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NEOSCIARA MACFARLANEI.—JONES
ADULT FEMALE, PUPA, EGG, MALE HYPOPYGIUM, LARVA.

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VoL. XXXII. APRIE,. 1920. No. 4.
CONTENTS
Jones—Another Pitcher-Plant Insect Weiss—Tinea acapnopennella Clem.
(Diptera; ‘Sciarinae)). 5..../..-.-. or (Lepid.) Bred from Fungus .... 108
Smith—The Bembicine Wasps of Mr. E. B. Williamson Collecting
North Carolina (Hym.)......... 94 Odonata in Venezuela........... 108
MacGillivray—The Eyes of Insects.. 97 Ecology—A New Journal of Ento-
Fisher & Nicolay—A Mexican Species molopicall Interest: a0) acc neon. 109
of Agrilus found in Arizona French Grants for Entomological
(Goleapteraye yee. re oes ee oes 100 Stodysts ee aes eee 109
Leussler—A New Euphydryas from Cockerell—Furcaspis biformis (Homop.,
Nebraska (Lep:)i. 5.2. ..2<5..005: 102 Coccidae) res rcakics eek one meas 109
Malloch—A New Species of Coenosia Cockerell—Mesocyphona rubia (Dipt.,
from the Western United States Tipulidae)...... BNE meestActe Wie ee 109
(Diptera, Anthomyiidae) ...... 103 Entomological Literature ........ IIo
Editorial—The Urgent Necessity of Doings of Societies:

Higher Salaries for Entomologists 105 Entom. Section, Acad. Nat. Sci.
Skinner—Callosamia carolina and LONI R GS 4S Ses ers eae II2
Samia securifera (Lepid., Satur- Entomological Workers in Ohio

HICIAG) eer tere clei. + sino kters.«. > 107 AStENEIONS= 229 = 2) fo heen atetosic 114

Barber—Notes on the Oviposition and Obituary:
Food of the Wheel-bug (Arilus Dry Hei WWiOOd eo e nis och ok 1L5
cristatus Linn.) (Hemip. Heter.) 107 Oliver Spink Westcott ae 3 ie)
Dr (CAG Pi ewittr nace acs ce 120

Another Pitcher-Plant Insect (Diptera,
Sciarinae).

By FRANK Morton JONEs, Wilmington, Delaware.
(Plate I.).

The captures of Sarracenia, especially those of the larger
southern species, offer many surprises: as we pass from one
tall “‘pitcher’’ to another, lifting their lids and peering down
the narrowing tubes, we find recent captures,—moths, beetles,
flies, wasps, grasshoppers, representatives of most of the prin-
cipal orders of insects,—attempting to scale the vertical walls
which have already proved fatal to the earlier victims whose
remains fill the lower tubes; we recognize the usual guest in-
sects, Exyra, Sarcophaga, Isodontia, or the indications of
their presence; and if the season and locality be favorable,
we may soon find a “‘pitcher’’ whose tube, some inches below
the top, is closed by a mass of whitish froth-like filaments

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suggestive of a mold or fungus, but which closer examination
shows to be the product of certain slender yellowish white or
yellow larvae which are feeding upon the captured insects,
the froth-like mass being spun by those about to pupate,
usually on the upper surface of the accumulated insect remains.
Attention to this insect was first called (in 1909) by Dr. John
M. Macfarlane, who has so ably monographed the Sarra-
ceniaceae; at that time, in the Sarracenia-house of the Bo-
tanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, the
presence of these insects occasioned some alarm for the safety
of the plants, until their feeding habits were determined;
subsequent observations in the field have resulted in the
discovery of this insect in the pitchers of S. sledgei in southern
Mississippi, in, sledget and drummondii in southern Alabama,
in S. rubra and S. flava in North Carolina, and in S. minor
and S. flava in South Carolina. Thus widely distributed,
and associated with every species of Sarracenia whose struc-
ture is favorable to its presence, this insect is probably, like
the associated Sarcophagid flies (Aldrich, Sarcophaga and
Allies in North America, Thomas Say Foundation, 1916,
pages 88, 89), exclusively a pitcher-plant insect; Dr. Johann-
sen has kindly determined that it belongs to an undescribed
species, in Pettey’s key (Annals Ent. Soc. Am., XI, 319)
going with Neosciara coprophila and N. caldaria, from which
it is readily separable by the &@ hypopygium, which in the
new species resembles that of jucunda (Johannsen’s figure
123), though lacking the transverse row of setae, and in wing
venation having the petiole of the cubitus longer and R'
shorter than in jucunda; its description follows:

Neosciara macfarlanei nov. sp.

Egg.—Pear-shaped, .38 mm. long, .21 mm. greatest width; translucent,
polished, pale yellow; deposited on inner leaf wall above the insect re-
mains.

Larva.—Of the usual Sciara form, with brownish-black chitinized head;
in color varying individually from yellowish white to rather bright yellow;
the dark contents of the digestive tract, in which insect fragments are
recognizable, showing through the translucent integument; segments
6, 7, 8, and 9 of almost uniform diameter, from these tapering somewhat
anteriorly and posteriorly; eight pairs of spiracles marked by minute pol-

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ished black rounded protuberances; length before pupation 10 mm.; usu-
ally from three to a dozen or more larvae occupy an infested pitcher.

Pupa.—Suspended among or imbedded in froth-like white filaments;
often several pupae in close proximity in a common froth-mass which is
denser about each pupa, thus approximating a frail cocoon-like structure,
from which the pupa pushes its way before emergence of the fly; pupa
yellowish white, soon darkening, especially the eyes, with the pigmenta-
tion of the imago; base of antennae prominently arched over the eyes, but
not in contact medially; abdominal spiracles marked by minute concol-
orous pointed projections; length about 4 mm.

Imago, 7 and 9.—Lengith 3 to (@) 3.8 mm., dry; live females often
slightly exceed 4.5 mm.; fuscous black to black; head and thorax denser
in color than the abdomen, somewhat polished, finely punctate, hairs
black. Eyes black, finely pubescent, their finger-shaped frontal projec-
tions failing of contact by less than width between antennae; lateral ocelli
remote from eye-margins, inclined on a rather prominent ocellar protuber-
ance. Palpi and antennae smoky; intermediate joints of the flagellum
twice as long as wide, last flagellar joint elongated; antennae of 9 about
one-sixth shorter than those of the ¢.

Halteres slender, finely pubescent, smoky, the stems pale; coxae and
femora brownish-yellow, with dark hairs; tibae darker, more smoky, and
tarsi almost black; trochanters dark beneath; length of hind tibia to
tarsus, as 100 to 85.

Wings brownish-hyaline; costa, radius, and R-M cv. setose; cubitus
and media not setose, except that basal section of media of & usually
bears one or two setae; costa produced fully two-thirds of way from Rs to
M1; Rs and M2 end about equidistant from the base of the wing; the
base of Rs is slightly distad of the mid-point between the humeral cross-
vein and the tip of R1; subcosta very faint, ends free, proximad of the
origin of Rs; Ru ends slightly’ proximad base of fork of M (in measured
wings, from one-twenty-sixth to one-tenth of the wing-length proximad);
petiole of cubitus about same length as basal section of media.

Abdomen black-haired; lateral band (in fresh examples) yellowish
brown; the distended body of the 9 dries to an almost uniform smoky
brown, paler than that of the ~~; hypopygium dark, claspers subglobose,
shortly stemmed to and more than half as long as the preceding joint, and
with no mesal processes or differentiated apical spines: lamellae of 9 ovi-
positor about one and one-third times as long as broad.

Locaiities: Summerville, South Carolina; Southern Pines,
North Carolina; Theodore, Mobile County, Alabama; Biloxi
and Wiggins, Mississippi; Philadelphia Pennsylvania (in-
troduced).

Described and illustrated from numerous examples from
all of the stated localities; a male and female, mounted in

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balsam, from Theodore, Mobile County, Alabama, are desig-
nated as the types, and with other type material are deposited
in the Cornell University collection.

In 1910 at Biloxi, Mississippi, as early as March toth, the
larvae of this insect were abundant, the pupae occasional, in
those pitchers of Sarracenia sledget which had remained
green throughout the winter; the earliest observed emergence
of the fly occurred March 27th; the eggs are deposited in the
new pitchers of the season, soon after these have commenced
to capture insect prey, and the insect in its various stages
occurs in the pitchers throught the summer months, no regu-
lar succession of broods being observed, though very irregular
in its comparative abundance from year to year, and in its
recorded localities.

The Bembicine Wasps of North Carolina
(Hym.).

By M. R. Smiru, Raleigh, North Carolina.

(Continued from page 82).

B. spinolae Lepelletier.

This is one of the most common species in North Carolina and may be
generally recognized by the clear wings; Short, fairly dense pubescence
on the head, thorax and base of abdomen and by the white curved bands
on the second, third and fourth abdominal segments. Length 14-17 mm.

Specimens were collected at the following localities: Ra-
leigh, L. July, 1906, and E. August, C.S. B.; Landis, E. Sept.,
1919, J. E. E: 11 specimens: 4 females, 7 males.

B. belfragei Cresson.

The specimen in our collection, a male, is rather robust, widest at the
base of the abdomen and tapering apically. The bands on the first three
abdominal segments are rather prominent, the first being the broadest.
The bands on the second and third segments are widest laterally, arcuated
and attennuated medially. All the bands are interrupted. The labium
in both sexes, when viewed from the side, shows a distinct transverse im-
pression. The last dorsal abdominal segment is wrinkled. Length 16-
18 mm.

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_ One specimen collected at Southern Pines, June 6, 1906,
R.S:. W:

KEY TO SPECIES OF BICYRTES

Males
1—Middle femora with distinct tooth at base; last dorsal abdominal seg-
MEN elem HANGS OMIGOLSHIN NALLOW s 26 -- ee cscs cee nee ventralis.
1 Middlestemora, without tooth at base. ......2:.....5.0.0:.ceee- 2:
mol bite iii, (Ge Se ae a quadrifasciala.
2—Flagellum not wholly black: legs black and ferrugineous, markings
deep yellow, frequently with dashes of ferrugineous........ capnoptera.
Females
Deel SE SE SUE DAIS ae ies a Reina nC oe oe 2:
1—Mesopleurae not black, marked with yellow. Discal spots on scutum
absent or present in the form of narrow yellow lines... .quadrifasciata.
2—Sixth dorsal abdominal segment with a well defined pygidial area, set
Ollsbyadistinc: lateralindgess 2.02.0: sec; oc seit csecce sens capnoptera.

2—Sixth dorsal abdominal segment without a pygidial area or well defined
lateral ridges, underside of this segment without a median longitudinal
GRD. ooh 5.0 h.b0 OO ROR EO OOOO EC aE a ere *~ ventralis.

Bicyrtes quadrifasciata Say.

One of the largest species in the genus. The ground color of the body
is black with a bluish iridescence. The bands are broad at the sides and
narrowed medially; narrowly interrupted anteriorly, more widely pos-
teriorly. Length 12-14 mm.

Collected at the following localities: Southern Pines, July,
A. H. M; Swannanoa, M. July, 1919, R. W. L.; Wilson, E.
July, 1906, R. S. W.; Statesville, M. July, 1919, F. S. 8
specimens: 5 males, 3 females.

B. ventralis Say.

o—Black; Labrum, scape of antennae below, broad anterior and
narrow posterior orbits, posterior margin of pronotum including lateral
tubercles, rounded lateral spots on scutellum, band on metanotum, lateral
angles of median segment, narrow band on dorsal abdominal segments
1-6 narrowly interrupted medially, yellow. The color markings and also
the arrangement of the bands are variable and too much dependence
should not be placed on them as specific characteristics.

y

One specimen, collected at Raleigh, M. June, 1906, R.S. W. .

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B. capnoptera Handlirsch.

The four specimens differ from Parker’s description in that the labrum
is black, the apical edge of the clypeus is fringed with black and there is
no yellow spot between the antennae. In one specimen the antennae are
more or less ferrugineous, and there are lateral lines on the scutum above
the bases of the wings. Another specimen has black antennae and is
devoid of the lateral lines on the scutum. The last dorsal abdominal seg-
ment in the four specimens has distinct lateral ridges; the mesopleurae
are black and the bands on the abdomen are narrowed laterally. Length
10-15 mm.

Specimens were collected at: Cranberry, M. Oct. 1907, F.
5.) Raleigh, E. July, 1911, Z-.P 7M... Wilmington, Mir Ocr.
1919, M. R.S. 4 specimens, all females.

Stictia carolina Fabr.

This large handsome species is commonly known as the
“Horse Guard,’ from its habit of being predaceous on horse
flies. It is no unusual sight to see this wasp darting around
horses in search of the flies that are such a nuisance to our
faithful animals.

The males have fewer markings on their abdomens than the females, and
are also more robust in appearance. They may be recognized by the
curved tooth on the distal end of the middle femora and by the pair of
lateral spines on the last dorsal segment of the abdomen.

The female has bands on the first five segments of the abdomen; the
first two segments have the bands interrupted medially, the third segment
has four yellow spots, while the fourth and fifth segments have a pair of
lateral spots respectively. Length 24-28 mm.

Specimens were collected at the following localities: Greens-
boro, M. July, 1919, F. S.; Beaufort, E. August and L. June,
1902, F..St; Wilmington, L. Oct., toro; Mo Ko; Es Augice
1919, R. W. L. 6 specimens: 4 females, 2 males.

Microbembex monodonta Say.

This is a very common species along the eastern coast of the State. In
form the species is small, elongate, and has markings which are variable
both in color and in their location on the body of the insect. The pubes-
cence on the frons and clypeus of the male has a silvery reflection. On
the under side of the second abdominal segment is a smooth median, longi-
tudinal process that terminates posteriorly in a short curved point, which
is not hairy.

The females may be distinguished from related species by the pubes-
cence of the head, thorax and abdomen not being unusually long and dense,

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and also by the scape of the antennae being black above. Rarely the
scape is yellow below.

Length 8-14 mm.

Specimens collected at: Beaufort, E. Aug., 1902; June 15
and 24, 1903, F.S.; Nags head, L. Aug., 1919, F.S. 9 speci-
mens: 5 females, 4 males.

The Eyes of Insects.*
By ALEX. D. MacGILivray.

There is always difficulty in differentiating between the
kinds of eyes of insects so far as their names are concerned.
This becomes especially complicated when it is necessary to
compare the eyes of adult insects as those of butterflies or
moths with those of their larvae.

All are agreed in designating the large organs of sight com-
posed of several or numerous independent parts as the com-
pound eyes or simply as the eyes. But there is a lack of uni-
formity, when the names of the parts of a compound eye are
considered. The early entomologist designated each of the
component parts of a compound eye as an ocellus, plural
ocelli. ‘This led to confusion because the simple eyes of in-
sects were also designated as ocelli. A compound eye is com-
posed of a number of subdivisions, each considered as an in-
dependent eye and known as an ommatidium, plural omma-
tidia. Each ommatidium consists of an external usually
more or less convex hexagonal area of cuticle, the cornea, the
crystalline lens or cone, the rhabdome, the retinula cells, the
pigment cells, and the nerve connections. Some writers
apply the name of ommatidium to one of the entire subdivi-
sions of a compound eye and also to the external area of the
cuticle. Others have designated each of the hexagonal areas
of the cuticle as a facet and applied the name of ommatidium
to an entire subdivision of a compound eye only. It is de-
sirable that these words should be restricted in their use and

*Contributions from the Entomological Laboratories of the University
of Illinois, No. 64.

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definite in their application; that facet be used for the
external surface and that ommatidium be used for the en-
tire element including the cornea and consequently the facet.
This provides a taxonomic term, facet, and a morphological
or histological term, ommatidium. It is not practical to ex-
clude the facet from inclusion with the ommatidium since the
facet is only the outer surface of the cornea which must be
considered as a part of each ommatidium. Compound eyes
are present in both nymphs and,adults of ametabolous and
exometabolous insects, but only in the adults of entometabo-
lous insects. The developing compound eyes of the adult can
frequently be seen in the pupa of entometabolous insects and
rarely in their larvae, but these stages are never provided with
functional compound eyes.

Many adult insects have a group of simple eyes located on
the dorsal or cephalic aspect of the head. While there are
usually three of these simple eves arranged in the form of a
triangle with the apex of the triangle directed toward the
mouth, there are never more than three of these simple eyes,
sometimes there are only two, rarely only one, and frequently
all are wanting. The pair of cephalic discs described by Kochi
as probably representing a primitive divided ocellus appears
to be only discs for the attachment of muscles. Each of
these simple eyes is universally known as an ocellus, plural
ocelli. The ocellus forming the apex of the triangle is known
as the median ocellus and each of the others as a lateral ocel-
lus. When only two ocelli are present, it is the median ocel-
lus that is wanting and when only a single ocellus is present.
it is the lateral ocelli that are wanting. The ocelli are also
known as stemmata, singular stemma. Ocelli are never pres-
ent in ametabolous insects and only in the adults of exometa-
bolous and entometabclous insects. They can sorhetimes be
seen as black spots through the transparent cuticle of some
nymphs and they have been described as ocelli, but functional
ocelli are never present in nymphs, larvae, or pupae.

Ametabolous insects and those with exometabolous meta-
morphosis, as the nymphs and adults of Collembola, Mallo-
phaga, etc., and the larvae of insects with an indirect meta-

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morphosis usually have one or more simple eyes. These
simple eyes are located on that portion of the head where, if
compound eyes were present in the adult, they would be lo-
cated. This would seem to be an ontogenetic proof of the
contention of Lang and others that the compound eyes of
insects are formed from ‘‘an increase in the number of pri-
mitive eves, and their approximation, led to the formation of
the compound facet eye.’’ In the case of the adult male
coccid, the eyes are compound in the four generalized sub-
families and represented by groups of simple eyes in the
specialized subfamilies The number of simple eyes in each
group is gradually reduced with specialization until in certain
highly specialized wingless males, there is only a single ocellus
on each side of the head. This is the number found in all
adult and nymphal female coccids where eyes are present and
in the first and probably some of the later nymphal male
stages. A similar series of reductions can be shown from an
examination of different genera of Collembola. The latter
show a condition which is characteristic not only of nymphs
of all stages but of adults, while the male coccids show a con-
dition peculiar to the adult male alone. In the larvae of in-
sects the compound eyes may be represented by groups of
simple eyes, a single group may contain as many as twenty
or be limited to a single simple eye on each side of the head,
but the usual number is about six. The representation of
compound eyes by simple eyes is peculiar in this group to the
larval stages.

All these various types of simple eyes, those of the Collem-
bola, of the coccids, and of larvae are also designated as ocelli.
The use of the same name for two or more structures which
are always different in position, whether they are different in
structure or not, always leads to confusion. In order to dif-
ferentiate between the simple eyes of the Apterygota and the
ocelli and simple eyes of other insects it is suggested that
each of the simple eyes of the Apterygota be known as an
ocellula, plural ocellulae. The simple eyes of those insects
with an exometabolous metamorphosis, whether found in
nymphs or adults, to be known as ocellanae to distinguish

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them from ocelli, ocellulae, and the simple eyes of larvae.
The simple eyes of larvae, the immature feeding stages of
entometabolous insects, are to be known as ocellarae.

Ocellulae and ocellarae of each side of the head are usually
closely associated and are generally placed upon an area that
is very different in color or is more convex or elevated above
the adjacent parts of the cuticle. Each of these areas has
previously been designated as an ocularium.

The pupae of insects with an entometabolous metamorpho-
sis are never provided with eyes. In many species, where the
cuticle is thin and transparent, the developing compound
eyes and sometimes the ocelli of the adult, as already noted
in the nymphs of exometabolous insects, can be identified
through the cuticle. Such eyes or ocelli are never functional
in pupae and are incorrectly described or designated as the
eyes or ocelli of pupae as is sometimes done.

A Mexican Species of Agrilus found in
Arizona (Coleoptera).

By W. S. FisHer, U. S. Bureau of Entomology,
and ALAN S. NicoLay, Brooklyn, New York.

This species was described by Waterhouse (1889, Biol.
Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. III, p. 119, tab. VII, figs. 7, 7a)
from Pinos Altos, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, from a male
specimen. This species is remarkable for its sexual color
dimorphism, which as far as known, is not found in any of
our other North American species. As the female has never
been described and to assist those who have no access to the
works in which the Mexican species, herein recorded, is de-
scribed, we have given a description of the species, hoping it
will prove more useful than simply recording its appearance
in the United States.

Agrilus restrictus Waterhouse.

¥.—Moderately elongate as in arcuatus, head, thorax and beneath
brassy; elytra slate color, shining. Antennae brassy, reaching to middle

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of prothorax, serrate from the fourth joint. Head closely and coarsely
punctured; front broadly and rather deeply longitudinally impressed.

Prothorax one-fourth wider than long, not narrowed at base; sides

slightly arcuate; surface rugous, with coarse distantly placed punctures
in the depressions; discoidal impression deep, broadly ovate behind, nar-
rowed in front; the lateral impressions deep, extending from the anterior
third, obliquely backward to middle of the disc; there is a round swelling
at the posterior angles, with a round fovea behind it close to the base; pos-
terior angles without any trace of a carina. Scutellum deeply impressed
in the middle and finely rugous. Elytra slightly sinuate behind the humeri
and dilated behind the middle, nearly concealing the abdomen; apices
separately rounded, finely serrulate; disc slightly flattened at middle,
basal impressions moderately deep; sutural ridge elevated behind the
middle; surface densely imbricate, shining. Prosternal lobe broadly
emarginate. Prosternum coarsely punctured, the punctures becoming
denser on the intercoxal process, not pubescent; intercoxal process with
its margins slightly raised, the apex obliquely narrowed.
- Abdomen moderately strongly punctured, slightly rugous at the sides;
lateral carina of the basal segment distinctly curved; first ventral segment
roundly convex at middle, not pubescent; suture between the first two
ventral segments entirely obliterated at the sides; vertical portions of all
the segments, except the last, pubescent posteriorly; pygidium not cari-
nate.

Anterior and middle tibiae arcuate, with a slight mucro at the inner apex;
the posterior tibiae simple, flattened on the inner side, and with a row of
stiff hairs on the posterior half of the outer edge. Claws broadly toothed.
the lower portions not inverted, similar on all feet. Posterior tarsi not as
long as the tibiae; the first joint one-fourth as long as the tibia. Length
8.5 mm.; width 2.2 mm.

@ .—Differs from the male as follows: More robust, head, thorax and
beneath cyaneous; elytra cupreous, shining. Antennae shorter, only
reaching a little beyond the anterior margin of the prothorax; vertical
portions of the abdominal segments more distinctly visible frum above;
tibiae not mucronate; fore tibiae slightly arcuate; middle and hind tibiae
simple. Length 10 mm.; width 3 mm.

One pair of adults taken im coitu in the Huachuca Moun-
tains, Arizona, August 2, 1905, and donated to Mr. Nicolay
by Mr. Chas. W. Leng. Specimens in Mr. Nicolay’s collec-
tion.

In Dr. Horn’s table of Agrilus (1891, Trans. Amer. Ent.
Soc., vol. XVIII, pp. 283-287) these specimens run to con-
cinnus Horn, but differ from that species by the different
coloration in the sexes; the last abdominal segment rounded

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at the tip, while in concinnus it is truncate, and in numerous
other characters.

This species has never been reported from the United
States, but since the fauna and conditions of the country in
the southern part of Arizona are very similar to those of Pinos
Altos, Mexico, from where the species was originally des-
cribed, it is not surprising that it should be found in our fauna.
The specimens were sent to Mr. Gilbert Arrow, who has
kindly compared them with the type in the collection of the
British Museum, and has returned them with the following
remarks:

“The male is like A. restrictus, except that the median
fovea of the thorax is less broad behind in the unique type.
Without examining a series of specimens I cannot tell whether
this is of importance.”

In examining a series of specimens of some of our other
species which have the thorax deeply impressed, this charac-
ter was found to vary considerably in the different specimens,
so it is possible that the same condition will be found in res-
trictus.

A new Euphydryas from Nebraska (Lep.).
By R. A. LEUSSLER, Omaha, Nebraska.

Euphydryas bernadetta n. sp.

j.—Expanse 38 mm. Upbpperside: Primaries black, an irregular key-
stone-shaped white spot at base of cell, another large quadrate one in
middle of cell, and three oblong conjoined ones at the distal end; between
these several white spots in the cell are two red spots bordered with black;
beyond the cell three irregularly curved rows of white spots, the inner row
slightly tinged with red, and preceded on inner margin by a large white
irregular spot, the outer row somewhat lunulate; all of the spots well
separated from each other and from the other rows by the black ground
color; a terminal row of small red spots; fringe black-and-white-checkered.
Secondaries black, a median row of oblong white spots, beyond this a row
of red spots, another row of white spots and a terminal row of red spots;
an irregularly shaped white spot at end of cell; one near base of cell, an-
other near base at costa, and a fourth above anal margin; beyond cell is
a narrow red spot; all spots well separated by black ground color as on
primaries; fringe black-and-white-checkered.

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Underside: Primaries red, with the white spots all repeated, the subter-
minal ones enlarged, distinctly lunulate and separated by a heavy black
line across apical half of wing; spots all well defined. Secondaries: red
and white spots of upperside reproduced beneath greatly enlarged, the
only black being the defining lines between spots; submarginal white
spots lunulate. All the red on this insect is between Brazil red and scarlet
(Ridgway Color Standards PI. 1).

9.—Expanse 47 mm. Upperside: Quite similar to ¢# in maculation
but the white spots are larger, especially the outer row and these too are
distinctly lunulate. Underside: Less red than ~ with the white spots
larger.

Described from 26 &@ and 16 Q collected in Monroe Canyon
near Harrison, Sioux County, Nebraska. Types in the col-
lection of R. A. Leussler, Omaha.

This species is nearest maria Skinner; in fact examination
of the genitalia places it very close to this species and it may
prove to be a race of the same. It is quite variable in size,
wing shape, color of spots, etc., but can be separated from
maria by one very constant character, namely, the distinct-
ness of white spots on underside of primaries, the outer rows
being clearly defined by black borders of varying width.

A new Species of Coenosia from the Western
United States (Diptera, Anthomyiidae).

By J. R. Mattocu, Urbana, Illinois.

The species described herein has been in my hands for two
years and the description is printed now to enable the subse-
quent publication of a key to the species from the United
States.

_There is no species with three bristles on the hind tibia
which has the same color, and hypopyzial and apical tergal
characters as this.

Coenosia cilicauda sp. n.

gy and 9.—Black, opaque because of a dense coating of gray pruines-
cence; proboscis, femora and hypopygium shining. Antennae and palpi
black. Thorax not vittate. Abdomen with two pairs of dorsal fuscous
spots, on third and fourth segments, and sometimes a very indistinct pair

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on second in male. Legs black, all tibiae yellowish testaceous. Wings
and calyptrae whitish. Halteres yellow.

Each orbit with 4 or 5 bristles and a few hairs; cheek distinctly higher
than width of third antennal segment, the apex of latter about one-third
of the length from lower margin of face; arista short-haired. Acrostichals
irregularly two-rowed; lower stigmatal bristle long, directed downward.

Abdomen of male longer than thorax, slender, cylindrical, basal hypopy-
gial segment globose, subequal in length to preceding segment, forceps
long, extending to base of fourth tergite, both forceps stout, slightly tapered
apically, the superior pair fringed on sides with minute hairs; abdomen of
female tapered apically, the fourth tergite with a rather dense fringe of
stiff bristly hairs at apex.

Femora stout, mid and hind pairs with two or three long bristles on
basal half of antero- and postero-ventral surfaces and the hind pair with
two or three similar bristles on apical half of antero-ventral surface; in
addition to those bristles there are some shorter setulae between them
which are most noticeable in the male; fore and mid tibiae with the usual
bristles, hind tibia with three bristles, one antero-ventral, one antero-dor-
sal, and one postero-dorsal; hind tarsus with the basal segment about one-
third as long as tibia, a short setula near base on ventral surface. Lower
calyptra much larger than upper.

Length, 3.5—4 mm.

Type, male, and allotype, Musselshell, Montana, August
30 and 17, 1917. Paratypes, two males, Huntley, Montana,
July 23, 1917; one female, Miles City, Montana, July 21,
1915; one female, Bozeman, Montana, July -7, 1917; two
males, Saguache, Colorado, September 3, 1917 (A. K. Fisher).

The type and allotype will be deposited in the collection of
the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. Paratypes
will be deposited as follows: one male and one female, Illinois
State Natural History Survey; two males, U. S. Bureau of
Biological Survey; one male, Boston Society of Natural

History; one female, Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1920.

The Urgent Necessity of Higher Salaries for Entomologists.

We have received from ‘a group of younger Entomolo-
gists” a letter and a printed statement entitled “American
Entomology: Its Present and Future Status as a Profession.”’
The justness of the claims urged therein is so apparent and the
emergency is so pressing that we reproduce a large part of
the statement herewith.

That men of science, particularly those engaged in research and teaching,
are greatly underpaid, is a fact so well known that it needs no setting out
here. This applies. perhaps, more especially to Entomology than to any
other one division of the basic Sciences.

We have in mind a case that came under our observation a short time
ago, the case of a young man, very greatly interested in his work, capable,
ambitious and diligent. The only misfortune that apparently handicapped
this gentleman was a wife and two children. This young man entered the
employ of a certain Department of Entomology four years previous at a
salary of $1000 per annum, giving up a position of some importance and
much larger remuneration for his services in doing so. After one year of
faithful service he was raised to $1200 and had remained at this salary for
three years. Apparently every effort had been made by his immediate
superiors, without avail, to have his salary increased. Twelve hundred
dollars is decidedly not a living wage for a family of four.

For several months the young man tried various enterprises outside of
working hours to remedy the situation. These eventually encroached on
official time as the situation became more and more acute. He gave less
and less thought to his professional work and moreand more to the question
of making income and expenses meet. After a time the situation became
so desperate that the young man resigned his position and entered busi-
ness. At the present time he is enjoying considerable success in a com-
mercial enterprise. Let us repeat that this young man was an excellent
investigator and an Entomologist of great promise.

It may be pointed out by some that the case herein mentioned is an ex-
treme case but we now have under observation several instances which
are nearly parallel.

Now there are positions open for a certain number of Entomologists,
positions which must be filled by someone, and which should be filled by
those most fitted by training and experience. Yet many of these positions
are filled by a shifting group of men, the cycle appearing to travel in some

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such manner as this. A young man fresh from college, fired with enthusi-
asm and with ambition, enters one of these positions. He has no experi-
ence and little training, yet is possessed of great energy and is very indus-
trious. He accepts the low salary offered in expectation that increases
will be given as he becomes of greater value to his employer. He labors
for from three to five years, we will say, under these conditions. Increases
are extremely slow, yet at first his enthusiasm overcomes this drawback.
Gradually his enthusiasm and ambition dwindle as the question of food,
clothing and shelter becomes more and more pressing, and as he observes
his former associates advancing in other lines of work. Finally he resigns
and goes to more profitable employment, perhaps retaining Entomology as
a hobby, his place being filled by a victim fresh from school who will un-
questionably follow in his footsteps. These years of training and experience
are lost to him and to the science in which he would make large sacrifices
if it could but supply him with a compensation sufficient to enjoy the
necessities of life.

A scientific field replete with a shifting group of workers reflects but little
credit on any profession and we will emphatically say that teachers do
wrong in urging students to take up the profession without presenting the
whole truth.

A man who, in his heart, really wishes to be a Naturalist is willing to
give up most of the best things that life has to offer, but by entering the
field of Entomology one should by no means infer that he must become a
vagabond. There are, to be sure, a few fairly well paid positions available,
but these are filled by men who occupy them for long terms of years and
usually nothing less than death renders the positions available for the
younger men.

In the past Entomology has been as much a hobby for private workers
as a profession wherein men might earn a living. A large proportion of
the constructive workers in the subject have been dependent on other fields
of endeavor for their financial support, and have turned to Entomology
for their recreation. How much greater service they might have rendered
to the science if it had been possible for them to devote all their energy to
it. This condition still remains, perhaps to a less degree. As long as this
continues it is doubtful whether Entomology will take its place among the
greater sciences to which its importance entitles it. Weare glad men have
such attachments for a subject; we are glad ours is a study which can thus
afford men a recreation and which is at the same time a distinct service.
But we would lift it from the rank of a hobby into the status of a pleasant
and fascinating profession.

How then is this condition to be remedied, for it must be relieved shortly.
The younger worker can help himself but little. It remains, therefore, for
the men in the highest positions to awaken to the conditions and bend
every effort to raise the standard of the profession thru fair salaries for
their assistants.

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Notes and News

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE

Callosamia carolina and Samia securifera (Lepid., Saturnidae)

Mr. W. C. Dukes of Mobile, Alabama, has sent me a cocoon of Callos-
amt1a carolina, described by F. M. Jones in this journal (Vol. XIX, p. 231,
1908). The type came from Berkeley County, South Carolina. In
ENTOMOLOGICAL NEws, XX, p. 49, 1909, Mr. Jones figured and fully de-
scribed the species. It is probably quite distinct from C. angulifera.

In Beitrage Zur Schmetterlingskunde, Mossen and Weymer, (Elber-
feld, 1872), there is figured, in both sexes, what they call Samia securtfera,
(figs. 50, 51) from Central America. This is probably the same species as
carolina. Mr. Dukes has extended the range of carolina and it will be
interesting to compare Central American species or specimens with carolina
when they are found.—HENRY SKINNER.

Notes on the Oviposition and Food of the Wheel-bug (Arilus
cristatus Linn.) (Hemip. Heter).

During the months of September and October, 1917, the wheel-bug’
Arilus cristatus Linn. was very numerous on flowers, especially goldenrod:
along the Potomac river near Williamsport, Md. Fifty specimens could
easily be taken in the space of an hour—the females somewhat more numer-
ous than the males.

On September 30, it was noticed that the adults were especially active
in copulation, although they were observed thus engaged several weeks
previous and somewhat later than this date.

Females oviposited readily and usually deposited all of their eggs at one
laying and in one mass. For sixteen females that oviposited in captivity,
the largest number of eggs was 182, the smallest 60 and the average was
130.6. The exact number of individual eggs per female was 118, 60, 132,
144, 137, 152, 90, 126,-169, 97, 171, 182, 103, 148, 136 and 126.

Eggs were deposited in rearing cages on the cover of salve boxes and on
the sides or top of screen cages. Masses were found in the field only on
the trunk and lower limbs of trees.

Adults were found feeding on honey bees and grasshoppers in the field.
In cages they readily attacked and devoured kaytdids, adult Meloidae,
adults of Cyllene robiniae, Arctiid larvae, Pentatomid adults, and several
unknown Lepidopterous larvae. In addition, females were found to be
very fond of devouring the males soon after copulation was complete.—
Geo. W. BARBER, U.S. Bureau of Entomology, Arlington, Massachusetts.

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Tinea acapnopennella Clem.* (Lepid.) Bred from Fungus.

This species was bred August 15, from the fungus Polyporus tulipiferus
collected at Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, on an old stump. It is
already recorded in Smith’s “Insects of New Jersey’’ as occurring at Angle-
sea, June to August, Essex County (Kf.) and Wenonah, August 20 (Haim.),
but no mention is made of the host, Polyporus tulipiferus, which is found on
the dead wood of deciduous trees. The larva feeds on the fungus and
when full grown pupates in the decayed wood to which the fungus is
attached.

Full grown larva.n—Length 5.5 mm., width 1.35 mm. Subcylindrical,
whitish except for head which is dark and a dark, transverse, dorsal area
on the first thoracic segment, this area being bisected by a light, median,
longitudinal line. Antennae 3-jointed, third joint longest and bearing
several fine hairs. Head bears several long, fine hairs. Dorsal surface of
second and third thoracic segments transversely wrinkled. Dorsal sur-
face of body bears four longitudinal rows of long, fine hairs, two rows on
either side of middle with a few shorter, scattered hairs. Entire dorsal
and ventral surface covered with a fine minute pile. True and prolegs
well developed.

Pupa.—Length 6 mm., width 1.5 mm. Brownish, sparsely hairy. Dor-
sal surfaces of abdominal segments 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 each bear two trans-
verse rows of minute, posteriorly directed spines, these spines becoming
larger posteriorly and largest on eighth segment. Last segment bears a
minute pair of ventral recurved hooks.

Adult.—This was described by Clemens in 1859 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phil., p. 257). Dietz, in his revision of the Tineid subfamilies Amydriinae
and Tineinae (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., vol. xxxi, No. 1), gives a redescription
which it is not necessary to repeat here. In this paper the distribution
of the species is given as Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Maryland
and Louisiana.—Harry B. WEIss, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Mr. E. B. Williamson Collecting Odonata in Venezuela.

Messrs. E. B. and J. H. Williamson left Bluffton, Indiana, on January 10,
1920, for a collecting trip in Venezuela, expecting to return about May 15.
Writing from that South American country on February 8, in regard to
Odonata, Mr. E. B. Williamson says: ‘‘One week’s collecting at San Este-
ban, 50 species and about 1300 specimens. Heteragrion chrysops on every
quebrada. Havea beautiful Gynacantha, a Progomphus and a Gomphoides.
Philogenia very common, Palaemnema rare. Neoneura esthera and Proto-
neura amatoria here.”

*Kindly identified by Mr. August Busck.
{Kindly identified by Mr. Erdman West.

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Ecology—a New Journal of Entomological Interest.

The Ecological Society of America, at its annual meeting in St. Louis,
on December 31, 1919, decided, without a dissenting voice, to start its
own serial publication. The Plant World has been generously offered to
the Society free of liabilities and will be continued as the official organ of
the Society, under the title of ‘‘Ecology.’’ The new journal will begin as
an illustrated quarterly of about 200 to 300 pages per annum, containing
papers by workers in all branches of ecology. Dr. Barrington Moore, of
the American Museum of Natural History, has been chosen editor-in-
chief. In order to cover the cost of publication, it was voted that the dues
of the Society be raised to $3.00 per annum; of this amount $2.00 will be
for subscription to the magazine and $1.00 for the running expenses of the
Society. It is believed that the new journal will not only be of great value
to the members of the Society, but will be necessary to all workers in botany
zodlogy, forestry, agriculture and other biological sciences. ;

French Grants for Entomological Study.

The awards of the Bonaparte and Loutreuil foundations of the Academy
of Sciences of Paris, as published in Science for February 27, 1920, include
one thousand francs to Emile Brumpt for continuing his work on parasitic
haemoglobinuria or piroplasmosis of cattle, two thousand francs to P. Lesne
for his researches on the insects of peat bogs and two thousand francs to
A. Paillot for his researches on the microbial diseases of insects. Ento-
mology will go on in France in spite of the war.

Furcaspis biformis (Homop., Coccidae.)

On July 7, 1892, when judging at a flower show at Kingston, Jamaica,
I found a peculiar scale on leaves of orchids. The female scales were
dark and round, the male scales equally dark, but elongate. I named it
Aspidiotus biformis, and in 1g08 Lindinger made it the type of a genus
Farcaspis. Many years have passed since I met with it, but the other
day, in a greenhouse at Boulder, Colorado, I found it in abundance on
leaves of Cattleya percivaliana (Reichb.) O’Brien. The new host plant
and entirely new locality are worth recording.—T. D. A. COCKERELL

Mesocyphona rubia (Dipt., Tipulidae).

Last June two of my students, Miss N. Higgins and Miss K. Fitzgerald,
captured specimens of an extraordinarily beautiful little Tipulid fly in
Boulder. The wings are black, banded and spotted with pure white.
I thought the species must be new, but Mr. C. P. Alexander, to whom
I sent a sketch, at once suggested comparison with his Erioptera (Meso-

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cyphona) rubia, described in 1914 from a unique taken in Arizona. Our
insect is manifestly the same, and is a striking addition to the Colorado
list. The original figure does not show clearly that the wings are broadly
white at base. On the left side only, the specimen before me has an oval
white spot at the origin of the sector; this is lacking in the type. It is
a singular thing, that while Erioptera and its various subgenera or closely
related genera are today well represented in North America, no trace of
them has been found in the rich Miocene deposits at Florissant, nor in
the older Eocene rocks of Colorado and Wyoming. They are, however,
found fossil in Europe, so it seems probable that the group originated in
the Old World.
T. D. A. CocKERELL, Boulder, Colorado.

Entomological Literature.
COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN.

Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natura
Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and
South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American ento-
mology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of
insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded.

The numbers in HEAvy-FACED TyPE refer to the journals, as numbered in the following
list, in which the papers are published.

All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments.

The records of papers containing new genera or species occurring north of Mexico are
all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat.

For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex-
periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London.
For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B.

4—Canadian Entomologist, London, Canada. 8—The Entomolo-
gist’s Monthly Magazine, London. 10—Proceedings of the Entomologi-
cal Society of Washington, D. C. 11—Annals and Magazine of Natural
History, London. 14—Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
16—The Lepidopterist, Salem, Mass. 20—Bulletin de la Societe Ento-
mologique de France, Paris. 21—The Entomologist’s Record, London.
22—Bulletin of Entomological Research, London. 23—Bollettino del
Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici, Italy. 28—Ento-
mologisk Tidskrift, Uppsala. 29—Annual Report of the Entomological
Society of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. 44—Ectoparasites. Edited by
Jordan & Rothschild, Tring, England. 59—Journal of Agricultural Re-
search, Washington, D. C. 88—Occasional Papers of the Museum of
Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 106—Anales de la Sociedad
Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires.

GENERAL. Anon—Entomology in the United States National
Museum. 68, li, 236-37. Mallock, H. R. A.—Some points in insect
mechanics. 14, 1919, 111-116. Silvestri, F.—Contribuzioni alla cono-
scenza degli insetti dannosi e dei loro simbionti. 23, xiii, 70-192. Till-
yard, R. J.—The panorpid complex. The wing-venation. 29, xliv, 533-
718. Tragardh, I.—On the use of experimental plots when studying

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forestinsects. 22,x,157-60. Walsingham, Lord.—Obituary. 8, 1920,
25-28.

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Brade-Birks & Brade-Birks.—Notes on
Myriopoda. Luminous Chilopoda, with special reference to Geophilus
carpophagus. li, v, 1-30. Willey, A.—The house centipede, Cermatia
forceps, in Montreal. 4, 1920, 8. Wood, H. P.—Tropical fowl mites in
the United States. (U.S. D. A., Dept. Circ., 79).

NEUROPTERA. Brocher, F.—Le mechanisme physiologique de la
derniere mue des larves des Agrionides (transformation en imago). (Ann.
Biol. Lacustre, Bruxelles, ix, 183-99).

Jordan & Rothschild.—On the species and genera of Siphonaptera
described by Kolenati. 44, i. 61-4. On American bird-Ceratophylli.
44, i, 65-76. Snyder, T. E.—Two new termites from Arizona, 10, xxii.
38-40.

ORTHOPTERA. Lizer, C.—Informe sobre la expedicion al chaco
Boliviano. (Bol. Minist. d. Agric. de la Nacion, Buenos Aires, 45 pp.,
19IQ).

HEMIPTERA. Hussey R. F.—The waterbugs of the Douglas
Lake region, Michigan. 88, No. 75, 23 pp. Newstead, R.—Observa-
tions on scale-insects (Coccidae). 22, x, 175-208. Stoner, D.—Notes
on Scutelleroidea from Vancouver Island. 4, 1920, 12-13.

Parshley, H. M.—On some Hemipiera from Western Canada. 88,
No. 71, 35 Pp-

LEPIDOPTERA. Beutenmuller, W.—The larva of Datana palmi.
The larva of Schizura apicalis and Euparthenos nubilis. 16, iii, 127-8;
133-4. Gibson, F. M.—Note on the distribution of Atteva aurea. 4,
1920, 15. Hampson, G.—A classification of the Pyralidae, subfamily
Hyposthropinae. 14, 1918, 55-132. Joicey & Talbot—New South
American Rhopalocera. 14, 1917, 259-64. New South American Arctii-
dae. 14, 1917, 265-70. A gynandromorph of Papilio lucophron. Three
aberrations of L. 14, 1917, 273-76. Keller, G. J.—Notes on the ovum
and larva of Catocala herodias. 16, iii, 121-3. Ljungdahl, D.—Nagra
puppbeskrivningar. 28, xl, 97-119. McDunnough, J.—Remarks on
Hubner’s Tentamen. 21, 1920, 11-13. Mottram, J. C.—Some ob-
servations upon concealment by the apparent disruption of surface in a
plane at right angles tothe surface. 14, 1917, 253-57. Turner, W. B.—
Lepidoptera at light traps. 59, xviii, 475-81. Wagner, H.—Lepidop-
terorum catalogus. Pars 23; Sphingidae, Subfam. Choerocampinae. ;

Swett, L. W.—Some new Geometrids. 16, iii, 123-5. Swett & Cas-
sino—Some new Geometrids. 16, iii, 128-33 (Cont.). Wright, W. S.—
Geometrid notes and descriptions. 16, iii, 125-7.

DIPTERA. Aldrich, J. M.—European fruit fly in North America.
59, xvili, 451-74. Bezzi, M.—Una nuova specie Brasiliana del genere
Anastrepha. 23, xiii, 1-14. Collins & Hood.—Life history of Eubiom-

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yia calosomae, a tachinid parasite of Calosoma beetles. 59, xviii, 483-97.
McAtee & Banks.—District of Columbia D.: Asilidae. 10, xxii, 13-20.
Macfie, J. W. S.—The chaetotaxy of the pupa of Stegomyia fasciata.
22, x, 161-9. Saunders, W. H.—F ly investigations Reports. 14, 1916,
465-518. Smith & Maxwell Lefroy.—A comparative study of certain
sense-organs in the antennae and palpi of D. 14, 1919, 31-69.

Dietz, W. G.—Three new crane-flies from eastern Canada. 4, 1920,
5-8. Malloch, J. R.—Descriptions of new genera and species of Sca-
tophagidae. 10, xxii, 34-38.

COLEOPTERA. Achard, J.—Descriptions de Scaphidiidae inedits
de la Republique Argentine. 20, 1919, 350-2. Blair, K. G.—Further
notes on the Fabrician types of Heteromera in the Banks Collection. 11,
v, 153-63. Craighead, F. C.—Biology of some C. of the families Coly-
diidae and Bothrideridae. 10, xxii, 1-13. Garnett, R. T.—Variations
of Buprestis viridisuturalis. 4, 1920, 17-18. Jeannel, R.—Sur
quelques Trechinae (Carabidae) du British Museum. 11, v, 98-112.
Maulik, S.—On Cryptostoma beetles in the Cambridge University
Museum of Zoology. 14, 1916, 567-90. Strickland, E. H.—The cotton-
wood leaf-mining beetles in southern Alberta. 4, 1920, 1-5. Weiss,
H. B.—Notes on Ischyrus quadripunctatus, bred from fungus. 4, 1920,
14-15. Notes on Mycotretus pulchra and its fungous host. 4, 1920,
18-19.

Swaine, Fall, Leng, & Sherman.—The C. collected by the Canadian
Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. (Rept., Canadian Arct. Exp., iii, Part E,
24 pp-).

HYMENOPTERA. Grandi, G.—Contributo alla conoscenza degli
Agaonini dell’ America (Chalcicidae). 23, xiii, 15-56. Kieffer, J. J.—
Sur les hymenopteres parasites des ootheques de Mantides. 20, I919,
357-9. Santschi, F.—Nouveaux formicides de la Republique Argen-
tine. 106, Ixxxvii, 37-57. Schrottky, C.—The bee genus Emphor in
South America. 4, 1920, 9-11. Turner, R. E.—Notes on the wasps of
the genus Pison, and some allied genera. 14,1916, 591-629.

Doings of Societies

Entomological Section, The Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia

Meeting of May 22, 1919. Twelve persons present, including Dr.
Chi Ping, of Kai Fung, China, and Lieut. W. J. Chamberlain, of Corvallis,
Oregon, visitors. Director Laurent presiding.

Hymenoptera.—Dr. Bradley said while on a trip to Langtry, Texas,
he had seen a large colony of Sphecius grandis going into their burrows but
had seen none carrying Cicadas, though a boy he had questioned said that
he had seen them with their prey. He had also seen Mutilla orcus Cress.

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going into these burrows and had reached the conclusion that they are
parasitic on the Sphecius.

Homoptera.—Dr. Skinner exhibited a potted plant on which were
many Aphids most of which he had killed by blowing tobacco smoke in a
paper cone while covering the plant.

Coleoptera.—Mr. Chamberlain said that he had noticed in the eastern
collections, specimens labelled Acmaeodera pulcherrima Du Val, distributed
mostly by Mr. Beyer. This species is only found in Cuba and Florida
and those examined were A. cubaecola Du Val.* Had seen a specimen of
Buprestis adjecta LeC. in the Brooklyn Museum collected on Staten Is-
land about ten days ago, and which he thinks is the most northern record.
He has completed an index of all our Buprestidae including synonyms
and all available records and where possible the locations of the types.

GEO. M. GREENE, Recorder.

Meeting of September 25, 1919, Vice-Director R. C. Williams presiding,
and eleven persons present.

Mr. Rehn spoke about the impossibility of obtaining potassium cyanide
for making killing bottles to be used on his western trip with Mr. Hebard.
but found that sodium cyanide after severe trials proved to be as good,
if not better, a killing medium. General discussion followed as to the
merits of the various killing agents and of the methods of making killing
bottles.

Mr. Rehn gave a brief account of his summer trip, accompanying Mr.
Hebard, in the western states, and illustrating his remarks with some photo-
graphs projected on the screen.

Lepidoptera.—Dr. Skinner exhibited a gynandromorphic specimen of
Papulio turnus with the right wings of a yellow male, and the left of a black
female. This specimen was collected at Merion, Pa., July 5, 1919, by
Geo. F. Pettinos, Jr. Mr. Baylis exhibited bred specimens of Catocala
minerva, also beautifully executed colored drawings of its larvae showing
various instars. Dr. Calvert exhibited pupal skin of Catocala amatrix
Hiib. with bits of a decaying wooden hand rail in which its cocoon had
been found near Cheyney, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1919, as well as the
imago which had issued therefrom on August 23 or 24.

Odonata.—Dr. Calvert exhibited the type of Erpetogomphus schausi
Calv., and the female of E. diadophis Calv. (?), both from Guatemala,
collected by Messrs. W. Schaus and J. Barnes, described in Entomological
News for March, 1919; an immature male of Neoneura aaront Calv., from
the same country and collection, a species hitherto unknown from else-
where than Texas (Ent. News, June, 1919); Gomphus furcifer Hagen, a
female found floating, headless, in a pond, Stockbridge township, Berk-
shire County, Massachusetts, July 28, 1917, by the speaker, the only speci-
men of this species he had met and but rarely recorded from New England.

[*Cf. Van Dyke, Ent. News, xxx, 190.—Eb.]

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Coleoptera.—Dr. Calvert also exhibited a female and two males of
Calopteron reticulatum Fab., which latter were apparently attempting to
pair simultaneously with the former, all pinned in approximately the posi-
tions in which they were found, the female with the four wings outspread,
one male above, the other male on the right side of, her abdomen. The
speaker had taken them near Cheyney, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1919.

E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder protem

Meeting of November 20, 1919. Fourteen persons present, including
Mr. Allie M. Ross, visitor. Mr. R. C.Williams, Jr., Vice-Director,
presiding.

Mr. Williams spoke of meeting C. J. Huguenin and C. L. Fox, while in
California. Thevisitor, Mr. Ross, spoke about his intended work in Liberia,
especially his desires of working up the fauna of that region in the Lepid-
optera and Orthoptera.

Orthoptera. Aseriesof Mantidae fromthe Sundanand Papuan regions
were exhibited by Mr. Hebard. It was pointed out that many of the
genera were new to Philadelphia collections and that some of the species
had remained unknown to subsequent authors since their original descrip-
tion. Certain striking forms were discussed, and the difficulties experi-
enced in studying the Orthoptera of the regions in question were pointed
out. In determining large series from the regions under consideration,
Mr. Hebard said that he had found such studies as Haan’s ‘‘ Bijdragen tot
de Kennis der Orthoptera,’’ published in 1842, of the utmost value, but
that many contemporary authors were producing a far inferior literature,
describing species with deplorable brevity and often giving no figures what-
ever.

Mr. Rehn exhibited a box containing a series of the West Indian forms
of the genus Eurycotis of the family Blattidae. The speaker discussed the
genus, its distribution, general morphological tendencies in the way of
specific differentiation, color types developed in the genus, and the groups
into which he had arranged the West Indian forms. Of the West Indian
forms exhibited the majority were either recently described or are as yet
undescribed.

Lepidoptera. Mr. Reyher exhibited type specimens of Catocala sapho
var. cleis, (Cassino) from Florida, and said that he could find no characters
by which to separate this variety from the type form.

E. T. Cresson, JR., Recorder pro tem.

Entomological Workers in Ohio Institutions.

The annual meeting of entomological workers in Ohio institutions was
held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, January 29,1920.
Morning, afternoon and evening sessions were held and the following pro-.
gram rendered.

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Symposium: The functions and interrelation of the State Entomologi-
cal Departments. H. A. Gossard, Entomologist, Experiment Station,
Raymond C. Osburn—Head, Department of Zoology and Entomology,
Ohio State University and E. C. Cotton, Chief, Bureau of Horticulture.

Herbert Osborn—Notes on Leaf-hoppers. H. E. Evans—The Effect
of the Federal Plant Quarantine Act on the Nursery Business. W. M.
Barrows—The Changes Which Take Place in Insect and Arachnid Muscle
During Metamorphosis. T.L. Guyton—Results of the Use of Magnesium
Arsenate as An Insecticide in 1919. W. H. Larrimer, LaFayette, Indiana
—Army Worm Control Through County Organization. L. L. Huber—
Two Parasites of the Resplendent Shield Bearer. Annette F. Braun—
The Study of Microlepidoptera. C. L. Metcalf—The Use of Insect
Genitalia in Classification. W.C. Kraatz—Remarks on the Insect Fauna
of Mirror Lake. C. H. Kennedy—Life Histories of the Dragon Flies.
H. A. Gossard—The Relation of Bees to Fire Blight. E. L. Wickliff—
Insect Food of Young Bass. H. L. Dozier—Observations on Some Florida
Insects. R. S. McKay—Observations on Orthoptera in Southern Ohio
in 1919. E. W. Long—Apiary Inspection in Relation to Entomology.
W. V. Balduf—Soy Bean Insect Investigations.

Round Table. The Hessian Fly in Ohio in 1919. T.H. Parks, Leader.

R. C. Osburn—Some Remarks on the Genus Syrphus. F. H. Crecker—
Distribution of Fresh Water Sponges by Caddis Fly Larvae. J. S. Hine—
Blood-Sucking Insects Observed on the Katmai Expedition. E. A. Hart-
ley—Some Observations on Bark Beetle Depredations in Western Yellow
Pine in Oregon. P. R. Lowry—Remarks on the Dactylopiinae of Ohio.
J. S. Houser—The Onion Maggot.

Exhibits: Microlepidoptera, with Examples of Larval Work—Miss
Braun. Differentiating Muscle Cells and Developing Tendons in the
Legs of Spiders—Prof. Barrows. 1. Lumbricus terrestris as an Onion
Pest. 2. Sphaerostilbe cocophila destroying San Jose Scale—Mr. Houser.
Map of Periodical Cicada in Ohio in 1919—Prof. Gossard.

New officers elected were as follows: President—J. S. Houser; Vice-
President—H. J. Speaker; Secretary—T. H. Parks.

Obituary

Dir be CC Woon:

Horatio C. Wood, M. D., LL. D., emeritus professor of
Materia Medica, Pharmacy and General Therapeutics in
the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, died January
3, 1919. He was born in Philadelphia, January 13, 1841,
was educated at the Westtown School and the Friends Select

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School and was graduated from the Medical department of
the University of Pennsylvania in 1862. He was the author
of a number of important medical works and papers and in
the beginning of his career devoted much time to natural
history and wrote a number of papers on botany. He re-
ceived honorary degrees from several universities and was a
member of many learned Societies, including the National
Academy of Sciences. Apparently he did not write on in-
sects proper but the following list* shows his activity in
nearly, related fields of natural history before he became
active as a practitioner of medicine.

In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia:

Descriptions of new species of Scolopendra, in the Collection of the
Academy. 1861, 10. :

Description of a New Species of Thelyphonus. 1861, 312.

Description of New Species of North American Pedipalpi. 1863, 107.

Description of New Species of North American Polydesmidae. 1864, 6.

Descriptions of New Species of North American Julidae. 1864, Io.

Description of New Genera and Species of North American Myriopoda.
1864, 186.

New Polyzoniidae, Gervais. 1865, 172.

Descriptions of New Species of Myriapoda. 1867, 42.

Notes on a collection of California Myriapoda with the Descriptions of
New Eastern Species. 1867, 127.

In the Journal of the same:

On the Chilopoda of North America, With a Catalogue of all the Spe-
cimens in the Collection of the Smithsonian Institution. V. 5.

On the Pedipalpi of North America. V, 357.

In the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society:

North American Myriapoda. 1865, 112 pp., 61 figs. and 3 plates.

On the Phalangia and Pedipalpi Collected by Prof. Orton in Western
South America with Descriptions of New Species. 1869, pp. 7. —

*Taken from a privately printed Bibliographical Record 1860-1890
Horatio C. Wood, without date or place of publication, 24 and 2 pages, 8vo.;
copies in the libraries of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
and of the University of Pennsylvania.

Obituary notices of Dr. Wood relating chiefly to his medical career,
have appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan. 16, 1920, (largely reprinted
in Science for Jan. 30) and The Alumni Register (Univ. of Pa.) for Feb.,
1920, the last with a portrait.

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In the Proceedings of the Essex Institute:
Phalangideae of the United States. 1867, 30 pp.

Dr. Wood was Recording Secretary of the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from October 31, 1865, to
February 26, 1867.

HENRY SKINNER.

While, aside from his writings along pharmacological and
medical lines, perhaps better known for his work on fresh-
water algae, Dr. Wood was for a number of years in the
earlier part of his scientific career an active and successful
student of the Myriopoda and Arachnida. His work on the
latter group was confined to the Pedipalpida, Phalangida,
and Scorpionida. Beginning with the description of a new
Japanese thelyphonid in 1861, he published in this. field a
number of papers of systematic character of which the most
important are his “On the Pedipalpi of North America”’ (1863)
and “On the Phalangeae of the United States’’ (1868), papers
which, in presenting what had been learned of this part of
our fauna up to his day together with his own material addi-
tions in clear and useful revisional form, have served as a
stimulus and starting point for later work. His final paper
touching these groups appeared in 1869 and was an account
of new South American and African forms.

_The period of Dr. Wood’s activity on the Myriopoda, as
indicated by published papers, extended from 1861 to 1867,
apparently terminating with his call to the professorship of
botany in the University of Pennsylvania in 1866. His de-
scriptive papers on the North American Myriopoda, published
during this period, were the first of importance by an Ameri-
can writer since Say’s Myriapodz of the United States (1821)
and have formed the basis for subsequent work. The first
paper (1861), an account of new, mostly exotic, species of
Scolopendra in the collection of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, was followed two years later by an
extensive paper on the Chilopoda of North America in which
were listed or described also all the exotic species then in the

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collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Four papers fol-
lowing this were descriptive of new North American diplopods.
Wood's work on this group culminated in ‘The Myriapoda of
North America”’ (1865), in which most of his previous work
was incorporated and which is still theonly single paperdealing
with the North American Chilopoda or Diplopoda as a whole.
This for the time was an excellent memoir, exhibiting ac-
curacy of observation and a balanced systematic judgment,
and showing careful attention to variability and an apprecia-
tion, e. g., of the prime importance of the copulatory organs
of diplopods in the discrimination of species. Two brief
supplementary papers descriptive of additional new North
American species appearing in 1867 concluded Wood’s work
on the Myriopoda.

R. V. CHAMBERLAIN, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In the summer of 1883, Dr. Wood was a member of an
expedition to Texas under Colonel, then Major W. R. Liver-
more, his son, Dr. George B. Wood, writes us. ‘This was one
of a series of explorations for the purpose of finding water,
recommending places for roads and new army posts and a
correction of old state surveys, when Col. Livermore was
triangling the State of Texas west of the Pecos River.’’ On
this expedition, either, near El Paso or in the valley of
‘“Tornellias”’ [Tornillo] creek in the great bend of the Rio
Grande, more likely the latter,* Dr. Wood collected two speci-
mens of a ‘“‘bright brilliant green [beetle] with a slight golden
lustre from the surface, tarsi violaceous, legs bright green,
tibiae distinctly golden externally,’’ described by Dr. George
H. Horn in the Transactions of the American Entomololgical
Society, xii, page 124, as Plusiotis woodii, and dedicated to
his friend.

*See Ent. News. xvi, p. 290, xxii, p. 356. A brief account of this ex-
pedition, which started July 1 and broke up at the end of October, is
contained in Major Livermore’s report in the Report of the Chief of
Engineers, U.S. Army for 1884, part II!, pp. 2394-2395, Washington, 1884.

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OLIVER SPINK WESTCOTT.

OLIVER SPINK WEsTCOTT was born at Wickford, Rhode
Island, December 15, 1834 and died at Oak Park, Illinois,
July 31, 1919. He graduated at Brown University, Provi-
dence, R. I., 1857, and was the last surviving graduate of that
vear. He also held the degree of Doctor of Science from
Brown University. He was a lineal descendant of Stukeley
Westcote, who went with Roger Williams from Massachusetts
to Rhode Island in 1638.

While he was an educator first, last and always, still he
was a noted scientist, mathematician and student of foreign
languages, ancient and modern. He was well known as an
entomologist having collected for 51 years. It was his custom
to spend his vacations from school in some corner of the coun-
try collecting insects for future study. He boasted that he
had visited and made a stay in every state of the Union, in
Mexico, Cuba, Hawati, Alaska and the several provinces of
Canada before he felt called upon to visit Europe. In fact
he went to Europe only once. His insect collection of some
45,000 specimens has gone to the State College of Washington,
Pullman, Wash. His Entomological Library was sold to
John D. Sherman Jr., Mount Vernon, New York.

A notice of Dr. Westcott, with special reference to his
connection with the public schools of Chicago, accompanied
by a portrait, was published in The Oak Parker for August
9, I919. From it we learn that that connection lasted for
fifty-two years.

“Thirty-one years as principal of the old North Division High School,
now known as the Robert A. Waller. At the age of 75, Mr. Westcott sent
in his resignation to the school board, but was prevailed upon to reconsider.

Five years later, on his eightieth birthday, he withdrew from ac-
tive service. At that time Superintendent Ella Flagg Young wrote: ‘On
your resignation from the principalship of the Waller High School I cannot
refrain from writing you something of my appreciation of the power for
intelligence and excellence that you have been in Chicago 2

We are indebted to Professor James G. Needham for the
clipping from which we have quoted and through him to Mr.
Charles Westcott, Dr. Westcott’s son, for the biographical

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data given above. Through Prof. Needham also, years
ago, Dr. Westcott placed the Odonata which he collected on
a trip to Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, at the service of the
Editor for incorporation of the data accompanying them in
the Biologia Centrali-A mericana.

While Dr. Westcott apparently published no extensive
papers on entomology, he contributed the following notes to
EntromMoLocicaL NEws:

Venturesome Insects [Butterflies], iv, 90-91, March, 1893.

[Erebus odora at Racine, Wisconsin], v, 71. March, 1894.

The Assembling of the Cecropia Moth, vi, 136-137, May, 1895.

The Distribution of some N. American Syrphidae, viii, 190-191, Oct.,
1897.

Collecting Dragonflies by a Decoy, xvi, 209, Sept., 1905.

Note on Anatis 15-punctata and A. caseyi n. sp. [Coleop.], xxiii, 422,
Nov. I912.

Scarcity of Early Insects, xxiii, 328-329, July, 1912.

The 1912 swarming of Aletia argillacea, xxiv, 84-85, Feb., 1913.

Rarities (Hym., Neur., Odon.), xxvii, 85-86, Feb., 1916.

Misapplied Effort (Odonata), xxvii, 467, Dec., 1916.

Sex Attraction Overcome by Light Stimulation (Lepid., Col.), xxviii,
374-5, Oct., 1917.

Dr CG. Bewrer

The daily papers announced the death of Dr. Charles
Gordon Hewitt, dominion entomologist and consulting zoolo-
gist, at Ottawa, on March 1, 1920. He was born in Scotland
thirty-five years ago and came to Canada in 1909. Previous
to and after his settlement on this side of the Atlantic, he
published several notable works on the house-fly. In 1913
he was elected a fellow of the Entomological Society of Amer-
ica, in whose meetings he took an interested part. As ento-
mologist and zoologist he was very active in Canada and he
will be greatly missed there, as well as on this side of the inter-
national line, where we deplore his early death. Detailed
biographical notices will doubtless appear in the Canadian

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