuris bethaniensis McD. hand, in the small P. bethaniensis (McDermott, 1953, p. 37) the luminous area on the 6th ventral is narrowed medially, leav- ing an elongated dumbbell shaped area for the luminous portion. The colors of the luminous and non-luminous portions of these segments are insufficiently distinct to photograph clearly, and the accompanying drawing, Figure 1, shows in A the appearance in Photuris missouriensis, in B that of P. versicolor, and in C, P. bethaniensis, the luminous portions being shaded. LITERATURE CITED Barser, H. S. 1951. North American fireflies of the genus Photuris. Smithson. Misc. Coll. Vol. 117, No. 1. Publication 4051. McDermott, F. A. 1953. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol 103: 35-37. McDermott, F. A. 1958. Fireflies of Delaware, 2nd ed., Soc. Nat. Hist. Del., Wilmington, Delaware. 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 Headstand Mechanism in Telamona unicolor Fitch (Homoptera, Membracidae) CuirForD J. Dennis, East Central State College, Ada, Oklahoma When placed on their sides several species of Telamona with a high pronotal crest have been noted to execute a rapid head- stand from which they abruptly fly away. The action is difficult to follow with the naked eye. This note describes the mecha- nism discerned in a male Telamona unicolor Fitch collected from bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis (Wang.) K. Koch, on May 11, 1961, at Ada, Oklahoma. This specimen was somewhat pale in color and seemed to be well-formed; but, despite vigorous beating of its wings, it was unable to fly. Since this was the case the headstand action was observed many times during the course of about 45 minutes. This insect could come to the headstand from either side. This description applies when he started on his right side. Upon being placed on his side on the palm of my hand he began a vigorous kicking. The left front leg reached across his face to secure a grip on the hand; this leg was then used to help pull him up onto the metopidium. At the same time the tibia and tarsus of the right rear lez were pressed down on the hand to help push his body upright. None of the other legs were seen to be engaged. When the insect attained the headstand he usually rapidly beat his wings, but to no avail. He made no effort to use his legs as he beat his wings. When his hind legs were removed he was unable to bring about the headstand, de- spite efforts to use his middle leg closest to the surface. The front leg alone could not pull him to the headstand. [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 45 The Collembola of New Mexico. VII. Isotominae: Metisotoma, Isotoma *’” Haroip GEorGE Scott ? Sixteen species of springtail insects are recorded in this part. None of these have been reported previously from New Mexico. Specimens will be deposited with the Academy of Natural Sci- ences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Genus METISOTOMA Maynard, 1951 Key To WortD SPEcIES OF METISOTOMA NOTE. Both known species of Metisotoma are Nearctic. Legs and body with some spinate setae—spiniseta Maynard, 1951 Legs and body without spinate setae...capitona Maynard, 1951 Metisotoma spiniseta Maynard, 1951. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of Gambel oak litter, 7,200 ft, E of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Co., 20—-vii-1953. DistRIBUTION. N.M.,N. Y. Genus ISOTOMA Bourlet, 1839 KEY TO THE SPECIES OF NEARCTIC ISOTOMA ipo retrentr waatr sw preseiiewa 9) See eie sc Sav ot ee sean cies alee zZ SENET te AES .2.5.......- bite tee da hod ae Oe Oe ee albella Packard, 1873 Head about one-third body length. .grandiceps Reuter, 1891 Adult, mucro3-toothed4.02%.455).44 Gee ee 20 Adult mucro:4-toothed «<< isginit Ricca eet rae ee 25 Unguis without. teeth. (adults) 4.22 eee ae ee eee Bil Unguis with teeth (adults) 2547222 epee eee 2 Manubrium with 1 pair’of ventralsetae. 5.7 se ee - ee Nes ae! deg GUS acto che eee vestita Brown, 1923 Manubrium with many ventral setae...........-.6..:- ae Ixxi1i | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 47 22. Outer proximal mucronal tooth thorn-like............... SaaS ths eek yc marissa Folsom, 1937 25, Maes witli | 1ANET LOOM.) i.ccsa ee os 6 eee 86 wl See te ens Z Uneuis with Z inner teeth. ....... ; subviridis Folsom, 1937 24, Wneuis with couspicuous Outer tOOtt <2). 22 2.6. ee eons MPEP ere Nears ce Suse tridentata MacGillivray, 1896 Unguis without outer tooth......... difficilis Folsom, 1937 25. Mucro about ? length of hind unguiculus.............. 26 Mucro subequal to or longer than hind unguiculus...... 27, PG VE weSeSMMEGUdl. 2. c.a-ncias 6 apie maa, © olivacea Tullberg, 1871 Eyes ‘unequal... ..6 35. arborea nigra MacGillivray, 1896 27. Mucro subequal to hind unguiculus in length............. RR epost. Aeneas 0 ipo 8 8 violacea Tullberg, 1876 Mucro longer than hind unguiculus................0.005 PROT Cae ee ae eee nigrifrons Folsom, 1937 Isotoma arborea (Linnaeus, 1758). New Mexico Recorps. Nine Berlese samples of clumps of vegetation, sod, coniferous logs and litter from aspen, fir, spruce, pine, and bristlecone pine ; and hand picking from beneath rocks, rodent midden heap of fir cone scales, beneath tight bark of yellow pine log and on mud along irrigation ditch; 5,300 to 12,200 ft, Santa Fe, Mora, Bernalillo, Taos, Torrance, and Sandoval Co., June—Nov., 1950-1954. Distr1BuTION. IIl., Iowa, Maine, Mass., N. M., N. Y., Europe. Isotoma cinerea (Nicolet, 1841). New Mexico Recorps. Two Berlese samples of spruce litter and rodent midden heap in spruce-fir area, 11,200 to 11,900 ft, Santa Fe and Taos Co., July—Aug., 1953. DistriBuTION. IIl., Iowa, Maine, Mass., Mo., N. M., N. Y., N. C., Ohio, Ontario (Canada), Europe, Asia. Isotoma difficilis Folsom, 1937. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of aspen-fir litter, 10,600 ft, near Sandia Crest, Sandia Mts., Bernalillo Co., 22-ix-1951. DistTRiBuTION. IIl., N. M. 48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 Isotoma finitima Scherbakov, 1899. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of clumps of vegeta- tion, 12,400 ft, Alpine Zone, Santa Fe Baldy, Santa Fe Co., 17-vii-1954. DistriBuTION. N. M., Greenland, Europe. Isotoma gelida Folsom, 1937. New Mexico Recorps. Three Berlese samples of aspen soil and litter, rotten fir log, and alder litter, 7,000 to 10,000 ft, Santa Fe, Bernalillo and Socorro Co., July—Nov., 1950-1954. DIsTRIBUTION. IIl., N. M. Isotoma marissa Folsom, 1937. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of alder litter in can- yon, 7,000 ft, Water Canyon, W of Socorro, Socorro Co., 10- vii-1954. DISTRIBUTION. Ala., Ill., Kan., N. M. Isotoma monochaeta (Kos, 1942). New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of sparse spruce litter, 8,100 ft, Calaveras Camp Ground, 5 mi N of Fenton, Jemez Mts., Sandoval Co., 24~-viii-1953. DisTR1IBUTION. N. M., Europe. Isotoma notabilis Schaffer, 1896. Discussion. In the nomenclature of this species, I am fol- lowing Stach (1947, p. 384) in considering [sotoma eunotabilis Folsom, 1937, synonymous with the European notabilis. My specimens, however, represent the form described by Folsom, differing from the European form in a slightly different ocular distribution and a slightly different ratio between Abd III and IV. Folsom’s specimens are only 0.7 mm long, the European 10mm. My largest specimen is 0.9 mm in length. New Mexico Recorps. Seven Berlese samples of rotten log Ixxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 49 in aspen fir-area, coniferous stump in yellow pine-spruce fir area, litter (aspen, spruce, fir, alder, Gambel oak, oak), and sweeping grasses, 7,400 to 8,600 ft, Taos, San Miguel, Rio Arriba, Colfax, Bernalillo, and Sandoval Co., May—Sept., 1951-1954. DistriBuTIon. IIl., lowa, N. M., N. Y., Wis., Ontario (Can- ada), Europe, Australasia, Asia. Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871. New Mexico Recorps. Thirteen Berlese samples of spruce, aspen, fir, yellow pine, alder, red birch, and oak litter or stumps; 7,400 to 12,300 ft, Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Taos, San Miguel, and Torrance Co.; May—Aug., 1951-1954. DistripuTion. IIl., Iowa, N. M., N. Y., Ontario (Canada), Greenland. Isotoma sensibilis (Tullberg, 1876). New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of spruce litter, 11,900 ft, Lake Peak, Northeast of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Co., 29-vii-1953. Distripurion. Pla. Mls Wa... Mass.. N: M., N. Y., N. C., Ohio, Minn., Ontario (Canada), Europe. Isotoma subviridis Folsom, 1937. New Mexico Recorps. Nine Berlese samples of grass and herb clumps and aspen, spruce, fir, alder and cottonwood litter ; 5,000 to 11,900 ft; Mora Valencia, Taos, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Sandoval and Bernalillo Co.; May—Sept., 1953-1954; and on damp soil near river, 5,300 ft, northwest of Pena Blanca, near Rio Grande, Sandoval Co., 3—vii-1954. DistripuTIon. N. M., N. Y., Wash., Ontario (Canada). Isotoma trispinata MacGillivray, 1896. New Mexico Recorps. Two Berlese samples of aspen-fir and alder litter, 7,000 and 10,600 ft, Bernalillo and Socorro Co., July—Sept., 1951-1954. 50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 DistRiBuTION. IIl., Iowa, La., Mass., N. M., N. Y., N. C., Ohio. Isotoma vestita Brown, 1923. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of aspen litter, 8,700 ft, Sandia Mts., Bernalillo Co., date unknown. DistripuTion. N. M., England. Isotoma violacea Tullberg, 1876. New Mexico Recorps. From Berlese samples of fir, spruce, aspen, willow, Mountain cottonwood litter; 8,700 to 11,200 ft, Valencia, Taos, Mora, and Bernalillo Co.; July—Sept., 1951- 1953: j DISTRIBUTION. Alaska, Idaho, Minn., N. M., N. Y., Wis., Ontario (Canada), Greenland, Europe. Isotoma viridis Bourlet, 1839. New Mexico Recorps. Beneath rocks in Alpine Zone; and ten Berlese samples of aspen, fir, alder, spruce, birch and oak litter; 7,800 to 12,200 ft; Santa Fe, Bernalillo, San Miguel, Sandoval, Taos, and McKinley Co.; June—Sept., 1950-1954. DisTRIBUTION. Alaska, Calif., Colo., District of Columbia, Ill., Ind., Iowa, La., Maine, Mass., Minn., Miss., Mo., N. H., N. M., Ne Y. N. Ci Ohte, Oklay Ore. Tenn, Texas, Miah? Vas Wash., Mexico; Ontario, NW Territories and Nova Scotia (Canada) ; Europe, Asia, Arctica. REFERENCES CITED Bourtet, A. 1839. Mem. Soc. Sci. Agr. Lille, part 1, pp. 377-417. Brown, J. M. 1923. The Naturalist, Aug. 1923, pp. 261-264. CHAMBERLAIN, R. 1943. Great Basin Nat. 4: 39-48. Fotsom, J. W. 1937. U.S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 168, iii + 144 pp. Kos, F. 1942. Razreda Akad., Ljubljani 2: 115-160. Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae. Ed. 10, vol. 1, 823 pp. MacGruivray, 1896. Canadian Ent. 28: 47-58. Maynarp, E. A. 1951. The Collembola of New York. Comstock Publ. Co., Ithaca, xxiv + 339 pp. [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS a4 Muits, H. B. 1934. A monograph of the Collembola of Iowa. Ames: Collegiate Press, xii + 143 pp. Nicotet, H. 1841. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helvetia Sci. Nat. 6: 1-88. Packarpb, A. S. 1873. Sth Ann. Rept., Trust. Peabody Acad. Sci. 23-51. Reuter, O. M. 1891. Ofv. Finsk. Vet. Soc Forh. 33: 226-229. ScHAFFER, C. 1896. Mitt. naturh. Mus. Hamburg 13: 147-216. ScHERBAKOoy, A. M. Zool. Anz. 22: 79-81. StacH, J. 1947. Acta Monogr. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Krakow) 1: 1-488. TuLLBerG, T. 1871. Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 28: 143-155. 1876. Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 33: 23-42. Wray, D. L. 1952. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 47: 95-106. —. 1953a. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 48: 54-56. ——. 1953b. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 48: 66. —. 1953c. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 48: 82-83. Liriomyza archboldi, a New Species (Dipt., Agromyzidae) * S. W. Frost, Pennsylvania State University MALE Head: Front, face, cheeks, proboscis, palpi and antennae en- tirely yellow; ocellar triangle shiny black and continuous with the black of the occiput; yellow of checks not extending com- pletely back of the eye but intercepted near the vertex by the black of the occiput ; epistoma narrowly shiny black ; four fronto- orbital bristles, all upward turned, upper three equal in size and equally spaced, lower pair smaller and slightly approximated in their rows; orbital hairs minute, sparse and upward pointing ; third antennal segment small, rounded and scarcely or only minutely pubescent; arista black, about three times as long as third segment; cheeks about one half eye height; oral vibrissae small and scarcely longer than accompanying setae along the lower margin of the cheek; inner verticle bristle arising from the yellow color of the head, outer verticle bristle arising from the edge of the black color of the occiput. * Authorized for publication, November 24, 1961, as paper No. 2621 in the Journal Series of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 Thorax: Mesonotum shiny black, yellow of pleurae slightly indenting the same at the transverse suture; anterior humeral callosities yellow with a small elongate black spot; humeral bristle arising from the yellow color; presutural bristle arising from the edge of the black color of the mesonotum ; outer poste- rior angles of the mesonotum narrowly yellow; pleurae chiefly yellow; sternopleura (katepisternum) with a large black tri- angle leaving a yellow band above, its strong bristle arising from the yellow color; mesopleura (anepisternum) chiefly yel- low, narrowly darkened on the lower margin, upper three quar- ters yellow, all setae arising from the yellow color; hypopleura with a distinct trapezoidal black spot; scutellum chiefly yellow, with darkened triangles at the sides of the base; the scutellar bristles arising from the yellow color; postscutellum shiny black ; four pairs of dorsocentral bristles, about equally spaced, the anterior pair slightly weaker ; four irregular rows of acrosti- chals reaching nearly to the scutellum; one strong sternopleural bristle accompanied by two minute setae; one strong meso- pleural bristle accompanied by several minute setae; humeral, notopleural, supra-alar and post-alar bristles arising from the yellow color of the pleurae. Abdomen: Dark brown above, incisures narrowly yellow; under surface chiefly yellow extending to some extent onto the sides of the abdomen at the base; genitalia concolorous with the dorsal surface of the abdomen. Legs: Largely pale, coxae and femurs yellow, tibia and tarsi slightly darkened; no distinct bristles. Wings: Distinctly infumed; third and fourth veins slightly diverging; fourth vein slightly curved; costa reaching to the fourth vein; divisions of costa between second and third veins about the same as those between the third and fourth; last sec- tion of the fifth vein about two and a half times that of the pre- ceding section ; anterior cross-vein located at or slightly beyond the middle of the discal cell and about one half as long as the posterior cross-vein ; margin of calypteres and fringe brown. Sige: Length 1.5 mm. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 32 Fic. 1. Mesopleura and sternopleura of Liriomyza archboldi n. sp. Fic. 2. Mine on leaflet of Pisum sativum. Fic. 3. A mine enlarged showing arrangement of frass and slit through which larva escaped. FEMALE Similar to male but ovipositor shiny black and fifth abdominal, yellow incisure distinctly broader than others. Holotype: Male, taken November 9 at a light trap at the Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida. Para- types: twelve males and eight females also taken at light traps at The Archbold Biological Station during November, Decem- ber, January, February and March, five specimens reared from linear mines on Pisum sativum February 31 and two specimens collected on the host February 16. This species runs close to Liriomyza trifoli (Burgess) but differs in the possession of four irregular rows of acrostichals, four pairs of orbitals and distinctly infumed wings. The black portion of the mesopleura is always reduced and in some para- types is represented by a narrow bar. Mines: Liriomyza archboldi make serpentine mines on the upper surface of the leaves of Pisum sativum. They often cross the mid rib and seem to mine regardless of other veins. They twist and turn and sometimes form what appears to be a blotch. The first third of the mine is always narrow and the latter por- tion is distinctly broader. The frass, from the beginning to the end of the mine, is arranged in two delicate, irregular lines, one on each side. The larva emerges through a semicircular slit at the end of the mine, on the upper surface. 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1962 Notes and News in Entomology Under this heading we present from time to time, notes, news, and comments. Contributions from readers are earnestly solicited and will be acknowledged when needed. Glaciers and Winter Stoneflies. Dr. H. H. Ross and Dr. W. E. Ricker are studying the relationships and distribution of adult winter stoneflies in an effort to deduce what were the living conditions south of the advancing and retreating glaciers in eastern North America. A complete knowledge of the ranges of these insects is necessary to obtain reliable deductions. Adult winter stoneflies are small (4 inch long or less), black, and fre- quently have short or vestigial wings ; they live in small brooklets to rivers. Because the adults of most species occur only during two winter months (February and March, and sometimes early April), it is impossible for one collector to accumulate many collections in one year. The investigators would be most grateful if fisheries people and others, who may be in the field in late winter and early spring, would carry a few vials of alcohol for collecting and preserving adult stoneflies that often abound on bridges at this season. Data required are name of stream, local- ity, date, and collector. Please send material to H. H. Ross, Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois. Nomenclature Notice. All comments relating to the fol- lowing should be marked with the Commission’s File Number and be sent in duplicate, before May 17th, to the Secretary, Inter- national Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, c/o British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 7, England. ‘ Validation of the generic name Naucoris Geoffroy, 1762 (In- secta, Hemiptera). Z.N.(S.) 608. Suppression of certain unidentifiable specific name in the family Tetrigidae (Insecta, Orthoptera). Z.N.(S.) 673. Validation of the generic name Ceratosolen Mayr, 1885 (In- secta, Hymenoptera). Z.N.(S.) 1479. For details see Bull. Zool. Nomencl. Vol. 18, Part 6. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 55 The Future of Entomological News ENTOMOLOGICAL NeEws has for years hoped to attain a degree of financial stability that would permit it to increase its services to entomology, and perhaps even improve its outward appear- ance. Instead it faces each year a financial crisis since its only income is from subscriptions. 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Downey The symbiotic relationships of certain species of ants and larvae of the Lepidoptera, particularly in the famly Lycaenidae, have received comparatively little attention in this country. No doubt part of the explanation of this neglect is the assumed facultative nature of the symbiosis in our region. This is based on the fact that the majority of the Lycaenidae in which the association with ants is known to be obligatory, viz., the carniv- orous and phyto-predacious species, are exotic and have no near relatives in North America. The only reported carnivorous lycaenid in North America is Feniseca tarquinius Fabr., which feeds on aphids and whose larvae are sometimes killed by ants associated with the aphids. Hinton (1951) thought that “most” of the Lycaenidae are associated with ants, and that more myrme- cophiles will be found in this family than in any other group, ex- cept perhaps the Staphylinidae. Approximately 150 species of Lycaenidae (sensu lato, including Riodinidae auct.) occur in the United States and Canada, but I have found less than a dozen species mentioned in the literature as being associated with ants. In most of these instances the ants are not identified. The purpose of this paper is to report instances of associations of know species of ants and larvae of the butterfly, Plebejus (Icaricia) icarioides (Bdy.). Except for one observation made at Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California, during March, 1955, the study is based on data collected by Dr. Richard E. Black- welder and the writer while on an extended collecting trip to western North America during June and July, 1960. (57) ITHSONIAN 15 1962 sasTITBTION MAK 58 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 P. icarioides comprises a polytypic array of numerous dis- continuous populations inhabiting most of the continent of North America west of the central Great Plains Region. Within this area the scattered distribution of the butterfly is partly explained by the local and spotty distribution of the plant genus Lupinus on which the larvae feed. Certain observations previously reported are of interest to the myrmecophily discussed here. Newcomer (1911) first de- scribed the complete life cycle of P. icarioides under the name Lycaena fulla Edw. Among other things pertinent to its biol- ogy, he mentioned that the larvae are attended “by a small black ant.” As had been observed in the case of many lycaenid butterfly larvae, Newcomer noted the presence of an exudate gland on the tenth body segment of the larva, from which the ants obtained a liquid secretion. One of a pair of eversible sacs occurring on the eleventh segment was also figured (op. cit., p. 86), and Newcomer (1912) subsequently described the extension and retraction of these “‘sacs’’ (or tentacle-like tubes) under laboratory conditions when the larvae were being attended by ants. Newcomer disputes Scudder who followed Edwards (1878a) in the opinion that the expanded tentacles “indicate to the ant” that the exudate gland is ready to function. The writer concurs with Newcomer in his conclusion that the ten- tacles, when erect with terminal bristles rotating, serve to ir- ritate the ants or at least act as a deterrent to them. Recent observations in South Africa (Clark & Dickson, 1956) also lead us to conclude that the sacs are repellant devices utilized when the larvae are “irritated” or the glands “overworked.” Edwards (1878) notes an ichneumonid parasite being driven away from one lycaenid larvae by an ant in attendance. He also claimed that the mature larvae and their subsequent pupal stages were less subject to parasitism than were the same stages in other Lepidoptera which were not attended by ants. Thus it has been assumed that the larvae derive some benefit from their association with ants. Newcomer (loc. cit.) noted the presence of eggs of Tachinidae and larvae of Braconidae on the larval stages of P. icarioides. Ixxii1] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 59 During my studies, only one field-taken larvae was observed to be parasitized. Eight braconid parasites, Apanteles theclae Riley, emerged from a third instar larvae collected at Chau- tauqua Mesa, Boulder County, Colorado. Thus we know that dipterous and hymenopterous parasites do attack the larvae of this butterfly, but the low incidence of parasitism may reflect protection by ants as Edwards suggests. Comstock and Dammers (1935) have also described the life cycle of southern California representatives of the butterfly (= Plebejus icarioides evius (Bdv.). The reader is referred to this work and to Newcomer (loc. cit.) for detailed descrip- tions of the egg, the larval stages, and the pupa of this species. In Table 1 are listed all the ant species found in association with larvae of P. icarioides, together with the localities in which the observations were made and the host plants on which the insects were found. With but one exception all of the ants were actively tending the larvae, crawling over them, feeding on the secretion of the tenth body segment, or otherwise indi- cating to the observer a more than incidental interest in the larvae. The exception to this association was the small thief ant, Solenopsis molesta validiuscula Em., at Maybell, Colorado, mentioned below. At this locality the mature larvae were lo- cated in groups of two to five just below the soil surface at the bases of the plant stems. Inasmuch as the larvae were easily exposed by bending the stem of the plant and were never in im- mediate contact with the soil, it appears that the ants may have removed some of the subsoil from around the plant either for access to the resting larvae or as a diurnal resting place for the larvae, or both. The position of the plant being thus disturbed, the ants, primarily Formica perpilosa Whlr. and F. oreas Whlr. at this locality, became very agitated and poured forth from the base of the plant with much the same aggressive attitude one observes in the ants after their nest is disturbed. Usually from 5 to 30 or more ants would be found in this situation at the base of the plant and usually they were of one species. In one ob- servation at Maybell, Colorado, having taken a sample of the ants which were tending five larvae, and after removing the 60 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | March, 1962 larvae carefully in order to keep them alive in vials, the writer noticed several very small Solenopsis at the same location on the stem from which the larvae were removed. As three individual ants were involved, it seems unlikely that they could have crawled unobserved onto the plant; they must have been al- ready present in association with the larvae. For this reason this species is included in the list. Solenopsis richteri has been reported (Bruch, 1926, via Hinton) tending Hamearis epulus signatus Stich., a riodinid from Argentina. The mature butterfly larvae were also located on the lupine flower stalks, but detection is made more difficult by their con- cealing color and color pattern. However, ants were readily seen on the flowers and if they exhibited any degree of excite- ment or agitation after detecting the presence of the observer, it was a certain sign that they were attending larvae. The reac- tion of the ants could even be described as belligerent. They would attack small twigs or tweezers placed near the larvae and, particularly Formica fusca L., would frequently rise on their legs and pull the abdomen forward between the legs as though they were bringing a sting into operation. Relatively few ma- ture larvae were discovered on the flowers, compared to the numbers located at the bases of the stems, and it is assumed that the majority of mature larvae in this species are nocturnal feeders. Newcomer (1912) observed that the honey gland of P. icarioides becomes functional in the third instar and numerous authors have stated that the honey gland is functional in other species only in later instars. This writer has noted that the first instar larvae possess the gland, at least internally, but the seem- ing lack of attendance by the ants during the early instars would suggest that the gland is not functional until the third and fourth instars. Occasionally an ant or two would be observed in prox- imity to first instar larvae, but ants were never noticed astride the larvae, or assuming any of the behavior patterns common to the ants with the more mature larvae. Of possible significance in our observations of this symbiotic relationship was the fact that the eggs and first instar larvae [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 61 TABLE 1. Ants associated with Plebejus (Icaricia) tcarioides (Bvd.) Ant species Host plants involved Locality Elev. Formica integra haemorrhoi- | Lupinus rubricaulis Greene | Chautauqua Mesa, 5,800’ dalis Em. Boulder Co., Colo. F.. neogagates Em. Lupinus rubricaulis Greene Formica sp.? Lupinus rubricaulis Greene Tapinoma sessile (Say) Lupinus rubricaulis Greene Formica fusca L. L. rubricaulis Green Flagstaff Mtn., 6,300’ Boulder, Colo. Formica fusca L. L. alpestris A. Nels. Lefthand Canyon, 6,400’ Lastus niger (L.) L. alpestris A. Nels. Boulder Co., Colo, Formica integroides Em. L. argenteus argenteus Pursh | Maybell, Moffat 6,250’ F. oreas Whir. L. argenteus argenteus Pursh Co., Colo. F. perpilosa Whir. L. argenteus argenteus Pursh gait eee pyramicus L. argenteus argenteus Pursh Rog. Solenopsis molesta L,. argenteus argenteus Pursh validiuscula Em. Formica fusca L. L. caudatus Kell. Big Cottonwood Cyn.,| 5,100’ Salt Lake Co., Utah Formic oreas comptula Whir. | L. sericeus Pursh Emigration Cyn., 5,850’ Lastus sp.? L. sericeus Pursh Salt Lake Co., Utah Formica lasiotdes Em. L. albifrons var. collinus Twin Peaks, San 700’ Greene Francisco, Calif. at Maybell, Colorado, were all found on Lupinus caudatus Kell., while the mature larvae were invariably associated at that lo- cality with Lupinus argenteus argenteus Pursh. Eggs and first instar larve would be progeny of the adults of 1960, but the ma- ture larvae would be from adults of 1959, the second instar larvae having overwintered in the diapause state. Several factors could account for this difference in host plants. For instance, L. argenteus might initiate growth earlier in the springtime, and thus be available to the overwintering larvae at an earlier date. Downey (1961) has shown evidence that the adults oviposit on the most hirsute lupine in a given area, even though the larvae can utilize any species of lupine as a food source. L. caudatus is more hirsute than L. argenteus and would be selected for oviposition when when both are available. Thus the early stages of the 1960 brood would be on the hairiest plant, and the 1959 brood would be on the earliest plant. Lacking information on the phenological attributes of the lupine species involved, we can only suggest that there may be an additional factor, transpor- 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | March, 1962 tation of the larvae by the ants. Many lycaenid species are car- ried by the ants from one situation to another, viz., from plant to plant, plant to ant nest, and nest to plant. If the ants moved the first instar larvae indiscriminatly, we should have found some of them on both host plants, which was not the case. However, it is possible that larvae in or near diapause are car- ried to the ant nest or at least to a sheltered spot away from the plant. I have strained numerous ant nests in many localities, and examined the bases and root stalks of hundreds of lupines but have never discovered where the diapausing larvae spend the summer and winter months. Since ants tend many lycaenids during periods of the year adverse to the larvae, it is likely that they are associated with the diapausing larvae of P. icarioides. The ants may transport the larvae back to the food plant when this becomes available in the spring, and it may be the ants rather than the larvae that select Lupinus argenteus in this locality. As a corollary of the assumption that ants transport the young larvae, we would have to attribute some “foresight” to the ants. Presumably they derive no benefit from the early instar larvae and any care the ants provide could only be in anticipation of future use. This situation prevails also in the symbiosis of other ants and lycaenid larvae. Selection of the lupine by the ant may involve many factors. It may depend simply on which lupine first appears in the spring, as mentioned above, but it also could depend on the proximity of one species of lupine to the ant nest as based on edaphic factors. L. argenteus occurred in the recently disturbed area along the roadside in well-drained situations where the soil, al- though somewhat sandy, tended to be more densely packed. L. caudatus, on the other hand, was found growing in an adja- cent area, beyond the disturbed zone, that was characterized by the predominance of Artemisia tridentata Nutt. (sagebrush). The soil in this undisturbed area consisted mostly of sand, pre- sumably windblown or wind sorted, so that it was very loosely arranged. These distinct soil types may be a factor in the construction of the diurnal resting chambers of the larvae at the bases of the plant stems as described above. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 63 A physiological factor could account for the presence of the larvae on L. argenteus. Edwards (1878, p. 5) suggested that the secretions of the larvae of Celastrina argiolus pseudargiolus (Bdv. & Lec.) (= Lycaena pseudargiolus of Edwards) feeding on Actinomeris in the fall of the year were less attractive to ants than the exudations of the summer larvae feeding on Cimicifuga. Perhaps the ants at Maybell, Colorado, preferred the taste of the secretions they obtained from larvae that fed on L. argenteus. Other factors may be involved, but from the ob- servations noted above it would seem desirable that lepidopterists working on the association of ants and butterfly larvae should also accumulate data on the host plants involved, the soil type in the area, the proximity of the utilized plants to the ant nests, ete: The laboratory reared pupae of P. icarioides contain a “scar” of the exudate gland on the seventh abdominal segment. Pu- pae have never been discovered in the field and thus nothing is known of any possible association of this stage with ants. The only record of a pupa-ant association in North America known to the writer is the report by Tilden (1947) of a Glaucopsyche lygdamus behrii (Edw.) pupa in the nest of an unidentified ant. Present studies indicate that pupation of P. icarioides takes place in the spring and this may explain the absence of pupae in ant nests in the winter. In the laboratory the average duration of pupal development is 22 days. Numbers of this butterfly have been successfully reared in the laboratory, where ants were not available, and it is assumed that the association with ants is not obligatory. We cannot safely make this assumption about all completely phytophagous lycaenids however. Various workers have mentioned that if the larvae are not attended by ants, and thus the secretions from the abdominal gland are not removed, a mold will grow on the secretions and eventually kill the larvae. This phenomenon is not geographically unique but has been indicated for Aricia agestis (Schiff.) in Europe, Hypolycaena erylus Godt. in Java and Spindasis nyassae Butl. and Aphnaeus hutchinsoni drucet Neave in Africa. Since some phytophagous butterflies have 64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [March, 1962 become dependent on ants for reasons other than as a source of food and protection, the symbiotic relationship of ants and but- terflies in our North American fauna should be studied further. Of the 833 species of Lycaenidae for which I have obtained some record or indication of individual life history from the literature, 245 species have been reported in association with ants. This survey is probably not complete, but certain facts are indicated. In 137 species the attendant ants have been iden- tified (in 31 instances only to genus); the ants have not been identified in 108 of these associations. Forty-five species of Lycaenidae have more than one ant species reported in symbio- sis; only five lycaenid species have been associated with four or more ants, and Lysandra coridon Poda has the greatest num- ber of species of attendant ants, six. Only three species of Lycaenidae occurring in North America have hitherto been known to associate with more than one species of ant: the Hol- arctic Lycaeides argyrognomon (Bgstr.) with three species in Europe, the Holarctic Celastrina argiolus (Linn.) with four unidentified species in the U. S., and the Nearctic Scolitantides piasus (Bdv.) with four species. Five-hundred and eighty-nine species of lycaenids whose life histories are at least partially known, have not been reported as myrmecophiles, yet many of these are known to have exudate glands in the larval stages. Eighty species of ants belonging to 25 genera have been as- sociated with the Lycaenidae. None of the species listed in Table 1, except Lasius niger (L.), Tapinoma sessile (Say) and Formica fusca L., has been previously known to attend ly- caenids. In addition, the genus Dorymyrme.x is new to the list. The number of lycaenid species associated with the principal ant genera involved is: 30 species with Camponotus sp., 58 with Cremastogaster, 9 with Formica, 11 with Lasius and 19 with Oecophylla. The fact that P. icarioides is associated with 11 or more spe- cies of ants is essentially a measure of the ant-attractive powers of the larval secretions. I would expect that many of the ants herein reported are attracted to any sweet source and would be strictly opportunists in using secretions from larvae of blue [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 65 butterflies. Eventually, as records accumulate, it may develop that many of these same ants would be found associated with other North American species of lycaenids possessing exudate glands. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1. Eleven species of ants were found in association with larvae of Plebejus (Icaricia) icarioides (Bdv.), and in four of seven localities more than a single species of ant was involved. Hence there is not the specificity in this symbiotic relationship that can be noted in the phyto-predacious (= predacious in last larval instar only) or carnivorous Lycaenidae. 2. Since the butterfly can be reared without ants, the relation- ship is classified as facultative. 3. A braconid parasite, Apanteles theclae Riley, emerged from one larva. The very low incidence of larval parasitism, plus the “belligerent” behavor of attendant ants when larvae are threat- ened, substantiates the opinion that the larvae derive benefit from the association. 4. In one population, ants appear to have selected a different host plant for the larvae than did the ovipositing butterflies. Other ecological factors bearing on the myrmecophily may in- clude differences in larval secretions depending on the particu- lar food plant, edaphic factors such as soil particle size, and prox- imity of plants to the ant nest. 5. A general summary of ants associated with Lycaenidae is presented, including several new records. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to the National Science Foundation (grant no. G9024) which is supporting a major project of which this study is a part. My thanks also to Dr. Marion R. Smith for identification of the ants herein re- ported, to Dr. C. F. W. Muesebeck for identification of a bra- conid parasite, and to Dr. R. E. Blackwelder for assistance in the collections upon which this report is based, and to Dr. 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [March, 1962 Blackwelder and Dr. H. I. Fisher for suggestions and criticism of the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Brucu, C. 1926. Rev. Soc. Ent. Argentina 1: 1-8. CiarK, Gowan C., and C. G. C. Dickson. 1956. Lepidopterists’ News 10(1-2) : 37-43. Comstock, J. A., and C. M. Dammers. 1935. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 34: 81-87. Downey, J. C., and W. C. Futter. 1961. Jour. Lepidopterists’ Soc. 15: 34-42. Epwarps, W. H. 1878. Canad. Ent. 10: 1-14. ——. 1878a. Canad. Ent. 10: 131-136. Hinton, H. E., 1951. Proc. Soc. London Ent. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1949- 1950, pp. 111-175. Newcome_r, E. J. 1911. Canad. Ent. 43: 83-88. 1912. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 20: 31-36. TILpen, J. W. 1947. Pan Pacific Ent. 23: 42-43. The Conflict between the Tribal and Family Names Mirini (Hymenoptera) and Miridae (Hemiptera) The hymenopterous genus Mira was established by Schellen- berg in 1803, and Ashmead using this genus as the type pro- posed the tribe Mirini in the family Encyrtidae in 1900. The name Mira is derived from the Latin adjective mirus meaning wonderful ; hence the tribal name Mirini is correctly formed and valid if not preoccupied by the hemipterous name Miridae. Fabricius proposed the genus Miris in 1794, but the derivation of the word is uncertain. The establishment of a group name based on Miris was by Hahn in 1831, who called the group Mirides and this was later changed to Merinae and Miridae. Although the name Miris possibly was formed arbitrarily its structure suggests the Latin third declension, and Hahn’s name Mirides is evidently in the plural nominative case. The stem of Miris, therefore, is mirid and the hemipterous family name should become Mirididae——P. H. TrMBERLAKE, Citrus Experi- ment Station, Riverside, California. Ixxi1| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 67 Collembola from Louisiana Haroitp GeEorGE Scott? The two species of springtail insects recorded in this paper have not been reported previously from Louisiana. Collections were made by Dr. J. H. Esslinger, Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Tulane University. Specimens will be deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. Podura aquatica Linnaeus, 1758. Figure 1 LouiIsIANA Recorp. From temporary flood waters, approxi- mately 15 feet above mean sea level, Norco, St. Charles Parish, 29-iii-1960. DisTRIBUTION. Alaska, Colo., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., La., Mass., Minn., Mo., Ohio, Tenn., Texas, Utah, Wash., Wisc. ; Ontario (Canada) Europe, Siberia (U.S.S.R.). Fic. 1. Podura aquatica. 1 Training Branch, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Serv- ice, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Atlanta 22, Georgia. 68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 Fic. 2. Isotoma louisiana sp. nov., lateral view of holotype. Isotoma louisiana sp. nov. Figure 2 Type Locatity. Holotype and 43 paratypes on water, shore of Lake Pontchartrain, approximately 15 feet above mean sea level, Norco, St. Charles Parish, Loursiana, 29-11-1960. Speci- mens will be deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Description. Body elongate, segmented; without segmental ankylosis; scales absent, setae present; yellow with bluish pur- ple markings on mid-dorsum and on sternum of Th II—Abd VI; legs and antennae light purple; collophore and furcula bright yellow; Ant III and IV not subsegmented; Ant II and IV sub- equal; postantennal organ of simple isotomine type, about twice as long as wide; eyes 8 and 8 on black eyepatch, mouthparts chewing ; prothorax reduced, membranous, non-setaceous ; tenent hairs absent ; unguis non-tunicate, without inner teeth; unguicu- lus with large basal tooth; fringed bothriotricha absent ; Abd III to [V as 4:3; tenaculum prominent ; furcula present ; mucro with 2 teeth; dens without spines; anal spines absent; anus terminal ; length approximately 2 mm. Discussion. This species may be distinguished from all other members of the genus by (1) the absence of tenent hairs, (2) the subequal length of Ant II and IV, and (3) the lack of inner teeth on the unguis. xxii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 69 Roleta coracina gen. nov., sp. nov. (Coleoptera; Lampyridae, Pleotomini) FRANK A. McDermott, Wilmington, Delaware Among specimens of Lampyridae received from Sr. F. H. Walz, Buenos Ayres, was one which was found to represent a new genus in the tribe Pleotomini. For the genus I propose the name Roleta, a feminine form of an anagram of the type lo- cality, Loreto, and for the species coracina, “black as a crow,” because of the general black color of the insect. The peculiar pronotal and elytral outlines are shown in the accompanying photograph. I wish to thank Mr. J. W. Green for calling my attention to the relationship of this species. ROLETA gen. nov. This genus has the usual characters of the Pleotomini—modi- fied mandibles, ventral abdominal spiracles, and biramose an- tennae. It differs particularly from other pleotomid genera in the narrow form, the unusual shape of the pronotum, the apparently thick antennae with broad, closely folded rami, and the markedly narrowed elytra. The new genus may be correlated with the other genera of the Pleotomini by the following modification of the key to the American Pleotomini given by Green (Coleopt. Bull. 1959, XV, sola: 2 Antennae with 13 or 14 segments, the branches short and StOUL ie pees oe ie as asic we Soe Pleotomus LeConte AST Toevaa renal dn eb UIE 200) oso) ke eee ee area ae 3 3 braaches.or antennae long and slender .......6..+0..0++% 4 Branches si antennae snort and broad........52%.006+..- 5 4 Legs long and slender, femora extending beyond sides of body. Elytra dehiscent......... Calyptocephalus Gray Legs short, femora extending only to sides of body. Elytra IGE SGlenISE Gtr mac ey ta eyaere i axa in orate isa si 8).6 Phaenolis Gorham 5 Fore and middle legs short, posterior pair relatively long. Pilyita GlenisCemts .<2pie ates = a a.0'sosiiw a @ Roleta gen. nov. 70 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [March, 1962 The type species of Foleta is described below as Roleta cora- cina sp. nov. As will be seen from the foregoing key, this spe- cies has not only the general characters of the Pleotomini, but combines some of the generic characters of the species of Pleotomus, Calyptocephalus, and Phaenolis. So far as I am aware, no other lampyrid species exhibits this combination of characters, and it thus appears not to be closely related to any other species. Roleta coracina sp. nov. Type locality Loreto, Misiones, ARGENTINA. Collected in September, 1955. Dimensions: 10.9 mm long from apex of pronotum to tip of pygidium, by 5.1 mm broad at humeri. Outline generally parallel, but middle abdominal segments somewhat widened. Pronotum ca, 2.6 mm long by 2.5 mm broad. Lateral edges parallel from apical 4th to basal angles, and reflexed; anterior 4th angulate, apex rounded and reflexed. Base nearly straight as seen from above but sinuate in vertical plane. Angles much rounded, ca. 90°. Disk papillate-rugose, angularly convex, with a longitudinal median carina particularly evident at base and apex. Plane and reflexed areas around disk coarsely but not confusedly punctate; no visible pubescence. A basal line of deep punctures and a line of similar punctures on each side of disk. Entirely a somewhat dull black except for a U-shaped dark orange mark on the disk, the bottom curvature nearly reaching the base. Scutellum black, rather narrow, apex truncate; mesonotal plates dull black. Elytra 6.8 mm long, shorter than the abdomen, reaching only to about middle of tergite 6; 2.55 mm wide at humeri; much narrowed from basal 4th to about 0.55 mm, the narrowed por- tions arcuately dehiscent, the apices approaching somewhat ; apices rounded. Sutural edges not raised; no explanate mar- gins ; two indistinct costae ; epipleura basally broad and deflexed, short, ending about where the narrowing begins. Uniform [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 71 black, rather densely rugose, and with a very short, dense pubescence. Wings greyish, not completely folded under elytra. Head small, deeply set in prothorax, the front limited to the narrow spaces above and below the contiguous antennal sock- ets; vertex black, somewhat rugose. Gula apparently mem- branous. Maxillary and labial palpi of the usual lampyrid form. Eyes mediocre, 1.2 mm across in frontal view, and 0.64 mm be- tween them; interocular margins straight and vertical in frontal view. Mandibles of the modified type, the distal portions very slender and sharp; reddish brown. Clypeus pale, distal edge straight. Fic. 1. Roleta coracina sp. nov. In the specimen the pronotum is at an angle to the elytra. View a is taken at right angle to the pronotum ; view b at right angle to the elytra. Antennae short, ca. 2.6 mm long, biramose, 11l-articulate, and apparently thick owing to the mostly closely folded rami; the latter nearly flat, most of them somewhat curved, 0.25 to 0.3 mm broad by 0.9 to 1.0 mm long, apices rounded; clothed with a very short black pubescence. 11th article similar to a ramus. Sockets large, pale, contiguous. Prosternum ventrally black, pale orange laterally; anterior edge broadly emarginate, with a median intumnescence. Meso- 72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 and metasterna black, the latter somewhat bulbous. Sterna papil- late-rugose, slightly shining, and with a short appressed pubes- cence. Tergites all black, with large pointed lobes, each about one- third of total width; 4th to 7th wider than the distance across the external edges of the elytra. All granular-rugose, some- what shining. Pygidium black, rugose, trilobed, the median lobe smaller and more acute than the laterals. Fic. 2. Roleta coracina sp. nov. This drawing shows the peculiar out- lines of the pronotum and elytra, and the arrangement of the wings. Ventral abdominal segments black, granular-rugose, some- what shining, and with small pointed lobes; 4th to 7th not emarginate; 8th with a truncate apex, medially incised and with lateral flecks representing the larval luminous organs ; 9th (geni- tal) small, paler, and medially incised. Abdominal spiracles near middle of margins of the lateral lobes, visible in ventral aspect. Legs black, claws simple. Fore and middle tarsi not markedly long; posterior tarsi nearly as long as femora and about %4 as long as tibiae; 1st article as long as 5th, 2nd shorter than Ist, and 3rd shorter than 2nd; 4th very small, hidden, and bilobed. No corresponding female is known. Ixx111 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 73 The type specimen is being deposited in the U. S. National Museum. In Fig. 1, photographs a and b were taken with the specimen in different positions, because the pronotum was at an angle to the elytra; a emphasizes the pronotum, and 0b the elytra. The sketch, Fig. 2, shows the outlines of the insect more distinctly than does the photograph. A Pictorial Review of the North American Chip- munk Fleas. Part III, Monopsyllus fornacis, M. eutamiadis, and M. Polumus * C. ANDRESEN Hupparp, Tigard 23, Oregon The three remaining western Chipmunk fleas have been de- scribed from southern California and northwestern Mexico. The first of these to appear in print was Monopsyllus fornacis Jordan 1937 1937 Monopsyllus fornacis Jordan, Nov. Zool. 40: 263. Fe- male described. 1940 Monopsyllus fornacis Jordan, Jellison, P.H.R. 55: 491. Male described. Although siphonapterists have constantly likened this flea and the two which follow to Monopsyllus eumolpi (Roths.) it has always seemed to the writer that they are much more closely related to one another than to M. eumolpi. It seems likely that when someone has the courage to attack and revise that portion of the genus taken off chipmunks and pine squirrels M. eutamia- dis and M. polumus may become subspecies of M. fornacis, or M. polumus may become a subspecies of M. eumolpzi. It should be noted that the writer has never collected in the area where these three fleas are found, and that his only experi- ence with them has been through mounted specimens or from the original papers. 1Part I of this series dealt with Monopsyllus eumolpi (Roths.) (Entom. News 60: 253-261), and Part II with M. ciliatus (Baker) (Ibid. 73: 7-16). Reprints are available. 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 This is the flea which Glenn Kohls took off a silver gray squir- rel at Seven Oaks, California, and sent to Dr. Jordan at Tring and the flea which was sent to William Jellison in greater numbers from Hunter Ligget Military Reservation at James- burg, Monterey County, California. Regardless of what the affinities of these fleas may be there are differences in the Modified Segments: Male. Jellison states that the finger is narrower than in M. eumolpi, the spines shorter, heavier and straight. Sternite VIII is broader, shorter and has fewer ven- tral bristles and bears a pair of posteriorly projecting fila- mentous plumes. The process is longer and broader than that of M. eumolpi. The writer feels that the finger lays down the pattern for fornacis and at least that of eutamiadis also, that is, a finger which is scythe-blade shaped, which of course the finger in M. eumolpi is not and for that matter neither is that of M. polumus. The armature consists of three black spiniforms on the posterior border, much shortened in comparison with those of M. eumolpi, straight and appearing stubby, the spiniforms being equidistant along the margin and the usual series of fine and medium bristles over the face of the finger. The process P is long and broad, apically dome-shaped. Female. Jordan writing on the VII sternite says “this ster- num is truncate, with the upper angle rounded-projecting, the ventral margin of this short nose not forming an angle with the apical margin of the segment. The writer, after examining a series of females prefers to say that the margin is evenly slanted with a small nose-like projection midway along it. Of the bursa, Jordan says “duct much shorter (than in M. eumolp:), not rolled up, broadly margined with glandular tissue on the anterior side, the bursa itself rounded.” The spermatheca is barrel-shaped, its tail finger-shaped and crooked. Length: Males and females about 3.00 mm. Range: Coastal belt of California south of Monterey Bay and in the south to the east into and perhaps through San Bernardino County. Ixxi11| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 75 Deposits: The types, which were before the writer at the time of this study, are in the collection of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. Specimens Examined: The entire series in the collection of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory was loaned to the writer for this study. The specimens consist of the holotype female taken off silver gray squirrel (S. g. griseus), by Glenn Kohls, May 1936 at Seven Oaks, San Bernardino County, California, a second female with same data and 24 females and the holotype male and 4 other males from Jamesburg, Monterey County, California, from 12 chipmunks (F. merriami) by Holdenried during April, June and July of 1939. Preferred Host: There is little doubt that the normal host of this flea is the chipmunk. Monopsyllus eutamiadis Augustson 1941 1941 Monopsyllus eutamiadis Augustson, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sct. 40: 141. Working high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Cascade Valley, Fresno County, California, Rutherford and Augustson took a series of fleas off the Inyo chipmunk (EF. s. inyoensis) August 27, 1941. In this flea the finger is scythe-blade shaped, as in the preceding, and the VII sternite female has a nose-like projection as an upper lobe. Modified Segments: Male. The finger F is slightly longer and slightly broader than in VM. fornacis. It is still scythe-blade shaped. The three black spiniforms are two above, short and slightly bent, and a long one below, straight or slightly bent, the three high on the border, the two lower ones closer together. There are the usual small bristles on the face. The process P is incurved below the apex on the posterior border. The process is long, broad and apically rounded. Female. Apical outline of the VII sternite suggests a high but shallow lower lobe, then a not too deep or wide sinus and an upper lobe suggestive of a long pointed nose, extending out beyond the lower lobe. The whole sternite, again, looks like the side view of the head of the stone men of Easter Island. 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [March, 1962 The spermatheca is barrel-shaped, with tail finger-shaped and crooked. The bursa is less prominent than in fornacis, more so than in polumus. Length: Male and females about 3.00 mm long. Range: This flea is probably limited in range to the southern portion of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Deposits: The type slides are in the Los Angeles County Museum, Specimens Examined: Only the types were in the hands of the writer at the time of this study. These were off Inyo chip- munk, eastern Fresno County, California, taken by Rutherford and Augustson August 27, 1941. Preferred Host: This flea probably prefers the chipmunks of the high Sierra Nevada of central and southern California for its hosts. Monopsyllus polumus Traub and Johnson 1952 1952. Monopsyllus polumus Traub and Johnson, Amer. Mus. Nov. 1598: 17. This, the most recent of the North American chipmunk fleas to be described, was collected in northwest Mexico 5 miles west of El Salto, Durango, San Juan, off “a sciurid” and a Eutamias by Betty S. Davis, July 3, 1951. Dr. Traub secured the fleas from Dr. E. W. Jameson, University of California. To us who can describe a flea in 6 lines or less the descrip- tions put out by Dr. Robert Traub are the marvel of the siphonapteran world. Every young aspiring siphonapterist should read them all. Traub’s descriptions are the way they should be done. There are only about half a dozen papers that the writer knows about. Now holding high office in the Army Medical Research Division, Washington, D. C., Traub, whom the writer has known by correspondence for some years, com- plains that paper and desk work takes all his time, the fleas must wait. But finally we all come to the point where we have waited too long. The writer as he has watched Traub grow feels that in Traub Americans have a British Jordan, a great in the flea field. Traub has built up the finest flea collection in Ixxii1] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ry North America. In his descriptions there are the most metic- ulous details of head, thorax, abdomen, legs, modified segments, copulating apparatus. The description of M. polumus covers 10 pages and includes 4 pages of the most precise drawings by Dr. Phyllis Johnson now working in Panama. American Chipmunk Fleas Monops yes Te J. Monterey Bay south Coastal belt of Colifornia Northwest Mex) VIISK. 9 IM. evtamiadis lating Auqustson 194 D4 (fase, vond J.1952 Monopsyllus fornacis Jordan, M. eutamiadis Augustson, and M. polumus Traub and Johnson. Amongst other things Traub says differing from the previous two “by the absence of several long thin dorsal bristles on the first two segments of the mid-tarsus in the male, in the female 78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 by the shape of the posterior margin of the seventh sternum, which is shallowly sinuate and lacks a distinct dorsal lobe. In that the bursa copulatrix is short, not very long and coiled.” Modified Segments: Male. The writer is inclined to feel that the finger of polumus is of a pattern of its own. It is neither scythe-blade shaped as in fornacis and eutamiadis nor ham- shaped as in eumolpi. It seems to the writer that it is rec- tangular. Of the three black spiniforms on the posterior border the two above are short, the lower one slightly curved, the third and lower is long, apparently straight. The three are equi- distant, the upper and lower ones being at the angles. Apex of finger square. The process P, while apically rounded, is de- cidedly undercut on the posterior border. Female. VII sternite without lower lobe, but a slight spur about one third up the posterior border. Spermatheca barrel- shaped, the appendix finger-shaped and crooked. The bursa is short, not very long and coiled. Length: No length was included in the description of this flea. Range: This flea is known only from the type locality. Deposits: The type specimens are in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Specimens Examined: The writer has seen no specimens of this flea. Preferred Host: This is probably a northwest Mexican chip- munk flea. Key to the Southwest Chipmunk Fleas by Range 1. Coastal belt of California south of Monterey Bay... .fornacis 2. Southern part Sierra Nevada Mountains of California...... Jk a tee Bie aie OER Sa Cae ee Ones ee eee ee eutamiadis 3. Notthwest Mexico: .< << «mocked eee eee ee polumus [xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 79 Studies of the Byron Bog in Southwestern Ontario. XIII. Seasonal Distribution of Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) W. W. Jupp, Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario The operation of a baited trap in the Byron Bog as well as the bog itself have been described earlier (Judd, 1956, 1957). During the period May 15 to November 15, 1956, this trap was emptied daily, and the insects recorded. Some species have already been reported upon, including the wood gnat Silvicola marginata (1958a), Tabanidae (1958b), and filth flies (1958c). The Vespidae taken numbered 126 specimens. They were identified by S. M. Clark of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa, and are deposited in the Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario. The seasonal distribution of the species is shown in Fig. 1. The castes were sorted out according to their color pattern (Miller, 1961), except in the case of Polistes in which the female castes are not surely distin- guishable (Bequaert, 1940). ACCOUNT OF SPECIES COLLECTED Polistes fuscatus (Fabr.)—2 males, October 16, 19; 16 fe- males, May 22-November 6, maximum July 26 (3 wasps) (Fig. 1). In his letter of identification Mr. Clark pointed out that this population is intermediate between typical P. f. fuscatus (Fab.) and P. f. pallipes Lepeletier. Vespula maculata (L.)—2 males, October 2, 13; 4 females, June 17-26; 11 workers, July 17—September 23 (Fig. 1). Vespula maculifrons (Buysson)—3 males, October 17, 21, 23; 6 females, June 20-July 17; 69 workers, August 4-Novem- ber 6, maximum August 25 (6 wasps) (Fig. 1). Vespula vulgaris (L.)—9 workers, August 9-October 30 (Fig. 1). 80 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 Vespula vidua (Saussure)—3 workers, September 9, 24, 29 (Fig. 1). Vespula arenaria (Fabr.)—1 female, August 6. DISCUSSION OF COLLECTIONS For three species, P. fuscatus, V. maculata and V. maculifrons, the first insects trapped were females. Males turned up at the end of the season and workers were prevalent mainly during the summer months. Fig.1 SEASONAL DISTRIBUTION OF WASPS ao a9 a¥ 4 P FUSCATUS A 4 V. MACULATA 8 Vv. MACULIFRONS 3 [v VULGARIS ix A 3 V VIDUA MAY JUNE JULY AUG Sera, OCT. NOV. Fic. 1. Seasonal distribution of wasps (males, females and workers) in the Byron Bog in 1956. The Byron Bog (Judd, 1957) lies at or near the northern border of the Carolinian Zone in Ontario and thus affords an opportunity to investigate the insects occurring in an ecological unit characteristic of the more northern coniferous forest, but here situated at the edge of the Beech-Maple Forest Region. It is evident from an examination of the numbers of the various species of wasps found in the bog and their known geographic distribution that the wasps in the bog are predominantly those of the Carolinian or Austral Region. The distribution of P. fuscatus (both f. fuscatus and f. pallipes) is “southeastern” in Canada (Muesebeck et al., 1951) and the commonest species in the bog, V. maculifrons, is restricted to the Austral Region (Miller, 1961). V. vidua is distributed in the Transition and Upper Austral Region while V. maculata and V. vulgaris are Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 81 widespread Nearctic species and lV’. arenaria, represented by only one specimen in the collection from the Byron Bog, is found in the more northern Boreal Region (Miller, 1961). ACKNOWLEDGMENT This project was supported by funds from the Government of Ontario granted through the Ontario Research Foundation and was carried out while the writer held a Summer Research Associateship from the National Research Council of Canada during 1956 and 1957. REFERENCES Beguaert, J. C. 1940. Jour. New York Entomol. Soc. 48: 1-31. Jupp, W. W. 1956. Amer. Midl. Nat. 56: 388-405. —. 1957. Can. Entomol. 79: 235-238. ——. 1958a. Entomol. News 69: 65-67. —. 1958b. Can. Entomol. 90: 255-256. ——. 1958c. Amer. Midl. Nat. 60: 186-195. Miter, C. D. F. 1961. Can. Entomol. vol. 93, suppl. 22. MuEseEBECK, C. F. W., K. V. Kromsern, H. K. Townes, e¢ al. 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico—synoptic catalog. U. S. Dept. Agric., Agric. Monogr. No. 2. Review BUTTERFLIES OF THE AMERICAN Tropics. THE GENUS ANAEA (LEPIDOPTERA, NYMPHALIDAE). This is a study of the species heretofore included in the genera Anaea, Coenophlebia, Hypna, Polygrapha, Protogonius, Siderone, and Zaretis. By WictiaM Puitiies Comstock, Research Associate of the De- partment of Insects and Spiders of the American Museum of Natural History. Sponsored by Frank Johnson, Patron of the American Museum. Published by The American Museum of Natural History, New York. Price: $20.00. William Phillips Comstock began his work on this volume 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ March, 1962 about twenty years ago and the manuscript was completed in 1949. The author died in 1956 and the sponsor in 1949 so that neither of the two men primarily responsible for the work lived to see it published. The reproduction of the color plates was financed in part by the National Science Foundation and addi- tional assistance was given by Dr. David Rockefeller. To Frederick H. Rindge, Associate Curator of the Department of Insects and Spiders of the American Museum of Natural His- tory, a great debt is owed because he critically edited the paper from a scientific standpoint and read all the proofs. All entries in the large bibliography that bear dates later than 1949 were added by Dr. Rindge. Before writing this review of a monograph complete in every scientific detail, logically arranged, with every needed bit of information easy of access, with perfectly designed exact color reproductions, and with clear genitalia drawings, I wrote to Dr. Rindge to find out whether this book on the Butterflies of Tropi- cal America is the first of a planned series on the various butter- fly genera, and learned that because of the great expense it is unlikely that there will be another book in this series in the fore- seeable future. Hence, while the edition lasts, this unique book should be purchased by all museums for their entomological libraries. Certainly this book, in every detail, will stand as the ideal monograph on a single genus of Lepidoptera, to be fol- lowed, it is hoped, by other books of a similar kind. The book covers the following topics, all of which are su- perbly indexed: Distribution and Origin of Anaea, Knowledge of Ranges of Species, Fossil Butterflies, Regional Tabulation, Checklist, Bibliography, Plates. There are line drawings of all the wing shapes, with a careful systematic account of each sec- tion of the genus and subgenera. Then follow the genitalia drawings and descriptions of the immature stages. There is surprisingly little to be found in the literature concerning the eggs, larvae, and pupae: a few colored figures appear in the works of Stoll and Sepp, there are some excellent drawings by Muller. Edwards illustrated the life history of Paphia gly- cerium (= andrea), Matteson showed photographs of larvae of Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 83 Anaea portis (= floridalis), and a few others have been de- scribed and illustrated. There follow some detailed maps of the recorded distribution of species, a discussion on climate and population density, and maps showing species common to different regions that will be of great importance to all collectors. An illustration of the accuracy of the places named for the occurrence of certain species is the recent (Nov., 1961) experience of the Entomological Expedition of the Carnegie Museum to Baja California. This expedition divided into two sections at first, three flying to La Paz and three driving the travelall to Mazatlan on the West Coast Mexican Highway, and taking the ferry to La Paz. Those driving to Mazatlan were informed by letter of the occurrence, as recorded in this monograph, of Anaea callidryas in that re- gion, and were successful in netting this butterfly during their short stay in its locality. Following a most careful and helpful Index to Generic Names come the plates of which there are thirty, each illustrating about eight species or subspecies. The underwings of Anaea call for special skill of portrayal because these are mottled and spotted in exquisite detail, and colored to perfection. All lepidopterists owe a debt of gratitude to the artists that I can find no adequate words to express. If this magnificent book is too expensive to be privately owned then visits should be paid to the libraries of museums where it can be found. It will, I believe, stand for all time as a model for illustrated scientific monographs. Suffi- cient gratitude cannot be expressed for the tireless work of the author and for all those who contributed so ably to the making of this book. MarcareTt M. Cary Entomologist’s Market Place ADVERTISEMENTS AND EXCHANGES Advertisements of goods or services for sale are accepted at $1.00 per line, payable in advance to the editor. Notices of wants and exchanges not exceeding three lines are free to subscribers. 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The author and his wife spent three weeks collecting in Ari- zona during September, 1960, including several days in the well-known White Mountains of the eastern part of the state. Among other butterflies collected was a small, rather dark Hesperia which was especially abundant at Horseshoe Cienega, about five miles southeast of McNary. This skipper is appar- ently undescribed; the only comparable specimens seen were from the Barnes collection at the U. S. National Museum in a group of unidentified Hesperia—from the White Mountains, Arizona. This species most nearly resembles H. manitoba Scudder, both superficially and genitalically, though it is not far from H. colorado Scudder. Hesperia susanae n. sp. Male.—Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brownish-black on the dorsal surface, the hairs of the abdomen and patagia only slightly greenish; the ventral surface is light grayish-tan. The eyes are black; the palpi are light gray; the antennae are tan with the clubs dark brown; the legs are tan, slightly greenish along the femora. Wincs. Upper surface (Fig. 1): Susanae has the appear- ance of a small, light, bright manitoba, but the fuscous borders are not so extensive and appear slightly washed with fulvous, the fulvous ground color intermediate between that of manitoba (85) 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 and colorado. The fulvous markings of the hind wings are in diffuse patches with brighter points corresponding to the spot- band of the under surface, rather than only in spots as in mani- toba. The veins are strongly darkened, especially basad, con- trasting more with the ground color than in either of the other species. Under surface (Fig. 2): Susanae resembles a pale specimen of manitoba with the olive-brown ground color of the hind wings of that species replaced by olive-green. The spots of the hind wings are smaller than in either manitoba or colorado and are occasionally discontinuous and well-separated, whereas the spots of the other two species are generally contiguous and band-like. The anterior two spots and those posteriad of vein Cu, always are reduced, and occasionally one or more may be absent; in the other two species these spots are present, though sometimes reduced. The spots are not edged in black, as is usual in mani- toba. The length of the fore wing from base to end of costa varies in the series from 11.5 to 13 mm, averaging 12.16 mm; that of the holotype is 12 mm. The ¢ genitalia (Fig. 5) most closely resemble those of manitoba, differing in the following respects: (1) the proximal tooth of the valva more nearly the same size as the distal one and not so incurved, often straight; (2) the dorsal margin of the sacculus more definitely “humped” medially ; (3) the saccus much longer and with a more bulbous end; (4) the coecum penis strongly bulbous; and (5) the ventral surface of the penis relatively straight, not kinked in the vicinity of the ductus ejaculatorius. Female.—H ead, thorax, abdomen, and appendages as in male. Wincs. Upper surface (Fig. 3): Closely resembles a pale manitoba, but the fuscous is less extensive and washed with fulvous. In paratypes Nos. 40 and 59, and to a lesser degree in Nos. 37, 42, and 63, the discal fuscous markings are almost extinct, leaving fuscous only marginad, and the fulvous areas are more tawny, resulting in very pale specimens. Under surface (Fic. 4): Also resembles a pale manitoba. The spots of the hind wing are either not or only slightly out- xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 87 Fics. 1-4. Hesperia susanae n. sp. Holotype ¢: 1. Upper surface. 2. Under surface. Alltotype 2: 3. Upper surface. 4. Under surface. lined with dark scales, unlike manitoba in which they are strongly outlined; the spots posteriad of vein Cu, and the anterior pair are reduced, occasionally absent. All the spots of susanae are smaller than those of manitoba, but unlike the male always arranged in a band. The length of the fore wing from base to end of costa varies in the series from 12 to 14.5 mm, averaging 13.62 mm; that of the allotype is 14 mm. 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Type MaTeriAL.—36 ff and 29 99, from the White Moun- tains, ARIZONA, all but six taken by the author and his wife. Ho.otyPE 4: Horeshoe Cienega, White Mts., Apache Co., Ariz.; 8000 ft, in dry meadow; 3-ix—1960; Susan M. Miller; & genitalic slide No. 8. ALLoTyPE 9: Same data as holotype; Lee D: Miller: PaRATYPES 35g: Nos. 1-11: same locality as holotype; 2-ix-1960; Lee D. or Susan M. Miller. Nos. 12-29: same data as holotype; Lee D. or Susan M. Miller. Nos. 30 and 31: Ditch Camp, White Mts., Apache Co., Ariz.; 8000 ft, along stream bed; 3-ix—-1960; Lee D. Miller. No. 32: vic. Greer, Ariz., Apache Co.; 9000 ft, dry meadow; 3-ix-1960; Lee D. Miller. Nos. 33-35: White Mts., Ariz., no date; Barnes collec- tion. In the following ¢ paratypes the genitalia have been exam- ined: Nos. 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, and 33; the corresponding slides are Nos. 7, 12, 19, 10, 11, 5, and 20 of Lee D. Miller and 5 of McDunnough in the U. S. National Museum collection. 28 99: Nos. 36-44: same data as Nos. 1-11. Nos. 45-59: same data as holotype. No. 60: same data as Nos. 30 and 31. Nos. 61-63: same data as Nos. 33-35. Paratypes Nos. 29 and 45 were taken in copula by the author. The holotype, allotype, and paratypes Nos. 6, 7, 10, 15, 18, 36, 37, 38, 40, and 46 will be deposited in Carnegie Museum. Paratypes Nos. 4 and 39 will be deposited in the U. S. National Museum, and the Barnes collection specimens, paratypes Nos. 33, 34, 35, 61, 62, and 63, will be returned to that institution. Paratypes Nos. 21 and 53 will be deposited in the American Museum of Natural History. Paratypes Nos. 19 and 43 will be deposited in the Canadian National Collection. Paratypes Nos. 5 and 41 will be deposited in the Los Angeles County Museum. Paratypes Nos. 3 and 44 will be deposited in the collection of Dr. C. Don MacNeill. Paratypes Nos. 24 and 54 will be deposited in the collection of Dr. J. W. Tilden. Para- types Nos. 9 and 58 will be deposited in the collection of Mr. F. Martin Brown. Paratypes Nos. 17 and 50 will be deposited in the collection of Mr. H. A. Freeman. Paratypes Nos. 22 and 51 may be deposited in the collection of Mr. Kilian Roever. Ixx11i | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 89 Hesperia susanae is named for the author’s wife, always an amiable and competent companion, who collected the greater part of the type series. This species, while showing a close resemblance to manitoba, differs superficially by its smaller size, generally more fulvous coloration, and the weaker spot-band of the hind wings beneath, with the spots much reduced, occasionally strongly non-con- tiguous. The ¢ genitalia differ especially along the valvae, the saccus, and the penis. This species is apparently referred to in the literature as manitoba from Arizona. The author feels that all the high-altitude records of manitoba from that state may refer to susanae, not just those from the White Mountains. Fic. 5. Hesperia susanae n. sp. & genitalia, left lateral aspect with left valva removed. The author is deeply indebted to Dr. Richard M. Fox and Mr. Harry K. Clench for reading the manuscript and making suggestions on its preparation. Further thanks are due Dr. Fox for taking the photographs of the types. The author also wishes to thank the entire entomological staffs of the U. S. National and Carnegie Museums for placing their collections of Hesperia at his disposal for comparison. BIBLIOGRAPHY Brown, F. M., D. Err, and B. Rotcer, 1956. Colorado butterflies: part V, Hesperiidae, the skippers, and Megathymidae, the giant skippers. Proc. Denver Mus. Nat. Hist. 7: 282-296. 90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Evans, W. H., 1955. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae .. . in the British Museum (Natural History). B. M. (N. H.) pp. 319- 324, London. Kuors, A. B., 1956. In Tuxen, S. L., Taxonomist’s glossary of genitalia in insects, Ch. 20, Lepidoptera, pp. 97-110 + figs. 121-132, and Glos- sary, pp. 175-284. Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard. Linpsey, A. W., 1942. A preliminary review of the genus Hesperia. Dennison Univ. Bull. Jour. Sci. Lab., 37: 1-50. A Parasitic Earwig from a Swahili Giant Rat (Dermaptera) C. ANDRESEN Hupssarp, Tigard 23, Oregon The Swahili giant rat is a big fellow, as big as a small cat, measuring a good foot long in body with 14 inches of tail. I am told that at night when one comes across them they can be petted without danger. I still hesitate to thrust my hand in a live trap to get them out. They look like an overgrown vicious Norwegian rat. These rats are Cricetomys gambianus osgoodi Heller and are common here in the Usambara Moun- tains of northeast Tanganyika where I am studying the fleas of the area. A dozen specimens have produced no fleas but they always carry a parasitic earwig. I have collected many of the parasitic beetles of Aplodontia and had a large supply of Castor parasitic beetles come in from Norway, but these are small. This earwig is up to three quarters of an inch long and today I took 65 of them off a single rat. I note that this ear- wig belongs to the suborder Hemimerina, Family Hemimeridae, which has but the single genus Hemimerus. I am told this par- ticular earwig is H. vosseleri, a strict parasite of Cricetomys. Any investigator wishing specimens is welcome to them. My address is Amani, Tanga, Tanganyika, c/o Malaria Institute. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 91 New Species of Microlepidoptera from Japan J. F. Gates Criarke, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D. C. Through the kindness of Dr. S. Issiki, Entomological Labora- tory, University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, Osaka, Honsyt, Japan, I have been privileged to study a small collection of reared Japanese microlepidoptera. Included in this interesting lot of specimens were the species described below as new to science. The drawings for this paper (except figure 8) were made by Mrs. Caroline B. Lutz, illustrator on the staff of the Department of Zoology, U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Plant names were checked by Dr. John J. Wurdack, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution. OECOPHORIDAE Psorosticha melanocrepida, new species Alar expanse 16-18 mm. Labial palpus light buff irrorate with fuscous; a fuscous spot laterally, at apex of second segment; third segment with ill-de- fined basal and median fuscous bands. Antenna light clay color annulated and suffused with grayish-fuscous ; scape with a fus- cous spot at base and another at apex. Head mixed clay color and fuscous; face pale buff. Thorax blackish-fuscous with a few clay color scales mixed; base of tegula with brownish col- ored scales. Forewing clay color; base of forewing, a spot at mid-costa and an oblique bar from costa slightly before apex, directed toward base, blackish-fuscous; in cell, at about middle of wing, an ill-defined oblique, blackish-fuscous streak with spot of raised scales at outer end; at basal third a series of minute blackish-fuscous spots arranged in an outwardly curved arc; around termen, at base of cilia, a series of 4 or 5 small blackish- fuscous spots; remainder of forewing marked with scattered blackish-fuscous scales; cilia clay color shading to grayish-fus- cous, the scales narrowly tipped with buff. Hind wing grayish 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ April, 1962 basally shading to fuscous at margins; veins indicated by fus- cous; cilia grayish-fuscous with darker subbasal band. Legs buff, variously suffused and irrorate with fuscous; foreleg heavily overlaid with fuscous on outerside and foretarsi ex- hibiting some red-brown scaling. Abdomen fuscous above, pale clay color beneath; laterally a longitudinal row of black spots; ventrally a pair of longitudinal rows of ill-defined black- ish spots. Male genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10729, Type). Harpe rather narrow, as long as vinculum, tegumen and uncus com- bined; cucullus bluntly pointed; clasper slender, straight, heavily sclerotized and reaching at least to costa of harpe. Anellus subquadrate with median posterior indentation. Aedeagus slightly bent, moderately slender and of nearly equal thickness throughout; vesica unarmed but folded and some- what thickened for part of its length. Gnathos a spined knob. Socii small, flattened, fleshy lobes clothed with fine setae. Un- cus a small blunt process. Female genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10738, paratype). Ostium a transverse slit. Ductus bursae membranous; incep- tion of ductus seminalis a short distance before ostium. Sig- num a small, elongate, dentate plate. Type: U.S. N. M. No. 65828. Type locality: Kytisyt, Oita. Food plant: Citrus unshiu Marcovitch. (“Larva in folded leaf.”’) Remarks: Described from the type male and one female para- type with identical data. (3. VI. 1957 Em. K. Yasumatsu). Paratype 2? in USNM. In general aspect melanocrepida is similar to the Indian P. zizyphi (Stainton) but is a much larger insect. The blackish preapical oblique bar of the forewing of melanocrepida is ab- sent in zizyphi and the latter species is more roughly scaled than the former. The male genitalia of all species of the genus possess a very heavily sclerotized clasper, appearing almost black in slide mounted examples, and there is little to distinguish between them; the slight differences are qualitative rather than Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 93 quantitative. The females, however, show substantial points of distinction, and all that is needed to distinguish these two species is to compare the signa of zizyphi, which consists of a long line of small more or less joined dentate plates in the an- terior two-thirds of the bursa with that of melanocrepida, which has only a small dentate plate in the anterior third of bursa. Agonopterix chaetosoma, new species Alar expanse, 25-26 mm. Labial palpus pale brownish-buff; second segment irregu- larly sprinkled with fuscous, particularly on outer side; third segment with a fuscous spot at base on inner side and a broad, subapical fuscous annulus, less distinct on outer than on inner side. Antenna grayish-fuscous except basally where there is considerable brownish-buff scaling. Head and face pale brown- ish-buff with some admixture of fuscous above. Thorax fus- cous, roughened with numerous hair-like scales anteriorly; tegula and paired posterior thoracic crest brownish-buff suf- fused with light brown. Forewing ground color pale brownish- buff irregularly and lightly blotched with brownish suffusion ; extreme base of costa and a series of 15 or 16 spots on costa and around termen, fuscous; slightly beyond base a transverse blackish bar; in cell, from basal third to about middle of wing, a blackish crescentic dash; nearly entire surface of wing rough- ened by hairlike scales; cilia brownish-buff suffused grayish. Hind wing shining light grayish-fuscous; cilia brownish-buff with grayish subbasal band. Legs pale brownish-buff irregu- larly irrorate and banded with fuscous. Abdomen pale brown- ish-buff strongly infuscated above; ventrally with four longi- tudinal rows of black spots; five posterior segments edged laterally with long hairlike scales. Male genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10724, Type). Harpe ample, weakly sclerotized; cucullus bluntly pointed; clasper somewhat curved, reaching four-fifths across harpe, roughened and slightly twisted apically. Vinculum evenly rounded. Anellus slightly broader than long, with small cleft on posterior edge; anellar lobes small, moderately sclerotized. Aedeagus 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 slender, slightly curved, unarmed, pointed. Transtilla a nar- row band; lobes of transtilla small, fleshy. Gnathos an elongate- oval spined knob. Socii large, fleshy flaps, clothed with hairlike setae. Uncus small, pointed. Female genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10740, Paratype). Genital plate wide with slight indentation on anterior edge. Ostium small, round, opening on posterior edge of genital plate. Inception of ductus seminalis slightly anterior to ostium. Duc- tus bursae long, membranous. Bursa copulatrix small, oval; signum an oval, spined plate situated at anterior end of bursa copulatrix. Type: U.S.N.M. No. 65829. Type locality: Honsyt, Kii, Nati. Food plant: Fagara schinifolia (Sieb. & Zucc.) Engler. (“Larva in cylinder of tied leaves. . . .”) Remarks: Described from the type male and one female para- type with identical data (Em. 21.VI.1957. T. Kodama). This species is similar to A. l-nigrum (Matsumura) but is a much larger insect. In J-nigruwm the crescentic mark of the forewing is nearer the center than in chaetosoma and the latter species lacks the strongly marked costa and contrasting light colored base of the former. Also in /-nigrum the long hairlike scales and dark subapical patch of forewing are absent. The raised scales of chaetosoma remind one of the latipalpella- scabella species group of Agonopterix found in North America. EXPLANATIONS OF FIGURES Fics. 1-la, 5-5a. Psorosticha melanocrepida, new species. 1. Ventral view of male genitalia with left harpe and aedeagus removed. la, Aedea- gus. 5. Ventral view of female genitalia. 5a, Signum, enlarged. Fics. 2-2a, 6-6a. Brachmia deodora, new species. 2. Ventral view of male genitalia with left harpe and aedeagus removed. 2a, Aedeagus. 6. Ventral view of female genitalia. 6a, Signum, enlarged. Fics. 3-3a, 10-10a. Agonopterix chaetosoma, new species. 3. Ventral view of male genitalia with left harpe and aedeagus removed. 3a, Aedea- gus. 10. Ventral view of female genitalia. 10a, Ventral view of signum, enlarged. Fics. 44a, 9-9a. Agonopterix issikii, new species. 4. Ventral view of male genitalia with left harpe and aedeagus removed. 4a, Aedeagus. 9. Ventral view of female genitalia. 9a, Signum, enlarged. Fics. 7-7a, 8. Gnorimoschema pervada, new species. 7. Lateral as- pect of male genitalia with aedeagus removed. 7a, Lateral aspect of aedeagus. 8. Signum. 95 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ixxiii ] 96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Agonopterix issikii, new species Alar expanse 18-19 mm. Labial palpus buff; outer surface of second segment irrorate with fuscous and with a fuscous blotch at base; third segment almost wholly overlaid with fuscous in male but in female show- ing a narrow basal and broad, subapical fuscous annuli. An- tennal scape fuscous with buff apical spot ventrally ; remainder of antenna grayish-fuscous. Head buff, strongly suffused brownish, especially laterally; face buff. Thorax and ground color of forewing brown, suffused with fuscous; apex of tegula and thoracic tufts paler than ground color; extreme base of forewing pale brownish-buff, this pale area containing a short, black, transverse bar and, costad, bordered by a black spot; outside the pale basal area a fuscous suffusion; in cell, three black spots, the outer two of which form the basal corners of a rec- tangular fuscous blotch extending to costa; between this blotch and apex three short, transverse, fuscous spots; around termen a narrow, broken fuscous line; cilia slightly lighter than ground color and suffused with gray. Hindwing bronzy-gray darken- ing to fuscous apically ; cilia grayish with darker subbasal band. Legs light brownish-buff overlaid and suffused grayish-fuscous ; spurs of hind tibia grayish-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous above, light brownish-buff beneath; on each side, ventrally, a fuscous longitudinal line; between these two lines two longitudinal rows of fuscous spots. Male genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10725, Type). Harpe about three times as long as broad; cucullus narrowly rounded; clasper rather stout, slightly curved, gently tapered to a point. Vinculum evenly rounded. Anellus a broadly oval plate; anel- lar lobes small, weak. Aedeagus a little less than two-thirds the length of harpe, simple, unarmed, slightly curved. Trans- tilla a narrow band; transtillar lobes weak, small, fleshy. Gnathos a spined, egg-shaped knob. Socii large, fleshy flaps, clothed with hairlike setae. Uncus very much reduced, pointed. Female genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10741, Paratype). Genital plate about twice as broad as long. Ostium opening about middle of genital plate. Inception of ductus seminalis 97 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS eee Ixxiii] 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 well before ostium. Ductus bursae membranous. Bursa copu- latrix oval; signum a small, sclerotized, dentate plate about middle of bursa copulatrix. Type: U.S.N.M. No. 65830. Type locality: Honsyt, Sinano Tabira. Food plant: Orixa japonica Thunb. (“Bred from larva in spun leaves. . . .”) Remarks: Described from the type male, one male and one female paratypes. All specimens bear identical data (Em. 21. VI.54. T. Kodama). Paratypes in U.S.N.M. Apparently there is no described species of Agonopterix with which issikii can be readily compared but this species reminds one somewhat of the North American A. pteleae Barnes and Busck. The dark costal spot of the forewing of issikii, how- ever, is smaller and less conspicuous than that of pteleae, and issikii is a smaller insect. GELECHIIDAE Brachmia deodora, new species Alar expanse, 17-19 mm. Labial palpus ocherous-white ; second segment heavily irrorate with grayish-fuscous on outer surface; third segment with fus- cous basal band and conspicuous single, fuscous scales scattered over outer and inner surfaces. Antenna, scape fuscous with sparse paler scaling ventrally ; remainder of antenna grayish-buff with narrow darker annulations. Head clothed with buff-tipped gray- ish-fuscous scales; face grayish-buff with a dark spot on each side ventrad. Thorax and ground color of forewing grayish- buff, the scales tipped grayish-fuscous; extreme base of costa fuscous ; discal stigmata three, fuscous, one at two-fifths on fold; one costad of this and another at end of cell (all discal spots ob- solete in some specimens) ; on tornus a diffused fuscous spot; around termen an ill-defined series of 4 to 5 fuscous dots; cilia alternating bands of grayish-buff and grayish-fuscous. Hind- wing light shining grayish-fuscous; cilia with extreme base buff, then alternating bands of grayish-buff and grayish- fuscous. 99 NEWS ENTOMOLOGICAL Ixxiii ] 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Legs grayish-buff banded and suffused with grayish-fuscous. Abdomen grayish above, buff beneath; on each side a longi- tudinal, fuscous line. Male genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10726, Type). Harpe slender, about four times as long as wide; cucullus rounded; clasper arising near base of costa, stout, recurved ventrad. Vinculum broad, triangular; saccus long, produced (in illustra- tion vinculum and saccus bent behind tegumen). Anellus an “T-shaped plate. Aedeagus stout, tapered to a point distally; cornutus a sclerotized bar. Gnathos curved ventrad, terminat- ing in a blunt point. Uncus short and moderately broad. Female genitalia: See figures (Slides No. 10727, 10742, Para- types). Genital plate rather broad, short. Ostium with “V”- shaped posteroventral edge. Inception of ductus seminalis at junction of sclerotized and membranous portions of ductus bursae. Bursa copulatrix elongate-oval. Signum a subtriangu- lar plate with strongly sclerotized, recurved processes from each of the two basal angles. Type: U.S.N.M. No. 65831. Type locality: Honsyt, Kinki, Sakai. Food plant: Cedrus deodora (Roxb.) Loud. (“Larva in spun dead leaves on bark. . . .”) Remarks: Described from the type male, one male and two female paratypes with identical data except date. The type male is dated “Em 6.VII.1957”; the remainder are dated “Em 2.VII.1957.” All were collected by T. Kodama. Probably the nearest species to deodora is B. opaca Meyrick from China. The two are strikingly similar but opaca lacks the conspicuous dark irroration of the third segment of the labial pulpus and exhibits a distinct line of fuscous spots from apical fourth of costa around termen to tornus, which is absent in deodora. The males can perhaps be most easily separated by the long, slender aedeagus and short, triangular clasper of opaca compared with the short, stout aedeagus and long, re- curved clasper of deodora. I do not have a female of opaca for comparison. Ixxii1 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 101 Gnorimoschema pervada, new species Alar expanse, 10-14 mm. Labial palpus very pale buff; outer surface of second seg- ment overlaid with buff-tipped dark gray scales; third segment with broad, dark gray, basal and subapical annuli. Antenna gray with narrow dark annulations. Head and thorax light grayish-fuscous, the scales tipped narrowly with pale buff; face pale buff; thorax lightly streaked with ochraceous-tawny. Forewing grayish-fuscous, the scales narrowly tipped with pale buff, and strongly streaked longitudinally with ochraceous- tawny ; in fold two very small black spots and in center of wing, arranged obliquely from near basal two fifths of costa to end of cell, four very small black spots edged with ochraceous-tawny ; at apex a small black spot; cilia gray, paler at tornus, with a few scattered buff and dark gray specks. Hind wing grayish- fuscous; cilia gray with pale brownish suffusion; base of cilia somewhat paler than remainder. Legs pale buff irrorate and banded with grayish-fuscous; foreleg almost wholly grayish- fuscous. Abdomen grayish-fuscous: above; ventrally pale buff and some specimens with a broad, longitudinal, grayish-fuscous band laterad. Male genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10616, Type). Dorsal arm of harpe bent about middle, terminal half nearly straight; ventral arm short, truncate. Vinculum slightly curved, pro- duced. Gnathos a small hook. Uncus narrow, about one-third the length of tegumen. Aedeagus stout, with prominent barb distally. Female genitalia: See figures (Slide No. 10743, Paratype). Ostium very small, opening at about center of genital plate. Ductus bursae sclerotized for very short distance before ostium ; inception of ductus seminalis at junction of sclerotized and mem- branous portions of ductus bursae. Signum divided into two anterior and two posterior arms. Type: U.S.N.M. No. 65832. Type locality: Kytsyt, Usuki, Oita (Br. by Someya, Em. 28. WLEL.56); 102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Food plant: Solanum lyratum Thunb. (“Leaf miner on Solanum lyratum’’) Remarks: Described from the type male, three male and two female paratypes as follows: 2¢'f and 299, Honsyt, Bingo, Konosima. 24.XI and 6.XII.1957. A. Mutuura; one ¢, Kytsyt, Nagasaki; from plant inspector, Em. 5.X1I.56. Para- types in U.S.N.M. There are two other specimens before me, not included in the type series but which I believe are this spe- cies, from “Okayama, Okayama, 26.1X.56” and “2.X.56, Kenji Kiozumi,” reared from Solanum lyratum. There are several species of gelechiids which feed on solana- ceous plants, all are similar in appearance and can easily be confused. These are G. absoluta (Meyrick), G. gudmannella (Wlshm.), Keiferia glochinella (Zeller) and K. lycopersicella (Busck). In addition, G. chenopodiella Busck must be consid- ered here because of its striking similarity in color and pattern. Actually, because of individual variation in each species, there is no absolute criterion of color by which one can be distin- guished from the other. The genitalia, however, offer many points of distinction. In the females pervada can be distin- guished from all the described species in this group by the di- vided signum. Both the males of pervada and absoluta have similar aedeagi, with a long terminal barb, but the vinculum of absoluta is twice the length of that of pervada and is not trun- cated as in the latter species. Although the aedeagus of gudmannella possesses a terminal barb it is much less pro- nounced than in pervada. Moreover, the distal end of the dorsal arm of the harpe of gudmannella is broadly expanded but that of pervada is bluntly pointed. Despite the similarity of appear- ance of glochinella and lycopersicella they are easily separated from pervada by the undivided signum, absence of the gnathos and the unique, slender uncus. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 103 A New Species of Campsomeris from the Solomon Islands (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) Kart V. KromsBeiIn, Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. I am describing the present species in advance of my revi- sionary study of the Scoliidae of New Guinea, Bismarck Archi- pelago, and Solomon Islands, so that the specific name will be available for use in a subgeneric reclassification of the Indo- australian Campsomeris on which Dr. J. G. Betrem, Vice- Director, Rijks Hogere School voor Tropische Culteren, De- venter, The Netherlands, is presently engaged. Dr. Betrem intends to propose a new subgenus for this single unique species from Rennell Island in the Solomons. This anomalous species, known only in the female sex, appears to have no close relatives. Of the species known to me it is most like some members of Group I of the subgenus Dielis, such as palauensis (Turner) from the Palaus and ovalauensis (Saussure) from Fiji. Although it differs at once from these species in lacking yellow maculations on the head, thorax, and abdomen, its affinities to palauensis and ovalauensis are sug- gested by the lack of a carina above on the upper metapleural plate, the shininess and punctation of the abdomen, the similarity in tubercle of the median plate of propodeal dorsum, the lack of an oblique furrow on scapulae, and the presence of a well- developed carina separating the lateral and dorsal surfaces of propodeum. Females of the subgenera Laevicampsomeris and Trielis have similarly shiny and punctate abdomens, but differ in many of the other characters cited above, and it does not seem feasible to refer imopinata to either of those subgenera. Campsomeris inopinata, new species Type-—; Kungana Bay, Rennell Island, Sotomons; June 16, 1933 (M. Willows, Jr.; Templeton Crocker Exped.) [Cali- fornia Academy of Sciences]. 104 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Female.—Length 18 mm, forewing 15 mm. Black, the ab- domen with faint blue reflections. Vestiture as follows: Long, erect or suberect hairs of front, vertex, dorsum of thorax, and second to sixth abdominal segments medium to dark brown; on head beneath, sides of thorax, legs, and first tergite, white; apical fringes of first to third tergites and second to fourth sternites white, of succeeding segments brown; appressed sericeous pubes- cence of thorax sparse, silvery. Wings hyaline, moderately infumated with brown, the anterior margin of forewing darker, forewing with some bluish reflections. Head shining ; clypeus impunctate except laterally ; area fron- talis and spatium frontale closely punctate, the latter with well- defined fissura frontalis, the punctures on front extending to eyes on lower half and upward along inner eye margin to a point opposite ocelli; vertex with a space adjacent to ocelli largely impunctate, elsewhere with scattered large punctures. Thorax shining, the erect hairs on scapulae not forming a conspicuous ruff, scapulae closely punctate, without an oblique furrow; scutum with large close punctures anteriorly, becoming sparser on sides, a median impunctate space on posterior half about one-third the width of sclerite ; scutellum with large punc- tures except for a fairly broad, median impunctate strip; post- scutellum similarly punctate but the punctures smaller; meta- pleuron without a carina above separating the lateral and more or less dorsal aspects of the upper plate; propodeum rather short, the length of median horizontal area not much over one- third its basal width, the hind margin distinctly angulate in middle because of the well-developed tubercle similar in shape to that of manokwariensis (Cam.) ; the median horizontal area with large close punctures except a small crescentic area at base ; lateral horizontal area with large close punctures on ante- rior two-thirds, densely micropunctate on posterior third ; poste- rior surface densely micropunctate; a strong carina separating the lateral declivous surface from the lateral horizontal surface. Abdomen shining; tergal fringes normal, that is, one set of fringes at apices of second to fifth tergites, and a preapical fringe a short distance basad of each apical fringe; area basad of pre- [xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 105 apical fringes with the punctures larger and denser than in most Campsomeris though still quite scattered. Longer spur of hind tibia slender, curved, spatulate at tip, extending three-fourths of distance to apex of hind basitarsus. Second recurrent vein of forewing complete. Male.—Unknown. Paratype-—Q; same data, but June 14, 1933 [CAS]. De- posited in U. S. National Museum. This specimen does not differ from the foregoing description of the type. On the Status of Clematodes vanduzeei Hebard (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae) James A. G. Reun, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia In a recent paper? Rehn and Eades presented a study of the forms of the genus Clematodes as found in the United States and Mexico. Unfortunately by a lapsus calanmu they had neg- lected to consider Clematodes vanduzeei Hebard, described in 1923 from San Pedro Bay, Gulf of California.2 The omission was due to a failure to check a long-maintained personal card catalogue, and was noted too late to stop the production of the 1961 paper. The type is the property of the California Acad- emy of Sciences, and by the courtesy of that institution it, and other relevant material, is now before me. The type of C. vanduzeei, as noted by the describer, is a female in the instar preceding maturity. The position of the type locality (San Pedro Bay) as given in the chart accompany- ing the report on the work of the expedition which secured the specimen, and in the accompanying list of localities,* is on the 1“The North American and Mexican Tribe Clematodini (Orthoptera ; Acrididae ; Cyrtacanthacridinae).” Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 113, pp. 135-156, 20 text-figures, 2 plates and 1 map. October 31, 1961. 2 Proc. California Acad. Sciences, (4) XII, p. 327, figs. 1 and 2. 8 Proc. California Acad. Sciences, (4) XII, p. 71 and map facing page 72 (1923). 106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 Sonora side of the Gulf of California a limited number of miles northwest of the well-known port of Guaymas, the bay also being known as Ensenada Grande. From the type and other material here recorded it is evident Clematodes vanduzeei is very near to C. papago,* of central southern Arizona and adjacent interior Sonora, rather than to the type of the genus, C. larreae Scudder, of the more eastern Chihuahuan Desert. From C. papago the older vanduzeei can be distinguished in external features by the very evident broader expansion of the antennae distad of the second article, this involving all the articles distad of the second; the male cerci are somewhat more acutely conical; the distad projecting lamel- lations laterad at the genicular extremity of the caudal femora are more pronounced as seen in profile, but in outline these are more lanceolate and less trigonal than in typical papago. In size there is no noteworthy difference in adults from papago, as a comparison of the original measurements given for the latter and those presented beyond demonstrate, and coloration shows nothing noteworthy. The key to the forms of the genus presented by Rehn and Eades serves to separate papago, and also vanduzeei, from the type species C. larreae. The characters given above will prove of service in distinguishing papago and vanduzeet. My conclu- sion is that these two are subspecies of the same species, and hence we will have C. vanduzeei vandugzeei Hebard and C. van- duzeei papago Rehn and Eades. Material of C. v. vanduzgeei now before me, on loan from the California Academy of Sciences, several from localities not previously reported, are as follows: San Pablo Bay, Sonora, Mexico; VII, 7, 1921; (E. P. Van Duzee) ; 1 9 (type) in instar preceding maturity. San Carlos Bay [near Guaymas], Sonora, Mexico; VIII, 10, 1960; (D. C. Rentz) ; 3 ¢, 32, 1 in instar preceding maturity. #Rehn and Eades, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 113, pp. 138, 149, text- figs. 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20, pl. A, figs. 3 and 4, B, figs. 7 and 8 (1961). [Near Batamote Well, Valley of the Ajo, 6 ms. N. of Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona (type locality) ; Ajo, Little Ajo Mts., Pima Co., Arizona; Altar, Sonora, Mexico. ] Ixx11i } ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 107 18 ms. E. of El Puerto, Sonora, Mexico; VIII, 7, 1960; (D. C. Rentz); 49. The measurements of adult representative material here listed is as follows (in millimeters) : Length of | Length of feact oe Length of peren body antenna pronotal tegmen ane disk o’, San Carlos Bay, Sonoral. Sith: ston: 21.0 8.3 3.4 Sh 12.9 o', San Carlos Bay, Sonora ee. BS 2 8.8 3.6 4.8 SES 9, San Carlos Bay, SOO eee 33.0 8.0 5.5 4.5 17.3 @, San Carlos Bay, SONORA areor tess (rey siti 34.05 9.7 5.3 4.5 17.3 9, 18 ms. E. of El Puerto, Sonora. . $35)25) 10.2 D2 4.7 15.9 5 Abdomen somewhat overextended. The specimen from Altar, Sonora, a more interior locality, which was regarded by Rehn and Eades as representing C. v. papago, is found, on reexamination, to be fully representative of that subspecies. It is possible that C. v. vanduzeei may be limited in distribution to the coastal section of Sonora. A Pictorial Review of the North American Chip- munk Fleas. Part IV. Fleas of Eastern Chip- munks of the Genus Tamias C. ANDRESEN Husparp, Tigard 23, Oregon The writer has had no experience with these fleas or these chipmunks. The data and drawings here offered are compiled from: Fleas of Eastern United States, 1940, by Fox, pages 69, 100, 165, 179; and Fleas of Canada, 1949, by Holland, pages 88, 159, 241, 285. 108 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 In this part the writer offers a list of the stray fleas taken off western chipmunks from his own records, and the records of other investigators. Tamiophila grandis (Rothschild) 1902 1902 Typhlopsylla grandis Rothschild, Ent. Rec. and Jour. Var. 14: 62. This is the first of the North American chipmunk fleas to be described. It was collected by Dippie on September 20, 1899, at Branchtown, Ontario, Canada, off the chipmunk Tamias striata. Rothschild released the description during 1902. Hol- land in 1949 states that this is a very large flea from 4 to 5 mm in length with the underside of basal abdominal sternum hairy. It is easily separated from other fleas by the presence of 2 genal teeth and the differences in the Modified Segments: Male. Fox says process of the clasper tongue-shaped with numerous setae on the margins. Finger more or less boot-shaped with the apex truncate, its ventro-distal margin compressed carniform and clothed with setae. Manu- brium long and slender, curved distally. Sternite 1X boomerang- shaped, bearing numerous setae of various sizes ventrally, the more apical ones spiniform. Holland 1949 relies on illustra- tions (and wisely so) rather than descriptions so adds nothing to the words of Fox. Female. Again Fox says head of the receptaculum seminis broad and long, more or less oval in shape. Sternite VII with- out a sinus, the posterior margin truncate. Length: Large fleas from 4 to 5 mm long. Range: Eastern part of the United States and Canada where eastern chipmunks are found. Deposits: The types are located in the British Museum. Records: Holland records this flea off Tamuias striata at Buckshot Lake, Ottawa, Pancake Bay all in Ontario, Canada; Fox from Massachusetts, New York, Michigan. Preferred Host: The eastern chipmunk Tamuas striata is the favored host of this flea. Ixx111 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 109 Accidental Occurrence. Fox records the following strays: cottontail rabbit, red squirrel, weasel ; Holland, cottontail rabbit. Megabothris acerbus (Jordan) 1925 1925 Ceratophyllus acerbus Jordan, Nov. Zool. 32: 111. Fe- male described. 1929 Ceratophyllus acerbus Jordan, Nov. Zool. 35: 170. Male described. Holland says that this species is restricted to eastern North America, where it occurs on the eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus spp. Fox says of the Modified Segments: Male. Process of the clasper broad and short, truncate, its apex with three weak bristles. Finger about three times as long as broad with the anterior margin produced into an angle at about the middle. Apex rounded, with four or five weak bristles and two small heavily pigmented spiniforms. Posterior margin armed with a long bristle. Female: Sternite VII divided by a deep sinus into two more or less triangular lobes. Spermatheca barrel-shaped in body with crooked finger-like tail. Length: This flea is medium sized, measuring from 2.50 to 3.00 mm. Range: Eastern North America where there are chipmunks. Deposits: The types are in the British Museum. Records: Holland reports this flea off chipmunk from Algoma, Brule Lake, Buckshot Lake, Simcoe, Smoky Falls, Ontario, Canada: Fox from Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York. Preferred Hosts: The eastern chipmunk seems to be the true host. At this writing (March 1, 1961) neither the eastern chip- munk nor its fleas have been associated with plague. THE STRAYS OF WESTERN CHIPMUNKS Nosey little animals that they are, chipmunks explore every burrow, crevice, opening that they can get into, climb every shrub, bush and tree in their environment. Naturally they drop 110 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1962 their fleas far and wide, and pick up the fleas of many of the animals about. These pick ups, not their own, are usually called strays or accidental occurrences. Also there is a series of fleas which seem to show no host preference. These are called vicari- ating fleas. Amongst the strays and vicariating fleas are those which are thought to be vectors of plague. Notice of these will be made in passing. Oregon: Catallagia charlottensis (Baker) 1898, a deer mouse flea Monopsyllus w. wagneri (Baker) 1904, a deer mouse flea Orchopeas nepos (Rothschild), 1905, a tree squirrel flea Opisodasys keeni (Baker) 1896, a deer mouse flea Megabothris abantis (Rothschild), 1905, a Meadow mouse flea: possible vector California : Diamanus montanus (Baker) 1895, a ground squirrel flea: sus- pected vector Oropsylla idahoensis (Baker) 1904, a ground squirrel flea: sus- pected vector Monopsyllus w. wagneri (Baker) 1904, a deer mouse flea Callistopsyllas deuteras Jordan 1937, a deer mouse flea Montana: Orchopeas caedens caedens (Jordan) 1925, a tree squirrel flea Thrassis h. utahensis Wagner 1936, a marmot flea; possible vector Thrassis petiolatus (Baker) 1904, a ground squirrel flea: possi- ble vector Thrassis pandorae Jellison 1937, a ground squirrel flea: possible vector Opisocrostis labis (J. & R.) 1922, a ground squirrel flea: possi- ble vector Oropsylla idahoensis (Baker) 1904, a ground squirrel flea: sus- pected vector Megabothris abantis (Rothschild) 1905, a meadow mouse flea: suspected vector Catallagia decipiens (Rothschild) 1915, a deer mouse flea Hystrichopsylla g. dippiei Rothschild 1902, vicariating flea: vector Ixx1i1 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS uit Conclusions : It is well known that after white rats, white mice and hamsters, chipmunks are next in popularity as little boy’s pets. Many of them are seen in pet shops for sale, or the youngsters may trap the little animals out in nature as adventure. As early as 1936 chipmunks and their fleas were found plague positive in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A human case or two followed. By 1940 similar cases had become known in State of Washington. In 1958 Stark reports two cases from Utah (squirrel and coyote handling) in which the plague did not prove fatal to the human. RGenak Toothed z — American Chipmunk Fleas Eastern USA. and Canada VIISteg Tamio ph ila grandis _ Roths. 40% Megabothris acerbus Jordon 1925 Megabothris acerbus (Jordan) and Tamiophila grandis (Rothschild). Chipmunks should be watched carefully for plague and al- though only two of their 14 fleas are considered possible vectors, others may come under suspicion. The ground squirrel fleas they occasionally carry as strays also complicate the situation. 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Many others revered him as a teacher and official advisor; to me, who was not a student under him, he was a counselor, a friend, and a colleague of some sixty-odd years. Philip Powell Calvert was born in Philadelphia, January 29, 1871, at a home within sight of the great university where his teaching years were later spent. He was the son of a Phila- delphia lawyer, Graham Calvert; his mother was Mary Sophia Powell Calvert. His ancestral racial stocks were English, Welsh, and Irish. His early education was in Friends’ and Public Schools, with graduation from Philadelphia’s famous old Cen- tral High School in 1888. He entered the University of Penn- sylvania in the latter year, received his certificate in biology in 1892, and the degree of Ph.D. in 1895. There he had the inspiration of the master minds of Leidy and Cope. In post- doctoral study he spent the winter semester of 1895-1896 at the University of Berlin, and the summer semester of 1896 at the University of Jena. At the two latter institutions he studied under the great German zoologists of that day, among them Haeckel, Verworn, Schultze, and Hertwig. At Berlin he made (113) : VIALS LAY s wstiution “AY LI i196 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 the acquaintance of Dr. Ferdinand Karsch, the Odonatologist and Orthopterologist. Dr. Calvert began his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Instructor in Zoology in 1907, Professor of Zoology in 1912, and in 1939, upon retiring, became Emeritus Professor of Zoology. Also during two years, 1928- 29, 1933-34, and in the Spring of 1939 he served as temporary chairman of the Department of Zoology. For a number of years, about the turn of the century, he took an active part in the lectures of the Ludwick Institute, which were given in the auditorium of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia, which has for many years worked inti- mately with the Ludwick Institute. These lectures covered various aspects of natural history, such as the distribution of animals, their defense mechanism, adaptations, and the com- parative development of certain organs in different groups. As a teacher he was outstanding in sparing neither time nor effort to give his best to both undergraduates and graduates in his lectures and in his more personal contacts with students in their work and problems. His students were fellow-workers, and his attitude toward them was that of a fellow-scientist. This encouraged the development of originality and responsibility on the part of the student, tempered, as the teacher’s suggestions always were, with the utmost consideration for the student and the latter’s comprehension of his immediate problem. This, combined with the teacher’s personal interest, and his kindly and gentle sense of humor, endeared him to a host of students in his years of teaching, many of whom recall the value to them of the help of this kindly scholar. One distinguished former student writes: “I developed not only a profound respect for his compe- tence as a scientist, but also a great love for him as a man.” Another former student, a Lepidopterist of note, has said, “we all miss him who remember his unique humor, his unfailing courtesy and his boundless knowledge . . . he has left behind him a bottomless treasury of devoted love and sincere admira- tion.” The particular research interest of Dr. Calvert was in the Odonata, and in the development of our knowledge of the insects xxii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS £15 of this order he was clearly one of our greatest scholars, not only in North America, but in the world, as his studies covered global aspects of the dragon-flies. As one of his contemporaries, him- self one of the outstanding scholars in the odonate field, has written; “His scientific integrity combined with his complete humility made him the unquestioned leader in his field in the New World.” His original contributions to our knowledge of the order, aside from hundreds of reviews, editorials and obitu- aries in “Entomological News,” totalled 317, these extending over a period from 1889, when records of Odonata taken in Maine, New York, and Illinois were noted, to 1961, when, but a relatively few days before his death, his last contribution, “Adult Odonata of the Catherwood Peruvian Expedition,” in which two previously unknown species were described, appeared in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. It is not possible, in a sketch of this character, to do more than mention Dr. Calvert’s more comprehensive studies, which it must be noted were almost all prepared in the occasional in- tervals of a very busy teaching schedule. The first of these more noteworthy studies was, and still is, a classic in its field, and has long been regarded as a pattern for a regional insect study, i.e., “Catalogue of the Odonata (Dragonflies) of the vicinity of Philadelphia, with an Introduction to the Study of this Group of Insects.” This was published in 1893, covered 120 pages with numerous illustrations, and was contained in the twentieth volume of the Transactions of the American Entomological Society. An 1895 study of “The Odonata of Baja California,” published in the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sci- ences, inaugurated his long series of contributions to our knowl- edge of the Neotropical Odonata, and was followed in 1899 by a similar one in the same serial on “Odonata from Tepic, Mexico, with supplementary notes on those from Baja Cali- fornia.” Dr. Calvert’s volume on the Odonata of the Biologia Cen- trali-Americana was one of the great achievements of his life, and like all other sections of this great work appeared in signa- tures over periods between 1901 and 1908, covered 433 pages, 116 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 illustrated by nine plates with 416 individual figures and one map. In this work he treated 250 species, of which 77 were described as new. But few other Americans were invited to take part in the preparation of the great “Biologia” series, and those of us who knew him over those years realize how fully Dr. Calvert appreciated and met the obligation associated with the preparation of his volume. In 1909 appeared his important “Contribution to a Knowledge of the Odonata of the Neotropical Region, exclusive of Mexico and Central America,” a work of over 200 pages, which was contained in volume six of the Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. While on sabbatical leave in 1909 and 1910, with Mrs. Calvert he spent a year in Costa Rica, which enabled him to increase fur- ther our knowledge of Central American Odonata, thus adding to previous field experience he had had in parts of Mexico. From the Costa Rican sojourn came one of the most important semi- popular volumes we have on the natural history of Central America, i.e., “A Year of Costa Rican Natural History,’ by Amelia Smith Calvert and Philip Powell Calvert. This volume, published in 1917, contained 596 pages and 142 illustrations, as well as a map of Costa Rica after Pittier. It also contained important appendices, one with references to many studies in which material secured had been reported, and another a list of selected literature relating to the natural history of Costa Rica. The volume is a treasury of observations of varied char- acter, and in virtually all cases the determinations of the species cited had been made by scholars of eminence in their respective fields. The year’s work added to our knowledge much concern- ing the early stages of a number of species of Odonata, and the saga of the transformations of the very elongate bromeliadicolous members of the genus Mectstogaster is one of the high lights of this most interesting volume. In Cartago the authors went through the earthquake which on April 15, 1910, destroyed a large part of the city. They fortunately escaped injury, al- though their friends in Philadelphia were without news of them for some days. They reached New York safely two weeks after their harrowing experience. Dr. Calvert’s field studies in Costa Rica in 1909 and 1910 [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 117 continued for some years to produce a number of small but exceedingly important studies on the Odonata of that country which were particularly important because of the wealth of information they presented on life histories and transformations. They were largely published in ENtomotocicat News or in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society between 1910 and 1923. In 1944 appeared an important study, “The Rates of Growth, Larval Development and Seasonal Distribu- tion of the Genus Anax” in the 73rd volume of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. This study of 70 pages and two plates not only presented much new information on the growth and character of the early stages, but also analyzed the pertinent information contained in previous literature. The last contribution of monographic character from Dr. Cal- vert’s pen appeared in 1956, when he was in his 86th year. It was “The Neotropical Species of the Subgenus Aeschna Sensu Selysii 1883 (Odonata),” which formed number 15 of the Monograph series of the American Entomological Society. It contains 256 pages of text, 47 plates with 614 individual figures, 17 pages of tables of measurements, and seven maps. In this memoir 68 species are treated, with descriptions and figures of the early stages where known, and finally masterly discussions of the following aspects of the subject: “Relationships of the Neotropical Aeshnas to the North American Fossils,” ‘‘Rela- tions of the South American Aeshnas to Palearctic and Aus- tralian Species,” “The Geological Age and Geographic Distri- bution of the Ancestors of the Odonata and of the Mammalia,” “Relations of the Neotropical Aeshnas to Each Other,” and “The Seasonal Distribution of the Neotropical Species of Aeshna.” Aside from the major titles here mentioned there came from Dr. Calvert’s pen many score of other studies on the North American odonate fauna, with observations on the transforma- tions and early stages of the same as well as on the anatomy, distributional patterns and paleontology of the order, not only in North America, but in other parts of the world. One paper of particular interest to all biologists, because of the application of much of the information there assembled was his 1909 essay 118 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 on “The Composition and Ecological Relations of the Odonate Fauna of Mexico and Central America,” published in volume 60 of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The temperature map accompanying this paper was prepared only after a careful analysis of all weather data for the area covered, and it is still of fundamental importance. His occasional papers on insects other than the Odonata fully reflect his broad acquaintance with insects as a whole, as well as the many comments in editorials in ENToMoLocicAL NEws. In addition to the major studies already mentioned Dr. Calvert published others dealings with Mexican Odonata as early as 1899, on Guatemalan species in 1919, British Guianan ones in 1948, Paraguayan species in 1899, Lesser Antillean forms in 1928, and Jamaican ones in 1891. Nor were his contributions limited to the New World fauna, as seven studies dealing with African Odonata appeared between 1892 and 1930, and one on Indian species in 1898. It may be said in passing that the Calvert series of studies embraced the world odonate fauna. Dr. Calvert’s association with the American Entomological Society, the oldest entomological society in the United States, started in 1893, when he became a member. He served as its Corresponding Secretary in 1895, as its Vice-President from 1894 to 1898, and as its President from 1901 to 1915. He became a member of its Publication Committee in the nineties, and served in that capacity until a few years before his death. He was also a member, and for years Chairman, of its Finance Committee. To all the activities of the Society he gave his best efforts for over a half century and his advice and judgment were of incalculable value to the organization. He became Associate Editor of ENTromMoLocicaL News in 1893 and Editor in 1911, remaining in that post until 1943, when he became Editor Emeritus. His work as Editor of this journal was that to which a very large part of what is generally called “leisure time” was devoted. Often his labors on the NEws carried his day’s work into the wee hours of the next morning. During his tenure and later he prepared 296 reviews and edi- torials and 209 obituaries. In 1951 a bibliography of his writ- ings issued between 1889 and 1950 was prepared by Dr. Rudolf xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 119 G. Schmieder, the present Editor of ENromMoLocicaL News, who was Dr. Calvert’s colleague at the University of Pennsyl- vania, and Mr. Maurice E. Phillips, a member of its Editorial Board, and this was published in volume LXII of this journal. Dr. Calvert’s contributions published since that listing number ten, among which was his monumental study of the Neotropical species of Aeshna already mentioned. To the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the pioneer organization in its field in America, of which he was a member for over sixty years, he, in his usual quiet and thoughtful way, also gave much of his time and interest, as well as active physical work, and served the Academy in many capacities, on standing committees, on special ones, and as its delegate to scientific gatherings at home and abroad. For nearly sixty years he was a member of its Council until failing health compelled him to restrict his travel from his home in western Delaware County, Pennsylvania into Philadelphia. Dr. Calvert many years ago placed his private collection of Odonata in the Acad- emy, and there it will remain as a monument to his memory. During the last illness of Dr. Edward J. Nolan, Recording Secretary of the Academy, in 1920, Dr. Calvert temporarily took over some of the responsibilities of that post, which embraced the Secretaryship of the Council, until a successor was elected very shortly before Dr. Nolan’s death in early 1921. Dr. Calvert also served as a member of the Publication Committee of the Academy for well over fifty years, or from 1900 until failing health compelled him to refrain from attending committee meet- ings. It seems but fair to mention that all of the numerous activities for the American Entomological Society, his work on ENToMOLOGICAL NeEws, and for the Academy were given en- tirely without compensation of any sort, in fact he at times contributed personal funds to be used in the name of one or the other of these organizations. He was a founder member and a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America, the original formative meeting for which was held in the rooms of the Entomological Department of the Academy, and he was that Society’s President in 1914. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American 120 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [| May, 1962 Society of Naturalists, the American Society of Zoologists, the Ecological Society of America, the American Society of Tropical Medicine, the Limnological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of the Sigma Xi, and the Lenape Club. Dr. and Mrs. Calvert were married in 1901. She was Amelia Catherine Smith, received her B.S. in Biology from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1899, and was a Fellow at Bryn Mawr College 1899-1901. Their home life was one of those congenial ones of highly cultured people, fully alive to the world about them, its people and its problems. A visit to their de- lightful modernized old Pennsylvania farm-house home was al- ways something one long remembered, not only for the setting but for the brilliant and kindly pair who made it their home. Mrs. Calvert is still with us, we who know her well are glad to say, at eighty-six. Shortly after his retirement from teaching work Dr. Calvert suffered a serious stroke, with loss of speech and partial paraly- sis. From this he recovered almost completely, and for a num- ber of years, when in his seventies and early eighties, he appeared in the Academy’s Department of Insects usually several days a week, and continued his studies there, as well as in his delight- fully sunny work-room at his home. It was during these years that he brought to completion his great Aeshna study. Failing eye-sight, a corollary of a systemic condition, hampered his work in his last few years, and he passed away August 23, 1961. As one who knew Dr. Calvert for nearly sixty-five years, and served with him on a number of boards and committees, and who shared with him also many days in the laboratory, my per- sonal feeling may be regarded as overdrawn by those who knew him less intimately. However, with a fair personal acquaintance with the masters of American entomology for the last sixty years, I feel we have lost one of our greatest figures of that period, one who was not only a great entomologist but a broadly in- formed zoologist, whose mind and interest covered the whole range of animal life. With this fund of knowledge and experi- ence went a gentle and kindly nature, a touch of whimsy, and an utter lack of self-laudation which made Philip Calvert beloved by all who knew him well. [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 121 I am indebted to Mrs. Philip P. Calvert for some of the infor- mation here contained, such as certain dates, Dr. Calvert’s uni- versity posts, and the references to his work in letters that she had received from former students and colleagues. James A. G. REHN Additions to the Bibliography of Philip P. Calvert, Subsequent to 1950 Compiled by Rupotr G. SCHMIEDER The Bibliography of Philip P. Calvert, compiled by Schmieder and Phillips, appeared in the January issue of the CALVERT ANNIVERSARY VOLUME of ENTOMOLOGICAL News, in 1951 (Ent. News 62: 3-40). This bibliography contains 753 entries and covers the period 1889 to 1950. The following ten addi- tional titles, published after 1950, will complete the bibliography. 1952 New taxonomic entities in Neotropical Aeshnas, I. (Odo- nata: Aeshnidae). Ent. News 63: 253-264. 1953a New taxonomic entities in Neotropical Aeshnas, II. (Odonata: Aeshnidae). Ent. News 64: 205-207. b (With James A. G. Rehn) Samuel Nicholson Rhoads [obituary]. Ent. News 64: 125. 1954a [The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, by Edmund M. Walker, Vol. I, Parts I, II (review).] Ent. News 65: 109- 110. b A book on German dragonflies [by Hans Schiemenz]. (review). Ent. News 65: 270-271. c [Insect metamorphosis; The dragonfly larva, by R. E. Snodgrass. (review).] Ent. News 65: 271-272. 1956a The Neotropical species of the “subgenus Aeschna” sensu Selysii 1883 (Odonata). Philadelphia. Memoirs Amer. Ent. Soc. No. 15. v + 251 + iv pp., 47 pls., 9 figs., 7 maps. b Dr. Charles Christopher Adams [obituary]. Ent. News 67: 169-171. 1959 [The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, by Edmund M. Walker. Vol. II, Part III (review).] Ent. News 70: 194— 195. 1961 Adult Odonata of the Catherwood Peruvian-Amazon Expedition. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 113 (1): 1-20. 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 New Exotic Crane-Flies (Tipulidae: Diptera). Part V CHARLES P, ALEXANDER, Amherst, Massachusetts + The preceding part under this general title was published in EnTomo.ocicaL News, 72: 235-243, 1961. In the present re- port I am continuing the studies on the very rich fauna of India, describing species that were taken in Kumaon and Sikkim by Dr. Fernand Schmid, and in South India by Mr. P. Susai Na- than, to both of whom my sincere thanks are extended. The types are preserved in my personal collection. Rhabdomastix (Sacandaga) teriensis, new species Size small (wing of male 4 mm or less) ; general coloration of head and thorax gray; wings weakly tinged, without stigma; veins pale brown, Sc long, vein 2nd A sinuous, the cell broad; veins unusually glabrous; male hypopygium with outer disti- style slender ; interbase on outer third expanded into a narrow blade, its tip somewhat obtuse. o. Length about 3-3.5 mm; wing 3.54 mm; antenna about 0.7-0.8 mm. 9. Length about 4-5.5 mm; wing 3.5—5 mm. Rostrum light gray; palpi black. Antennae black, scape pruinose; all flagellar segments distinct, suboval, shorter than the verticils. Head light gray; anterior vertex broad. Pronotum brownish gray. Mesonotum gray, praescutum with vague indications of four darker stripes, the intermediate pair broader and more evident; pseudosutural foveae large, black. Pleura gray, more brownish gray ventrally. Halteres whitened, especially the knobs. Legs with coxae and _ tro- chanters brownish testaceous; remainder of legs brownish yel- low, outer tarsal segments narrowly or scarcely darker. Wings weakly tinged, without a distinct stigma; veins pale brown, somewhat lighter in the prearcular and costal fields. Veins unusually glabrous, beyond the cord with a scattered series of 1 Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, University of Massachusetts. Ixxi| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 123 trichia on outer two-thirds or more of vein R, and a few near outer end of M,,,; Sc and RF glabrous. Venation: Sc long, Sc, ending just beyond midlength of Rs, Sc, preserved; vein R, erect, the distance on costa between FR, ,, and F, variable, longer than vein R,; m-cu at or near midlength of M,,,; vein 2nd A gently sinuous, the cell broad. Abdomen dark brown, in cases the posterior borders of seg- ments narrowly paler; hypopygium and genital segment of ovi- positor light brown. Ovipositor with cerci long and slender, slightly upcurved on outer half. Male hypopygium with the outer dististyle slender, with a concentration of short darkened spicules at tip but without a major terminal spine; inner style moderately broad, outer margin before apex with long setae from strong tubercles. Interbase slender, weakly expanded on about the outer third into a narrow blade, the tip somewhat obtuse. Habitat. Inpta (Kumaon). Holotype: %, Teri, Teri Garh- wal, 2,500-5,000 feet, April 16, 1958 (Fernand Schmid). Al- lotopotype: 2, pinned with type. Paratopotypes: 7 89. The other small regional members of the subgenus, including Rhabdomastix (Sacandaga) almorae Alexander and R. (S.) emodicola Alexander, are most readily told by the structure of the male hypopygium, particularly the outer dististyle and in- terbase. In the paratype series a single female is considerably larger than the others (the largest measurements given) but seems to be conspecific. Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) monostyla, new species Size medium (wing of male 5.7 mm) ; mesonotum brown and yellow, pleura conspicuously patterned; rostrum longer than body or wing; knobs of halteres dark brown; legs dark brown, outwardly passing into black; wings infuscated; macrotrichia lacking on most veins basad of cord; cell M, open by atrophy of m; male hypopygium without lobes on basistyle; a single disti- style. ¢. Length, excluding rostrum, about 6 mm; wing 5.7 mm; rostrum about 7 mm. Rostrum black, very long, exceeding the wing or remainder of body. Antennae with scape light yellow; pedicel black, 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 flagellum brownish black. Head gray, without a corniculus; anterior vertex narrow, subequal to the diameter of scape. Cervical region black. Mesonotum chiefly concealed in mounting ; praescutum and scutum dark brown, more obscure brownish yellow laterally; parascutella obscure yellow; post- notum dark plumbeous. Pleura chiefly dark brown or plum- beous, especially above where it produces a broad longitudinal stripe; sternopleurite lighter brown, paling to yellow poster- iorly; metapleura darkened. WHalteres with stem light brown, knob dark brown. Legs with fore and hind coxae light yellow, very small, middle coxae darker; trochanters brownish yellow ; femora dark brown, paler basally; remainder of legs black. Wings rather strongly infuscated, base slightly more yellowed; veins brown. Macrotrichia on Rs, both sections of R,, second section of M,,, and outer two-thirds of M,; a single trichium on anterior branch of Rs; no trichia on Sc, M, Cu or the Anals. Venation: Sc, ending opposite origin of Rs, Sc, removed from tip ; anterior branch of Fs long, gently sinuous, longer than either Rs or basal section of R,, ending beyond level of r-m; cell M, open by atrophy of m; M,,, subequal to M,; m-cu at fork of M. Abdomen dark brown, hypopygium more yellowish brown. Male hypopygium without modified lobes on basistyle, its mesal face with numerous normal setae, the outer ones small and very abundant. A single dististyle that includes a narrow yellow beak, its tip obtusely truncated, and a dark colored oval posterior prolongation that terminates in an apiculate point. Interbasal plates pale, gradually widened outwardly, tips obtuse. Arms of aedeagus darkened, relatively short, less than the beak of the dististyle. Habitat. Inptia (Sikkim). Holotype: 2, Dikchu, 2,300 feet, May 9, 1959 (Fernand Schmid). Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) monostyla is readily told from all regional species by the open cell M, of the wings and, especially, the structure of the male hypopygium, particularly the basistyle and dististyle. Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) luteibasis, new species Size medium (wing of male about 6 mm); rostrum short; general coloration of mesonotum brownish black, including Ixxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 125 three broad praescutal stripes; pleura with dorsal sternopleurite silvery ; halteres light yellow; legs black, femoral bases obscure yellow; wings tinged with brown, the base conspicuously yel- lowed; macrotrichia of veins beyond cord relatively sparse; Sc long, cell 1st M, closed; male hypopygium with basistyle conspicuously setiferous; dististyle complex, including a long sinuous outer spine; interbase unusually broad. ¢. Length, excluding rostrum, about 6.5 mm; wing 6.1 mm; rostrum about 3.2 mm. Rostrum black, relatively short, only about one-half the re- mainder of body. Antennae black throughout. Head gray, darkened on sides posteriorly, orbits gray; a depressed median area behind the antennal bases, slightly elevated on either side, with no cornicular development; anterior vertex broad, more than twice the diameter of the large antennal pedicel. Cervical region and pronotum black. Mesonotal praescutum almost covered by three broad brownish black stripes, the in- terspaces obscured, a little paler than the stripes, lateral bor- ders narrowly gray; posterior sclerites of notum blackened, slightly paler along posterior border of scutum and on the para- scutella. Pleura above brownish black, broadly silvery gray on dorsal sternopleurite, paler behind; meral region darkened. Halteres conspicuously pale yellow. Legs with coxae brown- ish black; trochanters brown; remainder of legs black, femoral bases obscure yellow, more extensively pale on fore femora. Wings tinged with brown, prearcular field conspicuously yel- lowed ; veins brown, yellowed in the brightened areas. Macro- trichia of veins much less numerous than in brevifrons, beyond cord lacking on Rs, basal section of R;, M, and M,; about 15 trichia on outer two-thirds of distal section of R,;, more crowded on distal fifth; outer section of M,,, with about 12 trichia, chiefly on distal half. Venation: Sc long, Sc, ending nearly op- posite midlength of the straight Rs, Sc, before origin of the latter ; anterior branch of Rs long and only gently sinuous, more than twice R's; m-cu at or close to fork of M. Abdomen, including hypopygium, black. Male hypopygium with posterior border of tergite low convex; setae small and sparse. Basistyle stout, with conspicuous setae; in the slide 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 mount it is uncertain as to where these setal groups are located but apparently as follows: A conspicuous tubercle on lateral or outer face beyond midlength of style, provided with about 18 to 20 strong dark setae; more distally near apex of style with a low dense area of shorter setae; inner face of style with well- distributed strong setae; remainder of style without setae or with these more scattered. A single contorted and complex dististyle, the moderately long beak obtuse, its base behind nar- rowed and roughened; at base of style with a long sinuous spine, narrowed to the acute tip. Interbase unusually broad, on outer two-thirds narrowed to the subacute tip. Arms of aedea- gus shorter than the basal mass. Habitat. Inpta (Sikkim). Holotype: 3, Chateng, 8,700 feet, May 22, 1959 (Fernand Schmid). Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) luteibasis is most similar to T. (C.) brevifrons (Brunetti), differing in the coloration of the body and wings, the short rostrum, broad anterior vertex and the trichiation of the wing veins. The type specimen of brevi- frons has been studied and re-described by the writer (Philip- pine Jour. Sci. 61: 202; 1936). Toxorhina (Toxorhina) scita, new species Size relatively large (wing of male about 5.5 mm) ; mesono- tum brown, lateral praescutal borders broadly buffy; thoracic pleura brownish yellow with a conspicuous darker brown dor- sal stripe; legs brown; wings weakly tinged with brown, un- patterned; Sc, ending opposite origin of As; abdominal tergites dark brown; male hypopygium with setae of mesal face of basi- style normal; aedeagus blackened, arms narrow. 6. Length, excluding rostrum, about 6 mm; wing 5.4—5.5 mm; rostrum about 5 mm. °. Length, excluding rostrum, about 7.5 mm; wing 6 mm. Rostrum elongate, as shown by the measurements, black throughout. Antennae with scape and the large pedicel dark gray; flagellum brown, unusually short. Head gray, more cinnamon behind the antennal bases, darker brown behind the more silvery corniculus; anterior vertex broad. [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 127 Pronotum and cervical region dark brown. Mesonotal prae- scutum with disk virtually covered by three confluent brown stripes, the interspaces faintly indicated, more evident behind, lateral borders broadly buffy; scutum dark brown, the posterior callosities more yellowed; scutellum brown, posterior border narrowly paler brown; mediotergite light gray. Pleura and pleurotergite brownish yellow, with a conspicuous darker brown dorsal stripe; ventral sternopleurite more reddish brown. Hal- teres with stem obscure whitish, knob darker. Legs with coxae and trochanters light brown; remainder of legs brown. Wings weakly tinged with brown, unpatterned, prearcular and costal fields slightly more yellowed; veins light brown. Macrotrichia on the branch of Rs, M,,, and distal half of M,. Venation: Sc, ending opposite origin of Rs; outer end of cell FR; slightly narrowed; m-cu at or close to fork of M. Abdominal tergites, with the hypopygium, dark brown; basal sternites paler brown. Male hypopygium with posterior margin of tergite rounded. Basistyle simple, setae of mesal face normal, relatively numerous and extending over virtually the entire sur- face. Dististyles terminal, the outer style a narrow sinuous rod, narrowed very gradually into a slender spine; inner style a little longer, at near midlength with a stout pendant spine. Gonapo- physis broadly flattened. Aedeagus blackened, arms slender, separated by a broad U-shaped notch. Habitat. INnpta (Madras). Holotype: %, Cherangode, Nil- giri Hills, 3,500 feet, November 13, 1950 (P. Susai Nathan). Allotopotype: 9. Paratopotype: 3%, pinned with the type. Toxorhina (Toxorhina) scita differs from other Indian spe- cies of the subgenus by the larger size, coloration of body and especially in the structure of the male hypopygium. Toxorhina (Toxorhina) sparsiseta, new species Size small (wing of male 5.5 mm or less) ; general coloration of head and mesothorax gray, praescutum with four more plum- beous stripes; legs black; wings weakly darkened, base more yellowed; macrotrichia of veins sparse; abdomen, including hypopygium, brownish black; male hypopygium with tergal plate blackened, bilobed ; basistyle with major setae simple, long 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 but sparse, including a compact group of four near apex; outer dististyle a strongly curved yellow rod; arms of aedeagus short, slender, divergent. ¢. Length, excluding rostrum, about 5 mm; wing 4.5-5.5 mm; rostrum about 3.54 mm. 2. Length, excluding rostrum, about 6.5-7 mm; wing 5.5-6 mm; rostrum about 3.5-4 mm. Rostrum black, about three-fourths as long as wing. Anten- nae black. Head light gray; anterior vertex without a well- developed corniculus, broad. especially in the female. Cervical region and pronotum blackened. Mesonotum light gray, the praescutum with four more plumbeous stripes, inter- mediate pair narrowly separated, the laterals in front virtually confluent with the central stripes; scutal lobes similarly dark- ened. Pleura dark plumbeous. Halteres dusky. Legs with coxae strongly infuscated basally, tips obscure yellow; tro- chanters obscure yellow; remainder of legs black, the femoral bases vaguely paler. Wings weakly darkened, base more yel- lowed; veins pale brown. Macrotrichia of veins long but very sparse, beyond cord with about five or six on approximately the distal half or more of both R, and M,,., present on outer half of R, lacking on Sc. Venation: Sc, ending about opposite origin of Rs, Sc, long; m-cu close to fork of M. Abdomen, including hypopygium, brownish black. Oviposi- tor with genital shield light brown apically; cerci dark brown horn color, long and slender, gently upcurved. Male hypo- pygium with the tergal plate blackened, bilobed, the lobes rounded, longer in the holotype. Basistyle with unusually few setae, especially the larger more basal ones; all setae simple, not bulbous, as in incerta; near apex with a compact group of four strong curved bristles. Outer dististyle a strongly curved yellow rod, narrowed to the acute tip; inner style darkened, tip broadly obtuse, on outer margin at near midlength with a strong erect to slightly recurved spine. Arms of aedeagus short, slender, divergent. Habitat. Inpta (Madras). Holotype: §, Cinchona, Anai- malai Hills, 3,500 feet, May 1959 (P. Susai Nathan). Allo- Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 129 topotype: 2, pinned with type. Paratopotypes: §9, May 1956; April-May 1959 (P. Susai Nathan). The most similar regional species is Toxorhina (Toxorhina) brevirama Alexander, readily told by the structure of the male hypopygium, particularly the tergite, vestiture of the basistyle, and the inner dististyle. Three New Species of Trichoptera from Eastern North America HersBerT H. Ross, Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois Although the following caddisflies come from relatively dis- tant localities they appear to share the same ecological require- ment of cool, clear, rapid, streams such as are provided in the heart of the temperate deciduous forest. The species of Serico- stoma finds these conditions in a spring-fed stream some dis- tance from an area which normally has small, clear, cold streams of surface origin. This paper has been supported by a research grant from the National Science Foundation; this aid is gratefully acknowl- edged. Types described in this paper are deposited in the collection of the Illinois Natural History Survey. Hydropsyche hoffmani n. sp. Male.—Length 11 mm. Color various shades of light brown; antennae almost straw color with the dorsal dark V-marks con- spicuous and contrasting on the six basal segments of the flagel- lum, fading out on the seventh and eighth segments; wings with a poorly contrasting irregular pattern of various shades of brown. General structure typical for genus. Eyes fairly large, the malar space narrow, the eye occupying almost the entire lateral view of the head, and seen dorsally, each eye as large as the area of the head between the eyes. Genitalia as in Fig. 1. Ninth segment with a pronounced dorsal hump, tenth segment 130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 joined imperceptibly with it. Posterior projections of lateral margin of ninth segment fairly sharp. Tenth tergite with only a slight apical indentation between its lateral lobes, each lobe with a large and irregular lateral wart. Clasper elongate, fairly parallel-sided, the apical segment only indistinctly set off, fairly short, its lateral aspect truncate and incised at the apex to form a sharp point on each side; in posterior view the clasper has the basal segment parallel-sided and gently curved mesad, and the apical segment is triangular, also curved mesad and narrow- ing to a sharp, pointed tip. Aedeagus obtusely angulate near middle, the apical portion with elongate lateral lobes ; the ventral aspect of the apex, Fig. 1B, wider than the more basal portion, the ventral cavity only half the length of the apex and the lateral lobes produced beyond the cavity for a distance about equal to the length of the cavity. Holotype male.—Radford Arsenal, Montgomery County, Vir- GIntA, August 4-10, 1956, at light, R. L. Hoffman. Paratype. —Same data as for holotype but August 23-29, 1955, 1 male. This species belongs to the scalaris group and within it is most closely related to leonard: Ross and hageni Banks. In both of these latter species the apical lateral lobes of the aedeagus are produced markedly beyond the mesal cavity as in hoffmani but in both leonardi and hageni the apical segment of the clasper is sinuate and the lateral aspect pointed rather than incised as it is in hoffmani. Judged on the basis of the shape of the aedeagus, hoffmani and leonardi are extremely close; in hagent the apex of the aedeagus is produced even more than in these two species. From this it appears probable that Jeonardi is the most primitive member of this complex of three species, and that hageni and hoffmani represent divergent specializations from almost the same ancestral form. Sericostoma stannardi n. sp. Male—Length 11 mm. Color various shades of medium brown, the legs slightly lighter. Maxillary palp with a long sausage-shaped basal segment and a small ovate second segment situated on the inner side of the base of the first segment. Gen- Ixxi1i | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 131 eral structure otherwise typical for genus. Genitalia as in Fig. 2. Ninth segment ovate laterally, narrow dorsally and ventrally. Tenth tergite elongate, narrow from dorsal or ven- tral view, the lateral aspect deep at the base and tapering to a pointed apex, the ventral margins at the base curving mesad beneath the aedeagus and forming a channel for this organ. Cercus slender and finger-like. Clasper elongate and complex, consisting of a long, sinuate, lateral lobe (the main body of the clasper) bearing numerous long setae, and a heavily sclerotized mesal structure bearing a curved dorsal process arising at the extreme base (a), a shorter mesal branch arising about a quarter of the distance from the base (0), and a long slender apical proc- ess which is angulate at the tip and which bears a series of minute spurs on its mesal margin (c). The bases of the op- posed sclerotized processes and the main bodies of the claspers are fused into a strong sclerotized bridge which unites these structures solidly at the base. Aedeagus slender and sinuate, the apex of the sclerotized portion enlarged, a series of mem- branous folds projecting from the tip. Holotype male and 4 paratype males——Wall Doxey State Park, 7 mi. S of Holly Springs, Mississtpp1, May 21, 1957, Ross and Standard, at light. These specimens were taken along the banks of a small, clear, cold stream, issuing as a spring from sandstone strata in a dense beech forest. This species is most closely related to tetron Ross, from which it differs in having two basal processes instead of one on the sclerotized inner structure of the clasper, and in having the apex of the lateral aspect of the tenth segment narrow and pointed at the extreme tip. With tetron, distinctum (Ulmer), griseum (Banks), and crassicorne (Walker), this species brings to five the number of species in the distinctive North American subgenus Agarodes Banks. All the species except stannardi occur in the moun- tainous region of the Southern Appalachians or in boreal areas to the north. This suggests very strongly that stannardi may be a relic species existing in spring-fed streams to the south and west of the range of the other species of the genus. In this 132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 regard, it is interesting that larvae, pupae, and females of a species of Sericostoma have been taken in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, in a small spring issuing from sandstone strata. To date, males have not been obtained from the Louisiana locality. However, they should prove most interesting because this local- ity is a considerable distance south and west of the type locality of stannardi. Goerita betteni n. sp. Male.—Length 6 mm. Color light brown, antennae and legs lighter, shading to very pale straw color; dorsum of abdomen darker with blackish suffusions. General structure typical for genus. Eyes without hair. Tibial spurs fairly short, without scaly hair. Genitalia as in Fig. 3. Ninth segment narrow dor- sally, with a minute mesal dorsal projection, with lateral lobes projecting anteriorly into the eighth segment, and with a fairly wide ventral expanse. Tenth tergite composed of a pair of clavate lateral lobes situated in a horizontal plane, the two lobes nearly touching on the meson toward their apex, the area be- tween them semi-membranous; beneath these larger dorsal lobes there is a pair of smaller lobes extending to about where the dorsal lobes nearly touch on the meson. Clasper with a broad short basal segment, triangular in ventral view; apical segment clavate but narrow, bearing a dense row of setal pegs on the ventral half of the inner surface. Aedeagus short, wide and ovate in cross section, its apical margin truncate; within the aedeagus is an inverted membranous structure containing four slightly curved dark rods. Holotype male—Flag Run, Fellowsville, West Vircrnta, June 17, 1958, H. H. and J. A. Ross. This species differs from semata Ross and genota Ross, the only other species known in the genus, in having four instead of two rods in the aedeagus, and in the clavate lateral lobes of the tenth tergite. G. betteni is probably the species illustrated by Betten (1934, plate 67, figs. 6-11) and considered at that time as an unplaced genus and species which was recorded under the name “Sericostomatid sp.” (ibid., p. 413). Dr. Betten had a single specimen taken at West Falls, New York, July 15. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 133 G. BETTENI Fics. 1-3. Male genitalia of Trichoptera. A, lateral aspect; B, ven- tral aspect; C, posterior aspect of clasper; D, dorsal aspect of tenth tergite. 1B includes two magnifications of the aedeagus. a, b, c, homolo- gus branches of the sclerotized inner rod of the clasper. REFERENCE CITED BEtrEN, CorneLius. 1934. The caddis flies or Trichoptera of New York State. N. Y. St. Mus. Bull. 292. 134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 New Records and Species of Chilopods from Nevada and Oregon RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN The chilopods recorded in the present paper are represented in two collections placed in my hands for identification, one from the Nevada Test Area made in connection with a project supported by the Atomic Energy Commission and received by me through the courtesy of Dr. D. Elden Beck of the Brigham Young University; and the other from Saddleback mountain, Lincoln County, Oregon, made in connection with an ecological survey by Prof. Jane C. Dirks-Edmunds. The types of the new species are for the present retained in the zoological museum at the University of Utah. ORDER SCOLOPENDRIDA Scolopocryptops rubiginosus (L. Koch) Locality : Oregon, Saddleback Mt. Several specimens. Scolopendra michelbacheri Verhoeff Locality: Nevada; Mercury, Clark Co., Nevada Test Area. The specimens secured conform fully with the original de- scription the type of which was taken in southern California at Walker’s Pass. ORDER GEOPHILIDA Schendyla nemorensis (C. L. Koch) Locality : Oregon: Saddleback Mt. Nyctunguis stenus new species Head a little longer than broad (ca. 9:8). Antennae short, composed of the usual twenty articles. Prebasal plate a little exposed at the middle. On anterior portion of the clypeus two pairs of setae forming a quadrangle. Labrum with median sec- tion forming a wide low arch and bearing 10-12 stout teeth; on each side presenting a few serrations or pectinae. Dental plate of mandible apparently undivided, bearing denticles on its distal part. xxi ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 135 Claw of prehensors when closed not attaining front margin of head; articles of prehensors unarmed except a slight nodular prominence proximad of the distal end of the femuroid. Pro- sternum showing at middle of anterior border a narrow and acute excision. Sternites with a median longitudinal sulcus. Ventral pores moderate in number, confined to a subcircular area at middle of plate. Last ventral plate broad, trapeziform. Coxal pores simple, two on each side, these covered by border of sternite. Terminal pores present. Pairs of legs 55. Length 17 mm. Locality: Nevapa: Clark Co., Mercury, Nevada Test Area. The known species of Nyctunguis occur in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico except one species reported from the Hawaiian Islands and one recently described from Tennessee by Dr. Ralph Crabill. Although most of the species are known from but few specimens, or in some by only one, and as a result the range of variation of some characters pre- sently used in separating the several forms remains uncertain, the following provisional key should prove of some aid pending revisional study following the accumulation of more ample material. TENTATIVE KEY TO SPECIES OF NYCTUNGUIS ieeerebasal plate normally exposed: ...7 oie screeners ce dees 7 PpGendsal, plateationyexpOSe@ ssi. Mek. viele oss). ses eee os 10 Dentiferous arch occupying entire width of labrum........ Bt Se Sts DRI ai o'c Cueretie arcochilus Chamb. | DSN ober bia 018) ges 9 Bape ck Ree pg eeea 2 a rr 3. Median excavation of labrum deep, bearing 14 teeth at mid- dle with 4 or 5 processes at each end of the series, the margin ectad of the arch on each side smooth. .. .dampfi ( Verhoeff) Not so, the dental series not terminated by such elongate processes, the margin ectad of the arch on each side with MWO.GT) MOTE SErhabUITeS “Of PEChINAGs .. 2.006 2 aisle mies iin 4 +. Labrum deeply excavated, with the median portion semi- circular and much narrower transversely than the serrate division on each side and bearing 10 teeth................ tee tae chee Sativa S cieiey dare cheb asia danzantinus Chamb. tw 136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1962 5. Median dentiferous section of labrum much longer trans- versely than each lateral division, its teeth typically 20 in MUMPED sts voor ccs Eee eee libercolens Chamb. This median section of labrum much shorter, its teeth 10 to iGO in suniler Fr ce ee ee eee ee eee 6 6. Anterior margin of prehensorial prosternum with two blunt or truncate processes.ss wei. cee oie hs bryanus Chamb. With no such dentiform processes on prosternum....... 7 7. Clypeus with a transverse band of very short setae in front of the labirimaic sie ce sees et molinor Chamb. With no such prelabral band of short setae or hairs...... 8 ee) . Margin of labrum ectad of median arch on each side oblique and smooth except for two coarse serratures adjacent to the arch, dental plate of mandibles divided into three distinct and ‘equal DRGs... ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS JUNE 1962 Vol. LX XIII No. 6 CONTENTS Scott—Collembola of New Mexico, VIII ................... 141 Benet — Ae AMON WANCINS Se fee ce oie ss ws gs ee ieee eles 146 Eads—Ceutophilus guttulosus and its subspecies .............. 147 ealeivers—Another Mexican Ambrysus .................+4.- 152 Cruden—Survey of West Virginia dragonflies ................ 156 Price and Beer—A new Dennyus from white-naped swift ...... 161 RRM PR FS OL Cu nn ATE A IAS yd US Sp FEMS ws oo ew Sie 163 epee TIC ACTON OIC Cert igre iiapa ticle igi nlalvin Ae iaisi ald 4 + + vin 163 LaBerge—Neotype for Melissodes leprieuri ................. 164 memmew Eiow to icaow the butteriies .. 2.0. . 5. Sew ee 165 PUBLISHED MONTHLY, EXCEPT AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, BY THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRINCE AND LEMON STS., LANCASTER, PA. AND 1900 RACE STREET, PHILADELPHIA 3, PA. Subscription, per yearly volume of ten numbers: personal, $6.00; institutional, $9.00. Second-class postage paid at Lancaster, Pa. 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Subfamily ToMocertNaE Schaffer, 1896 Body elongate, not subglobose ; scales usually present ; pseudo- celli absent; mouthparts chewing; Ant III and IV invariably annulate, with Ant III much longer than Ant IV; prothorax reduced, naked dorsally ; body segments never ankylosed ; furcula present, may reach collophore; Abd III and IV subequal; anal spines absent (Figs. 1 and 2). Key TO THE WorRLD GENERA OF TOMOCERINAE 1. Postantennal organ present (see Wilkey, 1960)............ Red didi Sete Bye eee ee ene ce Tomolonus Mills, 1948 Postantennal organ absent........ Tomocerus Nicolet, 1841 1A portion of a dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 2 Part VII appeared in Ent. News 73(2): 45-51. 3 Training Branch, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Sery- ice, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Atlanta, Georgia. (141) SMITHSONIAN wsnrution JUN 12 1962 142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Genus TOMOCERUS Nicolet, 1841 Postantennal organ absent; eyes six and six or absent; an- tenna usually shorter than body; unguis with one to six teeth; unguiculus without teeth or with one or two teeth (Fig. 2). Discussion. The genus Tomocerus is frequently divided into three subgenera: (1) subgenus Tritomurus Frausenfeld, 1854, with eyes, prostheca, and tenent hairs absent; (2) sub- genus Pogonognathellus Paclt, 1944, with eyes six and six, and the prostheca and tenent hairs present ; (3) subgenus Tomocerus Nicolet 1841, with the eyes six and six, the prostheca absent, and tenent hairs present. Tomocerus bidentatus Folsom, 1913. New Mexico Recorps. Sixteen samples (12 Berlese, 2 un- der rocks, 2 from fir logs) from grass roots, herb roots, and litter (red birch, cottonwood, yellow pine, spruce, fir, aspen, and alder) ; 5,000 to 12,300 ft; Taos, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Mora, San Miguel and Bernalillo Co.; May—Nov., 1950-1954. DisTRIBUTION. N. M., Ohio, Tenn., Va. Tomocerus flavescens (Tullberg, 1871). Discussion. It has been customary to differentiate four forms or varieties of this species: form separatus Folsom, 1913; form americanus Schott, 1896; form arcticus Schott, 1894; and form flavescens Tullberg, 1871. In the light of the New Mexico col- lections, recognition can no longer be given these forms. Folsom (1913, p. 461) reports that “Frequently the same individual has spines of flavescens on one dens and those of americanus on the other.” The same author (1913, p. 463) reports similar inter- grades between arcticus and flavescens. The ffom separatus is based upon the presence of three teeth on the unguis rather than two teeth as in flavescens. The dental formulae of separatus and flavescens are identical. In the New Mexico specimens, the merger of characteristics of two forms (flavascens and ameri- canus; flavescens and arcticus) on one individual is again noted. New Mexico Recorps. Twelve samples from beneath dung, Ixxii| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 143 rocks, and bark of logs (aspen, fir, alder) ; among mushrooms ; and from Berlese samples of litter (aspen, spruce, fir) ; 5,000 to 11,200 ft; Valencia, Bernalillo, San Miguel, Torrance, and San- doval Co.; Sept., 1951-1954. DistripuTIon. Alaska, Calif., Colo., District of Columbia, Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Riss, Mo; iN. Ny J; NM. N. Y., N-G., Olio Ore. Pa. Tenn., Texas, Utah, Va., Wash.; Northwest Territories (Can- ada), Europe, Asia. This species was first recorded from New Mexico by Folsom (1913, p. 462). ——derm scales tenaculum ‘ prostheca / manubrium \ P vocelli (2 _I__—antennal De segment SSaiue ~~ unguiculus tenent hair Fic. 1. Tomocerus flavescens with key structures labeled. Tomocerus lamelliferus Mills, 1934. New Mexico Recorps. Twenty samples (one from under bark of fir log, three from under rocks in Alpine Zone, and 16 Berlese from Gambel oak, oak, aspen, alder, cottonwood, spruce and fir litter) ; 5,000 to 12,000 ft; Rio Arriba, Taos, Sandoval, Santa Fe, San Miguel, Valencia, Bernalillo, and Socorro Co.; Jun.—Sept., 1951-1954. 144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 DisTRIBUTION. Fla., Iowa, N. M., Ontario (Canada). Tomocerus nigritus Maynard, 1951. New Mexico Recorp. Berlese sample of dead grass clumps between lava blocks, 5,700 ft, near Rio Puerco, along U. S. Route 66, west of Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., July 1954. DistTRIBUTION. N. M., N. Y. Tomocerus vulgaris (Tullberg, 1871). New Mexico Recorps. Twenty-eight samples (two beneath rocks ; six from aspen, spruce or fir logs; twenty Berlese sam- ples of litter from aspen, birch, alder, oak, Gambel oak, alpine vegetation, spruce and fir), 7,000 to 12,000 ft; Taos, Colfax, Sandoval, Santa Fe, San Miguel, Valencia, and Bernalillo Co. ; Jun—Nov., 1950-1954. DistRIBUTION. N. M., N. Y. SUMMARY Five species of Tomocerus are reported from New Mexico. Of these only T. flavescens has been recorded previously from the state. Ecological data based upon 77 collections are pre- sented. Invalidity of forms of T. flavescens is discussed. A pictorial key to Nearctic species of Tomocerinae is presented. REFERENCES Fotsom, J. W. 1913. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 46: 463. FRAUSENFELD, C. 1854. Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Ver. Wien 4: 15. Maynarp, E. A. 1951. The Collembola of New York State. Comstock Publ. Co., Ithaca, p. 130. Mitts, H. B. 1934. The Collembola of Iowa. Ames: Collegiate Press, p. 84. —. 1948. Ann. Ent. Soc. America 41: 353. Nicotet, H. 1841. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helvetia Sci. Nat. 6: 67. Pact, J. 1944. Folia Ent. 8: 3. ScHAFFER, C. 1896. Mitt. naturhist. Mus. Hamburg 13: 177. Scuott, H. 1896. Proc. California Acad. Sci. ser. 2, 6: 176. 1894. Bih. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 25: 57. Tomosvary, O 1882. Math. Term. Kozlem, Magyr Akad. 18: 119. TuLiBerc, T. 1871. Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. 28: 148. Wiikey, R. F. 1960. Pan-Pacific Ent. 36: 155. xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 145 PICTORIAL KEY TO SPECIES OF NEARCTIC TOMOCERINAE (Collembola, Entomobryidae) tenent hairs 0 tenent hairs 2 tenent hairs 1 ocelli absent ocelli 3 and 3 ocelli 6 and 6 ocelli 6 and 6 Tomolonus reductus Tomocerus elongatus prostheca present prostheca absent integument dark integument light unguis 1-3 toothed unguis 4-6 toothed Tomocerus pp eraeeie emeceierercms cs re Tomocerus flavescens Tomocerus bidentatus Th dental Wee tridentate dental spines simple mucro not lamellate mucro lamellate mucro not lamellate Tomocerus minor Tomocerus lamelliferus Tomocerus vulgaris unguis 1-toothed unguis 2 to 3-toothed unguis 3-toothed mucro with 3-4 mucro with 6-8 medial teeth _ medial teeth r a "A a a Tomocerus oregonensis Tomocerus missus Tomocerus californicus Tomocerus henroti By Harold George Scott, Ph.D. 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 The Taxon Trielis (Hym. Scoliidae) and its Type ]. G. Berea * Every one has overlooked the fact that Saussure founded the taxon Trielis in the year 1863 (Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4)3: 18), which antedated the Catalogus Specierum Generis Scolia of de Saussure and Sichel by one year. It is in the latter work that every one hitherto has believed that Trielis was established (see p. 14, p. 140). The only species that Saussure mentioned in connection with Trielis, when he founded it, was Elis xantiana Sauss., 1863 from Lower California, which, therefore, is the type-species by mono- typy. Elis xantiana is ranked as a subspecies of Campsoscolia octomaculata Say (Bradley, 1950, Eos, tomo extraord. p. 434). The name Trielis must replace the name Campsoscolia Betrem, because their type-species, though different, both belong to the same taxon. Trielis will stand as a valid genus, the usual status given it in recent years. Ashmead in 1903 designated the Australian species Elis con- sanguinea Saussure, 1854, to be type of Trielis Saussure and Sichel, 1864, but since the latter taxon was merely an extension of Trielis Sauss., 1863, and not a homonym of it, his action is without nomenclatural significance. As two different taxa are involved, one now standing without a name, it is possible to use consanguinea for type of the latter, and rename it, which I now proceed to do. TRIELIS (AUSTRALELIS, subg. n.). Type-species : Elis consanguinea Sauss., 1853 = Trielis (Aus- tralelis) consanguinea (Sauss., 1854) Ashmead, 1903. For the description of this subgenus, I refer to the description of Trielis given by myself in 1928 (Treubia LX, suppl. p. 107). This taxon will find status as a subgenus of Trielis Sauss. Saussure first mentioned the taxa Triscolia and Discolia in the same 1863 paper. These taxa will be treated subsequently in a joint paper by Bradley and Betrem. * This paper was completed with the help of a research grant from the National Science Foundation. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 147 The Identity of Ceuthophilus guttulosus and its Subspecies (Orthoptera, Gryllacrididae, Rhaphidophorinae) Davip C. EApEs ? In his revision of Ceuthophilus, Hubbell (1936: 415) stated, “In 1869 Francis Walker described Ceuthophilus guttulosus from an unknown locality. I have not had access to the type, an imperfect female in the British Museum; but consideration of the rather inadequate original description in connection with measurements and sketches (Figs. 364-367) received: through the kind cooperation of B. P. Uvarov make it appear not im- probable that the species is the same as nigricans. Should care- ful study of the type substantiate this nigricans Scudder 1894 will fall as a synonym of guttulosus F. Walker 1869.” In 1960 Hubbell examined the type of C. guttulosus Walker (1869: 203) in the British Museum (Natural History) and confirmed his suspicion that guttulosus and C. nigricans Scudder (1894: 28, 61) belong to the same species. My own studies, which will be published in detail at a later time, indicate that the entity which Hubbell (1936) called nigricans should be divided into two subspecies: Ceuthophilus guttulosus guttulosus Walker (new combination) and C. guttulosus nigricans Scudder (new com- bination). C. neglectus Scudder (1894: 30, 67), which Blatch- ley (1920: 622) synonymized under nigricans, is a synonym of g. guttulosus. Hubbell (1936: 414) also called attention to specimens from Franklin, Muskingum, Perry, Hocking, Athens, and Vinton coun- ties, Ohio, which appeared intermediate between Ceuthophilus thomast Hubbell (1936: 51, 57, 419) and nigricans. He con- cluded (p. 414), “In view of the uncertainties involved, and the absolute distinction between the two types elsewhere than in this area, thomasi and nigricans are here treated as distinct spe- cies.” As a result of additional collecting which has provided intermediate specimens from Ontario, Quebec, Indiana, West 1 Contribution No. 711 from the Zoological Laboratories of Indiana University. 148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina as well as Ohio, it is now apparent that thomasi and nigricans (as defined by Hub- bell) intergrade wherever they come in contact with each other and that the former should be known as Ceuthophilus guttulosus thomasi (new combination). The species, C. guttulosus, corre- sponds to the entity which Hubbell (1936) called the “Nigricans Group.” Still another taxonomic change was foreseen by Hubbell (1936; 422), who stated, “It may prove necessary to recognize a southern mountain race and a northern interior lowland race of thomasi, since southern specimens show a strong tendency toward greater prolongation of the dorsal portions of the ab- dominal tergites and more accentuated carination of the abdo- men.’ Examination of southern specimens indicates that they may also be distinguished by a higher length-of-caudal-tibia to length-of-caudal-femur ratio and by a greater number of spinu- lose denticulations on the ventrocephalic carina of the caudal femur in relation to the length of the caudal femur. The name thomasi should be restricted to the northern interior lowland race, and the southern mountain race is here described as a new subspecies of Ceuthophilus guttulosus. Key characters separat- ing the four subspecies of guttulosus are shown in Table 1. Ceuthophilus guttulosus angulosus * new subspecies Diagnosis.—Specimens of Ceuthophilus guttulosus which re- semble C. g. thomasi but differ in the greater median carination, angulation, and prolongation of the abdominal terga and in the higher length-of-caudal-tibia to length-of-caudal-femur ratio. Holotype-—Male; Cliffside Recreation Area, 4.4 miles west of Highlands, Macon County, NortuH Carotina; 3,000 feet; September 7, 1952; T. H. Hubbell; University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Similar to thomasi except as noted in Table 1. Size small, length of body 11.3 (all measurements in millimeters), length of pronotum 3.2; slender for the species. Head with eyes ° Angulosus, having many angles, in allusion to the median angulation of most of the abdominal terga. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 149 TABLE 1. Key characters for distinguishing subspecies of Ceuthophilus guttulosus (Figure references in Hubbell, 1936) mae . angulosus n. guttulosus nigricans thomasi subsp. Male subgenital scoop-shaped scoop- conical, cleft conical, cleft plate (Figs. 557-9, shaped (Figs. 766-7) (Figs. 560, 763-5) 768-9) Number of abdom- inal terga with at least slight median angulation in male 1 to 4(5) (3)4 to 6(7) | (2)4to7 (6)7 to8 in female 1to3 2 to 4(5) (1)2 to 5(6) 5 or 6 Production of slight to moderate moderate strong to male eighth moderate to strong very strong tergum (Fig. 618) (Fig. 619) (Figs. 620-1) Pale area on lower broad or absent absent or absent part of lateral occasionally sometimes lobe of pronotum | narrow narrow Teeth on ventral normally 5 usually 6 normally 5 normally 5 ovipositor valve Distribution southern Que. northeastern| southern Ont., Macon Co., N U. S. from east- | Ky. lower peninsula | C. and Rabun ern Ohio and of Mich., Ind., Co., Ga. W. Va. eastward, and western one Putnam Co. Ohio nd. prominent, length of eyes 0.83, breadth of eyes 0.70, interocular distance 1.01, infraocular distance 1.01; antennal length roughly 22; length of distal segment of maxillary palp 1.54; length of clypeal suture 1.47. Cephalic coxa with lateral carina produced in an acute spine; cephalic femur 4.1 mm long, with 1 (left side) or 2 (right side) spurs on ventrocaudal carina; cephalic tibia 3.9 mm long, with 3 spurs on ventrocephalic carina, 3 (right side) or 4 (left side) spurs on ventrocaudal carina, and 2 distal spurs on each side; middle femur 4.0 mm long, with 2 (left side) or 3 (right side) spurs on ventrocephalic carina and 1 spur on caudal genicular lobe; middle tibia 4.1 mm long, with 2 dorsal, 2 distal, and 3 ventral spurs on each side; caudal femur 8.3 mm long, maximum breadth 2.7, with 19 (left side) or 23 (right side) spinulose denticulations on ventrocephalic carina; caudal tibia 9.8 mm long, 0.39 mm deep, spine formula (as defined by Hubbell, 1936: 17) of cephalic carina 10/5/4-5/4/2, with 1 subdistal ventral spur, length of subdistal spur of cephalic carina 150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | June, 1962 0.64, of dorsocephalic calear 1.23, of dorsocaudal calear 1.48; length of caudal tarsus 4.1, of metatarsus 2.15, of 2nd segment 0.81, of 4th segment 1.16, of claw 0.53, depth of 2nd segment 0.39, abdomen laterally compressed, tectate, a median carina present on distal half of each tergum and faintly indicated on metanotum and mesonotum; median angulation absent on Ist tergum, weak on 2nd, obtuse on 3rd through 5th, 70° on 6th, 60° on 7th, 8th with projection bulbous and with sides at one point subparallel, immediate apex right angulate; apices of 3rd through 8th terga raised above succeeding terga; dorsal out- lines of 5th through 7th terga weakly concave in lateral view, of &th strongly concave. Subgenital plate conical, lateral mar- gins straight, with a deep median cleft, the paired lobes pressed tightly together and with apices asymmetrically rounded, more narrowly rounded toward the median line; pseudosternite nor- mal for the species, with dorsocaudal lobes connected as a con- tinuous transverse ridge which is only slightly weaker mesally. Middorsal stripe broad and strongly contrasted on thorax, some- what narrowed near margins of nota; background color now dark brown but probably black prior to storage in alcohol; dark area of nota extending all the way to ventral margins. Allotype.—Female ; same data as holotype. Similar to thomasi except as noted in Table 1. Length of body 13.6, of pronotum 3.6, of caudal femur 9.0, of caudal tibia 10.6, of ovipositor 5.2 Median femur with 1 (left side) or 3 (right side) spurs on ventrocephalic carina and 1 spur on caudal genicular lobe, caudal femur with 21 (left side) or 24 (right side) spinulose denticulations on ventrocephalic carina; ventral ovipositor valve with 5 teeth (including apical hook). Third through 8th abdominal terga with median angulation and with apices raised above succeeding terga. Coloration as in holotype. Specimens examined.—(All in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology unless otherwise stated.) TypicAL MATE- RIAL: Cliffside Recreation Area, 4.4 miles W of Highlands, Macon Co., N. C., 3,000 ft; Sept. 7, 1952; T. H. Hubbell and I. J. Cantrall; 48 ¢, 429 (holotype, allotype, and paratypes). Highlands, Macon Co., N. C.; July 28, 1947; J. J. Friauf; 19 Ixxiii| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 151 (paratype), 1 juv. AtTyPICAL MATERIAL (not considered para- typic) : Summit Walker Mt., Bland-Wythe Co. line, Va., 3,950 feoept. 2, 1952-1. Hi. Hubbell, I. J. Cantrall, and S. K. Gangwere;2 0,39. 12.6 miles S of Wytheville on U. S. Hwy. AlvewWythe Col, Va--Sept. 3, 1952: T. H. Hubbell, I. J-"Can- trall, and S. K. Gangwere; 19. Abingdon, Whitetop Mt., Washington Co., Va., 5,400—-5,500 ft; Sept. 9, 1933; J. R. Bailey; 2 ¢.2 Whitetop Mt., Grayson Co., Va., 5,100—5,400 ft; Aug. 6-7, 1946; T. H. Hubbell; 3 ¢, 49. Along Little River, 7 miles NE of Sparta; Alleghany Co., N. C.; June 20, 1953; J. R. and R. M. Bailey; 1,39. Pineola State Fish Hatchery, Avery Co., N. C., about 3,500 ft; Sept. 3, 1952; T. H. Hubbell, I. J. Cantrall, and S. K. Gangwere; 1 ¢. Hot Springs, Madison Gor, N. Cz; July 30,1936; J. R. Bailey; 1¢&. Mt. Sterling, Haywood Co., N. C., 4,900 ft; Aug. 1, 1924; T. H. Hubbell; 4 g,19.2 Walnut Bottom, Great Smoky Mts. Nat’l Park, near Mt. Sterling, Haywood Co., N. C., about 3,000 ft; June 24, 1938; W. B. Jones; 19; Ala. Mus. Nat. Hist. Mt. Sterling, Haywood Co., N. C.; Sept., 1938; Chambers; 39. Swannanoa, Buncombe Co., N. C., 3,000-4,000 it; Sept. 2, 1933; C. F. Walker; 2¢;% Ohio State Mus. High Hickory Mt., 1 mile SW of Swannanoa, Buncombe Co., N. C., 2,500-3,000 ft; J. R. Bailey; Aue. 117.1933, 7) g,. bOs* Aug, 21, 1933, 1 ¢3* Sept: 2, 1933, 19.3 Lake Toxaway, Tranyslvania Co., N. C., about a eOuit. Sept. co, 1952. Jy El Hubbell, 1. |. Cantrall, and S. K: Gangwere; 19. ADDITIONAL LITERATURE RECORDS: Watauga Co., N. C. and Rabun Co., Ga. Acknowledgments——The author wishes to thank Dr. T. H. Hubbell for permission to publish data pertaining to the type of Ceuthophilus guttulosus. The University of Michigan Mu- sem of Zoology, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia, and the Ohio State Museum assisted with loans of large numbers of specimens. Field work was assisted by grants from the National Science Foundation for work at Mountain Lake Biological Station, Virginia and from the Sigma Xi-RESA Research Fund. 3 Paratypes of thomasi Hubbell. 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 LITERATURE CITED BiatcHiLey, W. S. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Pub- lishing Co., Indianapolis, 784 p. Hupssett, T. H. 1936. A monographic revision of the genus Ceutho- philus (Orthoptera, Gryllacrididae, Rhaphidophorinae). Uniy. Flor- ida Publ. 2(1): 1-551, Pl. IEXXXVIII. Scupper, S. H. 1894. The North American Ceuthophili. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 30: 17-113. Wa ker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Salta- toria in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. London. Ad? cp: Another Mexican Ambrysus (Hemiptera: Naucoridae) Ira La Rivers, University of Nevada, Reno Ambrysus rotundus species novum General appearance: a rather large, robust and convex species with the mottled coloration so typical of ambrysi. Lighter an- teriorly. Size 12.5-13.0 mm long and 8.0-9.0 mm wide. Color predominantly yellow over head and prothorax, mottled yellow and brown over remainder of dorsum. Venter yellow. Head: shiny, weakly punctate, relatively flat. Vertex slightly but distinctly protuberant before the eyes, flat in front. Eyes flush with head surface; junction of outer and posterior eye margins weakly angulate. Labrum fairly sharply rounded in front ; ratio of length-to-width 15::25 (60%). Head ratios are: (1) total length to width (including eyes) 68::103 (66% ) (2) anterior distance between eyes to posterior distance be- tween eyes 50: :62 (81%) (3) anterior distance between eyes to inner eye length 50: :48 (96% ) (4) posterior distance between eyes to greatest length of head posterior to this line 62: :16 (26%) Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 153 Pronotum: smooth, shiny, shallowly punctate. Color light yellow, with thin brown line paralleling posterior edge and form- ing a broad, whitish border not extending through lateral areas; two accumulations of brown spots laterally on the disc. Lateral edges without pilosity, smooth, curving weakly anteriorly, then strongly to form the smooth postero-lateral “angles” ; per cent of curvature (viewed perpendicular to the frontal plane of section of the animal as a whole) about 15% (av. 80::12). Venter light yellow, with whitish pilosity along posterior edge and in- crassate femora. Keel ridged anteriorly, than sloping abruptly and flatly posteriorly beneath median union of propleura, the slope smooth except for a suggestion of transverse rugosity ; ratio of anterior keel ridge to total keel length (including poste- rior sloping face) 17::12 (71%). Prosternum free from pro- pleura, and disappearing caudad beneath propleura. Propleura thinly but firmly united along median line just posterior to prosternum. Pronotal ratios are: (1) width between anterior angles to width between posterior angles 53::106 (50% ) (2) median length to greatest width 37::106 (35% ) (3) distance between anterior and posterior angles on same side to perpendicular distance between anterior angle and baseline of pronotum 105: :90 (86% ) Scutellum: yellow along two lateral sides and through middle, brownish elsewhere. Ratio of three sides, anterior and two imperals, /22252: 252. Hemelytra: background color various shades of black-brown, interspersed with yellow on embolia, major sutures and disk of hemelytra. Shiny, white-shagreened. Embolia well-defined at posterior ends, broad for the genus (length-to-width 90: :31 = 35%) ; emboliar crease weak, apparent only anteriorly ; em- bolia light yellow in anterior rds, dark brown in remainder. Hemelytra rather broadly exposing lateral connexival margins posterior to the embolia and not quite attaining abdominal tip. Wings functional, with the usual large “costal” cell. 154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Venter: the prothoracic venter has been discussed. All con- nexival segments modestly spinose except Segment I, the angles being acutely prolonged and progressively enlarged posteriorly. All connexival segments except I have minute serration along margins, only visible under high magnification. Female sub- genital plate quadrisinuate in tip outline, the outer angles more cephalad (= lower) and dorsad, the median sinuosities caudad and ventrad, so that the subgenital plate is almost half-tubular or markedly convex. Male genital process having an inverted boot-shape, or appearing much like a miniature boomerang (see illustration ). Legs: Prolegs—structure typical for the genus. Color yellow. Femoral incrassation about average, ratio of length to greatest width 84::60 (71%). Tibia average, combined tibia-tarsus, when closed, strongly overlapping adjacent (proximal) end of femur. Mesolegs—Femoral ratio of length-to-greatest median width 92::16 (17%): length 3.0 mm. Tibia with strong, brown spines and tipped with two transverse rows of spines at distal end, the secondary (proximal) row not complete; tibia wider toward distal end; ratio of length-to-greatest width 76::10 (13%); length 1.8 mm. Tarsus 3-segmented, basal segment small; terminating in two prominent, moderately curved claws. Metalegs—Femoral ratio of length-to-greatest median width 122::20 (16%); length 4.0 mm. Tibia longer, slimmer and more parallel-sided than mesotibia; ratio of length-to-greatest width 138::9 (7%) ; terminal transverse spination as in meso- tibia; length 4.6 mm. Tarsus larger edition of mesotarsus. Type locality data: Mex1tco—San Luis Potosi (E/ Salto, 19 June 1953), (Tamazunchalo, 21 June 1953). Holotypic male, allotypic female and two paratypes in the collection of the author, Reno, Nevada. “Rotundus,” rotund, referring to the rounded, convex appear- ance of the species. Comparative data: the following modification of the key to Mexican ambrysi (La Rivers 1953) can be used to place A. rotundus: Ixxi| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 155 Fic. 1. Ambrysus rotundus: (A) Terminal outline of female subgenital plate, allotype. (B) Male genital process, holotype. 26 (25). 26A (26). Lateral apical angles of female subgenital plate lower than median angles or sinuosities (1.e., more cepha- lad in position than the medians)............- 26A Lateral apical angles of female subgenital plate ap- proximately even with the median sinuosities....27 Median sinuosities at tip of female subgenital plate close together, shallow, much closer to each other than to the lateral apical angles. Male genital proc- ess somewhat “dog” headed, but smoothly rounded on all sides... Ambrysus guttatipennis Stal 1862 Median sinuosities much farther apart so that they are at least as close to the lateral angle as they are to each other. Male genital process quite angular and boot-shaped, with a sharp heel and toe............ pyaniaas ties pine ee a Shae eats Ss Ambrysus rotundus REFERENCES La Rivers, I. 1953. The Ambrysus of Mexico (Hemiptera, Naucori- dae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. Vol. 35, Pt. II, No. 10, 1279-1349. Stat, C. 1862. Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas de- scriptsit. Stetiner ent. Zeit. 23: 437-462. 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 A Preliminary Survey of West Virginia Dragonflies (Odonata)’* Rogsert W. Cruden,” University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Willis, Oklahoma Needham and Westfall (1955) list twenty species of Anisop- tera from West Virginia, of which one, Aeschna canadensis Walker, is also listed by Walker (1958) as occurring in the state. Kormondy (1960) gives records for an additional eight species, all Anisoptera, and all but one collected by C. Ahrens in 1935. Other than the above there is apparently no literature pertaining specifically to the Odonata of the state, and there is none at all on the Zygoptera. As 147 species of Odonata are reported from Ohio (Cruden & Currie, 1961) and 100 species from Kentucky (Cook, 1951) it seems highly unlikely that the 28 species recorded is at all representative of the actual number occurring in West Virginia. From its geographical location and physiographic character one would expect many northern forms to occur in the state. The mountains, of course, provide access to the state for the northern species while a few eastern and southern species might come into the state through Maryland and along the New River respectively. As a preliminary to monographing the Odonata of West Vir- ginia sample collecting was done during the summer of 1961 on the 13th and 14th of June, 7th, 10th and 11th of July and the 10th and 11th of August. In the following list the dates of capture (all 1961) are given for 291 individuals representing 55 species. The county records number 156 plus sight records of easily identified species. In the case of sight records the name of the county is preceded by an asterisk. Species listed in Needham and Westfall (1955) are followed by an (N&W). The county records given by Kormandy (1960) are followed 1 Research supported by a National Science Foundation grant-in-aid from the University of Oklahoma. 2 Present address: Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley 4, California. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS i Boy) by (K). All specimens are in the collection of the author and have been identified by the author, and many have been verified by Dr. and Mrs. George Bick, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. The following list probably represents a little more than half the total number of species that occur in the state. List OF SPECIES Cordulegasteridae 1. Cordulegaster diastatops (Selys) (N&W) _ Pocahontas, 5g, VII-11. 2. C. erroneus Hagen (N&W). 3. C. maculatus Selys Monogalia (K); Pocahontas, 2 3, VII-11. 4. C. obliquus (Say) (N&W). Gomphidae 5. Progomphus obscurus (Rambur). (N&W). 6. Hagens brevistylus Selys Randolph (K). 7. Ophiogomphus mainensis Packard (N&W). 8. Dromohomphus spinosus (Selys) (N&W) _ Dodridge, J, VII-10; Summers, 3“, VIJI-11. 9. Lanthus albistylus (Hagen) Randolph (K). 10. Gomphus (Gomphurus) fraternus (Say) (N&W). 11. G. (Gomphurus) lineatifrons Calvert Randolph (K). 12. G. (Gomphurus) vastus Walsh (N&W). 13. G. (Gomphus) exilis Selys Hancock, 2 ¢, VI-13. 14. G. (Gomphus) lividus Selys Mason, 9, VII-7. 15. G. (Stylurus) notatus Rambur (N&W). 16. G. (Stylurus) spiniceps (Walsh) (N&W). Aeschnidae 17. Basiaeschna janata (Say) Upshur, 2 3, VI-14. 18. Boyeria grafiana (Say) Logan, ¢, VIII-10. 19. B. vinosa (Say) (N&W). 20. Anax junius (Drury). *Gilmer, VII-10; Greenbrier (K) ; *Ritchie, VII-10; Summers, VITI-11 (exuviae) ; Taylor, 3d, VI-14. 21. A. longipes Hagen Taylor, 3', VI-14. 22. Nasiaeschna pentacantha (Rambur) Mason, 9, VII-7. 23. Epiaeschna heros (Fabricius) Mason, ?, VII-7. 24. Aeschna canadensis Walker (N&W). 25. Ae. umbrosa Walker Logan, 2 f & 9, VIII-10. 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Libellulidae 26. Macromia illinoiensis Walsh (N&W). 27. Neurocordulia yamaskanensis Provancher (N&W). 28. Epicordulia princeps (Hagen) Mason, ¢ & 9, VII-7; *Ritchie, VIJ-10; Summers, ¢, VIII-11; Taylor, ¢, VI-14; *Upshur, VI-14. 29. Tetragoneuria cynosura (Say) Pocahontas, 2 ¢, VII-11; Taylor, ¢, VI-14; Tucker (K) ; Upshur, 4 ¢, VI-14. 30. T. spinigera Selys (N&W). 31. Somatochlora linearis (Hagen) Putnam, 4, VIII-10. 32. Perithemis tenera (Say) Mason, 0, VII-7; Putnam, J, VIII-10; Ritchie, ¢, VII-10; Summers, ¢', VIII-11. 33. Celithemis elisa (Hagen) Lincoln, ¢, VIII-10; Mason, 24, VU-7; Nicholas, ¥, VIII-11; Summers, 4, VIII-11; Taylor, 3g, VI-14. 34. C. eponina (Drury) Mason, 2 4, VII-7. 35. C. fasciata Kirby Randolph (K). 36. Libellula cyanea Fabricius Dodridge, ¢, VII-10; Mason, 9, VII-7; Taylor, ¢ & 9, VI-14. 37. L. luctuosa Burmeister *Dodridge, 7-10; Gilmer, ¢, VII- 10; *Greenbrier, VIII-11; Lincoln, ¢, VIII-10; Mason, do, VII-7; Ritchie, ¢, VII-10; Summers, ¢, VIII-11; Taylor, 9, VI-14; *Wood, VII-10. 38. L. pulchella Drury *Dodridge, VII-10; *Greenbrier, VIII- 11; Gilmer, ¢ & 9, VII-10; Lincoln, ¢ & 9, VIII-10; Mason, 2 4, VII-7; Pocahontas, ¢, VII-11; Taylor, 9, VII-14; *Wood, VII-10. 39. L. semifasciata Burmeister Taylor, 29, VI-14. 40. Plathemis lydia (Drury) (N&W). *Dodridge, VII-10; *Greenbrier, VIII-11; Hancock, ¢, VI-13; *Mason, VII-7; Pocahontas, ¢', VII-11; Ritchie, ¢, VII-10; Taylor, 9, VI-14. 41. Erythrodiplax miniscula Rambur (N&W),. 42. Sympetrum rubicundulum (Say) Mason, 4, VII-7. 43. S. semicinctum (Say) (N&W). 44. S. vicinum (Hagen) Gilmer, ¢, VII-10; Mason, 4, VII- 7; Nicholas, 5 ¢, VIII-11. 45. Erythemis simplicicollis (Say) Gilmer, gj VII-10; Lin- coln, g, VIII-10; *Mason, VII-7; *Pocahontas, VII- 11; Summers, ¢, VIII-11. 46. Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister) (N&W) Dod- ridge, ¢, VII-10; Gilmer, ¢, VII-10; Greenbrier, ¢, VII-11; *Mason, VII-10; Putnam, 4’, VIII-10; *Wood, VII-10. [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 159 47. Tramea lacerata Hagen Mason, 3, VII-7; Summers, 3, VIII-11; *Taylor, VI-14. Agrionidae 48. Agrion amatum Hagen Pocahontas, 4, VII-11. 49. A. maculatum Beauvais Dodridge, ¢, VII-10; Greenbrier, 3d, VII-11; Lincoln, 9, VIII-10; Logan, 4, VIII-10; Mason, 4, VII-/; Pocahontas, 9, VII-11; Putnam, ¢, VIII-10; Summers, ¢, VIII-11; Wood, 0, VII-10. 50. Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) Summers, ¢ & 9, VIII- Midis 51. H. titia (Drury) Greenbrier, ¢', VIII-11. Lestidae 52. Lestes disjunctus australis Walker Greenbrier, 2¢ & 9, VII-11; and g, VIII-11. 53. L. eurinus Say Greenbrier, 3 4, VII-11; and 4, VIII-11; Taylor, ?, VI-14. 54. L. rectangularis Say Greenbrier, ¢, VII-7; and 4, VIII- 11; Mason, 4¢° & 39, VII-7; Nicholas, ¢, VIII-11; Summers, 2 4, VIII-11. Coenagrionidae 55. Argia apicalis (Say) Putnam, 3, VIII-10; Summers, J, VITI-11 56. A. moesta (Hagen) Greenbrier, ¢ & 9, VII-11; Summers, 24, VII-11; and ¢, VUI-11. 5/7. A. sedula (Hagen) Summers, 3 4, VITI-11. 58. A. tibialis (Rambur) Lincoln, 2, VIII-10; Mason, 9, VIII-10; Putnam, 9, VIII-10; Ritchie, 5 4, VII-10. 59. A. translata Hagen Summers, 3 ¢ & 9, VIII-11. 60. A. violacea (Hagen) Dodridge, ¢, VII-10; Mason, ¢, VII-7; Pocahontas, “, VII-11; Putnam, 4, VIII-10; Ritchie, ¢, VII-10; Summers, 4’, VIII-11; Upshur, 2 3, VI-14; Wood, 3, VII-10. 61. Nehalennia irene Hagen Taylor, 4, VI-14. 62. Chromagrion conditum (Hagen) Pocahontas, 4 J, VII- 11; Taylor, 3, VI-14. 63. Enallagma antennatum (Say) Hancock, ¢, VI-13. 64. E. aspersum (Hagen) Gilmer, ¢, VII-10; Greenbrier, 2, VII-11; Pocahontas, ¢, VII-11; Ritchie, 3¢ & 9, VII-10; Summers, 4, VIII-11; Taylor, 4 ¢ & 9, VI-14. 65. E. basidens Calvert Hancock, ¢ & 9, VI-13; Mason, ¢ & 9, VII-7; Ritchie, ¢, VII-10. 160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 66. E. civile Hagen Greenbrier, 3, VIII-11; Mason, ¢ & 9, VII-7; Putnam, ¢, VIII-10; Ritchie, 2 ¢ & 9, VII-10; Summers, 2 #7, VIII-11. 67. E. divagens Selys Dodridge, ¢, VII-10; Upshur, dg, VI-14. 68. E. exsulans (Hagen) Dodridge, 2 ¢ & 9, VII-10; Green- brier, 3 f, VII-11; Lincoln, 2 ¢ &9, VIII-10; Mason, J, VII-7; Pocahontas, 3 ¢, VII-11; Ritchie, 4 ¢ & 9, VII- 10; Summers, 2¢° & 2, VII-11; and ¢ & 9, VIII-11; Upshur, 3 ¢ & 9, VI-14. 69. E. hageni (Walsh) Greenbrier, ¢, VII-11; Pocahontas, dé, VII-11. 70. E. signatum (Hagen) Mason, 3g, VII-7; Summers, 2, VIII-11. 71. E. traviatum Selys Mason, 3, VII-7. 72. Ischnura posita (Hagen) Gilmer, ¢, VII-10; Mason, , VIII-10; Summers, 4’, VIII-11; Upshur, 2, VI-14. 73. I. verticalis (Say) Gilmer, 3, VII-10; Greenbrier, ¢, VII-11; and 3“, VIII-11; Mason, ¢, VII-7; Nicholas, d, VIII-11; Pocahontas, 4, VII-11; Putnam, 3 4, VIII- 10; Ritchie, 2 ¢, VII-10; Summers, 4, VITI-11; Taylor, 3g, VI-14; Upshur, 3, VI-14. 4. Anomalagrion hastatum (Say) Mason, ¢, VII-7; Nicho- las, , VITI-11. N LITERATURE CITED Cook, C. 1951. Ent. News 62: 181-188. Cruven, R. W. and N. L. Currie. 1961. Ohio J. Sci. 61: 189-191. Kormonpy, E. J. 1960. Ent. News 71: 121-130. NEEDHAM, J. G. and M. J. WesTFALL, Jr. 1955. A Manual of the Dragonflies of North America (Anisoptera). University of Cali- fornia Press. Berkeley and Los Angeles. 615 pp. Watker, E. M. 1958. The Odonata of Canada and Alaska. Vol. 2. The University of Toronto Press. Toronto. 318 pp. Ixxii| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 161 A New Species of Dennyus (Mallophaga: Meno- ponidae) from the White-Naped Swift * Rocer D. Price and JAMEs R. BErr, University of Minnesota A small series of Mallophaga was obtained by J. Stuart from the white-naped swift (Streptoprocne semicollaris (DeSaus- sure) ) collected on 20 July 1960 near Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. This swift is reported only from Mexico. The lice were sent to us for identification by C. Don MacNeill of the California Academy of Sciences and subsequently determined to be an undescribed species belonging to the genus Dennyus. The members of this genus have been recorded only from the swifts (Apodidae). Carriker (1954) and Emerson and Pratt (1956) have reviewed the status of the species reported from the Western Hemisphere. Dennyus semicollaris, n. sp. The chaetotaxy and structure of the female are shown in Fig. 1. The male resembles the female except for the terminal segments (see Fig. 2). D. semicollaris possesses a character- istically shaped prosternal plate (see Fig. 3) with 16 to 20 (for the 5 specimens—16, 18, 19, 20, 20) short thickened setae in the central area and 2 pairs of additional setae in the broad border. This combination of shape of the plate and the large number and types of setae set this species apart from all others described. In the head shape and chaetotaxy, D. semicollaris most closely resembles D. spininotus Carriker. However, the prosternal plate of the latter has only 11 stout setae in the central area and has a convex anterior margin and straight sides. In addition, the new species has a pair of distinct sternal plates on abdominal segments I-II. In shape this is similar to that found on D. rotundocapitis Carriker. Our specimens show this struc- ture as two distinctly separate plates; the illustrations of the other species invariably show this as a single plate fused at the mid-line. 1 Paper No. 4751, Scientific Journal Series, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Paul 1, Minnesota. 162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Fics. 1-4. Dennyus semicollaris, n. sp. 1. Dorsal-ventral view of allotype female. 2. Dorsal-ventral view of terminal segments of holo- type male. 3. Prosternal plate of allotype. 4. Genitalia of holotype. The male genitalia, with a unique formation at the distal end of the endomeral plate (see Fig. 4), is, as nearly as we know, different from all other known males of Dennyus with the excep- tion of D. major (Uchida) described from Hirundapus caudacu- tus (Latham) in Japan (Uchida, 1926). However, both sexes Ixxiii| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 of D. major show abdominal segment IX deeply indented into VIII, a condition completely lacking in D. semicollaris. Measurements (in mm) of D. semicollaris are as follows: 3 females—head length, 0.52, 0.52, 0.52; head width, 0.92, 0.92, 0.89; total body length, 3.33, 3.22, 3.17; 2 males—head length, 0.50, 0.50; head width, 0.85, 0.83; total body length, 2.71, 2.60. Type specimens: Holotype male, allotype female and one fe- male paratype deposited with the California Academy of Sci- ences, and one male and one female paratype in the collection of the University of Minnesota. LITERATURE CITED CarrikER, M. A. Jr. 1954. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 103: 533-549. Emerson, K. C. and H. D. Pratr. 1956. Jour. Kansas Ent. Soc. 29: 21-28. Ucuipa, S. 1926. Jour. Coll. Agric. Tokyo 9: 1-56. Obituary Dr. Eduard Handschin-Hofstetter, former director of the Zoological Museum in Basel, and professor emeritus in the University of Basel, died on the 23rd of January, 1962. Professor Handschin was recognized as one of the world’s foremost Entomologists. He was a member of the Permanent Committee of the International Congresses of Entomology. Professor Handschin was deeply interested in the Apterygota, and in the phylogenetic origin of the Insecta. Nomenclature Notice Proposed designation of a type species for Cyrnus Stephens, 1836 (Trichoptera). Z.N.(S.) 1491. See Bull. Zool. Nomencl. Vol. 19, Part 2.) Comments are to be sent, marked with the File Number, to Intern. Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, British Museum (N.H.), Cromwell Road, Lon- don, S.W. 7, England, before September 23rd. 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Neotype Designation for Melissodes leprieuri Blanchard (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)’ WALLACE E. LABERGE The type material of Melissodes lepriewri Blanchard, 1849, has been lost or destroyed according to the authorities of the Paris Museum (in litt.). While in Europe during the summer of 1957, the author was unable to locate any specimens in Euro- pean museums which might have been the type material. This species is important nomenclatorially, as it is the type species for the genus Melissodes. The author has recently completed a revision of this genus in North and Central America (LaBerge, 1956, 1956a, 1961). It seems reasonable, therefore, to designate a neotype for M. leprieuri at this time. Blanchard (1849, p. 216, plate 128 bis, fig. 4) did not pro- vide a detailed description of M. leprieuri, nor did he give a locality other than America. His figure of this species indicates a male specimen of an entirely black species. To the author’s knowledge, only one such species exists in this genus and that is a Cuban species, Melissodes maura Cresson (1865, p. 188). Cresson’s holotype of maura is a female. In order to make the probable synonymy objective, the female holotype of Melissodes maura Cresson is hereby designated as the neotype of Melissodes leprieurt Blanchard. This neotype is in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Adequate de- scriptions of this specimen can be found in Cresson (1865, p. 188) and LaBerge (1956, p. 1111). REFERENCES BLANCHARD, C. E., 1948, in Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D., Le Régne Animal dis- tribué d’aprés son organisation. “Disciples” edition, Paris, Masson. Insectes 2: 443; atlas vol. 2. Cresson, E. T., 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia 4: 1-242. 1 Contribution No. 208 of the Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Ixxi| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 LaBerce, W. E., 1956, 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melis- sodes in North and Central America (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Part I (1956). Univ. of Kansas Sci. Bul. 37: 911-1194. Part II (1956) Ibid. 38: 533-578. Part III (1961) Ibid. 42: 283-663. Review How to Know THE ButTtTerFiies. Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. 1961. Wm. C. Brown Co., 135 South Locust St., Dubuque, Iowa. [5] + 262 p., 525 fig. (Spiral-bound, $2.75; cloth-bound, $3.25.) Consisting primarily of illustrated original keys to the families, subfamilies, genera, and species of true butterflies occurring in North America north of Mexico, this book provides the first comprehensive and scientific treatment of our entire papilionoid fauna. Nearly all species are shown—usually in either dorsal or ventral view—in A. H. Ehrlich’s pen and ink drawings, which capture subtleties of facies with black and white to a remarkable degree. Many of the individual species accounts briefly sum- marize information on geographic distribution, larval foodplants, and adult flight periods; and, preceding the keys and inter- spersed accounts of keyed taxa, there is a series of discussions that usefully survey major features of morphology, life history, classification, collection, preservation, and study of butterflies. But this compact book is more than a handy synopsis of famil- iar data. The availability to its authors of a manuscript of dos Passos’ as yet unpublished butterfly check list (not rigidly followed) has promoted nomenclatural reform. And eight spe- cialists have contributed sections, some of which contain striking conclusions—involving especially the recognition and description of new genera and subgenera, as well as the redefinition of certain old ones—that reflect revised understanding of relation- ships among various of our most difficult groups. Of the col- laborators, D. L. Bauer has handled the tribe Melitaeini (and proposed the new genus Poladryas); H. K. Clench, both the tribes Theclini (new genera: Chlorostrymon, Phaeostrymon, 166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, 1962 Ministrymon, Euristrymon, Hypostrymon, Electrostrymon; new subgenera: Xamia, Cyanophrys) and Lycaenini; C. F. dos Passos, Oeneis and, in conjunction with P. R. Ehrlich, Poly- gonia; J. C. Downey, Plebejus and Philotes; L. P. Grey, Speyeria; A. B. Klots, Colias and Boloria; W. S. McAlpine, Calephelis; and K. H. Wilson, family Papilionidae. Of par- ticular importance is the emphasis often placed on morphological characters that, though less easy to study than wing facies, are far more informative and reliable in determining and relating many species. The overall excellence of the book is slightly marred by a number of errors and by appreciably uneven handling that dif- ferent groups receive, not only because some are better known than others, but also because authorship, as noted above, varies. The characters given for distinguishing butterflies, skippers, and moths are not altogether trustworthy, the statement that adult skippers, “usually rest with wings held vertically over back,” being particularly untenable. The otherwise fine introductory discussions include an unsatisfactory one on life zones (p. 25- 27): many of the butterflies listed here are not valid indicator species of the zones to which they are assigned but instead are typically distributed in two to as many as five zones. Especially misleading are the ascription of Anthocaris sara to the Canadian Zone ; Lycaena helloides and Plebejus acmon to the Transition ; Anthocaris genutia and Euptychia cymela to the Upper Austral ; Atlides halesus and Calycopis cecrops to the Lower Austral; and Apodemia mormo and Callophrys siva to the Upper Sonoran. For the most part, identification keys are clear, accurate, and well-designed ; but occasional flaws are detectable; and much of the key to Polygonia is seriously inadequate. In the species accounts, the ranges stated are sometimes vague, incomplete, or exaggerated. For example, significant portions of the ranges of the Californian species Anthocarts lanceolata and Satyrium auretorum are lacking; and the entire western half of the extremely broad United States distribution of Hemiargus ceraunus is overlooked. Very rarely, figured specimens (the geographic origin of which is given when known) fall outside Ixxi| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 167 the range described in the accompanying text—a situation indi- cating that the stated range is deficient or that the specimen drawn is misdetermined or mislabeled (see Chlosyne janais, p. 139, and Phyciodes barnesi, p. 144). Foodplant data are not always critically treated. To mention but one case, virtually half of the foodplants attributed to Papilio eurymedon and P. rutulus (see p. 40-41) should not be so regarded, their status as such having previously been shown by L. P. Brower (Lepid. News 12: 103-114) to stem from undocumented records. Nor are flight period data, when offered, wholly acceptable. Finally, the proportion of typographical errors in the book is annoyingly high; but, fortunately, few of them can cause significant con- fusion. It must be stressed, however, that factual errors of the sort cited above are, on the whole, minor and infrequent and that they are greatly outweighed by the accuracy and terseness of the bulk of the material. Never has so much vital information on our butterflies been condensed in so small a volume. The result is both a good summary and an important stimulus to further work on North American butterflies. Despite (and because of) their popularity, our butterflies are still rather poorly understood ; but this book takes a long stride in advancing our knowledge of these animals and is indispensable to anyone with a biological interest in them—as well as to the butterfly collector. Surprisingly enough, the cost of this lepidopterological work is inversely pro- portional to its high value. Joun M. Burns Dept. of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 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Male.—Front at vertex 0.18 of head width, diverging rapidly forward to antennal base; sides of front and face including cheeks gray pollinose on black ground color; frontalia deep brownish to black, wider than parafrontal on upper half; ocellar bristles weak, slightly reclinate; inner verticals distinct but not very large; frontals in a single row extending one bristle below antennal base; antenna black, reaching to lower third of face, apical segment subovate, barely exceeding length of second; black, bare arista slightly thickened near base thence fine or delicate to tip; clypeus but little depressed, epistoma gently bowed forward; vibrissae well separated near level of oral mar- gin; facialia bearing a few setae at lower extremity, parafacialia bare, little narrowed downward; large bare eye reaching below vibrissae level; palpus black with swollen tip; cheek largely ven- tral and sublinear in profile; proboscis rather slender but well under head height; shiny black occiput flat above neck and 1 Contribution No. 3998, Department of Entomology, Texas Agricul- tural Experiment Station. (169) $\) T ONIAN TH 7 1062 INSTITUTION “~~ 170 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [| July, 1962 slightly swollen below, sparsely clothed with mostly short black hairs. Thorax and scutellum shiny black, entire upper surface prui- nose in favorable view with two poorly defined vittae before suture, none behind. Chaetotaxy: Acrostichal 0 or 1, 0; dorso- central 2, 3; intraalar 2; supraalar 3 (only middle one large) ; notopleural 2; presutural 1 (outer) ; humeral 2-3; sternopleural 3; pteropleural 1 (small) ; scutellum with 2 lateral, and 1 good- sized decussate apical pair, no differentiated discals. Legs sub- shiny black, weakly bristled; mid tibia with two weak antero- dorsal bristles; claws and pulvilli subequal last tarsal segment. Wing with a light uniform tawny tinge on costal half and becoming grayish hyaline behind; first posterior cell barely closed at costa a little before wing tip; cubitulus obtusely rounded, without stump or fold; third vein bearing one short seta near base; no costal spine; calypters semitransparent white. Abdomen black, narrower and longer than thorax, first seg- ment fully as long as each of following three, which are gray pollinose above on basal half or more, with hairs on upper sur- face erect but short; one pair of median marginal bristles on segments one and two, a complete marginal row on last two segments, no discals; genitalia caudoventral, first segment pol- ished and slightly elongated, second globose, forceps slender, bearing a pair of broad-tipped appendages near base behind as in curialis (Ent. News 69: 236). Female unknown. Length, 4.5-5 mm. Holotype: Canelo, Arizona, July 20, 1958 (M. Adachi). Paratype: 1 male, same data as type. Archytas russatus, n. sp. In Curran’s key traces to A. nivalis Cn., from which it is immediately distinguished by the predominantly red translucent abdomen. Male.—Head pollen subsilvery on pale ground color becoming slightly yellowish on parafrontal, which bears intermixed black and pale hairs on upper part but only pale ones below middle ; parafacial and cheek pale-haired, latter one-third eye length; vertex 0.34 of head width; frontals in two irregular rows on Ixxi| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 171 each side of pale yellow frontalia; ocellars absent; two pairs of strong verticals, inner decussate; antenna red, third segment black on dorsal half or more; arista black, proximal segment usually well under one-half length of third; palpus yellow, beset on upper margin from base to widened tip with short black spinose hairs; proboscis subequal to head height; occiput pale pollinose, with a dense ruff of pale pile. Thorax black dusted with yellowish gray pollen, dorsal vittae narrow, interrupted at suture; disc of prescutum clothed with pale and black hairs; acrostichals normally 3-4; dorsocentrals 4, 4; sternopleurals 2, 3; pteropleurals 2 (equal sternopleurals in size); scutellum reddish yellow, with 4 lateral, 1 decussate apical, 1 short spine-like preapical and 2 appressed but well differentiated discal pairs in a transverse row behind middle; propleuron and propleura wholly pale pilose. Legs black, strongly bristled, claws and pulvilli elongate. Wing gray hya- line becoming opaque yellow on narrow basal margin; calypters white with rims deep yellow to golden. Abdomen reddish but usually marked above with a narrow dark median vitta, surface mostly shiny except narrow basal margin of second segment and basal half or more of last dusted with whitish pollen; one pair of median marginal bristles on segment two, a marginal row on three and four besides two irregular rows of discals on last; fused genital forceps broad and deeply concave behind, with narrow free part slightly re- curved and notched at apex; accessory process divided apically into two apical arms, anterior one slender and bowed inward near tip, posterior arm simple, a little shorter and considerably stouter ; penis geniculate near basal third, apical segment widened distally to apex which bears a reflexed pale membranous border ; lobes of fifth sternite but slightly widened on inner apical margin. Female——Front at vertex 0.35 of head width; parafrontal yellow pollinose ; two proclinate and two reclinate orbital bristles all stout; cheek one-half or more eye length; abdomen darker, claws and pulvilli shorter than in male. Length, 11-12. Holotype male and allotype female, Cuernavaca, Mor. Mex- 1co; March 3-5, 1959, 5500-6000 ft (H. E. Evans & D. M. 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [| July, 1962 Anderson) in Cornell University Collection. Paratypes: 2 males and 2 females, same locality as type, dated March 3-10, 1959 (H. E. Evans) ; 1 male, Chilpancingo, Guer. Mexico, 4400 ft, March 19, 1959 (H. E. Evans) ; and 1 female, Rio Tehuan- tepec, Oxa, Mexico, September 6, 1947 (F. A. Cowan & M. R. Wheeler. PLAGIOSIPPUS, n. gen. Differs from Dichocera in the longer front, simple male an- tennae, parafacial haired to lower extremity, abdomen with dis- cals on intermediate segments, etc. Head wider than high, frontal profile subequal to gently receding facial, vibrissal axis four-fifths antennal which is near eye middle; clypeus moderately depressed, epistoma nearly full width of same and somewhat produced; vibrissae strong and decussate, on oral margin; facialia divergent and flattened down- ward, bearing three to five bristly hairs on lower extremity ; haustellum stout, shorter than palpi; frontal bristles in a single row extending uninterruptedly on parafacial to or below mid face level; male without orbitals, weak proclinate ocellars in both sexes; first antennal segment erect and nearly one-half length of second, third concave on front margin and in profile with broad truncate apex obtusely angulate on anterior extrem- ity; arista bare, geniculate, proximal segment short; eye mod- erately pilose; cheek with a vestiture of fine to coarse bristly hairs, nearly one-half eye length; occiput gently convex. Tho- racic chaetotaxy: acrostichal 3, 3; dorsocentral 3, 3; intraalar 3; supraalar 3; humeral 4-5; presutural 2 (inner one weak) ; sternopleural 3; pteropleural 1 (larger than sternopleural) ; scutellum with 3 long lateral, 1 smaller decussate apical and 1 discal pair; propleuron bare; prosternum and postnotal slope setose. Legs stoutish, claws and pulvilli short, female front tarsi noticeably flattened and widened. Wing normal in size, third vein with 4 or 5 bristly hairs near base; cubitulus rounded rectangularly, without stump or fold; first posterior cell open well before wing tip. Abdomen ovate, segment two with one median marginal and two or three pairs of discals but only one Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 173 discal pair besides a marginal row on segment three, a marginal and discal row on segment four; sternites narrowly exposed in both sexes. Type: Plagiosippus invasor, n. sp. Plagiosippus invasor, n. sp. Male.—Front at vertex 0.27 of head width but widening rap- idly downward into facial angle; parafrontal blackish with thin gray lusterless pollen visible in favorable light, moderately clothed with black hairs which extend downard on full length of parafacial; latter with heavier grayish pollen on dark back- ground; six frontal bristles below antennal base, reaching well below mid face level; cheek groove red; frontalia brown, nar- rowed upwards from antennal base and well under parafrontal width; antenna black, second segment somewhat rufous, about one-third length of third; arista black, thickened beyond middle, second segment hardly over twice as long as wide; palpus yellow, with numerous black hairs on apical half; cheek and occiput dusted with bluish gray pollen and latter clothed with a dense ruff of whitish pile. Thorax black scutellum red, dusted with gray pollen; meso- notum marked with four velvety black vittae before suture and five behind, of latter only the median one attains scutellar base ; calypters opaque white. Legs subshiny black, femora moder- ately thickened; mid tibia with three stoutish anterodorsal bris- tles. Wing slightly infuscated costobasally and along two apical cross veins besides a very distinct brown macula over small cross vein ; costal spine vestigial; epaulet and subepaulet black. Abdomen black, last three segments entirely pollinose above, viewed from behind the pollen is distinctly tawny on the two apical segments but more grayish to white on preceding one; genital segments black, beset with spiny bristles; forceps fused beaklike, gently bowed and sharp-tipped in profile; accessory process shiny red, broad convex base suddenly reduced near middle to a narrow lobe tapering to a rounded apex. Female.—Front at vertex 0.30 of head width; outer verticals and two strong proclinate orbitals present; third antennal seg- 174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | July, 1962 ment slender, evenly rounded on apex; arista thickened about to middle; four to five frontal bristles below antennal base with lowermost about at mid face level; parafrontal pollen largely ob- scuring dark background; tarsal claws small; genitalia retracted. Length, 7.5-9 mm. Holotype: Male, Miller's Cyn. 4 mi. W. Knicksville, Cochise Co., Ariz., X-18-1956, J. W. MacSwain. Allotype female, Mt. Home Cn. San Bdno. Co., Calif., IX—20-1922, F. R. Cole. Xanthocera lucentis, n. sp. A small shining blue-black fly, which differs widely from the type species, X. clistoides Townsend, in having the thorax and abdomen entirely devoid of pollen. Female.—Parafrontal, cheek and occiput shining black; face gray pollinose; frontals in a single row descending to base of antenna; verticals two pairs, inner decussate; two pairs of pro- clinate orbitals and good-sized ocellars; front at vertex 0.27 of head width, diverging evenly into facial angle; antenna reddish yellow, reaching lower fourth of face, third segment about two and one-half times length of second; bare arista concolorous with antennae, moderately thick and tapering to middle, second seg- ment slightly under twice longer than wide; bare parafacial almost equal clypeal width; facialia bare; vibrissae on oral margin; palpus yellow; haustellum short; eye sparsely short- haired; cheek one-third eye length, beset with coarse black hairs which extend on occiput. Thoracic chaetotaxy: acrostichal, 2, 3; dorsocentral 3, 3; intraalar 3; supraalar 3; presutural 1 (outer); notopleural 2; humeral 4; sternopleural 2; pteropleural 1 (as large as sterno- pleural) ; scutellum shining black, with 3 lateral, 0 apical and 1 discal pair. Wing hyaline with a slight vellowish tinge be- coming grayer on hind margin, veins including costa pale yel- low; third vein with two small setae near base; first posterior cell open at wing tip; hind cross vein a little over its length from cubitulus, latter broadly rounded without appendage ; costal spine minute ; epaulet reddish; calypters transparent, pale tawny. Coxae and femora shiny black, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow ; mid Ixxiii| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Li5 tibia with two stout anterodorsal bristles; claws and _ pulvilli short. Abdomen broadly ovate, one median marginal on first two and marginal row on last two segments, one discal on inter- mediate segments, a discal and submarginal row on anal seg- ment; sternites exposed; genitalia retracted, not adapted for piercing. Male unknown. Length, 5.5 tam: Liolotypes Cranberry Lk Na Y., July 0, 1951, 1. 2 Pechuman. PSEUDOLOMYIA, n. gen. A robust species with the habitus of Orasturmia Reinhard, but the clypeus more deeply sunk, facialia strongly bristled to middle or above; vibrissae larger and decussate; antennal axis higher above eye middle; etc. Head but little wider than high, frontal profile shorter than moderately receding facial, vibrissal axis two-thirds length of antennal; full width epistoma moderately warped from clypeal plane; vibrissae on oral margin; frontals in a single closely set row extending from level with base of third antennal segment to upper third of front, one reclinate stoutish prevertical and one stronger reclinate inner vertical; ocellars proclinate, weak to vestigial: parafacial bare; antenna subequal length of face; arista practically bare, proximal segments short; eye large reaching below vibrissal level, thickly short-haired; cheek nar- row in profile about one-ninth eye length; proboscis under one- half head height, labella large and fleshy; palpus stoutish and slightly bowed upward from base to tip; occiput flat to gently convex below neck: Thoracic chaetotaxy; acrostichal 3, 3; dorsocentral 3, 4; intraalar 3; supraalar 3; intrapostalar strong ; presutural 1 (outer) ; notopleural 2; posthumeral 3; humeral 5; pteropleural 3-4 (differentiated in hair cluster) ; sternopleural 2, 1 (only hindmost strong); scutellum with 3 strong lateral, 1 good-sized decussate apical and 1 appressed but well differ- entiated discal pair; postnotal slope and propleuron bare; pro- sternum setose. Legs moderately long and slender, hind tibiae evenly ciliated. Wing clear, first posterior cell open well before 176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | July, 1962 wing tip; third vein setose near base; costal spine not developed. Abdomen obovate, as wide as thorax and clothed with a dense vestiture of short appressed hairs ; third segment with a marginal row of rather short stoutish bristles and anal segment with entire upper surface bearing weaker erect bristles without a differentiated marginal row. Type: Pseudolomyia scissilis, n. sp. Pseudolomyia scissilis, n. sp. Male.—Head densely gray pollinose with black ground color apparent on cheek and on front before vertex, latter 0.21 of head width; parafrontal with a uniform vestiture of fine short black hairs extending on parafacial to aristal level or lower; frontalia velvety brown, exceeding parafrontal width except at anterior extremity; antenna mostly black, third segment three times length of second, apex of latter and base of third on inner side reddish; arista brownish on slightly thickened basal half, thence tapered to a delicate tip; parafacial below subequal to width of third antennal segment; facialia bearing a row of equistrong infraclinate bristles to mid face level or above besides a row of hairs outside and ascending higher up than main bristle row; palpus yellow; back of head densely pale pilose. Thorax black dusted with gray pollen marked with three broad shiny black uninterrupted vittae reaching to scutellar base and a well defined but much narrower or almost linelike one between the latter stopping far before scutellum; latter reddish, surface moderately shining above but distinctly pruinose in a flat rear view. Wing gray hyaline; cubitulus obtusely rounded, about length of small cross vein from hind margin; hind and apical cross veins oblique and in same plane; calypters longer than wide, opaque white with a slight yellow tinge. Legs wholly black, mid tibia with three anterodorsal bristles; claws and pulvilli subequal length of last two tarsal segments. Abdomen black sides reddish with grayish pollen above which in rear view appears thinner along median line and laterally on a large triangular area extending forward from hind margin of each intermediate segment ; anal segment shorter than preceding [xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Le and more heavily pollinose; hypopygium small, caudoventral ; genital forceps fused, extreme apex suddenly reduced to an acute curved hook; accessory process red, stouter and slightly longer than forceps in profile; penis short, widened to apex which bears a pale membranous lobe on posterior extremity ; venter without any modified vestiture on apical segments. Female not known. Length, 12-13 mm. Holotype: Amherst, Onto, Jul—Aug. 1958 (H. J. Reinhard). Paratypes: 1 male, San Antonio, Texas, July 19, 1924 (H. B. Parks) ; and 1 male, Chiricauhua Mts., Arizona, September 6, 1958, no collector’s label. Mimologus emulatus, n. sp. Differs from the type species, M. effectus Reinhard, in the following characters among others: body build smaller; para- facial vestiture restricted to outer margin of lower third; four lateral scutellars ; proximal abdominal segments without median marginals. Male.—Front at vertex 0.22 of head width, equibroad about to middle thence widening evenly into facial angle; head pollen gray with a slight yellowish cast on parafrontal which bears a vestiture of erect fine black hairs; deep brown frontalia subequal parafrontal width; frontal bristles in a single row, three beneath antennal base; inner verticals and ocellars broken off but scars indicating good-sized bristles; antenna black, third segment nearly two and one-half times second; black bare arista only slightly thickened on basal fourth; clypeus well depressed, epistoma warped and moderately prominent; vibrissae not far above oral margin ; facialia weakly bristled on lower third ; cheek clothed with fine black hairs, one-fifth of eye length; thick haus- tellum barely exceeding length of enlarged labella; palpus red infuscated basally, bearing black hairs on upturned apical half; occiput densely pale-haired. Thorax black gray pollinose, notum marked with four narrow but well defined black vittae, scutellum largely reddish. Chae- totaxy: acrostichal 3, 3; dorsocentral 3, 4; presutural 2; intra- 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 1962 alar 3; supraalar 3; sternopleural 2, 2; pteropleural 1 (weak) ; scutellum with 4 lateral, 1 discal and 1 weaker short decussate apical pair. Wing clear, first posterior cell open well before tip ; third vein with three setae near base ; costal spine vestigial ; calypters opaque, whitish yellow. Legs subshiny black, hind tibia ciliate on outer posterior side; mid tibia with two antero- dorsal bristles; claws and pulvilli elongated. Abdomen shining black with side of second and third seg- ments obscurely reddish, latter including anal segment gray pollinose above on basal third to half at sides; segments three and four with a marginal row of bristles besides several irregular rows of discals on last ; shiny black genital forceps rather slender terminating in a moderately flattened divided apex; accessory process reddish, a trifle shorter but distinctly wider than forceps in profile and bearing a vestiture of short black hairs on outer side of apical third or more. Female——Front at vertex 0.21 of head width; parafrontals yellowish gray; two verticals and proclinate orbitals ; claws and pulvilli short ; intermediate abdominal segments more distinctly reddish in ground color, otherwise shining black and _pollinose as in male. Length, 8-9 mm. Holotype female and allotype male, “10 mi. E. Navajoa, Son., Mex., VIII-13-59, W L Nutting & F G Werner.” Books Received Frercuson, W. E.—Biological characteristics of the mutillid subgenus Photopsis Blake and their systematic value (Hymenop- tera). University of California Publications in Entomology, Vol. 27 (1) : 1-92, 7 pls., 2 figs. Univ. of Gal. Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962. Price: paper, $2.00. Linsey, E. G—The Cerambycidae of North America. Part II, Paradrinae, Prioninae, Spondylinae, Aseminae. [bidem, Vol. 19, 102 pages, 1962. Price: paper, $2.50. Part III, Ceram- bycinae, Tribes Opsimimi through Megaderini. Jbidem, Vol. 20, 188 pages, 1962. Price: paper, $3.50. Ixxiit | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 179 A New Interpretation of some Troublesome Dignathodontid Species and Genera ' (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) R. E. Crapiii, Jr., U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. In 1954, R. V. Chamberlin presented a redescription of what he took to be Tomotaenia parviceps (Wood), 1862. As junior synonyms he listed the following: Strigamia epileptica Wood, 1862; Scolioplanes imperialis Broelemann, 1896; Linotania ru- belliana Chamberlin, 1904; Paraplanes californicus Verhoeff, 1938. His redescription was based upon the holotype of Wood’s epileptica and upon non-typical Californian material. In fact, the giant red polypod Tomotaenia to which he re- fers is actually reducible to two forms that are very similar but presumably different species. The most obvious character distinguishing the two is the condition of the ultimate pedal pretergite. In one form it is bilaterally fissate; the pleurites are separated from the pretergite by deep fissures. In the other form the pleurites are wholly fused with the pretergite, and there is no trace of fissures on each side. His study of the epileptica holotype showed that its ultimate pretergite is not fissate. But since the holotype of parviceps cannot be found, and since its original description gives no clue to the condition of this critical character, he could only have guessed that it is conspecific with epileptica and the others. I believe, therefore, that synonymizing parviceps with epileptica and the other spe- cies, and ascribing the non-fissate condition to parviceps, are untenable. Accordingly, I propose that parviceps be set aside as a species inquirenda within Tomotaenia, and that those spe- cies with non-fissate ultimate pretergites be referred to the next oldest appropriate synonym, efpileptica. Broelemann’s tmperialis and Chamberlin’s rubelliana must also be considered inqui- 1 Undertaken with the aid of a grant from the National Science Foun- dation. I should like to express my profound gratitude to the following gentlemen whose aid and unstinting hospitality have made this study pos- sible: Dr. Wolfgang Engelhardt, Dr. Egon Popp, Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich; Dr. Gerhard Pretzmann, Naturhis- torisches Museum, Vienna. 180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | July, 1962 rendae, but, as we shall see, Verhoeff’s californicus, as a junior synonym of an older name, can be referred to the sibling, fissate species. The oldest species of Tomotaenia with a fissate ultimate pre- tergite is Diplochora fusata Attems, 1903. When Attems pro- posed Diplochora for this single Mexican species, his major diagnostic generic character was its supposed labral state of atrophy (see Attems, 1903, pp. 215, 281). On page 281 Attems described the labrum as follows: “Oberlippe verktmmert, be- sonders der Mitteltheil . . . ,” and further: “Die Oberlippe ist sehr rudimentar, in der Mitte ist von ihr nichts deutlich zu sehen... .” In 1929, p. 219, he went even further and stated that the labral midpiece was absent, or, p .229, “ganz reduziert.” Again, this was his chief generic diagnostic distinction separat- ing Diplochora from the other dignathodontid genera. When I examined the holotype of fusata in Vienna in 1960, I found it to be a Tomotaenia identical with the California spe- cies having a fissate ultimate pretergite. The allegedly atrophied labral midpiece is easily explained. That structure, which is normally extremely delicate and weakly sclerotized in any case, in Attems’ holotype obviously had been largely destroyed, ac- tually dissolved, by prolonged treatment in potassium hydroxide. Despite its extremely poor condition, the vestiges of the holo- type’s labral midpiece are still clearly discernible. As I have noted, in all other respects the Attems specimen is identical with the fissate Californian material that I have studied. It is also possible at this time to clarify the identity and allo- cation of Paraplanes californicus Verhoeff, 1938.2 In 1960 and 1961 I studied the two syntypes at Munich. Both are clearly conspecific with the holotype of fusata and with the other fissate Californian specimens that I have examined. One syntype is a male with 61 pairs of legs and is about 64 mm long. The other, a female, has 71 pairs of legs and is about 72 mm long. The female is here selected as the lectotype. I have labelled the Munich specimens accordingly. 2 The species was described as new in two different articles in 1938: Zoologischer Anzeiger, issued June 15th; Zoologische Jahrbiicher, issued December 12th. Thus the former must be considered to be the organ of original publication. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 181 Finally, I believe it is also possible now to make a disposition of the name Paraplanes, which Verhoeff proposed in 1933, p. 22, for the reception of a single species, svenhedini, from China. Unfortunately, the holotype is not in the Verhoeff Collection at Munich. According to the authorities there, it may well have been lost during the war. However, two kinds of evidence strongly suggest it to be referable to Cook’s Tomotaenia. First, the original description of svenhedini is very clearly suggestive of the Cook genus. Although Verhoeff neglected to mention in the original description whether the ultimate pedal pretergite was fissate or not, in 1938, p. 372, he did state that it is. Sec- ondly, I have studied fissate Chinese specimens that are surely referable to Tomotaenia and, if they are not conspecific with svenhedini, then they are very closely similar to it. Provi- sionally we may synonymize.Paraplanes beneath Tomotaenia. The foregoing is summarized by the following conspectus. Species inquirendae: Striganua parviceps Wood, 1862, p. 49. Scolioplanes imperialis Broelemann, 1896, p. 60. Linotaenia rubelliana Chamberlin, 1904, p. 56. Tomotaenia Cook, 1895. Type Species: Strigamia parviceps Wood, 1862 [= Tomo- taenia parviceps (Wood) ]|. (By original designation. ) Paraplanes Verhoeff, 1933. (= Tomotaenia, New Synon- yimy. ) Type Species: Paraplanes svenhedini Verhoeff, 1933 [= To- motaenia svenhedini (Verhoeff) |). (Monobasic. ) Diplochora Attems, 1903. (= Tomotaenia, New Synon- ymy.) ® Type Species: Diplochora fusata Attems, 1903 [= Tomo- taenia fusata (Attems)]. (Monobasic.) Tomotaenia epileptica (Wood, 1862. (New Combination.) Strigamia epileptica Wood, 1862, p. 49. (Ultimate preter- gite non-fissate. ) 3 Should a subgeneric arrangement be desirable, the non-fissate species would be referable to the nominate generic name, whereas the fissate species would take Diplochora as their subgeneric designation. 182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 1962 Tomotaenia fusata (Attems), 1903. (New Combination. ) Diplochora fusata Attems, 1903, p. 281. (Ultimate pretergite fissate. ) Paraplanes californicus Verhoeff, 1938, p. 283. Following is a description of Tomotaenia fusata. It is based upon the 17 specimens that I have examined. All available locality data are given in the underlying list. All but the Attems and Verhoeff types are in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. Mexico: Ventanas (holotype of fusata). Baja California, station 1, “about 4 miles down,” I.1.25, A. D. Harvey. CALiFoRNIA. Berkeley (types of californicus). South of Pascedera, II.29.1929, O. F. Cook. Menlo Park, Dr. Horning. Berkeley, 11.28.1958, R. V. Williams. Santa Cruz, La Playa Canyon, IV.1913. Pala and Temecula, II.12.1929. Fallbrook, 1.1925, O. F. Cook. Vista, 11.12.1929. South side of Fremont Pass, I1,28:1929; ©. F. (Cook: San Mateo County, UIT 1933: P. C. Time; Tomotaenia fusata (Attems). (Composite Description.) CoLtecTion Data. Holotype in the Attems Collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna; mouthparts and head on microscopic slide, remainder of specimen in alcohol. Collected at Ventanas in western Mexico by Rorrer, March 3, 1883. GENERAL. Length: Females (7), 44-75 mm; Males (10), 37-64 mm. Pedal Segments: Females, 71 = 3, 73 = 3, /5=1; Males,..65:= 1,67 = 2) 60= 407) = 2.7 3—a) o UG0lor Ss a doubtedly badly faded in all specimens seen. In very old speci- mens dorsum varying from deep sordid brown to very pale yellow. In fresher material dorsum and head brownish-red to sordid orange-red; with numerous tiny white dots, each pierced by a setal alveolus; legs yellowish to white; sternites white or nearly white, thereby contrasting markedly with deeply pig- mented dorsum. Shape: Approximately the anterior third of the body gradually (not abruptly) attenuate anteriorly; rear of body very slightly attenuate. ANTENNAE. Filiform. Setae all [xxii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 183 very short; gradually increasing in number distally from second article. Ultimate article: About a third longer than the penult; on ectal surface with a small elongate patch of very short, hya- line, inflated setae. CepHALIC PLate. Dorsally prominently domed; slightly longer than wide; laterally gently excurved, rear margin evenly rounded, anteriorly slightly rostrate. Fron- tal suture prominent and evenly curved. Prebasal plate exposed in most specimens ; very narrow antero-posteriorly, divided into right and left halves. Crypeus. Paraclypeal sutures extremely vague in a few specimens and not discernible in most. Cen- trally with two shallowly areolate, pigmented, alate areas (pla- gulae), these separated by a long midlongitudinal strip of coarser areolation the area surrounding the alate areas is color- less, coarsely, irregularly, finely areolate. Setae: Postantennals, 4; midclypeals (between the alate areas), 2, one behind the other; no prelabrals. Just posterior to postantennal setae a wide procurved fold (or suture?). LasBrum. Midpiece: Wide and deep; manifest as a partially amalgamated group of color- less, irregular, flabby, “teeth” or serratures. Sidepieces: De- generate, thin, short; colorless or weakly pigmented. Each fultura (komendibulares Gerust) essentially T-shaped and well- pigmented. EpipHARYNx. Conspicuously divided into deeply pigmented right and left sides, these separated by a U-shaped hyaline area. Each sidepiece shallowly areolate, not minutely scaly. Central part with numerous hyaline, short, scabriform papillae. Preoral sensilla in number 6-7, arranged in various patterns. First MAXILLAE. Coxosternal lappets absent. Me- dial lobes very indistinctly separated from coxosternum. Each telopodite with a short, broad, wholly or largely concealed lappet. SECOND MAXILLAE. Isthmus undivided ; wide from side to side; very narrow antero-posteriorly. Telopodite: First article with distinct dorsal and ventral condyles basally; terminal claw of ultimate article basally broad, relatively short, about half as long as its article. PRosteERNUM. With prominent white maculae. Antero-centrally with a large, bilobed white area, the surround- ing pigmentation dark and essentially matching that of cephalic plate. PREHENSORIAL TELOpopITE. Tarsungula: In cross- 184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [| July, 1962 section not extremely flattened or blade-like; basal denticle massive, essentially thumb-shaped. Tibioid without a denticle but its entirely mesal surface swollen and produced. Poison calyx always massive and much longer than wide; poison gland extending posteriorly beyond limit of telopodite and into pre- hensorial somite. TERGITES. Surface roughened, not bisulcate. Setate very sparse and short. STIGMOPLEURITES. Anterior to each spiracle usually 2 setae; these frequently broken off but their positions shown by their alveoli. Leas. Setae very short and sparse. Pretarsi: The anterior parungues about a fifth as long as the ungues and slightly more robust and longer than the posterior parungues. STERNITES. Setae very spare, extremely short. Each deeply midlongitudinally grooved, the groove nar- rowly dividing the posterior porefields. Each sternite with two posterior porefields ; these very narrowly separated on the more anterior sternites, but more widely separated on rear of body; pores very numerous and tiny; porefields present on sternites 1 through the penultimate. Anterior lateral porefields absent ; in their positions 1 to about 4 minute, obscure pores. Subcoxal porefields present and conspicuous on somites 1 through the penultimate. ULTIMATE PEDAL SEGMENT. Pretergite bilater- ally fissate, thus separated by deep fissures from its pleurites. Tergite much wider than long; sides slightly excurved and con- vergent posteriorly ; rear margin broadly rounded. Presternite broadly membranous centrally and so apparently divided into EXPLANATION OF FIGURES Tomotaenia fusata (Attems). Adult female (not a type) from Berke- ley, California. 1. First maxillary telopodite and medial lobe, left. Membranous areas stippled; setal alveoli shown; lappet concealed behind basal article of telopodite. 2. Sternite from anterior third of body. Principal setae shown. 3. Ultimate pedal sternite and left coxopleuron. Setae deleted; fleshy membranous outgrowth shown stippled bordering sternite. . Right prehensor. Setae deleted; poison calyx stippled; outline of poison gland shown in dashes. . Labrum and epipharynx. a= fleshy, membranous teeth of midpiece. b= right labral sidepiece. c=right plate of epipharynx. d= cen- tral portion of epiharynx. e= one of the preoral sensilla. > mn Ixxill | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 185 186 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 1962 right and left halves. Sternite: Midlongitudinally grooved, this groove deeper in larger specimens. Greatest width far exceed- ing length. Sides nearly straight to greatly excurved, always strongly convergent posteriorly ; rear margin essentially straight to prominently incurved or embayed, depending upon sex and degree of telescoping of postpedal segments. In most speci- mens (and always in the largest ones) the sternite bordered on each side by a hyaline, membranous or fleshy excresence, an outgrowth apparently originating from beneath the sternite. Coxopleuron: Moderately inflated. Its ventral surface in males (not females) densely clothed with minute setae. Pores always restricted to the area along and beneath the sternite; in younger specimens these pores partly or entirely concealed in a fossa; in older specimens pores are largely exposed in their uncovered fossae, the fossae varying greatly in depth, in some specimens the fossae essentially obliterated. Male ultimate leg: In younger specimens only slightly inflated and with few ventral setae; in the largest males the legs enormously swollen and markedly flat- tened, ventrally densely clothed with minute setae. Female ulti- mate leg: In all only slightly longer and more robust than the penult legs; ventrally without dense vestiture of minute setae. The pretarsal claw is as long as that of penult legs (whereas in mature males it is fully formed but minute). POSTPEDAL SEG- MENTS. Anal pores large, lateral. Male gonopods distinctly bipartite. Female gonopods unipartite, conspicuously flattened, joined medially. REFERENCES AtteMs, C. GRAF. 1903. Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 18(2): 155-302. 1929. Das Tierreich, Lief. 52: 1-388. BrRoELEMANN, H. 1896. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 65: 43-70. CHAMBERLIN, R. V. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 56: 651-657. 1954. Ent. News 65(5): 117-122. Cook, O. F. 1895. Amer. Nat. 29: 864-866. VerHoeFF, K. W. 1933. Arkiv f. Zool. 26A(10): 1-41. 1938. Zool. Anz. 122(11/12): 273-284. 1938. Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 71(4/6): 339-388. Woop, H. C. 1862. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (2)5: 1-51. Ixx111 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 187 A Remarkable Anophthalmic Immigrant to North America: Anommatus duodecimstriatus Miiller (Coleoptera: Colydiidae) KENNETH W. Cooper, Hanover, New Hampshire Twenty-one specimens of Anommatus duodecimstriatus Muller have been collected over the past four years at Rochester, N. Y., by Prof. William B. Muchmore of the University of Rochester. There is therefore no doubt that this bizarre, per- plexing, eyeless beetle, known throughout much of Europe, has become established in the nearctic fauna. All specimens were obtained in Berlese funnel samples taken from litter and damp soil that underlay old railroad ties, within city limits, close to River Boulevard and near Mount Hope Cemetery—a locality notable for the exotic arthropods captured there (see Crabill 1955, Muchmore 1957, Cooper 1961). The beetle may be recognized from the following description which I have drawn from the series of Rochester specimens. Anommatus duodecimstriatus Muller, Germ. Mag. IV: 190, 1821. Amber-brown, eyeless, wingless, tarsi 3-3-3; mean length 1.7 mm, mean width 0.55 mm. Elongate, convex; integument shining, that of pronotum and elytra transparent or nearly so, sparsely punctured, each puncture bearing a short, nearly erect seta. Head slightly broader than long, with antennal insertions contiguous to postero-lateral margins of clypeus; a carina on each side at the antero-lateral margin of the front, extending behind the antennal insertions ventrally to the gular surface. Antennae 11-jointed, joints 10 and 11 in the ratio of 2.5:1, fused, capitate. Mandibles 3-toothed, maxillary and labial palpi 4-jointed, apical joints enlarged, pyriform. Pronotum widest at anterior fifth, slightly wider than long, punctures loosely ordered and enclosing a median, longitudinal, glabrous band ; prosternum broad, prosternal spine inconspicuous ; procoxae globular, nearly contiguous, cavities open behind. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, with transverse basal margins obscurely den- 188 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ July, 1962 tate; scutellum invisible; greatest elytral width just posterior to midpoint, equal to maximal pronotal width; the elytra are later- ally sinuate and curve evenly behind to an acute but rounded apex ; 6 rows of large punctures per elytron, those of innermost 3 rows becoming obsolescent behind the middle. Mid-coxae spherical, contiguous. Hind coxae transverse, widely separated by the broadly rounded anterior process of the first abdominal sternite. Five abdominal sternites visible, their mid-line ratios from first to last being approximately 26:16:8:6:9. Range in total length: 1.5-2.0 mm, in maximum width: 0.48-0.63 mm. Parenthetically it may be noted that all of the specimens of A. duodecimstriatus so far collected at Rochester are very likely females. Thus all nine specimens which were dissected (4 by R. D. Pope, 5 by me) proved to be females, for which P ~ 0.002 were the sexes equally frequent. Can it be that the Rochester population is thelytokous, or the males rare or short-lived, for males have been recorded and figured for other species of Anom- matus by Binaghi (1941) ? The individual records of capture are: 1957, May 17 (t specimen ) ; 1960, June 7 (1), Oct. 27 (1), Nov. 13 (1) ; 1961, May 17 (1), June 2 (10), June 15 (1), Ang. 12 (3), and Oct 22 (2). Other clavicorns of more common occurrence in these Berlese samples are Tychus minor Lec., Sericoderus lateralis Gyll., and especially Tomarus pulchellus Lec. Specimens of A. duodecimstriatus from the foregoing have been deposited in the following collections: British Museum of Natural History (2 specimens), U. S. National Museum (4), American Ento- mological Society (2), Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University (2), Chicago Natural History Museum (2), and the Florida State Museum (2). It is not unlikely that Anommatus duodecimstriatus, though wingless and blind, will turn up elsewhere in North America. Ganglbauer (1899) records it not only from Europe, but from the islands of Madeira and St. Helena, and Schroder (1929) mentions that it has been found about grass roots in Hobart, Tasmania. Mr. R. D. Pope has written me that two specimens of A. duodecimstriatus, collected by Lea at Hobart (and prob- Ixx111} ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 189 ably the same two minute, blind clavicorns mentioned by Lea 1900), are in the British Museum collection and bear identifica- tion labels in G. C. Champion’s handwriting. As the beetle is said to be subterranean, and is apterous, there is little doubt that it is somehow being slowly spread by commerce. In conclusion it may be mentioned that appropriate taxonomic placement of Anommatus duodecimstriatus is by no means ob- vious, and that even today it is a matter of more than ordinary puzzlement. In the past Anommatus has been regarded as a colydiid by some (thus G. Horn, Ganglbauer, Binaghi), as a genus of Lathridiidae by others (Duval, Jacquelin, Seidlitz). Most recently Crowson (1955) has suggested that the Mero- physiinae and Holoparamecinae be separated from the Lathri- diidae and brought together, along with the genus Anommatus, in a grouping of family status: the Merophysiidae. Neverthe- less, the 11-segmented cerylonoid antennae of Anommatus, their insertions which are not hidden under the side margins of the front, the moderate trochanters, and the general habitus (which is that of a slender, convex colybiid) collectively would seem to ill-fit Anommatus for such status. Indeed Horn (1878) com- mented that dAnommatus cannot be remotely separated from the blind and undoubted colydiid Aglenus brunneus Gyll. Be that as it may, the incredulous will find to their consternation that the 3-3-3 tarsal formula, the procoxal cavities that are open behind, and the abdominal sternites (neither connate nor with femoral lines), do in fact force specimens of Anommatus duo- decimstriatus to trace directly to the Lathridiidae in those keys to families now in most frequent use by North American coleop- terists (namely: Blatchley 1910, Bradley 1930, Brues, Melander and Carpenter 1954, and Arnett 1960). It is pleasant to thank Drs. P. J. Spangler and P. J. Darling- ton, Jr., for their kind help and suggestions, and Prof. W. B. Muchmore for repeatedly gathering additional Berlese samples in response to my pleas. I am especially grateful to Mr. R. D. Pope, of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, on whose authority the final specific determination rests. Mr. Pope com- pared five specimens from Rochester with material in the British 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 1962 Museum, and made the arduous dissections required to check genital structure in these minute beetles. CITATIONS ArRNETT, R. H. 1960. The beetles of the United States. xii + 368 pp. (incomplete). Washington, D. C. Brnacul, G. 1941. Bol. Soc. Ent. Ital. (Genoa) 73: 137-143. BiatcHiey, W. S. 1910. Indiana Dept. Geol. Nat. Res., Bull. 1: 1- 1386. Braptey, J. C. 1930. A manual of the genera of beetles. 360 pp. Ithacase Nes Ye Bruges, C. T., A. L. MELANDeER, and F. M. Carpenter. 1954. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 108: 1-917. Cooper, K. W. 1961. Ent. News 72: 90-92. CraBiLt, R. E. 1955. Ent. News 66: 248-249. Crowson, R. A. 1955. The natural classification of the families of Coleoptera. 5+ 187 pp. London. GANGLBAUER, L. 1899. Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa. 3 Bd., 2 Theil, 1046 s. Wien. Horn, G. H. 1878. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 17: 555-592. LEAS Ag Mes 19002 Proceioinn. soce Nes. VW. 25). ook Mucumore, W. B. 1957. Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 47: 78-83. ScHrOpER, C. 1929. Handbuch der Entomologie. 2 Bd. xi+ 1410 s. Jena. Nomenclature Notice Comments relating to the following should be marked with the Commission’s file number and sent in duplicate, before No- vember 28, to the Secretary, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, c/o British Museum (N.H.) Crom- well Road, London, S.W. 7, England. Validation of the specific name caricae (Cynips) Linnaeus, 1762 (Hymenoptera). Z.N.(S.) 1047. Designation of a neotype for Gryllus campestris Linnaeus, 1758 (Orthoptera). Z.N.(S.) 1485. Validation of the specific name alveofrons (Dasiops) Mc- Alpine, 1961 (Diptera). Z.N.(S.) 1492. Suppression of Dahl’s “Coleoptera und Lepidoptera,” 1823. Z.N.(S.) 398: Suppression of Kishida’s pamphlet “Notes on the Family Trombidiidae of Japan.” 1909. (Z.N.(S.) 400. For details see Bull. Zool. Nomencl., Vol. 19, Part 3. Ixxiti | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 191 New Records of Michigan Odonata Epwarp J. Kormonpy, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Since publishing a catalog of Michigan Odonata (Kormondy, 1958) over 3,000 specimens have been examined. This material, none of which was available when the catalog was prepared, con- tained 245 new county records and 54 new season records but no new state or region records. Abbreviations are those of the earlier catalog: ownership of material, D—Dr. R. R. Dreisbach, S—Michigan State University Museum of Entomology, courtesy of Dr. Roland L. Fischer, no abbreviation—University of Michi- gan Museum of Zoology, courtesy of Dr. Irving J. Cantrall; regions of Michigan: UP—Upper Peninsula, NLP—Northern Lower Peninsula, SLP—Southern Lower Peninsula. Calopterygidae Calopteryx aequabilis Say. SLP: Ionia(S). vi.31—viii.24. C. maculata (Beauvois). UP: Chippewa(D). vi.4—viii.15. NLP: v.26—viii.26. SLP: Calhoun(S), Eaton(S). Hetaerina americana Fabricius. SLP: Cass, Eaton(S), Sagi- naw(S). Lestidae Lestes congener Hagen. UP: Baraga(D), Houghton(D), Iron(D), Schoolcraft(D). vii.29-viii.27. NLP: Oscoda(S). SLP: Cass(D), Huron, Lenawee(S), Oakland(S), St. Jo- seph(S). vi.l6-1x.24. L. disjunctus australis Walker. SLP: Allegan(S), Oak- land(S). v.10—vii.14. L. disjunctus disjunctus Selys. UP: Alger(D), Ontonagon(D). NLP: Mecosta(D). SLP: Livingston. vi.26-ix.27. i dryas Karby. SLP:> Branch(S), Calhoun(S), Cass(S), Lenawee(S). L. eurinus Say. NLP: Clare(D). L. forcipatus Rambur. UP: Schooleraft(D). vi.l4-viit.15. NEP: Benzie(D).. vi-l6—vii.22, .SLP: Cass(S), Hills- dale(S), Lenawee(S), St. Joseph(S). L. inaequalis Walsh. SLP: Hillsdale(S). vi.15—vii.28. L. rectangularis Say. UP: Dickinson(D), Houghton(D). vi.l11-ix.1. NLP: Ionia(D), Manistee(D). SLP:Barry(S), Calhoun(S), Cass(S), Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S), St. Jo- seph(S). 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [| July, 1962 L. unguiculatus Hagen. SLP: Allegan(S), Cass(S), Lena- wee(S), St. Joseph(S). L. vigilax Hagen. SLP: Allegan(S), Calhoun(S), Eaton(S), St. Joseph(S). vi.6—viii.14. Coenagrionidae Amphiagrion saucium (Burmeister). NLP: Ionia(D). SLP: Barry(S). vi.15—viii.1. Argia apicalis (Say). SLP: Berrien(S), Lenawee(S). vi.16— ix.14. A. moesta (Hagen). UP: Delta(S). vi.27—vii.20. NLP: Ionia(S). SLP: Berrien(S), Calhoun(S). A. sedula (Hagen). SLP: Branch, St. Joseph(D). A. violacea (Hagen). SLP: Allegan(S), Calhoun(S), Lena- wee(S), Monroe(S), St. Joseph(S). vi.5-ix.12. Chromagrion conditum (Hagen). UP: Marquette. vi.6—vi1.30. NLP: Benzie(D), Clare(D). v.27-vii.28. SLP: Mon- roe(S). Coenagrion resolutum (Hagen). UP: Delta(S), Marquette. SLP: Clinton(S), Gratiot(S). v.15—vi.16. Enallagma antennatum (Say). SLP: Branch(S), Calhoun(S), Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S), St. Joseph(S). E. boreale Selys. UP: Delta(S). SLP: Branch. E. carunculatum Morse. SLP: Allegan(S), Barry(S), Cass(D). vi.12-ix.24. E. cwile (Hagen). SLP: Branch(S). E. ebrnum (Hagen): SEP: Allegan(S), Barry(S), Ber- rien(S), Calhoun(S), Cass(S), Eaton(S), Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S). E. exsulans (Hagen). SLP: Calhoun(S), Lenawee(S). v.29- it. E. geminatum Kellicott. NLP: Oceana(S). — vi.25—viii.26. SLP: Allegan(S), Berrien(S), Eaton(S), Lenawee(S). v.23-viii.18. E. hageni (Walsh). SLP: Allegan(S), Barry(S), Calhoun(S), Cass(S), Eaton(S), Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S). E, signatum (Hagen). SLP: Berrien(S), Lenawee(S). v.1— imel. E. traviatum (Selys). SLP: Calhoun(S), Lenawee(S), Van Buren(S). vi.6—vii.15. E. vernale Gloyd. UP: Marquette. SLP: Branch(S). E. vesperum Calvert. SLP: Kalamazoo(S), Lenawee(S). v.1-viii.19. Ischnura posita (Hagen). SLP: Berrien(S), Branch(S), Cass, Eaton(S), Livingston, Monroe(S), Van Buren(S). Ixxii1] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 193 I. verticahs (Say). UP: Delta(S). NLP: Ogemaw(S), Os- coda(S). SLP: Allegan(S), Cass(S), Hillsdale(S). Nehalennia gracilis Morse. NLP: Cheboygan(D). vii.4—vii.10. SLP: Allegan(S), Kalamazoo(S). — vi.18—vii.18. N. wene (Hagen). UP: Delta(S). vi.l1—viii.21. SLP: Cal- houn(S), Cass(S), Hillsdale(S), Kalamazoo(S), Lena- wee(S), St. Joseph(S). v.11-ix.21. Cordulegasteridae Cordulegaster maculatus Selys. UP: vi.6-vii.27. C. obliquus (Say). NUP: v.30-vi.14. Gomphidae Dromogomphus spinosus Selys. NUP: Gladwin(D), Ionia(S). Gomphus brevis Hagen. UP: Luce(D). vi.8—vi1.26. G. cornutus Tough. UP: vi.6—vii.25. G; exths Selys. SLP: Barry(S), Calhoun(S), Cass(S). G. fraternus (Say). NLP: Manistee(D). G. lividus Selys. NLP: Clare(D), Missaukee(D). v.21—vii.28. G. scudderi Selys. UP: Luce. vii.17—viii.20. Ophiogomphus rupinsulensis (Walsh). NLP: Ionia(S). Aeshnidae Aeshna clepsydra Say. .NLP: Newago. Ae. interrupta Walker. NLP: vii.22-1x.3. Distribution is cor- rected to read E-5. Ae. tuberculifera Walker. NLP: Oscoda(S). vii.24-ix.3. Ae. umbrosa Walker. UP: Delta(D). Anax junius (Drury). UP: Delta(S), Iron(D), Menomi- nee(D). SLP: Branch(S), Eaton(S), Ionia(S), Lena- wee(D). Corduliidae Didymops transversa (Say). UP: Schoolcraft(D). Macromua illinoiensis Walsh. NUP: Ionia. SLP: v.30-vii.14. Cordulia shurtle ffi Scudder. UP: Alger(D), Luce(D), School- craft(D). vi.6—vii.29. Epicordulia princeps (Hagen). SLP: Kalamazoo(S). vi.9- viii.10. Somatochlora forcipata (Scudder). UP: vi.15—vii.26. Tetragoneuria canis MacLachlan. UP: Delta(S). T. cynosura (Say). SLP: Allegan(S), Branch(S). Williamsonia fletcheri (Williamson). UP: v.29-vi.5. 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | July, 1962 Libellulidae Celithemis elisa (Hagen). SLP: Cass(S), Lenawee(S). C. eponina (Drury). NLP: Manistee(D). vi.23—-witi.15. SLP: Jackson(S). vi.16—vi11.19. C. monomelaena Williamson. SLP: Cass(S). Erythemis simplicicolis (Say). SLP: Berrien(S), Cal- houn(S), Hillsdale(S). Ladona julia (Uhler). UP: Delta. Leucorrhinia frigida (Hagen). UP: Alger(D). vi.6—viii.13. SLP: Allegan. L. hudsonica (Selys). UP: v.27-viii.8. L. intecta (Hagen): UP: Detta(S), lice(D). NEPS Ionia(S), Manistee(D). SLP: Allegan(S), Branch, Cal- houn, Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S). L. proxima Calvert. NLP: Mecosta(D), Missaukee(D). vi.31—vii.28. Libellula cyanea Fabricius. SLP: Calhoun(S), Lenawee(S). L. incesta Hagen. SLP: Barry(S). L. luctuosa Burmeister. SLP: Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S). L. pulchella Drury. NLP: Ionia(S), Wexford(D). -SLP: Allegan(S), Eaton(S), Hillsdale(S), Lenawee(S), Mon- roe(S). Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister). SLP: Hillsdale(S), Ingham(S), Lenawee(S), Monroe(S). Pantala flavescens (Fabricius). SLP: Gladwin(S). vii.23- ix.4. Plathemis lydia (Drury). UP: Delta(S). NLP: Wexford(D). SLP: Allegan(S), Branch(S), Ionia(S), Monroe(S). Sympetrum internum Montgomery. UP: Delta(D). NLP: Manistee(D). vi.23-ix.14. SLP: vi.16—vii.26. S. obtrusum (Hagen). NLP: Benzie(D), Ogemaw(S), Os- coda(S). SLP: Allegan(S), Branch(S), Cass(S), Lena- wee(S), St. Joseph(S). vi.8-1x.27. S. rubicundulum (Say). SLP: Allegan(S), Cass(S), Hills- dale(S), Lenawee(S), Monroe(S), St. Joseph(S). S. semicinctum (Say). SLP: Branch(S), Washtenaw. vi.14— 5 ae S. vicmum (Hagen). NLP: Alpena(S), Newago, Oscoda(S). SLP: Allegan(S), Berrien(S), Cass, Hillsdale(S), Jack- son(S), Lenawee(S), Macomb, St. Joseph(S). vi.15—x.24. LITERATURE CITED Kormonpy, E. J. 1958. Catalogue of the Odonata of Michigan. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 104: 43 p. Ixxi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 195 Record of the Unique Headed Bug in North Carolina (Hemiptera, Enicocephalidae) D. L. Wray? and J. F. GREENE” Four specimens of the unique-headed bug, Systelloderes biceps (Say) were found in some leaf mould samples collected on March 6, 1961, by the authors. Two were winged; one had partially developed wings, and one was a nymph. The leaf mould from the forest floor covering had been run through Berlese funnels during our micro-faunal studies. These particu- lar samples came from the banks of the Little River about 20 miles east of Raleigh. At this place, a large area of about two acres of flat rocks extend from the edge of the river to the forest floor. Moss, lichens, and sedums grow profusely over these rocks. Intermingled over the rocks are many small basin- shaped rain water pools. Leaf mould in this situation would stay very moist throughout the year. To our knowledge, this is the first time this rare bug has been recorded from North Carolina in our Insect Survey. Few rec- ords are found in literature for S. biceps. Blatchley * gives its distribution as: from New England west to Utah, Arizona, Mexico, south to Florida and Cuba. Other records are for New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri. However, we have found no records for states in this immediate area. This bug has been collected beneath boards near water, in leaf and weed debris in damp places, at lights, and one record by Johannsen * states that a large swarm was observed in the air in his garden late in the afternoon until dark. One specimen was sent to Dr. R. C. Froeschner, USNM, who confirmed the determination. 1 Entomologist, Division of Entomology, N. C. Department of Agricul- ture, Raleigh, N. C. 2 Associate Entomologist, Division of Entomology, N. C. Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. 3 BLATCHLEY, W. S. 1926. Heteroptera or true bugs of eastern North America. Indianapolis. 4 JoHANNSEN, O. A. 1909. Psyche 16: 1-4, illus. Entomologists Market Place ADVERTISEMENTS AND EXCHANGES Advertisements of goods or services for sale are accepted at $1.00 per line, payable in advance to the editor. Notices of wants and exchanges not exceeding three lines are free to subscribers. 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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Vou. bX XITi OCTOBER, 1962 No. 8 A Redescription of the Tribe Chiasognathini, with the Descriptions of a New Species and a New Subspecies of the Genus Sphaenognathus Buquet (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) * CarL Farr Moxey, Wayne, Pennsylvania This paper is presented to describe the tribe Chiasognathini and to describe two new forms in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Tribus CHIASOGNATHINI Burmeister CHIASOGNATHIDAE Burmeister, 1847, Handbuch der Entomo- logie 5: 315, 316, 334-342, 535, 536. CHIASOGNATHIDES Lacordaire, 1856, Genera des coléoptéres 3: 10-14. CHIASOGNATHITAE Thomson, 1862, Ann. Soc. Ent. France ser. 4, 2: 391, 405-410 (on p. 392, Thomson gives the name as Chiasognatitae ). CHIASOGNATHIDAE Parry, 1864, Trans. Ent. Soc. London ser. 3, 2(1) : 67-70. CHIASOGNATHIDAE van Vollenhoven, 1865, Tijdschrb. Ent. 8: 140. CHIASOGNATHIDAE Parry, 1870, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1870, pt. 1: 104-105. CHIASOGNATHIDAE Parry, 1874, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1874, pt. 3: 365-370. CHIASOGNATHINI Felsche, 1898, Verzeichniss der Lucaniden, pp. 6-14. CHIASOGNATHINI van Roon, 1905, Tijdschr. Ent. ser. 2, 48: 84-91. 1 This study was made possible by a 1961 summer appointment as a Jessup Fund student at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (197) SMITHSONIAN 1 AT Q 1962 INSTITUTION 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oet., 1962 CHIASOGNATHINAE van Roon, 1910, Coleopterorum Catalogus 19, pars 8: 4-8. LAMPRIMINI Schroder, 1924, Handbuch der Entomologie 3: 695. CHIASOGNATHINAE Blackwelder, 1944, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 165= 195, CHIASOGNATHINAE Didier and Séguy, 1953, Encycl. Ent. ser. A, 27: 12, 70-73. CHIASOGNATHINI Benesh, 1960, Coleopterorum Catalogus Sup- plementa pars 8: 149-152. Original diagnosis: “Lam. pectin. labro exserto, coriaceo, im- mobili, connato cum clypeo; maxillarum mandone utriusque sexus membranaceo ciliato; ligula elongata, biloba penicillata, menti paginae internae affixa, antennis longis fractis, flabello 6-phyllo; oculis septo completo divisis. Prosterno lamella parva angusta descendente.”’ Description: Lucanidae of medium size (length 24 mm to 75 mm) ; body elongate, convex. Head small, transverse, subtrape- zoidal, never broader than pronotum; labrum and clypeus united, projected beyond anterad angles; maxillary palpi more than twice as long as labial palpi; mentum subtriangular, slightly notched at apex; mandibles longer than head, armed internally with short spines in male; ligula elongate, bilobed, penicillate ; antennae slender, 10-segmented, clava 6-segmented, scape some- what thickened distally, base of antennae hidden underneath anterad angles; eyes convex, completely divided by canthus. Pronotum transverse, subtrapezoidal, almost always with acute posterad angles, sometimes pitted or roughened. Elytra sub- parallel, subtruncate, often sculptured; humeri occasionally forming spine-like projections. Abdomen with five visible ven- tral segments, eight dorsal, clothed with fine hairs beneath. Anterior coxae oblong, attaining the pronotal epipleura; legs slender in male, stouter in female, armed with short spines in both sexes. Wing with two detached anal veins. Type genus: Chiasognathus Stephens. Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Ixxiu ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 199 Table of Genera Clypeus projected beyond anterad angles, usually pointed; an- tennal scape of male long, one and one-half to three times as long as funicle and clava together ; elytra of both sexes prac- tically treeor sculpture. . 22... 0.%. Chiasognathus Stephens. Clypeus not pointed in front; antennal scape of male not much longer than funicle and clava together; elytra usually sculp- UNSSC ey cee oe Le Ae ee Sphaenognathus Buquet. Sphaenognathus rehni Moxey, species novum. Male: Elongate, subparallel, subelliptical in profile; ferru- ginous, margins and tarsi deeper, nearly black ; venter and under- parts of thorax clothed with dense fulvous pubescence, head ventrally finely clothed with pubescence. Head transverse, produced in front and truncate, faintly granu- late, horizontal, with faint median furrow; epicranium dorsally nearly glabrous, ventrally sparsely clothed ; antero-laterad angles acute ; lateral margins emarginate, gently convergent posteriorly ; anteocular area elevated. [Eyes small, convex, ovate, completely divided by canthus; canthus broad, densely clothed with pubes- cence. Clypeal suture rounded subtrapezoidal; clypeus rugose, with two antero-laterad tuberculate excresences, fused with labrum; mandibles amphiodont, longer than head and pronotum together, incurved in apical third, inner margin with numerous teeth, upper margin finely denticulate, sparsely pubescent and finely granulate throughout, with dense pubescence in dorsal part of apical fourth, and small setae in ventral basal area, dorsal spiniform projection in basal third reduced ; mentum subtriangu- lar, emarginate at apex; gula annulate in posterior half. An- tennae slender ; scape piceous, club-shaped, gently bowed, knob- like distally; base hidden under antero-laterad angle, longer than either funicle or clava; funicle three-segmented, first seg- ment subglobulose, second segment regularly dilated from base to apex, twice as long as first, third segment similar to second but slightly shorter; clava 6-segmented, rufous, subopaque, di- vergent apically, finely setose, terminal segment thickest. 200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 Pronotum transverse, strongly convex; anterior margin sinu- ate; antero-laterad angles obtuse, not acicular; sides divergent posteriorly; postero-laterad angles obtuse, acicular; posterior margin faintly sinuate. Disc with faint median canaliculation, subrugose, strongly punctate; lateral area with fulvous pubes- cence; marginal pit obscure. Scutellum semi-circular, with fine fulvous pubescence. Elytra subparallel, faintly sculptured, gently rounded distally, remotely punctate (punctures not discernible to naked eye) ; humeri pointed. Space between elytra and pronotum clothed with dense pubes- cence. Femora fairly stout, unarmed, remotely punctate, clothed be- neath with sparse pubescence. Tibiae curved; anterior nude, but armed internally with four spine-like projections, outer mar- gin denticulated; intermediate with sparse pubescence, armed externally with four spines; posterior with sparse pubescence, armed externally with four spine-like projections. Tibial spurs slightly curved. Tarsi piceous, setose beneath; tarsal claws large, simple. Type: Male; Santa Marta, Cotomsia; John W. Angell Col- lection (Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Type number, 8271). Female: Elongate, subparallel, stouter than male. Color simi- lar; pubescence almost entirely wanting. Head transverse, produced but slightly in front, faintly granu- late, horizontal, median furrow similar to male; epicranium dor- sally roughly punctate, ventrally sparsely clothed ; antero-laterad angles subacute; lateral margins emarginate, gently convergent posteriorly ; anteocular area but slightly elevated. Eyes small, convex, more rounded than in male, completely divided by canthus ; canthus with more elevated margin than male. Clypeus roughly punctate, two excresences wanting; mandibles stout, short, roughly punctate throughout, clothed with fine hairs inter- nally; mentum not as broad as in male; gula annulate as in Ixxni ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 201 male, but not as long. Antennae stouter, color similar to male; scape club-shaped, slightly bowed, knob-like distally, two-thirds the length of scape ; funicle and clava similar to male, but stouter. Pronotum transverse, glabrous, strongly convex; antero-lat- erad angles obtuse, not acicular; side margins diverging poste- riorly to posterior margin; postero-laterad angles obtuse, not acicular; posterior margin faintly sinuate. Disc with median canaliculation extremely faint, strongly punctate; lateral area not so strongly punctate; marginal pit pronounced. Space between elytra and pronotum nearly bare. Femora and tibiae stouter than in male. Anterior tibiae with internal spination wanting ; intermediate with sparse pubescence, armed externally with three spines ; posterior with sparse pubes- cence, armed externally with one reduced spine-like projection. Tibial spurs slightly curved. Tarsi piceous, setose beneath; tarsal claws large, simple. Allotype: Female; Santa Marta, Colombia; John W. Angell Collection (Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Type number, 8271.1). Measurements: Length of head in male, 6 mm; length of head in female, 3.5 mm; width of head in male, 11 mm; width of head in female, 7 mm; length of mandibles in male, 17 mm; length of mandibles in female, 4 mm; length of pronotum in male, 9 mm; length of pronotum in female, 7.5 mm; width of pronotum in male, 15.5 mm; width of pronotum in female, 13 mm; length of elytra in male, 23.5 mm; length of elytra in female, 21 mm; width of elytra in male, 16 mm; width of elytra in female, 15 mm. Remarks: 1 have named this new species after Mr. James A. G. Rehn, Chairman of the Department of Insects of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This species differs from its nearest relative, Sphaenognathus nobilis Parry, in coloration, vestiture, armature of the legs, gen- eral profile of the body, and comparative size of the genitalic structures. (The male genitalia in rehni are much larger and stouter than those of nobilis.) 202 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 Sphaenognathus nobilis subspecies colombiensis Moxey, sub- species novum. Male: Elongate, similar in shape to Sphaenognathus nobilis Parry, but more convex; aeneous Prussian green, pubescence generally wanting; body smaller than nobilis; head, pronotum, and elytra granulate. Head transverse, smaller than nobilis, produced in front and truncate; eye canthus glabrous. Mandibles finely granulate throughout, with long hairs in ventral portion of distal fourth. Antennae similar to nobilis, but slenderer. Pronotum smoother than nobilis, antero-laterad angles slightly rounded. Scutellum semi-circular, nude. Elytra subovoid in outline, strongly convex; humeri pointed. Femora slenderer than nobilis; tibiae less profusely armed, pubescence less dense. Type: Male, Santa Marta, Colombia; John W. Angell Collec- tion (Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia, Type number, 8272). Paratype: Male; Santa Marta, Colombia; John W. Angell Collection (Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Type number, 8272.1). Female: Unknown. Remarks: This new subspecies from Colombia may be dis- tinguished at once by its coloration, slenderer build, and greater convexity. Ixxui ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 203 A New Species of Mallophaga from the Mink K. C. Emerson, Stillwater, Oklahoma The few published records of Mallophaga from the mink were listed by Hopkins in 1960. In the same paper, he considered the form found on the mink to be conspecific with Stachiella ermineae Hopkins, 1941, normally found the ermine. From a comparison of several recently acquired series of excellent speci- mens from the mink and the ermine, it is evident that the two forms are not conspecific. The species from the mink is here- with described and illustrated. Stachiella larseni n. sp. Male. General shape and chaetotaxy as shown in Figure 2. Abdominal tergal plates without narrow heavily sclerotized bands. Two heavy spine-like setae on the first two apparent abdominal tergal plates. Setae on the remaining abdominal tergal plates are smaller and fewer in number per segment than on S. ermineae. Setae on each abdominal sternal plate are smaller and fewer in number than in S. ermineae. Genitalia as shown in Figure 3. Female. General shape and chaetotaxy as shown in Figure 1. Setae on each abdominal sternal and tergal plate are smaller and fewer in number than in S. ermineae. Abdominal tergal plates without narrow heavily sclerotized bands. Discussion. Stachiella ermineae was described from speci- mens collected from Mustela erminea stabilis Barrett-Hamilton and Mustela erminea aestiva Kerr in England and Germany. Specimens from these two hosts collected in Cheshire, England and Reutlingen, Germany, were examined in this study. The species has pronounced heavily sclerotized narrow bands on the abdominal tergal plates in both sexes as illustrated by Werneck in 1948. The male genitalia, illustrated from German speci- mens, as shown in Figure 4. Stachiella larseni is approximately the same size as S. ermi- neae, in both sexes. It is distinguished from S. ermineae by the male genitalia, the sparse abdominal chaetotaxy, the heavy 204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 Figures 1-3 refer to Stachiella larseni n. sp. Fic. 1. Dorsal-ventral view of female. Fic. 2. Dorsal-ventral view of male. Fic. 3. Male genitalia. Fic. 4. Male genitalia of Stachiella ermineae Hopkins. All figures are drawn to the same scale. spine-like setae on the first two apparent abdominal tergal plates of the male, and the absence of the narrow heavily sclerotized narrow bands on the abdominal tergal plates. Type host. Mustela vison ingens (Osgood). Type material. Holotype male, allotype female and paratypes from the type host collected at Eagle Environs, ALASKA. Para- types from Mustela vison mink Peale and Palisat de Beauvois collected in Maryland and North Carolina. The holotype and allotype will be deposited in the U. S. National Museum. Dr. Cluff E. Hopla, University of Oklahoma, obtained the Ixxili ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 205 Alaskan specimens from a trapper, Mr. Mike Molchan. This species is named for Dr. Finn J. Larsen, a noted scientist and personnel friend who has been a staunch supporter of basic research in the life sciences. LITERATURE CITED Horxins, G. H. E. 1941. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (11), 7: 35-50. —. 1960. Bull. Brit. Mus. (N.H.), Ent. 10: 79-95. WERNECK, F. L. 1948. Os Malofagos de Mamiferos. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Taxon Dielis (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) and its Type J. G. Bretrem * Saussure and Sichel, 1864 (Cat. Gen. Scolia, p. 161), in founding the genus Dielis included among others, two entirely distinct species, namely: the Australian Tiphia radula Fabr., 1775, and (as a synonym of Scolia plumipes Drury) Scolia radula Fabr., 1775, of North America. In 1928 (Treubia IX, suppl., p. 56) I selected Scolia radula Fabr., 1775, as the type-species of Dielis, but I did not intend to do so. It was the Australian Tiphia radula Feb., 1775, that I had meant to make type, as is clear from my further discussion, pages 87 and 88, l.c. It is impossible to correct this error, except by action of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature under its plenary powers, which the importance of the case does not war- rant. Therefore my designation of Scolia radula F. as type- species is Dielis S. & S. must stand as a “fait accompli.” In my subjective view the North American Scolia radula F., and the Australian Tiphia radula F. typify two different sub- * This paper was completed with the help of a research grant from the National Science Foundation. 206 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 genera of Campsomeris. The taxon, which I had intended to have bear the name Dielis is thus left without a name. I now name it Radumeris, a new subgenus of Campsomeris. RADUMERIS, n. subgen. 1928 Campsomeris (Dielis, Group I) Betrem, Treubia IX, suppl. p. 87. Type-species: Tiphia radula Fabr., 1775, i.e. Campsomeris (Radumeris) radula (Fabr.). Description: 9. Usually with a yellow dot on the vertex next to the eyes, tempora often with a yellow stripe, abdomen always with more or less extensive yellow markings. Frons impunctate, without a small punctate area before the anterior ocellus; temporal groove absent or merely indicated; carina occipitalis complete medially, above. Scapulae weakly, longitudinally impressed; cavity before the tegulae small, distinctly defined posteriorly, but without a limit- ing carina; a distinct impunctate space on the sides of the pro- notum before the large, deeply punctate callosities. Transition of the horizontal area to the vertical portion of mesopleura straight, without a distinct median elevation; lower posterior area of mesopleura almost entirely punctate. Transi- tion of horizontal area to vertical portion of metapleura rather sharp, without a carina; upper plate of metapleura impunctate except more or less above; lower plate partly punctate. Carina lateralis reaching beyond the spiracles, mostly distinct on the apex of the area horizontalis lateralis and on the upper part of the area posterior lateralis; the transition between the area horizontalis lateralis and the area lateralis sharp. Area horizontalis medialis entirely punctate, produced poste- riorly in an angle; transition between the area horizontalis medialis and the area posterior medialis somewhat rounded ex- cept medially ; area horizontalis lateralis usually entirely punc- tate; area posterior medialis impunctate except sometimes on its upper third. Second recurrent vein present; first submarginal and radial cells bare. Ixxill ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 207 Longer spur of tibiae III long, three fourth of the length of metatarsus III, spatulate apically, brown-yellow. Tergites opaque; no punctures between the subapical row of punctures and the fringes on tergites 3(2) and 4(3); sternite 2(1) short, impunctate except for some punctures on the lateral margins. ¢. Profuse yellow markings on the whole body, almost always a yellow spot on the vertex near the eye-orbit; a large yellow spot near the mandibles on the tempora, extended to a yellow line on the outer orbits. Scutellum and metanotum with yellow spots or stripes; coxae I yellow anteriorly; most of the tergites and sternites with yellow apical bands; legs profusely marked with yellow. Subgenus DIELIS Sauss. & Sichel, 1864. 1957 Campsomeris subgenus Campsomeriella, V, Group of C. plunupes (Drury), Bradley, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 83, p. 69. Type-species: Scolia radula Fabr., 1775, i.e. Campsomeris (Dielis) plumipes (Drury). Scolia radula Fabricius, 1775, now confirmed as the type- species of Dielis, was a name originally proposed by Fabricius as a new name for Sphex plumipes Drury, 1770, now Campso- meris plumipes (Drury, 1770) Viereck, a common species in the southeastern United States. This is evident from the fact that Fabricius listed that species and only that species as its synonym. Bradley agrees with me in this interpretation, al- though he listed formerly Scolia radula as synonym of Campso- meris trifasciata (Fabr. 1793) on other grounds (1928, Proc. Acad. Nat. Set. Pula, 80, p: 321). Since C. plumipes and C. trifasciata are very closely related species in the same subgenus, the question of which one is synonymous with radula has in any event no bearing upon the identity of the subgenus Dielis. 208 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 Record of the Collembolan Uzelia setifera (Ab- solon) in North America (Isotomidae) Davip L. Wray ? Recently a small collection of Collembola from eastern Canada were sent me for determination. Amongst them I was surprised to find four specimens of Uzelia setifera (Absolon), a species heretofore found only in Europe.? Although a new species of this genus (Uzelia hansoni) was described by Mills and Rich- ards * as from Baker Lake, Northwest Territories, it differs from U. setifera by having a vestigial furcula and in other minor points. All four of the above specimens fit Stach’s description and illustrations except that the anal horns are situated on well- developed and separated papillae. Nevertheless, all other struc- tural details fall in the U. setifera fascies. All of the specimens were collected by Dr. Carl B. Huffaker in 1961 from dwarf mistletoe sites. Two specimens were taken two miles west of Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia, July 27, and were associated with a considerable number of Xenylla mari- tima Tullberg. The other two were collected near Beddeck, Nova Scotia, July 29. This is not the only instance of a European form turning up in North America, or of an Arctic form being found in more south- ern regions. For example, Tetracanthella was formerly found only in Northern Europe or Arctic areas until it was found in North Carolina far south of its supposed range in North Amer- ica. Another species, Folsomia diplophthalma (Axelson), of -northern-Holarctic distribution has now been taken as far south as North Carolina in North America. Still another form, Anuro- phorus laricis Nicolet, of similar northern distribution has now been taken in North Carolina. The three genera, Uzelia, Tetra- canthella, and Anurophorus are very close relatives belonging to the family Isotomidae and from the records so far their dis- tributional range appears to fall into a similar pattern. 1 Entomologist, Insect Survey, Division of Entomology, N. C. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. 2SracuH, J., 1947. The Apterygotan Fauna of Poland in Relation to the World-Fauna of this group of Insects. Krakow. pp. 67-71. 3 Mitts, H. B. and W. R. RicHarps, 1953. Jour. Kansas Ent. Soc. 26: 53-59. xxi ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 209 New Exotic Crane-Flies (Tipulidae: Diptera). Part VI CHARLES P, ALEXANDER, Amherst, Massachusetts + The preceding part under this general title was published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws, 73: 122-129, 1962. At this time I am describing further species from India, all belonging to the great genus Hewxatoma, particularly well developed in southeastern Asia. All materials discussed at this time were taken by Dr. Fernand Schmid in Assam, chiefly in Manipur State, the most easterly part of India, and especially on the two highest moun- tains of Manipur, Sirhoi Kashong and Hkayam Boum. An instructive account of Manipur, with particular reference to Sirhoi Kashong, has been provided by the late Frank Kingdon- Ward.” I am greatly indebted to Dr. Schmid for this continued interest in making known the vast crane-fly fauna of India. All types are preserved in my personal collection of these flies. Hexatoma (Hexatoma) khasiensis, new species. General coloration of thorax brownish gray, praescutum with three opaque more blackened stripes ; antennae of male very long, about three times the wing; wings tinged with gray, the rela- tively large stigma dark brown, conspicuous; m-—cu about one- half longer than distal section of Cu,. ¢. Length about 5.5 mm; wing 6.5 mm; antenna about 20 mm. Rostrum very short, yellow; palpi small, blackened. Antennae of male greatly lengthened, about three times the wing, dark brown to black, base of the enlarged scape more yellowed; flagellar segments elongate-cylindrical, outer segments progres- sively more lengthened, the last one very long; segments with an abundant dense white pubescence on upper face, the vestiture 1 Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, University of Massachusetts. 2 Krincpon-WarD, FRANK. Plant hunter in Manipur, pp. 1-254, 12 pls., 1 map; 1952 (Jonathan Cape, London). 210 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 slightly longer than the diameter of the segment. Head brown- ish gray, the exceedingly large bulbous vertical tubercle darker brown to black. Prothorax small, light brown. Mesonotal praescutum brown- ish gray with three opaque more blackened stripes, the central one with a vague capillary still more blackened median line; posterior sclerites of notum brownish black, surface sparsely pruinose, posterior border of scutellum, parascutella and post- notal suture more yellowed; mesonotum glabrous. Pleura black- ened, sparsely pruinose; dorsopleural membrane and ventral pteropleurite paler. Halteres with stem yellowed, knob brown- ish black. Legs with coxae light brown, fore pair darker; trochanters yellowish brown; remainder of legs dark brown. Wings tinged with gray; stigma oval, dark brown, relatively large ; veins brownish black, some, including the cord, heavy and conspicuous, VW, its outer branches and vein 1st A more slender. Veins behind costa virtually glabrous, distal section of R, with a few small punctures; costal fringe short. Venation: Sc long, Sc, ending about opposite fork of Rs, Sc, removed; R, at fork or R,,, present as a short element about one-third as long as R,; radial branches divergent, cell R, at margin slightly more extensive than cell R,; m-—cu near fork of M, about one-half longer than distal section of Cu,, cell M, at margin unusually extensive. Abdomen, including hypopygium, uniformly black. Habitat. InNp1iA (Assam). Holotype: @, Kalanga, Mikir Hills, United District of Mikir and North Cachar Hills, 200 feet, May 1, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). The most similar regional species is Hexatoma (Hexatoma) brevistigma Alexander, of Thailand, which differs especially in the coloration of the body and wings, including the small but distinct stigmal area. Hexatoma (Eriocera) kala, new species Size medium (wing of male about 12 mm) ; thorax orange yellow, praescutum and scutum patterned with brown; head in- Ixxil ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Mill tense black; antennae, halteres and legs black; wings strongly blackened, cell 17, present; abdomen orange, segments five to seven intensely black. do. Length about 10.5-11 mm; wing 12-13 mm; antenna about 2.3-2.4 mm. Rostrum dull orange, mouthparts more yellowed; palpi black. Antennae of male 8-segmented, black throughout ; flagellar seg- ments gradually decreasing in length outwardly, with very elon- gate verticils. Head intense black; vertical tubercle small, un- equally quadrituberculate, the central pair more evident. Pronotum light orange yellow. Mesonotal praescutum with anterior fourth and broad anterior lateral margins light orange yellow, the posterior area patterned with brown, lateral triangles darker, continued backward to include the scutal lobes; central region of praescutum with two paler brown intermediate stripes that are separated by a narrow yellow vitta; median region of scutum, the broad scutellum and postnotum clear orange yellow, with a depressed pale brown area on the postnotal suture imme- diately behind the wing roots; thoracic dorsum unusually gla- brous, with very sparse small setae on posterior praescutal inter- spaces and the scutellum. Pleura light orange yellow, including the dorsopleural membrane; a small brown spot on dorsal poste- rior part of anepisternum, before the wing root. Halteres black. Legs with coxae orange, unusually glabrous, with sparse setae on fore and middle pairs, longer at tips, hind coxae with longer setae on posterior faces; trochanters obscure yellow ; remainder of legs black, femoral bases very narrowly and vaguely obscure yellow ; interpolated scales of legs very slender, setoid; basal spine of claw conspicuous. Wings strongly blackened, without stigma; vague paler streaks in certain of the cells, especially in outer ends of R and M and base of /st A. Longitudinal veins beyond cord with abundant black trichia, lacking on Cu, ; basad of cord with trichia on apical fifth of Rs, very sparse and scat- tered on outer third of M and end of 1st A. Venation: Sc relatively short, Sc, ending about opposite midlength of R,,,,,4; R, slightly oblique; R,,,,, about twice R,,,; cell M, present, about twice its petiole; m—cu at near two-thirds M, ,,. 212 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 Abdomen clear orange, segments five, six and seven intensely black ; in cases the extreme lateral and posterior borders of ter- gites two to four narrowly and vaguely darkened; ninth tergite with coarse black setae on lobes. Habitat. Inp1iA (Assam). Holotype: g, Sirhoi Kashong, Manipur, 7,500 feet, July 12, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). Para- topotypes: 3 8g, July 11-12, 1960. Hexatoma (Eriocera) kala is an especially attractive species that is allied to H. (E.) aurantia (Brunetti), from which it is readily told by the coloration of the body and by the venation. In aurantia the entire body is orange and cell M, is very deep. Hexatoma (Eriocera) karma, new species Size medium (wing of female to 17 mm) ; general coloration dull black, the genital segment fulvous; mouthparts, antennae, halteres and legs black ; wings strongly suffused with brown, base narrowly more yellowed; cell M, present. 9. Length about 15-19 mm; wing 14-17 mm; antenna about 2.6-3 mm. Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae of female 8-segmented, black throughout; flagellar segments gradually decreasing in length and diameter, the last two subequal. Head dull velvety black; posterior vertical tubercles small, simple, anterior tuber- cles low and ill-defined. Thorax dull black, praescutum with four narrow glabrous more plumbeous stripes; setae of interspaces long and delicate, erect. Pleura black. Halteres and legs uniformly black. Wings strongly suffused with brown, costal border more evidently dark- ened; no stigma; wing base narrowly more yellowed; veins brown, those at wing base more yellowed. Longitudinal veins of outer radial field with macrotrichia, including R,,,, R,, R, and R., very sparse and scattered on R,,,, M, and M,. Vena- tion: Sc long, Sc, ending opposite R,, Sc, shorter than R,, 3,4, the latter subequal to or longer than R,,, or about two-thirds R,,.; cell M, present, subequal to its petiole; cell 1st M, short, subrectangular ; m—cu about one-half longer than the distal sec- tion of Cu,, at near midlength of M,,,. Ixxuli ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 213 Abdomen black, the surface weakly shiny, basal rings of the more proximal segments slightly more nacreous; genital shield and valves of ovipositor fulvous, contrasting with the remainder of abdomen. Ovipositor with cerci long and slender, gently upcurved to the acute tips. Habitat. INp1IA (Assam). Holotype: 9, Hkayam Boum, Manipur, 8,500 feet, June 21, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). Para- topotypes: 6 99; paratypes: 599, Khamassom, Manipur, 3,900 feet, June 24, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). Hexatoma (Eriocera) karma is generally similar to H. (E.) semilimpida (Brunetti) which is readily told by the brightened wing disk and darkened wing base, as well as by the increased number of antennal segments in the female. Hexatoma (Eriocera) mitra, new species Size medium (wing of female about 15 mm) ; general colora- tion of body, antennae, halteres and legs intense black; wings bright brown, prearcular field light yellow; veins unusually gla- brous, cell MW, lacking; ovipositor and genital valves intensely blackened. 2. Length about 16 mm; wing 15.5 mm; antenna about 3 mm. Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae of female 9-segmented, black throughout; first flagellar segment slightly less than twice the second, succeeding segments progressively shorter, terminal segment subequal to the penultimate. Head deep black, without an evident vertical tubercle; anterior vertex about four times the diameter of scape. Thorax velvety black, praescutum with four narrow more plumbeous stripes, the intermediate pair separated by a ground vitta of approximately the same width; remainder of notum velvety black, posterior borders of scutellum and mediotergite vaguely pruinose ; praescutal setae relatively sparse but very long and conspicuous, black. Pleura black. Halteres and legs uni- formly black. Wings bright brown, prearcular field light yellow, the extreme base of costa brightened; no stigma; veins dark fulvous, slightly darker than the ground. Longitudinal veins beyond cord unusually glabrous, distal section of R; with about 214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Oct. 162 a dozen scattered long trichia. Venation: Sc, ending shortly before R.,; Rs relatively short, slightly more than one-half longer than R,,,,,, the latter subequal to R,,,; cell M, lacking; cell 1st M, long-subrectangular ; m—cu at three-fourths M,,,. Abdomen black, the basal lateral areas of tergites light silvery gray, interrupted at the midline. Ovipositor intensely black, including the very long slender nearly straight cerci. Habitat. InpiaA (Assam). Holotype: 9, Sirhoi Kashong, Manipur, 7,500 feet, July 11, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). This attractive fly suggests species such as Hexatoma (Erio- cera) shiraku. (Edwards), H. (E.) morosa (Osten Sacken), H, (E.) aterrima (Brunetti) and some others, differing evi- dently in the coloration and venation of the wings. The very long intensely blackened valves of the ovipositor should be noted. Hexatoma (Eriocera) pennata, new species Size medium (wing of male 10 mm) ; general coloration black, including the antennae, halteres and legs; wings strongly black- ened; abdomen short, black, with bluish reflections; posterior basitarsus enlarged, provided with conspicuous elongate setae to present a feathered appearance; cell M, lacking; macrotrichia present on outer radial veins, lacking on medial branches. dé. Length about 9 mm; wing 10 mm; antenna about 4 mm. Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae of male 7-segmented, relatively long, nearly one-half of the body, black throughout ; all flagellar segments with sparse scattered coarse erect setae, small- est on terminal one; first flagellar segment subequal in length to the succeeding three combined, second to fourth flagellar seg- ments progressively smaller; terminal segment about one-fourth the penultimate. Head dull black, with abundant porrect black setae ; vertical tubercle bilobed, the larger lobe lying behind the anterior one. Thoracic dorsum almost uniformly dull black, the central line of praescutum and scutum and posterior borders of scutellum and postnotum weakly pruinose. Pleura black, restrictedly more pruinose on pteropleurite and ventral sternopleurite, the latter with small delicate setae. Halteres short, black. Legs entirely Ixxiil ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 215 black; posterior legs long, the apex of tibia and the basitarsus dilated, provided with conspicuous fringes of long black setae to produce a feathered appearance, the setae of the basitarsus subequal in length to the diameter of the segment. Wings strongly blackened, prearcular and costal portions more sat- urated; centers of cells R and M and bases of Cu and 1st A slightly paler; veins dark brown. Macrotrichia of longitudinal veins beyond cord relatively sparse, occurring on distal ends of veins R,, R, and outer section of FR,, lacking on all outer medial veins. Venation: Sc long, Sc, ending opposite the transverse R,; Rs relatively long, nearly twice R,,,; R..3,, shorter than basal section of R,; cell WM, lacking ; m—cu at near four-fifths the length of M,,,, subequal to distal section of Cu,. Abdomen short, black, with bluish reflections, hygopygium black. Habita. Inpta (Assam). Holotype: ¢, Sirohi, Manipur, 4,300 feet, June 26, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). Hexatoma (Eriocera) pennata is a very distinct species by the peculiar structure of the posterior legs. In its general ap- pearance it somewhat resembles H. (E.) waterstoni (Edwards), of Macedonia, Greece, a very different fly. Hexatoma (Eriocera) setigera, new species General coloration dark brown to black; antennae of male elongate, flagellar segments with conspicuous erect setae; an- tennae, halteres and legs black; wings strongly infuscated, with- out stigma, R, at or just before radial fork; ovipositor with long slender valves. 6. Length about 8-8.5 mm; wing 8-8.2 mm; antenna about 8 mm. 2. Length about 8-9 mm; wing 8-9.5 mm; antenna about 1.9-2.0 mm. Rostrum exceedingly reduced, black; palpi small, black. An- tennae of male 7-segmented, subequal in length to the body or wing, in female much shorter, 9-segmented; scape and pedicel testaceous brown, flagellum black; flagellar segments of male very long, with coarse erect setae over the whole length, addi- 216 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 tional to an abundant pale erect pubescence; terminal segment very small, oval, terminating in long setae; in female, segments gradually decreasing in length outwardly, with comparable con- spicuous setae, terminal segment about one-half the penultimate. Head dark brown, orbits pruinose; vertical tubercle bilobed, more elevated and conspicuous in the female. Thorax almost uniformly dark brown, the posterior sclerites of notum in male more yellowed, in female more gray pruinose, in cases the three praescutal stripes darker and more distinct; vestiture of praescutum small and weak. Pleura brown, with darker areas on ventral anepisternum and ventral sternopleurite. Halteres brownish black. Legs with coxae and trochanters brown ; remainder of legs black, femoral bases restrictedly paler ; claws of male with a slender basal spine, in female this reduced to a small tooth. Wings strongly infuscated, stigma not differ- entiated; a slightly darker seam over Rs; veins dark brown. Veins unusually glabrous, beyond cord with a complete series of trichia on distal section of Rs; costal fringe very short. Vena- tion: Sc, ending slightly before to nearly opposite fork of Rs, Sc, near its tip; R,,, and R, subequal, the latter at or shortly before fork, in the latter case leaving an element R,,, that is approximately one-half R,; cell M, lacking; m—cu subequal to distal section of Cu,, placed at from one-third to one-half M,, ,. Abdomen brown to brownish black, more or less pruinose, including the genitalia. Ovipositor with valves long and slender, straight. Male hypopygium very large, dististyles blackened. Habitat. Invta (Assam). Holotype: ¢, Hkayam Boum, Manipur, 8,500 feet, June 21, 1960 (Fernand Schmid). Allo- topotype: 9, pinned with type. Paratopotypes: 19, with type; paratypes: 39, Sihai Khulen, Manipur, 4,700 feet, June 25, 1960; 99, Khaiyang, Manipur, 3,200 feet, June 18, 1960 (Fer- nand Schmid). In its general appearance the present fly is most like Hexatoma (Eriocera) prolixa Alexander, of the western Himalayas, differ- ing conspicuously in the structure of the antennae and, espe- cially, of the ovipositor. Ixxili ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 217 A New Host Record of the Chrysidid, Omalus auratus Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) SyLvan J. Tuomas, St. Clair Shores, Michigan The purpose of this paper is to record the adventive European wasp, Passaloecus turionum Dahlbom, as a host of the chrysidid, Omalus auratus, in Michigan and to give some data on the post- diapause developmental time of two specimens reared from a nest of this host species. Chandler (1960) has published some notes on Pemphrendon lethifer Shuckard and has listed O. auratus as a parasite reared from its nests. Krombein (1959) states that O. auratus is a parasite of P. lethifer and that there are no records of it parasi- tizing other twig-nesting pemphredonines in the United States. His recent paper (1961) lists the few known specimens of P. turionum collected in the United States. I am indebted to Dr. Krombein of the U. S. National Museum for identifying my reared specimens and supplying taxonomic records and biologi- cal references for these species. During the summer of 1960, I placed a redwood nesting site containing pre-bored tunnels in a field of Macomb Co., Michigan. The nesting tunnels were brought indoors on January 5, 1961 and examined. One tunnel contained diapause larvae of P. turtonum and O. auratus. The larvae were placed separately in gelatin capsules and kept in temperatures above 60° F to force pre-season development. The chrysidids hatched on March 23 and 24. The host in the nest containing the chrysidids continued development but failed to eclose. However, specimens from an adjacent nest of the host, P. turionum, emerged on March 19. The elapsed days for developmental stages are given for both species in Table 1 below. The larva of the chrysidid measured about 4 mm in length and 2 mm in width at the middle. The host larva measured about 5.5 mm in length. Both species were yellow in color during the prepupal period. The cell partitions enclosing the chrysidid larvae were similar to those enclosing the host larvae. Beyond 218 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 TABLE 1.—Elapsed days from diapause for developmental stages of Passaloecus turionum and Omalus auratus. (Observations made between January and March, 1961.) Pe Head, Adult F ormed Thorax Hatched z= metas (Ecdysis) Pigmented (Ecdysis) Passaloecus turionum* 47 62 — — Omalus auratus* 59 — 76 Wie Omalus auratus* 60 a 77 78 Passaloecus turionum 51 = 74 75 * Same nest. this, however, there are no observations to indicate which devel- opmental stage of the host was attacked by the chrysidid. REFERENCES CITED CHANDLER, L., N. Work, and F. SHEwMAN. 1960. Proc. of the Ind. Acad. of Sci. for 1959, 69: 148. KromseIn, K. V. 1959. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 54: 95-96. 1961. Ent. News 72: 258-259. Types of the Nearctic Species of the Genus Pedilus Fischer (Coleoptera, Anthicidae, Pedilinae) MouHAMMAD ABDULLAH, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State Normal University, Normal, Il. The following is a report on the type specimens of the North American species of the genus Pedilus originally described by LeConte (1847, 1851, 1855, 1866), Horn (1871, 1874, 1883) and Fall (1915, 1919). In several cases lectotypes have been designated. M.C.Z. stands for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University ; and P.A.S. represents the Phila- delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. I am thankful to the Sigma Xi-RESA Grants-in-Aid of Research Committee for an award which made this study possible. 1. Pedilus abnormis (Horn) : holotype at P.A.S. #3032, male. 2. P. alticolus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24312, male. 3. P. arizonensis Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24313, male. Ixxili ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 219 . 4 5 6 Fi 8 9 0 1 Ho) eho pais] ais) veh Be). | P. bardi (Horn) : lectotype at P.A.S. #3033, male; paratype at M.C.Z. #7983, male. . P. canaliculatus LeConte: holotype at M.C.Z. #4876, male. . P. cavatus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24314, male. P. crotchi (Horn) : lectotype at P.A.S. #3093, male; para- type at M.C.Z. #7981, male. . P. distinguendus (Horn) : lectotype at P.A.S. #3035, male; paratype at M.C.Z. #7982, male. . P. flabellatus (Horn) : holotype at P.A.S. #3036, male. . P. flexiventris Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24316, male. . P. funebris (Horn): lectotype at P.A.S. #3037, female; paratype at M.C.Z. #8177, female. . P. inconspicuus (Horn) : lectotype at P.A.S. #3038, male; paratype at M.C.Z. #7985, male. . P. inconspicuus var. flavidus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24315, male. . P. infectus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24317, male. . P. lewisi (Horn) : lectotype at P.A.S. #3039, male; para- type at M.C.Z. #8178, male. . P. lineatus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24318, male. . PF. longilobus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24319, male. P. monticolus (Horn) : holotype at M.C.Z. #7984, male. . newmani LeConte: lectotype at M.C.Z. #30493, male. . oregonus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24320, male. . parvicollis Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24321, male. . picipennis Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24322, male. . pulcher LeConte: holotype at M.C.Z. #4877, male. . punctulatus LeConte: holotype at M.C.Z. #4875, female. . serratus Fall: holotype at M.C.Z. #24323, male. . vittatus (Horn): holotype at P.A.S. #3040, male. A detailed treatment of the systematics and phylogeny of the genus Pedilus will be published elsewhere. LITERATURE CITED Fatt, H. C. 1915. Jour. Ent. and Zool. 7: 10-33. . 1919. Canadian Entomologist 51: 216. Horn, G. H. 1871. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 3: 278-283. 1874. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 5: 39-42. 1883. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 10:305-313. LeConte, J. L. 1847. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 1, ser. 2, pp. 83-84. ——. 1851. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 5, pp. 125-216. 1855. Proc. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7: 270-275. 1866. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 6 (no. 167): 143. 220 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 Notes and News in Entomology Under this heading we present, from time to time, notes, news, and comments. Contributions from readers are earnestly solicited and will be acknowledged when used. Second Supplement to “Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico.”—The Hymenoptera Unit of the Insect Identifica- tion and Parasite Introduction Research Branch, Entomology Research Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is now preparing copy for the Second Supplement to the catalog of North American Hymenoptera. Literature published through 1963 will be included. Authors are requested to send reprints of articles on Hymenoptera as soon after publication as possible to insure inclusion of the information in the supplement. The reprints may be addressed to the undersigned, or to the appro- priate subject matter specialist in the Hymenoptera Unit. 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Reviews DESTRUCTIVE AND USEFUL INsEcTs. Their Habits and Con- trol by C. L. Metcalf and W. P. Flint, Revised by R. L. Met- calf. 4th Edition. Pp. xii +1087. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1962. Price: $17.50. This new edition, enlarged and extensively revised by Pro- fessor Metcalf of the University of California, follows the plan of the first edition, which is too well known to require detailed description. Major improvements are that the chapter on con- trol and insecticides has been brought up to date, newly impor- tant pests have been added to the list, new or improved tables provided, and the chapter on classification has been expanded by including the material in the corresponding chapter in the out-of-print Fundamentals of Insect Life, Metcalf and Flint, 1932. Also, the chapter on development is improved. We find here an amazingly condensed account of embryology, with information from descriptive, experimental, and developmental studies, as well as an expanded treatment of later development, diapause, and metamorphosis. The chapter on morphology, physiology, and biochemistry covers a tremendous area of knowledge. Within a brief 50 pages (including e.g., 6 pages on nutrition, 3 on circulation and the blood, 3 on excretion, 3 on respiration) the material is a2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 1962 greatly condensed, but one is given at least a glimpse of much of what has been or is being done in insect physiology. And even if space does not permit discussion sufficient to provide a real comprehension of all these topics, yet it is important that they be included in a book that aims to give a general intro- duction to these aspects of entomology. This more sophisti- cated approach to the study of insect problems may also serve to attract superior students to become seriously interested in entomology. The purely morphological material has not been so carefully modernized and revised but has often been taken verbatim from the first edition, and its style and language, often wordy and repetitious, does not harmonize with the other parts. After being told that the insect head is made up of six primitive seg- ments and that the antennae are homologous to a pair of legs, one is astonished to find Dr. Snodgrass’ familiar figure of the lateral aspect of a grasshopper head with the lines indicating an arrangement of a prostomium plus four post-oral segments, labelled as in the original, but here supplied with the legend “suggests the origin of the head from six primitive segments.” Our bewilderment grows as we read in the text that there are 3 pre-oral segments (represented respectively by the eyes, the antennae, and the labrum!), and when we add these to the four post-oral ones of the Snodgrass figure and arrive at a total of seven ! In spite of the much greater content, the size of this book, if not the price, has been kept within reasonable bounds by the more frequent use of a smaller type face for many subsidiary paragraphs. Unfortunately, McGraw-Hill, usually concerned about the good appearance of their books, has re-used many of the old line cuts which are so badly worn that the insects de- picted, when compared with earlier editions, may have some of their body hairs worn off, and tarsal claws either worn down or else become spatulate; in general these illustrations look like antique wood cuts rather than zinc etchings. We like this book because as a text and reference volume in economic entomology it is unique in that it provides also a real introduction to the morphology, physiology, development, and classification of insects. Only if he has a truly broad under- standing of insects and their physiology, as is here provided, will the college graduate be able to provide more intelligent direction for control practices than the local hardware and supply dealer who sells insecticides and knows what to squirt at which insects. —R. G. SCHMIEDER. 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ANDRESEN Hupparp, Tigard 23, Oregon To a person from Oregon there seem to be no seasons in Tanganyika, only dry weather and wet weather. At the moment (January 15), however, there are frog and toad eggs and their tadpoles in all the pools; the weaver birds are building nests by the hundreds and some nests have eggs in them; the game birds are running around with their chicks and the mice are having their families. To an Oregonian all these signs mean Spring, so the title “Some Spring Fleas from Tanganyika.” Spring is a very good time to collect fleas. On arrival in Amani, Tanganyika, September 1961, every- where there was drought, the most severe in the memory of man. The huge game animals were dying of thirst by the hundreds, the stench of their decaying bodies carried by the wind for miles. Too dry weather is not at all good for collect- ing fleas. Then, in a very few days, the heavens opened up and poured down rain in torrents, in cloud bursts, as much as 6, 8, 10 inches in a day and the great game animals, so thirsty days before, mired and died in the quagmire of mud, drowned in the rushing, water on its way to the Indian Ocean or the inland lakes. Ele- phants and lions were reported drifting out to sea; hippos dis- ported themselves in the once small creek running through Nairobi. The rains have continued for 4 months to bring to Tangan- yika, Kenya and Uganda (East Africa) the most devastating floods of the century. The great game animals suffered, man suffered, but the small rodents, which carry most of the fleas (225) ITHSO! INSTITUTION NUV 13 1962 226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 of any area, suffered most. The rats and mice of the lowlands were either drowned or, managing to escape, moved to higher ground. Those on the higher ground forced out of their homes by the flooding of their burrows also moved to higher levels. All in all, this shifting of the population caused the mice to lose their hitch hikers, the fleas, and many taken were without these insects. After 4 months, rodents taken in these flooded areas had not yet found their natural fleas, and were totally without them. However, by diligent search, enough sheltered spots could be found to take a fair catch of mice, and during the 4 month period of this report 350 were taken and examined and from them 800 fleas were recovered. For host identification 150 study skins were made and 250 slides of the fleas were set up. This paper with its records shall act as the semi-annual report to the National Science Foundation for grant G14023 and is the fifth paper of twelve so far written by the author under this grant. Funza The Fleas “Viroboto” 1. Tunga penetrans (Linnaeus, 1758) This is the “Funza” of Swahili. On the second day at Amani the assistant director was pleased to hand in, in alcohol, a speci- men which his wife had just extracted from under his toenail. The only thing at hand about this tropical nuisance flea is from Tilman, “Snow on the Equator,” 1937, page 11, where in part he says: “There were however, one or two drawbacks to an earth floor. Encouraged by ideal conditions, the jigger flea made its appearance. House boys, hens and dogs are the main source of this flea infection. . . . The jigger is indigenous to South America, and is supposed to have been brought over to the west coast of Africa in the sand ballast of a ship early in the last cen- tury. From there, within a short time it spread across Africa to the east coast.’ Merifeld, “Gorillas Were My Neighbors,” Corgi Ed., 1960, page 68, writes: “It may be that only people with experience of chimpanzees will credit Bo-Bo’s (Merifield’s pet chimp) most remarkable and useful accomplishment, but it is true enough. One of the worst pests of tropical Africa are Ixxiti | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 227 the tiny fleas called jiggers, which burrow unnoticed under the skin of one’s toes and set up irritation and infection. Native children are often permanently crippled by these parasites, and at the end of each day it is always a wise precaution to have one’s feet examined. The usual way of getting them out is with a fine splinter of bamboo, and this can be a painful operation unless performed by an expert. Bo-Bo was as good at it as anyone I knew. You had to sit down beside her, present your feet and a piece of bamboo, and leave the rest to her. With your toes just in front of her nose, so that she had to squint, she would winkle the beastly things out in no time, and she was so skillful at it that the natives would queue up for her attention. Dr. Bo-Bo’s evening surgery was a sight to be remembered.” 2. Echidnophaga gallinacea (Westwood, 1875) This is the sticktight or tropical hen flea. The tiny insect might easily be overlooked by the investigator for in many cases it buries its head in the skin of the host and fails to be combed or brushed off. It has been seen in large numbers on occasion in north central Oregon imbedded in the head skin of deer mice (Peromyscus) and gray diggers (Citellus). At the moment the only records are, off: Praomys (Rattus, Mastomys) natalensis microdon (coucha rat), a female each at Arusha. Oct. 5; at Gonja, Oct. 24. 3. Echidnophaga aethiops Jordan and Rothschild, 1906 This tiny flea has taken over most of Africa and usually from bats. The present record is off: Lavia frons (large-eared hollow-faced bat), Same, 12 miles west from under roof of deserted Masai village hut, Jan. 17, 1962, a male, 3 females from 25 specimens examined. 4. Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 The so called ‘human flea” is well distributed over the world. The Malaria Institute has slides of these fleas, the specimens 228 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | Nov., 1962 being taken out of the “beds of Africans” in the South Pare Mountains adjacent to Gonja, dated February 1959. 5. Ctenocephalides felis strongylus (Jordan, 1925) This is one of the common cat fleas in Africa. It has been reported off a great many domestic and wild animals as well as man. New records are off: Lepus capensis abbotti (Cape Hare), Same, Oct. 8, 3 pair. Praomys (Rattus, Mastomys) natalensis microdon (Coucha rat), Gonja, Oct. 24, 1 male. Tatera robusta vicina (big gerbil), Himo, Oct. 26, 2 males. Acomys nubilus (spiny mouse), Himo, Oct. 26, 1 female ; Same, Oct. 27, 1 female. Panthera pardus fusca (leopard), Amani, Nov. 7, 5 males, 4 females. Hyaena hyaena dubbah (hyena), Moshi, Dec. 27, 12 pair. During the month of January this flea begins to be a nuisance to humans and many Africans make their way to the Institute asking for flea (viroboto) powder with which to powder their dogs. The fleas begin to emerge at this time from the earth floors and board floors of houses to make life miserable to the inhabitants, European and African alike. This is the common nuisance flea of Tanganyika. 6. Parapulex echinatus Smit, 1956 This is the true flea of spiny mice but can occasionally be taken off gerbils which use the same range. This genus can always be diagnosed because of the heavy spine-like bristles found on no other known flea and as Smit says in describing this flea, “It is rather amusing that the spiny mouse, Acomys, should have such a spiny flea.” Records are off: Acomys nubilus (spiny mouse), 1 each item, Same, Oct. 2, 3 males, 5 females; Oct. 26, 1 male, 2 females; 1 male, 5 females ; 1 pair. Tatera nigricauda spp? (blacktailed gerbil), Same, Oct. 27, 1 female; Jan. 17, 1962, 1 pair. Ixxiil | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 229 7. Xenopsylla brasiliensis (Baker, 1904) Collections reveal this flea to be the common rat flea of East Africa. It is found on most rats and rat-like mice. Gerbils and ground squirrels on the same ground carry their own Xenopsylla. Records of interest follow. Off: Rattus rattus kijabius (black rat), Amani, Oct. 12, 2 males, 1 female ; Oct. 13, 9 pair; Oct. 27, 1 male; Nov. 2, 1 male; Nov. 3, 2 males, 1 female; Nov. 7, 4 males; Dec. 2, 4 males; Vugiri, Dec. 25, 2 males, 1 female. Black rats are one of the most common rodents taken here at Amani and vicinity. They are everywhere. Usually they are without fleas, about 2/3rds carry none. Of 50 examined during the period 30 carried no fleas and a nest with 7 young was with- out a parasite of any kind. Praomys natalensis microdon (coucha rat), (10), Arusha, (3), Oct. 5, 9 males, 11 females; (1) Oct. 6, 5 pairs; (3), Oct: 7, 14 males, 10 females. Three specimens examined Dec. 30 car- ried only D. lypusus. Aethomys chrysophilus voi (rock or bush rat), (9), Gonja, (3), Sept. 30, 30 males, 27 females ; (3) Oct. 20, 17 males, 6 females ; (3), Dec. 25, 12 males, 13 females. Arvicanthus abyssinicus neumanni (grass mouse), Arusha, Dec. 31, a pair off 1 specimen. 8. Kenopsylla difficilis Jordan, 1925 This is the common gerbil flea of northern Tanganyika. In- teresting records are, off: Tatera robusta vicina (big gerbil), (6), Himo, (1), Oct. 26, 12 males, 13 females ; Korogwe, (1), Dec. 21, 2 males; Moshi, (1), Dec. 28, 3 pair; Arusha, (3), 13 males, 12 females. Tatera nigricauda spp? (blacktailed gerbil), (3), Same, (1), Oct. 27, 7 males, 16 females; (1), Nov. 28, 3 pair; (1), Jan. 17, 1962, 2 females. 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 9. Xenopsylla humilis Jordan, 1925 This is the second most common gerbil flea of northern Tangan- yika. It seems to prefer the robusta gerbils to the nigricauda gerbils. Records are, off: Tatera robusta vicina (big gerbil), (3), Korogwe, (1), six miles south, Dec. 21, 2 males ; Moshi, (1), 10 miles south at gravel pit, Dec. 28, 3 pair; Arusha, (1), 6 miles west, Dec. 31, 1 male. 10. Xenopsylla near robertsi probably new ssp. This flea, which does not quite follow the pattern of true robertsi, has been taken off : Praomys natalensis microdon (coucha rat), Arusha, 7 miles west from bank of creek running through village Ngaramtoni Juu, Oct. 5, 15 males, 3 females. 11. Synosternus somalicus (Jordan and Rothschild, 1908) This flea has been taken only off the African ground squirrel, Xerus rutilus saturatus at Same, Nov. 28, 1 male, 3 females. 12. Stivalius torvus (Rothschild, 1908) In the period of this study only 12 pairs of this flea have been collected and these only at Amani. All are off what seems to be the true host Praomys delectorum taitae which has been dubbed “African deer mouse” due to its striking similarity to the American Peromyscus. The mouse is usually taken at the base of large jungle trees. This flea was taken on the first day of trapping and has appeared sparingly, and singly but con- sistently during the 4 months. The 24 fleas were recovered from 45 of the mice. 13. Stivalius alienus Smit, 1958 Only one pair of this flea has been taken. They were off a specimen of Crocidura occidentalis (shrew) at Amani on Nov. 10. Although 12 other shrews were examined during the period, none carried fleas. xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 231 14. Chimaeropsylla potis potis Jordan and Rothschild, 1913 This flea was originally collected off an elephant shrew here at Amani in 1904 by a member of the staff of the old German botanical garden. The specimens were sent to the Berlin Mu- seum and later made their way to Tring where they were de- scribed. A vial of these fleas was waiting here. It bears the data, off Petrodromus s. sultan (elephant shrew), Amani, Feb. 1960. The vial contained 3 males, 11 females. 15. Dinopsyllus lypusus Jordan and Rothschild, 1913 This large flea, up to 5 mm, is the common flea of northeast Tanganyika, and is found sooner or later on all mice examined as the following records show. Off: Tatera robusta vicima (big gerbil), (1), Arusha, Dec. 31, a female. Acomys wilsoni (spiny mouse), (1), Korogwe, Dec. 22, a female. Arvicanthus abyssinicus neumanni (grass mouse), (1), Arusha, Dee. 30; 2 pair. Lemniscomys griselda rosalia (one strip grass mouse), (1), Korogwe, Dec. 21, 3 pair. Pelomys fallax wridescens (creek rat), (3), Arusha, (1), Oct. 7, Z males, 3 females; "Amani, (2). Sept. 25, a pair; Oct. 3, 2 females. Rattus rattus kijabius (black rat), (5), Amani, Sept. and Oct., 3 males, 2 females. Praomys natalensis microdon (coucha rat), (6), Arusha, (3), Oct. 6, 3 males, 8 females; Korogwe, (1), Dec. 21, a female; Arusha, (2), Dec. 30, 8 males, 3 females. Lophuromys sikapusi manteufeli (“orange-bellied mouse’), (8), Amani, Oct., Nov., Dec., Jan., 9 males, 17 females. Praomys delectorum taitae (African deer mouse), 15 at Amani through the 4 months, carried 16 males, 8 females. Specimens taken from this mouse are dwarfed and very pale and it appears that this flea cannot feed on this mouse. Lophuromys flavopunctatus margarettae (tan-bellied mouse), 232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 seems to be the true host of this common flea. Of the 56 exam- ined through the 4 months, 17 were without fleas, 39 carried 196. On Nov. 2 a specimen examined carried 20 of these giants and on Dec. 20, 14 were taken off another. Totaled, 293 of these fleas were taken off 80 mice of the above types. 16. Ctenophthalmus near calceatus probably new ssp. Although 12 types of Ctenophthalmus, all described prior to 1939, are listed from adjacent Kenya, only five specimens have been taken off the 350 mice examined. 3 females and 2 males are all off Lophuromys f. margarettae, Oct. 18, a female; Dec. 2, a male; Dec. 14, a male, these from Amani; Dec. 28, a female each off 2 mice at Vugiri. Gazetteer: The location of this study is in northeast Tangan- yika and covers an area about 50 miles wide along the Kenya border, extending from the Indian Ocean some 350 miles north- west past Mt. Kilimanjaro to Arusha at the base of Mt. Meru. Located along the main Tanga-Arusha highway (road) at about 50 mile intervals are, beginning with Tanga on the Ocean at sea level, Amani at 3,500 (20 miles northwest off highway), Korogwe at 900 feet, Vugiri at 900 feet (20 miles north off high- way), Gonja at 2,700 feet, Same at 2,700 feet, Himo at 2,400 feet, Moshi at 2,500 feet and Arusha at 4,500 feet. Acknowledgments: Training of the writer in East African rodent taxonomy has been through the kindness of D. H. S. Davis, Johannesburg; J. D. L. Fleetwood, Nairobi; Harry Hopkins, Tring. Verification of determination of fleas through kindness of Frans Smit and Harry Hopkins of Tring. In con- junction with their malaria schemes, E. John Hemmingway and John Raybould of the Malaria Institute have been field com- panions. Otherwise the writer has worked alone. Thanks is due Dr. Gordon Pringle, Director of the East African Malaria Institute, Amani, Tanga (the writer’s present address), for his thoughtfulness in requesting the author’s presence here in Tan- ganyika and giving him every aid as a Fulbright Research Scholar. The collections herein described are made under Governor’s License No. 20/1961, Country of Tanganyika. Ixxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 233 A New Elachertus Parasitic on a Pest of Bananas (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) B. D. Burxs, Entomology Research Division, Agric. Res. Serv: U. 5. DEA: The description of the following species of Elachertus has been prepared to make its name available for use in papers by other workers. Elachertus ceramidiae, new species This species agrees most closely with Elachertus scutellatus Howard, described from the island of St. Vincent, W. I., in that the abdomen is subsessile; the scutellum is lightly sculptured, almost smooth, with the lateral carinae incurved apically, but not meeting on the meson; the pronotum, scapulae, and praescutum are dorsally densely hairy, but the axillae are glabrous; the first funicular segment is longer than the pedicel or any of the fol- lowing funicular segments; the occiput is ecarinate medially, but obscurely carinate laterally; and the vertex is ecarinate. The two species differ greatly in color, scutellatus being predomi- nantly black, while ceramidiae is mostly yellow. Structurally, the median carina of the propodeum in ceramudiae is double, while it is single in scutellatus; the postmarginal vein in cera- midiae is shorter than in scutellatus; and the eyes have fewer, shorter hairs in ceramidiae than in scutellatus. Female——Length 1.0-1.2 mm. Yellow, with dark-brown shading in scrobe cavity, on axillae, scutellum, postscutellum, and on gastral terga 2 to 4; vertex, occiput, pronotum, apical segment of each tarsus, and fifth gastral tergum usually faintly shaded with brown; wings hyaline, veins tan. Antennae inserted at level of ventral margins of eyes, a trans- verse ridge extending across face just ventral to antennal bases ; eyes with scattered, short hairs, eye height 1# times width of malar space; relative lengths of parts of antenna—scape 34, pedicel 12, funicular segments 14, 12, 12, 12, club 22; upper area of front and vertex hairy; postocellar line 14 times as long as ocellocular line. 234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 Pronotum, praescutum, and scapulae densely hairy, 1 pair of long bristles at posterolateral angles of pronotum, 2 pairs of slightly weaker bristles located mesad of these, on posterior pro- notal margin; praescutum with 1 pair of stout bristles near pos- terolateral angles; each scapula with 2 bristles near lateral margin, above tegula, and 1 long bristle near posteromedian angle; axillae faintly sculptured, almost smooth, without hair ; scutellum faintly sculptured, almost smooth, 2 pairs of bristles present, lateral grooves broad, distinctly bimarginate, posterior apices of grooves incurved, but not meeting on meson; median lobe of metanotum smooth; submarginal vein of forewing with 5 or 6 dorsal bristles; relative lengths of veins of forewing— submarginal 30, marginal 40, stigmal 10, postmarginal 15; stig- mal vein with a prominent, slender, dorsoapical spur ; hindwing with 3 bristles at humeral angle, 1 straight and 2 hooked hamuli present; hind coxa smooth, with 1 bristle near apex, all tibiae and tarsi clothed with bristly hair, inner, ventroapical angle of fore and mid femora each with 1 bristle. Propodeum smooth, glabrous medially, 1 weak spiracular bristle present and 6 to 8 bristles on callus lateral to each spiracle ; lateral propodeal carinae absent, median carina double, with a narrow projecting ledge near base; petiole short, broader than long, a transverse, dorsal carina present; gaster as long as thorax (without propodeum), first gastral tergum glabrous, comprising almost or quite half the dorsal length of gaster ; terga 2 to 4 short, with a transverse row of bristles laterally on each, tergum 5 with lateral rows of bristles almost meeting on meson, tergum 6 with row of bristles extending completely across dor- sum; apex of tergum 7 short-acuminate, each cercus bearing 1 long and 3 shorter bristles. Male.—Length 0.8-1.0 mm. Head and body generally darker than in female, gaster with a round, yellow spot dorsally at base. Scape expanded near apex, and flagellar segments more slender than in female, antenna otherwise as in female; gaster shorter than thorax. Type locality—Coto, Costa Rica. Types.—U.S.N.M. No. 66026. Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ZS5 Described from 65 92 and 5 J specimens, as follows: Type 9, 2 92 paratypes, Coto, C. R., reared April 15, 1958 from larva of Ceramidia butleri (Moschler) by J. O. Harrison; allotype ¢ and 16 99 paratypes, same data, but reared July 1, 1960; 19 paratype, La Lima, Honduras, Nov. 10, 1959, host and collector the same; 18 99 and 3 Jf paratypes, same data, but reared Nov. 17, 1961; 25 92 and 1 ¢ paratypes, Changuinola, Panama, reared Aug. 14, 1961, same host and collecter; 2 22 paratypes, Almi- rante, Panama, April 1956, reared from Ceramidia butleri by Roig. Host relationships.—This species is a primary parasite of the larva of the syntomid (or amatid) moth Ceramidia butleri (Moschler) feeding on banana. LECTOTYPE DESIGNATION OF E, SCUTELLATUS The species Elachertus scutellatus Howard, with which cera- midiae was compared above, was described in Jour. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., v. 25, p. 107, 1894, from 2 99 cotypes from St. Vincent. One of these specimens is in the U.S.N.M. collection, and I here designate it lectotype. It is labeled, “St. Vincent, W.1I., H. H. Smith, 209, Cotype no. 2741, U.S.N.M., Elachistus scutellatus Type How.” A Second Specimen of Clematodina (Orthoptera; Acridoidea; Acrididae) JAMES A. G. REHN, Department of Insects, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia In 1940 Dr. Klaus Gunther described a very distinctive genus and species of Acrididae as Clematodina eckardtiana, from a single male specimen taken at Sao Paulo de Olivenca, Amazonas, Brazil.t_ In his opinion it was related to the North American genus Clematodes Scudder, hence the name. To those familiar with the North American genus, the facts that it is desert- inhabiting, and that Giinther’s figures lack resemblance to it at once raised doubts as to the assumed relationship. 1 Archiv fiir Naturg., n.f. IX, p. 479, Figures 8 and 9. 236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 In 1961, when critically analyzing the genus Clematodes pre- paratory to its placement in the “Monograph of the Orthoptera of North America,” volume 2, Rehn and Eades were extended the courtesy of the loan of the unique type of Clematodina by the Zoologisches Sammlung des Bayerischen Staats in Dresden, Germany. It was at once apparent that Clematodina was in no way re- lated to Clematodes, all the members of which latter genus were available to Rehn and Eades. Further, the dissection of the internal genitalia of the type made evident that Clematodina represented a distinct tribe of the Acrididae, which was named (Clematodinini), discussed, analyzed and the type refigured, as well as its internal genitalia, by Rehn and Eades.’ The type was promptly returned to Dresden, together with certain material not in their collection as an expression of appre- ciation of their valued cooperation. Shortly after the return of the type, in the check-over of certain unstudied collections at the Academy, we found apparently the second known specimen of the genus. It is a male, taken at Teffé (Tefé), Amazonas, Brazil, January 28, 1920, by the late H. S. Parish, all of whose Amazonian Orthoptera collections are now in the Academy series. Teffé is approximately 280 miles (air-line) east of the type locality, down the Amazon from the latter, but in essentially similar Amazonian conditions. When compared with the description of the type the only note- worthy features of difference are the slightly larger size, and the definitely longer, though equally slip-like, tegmina. The com- parable dimensions (those given by Gunther for the type in- cluded in parentheses) are: length of body, 29.0 mm (25.5) ; length of pronotum, 6.1 (5.4); greatest breadth of pronotum, 3.7 (3.3) ; length of tegmina, 6.5 (3); greatest breadth of teg- mina, 1.79 (1.7) ; length of caudal femur, 16.3 (15). The difference in tegminal length is not infrequent in indi- viduals of those numerous forms that have greatly reduced slip- like and depauperate tegmina, and is frequently evident, to a similar degree, in extensive series from the same locality. 2 Notulae Naturae, no. 347, pp. 1-4, Figures 1-9 (1961). Ixxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS EM | Collembola from Oregon HAROLD GEORGE Scott? The 11 species of springtail insects recorded in this paper were collected by Mr. Gerald F. Kraft (Department of Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon) in connection with a U.S. Public Health Service grant study of the ecology of Berry Creek, Benton County, 9 miles north of Corvallis. Of these species only Tomocerus flavescens has been recorded previously from Oregon. Most specimens will be retained by Dr. Kraft, but examples will be deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hypogastrura promatro Wray, 1950. OrEGON Record. Berry Creek, Nov. 1960, G. F. Kraft. Distr1BuTION. Idaho, N. M., Ore., Utah. Genus XENYLLA Tullberg, 1869 Xenylla humicola (Fabricius, 1780). OrEGON ReEcorps. Berry Creek, Nov.—Dec. 1960, G. F. Kraft. DistriBuTION. Mass., N. M., N. Y., Ore., Ontario (Canada), Europe. Genus SPINACHORUTES gen. nov. Type Species. Spinachorutes krafti gen. et sp. nov. DescripTIon. Subfamily Hypogastrurinae. Body elongate, segmented; Ant III sense organ with rods only; postanten- nal organ with 4 lobate tubercles; eyes 8 and 8, on dark eye- patches ; mandible with molar surface ; prothorax well developed ; unguiculus present; furcula present, not reaching beyond collo- phore; anal spines 4. Discussion. The following combination of characters distin- guishes Spinachorutes from all other known genera of Hypo- 1 Training Branch, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Serv- ice, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Atlanta 22, Georgia. 238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 gastrurinae: (1) furcula and unguiculus present; (2) postan- tennal organ with 4 lobes; (3) anal spines 4; (4) eyes 8 and 8. Key To GENERA OF NEARCTIC HYPOGASTRURINAE 1. Eyes and eyespots absent......... fy Sete no he Cheon 2 Eyes and. cyespats mreseib 2 se a ves deebanca ones =~ he: Rew 5 2.. Postantennal organ with 412 tubercles x: ....2; i. 952i 2 <3 a a sed Sire aaah der belgie cree valet we Willemia Borner, 1901 Postantennal.orean with.) fiberlewss sac on cae pee Bd frac hi eet ee eee Stachiomella Wray, 1957 3. Postantennal organ present; eyes 2and 2 to S8and8....... 4 Postantennal organ absent; eyes Sand 5... 2. 5.....0..54.°% Pigs ve aes ek Pate ye eure era Xenylla Tullberg, ac" 4, Postantennal organ with 4-8 tubercles...................8 Postantennal orvan with 1 tubercles, c1c.0 2.5 22. cee woe 2 ; 5. Eyes and 2 and 2; anal spines 2; postantennal organ with PHSADEUELES seth wie x qlete< assed Mesachorutes Absolon, 1900 Eyes 8 and 8; anal spines 0-4; postantennal organ with 4-7 PURGHCIES yo a pore tee ae Ae ete ee ae oie cecae o erie 6 O. Anal spines fio c o.'220)s es ee Spinachorutes gen. nov. Anal spines Ce iets oe eee Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839 Analispines present; furcula absent.<..... 30. <2 2h eo pees ee ee ON ie, es SARS Knowltonella Wray, 1958 Anal spines, absent: durcula, presetits 3. <1..3)s) 5. socom Danas eh ac arian eae pe NR ee ee Neobeckerella Wray, 1952 N Spinachorutes krafti gen. et sp. nov. Figure 1. Type Locarity. Holotype and 4 paratypes, Berry Creek, 9 mi N of Corvallis, Benton County, OrEGoNn, October 1960, by G. F. Kraft. Holotype will be deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; paratypes are in the Oregon State University collection. DescripTION. Body elongate, segmented; background color white with heavy speckling of gray to black pigment giving a generally dark gray appearance; antenna subequal to head in length, set low on face; Ant III sense organ with rods, no cones ; Ant IV with sensory papillae at tips; postantennal organ with 4 lobate tubercles, 2 large and.2 small; eyes 8 and 8 on dark eyepatches ; mandible with molar surface; pronotum well devel- Ixx1i1i | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 239 Fic. 1. Spinachorutes krafti gen. et sp. nov. oped, setaceous, of same texture as other nota; unguis with 1 internal tooth; unguiculus about 2 unguis, without teeth; fur- cula present, reaching to caudal margin of Abd I]; mucro spoon shaped, with large mid-dorsal lobe ; anal spines 4, in a row across Abd VI; anal papillae non-contiguous ; length about 1.3 mm. 240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | Nov., 1962 Isotoma louisiana Scott, 1962. Figure 2. OrEGON Recorps. Berry Creek, Feb. and Nov.—Dec. 1960, G. F. Kraft. DISTRIBUTION. La., Ore. Isotoma sensibilis (Tullberg, 1876). OreEGON Recorp. Berry Creek, Dec. 1959, G. F. Kraft. DISTRIBUTION. Fla., Ill., La., Mass., Minn., N. M., N. Y., N. C., Ohio, Ore., Ontario (Canada), Europe. Entomobrya triangularis Schott, 1896. OreEGON ReEcorps. Berry Creek, Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jul., Aug., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1960, G. F. Kraft. DisTRIBUTION. Cal., N. M., Ore., Wash., South America. Entomobrya marginata (Tullberg, 1871). OreEGON Recorps. Berry Creek, Oct. 1960, G. F. Kraft. DisTRIBUTION. Colo., Ill., Iowa, Mass., N. M., N. Y., Ohio, Ore., Tenn., Utah, Wash., Ontario (Canada), Europe, Aus- tralasia. Tomocerus flavescens (Tullberg, 1871). ADDITIONAL OREGON Recorps. Berry Creek, June 1959, Feb. and Nov. 1960, G. F. Kraft. DistriBuTIon. Alaska, Cal., Colo., D. C., Ga., Ill, Ind., Iowa, La., Me., Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., N. H., N. J... N. M.; N. ¥., Nine, Ghioe; Ore. Pa, Tean., Pexas, Utah, Va., Wash., Northwest Territories (Canada), Europe, Asia. Norte: This species was first recorded from Oregon by Folsom (1913) from Siskiyou (Sept. 6); Benton County (Aug. 21) ; Mt. Chintimini (no date) ; and Corvallis (Dec. 24). Sminthurides pumilis (Krausbauer, 1898). OreGon Recorps. Berry Creek, Dec. 1959; Jan., Feb., Oct., Nov., Dec. 1960, G. F. Kraft. Ixxi11] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 241 DISTRIBUTION. Iowa, Ga., La., Mo., N. M., N. C., Ore., Utah, Manitoba (Canada), South America, Europe, Australasia. Sminthurinus radiculus Maynard, 1951. Orecon Recorps. Berry Creek, Mar. 1960, G. F. Kraft. DISTRIBUTION. N. Y., Ore. Ptenothrix maculosa (Schott, 1891). OREGON Recorps. Berry Creek, Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., and Nov. 1960, G. F. Kraft. REFERENCES CITED Assoton, K. 1900. Zool. Anz. 23: 427. Borner, C. 1901. Zool. Anz. 24: 1-15, 332-345, 696-712. Bourtet, A. 1839. Mem. Soc. Sci. Agr. Lille 1: 384. Fasricius, O. 1780. Fauna groenlandica. Hafniae et Lipsiae 211-214. Fotsom, J. W. 1913. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 46: 451-472. KRAUSBAUER, T. 1898. Zool. Anz., 21: 495-499, 501-504. Maynarp, E. A. 1951. The Collembola of New York. Ithaca: Com- stock Publ. Co. xxiv + 339 pp. Scuott, H. 1891. Bih. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 17: 1-25. ——. 1896. Ent. Tid. 17: 113-128. Scott, H. G. 1962. Ent. News 73: 67-68. TuLiperG, T. 1869. Akad. Afhandl. for 1869, p. 7. ——. 1871. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helvetia Sci. Nat. 6: 67. 1876. Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. 33: 23-42. Wray, D. L. 1950. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 41: 79-85. 1952. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 47: 97. ——. 1957. Acta Zool. Cracoviensia 2: 112. ——. 1958. Nature Notes Afield, occasional papers 2: 1. 242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 A New Species of Thyopsella (Acarina: Hydryphantidae) from Oregon * Crive D. JORGENSEN ” Cook (1955) established the genus Thyopsella to include the new species dictyophora. Later (Cook, 1959), he added another species (occidentalis) to the genus. This is a description of a third species in this yet small genus. Thyopsella haplodoxa new species Female. Length of dorsal shield 1.17-1.31 mm, width of dorsal shield 0.81-0.97 mm. Dorsal shield elliptical with ante- rior margin truncate; lateral eyes form anteriolateral angles with distinctly projected capsules; median eye indistinct and non- pigmented ; frontal plate consists of pre- and postfrontalia, dorso- centralia and dorsolateralia 1, and postocularia; preocularia on anterior margin of dorsal shield; dorsocentralia 2-4 fused with their respective dorsolateralia; dorsocentralia 5 fused medially and enlarged into a single plate; dorsoglandularia 2 not incor- porated into the dorsal shield (Fig. 1) ; dorsoglandularia 3-7 in clear non-sclerotized areas; dorsoglandularia 3 just posterior to frontal plate; dorsoglandularia 4-6 just posterior to fusion of dorsocentralia and -lateralia 2-4, and dorsoglandularia 7 on posterior margin of dorsal shield; plates indistinct, being dis- tinguished by coarser reticulations; entire dorsal shield highly reticulate, even so as to possess fine reticulations within coarser reticulations. Soft venter finely and extensively papillate (Fig. 6) genital flaps 0.23-0.24 mm long on the median margin; medioposterior angles of genital flaps extend posteriorly into distinct cones extending one-half the width of genital acetabula 3 (Fig. 2) ; median margin of genital flaps with 22-25 strong overlapping setae; genital acetabula elliptical, second being posterior of 1 Gratitude is expressed to David R. Cook, Wayne University for the loan of paratypes of dictyophora and occidentalis. 2 Radiation Ecology Project, Brigham Young University, Mercury, Nevada. 243 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ixxiii | WO (AZ Wi PYyAGues rod AAs \ as} ae a. Ow oO om oS core Noy mes [or vo vo ie Sup vo — Fics. 1-6. Thyopsella haplodoxa new species 2, genital area; 3, chelicera; 4, second leg; genital acetabula 1 and 2 covered by third occupies posteriolateral corners of median transverse line; closed genital flaps, genital flaps. Legs typically thyasin with strong setae and no swimming ; palps chelate and with strong hairs (Fig. 4); claws simple 244 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 spine midway on P-IV (Fig. 5); P-IV extends anteriorly be- yond insertion of P-V by means of a dorsal extension which terminates with a strong spine; P-V chelate, the dorsal being movable; dorsal palpal segment measurements are: P-I, 0.046- 0.052 mm; P-II, 0.098-0.105 mm; P-III, 0.058-0.062 mm; P-IV, 0.154-0.168 mm; P-V, 0.040-0.41 mm; capitulum, 0.240 mm long. Male. Unknown. Diagnosis. Thyopsella haplodoxa is distinguished from dic- tyophora by the second dorsoglandularia which are not incor- porated into the dorsal shield. Also, haplodoxa has the medio- posterior angles of the genital flaps projected posteriorly into cones at least one-half the width of genital acetabula 3. It is separated from occidentalis by its lateral eyes which are incor- porated into the dorsal shield. Locality and type material. Holotype adult female collected from slow running water, Bear Springs camp grounds, Wasco County, Oregon, May 21, 1959; holotype will be deposited in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. One paratype with the same data is retained in the author’s collection. REFERENCES Cook, D. R. 1955. Two new genera of Hydracarina from a spring in northern Michigan. Am. Midland Naturalist 53(2) : 412-418. —. 1959. Studies on the Thyasinae of North America (Acarina: Hydryphantidae). Am. Midland Naturalist 62(2) : 402-428. Ixxiii| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 245 Supplementary Bibliography of North American Tarantulas, 1939-1959 (Araneida, Sub- order Mygalomorphae) BEATRICE VOGEL, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Colorado The need for bibliographies in the field of spiders is perhaps greater than in some other fields, since there is no special organ of publication for araneologists. Pierre Bonnet’s Bibliographia Araneorum (I-III, Toulouse, 1945-1961), which is an alpha- betical list of species of the entire order complete through 1939, and the Catalogue of American Spiders, suborder Mygalo- morphae, by Harriet Exline and Alexander Petrunkevitch (1939, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., 33: 191-338), a systematic list of the suborder, reflect the great need for bibliographies. Since the publication of the Catalogue of American Spiders, numerous species of mygalomorphs have been added to our fauna, and many new localities have been reported for previously existing species. The following is a complete (to the best of the author’s knowledge) bibliography of mygalomorphs in North America including Mexico from 1939-1959. The families are in the same order as in the Catalogue of American Spiders, and the genera and species are in alphabetical order within the families. No attempt has been made to list synonyms, except when it has been done by the author cited. A state name included in the reference indicates a new locality not listed in the Catalogue. CTENIZIDAE Antrodiaetus hageni (Chamberlin), Gertsch, W. J. & Jellison, W. L., 1939, Am. Mus. Novit. 1032: 1. Brachybothrinm hageni Chamberlin. Montana. Antrodiaetus montanus (Chamberlin & Ivie), Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4): 549. Brachybothrium hageni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933, Bull. Univ. Utah 26(4): 4. (Not hageni Chamb.). Utah, Idaho. Antrodiaetus pacificus (Simon), Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1941, Bull. Univ. Utah 31(8): 3. Brachybothrium pact- ficum Simon. California. 246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 Antrodiaetus robustus (Simon), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 311. Texas. Antrodiaetus shoemakeri (Petrunkevitch), Muma, M. H., 1944, Am. Mus. Novit. 1257:1. Brachybothrium shoemakeri Petrunkevitch. Maryland. Antrodiaetus bicolor Lucas, Roddy, L. A., 1957, Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 76: 286. Louisiana. Aptostichus stanfordianus Ch. P. Smith, Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1941, Bull. Univ. Utah 31(8): 3. Farallon Is- lands, California. Astrosoga rex Chamberlin, R. V., (n. gen. & sp.), 1940, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 53: 5. Texas. Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 310. Myrme- kiaphila comstocki Gertsch. Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4) : 556. Astrosoga stolida Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6:;.310.. Texas. Myrmekiaphila comstocki Bishop & Crosby, Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 310. Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis (Hentz), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 310. Pachylomerides absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat, Hist. 77, art..6:.3115 “Texas. Pachylomerides audouini (Lucas), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 311. Texas. Pachylomerides audounini (Lucas), [sic], Barnes, R. D., 1953, Ecol. Monographs 23: 321. North Carolina. Pachylomerides adouinii (Lucas), [sic], Minton, S. A., Jr., 1955,-Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 64: 255. Indiana. Pachylomerides beatulus Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull; Am: Mus: Nat. Hist."77, art. 6-312. “Fexas: Pachylomerides celsus Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 313. Texas. Pachylomerides funereus Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77,-art-6: 312. Texas. Pachylomerides pygmaeus Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4) : 558. Oklahoma. Pachylomerides tuobitus (Chamberlin), Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4) : 556. Arkansas, Missouri. Promyrmekiaphila gertschi Schenkel, E., (n. gen. & sp.), 1950, Naturforschende ges. Basel, ver. 61: 29. California. Ummidia audouni (Lucas), [sic], Roddy, L. A., 1957, Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 76: 286. Louisiana. Ummidia tuobita (Chamberlin), Kaston, B. J., 1955, Ill. Acad. Sci. Trans. 47: 165. Pachylomerides tuobitus (Chamb.). Ixxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 247 DIPLURIDAE Brachythele anomala Schenkel, E., (n. sp.), 1950, Natur- forschende ges. Basel, ver. 61: 32. California. Brachythele longitarsis Simon, Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 310. Euagrus apacheus Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 309. Texas. Euagrus chisoseus Gertsch, (n. sp.), 1939, Contr. Baylor Univ. Mus., 24: 21. Texas. Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 308. Euagrus comstocki Gertsch, Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 309. Euagrus ravenus Gertsch & Mulaik, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Am. Mus, Nat. Hist: 77, art. 627308: Texas. Evagrus ritaensis Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4) : 555. Arizona. Hexura picea Simon, Gertsch, W. J. & Jellison, W. L., 1939, Am. Mus. Novit. 1032: 1. Montana. Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4) : 550. THERAPHOSIDAE Aphonopelma angusi Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 21. Utah. Aphonopelma apacheum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 15. Arizona. Aphonopelma baergi Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 19. Arkansas. Aphonopelma behlei Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30 (13): 26. Arizona, New Mexico. Aphonopelma brunnius Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 11. California. Aphonopelma chalcodes Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 7. Eurypelma californica Gertsch (not Ausserer), 1935, Am. Mus. Novit. 792: 4. Arizona. Aphonopelma clarum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13) : 10: California. Aphonopelma cratius Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 18. California? Aphonopelma cryptethus Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 16. California. Aphonopelma eutylenum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 9. California. Aphonopelma griseum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 13. Baja California. 248 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 Aphonopelma heterops Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 29. Texas. Aphonopelma lithodomum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 14. Arizona. Aphonopelma moderatum (Chamberlin & Ivie), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 314. Delopelma moderatum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939. Texas. Aphonopelma nayaritum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13) : 23. Baja California. Aphonopelma nevadanum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 12. Baja California. Aphonopelma orthonops Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 29. Arizona. Aphonopelma phanus Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 24. California. Aphonopelma phasmus Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 28. Arizona. Aphonopelma prosoicus Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 13. Baja California. Aphonopelma pseudoroseum (Strand), Gertsch, W. J. & Mu- laik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 314. Eurypelma pseudoroseum Strand. Delopelma pseudoroseum (Strand). Texas. Aphonopelma reversum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13):8. California. Aphonopelma ruedanum Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 25. Mexico. Aphonopelma rusticum (Simon), Chamberlin, R. V., 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 14. Arizona. Aphonopelma simulatum (Chamberlin & Ivie), Chamberlin, R. V., 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 26. New Mexico, Utah. Gertsch, W. J., & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat Hist. 77, art. 6: 314. Delopelma simulatum Chamberlin & Ivie. Eurypelma marxi Gertsch. Texas. Aphonopelma steindachneri (Ausserer), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 314. Delopelma steindachnert (Ausserer). Eurypelma steindach- neri Ausserer. Texas. Aphonopelma zionis Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 24. Utah. Chaunopelma Chamberlin, (n. gen.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 30. Type species: Delopelma radinum Chamberlin & Ivie. xxii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 249 Clavopelma Chamberlin, (n. gen.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 30. Type species: Eurypelma tamaulipeca Cham- berlin. Delopelma iodius Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11): 6. Utah. Delopelma melanius Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11): 5. Utah. Delopelma moderatum Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11):9. Texas. Delopelma radinum Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.). 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11):4. California. Delopelma simulatum Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11): 8. Utah. Delopelma vorhiesi Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11): 7. Arizona. Dugesiella anax Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30013): 34. Texas. Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 315. Dugesiella armada Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13): 32. Texas. Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S.; 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 315. Dugesiella coloradana Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Wtale30(13): 35. ‘Colorado, Dugesiella echina Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah S03): 36:" ‘Colorado; Van Riper, W., 1951, Uniy. Colo. Mus. Leaflet No. 8: 3. Dugesiella eustathes Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13) : 33. Durango, Mexico. Dugesiella harlingena Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13) : 37. Texas. Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am: Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 315. Dugesiella hentzi (Girard), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 315. Dugesiella wacona Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13) : 38. Texas. Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 315. Dugesiella wichitana Chamberlin, (n. sp.), 1940, Bull. Univ. Utah 30(13) : 35. Oklahoma. Eurypelma geotoma Chamberlin, Chickering, A. M., 1937, The geol. & biol. of the San Carlos Mts., Tamaulipas, Mexico, Univ. Mich. Press, Ann Arbor: 271. Tamaulipas, Mexico. Eurypelma steindachneri Ausserer, Gertsch, W. J., 1939, Contr. Baylor Univ. Mus. 24: 21. 250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 1962 Eurypelma tamaulipeca Chamberlin & Ivie, Chickering, A. M., 1937, The geol. & biol. of the San Carlos Mts., Tamaulipas, Mexico, Univ. Mich. Press, Ann Arbor: 271. Tamaulipas, Mexico. Hesperopholis centronethus Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. gen. & sp.), 1939, Bull. Univ. Utah 29(11): 3. California. Rhechostica texense (Simon), Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 314. Tapinauchenius texensis Simon, Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S., 1940, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77, art. 6: 314. ATYPIDAE Atypus abboti (Walckenaer), Chickering, A. M., 1937, The Geol. & Biol. of the San Carlos Mts., Tamaulipas, Mexico: Univ. Mich. Press, Ann Arbor: 271. Tamaulipas, Mexico. Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4) : 552. Atypus bicolor Lucas, Muma, M. H., 1944, Am. Mus. Novit. 1257: 1. Maryland. Barnes, R. D., 1953, Ecol. Monographs 23: 321. North Carolina. Roddy, L. A., 1957, Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 76: 286. Louisiana. Atypus milberti (Walckenaer), Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W., 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4): 550. Kaston, B. J., 1948, Conn. State Geol. & Nat. Hist. Survey 70: 58. Connecticut. Lowrie, D. C., 1948, Ecology 29(3) : 336. Illinois. Kaston, B. J., 1955, Ill. Acad. Sci. Trans. 47: 165. Atypus niger Hentz, Levi, H. W., 1951, Am. Mus. Novit. 1501: 2. Wisconsin. Chickering, A. M., 1952, Papers of Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts, Let. 36: 126. Michigan. Levi, H. W., & Field, H. M., 1954, Am. Mid. Nat. 51(2) : 441. Wisconsin. Gray, D. P., 1956, Canad. Ent. 88: 78. Ontario. Microhexura idahoana Chamberlin & Ivie, (n. sp.), 1945, Ann, Ent. Soc. Am, 38(4): 552. Idaho. Microhexura rainieri Chamberlin & Ivie (n. sp.), 1945, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 38(4): 554. Washington. Ixx11i] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Zo1 A Note on Techniques During the course of investigation of an insect group, it is often necessary to compare minute parts of several different specimens at one time. I find that the shallow white plastic snap-on caps from medicine bottles when inverted make excellent small dishes in which to temporarily store preparations of geni- talia, legs, antennae, etc. for critical comparison. About ten caps 1 inch in diameter can be stored in a covered 4-inch petri dish. The caps are filled with glycerin and each is associated with the dissected specimen from which the parts are taken by means of duplicated letter or number combinations typed on bond paper, one tag being placed in the glycerin dish and the other on the pin of the specimen or vial of preservative. 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On November 13, 1961, the author collected two larvae and a pupa from willow roots in the Savannah River (Georgia side). The male emerged from the pupa on December 1, 1961, and was preserved in alcohol as were the larvae. While the association of these larvae with the pupa and adult is not indisputable, the larvae were ready to pupate (swollen thoracic segments and adult eye spots formed) and the faint pupa respiratory organs which could be initially discerned appeared to agree with those of the pupa. I have compared the reared male with specimens of P. pilo- sella from Plummer’s Island and the District of Columbia and with the genitalia of one of Malloch’s specimens of this species and all appear to be conspecific. The measurements and ratios are in close agreement with Johannsen’s (1946) description except that the middle leg ratio of the Georgia specimen was (253) 254 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 1.0 rather than 1.12. The middle leg ratio of one of the speci- mens from Plummer’s Island was 0.97 (see Table 1). A comparison of Malloch’s slides of his larva and pupa from the Illinois River with those from the Georgia specimens indi- cates that Malloch’s tentative association was correct. I have been able to find no significant differences between Malloch’s material and that from Georgia. The differences in the shape of the pupal respiratory organ (Figs. 8, 9) may stem from the fact that Malloch’s mount is of a whole pupa, rather than just a pupal skin and the respiratory organs are not compressed as they are in the mount of the empty pupal skin. Malloch’s (1915) figure (Plate 24, Fig. 14) is not quite accurate. TABLE 1. Comparison of ratios of tibial and tarsal segments of South Carolina and District of Columbia specimens of Pentaneura pilosella (Loew) Tib Ti T2 Ts: TA Ts Location Leg Ratio I 60 35 26 17 12 8 Da ee 0.58 60 33 26 18 13 8 S. Gar. 0.55 II 65 63 30 15 11 8 |B eg 0.97 65 65 32 18 ile 10 5. (Car: 1.00 III 75 67 31 20 13 8 Bie. 0.90 82 67 31 23 14 9 S:\Gar. 0.82 I am indebted to Dr. Herbert H. Ross of the Illinois Natural History Survey for the loan of Malloch’s slide material of P. pilosella and to Dr. Willis W. Wirth for arranging the loan of some specimens of P. pilosella from the Washington, D. C., area. Pentaneura pilosella (Loew) 1866 Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. 10: 5, 6 (Tanypus-female ) Male.—Length 3.10 mm; antennal ratio 1.4; antennal pedicel light, some black-brown markings ; head light, some black-brown marks behind eyes; pronotum yellow brown; greatly reduced, not visible dorsally ; mesonotal vittae distinct, black-brown; me- dian vitta split with an irregular row of acrosticals down this split; acrosticals slightly spread but not strongly divergent [xxii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 299 6 Fics. 1-6. Pentaneura pilosella (Loew) 1. Apex of mesotibia. 2. Apex of mesotarsal segment 1. 3. Apex of mesotarsal segment 2. 4. Apex of metatibia. 5. Apex of foretibia. 6. Aedeagus. 256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 around prescutellar area; foreleg ratio 0.55; tibia with a pre- apical spine, 0.072 mm long (Fig. 5) and a trifid apical projec- tion, 0.012 mm long; tarsal segments without preapical spines ; mesotibia with two preapical spines 0.12 mm long (Fig. 1), and a trifid apical spur 0.019 mm long; tarsal segments 14 each with two preapical spines, 0.12 mm long on T, to 0.031 mm long on T, (Figs. 2, 3) ; metatibia with a preapical spine 0.072 mm long (Fig. 4), and a comb of five spines, 0.019 mm long; tarsal segments without preapical spines ; claws with empodium present but no pulvilli; wing 1.7 mm long; veins light; distance from arculus to base of m-—cu 0.37 of distance from m-—cu to wing tip; length of m-—cu 0.57 of distance from m-—cu to rm; R,,; Just past Cu; M ends below wing tip; wing tip strongly haired; scutellum and halteres light; postnotum brown; abdomen light with scattered long light hair; basistyle light 0.13 mm long; distyle (Fig. 6), 0.079 mm long; apical spine 0.012 mm long ; apical tergite with about 13 spines mesally (Fig. 6) ; between and above basistyles a pair of quadrate semi-membranous pro- jections (Fig. 6); these laterally haired at base, connected to membranous lobes lying above basistyles (the structure possibly homologous to aedeagal complex of melanops group and sub- genus Ablabesmyia). Material examined : One male, emerged 1 December 1961, Mile 175, Savannah River, Burke County Georgia. Four males and 7 females. Plummer’s Id. Md. and Washing- ton, D. C. Coll. H. Barber and Schwarz, 1902. Slide 2472. Male genitalia Tanypus pilosellus Loew (= pal- lens Coq.?). Coll. Ill. Natural History Survey. Larva Mature larva 3.0 mm long; head (Fig. 11) 0.5 mm long; widened just behind eyes ; 2-3 small spines laterally behind eyes ; antenna 0.29 mm long; antennal ratio 0.31; sense pit of basal segment 0.64 from base; apical segments (Fig. 14) ; segment 2 brown, lighter at apex; mandible sharply curved (Fig. 15) ; 0.067 mm long; lateral tooth sharp; inner shoulder blunt, bears Ixxi1 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 257 Fics. 7-16. Pentaneura pilosella (Loew) 7. Pupa-eighth abdominal segment and anal fins. 8. Pupal respiratory organ—Georgia. 9. Pupal respiratory organ (Malloch specimen). 10. Anal papilla, larva. 11. Larval head, dorsal view (Malloch specimen). 12. Anterior prolegs, larva. 13. Lingua of hypopharynx, larva. 14. Apex of antenna, larva. 15. Mandible, larva. 16. Claws of posterior proleg, larva. 258 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 accessory filament; lingua of hypopharynx as in Fig. 13; maxil- lary palpus one-segmented, 0.024 mm long by 0.001 mm wide; 2-3 apical projections; anterior proleg 0.47 mm long, divides 0.73 from base (Fig. 12); anal papillae (Fig. 10) 0.10 by 0.02 mm; seven light apical filaments; anal gills (4) 0.22 mm long; posterior prolegs 0.40 mm long; spur of posterior prolegs 0.15 mm long with three fine lateral spines near base; claws narrow and light; one claw bifid apically, with heavy base (Fig. 16). Pupa Pupal skin 3.6 mm long; respiratory organ (flattened) 0.25 mm long by 0.095 mm wide at widest point; apical papilla 0.025 mm long; duct widened apically (Figs. 8, 9) ; eleven spines and a tubercle at the base of each of the respiratory organs; tubercle 0.048 mm wide at base by 0.026 mm high; seventh abdominal segment with four lateral filaments, the first 0.4 from the base; segment eight with five lateral filaments; anal fins (Fig. 7) 0.31 mm long by 0.18 mm wide at base; two lateral filaments at 0.32 and 0.45 from base. Material examined : One pupal skin (adult emerged) and two mature larvae, Savannah River, 31 November 1962, Mile 175, Burke County, Georgia (ex. willow roots). One larval head (slide 2445) and one pupa (slide 2444). Illinois River, Havana, Ill., Illinois Natural History Survey Collection. REFERENCES Hauser, A. 1945. Tanypodinae of Iowa (Diptera) I. The genus Pen- taneura Philippi (Tanypus). Amer. Midl. Nat. 34 (2): 496-503. JoHANNSEN, O. A. 1946. Revision of the North American species of the genus Pentaneura. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 54: 283-284. Mattocu, J. R. 1915. The Chironomidae or Midges of Illinois with particular reference to the species occurring in the Illinois River. Bull. Ill. Nat. Hist. Surv. X. (6) : 372-374; Plate 24, Fig. 14, Plate 25, Fig. 11, Plate 26, Fig. 8, 14. Ixx111] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 259 Three New Species of Paratiphia (Tiphiidae: Hymenoptera) from Mexico H. W. ALLEN ! The species described below appear to be distinct from any of the species previously described by Peter Cameron. The ownership of the specimens examined is indicated as follows: A.N.S.P., Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; C.A.S., California Academy of Sciences. Paratiphia fossata new species Male.—Unspecialized hairs of head, thorax, and abdominal segments of moderate length and density. Bristles on apices of abdominal terga that are flattened to near their tips are con- fined to lateral third or less where they are separated by about their average basal thickness; medially they are scarcely differ- entiated from surrounding hairs. Front with very coarse, deep punctures contiguous to above level of lowest ocellus except for a small area in front of lowest ocellus ; without a polished impunctate ridge bordering inner eye orbit. Clypeus opaque yellowish-white ; least distance between eyes 1.8 times clypeal length (three measured were 1.8, 1.8, and 1.8). Mandible opaque yellowish-white at base. Dorsum with a well-developed fossa behind transverse carina that is traversed by many cross ridges ; anterior part with coarse, deep primary punctures largely of first-degree density. Side of pronotum with its disc conspicuously and deeply depressed, the bottom crossed by several coarse rugae which in front diverge widely from parallel; discal sulcus continued prominently to dorsal margin which is elevated abruptly from its front edge; anterior carina produced in a large, acute-angled, tooth-like pro- jection. Tegula slightly longer than wide (three measured were 1.3, 1.2, and 1.4 times as long as wide). Fore wing with mem- 1 Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and Collaborator, Entomology Research Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Moorestown, New Jersey. 260 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dee 1962 brane nearly hyaline, its hairs brown, dense, conspicuous; radial cell 2.9 times as long as greatest width (three measured were 3.0, 2.8, and 3.0), its apex rounded or with a bend near middle; second cubital cell elongate with its distal section nearly straight. Areola completed on the prominent anterior transverse carina ; area lateral to areola with anastomosing rugulae, longitudinal carina mediad of spiracle well-developed; transverse fossa with its anterior carina nearly parallel and equal to the posterior one, fossa crossed by about 16 short ridges, enclosed cells strongly sloped toward plane of posterior aspect. Side of propodeum finely rugulose on a relatively even, polished surface. First tergum on dorsum with primary punctures small and generally of third-degree density ; secondary punctures not numerous. First sternum with posterior margin of escutcheon a low, short trans- verse ridge, pygidium with its punctate part 1.25 times as long as wide, limited anteriorly by a vestigial ridge ; punctures coarse and uniform; medially with carina on lower half becoming broadly rounded anteriorly. Length, 6 to 8.5 mm. Female.—Unknown. Type.—d, Guadalajara, Jal, Mex., Sept. 16 (McClendon) CAGN. Sor). Paratypes.—131 $2, collected by McClendon at the same local- ity as the type, Sept. 14, 16, and 18 (A.N.S.P.) ; 15 fo, Guada- lajara, Jal., Mex., late Sept. 1934 (F. X. Williams) (C.A.S.). P. fossata differs conspicuously from the other two species which were collected by McClendon at the same locality and on the same dates. It lacks the elongate tegula of scutulata and the brilliant golden brown pile at the tip of the abdomen of clypeata Sm. Because of this multiplicity of species collected from one locality on the same dates, the three females taken at the same time cannot be surely identified. They may be fossata or cly- peata but are almost certainly not scutulata. P. fossata differs from rufitarsis Cam., the only other Paratiphia previously de- scribed from males from Mexico, in having a broad white opaque mark on the mandible. Ixx111 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 261 Paratiphia scutulata new species Male——Unspecialized hairs on head, thorax and abdomen at most moderately dense and long. Bristles on margins of abdomi- nal terga short and nearly absent dorsally; laterally on terga 2 to 4 they are much larger, flattened, and in a nearly contiguous array. Front with punctures very coarse, deep, and of close first- degree density to above level of lowest ocellus without any inter- vals as wide as an ocellus ; area bordering inner eye orbit lacking a polished ridge. Clypeus with its opaque yellowish-white mark relatively long in respect to its lateral width; least distance be- tween eyes 1.9 times clypeal length (three measured were 1.9, 2.0, and 1.8). Mandible without whitish mark. Dorsum of pronotum with its transverse carina high, not strongly appressed medially; bordering transverse fossa broad but without cross ridges. Punctures coarse, deep, and closely contiguous except for usual finely punctate apex. Side of pro- notum with its anterior projection broad, high, pointed in an obtuse angle, its edge continuous with the dorsal carina and extending to ventral angle; disc with a deep pit near anterior process which shallows out in a narrow transverse course with only a few low cross ridges. Tegula conspicuously elongated, 1.8 times as long as wide (three measured were 1.8, 1.8, and 1.7). Forewing with vaguely defined brownish areas in sev- eral of the apical cells; hairs on membrane short, dense, coarse, and darkly pigmented; apical cell with its end rounded without a spur, 3.0 times as long as greatest width (three measured were 3.1, 3.1, 2.8) ; second cubital cell with its apical section nearly straight. Dorsum of propodeum with areola well-differentiated ; area be- tween it and lateral carina more or less rugulose; anterior trans- verse carina well developed; area between it and posterior carina strongly sloped toward plane of posterior aspect of pro- podeum, usually with numerous complete cross-ridges. Abdo- men robust; tip in most specimens strongly down curved. Dorsum of first tergum with punctures generally of third- degree density except for a narrow bipunctate apical band. 262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 Second tergum 1.75 as wide as length to crest of anterior carina. Pygidium with punctate part 1.1 times as long as wide; no abrupt depression on anterior margin; punctures coarse, fairly uniform in size and not becoming reticulate; carina rounded and developed on apical two-thirds. Length, 6 to 8 mm. Female —Unknown. Type—d, Guadalajara, Jal., Mex., Sept. 16 (McClendon) (ACN .S:iP): Paratypes—'g, Guadalajara, Jal., Mex., all collected by McClendon, 14 on Sept. 14, 4 on Sept. 16, and 6 on Sept. 18 (AUN Seo Previously described species which possess exceptionally elon- gate tegulae include smithi Cam. from Guerrero, Mex., fusci- pennis Cam. and iridipennis Cam. from Nicaragua. It would be impossible from data now available to determine whether scutu- lata is the male of either of the first two named above which were described from the female. It differs from iridipennis in having the bristles in the terminal rows of the abdominal terga thicker and closer to each other and in the character of the sculpturing of the anterior process of the side of the pronotum. Paratiphia cincta new species Male.—Unspecialized hairs fine, short, erect, conspicuously dense on front, dorsum of pronotum, mesepisternum, medially on first tergum, and the sides of the posterior abdominal terga ; principally white. Bristles on apices of abdominal terga form continuous bands on terga 2, 3, and 4+ which are conspicuously parted in middle; bristles are short, fine, uniform in length, and not much longer medially than at side; separated generally by less than their average basal thickness. Front with impunctate spot in front of lower ocellus several times as long and at least twice as wide as diameter of an ocellus ; without polished impunctate ridge bordering inner eye orbit. Clypeus with its opaque white spot slightly over twice as wide as long; least diameter between eyes 1.7 times as great as clypeal Ixxi| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 263 length (three measured were 1.8, 1.7, and 1.6). Mandible broadly opaque white. Dorsum of pronotum with transverse carina not extended medially in posteriorly directed arc, bordered by a shallow fossa having no cross ridges ; puncturation unusually fine and shallow ; without traces of callosities at the sides. Side of pronotum nearly flat, the punctures and rugulae unusually fine; anterior projection almost absent, bordered by a narrow, shallow groove which is a lateral prolongation of the dorsal transverse groove. Tegula slightly longer than wide. Wings with their membrane hyaline; forewing with hairs on membrane dark but short, sparse, relatively inconspicuous, those in first and second dis- coidal cells colorless; radial cell 2.8 times as long as greatest width (two measured were 2.6 and 3.1.). Dorsum of propodeum lateral to areola only weakly sculp- tured ; anterior transverse carina complete, not high nor strongly angulate; area between two transverse carinae steeply sloped toward plane of posterior aspect of propodeum. First sternum with carina at apex of escutcheon subobsolete; disc moderately corticiform. Length, 8.5 to 10 mm. Female —Unknown. Type—d, 20 mi. north of Mesquital, Lower Calif., Mex., Sept. 27, 1941 (Ross and Bohart) (C.A.S.). Paratypes—17 8% of the same series as the type (C.A.S.) ; 274. luas (Pas, ‘Baja Calif. Mex. June 3, 1921 (Van Duzee (G-AS)): 1 3 Las: Pas; Baja Calif., Mex., June 4, 1921 (Van Duzee) (C.A.S.). P. cincta has in the male, the same kind of narrow belts of closely arrayed bristles on the abdominal terga as claripennis Cam. and neomexicana Cam., but it is more conspicuously pilose and the puncturation of the lateral dorsum of the pronotum is much finer and more shallow. 264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ Dec: 1962 A New Species of the Genus Sisyphus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) * Cart Farr Moxey, Wayne, Pennsylvania This brief paper is offered to make known a new species of beetle of the genus Sisyphus Latreille. The description is as follows: Sisyphus aages Moxey, species novum Mahogany and feebly shining, with an inconspicuous clothing of erect reddish setae, fairly close upon the pronotum, but leav- ing a small bare patch upon either side of the anterior part. Longitudinally elliptical, highly convex, with very long, slender posterior legs. Head strongly punctured; clypeus semi- circularly emarginate in front and produced into two blunt teeth on either side of the excision; suture between the clypeus and ocular lobes faintly raised. Pronotum strongly and remotely punctured (that is, the punctures are separated by more than their breadth), each puncture bearing a single seta posteriorly ; median groove distinct in basal third; anterior angles acute; lateral margins serrate in anterior third, clothed with setae along entire length. Length of the elytra subequal to their conjoint width; form much as in Sisyphus neglectus Gory, strongly nar- rowed behind, with the elytral intervals flat. Pygidium flat, with very irregular, shallow, setae-bearing punctures. Fore tibiae armed with three strong teeth, occupying rather less than half the outer edge, finely serrate basally. Middle and hind femora shaped much as in Sisyphus longipes (Olivier), but slightly more swollen. Metasternum divided from the mesosternum by a faintly curved line, finely, but sparsely, punctured and with a large, round depression behind. Length, 5.4 mm; breadth, 3.3 mm. 1 This study has been made possible by a 1962 summer grant from the Jessup Fund Committee at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia. JI am especially grateful to Dr. Ruth Patrick of the committee, and to Mr. James A. G. Rehn of the Department of Insects at the Academy. xxiii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 265 Type: Kurseong, West Bengal, INp1A; Frank R. Mason col- lection (collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia, Type number 8345). Remarks: The unique type of this species appears to be inter- mediate between Sisyphus longipes (Olivier) and S. neglectus Gory; the head, vestiture and sculpture of the pronotum, py- gidium, and four posterior legs are much as in S. longipes, but the shape of the pronotum, form of the elytra, and characters of the fore legs are similar to neglectus. Sisyphus aages agrees in many particulars with the description of S. araneolus Arrow, but differs primarily in not having the middle femora and tibiae toothed. From S. dentricus Fairmaire, this new species differs in coloration and character of the setae, in addition to size. The name of this species is derived from the Greek days, which means strong. Notes About the Types of Some Species of Butter- flies Described by William Henry Edwards F. Martin Brown, Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colo. In connection with my study of the writings of William Henry Edwards, the Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, kindly granted me the privilege of reading and microfilming the letters from Edwards in the files of that institution. The bulk of this correspondence concerns the trans- fer of Edwards’ collection to the Rev. Dr. William Jacob Holland, and progress with the illustration of volume 3 of “Butterflies of North America.” Scattered through the letters are many items of interest to current students of butterflies from North America. Of prime interest is the disposition of some of Edwards’ types. It is doubtful that Edwards labelled any particular butterfly as the “type” of a name, in the current meaning of the term, until the late 1880’s or early 1890’s. Certainly his early use 266 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 of “type” is equivalent to the current use of “typical.” At the time he transferred that part of his collection sold to Holland to help defray the cost of publishing volume 3 of Butterflies of North America, none of Edwards’ types were marked. The beginning of the transfer occurred in January, 1886. In a letter addressed to Holland and dated 5 May 1886 is this statement in reply to a request from Holland: “I enclose the word ‘type’ written about 100 times to cut off and affix to the pins. If more are desired, advise me.” With this letter are six slips of paper bearing the word “type” written altogether 110 times. Apparently Holland used none of them. It is interesting to note that on one slip seven of the inscriptions include a tiny subscript “E” after the word “type.” During Edwards’ career, material that he shipped was lost or destroyed three times. This is mentioned by Edwards in a note dated 11 December 1885. The first loss involved (among others?) the types of Lycaena amica and Lycaena pembina, “Both lost according to my recoll" in a box sent to Dr. Behr, for inspection, 18 or 20 years ago. I have not seen either species since.” The second loss is noted: “Hesp. Yuma, 1 <, Lost by fire which destroyed the Express car, about 1873 or 74, and burned a large lot of Arizona things I had just red. These were in transit to Scudder. Have never seen the species since.” The Arizona material was part of that which Edwards had received from the Wheeler Survey Expedition of 1871 (see Brown: 1958, J. New York Ent. Soc. 65: 219-234 “1957”). The third catastrophe was the sinking of the “Pomerania” in 1878. Of this Edwards wrote to Holland: “A third time I was unfortunate in shipping insects. One lot of Hesperians sent Dr. Speyer was in the German ship which in a collision was sunk in Br. Channel 8 or 9 years ago.” The note in Lepidopterists’ News, 1: 83, quoting Dr. H. A. Hagen at the meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Society, 13 December 1878, that “the types of 70 rare species of Hesperia” were lost, cannot be true. Through 1878 Edwards had described only 52 species of Skippers. Hagen probably used the word “type” in a loose manner, meaning “typical.” Since there are apparent Ixxi1i | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 267 types of some of Edwards’ Skippers described before 1878 the problem before us is to discover just what he sent to Speyer. I am in the process of unravelling that mystery. There is a frequently met misconception that all of Edwards’ types were sold to Dr. Holland and therefore are in the collec- tions at the Carnegie Museum. From Edwards’ letters I have gleaned a few notes about material that is not at the Carnegie. The species Edwards described from the collections of Newman and of Ridings remained in the collections of those gentlemen. Since the specimens were not marked “types,” in all proba- bility they passed unrecognized to new owners. It is possible that these are in the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Material collected on various government expeditions (Wheeler, Hayden, Dept. of Agriculture, etc.) were turned over to Edwards for safe-keeping. These were to be returned by Edwards to the Smithsonian Institution when that governmental agency established an ento- mological department. Types from those collections should be in the United States National Museum. Some of the material Edwards received from Kennicott was only loaned to Edwards. This was returned to Kennicott and was destroyed in the great Chicago Fire. I have yet to unravel from Kennicott’s and Edwards’ letters just what was returned. Material from Rea- kirt’s collection was returned to him and later passed to Strecker. The Strecker collection in the Chicago Museum of Natural History should contain them. Certain specific types are mentioned in the note of 11 Decem- ber 1885, referred to above. Three species, Melitaea sterope, Chrysophanus hermes and Lycaena ardea were described from material loaned by Henry Edwards and should be in the collec- tions of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In this note Edwards stated, “Thecla ontario, 1 ? taken by E. B. Reed & ret? to him.” The type of Lycaena kodiak was returned to Dr. Behr and presumably it was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The types of Chryso- phanus florus and Lycaena afra were returned to Geddes. I suspect that they may be found in the Canadian National Collection. 268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec:; 1962 In a letter dated 27 January 1886 Edwards stated that of the four specimens of Megathymus neumoegeni he had had before him for description he retained one (later sent to Holland) and returned the others to Neumoegen. Four other species of skipper described from single specimens in Neumoegen’s col- lection were returned to him. These are Pamphila arabus, Pamphila bellus, Pamphila lasus and Nominiades tatius. The Neumoegen collection first went to the Brooklyn Museum and then was transferred to the United States National Museum. Notes and News in Entomology Under this heading we present, from time to time, notes, news, and com- ments. Contributions from readers are earnestly solicited and will be acknowledged when used. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute is a new serial, to include book-length monographs on insects. Each memoir is a separate, cloth-bound book and sold at a price approximating three cents per page. Publication is by litho- printing. The numbers published and in preparation are as follows: 1. A catalogue and reclassification of the Indo-Australian Ichneumonidae. By Henry Townes, Marjorie Townes, and Virendra Gupta. 1961. 522 pages. Price: $14.50. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 4. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Hemigasterini. 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INDEX TO VOLUME LXXIII (* Indicates new genera, names, etc.) ABDULLAH, H. Types of nearctic species of the genus Pedilus Fisher (Coleoptera, Anthicidae, Pedilinae) ... ALEXANDER, C. P. New exotic crane-flies (Tipulidae: Dip- tera). Part V aay rl er Dae sucks 2 anche hah ree ay thane ts Mohs gabon Ren ie ALLEN, H. W. Three new species of Paratiphia (Tiphiidae : Pigesemoptera trom Mexico. . 2.5. .42. shes. ds eke ne. BEER, J. R. (See under Price, R. D.) BetreM, J.G. The taxon Dielis (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) SUNG MSL Sane one og OP ee aE EE Pa The taxon Trielis (Hym.: Scoliidae) and its type ...... Brown, F. M. Notes about the types of some species of butterflies described by William Henry Edwards .. Burks, B. D. A new Elachertus parasitic on a pest of bananas (Eiymenoptera, Eulophidae) ......0...- +24. Burns, J. M. Review: How to know the butterflies ...... Cary, M.M. Review: Butterflies of the American Tropics. The genus Anaea (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) ........ CHAMBERLIN, R. V. Gervaisicus nom. nov. (Diplopoda) . New records and species of chilopods from Nevada and (CIES Ci Nepal an ee CiarKE, J. F. G. New species of microlepidoptera from Roce ops tie ays. i oi Dom eid al nea sed ea orc ee ee Cooper, K. W. A remarkable anophthalmic immigrant to North America: Anommatus duodecimstriatus Muller i@oleemesd Colydidae), ioc sos. oie. ere ee c/ea eo eee CraBiL, R. E., Jr. A new interpretation of some trouble- some dignathodontid species and genera (Chilopoda: eae urna ara e deine os c= = eed wre Sag eee eee Crupen, R. W. A preliminary survey of West Virginia draeoniies ((@)dotiata )) (slo's + = 2 Actidoidea: Acrididac)!...0..05 12 1c es On the status of Clematodes vanduzeei Hebard (Orthop- tera Acrididae; Cyrtacanthracriditide ) ws 2/2654 cee tee Philp. Powell) Calvert (1871-1961)... 2 ccc cc eets REINHARD, H. J. North American muscoid Diptera ..... Ropack, S. S. The male adult, and immature stages of Pentaneura pilosella (Loew), (Diptera: Tendipedidae: el Optician he pte mrcess ees crags ahaha ohtee «Pe, ces "Simic ea go ip aes Ross, H. H. Note: Glaciers and winter stoneflies ....... Three new species of Trichoptera from eastern North UIA (ES VCE. Boa a a a eo PP rc a ScumMiepER, R. G. Additions to the bibliography of Philip Pei@alvernt- subsequent, to’ L950 2)... <.d.2.)08s se eee Review: Destructive and useful insects ..............: Notes and News: Snodgrass receives Leidy award ..... 273 164 152 39 235 105 LES 169 oa 274 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 Scott, H. G. The Collembola of New Mexico. VI. Iso- tominae: Guthriella, Proisotoma, Isotomurus VII. Isotominae: Metisotoma, Isotoma VIII. Tomocerinae (Entomobryidae ) Collembola of Louisiana, (2254 ¢ 4462 fh ewonc ses sae Collembola of ‘Oregon (5.54 20.25 sa 0 ons an oes sees SHarMA, G. D. and D. K. McE. Kevan Folsomia similis Bagnall, 1939 (Collembola, Isotomidae), apparently new to North Amencea:¢ i420. eee eee ees SviHLa, A. Records of the larvae of Epiophlebia laidlawi Tillyard from the Darjeeling area (Odonata: Anisozygop- LETE ci, rem dnviows spews hike tA seed at ae ao eon eee Tuomas, S. J. A new host record of the chrysidid, Omalus auratus Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) ........ TIMBERLAKE, P. H. An interesting new species of Em- phoropsis from California (Hymenoptera, Anthrophori- dae ) eee Ss wo mo © 0.0 Guetere @ypid =” we oe Git de a. 2 Oe ee ae wee wee @ @ 6 8 @ id ae wise me wes ee ee ee Oe el Cee” ee) Be oe ey a ee The conflict between the tribal and family names Mirini (Hymenoptera) and Miridae (Hemiptera) ........... VocEL, B. Supplementary bibliography of North American tarantulas, 1939-1959 (Araneida, Suborder Mygalomor- ple’ ) nna sek 3 Spier cheat aemeenete ee ee eee Wa tis, R. C. Overwintering activity of the Blowfly, Photinia Teputta. hoa be eee sie on ee ee ee ore eee Wray, D. L. Record of the collembolan Uzelia setifera (Absolon) in North America (Isotomidae) ........... Wray, D. L. and J. F. Green’ Record of the unique headed bug in North Carolina (Hemiptera, Enicocephali- dae} 2veces yee ee ee eis ee ee 17 45 141 67 Zot 23 ake 36 66 245 Ixx111 | GENERAL SUBJECTS Biomathematics training ..... 268 Edwards’ types, notes no .... 265 Entomological collections IBUKGIEe Wewocuocmoddoatcc 27 VE WAKlanieertoes titers cece ne 139 Entomological News Ent. News gets around .... 251 ttre (Of: shor one as Se), 228) Glaciers and winter stoneflies 54 International Congress of En- COMO OL Vertpsistet slo wis ser: oleise 220 International Congress of Zool- ODWA ME icie ees tae sa Some a eee 220 Jordan, Karl, and Stenoponia complex Lyman Entomological Museum 139 Myrmecophily in Lycaenidae . 57 Nomenclature Notices ... 54, 163 Overwintering blowflies ..... 1 Snodgrass receives Leidy PNW EUG a esvey 5 Mona Meat egy ane 26 Techniques, note on ......... 251 OBITUARIES Galvert. (Po Pe scape eee IS: lbleyivaleeitin: IB, Beoeousoscncade 163 NondanteeKe so cicu wavea stant 29 PERSONALS Racker te View es, ae sesisveicremensies 54 ROSS vatielow telepcen tora heerorae ee 54 Swroakeamgs, IR; IE, oaccvecadac 26 REVIEWS Book Notices: Alexander and Moore on cicadas, Strick- berger on Drosophila 223; Ferguson on mutillids, Lins- ley on cerambycids ......... 178 Comstock: Butterflies of the American tropics. The genus ATID CAs ep ee eee eisietere revere oe 81 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 275 Ehrlich and Ehrlich: How to know the butterflies ....... 165 Iinsectanmaponica sass ee 27 Journal of Research on the epidopterayaesee ase eee 221 Metcalf and Flint: Destructive and= usefull msects| .....-.-- 221 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION Mibngkave Wileillop li, scasessocac 204 Arizona: Anopl. 25; Dipt. 170, Ma be pic hee ae ek ee ae 89 ANGeentinale COlmms. i aeaee eee 69 Calhitorniac Coles sees e 36 Colombiacy Colas cess 200 @osta Rica Elymr cee sce oe 233 Blonidace Diptmeeem tees eee 51 India: Col. 262; Dipt. . 122, 209-16 Japan lvepids weer cance 27, 91 Louisiana: Collembola ....... 67 Mexico Onpte mle ies tier Hemip. 152; Hym. 259; Mallophi ce. sass se ccmese 161 Michiganiy Odonata 5...-.-.-- 191 Mississippi: (nich. sess a 131 Missourian Colam ance ses ccriee 39 Nova Scotia: Collem. ....... 208 Nevada (Chilops 32-402 -e 134 New Mexico; Collembola 17, 45, 141 New York: Dipt. 175; Col. .. 187 Nosthe Carolina: Orthos 148 Ohio wDipts sac a5 seen rere 177 Oregon: Acar. 242; Chilop. glo COMB, sedoooasducosc 237 Quebec: Collembola ......... 23 Solomon! disses) Elymeeeesee ee 103 Uarerpli® Siliy sooscoonne 225 West Virginia: Odon. 156; Mrich: . As aecsiesie oe dey eles 132 Wateesteys IDs ooGsencoccbnc 130 276 COLEOPTERA GAGES, SUSY PRUS =. 2 eter 262 bethaniensis, Photuris ........ 43 Chiasognathini, redescription of 197 coracina,* Roleta® 2...-+2+..4 70 duodecimstriatus, Anommatus . 187 missouriensis,* Photuris ..... 39 nobilis colombiensis,* Sphaeno- QUAENUS Abe oa fe renee re See 202 Pedilus, types of nearctic spe- CIESPS a Se see eee EE ees 218 Photuris, species distinctions in 41 Pleotomint Key: saqcae sagen 69 rheni,* Sphaenognathus ...... 199 Roletatst rahe eterna eee 69 versicolor, Photurts ......... 41 DIPTERA alveofrons, Dastops ......... 190 amicta,* Claruillia .......... 169 archboldi,* Liriomysa ........ 51 emulatus,* Mimologus ....... 177 Gervaisicus* nom. nov. ....... 26 invasor,* Plagiosippus* ...... 173 Rala,* “Hexatoma. chs. se 210 karma,* Hexatomad .....2.2+- 212 khasiensis,* Hexatoma ....... 209 lucentis,* Xanthocera ....... 174 luteibasis,* Toxorhina ...... 124 mitra,* Hexatoma .......... 213 monostyla,* Toxorhina ....... 123 pennata,* Hexatoma ........ 214 pilosella, Pentaneura, male and LinlmMlat. 2 aaa eee ee 253 Plagiosippiss see eee eee 172 Pseudolomyiat=-725 nce tee eee 175 regina, Phormia, overwintering 1 russatus,* Archytas ......... 170 scissilis,* Pseudolomyia ...... 176 sctta;* Toxorhina....-- eee ee 126 setigera,* Hexatoma ........ PANS somalicus, Synosternus (Siph.) 230 sparsiseta,* Toxorhina ...... 127 tertensis,* Rhabdomastix ..... 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 HEMIPTERA biceps, Systelloderes ......... 195 Mirididae* for Miridae ...... 66 BAUEGFIS. 2t. io Vu nitas eRe artes 54 rotundus,* Ambrysus ........ 152 Telamona, headstand mecha- MSI es eisisnc, seh ac eee 44 unicolor, Telamona ......... 44 HYMENOPTERA Ants associated with Plebejus 61 auratus, Omalus on Passaloecus 217 Australelis* n. subg. ........ 146 Camepsascolia’ «6s 0.02 as paces 146 GCOMICHO AG VRIDS nleraeve ects 190 ceramidiae,* Elachertus ...... 233 Gincia-® Paratiplid ~~ eee 263 consanguinea, Trielis ........ 146 PENS: co. woe ancy eee 207 excellens,* Emphoropsis ..... 36 fossata,* Paratsphia ....- 08 «- 259 TUSCOTUS: “POLSEES, .as ee 79 Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. II Suppl. ....... 220 Ichneumonidae, catalogue and reclassification’ ......+%.«. - 268 Announcement of publica- OTS OME ayercreycietociniele ne ea 268 inopinata,* Campsomeris ..... 103 leprieurt, Melissodes, neotype GESig wh \acnicer- one eos 164 maculata, Vespula ..........- 79 maculifrons, Vespula ........ 79 maura, Melissodes .......... 164 Mirini, conflict of name ..... 66 Myrmecophily of Lycaenids .. 57 plumipes, Campsomeris ...... 207 radula, Campsomeris ........ 206 Radumerts ieee oe ee 206 scutulata,* Paratiphia ....... 261 theclae, Apanteles ........... 59 Trielistand ats type=-...2... +2 146 turionum, Passaloecus ....... 217 vulgaris, Vespula ...........- 79 Ixx1ii1 | LEPIDOPTERA CLO EN COCKE ees oi. Bs eras 0 267 amica, Eycaena...........6.4: 266 Amaea, book: om .:...-...-..-. 81 arabus, Pamphila ........... 268 ydeGML CAEN) (2.06.6 5562 46 267 bellus, Pamphila ...........- 268 Butterflies, book on ......... 165 chaetosoma,* Agonopteryx ... 93 deodora,* Brachmia ......... 98 dwardse types ss ccn 0c os <- « 265 florus, Chrysophanus ........ 267 hermes, Chrysophanus ....... 267 Hesperidae, loss of types .... 266 icarioides, Plebejus .......... 57 issiku,* Agonopteryx ....... 96 lasus; Pantpnal@ o.5.5.52026. 268 Lycaenidae, myrmecophilous .. 57 melanocrepida,* Psorosticha .. 91 neumoegent, Megathymus .... 268 pervada,* Gnorimoschema .... 101 sterope, Melitaea ........... 267 susanae,* Hesperia .......... 85 tatuts, Nominiades ......... 268 ORTHOPTERA campestris, Gryllus .......... 190 Geratosolefin s2.os08s0ehesoess. 54 eckardtiana, Clematodina ..... 235 guttulosus, Ceutophilus, four SUDSPeCiIes Of \2scc.scigs se « 147 vanduseet, Clematodes ....... 105 ODONATA laidlawi, Epiophlebia, larvae of = 5 West Virginia: List of species 160 Michigan, Records from ..... 191 SMALLER ORDERS acerbus, Megabothris (Siph.) 109 aethiops, Echidnophaga (Siph.) 227 alienus, Stivalius (Siph.) .... 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS af WE aquatica, Podura (Collem.), fiQUier wet eee eevee 67 bettent,* Goerita (Trich.) .... 132 brasiliensis, X enopsylla (Siph.) 229 calceatus, Ctenophthalamus (Siphjiice vaccum seeeae 232 Collembola from Oregon .... 237 Collembola of New Mexico . 17,45 ciatus ciliatus, Monopsyllus (Siph) eaten: hones aes ner 12 ciliatus fasteni, Monopsyllus (Siphs) en eee eee ere 14 ciliatus, kincaidi, Monopsyllus @Siph:)) yee cee: 13 ciliatus monomis, Monopsyllus CSiplis eer rysceye cee rts 11 ctliatus, Monopsyllus (Siph.) . 9 ciliatus protinus, Monopsyllus CSiphia)we ces ce eee 10 Cyrnus (Trich.) difficilis, Xenopsylla (Siph.) . 229 echinatus, Parapulex (Siph.) . 228 eutamiadis, Monopsyllus CSiphay ic sce os eee 75 felis strongylus, Ctenocephali- desviCSiphs) cactus 228 flavescens, Tomocerus (Col- Heiney)! fepscreckertsDetene to oes ark 142 fornacis, Monopsyllus (Siph.) 73 gallinacea, Echidnophaga GSiphs)ee eee eae 227 grandis, Tamiophila (Siph.) . 108 Guthriella (Collem.), key .... 17 hoffi,* Protsotoma (Collem.) . 20 hoffmani,* Hydropsyche (GD ci 1 leer eeeriqnne stot 129 humilis, Xenopsylla (Siph.) .. 230 Hypogastrurinae (Collem. ) Weeyrak sks cae ae 238 wrritans, Pulew (Siph.) ...... 227, Isotoma (Collem.) key ...... 45 Isotomurus (Collem.) key .... 22 krafti,* Spinachorutes* (Col- Jem)! near seater ee coe eee 238 larsent,* Stachiella (Malloph.) 303 278 louisiana,* Isotoma (Collem.) 68 lypusus, Dinopsyllus (Siph.) . 231 Metistoma (Collem.) key .... 45 penetrans, Tunga (Siphon.) .. 226 Plecoptera, winter \.:.........- 54 polumus, Monopsyllus (Siph.) 76 potis, Chimaeropsylla (Siph.) 231 Proisotoma (Collem.), key .. 17 robertsi, Xenopsylla (Siph.) . 230 semicollaris,* Dennyus (Mal- TOPLAS) Koenset. dts. orteret eas ae 161 setifera, Uselia (Collem.) .... 208 similis, Folsomia (Collem.) in INGPAITICL ce ttc ticcrerroe 23 Siphonaptera from chipmunks 7, day 107 Spinachorutes* (Collem.) ... 237 stannardi,* Sericostoma ( Trich. ) Stoneflies, collecting winter .. 54 Tomocerinae (Collem.), key 141, 145 torvus, Stivalius (Siph.) .... 230 tripectinata, Stenoponia (Siph.) 29 Hemimerus (Der- 90, 251 vosseleri, maptera ) NON-HEXAPODA ACARINA haplodoxa,* Thyopsella ...... 242 ‘rombididae: pees eee 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 1962 ARANEIDA Mygalomorphae, bibliography OL Sastry cheshire ere ee CO ee 245 CHILOPODA Diplochora sateen ee ee 181 epileptica, Tomotaenia, n. 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