JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY ^tvotzd to '^ntottxotoQVf in (f^zni^xKl Voltame XVIII, 1910 Edited by William Morton Wheeler NEW YORK Published by the Society Quarterly 1910 Press of The New era printing coHPANr Lancaster, pa Contents of Volume XVIII. Banks, Nathan, New Species of Psammicharidae ii4 Barber, H. G., Some Mexican Hemiptera-Heteroptera New to the Fauna of the United States 34 Barnes, Wm., and McDunnough, J., New Species and Varieties of North America Lepidoptera 149 Brues, C. T., Some Notes on the Geological History of the Parasitic Hymenoptera ^ BuENO, J. R., DE la Torre, Westchester Heteroptera— II. Additions, Corrections and New Records ^^ Cockerell, T. D. a., Some Australian Bees in the Berlin Museum ... 98 Davis, Wm. T., Miscellaneous Notes on Collecting in Georgia . . 82 The Periodical Cicada on Long Island, N. Y., in 1910 . 259 Fall, H. C, On Chrysobothris Californica and Allies .... 45 Forbes, Wm. T. M., New England Caterpillars No. 2. Eubephe Nigricans Reak ... ....... 163 Frost, C. A., A New Species of Chrysobothris from Maine . . 43 GiRAULT, A. A., Synonymic and Descriptive Notes on the Chalcidoid Family Mymaridas ^33 Grossbeck, John A., New Species and one New Genus of Geometridse . . 199 Leng, C. W., Notes on Coleoptera Collected in Northern Georgia , . 71 iii iv Contents. Matausch, Jgnaz, Observations on Membracidse in the Vicinity of Eliza- beth and Newark, N. J 164 Smilia Camekis Fabricius and Some of its Variations . 171 Entyha Germ, and its Different Forms .... 260 Olsen, Chris. E., Notes on breeding Hemiptera 39 OSBURN, RaYMUND C, Studies on Syrphidae — I. Syrphus Arcuatus Fal. and a Related New Species 53 Studies on Syrphidse — II. The Invahdity of Scaeva (Cata- comba) as a Genus 58 Studies on Syrphidse — ^III. Interesting Meristic Varia- tion in Syrphus Perplexus 62 SCHAEFFER, ChARLES, New Clavicorn Coleoptera 211 SCHROTTKY, C, Two new Nomadidse from South America .... 209 Sherman, John D., Jr., A List of Labrador Coleoptera 173 Skinner, Alanson, The Use of Insects and other Invertebrates as Food by the North American Indians 264 Smith, John B., New Species of Noctuidse for 1910 No. i . . . -85 Notes on North American Species of Agroperina . . 137 Wheeler, W. M., The North American Forms of Camponotus Fallax Nylander 217 The Reverend J. L. Zabriskie 127 Proceedings of the New York Entomological Society . . . 268 Vol XVIII. No. I J OU RN AL OF THE NEW YORK Entomological Society Devoted to Bntomoloav? in (Beueval. MARCH, 1910. Edited l>v William Morion Wheeler. Publication Committee. E P Felt. E. G. Love Charles Schaeffer. W. M. Wheelek. F»vat)l ished Qvaarterly by the Society. lanc.astp:r, pa. NEW YORK CITV. 1910. 'T- J A 1 ,,„- ,f T niiraster Pa as second-class matter, un Entered April 21, 1904,31 ijaiicasici, i ci.,.-" = der Act of Congress of July it". '894.] iMI ^ ^ \\\\sonian \n\ yipw" 9< 4^, ^tinri'^\ ft« ., COMTEIVTS. Some Notes on the Geological History of the Parasitic Hymenoptera. By Charles F. Hrues . . ... . . . i Westchester Heteroptera.— II. Additions, Corrections and New Records. By ]. H. i)E LA Torre Bueno . 22 Some Mexican Hemipt era -Heteroptera New to the Fauna of the United States. By H. G. Barbkr .... 34 Notes on Breeding Hemiptera. By Chris. E. Olsen . . 39 A New Species of Chysobothris (Coleoptera) from Maine. By C. A. Frost . 43 On Chrysobothr is calif ornica and Allies. ByH.C. Fall 45 Studies on Syrphidae. -I. Syrphus arcuatus Fallen and a Related New Species. By Raymund C. Osburn 53 Studies on Syrphidae. — II. The Invalidity of [Scaeva ( — Catabomba) as a Genus. By Raymond C. Osburn .... 58 Studies on Syrphidse. — III. 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JOURNAL JOfId ]|Qph €lnl^QmolQgiraI Soripfg. Vol. XVIII. MAECH, 1910. No. 1 . SOME NOTES ON THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA.* By Charles T. Brues. Boston, Mass. Part I. General Considerations. The occurrence in considerable abundance of fossil parasitic Hymenoptera in the deposits of the early and middle Tertiary has long been known, but it is only quite recently that they have received close attention. As early as 1849, in his classical v^ork on the fossil insects of the Radoboj (Lower Miocene) and Geningen (Upper Miocene) deposits, Heer ('47) described a considerable number of species belonging to these families, but this was before the classifi- cation of recent forms had been well worked out, and on this account his results are unsatisfactory from a more modern standpoint. The very rich fauna of Baltic amber (Lower Oligocene) was the subject of a brief note by Brischke ('86) where the occurrence of a number of recent genera in amber was recorded. I have lately had the oppor- tunity to examine a small collection from the same source and have been able to detect a considerable series additional to those seen by Brischke. In America there is a very rich fauna of parasitic Hymenoptera preserved in the Miocene shales of an old Tertiary lake * Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institu- tion, Harvard University, No. 14. 1 2 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xviii. basin near Florissant, Colorado, and from these many genera have been taken which have been lately described (Cockerell, '06, and Brues '06, '10). These two sources taken together have already afforded such a considerable number of types that it is now possible to draw from the accumulated data some general conclusions regard- ing the phylogeny and geological history of certain components of this most interesting series of insects. Although necessarily quite incomplete and of a tentative nature, these have a bearing on the relationship of recent faunae and are of both theoretical and practical interest, more particularly in view of the recent great advances made in the utilization of parasitic insects in combating injurious species. The following list, compiled both from the literature and from unpublished observations, includes all the accurate determinations of genera relating to the parasitic Hymenoptera of Baltic amber and of the Miocene shales of Florissant. To facilitate a comparison of the two fauns, they have been placed in parallel columns, with the corresponding families in juxtaposition. Genera Occurring in Baltic Amber and at Florissant.* Baltic Amber. Sierola. Parasierola. Epyris. Bethylincv gen. nov. Dryinus. Chelogynus. Dryinince gen. nov. Proctotrypes. Several genera. One genus. Bethylid^. Proctotrypid^. Belytid.e. Diapriid^. Florissant Shales. Epyris. Proctotrypes. Pantocilis. Belyta. %Galesimorpha. * Names preceded by an asterisk (*) have been previously found by other observers, those preceded by a dagger (f) have not been seen fossil by the writer and those preceded by a double dagger (t) are those of extinct genera. March, igio.] *Ceraphron. *Hadronotus. Brues : Parasitic Hymenoptera. Ceraphronid.e. scelionid^. Cynipoidea. iCynips. ■fDiastrophits. Several srenera. Monodontomerus. j^Perilampus. ■fPteromalus. One genus, iEnstochus. •\Anaphes. \Gonatoccriis j-Limacis. j-Litus. j-Malfattia. ■fPalceomymar. j-Evania. j-Brachygasfcr. Oleisoprister. Anlacus. Agaonid.e. torymid.e. Eurytomid^. Perilampid.1:. Cleonymid^. Pteromalid.e. Mymarid.^. Figitcs. Andriciis. XProtoihalia. Tetrapus. Torymus. XPalccotorymus. Onnyrodes. *Chalcis. Spilochalcis. iDecatoma. Eurytoma. Cleonynms. Pteromalns. EVANIID^. Aulacns. Pristaulacus. Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. ICHNEUMONID^, ICHNEUMONIN^. ^Ichneumon. Cryptin^. ^[Phygadeuon. j-Hemiteles. •\Pe20n1achus. *Cryptus. Several other genera. Lampronota. •fPimpla. PlMPLIN^. Tryphonin^. *Mesoleptns. *Tryphon. j;Bassus. Ophionin^. Astiphromma. ^[Mesochorus. *Porizon. Tragus. "^Ichneumon. Phygadeuon. Hemiteles. Cryptus. Mesostenus. Accenites. Leptobatopsis. Lampronota. Glypta. Polysphincta. Pimpla. Xylonomus. Mesoleptiis. Tryphon. Orthocentrus. Camerotops. Exochiis. Tylecomnus. XProtohellwigia. Labrorychus. Anomalon. Barylypa. Exochilum. XHiatensor. Limnerium. A bsyrtus. Parabates. lOphcltes. Lapton. Ex e tastes. Mesochorus. March, 1910.] Brues : Parasitic Hymenoptera. *MeteorMs. fMacrocentrus. Microtypus. Blaciis. Brachistcs. *Ascogastcr. *Chelonus. Diachasma. •fBracon. Ischiopomis. Alysiid.e. Braconid^. euphorin^, Meteorin.e. Macrocentrin^. Helconin^, Blacin^. SlGALPHIN,?-:. Chelonin^. AgATHIDINyE. MiCROGASTERINv^E. Opiin.e. Braconin.^. Rhogadin^. Stephanid^. Porizon. Dcniophorns. Alysia. Enphorns. Diospiliis. Dyscolctcs. Calypttts. Urosigalphns. Ch clonus. Agathis. Microgastcr. Microplitis. Oligoneiiroides. Bracon. Exothccus. Rhogas. XProtostcphanns. 6 Journal New York Entomological Society, fVoi. xviii. A casual examination of this tabular arrangement reveals the fact that about an equal number of genera are so far known from Baltic amber and from Florissant. This total is, however, a very- poor means of comparison, for the greatest diversity exists in the representation of the individual families and groups. This is in part readily accounted for by the different way in which the insects have been entrapped previous to fossilization. As is well known, only such species occur in amber as have come in contact with the trunks of the trees bearing the sticky resin destined to become fos- silized as amber. This at once exercised a selection with regard to certain groups which normally frequent such places and would appear to account for the presence of so many genera belonging to the Bethylidse. Some such forms live in galls, others are parasitic on wood-boring beetles, still others on leaf-hoppers, etc., which would have brought them in proximity to the resin upon the trees. Other forms like Mymaridae are so delicate and fragile that we can scarcely hope ever to find their remains in petrified form, although the beautiful preservation afforded by amber has made it possible to identify many species imbedded in this medium. This family so abundant in amber is, therefore, entirely absent in the Florissant shales. Aside from the poorer preservation of the Florissant mate- rial, the different way in which it has been laid down has resulted in the selection of quite a different component of the then existing fauna from that which appears in amber. The types occurring at Florissant are almost exclusively actively flying forms or others which live in proximity to bodies of water, since these deposits con- tain the remains of insects which had either flown into the waters of the original Florissant lake or one of its tributaries, or had possi- bly been engulfed in volcanic ash with which they were transported thither by streams. In some groups of Hymenoptera like the ants (Wheeler, '08) this has resulted in mutually excluding from the amber and florissant beds in great part that which occurs in the other. Thus, chiefly the workers of arboreal species occur in amber, while with few exceptions only winged forms are found in the Florissant deposits. With the parasitic Hymenoptera, this is, however, not generally the case in families like the Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Evaniidae and the Proctotrypoidea, as is shown by the contents of the foregoing March, 1910 1 BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 7 table, and these groups can be quite satisfactorily compared, both with each other and with recent faunae. In such a comparison, the most striking fact which attracts one's attention is the predominance of recent genera both in amber and at Florissant. Wheeler ('08) has summarized the ratio of living to extinct genera of ants known from Baltic amber and finds it to be in the proportion of 24 living to II extinct genera among a total on 35. The ratio of living to extinct genera of parasitic Hymenoptera in this amber has not yet been thus accurately determined, but there can be no doubt that it is much larger in favor of the recent ones. The same prepon- derance of modern genera is characteristic of the Florissant shales which have been more extensively studied, for here there are 63 living compared to 6 extinct genera among the parasitic families. The only conclusion to be reached from these data is that such types must be more conservative than the ants in the development of new generic types in spite of the complicated relations which they bear to their hosts. The very recent discoveries of so many most extra- ordinary and unexpected adaptations in the development and etho- logical relations of parasitic groups makes this still more remarkable for we should naturally look for correlations between such an enor- mous ethological plasticity and the morphological characters associ- ated with it. It would appear that the logical conclusion to be drawn from such facts is that the adaptations in habits known to exist in recent species must be well fixed and were also present at least in a very similar form in Oligocene and Miocene species, which suggests that all attempts to trace the phylogeny of the larger groups must be pushed far into pre-Tertiary time. This same con- clusion has been reached by other students of fossil insects of the more specialized orders and it seems well nigh hopeless in the present state of knowledge to attempt any generalizations concern- ing the phylogeny of the larger groups of Hymenoptera from pale- ontological data alone. Facts bearing on the occurrence and relation- ships of pre-Tertiary Hymenoptera are extremely meager, although the living families and genera appear suddenly in early Tertiary (Oligocene) times in nearly the same proportion as they do at present. The most recent attempt to trace the origin of the parasitic Hy- menoptera is that of Handlirsch ('08) who falls back mainly on pale- 8 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. ontology for the support of his conclusions. He would derive the group as follows : " The first forms with an elongated ovipositor may have come from Pseudosiricidse which no longer laid their eggs in wood, but in the eggs of beetles occurring in the wood (Buprestidae already existed). Thus the first parasitic Hymenoptera may have arisen, to which the Ephialtitids, still so poorly known, may belong." From these parasitic forms he would then derive the aculeates, digger wasps and bees. He considers further that the Ichneumoni- dx. are the most primitive of the various parasitic families, and that among these the Pimplinse are the least specialized. The Braconidse, Chalcidoidea, Proctotrypoidea, Evaniidae and Stephanid?e he believes to be highly specialized forms. As Handlirsch himself seems to appreciate, there are many diffi- culties in the way of this interpretation, and I believe that it will have to be fundamentally altered. In the first place the derivation of the Tertiary forms from Ephialtitcs-Vike insects rests upon a very slender basis. The problematic genus Ephialtites, resembling a Bra- conid or Torymid is the only member of the higher Hymenoptera as yet to be found in the Jurassic (Malm), and its perhaps accidental discovery there in nowise involves the probability of its being a prim- itive type ; indeed the wonderful development of the parasitic Hyme- noptera in the early Tertiary where they so closely simulated recent forms would lead us to believe that Ephialtites must be only one of many earlier types occurring contemporaneously, but remaining still unearthed by paleontologists. The common occurrence of Jurassic Siricoid forms is however well authenticated and in combination with the primitive morpholog- ical characters of the recent Siricidje and allied families gives good ground for considering them allied to the ancestors of the higher Hymenoptera. Among the families of parasitic Hymenoptera I am inclined to believe for several reasons that certain of the Evaniidae are the most generalized and that they represent the most primitive group of parasitica still surviving. Although they occur with other families in both amber and at Florissant, it seems quite certain that they were more abundant then than at the present time. Thus from the Florissant shales I have described two species of Aulacinse probably representing two different genera, and there occur in Baltic amber March, 1910.] BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 9 at least four genera belonging both to the Aulacinc-e and Evaniin^e. This proportion is much greater than would occur in a general col- lection of recent insects, so we may safely infer that the Evaniidae were more abundant in Tertiary times than at the present day. From a morphological standpoint this family also appears to be more closely allied to the phytophagous hymenoptera in several respects. In the first place the costal cell of the front wing is preserved while it is absent in the Ichneumonidse and Braconidse, although present also in many other families. In the Aulacinae at least the wings have a more complete and primitive venation than in the Ichneumonidse, and than in most of the Braconidse as well. The absence of the costal cell in the Ichneumonidje would thus appear to exclude them at once from the line of descent of aculeate forms. Of the Braconidae and Ichneumonidae, the former are much more nearly related to the Evaniidae through forms like Cocnoceliiis (Anla- codes) which has been variously placed by different writers in both families although it has been even considered by Cresson ('65) as more closely related to the Ichneumonidae. On the other hand the small and peculiar family Stephanidae bridges the gap between cer- tain other Evaniidae (Fceninae) (Bradley, '08) and one of the groups of true Braconidae (Spathiinae). The Stephanidae are further pecu- liar in having a horned structure of the head, recalling that of certain Oryssidae, as has already been pointed out by Ashmead ('00), a char- acter which gives additional evidence of their primitive character. Only a single Stephanid of dubious relationship, Protostephamis, has been found fossil, at Florissant (Cockerell, '06). This group of three families is therefore very evidently to be regarded as a natural association. The Ichneumonidae however present more difficulties and I cannot subscribe to Handlirsch's opinion that they are more primi- tive than any of the families heretofore mentioned. Their wings, which are very constant in venation, always lack the costal vein present in the Evaniidae and Stephanidae, while the basal section of the cubital vein is invariably absent though normally present in other fam- ilies. On the other hand they cannot be derived from the Braconidae as known from any Tertiary genus on account of the presence of the second recurrent nervure, which is invariably absent in the Braconidae. In other respects the two families are very similar and both must, I think, be derived from as yet unknown forms possessing common 10 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. characters of two recurrent nervures and a complete cubital vein. Such a type is represented by the genus Lysiognatha Ashmead ('95) but this form has the peculiar exodont mandibles of the Alysiidse which on this account cannot be considered a part of the stem from which the Braconidae and Ichneumonidae have been derived, although I believe they represent an offshoot not far from it. In the Miocene at Florissant Alysiidae occur apparently in about the same proportion as they do in recent times. There is one other remarkable type with exodont mandibles, Vanhornia, recently described by Crawford ('09), but its affinities are so problematic that it can hardly enter into the present discussion. So far the family Agriotypidae has not been found fossil, and any conclusions regarding its relationships must be derived from taxonomic studies alone. Several families of the Proctotrypoidea have been discovered fossil, the Proctotrypoidse, Belytidse, Diapriidae, Ceraphronidae and Scelioni- dae, but with one exception all the genera are apparently identical with recent ones and none give any clue to the probable origin of the group. The same is true of the Cynipoidea, with the exception of one genus Protoibalia (Brues, '10) from the Miocene shales of Floris- sant which shows characters transitional from the genuine Cyni- pids to the Ibaliinae. Although the paleontological evidence concerning the origin of the foregoing families is scant it leads to a few general conclusions and they agree well with those derived from anatomical studies of the same families. There is another family, the Bethylidae, well represented in amber by some genera, which, taken in connection with a number of recent ones, indicate very nicely part of the line of evolution within this group. It is a generally accepted fact that the older and more stable groups of animals, particularly those which are decadent from a paleontological standpoint, are the least adaptive, while those at pres- ent on the ascendent are better fitted to survive and prosper under changed conditions of environment. The importance of this principle to the economic entomologist is at once apparent in connection with all attempts to introduce and naturalize parasitic insects with a view toward checking the increase March, igio] BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 11 of injurious species, and its application to various parasitic types is of value in presaging the feasibility of introducing certain types. With reference to the insects under consideration the Evaniidce and Stephanidse appear as the most unlikely forms to adapt themselves to a changed environment, and of the two much larger related fami- lies, the Braconidae and Ichneumonidae, the former is for at least one reason the less promising. As I have pointed out in a previous paper ('lo), it gives evidence of having been more abundant in the past, thus representing a somewhat decadent type. Among the several divisions of the Ichneumonidae, the Pimplinse appear to be decreasing in abundance although there is no doubt that some recent species are very plastic to judge from their adaptation to a large series of quite different host species. The Ophioninae were very abundant in the Miocene and have materially decreased in number since that time, while the Ichneumoninse, Cryptinae and Tryphoninae show no de- crease. Prototrypoidea are not on the ascendent, but Chalcidoidea and Cynipoidea appear to be very markedly so, and the increasing abundance of the chalcidoids, in connection with their ability for rapid increase, suggests them as eminently suitable for experimental introduction. Another factor entering into the practical use of parasitic species is the general character of the present faunae of the various geo- graphical regions, and a mention of the slight paleontological evidence bearing on this matter may not be amiss. It must, however, be borne in mind that a more complete knowledge of fossil insects might easily reverse conclusions drawai from such necessarily fragmentary data. The presence of Indo-Australian types in Baltic amber of Oligocene age has been recently noted by Wheeler ('08) among ants, and I have recognized the same tendency among parasitic Hymenoptera, so that at least some of the present types of this region show a primitive or synthetic character and we should not expect to find them adap- tive. This is of course merely a repetition of conditions long known to exist in the vertebrate fauna of this region. Besides this rather positive evidence entomology can at present offer nothing in this line additional to what has been discovered from the investigation of the higher groups of animals. 12 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Part II. The Paleontological Development of the Betiiylid^. The family Bethylidse was fir^t segregated and defined by Haliday ('39) who considered it as forming a part of the fossorial Hymenop- tera. It was, however, later removed by Westwood ('40) from this position and assigned to a place among the Proctotrypidse of which he believed it to represent a subfamily of equivalent rank to the Ceraphroninae, Scelioninae, etc., which are now generally regarded as distinct families of the Proctotrypoid series. In his earlier writings Ashmead following Westwood included it as the subfamily Bethylinse in his Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae ('93). He later, however, recognized its fossorial affinities and removed it to his superfamily Vespoidea where it stands as a distinct family in his classification of this group published in the Canadian Entomologist for 1902. In this paper he gives the following condensed account of his position in regard to the group : " I am now convinced that Hali- day was right that these insects are allied to the fossorial wasps, and have nothing to do with genuine Prototrypoids ; they are clearly allied to the Chrysididae, through the Cleptinae and Amesiginje, and to the Sapygidae, Tiphiidae, Cosilidae, Thynnidae, Myrmosidae and Mutilli- dae, all parasitic families." It is thus clear that he considered their affinities quite varied, including so many families as allied with them. It is quite evident that his mention of the Chrysididae refers to the genus Pristocera and its allies which show unmistakable resemblances to that family, while the Sapygid and Tiphiid affinities were no doubt based on Epyris and its allies, and those with the Thynnidae and Myrmosidae probably on Dryinus, Pedinomma, etc. Since that time, one group regarded by Ashmead as a subfamily has been separated from the Bethylidae, by Perkins ('05) and Kieffer ('07) as the DryinidDs, but otherwise the group has remained intact. For some reason, possibly on account of their small size and not very abundant occurrence in collections, these insects have not re- ceived much attention in recent years until very lately, with the exception of Ashmead's previously cited work (93). With the discovery that some species of Gonatopus and related forms are im- portant parasites of the leaf-hoppers injurious to sugar cane, this part of the group has quite lately attracted more attention and a considerable number of species have been described by Perkins ('05) as well as by Kieffer, and several others. A considerable series March, 1910.] BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 13 of new and aberrant genera have also been discovered which are referred to the family, so that during the past five or ten years our knowledge of the group has been greatly increased. During this time it has become apparent that the group is of very heterogeneous composition and that it must include several series of forms which have been derived from different sources. Unfortunately a number of the genera are at present known only by their wingless or subapterous females which increases the difficulty of determining their affinities, since the wing venation is perhaps the most important single character so far discovered in defining the limits of many of the groups of Hymenoptera. Even in forms with wings, the neuration of these organs is much reduced or atro- phied so that the primitive types from which they must have been derived are difficult of determination. With these important char- acters lacking, many forms exhibiting reduced neuration or atrophied wings have been included in the family on account of their similar appearance notwithstanding the possibility or even likelihood that such a condition is the result of convergence rather than an indication of real genetic relationship. On this account I have been led to attempt a study of the characters of some of the members of the family previously known, and, at the same time to present some conclusions derived from several genera, both recent and fossil which are here discussed for the first time. The Bethylinse are characterized by the elongate, flattened form of the head, 12-13-jointed antennae, more or less elongate prothorax Fig. I. Palccobethylus longicollis Brues MS.; wing. and usually thickened legs. The wingless females in most cases have the thorax much constricted between the meso- and metatho- racic segments. This group appears to be more closely related to the Ampulicidse than to any other family of the fossores and this rela- tionship is very strongly shown by a peculiar genus which I have 14 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. lately discovered fossil in Baltic amber. In the fossil genus, which is unmistakably a Bethylid, the prothorax is unusually long, like that of the Ampulicid Rhinopsis, and also bears a strong median longitu- dinal sulcus similar to that of Rhinopsis. The wing venation is con- siderably reduced (Fig. i), but less so than in any living genus of the Bethylinje and can be readily derived from the type of Rhinopsis by the suppression of the transverse cubital veins and the loss of the second recurrent nervure. The head has the same lenticular form and bears 13-jointed antennae. The form of the mesothorax is very similar; it bears a second pair of lateral parapsidal furrows, and the size, form and sculpture of the metathorax is almost identical. The most striking difference is the absence of the well-developed abdom- inal petiole of Rhinopsis and the thickening of the legs, both Bethy- line characters. From a close study of these two genera I feel con- vinced that the Bethylinse, typified by Epyris and its allies have been derived from Ampulicidae quite similar to Rhinopsis, and this opin- ion is further supported by the fact that the Ampulicidae appear to be an old and archaic group. Another part of the family, represented most typically by the genus Pristocera is, I think, also derived from an Ampulicid-like form, for it also shows unmistakable similarities to Rhinopsis. In the winged forms (males) of this group the loss of wing veins has pro- ceeded a little farther than in the fossil genus above referred to; the legs have been less modified, remaining slender, and the thorax, except the prothoracic segment, is scarcely different from that of Rhinopsis. The prothorax has been much shortened, and the head, instead of be- coming more elongate, is thickened and quadrate in form. The abdo- men is less modified, being subpetiolate. Probably the most easily defined and sharply circumscribed group of the Bethylid series is the group variously regarded as a family or subfamily, represented by Dryinns and its allies. The fore tarsi of the females of this group are peculiarly modified into a chelate struc- ture involving the terminal joint. This modification, which occurs in nearly all the genera, is so extraordinary and characteristic that it serves for their instant recognition. The form of the head and thorax of the members of this group is also very different from that of other Bethylids although the wings and abdomen are quite similar. The legs in all genera have the cox?e and trochanters very elongate March, igio.] BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 15 and the femora strongly obclavately thickened. The chelate tarsi and the uniformly lo-jointed antennae occur also in a number of fossil species belonging to several genera found in Baltic amber of Oligocene age, but in a new genus from Borneo, here described for the first time, the tarsi are simple as in two other known genera, and the antennae are 12-jointed. While there can be no doubt that it is closely related to the Dryinidge, it approaches in many respects cer- tain Thynnids like Methoca, but I think this resemblance undoubtedly superficial and that the Dryinids have also been derived from an Ampulicid type. Another interesting series forms the subfamily Embolemin?e of Ashmead which he places between the Bethylinae and Dryininge ('02). Of this group the rare genus Ampnlicimorpha Ashm. from western North America appears to be the most generalized form yet dis- covered (Fig. 2). As its name suggests it bears a striking resemb- FiG. 2. Ampulicimorpha confusa Ashm. ; wing. lance to the Ampulicidre also. In spite of this, however, it really shows less similarity to this family than the types previously dis- cussed. The antennas are 13-jointed, inserted high up on the front, and the form of the metathorax is very much like that of Proctotrypes and its allies. This has already been mentioned by Perkins ('05) who writes : " To me the Dryinidae together with the small and little known subfamily Emboleminae of Ashmead (which may probably be merged in one or the other of these) [Dryinidae or Bethylinae] con- stitute a natural group, synthetic between the old Fossorial series of the Aculeata and the true Proctotrypidse." From a study of Ampuli- cimorpha I have been led to the same conclusion with respect to the relationship of Ampulicimorpha and the Proctotrypidse, but as can be seen from the preceding discussion, not in regard to the Bethylidae in general. With the exception of the wings, which have a very much degenerated venation in the Proctotrypidae, the resemblance is very strong, even to the armature of the male genitalia by a pair of spines in both, and I regard Ampulicimorpha as a remnant of a group 16 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. from which the Proctotrypidse have evolved, and thus well removed from the Bethylidae. There is still another group which forms a discordant element in the Bethylidae, the tribe Sclerogibbini, widely distributed but rep- resented so far as known by only a few rare genera. Of one of these, Mystrocnemis Kiefifer, I have had the opportunity to study a species from Cape Colony recently described (Brues, '06). The group is characterized by extraordinary multiarticulate antennae, greatly thickened legs, and in some genera by a very peculiarly formed head. The antennae must undoubtedly be secondarily modified, for no other family except the Trigonalidae resembling these insects in any way possesses antennae of this sort, and the same must apply to the head. I suspect that the genus Algoa (Fig. 4) here described is related to this group, and as it furthermore shows strong Tiphiid and Cosilid affinities, I believe that Mystrocnemis and its allies are derivatives of the group from which the recent Tiphiidae and Cosilidse have come. The confirmation of this must, however, await further discoveries. From the foregoing, it appears that the old family Bethylidse must be regarded as a very unnatural assemblage, and in the appended table I have attempted to suggest a more acceptable arrangement of its components. Bethylid^ (including the Bethylini of Ashmead, derived from Ampulicid-like forms). Bethylince. Prist oc evince. Dryinid.e (including Dryiniis and its allies, derived from Ampu- licid-like forms). Embolemid^ (an ancient group related to the forms from which the Proctotrypidae are descended). PSclerogibbid.e (a group related to the Tiphiidae and Cosilidae). Part. III. Description of New Genera and Species. DRYINOPSIS, new genus. Female. — Wingless. Thorax trilobed, the pro-, meso- and metathoracic segments being sharply separated. Head large, twice as wide as the thorax, much narrowed behind the eyes, and about twice as wide as thick ; posteriorly sharply margined. Vertex convex, front concave above the antennae, and below March, 1910.J BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 17 on each side with a deep depression for the reception of each scape. Eyes large, pubescent ; ocelli large and close together. Mandibles large, bidentate. Antennae i2-jointed, stout, only about twice as long as the head-height; scape stout, as long as the two following joints together; pedicel one half as long as the first flagellar joint; following, except the last, becoming shorter and thicker, the seventh and eighth about quadrate. Maxillary palpi 5-jointed, Icng and slender; labials 3-jointed. Pronotum narrowed both behind and in front, just before the anterior margin with a transverse groove or constriction. Mesothorax cylindrical, stalk-like in front. Methathorax widened and globose behind. Abdomen with a short, but distinct petiole. Legs as usual, the femora slightly thickened. Anterior tarsi simple, not chelate. Dryinopsis simplicipes, new species. (Fig. 3.) Female. — Length 5 mm. Entirely shining black, covered with sparse, long, glistening white hairs; only the first two joints of the antennae, the palpi, the tips of the trochanters, tarsi, and apex of abdomen reddish or ferruginous. Head polished, smooth on the vertex, sparsely punctate behind the eyes ; cheeks smooth. Front with an impressed line descending from the anterior ocellus, which passes over into a carinate elevation above the base of the antennae, separating the antennal fovea. Antennae inserted far down on the face, on a level with the base of the mandibles. Clypeus small, convex. Pronotum smooth, except for the crenulate furrow in front and a shagreened sculpture anterior to this. Mesothorax closely longitudinally striate or fluted anteriorly on the stalked portion. Metathorax entirely smooth, a little longer than the mesothorax. Petiole one third longer than wide at the apex. Second and Fig. 3. Dryinopsis simplicipes, new species ; female. third segments of nearly equal length, following growing shorter. Front tarsi simple, the first joint nearly as long as the following together. All femora obclavate ; tarsal claws each with a single tooth. Described from a specimen collected by E. B. Keeshaw at Samut Api on the west coast of British North Borneo. 18 Journal New York Entomological Society, ivoi.xviii. This is a typical Dryinid, much resembling Gonatopus, but differ- ing from this genus and its allies by the simple fore tarsi of the female. From other Dryinidse it differs by the i2-jointed antennae. ALGOA, new genus. Female. — Entirely apterous, elongate, thorax constricted medially. Head seen from above one half wider than thick antero-posteriorly but thin above, the front sloping back sharply above the antennae which are inserted close together in lateral depressions just above the cljT)eus ; 12-jointed, simple, short, thinner apically. Eyes bare, small, very elongate, over twice as long as broad, separated by their width from the vertex and from the base of the mandibles. Mandibles long, acute, widely separated at the base, with three microscopic teeth on the inner side at the tip. Maxillary palpi 6-jointed; first joint very short, third with a spine at its tip. Labial palpi 4-jointed. Cheeks and temples margined behind, the head concave posteriorly inside the margin. Thorax narrowed medially, widened out both in front and behind, prothorax as long as the mesonotum and metanotum together. Mesonotum very short, medially elevated, with two foveate, indistinct furrows. Metano- tum wider behind, arcuately excised, with the hind angles produced and the posterior surface concave. Abdomen as long as the thorax, with six segments of which the second is the longest, distinctly constricted at the base of the second segment both above and below. Legs stout, smooth, the anterior femora especially large and swollen. Algoa heterodoxa, new species. (Fig. 4.) Female. — Length 2.5-5.2 mm. Piceous, the basal three joints of the antennae, the mandibles and the legs, except the base of the coxae and all the femora much lighter, yellowish-brown. Head highly polished, not punctate, ocelli visible in certain lights as faint dots arranged in a large triangle. Scape of antennae as long as the first flagellar joint; pedicel two thirds as long; second flagellar joint three fourths as long, following of about equal length, but growing thinner. Thorax brownish pubescent except on the pro- and meso- pleurae, not sculptured, metanotum behind with a marginal carina. Abdomen brownish pubescent, sessile ; first segment with its declivous basal portion sepa- rated by a carina ; second segment as long as wide, more than twice as long as the first and equal to the following three taken together ; third to fifth gradually shorter. Tibial spurs i, 2, 2. Hind legs moderately stout, the tibiae smooth ; middle legs with the femora swollen ; those of the anterior legs enormously enlarged, obovate. Fore tarsi one half longer than their tibiae ; those of the other legs nearly twice as long. Described from four specimens collected by Dr. Hans Brauns at Algoa Bay, Cape Colony, during December and April. This remarkable species is of doubtful relationship but has strong affinities with the Sclerogibbini, for the thorax, abdomen and legs March, 1910.] BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 19 are very similar to those of Mystrocncmis. On the other hand it shows many resemblances to certain Pompilid^e of the group Homo- notini, but differs in having a very strong ventral constriction between Fig. 4. Algoa heterodo.ra, new species ; female. the first and second segments like certain Cosilidas (Sicrolomorpha) which it also approaches in the form of the head showing a connec- tion between Mystrocnemis and its allies and the Cosilidse. Parascleroderma nigra, new species. (Fig. 5.) Female. — Length 2.3 mm. Black, with a bluish cast, especially on the head; scape and pedicel of antennse honey yellow; basal four joints of flagellum and tarsi brownish. Head very flat, widest just behind the eyes where it is half as broad as long, slightly narrowed toward the rounded posterior angles ; its upper surface shagreened. Eyes very small, oval, bare, placed near the lateral margin of the head, close to the anterior angles. Head just behind the insertion of each antenna with a rounded tubercle about the size of the eye, the space between these anteriorly regularly excavated. Antennse 13-jointed, slender, scarcely twice the length of the head; scape elongate, thickened apically, as long as the four following joints. Pedicel a little longer than the 20 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. first flagellar joint, following growing barely longer and slightly thicker, the fourth about one half longer than wide. Prothorax widest just before the middle, sharply contracted anteriorly ; posteriorly narrowed, with sharply dentate hind angles ; above very convex ; smooth, except at the posterior fifth Fig. 5. Parascleroderma nigra, new species ; female. where it is punctulate or shagreened. Mesonotum short, narrow, convex, rugulose ; the mesopleurse visible from above as smooth convex crescentic pieces embracing the anterior angles and the base of the sides of the mesono- tum, the latter elongate, with parallel sides, finely longitudinally aciculate, the lines curving toward the median line in front ; posterior slope rugulose. Abdomen one fourth longer than the thorax, with a short, very slender petiole, second segment longer than the following three together ; third to fifth subequal ; following not clearly separated. Legs stout, the tibias all bare, not spinulose. Middle and posterior femora much thickened, broadest at the middle. Described from a specimen collected by Dr. Hans Brauns at Botha- ville, Orange Free State, May 5, 1899. March, 1910.] BrUES : PARASITIC HyMENOPTERA. 21 This resembles a Pristocera very closely, but belongs to Para- scleroderma Kieffer which differs by the bare, non-spinulose tibiae. Literature Cited. Ashmead, Wm, H. 1893, A monograph of the North American Proctotrypidje. Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., pp. 472, pis. 18. 1895. Lysiognatha, a new and remarkable genus in the Ichneumonidae. Proc. Ent. Soc, Washington, Vol. 3, pp. 275-278. 1896. The phylogeny of the Hymenoptera. Ibid., Vol. 3, pp. 323-336. 1900. Classification of the Ichneumon flies, or the superfamily Ichneu- monoidea. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 23, pp. 1-220. (No. 1206.) 1902. Classification of the fossorial, predaceous, and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. Canad. Entom., Vol. 34. Bradley, J. Chester, 1908. The Evaniidae, ensign-flies, an archaic family of Hymenoptera. Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, Vol. 34, pp. 101-194, pis. 5-15. Brischke, D. 1886. Die Hymenopteren des Eernsteins. Schrift. naturf. Gesellsch. 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Die Insektenfauna der Tertiargebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien, pp. 229. 22 Journal New York Entomological Society, [Voi. xviii. Kieffer, J. J. 1907. Genera Dryinidarum. Wytsman's Gen., Ins. Fasc. Perkins, R. C. L. 1905. Leaf hoppers and their natural enemies, Part i, Dryinidae. Bull. Hawaii Expt. Sta., No. i, pp. 69. West-wood, J. O. 1840. An introduction to the modern classification of insects. 2 vols., London, 1839-40. Wheeler, W. M. 1908. Comparative ethology of European and American ants. Journ. f. Psychol, u. Neurol., Vol. 13, pp. 404-435, pis. 3, 4. WESTCHESTER HETEROPTERA. — II. ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS AND NEW RECORDS. By J. R. DE LA Torre Bueno, White Plains, N. Y. The raison d'etre of this list is set forth in its predecessor. In this are given the fruits of the work of the season of 1909, including the winter of 1908-9. As will be seen, there are no less than 30 species added to those recorded last year, which brings the total up to 138 species for Westchester Co. When it is considered that Mr. E. P. Van Duzee's Buffalo list, the result of his collecting and that of others, yielded only 127 species for the families I enumerate, the present relation is not to be despised. A number of corrections due to the ceaseless change of nomen- clature have to be made. These will be noted in their proper places. The identification of forms of our fauna by means of the imperfect descriptions of the early hemipterists have saddled us at this day with a burden of misinformation which very fortunately is being reduced year by year by the labors, alas ! not of our own, but of European entomologists. It appears to me a fundamental axiom that every entomologist, and very especially every hemipterist, before referring an x\merican form to a genus peculiar to some other region of the globe, should make it his business to procure authenticated specimens of the type species of that genus. Then a careful com- parison between the two forms should serve to settle the point March, 1910.] BUENO : WESTCHESTER HeTEROPTERA. 23 definitely. As it is, consider the labor necessary in hemipterology to settle beyond doubt the identity of some 30 or so species with European forms. A certain proportion of these, due to the labors of Dr. Horvath, are now decided definitely, although there is some question as to two or three of them, which Van Duzee has brought up in a recent paper.* Superfamily PENTATOMOIDEA. Family PENTATOMID^. Subfamily I. Asopin^ Schout. Genus PERILLOIDES Schout. 1. P. circumcinctus Stal. White Plains, July 3, nymph ; loth, adults and nymphs; 25th, adults. Genus MINEUS Stal. 2. M. strigipes H. S. White Plains, April 18, perched on a rock; July 4, 5, 10; Sept. 3, nymph in last instar; Sept. 5, 25 and 26. Genus APATETICUS Dallas. Van Duzee differs with Schouteden in regard to the arrangement of this genus, in the article cited. As to whether Podisus is entitled to full generic rank or is only a subgenus will have to be settled by the specialists. I defer to Van Duzee in his opinion, and rearrange our species accordingly. 3. A, (Apoecilus) cynicus Say. White Plains, Aug. 30, in flight. 4. A. (Apoecilus) bracteatus Fitch. No new record. Genus PODISUS H. S. 5. P. (Podisus) maculiventris Say. White Plains, Feb. 12, hibernating adults under a stone. 6. P. (Podisus) modestus Dallas. No new record. Subfamily Pentatomin.^. Genus BANASA Stal. 7. B. catinus Dallas. Scarsdale, May 25, swept under apple tree. * Can. Ent., XLI, No. 10, pp. 369-375, Oct., 1909. 24 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. Genus NEZARA A. & S. 8. N. hilaris Say. White Plains, April i8, under a stone on a hillside. August 15 and Sept. 6, nymphs in the grasses in a marshy meadow. Genus THYANTA Stal. 9. T. custator Fabr. Scarsdale, May 25. Genus COSMOPEPLA Stal. 10. C. carnifex Fabr. White Plains, May 31, July 10, Sept. 26. Genus CCENUS Dallas. 11. C. delius Say. White Plains, Feb. 7, torpid under stones. Genus EUSCHISTUS Dallas. 12. E. variolarius P. B. White Plains, Feb. 7 and 20, torpid. 13. E. tristigmus Say. White Plains, Feb. 21, April 4, under stones. 14. E. fissilis Uhler. Scarsdale, May 25, Rye Beach, Aug. 21. 15. E. ictericus L. White Plains, Aug. 8, in a damp meadow. Genus SOLUBEA Bergr. («. n. for CEbalus Stal.) 16. S. pugnax Fabr. Rye Beach, Aug. 21. Genus MORMIDEA A. & S. 17. M. lugens Fabr. White Plains, March 7 and April 18, under stones. Genus PENTATOMA Olivier. 18. P. senilis Say. Rye Beach, Aug. 21. 19. P. saucia Say. Rye Beach, July 17, adults and nymphs, on a fine grass growing in the higher parts of the salt marsh. March, 1910.] BUENO : WESTCHESTER HeTEROPTERA, 25 Genus TRICHOPEPLA Stal. 20. T. semivittata Say. Rye Beach, Aug. 21. Genus PERIBALUS M. & R. 21. P. limbolarius Stal. The past year's observation repeated. Genus BROCHYMENA A. & S. 22. B. quadripustulata Fabr. White Plains, March 28, under stone at foot of tree; May 9, under bark of apple log in a field. Subfamily Cydnin^. Genus SEHIRUS A. & S. 23. S. cinctus P. B. No new record. Genus AMNESTUS Dallas. 24. A. spinifrons Say. White Plains, May 29, Swept from grasses. 25. A. pusillus Uhler. White Plains May 30, June 6. Subfamily Graphosomin^. Genus AMAUROCHROUS Stal. 26. A. cinctipes Say. White Plains, April 3, sifted under elder bush at edge of a marshy meadow. Subfamily Scutellerin^. Genus EURYGASTER Lap. Ae Cast. 27. E. alternatus Say. White Plains, May and June. Genus HOM(EMUS Dallas. 28. H. aeneifrons Say. White Plains, June 26. Family THYREOCORID^. Genus THYREOCORIS Schrank. 29. T. unicolor P. B. Scarsdale, May 25. 26 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii, 30. T. pulicarius Germar. White Plains, Feb. 12, sifted from leaves in the woods. Family ARADID^. Subfamily Aradin.e. Genus ARADUS Fabr. 31. A robustus UhL White Plains, Oct. 31 32. A. similis Say. White Plains, February, March, April, hibernating under bark of dead white birches. June 13, active under fungus. 33. A. lugubris Fallen. White Plains, July 31, on fence. Family CORRIDA. Subfamily Merocorin.e. Genus CORYNOCORIS Mayr. 33a. C. typhaeus Fabr. White Plains, Sept. 3, nymph and adult at edge of marshy meadow, in field; Sept. 19, Oct. 9. Subfamily Acanthocephalin^. Genus ACANTHOCEPHALA Lap. de Cast. 34. A. terminalis Dallas. White Plains, July 10, nymphs in second and third instars; 31st, full grown nymph ; Sept. 6, the same. Subfamily CENTROSCELINyE. Genus ANASA A. & S. 35. A. tristis de G. White Plains, June 7, Sept. 26. Subfamily Micrelytrin^. Genus PROTENOR Stal. 36. P. belfragei Hagl. White Plains, May 15; June 26, nymphs in various stages. July to October, adults only. March, 1910.] BUENO : WESTCHESTER HeTEROPTERA. 27 Subfamily Alydin^. Genus MEGALOTOMUS Fieb. 37. M. quinquespinosus Say. White Plains, July lo, Sept. 6 and 26. Genus ALYDUS Fabr. 38. A. eurinus Say. 39. A. pilosulus H. S. The latest date for these in White Plains is Oct. 12. 40. A. conspersus Mont. White Plains, June 6, Sept. 4. Subfamily Corizin^. Genus CORIZUS Fall. 41. C. lateralis Say. White Plains. Common in spring and late summer. 42. C. nigristernum Sign. White Plains, August and September; nymphs as late as the 26th of the latter month. Subfamily Berytin^. Genus NEIDES Latr. 43. N. muticus Say. White Plains, July 10, adult and nymphs in last stage; July 18, nymph in last instar; Aug. 15 and 28, Sept. 6. In shrubbery at the edges of woods. Genus JALYSUS Stal. 44. J. spinosus Say. White Plains, April 4, dead under a stone ; June 6, Sept. 26. Family LYG^ID^. Subfamily Lyg^in^. Genus LYG.S:US Fabr. 45. L. kalmii Stal. White Plains, July 10. Genus NYSIUS Dallas. Since the date of the previous paper, a number of changes have been made in the nomenclature of this sfenus. Van Duzee has 28 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. reconsidered his synonymy of the form listed as jamaicensis, and Horvath has shown the identity of angtistatus with a European species. 46. N. ericse Schill. (= angustatus Uhl.). White Plains, May 15 and 30; Sept. 25 and 26. 47. N. providus Uhl. (=z jamaicensis V. D., not Dallas). June to Sept. Subfamily Cymin.e. Genus KLEIDOCERYS Westw. (= Ischnorhynchus Auctt.). 48. I. geminatus Say (= reseda of Am. authors, nee Panz). White Plains, April 17, on sweet birches; May i and 15. Dr. Horvath has found that our species is not identical with the European one. Genus CYMUS Hahn. In this genus Dr. Horvath's work has changed completely our conception of the American species. 49. C. luridus Stal. White Plains, May 29 and 30, June 12, 19 and 26. Common in marsh grasses. 50. C. angustatus Stal. White Plains, May i, 15, 26 to 30, June; Scarsdale, May 25; Rye Beach, July 17. Common at all times. This is the species that appeared in the previous list as Cymodema- tabida Spin. 51. C. discors Horv, (=z luridus of previous list). White Plains, July and August, very rare. Subfamily Blissin^. Genus ISCHNODEMUS Fieb. 52. I. falicus Say. White Plains, May 29, June 12. Genus BLISSUS Klug. 53. B. leucopterus Say. White Plains, Feb. 7 and 12, under stones in fields. May, sweep- ing. Rye Beach, Aug. 21. March, 1910.] BUENO : WESTCHESTER HeTEROPTERA, 29 Subfamily Geocorin.e. Genus GEOCORIS FaUen. 54. G. buUatus Say. White Plains, May 15 and 31, July 3. 55. G. discopterus Stal. White Plains, May 15, Aug. 22, Sept. 3. 56. G. uliginosus Say (^=ater, of Am. authors, nee Fabr.). White Plains, May, August and September. 57. G, piceus Say. White Plains, April 11, under stone, quite active. May, June, August. Rye Beach, Aug. 21. Subfamily Pachygronthin^. Genus PHLEGYAS Stal. 58. P. abbreviata XJhl, (= annulicrus Auctt. for Am. form). May to August. Genus (EDANCALA A. & S. 59. (E. crassimana Fabr. {^= dorsalis Say). White Plains, June to September. Taken in large numbers in grasses in a marshy meadow, nymphs and adults in July and August. Subfamily Oxycarenin.e. Genus CROPHIUS Stal. 60. C. disconotus Say. W^hite Plains, Oct. 3, another single specimen. Subfamily Aphanin^. Genus LIGYROCORIS Stal. 61. L. silvestris L. White Plains, throughout the summer. There may be more than one species under this name. Genus PERIGENES Distant. 62. P. constrictus Say {■=fallax Heid. sec. V. Duz.). White Plains, September and October, in short grasses. 63. P. costalis Van Duzee. White Plains, July 3, Sept. 25 and 26, Oct. 10. 30 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Genus HER-^EUS Stal. 64. H. plebejus Stal. April 4 and 11, under stones, hibernating. May 28 and 29, July 24, Sept. 25 and 26, Oct. 9 and 10; taken by sweeping on all these dates. Oct. 31, under stones. Genus ORTH(EA Dallas (= Pamera Say). 65. 0. basalis Say. White Plains, Feb. i, hibernating under stones in field; June and July, September and October. Genus CLIGENES Bergr. 66. C. minutus Bergr.? (z= pHosulus Stal?). White Plains, April to early May, under stones; late May, swept in marshy fields. Scarsdale, May 25. Genus EMBLETHIS Fieb. 67. E. vicarius Harv. White Plains, Sept. 3 and 4, running among grasses, at the roots; Nov. 8, under stones. Genus EREMOCORIS Fieb. 68. E. ferus Say. White Plains, April 18, Sept. 6, Oct. 31, under stones. Genus SCOLOPOSTETHUS Fieb. 69. S. atlanticus Harv. White Plains, May 15 and 30, June 6 and 12, July 5, at base of clumps of marsh-grasses. Family TINGID^. Subfamily Pilemin^. Genus PIESMA Lep. & Serv. 70. P. cinerea Say. White Plains, July 10 and August 28, swept from weeds. Subfamily Tingidin^. Genus MELANORHOPALA Stal. 71. M. clavata Stal. White Plains, June 26. Genus CORYTHUCA Stal. 72. C. ciliata Say. White Plains. March, 1910.] BUENO : WESTCHESTER HeTEROPTERA. 31 73. C. arcuata Say. White Plains, May and July. 74. C. pergandei Heid. White Plains, May 15, June 12 and 30, on black alder. Genus LEPTOBYRSA Stal. 75. L. explanata Heid. White Plains, June 6, nymphs; July 10, Aug. 28, ova; nymphs and adults, Sept. 6 and 26. Genus GARGAPHIA Stal. 76. G. tiliae "Walsh. White Plains, May 26. Genus PHYSATOCHILA Fieb. 77. P. plexa Say. White Plains, June 12. Swept in marshy meadow. Superfamily NEPOIDEA Kirk. Family NABID^. Genus PAGASA Stal. 78. P. fusca Stein. White Plains, July 25, Aug. 22 and 28, nymph; Sept. 4, 26 and 27. Family GERRID^. Subfamily Veliin^e. Owing to a slip of the printer, all the species were put under Rhagovelia. The correct division is as follows : Genus RHAGOVELIA Mayr. 79. R. obesa Uhl. Genus MICROVELIA Westw. 80. M. americana Uhl. 81. M. capitata Guer. 82. M. sp. (= pulchella Auctt. for N. Am. form). Subfamily Gerrin^. Genus GERRIS Fabr. 83. G. remigis Say. Occurs throughout the county and state. 84. G. conformis Uhl. Mamaroneck, May 24. 32 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Family HYDROMETRID.E. Genus HYDROMETRA Latr. 85. H. martini Kirk. White Plains, May 9. Family N^ogeid^. Genus N-ffiOGEUS Lap, 86. N. concinnus Uhl. White Plains, May 15. Family REDUVIID^. Subfamily Emesin^. Genus EMESA Fabr. 87. E. longipes de G. White Plains, Aug. 28, Sept. 6. Genus BARCE Stal. 88. B. annulipes Stal. White Plains, April 4, Aug. 31, Oct. 10, swept in a field; Oct. 31. Subfamily Acanthaspidin^. Genus REDUVIUS Lam. 89. R. personatus L. White Plains, July 3, on kitchen floor at night. Subfamily Pirating. Genus MELANOLESTES Stal. 90. M. picipes H. S. White Plains, April 18 and 25, under stones. 91. M. abdominalis H. S. White Plains, April 4 and 18, May 9. Subfamily Harpactorin^. Genus ZELUS Fabr. 92. Z. luridus Stal. Scarsdale, May 25, nymphs. Genus FITCHIA Stal. 93. F. nigrovittata Stal. White Plains, April 4, wingless form, under a hillside stone ; June 12, one fully winged, swept. March, 1910.] BuENO : WESTCHESTER HeTEROPTERA. 33 Genus ACHOLLA Stel. 94. A. multispinosa de G. White Plains, April 14, nymph in last instar, on fence under trees. Genus SINEA A. & S. 95. S. diadema Fabr. White Plains, Sept. 3, 11 and 26, Oct. 3. Superfamily MIROIDEA. Family ANTHOCORID^. Genus PIEZOSTETHUS Fieb. 96. P. sordidus Reut. White Plains, Sept. 26; Hartsdale, May 22. Genus TRIPHLEPS Fieb. 97. T. insidiosus Say, Rye, Aug. 21. Superfamily NOTONECTOIDEA. Family NAUCORID.E. Subfamily Naucorin^e. Genus PELOCORIS Stal. 98. P. femoratus Pal. Beauv. White Plains, July 25, nymph. Family NOTONECTID^. Subfamily Notonectin^. Genus NOTONECTA Linne. 99. N. insulata Kirby. 100. N. undulata Say. White Plains, Dec. 5 and 20; Feb. 20, swimming under thin ice. Genus BUENOA Kirkaldy. loi. B. margaritacea Bno. White Plains, Dec. 5 and 20, Feb. 22, March 7, swimming under clear thin ice.^ ^ The appearance of the first volume of Kirkaldy's Catalogue has rendered obsolete the arrangement of the Cimicida: (Pentatomid^) and changed the names of a number of genera and species, but it is impossible to make the requisite corrections in the proof before me. J. R. T. B. 34 Journal New York Entomological Society, lvoi. xviii. SOME MEXICAN HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA NEW TO THE FAUNA OF THE UNITED STATES. By H. G. Barber, RosELLE Park, N. J. In the last few years I have obtained a number of Hemiptera, hitherto recorded only from Mexico or Central America, which have been taken in the extreme southern limits of New Mexico and Ari- zona. The addition of these to our fauna goes to swell the ever- increasing number of insects which are spreading northward from Mexico into the southern limits of the United States where the con- ditions are similar on either side of the border. The majority of the species which I desire here to record are a result of my collecting in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, in the summer of 1905. Brochymena haedula Stal. I took six specimens of this species in the Huachuca Mts., Ari- zona. It is very closely related to B. arborea Say. I have some doubt concerning their separation as distinct species. Stal in his diagnosis in Enum. Hem., 2, p. 17, points out that hccdiila differs in having the three lobes of head equal, the fore tibiae expanded near their apices and the base of all antennal joints paler. The specimens before me have the pronounced dilatation of the anterior tibiae, and with the exception of the possibly more pronounced arma- ture of spines on the pronotal angle I can find no other constant differential character. In these specimens the base of the fifth anten- nal joint is not pale. Euschistus spurculus Stal. I have received a single specimen from the F. H. Snow Collec- tion from San Bernardino Ranch, Cochise Co., Arizona, collected at an elevation of 3,750 ft. It agrees in every particular with Stal's description but is considerably paler than other specimens which I have from Durango, Mexico. Its occurrence within the United States was noted by Snow in the Trans. Kas. Acad. Sci., Vol. XX, Part I, 1906. March, 1910.J Barber : Mexican Hemiptera-Heteroptera. 35 Padaeus irroratus H. Schf. I have a single specimen collected by Dr. R. E. Kunze in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, in 1899. I did not take this species in my collecting over the same territory in 1905. This is the specimen which Mr. Van Duzee determined for me and by mistake recorded from Florida in his '' List of the Pentatomidae of the United States." Cosmopepla binotata Dist. A single specimen, collected by Dr. R. E. Kunze in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. Chlorocoris Spin. I can find no record of the occurrence of any member of this genus within the United States. I have four species to add. This genus is characterized by Stal as follows : Body more or less de- pressed, the lateral lobes of the head are longer than the median, the lateral angle of the prothorax acute and often spinose in character, ventral aspect of the abdomen provided usually with a more or less evident furrow, at least at base ; apex of femora destitute of a spine. Chlorocoris subrugosus Stal. Three specimens were collected by me in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, in July. In this species the abdomen is not provided ven- trally with a groove. The humeri are spinose. Chlorocoris hebetatus Dist. I have two specimens of this species taken in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. The humeral angle is almost a right angle and a pale yellowish median callosed line runs from the base of the head through the pronotum to the tip of the scutellum. Chlorocoris atrispinus Stal. Several years ago I purchased from Mr. George Frank a speci- men of this species labelled " New Mexico." In this species the head is long triangular and the lateral lobes rather acute. The humeral angles are drawn out into much more evident spines than in subru- gosus. Chlorocoris rufopictus Walk. This I found rather common in the Huachuca Mts., xA.rizona. and have been of the opinion that it is new, as it differs somewhat from 36 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xvin. Walker's description and Distant's figure of this species. After more careful comparison with Distant's figure in the Biol. Cent. Am., I am convinced that the differences are mainly those of color, although the three lobes of the head are not of equal length as described by Walker for this species. Furthermore, there is no indication of an abbre- viated pale ochraceous band on the front of the thorax as described by Walker nor a transverse sanguineous band posteriorly as depicted by Distant. Apical part of callosed ridge of scutellum and apex of scutellum itself and entire narrow lateral margin of connexivum ochraceous. Otherwise it agrees with Walker's description. These four species may be differentiated in the following synoptic table. Chlorocoris. Ventral groove of abdomen more or less evident. Head long triangular, with lateral lobes more acute. Humeral angles drawn out into very acute spines ; rostrum reaching the base of the third abdominal segment atrispinus Stal. Head shorter, subconical, with apices of lateral lobes more or less evidently rounded ; lateral margins of pronotum straight, with the humeral angle a right angle. A distinct, median, slightly calloused, longitudinal, pale line running through entire length of pronotum and scutellum ; lateral margins of pronotum serrated almost throughout ; ventral groove of abdomen shallow, faintly outlined to base of sixth abdominal segment. hebetatus Dist. Apical one half of scutellum with a prominently elevated, pale, smooth ridge ; lateral margins of pronotum distinctly serrated only about half way ; ventral groove of abdomen much deeper and more evident to base of sixth abdominal segment riifopictns Walk. Ventral groove of abdomen entirely absent. Head short and conical. Humeri spinose snbnigosus Stal. Podisus marginiventris Stal. This is not new to the United States, as Dr. Uhler from speci- mens collected in Colorado redescribed it under the name gilleftei as pointed out by Mr. Van Duzee, who has himself taken it near Ft. Collins, Colorado. It is so rare that I cannot refrain from mention- ing that two typical specimens were taken in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. Archimerus squalus H. Schf. I took over fifty specimens of what I take to be this species in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. It is rather broad, with the scutellum March, tgio.] Barber : MEXICAN Hemiptera-Heteroptera. 37 yellow and the terminal segment of the antennae sanguineous. The first segment of the antennae is a trifle longer than the second. Mamurius mopsus Stal. Four specimens of this species were taken in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. Burtinus notatipennis Stal. A single specimen was obtained in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. After a very careful comparison of this specimen with Stal's descrip- tion of notatipennis and Distant's femoralis I am fairly certain that the latter is a synonym of Stal's species. Stal, evidently through oversight, neglected to mention the series of ventral black spots on the abdomen, the four pronounced long, black spines of the posterior femora which are mentioned by Distant in his description. The single specimen before me has only a slight indication of a pale spot behind the middle of the corium and lacks the darker coloring beneath the head but in this is probably subject to variation. In all other respects this specimen agrees with the two descriptions. This species has dorsally a very close resemblance to Megalotomiis quinque-spi- nosus Say. Harmostes subrufus Dist. I collected eight specimens of this species in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. The basal segment of the antennae extends about one third of its length beyond the apex of the head and the enlarged fourth joint is a trifle longer than the basal joint; the humeri are broadly rounded; the areas between the veins punctate and mottled with red- dish brown ; narrow reflexed costal margin of corium immaculate. Xenogenus extensum Dist. Two specimens collected in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. They have the appearance of a long, narrow Harmostes refleculus Say. The fourth segment of the antennae is not much thickened and only slightly shorter than the third segment; the antenniferous tubercles are not produced nor spined; the ocelli are elevated; the anterior angle of the pronotum is not produced in a spine; the apical half of the posterior femora armed with some twenty-five sharp spines. Stenomacra marginella H. Schf. This species was very common in a garden in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, where I found it feeding on Asparagus. The fore tibiae 38 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. are usually armed with three spines near the apex. Distant in the Biologia Cent. Am. mentions the color variations of the legs. In the series of forty specimens before me the apical half of the hind fem- ora, commonly the apical part of the middle femora and rarely the apices of the fore femora are blackish. Arhaphe cicindeloides Walk. I found this species rather common in the Huachuca Mts., Ari- zona, running about on the ground among the dead leaves. It is about the size of and very closely resembles A. Carolina H. Schf. The anterior lobe of the pronotum is whitish tomentose and the white markings on the wing covers are similar in the two species. But in cicindeloides the head, seen from above, is larger, more globose and impunctate ; in Carolina the head is furnished with large, rather scattered punctures, and the membrane of the wing covers is some- what more developed. Leptoypha brevicornis Champ. Common in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. The differences be- tween this species and our L. niutica are pointed out by Champion. Dichocysta pictipes Champ. In this species, which was obtained in the Huachuca Mts., Ari- zona, the pronotum is furnished on either side with a very large bulbi- form process. It has otherwise much the appearance of one of the Teleonemias. Teleonema variegata Champ. Four specimens of this characteristic species were taken with the preceding. Mr. O. Heidemann kindly determined these three species of Tin- gitidae for me. Homalocoris guttatus Walk. Dr. Henry Skinner obtained a single specimen of this species in the Huachuca M'ts., Arizona. This specimen differs from Cham- pion's figure in the Biologia Cent. Amer. in having the red spots on the posterior lobe of the pronotum more elongate and oblique. Apiomerus longispinus Champ. This species was very common in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. It is black with a pale spot at each lateral incisure of the abdominal March, 1910.] OlSEN : NOTES ON BREEDING HeMIPTERA. 39 segments. Its characters are sufficiently indicated by Champion. Milyas spinicoUis Champ. This was collected by Professor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia Uni- versity, in the Grand Canon of the Colorado along Bright Angel Trail. Milyas inermis Champ. Collected by Dr. Henry Skinner and by Mr. C. Schaeffer, of the Brooklyn Museum, in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, to the former of whom I am indebted for a specimen. This and the preceding species agree in every particular with Champion's descriptions and figures in the Biologia Centrali-Americana. NOTES ON BREEDING HEMIPTERA. By Chris. E. Olsen, Maspeth, Long Island, N. Y. 1. Cosmopepla carnifex Fabr. During the summer I found a number of Hemipterous nymphs of this species in their last instar feeding on moth mullein {Verhascum blattaria). In a few days they matured and proved to be the common Cosmopepla carnifex Fabr. The bred specimens and others freshly collected were placed on a moth mullein in a pot covered with a wire screen. The first egg mass was laid on the screen. The youngsters were not able to locate the food plant and soon died. The plant itself did not thrive indoors, so thereafter I supplied freshly picked leaves each day, confining the insects in a pint jar covered with muslin. Eggs were deposited in very irregular masses, 4 to 15 per mass, on any part of the plant which the mothers chose on the upper or under side of the leaf, stem, seed pod or flower bud. In all I secured 69 eggs, but these were deposited by more than one mother. August 20 a batch of eggs was laid on the stem evenly in almost straight lines, two by two. This was rather unusual. They were light apple green, translucent, resembling in nature white grapes, but less oval, more cylindrical, rounding quickly at the ends. The color gradually turned yellowish as the embryo developed and all hatched 40 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. August 27. The young lingered two days on the empty egg-shells, then began to feed. August 30 one died, apparently having fallen to the bottom of the jar and being unable to recover its position after landing on its back. August 31 all had their first moult and were much increased in size. They were far more lively and congregated on a green seed-pod which they seemed to prefer to the young shoots and tender leaves. The second moult occurred September 6, ten survivors staying by their seed-pod in a lusty and lively con- dition. September 11 the third moult occurred. After just emerging from the exuvia the body was light and pale, the thorax, legs and antennae were very light cream color, but in twenty minutes the antennae and legs had become entirely black, while the abdomen was greenish with red and yellow markings. The eyes were dark red. The fourth moult occurred September 18 and the first imago appeared September 27. All but one had emerged by September 29, the last delayed until October i. The period from egg to imago therefore covered 37 to 42 days. 2. Podisus maculiventris Say. August 7 I took a pregnant female of this bug. It had lost one hind leg and the last joint of the left antenna so that this organ was rendered useless. Its joints were motionless, each slightly bent away and the whole carried at an awkward angle from the head. The other antenna was in constant motion. Next day 27 eggs were deposited on the jar. Their color was light yellow green with bronzy metallic reflections and with many short black hairs. On the top a row of longer white hairs, curved outward, were set around in a perfect circle. This looked like a spherical cover to the egg, which resembled under the lens some tinsel Christmas-tree ornament. August 9 a mass of 9 and another of 16 eggs were laid. The first batch of young, which hatched August 13, was very light salmon yellow just after emerging. Other batches comprising 27 and 22 eggs were laid. The next day the first born left their shells to hunt for food. The mother had a habit of playing her good antenna over and upon the youngsters, which showed no alarm. On the twenty- first the mother died, presumably of old age, having bequeathed to posterity 8 egg masses of 168 eggs in all. The smallest batch was 9 and the largest 27. The smallest batch and one of 16 were laid the same day and perhaps ought to be regarded as a single mass, making; March, 1910.] OlSEN : NOTES ON BREEDING HeMIPTERA. 41 an average of 24 eggs per mass. A batch of youngsters in a separate jar all died in about a day. This was apparently due to the lack of vegetable food which they needed in the early stages, but possibly the dry soil absorbed the moisture of the air too freely, as the jar was lightly covered. Another jar continued to be well populated with nymphs of all ages. The young thrived partly on vegetable food but were also cannibalistic apparently in all stages. The first imago appeared September 7, making a life cycle of about 30 days, but others continued to appear until the eighteenth. No doubt indoor breeding, with steady temperature and plenty of food, hastened development. A newly matured bug deposited an egg mass on a stem the next day. The food of this species is mainly if not almost entirely Lepi- dopterous larvae. Mr. Franck observed on Staten Island a whole- sale mortality of potato beetle larvje, with abdominal contents sucked out by a bug, probably this species, but he took none home for positive identification. Mr. Dow has observed Podisus niaaili- ventris attacking beetles (Adalia bipunctata and Epitragiis ariindi- nis). The beaks were thrust into the soft tissue between the thorax and elytra and the beetles seemed to offer no resistance what- soever. Mr. Wm. Davis reports this species with a small snout- beetle on its beak. Prof. J- B. Smith mentions a Podisus with its beak in the abdomen of a large carpenter ant (Camponotus). I have observed maculiventris preying upon larvae of cabbage butterflies, tussock moths, Alypia octoinaculata, and various noctuids and geom- eters. In captivity, cannibalism destroyed almost my whole colony. A nymph in the second or third instar attacked a much larger one and almost succeeded in killing it. Another nymph attacked an adult, but the latter escaped by superior mobility. They attack their prey from behind, sometimes stalking their victim for a con- siderable distance. When in a favorable position they thrust the beak quickly and directly. I have seen them also assail Lepidopterous larvae at the side of the last abdominal segment. At the first feeling of the beak the caterpillar would sway from its position as rapidly as possible. Master bug took advantage of this method of defence by standing with extended beak and soon the caterpillar would impale itself. Escape by flight was then impossible. I have observed a caterpillar dragging along four nymphs of considerable size. I saw 42 Journal New York Entomological Society. lvoI. xviii. one nymph attack a very hairy young caterpillar, but the hairs were too long or the beak too short and after a prolonged effort the bug abandoned the attack. I have not observed this bug eating vegetable food while mature or in the last instar; in younger stages, however, I have seen it with its beak in the green stems of evening primrose (Onagra biennis) and moth mullein and in the leaves of other plants. One nymph remained four minutes with its beak in a freshly cut stem of evening primrose. I had an opportunity to observe a pair of Podisiis maciiUventris courting and copulating. The male started off by walking right over to the female. He showed signs of great affection by rubbing his head against her body several times. Then he strode diagonally across her and began to caress her from the other side. After a short time he turned towards her posterior end and lifted her abdo- men up by pushing his head under it. Both insects then remained in this position for a short time, the male continually knocking his head up against the female's abdomen and lifting her higher and higher. During this performance the male's penis was protruded and he gave signs of great excitement by expanding and contract- ing his body and turning almost completely around. When this excitement was at its height, he crawled out to one side, and still keeping part of his body under the female, till he was far enough out to turn sidewise, he inserted his organ in her vagina. The lock was complete and he then turned completely downward so that the two insects were end to end. The male then played his legs on the female's dorsum like a pair of drumsticks. This performance oc- curred at very frequent intervals in the beginning, then every minute or so, but gradually the movements ceased or were repeated only now and then. The pair remained in copula all night on the very same spot. March, igio.] Frost : A New Species OF Chrysobothris. 43 A NEW SPECIES OF CHRYSOBOTHRIS (COLE- OPTERA) FROM MAINE. By C. a. Frost, South Framingham, Mass. Chrysobothris verdigripennis, new species. Form broader and less depressed than dentipes, broadest behind the middle, subdepressed ; color of punctured spaces of elytra and thorax varying from a verdigris green to brassy or cupreous, costae and callosities black or very dark bronze, beneath brassy green to coppery ; antennae green, sometimes becoming bronzed toward the tip, joints four to eleven with the lobes reddish testaceous, the testaceous area increasing gradually from the fourth to its maximum on the apical, third joint as long as the next two; front flat, greenish, densely punctured with two small callosities, white pubescence above ((^) ; or slightly convex, greenish bronze, more coarsely punctured and with two large callosities and many small ones ($) ; clypeus broadly and deeply tri- angularly emarginate, sides nearly truncate ; thorax twice as wide as long, generally wider at the base than the apex, arcuately narrowed at the apex, obliquely and slightly at the base, sides at the middle parallel, slightly sinuate, a rather wide median dorsal sulcus generally closed at the base by the joining of the broad slightly elevated lateral callosities, irregular and variable cal- losities and plicae at the sides, disk moderately convex ; elytra wider than the thorax, widest behind the middle, from apical third narrowed arcuately to the obtuse apices, sides slightly sinuate at middle, margin serrulate, disk moder- ately convex, sutural costa entire from near the middle, gradually more elevated to apex, second and third costas indicated by short ridges and callosities joining each other and the first costa, fourth costa distinct to near the humerus but in- terrupted, depressed places coarsely and very irregularly punctured, with many smooth places, basal foveae feeble ; abdomen beneath sparsely pitted with coarse elongate punctures which are laterally confluent and form crenulate ridges at the sides of the abdomen, sparsely hairy, lateral callosities distinct; metasternum more closely and finely punctate anteriorly ; front margin of the prosternum slightly sinuate, sides with coarse punctures and interlacing smooth spaces ; anterior femur with a strong, rather obtuse tooth at tip, distal margin indistinctly crenulate; last ventral with serrulate margin. Length 13 to 14 mm. ; width at apical third 5.5 to 6 mm. Male. — Prosternum pubescent, densely, coarsely punctured with a tendency to form rugae near anterior margin, usually a small smooth space at middle ; anterior tibia arcuate, gradually thickened to tip ; near the apex there is an acute tooth set obliquely across the inner face of the tibia from the inner posterior edge, the distal edge of this tooth is continued from the base and forms the inner edge of the apical tooth which is slightly back from the front 44 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xv^iii. margin of the tibia; inner, front edge of tibia sinuate; middle tibia arcuate, dilated on the inner edge from beyond the middle to the tip, sinuate before the tip ; posterior tibia slightly arcuate ; last ventral broadly semi-circularly emarginate, last dorsal sparsely and finely punctate, nearly smooth at middle, acutely and deeply emarginate. Female. — Beneath sparsely hairy, punctuation more coarse ; anterior tibia arcuate, gradually thickened to tip, middle very slightly arcuate, slightly thicker at tip, posterior straight ; last ventral more densely punctured, emargi- nation rather deep but narrow, ventral callosities more prominent, last dorsal more closely and coarsely pimctured, with a slight notch. This species is very distinct in the pecuHar formation of the tooth of the fore tibia which is much more acute and prominent than any- thing I have seen in this genus. The correct shape of the tooth can only be seen when the tibia is straightened so that the inner face is exposed. The species resembles dentipes in the testaceous areas of the outer joints of the antennae, but are smaller than in that species. The fore tibia is also somewhat similar in dentipes, but the strong tooth is lacking on the small oblique ridge of the anterior tibia. The middle tibia is dilated in a similar manner but the dilation is less abrupt in verdigripennis. In sculpture and to a less extent, in form, it resembles scabripennis but it is more convex and in bulk nearly twice that species. The majority of the specimens seen were green but my series show a perfect gradation from green to dark bronze. I have seen two green females in the LeConte collection at Cam- bridge, one of which, labelled " Me.," is much like the type, and the other, labelled " H. B.," is smaller (12 mm.). There was a green female in the collection of Roland Hayward at Cambridge, placed in the series of dentipes and labelled " Me." A green male which was placed in the general collection in the series of scabripennis, is prob- ably the specimen referred to by Dr. Horn in his monograph on page 89. It is marked " Ex col. H. G. Hubbard," with no locality. There is also a female specimen in the collection of Frederick Blanchard, taken at Tyngsboro, Mass., July 12, 1896. Seven males and one female were taken at Wales, Maine, July 23, 1908, in a clearing where large hemlocks were being cut and peeled. There were also many beeches and other hard woods in ex- cess of the hemlocks. The specimens were resting on the trunks of the beeches at the edges of the clearing in the hot sun and were rather difficult to capture. The following distribution of the specimens has been made : the March, 1910.] Fall : Chrysobothris Californica, etc. 45 type, a green male, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- bridge; a male in each of the collections of Mr. Blanchard, Tyngs- boro, Mass., Prof. Fall, Pasadena, Cal., and Mr. Gustave Chagnon, Montreal, Can. ; the three remaining males and the female are in my collection. ON CHRYSOBOTHRIS CALIFORNICA AND ALLIES. By H. C. Fall, Pasadena, Cal. In my List of the Coleoptera of Southern California reference is made to the taking in the San Bernardino Mts. of a specimen of Chrysobothris californica from its burrow in the dead twigs of Pinns ponderosa. The identification was based on Horn's table and de- scription and seemed satisfactory. A little later a second specimen taken in the same region was identified for me by an eastern specialist as californica. The two specimens looked much alike, and the identi- cation was accepted without question. From time to time other specimens were added to my series, until it began to take on a some- what mixed appearance, and a recent critical examination has con- vinced me that no less than three distinct species were involved. To determine which was the real californica comparison was made this past summer with the LeConte type at Cambridge. Imagine my surprise at finding that neither one of the three was identical with the type. One of my species proved to be caurina Horn (not quite typical however), while the other two were new and will be described in the present paper. Further investigation among the allied species revealed a condition of affairs wholly unexpected. Notwithstanding the deliberate and painstaking work of Horn in his treatment of this genus, errors of such a nature exist in the table and descriptions of certain species in this part of Group IV as to make it quite impossible for the student correctly to identify his material thereby. Three species are involved in these errors, which are briefly as follows: 46 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. Californica. This is placed in the group with lobed prosternum. The prester- num is really completely devoid of any trace of a lobe. The form of the apical dilatation of the front tibia of the male is also incorrectly described. The species described by Horn as californica is — in these two respects at least — the monticola of the present paper. Caurina. Placed by Horn in the group with prosternum not lobed. There is an evident lobe in all specimens examined by me, including ex- amples from the type series kindly sent me for study by Dr. Skinner. Carinipennis. The anterior tibiae of the male are said to be deeply sinuate at the base of the dilatation. The type shows no such sinuation. These are fundamental characters, and if misapplied the situation cannot be saved by any amount of fidelity as to other details. The species trinervia to californica of Group IV are therefore retabulated below, and with them are included four new species which fall within the same limits. In interpreting the form of the prosternum the faintest possible arcuation of the anterior margin is not to be considered a lobe, but anything suggestive of a lobiform prominence, no matter how short, is to be thus construed. A small amount of individual variation in this particular has been observed, but with some experi- ence, especially if several examples are at hand, there should be no great difficulty in deciding to which group a given specimen belongs. Key to Species trinervia— californica of Horn's Group IV. A. Prosternum not lobed in front, the anterior margin at most very broadly and feebly arcuate at middle ; anterior tibiae of male not or but slightly sinuate above the apical dilatation. B, Tibial dilatation of male narrow and long, one third the length of the tibia ; eyes widely separated above ; body beneath bronzed, size larger (about 17 mm.) californica Lee. BB. Tibial dilatation evidently less, usually much less than one third the length of the tibia ; eyes less widely separated above, always by a distance which is distinctly less than half their vertical length; size smaller (rarely as much as 14 mm.). C. AntennjE with joints 4-1 1 in part testaceous; apical dilatation of front tibia of male dentiform verdigripennis Frost, CC. Antennae entirely dark, usually with metallic lustre throughout. March, 1910.] Fall : Chrysobothris Californica, etc. 47 D, Prosternum sparsely pubescent, not densely punctate in either sex ; tibial dilatation rather narrow ; under surface typically green carinipennis Lee. DD. Prosternum densely punctate and rather densely pubescent in the male ; tibial dilatation shorter and broader. E. Prothorax more abruptly narrowed in front than behind ; sculptured areas of elytra not very densely punctate, smooth spaces narrower, body bronzed beneath. trinervia, Kby. EE. Prothorax as abruptly or even more abruptly narrowed behind than in front ; punctured spaces of elytra very densely punctate and dull, smooth areas broader ; body beneath bright green in the male, blackish green in the female sylvania n. sp. AA. Prosternum with a short broad lobe in front. F. Tibial dilatation rather abruptly narrowed before the apex ; emargina- tion of last ventral of female limited at bottom by a thin slightly projecting and deflexed plate ; prosternal lobe very short. caurina Horn. FF. Tibial dilatation of male not abruptly narrowed before the apex; last ventral of female without apical plate. G. Tibial dilatation of male short and broad, a little sinuate on its inner margin, the apical angle mucronate, tibia deeply sinuate at base of dilatation ; prosternal lobe very short, .breviloba n. sp. GG. Tibial dilatation rather strongly arcuate internally, the tibia a little narrowed at base of dilatation, but not evidently sinuate ; prosternal lobe stronger nionticola n. sp. C. californica Lee. Seven specimens are placed over this label in the LeConte col- lection, the series standing precisely as left by Horn, who worked over the material while preparing his monograph of the genus. The first in line and bearing the name label is unquestionably the original type of LeConte. It is a male, 17 mm. in length, sculpture cupreous, beneath also coppery, eyes separated above by somewhat more than half their vertical length ; prothorax widest just before the base, sides converging a little in front and sinuate at middle, dorsal channel deep with broad smooth callosity each side reaching from the apex three-fourths to the base ; elytral sculpture of the same type as in related species, very densely punctate, smooth spaces not strongly elevated, sutural costa entire ; prosternum without the faintest indica- tion of a lobe in front, dilatation of front tibia unusually long and narrow, one-third the length of the tibia, which is not at all sinuate 48 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xvin. at the base of the dilatation ; pygidium coarsely punctate, subcribrate near the edge, which is irregular from the coarseness of the sculpture. The clypeal emargination is quite deep and of a form somewhat sug- gestive of that of femorata. The second and third specimens in the LeConte series are females, similar in size (one even larger) and appearance to the male type and probably identical with it. In one of them the eyes are as widely separated as in the type, in the other rather less so ; the clypeal emargination also shows less approach to the femorata type. They are labeled simply " Cal." The fourth specimen is the type of vulcanica Lee. which Horn suppresses as a small form of calif ornica. It is evident that in making this state- ment Horn had in mind the large size of typical calif ornica, but as the length of vulcanica is 15 or 16 mm. and the measurements given by him for calif ornica are 10-19 mm., the force of the remark is not Fig. I. Outline drawings of apex of fore tibia of the following species of Chrysobothris ; a, calif ornica; b, verdigripennis ; c, carinipennis ; d, tri- nervia and sylvania ; e, canrina ; f, breviloba ; g, monticola. apparent. It is by no means certain that vulcanica is the same as calif ornica, but it must go as placed until males have been properly associated. The type is a female without antennae or front legs; it resembles calif ornica considerably but the prothorax is more densely rugosely sculptured, the smooth spaces each side of the median groove are encroached upon by the punctures and are therefore small and not very well defined; the sutural costa of the elytra is obsolete in fully basal half and the other costse are even more undeveloped. The eyes are a little less distant than in californica, the prosternal margin not lobed, though faintly more prominent at middle. The last ventral is rounded at apex without trace of an emargination, probably an accidental variation. The specimen is from Oregon. March, 1910.] Fall : Chrysobothris Californica, etc. 49 The fifth example in line is also from Oregon, is a female, and looks a good deal like zndcanica, which it probably is ; it has the last ventral with a narrow and small but rather deep emargination. The sixth specimen is a female with lobed prosternum, identity- doubtful, certainly not californica, and the seventh is a male caurina, or a species so close to caurina that we are unable at present to separate them. Since returning to California there has turned up in a small series of specimens sent me by Dr. Van Dyke two examples of genuine californica, both females, and a third specimen — also a female — has been sent by Dr. Blaisdell. Dr. Van Dyke's specimens are from Independence Lake, Nevada Co., California, at an altitude of 7,000 ft. ; and Dr. Blaisdell's comes from Shasta Co. Dr LeConte's type was obtained from jMurray, but neither it nor his other speci- mens bear any more definite locality label than " California." C. verdigripennis Frost. The discovery in Xew England at this late day of a new Chrysobothris, and one of the very finest of the group to which it belongs, is as interesting as it is surprising. Its detection is due to Mr. Frederick Blanchard, who having seen males taken by Mr. Frost, recognized a female in his own collection, and later found two or three specimens in the Cambridge collections mixed with other species. Mr. Frost's description (on a preceding page of this issue) is well drawn up and leaves very little to be said by way of characterization. The partly testaceous antennae will at once dis- tinguish it from everything except dentipcs, with which it would be associated by Horn's table. In the latter species the apical dilata- tion of the male front tibia is quite different, the elytral punctuation denser and the prosternum is very sparsely punctate in both sexes; verdigripennis however seems to me less closely allied to dentipes than to trinervia and the neighboring species, and I have therefore included it in the preceding table. C. carinipennis Lee. The dilatation of the anterior male tibia in this species is longer and narrower than in any other allied form except californica, and comprises fully one-fourth the total length of the tibia. There is no appreciable sinuation at the base of the dilatation in the type, and 50 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi xviii. allowing for a moderate amount of individual variation it is probable that the tibia is never deeply sinuate, as it is described to be by Horn, who, I think, must have mixed individuals of two species. The prosternum of the male is sparsely punctate or nearly smooth along the middle, a rare character in this group and one that does not obtain in any of the other species here tabulated. Typical carini- pcnnis is bright green beneath, and it is by no means certain that the specimens with under side bronzed or coppery are identical ; these should receive further study. C. sylvania, new species. Closely allied to trinervia, but rather broader and heavier, the color beneath bright green in the male, dark green with cupreous reflections in the female ; prothorax as abruptly or even more abruptly narrowed behind than in front ; elytral costse not as distinctly elevated as in typical trinervia, the smooth spaces sharply defined, the punctured areas more densely punctate than in trinervia; sexual characters as in trinervia. Length ii. 5-1 1.8 mm.; width S-5.1 mm. Described from two males and two females collected by Mr. L. E. Ricksecker at Sylvania, California. Two of the four specimens differ a little from the type pair but are probably identical. C. caurina Horn. The form of the apical dilatation of the front tibia of the male, and of the apex of the last ventral of the female are peculiar to this species. This last does not seem to me to be very aptly described by Horn, who says in his table that there is " a well-marked trans- verse ridge in front of the notch." This apical ridge or carina con- sists of the free edge of the terminal portion of the submarginal serrate ridge, which is feebly developed laterally, leaving the apical portion where it cuts across the bottom of the emargination, smoothly outlined and a little deflexed, and is best seen when looked at from behind and nearly in the axial line of the body. There are in the collection of Dr. Fenyes and myself some fifteen examples which I refer to caurina, as the sexual characters are virtually identical, yet not one of them is exactly like the typical examples sent me for examination by Dr. Skinner. Further study with sufficient material may show that our aggregate under this name is composite. March, 1910.] Fall : Chrysobothris Californica, etc. 51 C. breviloba, new species. Similar in form, size, sculpture and color of upper surface to carinipennis, from which it differs most essentially in the modification of the anterior tibiae in the male. The apical dilatation is here as wide as long, constituting about one fifth the length of the tibia, which is typically deeply sinuate above the dilatation. The color of the under surface is dark bronze or cupreous, with at most faint greenish reflections along the ventral sutures ; prosternum with a faint incipient lobe in front, densely punctate and hairy in the male, more sparsely punctate, more convex and less hairy in the female as usual. The smooth areas of the prothorax are well defined, those of the elytra numerous but not large, well defined and contrasting sharply with the densely punctate areas ; the pygidium is moderately closely punctate in the male, densely so in the female. In carinipennis the color beneath is typically brilliant green throughout, but is bronzed in some examples (unless perchance these are representatives of a closely allied species which we have not yet been able to separate), the prosternum is not evidently lobed, thinly hairy, and sparsely punctate or smooth along the median line, even in the male, a quite unusual character ; the smooth areas of the upper surface are everywhere smaller or less sharply defined, the pygidium rather finely and quite sparsely punctate in the male, more closely so in the female. In the series of breviloba at hand the length varies from 9.8 to 12 mm. ; width from 4 to 4.8 mm. As compared with monticola, breviloba is a distinctly smaller species, the eyes less approximate on the vertex, their distance apart being evidently greater than the maximum width of the eye, and about equal to half their distance apart at the middle of the front; the smooth areas of the elytra relatively numerous (only about five or six in number on the disk in monticola) , the sutural interval with alternating smooth and punctured spaces (punctate throughout or nearly so in monticola), prosternum less evidently lobed in front; dilatation of both front and middle tibije of different form. The series of breviloba before me comprises six males and four females, all from Colorado (Glenwood Springs, Buena Vista, Boulder, Florissant, Canon City). In a few males the sinuation of the front tibia is less deep than in the typical form, the dilatation however being of the same shape; these may possibly prove distinct, but I am tmable to characterize them distinctly with the few specimens at hand. C. monticola, new species. Moderately elongate, subdepressed, black, punctured areas cupreous, beneath bronzed or cupreous, lateral callosities of abdomen purplish. An- tennae more slender externally, greenish or cupreous in the male, darker 52 JouRNAf. New York Entomological Societv. |Voi. xvni bronzed, becoming blackish apically in the female, third joint barely as long as the next two. Front densely punctate with two callosities which are larger in the female, flat and cupreous or greenish in the male, more convex and darker bronzed in the female. Eyes rather narrowly separated at summit, their minimum distance apart about two fifths the length of their inner side and subequal to their median width. Clypeus triangularly emarginate, the notch somewhat rounded at bottom. Prothorax nearly twice as wide as long, narrowed at apex and base, sides at middle nearly straight and parallel for a greater or less distance ; median line sulcate, densely punctate in apical two thirds, smooth at base, a very narrow smooth line extending forward a variable distance ; groove limited each side by a broad feebly elevated space, which is smooth in front ; exterior to this two more or less connected and irregular callosities ; surface elsewhere densely punctured. Elytra wider than the thorax, very nearly twice as long as wide, first costa entire, becoming broader at base, the sutural interval punctate throughout ; second and third costse interrupted ; punctured areas densely punctate, smooth areas not very numerous and rather large. Prosternum lobed in front, densely punctate in both sexes ; abdomen sparsely punctate ; anterior femur with moderate tooth, which is serrulate externally ; last ventral with more or less evident submarginal ridge, the lateral margin serrulate. Length 11-15 mm.; width 4.5-6.5 mm. Male. — Prosternum flatter, more hairy and a little more finely punctate. Anterior tibia curved, apical dilatation barely one fourth the length of the tibia and arcuate in outline, the tibia slightly narrow at the base of the dilata- tion but not obviously sinuate ; middle tibia feebly arcuate beyond the middle, gradually broader at apex ; last ventral segment deeply semicircularly emargi- nate; last dorsal with a moderately broad median notch. Female. — Prosternum less flat, less hairy, and usually more coarsely and a little less densely punctate ; tibiae unmodified, last ventral with a small apical emargination, last dorsal more densely punctate and with a smaller narrow median notch. Described from six males and four females in Dr. Fenyes' and my own collection. It occurs on pines in the California Sierras, about Lake Tahoe and in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mts. As I have pointed out previously, this species is the one which best fits Dr. Horn's description of calif ornica, and I might about as well have referred to that description and saved myself the trouble of writing a new one, but for the desirability of having here a com- plete description for comparative purposes. The true calif ornica differs distinctly in its nonlobed prosternum, narrower and longer tibial dilatation, and more widely separated eyes. The form of the prothorax is somewhat variable in monticola, as it is in most if not all all of the allied species; it is usually as above described, but in some specimens the sides are nearly straight and convergent from the post-apical dilatation to the base. March, igio.J OSBURN : STUDIES ON SyRPHID^. 53 STUDIES ON SYRPHID^.— I. SYRPHUS ARCUATUS FALLEN AND A RELATED NEW SPECIES. By Raymond C. Osburn, Columbia University, New York City. (With Plate I.) Concerning the species Syrphus arcuatus Fallen there has always been much confusion. Not only have the color variations, which here have a wide range, given rise to a number of synonyms, but the species has been confused with other members of the genus. A number of years ago the writer began collecting material in order to study the species, and, while examining a male of what I had sup- posed was arcuatus, I was much surprised to find an area of enlarged facets on the eye as in the Catabom.bas. Examination of the rest of my collection at once revealed several more males in the same condition. When I attempted to remove these from arcuatus I found that some of them had a strongly curved third vein, while others had this vein straight. Here was more trouble, for Williston (Syn. N. A. Syrphid?e, pp. 68-9) had made use of this difference in venation as the basis for his two varieties arcuatus and lapponicus. The fol- lowing dilemma now presented itself: if I separated the males by means of the eye characters (a supposed generic difference separating Catabomba from Syrphus) some of either lot had curved veins and I could not separate the females at all; if I separated them on the basis of the venation the females could be placed as readily as the males, but in each group some of the males had the area of enlarged facets and some lacked it. A careful examination of my material of both sexes revealed a number of minor differences correlated with the venational differences but none with the differences in the eye facets. Not being satisfied with the study of my own material merely, I obtained the loan of specimens from many American dipterologists as well as all those in the U. S. National Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, and a number of specimens from Europe. My thanks are due for the loan of material and for other assistance to Messrs. S. W. Williston, C. W. Johnson. Jas. S. Hine, 54 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii, D. W. Coquillett, N. Banks, E. L. Dickerson, R. V. Harvey and B. G. Elliott among the American entomologists, and Dr. Theodore Becker, Liegnitz, Germany, Professor Mario Bezzi, Turin, Italy, and Mr. E. E. Austen, of the British Museum. The following redescription of Syrphus arcnatns is drawn from about fifty specimens, both American and European, covering a wide range in distribution, and dealing only with essential diagnostic characters. Syrphus arcuatus Fallen. (PI. I, Figs, i, 2, 3 and 7.) Fallen, Syrphici, 42 (Sccpva arcuata). Meigen, Syst. Beschr., Ill, 302 (Syrphus arcuatus). Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp., 598 (Scava lapponica). Walker, List, etc.. Ill, 579-80 (Syrphus agnon, alcidice and arciicinctus). Schiner, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges., VII, 344 (Syrphus arcuatus and lapponicus). O. Sacken, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVIII, 149 ; West. Dipt., 326 (S. lapponicus). Girschner, Wien. ent. Zeit., Ill, 187 (var. bipunctatus). RoNDANi. Att. Soc. Ital. Milano, VIII, 135 (Syrphus lapponus). WiLLiSTON, Syn. N. A. Syrph., 68-9 (the var. lapponicus only). Verrall, Br. Flies, Syrphidae, 380 (arcuatus and var. ? lapponicus) ; idem, Catalog, 61-2 (as two species). OsBURN, Canad. Ent., XXXVI, 218 (the var. lapponicus only). Male and Female. — Face yellow, a biarcuate black band (PI. I, Fig. i) transversely placed on the ridge above the antennal fossae, not reaching down- ward on the fossa? except in rare cases. This band is usually narrow and is sometimes brownish, but it is never dissolved into spots. In the female (Fig. 2) it is usually broader than in the male and may or may not be con- nected with the black of the vertex at the middle by a narrow band. The- cheeks are black and usually connected along the oral margin with the black facial stripe (Fig. 3) ; there is considerable variation in the oral coloration, it may be merely brownish, as the facial stripe occasionally is, and in a few cases the cheeks and facial stripe are disconnected, this seems especially true of the European specimens in my possession. The eyes of a few of the males show some enlargement of the upper facets, with a distinct line of separation as in Catabomba, but usually they intergrade insensibly. The few males from Europe in my collection do not have the enlarged facets separated. The pile of the sides of the throax is usually yellowish like that of the disk, but it shows some variation in depth of color, depending apparently on age, tenerals being somewhat lighter. Legs dark at the base, exhibiting considerable varia- tion in the extent of the marking, which may range all the way from the extreme base to one half or more of the femora. (This latter condition is the lapponicus Zett., in which nearly all of the North American specimens fall.) The abdominal arcuate spots also show much variation in curvature and extent : Joiini. N. y. Ent. Soc. JW. -V /■///. /'Ar/r I. Syrphida?. March, 1910.] OSBURN : STUDIES ON SVRPHID.'E. 55 they are obsolete occasionally in the female (the 5. alcidice of Walker and the var. bipunctatus of Girschner). The third vein of the wing is characteristically much curved above the first posterior cell (Fig, 7) and shows no appreciable variation in this respect. In length the species ranges from 8 mm. to 12 mm. In Xorth America the species ranges widely over the whole north- ern half of the continent. I have examined specimens from Con- necticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, District of Columbia, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. In Europe the color forms, bipunctatus Girsch. (= alcidice Walk.) and lapponicns Zett., are still variously listed as varieties and species, but a recent letter from Dr. Theodore Becker indicates that he regards all three as the same species, " Syrphus lapponicns Zett. ist keine besondere Art, vielmehr dasselbe Thier wie arcuatus. Diese Art variirt nicht unerheblich : es giebt weibliche Exemplare, bei denen die mondformigen Flecke auf dem hinterleibe fast ganz verschwinden : auch die Schenkel sind an der Basis mehr oder weniger dunkel." In America Williston confused arcuatus with the species here described as new, a point he makes clear in a recent letter: " I had no European specimens at the time I wrote. I would call my ' var. lapponicns' arcuatus, of which lapponicus is a varietal synonym. Differences in the color of the femora, unassociated with other dif- ferences, I will not admit can be of specific value, inasmuch as such differences not infrequently appear in other species." From my own study of the large series of specimens at my dis- posal I need only remark that Becker and Williston are entirely correct in these expressions of opinion and that henceforth we have only to deal with one variable species. Syrphus perplexus, new species. (PI. I, Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 8.) Williston, Syn. N. A. Syrph., 68-9 {Syrphus arcuatus var. arcuatus). Banks, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, V, 41 {S. arcuatus'). CoQUiLLETT, Proc. Vyash. Acad. Sci., II, 431 {S. arcuatus). Verrall, Br. Flies, VIII, 381 ( ? 5. arcucinctus). OsBURN, Canad. Ent., XXXVI. 218 {S. arcuatus). Male and Female. — Size and general appearance about as in arcuatus. Face yellow with black or brown markings as follows: (i) Two rounded spots one above each antennal fossa and running down nearly or quite to the inser- tion of the antenna (Fig. 4), but showing no tendency toward fusion with the spot of the opposite side. In the female (Fig. 5") the spots may be extended 56 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi xviii. above, where they may also join with the black of the vertex, but they never fuse on the lower part of the frons. (2) The cheeks are black. (3) There is a facial black or brown stripe extending from the oral margin to below the antennae. The black of the cheeks and facial stripe is usually well saparated by yellow on the oral margin (Fig. 6), but occasional melanistic specimens show a fusion of these spots. The eyes are bare and in th# majority of the males the facets show an enlarged area above in such a manner that they are marked off from the smaller ones. The line of separation is not constant in extent, but is usually present on the posterior and lower sides of the area. In some cases the line of demarkation fades out as it runs up the anterior border, sometimes on the lower border, and in some specimens it is wanting entirely so that the facets intergrade insensibly in size throughout. Thorax metallic blue or bronze, with yellowish pile on the disc, but on the sides with white or grayish-white pile (in one specimen it is somewhat yellowish). Scutellum yellowish with dark reflections, pile yellow intermixed with black on the disc as in arcuatiis. Abdomen closely similar to that of arcuatiis, but the yellow lunate spots on segments 3 and 4 show a general tendency to be narrower and straighter, though these differences are appreciable usually only in series. Legs as in arcuatus and showing about the same range of variation in the extent of black on the femora. Wings with the third vein nearly straight above the first posterior cell (Fig. 8) and showing no tendency to the formation of a loop. Minor differ- ences also exist in the subapical (upper marginal) and postical (lower marginal) crossveins, which are straighter in this species than in arcuatus. These differences are slight but usually perfectly evident (cf. Figs. 7 and 8). Length 9 mm. to 13 mm. Geographical range as far as known confined to North America where tl*e species is widely distributed. I have examined in all 35 specimens from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, California, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec. Without doubt many of the references to " S. arcuatus " in America refer rather to this species or to both, but it is impossible to state with accuracy except in the cases mentioned above. I can be positive in these cases, however, as I have examined specimens of Williston's " var. arcuatus," Banks's specimen from Long Island, and those referred to by Coquillett in his Harriman Alaska Expedi- tion paper. In regard to this species Williston states in a recent letter, " I would call my * var. arcuatus ' var. arcucinctus Walker, supposing that the curvature of the third vein is not specific, and I confess I am troubled about that since I know of no other Syrphid March, 1910.] OSBURN : STUDIES ON SyRPHID^E. 57 offering such varietal differences." Verrall (1. c.) also suggests that " Williston's var. arcnatns may well be Walker's 6". arcucinctus." However, Mr. E. E. Austen, of the British Museum, has carefully compared specimens for me with the type of arcucinctus and assures me that Walker's arcucinctus is none other than arcuatiis, and that he is unable to identify the present species with any other. The " var. arcuatns " of Williston is, then, not Walker's arcucinctus {^^ arcuatiis) , but a different and hitherto undescribed species, as I believe the following characters are fully sufficient to justify: S. pcrplcxus. S. arcuatus. 1. Third vein nearly straight, and i. Third vein strongly curved. correlated with minor dif- ferences in venation. 2. Pile of the pleurae white. 2. Pile of the pleurae yellowish. 3. Two rounded separated spots 3. A single biarcuate black band above the antennae. above the antennae. 4. The black of the cheeks and 4. The black of the cheeks and facial stripe shows little facial stripe usually fused on tendency to fuse. the oral margin, at least in American specimens. The first and third characters of the above list show no tendency to intergradation, and all four apply equally as well to females as to males. Description of Plate I. Fig. I. S. arcuatus. Head of male, front view. Note the biarcuate band above the antenna! fossae. Fig. 2. Do., head of female, a rather melanistic specimen showing the supra-antennal band connected with the black of the vertex. Fig. 3. Do., side view of head of female. Fig. 4. S. perplexus, head of male, front view. Note the pair of supra- antennal spots extending down to the antennje. Fig. 5. S. perplexus, head of female, a rather melanistic specimen show- ing the supra-antennal spots connected with the black of the vertex. Fig. 6. S. perplexus, sideview of head of female. Fig. 7. Wing of S. arcuatus. Fig. 8. Wing of S. perplexus. 58 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. STUDIES ON SYRPHID^.— II. THE INVALIDITY OF SCiEVA (=CATABOMBA) AS A GENUS. By Raymond C. Osburn, Columbia University, New York City. (With Plate II.) Among the numerous and more or less unsuccessful efforts to break up the large genus Syrphns, is the attempt to remove those species in which the eyes of the males show an area of enlarged facets on the upper portion. The separation of species with this particular character, in correlation with certain others, has been made by three authors in various ways, and each has proposed a new generic name for the group thus removed. Certainly the best known of these names is that of " Cataboniba," proposed by Osten Sacken* to include SyrpJius pyrasfri Linne, on account of the enlarged facets, swollen frons and small hypopygium. The name was adopted by Williston (though in a recent letter he states that he always had an inclination to reunite the genus with Syrphus), and also by Verrall who maintains the validity of the genus. f A number of species have been designated as belonging to " Cafabomba." Earlier than this was the attempt of Rondani,:}: who gave the name " Lasiophthicus (Lasiopticits)" to include the species having hairy eyes, naming S. pyrastri as the type. This name is used by Aldrich in his Catalog of N. A. Diptera. Still earlier was the revision of the genus Syrphus by its author, Fabricius§, with the name " Sccrz'a" and 5'. pyrastri designated as the type. This name, apparently, has priority over the others. Incidentally, a considerable amount of discussion has arisen as to which of the above authors should have the credit for erecting the genus, and which name should stand. I am satisfied that all dis- cussion of this matter is futile, however, for I have sufficient evidence to prove that such a separation is untenable. No one would consider * Western Diptera, 1877, 326. t Br. Flies, Syrphidae, 333-4> t Nuov. An. Nat. Sci., 1844. 459. § Syst. Antl., 1805, 248. J oil 111. N'. V. Eiit. Soc. Vol. XVIII. Plate II. Syrphid:t. March, 1910.J OSBURN : STUDIES ON SyRPHID^. 69 the generic descriptions of " Scccva " or " LasiopJithicus " except as modified to include the characters outhned by Osten Sacken for " Catabomba," viz.: (i) Enlarged eye-facets in the male; (2) swollen frons; (3) small hypopygium, to which may be added the following characters more or less correlated with these; (4) pilose eyes; (5) curved third vein. The problem resolves itself into this : Are these characters suffi- cient for the separation of a genus? If they were constant no cjie would raise an objection, but right here lies the difficulty, for tht're is not one of them but exists to a greater or less degree in members of the genus Syrphns. In a word, " Scccva " is based on a specialized condition of certain characters which fade out in the various species of Syrphns. Let us examine these characters singly. I. Enlarged Facets.— In all species of SyrpJius which I have ex- amined (or in all Syrphidae for that matter), the facets of the upper central part of the eye, in both sexes, are larger than those around the border and upon the lower half of the eye. In most cases there is a regular intergradation in size, but in the males of certain species (pyrastri L., albomaculatus Macq., sclcniticits Meig., mclanos- toma Macq.) there is a sharp line of separation marking ofif the area of enlarged facets from the smaller ones below, behind and before the area (PI. II, Fig. i). This line of demarkation is not always complete (Fig. 2), and Girschner has pointed out* that the amount of separation varies with different species, and has indicated his doubt of the validity of the genus because of this. In this obser- vation Girschner is entirely correct, as I have determined by an examination of pyrastri, albomaculatus and sclcniticiis, and there is also more or less individual variation in pyrastri (my series is not large enough to determine this in the other species). The area is wanting in the females (Fig. 5) ; so is a secondary sexual character. Moreover, the demarkation of the facets may appear in other species which belong undoubtedly to the genus Syrphus. In 5". arcuatns (Fallen), as I have discovered, this area is of sporadic occurrence, in a few males (Fig. 3), while in a related species, 5". pcrplcxns Osburn.f the line of demarkation is present to some degree in a majority of the males (Fig. 4), though some do not have it. I have * Wien. ent. Zeit., Ill, 197. t Studies on Syrphidse, Pt. I, p. 55. 60 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. examined thirty males of arcnatus, and four of these show this con- dition. Of pcrplcxus I have seen but fourteen males and all but four of these show more or less separation of the facets. Sometimes the line of separation extends nearly around the area (Fig. 3) as it does in pyrastri, but more commonly it fades out on the lower border of the area and is confined to the posterior and a part of the lower sides (Fig. 4). Evidently this character, since here it is not even of specific importance, cannot be urged as a generic character. 2. SzvoUcn Frons. — This again is most marked in pyrastri, where especially in the male, it reaches its highest development (Figs, i and 6). In albomacttlatus it is less marked, while in scleniticiis (Figs. 2 and 7) it is not more evident than in certain species be- longing undoubtedly to Syrphiis (cf. Fig. 2 with 3 and 4). Verrall:}: has given it as his opinion that " the inflated frons alone is sufficient to differentiate the genus," but after the examination of three species of " Catahomha " and some sixty species of Syrphns I am unable to concur in the opinion. The inflation of the frons is so much greater in the male that it may be looked upon as a secondary sexual char- acter (cf. Fig. I of pyrastri, male, with Fig. 5, female). To my mind there is no more reason for constructing a separate genus on this one character than there would be in the erection of a new genus to include those species, which, like 5". geniculatus Macquart, have a greater protrusion than usual of the lower part of the face. 3. Reduced Hypopyginm. — Here again we are dealing with a character that has no special generic significance. It is true that in the " Catahomhas " the hypopygium is small and almost or entirely concealed from above under the fifth abdominal segment, but it is also true that in scleniticiis it is much larger than in pyrastri, while in a number of species of SyrpJiiis (grossiilariar Meigen, auricoUis Meigen, protritus O. Sacken, crepcr Snow) it is likewise much re- duced and partially or entirely concealed below the fifth segment. 4. Pilose Eyes. — Rondani founded his genus Lasiophthicits with pyrastri as the type, on those species of Syr pints which have hairy eyes. The separation on this character is entirely unwarranted in the light of more recent study, as A^errall (I. c.) has pointed out. Verrall further maintains that we may have bare-eyed Catahomhas, " as I possess four specimens of a bare-eyed species which existed t Br. Flies, Syrphidse, 334. March, igio] . OSBURN : STUDIES ON SyRPHID^. 61 in Bigot's collection under the name of Syrphus lapponicus from North America." I believe that these four specimens referred to belong to my S. pcrplcxiis* but cannot be certain without an examina- tion of the specimens. At any rate, the presence of hairy-eyed and bare-eyed species in both " Catahomha " and Syrphus effectually bars this character from any use in establishing a separate genus. 5. The third vein is curved in the " Catahomhas " above the first posterior cell (PI. II, Fig. 8), but again we have species of the genus Syrphus (arciiatiis Fallen (PI. II, Fig. 9) and anniilipes Zetterstedt) which are fully as advanced in this respect as any " Catabomba," while in " C" albomacnlatus the vein is but slightly bent. Assuredly we can make no distinction on this basis. It is evident from the above that we cannot separate a genus " Scccva " from Syrphus by even one constant character. Neither is there a " distinct facies " presented by a combination of characters of sufficient constancy to serve in the differentiation of such a genus, since the facies is broken into on all sides by related species. The result is that the species pyrasfri (Linne) with its var. unicolor (Curtis), sclcnifjcus Meigen, albomaculatus Macquart and melanos- toma Macquart must all be returned to the genus Syrphus. Certain systematists are inclined to view with regret the fact that we have such large genera as SyrpJius, Erisfalis and others in which the species may run into the hundreds. Such genera may exist, however, and while the effort to discover absolute differences of more than specific value is certainly laudable, the attempt to found separate genera upon any other than well-marked characters which show no intergradation can only end in greater confusion. The very fact that we have such a large number of closely related species covering a wide range of variability indicates a plasticity of the genus which in itself should cause us to look with suspicion upon new genera separated from the old one. On the other hand, we may determine the existence of groups within the genus which, while not necessarily constant, will serve every purpose for con- venience of study without involving the synonymy or suggesting false values in classification. * Studies on Syrphidae, Pt. I, p. 55. 62 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Explanation of Plate II. (All the figures drawn under camera lucida.) Fig. I. Syrphiis pyrastri ^, from a specimen taken by the author at Laggan, Alberta. Note the swollen frons, and the area of large facets, indi- cated by the dotted line. Fig. 2. Syrphus seleniticus, c^, a European specimen sent me by Prof. Bezzi. Fig. 3. Syrphus arciiatus (^, a specimen sent me from British Columbia by Mr. B. G. Elliott. The demarkation of the area of facets is the greatest I have noticed in this species. Fig. 4. Syrphus perplexus (^, a specimen taken at Searchmont, Ontario, by Mr. E. B. Williamson. The line of demarkation of the area of enlarged facets fades out on the lower border, the usual condition in this species and arciiatus, when present at all. Fig. 5. Syrphus pyrastri $, a specimen from Seattle, Washington, taken by the author. Fig. 6. Syrphus pyrastri (^, front view, same specimen as Fig. i. Note the extreme width of the frons. Fig. 7. Syrplius seleniticus ^, front view, same specimen as Fig. 2. Note the narrow frons as in other species of Syrphus. Fig. 8. Syrphus seleniticus,, wing, a specimen sent me by Prof. Bezzi. Fig. 9. Syrphus arciiatus, wing, same specimen as Fig. 3. STUDIES ON SYRPHID^.— III. AN INTERESTING MERISTIC VARIATION IN SYRPHUS PERPLEXUS. By Raymond C. Osburn, Columbia University, New York City. (With Plate III.) Meristic variations of different sorts have been recorded not in- frequently among insects,* but as far as I have been "able to discover, none have been noted u^hich involve the entire supression of a compound eye and the presence of a complete supernumerary antenna and vertical triangle v^'ith ocelli. The specimen which exhibits these conditions was sent me by Mr. * Especially Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation. Joiini N. Y. Ent. Soc. Vol. XJV/I. F/aU III. SyrphidcE. March, 1910.] OSBURN : STUDIES ON SyRPHID^, 63 Giistav Chagnon, of Montreal, Canada, who captured it while collect- ing other Syrphid^e on Montreal Island, Sept. i, 1907. Mr. Chagnon writes me that he noticed nothing unusual in the actions of the specimen and that it was taken resting on a leaf in the manner char- acteristic of many syrphids. I have delayed publishing an account of it while working out the synonymy of Syrphiis arcuatiis Fallen and a related new species, 6". perplexus Osburn, described in the present number of this journal. f This specimen belongs to S. perplexus, and is a normal male in all respects except those to be described. The main features of abnormality are: (i) The total absence of the compound eye of the left side, (2) the presence of a well-devel- oped supernumerary antenna on the left side, (3) a well-developed supernumerary vertical triangle on the left side, (4) the distortion of the head, especially on the left side, due to the suppression of the eye. The right side of the head is quite normal in the possession of the proper structures, but it is thrown a little out of balance as a result of the absence of the eye of the opposite side. The eyes of the nor- mal male of this, as of other species of Syrphus, are extremely large, covering nearly all of the sides of the head. They meet at the top of the head (the condition known as holoptic) for a large part of their width. The vertical triangle is inserted, wedge-like, between the eyes posteriorly (PI. Ill, Figs, i and 2). The right eye is normal even to the possession of an area enlarged facets, but the absence of the left eye and the consequent lack of development on that side has caused the eye present to appear to extend beyond the middle of the head. This is evidently due to the warping of the morphological median plane of the head (Fig. 3). The face below is nearly normal except that it is slightly depressed, and the antenna of the right side is about in the usual position. The frons is thrown considerably out of the vertical, and the left normal antenna is somewhat lower down than the right one but is normal in structure (Figs. 3 and 4). The color markings of the face, the facial stripe and the supra-antennal spots, are normal except for the twisting (indicated by the dotted line. Figs. l and 3) and that the left supra-antennal spot is reduced in size by the encroachment of the additional antenna (Fig. 3). The supernumerary antenna is situated slightly behind and above t Studies on Syrphids, I, p. 55. 64 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. the normal one of the left side. It is located in a separate fossa in all respects like the normal ones, and consists of the usual three joints. The joints are all slightly, but not very materially, different from the normal ones in shape. The third joint lacks the dorsal arista or bristle, but there is present a small tubercle in the position of the arista (Fig. 5), and this I believe is the rudiment of the arista. In the normal antenna of this species the upper and terminal por- tions of the third joint are pigmented with black, but in the extra antenna the color pattern is reversed, being dark below and yellow above (cf. Figs. 5 and 6). There is no supra-antennal spot such as is seen above the insertion of the normal antenna. The third antenna is also somewhat smaller than the others. The vertical triangle is in the normal position, but is somewhat misshapen owing to the absence of the compound eye on the left side, which should compress it into a wedge-like form (as in Fig. 7). It possesses the three ocelli of the usual size and nearly normal ar- rangement (Fig. 5 v). In addition to this there is a supernumerary triangle (Fig. 5, Sv), situated between the normal one and the super- numerary antenna. It bears two well-developed ocelli, the posterior ones a little smaller than usual, but the anterior ocellus is wanting, unless a small prominence near the anterior end of the triangle is to be considered its rudiment. If such is the case, it is entirely devoid of a lens. The position of this triangle is abnormal in that it is out of the median plane of the head and is turned at a wide angle to this plane, pointing downward on the side of the head. It is situated between the frons and the occiput, thus occupying a portion of the space usually filled by the large compound eye. The frons and the occiput do not quite meet around this triangle, and somewhat mem- branous areas are left above and below it between the frontal and occipital sclerites. The occiput is greatly distorted on the left side, as a result of the absence of the eye, and it reaches forward on the side of the head to meet the face. It is much wrinkled, and a deep fold runs diag- onally downward and forward across it (Figs. 4 and 5). The gena or cheek, normally, is completely fused with the occiput, while a shallow suture marks it off from the face. In this specimen the facial suture is much exaggerated and the cheek is also marked off above from the occiput by a deep groove. The cheek is also somewhat distorted (Fig. 4, G). March, 1910.] OSBURN : STUDIES ON SyRPHID^. 65 As to what has produced these abnormahties we can only con- jecture. The presence of an extra antenna with the suppression of the compound eye naturally recalls the experiments on Crustacea first performed by Herbst* and since repeated by a number of investi- gators, where by the excision of the compound eye at a certain level an antenna was regenerated instead. This has been found to hold true for a number of Crustacea, but the small amount of experimental work bearing on this question in the insects does not seem to bear out this explanation for the specimen at hand. Tornierf has pro- duced forked antennae in various species of beetles on regeneration, by cutting ofif the antennal joints at various levels, but his " Hyperan- t^nnie " does not mean the presence of supernumerary antennae. More recently Werber:}; extirpated the compound eye and antenna of Tcnnchrio larvae and pupae, and found that in the only two cases which reached maturity, the eye and antenna were regenerated almost normally, so these experiments throw no light on the abnormalities of this specimen. Even if we should accept the supposition that the antenna represents the eye in this case, we should still have to explain the presence of the extra vertical triangle. At first glance it might seem that the ocelli and triangle are here replacing the compound eye, since they more nearly occupy the posi- tion of that organ. It must be recalled, however, that the ocelli are not in any way homologous with the compound eyes, since they are innervated by different nerves arising from different lobes of the brain, and according to the accepted theory of Grenacher§ are only related in their probable development from primitive similar sources. Unfortunately the specimen is dried and therefore not in a condition to investigate as to the internal soft parts. It may be that the con- dition is due to some injury of such a nature as to completely over- throw the equilibrium of normal development during metamorphosis, and if such is the case, further experimentation on the regeneration * Herbst, Ueber die Regeneration von antennenahnlichen Organen an Stelle von Augen, Arch. Entw.-Mech., Bd. IX, 1899. t Tornier, Das Entstehen von Kafermissbildung, besonders Hyperantennie imd Hymermelie, Arch. Entw.-Mech., Bd. IX, 1900. t Werber, Regeneration des exstirpierten Ftihlers und Auges beim Mehl- kafer, Tenebrio molitor, Arch. Entw.-Mech., Bd. XIX, 1905. § Grenacher, Untersuchungen iiber das Sehorgan der Arthropoden, etc., Gottingen, 1879. 66 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. of the insect head may throw some light on it. For this reason, and also because it is the only case of the kind that has been noticed I have considered it worth while to describe it in detail. Explanation of Plate III. (All figures drawn with camera lucida.) Fig. I. Syrphus perplexus, normal male, front view, stippled areas indi- cate color markings. Fig. 2. Syrphus perplexus, side view. The dotted line indicates an area of enlarged eye facets. Fig. 3. Syrphus perplexus, abnormal specimen, front view, showing the twisting of the head due to the suppression of the left eye, color markings indicated. Fig. 4. Syrphus perplexus, side view. G, gena. Fig. 5. Syrphus perplexus. Superior lateral view, more enlarged. Fr, f rons ; Fa, face ; Sa, supernumerary antenna ; F, fossa of supernumerary an- tenna ; V, vertical triangle ; 5"^, supernumerary vertical triangle ; O, occiput. Fig. 6. Syrphus perplexus. Normal antenna, enlarged. A, arista. Fig. 7. Normal vertical triangle, enlarged, showing arrangement of ocelli. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- LOGICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of Tuesday, October 19, 1909. Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. A. Leng in the chair, with twenty-six members and eight visitors present. The librarian, Mr. Schaeffer, reported the receipt of the following ex- changes : Memorias de Instituta Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, XXVHI, Nos. 7 and 8. Zeitschrift f. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiologie, V, no. 9. Canadian Entomologist, XLI, No. 10. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Nathan Banks, Bull. 67, U. S. National Museum. The secretary reported that he had, as authorized at the last meeting, sent a letter to Dr. Bumpus thanking him and the Museum authorities for the ample provision which they had made for the meetings and work of the Society. The president called upon Dr. Bumpus, who responded in a few words. Dr. Lutz proposed as an active member Mr. Halsey J. Bagg, 611 W. i52d St., and Mr. Barber proposed Mr. C. V. Blackburn, of Stoneham, Mass. March, I9IO.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 67 On motion the by-laws were suspended and the secretary was instructed to cast a single affirmative ballot for the election of these members. Mr. Davis read the amendments to the by-laws in reference to establish- ing the office of curator and moved their adoption. The motion was seconded and adopted. On Mr. Davis' nomination, Dr. F. E. Lutz was appointed curator of the Entomological Collection. The secretary presented the resignation of Mr. C. H. Sunderland. On request of Mr. Watson this was laid on the table by vote of the Society. Dr. Zabriskie, in his remarks on Bruchus discoideus, stated that while collecting in July last summer at Cayuga Lake, N. Y., he swept a great number of these little weevils from golden rod blossoms and also from other flowers, but none was found on wild carrot. He had found the males to be scarce. He pointed out the differences between the antennae of the two sexes. Various parts of the beetles were mounted on slides and exhibited under the microscope. Dr. Zabriskie explained his method of preparing and mounting this kind of material. He called attention to the apparent absence of coxae, the peculiarity of the fourth joint of the tarsi, terminal spine on the antennae, etc. He also exhibited a rare weevil, Mesites subcylindricus, the asparagus beetle (Criocerns u-pniictatus) and Hylotriipes bajulus, the beetle which did so much damage in the woodwork of a house at Moritches, L. I. Dr. Zabriskie also explained his method of making labels for his insect boxes. On question of Mr. Leng, Mr. Schaeffer said he thought Dr. Zabriskie had made a mistake about the absence of the coxae in Bruchus discoideus, Mr. Leng spoke on " Collecting in Northern Georgia," describing the region near Clayton in Rabun County, which he visited in June in company with Mr. Davis, Dr. Love and Mr. Charles Drury, of Cincinnati. Clayton stands at an elevation of 2,000 feet surrounded by a mountainous country with many ridges reaching 3,500 to 3,700 feet. The beetles collected by Mr. Davis were used to illustrate the remarks and exhibited a large percentage of species that would be found in New Jersey. About five per cent, were species known to inhabit the Gulf States ; and about the same proportion were species pecu- liar to or specially abundant in the southern part of the Appalachian Range. Among these were Cicindela unipunctata, Cychrus andrezvsi, Cychrus bicari- natus, Nomaretus debilis, Pterostichus grandiceps, Dasycerus caroliniensis, Corymbites trivittatus, Michthysoma heterodoxum and a new species of Clerus, called jonteli by Mr. Leng. A complete list of the species obtained will later be published in the Journal. Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited a number of insects collected during the early part of July and described in the notes on " The Camp at Lakehurst, N. J.," published in the September number of the Journal. He also showed a cricket new to New Jersey, collected at Lakehurst on October 3, 1909, and stated that it appeared to be Cycloptilum squamosum, described by Scudder from Texas in 1868. Mr. Joutel exhibited his collection of hybrid moths between male Cynthia 68 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. and female Promethea. He remarked that the full-grown larvae and moths were different from the normal type of either parent — the female being more nearly normal than the male. The cocoons were also different. Mr. Joutel also spoke very briefly concerning his investigations on white ants {Terines flavipes). Some of the colonies of these insects he had kept and observed for three years, but the conditions were not favorable and he had difficulty in securing the isolation of the colonies without their devouring each other. He had, however, got them to lay eggs and had to a certain extent observed the methods of feeding of the larvae. Prof. Wheeler spoke of the delay in the publication of the last number of the Journal and requested that more attention be paid to publishing material on the habits of insects, etc. He asked support for " Psyche," the organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club. The Society adjourned. Meeting of Tuesday, November i6, 1909. Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. W. Leng in the chair, with twenty-two members and nine visitors present. The librarian, Mr. Schaeffer, announced the publication of a new general catalogue of the Coleoptera of the world, in which the different families were treated by specialists. It is to be edited by S. Schenkling. He advised its purchase by the Society. On motion of Mr. Angell the lil)rarian was authorized to purchase the completed catalogue. The curator, Dr. Lutz, reported that the local collection was being arranged as rapidly as possible by members of the Society, who had been meeting for that purpose at the Museum on alternate Sundays. Much material had also been added to the collection. The method of keeping a record catalogue of the species was explained. _ Dr. Lutz also stated that the Museum would soon publish a map of the region covered within the fifty mile limit. Mr. Davis proposed as active members of the Society Mr. Silas Wheat, 987 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mr. Ernest Shoemaker, 6916 17th Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Leng proposed Mr. John D. Sherman, 335 A. Decatur St., Brooklyn, N. Y. On motion the by-laws were suspended and the secretary was instructed to cast a single ballot for the election of the three proposed members. The secretary read a letter received from Dr. Bumpus acknowledging the action of the executive committee and assuring the Society of the apprecia- tion by the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History of the important results which the cooperation of the Society promises. Mr. Leng exhibited a number of old letters, many of them from noted entomologists, which had been turned over to the Society by Mr. Beutenmiiller, and remarked that these should be preserved in a suitable way. March, 1910.] Proceedings of the Society. 69 Dr. Southwick moved that the President appoint a committee of two to arrange for the care of these letters. The motion was carried and the President appointed Dr. Southwick and Mr. Davis. Mr. George Frank read an account of " A Collecting Trip to Highland Lake, Sullivan Co., N. Y." He gave an interesting description of the char- acter of the country, which made it an ideal spot for the collector, and mentioned in passing the species of Lepidoptera collected or observed by him on the trip. Prof. John B. Smith, speaking on " The Geographical Distribution of Insects in New Jersey," remarked that the local map drawn on the black- board was a little too extended, as it took in certain sections not falling within the fifty-mile zone. He exhibited two maps of New Jersey, one a relief map on which he called attention to its chief features and the other showing in color the six faunal regions which he mentioned, namely, the Appalachian, in the extreme northwestern part, along the Delaware River ; the Highlands region, just eastward of the former ; the Piedmont Plain region, fitting in between the Highlands region and the coast, the region of red sandstone, high, hilly and rolling; the Delaware Valley region, south of the latter and running diagonally across the state, which is the richest entomologically and in which no part of the red shale occurs ; the Maritime region, along the coast, and the Pine Barrens, occupying the greater part of southern New Jersey. This region is not so sharply marked as the former, since there are scattered islands of pine barren in the Delaware River region, at Jamesburg and on Staten Island. He referred to the significant fact that in these various faunal regions certain insects differ in the number of broods. Thus the elm- leaf beetle has only one brood in the Piedmont Plain region, while it is two-brooded in the Delaware Valley district. The codling moth is two-brooded in the Delaware Valley and Pine Barren regions, and usually single-brooded in the others, with an occasional fragmentary second brood due to seasonal or local difference. He remarked that no strictly boreal species of insects occurred in the northern highlands of the state, which had an elevation up to 2,000 feet, but in the cold swamps of the pine barrens a few boreal forms had been found. He thought the maps would be helpful as some portion of each one of the faunal regions came within the fifty-mile zone of New York City. Dr. Smith presented the maps to the Society with the prediction that at least 15,000 species of insects would be found to occur within the pre- scribed limits. On motion of Dr. Southwick the Society accepted the maps with thanks to Prof. Smith. Mr. Leng asked if Trechus chalybaus, a boreal species, had not been taken in the cold swamps of the pine barrens. Prof. Smith stated that it had been found near Milltown and South River in the roots of grasses along the water courses. Mr. Davis referred to a boreal mouse and a boreal snake occurring in the cold swamps of southern New Jersey. 70 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI.xviii Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch gave an interesting account of " A Collect- ing Trip to Southern Mexico," and' exhibited a large collection of spiders and insects preserved in alcohol. He spoke briefly on the itinerary of his trip. He sailed from New York early in July and reached Vera Cruz on the ninth, having stopped at Havana en route. He also explained his method of pack- ing vials of material between pieces of cardboard to prevent their breaking while on shipment. Two days were spent about Vera Cruz, but as the hills were bare and the vegetation sparse, collecting was poor. Thence he pro- ceeded by railroad to the isthmus of Tehuantepec where he encountered the rich tropical forests of the low-lands of Mexico. Here he stopped ten days at the plantation of Mr. Harvey in the midst of a typical Mexican jungle. It rained a great deal, so that collecting was often done under disadvantages, but he found the fauna extremely rich. He employed various methods of collecting, such as sweeping, digging in bark and leaves and sifting. He mentioned the characteristic kinds of spiders occurring in this region and spoke briefly of their habits. Among those named were the tarantulas, trap- door and jumping spiders, but there was a surprising absence of orb-weaving species, possibly owing to its being the wrong season of the year. From this point he went across the isthmus and a little lower down to a dryer, more gravelly country, with no tropical forests and no jungles — more of a desert in which cactus and mesquite predominated. Here insect life, in spite of the desert-like character of the country, was quite plentiful. Proceeding still further south, he collected a few days near the Guatemalan border, in a low, flat, jungle country, but torrential rains interfered with his operations and ruined the railroad for a considerable distance. Here he took horses to get through the jungle, but everything was so soaking wet that few specimens could be obtained. He mentioned the characteristic insects which he saw at various points on his trip, and remarked that all entomological collecting was merely incidental, as he was primarily after spiders. Among other things he spoke of witnessing the migration of miHions of butterflies, the copulation of nymphal locusts, the great number of beautiful Morphos, the swarming of the centipedes and scorpions in the thatched roofs, the work of the army-ant (Eciton) in clearing these out, the great abundance of mosquitoes, which often pestered him, the almost entire absence of snakes (he having seen only five specimens), the color differences between the jungle and desert forms, etc. On question of Mr. Leng, Dr. Petrunkewitch described a typical jungle and spoke of its deathly stillness, owing to the absence of life. In closing he stated that arrangements would be made through Dr. Lutz for the members to study and determine the material. The Society adjourned. H. G. Barber, Secretary. XH K NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Organized June 29, 1892. — Incorporated June 7, 1893. 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If a larger number be desired they will be supplied at cost, provided notice is sent to the Editor before the page proof has been corrected. JOURNAL JOfId igorh €ln(omQlQgirflI ^oriFJ^g. Vol. XVIII. JUNE, 1910. No. 2. NOTES ON COLEOPTERA COLLECTED IN NORTHERN GEORGIA. By C. W. Leng, West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. During the last two weeks of June, 1909, William T. Davis, Charles Dury, Dr. E. G. Love and the writer collected the species of Coleoptera named in the following list. Our headquarters were Dozier's Hotel, Clayton, Rabun Co., Ga. Clayton stands at an elevation of 2,000 ft. in a valley traversed by a small river and surrounded by mountains. Our collections were made partly in the immediate vicinity of the village, but principally on either Black Rock or Screamer Mt., each about three miles from the village and each about 3,700 feet high. We also visited the deep forests about Tuckalege Creek, six miles east, and Wilson's Gap, ten miles north. The largest number of Cychrus came from the place last named. All these localities are in Rabun County, which is one of the northern tier, and its mountains are quite similar to those of the adjoining states, Tennessee and North Carolina, though they do not reach the elevations attained by the mountains of the latter. Extreme precipitation, the greatest known in eastern America, manifested during our stay by heavy thunder storms almost every afternoon, combined with the warm climate of its latitude, are fac- tors that influence the flora and fauna of the region. In addition, 71 72 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. important factors for us were the great forests on the mountain sides, unburned and uncut in some places, with many fallen trees and an accumulation of old leaves that, in favorable localities, cov- ered the ground twelve inches deep. In localities that had been burned, the bare ground is so washed by the torrents of rain that it is swept clean of leaves, stones and sticks and the only shelter that remains for ground beetles is under the bark or within the rotten wood of the fallen trees. In the most exposed situations, the slopes are eroded by these rains to a remarkable extent, and the bare red soil, destitute of vegetation, is most discouraging to the collector. The summit of Black Rock, where we spent much time, is a long ridge, rather than a peak, covered with deciduous forest, with un- dergrowth of Rhododendron, Azalea, Andromeda and other shrubs growing out of a mass of old leaves dotted with growths of Galax vines and brilliantly red Lychnis. Hours were pleasantly passed in beating, sweeping and sifting on this summit. At a lower level Chinquapin, the little southern chestnut, was in flower and very productive. From the top of Black Rock, the view to the west and northwest stretches over the valley of the Little Tennessee to count- less similar ridges, all forest-clad and gradually increasing in height until the eye rests on the hazy outlines of the Nantahela Mts. of North Carolina. We did not find these ridges favorable ground for Cychrns, though by hard work a few were caught. As pointed out by Mr. Davis, they prefer the valleys and ravines in the mountains, where the topographic conditions increase the humidity. Wilson's Gap proved our best hunting ground. There, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, we found a stream running between two mountains through a ravine with steep sides, opening into a flat which was overflowed in part during heavy rains. The trees were two feet in diameter in many cases and plenty of dead ones lay on the moun- tain sides. The ground was deeply covered with old leaves and a heavy growth of shrubs edged the stream and hung over its cascades. In the fallen trees, under the loose bark that came off in sheets, burrowing into the rotten wood beneath the bark, were Cychrus in plenty, once twelve in one log. On the map accompanying Dr. Merriam's " Life Zones and Crop Zones " the region we visited appears as the southern extremity of the transition zone. Luxuriant patches of persimmon trees, a small June, 1910 ] LeNG : COLEOPTERA FROM NORTHERN GEORGIA. 73 patch of cane brake near the river, passion flowers in a warm sandy field, yucca in another field were some of the exceptional botanical signs that we were in Georgia; otherwise the trees and shrubs presented a familiar appearance to collectors accustomed to the woods of northern New Jersey. Similarly the subjoined list of beetles contains the names of a few southern species, but many more names of species familiar to northern collectors. It may derive its principal interest from the occurrence of a few species previously known from western North Carolina and the inference that may perhaps fairly be drawn that more thorough collecting in the southern Allegheny Mountains will disclose a greater number of species peculiar to the region. List of Species and Notes. Species of which I have seen only specimens collected by Mr. Davis are marked Ds. Those based on the collection made by Dr. Love are marked L. Those included on the authority of Mr. Dury were collected and identified by him and are marked Dy. Those not specially marked were either collected by all the party or by me only. Cicindela unipunctata Fab. 6-guttata Fab. patruela Dej. transversa Leng. tranquebarica Hbst. form minor. repanda Dej. i2-guttata Dej. (L., Ds.). punctulata Fab. Cychrus bicarinatus Lee. canadensis Chd. andrew^si Harr. elevatus Fab. (L.). Nomaretus debilis Lee. Carabus sylvosus Say. limbatus Say. serratus Say (L., Ds.). Notiophilus aeneus Hbst. g-striatus Lee. Nebria pallipes Say (L.). Pasimachus depressus Fab. substriatus Lee. Scarites subterraneus Fab. Clivina bipustulata Fab. planicollis Lee. Panagasus fasciatus Say. Ardistomis viridis Say (Dy.). Bembidium postremum Say. laevigatum Say (Dy.). dilatatum Lee. (Dy.). nigrum Say (Dy.). variegatum Say (Dy.). Anillus fortis Horn. Tachys nanus Gyll. flavicauda Say. granarius Dej. (Dy.). vivax Lee. proximus Say. Pterostichus mcestus Say. honestus Say. blanchardi Horn. adoxus Say. spoliatus Newn. 74 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii Pterostichus grandiceps Chd. vinctus Lee. lachrymosus Newn. (Dy., Ds.). coracinus Newn. (Dy.). mutus Say. Evarthrus sigillatus Say. ? ObsoletUS Say (Dy., Ds.). Aznara pennsylvanica Hayw. exarata Dej. Loxandrus velox Dej. Dicaelus dilatatus Say. purpuratus Bon. (L.). elongatus Bon. ambiguus Laf. (Dy., Ds.). teter Bon. furvus Dej. politus Dej. Badister micans Lee. Calathus opaculus Lee. gregarius Say (Dy.). Platynus decens Say. leflexus Lee. lextensicollis Say (Dy.). ferreus Hald. (Olisthopus parmatus Say. Atranes pubescens Dej. (Dy.). Casnonia pennsylvanica Linn. Galerita janus Fab. bicolor Drury. Lebia ornata Say. Coptodera aerata Dej. Cymindis elegans Lee. americana Dej. Apenes lucidula Dej. Chlsenius tomentosus Say (Ds.). laticoUis Say. tricolor Dej. (Dy., Ds.). Anomoglossus emarginatus Say (Dy.). Oodes 14-striatus Chd. (Dy.). Agonoderus infuscatus Dej. pallipes Fab. testaceus Dej. Harpaliis dichrous Dej. pennsylvanicus DeG. caliginosus Fab. nitidulus Chd. Selenophorus ellipticus Dej. Stenolophus spretus Dej. conjunctus Say (Dy.). ochropezus Say (Dy.). Anisodactylus terminatus Say. baltimorensis Say. furvus Lee.? (Ds.). rusticus Say. carbonarius Say (Ds.). nigerrimus Dej. Dineutes vittatus Germ. ? Necrophorus tomentosus Web. Prinonochseta opaca Say (L.). Liodes geminata Horn (Ds.). Agathidium dentigerum Horn. oniscoides Beauv. Conophron sp. ? longipilosum Casey. Batrisus monstrosus var. ferox Lee. denticoUis Casey. Trimiumelba sp. ? Falagria bilobata Say. dissecta Er. Homolota sp. ? Aleochara lata Grav, Gyrophaena sp. ? Quedius fulgidus Fab. Creophilus villosus Grav. Listrotrophus cingulatus Grav. Staphylinus maculosus Grav. comes Lee. violaceus Grav. viridianus Horn. Belonuchus formosus Grav. Philonthus cyanipennis Fab. Actobius parens Horn. Eugesthetus americanus Er. lituarium Lee. brevipenne Lee. Lithocaris confluens Say, Psederus littorarius Grav. Sunius prolixus Er. Stilicopsis paradoxa Saehse. Palaminus testaceus Er. Tachinus fimbriatus Grav. limbatus Mels. June, 1910.] LeNG : COLEOPTERA FROM NORTHERN GEORGIA. 75 Conosoma pubescens Payk. crassum Grav. basale Er. Mycetoporus americanus Er. Oxyporus stygicus Say. 5-maculatus Lee. Apocellus sphsericollis Say. Bledius cordatus Say. Erchomus laevis Lee. Anthobium horni Fauv. ? Scaphidium piceum Mels. Toxidium 4-guttatum Say. Megilla maculata DeG. Hippodamia convergens Guar. Coccinella g-notata Hbst. sanguinea Linn. Harmonia picta Rand. Mysia puUata Say (Ds.). Psyllobora 20-maculata Say. Chilocorus bivulnerus Muls. Brachyacantha congruens Casey (Ds.). indubitabilis Cr. (Ds.). Hyperaspis regalis Casey ? signata Oliv. (Ds.). Scymnus sp. Epilachna borealis Fab. (Ds.). Aphorista viltata Fab. Mycetina perpulchra Newn. (Ds.). Stenotarsus hispidus Hbst. (L.). Endomychus biguttatus Say. Languria mozardi Lat. gracilis Xewn. Tritoma ruficeps Lee. thoracica Say. Cicones marginalis Mels. Aulonium tuberculatum Lee. Philothermus glabriculus Lee. Clinidium sculptile Newn. (L.). Silvanus bidentatus Fab. advena Waltl. Leemophlaeus biguttatus Say. Brontes dubius Fab. Cryptophagus valens Casey. Mycetophagus pluriguttatus Lee. Litargus didesmus Say. Litargus nebulosus Lee. Anthrenus musseorum Linn. varius Fab. (Dy.). Cryptorhopalum triste Lee. Orphilus glabratus Fab. Hister civilis Lee. Cercus abdominalis Er. Carpophilus melanopterus Er. antiquus Mels. Colastus unicolor Say. Conotelus obscurus Er. Epuraea rufa Say. luteola Er. helvola Er. Stelidota 8-maculata Say. Prometopia 6-maculata Say (Ds.). Pallodes pallidus Beauv. Cychramus adustus Er. Dasycerus caroliniensis Horn. Trogosita virescens Fab. Tenebrioides nana Mels. ? bimaculata Mels. Thymalus fulgidus Er. Nosodendron unicolor Say. Eurypogon niger Mels. Ptilodactyla serricoUis Say. Ectopria nervosa Mels. Cyphon obscurus Guar. « Dromaeolus striatus Lee. (Ds.). Adelocera marmorata Fab. (Dy.). Alaus oculatus Linn. Hemirhipus fascicularis Fab. (Ds.). Cardiophorus gagates Er. (L.). i-^oristonotus curiatus Say. Cryptohypnus exiguus Rand. Anchastus bicarinatus Lee. (Ds.). Monocrepidius lividus DeG. bellus Say (L.). Elater rubricollis Hbst. obliquus Say. pedalis Germ. (Ds.). Megapenthes limbalis Hbst. (Ds.). Betarmon bigeminatus Rand. (L.). Glyphonyx recticoUis Say (Ds.). Melanotus decumanus Er. 76 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Melanotus parumpunctatus Mels. americanus Hbst. Limonius auripilis Say. agonus Say (Ds.). nimbatus Say. aeger Lee griseus Beauv. (Dy.). Athous acanthus Say (Ds.). scapularis Say (L., Dy.). CUCUUatuS Say (Ds.). sp.? (Dy.). fossularis Lee. (Ds.). Sericosomus silaceus Say. Oxygonus obesus Say (L.). Asaphes memnonius Hbst. (Ds.). decoloratus Say (Ds.). Corymbites pyrrhos Hbst. (L.). sulcicoUis Say (Dy.). hamatus Say (Ds.). trivittatus Lee. (Ds.). divaricatus Lee. (L.). Melanactes morio Fab. reichei Germ. procerus Lee. (Ds.). Dicerca obscura Fab. asperata Lap. & Gory (Ds.). Anthaxia quercata Fab. Chrysobothris dentipes Germ. floricola Gory. harrisi Hentz (Ds.). Agrilus fuscipennis Gory (L.). arcuatus Say. Otiosus Say. bilineatus Web. (Ds.). Brachys aerosa Mels. Pachyscelus laevigatus Say. Celetes basalis Lee. Eros sculptilis Say. crenatus Germ. (L.). Plateros timidus Lee. modestus Say. Calochromus perfacetus Say. Polyclasis bifaria Say (L.). Lucidota atra Fab. Pyropyga nigricans Say. Pyractomena lucifera Mels. (L.). Photinus consanguineus Lee. pyralis Linn. (Ds.). umbratus Lee.? (Ds.). Photuris pennsylvanicus DeG. Phengodes laticoUis? (Dy.). Chauliognathus marginatus Fab. Podabrus rugulosus Lee. (Ds., L.). basilaris Say. tricostatus Say (Ds.). brunnicollis Lee. (Ds.). Telephorus carolinus Fab. scitulus Say? Trypherus latipennis Germ. Malthinus occipitalis Lee. (Ds., L.). CoUops limbellus G. & H. 4-maculatus Fab. (Ds.). Anthocomus erichsoni Lee. Pseudobseus apicalis Say. Attalus scincetus Say. granularis Er. Melyris cribrata Lee. Cymatodera bicolor Say. Clerus jouteli Leng. nigripes Say. rosmarus Say (L.). ichneumoneus Fab. (Ds.). lunatus Spin. (Ds.). Thanoclerus sanguineus Say. Phyllobaenus dislocatus Say (Ds., L.). Chariessa pilosa Forst. (Ds.). Cregya oculata Say. Oligomerus sericans Mels. (L.). Sitodrepa panicea Linn. (Ds.). Trichodesma gibbosa Say. Anobium notatum Say (L.). Catorama sp. ? Cupes concolor Westw. (L.). Cis sp. ? Lucanus elaphus Fab. (Ds.). dama Thunb. Dorcus parallelus Say. Ceruchus piceus Web. Passalus cornutus Fab. Canthon chalcites Hald. June, igio.] LeNG : COLEOPTERA FROM NORTHERN GEORGIA. 77 Canthon viridis Beauv. (L.). nigricornis Say. laevis Drury (Dy., Ds.). Choeridium histeroides Web. lecontei Harold (Dy.). Copris Carolina Linn. (L., Ds.). Phanseus carnifex Linn. triangularis Say (Ds.). Onthophagus hecate Panz. janus Panz. pennsylvanicus Harold. Ataenius imbricatus Mels. stercorator Fab. abditus Hald. Aphodius granarius Linn. depressus Kng. (Dy.). lividus Oliv. rubeolus Beauv. Geotrupes splendidus Fab. egeriei Germ. (Ds.). Trox monachus Hbst. (Ds.). sp. (Ds.). Serica vespertina Gyll. sericea III. (Ds.). Macrodactylus angustatus Beauv. Diplotaxis sordida Say. harperi Blanch. bidentata Lee. liberta Germ. (Ds.). Lachnosterna villifrons Lee. ciliata Lee. fraterna Harr. hirticula Knoch. Anomala marginata Fab. innuba Fab. oblivia Horn. undulata Mels. Pelidnota punctata Linn. (L.). Ligyrus gibbosus DeG. Aphonus pyriformis Lee. Dynastes tityus Linn. (Ds., L.). Phileurus truncatus Beauv. (Dy., L.). Cotinis nitidus Linn. (Dy.). Euphoria sepulchralis Fab. Cremastochilus harrisi Kirby. variolosus Kirby (Ds.). Osmoderma scabra Beauv. (Ds.). eremicola Knoch (Dy.). Trichius piger Fab. affinis Gory. bibens Fab. (L.). Valgus squamiger Beauv. canaliculatus Fab. (Dy.). Prionus pocularis Dalm. Elaphidion villosum Fab. mucronatum Fab. (L.). cinerascens Lee. aculeatum Lee. (L.). Phyton pallidum Say (Dy.). Calloides nobilis Say. Clytanthus ruricola Oliv. (Dy.). Neoclytus erythrocephalus Fab. Xylotrechus colonus Fab. Cyrtophorus verrucosus Oliv. Euderces picipes Fab. Distenia undata Oliv. (Ds.). Desmocerus palliatus Forst. (Ds.). Centrodera picta Hald. Bellamira scalaris Say (Ds.). Strangalia famelica Newn. luteicornis Fab. (Ds.). Typocerus zebratus Fab. lunatus Fab. velutinus Oliv. Acmaeops directa Newn. Leptura convexa Lee. cordifera Oliv. (L.). biforis Newn. aurata Horn. vittata Germ. lineola Say. vagans Oliv. (Ds.). Michthysoma heterodoxum Lee. Cyrtinus pygmaeus Hald. Monohammus titillator Fab. Goes tesselata Hald. (L.). debilis Lee. (L.). oculata Lee. Cacoplia pullata Hald. (Ds.). Leptostylus commixtus Hald. macula Say. Liopus variegatus Hald. (Ds.). 78 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Liopus fascicularis Harr. alpha Say. Lepturges pictus Lee. symmetricus Hald. querci Fitch. facetus Say (Ds.). Urographis fasciatus DeG. Ecyrus dasycerus Say. Hippopsis lemniscata Fab. (L.). Eupogonius tomentosus Hald. Saperda Candida Fab. discoidea Fab. lateralis Oliv. (Ds.). Oberea gracilis Fab. (Ds.). mandarina Fab. (L.). ruficollis Fab. Amphionycha flammata Newn. (L.). Anomoea laticlavia Forst. (Ds.). Coscinoptera dominicana Fab. Babia 4-guttata Oliv. Chlamys plicata Fab. Bassareus congestus Fab. (L.). Cryptocephalus quadruplex Newn. (Ds.). notatus Fab. gibbicoUis Hald. lateritius Newn. Pachybrachys othonus Say. Xanthonia lo-notata Say. villosula Mels. Fidia cana Horn. (Ds.). Graphops pubescens Fab. (Ds., L.). curtipennis Mels. (L.). Chrysochus auratus Fab. (Ds.). Tymnes tricolor Fab. metasternalis Cr. Paria aterrima Oliv. 4-notata Say (L.). Metachroma pallidum Say. puncticolle Lee. Chrysodina globosa Say. Nodonota tristis Oliv. Colaspis favosa Say. brunnea Fab. (L.). costipennis Dej. Doryphora lo-lineata Say. Chrysomela philadelphica Linn. Lina lapponica Linn. (Ds.). scripta Fab. (L.). Phyllodecta vulgatissima Linn. Cerotoma trifurcata Forst. (Ds., L.). Luperus meraca Say (Ds.). Diabrotica vittata Fab. i2-punctata Oliv. Pachyonychus paradoxus Mels. (Ds.). (Edionychis quercata Fab. gibbitarsis Say (L.). Disonycha discoidea Fab. (Ds.). Lactica tibialis Oliv. (L.). Crepidodera rufipes Linn. helxines Linn. (L.). Orthaltica copalina Fab. (Ds., L.). Phyllotreta picta Say. Blepharida rhois Forst. (Ds.). Oaontota rubra Web. (Ds.). Coptocycla aurichalcea Fab. (Ds.). Spermophagus robiniae Sch. (Ds., L.). Polypleurus perforatus Germ. Nyctobates pennsylvanica DeG. Scotobates calcarata Fab. (Ds.). Xylopinus saperdioides Oliv. rufipes Say. Anaedus brunneus Ziegl. Blapstinus mcestus Mels. Platydema flavipes Fab. (Ds.). excavatum Say (L.). Opatrinus notus Say. Uloma impressa Mels. punctulata Lee. (Ds.). imberbis Lee. (Ds.). Diaperis hydni Fab. Hypophloeus thoracicus Mels. Paratenetus punctatus Sal. Helops americanus Beauv. micans Fab. (L.). asreus Germ. venustus Say (Ds.). cisteloides Germ. (Ds.). June, 1910.] LeNG : COLEOPTERA FROM NORTHERN GEORGIA. 79 Helops sulcipennis Lee. (Ds., L.). Cistela sericea Say. pulla Mels. oblongata Casey. marginata Ziegl. (Dy.). Hymenorus pilosus Mels. (Ds.). Isomira 4-striata Coup. (Ds.). Capnochroa fuliginosa Mels. Androchirus femoralis Oliv. Arthromacra senea Say. Penthe obliquata Fab. pimelia Fab. (L.). Enchodes sericea Hald. (L.). Dirccea liturata Lee. Eustrophus bifasciatus Say (Ds.). bicolor Say (Dy.). Symphora flavicoUis Hald. (Ds.). Mycterus scaber Hald. Canifa plagiata Mels. (Ds.). Microtonus sericans Lee. Oxacis thoracica Fab. Anaspis rufa Say (Ds.). flavipennis Hald. Mordella 8-punctata Fab. (L.). serval Say (L.). marginata Mels. lunulata Helm. (Ds.). scutellaris Fab. Mordellistena trifasciata Say. semiusta Lee. (Ds.). pubescens Fab. liturata Mels. fuscata Mels. (Ds.). discolor Mels. (L.). Corphyra collaris Say. Macratria murina Fab. Notoxus bicolor Say (Ds.). monodon Fab. (L.). Anthicus sturmii Laf. Pyrochroa flabellata Fab. Dendroides canadensis Lat. (Ds.). Macrobasis unicolor Kby. (L.). Epicauta cinerea Forst. (Ds.). Eugnamptus angustatus Hbst. Pterocolus ovatus Fab. Attelabus nigripes Lee. bipustulatus Fab. Tanymecus confertus Gyll. (L.). Pandeletejus hilaris Hbst. Aphrastus taeniatus Gyll. Ithycerus noveboracensis Forst. Apion sp. Pissodes strobi Peck. Hylobius pales Hbst. confusus Kby. (Ds.). Lixus concavus Say (L., Ds.). terminalis Lee. (L., Ds.). musculus Say (L., Ds.). macer Lee. (L., Ds.). Otidocephalus myrmex Hbst. chevrolatii Horn. Magdalis perforata Horn. Anthonomus mixtus Lee. Pseudanthonomus longulus Dietz. Piazorhinus scutellaris Say. pictus Lee. Gymnetron teter Fab. Laemosaccus plagiatus Fab. (Ds.). Conotrachelus juglandis Lee. naso Lee. anaglypticus Say (Ds.). seniculus Lee. Rhyssematus lineaticollis Say (L.). Cryptorhynchus minutissimis Lee. ferratus Say. Piazurus oculatus Say. Copturus quercus Say. binotatus Lee. Acoptus suturalis Lee. (L.). Baris striata Say (Ds.). Centrinus picumnus Hbst. Plocamus hispidulus Lee. (Dy.). Balaninus rectus Say. nasicus Say. Eupsalis minuta Drury. Rhodobaenus 13-punctatus 111. Dryophthorus corticalis Say. Cossonus impressifrons Boh. (L.). Platypus flavicornis Fab. Pityophthorus sp. ? 80 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. Xyleborus sp. ? Eusphyrus walshii Lee. (L.). Chramesus icoriae Lee. (L.). Anthribius cornutus Say. Tropideres bimaculatus Oliv. (Ds., Cratoparis lunatus Fab. (L.). Dy.). Choragus sayi Lee? (Dy.). Note i. — Cicindela iinipiincfata was the most abundant and widely distributed tiger beetle. It was found on every mountain; on Brasstown Bald Mr. Dury found it by hundreds. Mr. Davis ob- served that this species was able to fly, though not for great dis- tances. Note 2. — Cicindela tranqneharica varies greatly according to its habitat. In Louisiana and other southern states, as far as I have observed, it is smaller than the northern forms and never metallic or brilliantly colored. The few specimens found in Georgia were of this small dark form, which has been called minor by Mr. Edw. D. Harris. Note 3. — Cychrus bicarinatus was abundant under the bark of fallen trees and in the rotten wood, occasionally also under stones, logs, etc. Twelve were found in one tree. In a few of the fifty or more examined, three complete carinse are included in the elytra! sculpture ; in most there are two complete carinse as in the type (which came from northern Georgia) ; in a few specimens, one of the carinas is broken into oblong tubercles. In all the sides of the elytra are parallel and there is no approach to the more rounded form of lecontei, of which this species has been regarded as a variety. C. bicarinatus, like others to be mentioned below, occurs in northern Georgia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, or the southern extension of the Allegheny Mountains. Note 4. — Cychrus andrczvsi occurs in the same region. The specimens we found are identical with those found by Mr. Beuten- muller in the Black Mountains of North Carolina, and differ in many respects from the Cychrus found in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, which have long been called andrewsi, but are identified as Germari Chaud. in Roeschke's recent monograph. Note 5. — Nomarcius dcbilis was found at the top of Black Rock Mountain by sifting the deep masses of leaves. It is confined to the region mentioned in note 3. Note 6. — Anillus fortis, a very tiny beetle, was also found by sifting on Black Rock Mountain. It occurs in Ohio and Indiana, as well as in these mountains, as I am told by Mr. Dury. June, 1910.] LeNG : COLEOPTERA FROM NORTHERN GEORGIA. 81 Note 7. — Ptcrostichus grandiceps was the most abundant rep- resentative of its genus. Like several already mentioned, it is pecu- liar to the Allegheny Mountains. Note 8. — Loxandrus velox was not found in the mountains, but among grass roots near the banks of War Woman Creek. Upon scratching about the short grass, the beetles were dislodged and ran ■off with a speed that justified their specific name. Note 9. — Dineutes vittatus? differs from the specimens pre- viously known by absence of vittae and its uniform cupreous color. This was the only water beetle found, although considerable search was made. There are no ponds near Clayton and all the streams flow swiftly. Note 10. — Liodes geminata was found by Mr. Davis in a decay- ing myxomecete. All the specimens comply entirely with the de- scription. Note ii. — Brachyacantha congrucns. One pair found by Mr. Davis agree perfectly with Major Casey's description of specimens from Asheville, N. C, and indicate that this modification of the ursina group may be peculiar to the southern Allegheny mountains. Note 12. — Carpophiliis mclanopterus has been rare in New York collections. We found it in a field overrun with yucca by beating the blossoms. Many other beetles occurred with it. All the speci- mens taken have dark elytra, contrasting strongly with the gen- eral pale color. Note 12,.—Dasycerus caroliniensis, described by Horn from speci- mens found by Morrison near Morganton, N. C, was found by sift- ing old leaves at the top of Black Rock Mountain. Note 14. — Corymbites trivitiatns and divaricatus are, like the pre- ceding, peculiar to the region. The female of trivittatus is very much larger than the male. Note 15. — Agrilus fuscipcnnis. One specimen of this beautiful insect fell into Dr. Love's umbrella. It is rare and its distribution may not be entirely known, but I believe it is peculiar to the region. Mr. Dury states that it occurs in Tennessee and Kentucky. Rare. Note 16. — Clcrus joutcli, described in our September, 1909, num- ber, was taken by beating at the top of Screamer Mountain — 3,700 feet elevation. Note 17. — Lcptura aurata is another instance of a species peculiar 82 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. to the Allegheny Mountains. We found it on Rhododendron flowers. Mr. Dury has it from Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland. Note i8. — MicJifhysoma heterodoxum was found on Black Rock Mountain ; first seen at about 3,000 feet elevation and abundant at the top — 3,700 feet. As described by Mr. Frederick Blanchard, it is usually found walking up the trunks of oaks, chestnuts and other trees; and from its size, color and form, greatly resembles the large black ant, Camponotus. This species again is peculiar to the region previously mentioned. Note 19. — Cistela marginata, one specimen taken by Mr. Dury near the top of Screamer Mountain. As remarked by Major Casey (Col. Not., Ill, p. 166), this species is widely isolated from our other species of Cistela and may have to be generically separated. Mr. Dury in a letter adds: "The type is stated to be 12.5 mm. long, this specimen is 14 mm. The elytra are not nearly one half wider than prothorax, as stated in dimensions given for type. The last joint of maxillary palpi does not agree with the form given by Le Conte to separate Cistela from the other genera of the family. It must be rare, as I never met with it in Kentucky or Tennessee, nor have I received it in large collections made on Roan Mountain, N. C. Mr. Schwarz says it is found at Washington D. C. It is remark- ably active when beaten into umbrella." MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON COLLECTING IN GEORGIA. By Wm. T. Davis^ New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. On another page of this Journal Mr. Leng has given an account of our visit to Clayton, Ga., in June, 1909, with particular reference to the Coleoptera collected. Mr. Charles Dury in Entomological News for November, 1909, has also written of the Clayton expedi- tion. While we were searching for Cyehnis or capturing tiger-beetles on the steep trail that led up the side of Black Rock Mountain, we June, 1910.] Davis : Notes on Collecting in Georgia. 83 necessarily saw many other insects, and added a goodly number to our collection. Almost the first stone that I turned over sheltered a number of the slow-moving Stigniatonuna pallipcs ants, and in their midst there was a fat and succulent lamellicorn larva about 14 mm. in length. There were a few pallipcs ants close about it, and attached to the beetle larva there were fifteen ant larvae in various stages of growth. Most of them were about 5 mm. long, but some measured only about 2 mm. They reminded me of a lot of hungry sucking pigs. I found another lamellicorn larva, evidently of the same species enclosed in its cell under a stone, and the interesting question is, did the workers of Stigmatomma pallipcs bring the beetle larva to their nest, or did they, after making the discovery, carry their own young or eggs to it. In view of the size of the beetle larva, the latter would seem to be the most probable explanation. Prof. Wheeler states that the larvae of Stigmatomma are not fed by regur- gitation, but on pieces of insects, and one of the chief points of interest in this case is the size of the piece. It is usual to discover paralyzed spiders with the larvae of Pom- pilus or some allied hymenopterous insects attached to them, but I was surprised upon turning over a stone on the side of Black Rock Mountain to find a large lycosid spider, which was quite active, though it had what was evidently the larva of a hymenopterous par- asite firmly attached near the base of its thorax. The spider was so active that it charged and bit at my forceps, and did not seem to be incapacitated in the least by the presence of the larva on its back. On several occasions when we removed the bark from fallen trees, we discovered a myriopod, evidently belonging to the family Geophi- lidae, closely coiled about its eggs, of which there were usually about fifty. We were interested in the fact that the eggs were guarded thus carefully. The " tumble bug," CantJion clialcitcs. was an amusing insect about Clayton, and we watched many rolling their balls of manure. No doubt the presence of numerous pigs in the mountains contribute much to their support. Often only one beetle rolls the ball, but if there are two, one pushes with its head down and its hind legs on the ball, while the other keeps climbing up on the opposite side of the ball and so pulls it over. The ball is rolled about rather 84 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi xviii. aimlessly, until a suitable place is reached where it may be buried. One pair that I followed, after doubling on their path, finally concluded to bury the ball in the soft sand surrounding the imprint of a pig's foot into which their treasure had fallen by accident. They however, could have got it out again if they had not been satisfied with the conditions. This pair and their ball was followed by three small flies {Borborus genictdatus Macq.), which always kept at a respectful distance until the ball was about to be buried, when they lit upon it, and no doubt profited thereby, for Prof. C. W. Johnson has informed me that the larva of this fly lives in decaying matter. In this case, also, I noticed an Onfliophagus pennsylvanictis pres- ent, as I did on other occasions about the balls made by Canthon. The balls are often lost by the owners thereof. One I found in a spring on Black Rock Mountain, where we occasionally got a drink. It had rolled down the steep side of a ravine and had no doubt taken the beetles along with it into the water, much to their surprise. They hang closely to their treasure, and on one occasion I saw a ball rolling at great speed down a steep clay bank bearing the beetles along, bumpty-bump, over all obstacles. On another occasion one of the beetles was detached as the ball bounded down a steep incline, and it never found it again but flew away in another direc- tion. This perhaps accounts for some of the cases where I found but one beetle rolling a ball. Sometimes the balls were lost in the pot-holes in the clay where they were too deep for the beetles to get them out again. On such occasions I sometimes found that the little Onthophagus had profited thereby, and had drilled them with its small tunnels, for they were suitably enough located for tfiem. On our way up the mountain we often saw the showy robber-fly Laphria saffrana, and on one occasion I observed another species of robber-fly that had captured a Cicindcia sexguttata which was quite as bulky as itself. The little Cicada hieroglyphica was not uncom- mon in a certain belt of pines that we passed through, but we found none below or above that level. The natives call the cicadas "jar flies," and the big lumbering Passalus cornutus beetle is their "best bug." Near the top of the mountain there were a few Lycccna ladon of large size flying from one to the other of two tall squaw buckle- June, 1910.] Smith ; New Noctuid^. 85 berry bushes, and on the top ridge itself I captured one Nconympha geminata. It rained so often that butterflies were not at all common. We had a rival collector in a humming bird that we saw on one occasion fly often out from a tree, remain poised in the air for a time, and then return to its perch. Upon a nearer approach it was discovered that the bird was collecting small insects that were flying before the wind. It was not at all afraid of us, but kept up its entomological pursuits while we stood close by. Where a number of Yucca filamcntosa plants had taken possession of a field in the valley, much to the disgust of the owner, we found many of the interesting little moths known as Pronnha yuccasella. When we jarred the tall heads of flowers the little moths would fall in numbers into the umbrella along with much water deposited by a passing shower. We became so muddy and bedraggled among these yucca plants that we took to a large brook, shoes, trousers and all, for the purpose of getting somewhat cleaner. That night it was so cold that the warmth of a roaring log fire built in an ample chimney place was most welcome. On warm evenings we placed our lamps on the piazza and thus collected a considerable number of species. The active bug, Sirthcnea carinata, was one of those so captured, and we also found it a rest- ful way of collecting after our ei¥orts afield, and our almost daily wetting by the rain. NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FOR 1910. NO. i. By John B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J. Noctua corrodera, new species. Head, thorax and primaries a deep rusty red-brown. Disc of thorax tend- ing to become paler, more yellowish. Primaries with costal area more or less yellowish, veins tending to become blackish outwardly, with accompanying yellowish shadings. Median lines marked by small costal spots only. Ordi- nary spots indicated by vague yellowish blotches. Median and submedian vein narrowly black marked throughout, the others tending to become so beyond the location of the t. p. line. S.t. line a more or less obvious series of pale interspaceal dots near to and almost parallel with outer margin. A diffuse pale terminal line. Secondaries in the (^ white, the veins outwardly 86 Journal New York Entomological Societv. [Voi. xvin. marked with dusky : in the $ a little yellowish in tinge. Beneath, primaries a little smoky, the margins reddish powdered and with an incomplete extra- median line : secondaries paler or whitish, reddish powdered along costal area, with an incomplete extramedian line. Expands, i. 28-1. 45 inches ^ 32-36 mm. Habitat. — Pullman, Washington (Piper); Reno, Nevada; Fort Collins, Colorado, April 12 and July 8 (Doll). Two males and two females in good or fair condition. The species belongs to the piscipclUs series ; but is brighter in color than any of the described species, with the transverse maculation almost completely wanting. The concolorous front and collar differentiate it from most of the allied forms. Aplectoides livalis, new species. Mottled olivaceous gray over a white ground, markings black, clear cut. Head white, front with an incomplete black line, vertex becoming olivaceous. Collar olivaceous to a dusty shading below the white tip. Disc of thorax and patagia mottled, black and white. Abdomen dull gray. Primaries with a rather even olivaceous shading over the white ground, the lines black, included spaces white. Maculation very similar to speciosa, but much better defined, more contrasting, without any brown shadings ; really more like prcssa in general appearance and size. A distinct black bar below median vein between the basal and t. a. lines. A black bar, which is probably variable in defini- tion, between the lower portion of the ordinary spots. Orbicular irregular, tending to become incomplete above. Reniform with a black center, smaller and more irregular than in speciosa. Expands, 1.60 inches = 40 mm. Habitat. — Newfoundland. This seems to be a good species, although in essentials the mac- ulation is like that of speciosa. The latter however is always darker, more obscure and tends to a uniformity of coloring rather than a heightening of the contrasts. The type is a single male in very good condition without date or specific location. I believe it was included among the material received from Mr. Wm. T. Bryant, of Cohassett, Mass.* * Since the above was prepared Sir George F. Hampson writes : " I have got a very distinct new Aplectoides from Newfoundland allied to speciosa ... ; it is much smaller than speciosa, black and white with hardly any brown tinge and a very small orbicular which is erect, open above and con- stricted at middle." I have little doubt this refers to my species, although my example seems larger and the orbicular is certainly not constricted at middle. June, 1910.] Smith : New NocTuiDiE. 87 Rhizagrotis actona, new species. Whitish, more or less powdered with black, so as to give a very light ash gray tint. In the male there is a slight admixture of luteous and the powdering is less dense. Head and thorax concolorous. Primaries with basal and t. a. lines marked on costa only. T. p. line strongly outcurved over cell, then very even, almost parallel with outer margin. It is single, not well defined, best marked on the veins, sometimes tending to punctiform. S. t. line marked by an outward dusky shading, with strong outward dents reaching the margin on veins 3 and 4, and an almost equally strong outward angle touching margin just below apex. Fringes whitish, cut with black opposite the interspaces. Veins narrowly black marked. Claviform a narrow loop extending from base to middle of wing, more or less well defined by black edging, which sometimes appears as a solid line toward base and tends to become lost outwardly. Ordinary spots small, whitish or with a trace of luteous, more or less defined and shaded by black scales. Orbicular narrow, oblique, tending to extend toward and even unite with the small, narrow, somewhat crescent-shaped reniform. Secondaries white, veins outwardly dusky, a venular punctiform extramedian line. Beneath, white in the male; in the female the primaries smoky, both wings with a punctiform outer line. Expands, i. 30-1. 50 inches ::= 33-37 mm. //fl&iVa/.— Stockton, Utah, IV, VI, VII, IX, Mr. Spalding. Two males and seven females in good or fair condition. The insect is alHed to albalis but is less even in color, seems narrower winged, the females are decidedly smaller and darker and the t. p. line is much better defined than in any albalis that I have seen. The species are close allies, but look obviously distinct when equal series are associated in the collection. Peridroma serano, new species. Head deep smoky brown, palpi black at sides. Collar gray, mottled with brown, with a narrow brown line crossing middle. Thoracic crests marked with gray, else reddish brown. Primaries brown : basal area to t. a. line except within basal line washed with gray ; median area a richer, more purplish brown ; terminal space darker, smoky brown. Basal line geminate, distinct, brown. T. a. line geminate, brown, very evenly oblique. T. p. line not dis- tinct, defined rather by the contrasts between median and s. t. spaces, evenly sinuate. S. t. line also defined by the darker contrasting terminal area, and a little irregular in course. A series of small black terminal lunules and a narrow pale line at base of fringes. Claviform small, pointed, black. Orbic- ular large, open to the costa, somewhat V-shaped. Space between it and reniform deep black. Reniform large, open, not defined except by the pre- ceding black spot. Secondaries pale smoky. Beneath, primaries dull smoky brown ; secondaries whitish, powdery along the costal area, with a partial extra-median line and a small discal spot. Expands, 1.60 inches ^ 40 mm. 88 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. Habitat. — Chiricahua Mts., Ariz. Two females in good condition. The species has the habitus and somewhat the color of a well marked saucia with the markings tending to the c-nigrum type. It is a very well-marked form and may be described from Mexico, though I cannot identify it with any- thing in Hampson's work, and saw nothing like it in the Schaus collection. Feltia musa, new species. General color a bluish gray over chocolate brown. Head paler red-brown. Collar brown at base, a black median line, then a light gray band below the black tip. Thoracic disc and patagia light gray. Primaries very smoothly clothed, the markings neatly written. Basal line marked only by geminate costal dots very close to base. T. a. line well removed outwardly, single, black, almost upright, outwardly a little bent on costal vein, inwardly more prominently angled on the submedian. The claviform begins at base in the form of two almost contiguous black lines and extends just a little beyond the t. a. line. T. p. line single, crenulate, brown, with a slight outcurve followed by a more feeble incurve. Beyond this line the tint is evenly gray, and there is no trace of a s. t. line. A series of small blackish terminal lunules, followed by a yellow line at base of fringes. In the median space the cell is black or blackish around the small spots, and a dusky shade extends to the costa. Below the cell a faint median shade is traceable through the outer portion. Orbicular small, round or a little extended, sharply defined, concolorous with ground. Reniform narrow, crescent shaped, sharply defined except inferiorly, concolorous with ground. Secondaries evenly smoky in both sexes. Beneath smoky, all wings with a well-marked outer band and discal lunule. Expands, i. 32-1. 48 inches = 33-37 mm. Habitat. — New Foundland. One male and one female, both somewhat defective; but fresh and perfect when first papered, so that the colors and maculation are clearly defined. The species is allied to volubilis, but differs in the very even coloring, the light gray thorax and the lack of all maculation beyond the t. p. line. There are other details that differ as can be seen by comparing the description. Unfortunately neither specimen has antennae. I am not sure as to just where these specimens were collected but think it was at Grand Ledge, by Mr. Owen Bryant. Porosagrotis catenuloides, new species. This name is proposed for the species that I have everywhere determined as catenula Grt., in collections. This species, allied to June, 1910.] Smith : New Noctuid.'E. 89 the vetusta (murcemda) of the East, is common throughout the Rocky Mountain region and westward, and I found it named catenula Grt., in all collections accessible to me over twenty-five years ago — some of the determinations by Mr. Grote himself. I never ques- tioned the species and, in 1900, described as Carncades contagionis a species which then came into my hands for the first time. Re- cently I sent specimens of my species to Sir George F. Hampson and he informs me that contagionis is identical with the type of catenula. A reference to the original description of that species puts the matter beyond doubt, and contagionis must sink as a duplication of catenula. But that leaves the species now universally labelled catenula in American collections without a name, and for that I propose the term catcnuloides. Euxoa andera, new species. Head gray tending to brown, with a black band across middle of front and another between antennae. Collar light gray below a broad black median band, darker ash gray above it. Thorax brownish, disc tending to gray. Primaries bluish gray, costal region much paler, through the center a brown- ish shade which is usually broken in the s. t. space. Transverse maculation lost. A black streak from base below median vein may or may not end in a small, loop-like claviform. The ordinary spots are fused, orbicular elongate, open above to the costa, altogether or in part ; reniform small, upright, usu- ally complete, but sometimes open to costa ; inferiorly both spots are sharply defined by the black shade which fills the cell to the median vein. Terminal space dusky, irregular, more or less emphasized by interspaceal blackish streaks. A narrow pale line at base of fringes. Secondaries white in the male, pale smoky in the female. Expands, 1.12-1.40 inches ^ 28-35 rn^n. Habitat. — Stockton, Utah, September, October (Tom Spalding) ; Glenwood Springs, Colorado (Barnes) ; Pullman, Washington (Piper) ; Readington and Santa Catalina Mts., Pima Co., Arizona, September (Barnes). A dozen specimens, male and female, are now before me and I have had many more. This is the species that I have had for years as hollemani Grt., and have distributed under that name in all direc- tions. The receipt recently, of a much darker form, with smoky secondaries in the male, almost black in the female, has caused a reexamination of material and descriptions, resulting in the dis- covery that this pale form with almost identical markings is really 90 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi xviii. distinct, and that the true hoUcmani Grt. is a very dark and very rare form. Oncocnemis gerdis, new species. Head and lower half of collar chocolate-brown, a narrow black line bordering the dark part of collar. Thorax and primaries bluish gray with black powderings, upper half of collar a little creamy in tinge. Primaries with the markings neat, slender, black. T. a. line single, continuous, a little irregular, but as a whole nearly upright. T. p. line single, continuous, out- wardly oblique to vein 6, there forming almost a rectangle, with an inward bend to vein 4, then slightly incurved or nearly upright to the inner margin. There is no s. t. line. Claviform an ovate loop of good size, black ringed, con- colorous. Orbicular small, round or nearly so, with a black central dot. Reniform nearly upright, black ringed, of good size, the upper and lower angles touching the t. p. line so that the angle of that line forms a roughly trigonate inclosed area. There is a black streak at base which does not quite reach the t. a. line. A black streak extends from the outer border of orbicular through the reniform, crosses the t. p. line just above the angulation, and extends to the outer margin ; but abruptly narrowed just before, the final connection being formed by a narrower streak. Small interspaceal streaks through the terminal area to the outer margin. A black interrupted terminal line. Secondaries white, with a partial series of blackish terminal lunules toward the apex. Beneath white ; primaries with the disc powdery and the long discal streaks obscurely reproduced ; secondaries blackish powdered along the costal margin only. Expands, 1.08 inches = 27 mm. Habitat. — Arizona : Yavapai Co., May 3, Hutson ; Baboquavaria Mts., Pima Co. Two male examjjles in fair condition. This is a sHght species, clearly yet inconspicuously marked, and allied to my scmicoUaris in general habitus. Oncocnemis intruda, new species. Head, thorax and primaries bluish gray, with a strigate appearance as a whole. Head tending to creamy white in front, and the collar to the same at extreme base. Collar with a narrow black line below middle, above it a diffuse whitish band and the tip also is whitish. Patagia and thoracic disc strigate with blackish and tending to dusky submargins. Primaries strigate, the ordinary transverse maculation barely traceable. T. a. line marked by a black dot on costa, and below that only vaguely indicated. T. p. line black marked on costa, and again traceable below vein 3, where a few paler scales may emphasize the narrow dusky markings. S. t. line broken, consists of a vague oblique shade inward from apex to vein 6 ; outwardly a little paler, inwardly a little darker than ground ; on veins 3 and 4 obscure outward dents are traceable, and below that point the line becomes conspicuous, June, igio.] Smith : New Noctuid^. 91 whitish, with a sharp inward tooth opposite the hind angle. There is no obvious claviform. Orbicular consists of a sagittate blackish mark. Reni- form a small blackish lunula in a yellowish indefined blotch. A narrow black streak at base ; all the veins marked with black or blackish ; a series of interspaceal black streaks in the terminal area. Secondaries soiled whitish, all the veins conspicuously smoky ; a dusky outer border which, in the female, tends to become rather definite ; an obscure discal lunule. Beneath whitish, powdery, with an extra-median dusky line and a small discal spot on all wings. Expands, 1-1.12 inches ^ 25-28 mm. Habitat. — Deming, New Mexico, Sept. 1-7. One male, one female from Dr. Barnes, the female in good, the male in only fair condition. The female is also the best marked of the two and has served as the base for the description. The species is a chunky one and belongs with ciliata in general habitus. Oncocnemis sanina, new species. Resembles Icvis in general appearance, but smaller, less definitely marked throughout, the secondaries not so decidedly yellowish in tinge. The collar has a distinct, narrow black cross line ; but lacks the double line below the tip. The claviform is less definite, smaller, less acute and does not in any case extend across the median space or touch the t. p. line. The ordinary spots are less well defined and tend to become pale, blotchy in appearance. The interspaceal dark marks before and after the s. t. line are not clear cut but dififuse, and the rayed appearance through the terminal area is not nearly so well marked. Expands, 1.12-1.20 inches ^ 28-30 mm. Habitat. — Gunnison, Colo., July 9. One male, four females, in fair condition only. Has been asso- ciated with Icvis in my collection; but always with a query. The material at hand is now sufficient to convince me that we have a dis- tinct form to deal with. Oncocnemis nita, new species. Ground color dull ashen gray over luteous, mottled and powdery. Head and thorax without definite markings. Primaries with all the transverse maculation present, but broken and indefined. Basal line single, black, broken, obscure. T. a. line geminate, blackish, broken, a little irregular and tending to outwardly oblique. T. p. line more obvious, acutely projected over the reniform, very oblique and a little incurved below. The inner edge is marked by black scales, beyond which a rusty yellowish shading merges diffusely into the s. t. space. S. t. line yellowish or whitish, irregular, diffuse, extending to outer margin of veins 3 and 4, preceded by irregular black marks in the interspaces. A series of black terminal lunules. Fringes whitish. Clavi- 92 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. form loop-like, incompletely defined by yellowish scales. Orbicular moderate, almost round, whitish ringed, with yellowish filling. Reniform moderate, kidney-shaped, paler than ground, annulate with whitish. Secondaries whitish at base, with a vague outer smoky border and a series of dark terminal lunules. Beneath whitish, primaries outwardly smoky, all wings with an outer line, most distinct on secondaries, a series of terminal lunules and secondaries with a small discal spot. Expands, 1.20 inches = 30 mm. Habitat. — San Diego, California, X, 26, XI, 7. One male, one female, in fair condition,? from Mr. George H. Field, received under the number 71, and associated with O. augustus which it resembles closely at first sight. It is smaller however, gray instead of brownish, much less distinctlffck marke^^nd the course of the t. p. line is quite different, resembling that of levis more nearly and lacking the characteristic inward bend of augustus on the internal vein. ,a M^unestra tenisca, new species. Ground color a smooth redtiish fawn. Head and thorax vaguely mottled with dark<;r, brownish shades, collar with a brown transverse line which is never well-niarked and tends to become altogether lost. Primaries with median and terminal spaces darker, more distinctly fawn colored ; s. t. space with a yellowish tinge beyond the t. p. line tending to a rich, velvety reddish tinge toward the s. t. line. Basal line geminate, oblique, traceable to the submedian vein, slightly angulated on the veins, the defining lines obscure, included space a little pale powdered. The entire line is obscure and not equally marked in any two examples. T. a. line oblique, a little outcurved in the interspaces the inward teeth noticeable on the subcostal and submedian vein. It is geminate, but the inner line is incomplete and the outer scarcely defined against the dark median space, leaving the narrow, whitish included line as the best defining mark. T. p. line similar in make-up, abruptly ex- serted over the cell, then inwardly oblique, with a very slight incurve, so that the median space on the inner margin is distinctly narrowed ; narrower than the basal space and usually no wider than the space beyond it. S. t. line irregular, narrow, pale, rather well defined against the terminal space. An obscure broken terminal line ; a distinct yellowish line at base of the long fringes which are cut with yellowish beyond the veins. Claviform small, loop-like, defined by a slightly darker line and sometimes by paler included scales. Orbicular oblique, irregular, usually open to the costa, narrowly outlined in white, concolorous or only a little paler. Reniform small, rather narrow, upright, only a little narrowed at middle, conspicuously white ringed, concolorous or only a little paler in center. Secondaries smoky in both sexes, with pale fringes. Beneath, all wings with a distinct discal mark : primaries June, 1910.] Smith : New Noctuid^. 93 smoky to blackish, secondaries paler, with blackish powderings and a tendency to an extra-median line. Expands, 1.12-1.20 inches = 28-30 mm. Habitat. — Stockton, l]\^amiX, 5-15 (Spalding) ; Bozeman, Mon- tana, VIII, 31, IX, 6 J^mf^ Sta.). Four male^«fid two females, all in good condition. The species at first sight resembles stricta Wlk., and is probably confused with it in collections. It is, however, decidedly larger, stricta averaging less than inch, and is a much more evenly marked and smoother species. In this respect it is nearer to spiculosa, which it also re- sembles' more nearly in color and, finally, the narrow whitish out- line of orbicular and filling to the ordinary lines is characteristic, if not equally marked in all the specimens. Mamestra nipana, new species. Ground color reddish fawn-gray, with darker, smoky brown shadings. Head and thorax a little mottled, but without definite markings or shadings. No obvious dorsal tuftings on abdomen. Primaries without conspicuous mark- ings ; the outer part of the median space is, on the whole a little darker, the s. t. space, on the whole a little paler than the rest of the wing. All the lines and markings traceable but none are well defined. Basal line geminate, incomplete, a few black scales usually connecting it with base in the submedian space, and black scales may extend beyond it at this point. T. a. line gemi- nate, outwardly oblique and outcurved between veins, very obscurely defined. T. p. line very even, only a little outcurved over cell, almost evenly oblique below. Median shade a little darker, narrower, parallel and close to t. p. line, crossing and a little darkening the reniform. S. t. line pale, narrow, broken, a little irregular. A series of small black terminal dots followed by a yellowish line at the base of the long concolorous fringes. Claviform small, barely indicated by dark scales in some specimens, altogether lost in others. Orbicular obscure, moderate in size, concolorous, incompletely outlined by darker scales or a paler annulus within its margin. Reniform moderate in size, with a somewhat darker brown border inwardly, and outwardly with two whitish dots at the forking of the submedian vein. Secondaries smoky, with a brown tinge, darkening outwardly to a brown line basing the paler fringes. Beneath reddish gray, powdery, veins with whitish scales ; primaries with an obscure discal lunule and an outer line ; secondaries more whitish except along costa, with a dusky lunule and incomplete extra-median line. Expands, .96-1.10 inches = 24-27 mm. Habitat. — Arizona: Baboquavaria Mts., Pima Co., VII, 15-13, and southern Arizona (Poling), Minnehaha, Yavapai Co., VIII, 11 (Hut- son). Six females, all in good condition. In general pattern and wing- 94 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. form resembles niontara, and there is just a bare possibility that it may be the female of that species. But the ground color is totally different, the relative contrasts are not the same, and the Arizona form gives the impression of a T^eniocampid, while the Calif ornian form would be more readily referred to Perigea. Besides I do not know of any similar sexual contrasts in this series. It should be said for both these species that the hairy clothing of the eyes is very short, stiff and, apparently easily broken. A casual examination might, therefore, easily cause an erroneous generic reference. Mamestra montara, new species. General ground color creamy gray, powdered with black and smoky brown. Head and thorax without definite markings, the margins of patagia and tips of tuftings somewhat more obviously darkened by the black scales. No dis- tinct dorsal tuftings on abdomen. Primaries with all the normal maculation marked, but incomplete and broken, the most obvious feature being a dusky median shade which is rather evenly outcurved, is nearly parallel to the t. p. line and crosses the reniform. Basal line distinct, rather well defined by blackish shadings, a narrow black streak connecting it with base in the submedian interspace, and an irregular blotch marking the outer edge at the same point. T. a. line geminate, well removed from base, outwardly oblique, a little outcurved in the interspaces, the edges incomplete and not well defined. T. p. line geminate, very even, only a little outcurved over the cell and almost evenly oblique below it : the defining lines not well-marked. Three rather well-marked whitish dots on costa in the s. t. space. S. t. line marked chiefly by the contrasting dark terminal space and by small irregular dusky preceding shades. A series of black terminal lunules, which are preceded by larger lunules of the pale ground, and thus stand out in some relief against the dark terminal area. Claviform small, marked by black scales, not complete in any example. Orbicular round or nearly so, moderate to large size, con- colorous, completely defined or only by a small difference in tint. Reniform rather large, ovate, oblique, not constricted, darkened by the median shade, inwardly defined by black scales and a very narrow white line, outwardly with a somewhat well-defined series of white dots, which are narrowly limited by black scales. Secondaries whitish, semi-transparent, becoming dusky toward the outer margin, which is bordered by a blackish line at the base of the white fringes. A small discal lunule, visible from underside. A slight ex- cision on outer margin below apex, not equally marked in all specimens. Be- neath whitish, with variable, coarse dark powderings ; primaries a little smoky, with a discal lunule and a variably defined exterior line ; secondaries with a distinct discal lunule, the powdering most obvious along the costal area. Expands, 1-1.08 inches = 25-27 mm. Habitat. — Claremont, California, Mr. Chas. W. Metz. June, igioj Smith : New Noctuid^. 95 Seven males, in good to fair condition and, on the whole, very- much alike. There is some difference in the amount of powdering and in the relative distinctness of the median shade ; but that may- be due to some extent to the condition of the specimens ; some being evidently more flown than others. Mamestra gatei, new species. Dull powdery gray over a luteous ground, without strong contrasts of any kind. Collar with an obscure dark line across the middle. Disc of thorax powdery. Abdomen only a little paler gray, dorsal tuft distinct on basal segment only, second tuft small. Primaries powdery, with all the transverse maculation obscure, broken, the lines marked by geminate black or blackish spots on costa ; but only irregularly traceable beyond that point. S. t. line marked by the slightly darker terminal space, deeply bisinuate, sometimes preceded by darker shadings or even sagittate blackish spots in the fifth and sixth interspace. A series of very small black terminal lunulas ; a yellowish line at base of fringes, which are very narrowly cut with yellowish over the veins. A small black basal streak, scarcely extending beyond the basal line. Claviform large, extending half way across median space, traceably outlined by black scales and sometimes by an obvious black line. Orbicular small, round, black-ringed, with a small central dot. Reniform large, kidney-shaped, a little constricted in center, outlined in black, inferiorly filled with darker, leaden gray ; but not contrastingly so. Secondaries white ; in the male with a narrow blackish powdered margin, in the female with a broader dusky border ; fringes white. Beneath, white, powdery outwardly and along costal region ; an extra-median series of venular black dots, and a black discal spot on all wings. Expands, 1.15-1.30 inches = 29-33 rnm. Habitat. — Fort Wingate, New Mexico, IX, 4-10. Eight males and five females in good condition. A purchased lot, collector unknown. The antennae of the males are ciliate merely, the joints very slightly marked. It is an obscure species allied to Yakima in wing- form and general appearance ; but much darker and unlike any other species known to me. It is somewhat after the trifolii type and associated with that series. There is not, however, any definite W-mark in the s. t. line. Mamestra meodana, new species. Ground color pale bluish gray, washed with faded reddish fawn. Head varying a little in tint between gray and fawn. Collar inferiorly whitish, a dark line separating the brownish tip. Thoracic disc a little mottled, patagia with a dusky submargin. Dorsal tuftings of abdomen obscure. Primaries with all the maculation distinct, but not contrasting or conspicously mottled. The median lines are white filled, the defining edges narrow, even and only a 96 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. little darker than the ground. Course of lines as in legitima. Orbicular with a distinct whitish annulus and a tendency to a gray suffusion ; in shape ovate, oblique, tending to become irregularly enlarged costally. Reniform large, im- perfectly kidney-shaped, with a very narrow, incomplete white line, and a tendency to a reddish tinge. S. t. line whitish, complete, narrow, forming a W on veins 3 and 4 which extends to the outer margin. Vein i is whitish powdered beyond the t. a. line, and vein 2 for its entire length. Other veins tending to become somewhat powdered. Claviform short, pointed, with narrow black margin that tends to become inwardly diffuse, partially darkening the lumen. There is a broken black terminal line, a narrow yellow line at base of fringes, and the latter are narrowly cut with yellow. Secondaries smoky yellowish, with a dusky outer border and paler fringes. Beneath yel- lowish gray, pale, powdery, with a large discal spot on each wing. Expands, i. 30-1. 50 inches = 32-38 mm. Habitat. — Calgary, Alberta, VI, 16-VII, 8; Arrowhead Lake, B. C, VII, 8; Pullman, Washington, V, 29, VI, 2; Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, VII, 8-15 Denver, Colorado. A series of 11 males and 5 females, mostly in good condition. The species has been confused with liquida Grt., which is a much more contrastingly mottled form occurring in Washington and prob- ably over a similar range. Liquida as described, and as figured by Hampson, has narrower, more pointed primaries and, while the type of maculation is similar, meodana is neatly and quietly orna- mented, while liquida is strongly contrasted and showy. Scotogramma francisca, new species. Ground color grayish luteous, scantily powdered with black and orna- mented with white. Palpi with blackish hairs at tip, front with a black trans- verse bar below antennae, this bar edged with white scales. Collar smooth, with a central black line and a blackish shade below a white tip. Patagia well defined, with a black submarginal line. A central divided crest tipped with white scales. Primaries with all the lines well marked, more or less conspicuously white between narrow broken blackish edgings. Basal line well marked, extending to middle of wing. T. a. line well removed from base, rather evenly oblique, a little irregular in course. T. p. line abruptly bent below costa over cell, then a little denticulate on the veins, evenly oblique to the inner margin rather close to t. a. line. S. t. line whitish, a little irregular, well defined inwardly by the dark s. t. space, outwardly more or less diffuse, a whitish powdering extending into the terminal space and cutting the broad fringes on the veins. A smoky median shade is well marked between the ordinary spots and traceable across the wing. Qaviform small, edged with black and centered with white scales. Orbicular small, round or nearly so, with a narrow blackish and an inner whitish ring, center concolorous with ground. Reniform small, oblong, oblique, a little constricted at middle, ringed June, I9IO.] Smith : New Noctuid/e. 97 with whitish and usually a little paler than ground. Secondaries smoky yellowish at base, with a broad, rather well-defined blackish outer border. Fringes whitish, with a smoky interline. Beneath coarsely powdered ; pri- maries with margins largely smoky, secondaries with a smoky outer border, a vague extra-median line and a small discal spot. Expands, i. 00-1.06 inches = 25-26 mm. Habitat. — San Francisco, California, Sept. 21, Oct. 4, Mr. F. X. Williams. Two males and two females in good condition. The males have the antennal joints a little marked and bristle-tufted and the abdo- men at base with loose dorsal tufting. The species is allied to strctchii Hy. Edw., which is referred to Polia by Hampson; but for a variety of reasons I prefer to hold our species as at present arranged in my list. The body is plump and the wings are comparatively short and trigonate. Luperina extensa Sm., Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIII, 203, 1905, Regina. Perigea flavistriga Sm., Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIII, 204, 1905, Lethbridge, Alberta. The type of the former is a large somewhat defective male with diffuse markings, and the resemblance to passer distinctly emphasized. The type of the latter is a very small example in good condition with very narrow, well defined maculation, which gave it a totally different appearance. A small series from Bozeman, Montana, sent in by Prof. Cooley connects the two and proves them identical. The species must stand as Luperina extensa. CopicucuUia incresa, new species. Head, dark grayish brown or blackish. Collar with the upper margin smoky ; a distinct black transverse line inferiorly and two cloudy shade-lines more centrally. Disc of thorax deep, blackish-brown, margins of patagia dusky. Abdomen with dorsal tuftings small, dark brown. Primaries ashen gray, with a clean bluish tint in the male, a sordid smoky tint in the female. The transverse maculation is obsolete, the t. a. line barely traceable in some examples ; veins narrowly lined with black or shaded with smoky ; a dusky shading along the internal margin and a curved dusky streak above the anal angle. A series of terminal interspaceal lunules which tend to unite into a line toward the hind angle. Ordinary spots small, distinct but not conspicuous ; orbicular round, annulate with yellowish, with a smoky center ; reniform incompletely outlined, broadly kidney-shaped, yellowish and brown powdered. Secondaries in the male pure white with obscure terminal smoky lunules ; in the female smoky brown with white fringes, scarcely paler at the base. Beneath, in the male very pale gray, almost white ; in the female smoky 98 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. brown, more or less powdery, the secondaries more whitish at base and more obviously powdered than the primaries. Expands, 37-40 mm. =: i. 48-1. 60 inches. Habitat. — Claremont, California. Two males, two females, in good condition from Mr. C. W. Metz, without dates of capture. The species is a very well-marked one in the division with the well-marked ordinary spots and obsolete median lines. The difference between the sexes is very marked and, at first blush, the two do not look at all alike. The male is the smaller with the primaries proportionately narrower and more pointed, while the color is a clean bluish-gray with whit« secondaries. The female has a sordid smoky and somewhat luteous tinge, and the secondaries are decidedly smoky throughout. SOME AUSTRALIAN BEES IN THE BERLIN MUSEUM. By Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Colorado. About 180 species of Australian bees were described by F. Smith, of the British Museum; I have published about 130 others, and in addition some 35 have been described by various authors. I have in manuscript a complete list, but it evidently represents only a small part of the existing fauna. Every new collection is full of novelties, especially if coming from a little searched locality. The present paper puts on record some species in the Berlin Museum, for the loan of which I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Embrik Strand. Palaeorhiza perkinsi, new species. Female. — Length about 9 mm. ; head and thorax dark blue, strongly and densely punctured ; abdomen with the first segment except the e5ctreme base, the second segment, and the third except the broad apical margin, a very fine deep chestnut red, with a slight purple tint ; rest of abdomen very dark blue, becoming black at apex, and with coarse black hair ; legs, except trochanters, mainly red, but anterior femora dark bluish, with only the apical part in front red, and tibiae all more or less black on outer side, the hind ones least so ; clypeus greenish ; face with three longitudinal dull white stripes, one from June, I9IO.J COCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. 99 the anterior ocellus to the lower margin of the clypeus, and the others, pointed below, along the orbital margins ; a whitish stripe also along posterior orbital margins ; flagellum brownish beneath ; thorax with short white hair, and without light markings ; area of metathorax large, triangular, smooth and shining ; tegulae dark in front, red behind ; wings a little dusky, nervures and stigma black, first r. n. joining second s. m. some distance from its base, and the second, curv- ing inwards, a like distance from its apex ; b. n. arched ; stigma large. The mandibles have a light spot on upper edge. Habitat. — North Queensland (Rolle). I have not examined the tongue of the unique type (BerHn Museum), but the reference to Palccorhiaa is practically certain. The species is dedicated to the describer of the genus. The species has no place in the table of Prosopis, owing to the red and blue abdomen. Euryglossa ephippiata Smith. Sidney, New South Wales (Dacniel). Euryglossa schomburgki, new species^ . Female. — Length 9 mm. or slightly over ; robust, head and thorax black, only the front very faintly greenish ; abdomen bluish-green, with a sericeous lustre, hind margins of segments dull blackish ; legs brownish-black, with glittering pale hair, last two joints of tarsi ferruginous ; labruni reddish ; man- dibles reddish in middle ; flagellum entirely bright red beneath, and at apex above ; clypeus shining, with scattered large punctures ; supraclypeal area smooth in middle ; front dull, strongly punctured at sides ; mesothorax and scutellum with strong scattered punctures ; sides of metathorax with white hair ; tegulae rufotestaceous ; wings strongly reddened, nervures and stigma clear ferruginous ; hind spurs strongly dentate ; apical fimbria very pale brownish. Closely allied to E. subsericea Ckll., but much larger and with differently colored wings. The venation is substantially the same, and the facial fove?e are linear. From E. jiicunda Sm. it is known by its larger size and the color of the tarsi; from E. dcprcssa Sm. by the color of the antenn?e, etc. Habitat. — Adelaide, Australia {Schombitrgk) . Berlin Museum, 221 16. Euryglossa chrysoceras, new species. Male.- — Length about 6 mm. ; head and thorax black, the mesothorax and scutellum strongly and closely punctured ; abdomen very dark reddish-brown, with the hind margins of the segments very broadly subhyaline yellowish- white, the dorsal segments curving over to the sides of the -venter ; tibiae and tarsi clear ferruginous, femora suffused with fuscous : mandibles ferruginous, with an inner tooth ; scape reddish-brown ; flagellum entirely apricot-color. 100 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. above and below ; tegulse pale reddish-testaceous ; wings clear hyaline ; nervures and stigma light yellow ; lower section of b. n. strongly arched, falling far short of t. m. ; second r. n. joining apical corner of second s. m. Related to E. regince Ckll. and E. adelaido' Ckll., but readily known by the color of the flagellum and the broad pallid margins of the abdominal segments. The venation is like that of E. regince. Habitat. — Adelaide, Australia (Schombiirgk). Euryglossa sinapipes, new species. Male. — Length about 5.5 mm. ; head and thorax black, hairy, with bright mustard-yellow face-marks, tubercles, and a small transverse mark on hind border of scutellum ; abdomen warm dark reddish, with thin pale hair, the hind margin of the first segment paler ; eyes pea-green ; face broad, facial quadrangle about square ; mandibles except their ferruginous apices, clypeus except two dots and the narrow dark lower margin, a small supraclypeal mark (broader than long, separated from clypeus by a dark line), lateral face-marks (ending obliquely a little above level of antennae), and an elongate mark on each cheek beneath, all bright yellow ; scape yellow, flagellum light ferruginous (possibly altered by cyanide?) ; mesothorax dullish, with scattered punctures; anterior legs light yellow, also the middle and hind femora ; middle and hind tibiae and tarsi light reddish, but evidently altered from yellow by cyanide, as on one side the middle leg is all yellow ; venter of abdomen dull reddish-orange ; tegulse yellowish-hyaline ; wings perfectly clear, iridescent, nervures and stigma light yellow ; first r. n. meeting first t. c, second entering apical corner of second s. m. ; lower section of b. n. strongly bent, falling far short of t. m. A curious little species of the group of E. calliopsiformis Ckll. and E. quadrimaculata Sm., but with the abdomen not spotted. Habitat. — Adelaide, Australia {Schomburgk). Berlin Museum 22119. Callomelitta picta perpicta, new subspecies. Male. — Pleura red ; abdomen blue (like the typical female) ; legs wholly black, with light hair. The apical part of the fourth ventral abdominal seg- ment is covered with dense pale yellowish hair ; at each side of the base of the fifth is a large tuft of intensely black hair, while the sixth bears a short tooth or spine on each side. Habitat. — Ararat, Victoria (Rolle). Berlin Museum. I possess a cotype of C. picta Sm., and have examined Smith's type male, from Tasmania. Smith's figure of the mouth of C. picta must have been made for an imperfect preparation ; the tongue is broadly emarginate, formed as in Prosopis; the paraglossse are comparatively long, and have (at least in the dry state) a curious appearance, as if jointed, June, igioj CoCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. 103 though there is of course no joint. The labial palpi are more slender than Smith figures, with longer joints; and the blade of maxilla is considerably longer. Crocisa quadrimaculata Rads. Hermannsburg, Finke River, S. Australia {v. Leonhardi). Allied to C. lamprosoma, but very easily separated by the white (not blue) markings, and the arrangement of the pubescence on anterior part of thorax. Crocisa quartinae Grib. Mackay, Queensland (Rolle) ; Endeavour River, Queensland (Rolle). Lestis bombylans (Fabr.). Grampians, Victoria (Rolle). Tetralonia convicta Ckll. Port Philip (Coulon). Binghamiella antipodes (Smith). Australia (Schults). AUodape simillima Smith. Mackay, Queensland (Rolle). Exoneura bicolor Smith. Melbourne, Victoria (Rolle). Hyleoides concinnula Cockerell. Adelaide (Schomhnrgk), one female. From the same locality is a male H. " zonalis rufocincta," as described by me. I am inclined to believe that the male I described as rufocincta belongs to concin- nula and that attributed to concinnula to rufocincta. Prosopis lateralis Smith. Adelaide (Schomhnrgk). Prosopis penetrata Smith. Endeavour River, Queensland (Rolle). Prosopis morosa Smith. Liverpool Plains (Melly). Prosopis elegans Smith. Adelaide (Schomburgk) ; Adelaide (Behr). 102 Journal New York Entomological Society, ivoi.xviii. Prosopis elongata Smith. Dandenong Ranges, Victoria (RoUe). Prosopis rufipes Smith. Australia (Schiilf:;) . The specimen is a male, this sex being un- described. It runs to the same place in the table of Australian Prosopis as the female, but has the labrum, mandibles, clypeus, a low broad supraclypeal mark, the lateral face-marks, a stripe on scape, upper edge of prothorax narrowly, and tubercles, all cream-color. The second abdominal segment has a large black patch on each side. The lateral face-marks are peculiar, extending very narrowly a long distance up the orbital margin, and having a thorn-like projec- tion opposite the antennae. The antennae are not especially long; the flagellum is ferruginous beneath. Prosopis chrysaspis, new species. Female. — Length 10.5 mm.; black, with the following parts bright chrome yellow, semilunar lateral face-marks, projecting upper border of prothorax, tubercles, scutellum (except anterior edge, failing in middle, which is black), but not postscutellum ; flagellum ferruginous beneath ; legs obscurely reddish, anterior tibiae and tarsi ferruginous on inner side ; wings perfectly hyaline, nervures and stigma ferruginous; first r. n. joining first t. c. ; second s. m. long ; head broad ; clypeus strongly and quite densely punctured ; mesothorax dullish, with scattered punctures of different sizes ; first ventral segment of abdomen obtusely keeled ; anterior femora swollen. The lateral face-marks end obtusely above, not on orbital margin, and extend a little above level of antennae. In my table of Australian Prosopis this runs, except for its large size, to the insect labelled cyanura in the British Museum, but which has the abdomen black, whereas cyanura Kirby is described as having it " atro- caerulescens." In appearance the new species resembles P. morosa Smith, but it is less robust, and differs in the markings of the thorax and face, those of the face especially being wholly different. Habitat. — Adelaide, Australia {Schomburgk). Berlin Museum, 19384. Prosopis chrysognatha, new species. Male. — Length about 7.5 mm. ; black, with the markings bright chrome- yellow, as follows, transverse spot on labrum, narrow stripe on upper side of each mandible, entire face up to level of antennas (deeply notched by antennal sockets), tubercles (but no other part of prothorax), scutellum (except anterior and lateral margins), postscutellum, anterior femora beneath (except at base), anterior tibiae (except a brown band on inner side), middle June, 19 lo] CoCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. 103 tibiae, and anterior and middle basitarsi ; hind legs entirely black, the spurs white ; flagellum dull reddish beneath ; tegulae piceous with a small yellow spot ; wings very faintly dusky, nervures and stigma dark ; first r. n. entering basal corner of second s. m. ; mesothorax dullish, rather closely punctured; abdomen strongly and closely punctured. In the table of Prosopis this runs to P. clongata, from which it is easily known by the ordinary (not constricted) abdomen, and the markings of the mandibles and legs. The following insect seems to be its female : Female. — Length 9 mm. ; mandibles, labrum, tegulse and legs without yellow ; clypeus black ; lateral face-marks semilunar, ending in a moderately acute angle on orbital margin. In the table this runs to P. simillima Smith, which has a quite different male. Habitat. — Type (male) from Melbourne, Victoria (Rolle). Fe- male from Australia, Berlin Museum, 1748. Type also in Berlin Museum. Prosopis indicator, new species. Male. — Length about 10 mm. ; black marked with red and bright chrome yellow ; the legs, except the trochanters and the infuscated hind tarsi, wholly bright chestnut red ; labrum, mandibles, lower and lateral edges of clypeus, and lower half of cheeks dull red ; antennae red, not very long, flagellum darkened above ; clypeus, except the red margins, a narrow triangular supra- clypeal mark, and lateral marks, all bright yellow ; the lateral marks end con- siderably above the level of the antennae in a rounded lobe, from the orbital side of which comes a linear upward projection, the whole simulating a closed hand, with a short index finger pointed ; projecting upper edge of prothorax broadly, tubercles, squarish patch behind, subpyriform patch above tubercles, spot on the ferruginous tegulje, axillae, scutellum and postscutellum, all bright yellow ; abdomen pointed, the first two segments red, the others black ; second segment clouded with blackish ; first segment gibbous above, base of second depressed ; wings perfectly clear, nervures and stigma dark brown ; first r. n. meeting first t. c. ; mesothorax dull, with feeble punctures, abdomen roughened, with punctures of different sizes. Female. — -About the same size and general appearance, noticeable for the pointed abdomen ; the red is reduced to a chestnut-red suffusion on labrum and mandibles, a dark red suffusion over antennae, apical half of anterior femora, practically all of middle femora except above, anterior and middle tibiae in front, anterior tarsi, small joints of middle tarsi, and first two seg- ments of abdomen except the broad black apical margins ; the yellow is reduced to broad lateral face-marks (obtuse above, and notched by antennal sockets), tubercles, scutellum except anterior margin, and postscutellum except sides. The front in both sexes is coarsely rugosopunctate. 104 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. In the table, the male runs to P. elcgans Smith, from which it differs by its larger size, the quite different face-marks, the red legs, etc. The female also runs nearest to elegans, but differs at once by the black clypeus. Habitat. — Mallee, Victoria (Rollc), one of each sex (the male is the type); Adelaide {Schomburgk) , one female, No. 19387. All in Berlin Museum. Prosopis dromedarius, new species. Male. — Length a little over 8 mm. ; black, red and yellow ; head and thorax coarsely punctured ; face up to level of antennae entirely bright chrome yellow, the lateral marks extending a little above, ending at an angle of about 45° on orbital margin ; labrum largely yellow ; mandibles and malar space dark reddish; mouth-parts normal for Prosopis; palpal joints with lateral apical points ; antennae long, entirely clear ferruginous, apical joint sulcate above ; upper edge of prothorax very narrowly yellow ; tubercles and tegulse red ; scutellum and postscutellum each with a transverse orange patch, that on scutellum much the largest, bar-like ; punctures of mesothorax and scu- tellum very strong ; legs clear red, the trochanters dark ; abdomen roughened, the first two segments red, except hind margin of second, the rest black ; first two segments dorsally strongly gibbous, especially the second, presenting two humps in lateral view ; wings perfectly clear, stigma and nervures testaceous, first r. n. joining first t. c. A very distinct and peculiar species, running in the table to P. elegans, but differing greatly in many ways. Habitat. — Adelaide, Australia {Schomburgk). Berlin Museum, 19386. Prosopis callosa, new species. Male. — Length about 6 mm., rather slender, black with bright chrome- yellow markings; face narrowed below, the long clypeus and adjacent lateral marks entirely yellow, the lateral marks narrow-cuneiform, ending a little above level of clypeus ; no supraclypeal mark ; mandibles and labrum dark ; front rough with minute punctures ; scape dark, a little reddish at apex (flagellum lost in type) ; upper border of prothorax, except in the middle, bright yellow and strongly swollen, this connected with the large yellow tubercles ; no other yellow on thorax ; mesothorax extremely finely punctured ; thorax rather long ; wings clear hyaline, iridescent, stigma and nervures rather dark ferruginous ; stigma large ; basal nervure arched, not reaching trans- versomedial ; first transversocubital wholly absent on both sides ; legs very dark brown, anterior tibiae orange in front ; abdomen ordinary, very dark reddish-brown, the sculpture so fine as to be scarcely visible. Habitat. — Port Philip, Australia {C onion). Berlin Museum, June, I9IO.] COCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BeRLIN MuSEUM. 105 1750. The name callosa, given by some unknown student, is on the label. A remarkable species, with only one submarginal cell. In the table it runs to P. hituberciilata, from which it differs at once by the structure of the abdomen, etc. Prosopis trilobata, new species. Male. — Length about 6 mm. ; rather slender ; black, with bright yellow- markings ; face yellow right across, the yellow cut off squarely above a little below level of antennae, leaving supraclypeal mark about twice as broad as long, and lateral marks broad-cuneiform ; below, the lateral marks fail for a short distance, and a little dark process runs between them and the clypeus, while the clypeal yellow also ends, being broadly trilobed ; labrum and man- dibles dark ; mouth-parts normal for Prosopis ; antennze rather long, black above, dark reddish beneath ; scape with a reddish stripe ; front dull, densely rugoso-punctate ; projecting upper edge of prothorax, and tubercles, broadly yellow ; no other yellow on thorax ; mesothorax very minutely punctured ; tegulse piceous ; wings dusky, nervures and stigma dark brown, first r. n. entering basal corner of second s. m. ; legs black, except the anterior ones in part, as follows : femora rather swollen, with about the apical half behind and less above bright yellow ; tibiae orange in front except apically, and at base behind, otherwise dark red-brown ; tarsi obscure reddish.; abdomen black, ordinary, very delicately punctured. Runs in the table to P. hitnhoxulata, but very distinct by the ordinary abdomen, etc. The legs, with bright yellow on the first pair only, are very peculiar. Habitat.— MzWte, Victoria (Rollc). Berlin Museum. Prosopis rollei, new species. Male. — Length slightly over 6 mm. ; rather robust ; black, red and orange- yellow ; face broad, entirely yellow up to antennae, and with three equal processes (one median and the others along orbital margins) a short distance above ; mandibles and labrum yellow ; antennae bright ferruginous, a little dusky above ; thorax robust, mesothorax strongly punctured, with indications of five grooves, counting the short parapsidal ones ; upper edge of prothorax rather narrowly, tubercles, tegulae, most of scutellum and a spot on postscutellum, all ferruginous ; base of metathorax with coarse plicae ; head and thorax quite hairy, especially the vertex, sides of metathorax, and pleura ; wings perfectly clear ; nervures ferruginous ; stigma amber-color with a ferruginous margin ; first r. n. entering basal corner of second s. m. ; legs bright ferruginous suf- fused with yellow ; abdomen short, strongly punctured, black, with the "first two segments red except the first broadly and the second more narrowly in the middle, the structure ordinary. A second specimen has the face red except the lower edge of the clypeus, but from the tint this is evidently due to cyanide. 106 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Runs in the table to no group there given, but requires a new subdivision, of species with abdomen largely red, and red on scutel- lum and postscutellum. Habitat. — Ararat, Victoria (Rollc). 2 males. Berlin Museum. Nomia subaustralica, new species. Female. — Length about 1 1 mm. ; black, the abdomen somewhat metallic, with broad pale ochreous hair-bands. This species had been labelled A^. australica by a distinguished authority, and it does indeed resemble that in- sect, differing as follows : rather smaller ; face rather narrower, and covered with appressed or subappressed pale (dull whitish) hairs ; scape red in front, base of flagellum (about two joints) lively red above and below, rest of flagellum black, except a reddish stain at apex ; tegulse pale testaceous, the margins whitish ; larger punctures of mesothorax even more sparse ; meso- thorax densely covered in front, behind and more or less at sides with easily deciduous moss-like light fulvous hair, and with no erect black hair ; post- scutellum covered with fulvous hair, and scutellum ornamented like the meso- thorax; tubercles with pale fulvous hair; pleura with quite dense dull white hair; area of metathorax narrower (shorter anteroposteriorly), hardly sculp- tured ; stigma shorter ; first r. n. meeting second t. c. ; hair on inner side of hind basitarsus white or nearly ; abdomen black, the first two segments strongly tinted with green (or purplish on second) ; bands on first four segments pale ochreous, broad and entire ; disc of first segment, before the depression, smooth and shining, with strong scattered punctures ; second and third seg- ments similar, with the addition of numerous minute punctures, which on the second are massed anteriorly. Habitat. — Finke River, Hermannsburg, S. Australia {v. Leon- Jiardi) ; Tennant's Creek, S. Australia (Rolle). The latter is the type locality. Two specimens of A^. australica Smith in the collection are from Melbourne, Victoria (Rolle). JNomia nana Smith (ruficornis Smith). Adelaide (Schombiirgk) . This is the type locality. Nomia flavoviiidis adelaidella, new subspecies. Male. — Like A'', flavoviridis CklL, but a little smaller ; flagellum bright ferruginous above and beneath ; nervures and stigma clear ferruginous. Ab- domen greener than head or thorax. Female. — Antenna dark, flagellum ferruginous beneath ; nervures and stigma as in male. Abdomen very green. Two other females with the same data have dark nervures like true flavoviridis. Habitat. — Adelaide {Schombiirgk). June, 1910.J COCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. 107 Nomia hippophila, new species. Male. — Length about 7.5 mm. ; dark greenish, with dull white hair ; head and thorax very densely and minutely rugoso-punctate, the front and meso- thorax dull, the clypeus more shining, its lower margin broadly yellowish- testaceous ; face with much white hair, not entirely hiding surface ; eyes con- verging below ; mandibles reddish ; hair of vertex brownish, contrasting with the white of occiput : antennae long, flagellum dark brown above, pale reddish- yellow beneath ; area of metathorax plicate ; tegulse rather large, shining rufous ; wings nearly clear, iridescent, nervures and stigma dull reddish ; lower section of b. n. strongly bent ; legs red-brown, the femora and tibiae more or less greenish-metallic ; hind femora and tibiae swollen, but not distorted ; abdomen minutely roughened, the depressed posterior portions of the segpments (ex- tremely large on 3 and 4) shining ; second and following segments with thin white hair-bands, and anterior to these some dark hair, only noticed in lateral view. Habitat. — Port Philip, Victoria {C onion). Berlin Museum, 2242. Less robust and less metallic than A'', fiavovhidis. Nomia victoriae, new species. Female. — Length about 8 mm., robust, black, with a moderate amount of white hair (abundant and glittering on hind legs) ; abdomen with a little patch of white or yellowish-white hair on each side of first two segments, some fine white hair at extreme base of third (overlapped by second) ; a broad apical white hair-band, more or less suffused with pale, and slightly interrupted in the middle, on third segment ; a broad entire strongly orange band on fourth ; and the fifth segment ferruginous, with pale orange hair. Mandibles reddish subapically ; tongue dagger-shaped, not very long ; face broad, finely sculptured ; clypeus rather depressed in the middle, with the subapical region on each side of the middle a little elevated and shining ; hair of vertex long and brownish ; flagellum obscure ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax rather shining, feebly sculp- tured, and with scattered distinct punctures ; mesothorax and scutellum with scattered erect fuscous hairs ; area of metathorax plicate ; tegulae quite large, piceous ; wings slightly dusky, nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter rather reddish ; legs black, hair on inner side of tarsi pale fulvous ; hind spurs red- brown. This species is to be compared with A'', gracilipes Smith, but the abdomen is not blue, although in one specimen the first two segments have a faint greenish tint. The ovate spots of white pubescence found on the hind part of the mesothorax in gracilipes are not present in the new species. Habitat. — Ararat, Victoria (RoUe). Two in Berlin Museum. Saropoda bombiformis Smith. Australia (Roth). Anthophora preissi, new species. Female.- — Length about 15 mm., very robust, width of abdomen 7 mm. or 108 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. slightly more; width of head 5.5 mm.; anterior wing about 11 mm.; black, the hand margins of the abdominal segments broadly but suffusedly coppery- reddish ; labrum, base of mandibles and a reversed T on clypeus dull honey- yellow ; the last has a narrow stem, rather tapering upwards, while the trans- verse band is very broad and long, the arms being longer than the stem of the T ; flagellum ferruginous beneath ; legs obscurely reddish ; pubescence short, in the manner of A. scymna and A. wruginosa, but uniformly mouse-grey, on the vertex and dorsum of thorax rather yellower, and abundantly mixed with black ; the abdomen also has many black hairs, which do not obscure the gray color ; hair on inner side of hind tibia and basitarsus black, also more or less on inner side of middle legs, but on inner side of anterior tibia the hair is light golden. Related to A. scymna Gribodo, but larger, and quite differently colored. The tegulse are dark chestnut; in scymna they are clear testaceous. The wings are dusky in both species. Habitat. — Western Australia (Prciss). Berlin Museum, 1405. Anthophora scymna Gribodo. Adelaide (ScJiombtirgk) . Anthophora aeruginosa Smith. Endeavour River, Queensland (Rolle). Anthophora emendata gilberti Ckll. Mackay, Queensland (Rollc). Anthophora pulchra Smith. Australia. This specimen, determined by Friese, agrees with a cotype from F. Smith's collection. The abdomen is rather broader than in A. zonata, and has rather narrower bands. Anthophora zonata subcaerulea Lep. Western Australia (Preiss) ; Adelaide (Behr) ; Adelaide {Schom- burgk). Anthophora cingulata Fabr. Adelaide (Schombtirgk). Megachile sequior, new species. Male. — Length nearly 10 mm., with a large broad head and short abdomen; black, with pale ochreous hair, becoming white on ventral surfaces, the ab- domen with dense entire apical ochreous hair-bands, the fifth and sixth seg- ments covered with appressed ochreous hair ; eyes dark, converging below ; face broad, densely covered with pale hair ; vertex flattened, densely punctured ; cheeks rather narrow ; antennae slender, ordinary, the flagellum dull brown June, tgio ] CoCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BEES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. 109 beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum densely rugosopunctate ; anterior part of mesothorax with a pair of ill-defined short bands of pubescence probably better defined in fresher specimens ; area of metathorax dull, concave in the middle ; tegulae clear rufotestaceous ; wings slightly dusky, stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous; legs black with pale hair, anterior tibiae in front and small joints of tarsi, rufescent ; anterior tarsi simple ; anterior coxa hairy, with short spines ; abdomen broadly excavated at base ; sixth segment swollen in the middle toward base, its margin truncate, with a rather large rounded black tooth at each corner of the truncation ; seventh without spines. Superficially very like M. cygnoruni Ckll., but distinguished by the simple anterior tarsi. There is a strong general resemblance to the European M. apicalis, but the Australian insect is larger, and the apical structure of the abdomen is different. Habitat. — Adelaide (Schomburgk). Berlin Museum, 20640. Megachile semicandens, new species. Male. — Length about 7 mm. ; black, with the abdomen beyond the second segment entirely bright apricot color ; the second segment has the hind margin red, and three suffused spots, one in the middle, and one on each side, confluent with the red of the margin ; antennae long and slender, the flagellum dull reddish beneath ; tibias and tarsi reddish-brown, the anterior tibiae ferruginous in front ; head longer than broad, broad-oval ; eyes purplish ; face densely covered with white hair ; hair of head and thorax above thin, dull whitish ; cheeks and vertex rather large ; tegulae fuscous ; wings nearly clear, the stigma and nervures ferruginous ; anterior tarsi simple ; anterior coxae without spines ; sixth abdominal segment vertical, its margin with two widely separated teeth ; seventh without spines. Resembles M. abdominalis Smith, but distinguished by the color and structure of the abdomen. There is a strong superficial resem- blance to certain forms of Osmia, as O. andrcnoidcs, but there are no pulvilli. Habitat. — Adelaide (ScJiombitrgk). Berlin Museum, 19407. Megachile phenacopyga, new species. Male. — Length 1 1 mm., the abdomen short ; exactly like M. chrysopyga Smith, except as follows : face broader, the dense hair covering it pale yellow- ish, shining white on clypeus ; apex of anterior femora and outer side of tibiae not black, but with a little blackish stain ; anterior tarsi cream-color, broadly dilated, the first joint fringed on inner side with fuscous hairs, the others with ferruginous, the long white hair of the hind margin tipped with black or fuscous ; apical tooth of mandible longer. Habitat. — Eastern Australia (Prciss). Berlin Museum, 1004. Someone had labelled this M. chrysopyga, but the real chrysopyga 110 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. (as described by Smith) is represented by a male from Ararat, Victoria (Rollc). In this the second joint of anterior tarsi is pro- duced into a great ferruginous lobe, and the first joint has a smaller apical ferruginous lobe. The other joints are creamy-white. In both species the anterior femora are striped with black on inner side at base, and there is a patch of red hair on anterior coxae. A female M. chrysopyga is from Sydney {Darnel). Another is from Port Philip (Coulon). It differs by the pale yellowish (instead of deep ferruginous) hair of the face, and may possibly be the female of phenacopyga, though it seems otherwise to be a chrysopyga. Megachile vestitor, new species. Male. — Length about 14 mm., parallel-sided, black, resembling M. lucidiventris Smith in size, form, and the arrangement of the pubescence, but very distinct by the wings, which are clear hyaline except the apical field of the anterior ones, beginning about the end of the first s. m., which is occupied by a rufo-fuscous cloud, dilute below, but dark above, in and beyond the marginal cell; the venation also differs from that of lucidiventris, the b. n. falling considerably short of the t. m., and the second s. m. being very much shorter, with the first r. n. joining it as near to the base as the second to the apex : in consequence of the difference in the length of the second s. m., the marginal cell projects much more beyond it than in lucidiventris. The abdomen is shining, with strong well separated punctures ; in lucidiventris it is dullish and very densely rugoso-punctate. Head large, round seen from in front ; eyes dark greenish ; inner orbits parallel ; face densely covered with brownish-white hair ; vertex with black hair ; flagellum ferruginous beneath ; last antennal joint subtruncate, with a shining apical disc ; mesothorax strongly and densely punctured, with greyish-white hair mixed with black ; hair of scutellum and metathorax dense and greyish-white ; tegulje shining piceous, hairy ; legs black with mostly pale hair, anterior femora with long black hair at base, hidden by pale ; anterior tibise reddish, ferruginous on inner side ; anterior tarsi dark brown, but broadly flattened, the first joint with a large shallow canoe-shaped lobe ; second and third joints with black spots within ; hind margin of tarsi with the usual long fringe, fuscous within ; middle tarsi with very long hair posteriorly; abdomen with pale hair on first two segments ; following two with short black hair, but some glittering white at extreme sides ; fifth and sixth segments with long black hair ; venter with white hair ; sixth segment strongly longitudinally keeled, the apical margin broadly rounded, with a strong central tooth or spine ; no teeth below. By the structure of the abdomen, this is related to M. fabricator Smith, but that species is smaller, and seems to be different, judging from Smith's too short description. Habitat. — Eastern Australia (Prciss). Berlin Museum, 1002. June, igio.] CoCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. Ill Megachile nasuta argentifer, new subspecies. Female. — Length a little over 12 mm., parallel sided, black, with the pale pubescence white, the first two segments of abdomen with white hair (only first in nasuta), the others with short black hair; a large round patch of orange- ferruginous hair on the last segment, invading the apical margin of the penultimate one ; ventral scopa entirely silvery-white, with a slight creamy tint (pale fulvous in nasuta). The great clypeal prominence is as described for nasuta, except that its margin is only very feebly crenulate. The eyes are reddish, and diverge below. The wings have the apical field dilute brown. Habitat. — Melbourne, Victoria (Rollc). Berlin Museum. There is a superficial resemblance to M. hcnrici Ckll., especially when the insects are seen from behind. Megachile preissi, new species. Female. — Length about 8 mm., evidently very close to M. clypeata Smith, but apparently distinct by its larger size, distinctly dusky (though not dark) wings, femora and anterior tibiae ferruginous in front, abdomen very dark reddish, the extremely dense punctures of head and thorax above minute ; the abdomen also has very narrow but entire marginal hair-bands. There is short orange-ferruginous hair on the vertical apical segment, also invading the hinder part of the penultimate one. The ventral scopa is entirely white. Eyes brown, slightly converging below ; sides of face with spreading white hair, middle with brown hair ; clypetis overlapped by long brown hairs, beneath which is white hair ; clypeus with a median tooth and a large process on each side ; mandibles bidentate, sulcate, reddened subapically, flagellum red beneath ; tegiilre dark red ; second s. m. very long ; b. n. falling only a little short of t. m. ; hair on inner side of hind tarsi orange-fulvous ; base of abdomen broadly excavated, the basin with a distinct rim. Habitat. — Eastern Australia (Prciss). Berlin Museum, 1008. Megachile adelaidae, new species. Female. — Length 10 mm., black, with mostly pale pubescence; a small ordinary-looking species, the specimens not in very good condition, but presenting the following distinctive characters : head large and broad ; eyes greyish ; front and vertex very densely punctured ; mandibles deep red, tridentate ; clypeus densely punctured, with more or less of a smooth ridge on its upper part ; flagellum bright ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum extremely densely punctured ; mesothorax a pair of small spots of white hair anteriorly ; a little patch of white hair above base of wings ; metathorax and pleura with much white hair ; area of metathorax granular, with a median raised line ; tegulse dark reddish ; wings clear, a little reddish, nervures and stigma ferruginous ; legs dark brown, with pale hair, that on inner side of tarsi yellowish ; abdomen cordiform, last segment not vertical, segments with whitish or ochreous bands, not always distinct ; sides of apical segments with long black hair ; ventral scopa white, black on last segment ; hind spurs dark. 112 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviil Related to M. viacularis Dalla Torre, but much smaller, and with differently colored mandibles. Habitat. — Adelaide (Schomburgk). 2 females. Berlin Museum, 19410. Megachile remotula, new species. Female. — Length lo-ii mm., black with mostly white (not abundant) pubescence, the last two abdominal segments covered except at sides by appressed shining orange-fulvous hair ; head large and broad, eyes slightly converging below ; face with abundant spreading white hair at sides ; on the vertex the hair is fuscous, and fuscous hair is mixed with the white on the front, on the clypeus it is white ; clypeus densely punctured, its upper part with a median raised line, its lower margin quadridentate, the teeth small, the inner pair only clearly dentiform, while from beneath this edge project short orange hairs ; mandibles broad, dark reddish, with three teeth, not counting the inner edge ; front very densely punctured ; ocelli rather large ; flagellum ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum dull, exceedingly densely punctured, with short hardly noticeable fuscous hair ; other parts of thorax with rather long white hair ; area of metathorax with a sericeous, rather shin- ing surface ; tegulas dark reddish, closely punctured ; wings dusky, stigma and nervures dark fuscous ; second s. m. long, receiving the recurrent nervures about equally distant from base and apex ; b. n. meeting t. m. ; legs reddish- black, in parts distinctly reddish ; hind spurs peculiar, blunt, with a little apical claw like hook ; first abdominal segment with a patch of white hair on each side ; segments 2 to 4 with narrow white apical hair-bands ; apical segment not far from vertical : ventral scopa entirely white. M. remotula is related to M. fcrox Sm., of which only the male is known. Habitat. — Eastern Australia (Prciss). 2 females. Berlin Mu- seum, 1003. Megachile trichognatha, new species. Females. — Length about 10 mm., black, rather slender, parallel sided; head oblong, rather longer than broad ; eyes greenish, greyish in front ; cutting edge of mandibles densely fringed with orange-fulvous hair ; clypeus trans- verse, densely punctured, with a small snout-like median apical elevation ; sides of face with white hair ; flagellum dull ferruginous beneath ; cheeks broad, rounded ; front, vertex, mesothorax and scutellum densely punctured, but the .thorax still shining ; a little patch of white hair above base of wings ; sides of metathorax with white hair ; area dull, the basal half rugose ; tegulse piceous ; wings a little dusky, nervures and stigma dark fuscous, sometimes ferruginous ; b. n. falling a very little short of t. m. ; legs black, claws ferruginous ; ab- domen well punctured, deeply excavated at base, second to fourth segments constricted basally ; hind margins of segments one to three with variously June, igio.l COCKERELL : AUSTRALIAN BeES IN BERLIN MuSEUM. 113 incomplete hair-bands, most noticeable as lateral patches ; last segment not far from vertical, but curved outward a little apically ; ventral scopa entirely white. Related to M. fiilvomarginata Ckll., but smaller, with the cheeks much more densely punctured (more or less grooved), the median process of clypeus larger, and hind spurs yellowish-white. Male. — Length about 8-8.5 mm- : the white hair of head, thorax, legs and under side of abdomen abundant and quite long ; flagellum clear ferruginous beneath ; tegulas dark reddish ; wings clear, nervures and stigma ferruginous ; last two segments of abdomen with pale orange hair, and scattered very long white ones ; sixth segment with a broad emargination, the angles bordering the emargination sharp and dentiform, there is also a very small median denticle ; no apical ventral teeth. This may be compared with M. tomentella Ckll., but differs by the anterior coxae having well-developed though short spines, the flagellum red beneath, the ferruginous nervures, etc. i/a&/;af.— Adelaide (Schomburgk) . Berlin Museum, 19409. 4 females, 3 males. The species is based on the female ; the associated males appear to belong to it. The insect is superficially very similar to M. preissi. Megachile pictiventris Smith. Mackay, Queensland (Rolle). Megachile lucidiventris Smith. Liverpool Plains {Mclly). Megachile quinquelineata Ckll. Melbourne, A^ictoria (Rollc) ; Eastern Australia (Preiss). Megachile macularis Dalla Torre. Port Phillip (Coulon). This is the insect I have always deter- mined as macularis, as it agrees with the description. A specimen from F. Smith's collection, obtained at Sydney, is smaller and has white hind spurs. This must be distinct, and not a true representa- tive of the species. Megachile latipes Smith, Sydney (Daniel); Adelaide (Bchr). Megachile henrici Ckll. Adelaide (Schomburgk) ; Sydney (Daniel) ; eastern Australia (Preiss). The females are very variable in size; length 12.5 to 17 mm. 114 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Megachile cygnorum Ckll. Adelaide {ScJwmbiirgk) ; eastern Australia (Prciss). One speci- men bears a label stating it to be the male of maciilata Smith (macularis D. T.) ; it is possible that this reference is correct, but the hair of the face is much lighter than " golden yellow," and there are apparently other differences. NEW SPECIES OF PSAMMOCHARID^. By Nathan Banks, East Falls Church, Va. The generic term, Psammocharcs, was first used by Latreille in his " Precis." As with other genera in this work, no species was mentioned. Its next appearance is in the Histoire Naturelle, Vol. III., 1802, where, under the genus Pomphilns, Latreille says that he had previously called this genus Psammochares, but preiers Pompilus, since it is " phis donee des oreilles." A species is given, so that Psammochares must date from 1802; others there are who would •date in from the " Precis," 1796. In Latreille's later works Psammocharcs appears as a synonym of Pompilus, but it appears to have escaped most of the cataloguers. Pompilus is unfortunately preoccupied, so that Psammocharcs will replace it. Mr. Fox has suggested Anoplins, 1830, to replace Pompilus, overlooking Psam,mo- chares. Mr. Fox has suggested also that the family be called Ceropalid?e ; but Ceropalcs was proposed in the same work as Psammochares, and on a later page; moreover, some writers consider the Ceropalidse as a family just for the genus Ccropales; therefore I shall employ Psamniocharidse. Psammochares albomarginatus, new species. Male. — Black, with dense silvery pubescence, especially on face, prothorax, pleura, coxae and posterior metathorax. Clypeus broad, truncate in front ; a faint line from antennae to ocelli ; anterior ocellus fully its diameter from laterals; vertex nearly straight across; antennae short and thick; head white- haired behind and silvery ; pronotum angulate behind, posterior margin dis- tinctly white ; metathorax short and sloping, with a median groove ; abdomen slender, subcylindrical, apical segment depressed, and gray-haired above. June, igio.] Banks : New Psammocharid^. 115 penultimate and preceding segment below with a few long "hairs near apical margin, but no brush. Wings rather smoky, broadly darker on tip, marginal cell short, second submarginal narrowed above, third petiolate or almost so, receiving the second recurrent vein beyond middle, this vein barely bent, and arising slightly before middle of anal cell ; veins not reaching apical margin. Legs slender, distinctly spined, a few on hind femora above before tip ; longer spur of hind tibire fully two thirds length of metatarsus. Length, 10 mm. From Falls Church, Va., May to July. Resembles P. virginiensis, but has white margin to pronotum. Psammochares angularis, new species. Male. — Small, black, face below the antennie rather grayish ; clypeus broad, short, convex in front ; antennae rather short, eyes approaching above, but inner orbits are barely concave ; anterior ocellus about its diameter from smaller laterals, these as near to the eyes as to each other ; vertex nearly straight across ; pronotum short, angulate behind, metathorax only slightly and evenly convex, a distinct median groove ; abdomen narrow, cylindrical, last segment dull ; legs short, femora rather heavy and tibiae quite broad at tips ; spines very small and short ; longer spur of hind tibiae hardly two thirds the length of metatarsus ; wings black, darker on tip ; marginal cell very short, second submarginal cell almost triangular, being narrowed nearly to a point above, receiving the first recurrent beyond middle ; third submarginal tri- angular, almost petiolate ; the second recurrent arising scarcely one fourth way out on anal cell, and meeting the third submarginal before middle ; the second discoidal cell is, therefore, extremely short, in fact much broader than long ; basal veins interstitial in fore wings, dislocated in hind wings. Length, 6.5 mm. From Claremont, Cal. (Baker). Related to P. cyUndriciis, but readily separated by shape of the second submarginal and second discoidal cells, and by shorter spurs of hind tibiae. Psammochares arizonica, new species. Black, abdomen red ; all clothed with dense silvery pile. Clypeus broad, truncate or almost emarginate in front, margined ; no line from antennae to ocelli ; antennae short, fully as long as width of vertex ; vertex straight across ; inner orbits slightly concave above ; face with long black hairs, and dense silvery pile, almost forming a spot on middle of clypeus ; pronotum short, arcuate behind, posterior margin and across middle silvery, connected on middle, leaving only a slender triangle of black each side ; mesothorax silvery in front of, and each side of scutellum ; metathorax silvery, leaving only a large black spot each side near base, a median groove. Abdomen reddish above and below, with black hair near tip, abdomen rather broad, and some- what depressed; coxae and legs' silvery on ,the tibiae, leaving black stripes, anterior tarsi strongly ciliate ; longer spur of hind tibiae rather more than one 116 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. half the length of metatarsus ; legs strongly spined. Wings fuscous, rather paler in some of the cells, marginal cell not very long, acute at tip, second submarginal longer than broad, receiving the first recurrent at tip ; third sub- marginal almost triangular, nearly as long as second, receiving the second recurrent a little before middle, this vein curved outward, and arising beyond middle of anal cell ; in hind wings the basal veins are interstitial, as in the fore wings. Length, 17 mm. From Palmerlee, Arizona, May (Biederman). Psammochares biedermani, new species. Male. — Black, with sericeous pubescence, almost all over, except on the tibiae and tarsi, very dense on the metathorax ; last segment of abdomen white above, the genitalia jet black on tip. Clypeus rounded in front, a line from the antennae to ocelli ; anterior ocellus nearly twice its diameter from the laterals ; antennae moderately slender ; vertex slightly rounded ; anterior orbits but little concave ; pronotum short, posterior margin angulate, constricted ; metathorax short, evenly rounded ; abdomen elongate, fusiform. Legs slender, first pair small, coxae I not reaching more than two thirds way to coxae II, mesosternum emarginate in middle behind ; femur I slender ; all tibiae with very short spines ; longer spur on hind tibiae but little more than one half the length of metatarsus; all tarsi very long; last joint of hind tarsi without spines beneath. Wings hyaline, apex fumose ; basal veins interstitial, marginal cell long, acute, second submarginal longer than broad, receiving the_ first recurrent much before the tip ; third submarginal shorter than the second, narrowed above, second recurrent arising much beyond middle of the anal cell, running nearly straight up to the middle of the third submarginal ; stigma black ; basal veins of hind wings almost interstitial. Length, 8 mm. From Palmerlee, Arizona, July (Biederman). Psammochares birkmanni, new species. Male. — Black, with silvery pubescence. Clypeus rounded in front, vertex slightly convex, a faint line from ocelli to antennae, antennae thick and stout, not reaching to end of thorax, few hairs on head and thorax, except fine pubescence ; pronotum silvery, with a median line, posterior border arcuate, pleura and coxae silvery ; metathorax sloping, broad, silvery ; abdomen short, silvery pubescence on apex of segments and on the sides ; legs slender, almost devoid of spines, or only very small ones on tibiae ; longer spur of hind tibia nearly as long as metatarsus. Wings hyaline, tip slightly infuscated ; marginal cell acute ; second submarginal a little narrowed above, receiving the first recurrent vein before tip ; third submarginal a little larger than second, slightly narrowed above ; the second recurrent vein arising beyond the middle of anal cell, bending a little outward at middle, and meeting the third sub- marginal beyond middle ; the veins extend out to the apical margin of wing.. Length, 5 mm. June, igio.] Banks : New PsAMMOCHARID/E. 117 From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, Sept. (Birkmann). In general appearance much like P. argentcus, but differs in shape of third submarginal cell, in veins running to margin of wings, smaller spines on legs, etc. Psammochares californica, new species. Male. — Black, head with much long black hair, hair on thorax much shorter ; hind tibiae with an elongate white spot above at base, spurs black ; wings faintly infuscate, broadly black tipped. Clypeus rather concave in front ; antennas short and thick ; anterior ocellus scarcely its diameter from laterals, these much nearer each other than to eyes, vertex plainly rounded ; pronotum arcuate, almost transverse, metathorax short, convex, bent down behind, no median groove, abdomen short, broad at base, dull beyond second segment, depressed. Legs rather short and heavy, with long spines, longer spur of hind tibiae two thirds as long as metatarsus. Wings rather long, marginal cell long, acute, second and third submarginal cells subequal, second acute at base, third one half narrowed above ; first recurrent near middle ; second recurrent arising a little beyond middle of anal cell, slightly bent out- ward below the middle, and meeting the third submarginal at middle ; basal veins interstitial in fore wings, not in hind wings. Length, 8 mm. From Claremont, Cal. (Baker). Related to P. humilis and P. snozvi. From the fonner it differs in markings of wings, from the latter by the dark spurs. Psammochares fulvoapicalis, new species. Female. — Black, black hair on head and thorax. Clypeus large, rounded or narrowly truncate in front, distinctly margined ; a line from antennae to ocelli, anterior ocellus hardly its diameter from laterals ; vertex nearly straight across ; inner orbits slightly concave ; antennae short, convolute, third joint hardly as long as vertex ; pronotum angulate behind ; metathorax short, much bent downward, with medium groove, sides rather rusty ; abdomen slender, cylindrical and compressed toward tip, the last segment mostly fulvous, with some black hairs ; legs slender, spiny, anterior femora cylin- drical, their coxae nearly reaching coxae H, anterior tarsi ciliate, longer spur of hind tibiae two thirds as long as metatarsus, last joint of hind tarsus beneath without spines. Wings deep black ; marginal cell long, acute ; second and third submarginals long, subequal in length, both narrowed above ; second recurrent vein arising very much beyond middle of anal cell, running nearly straight up to middle of third submarginal, second discoidal being very long ; basal veins interstitial in fore wings, much dislocated in the hind wings. Length, 12 to 14 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, Sept. (Birkmann). Psammochares maneei, new species. Female. — Black, lower part of face slightly gray pubescent. Clypeus 118 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. truncate in front, vertex broad, slightly convex, antennae rather short and slender, third joint nearly twice as long as first, much shorter than vertex width ; anterior ocellus more than two diameters from the laterals. Pronotum long, posterior margin barely arcuate, almost transverse ; metathorax moder- ately long, evenly convex, not widened behind ; abdomen subovate, but little longer than thorax, base very broad. Legs rather stout, very spiny, anterior tarsi ciliate, each curved spine more than twice as long as the width of the joint; longer spur of hind tibia three fourths length of metatarsus, last joint of hind tarsi with minute spines beneath ; tibia I with distinct bristles above ; claws with rather large subbasal tooth. Wings black, broadly deeper on apex ; second and third submarginals subequal, both narrowed above, both recurrent veins ending beyond middle of cells, second recurrent arising before middle of anal cell, extending obliquely and rather sinuously to the third submarginal ; veins do not reach apical margin. Length, 7 mm. From Southern Pines, N. C, July (Manee). Resembles P. subz'iolaceus, but the cilia of anterior tarsi are very much longer. Psammochares marginalis, new species. Female. — Near P. marginatus, but larger, darker and red of the abdomen more extensive, and basal veins interstitial in front as well as hind wings (in P. marginatus dislocated more or less in front wings). Black ; clypeus faintly rounded in front, vertex not as narrow as P. marginatus, slightly rounded; a distinct line from antennae to ocelli; third joint of antennae not nearly. as long as width of vertex; pronotum angulate behind; metathorax short, rounded, with median line ; third abdominal segment mostly reddish, last dull, punctate, hairy ; legs black, anterior tarsi ciliate ; longer spur of hind tibiae two thirds as long as metatarsus ; all legs strongly spined. Wings black ; marginal cell rather short and broad, acute at tip ; second submarginal trapezoidal, barely longer than broad, receiving first recurrent near tip ; third submarginal triangular, but not petiolate, nearly as long as second, second recurrent vein arising from middle of anal cell, slightly bowed outward above middle, meeting third submarginal beyond middle. Male. — Similar, but with a little silvery pile on face. Length, 13 mm. From Southern Pines, N. C. (Manee). Psammochares minusculus, new species. Female. — Black, with silvery pubescence. Clypeus slightly truncate ; an- tennae short, stout, third joint barely longer than the first; a line from antennae to ocelli ; anterior ocellus scarcely two diameters from the laterals ; vertex broad, only slightly convex ; pronotum not very long, arcuate ; metathorax short and broad, rounded, with median groove ; abdomen suboval, broad at base, legs with moderate spines ; anterior tarsi ciliate, the spines longer than width of a joint, longer spur of hind tibiae two thirds length of the metatarsus ; wings dusky, darker at tip, marginal cell short, acute ; second submarginal June, igio.] Banks : New Psammocharid^. 119 narrowed above, receiving the recurrent before the middle ; third submarginal very small, long petiolate ; second recurrent arising before middle of outer cell, running nearly vertically to middle of third submarginal cell. Male much more slender, more silvery on face and metathorax. Length, 4.5 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, June (Birkmann). Resembles a minute P. subviolaceiis. Psammochares posticatus, new species. Black, face and clypeus silvery, posterior margin of pronotum broadly white, metathorax behind and pleura and coxae slightly silvery ; abdomen rather dull black, last segment white above ; legs black, anterior tarsi brown- ish, hind tibiae white above from base to beyond middle; joints i, 2, 3 and 4 of hind and mid tarsi white, with black on apical parts, joint 5 all black; spurs white ; wings nearly hyaline, a very broad black band across tip, cover- ing marginal cell. Anterior margin of clypeus truncate ; third joint of an- tennae no longer than fourth, not half the width of vertex, posterior margin of pronotum subangular ; metathorax nearly evenly convex ; abdomen slender ; legs long, longer spur of hind tibia about two thirds the length of metatarsus. Marginal cell of wing long, acute ; second submarginal acute at base, nar- rowed above, receiving the first recurrent much beyond the middle ; third submarginal not much longer than the second, one half narrowed above ; second recurrent vein arises much beyond middle of anal cell, scarcely bent, meeting the third submarginal near middle. Length, 10 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, Oct. (Birkmann). Psammochares pretiosa, new species. Male. — Small, black with dense silvery pubescence ; abdomen red above on apical part of segment one, all of two, and basal part of three. Head rather narrow ; clypeus truncate, almost concave ; antennae short ; vertex con- vex ; anterior ocellus large, once and a half its diameter from the smaller laterals ; pronotum moderately long, arcuate behind ; the metathorax obliquely sloping, not much convex, narrowed behind ; abdomen long cylindric, the segments beyond the red are silvery on apical part and brown on basal part. Legs not very slender ; longer spur of hind tibiae fully one-half length of the metatarsus ; wings brown, darker at tip ; second and third submarginal cells subequal, third narrowed nearly to a point above, second recurrent arising from middle of anal cell and running nearly straight to middle of the third submarginal, marginal cell short and broad. Length, 7.5 mm. From Sea Cliff, Long Island, N. Y., on the beach. Related to P. niarginattis, but easily separated by the densely silvery pubescence, and larger amount of red on the abdomen. Psammochares striatulus, new species. Female. — Black, with only short fine hair. Clypeus broadly concave, margined; antennae long, slender, third joint as long as width of vertex; a 120 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. distinct median line from antenns to ocelli, anterior ocellus about diameter from smaller laterals ; vertex slightly rounded ; pronotum slightly constricted at hind margin, arcuate ; metathorax rather long, evenly convex, posterior part distinctly transversely striate, abdomen shining ; short, rather broad at the base ; hind tibiae with very few small spines, metatarsus very long, about twice as long as longer spur. Wings black, barely paler in the third sub- marginal cell ; second submarginal one and one fourth times as long as broad ; third nearly as long, slightly narrowed above, receiving the second recurrent at middle, this vein arising much beyond middle of anal cell, and slightly bent below middle; basal veins interstitial in fore wings, slightly dislocated in the hind wings. Length, ii mm. From Palmerlee, Ariz. (Biederman). Closely related to P. luctuosns, but with mesothorax striate, a more evenly colored wing, longer second submarginal cell, longer hind tarsi, and less spinose tibiae. Psammochares ventralis, new species. Male. — Black, rather dull and not shining, head and thorax with black hairs ; clypeus broad, slightly emarginate in front ; vertex nearly straight across ; a faint line from antennae to ocelli ; antennae short and heavy ; ocelli large, close together, the anterior ocellus not its diameter from the laterals ; pronotum angulate behind ; metathorax rather short and narrow, with long black hairs ; abdomen slender, cylindrical, apical segments depressed, beneath on penultimate segment there is a tuft of long black hair each side, on pre- ceding segment there is a dense brush from side to side, outer hairs longest, on the segment before this is a sparse brush, the middle hairs of which are very short. Wings black ; marginal cell rather short, acute ; second submar- ginal narrowed above, third subtriangular, nearly as large as the second, receiving the second recurrent at middle, the vein bent out at middle, and arising from the anal cell before middle ; the veins do not reach apical margin ; basal veins nearly interstitial in both pairs. Length, 9 mm. From Falls Church, Va., 22 Oct. Cryptocheilus arcuatus, new species. Female. — Blue black, except the reddish abdomen ; all with short pile ; clypeus and lower part of face silvery, pleura silvery ; legs dull black ; spurs yellowish ; wings grayish, tip infuscated. Clypeus slightly rounded in front ; third joint of antennae stout, not more than two thirds width of vertex; lateral ocelli as near to eyes as to each other ; vertex nearly straight across ; pronotum arcuate behind ; metathorax short, not as long as broad, sloping to tip, but little convex ; abdomen petiolate, shining reddish yellow, scarcely darker toward tip, and there with yellowish hair ; legs with very short hairs and spines on tarsi, none below on last joint of hind tarsus ; about eight teeth above on hind tibiae, the metatarsus three fourths as long as tibia, the June, 1910.J Banks : New PsAMMOCHARiDiE. 121 longer spur is about one half the length of metatarsus. Marginal cell of wings slender, acute ; second submarginal one and a half times as long as broad, receiving the first recurrent vein a little before the middle ; third sub- marginal a little longer and wider than second, one third narrowed towards the marginal, second recurrent arising plainly beyond middle of anal cell, slightly bent above middle, meeting third submarginal barely before middle. Length, 7 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). Cryptocheilus coloradensis, new species. Female. — Reddish yellow throughout ; a narrow black line connecting tops of eyes and with median extension covering the ocelli, hind borders of thoracic parts black, metathorax with base, anterior angles, and median stripe black, pleura with two broad oblique black stripes, extreme base of abdomen black, parts of coxfe and trochanters black, last two joints of four hind tarsi black; wings reddish black. Clypeus large, rounded, margined ; antennae long and slender, third joint nearly as long as vertex width ; anterior ocellus hardly diameter from the laterals ; vertex straight across ; pronotum short, sub- angulate behind, scutellum broad, metathorax narrowed behind, oblique, barely rounded, with very long yellow hair. Abdomen moderately slender, anterior femora slender, coxae I long-haired ; spurs on legs rather short, the longer one on hind tibia not one half the length of very long metatarsus ; hind tibiae strongly serrate, claws with basal tooth ; no spines under last hind tarsal joint. Wings rather long, marginal cell long, second submarginal nearly twice as long as broad, narrowed above, first recurrent at middle ; third sub- marginal much larger and longer than second, nearly one half narrowed above, second recurrent arising much beyond middle of anal cell, running sinuously to middle of the third submarginal. Length, 15 mm. From Clear Creek, Colo., 11 Sept. (Oslar). Cryptocheilus pallescens, new species. Honey yellow throughout, blackish each side of the scutellum, at middle tip of the metathorax, and the petiole of the abdomen black ; antennae dusky from third segment outward ; legs slightly dusky on middle and hind tarsi. Clypeus slightly but evenly rounded in front ; face smooth, with very short sparse hair; third joint of antennae much shorter than width of vertex; lateral ocelli rather farther from eyes than from each other ; thorax shining, hind margin of pronotum angulate ; metathorax evenly sloping to tip ; abdomen petiolate, shining, with long hairs near tip, last segment above with short yellow hair. Legs slender, with few hairs except on hind tibiae ; about nine teeth above on hind tibia ; spurs yellowish, longer of hind tibia about two fifths of metatarsus ; the hairs and spines on tarsi yellowish and very short, last joint of hind tarsi without spines beneath, claws with small tooth beyond middle, hind metatarsus four fifths as long as tibia. Wings slightly dusky, rather darker before the middle, and a cloud over marginal, submarginal and 122 Journal New York Entomological Society, lvoi.xviii. part of discoidal cells, apex also darkened ; marginal cell of moderate length, second submarginal one and a half times as long as broad, with first recurrent before middle ; third submarginal barely longer than second, wider than second, narrowed one third toward marginal ; second recurrent leaving the anal cell scarcely beyond the middle, outwardly angular above middle, meeting the tlurc? submarginal at middle. Length, 7.5 mm. From Falls Church, Va. Cryptocheilus placitus, new species. Female. — Black, lower half of clypeus, antennae, legs and abdomen yel- lowish-red. All with very fine dense silvery pubescence, most prominent on sides of pleura and metathorax. Clypeus broad, truncate in front ; antennae slender, third joint but little longer than the fourth; face rather broad, a line from antennae to ocelli ; anterior ocellus two diameters from laterals ; vertex slightly convex ; pronotum subangulate behind ; metathorax slightly and evenly rounded, with a broad median furrow ; abdomen subpetiolate, slightly compressed near tip, last segment with yellowish hair. Legs slender, hind tibiae strongly serrate, the longer spur two fifths of metatarsus ; tarsi very slender, first plus second joints of hind tarsi much longer than tibiae, last joint of hind tarsus beneath without spines. Wings hyaline, tip fumose ; third submarginal cell larger than the second, both recurrents meeting cells at the middle, the second recurrent arising from middle of anal cell, and slightly bent outward above middle. Length, 7 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). Pedinaspis australis, new species. Male. — Black, with black hair on head and thorax ; head narrower than thorax ; clypeus truncate in front ; a line from antennae to ocelli ; anterior ocellus fully twice its diameter from the laterals ; vertex rounded ; antennae very short and thick, not nearly as long as thorax ; some gray hairs on sides of face ; pronotum long, broader behind, margin slightly arcuate ; metathorax nearly level, long, rather narrowed and emarginate behind, scutellum broad ; abdomen cylindrical, not longer than thorax, the apical segments with silvery hair ; the tip shows below a short forked process and before it a single median tooth ; the legs are short and spiny, tibia I not twice as long as spurs, femur cylindrical, the coxae I do not reach hardly more than half way across the mesosternum, which is very long, and on the middle behind with a lobe projecting over the base of coxae II ; longer spur of hind tibia two thirds as long as metatarsus ; no spines below last joint of hind tarsus ; all claws with tooth ; hind femora very heavy. Wings black, basal veins interstitial, mar- ginal cell acute, second submarginal narrowed above, third shorter and also narrowed above, second recurrent at middle, straight, arising from middle of anal cell, veins not reaching the apical margin. Length, 1 1 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). June, igio.i Banks : New Psammocharid.^. 123 Pedinaspis luctuosa, new species. Female. — Reddish yellow, antennae beyond fourth segment black ; ab- domen mostly dull black, second segment with a large pale yellow spot each side, third segment with a pale basal band, narrowly interrupted in the middle, fifth and apical segments with silvery pubescence, sides of metathorax silvery ; legs reddish yellow, tibiae and tarsi darker, spines pale. Clypeus subtruncate in front; antennae short, third joint not longer than fourth; faint line above antennae not reaching ocelli, latter very small, anterior ocellus fully four times its diameter from the laterals, and these as near to eyes as to each other ; vertex nearly straight across. Pronotum very long, scarcely arcuate behind ; metathorax short, bent down behind and transversely striate ; abdomen short, dull, slightly heavy at tip and on venter ; legs with few small spines on tibiae, longer spur of hind tibiae not quite one half the length of the metatarsus. Wings as in P. maricc and P. legatits ; yellowish, with basal, narrow submedial, and broad apical fuscous bands ; hind wings dusky at tip ; venation as in P. legatus. Length, 9 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, 29 Ma}' (Birkmann). Differs from P. inaricc and P. legatus in colors of abdomen and legs, and in the much smaller and more separated ocelli. Planiceps pulchella, new species. Female. — Black, abdomen and most of hind femora red, clypeus emargi- nate ; antennas short, third joint shorter than fourth and shorter than first ; vertex straight across ; anterior ocellus about one diameter from laterals, latter as near to each other as to the eyes ; pronotum long, transverse behind ; meta- thorax rather long, broadest in middle, posterior slope rather concave in middle; abdomen no longer than thorax, compressed toward tip. Anterior legs short, their femora thickened ; hind femora red inside and middle of outer side, tibiae weakly spinose, longer spur of hind tibiae not one half the length of metatarsus. Wings rather short ; marginal cell not very long, but acute, second submarginal very short, broader than long, the first recurrent interstitial with its base, second recurrent before the tip, the second discoidal cell is therefore much broader than long. In the hind wing the cross-vein from upper fork of median vein meets the radial sector close to base (not far out as in most species of this family). Length, 5 mm. From Falls Church, Va., 21 July; a smaller example from Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann), has the middle femora and hind tibiae reddish. Pseudagenia apicipennis, new species. Male. — Black, abdomen and legs mostly reddish yellow ; clypeus and basal joint of antennae above and below yellowish, rest of antennae brown. Clypeus broadly truncate in front ; antennae rather higher up than usual ; face not very long, with fine silvery pubescence, anterior ocellus about its diameter from 124 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xvin. the laterals ; thorax with silvery pubescence, pronotum arcuate behind, meta- thorax short, rounded ; abdomen very slender, pale yellowish red on the basal half, beyond black, apical segment white above ; the legs, including coxae, are yellowish red, but the middle and hind tarsi are blackish brown, hind tibiae also brownish ; the spurs white. Wings hyaline, apex dark ; marginal cell acute at tip, third submarginal cell hardly as long as the second, but little narrowed above, second rectirrent vein arising beyond middle of anal cell, running nearly vertically to middle of third submarginal cell ; basal veins almost interstitial ; stigma dark. Length, 6 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). Pseudagenia birkmanni, new species. Male. — Black, spurs white, base of abdomen reddish, apical segment white above; most of body with silvery pubescence. Clypeus truncate; vertex rounded ; anterior ocellus rather more than diameter from the laterals ; antennae quite short, third joint but little longer than first. Pronotum sub- angular behind ; metathorax short, rounded ; abdomen slender, subpetiolate, segments one, two and most of three reddish both above and below, last segment white above. Legs slender, black, tarsi pale, longer spur of hind tibiae more than one half length of metatarsus. Wings but little fumose, marginal cell long, acute, second and third submarginal cells subequal, plainly longer than broad, and slightly narrowed above, first recurrent vein before middle of second submarginal, second recurrent at middle of third submar- ginal, this vein arising from middle of anal cell, and faintly bent out- ward. Length, 6 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, Ji-ine (Birkmann). A specimen irom Glencarlyn, Va., is apparently the same, but the abdomen is reddish only on first and second segments, and the first has a blackish median spot. Pseudagenia externa, new species. Female. — Black, with some slight white pubescence ; the legs yellowish red, but the four hind tibiae and tarsi are black on the outer side, also the anterior tibiae slightly, and the first and second segments of the abdomen have on each side a distinct rufous spot ; the spurs are yellowish, similar to the femora, not white. Clypeus truncate ; head narrow, narrower than in P. mellipes ; eyes large, and inner orbits subparallel ; vertex nearly straight across ; anterior ocellus a little more than diameter from the laterals ; third joint of antennae one and a half times as long as first; pronotum rather long, longer than in P. mellipes, subangulate behind, metathorax silvery on the posterior corners, narrower and less convex than P. mellipes; abdomen rather narrow, subcompressed near tip. Legs long and slender, hind tarsi rather longer than P. mellipes, the longer spur hardly one half length of metatarsus. Wings smoky, marginal cell rather short, not acute at tip, second and third June, I9IO.J Banks : New Psammocharid^. 125 submarginal cells subequal, the third only slightly narrowed above and below, much shorter than in P. mellipes, first recurrent at middle of second sub- marginal cell, second recurrent before middle of third submarginal. Length, 7.5 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas, 21 June (Birkmann). Pseudagenia metallica, new species. Female. — Head black, with rather long white hair ; silvery below the antenna ; thorax dark purplish metallic, metathorax with long white hair ; abdomen purplish black, with fine grayish pile except on the first and apical segments, legs black. Clypeus large, rounded in front, margined ; a faint line from antennae to ocelli ; antennae short, but the third joint is nearly twice as long as the first ; anterior ocellus a little more than diameter from laterals, these much nearer each other than to the eyes ; inner orbits slightly and evenly concave ; vertex nearly straight across, pronotum very short, slightly angulate behind ; metathorax rather long, evenly rounded, median groove very faint. Abdomen rather long petiolate, slender toward tip and subcom- pressed, last segment concave above, beneath dull gray with some long white hairs ; legs slender ; anterior coxae one half their length from reaching mid coxje, middle and hind tibiae spined much as in P. blaisdelli ; longer spur of hind tibiae scarcely one half length of metatarsus, no spines below on last hind tarsal joint. Wings slightly 'and evenly infuscate ; stigma black ; mar- ginal cell long, acute ; second and third submarginal cells much longer than broad, the third rather larger, and one third narrowed above, first recur- rent at middle ; second recurrent arising much beyond middle of anal cell, bowed outward, and meeting the third submarginal before middle. Venation much as in P. blaisdelli. Length, 9 mm. From Claremont, Cal. (Baker). Pseudagenia texana, new species. Male. — Black, mostly with very short silvery pubescence, most evident on face and clypeus, some parts of thorax, and the coxae. Clypeus slightly rounded, frontal stria very faint ; vertex rounded ; face rather long, anterior ocellus a little more than diameter from laterals ; pronotum arcuate behind, mesothorax plainly tricostate above ; metathorax elongate, faintly rounded ; abdomen small, slender, apical segment white above. Legs slender, anterior pair rufous beyond the middle of femora, middle pair reddish on apical half of femora, tarsi brownish, hind pair with femora reddish, except extreme base, tibia with basal half somewhat reddish, tarsi black ; longer spur of hind tibiae reaching beyond middle of metatarsus^. Wings grayish hyaline, apex darker, third submarginal cell barely longer than second, narrowed above, second acute at base, marginal cell rather blunt at tip, second recurrent arising beyond middle of anal cell, curving outward obliquely to middle of third submarginal ; basal cross-veins interstitial ; stigma dark. Length, 7 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). 126 JouRNAT. New York Entomological Society. |Voi. xvul Aporus apicatus, new species. Male. — Black; pronotum with slight silvery pile in front and behind, not as dense as in A. fasciatits, hind angles of metathorax silvery ; abdomen black, with apical third of segments with white pubescence. Wings blackish, paler • near the marginal and second submarginal cells. Body slender, face shining above, silvery below antennae ; pronotum arcuate behind ; hind angles of the metathorax sharp ; abdomen slender. Legs stout, spined as usual ; longer spur of hind tibiae plainly shorter than the metatarsus. Wings with two submarginal cells, the second twice as long as broad, first recurrent vein near base, second recurrent plainly before tip. Length, 5 mm. From Claremont, Cal. (Baker). Differs from A. fasciatns in having the first abdominal segment silvery only at tip, and in the « shorter tibial spurs. Aporus magnus, new species. Male. — Black, with dense silvery pubescence, especially prominent on the clypeus, pronotum, posterior angles of metathorax, and on apical half of the abdomen, on the coxae and legs. Clypeus rounded in front ; antennae very short, heavy and stout ; vertex rovmded ; ocelli large, anterior ocellus about twice its diameter from the laterals, the latter farther apart than from the eyes ; pronotum very large and long, barely arcuate behind ; posterior margin of metathorax deeply excavate, angles prominent, as in other species ; a basilar median furrow. Abdomen narrow, first and basal half of second segment dull black, rest of abdomen densely silvery pubescent. Legs silvery, with short black spines, longer spur of hind tibiae more than one half as long as metatarsus; wings infuscate- toward apex, stigma dark, marginal cell acute; three submarginals, second and third subequal, the third a little larger, each but little longer than broad, each receiving a recurrent vein, the second beyond middle, the third at middle. Length, 12 mm. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). Ceropales robinsoni var. stigmatica, new variety. Female. — Very similar in general to robinsoni, with markings heavier than in that species ; the antennae reddish or yellowish on basal half, only apical half black ; and the stigma of the fore wings clear yellow. Venation very similar to that species, but the marginal cell is longer, also the third discoidal longer, and more of the tip hyaline. From Fedor, Lee Co., Texas (Birkmann). Ceropales bipunctata var. tibialis, new variety. Female. — In general similar to C. bipunctata, but legs I and II from trochanter out are reddish yellow, and the hind trochanters, femora and tibiae are also reddish-yellow, the rest of hind legs brown ; in the male these Epical joints are also reddish. From Southern Pines, N. C, June (Manee). Rev. J. L. Zabriskie. June, 1910.] The Rev. J. L. Zabriskie. 127 THE REV. J. L. ZABRISKIE. The Rev. Jeremiah Lott Zabriskie, a former president of the New York Entomological Society, died on April 2, after a brief illness, in his seventy-sixth year. Notwithstanding his advanced age, Mr. Zabriskie was an active member of the Society, in constant at- tendance at its meetings. His physical and mental powers were remarkably preserved; he took part in the 1909 Decoration Day Ex- cursion and at the meeting of March 15, about two weeks before his death, he spoke for an hour on the anatomy of Bruchus discoideus, illustrating his remarks with lantern slides prepared by himself. Born in the old town of Flatbush, Long Island, February 3, 1835, Mr. Zabriskie received his early education at Erasmus Hall Academy; later he attended Columbia College and was graduated in 1853. He prepared for the ministry at Rutgers Theological Seminary and held many important pastorates up to his retirement in 1883. From that time Mr. Zabriskie devoted his life to studies in natural science, principally in microscopy and the microscopic structure of insects. He was skilled in the preparation of microscopic material ; made a collection of sections of wood and mounts of parts of insects. The Society often had the pleasure of hearing him explain the most minute structures and of seeing his figures thrown upon the screen. He also interested himself in the small hymenopterous parasites and reared from the cells of Ceratina dupla two very remarkable para- sites which have been named in his honor Diomorus zahriskii Cres. and Axima zabriskii How. In addition to his activity in the New York Entomological So- ciety Mr. Zabriskie was a member of the Microscopical Society and of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, serving each for many years as its president. Gifted by nature with a noble presence and a rich and powerful voice, Mr. Zabriskie had further so cultivated his oratory that his addresses before the Society were followed with pleasure by his fellow members, to whom his death, coming though it did painlessly and in the fullness, of years, brings with it a sense of irreparable loss. 128 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOG- ICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of Tuesday, December 7, 1909. Held at the American Museum of Natural History at 8.15 P. M. Presi- dent C. W. Leng in the chair, with twenty-one members present. Dr. Lutz, the curator, exhibited the two maps, presented by Prof. Smith, properly mounted for preservation, also the local fifty-mile limit map so far as it was completed. He spoke in a very general way concerning the additions to the local collection. Mr. Southwick reported progress in regard to the preparation of the volume devoted to the preservation of historical letters. Mr. Miner spoke on " Myriopods — Their General Structure and Classification." He characterized the group Myriopoda, differentiating them from insects and spiders, and outlined their distribution which is almost world-wide, owing to their ability to tolerate extremes of all conditions. He described their food, and spoke of the general lack of interest in the group, because of its slight economic importance, the historical knowledge of the group, the nomenclature and classification. He exhibited a number of excellent lantern slides showing phylogenetic tables, various details of structure, which were commented upon, and some of the typical species. Mr, Engelhardt spoke on " A Collecting Trip Through North Carolina." He and Mr. Pollard left New York, July 17, for Washington, D. C, where they spent a few pleasant and profitable hours on Plummer's Island with a number of Washington entomologists. Thence they went to the Dismal Swamp, in which so far as collecting was concerned, they were disappointed. As they proceeded further south along the coast they found their best collect- ing at Roanoke Island, and near Wilmington, N. C. From this point they proceeded west to the Blue Ridge in the western part of the state, where, by means of a wagon, they covered a considrable distance, collecting along the way. Mr. Engelhardt exhibited a number of lantern slides from photo- graphs taken by himself, and discussed some of the interesting incidents, the character of the localities visited, and the peculiarities and habits of some of the mountaineers. The Society then adjourned. Meeting of December 21, 1909. Held at the American Museum of Natural History at 8.15 P. M. Presi- dent C. W. Leng in the chair, with eighteen members and one visitor, Mr. R. A. Vickery, of Washington, D. C, present. Mr. Lutz, the curator, spoke concerning the " Local Record Cards " on which he desired to inscribe records from collections other than the local collection in order that they might be as complete as possible. Mr. Southwick reported progress made by the committee in preserving the historical letters of the Society. June, 1910.] Proceedings of the Society. 129 Mr. Dow proposed as an active member Mr. Fred Wintersteiner, i Borden Ave., Long Island City, and Mr. Davis proposed Mr. John A. Gross- beck, of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Bruns- wick, N. J. On motion of Mr. Schaeffer the by-laws were suspended and the secre- tary authorized to cast a single ballot in favor of the election of the proposed members. Mr. Dow moved that the president appoint a nominating committee to prepare a slate for the annual meeting of January 4. The motion was seconded and the president appointed Mr. Dow, Mr. Harris and Dr. Lutz. Mr. Charles L. Pollard discussed certain features of the Lepidoptera collected on his recent trip to North Carolina with Mr. Engelhardt. He spoke first of the excellent collecting region in the vicinity of Virginia Beach, Va., stating that various northern and southern species met there on common ground. The most interesting butterfly observed was Calephelis borealis, which was quite abundant. Cercyonis pegala exhibited much variation, Thecla cecrops and Lerema accius were other species of interest. At Roanoke Island Lepidoptera were not abundant. Several individuals of Papilio palamedes were seen, and one P. cresphontes was taken. A speci- men of Debis portlandia was found in a thick, wooded swamp, the habitat being somewhat unusual for this butterfly. Mr. Pollard described in some detail the flora and fauna of Smith's Island, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, pointing out that this island, from its proximity to the Gulf Stream, is remarkable for the distinctly southern facies of its biota. Papilio palamedes occurred here in abundance, feeding on the flowers of Metastelina, and was the only Papilio observed. Anosia plexippus was entirely replaced by A. berenice, but the supposed mimic of the latter, Basilarchia floridana, was not seen. Eurema euterpe and E. elathea were taken. Phyciodcs pliaoii replaced Ph. tharos; and several southern Hes- peridje, as Eudainus proteus and Prcncs ocola wtre also collected. The speaker referred briefly to the apparent scarcity of nocturnal and crepiscular Lepi- doptera, very few having been taken either at light or sugar. In the moun- tains two male individuals of Argynnis diana were captured, also a Debis which it was stated might prove to be D. cleola Skinner. Specimens of all of the species referred to were exhibited by Mr. Pollard. Following Mr. Pollard's remarks Mr. Engelhardt spoke of the remaining orders in which collections had been made and exhibited a large number of specimens. Mr. Engelhardt's observations along the coastal regions from Virginia Beach, Va., to Cape Fear, N. C, showed a very gradual transition from the northern to the southern fauna, so that, roughly estimated, the southern forms at Wilmington, N. C, did not exceed twenty-five per cent. In the mountains weather conditions interfered greatly with collecting, but of the specimens obtained not over ten per cent, could be called characteristically southern. Among others the following insects were mentioned : 130 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI.xviii Coleoptera. — Tetracha Carolina and virginica, both at Wilmington, N. C, and the latter also at Wilkesboro (altitude 1,500 ft.). Cicindela gratiosa was common on sandy roads in pine woods near Wilmington ; C. marginata and dorsalis were swarming on the beach at Smith's Island ; C. patruela at Linville Falls (2,500 ft. elevation) ; Cychnis elevatus was taken in the Dismal Swamp. It was black in color with thorax narrow and raised, and five others were taken at Wilkesboro. They were black with the thorax much broadened. Cychrus andrewsii and bicarinatus occurred throughout the mountains but were not common ; Pasimachus marginatus, sublcevis and depressns, the first two at Wilmington and the latter on the mountains only ; other species were Pterostichns fallax, Callida viridis, Chlccnius angitstus, Coccinella oculata, Mallodon melanopus and dasystorius from Wilmington ; Lucanus elaphus and Polymcechus brevipes from Blowing Rock (4,000 ft.). By means of an acetylene bulls-eye lantern many species of Carabidse were captured at night. Orthoptera. — About forty species were taken, including Coiwcephalus hoploniachus from Wilmington and CEcanthus esclamationis from Johnson City, Tenn. Of interest is the aquatic habit of Orchelimum volantam which was abundant about the grassy borders of Greenfield Pond near Wilmington. When pursued and hard pressed it would dive into the water and cling to a sub- merged grass stem or the underside of a water-lily leaf, where it remained for several minutes, sustained by a supply of air which showed in glistening bubbles adhering to its body. Hymenoptera and Diptera. — No special attention was paid to these orders. The specimens exhibited included many large and showy, but for the most part well-known species. A number of specimens of the so-called "yellow flies," and a species of Chrysopa, were pointed out as a great nuisance in Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp. Odouata. — These were reported as being very numerous though restricted in the number of species. Celithemis fasciata, said to be very local, was found to be not uncommon at Wilmington, where Mr. Pollard also captured one specimen of Gomphoides ambigua, a new record for the United States, as this species has hitherto been recorded only from Mexico and Guatemala. MyrmeleonidcT. — Seven or eight members of this family were observed in the costal regions, including Acanthaclisis aiiiericana, the largest North American species, at Wilmington. Hemiptera. — About sixty species including a Hygroinystcs and a Gelasto- coris, both from Roanoke Island, and not yet described. Banasa packardi was met with in countless numbers clinging to the twigs and small branches of a cedar in Smith's Island. In color it resembled the scale-like leaves of the tree. Cicadidcc. — Seven species were taken, two from Smith's Island and one from Blowing Rock, not yet determined. Four specimens of Carineta parvula, all females, were taken at Wilmington. At frequent intervals was heard an unusual song of a Cicada, sounding almost without exception from the high branches of pine trees. After many attempts one specimen was captured and June, I9IO.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE SoCIETY. 131 proved to be Cicada pniinosa. Apart from its structural characters it can readily be distinguished, even at quite a distance, by the peculiar song ; this is a prolonged zip . . . accompanied at intervals by a metallic twang-tzvang. Mr. E. D. Harris stated that recent correspondence with Mr. H. P. Loding, of Mobile, Ala., had elicited some facts regarding the periodicity of the local Cicindelids that will be of interest, and which Mr. Loding has kindly per- mitted him to communicate to the Society. The forms taken by him in southern Alabama are Tetracha Carolina, Cicindela rcpanda, hirticollis, nigrior, unicolor, sexguttata, rufiventris, cumatilis, punctnlata, severa, abdominalis, soulayi, tortuosa, blanda, hamata, togata and gratiosa. The season opens with unicolor early in March, and this form con- tinues until the latter part of May, disappearing to come again in October, late specimens occurring in the last part of December even up to Christmas. It varies in color from a deep blue to bright green, but is always immaculate. Mr. Loding expressly stating that he " has never seen any specimens with the least signs of markings." The closely related form of nigrior appears in the latter part of September and remains till the end of November. It is observed also in the spring. The two forms, unicolor and nigrior are not locally associated. The first specimens of repanda and gratiosa appear towards the end of March and remain till into September, the latter frequenting white sand, " high and dry," all over Mobile Co. Blanda occurs at Oak Grove and Grand Bay, " on wet white sand near creeks," from May to August. Punctnlata appears in May, followed by tortuosa, and later by abdominalis, this last being very common on roads and paths until late in September. Scabiosa has not been observed, though careful search has been made for it. Hamata occurs near the water edge along the bay and gulf shores, through June, July and August. Sauleyi, with its immaculate form, is there in June and July. Rufiventris and cumatilis occur in greatest abundance in Jvily and occasionally belated specimens linger till late in September. Togata occurs at Coden on sandy salt marshes. Hirticollis occurs sparingly with repanda in mid-summer. Sexguttata is not common, Mr. Loding reporting that he has taken but one specimen in five years. Severa, one of the rarer forms, occurs at Coden. " It keeps close to grass, is not shy, and is out more morn- ing and evenings than in the middle of the day." The black form is the more common, the green being only occasionally met with. It is found on sandy salt marshes. Mr. Loding observes that in a series of unicolor taken in the middle of October of this year, all males had " the labrum and at least part of the mandibles white, and all females had both labrum and mandibles black or bluish." Mr. William T. Davis exhibited dried specimens of a wild bean (Phaseolus polystachus) and some beans from the same species infested with a small weevil (Apion griseus). Mr. Shoemaker exhibited a beautiful hand-painted specimen of the brilliant Australian butterfly, Ornithoptera priamus. Mr. Dow recorded the capture of Cicindela oncocisconensis Harris at De Bruce, Sullivan Co., N. Y., at an elevation of 1,700 ft. Mr. Leng mentioned 132 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. its further occurrence in the White Mountains, Buffalo, N. Y., and Pineville, Va. The Society then adjourned. Annual Meeting, Tuesday, January 4, 1910. Held at the American Museum of Natural History. Vice-President E. B. Southwick presiding. Twenty-five members and one visitor present. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. The treasurer, Mr. Davis, read his annual report as follows : Society Account. Balance January i, 1909 $ 991.01 Received from dues 187.50 Interest on deposits 28.16 Total $1,206.67 Disbursements during 1909 65.51 Balance $1,141.16 Journal Account. Balance January i, 1909 9i-7S Received, subscriptions and sale of Journal 377-67 Received, sale of donated insects 6.50 Total 475.92 Disbursements for printing and mailing Journal. . 437.40 Balance 38.52 Total Balance $1,179.68 Mr. Davis reported the election of twelve and the resignation of one member during the year, and a hundred and twenty-one subscribers to the Journal. Mr. Dickerson in behalf of Mr. Harris read the report of the auditing committee as follows : " The auditing committee begs leave to report that it has made an examination of the treasurer's books and vouchers, and that the balances shown, amounting to $1,179.68, are correct, and on deposit in the Harlem Savings Bank and in the Produce Exchange Bank in the name of the New York Entomological Society. The committee finds that the bills filed by the treasurer have been regularly examined and approved by the proper com- mittee before payment, and that the treasurer has exercised his usual solicitude and care in the collection of the accounts due, and the protection of the interests of the Society in its financial department." Respectfully submitted, Edward D. Harris, Edgar L. Dickerson, E. B. Southwick. June, igio.] Proceedings of the Society. 133 On motion of Mr. Groth the report was accepted and placed on file. On motion of Dr. Osburn a vote of thanks was extended to the treasurer and secretary for their services. The librarian reported the purchase of a number of pamphlet cases and of the General Catalogue of Coleoptera authorized by the Society. The regular exchanges had been carried on as usual and since the last meeting the following papers, etc., had been received : Mittheilung d. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellschaft, Vol. XI, No. lo. Monogr. Revision of the Order Strepsiptera. W. D. Pierce. A Decade of N. A. Formicidse. W. M. Wheeler. A Small Collection of Ants from Victoria, Australia. W. M. Wheeler. Predarwinian and Postdarwinian Biology. W. M. Wheeler. Ants Collected by Professor F. Silvestri in the Hawaiian Islands. W. M. Wheeler. The Ants of Isle Royale, Mich. W. M. Wheeler. Ants Collected by Professor Silvestri in Mexico. W. M. Wheeler. Die Metamorphose der Insekten von P. Deegener. W. M. Wheeler. Coleopterorum Catalogus, Parts i, 2, 3. Bull. Soc. Entomol. d'figypte, 1909, Nos. i, 2. Insects Injurious to Shade Trees. J. B. Smith. Report of the Ent. Dept. N. J. Agri. Exp. Station, 1908. Jahresheft d. Vereins f. Schesische Insektenlcunde, 1909, No. 2. The Insect World, XIII, Nos. 5, 6, 7. Societas Entomologica, XXIV, Nos. 15, 16. Mittheilungen Naturhist. Museum Hamburg, Vols. VI, VII, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XIV. The Canadian Entomologist, XLI, No. 12. The N. Amer. Dragonflies of the Genus Macromia. E. B. Williamson. Studies of N. Amer. Weevils. W. D. Pierce. Revue Russe d'EntomoI., VIII, Nos. 3, 4 : IX, Nos. i, 2. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sciences, III, pp. 49-56. Zeitschrift fur Wissensch. Insektenbiologie, V, No. 11. Wiener Entomol. Zeitung, XXVIII, Nos. 9, 10. The curator. Dr. Lutz, reported among other things the receipt for the local collection of Papilio palamcdes, taken at West Hoboken, N. J., July 8, 1908. Mr. Dow, of the nominating committee, placed on nomination : President — C. W. Leng. Vice-President — Dr. Raymond C. Osburn. Secretary — H. G. Barber. Treasurer — Wm. T. Davis. Librarian — C. Schaeffer. Curator — Dr. F. E. Lutz. Delegates to the Academy of Sciences — Dr. E. B. Southwick. Executive Committee — Dr. J. L. Zabriskie, G. W. J. Angell, G. P. Engel- hardt, C. L. Pollard, C. E. Slaight. 134 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xviii. Publication Committee — C. Schaeffer, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Dr. R. C. Osburn, Dr. F. E. Lutz. On motion of Mr. Angell the nominations were closed. On motion of Mr. Groth the by-laws were suspended and the secretary instructed to cast a single ballot for the nominations as read. Mr. Southwick resigned the chair to the newly elected Vice-President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn. On motion of Mr. Groth a hearty vote of thanks was extended to all of the outgoing officers. The resignation of Mr. W. H. Browning was presented and accepted on motion, with regrets. A circular letter from the James Fletcher Memorial Fund was read by the secretary and referred to the executive committee for action. Dr. G. Lagai was proposed as an active member of the Society Mr. William Brenner, 83 Bleecker St., N. Y. City. On motion of Mr. Groth the by-laws were suspended and the secretary instructed to cast a single ballot for the election of Mr. Brenner. Dr. Lutz moved that a committee of three be appointed by the chair to draft resolutions of sympathy to be sent to Mr. Doll and recorded in the minutes concerning the death of his wife. Mr. Angell exhibited some original pencil drawings made by Dr. Le Conte of Platypsylla castoris, compared them with the published illustration, and referred to the ability of Dr. Le Conte as an artist. Mr. Wm. T. Davis, under title " Remarks on Insects Collected in Northern Georgia," spoke concerning some of the more interesting insects which he captured on his recent trip to Georgia and exhibited all of the material col- lected. Among other things he spoke of finding under a stone, on the side of Black Rock Mountain, a larger spider that was quite active though it had what was evidently the larva of an hymenopterous parasite attached to the base of its thorax. Under stones and old logs several colonies of a very primitive ant, Stigmatomma pallipes Hald. were found. He quoted Professor Wheeler's re- marks on this species from " The Ants of New Jersey." An interesting fea- ture in one of the nests was a lamellicorn beetle larva to which a number of Stigmatomma larvae, in various stages of growth, were attached. He collected a number of Canthon chalcites Hald. and observed many others rolling their balls of manure. Comment was made upon several in- teresting observations concerning these tumble-bugs. Under the bark of trees species of Myriopoda, belonging evidently to the family Geophilidae, were found closely coiled about their eggs — about fifty in number in order to guard them from harm. Two specimens of the yucca moth, Pronuba yuccasella, were exhibited and their habits commented upon. Mr. Ernest Shoemaker exhibited and spoke briefly concerning some rare beetles collected during the past summer. Among those mentioned were : Leptotracheliis dorsalis Fabr., Brooklyn, N. Y. Cymindis cribricollis Dej., Eagle Rock, N. J. June, 1910.] PKtJCEEDINQS OF THE SOCIETY. 135 Helluomorpha nigripennis Dej., District of Columbia. Brachylobus lithophilus Say, Brooklyn, N. Y. Necrophorus sayi Lap., Brooklyn, N. Y. Anthaxia viridifrons Lap., Montgomery Co., Md. Clerus lunatus Spin., Rockaway Beach, L. I. Ceotrupes balyi Jek., Eagle Rock, N. J. Strangalia virilis Lee, District of Columbia. Typocerus lunatus Fabr., District of Columbia. Acanthoderes quadrigihbus Say, Alexander Co., Va. Eupogonius vestifus Say, District of Columbia. Oberea oculaticollis Say, Montgomery Co., Md. Oberea myops Hald., District of Columbia. Donacia flavipes Kirby, Saranac Lake, N. Y. Syneta ferruginca Germ., Great Notch, N. J. Leina sayi Cr., Alexander Co., Va. Pachyonychus dimidiaticornis Cr., District of Columbia. Microrhopala xerene Neum., District of Columbia. Odontota bicolor Oliv., District of Columbia. Odontota horni Smith, District of Columbia. Rhipiphorus pectinatus Fal., Rockaway Beach, N. Y. Sphenophorus ochreus Lee, Rockaway Beach, N. Y. The Society then adjourned. H. G. Barber, Secretary. June, 1910.] Proceedings of the Society. 136 Helluomorpha nigripennis Dej., District of Columbia. Brachylobus lithophilus Say, Brooklyn, N. Y. Necrophoriis sayi Lap., Brooklyn, N. Y. Anthaxia viridifrons Lap., Montgomery Co., Md, Clerus lunatus Spin., Rockaway Beach, L. L Geotrupes balyi Jek., Eagle Rock, N. J. Strangalia virilis Lee, District of Columbia. Typocerus lunatus Fabr., District of Columbia. Acanthoderes quadrigibbus Say, Alexander Co., Va. Eupogonius vestitus Say, District of Columbia. Oberea oculaticollis Say, Montgomery Co., Md. Oberea myops Hald., District of Columbia. Donacia flavipes Kirby, Saranac Lake, N. Y. Syneta ferruginca Germ., Great Notch, N. J. Leina sayi Cr., Alexander Co., Va. Pachyonychus dimidiaticornis Cr., District of Columbia. Microrhopala xerene Neum., District of Columbia. Odontota bicolor Oliv., District of Columbia. Odontota horni Smith, District of Columbia. Rhipiphorus pectinatus Fal., Rockaway Beach, N. Y. Sphetwphorus ochreus Lee, Rockaway Beach, N. Y. The Society then adjourned. H. G. Barber, Secretary. the; NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Organized June 29, 1892. — Incorporated June 7, 1893. The meetings of the Society are held on the first and third Tuesday of each month (except June, July, August and September) at 8 P. M., in the American Museum < f Natural History, 77th Street and Eighth Ave. Annual dues for Active Members, $3.00. Members of the Society will please remit their annual dues, payable in January, to the treasurer. Officers for the Year 19 lo. /Vmium Say.) Square Island, Dumplin Harbor (Packard) ; West St. Modest, Cape Charles, Red Bay, Nachvak. Very common ; one bottle from West St. Modest contained over 1,000 specimens. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch list). Very abundant Starr Lake, N. H. (4,800 feet). Hamilton gives Alaska to Labrador, southward to Pennsylvania, Colorado and Cali- fornia : Arctic Siberia, alpine and northern Europe, Lapland. The form cafascopiuni Say, found in the vicinity of New York, Chicago, etc., differs somewhat from the northern form and is sel- dom found in quantities. Sept., 1910.] A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 183 49. Hydroporus longicornis Sharp. Stupart's Bay (R. Bell: Packard). Finland, Scotland, Wales, Savoy (Sharp). 50. Hydroporus perplexus Sharp. Stupart's Bay (R. Bell: Packard). Allied to the following spe- cies. Described from California. 51. Hydroporus tenebrosus Lee. Caribou Island (Packard); Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). The three Turner specimens are very large and reddish. Described from Lake Superior. I take this species at Hermit Lake (3,700 feet) on Mt. Washington, N. H., also at Randolph, N. H. (1,300 feet). Tyngsboro, Mass. (Blanchard). 52. Hydroporus morio Sharp. (=z articeps Crotch = melanocephalus Marsh., Steph. as ordinarily referred to.) Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; West St. Modest, Red Bay, Hopedale, Nachvak; common. Greenland (Lundbeck) ; Mt. Wash- ington, N. H. (Bowditch). I have taken this species on Mt. Wash- ington both at Hermit Lake (3,700 feet), below the tree line, and at the Lakes of Clouds (5,000 feet). Europe; Siberia; Finland 69° north; Scotland (Sharp). 53. Hydroporus puberulus Lee. Sloop Harbor, Dumplin Harbor (Packard). Described from Lake Superior. 54. Hydroporus humeralis Aube. West St. Modest, three specimens. Alaska, British Columbia. 55. Hydroporus arcticus Thomson. Several specimens from Nachvak ; one from Hopedale ; identical with my Lapland examples received from Rene Oberthiir. Arctic Siberia 69° north (Sahlberg). 56. Coelambus unguicularis Croteh. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Described from British Columbia. 57. Ilybius subaeneus Er. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Red Bay, common: West St. Modest, a few. Europe ; Finland to 69° north, France, Germany : 184 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Hudson Bay (Sharp); Newfoundland: Bay of Islands, Little Codroy River (Bolster). 58. Ilybius pleuriticus Lee. \\'est St. Modest, uncommon. Hermit Lake, Mt. Washington, N. H. (3,700 feet). Newfoundland, Bay of Islands (Leng, Bolster). Described from Lake Superior. Occurs rarely in northeastern states. 59. Ilybius angustior Gyll. (= Colymbetes picipes Kirby.) Caribou Island, Strawberry Harbor (Packard) ; Red Bay, very common ; West St. Modest. Mt. Washington, N. H., one in Lakes of Clouds (Bowditch), Kenai, Alaska; Lake Superior, Kansas, Siberia, northern Europe, Lapland (Hamilton). 60. Ilybius discedens Sharp. West St. Modest, four. Mt. Washington, N. H., one specimen in Lake of Clouds (Blanchard) ; Newfoundland, Bay of Islands (Leng). Described from Hudson Bay. 61. Agabus seriatus Say. (= parallcliis Lee.) Square Island (Packard). I took several on Mt. Washington carriage road, about 2,500 feet. Widely distributed in eastern United States. Common in Newfoundland, at edge of tableland of Little Codroy River, 700 feet (Bolster). Summit of Mt. Wash- ington. July (Bowditch). 62. Agabus semipunctatus Kirby. Caribou Island (Packard). I have taken this species at Lakes of Clouds Mt. Washington, N. H. (5,000 feet), Storm Lake, N. H. (4,900 feet), Randolph, N. H. (1,300 feet), Peekskill, N. Y. I also have specimens from Antigonish, Nova Scotia ; Ottawa, Ontario (Harrington); Lake Forest, Illinois (Needham) ; Brookline, Massa- chusetts (Bowditch). Hamilton gives Kenai, Alaska, Lake Supe- rior, ^lissouri. 63. Agabus aeneolus Crotch. (r= punctnlatus Aube.) Caribou Island (Packard). Mt. Washington, N. H., Lakes of Clouds July (Bowditch) ; September (Sherman) ; West Hebron, N. Y. (Leng) ; Colorado 8,000 feet (Bowditch) ; Corvallis, Oregon (W^oodcock) ; Lake Superior (LeConte) : Pennsylvania, Newfound- land (Crotch). Sept., 1910. 1 A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 185 64. Agabus congener Payk. Very common. West St. Modest, Red Bay, Cape Charles, Hope- dale, Nachvak, Fort Chimo. Common in White Mountains, above the tree line, in September. '' An arctic, alpine, and subalpine spe- cies " (Sharp). Greenland, Siberia, Sweden, Finland, Lapland, Britain, Germany, France, northern Italy (Sharp). 65. Agabus inscriptus Crotch. Described from Labrador. I have a few specimens from West St. Modest and Red Bay. It is less common than congener with which it is united by Sharp. Crotch's inscriptus is a smaller form, less reticulate and more shin- ing, more convex in form, and the color tends more to yellowish and red; while the congener form is darker, more opaque, and more depressed. Inscriptus is moderately common at Hermit Lake, Mt. Washington, N. H. (3,700 feet), but is seldom found above the tree line. Inscriptus Crotch is probably the beetle referred to as discolor Lee. by Packard in his list, from Indian Harbor. 66. Agabus nigripalpis Sahib. (:^ borcalis Sharp ^= dissimilis Sahib.) Stupart's Bay (R. Bell), several. This is the species listed by Packard as Agabus longidus Lee. ? Regarded by Sharp as probably a variety of congener Payk. My single specimen, one of the Bell specimens presented to me by Mr. W. H. Harrington, is a narrow elongate beetle, with the sides very parallel, much smaller than any of my own Labrador allied specimens and quite different in appear- ance. This same form also taken at Cape Digges by Dr. Belli. 67. Agabus infuscatus Aube. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Very common West St. Modest, Hopedale. Either this species or inscriptus Crotch is un- doubtedly the beetle from Caribou Island listed by Packard as am- biguus Lee. This Labrador species is the real infuscatus of Aube, as I know from typical specimens received from Rene Oberthiir. Whether the beetle taken by Mr. Bowditch in Lakes of Clouds, Mt. Washington, N. H., in July, is the same as this Labrador species I do not know, but all the specimens of i)ifuscatus Aube I have ever seen are from Labrador. 186 Journal New York Entomological Society, lvoi. xviii. 68. Agabus arcticus Payk. (^ subfasciatus Lee.) Caribou Island (Packard). Very common West St. Modest, Red Bay, also Hopedale. In North America this very distinct species is confined to Labrador. Arctic Siberia, Sweden, Finland to 69'' north, Scotland, Alsatia (Sharp). 69. Agabus Erichsoni G. & H. (= nigroaneus Er. = lutosus Croteh.) West St. Modest, Nachvak; rare. I have collected this species with Mr. Blanchard, at Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. It looks super- ficially very much like an Ilybius. I also have specimens from Aweme, Manitoba (Criddle) and Chatham, Michigan. Sweden, Finland, France, Germany (Sharp). 70. Agabus tristis Aube. Nachvak, several : one from Cape Charles ; all specimens were the black variety. Mr. Bowditch found the brown variety very common in the Lakes of Clouds, Mt. Washington, N. H., in July. I was much disappointed not to find it there in September. Both forms occur in Alaska. Dr. Van Dyke sent me a liberal series from Dutch Harbor, Unalaschka. Hamilton mentions its oc- currence in America north of Arctic circle, also Lake Tahoe, Cali- fornia, New Mexico, and Arctic Siberia. 71. Agabus fuscipennis Payk. About twenty specimens from West St. Modest. A very distinct species, not previously recorded from North America. Siberia, Sweden, Finland, North Germany (Sharp). An allied, apparently undescribed species, considerably larger, is found in Alberta. 72. Agabus Isevidorsus Lee. Caribou Island (Packard). This is evidently a manuscript name and I do not know what species is referred to. 73. Agabus sp. An undetermined Agabus is mentioned in Fletcher's list of species from interior of Labrador. 74. Rhantus bistriatus Bergst. Red Bay, one specimen. Mt. Washington, N. H., Lakes of Clouds (5,000 feet) Bowditch), and at Hermit Lake (3,700 feet) by myself. Antigonish, Nova Scotia; Tyngsboro, Mass. (Blanch- Sept.,i9io.] A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 187 ard) ; Wingdale, N. Y. ; Golden, B. C, Waghorn, Alberta; Detroit, Mich. (Sherman collection). Lake Superior, Hudson Bay, central and northern Europe, east and west Siberia (Hamilton). 75. Rhantus binotatus Harris. Labrador (probably). Packard list. Common in White Moun- tains, both below and above the three line. Widely distributed in North America. 76. Colymbetes sculptilis Harris. Caribou Island, Square Island, Hopedale (Packard). White Mountains, N. H., below and above the tree line. Lake Superior (LeConte) ; Long Island. The common species in eastern United States. 77. Col3anbetes rugipennis Sharp. Red Bay, common. Described from northern boundary of Ne- braska. Mr. Roberts considers this to be a good species. It occurs also at Winnipeg. 78. Colymbetes groenlandicus Aube. A lot from Nachvak. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Regimbart (Bulletin Entomological Society of France, Vol. XVII, 1889) regards groenlandicus Aube (Greenland, Iceland, Labrador), Drewseni Lee. (Greenland), Thomsoiii Sharp (Lapland, Iceland) as varieties of dolobratus Payk., which Dr. Van Dyke took on the Alaskan islands. 79. Dytiscus dauricus Gebl. West St. Modest, Red Bay. Interior of Labrador (Low: Fletcher list). I took this species at Hermit Lake, Mt. Washington, N. H. (3,700 feet). Maine to Alaska; Kamtschatka; Dauria (Ham- ilton). 80. Dytiscus parvulus Mannh. One or two specimens from Nain and Hopedale Mr. Roberts refers to this species, which was described from Alaska. 81. Gyrinus minutus Fabr. 82. Gyrinus affinis Aube. ? These two species are listed by Packard from Square Island. 188 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi xviii. 83. Gyrinus picipes Aube. Red Bay, West St. Modest, Cape Charles, Hopedale. Blanch- ard writes: "It seems as though your Labrador Gyrinus ought to be picipes. of which Le Conte remarked he had three from Labrador * one of which does not seem to differ from Alaska types sent by Chaudoir.' Description of opacits Sahib, however fits much better. Le Conte had Greenland examples of opacns." Gyrinus picipes occurs from Alaska to Labrador. 84. Helophorus lineatus Say. 85. Helophorus inquinatus Mannh. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Mr. Schwarz states that these are not to be considered definite determinations, as the genus requires thorough investigation. Both of the above species are on the Bowditch list of Mt. Washington, N. H., species. H. inquinatus Mannh. is recorded from Alaska and Lake Superior. 86. Philhydrus bifidus Lee. Caribou Island (Packard) ; Lake Superior, New England States. 87. Hydrobius fuscipes Linn. Ungava (Turner: Schwarz list) ; West St. Modest, not rare. Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch). Hamilton says: "Very variable and widely distributed in temperate and boreal America ; general in Europe ; Kamtschatka, east and west Siberia, Turkestan."' 88. Silpha lapponica Linn. Caribou Island to Hopedale (Packard); Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; West St. Modest, Red Bay, Nachvak; interior of Lab- rador (Fletcher list). Schwarz says: "Occurs all over North America except in the southeast, being still common as far south as San Diego, Cal. In Europe it is strictly arctic and does not occur even in the alpine regions." Fall mentions its occurrence at Cape Blossom, Alaska, within the Arctic circle. 89. Choleva luridipennis Mannh. West St. Modest, a few. Described from Alaska ; occurs east- ward to New England States. 90. Agathidium obsoletum Lee. Square Island (Packard). No such name appears in Henshaw's Sept., 1910.] A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 189 index of the Le Conte species; nor is it used in Horn's Revision of the Silphidse. 91. Homalota sp. 92. Homalota sp. 93. Placusa sp. These three are from Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Mr. Schwarz writes: "The Aleocharinae of this list are in an extremely poor state of preservation, and no attempt should be made to name them specifically." 94. Quedius sublimbatus Makl. Blanc Sablon (R. Bell: Packard). Hamilton gives Alaska, Lake Superior, eastern Siberia, Behring Island. 95. Quedius molochinus Gray. West St. Modest, a few. Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bow- ditch) ; Alaska, all North America to Mexico, Siberia, Mediterranean countries, all Europe (Hamilton) ; Newfoundland (Bolster). 96. Quedius fulvicoUis Stephens. (= hyperborcus Er.) West St. Modest, one; Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bow- ditch) ; L'f^nalaschka and eastward (Hamilton). 97. Creophilus maxillosus Linn. var. villosus Grav. Caribou Island (Packard). Cosmopolitan. Greenland (Schiodte) ; Newfoundland (Bolster); Alaska (Hamilton). 98. Tachyporus sp. Hopedale (Packard). 99. Bryoporus rufescens Lee. Ungava (Turner: Schwarz list) ; Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch). 100. Bledius sp. Labrador (Packard). loi. Acidota quadrata Zett. Ungava (Turner: Schwarz list); West St. Modest, one. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Alaska, Colorado, Lake Superior, Arctic Siberia, Lapland (Hamilton). 190 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. 102. Arpedium brachypterum Grav. Nain and Hopedale, three or four. Lake Superior, Europe. Two very similar species in White Mountains (Blanchard). 103. Homalium lapponicum Zett. Ungava (Turner: Schwarz list). Alaska, Marquette, Mich., Mas- sachusetts, central and northern Europe, western Siberia (Hamilton) ; Newfoundland (Bolster). 104. Coccinella nivicola Muls. (= monticola Muls. = lacuslris Lee.) Okkak (Packard). Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Alaska, Oregon to Colorado and New Mexico, Kansas, Michigan, Lake Supe- rior, Arctic Siberia (Hamilton). 105. Coccinella transversoguttata Fald. Literior of Labrador (Low: Fletcher list). Greenland (Lund- beck) ; Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch) ; Alaska, Hudson Bay, south to Michigan and Kansas, Rocky Mountains to Mexico, Japan, Dauria, Lapland (Hamilton). 106. Pediacus fuscus Grav. Hopedale, one specimen. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Oxford House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell) ; Alaska, Lake Superior, New Mexico, Colorado, central and northern Europe (Hamilton). 107. Henoticus serratus Gyll. West St. Modest, one specimen. Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch) ; Alaska, southward to Virginia and southern California, Europe (Hamilton). 108. Cryptophagus sp. West St. Modest, two. 109. Cryptophagus sp. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). 110. Coenoscelis sp. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). 111. Atomaria sp. Caribou Island (Packard), 112. Dermestes lardarius Linn, West St. Modest. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch); Nelson Sept.,i9io] A List of Labrador Coleoptera. J 91 River House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell) ; Europe and America; Green- land (Lundbeck). 113. Epuraea truncatella Mannh. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; West St. Modest, one. Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch) ; Alaska, British Columbia to Canada, Washington, California, Colorado, New Mexico (Ham- ilton). 114. Ips sanguinolentus Oliv. Caribou Island (Packard) ; Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch). 115. Latridius minutus Linn. West St. Modest, one specimen. Alaska, North America, Europe, Asia; cosmopolitan (Hamilton). 116. Corticaria ferruginea Gyll. (= deleta Mannh.) Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); West St. Modest, three. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Mrs. Slosson) ; Alaska, Hudson Bay to Florida; Siberia, Dauria, Europe (Hamilton). 117. Corticaria dentigera Lee. L^ngava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). 118. Simplocaria metallica Sturm. West St. Modest. Greenland (Schiodte, Lundbeck). Common on summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., September, 1906. Alaska, Lake Superior, northern and alpine Europe (Hamilton). 119. Morychus, new species. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). 120. Byrrhus americanus Lee. Caribou Island (Packard) ; West St. Modest, common. Mt. Wash- ington, N. H., summit (Bowditch) ; Lake Superior, northeastern U. S. 121. Byrrhus Kirbyi Leo. (= picipcs Kirby.) Caribou Island (Packard) ; Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; West St. Modest, two. Described from latitude 54° by Kirby; Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch). 192 Journal New York Entomological Society, ivoi.xviii 122. Byrrhus geminatus Lee. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). 123. Byrrhus cyclophorus Kirby. West St. Modest, Hopedale, common. Mt. Washington, X. H., summit (Bowditch) ; Alaska, Hudson Bay. Lake Superior, Colorado (Hamilton). 124. Hypnoidus sanborni Horn. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., subalpine (Bowditch). 125. HjT)noidus nocturnus Esch. var. bicolor Esch. Belles Amours, Strawberry Harbor, Indian Harbor (Packard) ; West St. Modest, very common ; Hopedale, two. Mt. Washington, N. H., subalpine (Bowditch) ; Alaska, eastern Siberia (Hamilton). 126. Elater nigrinus Payk. West St. Modest, two or three. Nelson River House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell) ; Alaska, Lake Superior, Vermont, Europe, Siberia (Ham- ilton). 127. Paranomus costalis Payk. (:= Eanus z'agns Lee.) Square Island (Packard) ; West St. Modest, a few. Mt. Washing- ton, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Lake Superior, Europe, Sweden, Finland, Lapland (Hamilton). 128. Paranomus estriatus Lee. West St. Modest, about two dozen; Red Bay, one. Mt. Washing- ton, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Lake Superior. 129. Paranomus pictus Cand. Caribou Island to Square Island (Packard); West St. Modest, a few; Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). The genus Paranomus is represented in Alaska by the species decoratus Mannh. 130. Sericosomus incongruus Leo. Square Island (Packard) ; one specimen West St. Modest. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Sitkha, Alaska (Harriman Expedi- tion, Schwarz) ; Banff, Alberta; Tenino, Wash. (Schwarz). Sept., 1910.] A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 193 131. Corymbites spinosus Lee. West St. Modest, a few. Mt. Washington, N. H., summit, very common (Bowditch) ; Oxford House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell) ; Mt. Monadnock (Blanchard) ; Newfoundland; Little Codroy River table- land (700 feet) (Bolster). 132. Melanophila appendiculata Fabr. (^acuminata Fabr. =zloiigipes Say.) Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); West St. Modest, Nain. Summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Cape Nome, Alaska, within Arctic circle (Fall). Found throughout North America, also in Kamtschatka, Siberia, China, Europe (Hamilton). 133. Melanophila fulvoguttata Harris. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bowditch). Mr. Schwarz remarks: " I have never been able to distinguish certain forms from M. drummondi. 134. Melanophila guttulata Gebl. (= drummondi Kirby.) Hopedale, one specimen. Mt. Washington, N. H., summit (Bow- ditch) ; Alaska, Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, Hudson Bay, all Siberia, Mongolia, and the Amur countries ; exceedingly variable in every way (Hamilton). 135. Eros aurora Hbst. Literior of Labrador (Fletcher list). Summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Wrangel, Oregon, Hudson Bay to Georgia, Europe, east and west Siberia (Hamilton). 136. Podabrus piniphilus Esch. Interior of Labrador (Fletcher list) ; Hopedale. Mt. Washington, N. H., subalpine (Bowditch) ; Alaska, Oregon, Montana, Canada (Hamilton). 137. Podabrus extremus Lee. West St. Modest, one specimen. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Mrs. Slosson). Described from Hudson Bay. 138. Podabrus laevieoUis Kirby. Hopedale (Packard). Mt. Washington, N. H., alpine and subal- pine (Bowditch); Lake Superior, British Columbia, Newfoundland; edge of tableland Little Codroy River (700 feet or more) (Bolster). 194 Journal New York Entomological Society, ivoi.xvin. 139. Telephorus fraxini Say. (^ Podabrus mandibularis Kirby.) Caribou Island (Packard); West St. Modest; Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Alaska to New Mexico, westward to Hudson Bay and southward to Virginia (Hamilton). 140. Telephorus nigritulus Lee. West St. Modest, Nain. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Newfoundland: edge of tableland Little Codroy River (700 feet or more) (Bolster). 141. Telephorus curtisii Kirby. West St. Modest, a few. Summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). 142. Sitodrepa panicea Linn. West St. Modest, one. Alaska ; cosmopolitan. 143. Aphodius guttatus Esch. West St. Modest, two or three; common in Unalaschka (Ham- ilton). ' 144. Criocephalus agrestis Kirby. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; West St. Modest, Red Bay, Hopedale, Fort Chimo; Nelson River House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell), Lake Superior. 145. Criocephalus obsoletus Randall. Okkak (Packard). 146. Xylotrechus undulatus Say. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). 147. Pachyta liturata Kirby. {=^ Argaleus nitens Lee.) Near Cape Harrison (Packard); Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; Fort Chimo, Hopedale. Nelson River House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell). Hamilton gives Alaska, British Columbia to Canada and north to Hudson Bay, Michigan, Vermont, Idaho to New Mexico. 148. Acmaeops pratensis Leach. (=z semimarginata Randall, =: fulvipennis Mannh.) Hopedale, three. Summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). Sept., 1910.J A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 195 Newfoundland, common; coast plain and edge of tableland, Little Codroy River; Bay of Islands; Humber River (Bolster). Alaska, through the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, Wyoming, Michigan, Maine; arctic and eastern Siberia, northern China, alpine and north- ern Europe (Hamilton). 149. Acmaeops proteus Kirby. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); interior of Labrador (Fletcher list) ; Hopedale, one. Summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Cumberland House, Oxford House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell) ; Lake Superior. 150. Leptura hirtella Lee. This is Leptura species from Caribou Island, mentioned by Packard (Blanchard in letter). Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). A specimen probably of this species taken by Bolster at Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. Species occurs also in British Columbia. 151. Leptura tibialis Lee. West St. Modest, one; Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Lake Superior. 152. Pogonocherus penieellatus Lee. Interior of Labrador (Fletcher list) ; summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Maine to Colorado (Fall). Pogonocherus fasciciilaris DeG. is on Lundbeck's Greenland list. 153. Syneta ferruginea Germ. Interior of Labrador (Fletcher list) ; Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). Newfoundland: coast plain, Little Codroy River (Bolster). 154. Plagiodera armoraciae Linn. L'ngava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). 155. Gonioctena pallida Linn. Interior of Labrador (Fletcher list) ; summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). 156. Stenotrachelus arctatus Say. (= obscurus Mannh.) L'ngava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); West St. Modest, Hope- dale. White Mountains, N. H. ; " The Perch " on Mt. Jefferson, 196 Journal New York Entomological Society, [Voi.xviii. swept from dying balsam trees (Leng) ; Oxford House, Hudson Bay (R. Bell). Hamilton mentions Alaska, Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, Dakota and Lake Superior region north to Hudson Bay, Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania. 157. Pytho niger Kirby. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). 158. Salpingus alternatus Lee. ? Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Mr. Schwarz writes: " Will remain doubtful until some one monographs our American species." Salpingus vircsccns Lee. is recorded from summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). Salpingus clon gains Mannh. occurs in Alaska (Hamilton). 159. Mordella borealis Lee. Nain, one specimen. " Just like the specimen in my collection fished out of Lake of the Clouds, Mt. Washington, N. H." (Blanch- ard) ; Newfoundland: Little Codroy River, coast plain (Bolster). leoTLepyfus palustris Seopoli. (= colon Linn.) Cape Chidley (R. Bell, Packard) ; Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list). Summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., apline (Bowditch) ; Hudson Bay, New Mexico, northern Wisconsin, Europe, and western Siberia (Hamilton). 161. Paehylobius picivorus Germ. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list); Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch). 162. Hypomolyx piceus DeG. (= pineti Fabr.) West St. Modest, two; Hopedale, one. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch) ; Lake Superior, Hudson Bay, central and northern Eu- rope, Siberia (Hamilton); Newfoundland: coast plain, Little Codroy River (Bolster). 163. Pissodes? sp.? Hopedale (Packard). Possibly the preceding species. 164. Notaris (Eryeus) aethiops Fabr. ( = morio Mannh.) West St. Modest, half a dozen. White Mountains, N. H., Mag- Sept., 1910.] A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 197 dalcn Island (Blanchard) ; Newfoundland: coast plain of Little Cod- roy River (Bolster) ; Alaska, Vancouver, Manitoba, Great Slave Lake; northern Europe, Siberia, the Amur (Hamilton). 165. Dendroctonus borealis Hpk. (:= rufipennis Mannh.) Mr. Schwarz writes: "Your Labrador Dendroctonus has been determined by Dr. Hopkins as borealis Hpk., a species of great inter- est in regard to geographical distribution, since it was recorded pre- viouslv only from the north Pacific coast." Alaska: Eagle, and Kenai. 166. Dendroctonus terebrans Oliv. Ungava Bay (Turner: Schwarz list) ; "Determination after Hop- kin's monograph" (Schwarz). New Hampshire to Georgia (Hopkins). Addenda. Two small lots of Labrador beetles received from Red Bay this summer contain examples of three species not mentioned in the fore- going list. The species are: 167. Tachinus parallelus Horn. One specimen, male, " smaller than my females from Mt. Wash- ington " (Blanchard). This species is on the Bowditch list of Mt. Washington species. Mr. Blanchard remarks that Tachinus elon- gatus Gyll., a European species, recorded from Alaska also, must be very near parallelus Horn. 168. Neomysia subvittata Muls. Two specimens. " A new variety, which does not agree exactly with Mulsant's description, nor with either of the two forms described by Casey " (Leng). 169. Hylobius confusus Kirby. One specimen. Red Bay. Mt. Washington, N. H. (Bowditch list), Alaska, Lake Superior, New York, Massachusetts (Hamilton). NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 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This collection is undoubtedly the largest of its kind in the United States, not excepting that in the National Museum, which, however, is richer in types. Among the material studied were many new species, a few of which are described in the present paper. The remainder of the material will be worked up as opportunity serves, though perhaps only in connection with the groups to which the species respectively belong. I. Mesoleuca interrupta, new species. Expanse, 20-21.5 mm. Palpi, head and thorax pale yellowish, the central portion of the front, vertex at base of antennje and thorax at insertion of primaries dark brown. Antennae beneath, brown or yellowish, above marked alternately with brown and white. Abdomen above, whitish, dusky on central segments, with brown central spots which tend to disintegrate laterally, last segment brown with central white stripe, anal brush yellowish ; beneath, en- tirely yellowish. Primaries white, more or less profusely dusted over with dusky scales. Basal line about one-fifth out, white, rather narrow, sharply angulated on cubital and anal veins. Intradiscal line crosses less than one-half out, white, quite broad, somewhat irregular in its course but on the whole curved 199 200 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vd. xviii. outwardly. Costal region of the areas on either side of the basal line dark brown. Extradiscal line white, somewhat lost in the dusky scales just out- ward of this line, begins on costa one-third in from apex, curves inward to Mj, then to Cuo is produced outwardly in two scallops and then runs irregularly inward to inner margin, sending a spur to the intradiscal line in the sub- median space. The area between the intra- and extradiscal lines is filled in with light and dark brown, the darker color occupying the costal and inner marginal regions and a portion of the inner central space between Mj and Cuo ; the lighter color occupying the remainder. Submarginal space with a costal blotch formed of the dusky scales, which latter also occasionally form one or two brokenly scalloped lines following in general the extradiscal line. A large subapical patch on outer margin sending two or three rounded teeth inwardly. Terminal line fine, incomplete, showing only on lower portion of wing where it is not absorbed by the apical patch. Fringes checkered. Secondaries rather uniformly pale smoky, with a faint reddish tinge. A moderate, dusky, discal spot. An indication of a median stripe on inner margin. Terminal line brown, sending small squarish spurs into the inner half of the fringe. Beneath, evenly smoky on primaries in central and inner areas, remainder yellow with brown strigations. The central fascia and subapical patch are reflected, but not strongly. Secondaries whitish-yellow, finely strigate with brown. A brown irregular cross-line best marked on costa extends two-thirds across the wing outward of the middle. Occasionally this reappears on the inner margin near the anal angle as a diffuse spot. A second, large con- spicuous spot is on the center of the inner margin and tends rarely to unite with the discal spot. Types. — Four males and three females, all in Dr. Barnes col- lection except two cotypes, which are with the author. Habitat. — Redington and Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona. I have before me also several other poor specimens which have not been made cotypes. The species is not a typical Mesolcnca, but is referred here in the absence of a more suitable genus. In structure it differs only in the long palpi, which are slender and project far beyond the head. In general appearances it differs considerably from the more typical members of the genus. 2. Mesoleuca interrupta ochreata, new variety. This form, which at first glance appears very closely to resemble the species to which I refer it as a variety, is seen on close observation to differ from it in many points, which however I am inclined to regard as only varietal. Aside from the bright yellow ground color of the primaries, which contrasts strongly with the pure white of typical interrupta, the median fascia is unbroken and less attenuated posteriorly ; the basal and intradiscal lines are narrower and extend further out on the cubital vein making, in the case of Dec.igio] GroSSBECK : NeW SpECIES OF GEOMETRIDiE, £01 the latter, a deep indentation in the inner edge of the median fascia ; and the subapical patch is larger and prolonged into the wing. All in all, there are so many points of difference toward which the eleven examples of typical interrupta do not tend that I think a varietal name is warranted. Type. — One female in Dr. Barnes' collection. , Habitat. — Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Arizona. 3. Hydriomena viridescens, new species. Expanse, 23-26 mm. Head pale bluish-green, palpi largely dark brown, antennae whitish, fringed with brown. Thorax greenish, with four brown spots arranged in a square on the dorsum, and one at the inception of each fore wing. Abdomen gray with narrow white bands at the apex of the individual segments dorsally which extend anteriorly in the middle and divide into two parts a brown blotch which just precedes it. Primaries evenly pale bluish- green (which color becomes almost white or yellowish on exposure to light), crossed by ten or eleven denticulate or scalloped narrow black lines. The first, close to the base of the wing, is frequently a mere dot, or may be absent entirely. The second and fourth are curved outwardly and are usu- ally well-defined, and between these runs the third which is diffuse, com- paratively broad, and occasionally incomplete or absent. From the outer of this series of lines to the sixth the ground color is whiter. The sixth line is strongly marked, sharply denticulate and, as a whole, less curved outwardly than any of the others. Line five is narrower but in general the same. The seventh line, very narrow and only faintly denticulate, may run through the elliptical discal spot or directly outside it. Between lines eight and ten which are well scalloped the ground is whiter again and divided into two by a fine line (number nine). The eleventh line is rather broad, diffuse and fre- quently broken, especially in the central portion of the wing. A black blotch between veins R5 and M3 represents the remnant of the twelfth line. Terminal line indicated by a black spot on either side of each vein. Fringe checkered black and faintly pinkish, more or less markedly. Secondaries salmon colored, paler inwardly. Terminal line as in primaries but fainter and more diffuse. Beneath, primaries salmon colored outwardly, the markings of above feebly reflected, and sometimes with a large, diffuse subapical shade. Secondaries as above but with small, dark discal spot. Types. — Five males and seven females in the collection of Dr. Barnes and the author. Habitat. — Provo, Utah, August 4-14; Santa Catalina Mts., Sept., Huachuca Mts., Baboquivaria Mts., Pima Co., July 15-30 (Poling), and Redington, Arizona. This neat little species, of which I have seen other specimens from the same general region, is most nearly related to " Ca:nocalpe " magnoliata On. and differs principally in its smaller size, narrower 202 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xvui. and more defined cross-lines and the salmon-colored hind wings. It soon loses the greater part of the delicate green tint of the fore wings when placed in the light or in a relaxing box for even a short time. I place this species provisionally in Hydriomena, where so many odd species belonging to the Cidaria group are mingled. Its im- mediate ally, magnoliata, has recently been rejected from the genus Cceno'caipe by Pearsall (Can. Ent., XLI, 366) to which, with aurata and oxygramtna, it was long known to be a dissonant associate ; but he has not provided another genus for its reception. 4. Stamnodes albiapicata, new species. Expanse, 26-28 mm. Head and palpi brown with some light colored scales intermixed ; thorax brown ; abdomen yellowish, first segment and part of the apical segments brownish. Wings above pale smoky, the costal area dark brown interrupted with four white patches ; the first square, rather small, situated one-fifth out from base ; the second over one-third out, similar in shape to the first but larger, and tending to widen posteriorly ; the third rectangular and occupying the space from the center of the wing to a point almost two-thirds out on costa ; the fourth narrow, beginning less than one- third in from the apex and extending obliquely inward to vein Mj. Apex slightly paler than the rest of the wing and with a faint reddish tinge. Fringes white, marked with brown at ends of veins. Beneath, primaries as above but with the brown extending further in toward middle and somewhat broken up by whitish mottlings, more or less profuse. The white costal markings are obscured or entirely lost as a result of this mottling except the oblique line which stands out contrastingly. The apex to R3 is white, more or less sprinkled over with brown scales. Secondaries mottled with light and dark brown over a whitish background, the dark brown interruptedly marking some of the veins and tending to form three large patches, one within the discal cell, one nearer the outer margin between Mj and Mg, and another on the inner margin near the anal angle. Just preceding these two latter spots are indications of a curved whitish cross line, best marked on the costa and inner margin. Apical area sometimes pure white. Discal spot elliptical, white, conspicuous. Types. — Two males in Dr. Barnes' collection and in that of the author. Habitat. — Redington, Arizona. Allied to Stamnodes gibbicostata Walk., but smaller, more frail and narrower winged. 5. Annemoria pectinaria, new species. Expanse, 26 mm. Palpi and front pink, vertex green ; thorax green ; Dec.igio.] Grossbeck : New Species of Geometrid^. 203 abdomen whitish-green, without markings. Primaries pea-green with numerous fine, whitish transverse mottlings, costa narrowly white on outer three-fourths, fringe edged with white. Two narrow, white lines cross the wings. The first beginning on the radial vein, inward of the middle, extends outwardly curved and slightly irregular to inner margin ending less than one-fourth out from the base of the wing. The second begins on the costa one-fifth in from the apex and extends slightly outwardly curved and with scarcely perceptible teeth on the veins in the lower part of the wing to a point just outward of the middle on the inner margin. Secondaries pale green becoming darker green toward inner margin. An outwardly curved white line on inner fourth. A denticulate white line midway between the first line and the outer margin. This line to Cu™ runs much like the first but less strongly curved, then turns outward to inner margin. Both the lines are twice as broad as those oh the primaries. Beneath, rather even pale green, darkest on costal and apical areas of primaries, the outer line of both wings reflected. Type.— Oiie female in Dr. Barnes' collection. Habitat. — Redington, Arizona. Allied to Aniiciiioria bistriaria Pack., from which it differs by the much narrower lines on the primaries, the presence of an inner line on the secondaries and by the outer line on these latter wings being strongly denticulate. The antenn?e of the present species differ from those of the female of bistriaria in being shortly pectinated at the basal two-thirds instead of dentate. 6. Synchlora lesteraria, new species. Expanse, 19-23 mm. Front green, vertex white; thorax green, whitish centrally and with a white collar ; abdomen whitish with pale brown dorsal tufts on four or five of the anterior segments. Wings even pale apple-green. Primaries with an outwardly oblique broken white line crossing the wing about one-fourth out from base ; this is vague or indicated by a spot near costa, but becomes broader and more continuous toward inner margin and tends to broaden still more at the anal vein. Inwardly of this line, below cubitus, is a small, irregular, cream colored patch with a few brown scales upon it, and below the anal vein is a much larger similar spot which fills the space from the line half way to the base of the wing. An outer white line on about outer fourth of wing shows as an outwardly curved, narrow crescent between Mj and M3, followed by a rather large cream colored spot with brown scales, and from Cuj to inner margin as an inwardly curved line, some- what toothed on the veins and in the interspaces. In the anal angle to this line is a large cream colored spot with scattered brown scales which collect, more densely near the outer edge of the patch, into a short zigzag line. Discal spot absent. Fringe white. Secondaries with basal portion of wing wholly white, the outer margin oblique and nearly continuous with inner line x/ 204 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. of primaries. Outer line fine, sinuous, following in general the outer margin but extending well in toward the center of the costal and inner margins. There are spots outward to this line as on primaries and similarly disposed, except that the one in the anal angle is further removed along the inner margin. In addition there is also a diffuse white patch outward of the line on the costa. Beneath, both wings even pale green, all the markings of the upper side reflected in white. Type. — Two males from Dr. Barnes. Habitat. — South Arizona, May 1-15 and Santa Catalina Mts., Pinal Co., Arizona. This species is in appearance much like Racheospila nivcociliaria H. S. (= saltusaria Hulst). 7. Aplodes splendidaria, new species. Expanse, 31 mm. Palpi and front pink, vertex white anteriorly, green posteriorly ; thorax and abdomen green, the latter apparently without dorsal spots, though being partly discolored by grease this cannot be said with cer- tainty. Primaries apple-green, costa rather broadly edged with deep flesh- color, outer edge deep red, narrowly interrupted at the veins with whitish, inner half of fringe white, outer half pink. Two rather broad and well defined white lines cross the wing. The first begins outward of the middle on vein Ml and runs with an outward curve inwardly obliquely to inner margin, thence following the inner margin to base of wing. The second begins on R5 between the origin of the first line and the apex of the wing and extends in an almost straight line to inner margin ending less than one-third in from the anal angle. No discal dot. Secondaries lighter green than primaries, the costal area and the veins whitish. Outer edge and fringe as in primaries. Two whitish lines cross the wing ; the first on inner third outwardly angled in the cell and again between the cubital and anal veins ; the second on outer third, strongly curved outwardly to below Cuj then bent inward to inner margin. Beneath smooth green, the inner area of primaries whitish, flesh- colored costa, red outer margins repeated, the cross lines also showing but more feebly. Type. — One male in Dr. Barnes' collection. Habitat. — Palmerlee, Arizona. This species with its bright green color, contrasting white mark- ings and dark red borders is the most beautiful of the genus. It is most nearly allied to obliqua Hulst, but the inner line is inwardly instead of outwardly oblique as in Hulst's species. 8. Aplodes strigataria, new species. Expanse, (^ 28 mm., J 32-35 mm. Palpi white, upper surface with scat- tered red scales, terminal joint entirely red; front red; vertex white. Thorax and abdomen uniformly pale green, or, the latter with the segments edged Dec, igio] Grossbeck : New Species OF Geometrid^. 205 posteriorly with white. Wings pea-green, profusely strigated with irregular, transverse, whitish markings ; costa of primaries narrowly edged with white ; fringe whitish, occasionally with a narrow pink line at inner edge, and marked with pink at the ends of the veins. There are traces of an outwardly curved, white, inner line at inner third of both wings. A rather narrow outer line crossing both wings is more defined, yet sometimes lost in the trans- verse markings. On the primaries it is situated slightly inward of the outer third, runs parallel to the outer margin and is somewhat scalloped. On the secondaries it crosses outward of the middle, is decidedly scalloped and fol- lows in general the course of the outer margin, being somewhat bent outward below the median vein. Discal dots vague but present on all wings. Beneath, uniformly green, paler than above, with faint reflections of the outer line of upper side. Fringe as above. Types. — Two males and four females from Dr. Barnes (two of the cotypes in my own collection) and one female from Mr. Frank Haimbach and in his collection. Habitat. — Huachuca Mts., Arizona, July; Redington, Arizona; South Arizona, July 15-30. Distinguished from its congeners by its large size and profusely strigated wings. Aplodcs darwiniata rivals it in size, but in this species the strigations are fine and exceedingly faint in comparison. g. Cymatophora trilinearia, new species. Expanse, 27-29 mm. Head whitish-gray, the front sometimes margined with yellow. Palpi and antenna pale yellow. Thorax and abdomen whitish- gray, the former with a narrow yellow collar, the latter tinged with yellow which becomes more intense apically. Primaries whitish-gray, more or less scattered over with brown atoms ; costa narrowly edged with yellow. Three usually well defined pale brown lines of moderate breadth cross the wings. Rarely these are represented by pale yellow spaces, or are somewhat obscured by the profusion of brown atoms. The first crossing slightly outward of the inner fourth extends outward from costa, turns downward within the cell and thence runs almost straight to inner margin, being slightly curved inwardly between the cubital and anal veins. The median line, sometimes reduced to a mere shade, originates in a yellow costal spot, is either straight or curved outwardly above Cu and inwardly curved below this vein, and precedes or passes through the small round or elongated discal spot when this is present. The outer line, also originating in a yellow costal spot, crosses the wing about one-third in from the outer margin, extends outward from costa to Mj, then inward to inner margin curving evenly outward before reaching that edge. One-sixth in from the apex, on the costa, is a triangular yellow spot edged with brown, and occasionally a second yellow patch is present in the outer area between M3 and Cuo. A black terminal line showing between the veins, more particularly in the central portion. Fringe gray or brownish-gray, 206 Journal New York Entomological Society. lvcXviii. divided by a fine white line which runs through the center. Secondaries pale yellow, more or less irrorate with brown atoms, especially toward inner mar- gin. A single rather broad, diffuse line (sometimes absent) passes through the center of. the wing approximately parallel to the outer margin. Terminal line brown, narrow. Discal spot absent. Fringe light gray or brownish. Beneath, both wings pale yellow, the primaries somewhat grayish on inner and basal areas. Brown irrorations are present over the secondaries and over yellow portion of primaries. Types. — Six males and three females in Dr. Barnes' collection and in that of the author. Habitat.- — South Arizona, July 15-30, Aug. 1-15, and Gila Co., Arizona, June (Poling) ; Redington, Palmerlee and Huachuca Moun- tains (Barnes). This is the species referred to by me in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Vol. X, p. 87, as Cymatophora tenchrosata Hulst.* The specimens before me do not run so variable as those in the National Museum but have tendencies in similar directions. The species is allied to Cymatophora inqninaria Hulst, but com- pared with examples of that species at hand in smaller, whiter, far less strigate on the primaries (which in the present species is scarcely strigate when the atoms are profuse), and with comparatively minute discal spot when this is present at all. Barnesia, new genus. Front slightly longer than broad, smooth ; palpi short, not extending beyond the front ; antennas bipectinate to tip in both sexes, the pectinations of the male long and somewhat clavate apically, those of the female short ; tongue absent. Thorax and abdomen robust, the former tufted posteriorly, the latter smooth. Tibia of anterior legs short, swollen, with two large, apical corneous processes of unequal length which take the form of spurs ; epiphysis originating near base of joint and extending beyond the shorter of the apical processes. Middle and posterior tibiae with a single pair of spurs, the pos- terior tibia without a hair pencil. Fore wings moderately broad, costal margin very slightly concave, outer margin evenly rounded or with a trace of* an angle at the center, veins R2, R3+4 and R5 on one stalk, no accessory cell ; hind wing with outer margin evenly rounded or faintly angled at center, and angle slightly pronounced, vein Sc anastomosing with R for half the length of discal cell, M2 absent Type. — Barnesia ritaria Gross. * See Ent. News, Vol. XX, p. 353. Joiini. .y. y. Ell/, Soc Vol. Xr/II. Plat,' VI. structural characters of the genus Babesia Grossb. Dec, 1910.] Grossbeck : New Species of Geometric^. 207 This genus of the Ennominse {Gcoinctrince Prout, Selidosemidce Meyrick) is a very singular one combining characters of Glancina and Hulstina. 10. Cedaria ritaria, new species. Expanse, 20-25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen with mixed brown and white scales, sometimes one sometimes the other color predominating. The brown scales of the abdomen occasionally collect into patches which are arranged at the base of the segments. Primaries cinereous, more or less overlaid with brown. Five brown lines somewhat diffuse and of moderate breadth cross the wing obliquely. The first, sometimes obsolete, crosses at inner fifth, is roundly bent outward below costa: and thence extends slightly curved to base of inner margin. The second line crosses at inner fourth and is nearly parallel to the first, but is slightly toothed outwardly on the anal vein. The following two lines, crossing almost through the center, begin widely apart on the costa, curve outwardly one-third across the wing, mean- while converging, and then extend obliquely inward to center of inner margin, curving outward again, however, before reaching that point. Immediately following the outer of these two lines is a fifth line, usually more diffuse than the others, and often broken in its course. The space between this and the preceding line is filled in with ochreous, thojigh at the costal area this tint is occasionally lost. Sometimes the line bordering this shade externally is lost. A diffuse terminal shade is present running through the outer space. Ter- minal line narrow, dark brown. Fringes checkered. Discal spot absent. Secondaries almost wholly covered over with dark brown, the cinereous ground showing as two or three obscure bands crossing the outer half of the wing, most perceptible on the inner margin. Beneath, wholly cinereous or with primaries smoky. A broad, brown band sometimes crosses the secondaries on inner third in a straight line ; rarely this is continued very faintly across the primaries. Types. — Two males and three females from Dr. Barnes. Habitat. — So. Arizona, April 1-15; Santa Catalina Mts., Pinal Co., Aug. 1-7; Santa Rita Mts., Pima Co.; Baboquivaria Mts., Pima Co., July 15-30 — all Arizona. A characteristic species which in a very general way may be likened to a small Hulstina formosata Hulst. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. Fig. I. Venation of Barnesia ritaria. Fig. 2. Section of antenna of male Barnesia ritaria. Fig. 3. Fore leg of Barnesia ritaria. Fig. 4. Mid leg of Barnesia ritaria. Fig. 5. Hind leg of Barnesia ritaria. 208 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. TWO NEW NOMADID^ (HYMENOPTERA) FROM SOUTH AMERICA. By C. Schrottky. Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. I. Epeolus osiriformis, new species. Black ; clypeus, base of antennae, tegulse, legs and scutellum reddish. White tomentum on face, pleur3e, middle segment, legs and also in the thoracic sutures ; two longitudinal lines of white tomentum on the meso- notum, transverse lines, more or less interrupted in the middle, on the apical margins of abdominal segments 1-4 (J) or 1-6 ((^), lateral patches on 2-5 (5) and another transverse line at the base of first segment (2(^)- Wings hyaline with the outer margin broadly fuscous. Female. — Head nearly as broad as thorax ; face densely clothed with white tomentum ; vertex nude, strongly punctured, its posterior margin emarginate and clothed with white pile ; the outer orbits throughout with fine downy yellowish- white pubescence. Mandibles red with black tips. Labrum nude, dusky, finely but closely punctured, with a depression in the middle, clothed with short downy pubescence, Clypeus red, twice as broad as long, its anterior margin straight. Eyes converging towards base. Posterior ocelli less distant from each other than from the eyes, but more than from posterior margin of vertex. Antennae with the scape red, minutely punctured ; the pedicel ex- tremely short; the first joint of the flagellum almost half the length of the second which is longer than any of the succeeding joints. Thorax stout, cuboid, although the dorso-ventral axis seems to be the longest. Pronotum reddish, extremely short, lower than the mesonotum. Mesonotum anteriorly broader than long, closely punctured, surrounded by a depressed line which is clothed with whitish pubescence, except on the an- terior margin, rounded towards the pronotum and with red anterior lateral angles. Mesopleurse strongly convex, forming an obtuse edge anteriorly. Calli red and covered with white tomentum. Scutellum nude, rather closely punctured and strongly bituberculate, the depression between the tubercles black, the posterior margin strongly overlapping the metanotum, with a line of white tomentum ; at each side a punctured red spine. Metanotum reddish with two minute tubercles and clothed with whitish tomentum. Middle seg- ment with its basal area nude, divided by a longitudinal rim, punctured only at the sides ; the rest strongly punctured and clothed with white tomentum. Abdomen longer than head + thorax, more than twice as long as meso- notum, with a very short, downy, velvety black tomentum and the above de- scribed white markings. The second segment the broadest ; the pygidial plate dark rufous, broader than long, coarsely punctured with elongate rugose punc- Dec, 1910.J SCHROTTKY : TwO NeW NoMADID/E. 209 tures and clothed with stiff fuscous bristles ; the hypopygium seems to be a trifle longer. Venter dark brown with a very thin and short white tomentum. Wings. See above ; the veins very dark brown, almost black ; nerv. rec. I just in the middle of second cubital cell, nerv. rec. 2 a trifle behind middle of third cub. c. ; second cub. c. very narrow above. Legs ferruginous, only the claws and the spurs of second and third pair blackish. Spur of middle tibiae microscopically pectinate ; pulvilli at least half the length of claws. Long. tot. lo-ii mm., lat. abd. 3.3 mm. Male. — Exactly like the female, only the scutellum is not so strongly bituberculate, the depression between the tubercles is not black and the ab- domen is very elongate, aft'ecting the shape of Osiris; it is at least three times longer than the mesonotum and more than twice as long as broad. The pygidial plate is longer than broad, rounded at apex and with sharp lateral edges. Long. tot. II mm.; lat. abd. 2.9 mm. Paraguay, Puerto Bertoni, April 22, 1909, on flowers of Vernonia sp. (Compositse). In Dr. Friese' tables of the Argentine species (Flora og Fauna, Silkeborg, 1908) this species runs to nobilis (J) or {unifasciatus =) variolosns Holmlg. (J*) ; it is however quite distinct from either. J 2. Cyphomelissa garleppi, new species. Black, entirely covered with bluish green pubescence, longest on the mesopleurae (there with a blue tinge), legs and abdomen. Wings almost hyaline with darker exterior margin and with a strong metallic blue tinge all over. Female. — Head much narrower than thorax. Eyes reaching base of mandibles, not converging below. Mandibles rather densely covered with elongate punctures, except the blunt tips. Labrum distinctly punctured. On the rest of the head or body no sculpture can be seen on account of the extremely dense pubescence. Clypeus with its anterior margin very faintly emarginate. Antennre with a stout scape, bluish green by pubescence ; the rest black and nude ; the pedicel very short, its length scarcely one-fourth of the first joint of the flagellum, this a little longer than any of the succeed- ing joints. Posterior ocelli much nearer to each other than to the eyes or margin of the vertex. Thorax stout with long bluish green hair. Tegulae naked, minutely punc- tured. Abdomen much longer than head + thorax, covered with shorter glitter- ing green pubescence and longer blue hairs ; the pygidial plate partly hidden under the pubescence, the visible part opaque, its apex rounded. Venter not •quite as densely pubescent as dorsal surface. Wings. Median cell much shorter than submedian ; second cubital cell the largest, rhomboidal, with nerv. rec. i interstitial with second transverse cubital vein ; third cubital cell triangular, its outer margin strongly curved. 210 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviir. Legs. Covered with greenish pubescence and longer blue hairs. Claws dark brown, deeply bifid. Pulvilli very small. Calcar of middle tibiae scarcely to be called " bifid " ; long and thin, the anterior side minutely serrate and it terminates with some small teeth, the hinder one being transformed into a stout, strongly curved spine. Long. tot. 1 6 mm., lat. abd. 5.5 mm. Peru, Apurimac (Otto Garlepp leg.). Under Cyphomelissa (Rev. Mus. Paulista, 1902, Vol. V, p. 495,. and Plate XIV, fig. 5, a-d) I include those species described as Melissa which have a more or less bumble-bee-like shape and the third cubital cell petiolate, triangular or nearly triangular. The fol- lowing species belong here : 1. C. diabolica (Friese) ^ C. pernigra Schrottky, the typeof__the_genus. Wholly black with a broad excavated middle spur. Brazil, S. Paulo and Espirito Santo. 2. C. snt>erba (Dcke.) ; thorax and base of abdomen with yellow pubes- cence ; middle spur deeply bifid. Lower Amazons. 3. C. viridis (Friese) ; bluish green with small white lateral patches on abdomen, third cubital cell petiolate ; middle spur thin, terminating in one long and one very short straight spine. Brazil, S. Paulo. 4. C. jenseni (Friese) ; blue, the male with white pubescence on head and anterior part of thorax ; third cubital cell not completely triangular although much narrowed above ; middle spur almost as in garleppi, but a little broader. Argentina, Mendoza, Tucuman. 5. C. garleppi n. sp. Described above. Peru. NEW CLAVICORN COLEOPTERA. By Charles Schaeffer. Brooklyn, N. Y. Family Erotylid^. I. Hapalips texanus, new species. Elongate, testaceous, shining, pubescence of upper surface rather short and not dense. Head narrower than the prothorax, obliquely impressed on- each side at middle ; moderately coarsely punctate, punctures well separated at middle but more crowded at sides. Antennae reaching to the base of elytra ; first joint stout, second joint narrower than the first but wider than the third,, the latter twice as long as the fourth, fourth to eighth beadlike and gradually but feebly increasing in width, joints nine to eleven abruptly longer. Pro- thorax scarcely wider than long ; sides straight to a little below the apical Dec, 1910.] SCHAEFFER : NeW ClAVICORN CoLEOPTERA. 211 angles where they are slightly arcuate, near the basal angles sinuate ; apical angles feebly rounded, basal angles acute, rectangular ; apical margin straight, basal margin arcuate at middle ; surface rather coarsely punctate and on each side at middle near base shortly impressed. Elytra as wide as the prothorax at base ; sides feebly arcuately narrowing to apex ; apices rounded ; surface punctate-striate ; intervals visibly punctate, the punctures slightly smaller than those of the striae. Surface below shining and feebly pubescent, punctuation of abdomen coarse and rather dense at sides, finer and more sparsely placed at middle. Abdominal lines feebly carinate and rather short. Length 4 mm. Brownsville, Texas (Point Isabel, August 5). There is also a specimen before me, collected by the late Ottamar Dietz in Brownsville, which is slightly larger, the thorax has at ■middle of apical margin, a carina-Iike elevation and the apical margin is not straight but oblique from the angles to the middle. The disk is rather flat and the sides are more suddenly deflexed than in the above described species, which causes this point to appear obtusely carinate. The presternum differs also in being transversely deeply impressed and the front tibiae are more dilated at apex with the inner margin arcuate. I take this specimen to be the male of the species •described above, as Reitter described similar modification of the thorax of the male of his H. mexicanus; the male of H. groiivellei, Gorh., has no elevated carina at the middle of the anterior margin, but has this margin projecting hood-like over the base of the head. Of the described Mexican species H. parallchis, Gorh. seems to be very near H. texanns, but in the latter the punctures of the elytral intervals are very distinctly visible, which in parallelus are said to be so fine as not to be easily seen. The figure of the female of H. grouvellei Gorh. from St. Vincent, Grenada, closely resembles the above described texanus, btit that species has the elytral intervals not punctate and the male has the thorax differently formed. Seventeen or eighteen species of this aberrant genus are known which look more like Cryptophagids than Languriids. The genus was first placed with the Rhisophagincu, transferred later to the Cryptophagidcr, but on account of the tarsal structure placed by Grou- velle and Gorham with the Langiiriince. Family Mycetophagid^. 2. MycetopTiagns arizonicus, new species. 0\-al, piceous, each elytron maculate with about ten yellow spots of which one is below tlie humerus, one below scutellum, three in a transverse row 212 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviij. about middle, three below these in an arcuate row and a transverse spot of irregular outline near apex. Head coarsely punctate. Antennae rufo-testaceous last three joints piceous and wider than the preceding joints. Prothorax about twice as wid s long ; base wider than apex ; sides feebly arcuate and not sermte ; hind angles feebly rounded ; basal impressions deep, circular ; surface coarsely and densely punctate. Elytra oval ; surface confusedly punctate ; striae- feebly punctate and scarcely visible. Body beneath and legs rufo-testaceous, coarsely punctate ; presternum at middle less closely punctate and more shining. Length 4 mm. Huachuca Mts., Arizona. As usual the maculation is variable and one or more spots may be absent, even in the same specimen one side of the elytra may have one or two spots less than the other. The elytral striae are more faintly punctate than in calif orniciis Horn and in some specimens scarcely traceable. It differs from that species, besides the elytral maculation, in having a more densely and coarsely punctate prothorax and three-jointed antennal club. In confiisus Horn, which I do not know, the elytra are said to be also very feebly striate, but the antennal club is four-jointed and the elytra maculate as in flcxuosus Say. 3. Litargus grandis, new species. Elongate oval, rather depressed ; color piceous, legs pale ; three undulate- transverse rows of pale spots on elytra yellowish, which are situated near base, at basal third and slightly below middle and also some more indistinct spots on prothorax. Head moderately coarsely and densely punctate ; antennae elongate with a narrow, loose, three-jointed club. Prothorax rather more than, twice as wide as long; sides arcuately narrowing to apex; basal angles feebly rounded ; basal impressions distinct, linear, surface moderately coarsely, not densely punctate ; pubescence black or piceous and yellow, the latter color con- densed into more or less distinct small spots. Elytra elongate oval ; sides feebly narrowing to apex ; apex broadly rounded ; surface confusedly punctate and moderately densely pubescent, pubescence piceous and yellow, the latter forming more or less distinct transverse rows of small spots. Underside ferruginous, moderately densely punctate. The anterior tarsi of the male are slightly dilated and three-jointed, in the female more slender and four- jointed. Length 4.5 mm. Huachuca Mts., Arizona. The yellow spots on the prothorax are not as distinct as those on- the elytra, which latter, however, may also be almost absent as in one of the specimens before me. The large size, depressed form,, the elytra without series of semi-erect hairs and the rather elongate- Dec, igio.] SCHEAFFER : NeW ClAVICORN CoLEOPTERA. 213 last three antennal joints, which are not as closely placed together as in our other species, separates this species from all the known North as well as Central American species. Judging from the de- scription the Mexican Catapius irregularis Sharp seems to resemble the above described insect but the form of prosternum and tioial spurs which are the same as in our species of Litargus separate the two. Family Monotomid^. 4. Hesperobsenus alternatus, new species. Color brown or piceous ; antennte, elytra and legs rufo-testaceous. Head alutaceous, coarsely and somewhat densely punctate, sparsely clothed with dirty gray hairs. Prothorax longer than wide ; sides crenulate and feebly arcuate ; base slightly narrower than apex ; apical angles rounded not promi- nent ; surface dull and corsely punctate, punctures well separated on the disk but more dense at sides and absent in a longitudinal, narrow, median space. Elytra feebly depressed ; sides slightly arcuate ; surface striate ; striae with moderately coarse punctures ; third and fifth intervals with a row of punc- tures from base to almost middle, the punctures are of equal size to those of the strise. Body beneath coarsely but not densely punctured. Length 3 mm. Huachuca Mts., Arizona. This species resembles very much in form H. ahhrcviatus Mots., but differs in having the anterior angles not prominent, the elytral striae much more coarsely punctate and the third and fifth elytral in- tervals punctate. It seems to be very near the Mexican H. sub- testacens Reit., and it is possible that this may prove to be the same. Family Cucujid^. 5. Laemophloeus impressifrons, new species. Pale-castaneous, elytra blackish with a somewhat oblique, pale spot, very slightly behind middle, upper surface sparsely pubescent. Head subtriangular ; eyes prominent, in advance of the apical margin of prothorax ; labrum and epistoma feebly emarginate ; surface sparsely and finely punctate, longitudinally rather deeply impressed, epistomal suture indistinct ; antennae reaching slightly below middle of elytra, third joint slightly longer than second, fourth to eighth short, but feebly increasing in width, ninth to eleventh suddenly larger, forming a distinct club. Prothorax as wide as the head, very feebly narrow- ing to base ; sides nearly straight ; apical angles subacute ; basal angles acute ; sides near basal angles feebly reflexed ; surface moderately densely punctate ; lateral grooves distinct. Scutellum triangular. Elytra slightly wider than the thorax at base ; sides feebly arcuate ; apices arcuate-truncate ; disc tristriate ; intervals finely, confusedly, but not densely punctate ; lateral carina obsolete- Underside except head, finely and sparsely punctate. Length, 2.75 mm. 214 Journal New York Entomological Societv. [Voi.xvin. Arizona. . The single specimen described is narrower than the females of biguttatiis and fasciatus, has a different form of prothorax, the front of head broadly depressed at middle and the pale spot on each elytron is slightly postmedian. 6. Laemophloeus flavosignatus, new species. Slightly depressed, black, shining, underside, legs and antennae piceous ; •elytra with a yellow, irregularly rounded spot at middle. Head subtriangular ; eye§ moderate, not touching the apical margin of thorax ; epistoma truncate, separated from the front by a deeply impressed and feebly arcuate line ; labrum truncate in front ; surface moderately coarsely, but not densely punc- tate, except at middle, where a narrow, longitudinal space is free from punc- tures ; antennje short, third joint longer than second ; fourth to tenth sub- equal ; eleventh, as usual, slightly more elongate. Prothorax as wide as the head ; sides moderately arcuate in front, narrower behind and feebly undulate before the hind angles ; the latter acute and slightly in advance of the basal margin ; surface moderately coarsely but not densely punctate, lateral strise distinct but not very deeply impressed. Scutellum triangular ; sparsely punc- tate. Elytra slightly wider than the prothorax in its widest part ; sides feebly arcuate ; apices conjointly, broadly rounded ; surface with sutural and two discal stripe on each side ; intervals irregularly biseriately punctate ; lateral carina rather strong. Abdomen sparsely punctate. Length, 2.75 mm. Arizona. Differs from our similarly marked North American species by the truncate labrum and epistoma slightly more convex, the more grace- ful form and the last three joints of antennas not enlarged in the single specimen, which I take to be a female. The pale spot on each elytron is situated at middle and not before or behind middle as in our other species. 7. Laemophloeus macrocephalus, new species. Form depressed, elongate, shining, surface glabrous, color reddish testa- ceous, elytra paler. Head large, sparsely and rather finely punctate ; epistoma broadly emarginate, epistomal suture deeply impressed ; labrum truncate ; eyes moderately prominent, situated at middle between the antennal insertion and the apex of thorax ; antennje long, reaching nearly to the apex of elytra, joints elongated, third slightly longer than second, sixth to tenth nearly equal in size but slightly longer and feebly wider than the two preceding joints. Pro- therax quadrate, as ^ide at apex as the head ; sides obliquely narrowing to the basal angles ; the latter acute ; surface finely and rather sparsely punctate ; lateral stria distinct. Scutellum triangular, smooth. Elytra slightly wider than the thorax at base ; humeri rounded ; sides feebly arcuate ; apices broadly Dec.,i9ioJ SCHEAFFER : NeW ClAVICORN CoLEOPTERA. 215 rounded : strire feebly impressed and scarcely punctate : intervals extremely finely punctate ; underside smooth, scarcely punctate. Length, 2 mm. Huachuca Mts., Arizona. The specimen described is a male and differs from those in our fauna, having the third joint of antennae shorter than the second, the labrum entire and the form depressed, by the large head, the thorax narrower towards base and the size of the antennal joints. It re- sembles somewhat the figure of L. ccphalicits* from which, however, it differs in having different antennal joints, position of the eyes and apparently more elongate form. The figure of L. lucanoiucs Smith,f resembles the above described insect still more closely, but besides different color of head and prothorax, that species has a shorter prothorax, with the sides slightly sinuate behind, which are in macroccphalus almost straight from about apical fourth to the basal angles. 8. Laemophloeus dimidiatus, new species. Form convex, color reddish testaceous, legs and base of elytra slightly paler; apical half of elytra, and abdomen piceous or fuscous, outer joints of antenna; fuscous. Head rather coarsely punctate, punctures well separated ; finely, longitudinally impressed at middle ; eyes moderately prominent ; epis- toma trisinuate, epistomal suture deeply impressed ; labrum broadly arcuate at apex ; antennae scarcely reaching the apex of elytra in the male, shorter in the female, third joint longer than second, joints three to eleven equal and elongate in the male, last three joints in the female slightly longer and wider than the preceding joints. Prothorax at apex as wide as the head across the eyes ; sides arcuately narrowing to base, basal angles rectangular, acute ; disk rather coarsely but not densely punctate ; lateral stria well impressed. Scu- tellum transverse, scarcely punctured. Elytra wider than the prothorax at base ; sides feebly arcuate ; apices rounded ; disk with seven, somewhat coarsely punctate stria;, intervals with a single row of punctures ; sutural intervals rather confusedly punctate ; alternate intervals wider than the others. Under- side rather coarsely punctate ; abdomen more finely and sparsely punctate. Length, 2.75 mm. Huachuca Mts., Arizona. This species is best placed near L. adustus Lee, from which it dift'ers in being more elongate, sides of prothorax less arcuate and slightly narrower, more elongate antennal joints and disk of elytra with more striae. The series which I have taken at the above-mentioned locality * Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. XL pi- 7, fig. -• t Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 6th ser.. Vol. L pl- 4! fig- 7- 216 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. shows very little variation in color. The apical half of elytra is always darker than the basal half, in some specimens, however, the dark color becomes gradually paler towards apex. While in some specimens all the striae are equally and distinctly impressed and geminate, in others the alternate striae are more faint than the rest and the intervals are nearly equal. These latter must resemble the Central American sfriatus and insolittis which were described each from a single specimen. 9. Lagmophloeus denticornis Casey, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. XI, p. 94. I am unable to find any difference between a specimen of this species from Texas in my collection and the description and figure of the Central American L. addcndns Sharp.* THE NORTH AMERICAN FORMS OF CAMPONOTUS FALLAX NYLANDER.t I By William Morton Wheeler. Boston, Mass. Among the ants common to Eurasia and North America, Caiiipo- notus fallax Nyl. is as noteworthy for its ability to form local races and varieties as it is for the monotony of its habits. Unlike the much larger C. hcrcideanus L., which exhibits a similar though less pronounced variability, it shows little or no tendency to invade alpine or boreal regions, but seems to have a decided preference for the warmer or subtropical portions of the north temperate zone. In the Old World it is not uncommon in Japan, northern India, central and southern Europe; in America it occurs throughout the United States, but is most abundant on the Gulf coast. I have seen no specimens from the colder portions of British America or from higher eleva- tions in the Rocky Mountains. For many years C. fallax has been passing in the literature as C. marginafus Latreille, but Emery has recently shown that the species should bear the name originally given by Nylander to speci- * Biol. Cent. Am. Col., Vol. II, pt. i, p. 529, pl- XVI, fig. 24. t Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Insti- tution, Harvard University, No. 31. Dec, igio] Wheeler: North American Camponotus, 217 mens taken at Montpellier, in southern France, whereas the true marginatns of Latreille is a variety of crthiops Fabr. and belongs to the group of maciilatits Fabr. The typical fallax has since been re- peatedly described from France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, southern Russia and various localities along the Mediterranean littoral. No less than six different forms of the species have been recorded from Asia. Three of these (var. qnadrinotatus Forel, subsp. ritiosiis F. Smith and subsp. bniiiiii Forel) occur in Japan, a variety himalayaniis Forel is recorded from an altitude of 2,160 m. in the Himalayas, another, lamecrei Emery, from Tashkent, in Turke- stan, and an undescribed variety is mentioned by Ern. Andre as occurring in the Amur region of Siberia. A small form, var. ruzskyi, closely resembling the North American var. miniitiis, has been de- scribed by Emery from Sarepta, in southern Russia, Ruzsky has described a var. kamcnsis from eastern Russia and a var. hyalini- pennis Costa is known to occur in Sardinia. Although attention was called to the great variability of the species in North America by Forel as early as 1879 and by Mayr in 1886, Emery was the first to attempt a revision of our forms. In 1893 he enumerated and de- scribed two subspecies and six varieties from the United States. Among the many American specimens of C. fallax which have been accumulating in my collection during the past decade, I have been able to recognize all but two of these forms and have also found four others which are described below. The following is a description of the typical European fallax: Worker major. — Length 7-9 mm. Head nearly as broad as long, subrectangular, a little broader behind than in front, with broadly and feebly excised posterior margin, convex dorsal and concave gular surface. Mandibles convex, 4-5-toothed. Clypeus with lateral borders slightly diverging anteriorly, somewhat convex but scarcely carinate in the middle ; anterior border distinctly notched in the middle, slightly produced on each side as a blunt point. There is a deep dimple in the head near the middle of each lateral clypeal border. Frontal carins lyrate ; frontal area and groove distinct. Eyes rather large, flattened. Antennal scapes slender at the base, gradually enlarged distally, reaching a little beyond the posterior corners of the head. Thorax narrower than the head, broader in front, laterally compressed behind, in profile evenly arched above ; epinotum rounded above, declivity concave below. Petiole nearly as broad as the posterior end of the epinotum, but not as high, its anterior surface convex, its posterior surface flat, margin sharp and, seen from behind, rounded and entire or very faintly 218 Journal New Y(-rk Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii. sinuate in the middle above. Gaster elongate elliptical. Legs rather long, with stout femora. Surface shining, finely and densely shagreened, more coarsely on the head and most superficially on the gaster, so that the head, especially in front, is subopaque. In addition to this sculpture the upper surface of the head is covered with small foveolae, or coarse punctures, which are most abundant on the cheeks. Mandibles densely striatopunctate. Upper surface of pro- and mesonotum covered with small, indistinct punctures. Hairs and pubescence pale, very sparse, the former long and erect, the latter visible only on the cheeks, mandibles, antennae and gaster. Legs, except for a few hairs at the tips of the femora, naked. Head, thorax and gaster black or piceous ; mandibles, antennte, borders of the thoracic sclerites and sometimes the whole thorax darker or paler chestnut brown. Legs brown or yellowish, sometimes variegated with fuscous. Thin posterior borders of gastric segments yellow. Worker minor. — Length 4-6 mm. Differing from the worker major in the smaller head, relatively longer antennae and blunter petiolar border. The head is more shining and the foveolae on the cheeks are indistinct. The clypeus is more convex and carinate or subcarinate in the middle. Female. — Length 9.5-10.5 mm. Resembling the worker major. Head broader than the thorax. Body black ; mandibles, antennte and legs reddish brown ; wings rather strongly suffused with yellowish-brown ; veins and stigma pale yellowish-brown. Male. — Length 6.5-7.5 nim. Head about as broad as long, with straight, subparallel cheeks and broader, rounded postocular region. Anterior border of clypeus nearly straight, with- out a median notch. Mandibles without large punctures. Body black, shining ; antennal funiculi, mandibles, articulations of the thorax and legs reddish or brownish. Pubescence very dilute and inconspicuous ; hairs long, sparse, almost absent on the head and thorax, most abundant on the gaster. Wings like those of the female. C. fallax is readily distinguished from our other species of Camponotus by its smaller size and the distinct notch in the anterior border of the clypeus in the worker and female phases. In the south- western states there are several other species {sayi Emery, hyatti Emery, tc.vanus Wheeler and schacffcri Wheeler) which are very closely related to fallax, but differ in size or coloration or in the structure of the thorax. Emery also enumerates as belonging to the fallax group, C. teplcanus Pergande and nitidus Norton of Mexico; the Mediterranean species sichcli Mayr, lateralis Oliv., gcstroi Emery, univcrsitatis Forel and intcrjectus Mayr of Turkestan. The habits of the European fallax are described by Forel in his "Fourmis de la Suisse " as follows : Dec, igio.] AVheeler : North American Camponotus. 219 " C. marginatus [fallax Nyl.] lives in small formicaries and is very timid. Roger, too, says that it is very timid and adds that it is found throughout Germany on old oaks. I have seen only four nests. The first was found near Zurich at the end of a dead oak branch about 10.5 m. above the ground. The tree had been recently felled so that I was able to study the nest at my leisure. The dead branch was scarcely 5-6 cm. in diameter and the dead wood had acquired a somewhat corky consistency. There was no hole at the broken end, but there were two oval openings on the side near the end of the branch. Two galleries, starting from these holes, united with each other at a depth of 4 cm., whence a sinuous central gallery ran back through the axis of the branch to a depth of about a decimeter and terminated in three ampulla; in the form of chambers, whose inner surface was not more than two square centimeters. During its course this gallery sent ofT scarcely more than three or four short lateral galleries, each of which also ended in a chamber. The chambers and galleries were somewhat flattened in the same plane, that is to say, their transverse section was generally elliptical. This was the entire nest of these ants, a nest containing about 150 workers and their larv?e. A second nest of the same size and very similar con- struction was found at Vaud wholly in the corky layer of the bark of a huge walnut, near the roots. A third nest was also found near Vaud in an old post. I believe that it had been established by the workers, which were still bringing to it their larvse and companions. They were descending an old pear tree which had evidently been their former residence. I did not open this nest. The fourth and largest nest of marginatus which I was able to examine was in the garden of the insane asylum at Vienna in one of the larger dead branches of a Pauloziniia. This branch was two decimeters in diameter. The ants had three exits, first, a main opening which was made on the cut side of a secondary branch (dead also, of course), second a smaller opening in an abrasion in the bark of the main branch, distant about a meter from the first, and a third, very small opening corresponding to the central or pith cavity of a small, broken twig, which came ofT directly from the main branch between the two other orifices. As the tree was felled soon after I had discovered this nest, I broke up the branch and was able to examine both the nest and the colony. The latter, consisting of workers, females, males 220 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vci.xviii. and larvse, may have comprised about a thousand individuals. The nest was composed first of the central, cylindrical cavity of the main branch, corresponding to the pith cavity, and second, of concentric stories corresponding to the layers of the wood. Each of these stories was very low but very extensive and formed a single great labyrinthine hall rather than a number of separate chambers. The stories communicated with one another and with the central cavity and outer openings only by means of narrow passages. Strange to relate, the nest was concentrated in the median layers of wood, the outer layers being perforated only by the galleries of exit, the principal one of which opened, moreover, through the central cavity on the cut surface of the secondary branch. All the wood which served the ants for protection was very hard." Several European authors mention the occurrence of C. faUax also in hard, woody oak galls. In 1879 Forel broached the question as to whether the American forms of fallax have the same habits as the European type of the species. From many personal observations, especially on the forms ncarcticns, minutus, pardus, rasilis and discolor, and from notes of correspondents on other forms, I am able to answer Forel's question in the affirmative. Our forms are all very timid ants, living in small •communities in galleries and chambers which they excavate in dead wood and according to the same pattern as those described by the Swiss myrmecologist. Usually the wood of standing trees is pre- ferred by the ants, probably because this is in the immediate vicinity of their food supply, which consists very largely of the excreta of aphids and coccids on the leaves and bark. The oak is a favorite tree in America just as it is in Europe, probably because in addition to nourishing a large number of Kcrmes and other phytoph- thorous Homoptera, its leaves and galls give off a sweet secretion in very small droplets that can be lapped up by the ants. The cavities of the hard galls of Holcaspis, which cling long to the oak twigs, are favorite nesting places, especially for incipient colonies of the forms discolor and rasilis which abound on the live oaks (Oiicrcits vir- giniana) of Texas and the other Gulf States. In the northern states nearcticiis is also fond of oaks and chestnuts, but in the warm pine barrens of southern New Jersey, it is quite common in dead branches of the pitch pine (Piiiits rigida) or in its old cones that have fallen Dec, 1910.] Wheelkr : North American Camponotus. 221 to the ground. Even the stalks of the common elder (Sanibiiciis canadensis) are sometimes tenanted, but the more woody bushes and trees are preferred. Near the roots of oaks I have found colonies of rasilis under stones, but these colonies may have been occupying merely temporary nests. When kept in artificial nests, our forms of fallax are as stupid and monotonous in their behavior as the European form observed by Forel. The ants huddle together in one of the chambers and show little inclination to move about, even when the weather is warm. Besides feeding and caring for their young, they show little interest in their environment or in one another. The North American forms of fallax may be arranged in two series, one of which has the cephalic sculpture and pilosity of the European type, i. c, with the head and especially the cheeks of the workers and females covered with small, rather shallow foveolse which bear very minute, inconspicuous and appressed hairs, whereas the other comprises forms in which the cheeks and clypeus have deeper and more elongate, comma-shaped foveolse, each bearing an erect hair, or bristle, so that the anterior portion of the head is rough and hirsute. Each of these series presents a number of color variations grading from black forms to those in which the body, with the exception of the whole or a portion of the gaster, is yellow or red, and these color gradations seem to run parallel with each other in such a manner that a subspecies or variety with a particular type of coloration and with piligerous foveolae corresponds with a form of similar coloration but without piligerous foveolse. This is shown in the following table which begins with the darkest and ends with the palest forms : With piligerous Without piligerous foveolse : foveolae : cnemidatns nearcticus paucipilis minutus clarithorax tanqnaryi pardus decipiens siibbarbatus rasilis discolor pavidus This table also roughlv indicates the distribution of the various 222 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. forms. C. ncarcticus is the most abundant and with minutus usually the only form to be found in the northern states and southern British America. Though recorded from Florida it is certainly rare and sporadic in that state. The pale rasilis. pazndits and discolor are, on the other hand, the prevailing and most abundant forms in the Gulf States. In the intermediate region, notably in the Mississippi Valley and central Atlantic states, we find dccipiens, sitbbarbatus, tanqiiaryi and pardus, which have an intermediate coloration. Since the various subspecies and varieties of fallax are based on the stature, sculpture, pilosity and coloration of the major worker and female, it is often difficult to identify single minor workers; and male specimens, unaccompanied by workers or females, cannot, with cer- tainty, be referred to their respective subspecies and varieties. As an aid in identifying the major workers of the North American forms that have been recognized up to the present time I subjoin the fol- lowing table : 1. Cheeks and clypeus with elongate, piligerous foveolse 8 Cheeks and clypeus without such foveolje 2 2. Body black, thorax at most only partially red, average length 6.5 mm. var. ncarcticus Emery. Of a different color 3 3. Both head and thorax reddish-brown or yellowish-red 6 The head largely dark brown or black 4 4. Average length 5.5 mm 5 Average length 7 mm var. tanqiiaryi var. nov. 5. Thorax dark red, head and gaster black var. minutus Emery. Thorax ivory yellow, spotted with brown, base of gaster often banded with yellow var. pardus var. nov. 6. Average length 6-6.5 mm 7 Average length 8 mm -. subsp. rasilis subsp. nov. 7. Gaster yellow at the base var. paz'iclus var. nov. Gaster black throughout var. dccipiens Emery. 8. Piligerous foveolse few on the cheeks, usually absent on the clypeus 9 Both cheeks and clypeus with numerous piligerous foveolse 10 9. Yellowish-brown, gaster paler, with brown bands, .subsp. siibbarbatiis Emery. Brownish-black var. paiicipilis Emery. 10. Head blackish-brown 11 Head and thorax yellowish-red subsp. discolor Emery. 11. Thorax blackish var. cnemidatus Emery. Thorax red var. claritliorax Emery. I. Camponotus fallax fallax Nyl. var. nearcticus Emery. C. marginatus Latr. var. nearcticus Emery, Zool Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst. VH, Dec, 1910.] Wheeler : North American Camponotus. 223 1893, p. 675 5?; Wheeler, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXI, 1905, p. 403; Occas. Papers Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. 7, 1906, p. 24. Worker major. — Length 5.5-7.5 mm. Very similar to the specific type from Western Europe but averaging smaller. Body shining ; finely shagreened, more coarsely on the head and thorax, which therefore appear a little more opaque than the gaster. Clypeus subopaque, sometimes subcarinate in the middle. Front and sides of head with small and rather shallow, scattered foveolse. Thorax evenly arched above, moderately broad in front, laterally compressed behind ; pronotum flattened above, with a faint median impression ; epinotum with feebly convex base and concave declivity, passing over into each other through a rounded angle. Petiole slightly narrower than the posterior end of the epinotum, compressed anteroposteriorly, with feebly convex anterior and posterior sur- faces and rather sharp, entire upper and lateral border. Pubescence scattered, indistinct except on the gaster. Hairs long, very sparse. Cheeks and clypeus without erect hairs. Scapes and legs naked. Black ; cheeks, mandibles, legs, antennse, petiole, articulations of the thorax and petiole and sometimes also the pronotum deep reddish-brown. In some specimens the clypeus is also more or less reddish, the scapes, middle portions of the femora and tibise more or less blackish. Worker minor. — Length 4-5.5 mm. Differing from the worker major in the shape and smaller size of the head, the more pronounced clypeal carina, proportionally longer antennae, less arcuate thorax and the absence or very feeble development of the foveolas on the anterior portion of the head. Female. — Length 8-9 mm. Like the soldier except in the structure of the thorax. Wings tinged with yellowish or brown ; veins and stigma yellowish. Male. — Length 5.5-7 mm. Clypeus carinate, with straight, entire anterior border ; cheeks straight, subparallel, about as long as the eyes ; head behind the eyes broad and rounded. Body shining; anterior portion of the head without foveolae. Erect hairs sparse, absent except on the clypeus and gaster. Color black, appendages sometimes more or less reddish, with pale articulations. Wings like those of the female. Emery mentions this form as occurring in New York, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Florida and California. I have examined a large number of specimens from the following localities : New York: W^est Farms (J- Angus); Niagara Falls; Brooklyn, in maple tree; Staten Island (W. T. Davis); Ithaca and Albany (N. Y. State Coll.). New Jersey: Lakehurst, in branches and dead cones of Pinus rigida (Wheeler) ; Clementon (J. C. Bradley) ; Cumbridge County and Boonton (H. Viereck). 224 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviii Pennsylvania: St. Vincent (Jerome Schmitt) ; Harrisburg, Tini- cum Island and Camhill (H. Viereck). Connecticut: Colebrook (Wheeler). Massachusetts: Chestnut Hill, Boston (Wheeler); Nahant (Moring) ; Cambridge (J. G. Jack) ; Essex County and Springfield (G. B. King); Warwick (Miss Edmonds). Rhode Island: Providence (Davis). Illinois: Rockford (Wheeler); Urbana (J. L. Pricer). Wisconsin: White Fish Bay (C. E. Brown). Nebraska: Crete (Wheeler). Washington: Olympia (F. Kincaid). Idaho: Market Lake (J. M. Aldrich). Oregon: Corvallis (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). California: Shasta County. Texas: Toronto, Brewster County (Wheeler). Florida: Atlantic Beach (Mrs. A. T. Slosson). British America: Toronto, Canada (R. J. Crew). Examination of workers of the typical fallax from Austria, Bul- garia, France and the Crimea convinces me that Emery was right in regarding this variety as distinguishable from the European type only in the smaller average stature of the workers and female. The maximum size of the worker major of the typical fallax is given by Mayr and Forel as 9 mm. ; the female is said by Emery to average 10 mm. 2. C. fallax fallax var. minutus Emery. ? Formica americana Buckley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., VI. 1866, p. 154, 5 5- Camponotus marginatus var. minutus Emery, Zool, Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VII, 1893, P- 676, $$; Wheeler, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, p. 403; Occas. Papers Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., VII, 7, 1906, p. 24. Worker major. — Length 5.5-6 mm. Differing from nearcticus in its smaller size and in having the thorax and petiole red or yellowish, sometimes darker behind. The legs and antennae, too, are paler, the mandibles, sides and lower surface of the head red or brown. Petiole convex in front, flattened behind. Worker minor. — Length 3.5-5 mm. Very similar to the worker major in color and sculpture. Petiole with blunter margin. Female. — Length 6.5-7.5 mm- Like the worker major; thorax red, with the scutellum and a large antero- median blotch and two elongate parapsidal blotches on the mesonotum black. Pronotum clouded with fuscous or black. In some specimens the dark mark- Dec.igio.] WhEELER : NORTH AMERICAN CaMPONOTUS. 225 ings on the upper surface of the thorax are more or less confluent. First and second gastric segments each often with a broad, red or yellowish, transverse band above. Antennae red, funiculi infuscated towards their tips. Legs red or yellowish. Male. — Length 6-6.5 mm. Indistinguishable from the male of nearcticus except, perhaps, by its slightly smaller average stature. The types of this variety came from the District of Columbia, Maryland, Missouri and New Jersey. I have examined specimens from the following localities : New Jersey: Great Notch and Cumbridge County (H. Viereck) ; Ramapo Mts. and Lakehurst (Wheeler and W. T. Davis). New York: Jamaica, L. I. (N. Y. State Coll.). Pennsylvania: St. Vincent (Jerome Schmitt). Massachusetts: (Geo. B. King). Illinois: Rockford (Wheeler). British America: Canada (J. G. Jack); Vancouver (Mus. Comp. Zool.). This variety, which is merely a paler and depauperate form of nearcticus, is extremely variable in color. A number of worker specimens in my collection from Bronxville, N. Y., have two dark spots on the pronotum and have the epinotum more or less infuscated above. They form a transition to the next variety. A series of forms taken by the Rev. Jerome Schmitt at St. Vincent, Pa., and com- prising all four phases, have the larger stature of nearcticus with the coloration of minutus. Some of the females of this series have the thorax entirely black above, others have the characteristic macula- tion of miuiitits. The workers, too, are highly variable in color. 3. C. fallax fallax var. pardus, new variety. C. )nargiiiatiis subbarbatiis Wheeler, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, p. 403. This form has the small dimensions of minutus but the thorax, legs and antennae of the worker major and minor are ivory yellow, the thoracic dorsum with dark brown spots, the legs and antennae variegated with brown. The head has the anterior portion brownish, the cheeks, clypeus and mandibles ivory yellow. In some major workers the yellow runs back some distance in clouds between the eyes and the frontal carinae. In many specimens the middle portions of the first and second gastric segments are more or less yellowish. The female measures 8 mm. and has the thorax, petiole and legs clay yellow; the thorax has the black markings of the minutus female, with 226 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xvin.. two yellow spots on the scutellum. The tarsi and ends of the tibiae and femora are brown. The anterior portion of the head is red or yellow, the antennae dark red. The male is indistinguishable from that of niiuiitiis. Described from numerous specimens of all four phases from the following localities: New York: Bronxville, Mosholu and White Plains, nesting in hollow stems of elder and dead oak branches (Wheeler) ; West Farms (J. Angus) ; Jamaica, L. I. (G. von Krockow). New Jersey: Lakehurst (Wheeler) ; Riverton (E. Daecke) ; West- ville (Jerome Schmitt). The coloration of this variety is highly variable even in the same colony. Some of the major workers have the gaster entirely black, while others have the two basal segments largely yellow. The maculation of the thorax is also rather inconsistant. Workers froirt one colony taken at Lakehurst, N. J., have the spots very indistinct and the head brown or yellowish like the thorax, so that they seem to form a transition to the var. dccipicns. The specimens from New York and New Jersey referred to sitbbarbatiis in my " Annotated List of the Ants of New Jersey," p. 403, belong to the variety here described. 4. C. fallax fallax var. tanquaryi, new variety. Worker major. — Length 7-7.5 mm. Head and clypeus black ; cheeks, antennae and mandibles, except the teeth, deep red ; apical" half of antennal funiculi infuscated. Thorax varying from rich yellowish red to dark brown, legs paler. Gaster black, basal half of first segment and a narrow band across the base of the second segment yellow. Body shining ; foveolae on the cheeks and sides of the head numerous and distinct. Worker minor. — Length 4.5-6 mm. Differs from the major worker in having the mesothorax and epinotum' black or infuscated. Petiole dark red or brown ; yellow bands on gaster more restricted and less conspicuous or almost absent. Female. — Length 7.5-8.5 mm. Differing from the major worker in having the epinotum and upper sur- face of the thorax dark brown or black, the pleurre more or less spotted with brown or brown throughout, the legs dark brown and the band on the second gastric segment faint or lacking. In some specimens the first segment is. entirely black. Wings colorless, with yellowish veins and stigma. Male. — Length 5-5.5 mm. Differing from the males of the preceding varieties only in having the legs somewhat more reddish, except the middle portions of the femora and iDec, 1910.] Wheeler : North American Camponotus. 227 tibia-, which are black. Wings colorless, with dilute yellow veins and stigma. The head, thorax and petiole have a few long, erect hairs and those on the gaster are rather abundant. Described from a number of specimens of all four phases belong- ing to a single colony captured by Mr. Maurice Tanquary in an old stump near Urbana, 111. In coloration, though not in size, this vari- able form seems to represent a transition between uii)iittiis and ■dccipiciis. 5. C. fallax fallax var. decipiens Emery. C. niarginatus var. dccipiciis Emery (in part), Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VJI, 1893, P- 6-6, $$. Worker major. — Length 5.5-7 mm. Head, thorax, petiole and appendages brownish-red ; gaster black, with pale yellow margins to the segments. In some specimens the middle of the head and anterior border of the cheeks are dark brown. Sculpture and pilosity as in the preceding varieties. Worker minor. — Length 4.5-5 mm. Resembling the worker major in color but the posterior portion of the head is often deep red or brown and the petiole is more or less infuscated. Female. — Length 8-9 mm. Resembling the worker major. Scutellum, a large anteromedian and two ■elongate parapsidal blotches on the mesonotum, black or dark brown. Head sometimes infuscated in the middle behind. Wings yellowish, with yellow -veins and stigma. Male. — Length 6 mm. Indistinguishable from the male of nearcticits. I have seen specimens of this variety from the following localities : Indiana: Cotype worker minor (Emery). Kansas: Douglas, in bee-hive with bee-moths (E. S. Tucker and Miss Clara Klaumann). Colorado: Colorado Springs, running on trunk of cotton-wood .(Wheeler). Utah: Mill Creek (R. V. Chamberlin). Emery also includes Texas among the localities, but the specimens which he cites from this state really belong to a distinct and larger though very similar form, which is described below as subsp. rasilis. The type locality of dccipiciis is therefore Indiana. The specimens from Mill Creek, Utah form a transition to rasilis, because the females and workers are decidedly larger than those of the typical dccipiciis. 6. C. fallax rasilis, new subspecies. C. margiiiatiis var. decipiens Emery (in part), Zool. Jahrb. x\bth. f. Syst., VII, 1893. P- 676, $$. 228 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. Worker major. — Length 7.5-9 mm. Resemliling the var. decipiens in color but decidedly larger. Head, thorax, petiole, antennje and legs rich yellowish red ; gaster black, extreme base of first segment and sometimes the venter deep red ; mandibles sometimes red, teeth black, anterior margins of cheeks and clypeus somewhat infuscated. Antennal funiculi red throughout. Worker minor. — Length 4-6 mm. Colored like the worker major but the lighter portions are often more yellowish. Female. — Length 9.5-10.5 mm. Colored like the worker major ; margin of the scutellum and sometimes also the metanotum blackish. Wings yellowish, with yellow veins and stigma, Male.- — Length 6.5-7 vara. Closely resembling the males of the preceding varieties ; gastric segments narrowly yellowish at the base ; antennal funiculi brown ; articulations of the legs yellowish : wings as in the female. My series of specimens represents the following localities : Texas: Austin, New Braunfels, Marble-Falls, and Granite Mt. in woody galls of Holcaspis cinerosa on Qucrciis virginiana; also in logs and branches of the same tree (Wheeler) ; Barksdale (Brown) ; Victoria, in twigs of willow (W. D. Hunter and J- D- Mitchell) ; Langtry (Wheeler); Kerrville (F. C, Pratt), Llano (J. C. Craw- ford), Tyler (R. C. Howell), Calvert (C. R. Jones). Arizona: Tucson ■ (Wheeler). Louisiana: Keatchie (W. Newell). Florida: Miami (Wheeler); Sanford (Jerome Schmitt). I regard this form as a distinct subspecies on account of its large size and the constancy of its coloration. This constancy is the more noteworthy because it is one of the most abundant ants in portions of the Southern States. 7. C. fallax rasilis var. pavidus, new variety. Worker major. — Length 6-7 mm. Coloration of head, thorax, petiole and appendages as in rasilis but the base of the gaster clay yellow. In most specimens the first and second seg- ments are of this color throughout but in others only the base of the first seg- ment is yellow and the remainder of the gaster is black. Antennal funiculi scarcely infuscated towards their tips. Worker minor. — Length 4-5 mm. Colored like the major worker and exhibiting the same variations. Female. — Length 8.5 mm. Colored like the major worker; thorax yellowish-red throughout, only the border of the scutellum being somewhat infuscated. In one specimen the Dec, igio.] Wheeler: North Aisierican Camponotus. 229 posterior border of the second gastric segment is black ; in another only the base of the second segment is yellow. Wings very faintly tinged with yellow, with dilute yellow veins and stigma. Described from specimens taken in the following localities : Texas: Victoria, in twig galls on burr oak (J. D. Mitchell) ; Dallas (Schwarz, Pratt and Hunter) ; Calvert (C. R. Jones) ; Liberty (E. S. Tucker) ; Austin, running on the bark of Salix nigra (Wheeler). Louisiana: Logansport, on Cratccgus (E. S. Tucker). Florida: Jacksonville and Atlantic Beach (Mrs. A. T. Slosson). While this variety is easily distinguished from rasilis by its smaller size and in having the base of the gaster yellow in the female and workers, there is nevertheless considerable variation in the latter character. The ergatotypes from Victoria, Texas, and the gynetype from Calvert, Texas, have the two first gastric segments entirely yellow. A series of workers from Austin has only the base of the first segment yellow. The specimen from Atlantic Beach, Fla., a female, is much larger than the type and measures 9.5 mm. It has a black margin to the first gastric segment and the second is reddish only at the base. This specimen may, therefore, be regarded as repre- senting a transition to the true rasilis. 8. C. fallax subbarbatus Emery. C. marginatus subsp. subbarbatus Emery, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VII, 1893, p. 676, ?$c?. Worker major. — Length 6-6.5 nim- Head and thorax finely and densely punctate and more opaque than in any of the preceding forms. Gaster superficially shagreened and shining. Cheeks with a few elongate foveolse each bearing a short, stiff hair. Clypeus with few or no foveolse. Head and thorax dirty, brownish yellow, pleura; and posterior portions of head and thorax somewhat darker and more ferruginous. Gaster black or dark brown ; first and second segments each with a very broad transverse broad band. In some specimens the first segment is yellowish or brownish throughout. Worker minor. — Length 3.5-6 mm. Coloration and sculpture as in the worker major. Piligerous foveolse of the cheeks very few and indistinct. Female. — Length 8-9 mm. Head and thorax varying from reddish-brown to blackish. A large antero- median and two elongate parapsidal blotches on the mesonotum, the meso- and metapleurse, scutellum and epinotum blackish. Petiole and gaster black or dark brown, the latter with the anterior and posterior margins of the three 230 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. basal segments yellow. Antennre brown throughout ; legs paler and more yellowish. Wings rather strongly suffused with yellow ; veins and stigma brownish-yellow. Head and pleurre subopaque, finely and densely punctate ; elongate piligerous punctures on the cheeks and clypeus like those of the worker major. Thoracic dorsum and gaster shining. Male. — Length 5-5.5 mm. Head and thorax densely and finely punctate and less shining than in any of the preceding forms ; cheeks and gula, as well as the gaster and upper surface of the head and thorax with rather long, scattered hairs. Black ; antennal funiculi, tarsi and articulations of legs brown. Wings colored like those of the female. The types are from the District of Cohtmbia. I have seen speci- mens of all four phases from the following localities : Virginia: (Emery). New Jersey: Cumbridge County (H. Viereck) ; Lakehurst (Wheeler) . Illinois: Urbana (J. L. Pricer). California: Los Angeles (Emery). 9. C. fallax subbarbatus var. paucipilis Emery. C. inargiiiatus subsp. subbarbatus var. paiicit^ilis Emery, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VII, 1893, p. 677, 2 (^■ This variety, which I have failed to recognize among my speci- mens, is described by Emery as follows : '■ A few workers from Washington, D. C. have the color and shin- ing surface of nearcticiis. but a very few bristle-bearing foveolse on the cheeks. A male accompanying these workers resembles ncarctlcns more closely than subbarbatus. " Mr. Pergande writes me that this form always occurs on living oaks, whereas the former occur only on dead trees." 10. C. fallax discolor Buckley. Formica discolor Buckley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., VI, 1866, p. 166, 5$. Camponotus iiiarginafus var. discolor Mayr, Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien., XXXVI, 1886, p. 365; Dalla Torre, Catalog. Hymenopt., VII, 1893, P- 242. C. Iiiarginafus subsp. discolor Emery, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VII, 1893, p. 277, 5? c?; Wheeler, Trans. Tex. Acad. Sci., IV, 2, 1902, p. 7. Worker major. — Length 6.5-7.5 mm. Color the same as in rasilis. Antennal funiculi often infuscated towards their tips. Surface shining, head more opaque in front, finely and densely punctate ; mandibles, cheeks and clypeus with numerous elongate foveolje bearing short, stubby hairs. Mesonotum convex, epinotal angle in profile much rounded. Petiole thick, strongly convex in front, flattened behind, upper border sometimes with a faint median impression. Dec, I910. 1 Wheeler: North American Camponotus. 231 Worker minor. — Length 3.5-5.5 mm. Resembling the worker major in color and sculpture, but the head is more shining in front and the piligerous punctures on the cheeks and clypeus are less numerous and conspicuous. Female. — Length 9.5-10 mm. Like the worker major, but the mandibles, cheeks and clypeus seem to be even more densely covered with piligerous foveola. Metanotum and scutellum entirely black, or the latter is merely bordered with black. There is a small black spot at the insertion of each pair of wings. Tibiae and tarsi sometimes brownish. Wings strongly suffused with yellow, with brownish-yellow veins and stigma. Male. — Length 5.5-8 mm. Resembling the male of subbarbatiis but the thorax and head, except in front, are more shining, and the mandibles, cheeks and clypeus have longer and more numerous foveols and bear more numerous hairs. Body black ; antennal funiculi and tarsi brown ; wings whitish with pale yellow veins and stigma. The types of this subspecies came from Texas. I have seen many specimens from the following localities : Texas: Austin and Delvalle in woody galls of Holcaspis cinerosa on Oitcrcns virginiana (Wheeler) ; Clebourne (O. P. Eastwood) ; Paris (Miss Augusta Rucker). Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville (C. Schaeffer), Llano (J. C. Crawford), Dallas (Jones & Hood) ; Corpus Christi (Jones & Pratt) ; San Antonio (F. C. Pratt). Oklahoma: Ponca City (A. C. Burrill). Missouri: Doniphan (Jerome Schmitt). Illinois: Algonquin (W. A. Nason). The habits of this form are the same as those of rasilis. It occurs in the same localities and sometimes on the same trees. It is constant in coloration and in possessing the elongate piligerous foveolje on the cheeks and clypeus in all four phases. II. C. fallax discolor var. clarithorax Emery. C. margiiiatns subsp. discolor var. clarithorax Emery, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., Vn, 1893. p. 678, $$c?. Worker major. — Length 7-8 mm. Head, mandibles, clypeus and antennse uniformly chestnut brown or blackish ; thorax yellowish-brown, sometimes darker behind ; legs yellow ; petiole dark brown ; gaster black with yellowish margins to the segments. Head densely punctate or shagreened, subopaque, more shining behind ; cheeks, clypeus and mandibles with distinct but more scattered elongate piligerous foveolae than in discolor. Gula with numerous short hairs. Thorax somewhat more shining than the head but rather coarsely shagreened ; gaster superficially 232 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. shagreened and therefore appearing more shining than any other portions of the body. Worker minor. — Length 5-6 mm. Closely resembling the worker major in color and sculpture, but the head is somewhat more shining in front and has fewer piligerous foveolx on the cheeks and clypeus. Female. — Length 8-8.5 mm. Head black ; antennal funiculi and mandibles, except their teeth, dark brown ; thorax dark brown, pronotum, a large anteromedian and two elongate parapsidal blotches on the mesonotum, border of the scutellum, the petiole and the lower portions of the pleurse, black. Legs yellow, tibis and tarsi brownish. Wings brownish, with pale yellowish brown veins and stigma. Sculpture and pilosity of the head as in the worker major. Male. — Length 6-8 mm. Resembling the male of discolor. Wings like those of the female. This variety was first described from San Jacinto and Los Angeles, Cala. I have seen specimens from the following localities : California: Los Angeles, worker minor cotype (Emery); Point Loma, San Diego, nesting in stems of manzanita (Percy Leonard) ; Whittier (A. H. Quayle) ; Felton, Santa Cruz Mts. and Three Rivers, (J. C. Bradley). Illinois: Cherry Valley (Wheeler). Pennsylvania: Beatty (Jerome Schmitt). From the two latter states I have seen only a few major workers and these differ from the California forms in having the head more shining, but they are connected with the typical form by a soldier from Whittier, Cala., which has the head more shining than in the San Diego specimens, which are identical with the types. 12. C. fallax discolor var. cnemidatus Emery. ? Formica atra Buckley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., VL 1866, p. 160, $. Camponotus marginatus subsp. discolor var. cnemidatus Emery, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VH, 1893, P- 678, $. This variety, which I have not seen, was based on worker speci- mens collected by Mr. Theo. Pergande at Washington, D. C. These resembled clarithorax in sculpture but were " piceous black through- out, with the mandibles, antennae, tarsi, tibiae and articulations of the lees reddish brown." Dec, igio.] GiRAULT : On THE FAMILY MyMARID^. 233 SYNONYMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON THE CHALCIDOID FAMILY MYMARID^. By a. a. Girault. Urbana, III. There can be no doubt in regard to the family Mymaridse that more attention will have to be given to minor descriptive details in order that the different species may be recognized; the characters heretofore used, especially that of body coloration, are certainly too indefinite for separation of the species and the cases of a number of the larger genera of the family may be cited to show that this is true. The various species of these genera are barely recognizable at this time ; and this is so because the several descriptions are based on coloration alone which happens to be inconsequential in these particular groups. The species of the genera, large in regard to size such as Polyncma Haliday, bear a number of differentiating characters of specific value in the sculpturing of the body but with the exception of one or two nearly all of them are similar or indis- tinguishable in regard to general coloration of the body. In other genera the several species are apparently similar both in regard to general coloration and the sculpturing of the body, and in these cases the only characters of specific value are found in the wing ciliation and in the relative size and shape of antennal joints. It is useless, therefore in both of these classes of genera to describe species as we have been in the habit of doing, namely, by describing their color alone for certainly, here, no other than the author of species will ever be able to recognize the species so described, and he himself not without difficulty. In view of what has been stated, the following descriptive notes are offered as contributary knowledge of the morphology of several of the genera and species and also as an example of the method neces- sary for separation of the species. The great difficulty in accurately describing some of these minute and delicate forms, the necessity of making descriptions in most cases immediately after the specimens have been collected and the lack of essential knowledge concerning our native species are other reasons for enlarging on the descriptive work alreadv done. 234 Journal New York Enfomological Society. [Voi. xv^iii. Family EULOPHID^. Subfamily Aphelinin^. Tribe Aphclinini. Genus Prospaltella Ashmead. I. Prospaltella perspicuipennis, new species. Normal position. Female. — Length, 0.70 mm. Moderate in size for the genus. Wings hyaline, legs not banded, body black and yellow, fore wings with a naked area under the stigmal vein, with a slight indication of a postmarginal vein and the upper (cephalic) margin of the stigmal vein nearly parallel with and near to the cephalic wing margin, somewhat as in similis (Masi) but the space between the wing margin and the cephalic margin of the stigmal vein is very much narrower, a mere incision. Stigmal vein acute, pointing disto- cephalad. General color brownish-black : whole of the scutellum, legs and the an- tennae uniformly lemon yellow, excepting distal club joint which is darker and the extreme tips of the distal tarsal joints ; mesal margin of axillae, •caudal third of parapsides, caudal and lateral margins of mesoscutum, meso- ■caudal margins of the eyes (less distinctly so), metanotum and mesopost- scutellum sordid or brownish-yellow ; teguLx dusky, venation pallid dusky yellowish. Eyes and ocelli garnet or dark red, tht former with whitish pubescence. Both wings hyaline. The lemon yellow scutellum conspicuous against the darker background of the body in life. Sculpture of body consisting of fine polygonal figures. Ocelli normal, the lateral ones are as far apart from one another as each is distant from their respective eye margin, the three in a short, nearly equilateral triangle, distant from the eyes ; ovipositor slightly exserted, yellow. Fore wings moderately narrow, widest at their distal fifth far distad of the venation, the marginal fringes short, excepting distad along the caudal margin where they are longest abruptly, there equal to a length slightly less than half the greatest wing width. Discal ciliation uniform, not dense, absent proximad of the base of the marginal vein and in a conspicuous rounded naked area caudad and distad of the stigmal vein ; across the widest portion of the wing, the discal cilia are arranged in about from 8 to 1 1 rows ; marginal and submarginal vein subequal, the marginal vein much broader, uniform in width and ending abruptly in two short, unequal branches separated by a narrow portion of the wing surface ; the cephalic of these is very short, indicating a post-marginal vein ; the caudal branch is about three times longer, forming a short wedge-shaped stigmal vein whose caudal margin is flat, short, continuous with that of the marginal vein, whose apical or discal margin is longest, obliquely truncate and whose cephalic margin is similarly inclined but pointing still more distad, curving proximad, cephalad, then slightly disto- cephalad to form the very slight post-marginal vein. Tegula bearing a single seta from its surface. Posterior wings normal, the blade short, long wedge- Dec, igio.] GiRAULT : Ox THE FaMILY MYjMARTD^. 235 shaped and devoid of discal cilia with the exception of a short row of scattered cilia extending from the extreme base of the blade distad to its caudal margin at about its center,* and a row of somewhat smaller cilia along the cephalic margin of the blade, from the apex of the marginal vein to the apex of the wing ; marginal fringes absent along the cephalic margin just distad of the marginal vein, then originating and continuing around the entire blade margin, very short at first, slightly lengthening distad to the apex, then longer at apex and around at the caudal margin abruptly lengthening, becoming longer than the greatest width of the wing (across the apex of the marginal wing) ; they continue of nearly equal length along the caudal margin. Antennte regularly clavate, uniformly clothed with short, soft pubescence, 8-jointed-scape, pedicel, three funicle joints and a 3-jointed club, the latter distinct. Scape slender, nearly as long as the club, longer than the funicle, the scape, club and flagellum (including pedicel) being subequal regions ; pedicel obconic, short, but longer than the first funicle joint, but not very much longer: flagellum gradually increasing in width, the joints of the funicle and club gradually increasing in length ; proximal joint subquadrate, a fourth shorter than the following joint and nearly a third shorter than the pedicel, barely longer than wide ; second funicle joint longer and slightly wider than the first but a third shorter and a fourth narrower than the third funicle joint, more equal to the pedicel than any other antennal joint ; third joint of the funicle but very slightly shorter than the proximal club joint, but dis- tinctly narrower, longer than the pedicel ; second and third funicle joints distinctly longer than wide ; all club joints distinctly longer than wide, the proximal two subequal in length, slightly longer than the third or distal funicle joint, the intermediate joint, however, broader than the first club joint, nearly- rectangular and the broadest antennal joint ; distal club joint conical, slightly longer, the longest flagellar joint, as wide at its base as the apex of the inter- mediate club joint ; its apex obtuse but pointed, not sharply or acutely so. From two specimens, |-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. Male. — Unknown. The species has the fore wings of Encarsia but the antennal club is plainly 3-segmented. Described from two female specimens (the colors and sculpture from life) captured on the panes of a window in an unused pig- shed on a farm, August 27 and 31, 1909. The host is therefore un- known. A species characterized by the shape of the stigmal vein, the naked area in the discal ciliation of the fore wings caudad of the stigmal vein, the bright yellow scutellum, the indication of a post- marginal vein, the hyaline wings and the uniformly yellow, non- banded legs. It is nearest to similis (Masi) from which it is easily * A few scattered very minute setK caudad of this row, between it and the caudal wing margin. 236 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xvui. separated by the structural differences in the stigmal vein. In Howard's (1908) table of the species of the genus, it would drop in near siiiiilis (Masi) or kochclci Howard, differing from the latter in its black head, more clavate antenn?e, naked area of the fore wings and details of antennal structures, as well as in the perfectly hyaline wings and the contrasting coloration of the scutellum with that of the rest of the mesonotum. An apparent typographical error is present in the first line of the table referred to (Howard, 1908, p. 281), namely, the words " pointed marginal vein " being printed instead of " pointed postmarginal vein." The error, however, is readily detected because of the fact that the marginal vein in the whole sub- family is usually very long and in the genus Prospaltella is as long as is normal. Habitat. — Centralia, Illinois. Type. — Accession No. ^i.6/Q, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, two females in xylol-balsam (two slides). Family MYMARIDiE. Subfamily GoNATOCERiNyE. Tribe Ooctonini. Genus Camptoptera Foerster. I. Camptoptera pulla Girault. Girault, 1909a. pp. 27-28, fig. 2. This species recently described from several female specimens captured at Urbana, 111., in July, 1908, proved to be common at Centralia, 111., during the latter part of August and the first part of September, 1909, both sexes being captured, the female in numbers. The color of its body is really shining black in nature, appearing greyish black in balsam mounts. Otherwise its description is correct as given, excepting that the club joint is not narrowed as shown in the figure (Girault, 19090, fig. 2) and with the exception of the shape of the abdomen which is ovate in lateral aspect in balsam mounts but in the dorsal aspect as has been described. The dilata- tion on the caudal margin of the fore wings near base is a regular sloping convexity, not acute or emarginate at any place on its margin ; the cox?e are concolorous with the clay yellow legs; the eyes are reniform, very dark garnet, their surface coarse; abdomen smooth Dec , 1910.] GiRAULT : On THE Family Mymarid.e. 237 and shining with sparse, soft, whitish pubescence dorsad and caudad; the thoracic pleura are finely lined, obliquely so ; the head, thoracic venter and most of the remaining portions of the thorax similarly lined, the vertex transversely so, the scutellum impunctate, longi- tudinally finely lined (the metanotum has not as yet been seen) ; the mesoscutum. however, is somewhat rougher, with fine polygonal figures; surface of the eyes much coarser than the body surfaces. The parapsidal furrows are complete, widely separated at their bases, the caudal margin of the mesoscutum straight, that sclerite shorter than the scutellum which is large and slightly convex ; for a few other general characters see the description of the male follow- ing. The pubescence of the funicle and club in the female antennae is obscure but the funicle joints have at least one whorl of fine hairs distad, more noticeable on joints 4 to 6 but there is also some pubescence farther proximad on the joints; the club bears a few long grooves. The male, heretofore unknown, is described herewith. Male. — Length, 0.75 mm. ; slightly smaller than the female but otherwise the same excepting in antennal and abdominal characters or the secondary sexual characters usual to the genus. Occipital margin of the vertex (dorsal aspect) concave, subacutely emargi- nate at the meson, its two oblique sides meeting there in a point ; ocelli dark like the eyes, smooth, inconspicuous, situated in a mere curved line near the occipital margin, the lateral ocelli somewhat farther from the middle or cephalic ocellus than each is distant from their respective eye margin ; also the distance between the lateral ocelli is at least thrice the distance between each and its respective eye margin ; lateral ocelli slightly farther from the eye margins than they are wide and separated from them by a grooved line, a portion of the " vertexal carina " seen in balsam mounts. Abdomen distinctly shorter than the thorax, (lateral aspect) triangular,* the dorsal plane acutely convex, very convex ; (dorsal aspect) triangular, its base truncate, forming the base of the triangle, the second and third seg- ments subequal, at least a third longer than segments 4 to 7 which are short, transverse, straight ; terminal segment slightly longer, very small, conical. Antennae inserted dorsad of the middle of the face, slightly ventrad of a line drawn between the dorsal ends of the eyes (lateral aspect), widely separated, the bulbs being near the eye margins. Antennae filiform, much longer than in the female and than the length of * In balsam mounts quite differently shaped : ovate, very small, not any larger than the head and with the genitalia exserted. In balsam mounts the abdomen of the male resembles somewhat the female abdomen, lateral aspect, when similarly mounted. 238 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xviii the body, the funicle joints all cylindrical and long, none of them very unequal. Scape short, its ventral margin convex, its dorsal margin straight, subequal in length to the club joint, slightly longer than the first funicle joint; pedicel obconic, short and moderately stout, its truncate apex with serrulate margins, nearly as wide as the scape, the scape and the pedicel being the widest antennal joints, being about twice wider than the width of the flagellum ; pedicel the shortest antennal joint, slightly more than half the length of the proximal funicle joint but longer than wide ; the following joints all slender, much longer than wide ; proximal funicle joint the shortest joint of the funicle, slightly shorter than the club joint, nearly *wice the length of the pedicel, a third shorter than the next joint ; following funicle joints all subequal in length, the second and third funicle joints tending to be equal and longest, the fourth slightly shorter and the fifth, sixth and seventh equal and still slightly shorter and the club joint equal to them or slightly shorter ; it is at least as long as four times its own width and but very slightly conical distad, not differing very much from the preceding joint. Funicle and club with a few longitudinal grooves (high power), the corners of the distal ends of the funicle joints ending in acute spine-like processes. Pubescence fine and close, short, increasing distad but not dense. Caudal wings and the fore wings with the usual row of discal cilia around their margins, originating between the insertions of the marginal fringes. An- terior tibial spur forked. From four specimens, |-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. The foregoing descriptive notes were made from a series of eighteen specimens captured at Centralia, 111., on the panes of a small window in an imused pig-shed on a farm ; all were captured at the same spot on these dates, 1909: August 25 (4 5's)> 26 (2 J^'s, 3 $'s), 27 (I $). 30 (I 2) ; September i (i ?>, 2 (2 5's) 4 (i ^) and 6 (i (j*, 2 5's). I have since captured the following specimens : One female by sweeping, Urbana, 111., July i, 19 10, and in the same locality on greenhouse windows also on the same date, one male and six females ; some of these females were twice the size of the others and while the former were easily seen with the unaided eye, the latter were barely visible. 2. Camptoptera metotarsa Girault. As shown later this species becomes the type of the new genus Macrocamptoptera Girault. The genus Camptoptera has now three valid species — papaveris Foerster, clavata Provancher and puUa Girault. Of these the second is unrecognizable, its description too general. Dec.igiol GiRAULT : On THE FaMILY MyMARID^. 239 Macrocamptoptera, new genus. Type. — Camptoptcra mctotorsa Girault. A genus similar to Camptoptera Foerster but larger and dis- tinguished by the longer, slender scape, the lack of parapsidal furrows, the somewhat less noticeable abdominal petiole and the coarser body sculpturing. The type species is reconsidered herewith. I. Macrocamptoptera metotarsa (Girault). Camptoptera metotarsa Girault. 1905a, p. gi. Camptoptera metotarsa Girault, 1909a, pp. 26-27. An examination of the single type specimen of this species brings out the fact that it belongs to this new genus and that its original and revised descriptions are correct in all essential points. But in the table of species of the genus Camptoptera given in Girault (1909a, p. 28) in line 9 joint ^ of fnnicle is printed instead of joint 4 of antenna; the second funicle joint was intended. Also the species is more than 1.25 mm. in length, distinctly larger than the two known species of Camptoptera. The type is in bad condition, the abdomen broken from the rest of the body but the parts are in excellent condition for study, excepting that the antennal club is missing; the specimen is tag- mounted but the body is not shriveled. However, an antenna was successfully removed and mounted in balsam and also the wings and a fore leg and this mount plainly showed the previous descriptive notes to have been correct. From this mount and the other parts on the tag I have made the following notes which should be considered final. The unique type specimen is in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C, mounted on a tag bearing the following labels : "Arlington, Va. VI, 28, 1905"; "A. A. Girault, collector."; " Quaint- ance No. 361."; "Type No. 8941."; "Camptoptera metotarsa Girault, 5." Also a portion mounted in balsam on a single slide labelled " Hym. slide No. 112," U. S. National Museum, bearing a pair of wings, a fore leg and an antenna. Abdomen with a short petiole. Body with distinct scaly sculpture. Parapsidal furrows absent ; a rather deep ovate fovea on each side of the mesoscutum near the caudal margin at about where, or somewhat more laterad, the parapsidal furrows ordinarily are. Fore wing shaped as in Camptoptera ; the marginal vein straight, moderately long, at least three times longer than wide ; a paired, distinct row of discal cilia along the cephalic margin and a similar line along the caudal margin, both at the wing edge or near the inser- tions of the marginal fringes ; the lines along the caudal margin are relatively 240 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. farther apart from each other, but the lines along both margins disappear just before the apex, that is, do not continue around the apical margin to meet each other. The apex of the fore wing is curved in one direction only, the caudal margin remaining straight to the point of the apex, the cephalic margin curving around to meet it, the curve oblique. In the fore wing as formerly- described, there are two principal lines of discal cilia extending from the apex which are broken just proximad of the distal half of the wing blade, a naked space intervening, then continued proximad in short, straight lines of about five cilia each, ending some distance from the marginal vein. Also, in the fore wing, two other lines of discal cilia, making 4 in all, these two shorter and within the others, confused with them toward the apex and extend- ing proximad not to the base of the distal half of the wing. Blade of the fore wing bordered with dusky yellowish. Dilatation proximad on the caudal mar- gin of the fore wing a mere inconspicuous convexity ; as in Camptoptera the marginal fringes have a distinct or white path around the wing margin just out from their insertions. Posterior wing linear, slightly enlarging distad, maculate with dusky, the caudal edge with a paired line of discal cilia ; ■cephalic line with a single line of them. Tarsi 5-jointed. Antennae with a long and slender scape, as long as the pedicel and first two funicle joints united ; the first and second funicle joints slender, the latter longest, the pedicel not a half of its length and a third longer than the first funicle joint ; third funicle joint and others distad gradually shortening, the third only half as long as the second funicle joint. Tribe Gonatoccrini. Genus Alaptus Haliday. 1. Alaptus iceryae Riley. Girault, 1908(7, pp. 186-187. Normal position. Female. — Length, 0.23 mm. ; very minute ; in life barely visible to the naked eye. Similar in general to the other species and as formerly described except as may be hereinafter mentioned. General color uniformly grayish black, the thorax somewhat lighter: Antennae concolorous, legs uniformly pallid, including the coxae, the apical tarsal joint dusky only at its extreme tip ; eyes and ocelli dark reddish ; fore wings clear with a dusky yellowish border around the blade, the posterior wings as usual maculate with dusky. Venation pallid, very slightly dusky. Body smooth, shining, impunctate, the pubescence sparse ; parapsidal fur- rows complete ; scutellum transverse. Abdomen ovate, sessile, about equal to the thorax in length, the ovipositor not exserted. Legs normal, the tibial spurs single, the anterior spurs large, curved and forked and the proximal tarsal joint of the anterior legs with the usual row of stiff bristles forming the antennal comb or strigil in conjunction with the curved and forked tibial spur; tarsal joints 3 and 4 subequal, the proximal two somewhat longer and subequal to each other and the fifth or distal joint somewhat the longest. Dec, igio] GlRAULT : On THE FaMILY MyMARID.^. 241 Fore wings normal to the genus, with a slight curve along the caudal margin at the distal fifth, widest slightly before (proximad of) the apex and across the proximal dilatation and tapering rapidly proximad from the apex until reaching the dilatation or excision on the caudal margin which is usual and which originating at a point opposite the apex of the marginal vein curves concavely to an acute point opposite the distal third of the marginal vein and then gradually descends by means of a longer inclination proximo-cephalad, reaching the original line of the caudal wing margin somewhat proximad of the origin of the marginal vein ; the much longer declining side of the dila- tation is entire with the exception of a slight emargination at its proximal fourth at about a point opposite to the origin of the marginal vein ; the dila- tation is keel-shaped and the wing is wider across it than at the apical wide portion of the blade. Just opposite the apex of the dilatation, along the cephalic margin of the wing at the distal third of the marginal vein there is a slight convexity. Blade of fore wing with the usual marginal cilia which are longest at the apex, especially caudad where they exceed the greatest width of the blade by at least three times ; as usual these cilia are pallid at a point a short distance out from their origin, forming a clear path or border around the apex of the wing ; discal cilia entirely absent with the exception of the usual row of them around the margins at the insertions or bases of the marginal cilia and in the center of the blade at its distal half one or two cilia, if the latter then both equal in size, not very widely separated and in ihe same line longitudinally ; marginal cilia continuous to the apex of the marginal vein (cephalic margin) and (caudal margin) to the apex of the dilatation where they are comparatively very short ; toward the proximal end of the blade of the fore wing a few cilia from the row of discal cilia on the margin may appear in the center of the blade. A single large seta arises from the marginal vein at the slight convexity and a small one more proximad at its proximal third ; submarginal vein serrulate along its caudal edge for at least the distance of its distal half, narrow, much longer than the marginal vein which is about 4^ times longer than broad. Caudal wings normal, straight, clavate, its entire blade maculate as usual with dusky and the pallid or white bases of the marginal cilia at the apex of the wing form a whitish or clear border around that portion of it, the marginal cilia complete, longest at the extreme apex and caudad where they are at least 4 times longer than the greatest width of the wing, but not as long there as the longest marginal cilia of the fore wing, being about a fourth shorter ; wing widest somewhat farther from the apex than in the case of the blade of the fore wing ; discal cilia absent, save for a single longitudinal row of about 14 which proceeds from the base of the blade to the base of the distal seventh of the blade along the middle of it, nearer the caudal margin, terminating before the apex where the blade is widest and with its setae smaller and closer together proximad than distad. Posterior wings as usual smaller, narrower and straighter than the fore wings. Antennae similar to those in Alaptiis ccrcilii Girault but the proximal two 242 JouRNAT, New York Entomological Societv. [Voi.xviii. funicle joints are shorter, the first quadrate, the second barely longer than wide, whereas in ccccilii they are distinctly longer than wide. Scape as in eriococci, shorter than the club, slightly longer than the united lengths of the three following joints, widest at its center but not especially widened ; pedicel obconic, truncate apically, its apical margin serrulate, as wide as the scape but its apex at least a third narrower than the widest portion of the club, somewhat longer than the united lengths of the two following joints ; proximal funicle joint abruptly smaller, quadrate, very slightly shorter than the next joint and the shortest antennal joint; funicle joint 2 slightly longer than wide, from a third to a fourth shorter than the following joint or funicle joint 3, equal in width to funicle joint i and somewhat narrower than funicle joint 3 which is cylindrical ovate and equal in length to the following joints or slightly longer; funicle joint 4 rounded ovate, wider than joint 3 and the distal funicle joint still larger and globular, about thrice the size of the proximal funicle joint; club large, ovate, as long, or nearly, as the 4 joints- preceding ; the club is much larger than the scape and the broadest of the antennal joints ; it bears the usual two longitudinal carinse. Pubescence of the funicle joints arranged as in globosicornis Girault. From three specimens, g-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. Male. — The same. Length, 0.21 mm. Antennae filiform, lo-jointed, very similar to those of the type specimens but the second funicle joint is somewhat shorter ; differing from the males- immaturus Perkins, excisus Westwood, minimus Walker, eriococci Girault and c Fig. I. Entylia sinuata Fab., nymph. variations in form and color in the same family. The insects seem to have started out on the lower leaves of the plant, which were often quite brown and withered, and then to have moved to higher leaves for a fresh supply of sap. Some of the plants had been seri- ously injured. In some localities both the young and adult Entylia were being attended by the following ants : Tapinonia sessile Say, Lasiiis nigcr L. var. americanus Emery, Formica fusca L. var. snhsericea Say and Mynnica brevinodis Emery var. canadensis Wheeler." Comparing the specimens with Van Duzee's Fig. 1-6, PI. I, in his studies on North American Membracidae, and the figures of Entylia sinuata var. mira Butl. in the Biologia Centr. Amer., Vol. II, Figs. I2-I2a^ I find that the specimens from Colebrook, Conn., represent all of these forms and also the beautiful color variety 262 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi xviii. Piiblilia concava Say var. nigridorsiim Godg., but P. reticulata V.''' D. is not among them although it is also, in all probability, merely a variety of Entylia. As shown in the Figs. 1-12 on plate VII the variations represent a graded series from Pitblilia Stal to Entylia concisa Walk, with the most gradual transitional forms. These forms represent more or less completely the various " specific " forms. Besides the forms represented in the figures I found a single male in which the anterior thoracic prominence is completely lacking, but as this insect seems to be malformed I have not drawn it and have represented only the forms which occur most abundantly in the series. Owing to the large number of specimens it is impossible to describe all the dif- ferent variations, especially as all conceivable shades of the ground coloration and pattern occur. Occasionally, however, a single speci- men is unique in the series by reason of its striking individual pattern. On the other hand, there are groups of specimens each pre- senting a single type but varying, especially in the ground color, within rather narrow limits. Thus, e. g., there are Entylia-Puhlilia- forms which have a gray or brown color mottled more or less with yellow, white, dark brown or black. Among the E. siiuiata-iovms there are, with sporadic exceptions, variations of the various yellow, brown, reddish brown and black ground colors, with yellow, light and dark brown, black and white markings. That the insect also occurs on other plants besides Enpatorium purpureuni is shown by the following data : Prof. Wheeler collected on July 7, 1908, at South Harpswell, Me., 20 females and one male of the Entylia-Pnhlilia-iorm, together with 'numerous eggs on Soli- dago. Mr. William Reiff took numerous specimens of the same form together with many nymphs on September 7, 1909, at Forest Hills, Mass., on the same plant. Prof. Otto Lugger, in the " Sixth Annual Report of the Entomologist of the State Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota" (1900) says that Entylia sinuata occurs " on a variety of plants and it is somewhat partial to sun-flowers." The nymphs of the series collected by Prof. Wheeler, in com- parison with those taken last year by Mr. Reiff, have a somewhat more prominent thorax; in other respects they are identical. Color varia- tions were found only in the fully grown nymphs,- and these varia- tions, of course, foreshadow those of the adult insect. The text- figure I represents a full-grown nymph. ^.louni. N'. Y. Eiit. Soc ]'oL XJV//. Plafr IVr. 9 Entylia sinuata Fab. Dec, igio.l MaTAUSCH ; EnTYLIA GeRMAR AND ITS FORMS. 263 In the series of Connecticut specimens the females predominated somewhat over the males ; 7 per cent, of them were of the different Publilia-iovms including the transition form shown in Fig. 4, which, moreover, seems to be very close to P. porrecta Fowl. I have in my collection in addition to the Entylia-Publilia-iorms a fine pair from Prof. J. B. Smith. This was taken in Jamesburg, N. J., and stands between E. concisa Walker and E. sinuata var. mira Butl. From Mr. William Beutenmueller I have received a female which is somewhat more like the concisa-form. It was collected in June in the Black Mts., N. C. Mr. William T. Davis has given me four females of the concisa form collected in Alexandria Co., Va., June 14, 1907. A male taken by Mr. Ch. Olsen in Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1908, belongs to E. bactriana Germ, and another male of the same form was taken by Mr. H. Mueller in the Bronx, N. Y., and I have myself taken a male of the same size and more like the female bactriana in Queens, Long Island. I have received from the firm Staudinger & Bang-Haas several specimens taken in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, together with a specimen from Peru. The females in this series vary among themselves, but they differ from the northern forms in the shape of the anterior thoracic prominence which is strongly directed anteriorly and in the much lower posterior thoracic prominence. The single male, which I have represented in Fig. No. 3, is undoubtedly a southern variety. Reference to the literature shows that the Membracid I have been considering is distributed over the whole American continent from Canada, through the United States and Central America to South . America. The great variation in the series from Connecticut is very interest- ing because all the specimens were taken at the same time, on the same species of plant and in a very restricted area. It would seem therefore that the variation could hardly be attributed to the effects of external conditions. Owing to its remarkable variability E. sinuata, which has been known since 1771, has been described under no less than 21 different names. 264 Journal New York Entomological Society. |Voi. xviii. THE USE OF INSECTS AND OTHER INVERTE-. . BRATES AS FOOD BY THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. By Alanson Skinner, New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. It is perhaps not very generally known that insects and other in- vertebrates w^ere used for economic purposes by the aborigines of North America. So far as our records show, the Indians east of the Mississippi never made any use of insects as food. Several reasons may be assigned for this, but the most important of these is the universal practice of agriculture south of the Great Lakes. In other regions where the economic conditions were regulated by the abundance of the game supply, periods of famine occurred, when recourse to insect food was not uncommon. The presence of permanent vegetable staples through agriculture, of course obviated this necessity, so that the absence of such customs occasioned an entirely different psychological attitude towards insect food in the East. Concerning the Menomini, a well-known Central Algonkin tribe, for instance, we read:* "The Menomini Indians are not addicted to eating all kinds of reptiles, insects and other loathsome food, as was common to many of the tribes of the great basin and of California. This form of diet may result from having always lived in a country where game, fish, and small fruits were found in greater or lesser abundance, and the evident relish with which we find the so-called Diggers, the Walapai, and others, devour grasshoppers, dried lizards, beef entrails, and bread made of grass seed mixed with crushed larvae of flies, would appear as disgusting to the Menomini as the Caucasian." West of the Mississippi we find insects used as food by tribes of the Algonkian, Siouan, Shoshonean, Athabascan, Pujunan, Pinan, and Shastan stocks, at least. The Assiniboine, the most northerly located of the Siouan tribes, are said to have used pulverized insects dried in * Hoffman, The Menomini, 14th Annual Report, Bureau of American Eth- nology, p. 287. Dec, 1910.] Skinner : The Use of Insects as Food. 265 the sun for food in cases of necessity.* De Smet also says: "I have seen the Cheyennes, Snakes, Utes, etc., eat vermin off each other by the fistfull. Often great chiefs, while they talked to me, would pull off their shirts in my presence without ceremony, and while they chatted would amuse themselves with carrying on this branch of the chase in the seams. As fast as they dislodged the game, they crunched it with as much relish as more civilized mouths crack almonds and hazel-nuts or the claws of crabs and crawfishes. "f De Smetij: states of these people : " Add to this, by way of an exquisite dessert, an immense dish of crusts, composed of pulverized ants, grasshoppers and locusts, that had been dried in the sun, and you may then be able to form some idea of Assiniboine luxury." In the desolate forests and barren grounds, the natives, mostly of Athabascan stock, make use of insect food in a different manner. Russell§ says of the Dog Ribs: " A gadfly (thought to be Hypoderma lineafa by Dr. Riley, but in the absence of specimens the species is uncertain) deposits its eggs in the back of the caribou, in some individuals to the number of several hundred, which renders the skin utterly useless for leather. The grubs were well developed in the latter part of April when I left the barren ground. The Indians did not remove them from pieces of meat destined for the kettle." Hearne|| remarks of the same people: "The Indians, however, never could persuade me to eat the warbles, of which some of them are remarkably fond, especially the children. They are always eaten raw and alive out of the skin and are said by those who like them to be as fine as gooseberries." The Shoshone proper, and other tribes of the same stock dwelling on the plains were not averse to entomological numbers on their bill of fare. " Among other things the former are said to have relished serpents, lizards, grasshoppers, mice, crickets and pismires which * Lowie, The Assiniboine, Anthropological Papers of the American Mu- seum of Natural History, Vol. IV, Part I, p. 12. t De Smet, Life, Letters and Travels, etc., Vol. Ill, p. 1002. t Father De Smet's Life and Travels among the North American Indians (Chittenden and Richardson), p. 1032. § Frank Russell, Explorations in the Far North, being the report of an expedition under the auspices of the University of Iowa, during the years, 1892, 1893 and 1894, p. 228. II Hearne, Journal, p. 316. 266 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. were thrown into a large tray filled with burning cinders, in which they were tossed about until roasted. Roasted ants were preserved in bags for future consumption."* De Smetf avers that " The Soshoco (probably a Shoshonean tribe) who subsists chiefly on grasshoppers and ants, is miserable, lean, weak and badly clothed." " The principal portion of the Shoshoco territory is covered with wormwood, and other species of artemesia, in which the grasshoppers swarm by myriads; these parts are consequently most frequented by this tribe. When they are sufficiently numerous, they hunt together. They begin by digging a hole, ten or twelve feet in diameter, by four or five deep; then, armed with long branches of artemesia, they surround a field of four or five acres more or less, according to the number of persons who are engaged in it. They stand about twenty feet apart and their whole work is to beat the ground, so as to frighten up the grasshoppers and make them bound forward. They chase them toward the center by degrees — that is, into the hole prepared for their reception. Their number is so considerable that frequently three or four acres furnish grasshoppers sufficient to fill the reservoir or hole. The Soshocos stay in that place as long as this sort of provision lasts. Some eat the grasshoppers in soup, or boiled; others crush them, and make a kind of paste from them which they dry in the sun or before the fire: others eat them en appalas — that is, they make pointed rods and string the largest ones on them; after- wards these rods are fixed in the ground before the fire, and, as they become roasted, the poor Soshocos regale themselves until the whole are devoured." The Maidu, a Pujunan tribe of California, according to Dixon:}: were also insectivorous to some extent. " Grasshoppers and locusts were eaten eagerly when they were to be had. The usual method of gathering them was to dig a large, shallow pit, in some meadow or flat, and then, by setting fire to the grass on all sides, to drive .the insects into the pit. Their wings being burned off by the flames, * Lowie, The Northern Shoshone, Anthropological Papers of the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History, Vol. II, Part III, p. 183. t Father De Smet's Life and Travels among the North American Indians (Chittenden and Richardson), p. 1032. t Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, Volume XVII, Part III, p. 120. Dec, 1910.] Skinner : The Use of Insncts as Food. 267 they were helpless, and were thus collected by, the bushel. They were then dried as they were. Thus prepared, they were kept for winter food, and were eaten either dry and uncooked, or slightly roasted." Of the Shasta, a California tribe of Shastan stock, Dixon* also remarks : " Angle worms, grasshoppers, and locusts, do not seem to have been eaten to any extent." In regard to the Pimaf (Piman) of southern Arizona we note under the head of "Ma'kijm": "These unidentified worms (?) are plentiful when a rainy season insures a heavy crop of desert plants. They are gathered in large quantities, their heads pulled off, and intestines removed. The women declare that their hands swell and become sore if they come in contact with the skin of the worms. The worms are then put into cooking pots lined with branches of salt-bush and boiled. The skins are braided together while yet soft and dried a day or two in the sun. The dry and brittle sticks are eaten at any time without further preparation." It would appear from the foregoing accounts that the use of insects as food by the North American aborigines was restricted to that portion west of the Mississippi and was in vogue particularly among the Indians towards the Pacific slope. It is possible that the eastern Cree, Naskapi and Montagnais, who like the northern Atha- bascans belong to the sub-arctic culture, also eat the Cuterehra grubs which are found in the caribou, but no notes seem to have been obtained by the writer or others on the subject. The eastern Cree and Ojibway often kill lice, caught on their persons, by cracking them with their teeth, but I have never observed that they ate them after- wards, although I have been assured that this was the case, *Ibid., Vol. VIII, p. 24s. t Frank Russell, The Pima Indians, 26th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 81. 268 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLO- GICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of Tuesday, January i8, 1910. Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. W. Leng in the chair with twenty-one members and five visitors present. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. The Librarian, Mr. Schaeflfer, reported the receipt of the following exchanges : Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift, 1909, No. 6. Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Insekten Biologic, V, No. 12. Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pt. 4. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, LH, Nos. 3, 4. The Curator, Dr. Lutz, exhibited a large map recently purchased by the museum, from which a local map, 8 X 10 inches, had been drawn and placed in the hands of the printer for reproduction. Dr. Lutz also announced that Mr. Johnson had promised to name the Diptera belonging to the local collection. He reported that the insect collection of the museum, with the exception of the Lepidoptera, had been moved into a room in the new wing, where those interested might consult the collection. Dr. J. L. Zabriskie, of the Executive Committee, read the following re- port : " Regarding the report of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, Ottawa, Canada, that this society contribute towards defraying the expense of a per- manent memorial, in the form of a drinking fountain, consisting of a granite shaft with bronze medallion, inscription, etc., to be erected at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, to commemorate the good work in furthering natural history performed by the late Dr. James Fletcher, which request was referred to your executive committee with power, the said committee reports as follows : " At a meeting of the executive committee of the New York Entomological Society, held January 4, 1910, directly after the regular meeting of the society, it was unanimously resolved : " This committee hereby instructs our treasurer to forward to the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club twenty-five dollars from the funds of this society — as a contribution towards defraying the expense of the proposed memorial, and express to the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club the high esteem of the New York Entomological Society for the character and work of the late Dr. Fletcher. J. L. Zabriskie, G. W. J. Angell, G. P. Englehardt, C. L. Pollard, C. E. Sleight." Dec, 1910.] Proceedings of the Society. 269 Dr. Lutz read the following letter addressed to Mr. Jacob Doll : " The members of the New York Entomological Society have learned with deep regret of your sad bereavement and desire to express sincere sympathy with you, their fellow-member. " On behalf of the New York Entomological Society. Frank E. Lutz, George P. Engelhardt, Edmund B. Southwick." The president appointed as members of the auditing committee : C. F. Groth, E. L. Dickerson and F. E. Watson. As field committee, R. P. Dow and C. E. Olsen. Mr. Leng spoke on " Some Results of Four Days' Collecting in the White Mountains," exhibiting some of the beetles found, and photographs of the mountains, loaned by Mr. John Sherman. He referred to the various lists which had been published, beginning with E. P. Austin in 1874, Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, 1893, 1894 and 1895, Fred C. Bowditch in i8g6 and seven additional lists by Mrs. Slosson up to 1906 and added the following species taken by him in September, 1909, at elevation of 4.000 to 5,000 ft. — Hypo- lampsis mellyi, Stenotrachelns arctatus, Otiorhynchus ovatiis, Plazorhinus scu- tellaris, Cyphomimus dorsalis and Erycus morio. He stated that of these only two could be regarded as boreal insects and that in the lists already published only a small part of the insects listed were boreal. He closed by describing the open camp, called the Perch, at which he slept for three nights and the woods and mountains in its vicinity. There followed a discussion of the stranding of certain insects on moun- tain tops. Mr. Schaeffer exhibited a collection of beetles of the genus Pogonochcrus, with all of the species represented, and spoke of the characters and distribu- tion of the different species. Mr. Barber spoke concerning " Some Hemiptera New to the Fauna of the United States." These were exhibited and commented upon. His re- marks concerning these will be published in the body of the Journal. Mr. Melville T. Cook in responding to a request to address the society, spoke chiefly concerning some of his work in Cuba, mentioning some of the more common insects they had to deal with, the peculiarities of the people and the characteristics of the climate and country. Mr. Wolley Dod spoke concerning some of his collecting experiences in the Rocky Mts. of Alberta, B. C, mentioning especially some of the interesting Lepidoptera to be taken there. Mr. John W. Angell exhibited a small collection of insects obtained from Bermuda. Society adjourned. 270 Journal New York Entomological Society. Voi xviii Meeting of Tuesday, February i, 1910. Held at the American Museum of Natural History at 8.15 p. m., President C. W. Leng in the chair, with seventeen members and two visitors present. In the absence of the secretary the president asked Mr. Dickerson to act in that capacity. Dr. Lutz, the curator, called attention to the screen which had recently been installed for use with the lantern and exhibited the January number of the Museum Journal containing a photograph of the society's meeting room. Copies were presented for distribution among the members. He stated that a number of the maps for illustrating the local distribution of insects had been printed and on three of these indicated methods which might be used. On one the distribution of Cicindela dorsalis and generosa was shown, on another the topographical conditions and on the third the areas included by So-mile circle. Further methods were also suggested. He stated that Dr. Petrunkewitch had corrected his copy of Emerton's "Common Spiders," bring- ing the nomenclature up to date. A specimen of Pieris oleracea acquired by the society and taken in the vicinity of Paterson was also shown by Dr. Lutz. Dr. Zabriskie, chairman of the executive committee, stated that the do- nation of $25 to the Fletcher Memorial Fund had been forwarded by the treasurer, and read a letter from Mr. Arthur Gibson, secretary of the Me- morial Fund Committee, acknowledging the receipt of this donation and thanking the society for it. Moved by Dr. Zabriskie, duly seconded, that this letter be placed on file. Under scientific discussion and papers — Mr. Schaeffer called the society's attention to an article in a recent number of Tijdschrift voor Entomologie on the habits of Methoca, a group of parasitic Hymenoptera which oviposit on the larvae of Cicindela. Mr. Dickerson gave some notes on Rhynchitis bicolor which had been reported in injurious numbers at Worcester, Mass., last year, and at other times in other localities. The insect occurs widely distributed in the United States, but in his experience in New Jersey was somewhat local and commoner at some points than at others. For several years he had noted it on Rosa nigosa at New Brunswick, N. J., and had observed it there feeding and ovi- positing on the seed capsules, the latter operation lasting somewhat over fifteen minutes, and the beak being used in making the puncture and pushing the egg into place. Beetles began to appear in May and were first observed feeding on the unopened buds. Specimens of the feeding and egg punctures, petals injured by the beetles, and the insect in the egg, larval and adult stages were exhibited. Dr. Lutz spoke on " Notes on Evolution as Illustrated by Experiments with Insects " and said that recently there had been much discussion as to the effects of selection, and some students of evolution felt that while the soma might be affected by it the germ cells were not. Jennings had stated that nothing new was formed by selection and Pearl, of the Maine Experiment Dec, 1910.] Proceedings of the Society. 271 Station, in working with poultry had obtained negative results in selecting eggs to obtain modifications in the chickens. Dr. Lutz, himself, had been continuing his work with the fruit fly, Droso- phila ampelophila, and by selection for decrease and increase in the number of veins had obtained results evidently not produced before in nature. He had worked with some 200,000 f^ies, one lot of which came from Huntington, L. I., and another from Boston and Pennsylvania. By careful selection he had obtained 100 per cent, abnormality in extra-veined specimens which he was able to continue for several generations. In like manner he was able to obtain flies with the tips of the wing veins lacking, but these possessed wings so weak that they drooped on the banana upon which the flies were fed and so were killed off and the strain could not be continued. He had been able to breed from a normal to an abnormal strain in eight generations and con- cluded that artificial selection had had a decided effect upon the insects. In considering the question of the abnormal strain reverting, he liberated in a battery jar, in one experiment, the most abnormal specimens of the abnormal strain and in twelve generations, covering a period of twenty-four weeks, they went back to the normal form. In a second experiment, he released in a battery jar an equal number of normal and abnormal forms and in three or four generations the flies reverted to the normal form. He believed the active force at work in these experiments was sexual selection. Dr. Lutz then reviewed some of the facts discussed by Tower in his paper on " F.volution in the Chrysomelid Beetles in the Genus Leptinotarsa." Tower has pointed out that Leptinotarsa decemlineata has been derived from intermedia which has its habitat in central Mexico. The latter form spread northward along the routes of travel, where the form decemlineata became prominent and it in turn spread first northward along the buffalo trails and later through the introduction of the potato, eastward to the Atlantic sea- board. The form juncta retreated before the form decemlineata. In moisture and temperature experiments he found that the deviation from the normal produced first melanism and, as the deviation increased, albinism. By varying conditions of humidity and temperature and exposing females to these changed conditions for a period just preceding oviposition, forms were obtained which held their variation through several generations, even when allowed to breed under natural conditions. By abnormal environment, also, a strain having five annual generations has been obtained while three is the greatest number that naturally occurs in this group. Mr. Leng spoke of the color variations that occurred in some of the Coccinellidae, and asked whether Dr. Tower had obtained any structural differ- ences. Dr. Lutz said he believed that he had. Mr. Davis called the members' attention to Bull. No. ^^ of the Louisiana Crop Pest Commission, by W. Newell, dealing with the treatment of the boll weevil by the use of powdered arsenate of lead, and also the comment upon it by Mr. Hunter in Science. Mr. Davis suggested that the success of this method would do away with the necessity of destroying the scenic effects necessitated by destroying the hibernating places of the insects. 272 Journal New York Entomological Society. Voi. xviir. Mr. Dickerson stated that powdered arsenate of lead was a comparatively new form of the substance, it having been used hitherto as a liquid spray. Meeting adjourned. E. L. Dickerson, Secretary pro tem. Meeting of Tuesday, February 15, 1910. Held at the American Museum of Natural History, President C. W. Leng in the chair, with twenty-one members and two visitors present. The minutes of January 18 and February i were read and approved. The librarian, Mr. Schaeffer, reported the receipt of the following ex- changes : Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 6, 7. Canadian EntomoL, XLII, Nos. i, 2. Entomologisk Tidskrift, Vol. XXX, Nos. 1-4. Societas Entomologica, XXIV, Nos. 19, 20. Wiener Entomolpgische Zeitung, XXIX, No. i. Bull. 225 N. J. Agr. Exp. Station, Dec, 1909. Mittheilungen aus d. Naturhist. Museum in Hamburg, XXVI, Dec, 1909. Deutsche Entomolog. Zeitschrift, No. i, 1910. The curator. Dr. Lutz, exhibited and spoke concerning a series of maps, showing the distribution of the tiger beetles within the 50-miIe limit, to illus- trate the effectiveness of the plan to record the occurrence of our local species. These maps were prepared from records obtained in the collections of Messrs. Harris, Leng, Davis and the Staten Island Association of Natural Sciences, besides the local collection. Mr. Davis, on behalf of the committee, exhibited a book containing the historical letters of the society. Upon motion the committee was discharged. Mr. Schaeffer read a letter from the Russian Entomological Society, an- nouncing the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary on March 11, and inviting the society to send a delegate to represent it. On motion the secretary was requested to reply to the letter. The librarian having requested more book cases, the matter was referred to the treasurer and librarian. Mr. John Angell proposed as an active member of the society Mr. T. R. Richardson, 459 W. 123d St., New York. On motion the secretary was author- ized to cast a single ballot for the election of Mr. Richardson. Dr. Osburn suggested the securing of all the photographs of eminent entomologists and especially those of all members of the society. Dr. Love moved that Dr. Osborn be named as a committee of one to get together such a collection of photographs, to include also the photographs of ex-mem- bers and corresponding members. Carried. Dr. R. C. Osburn exhibited a large number of diptera of the families Syrphidae and Conopidse belonging to the local collection, many of which Dr. Osburn has donated to make the collection more complete. Dec, 1910.] Proceedings of the Society. 273 He spoke of the habits and structural characters of the more interesting species. One of these, Tabanus sonalis, is new to the New Jersey list of insects, having been taken by Mr. F. E. Watson at Greenwood Lake, N. J., June 30, 1909. Mr. Alanson Skinner spoke concerning " The Use of Insects and other Invertebrates as Food by the North American Indians." He mentioned the western tribes among whom insects are used as a food, especially locusts, maggots, crickets, ants (pismires) are most frequently em- ployed and these might be prepared in various ways though commonly they were ground after being dried and then made into paste or dough and cooked, mixed with some other ingredients. Mr. Sleight exhibited two cases showing the life history of several species of our local caddis flies. Mr. William T. Davis stated that he had collected the grasshopper Hesperotetti.v brevipennis at Yaphank, Long Island, on July 27, 1909. Twelve specimens were secured in a small clump of sweet fern almost circular in form and 36 feet in diameter. The females had just matured, and there were a few nymphs. All seen were not collected, as it was thought best to pre- serve the little colony. No others could be found on July 2j, even in neigh- boring clumps of sweet fern, but at a subsequent date three were found in sweet fern in the same field. Specimens have been found at Lakehurst, N. J., in August and September, and it has been reported by collectors from several localities in southern New Jersey. Prof. Morse has found it sparingly at Wellesley, Mass., but it appears to be a rather rare grasshopper and has been usually found in but small colonies. Mr. Engelhardt exhibited two ticks, Oniithodorus sp., which he had re- ceived from Mexico some two months ago, alive, and considerably larger than in the present shriveled condition. They had lived for nearly the entire time without food. Dr. Lutz exhibited an automatic folding trap lantern, and asked for sug- gestions for its improvement. Society adjourned. Index to Names of Insects and Plants in Volume XVIII. Generic names begin with a capital, specific names with a small letter. New genera, subgenera, species, subspecies and varieties are printed in italics. Absyrtus, 4 Acsenites, 4 Acanthocephala, 26 terminalis, 26 Acanthoderes, 135 quadrigibus, 135 Acholla, 33 multispinosa, 33 Acidota, 189 quadrata, 189 Acmaeops, 77, 194 directa, 77 fulvipennis, 194 pratensis, 194 proteus, 194 semimarginata, 194 Acoptus, 79 suturalis, 79 Actobius, 74 parcus, 74 Acutalis, 167 semicrema, 167 Adalia, 41 bipunctata, 41 Adelocera, 75 marmorata, 75 Adoneta, 161 leucosigma, 161 Agabus, 184 jeneolus, 184 arcticus, 186 borealis, 185 congener, 185 dissimilis, 185 discolor, 185 erichsonii, 186 fuscipennis, 186 infuscatus, 185 inscriptus, 185 l?evidorsus, 186 lutosus. 186 nigripalpis, 185 Agabus, nigroaeneus, 1S6 parallelus, 184 punctulatus, 184 semipunctatus, 184 subfasciatus, 186 tristis, 186 Agathidium, 74, 188 dentigerum, 74 obsoletum, 188 oniscoides, 74 Agathis, 5 Agonoderus, 74 infuscatus, 74 pallipes, 74 testaceus, 74 Agrilus, 76 arcuatus, 76 bilineatus. 76 fuscipennis, 76, 81 otiosus, 76 Agropenna, 137 belangeri, 142, 143 cogitata, 138, 139, 140, 147 citimia, 142, 143 conradi, 138, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148 dubitans, 138, 140, 147 exornata, 142 helva, 138, 140, 141, 142, 147 illustra, 138 indela, 144, 146, 148 inficita, 138, 142, 143, 148 lateritia, 137, 138, 139, 140, 147 lineosa, 145, 147, 148 lutosa, 138, 141, 143, 147 niorna, 138, 142 pendina, 146, 147, 148 satina, 139, 140 sputatrix, 138, 140 Alaptus, 240 csecilii, 241, 242, 244 eriococci, 242, 244 274 Index. 275 Alaptus excisus, 242 fusculus, 244 fuscus, 244 globosicornis, 242, 244 iceryse, 240, 243, 244 immaturus, 242, ^^^ inionsipennis, 244, 245 minimus, 242, 244, 245 pallidicornis, 244 pallipes, 243, 244 Alaus, 75 oculatus, 75 Aleochara, 74 lata, 74 Algoa, 16, 18 heterodoxa, 18 Allodape, loi simillima, loi Alydus, 2y conspersus, 27 eurinus, 27 pilosulus, 27 Alypia, 41 octomaculata, 41 Alysia, 5 Amara, 74. 179 brunnipennis, 179 cylindrica, 179 elongata, 180 erratica, 180 exarata, 74 glacialis, 180 hsematopa, 180 hudsonica, 179 interstitalis, 180 pennsylvanica, 74 remotestriata, 180 schwarzi, 180 septentrionalis, 180 similis, 180 Amaurochrous, 25 cinctipes, 25 Ammalo, 163 eglenensis, 163 Amnestus, 25 pusillus, 25 spinifrons, 25 Ampelopsis, 169 Amphionycha. 78 flammata, 78 Ampulicimorpha, 15 confusa, 15 Ansedus, 78 brunneus, 78 Anaphis, 3 conotracheli, 246, 250 Anaphoidea, 246 Anaphoidea conotracheli, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 254 pullicrura, 247, 248, 250, 252, sordidata, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254 Anasa, 26 tristis, 26 Anaspis, 79 flavipennis, 79 rufa, 79 Anchastus, 75 bicarinatus, 75 Andricus, 3 Androchirus, 79 femoralis, 79 Andromeda, 72 Anillus, 73 fortis, 73, 81 Anisodactylus, 74 baltimorensis, 74 carbonarius, 74 furvus, 74 nigerrimus, 74 rusticus, 74 terminatus, 74 Annemoria, 202 bistriaria, 203 pectinaria, 202 Anobium, 76 notatum, 76 Anomala, 77 innuba, 77 marginata, 77 oblivia, 77 undulata, 77 Anomalon, 4 Anomoea, 78 laticiava, 78 Anomoglossus, 74 marginatus, 74 Anosia, 129 plexippus, 129 berenice, 129 Antaplaga, 157 grisesccns, 157 thoracica, 157 Anthaxia, 76 quercata, 76 viridifrons, 135 Anthicus, 79 sturmii, 79 Anthobium, 75 horni, 75 Anthocomus, 76 erichsoni, 76 Anthonomus, 79 mixtus, 79 276 Journal New York Entomological Societ- Anthophora, 107 aeruginosa, 108 cingulata, 108 emendata, 108 gilberti, 108 preissi, 107 pulchra, 108 scymna, 108 zonata, 108 Anthrenus, 75 musseorum, 75 varius, 75 Anthribus, 80 cornutus, 80 Apantesis, 149 placentia, 149 sociata, 149 Apateticus, 22, bracteatus, 23 cynicus, 22 Apenes, 74 lucidula, 74 Aphodius, y7 depressus, jj granarius, yy guttatus, 194 lividus, yy rubeolus, yy Aphonus, yy pyriformis, yy Aphorista, 75 vittata, 75 Aphrastus, 79 tseniatus, 79 Apiomerus, 38 longispinus, 38 Apion, 79, 131 griseus, 131 Aplectoides, 86 livalis, 86 speciosa, 86 Aplodes, 204 darwiniata, 205 obliqua, 204 splendidaria, 204 strigataria, 204 Apocellus, 75 sphasricollis, 75 Aporus, 126 apicatus, 126 fasciatus, 126 ma gnus, 126 Aradus, 26 lugubris, 26 robustus, 26 similis, 26 Archimerus, 36 Archimerus squalus, 36 Ardistomis, y;} viridis, 73 Argaleus, 194 nitens, 194 Argynnis, 129 diana, 129 Arhaphe, 38 cicindeloides, 38 Arpedium, igo brachypterum, 190 Arthromacra, 79 senea, 79 Asaphes, 76 decoloratus, y6 memnonius, 76 Ascogaster, 5 Astiphromma, 4 Atsenius, yy abditus, yy imbricahis, yy stercorator, yy Athous, y6 acanthus, y6 cucullatus, y6 fossularis, y6 scapularis, y6 Atranes, 74 pubescens, 74 Attalus, 76 granulans, y6 scincetus, y6 Attelabus, 79 bipustulatus, 79 nigripes, 79 Aulacodes, 9 Aulacus, 3 Aulonium, 75 tuberculatum, 75 Axima, 127 zabriskii, 127 Azalea, y2 Azenia, 158 pulchra, 158 Babia, 78 4-guttata, 78 Badister, 74 micans, 74 Balaninus, 79 nasicus, 79 rectus, 79 Banasa, 2^, 130 catinus, 23 packardi, 130 Barce, 32 annulipes, 32 Index, 277 Baris, 79 striata, 79 Barnesia, 206 ritaria, 207 Barylypa, 4 Basilarchia, 129 floridana, 129 Bassareus, 78 congestus, 78 Bassus, 4 Batrisus, 74 denticollis, 74 ferox, 74 monstrosus, 74 Bellaniira, yy scalaris, yy Belonochus, 74 formosus, 74 Belyta, 2 Bembidium, y^, 177 dilatatum, y^ grapei, 178 laevigatum, y^ longulum, 177 nigrum, y^ nitens, 178 oblongulum, 178 picipes, 178 postremum, y^ variegatum, y^ Betarmon, 75 bigeminatus, 75 Bethylinas, 2 Binghamiella, loi antipodes, loi Blacus, 5 Blapstinus, 78 moestus, 78 Blepharida, 78 rhois, 78 Bledius, 75, 189 cordatus, 75 Blissus, 28 leucopterus, 28 Bombycia, 160 fasciata, 160 griseor, 161 improvisa, 160 semicircularis, 161 tearlei, 160 tema, 161 Borborus, 84 geniculatus, 84 Bracon, 5 Brachistes, 5 Brachyacantha, 75 congruens, 75, 81 Brachyacantha indubitabilis, 75 Brachygaster, 3 Brachylobus, 135 Hthophilus, 135 Brachys, y6 asrosa, y6 Bradycellus, 182 cognatus, 182 Brady tus, 180 glacialis, 180 schwarzi, 180 septentrionalis, 180 Brochymena, 25, 34 hredula, 34 quadripustulata, 25 Brontes, 75 dubius, 75 Bruchus, 6y, i2y discoideus, 6y, 127 Bryoporus, 189 rufescens, 189 Buenoa, 33 margaritacea, ^^ Burtinus, 37 notatipennis, :iy Byrrhus, igi americanus, 191 cyclophorus, 192 geminatus, 192 Kirbyi, igi picipes, 191 Cacoplia, yy pullata, yy Csnocelius, 9 Calathus, 74, 181 advena, 181 gregarius, 74 ingratus, 181 mollis, 181 opaculus, 74 Caliphelis, 129 borealis, 129 Callida, 130 viridis, 130 Calloides, yy nobilis, yy Callomelitta, 100 perpicta, 100 picta, 100 Calochromus, y6 perfacetus, yS Calyptus, 5 Camerotops, 4 Camponotus, 82, 216 Jethiops, 217 americana, 224 278 Journal New York Entomological Society. Camponotus atra, 232 brunni, 217 clarithorax, 221, 222, 231, 22,2 cnemidatus, 221, 222, 22,2 decipiens, 221, 222, 226, 22^, 228 discolor, 220, 221, 222, 230, 231, 232 fallax, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 224, 22s, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232 gestroi, 218 herculeanus, 216 himalayanus, 217 hyalinipennis, 217 hyatti, 218 inter jectus, 218 kamensis, 217 lameeri, 217 lateralis, 218 maculatus, 217 marginatus, 216, 217, 219, 222, 224, 225, 227, 229, 230, 231, 232 minutus, 217, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225, 227 nearcticus, 220, 221, 222, 225, 227, 230 nitidus, 218 pardus, 220, 221, 222, 225 paucipilus, 221, 222, 230 pavidus, 221, 222, 228 quadrinotatus, 217 rasilis, 220, 221, 222, 227, 228, 230, 231 ruszki, 217 sayi, 218 schaefferi, 218 sicheli 218 subbarbatus, 221, 222, 22$, 226, 229, 230, 231 tranquaryi, 221, 222, 226 tepicanus, 218 texanus, 218 universitatis, 218 vitiosus, 217 Camptoptera, 236 clavata, 238 metotarsa, 239 papaveris, 238 pulla, 236, 238 Campylenchia, 170 curvata, 170 Canifa, 79 plagiata, 79 Canthon, 76, 83, 134 chalcites, 76, 83, 134 Isevis, 77 Canthon nigricornis, 77 viridis, 77 Capnochroa, 79 fuliginosa, 79 Carabus, 73, 176 chamissonis, 176 limbatus, 73 serratus, 73 sylvosus, 73 Cardiophorus, 75 gagates, 75 Carineta, 130 parvula, 130 Carneades, 89 contagionis, 89 Carpophilus, 75 antiquus, 75 melanopterus, 75, 81 Carynota, 167 mera, 167 Casnonia, 74 pennsylvanica 74 Catabomba, 53, 61, 60, 58, 59 Catapius, 213 irregularis, 213 Catonama, 76 Celetes, 76 basalis, 76 Celia, 180 erratica, 180 interstitialis, 180 remotestriata, 180 Celithemis, 130 fasciata, 130 Centrinus, 79 picumnus, 79 Centrodera, 77 picta, 77 Centruchoides, 170 perdita, 170 Ceraphron, 3 Ceratina, 127 dupla, 127 Cercus, 75 abdominalis, 75 Cercyonis, 129 pegala, 129 Ceresa, 164 albescens, 165 borealis, 166 brevistylus, 165 diceros, 164, 167 palmeri, 166, 167 taurina, 165 Cerma, 155 albipuncfa, 155 marina, 156 Index. 279 Ceropales, 126 bipunctata, 126 robinsoni, 126 stiginatica, 126 tibialis, 126 Cerotoma, 78 trifurcata, 78 Ceruchus, 76 piceus, 76 Chalcis, 3 Chariessa, 76 pilosa, 76 Chauliognathus, 76 marginatus, 76 Chelogynus, 2 Chelonus, 5 Chrysochus, 78 auratus, 78 Chilocorus, 75 bivulnerus, 75 Chlaenius, 74, 130 augustus, 130 laticollis, 74 tomentosus, 74 tricolor, 74 Chlamys, 78 plicata, 78 Chlorocoris, 35, 36 atrispinus, 35 hebetatus, 35 rufopictus, 35 subrugosus, 35 Choeridium, 77 histeroides, 77 lecontei, 77 Choleva, 188 luridipennis, 188 Choragus, 80 sayi, 80 Chramesus, 80 icoriae, 80 Chrysobothris, 43, 76 breviloba, 47, 51 californica, 45, 46, 47, 52 carinipennis, 46, 47, 49 caurina, 47, 49, 50 dentipes, 43, 49, 76 femorata, 48 floricola, 76 harrisi, 76 monticola, 46, 51, 52 scabripennis, 44 sylvania, 47, 50 trinervia, 47, 49 verdigripennis, 43, 46, 49 vulcanica, 49 Chrysodina, 78 Chrysodina globosa, 78 Chrysomela, 78 philadelphica, 78 Chrysopa, 130 Cicada, 130, 84 hieroglyphica, 84 pruinosa, 131 Cicindela, 67 abdominalis, 131 ancocisconensis, 131 blanda, 131 cumatilis, 131 dorsalis, 270 i2-guttata, 72 generosa, 270 gratiosa, 129, 131 hamata, 131 hirticollis, 131 marginata, 129 nigrior, 131 patruela, 73, 129 pmictulata, 72,, 129 repanda, 7^, 131 severa, 131 6-gvittata, 73, 84, 131 saulcyi, 131 togata, 131 tortuosa, 131 tranquebarica, 7:^, 80 transversa, 7^, unipunctata, 67, 73, 80 Cicones, 75 marginalis, 75 Cirphis, 152 dissiiniliSj 152 Cis, 76 Cistela, 79 marginata, 79, 82 oblonga, 79 pulla, 79 sericea, 79 Cleonymus, 3 Clerus, 67, 76, 13s ichneumoneus, 76 jouteli, 67, 76 lunatus, 76, 135 nigripes, 76 Cligenes, 30 minutus, 30 pilosnlns, 30 Clinidium, 75 sculptile, 75 Clivina, 73 bipustulata, 7'i planicollis, 73 Clytanthus, 77 ruricola, 77 280 Journal New York Entomological Society. Coccinella, 130, 190 lacustris, 190 monticola, igo nivicola, 190 oculata, 130 transversoguttata, 190 Coelambus, 183 unguicularis, 183 CcEnocalpe, 201 aurata, 202 magnoliata, 201, 202 oxygramma, 202 Coenoscelis, 190 Ccenus, 24 delius, 24 Colaspis, 78 brunnea, 78 costipennis, 78 favosa, 78 Colastus, 75 unicolor, 75 Collops, 76 limbellis, 76 4-maculatus, y6 Colymbetes, 184 dolobratus, 187 drewseni, 187 groenlandicus, 187 picipes, 184 rugipennis, 187 sculptilis, 187 Conocephalus, 130 haplomachus, 130 Conophron, 74 longipilosum, 74 Conosoma, 75 basale, 75 crassum, 75 pubescens, 75 Conotelus, 75 obscurus, 75 Conotrachelus, 79 anaglypticus, 79 juglandis, 79 naso, 79 nenuphar, 246, 248, 250 seniculus, 79 Copris, yj Carolina, yy Coptocycla, 78 aurichalcea, 78 Coptodera, 74 aerata. 74 Copicucullia, 97 incresa, 97 Copturus, 79 binotatus, 79 Copturus quercus, 79 Corizus, 2j lateralis, 2y nigristernum, 2y Corphyra, 79 collaris, 79 Corticaria, 191 deleta, 191 dentigera, 191 ferruginea, 191 Corythuca, 30 arcuata, 31 ciliata, 30 pergandei, 31 Corymbites, 67, y6, 193 divaricatus, 76, 81 hamatus, y6 pyrrhos, 76 trivittatus, 67, y6, 81 spinosus, 193 Corynocoris, 26 typhseus, 26 Coscinoptera, 78 dominicana, 78 Cosmocoma, 255 acanthi, 258 Cosmopepla, 24, 35 binotata, 35 carnifex, 24, 39 Cossonus, 79 impressifrons, 79 Cotinis, yy nitidtis, yy Cratjegus, 229 Cratoparis, 80 lunatus, 80 Cregya, 76 oculata, 76 Cremastochilus, yy harrisi, yy variolosus, yy (ireophilus, 74, 189 villosus, 74, 189 maxillosus, 189 Crepidodera, 78 helxines, 78 rufipes, 78 Criocephalus, 194 agrestis, 194 obsoletus, 194 Crioceris, 67 i2-punctatus, 67 Crocisa, loi lamprosoma, loi quadrimaculata, loi quartinae, loi Crophius, 29 Index. 281 Crophius disconotus, ?<, Cryptocephalus, 78 gibbicollis, 78 lateritius, 78 notatus, 78 quadruplex, 78 Cryptocheilus, 120 arcuatus, 120 coloradensis, 121 pallescens, 121 placitus, 122 Cryptophagus, 75, 190 valens, 75 Cryptorhopalum, 75 triste, 75 Cryptohypnus, 75 exigvuis, 75 Cryptorrhynchus 78 ferratus, 78 minutissimus, 78 Cryptus, 4 Ctenucha, 164 Cupes, 76 concolor, 76 Cuterebra, 267 Cychramus, 75 adustus, 75 Cychrus, 67, 71, 72, 130 laicarinatus, 67, 7:^, 80. 130 canadensis, 72 andrewsi, 67, 72, 80, 130 elevatus, 73, 130 Cycloptilum, 67 squamosum, 67 Cymatodera, 76 bicolor, 76 Cymatophora, 205 inquinaria, 206 tenebrosata, 206 trilincaria, 205 Cymindis, 74, 134, 181 americana, 74 cribricollis, 134 elegans, 74 unicolor, 181 Cymodema, 28 tabida, 28 Cymus, 28 angustatus, 28 luridus, 28 discors, 28 Cynips, 3 Cynthia, 67 Cyphomelissa, 209 diabolica, 210 garleppi, 209, 210 jenseni, 210 Cyphomelissa superba, 210 viridis, 210 Cyphomimus, 269 dorsalis, 269 Cyphon, 75 obscurus, 75 Cyrtinus, 77 pygnijeus, 77 Cyrtolobus, 169 Cyrtonotus, 179 brunnipennis, 179 cylindrica, 179 elongata, 180 haematopa, 180 hudsonica, 179 hyperborea, 179, 180 similis, 180 Cyrtophorus, 77 verrucosus, 77 Dasycerus, 67, 75, 81 carolinensis, 67, 75, 81 Debis, 129 cleola, 129 portlandia, 129 Decatoma, 3 Demophorus, 5 Dendroctonus, 197 borealis, 197 rufipennis, 197 terebrans, 197 Dendroides, 79 canadensis, 79 Dermestes, 190 lardarius, igo Desmocerus, 77 palliatus, 77 Deronectes, 182 catascopium, 182 griseostriatus, 182 Dorcus, 76 parallelus, 76 Diabrotica, 78 i2-punctata, 78 vittata, 78 Diachasma, 5 Diacrisia, 164 Diaperis, 78 hydni, 78 Diastrophus, 3 Dicselus, 74 ambiguus, 74 dilatatus, 74 elongatus, 74 furvus, 74 politus, 74 purpuratus, 74 282 Journal New York Entomological Society. Dicaelus teter, 74 Dicerca, 76 asperata, ~() obscura, 76 Dichocysta, 38 pictipes, 38 Dineutes. 74 vittatus, 74, 81 Diomorus. 127 zabriskii, 127 Diospilus, 5 Diplotaxis, "jj bidentata, •/•] harperi, yj liberta, 77 sordida, •7^ Dircsea, 79 liturata, 79 Disonycha, 78 discoidea, 78 Distenia, Tj undata, Tj Donacia, 135 flavipes, 135 Doryphora, 78 lo-lineata, 78 Dromseolus, 75 striatus, 75 Drosophila, 271 ampelophila, 271 Dryinus, 2, 12 Dryioiinpsis, 16 siinplicipes, 17 Dryophthorus, 79 corticalis, 79 Dynastes, yj tityus, 77 Dyscoletes, 5 Dytiscus, 187 dauricus, 187 parvulus, 187 Eanus, 192 vagus, 192 Eciton, 70 Ectopria, 75 nervosa, 75 Ecyrus, 78 dasycerus, 78 Elaphidion, 77 aculeatum, 77 cinerascens, 77 mucronatum, 77 villosum, 77 Elaphrus, 176 obliteratus, 176 obscurior, 176 Elater, 75, 192 nigrinus, 192 obliquus, 75 pedalis, 75 rubricollis, 75 Emblethis, 30 vicarius, 30 Emesa, 32 longipes, 32 Endomychus, 75 biguttatus, 75 Enchodes, 79 sericea, 79 Entylia. 260 sinuata, 260, 261, 262, 26.5 mira, 261, 263 concisa, 262, 263 bactriana, 263 Epeolus, 208 nobilis, 209 osiriformis, 208 unifasciatus, 209 variolosus, 209 Epicauta. 79 cinerea, 79 Ephialtites, 8 Epilachna, 75 borealis, 75 Epitragus, 41 arundinis, 41 Epurasa, 75, 191 helvola, 75 luteola, 75 rufa, 75 truncatella, 191 Epyris, 2, 12 Erchomus, 75 Ifevis, 75 Eremocoris, 30 ferus, 30 Eristalis, 61 Eros, 76, 193 aurora, 193 crenatus, 76 sculptilis, 76 Erycus, 196 sethiops, 196 morio, 196, 269 Estigmene, 164 Euassthetus, 74 americanus, 74 brevipenne, 74 lituarium, 74 Euaontia, 159 semirufa, 159 Eubaphe, 163 aurantiaca, 163 Index. 283 Eubaphe opella, 163 nigricans, 163 Eucarsia, 235 Euchsetias, 164 Euchenopa, 170 binotata, 170 Euclea, 161 flava, 161 dolliana, 161 Euderces, 77 picipes, 77 Eudamus, 129 proteus, 129 Euglossa, 99 adelaidje, 100 calliopsiformis, 100 chrysoceras, 99 depressa, 99 ephippiata, 99 quadrimaculata, 100 reginae, 100 schomhurgki, 99 siiiapipes. 100 subsericea, 99 Eugnamptus, 79 angustatus, 79 Eupatorium, 261 maculatum, 261 piirpureum, 261, 263 Euphoria, 77 sepulchralis, 77 Euphorus, 5 Eupogonius, 78, 135 tomentosus, 78 vestitus, 135 Eupsalis. 79 minuta, 79 Eurema, 129 elathea, 129 enterpe, 129 Eurygaster, 25 alternatus, 25 Eurypogon, 75 niger, 75 Eurytoma, 3 Euschistus, 24 fissilis, 24 ictericus, 24 spurculus, 34 tristigmus, 24 variolarius, 24 Eusphyrus, 80 walshii, 80 Eustochus, 3 Eustrophus, 79 bicolor, 79 bifasciatus 79 Evania, 3 Evarthrus, 74 obsoletus, 74 sigillatus, 74 Euxoa, 89, 151 aiidcra, 89 hollemani, 89, 90 itodes, 151 naevulus, 151 pimensis, 150 termessus, 151 Exetastes, 4 Exochilum, 4 Exochus, 4 Exoneura, loi bicolor, loi Exothecus, 5 Falagria. 74 bilobata, 74 dissecta, 74 Formica, 232 atra, 22,2 fusca, 261 subsericea, 261 Feltia, 88 mitsa. 88 volubilis, 88 Fidia, 78 cana, 78 Figites, 3 Fitchia, 32 nigrovittata, 32 Galerita, 74 bicolor, 74 janus, 74 Galesimorpha, 2 Gargaphia, 31 tiliae, 31 Gelastocoris, 130 Geocoris, 29 ater, 29 bullatus. 29 discopterus, 29 piceus, 29 uliginosus, 29 Geotrupes, 77, 13S balyi, 13S egeriei, 77 splendidus, 77 Gerris, 31 conformis, 31 remigis, 31 Glyphonyx, 75 recticollis, 75 Glypta, 4 284 Journal New York Entomological Society. Goes, "jy debilis, -jy oculata, ^y tesselata, jj Gomphoides, 130 ambigua, 130 Gonatocerus, 3, 246 Gonatopus, 12, 18 Gonioctena, 195 pallida, 195 Graphiphora, 142 inficita, 142 Graphops. 78 curtipennis, 78 pubescens, 78 Grindelia, 257 squarrosa, 257 Gymnetron, 79 teter, 79 Gyrinus, 187 minutus, 187 affinis, 187 opacus, 188 picipes, 188 Gyrophaena, 74 Hadena, 137, 153 albescens, 155 ethnica, 154 fractilinea, 155 hulstii, 138 morna, 138 probata. 153 smaragdina, 156 subornata, 138 Hadronotus, 3 Halesidota, 164 Haliplus, 182 cribrarius, 182 Hapalips, 210 texanits, 210 Harmosftes, 37 subrufus, 37 Harpalus, 74, 182 caliginosus, 74 dichrous, 74 fulvilabris, 182 herbivagus. 182 megacephalus, 181 nitidulus, 74 pennsylvanicus, 74 pleuriticus, 182 proximus, 182 Harrisina. 162 americana, 162 brillians, 162 coracina, 162 Harrisina marteni, 162 Helluomorpha, 135 nigripennis, 135 Helophorus, 188 inquinatus, 188 lineatus, 188 Helops, 78 sereus, 78 americanus, 78 cisteloides, 78 micans, 78 sulcipennis, 79 venustus, 78 Hemirhipus, 75 fascicularis, 75 Hemihyalea, 149 cornea, 150 labecula, 149 mansueta, 149, 150 splendens, 149 Hemiteles, 4 Henoticus, 190 serratus, 190 Herseus, 30 plebejus. 30 Hesperobjenus, 213 abbreviatus, 213 alternafus, 213 subtestaceus, 213 Hesperotettix, 272 brevipennis, 273 Hiatensor, 4 Hister, 75 civilis, 75 Hippopsis, 78 lemniscata, 78 Holcaspis, 220 cinerosa, 228, 231 Homalium, igo lapponicum, 190 Homalocoris, 38 guttatus, 38 Homalota, 74, 189 Homcemus, 25 aeneifrons, 25 Horistonotus, 75 curiatus, 75 Hulstina, 207 forniosata, 207 Hydriomena, 201 viridcscens, 201 Hydrobius, 188 fuscipes, 188 Hydrometra, 32 martini, 32 Hydroporus, 183 articeps, 183 Index. 285 Hydroporus arcticus, 183 humeralis, 183 longicornis, 183 melanocephalus, 183 morio, 183 perplexus, 183 puberulus, 183 tenebrosus, 183 Hygromystes, 130 Hyleoides, loi concinnula, loi rufocincta, loi zonalis, loi Hylobius, 79, 197 confusus, 79, 197 pales, 79 Hylotrupes, 67 bajulus, 67 Hymenorus, 79 pilosus, 79 Hyperaspis, 75 regalis, 75 signata, 75 Hyphantria, 164 Hypnoidus, 192 bicolor, 192 nocturnus, 192 sanborni, 192 Hypoderma, 265 lineata, 265 Hypolampsis, 269 meliyi, 269 Hypomolyx, 196 piceus, 196 pineti, 196 HypophlcEus, 78 thoracicus, 78 Ichneumon, 4 Ilybius, 183 angustior, 184 discedens, 184 pleuriticus, 184 subseneus, 183 IpS, 191 sanguinolentus, 191 Ischiogonus, 5 Ischnodenus, 28 falicus. 28 Ischnorhynchus, 28 Isomira, 79 4-striata, 79 Isia, 164 Ithycerus, 79 noveboracensis, 79 Jalysus spinosus, 2y Juglans, 167, 170 Kermes, 220 Kleidocerys, 28 geminatus, 28 resedcc, 28 Labrorychus, 4 Lachnosterna, yj ciliata, 77 fraterna, 77 hirticula, 77 villifrons, 77 Lactica, 78 tibialis, 78 Lsemophloeus, 75, 213 addendus, 216 adustus, 215 biguttatus, 75, 214 cephalicus, 215 denticornis, 216 dimidiatus, 215 flavosignatus, 214 impressifrons, 213 insolitus, 216 lucanoides, 215 macrocephalns, 214, 215 striatus, 216 Lsemosaccus, 79 plagiatus, 79 Lampionota, 4 Languria, 75 gracilis, 75 mozardi, 75 Laphria, 84 saffrana, 84 Lapton, 4 Lasciaptricus, 60, 58 Lasius, 261 niger, 261 americanus, 261 Latridius, 191 minutus, 191 Lebia, 74, 181 grandis, 181 ornata, 74 Lema, 135 sayi, 13s Leptinotarsa, 271 decemlineata, 271 intermedia, 271 juncta, 271 Leptobatopsis, 4 Leptobyrsa, 31 explanata, 31 Leptostylus, 77 commixtus, 77 286 Journal New York Entomological Societv. Leptostylus macula, "jj Leptotrachelus, 134 dorsalis, 134 Leptoypha, 38 brevicornis, 38 Leptura, tj, 195 aurata, tj, 81 bifaris, -j-j convexa, "jj cordifera, tj hirtella, 195 lineola, Tj tibialis, 195 vagans, -jj vittata, Tj Lepturges, 78 facetus, 78 pictus, 78 querci, 78 symmetricus, 78 Lepyrus, 196 colon, 196 palustris, 196 Lerema, 129 accius, 129 Lestis, loi bombylans, loi Leucania, 153 lutina, 153 Ligyrocoris, 29 silvestris, 29 Ligyrus, -J -J gibbosus, "jj Limacis, 3 Limnerium, 4 Limonius, 76 jeger, "](> agonus, tS auripilis, 76 nimbatus, ■](> Lina, 78 lapponica, 78 scripta, 78 Liodes, 74 geminata, 74, 81 Liopus, T] alpha, 78 fascicularis, 78 variegatus, "j-j Listrotrophus, 74 cingulatus, 74 Litargus. 75, 212 didesmus, 75 nebulosus, 75 grandis, 212 Lithocaris, 74 confluens, 74 Lithosia, 164 Litus, 3 Lixus, 79 concavus, 79 macer, 79 musculus, 79 terminalis, 79 Loricera, 176 cjerulescens, 176 Loxandrus, 74 velox, 74, 81 Lucanus, 76 dama, 76 elaphus, 76, 130 Lucidota, 76 atra, 76 Luperina, 97 extensa, 97 passer, 97 Luperus, 78 meraca, 78 Lycaena, 84 ladon, 84 Lychnis, 72 Lygaeus, 27 kalmii, 27 Lysiognatha, 10 Macratria, 79 murina, 79 Macrobasis, 79 unicolor, 79 Macrocamptoptera. 238 metotarsa, 238, 239 Macrocentrus, 5 Macrodactylus, 77 angustatus, 77 Magdalis, 79 perforata, 79 Malfattia, 3 Mallodon, 130 melanopus, 130 dasystomus, 130 Malthinus, 76 occipitalis, 76 Mamestra, 92 gatei, 95 liguida, 96 meodana, 95, 96 montana, 94 nip ana, 93 spiculosa, 93 stricta, 93 tetiisca, 92 trifolii, 95 Mamurius, 27 niopsus, 37 Index. 287 Megachile, io8 abdominalis, 109 adelaidae, iii andrenoides, 109 apicalis, 109 argentifer, 1 1 1 chrysopyga, 109 clypeata, 11 1 cygnorum, 109, 114 fabricator, no ferox, 112 fulvomarginata, 1 1 3 henrici, in, 113 latipes, 113 lucidiventris, 113 macularis, 112, IJ3 nasuta, 1 1 1 phenacopyga, 109 pictiventris, 113 preissii, in quinquelineata, 113 remotula, 112 semicandens, 109 sequior, 108 tomentella, 113 trichognatha, 112 vestitor, no Megalotomus, 27 quinquespinosus, 27 Megapenthes, 75 limbalis, 75 Megilla, 75 maculata, 75 Melanactes, 76 niorio, 76 procerus, y6 reichei, 76 Melanolestes, 32 abdominalis, 32 picipes, 32 Melanophila, 193 acuminata, 193 appendiculata, 193 drummondi, 193 fulvoguttata, 193 guttulata, 193 longipes, 193 Melanorhopala, 30 clavata, 30 Melanotus, 75 americanus, 76 decumanus, 75 parumpunctatus, 76 Melyris, 76 cribrata, 76 Metachroma, 78 pallidum, 78 Metachroma puncticolle, 78 Metastelina, 129 Meteorus, 5 Methoca, 15, 270 Mesites, 67 subcylindricus, 67 Mesochorus, 4 Mesoleptus, 4 Mesoleuca, 199 interrupta, 199, 200 ochreata, 200 Mesostenus, 4 Michthysoma, 67 heterodoxum, 67, 77, 82 Microcentrus, 170 caryae, 170 Microgaster, 5 Microplitis, 5 Microrhopala, 135 xerene, 135 Microtonus, 79 sericans, 79 Microtypus, 5 Microvellia, 31 americana, 31 capitata, 31 pulchella, 31 Micrutalis, 167 calva, 167 Milyas, 39 inermis, 39 spinicollis, 39 Mineus, 23 strigipes, 23 Monocrepidius, 75 bellus, 75 lividus, 75 Monodontomerus, 3 Monohammus, 77 titillator, 77 Mordella, 79 borealis, ig6 lunulata, 79 marginata, 79 8-punctata, 79 serval, 79 scutellaris, 79 Mordellistena, 79 discolor, 79 fuscata, 79 liturata, 79 pubescens, 79 semiusta, 79 trifasciata, 79 Mormidia, 24 lugens, 24 Morrisonia, 153 288 Journal New York Entomological Society. Morrisonia albidior, 153 Morychus, 19 Mycetina, 75 perpulchra, 75 Mycetophagus, 211 arisonicus, 211 californicus, 212 confusus, 212 flexuosus, 212 pluriguttatus, 75 Mycetoporus, 75 americanus, 75 Mycterus, 79 scaber, 79 Myrmica, 261 brevinodes, 261 canadensis, 261 Mysia, 75 pullata, 75 Mystrocnemis, 16, 19 Nseogeus, 32 concinnus, 32 Natada. 161 dognini, 162 nigripuncta, 161 Nebria, jt, pallipes, y2> sahlbergi, 177 Necrophorus, 74 sayi, 135 tomentosus, 74 Neides, 27 muticus, 27 Neoclytus, 77 erythrocephalus, 77 Neomysia, 197 subvittata, 197 Neonympha, 85 geminata, 85 Nezara, 24 hilaris, 24 Nocloa, 157 dissiuiilis, 157 Noctua, 85 corodera, 85 piscipellis, 86 Nodonota, 78 tristis, 78 Nomaretus, 67 debilis, 67, 7^, 80 Nomia, 106 australica, 106 subaiisfralica, 106 adclaidclla, 106 flavoviridis, 106, 107 gracilipes, 107 Nomia hippophila, 107 nana, 106 ruficornis, 106 Victoria:, 107 Nosodendron, 75 unicolor, 75 Notaris, 196 aethiops, 196 mono, 196 Notiophilus, 176 seneus, 73 aquaticus, 176 borealis, 176 hardyi, 176 semistriatus, 177 sibiricus, 176 9-striatus, 73 Notonecta, 33 insulata, 33 undulata, 33 Notoxus, 79 bicolor, 79 monodon, 79 Nyctobates, 78 pennsylvanica, 78 Nysius, 27 angustatus, 28 ericae, 28 janiaicensis, 28 providus, 28 Oberea, 78 gracilis, 78 mandarina, 78 myops, 135 oculaticollis, 135 ruficollis, 78 Odontota, 135 bicolor, 135 horni, 135 rubra, 78 CEbalus, 24 pugnax, 24 CEcanthus, 130 exclamationis, 130 niveus, 255 CEdancalla, 29 crassimana, 29 dorsal is, 29 CEdionychis, 78 gibbitarsis, 78 quercata, 78 Qlnothera, 248 Oleisopister, 3 Oligia, 155 fractilinea, 155 albescens, 155 Index. 289 Oligomerus, "jd sericans, 76 Oligoneuroides, 5 Olisthopus, 74 parmatus, 74 Onagra, 42 biennis, 42 Oncocnemis, 90 angustus, 92 ciliata, 91 gerdis, 90 intruda, 90 levis, 91, 92 >r/fa, 91 sanina, 91 semicollaris, 90 Onthophagus, 77 hecate, 77 janus, 77 pennsylvanicus, 77, 84 Oodes, 74 14-striatus, 74 Opatrinus, 78 notus, 78 Opharus, 149 astur, 149 fiiniata, 149 Opheltes, 4 Ophiderma, 169 flavocephala, 169 obscura, 169 Orchelimum, 130 volantum, 130 Ormyrodes, 3 Ornithoderus, 27;^ Ornithoptera, 131 priamus, 131 Orphilus, 75 glabratus, 75 Orthoea, 30 basalis, 30 Orthaltica, 78 copalina, 78 Orthocentrus. 4 Orthosia, 138 belangeri, 142 conradi, 142 citima, 142 exornata, 142, 143 inficita, 142, 143 morna, 143 indela, 143 lineosa, 143 pendina, 143 Osmoderma, 77 eremicola, 77 scabra, 77 Otidocephalus, 79 chevrolatii, 79 myrmex, 79 Otiorhynchus, 269 ovatus, 269 Oxacis, 79 thoracica, 79 Oxycnemis, 156 grandimacitla, 156 subsimplex, 156 Oxygonus, 76 obesus, 76 Oxyporus, 75 S-maculatus, 75 stygicus, 75 Padaeus, 35 irroratus, 35 Paederus, 74 littorarius, 74 Pachybrachys, 78 othonus, 78 Pachylobivis, 196 picivorus, 196 Pachyonychus. 78, 135 dimidiaticornis, 135 paradoxus, 78 Pachyscelus, 76 lasvigatus, 76 Pachyta, 194 liturata, 194 Pagasa, 31 fusca, 31 Palseobethylus, 13 longicollis, 13 Palseomymar, 3 Palseorhiza, 98 perkinsi, 98 Palseotorynius, 3 Palamimus, 74 testaceus, 74 Pallodes, 75 pallidus, 75 P am era, 30 Panagseus, 72 fasciatus, 72 Pandeletejus, 79 hilaris, 79 Pantocilis, 2 Papilio, 129 cresphontes, 129 palamedes, 129, 133 Parabates, 4 Paranomus, 192 costalis, 192 decoratus, 192 estriatus, 192 290 Journal New York Entomological Society. Paranomus pictus, 192 Parascleroderma, 19 nigra, 19 Parasierola, 2 Paratenetus, 78 punctatus, 78 Paria, 78 aterrima, 78 4-notata, 78 Passalus, 76 cornutus, 76, 84 Pasimachus, 72> 130 depressus, 73, 130 marginatus, 130 sublsevis, 73, 130 Patrobus, 178 hyperboreus, 178 septentrionis, 178 tenuis, 178 Paulownia, 219 Pediacus, 190 fuscus, 190 Pedinaspis, 122 aiisfralis, 122 legatus, 123 luctiiosa, 123 marije, 123 Pedinomma, 12 Pelidnota, 77 punctata, yy Pelocorus, 33 femoratus, 33 Pelophila, 177 eschscholtzii, 177 rudis, 177 ulkei, 177 Pentatoma, 24 saucia, 24 senilis, 24 Penthe, 79 obliquata, 79 pimelia, 79 Peribalus, 25 limbolarius, 25 Peridroma, 87 c-nigrum, 88 saucia, 88 seraiio, 87 Perigea, 94, 97, 154 contracta, 154 flavistriga, 97 Perigenes, 29 constrictus, 29 costalis, 29 fallax, 29 Perilampus, 3 Perilloides, 23 Perilloides circumcinctus, 23 Pezomachus, 4 Phaegoptera, 149 astur, 149 fumata, 149 Phanaeus, yj carnifex, yy triangularis, yy Phaseolus, 131 polystachus, 131 Phengodes, 76 laticollis, y6 Phileurus, yy truncatus, 77 Philhydrus, 188 bifidus, 188 Philothennus, 75 glabriculus, 75 Philonthus, 74 cyanipennis, 74 Phlegyas, 29 abbreviata, 29 annulicrus, 29 Photinus, 76 consanguineus, y6 pyralis, y6 umbratus, y6 Photuris, y6 pennsylvanicus, y6 Phyciodes, 129 phaon, 129 tharos, 129 Phygadenon, 4 Phyllobaenus, y6 dislocatus, 76 Phyllodecta, 78 vulgatissima, 78 Phyllotreta, 78 picta, 78 Physatochila, 31 plexa, 31 Phytho, 196 niger, 196 Phyton, yy pallidum, yy Piazorhinus, 79, 269 pictus, 79 scutellaris, 79, 269 Piazurus, 78 oculatus, 78 Pieris, 270 oleracea, 270 Piesma, 30 cinerea, 30 Piezostethus, 33 sordidus, 33 Pimpla, 4 Index, 291 Pinus, 45, 220 ponderosa, 45 rigida, 220, 223 Pissodes, 196 Pityophthorus, 79 Placusa, 189 Plagiodera, 195 armoracias, 195 Planiceps, 123 pulchella, 123 Plateros, 76 modestus, y6 timidus, 76 Platydema, 78 excavatum, 78 flavipes, 78 Platynus, 74, 181 decens, 74 deceptivus, 181 extensicollis, 74 ferreus, 74 4-punctatus, 181 reflexus, 74 sinuatus, 181 sordens, 181 Platypus, 79 flavicornis, 79 Platypsylla, 134 castoris, 134 Plocamus, 79 hispidulus, 79 Podabrus, 76, 193 basilaris, 76 brunnicollis, 76 extremus, 193 Iffivicollis, 193 mandibularis, 194 piniphilus, 193 rugulosis, 76 tricostatus, y6 Podisus, 23, 36 maculiventris, 23, 40, 41 marginiventris, 36 modestus, 23 Pogonocherus, 195, 269 fascicularis, 195 penicellatus, 195 PoHa, 97, 151 purpurea, 151, 152 tristis, 152 subjuncta, 151 Polyclasis, 76 bifaria, 76 Populus, 259 grandidentata, 259 Polynema, 233 cecanthi, 254, 258 Polynema bifasciatipenne, 254 Polypleurus, 78 perforatus, 78 Polysphincta, 4 Pompilus, 83 Porosagrotis, 88 catenula, 88, 89 catenuloides. 88, 89 muraenula, 89 Porizon, 4, 5 Prenes, 129 ocola, 129 Proctotrypes, 2 Promethea, 68 Prometopia, 75 6-maculata, 75 Pronuba, 85 yuccasella, 85, 134 Prosopis, 99, 100 bituberculata, 105 callosa, 105 chrysaspis, 102 chrysognatha, 102 cyanura, 102 dromedarius, 105 elegans, loi, 104 elongata, loi, 103 indicator, 103 lateralis, loi morosa, loi, 102 penetrata, loi rollei, 105 trilobata, 105 Prospaltella, 234 koebeli, 236 perspicuipenms, 234 similis, 234, 235, 236 Protenor, 26 belfragei, 26 Protohellwegia, 4 Protoibalia, 3, 10 Protostephanus, 5, 9 Prionochjeta, 74 opaca, 74 Prionus, 77 pocularis, 77 Pristaulacus, 3 Pristovera, 12 Psammochares, 114 albomarginatus, 114 angularis, 115 argenteus, 117 arizonica, 115 biedermanni, 116 birkmanni, 116 calif ornica, 117 cylindricus, 115 292 Journal New York Entomological Society. Psammochaies fulvoapicalis, iiy humilis, 117 luctuosus, 120 maneei, 117 marginalis, 119 minusculiis, 118 posticatus, 119 pretiosa, 119 snowi, 117 striatuliis, 119 subviolaceus, 118, 119 veil trails, 120 virginiensis, 115 " Pseudagenia, 123 apicipennis, 123 blrkmanni, 124 blaisdelli, 125 externa, 124 mellipes, 125 metallica, 125 texana, 125 Pseudanthonomus, 79 longulus, 79 Pseudebaeus, 76 apicalis, yS Psyllobora, 75 20-maculata, 75 Pterocolus, 79 ovatus, 79 Pteromalus, 3 Pterostichus, 72,, 130, 178 adoxus, 72 blanchardi, y^ coracinus, 73 fallax, 130 grandiceps, 6y, 74, 81 honestus, y^ hudsonicus, 179 lachrymosus, 74 luczottii, 179 mandibularis, 179 moestus, 73 orinomum, 178 punctatissimus, 178 spoliatus, y^ vinctus, 74 Ptilodactyla, 75 serricollis, 75 Publilia, 169 concava, 169, 262 nigridorsum, 262 reticulata, 262 porrecta, 263 Pyractomena, 76 lucifera, y6 Pyrochroa, 79 flabellata, 79 Pyropyga, y6 nigricans, 76 Quedius, 74 fulgidus, 74 fulvicollis, 189 hyperboreus, 189 niolochinus, 189 sublimbatus, 189 Quercus, 169, 220 alba, 169 obscura, 169 virginiana, 220, 228, 231 Racheaspila, 204 niveociliaria, 204 saltusaria, 204 Reduvius, 32 personatus, t,^ Rhantus, 186 binotatus, 187 tristriatus, 186 Rhodobjenus, 79 13-punctatus, 79 Rhododendron, y2, 82 Rhogas, 5 Rhimopsis, 14 Rhipiphorus, 135 pectinatus, 135 Rhizagrotis, 87 octona. 87 albalis, 87 Robinia, 167, 169 Rosa, 270 rugosa, 270 Rhagovellia, 31 obesa, 31 Rhynchites, 270 bicolor, 270 Rhyssematus, 79 lineaticollis, 79 Salix, 229 nigra, 229 Salpingus, 196 alternatus, 196 elongatus, 196 virescens, 196 Sambucus, 167, 221 canadensis, 221 Saperda, 78 Candida, 78 discoidea, 78 lateralis, 78 Saropoda, 107 bombiformis, 107 Scasva, 61, 58, 59 Index. 293 Scarites, 73 subterraneus, 72, Scaphidium, 75 piceuin, 75 Scolopostethus, 30 atlanticus, 30 Scotobates, 78 calcarata, 78 Scotogramma, 96 francisca, 96 stretchii, 97 Scymus, 75 Sehirus, 25 cinctus, 25 Selenophorus, 74 ellipticus, 74 Serica, 77 sericea, 77 vespertina, 77 Sericosomus, 76 silaceus, 76, 192 Sierolomorpha, 19 Sidemia, 138 Sierola, 2 Silpha, 188 lapponica, 188 Silvanus, 75 advena, 75 bidentatus, 75 Sinea, 33 diadenia, 33 Simplocaria, 191 metallica, 191 Sirtheiiea. 85 carinata, 85 Sisyrosea, 161 textula, 161 Sitodrepa, 76 panicea, 76, 194 Smilia, 171 camelus, 171, 172 guttata, 171 silvestri, 172 viridis, 171 SoHdago, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 263 Solubea, 24 pugnax. 24 Spermophagus, 78 robinis, 78 Stamnodes, 202 albiapicta, 202 gibbicostata, 202 Staphylinus, 74 comes, 74 maculosus, 74 violaceus, 74 viridanus, 74 Stenomacra, 37 marginella, 37 Stelidota, 75 8-maculata, 75 Stenolophus, 74 conjunctus, 74 ochropezus, 74 spretus, 74 Stenotarsus, 75 hispidus, 75 Stenotrachelus, 195 arctatus. 195, 269 obscurus, 195 Stenopsacus, 244 cruciatus, 244 Sti'chotrix, 254 bifas'ciatipennis, 254, 258 Stictocephala, 166 lutea, 166 Stigmatomma, 83 pallipes, 83, 134 Stilicopsis, 74 paradoxa, 74 Strangalia, 77 famelica, 77 luteicornis, 77 virilis, 135 Sunius, 74 prolixus, 74 Sphenophorus, 135 ochreus, 135 Spilochalcis, 3 Symphora, 79 flavicollis, 79 Synchlora, 203 lesteraria, 203 Syneta, 135 ferruginea, 135, 195 Syrphus, 60 albomaculatus, 59, 60, 61 alcidice, 55 annulipes, 61 arcuatus, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 63 arcucinctus. 56 auricollis, 60 bipunctatus, 55 creper, 60 geniculatus, 60 grossulariae, 60 lapponicus, 53, 55, 61 melanostoma, 59, 61 perplexus, 55, 57, 59, 60, 63 protritus, 60 pyrastri, 58, 59, 60, 61 seleniticus, 59, 60 Tabanus, 273 294 Journal New York Entomological Society, Tabanus zonalis, z-jj, Tachinus, 174, 197 elongatus, 197 fimbriatus, 74 limbatus, 74 parallelus, 197 Tachys, jt, flavicauda, y^ granarius, 73 nanus, "jt, proximus, 73 vivax, 73 Tachyporus, 189 Tanymecus, 79 confertus, 79 Tapinoma, 261 sessile, 261 Telamona, 168 ampelopsidis, 169 hilaris, 168 reclivata, i6g Teleonema, 38 variegata, 38 Telephorus, -jd, 194 carolinus, 76 curtisii, 194 fraxini, 194 nigritulus, 194 scitulus, •]() Tenebrio, 65 Tenebrioides, 75 bimaculata, 75 nana, 75 Termes, 68 flavipes, 68 Tetracha, 131 Carolina, 131 Tetralonia, loi convicta, loi Tetrapus, 3 Thaneroclerus, -^d sanguineus, yd Thelia, 168 bimaculata, 168, 169 Thecla, 129 cecrups, 129 Thyanta, 24 custator, 24 Thymalus, 75 fulgidus, 75 Thyreocoris, 25 unicolor, 25 pulicarius, 26 Torymus, 3 Toxidium, 75 4-guttatum, 75 Trachea, 153 Trachea ethnica, 154 probata, 153 Trechus, 69, 178 chalybseus, 69 micans, 178 rubens, 178 Trichius, yy affinis, yy bibens, yy piger, yy Trichocellus, 182 cognatus, 182 Trichodesma, y6 gibbosa, y6 Trichopepla, 25 semivittata, 25 Trimiomelba, 74 Triphleps, 33 insidiosus, 33 Tripocris, 162 cyanea, 162 lustrans, 162 smithsonianus, 162 Tritoma, 75 ruficeps, 75 thoracica, 75 Trogosita, 75 virescens, 75 Trogus, 4 Tropideres, 80 bimaculatus, 80 Trox, yy monachus, yy Trypherus, 76 latipennis, y6 Tryphon, 4 Tylecomnus, 4 Tyloderma, 246 foveolatum, 246, 238 Tymnes, 78 metasternalis, 78 tricolor, 78 Typocerus, yy lunatus, yy, 135 velutinus, yy zebratus, yy Uloma, 78 imberbis, 78 impressa, 78 punctulata, 78 Urographis, 78 fasciatus, 78 Urosigalphus, 5 Valgus, yy canaliculatus, yy Index. 295 Valgus squamiger, "jj Vanhornia, lo Verbascum, 39 blattaria, 39 Viburnum, 165, 170 Viridemas, 156 minuta, 156 Xanthonia, 78 lo-notata, 78 villasula, 78 Xenogenus, 37 extensum, 37 Xyleborus, 80 Xylonomus, 4 Xylophasia, 137 Xylopinus, 78 rufipes, 78 saperdioides, 78 Xylotrechus, 77, 194 colonus, 77 undulatus, 194 Yakitna, 95 Yucca, 85 filamentosa, 85 Zelus, 32 luridus, 32 NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 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