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Wee. A XFIT: JULY, 1912. No. 7.
CONTENTS:
Calvert—Studies on Costa Rican Odo- Polee piers. cence acc nincie acs ecine <x « 320
OEE) sap scs no dsane eeocsneesaaesaees ges\| Lahey el | abe Sich nee as SAS eee 324
Girault—Notes on the Hymenoptera | Headlee, et. al—Strict Priority in No-
Cin ard iit Ge ee ee 296 | menclature—or Not?..............- 325
The Vote on Priority in Nomenclature. 300 | Americans at the International Con-
McGregor—A new Mallophagan....... 305 | gress of Entomology ....-.......... 327
Angell—Two new North American spe- Cockerell—Food Plant of Dysdercus
cies of Necrophorus (Coleop.)..... 307 | AUTAIMNUS POA italananiecle sine esas ele ar 327
Fisher and Kirk—Cerambycidae from Entomological Investigation of Okefe-
Harrisburg, Penna., and vicinity, NOKCG SWAMP Sosa ee cee soa nasisise te 327
MmabbBores (Coleagy) =. ......1- =... 308 | Porter—Collecting in Tropical America 328
de la Torre Bueno—Nezara viridula | Westcott—Scarcity of Early Insects... 328
Linne, an Hemipteron new to the Rohwer—One Reason for the Change
Northeastern United States........ 316 | of Names ......... A) be cdsdobeeeced 329
Cockerell—A new Chalcidid from Guat- | Holloway—An Experiment on the Ovi-
emivia (tlymen.)-.-2.....----.2-..- 318 | position of a Hymenopterous Egg
Fall—A new Tetropium, two new Bru- PASTAS Heer ep cree cia ee aclcisic isin sineise 329
chides, with brief notes on other Entomological Literature ............. 331

Studies on Costa Rican Odonata.

IV. Erpetogomphus in Costa Rica, with Descriptions of a New
Species Having Complex Structural Mating Adaptations.

By Puivie P. Catvert, Pu.D., University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa.
(Plate XVII)

The following summary of the geographical distribution of
the genus Erpetogomphus was published in 1905 (Calvert,
IQOI-1908, p. 159) : “A very characteristic genus of the present
[ Mexican-Central American] fauna. Eleven species are now
known, ten of which have actually been found in Mexico or
Central America. The eleventh, E. compositus, is known from
Texas and Arizona, and will doubtless be found in Mexico;
it has been reported from the Yellowstone and Oregon, which,
with Ohio and Indiana (E. designatus), are the most northern
known limits of Erpetogomphus. To the south, Guatemala is
at present the known limit; there is, however, a very doubtful
record from Brazil.”

In 1907, in the supplementary part of the same volume (p.
398), it was possible to say: “The most southern locality for
this genus certainly known is now San José, in Costa Rica, as

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cited below under E. elaps’—a single male taken by the late
Professor Biolley, in May, 1905, now in the British Museum
of Natural History as part of the Godman-Salvin collection.

During the year which I spent in Costa Rica, I only once
saw an insect which I thought might have been an Erpe-
togomphus. This was on the southern edge of Cartago, but I
was unable to capture it, and repeated visits to the same spot
on subsequent days failed to rediscover it. Its identity is
therefore entirely uncertain.

In July, 1911, Professor J. Fidel Tristan, Senora Tristan and
Senor C. Picado, went to Oricuajo, a farm belonging to Senor
Santiago Guell, on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, between the
Rivers Machuca and Jesus Maria, where they unit. Professor
and Senor Tristan were here from July 5-10, and made a collec-
tion of Odonata which Professor Tristan subsequently sent to
me. Among them was a male and a female Erpetogomphus, en-
closed in the same envelope, so presumably taken pairing. This
pair not only confirm the existence of the genus in Costa Rica,
but are of an undescribed species which, in honor of my friend
and companion on many a delightful excursion, I herewith
describe as

Erpetogomphus tristani, n. sp. (Plate XVII).

é Vertex, clypeus, labrum, occiput and genae dark brown. Frons
bright green, except for a superior transverse dark brown stripe in
front of the antennae which is confluent in front of each eye with a
narrower transverse dark brown stripe along the inferior margin.
Labium, maxillae and bases of the mandibles pale yellow, but the
apices of all brown or black. A nearly straight transverse ridge on the
vertex behind the ocelli, forming a tubercle bearing some long dark
hairs behind each lateral ocellus, but concealing only a small part
of the occiput when the head is viewed from in front (Fig. 2). Hind
margin of the occiput almost straight, curving slightly upward at each
eye, with a row of moderately long dark hairs.

Fore and hind lobes of the prothorax pale green, the former tinged
with pale brown on the sides. Middle lobe pale brown, a pair of sub-
median dorsal dots and a larger spot each side pale green.

Thorax (meso-metathorax) with the mid-dorsal carina, borders of
the ante-alar sinus, a mid-dorsal and a humeral stripe, and stripes on
the first and second lateral sutures and along the ventral margin of
the metepimeron, dark maroon brown. The median brown stripe is

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narrowed at the antealar sinus (where it is narrowly confluent with
the upper end of the humeral stripe of each side) and still more so
at the transverse anterior mesepisternal carina, in front of which it
widens anteriorly and is confluent on the mesinfraepisterna with the
lower end of each humeral stripe. The pale antehumeral stripe is
bright green, is wider at both ends than at its middle, where it is
about two-thirds as wide as the brown median stripe and half as wide
as the brown humeral stripe at the same level. The brown humeral
stripe is constricted to half its width at its upper end where, as well
as at its lower end, it is narrowly confluent with the brown stripe of
the first lateral suture. This latter is twice confluent in its upper-
most fourth with the brown stripe of the second lateral suture, which
in its turn is confluent above (very narrowly) and below with the
metepimeral brown stripe. The pale color of the sides of the thorax
is more yellowish than the pale antehumeral stripe and is wider in each
of its three divisions than the brown stripe which bounds each division
posteriorly. Inter-alar dorsal sclerites pale green. Pectus pale ob-
scure yellowish.

Abdomen brown, darker on segments 3-8, marked with pale yel-
lowish-green as follows: most of 1; the auricles and two (?) posterior
spots, one lateral (the other dorsal?), on 2; a narrow mid-dorsal
stripe or line beginning at the anterior end of each of segments 3-7
but not reaching the hind end of any of them; a spot on each side in
the foremost fourth on 3 or sixth on 4-6 (or 7?). Segments 9 and
Io are of a more reddish-brown than those preceding and bear a
greater number of delicate pale hairs.

Abdomen widest at segment I and again at the articulation of 9 and
to. A tuft of pale hairs on a brown spot at the hind margin of 1
where dorsal and lateral surfaces meet. Auricles on 2 well-devel-
oped, decidedly projecting, with about eight minute denticles on the
posterior margin. Segments 7-9 successively shorter, to longer than 8
or 9 but shorter than 74 Hind margin of 9 angularly produced into a
mid-dorsal posteriorly-directed process. The hind dorsal margin of 10
is rounded and produced into a small rounded median tubercle which
fits between the superior appendages.

Genitalia of 2 (Fig. 9) black; anterior hamules shorter than the
posterior, rounded and hooked at tip, posterior hamules tapering to
the acute straight tips. Each of the two antero-lateral angles of the
vesicle of the penis terminating in a lamellate process.

Superior appendages three-fifths as long as 10, pale green, blackish
at extreme base and at apex, with many hairs half as long as, or
longer than, each appendage is thick. In dorsal view (Fig. 6) almost
straight and parallel, the posterior half of each obliquely truncated
from the outer side inward (mesad) and backward (caudad) ; at two-

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thirds length is a stout dorsal tooth on the inner (mesial) margin. In
profile view (Fig. 5) each appendage at its base is almost half as high
as the hind margin of Io but contracts its height by one half on the
ventral side of the proximal fifth; at one-half length is a strong tuber-
cular ventral tooth directed ventrad, distad to this tooth the ventral
edge is concave; the fourth sixth of the appendage’s length on its
dorsal edge is occupied by a stout tooth directed dorsad and caudad;
from this tooth the thickness of the appendage gradually decreases
to the apex which is obtuse and bent very slightly downward (ventrad).
Viewed from below, each appendage has a ventral longitudinal carina
in its proximal sixth and again in its distalf half.

Inferior appendage shining blackish brown, its hairs fewer and
shorter than those of the superiors. Viewed in profile (Figs. 5, 8), it
does not quite attain the level of the inferior tooth of the superiors; it
is curved strongly dorsad, then cephalad and finally, at its apex, ventrad,
decreasing gradually in thickness throughout its length. Viewed from
below (Fig. 7), its width decreases from the base; it is divided into two
branches from almost the base, the branches closely oppressed
throughout and forming between them a deep ventral groove.

Femora dark brown, those of third legs redder, inner (lower) sur-
face of first femora and a distal spot on inner surface of second pale
green. Tibiae and tarsi black.

Q. Differs from the male as follows: Vertex with a deep median
longitudinal groove on the posterior wall of which is situated the
median ocellus; as a result, when the head is viewed from in front
(Fig. 4), the median ocellus is above the level of the two lateral ocelli,
and in dorsal view (Fig. 3) the median ocellus is completely posterior
to the level of the other two. In the male, as in most Gomphinae, and
indeed in Odonata generally, the median ocellus is below and at least
not posterior to the level of the other two ocelli in these two views
respectively (Figs. 2, 1). As a further result of the presence of this
groove, the transverse ridge on the vertex behind the ocelli is produced
in the middle dorsad and caudad as a marked convexity which con-
ceals all of the occiput except its hind margin, when the head is
viewed from in front. Dorsal surface of the occiput very much
reduced antero-posteriorly, its hind margin strongly convex and fringed
with dark hairs; posterior surface swollen in the middle, which is
not the case in the male, and with a distinct socket on each side ad-
joining the compound eye. Front shallowly and widely grooved an-
tero-posteriorly in the middle of its superior surface; this feature
less marked in the male.

Mid-dorsal mesothoracic carina pale green; brown markings of the
thorax paler, redder; green antehumeral stripe at mid-height half as
wide as the brown mid-dorsal stripe.

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Abdominal segment 2 with a mid-dorsal, and on each side a longitud-
inal, yellow stripe occupying the greater part of the length of the seg-
ment. Greatest width of the posterior half of the abdomen at the
articulation of 8 and 9. Auricles on 2 very much smaller and not dentic-
ulated, as usual in this sex. Segments 7-10 successively shorter. Mid-
dorsal posterior process of 9 shorter than in the male. Hind dorsal mar-
gin of 10 nearly straight, not produced. Eleventh segment a little
shorter than the tenth, its tergite and sternites sub-equal. Terminal
abdominal appendages as long as 10, pale brown, straight, conical, apices
acute.

Vulvar lamina one-third as long as 9, its apical margin one-third as
long as its base, shallowly concave (Fig. 10).

$9. Wings slightly smoky, tinged with faint yellow at the extreme
base. Front wings with 14 (¢)-15 (2) antenodals, 12-14 postnodals.
Hind wings with 11 antenodals, 12-13 postnodals, anal triangle of ¢
3-celled. Stigma dark brown.

Dimensions. Total length, ¢ 42, 2 44. Abdomen ¢ 31.5, 2 33.5.
Hind wing, ¢ 28, 2 29. Costal edge of stigma, front wing ¢ 3, 2 3.5.
Width of head ¢ 6, 2 6.3 mm.

Hab. Costa Rica, Oricuajo (Pacific side), July, 1911, by
Prof. J. F. Tristan, 1 ¢, 1 2, now in the collection of the writer
at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Type. The male above mentioned.

This pair show the following differences from the generic
characters of Erpetogomphus as given in Biol. Centr.-Amer.
Neur., pp. 146-147:

There are 9 (10 on the left side of the ¢) marginal cells on the
front wings between M4 and Cur (short sector and first sector of the
triangle) instead of 6-8 cells. I find in my notes, however, mention of
a female E. designatus from Texas with 9-10 marginal cells.

There is but one row of cells in the anal and second cubital areas
(postcostal area of de Selys) of the front wings from the base to be-
yond the level of the triangle; there are only two rows of cells at any
point between Cu2 (second sector of the triangle) and the hind margin
in the male, but there are three rows for three (right) or four (left)
cells in the female. These variations were met in the Biol. Cent. Amer.
material also.

While the arculus is at or proximal to the second subcostal antenodal
in seven out of the eight wings, it is not necessarily at or proximal to the
level of the second costal antenodal, as the second subcostal antenodal
is not coincident with the second costal antenodal in six out of the
eight wings, but distal thereto. This lack of coincidence is often to be
seen in this genus.

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The sixth (instead of the fifth) antenodal is thicker on the left front
wing of the female.
The abdomen of the male is widest at segment 9.

Erpetogomphus tristani 6 falls under rubric AA of the key
to the species of this genus (Biol. Centr.-Amer. Neur., p. 160)
so far as the superior appendages of the male are concerned,
but the face has distinct dark markings. It is also allied to E.
ophibolus of rubric A in possessing a superior tooth on the
same appendages. In possessing both a superior and an infer-
ior tooth, both well-developed, and such a strongly recurved in-
ferior appendage, it differs from all other described species
of Erpetogomphus.

The female tristani falls under rubric BBB of the same key
1. c., p. 162) and in its occipital characters and brown ante-
humeral (+ humeral) stripe comes nearer to diadophis than to
designatus, but differs from these and all other known species
by the peculiar structure of the vertex, which deserves fuller
mention.

Mr. Williamson (1899) first pointed out that in the Odonata
Anisoptera, in pairing, the inferior appendage of the male rests
on the top of the head of the female and the superior appen-
dages of the male on the rear of the head of the female. He
was able (1906) to make positive observations to this effect in
the genus Gomphus, among others. Calvert (1906), in confirma-
tion, figured the two sexes of Aeshna constricta |[=umbrosa,
E. M. Walker] in this position. There is no reason to think
that the mating position in Erpetogomphus is different. In the
above description and in the figures (Figs. 3, 4) of the vertex
of the head of £&. tristani female, mention is made of a deep
median longitudinal groove (g), and of the great reduction of
the dorsal surface of the occiput. On placing the head of the
female and the hind end of the male abdomen side by side in
the same field of the microscope, it is evident that the recurved
terminal part of the inferior appendage of the male (Fig. 8)
is sufficiently narrow transversely to be received into the me-
dian vertical groove of the female. It seems inevitable that
the inferior appendage should fit into this groove when pair-
ing takes place. It is also likely that the ventral tooth of each

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superior appendage of the male is received into the socket on
each side of the posterior surface of the female’s occiput,
and that the dorsal tooth of the same appendage is braced
against her prothorax. E. tristani therefore furnishes one of
the most complex structural mating adaptations hitherto no-
ticed in the Anisoptera. In looking over the plates of de Selys
& Hagen (1858) nothing so complicated is to be found in
any species of this family figured therein.*

LITERATURE QUOTED.

Catvert, P. P. 1901-1908. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta
Odonata. London.

Ip, 1906. Copulation of Odonata. Ent. News, XVII, pp. 148-150,
pl. VII.

DE SELYs LonccHAmps, E. et. HAacen, H. A. 1858. Monographie des
Gomphines. Bruxelles, Leipzig, Paris.

WatLkER, E. M. 1912. The North American Dragonflies of the Genus
Aeshna. University of Toronto Studies. Biological Series, No. 11.

WriAMson, E. B. 1899. A Note on Copulation among Odonata.
Ent. News, X, pp. 42-43.

Wiriamson, E. B. 1906. Copulation of Odonata. Ent. News, XVII,
Pp. 143-148.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII.

All the figures are of Erpetogomphus tristani n. sp. and have been
drawn with the aid of the compound miscroscope and camera lucida.
The magnification is the same in all, x 12.

Figs. 1 and 2. Dorsal and anterior views respectively of the vertex
and occiput of the male. The dotted line in 1 shows the boundary be-
tween green and black on the superior surface of the frons.

Figs. 3 and 4. The same of the female. g, the vertical groove, mo,
median ocellus.

Fig. 5. Left profile view of the apex of the male abdomen.

Fig. 6. Dorsal view of the superior abdominal appendages of the male.

Fig. 7. Ventral view of the inferior abdominal appendage of the
male. Dotted lines show the proximal parts of the superior appendages.

oe 8. Left profile view of the inferior abdominal appendage of the
male.

Fig. 9. Right profile view of the genitalia of the second and third
abdominal segments of the male. p, posterior hamule and s, sheath of
the penis, separated from the rest, p in lateral, s in posterior view.

Fig. to. Ventral view of the oth, and adjoining parts of the 8th
and roth, abdominal segments of the female.

*Since this paper was written, Dr. E. M. Walker’s superb monograph
of the North American Aeshnas has appeared (1912), in which he dis-
cusses (pp. 39-42) and figures (Plate 2) the copulatory position of
Aeshna, Gomphus and other Odonata.

206 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, *12

Notes on the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea.
By A. A. GriRAULT, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

1. A New TrICHOGRAMMATID FROM THE UNITED STATES.

In the Transactions of the American Entomological Society,
Volume XXXVII, 1911, pp. 2-6, pl. I, figs. 1-2, a new genus
and species of the Chalcidoid family Trichogrammatide was
described with the name of Aphelinoidea semifuscipennis
Girault. Recent additions to this genus comprising four new
species discovered in Australia lead me to review the group
and I now find that in the material upon which was based the
description of the type of the genus two distinct species were
represented instead of but the one. This error came about
very naturally by supposing the two distinct forms represented
in the description of semifuscipennis to be the two sexes of that
species. If the original description of the genus be consulted,
it will be seen that the male was described as differing from
the female by a very striking characteristic, a kind not usually
sexual, namely the presence of a broad naked path across the
fore wing. Later examination of one of the so-called males
upon which the description was based (captured at Urbana,
Illinois, July 27, 1910) led to the discovery that it was a fe-
male, evidenced by the fact that the genitalia could not be dis-
tinguished from that of the females of the genus, though the
actual presence of an ovipositor could not be demonstrated.
Nevertheless the reasoning stands thus:

(1) This specimen could not be distinguished structurally
from the females of the other four species and its ovipositor
was probably concealed within its valves, which were visible.

(2) Males of the genus with the exception of the two so-
called of semifuscipennis are unknown (about forty specimens
of the genus have been captured, all females).

(3) Secondary sexual characters in the family are usually
confined to antennal structures (or some more fundamental
change than that mentioned previously), and

(4) Differences in degree of wing fumation and arrange-
ment of the discal ciliation are known to be specific characters

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in this genus, while the secondary sexual characters remain
unknown. That two species are represented by the material in
question is thus so nearly certain that I do not hesitate at all,
but forthwith describe the second American species of the
genus.

Aphelinoidea plutella new species.

Aphelinoidea semifuscipennis Girault, male, in Girault I. c.

Female.—Similar to the type species of the genus excepting as al-
ready pointed out in the place cited. The specimen before me differs
also in color, however, the whole of the thorax and head ochraceous
not blackish, the base of the abdomen yellowish suffused with orange.
Discal ciliation confined to the distal half of the fore wing and sepa-
rated from the apex of the venation by a clear path which is naked;
the fumation of the fore wing extends only to the end of the marginal
vein. The proximal joint of the club is less than a third of the length
of that segment.

Habitat: United States of America—lIllinois (Centralia and
Urbana).

Type: Accession No. 41,680, Illinois State Laboratory of
Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, one female in xylol-balsam
(mounted with the type female of semifuscipennis Girault).

There are now known six species of Aphelinoidea, four of
them from Queensland, Australia, but as yet undescribed.

2. ANTHEMILLA GIRAULT EQUALS PARALLELAPTERA E,NOCK.

In the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash-
ington, Volume XIII, 1911, pp. 185-187, a new genus and spe-
cies of Mymaridz is described from North America under the
name Anthemiella rex Girault. This genus was thought to be
different from any Mymarid genus then known, but it was
recognized that it was closely allied with Anthemus Howard
from which it differs markedly in venation only. I have been
considerably surprised, therefore, in finding later on that the
genus had already been described by Enock for Parallelaptera
panis Enock (Transactions of the Entomological Society of
London for the year 1909, December, p. 454, pl. XIII, figs.
1-5). But Enock, in the original description of the genus
gives no characteristics of it and its position is unstated; we
learn from the description, however, that the male antenne

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are I1-jointed, the only characteristic mentioned that would
serve to show that the genus was different from Anthemus
Howard. However, there now being no doubt as regards the
identity of Anthemiella with Parallelaptera, the characteristics
of the latter become more evident, since the former name was
proposed especially for the reason that its type species bore a
long marginal vein in the fore wing (about seven times longer
than broad, in the type Anthemus only about twice longer than
its width). Hence Parallelaptera Enock differs primarily from
<lnthemus Howard in bearing a longer marginal vein of the
fore wing and in having r1i-jointed antenne in the male;
secondarily in having longer funicle joints and nearly naked
fore wings (as regards discal ciliation).

Parallelaptera rex (Girault) differs from P. panis in gen-
eral coloration, being black marked with golden yellow, in
having funicle joints 1 and 2 unequal and doubtless in other
details but I am unable to detect these from the descriptions.

3. SOME NECESSARY CORRECTIONS TO PREVIOUS PAPERS ON THE
! MyM aripaE.

(1). In the paper titled “A New Polynema from Mexico,” published
in Entomo.iocicaL News, Philadelphia, Volume XXII, October, ro1I,
p. 358, last line female should read male.* This paper describes Poly-
nema aspidiots Girault.

(2). In the paper titled “Descriptions of North American Mymari-
dae with Synonymic and Other Notes on Described Genera and Spe-
cies,” published in the Transactions of the American Entomological
Society, Philadelphia, Volume XXXVII, pp. 253-324, the following:

Page 278, line 21, Anthemis read Anthemus.

Page 284, line 10, nigellus read nigrellus.

Page 291, paragraph 8—In regard to Anagrus columbi Perkins, I
should state that ] have seen the type or at least original specimen
which is mounted in balsam and in the collections of the Experiment
Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association at Honolulu; an
examination of it does not lead me to change the opinion concerning
its status as expressed in this paragraph.

Page 300, line 4, howardii read striaticorne.

Page 301, lines Io and 29, or read on.

Page 308, line 5, consobinus read consobrinus.

Page 319, line 26, second read first.

id In Mr. Girault’s MS. the word is female, as was printed in the NEws.—Eb.]

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Page 323, in the added list of names Anaphes pratensis Foerster is
erroneously omitted, subsequently found to occur in North America.
Camptoptera clavata Provancher should have been omitted as later it
was found to belong to a different group of the Hymenoptera.

Page 324, line 6, Discopus read Dicopus. The longipes mentioned in
line @ is a Polynema. The three species in lines 5, 6 and 7 have now
been described and are valid.

Unfortunately the publication of this paper was somewhat delayed
so that other papers which should have followed it in point of time
appeared at the same time or even somewhat earlier; this state of
affairs causes a few nomenclatorial incongruities, none of which, how-
ever, are of much consequence. The three papers on Mymaridae pub-
lished by myself in Enromotocica, News for October, Ig1I, the two
in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Vol-
ume XIII, 1911 (pp. 120-123 and 185-187), the one appearing in the
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, September, 1911 (and
the one on Stephanodes psecas Girault to appear later in the same
journal but which should have appeared before the September article),
and the article appearing in the Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, Berlin,
IQII, pp. 119-140, should all have been published later than the above
paper.

4. NECESSARY CorRECTIONS TO SOME OTHER PUBLISHED PAPERS ON THE
CHALCIDOIDEA.

(1). In the paper entitled “Synonymic and Descriptive Notes on the
Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea with Descriptions of Several New Genera
and Species,” published in the Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, Berlin,
1git, the following errors occurred:

Page 119, after the paragraph on Uriella rufipes the family heading
Eulophidae was omitted.

The footnote signal 2 should be in the next line after Ashmead.

Page 121, line 8, larg should be long.

Page 128, line 4, insert the word four before male.

Page 130, line 29, Uscanagiammatella should read Trichogrammatella.

Page 130, line 41, insert and between color and wings.

(2). In the paper published in the Canadian Entomologist for 1911,
Pp. 346-354, 370-377 and following, these typographical errors occurred:

Page 346, line 5, insert of after subgenus.

Page 351, line 1 of footnote, the read this.

Page 375, line 6 from bottom, Perovea read Peronea.

Page 376, line 7, Semeotellus read Semiotellus.

Lines 11 and 12, Mason read Nason.

Line 9, the semicolon after 1897 should be omitted and the word and
inserted,

300 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’12

The Vote on Priority in Nomenclature.

The Editorial in the News for March, 1912, page 128,
called attention to a vote taken among the zoologists of Den-
mark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as to their preferences
on the question of the strict application of the law of priority
in nomenclature, and stated that the News would be glad to
receive and print the votes of American entomologists and
zoologists on the same alternatives as were submitted to the
Scandinavian voters.

Some discussion of the question appeared in our issues for
April (pages 181-182) and May (pages 226-228) and Pro-
fessor J. Chester Bradley sent us the results of a vote taken
in the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University. The
total number of ballots received was very small, however, so
that we sent out postal cards to the working entomologists
of North America with a statement of the two Scandinavian
alternatives (in order that the vote here might be strictly com-
parable with that taken on the other side of the Atlantic) and
a request for a vote on them.

The list of those to whom these cards were sent was com-
piled from the lists of American entomological contributors
to the journals of the last two years, especially the News, the
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, The
Canadian Entomologist, the Proceedings of the Entomologi-
cal Society of Washington, the Journal of Economic Ento-
mology, Psyche, the Journal of the New York Entomological
Society, the Annals of the Entomological Society of America,
the Reports of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and the
publications of the Bureau of Entomology, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. About 400 cards were sent out to
all of the authors on these lists whose present addresses could
be ascertained. As announced in the June number, page 270,
we print below the names of those from whom votes have
been received.

To complete the bibliographical references to this ques-
tion, the editorial in the May News, page 224, and the discus-
sion by a number of writers in those for June, pages 271-276,
and July, pages 325-327, may be mentioned.

Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 301

A. The following vote that the law of priority should be
strictly applied in all cases:

J. F. Abbott,

A. C. Baker, C. F. Baker, E. D. Ball, N. Banks, H. G. Barber, W.
Barnes, H. E. Burke, A. Busck,

A. N. Caudell, F. H. Chittenden, G. C. Crampton, V. L. Clemence,
A. J. Cook, E. N. Cory, A. Cosens, J. C. Crawford, R. P. Currie,

W. M. Davidson, W. T. Davis, H. G. Dyar,

C. R. Ely, G. P. Engelhardt,

E. P. Felt, A. Fenyes, C. H. Fernald, H. T. Fernald, W. J. Fox (1),
G. H. French, D. T. Fullaway,

A. B. Gahan (2), W. J. Gerhard, C. P. Gillette, J. A. Grossbeck, C.
F. Groth,

H. S. Harbeck, R. W. Harned, C. A. Hart, M. Hebard (3), O. Heide-
mann, W. J. Holland, C. W. Hooker, W. A. Hooker, V. A. Huard, J.
A. Hyslop,

P. R. Jones,

W. D. Kearfott, W. A. Kepner, G. B. King, F. Knab, R. E. Kunze,

PP Laurent, C. W. Leng, F. E. Lutz (4),

F. R. Mason, I. Matausch, J. McDunnough (5), L. W. Mengel, C.
W. Metz,

L. J. Nickels, S. D. Nixon, A. H. Norton, F. W. Nunenmacher,

W. D. Pierce (6), H. Pinkus, C. R. Plunkett, C. L. Pollard, H. S.
Peat

A. L. Quaintance,

P. Rau, G. S. Reeves (7), J. A. G. Rehn (8), C. Robertson, S. A.
Rchwer, H. M. Russell,

G. E. Sanders, P. A. Schroers (9), E. W. Scott, H. C. Severin, F.
L. Simanton, J. M. Swaine, M. H. Swenk, L. W. Swett,

eek Ebibault, jz., P. H. Timberlake, E. G. Titus,

R. A. Vickery, H. L. Viereck,

J. L. Webb, G. P. Welden, C. Wellman, A. B. Wolcott, F. H. Wolley
Dod, C. W. Woodworth,

J. F. Zimmer.

Total, 95.

The following qualifications or comments were appended to the bal-
lots numbered in parentheses above:

(1) in view of the fact that there are no fixed rules for the carrying
out of the other proposition.

(2) where the synonymy is not open to question.

(3) subject to the ruling of the International Entomological Congress.

(4) The prior names will be “generally used” some day if A be fol-
lowed.

302 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, 712

(5) It appears to me that the muddle in nomenclature is largely due
to the slipshod revisions of the last 20 or 30 years, and the sooner the
Law of Priority is strictly applied, the sooner the trouble will cease.
I even strongly advocate the ‘first species’ principle in establishing
generic types. Clause B would at once bring in the personal equation
in the application of the words “most important.”

(6) This proposition [B] is full of danger. I could not vote for such
a proposition without knowing what was intended.

(7) provided the existing uncertainty as to what constitutes priority
can be removed, e. g., Meigen’s 1800 paper.

(8) In voting I wish to record my adherence to the International
Code.

(9) It LA] is the only method that offers a chance of a uniformity of
opinion. The second would lead to endless discussions and contro-
versies.

B. The following vote against the strict application of the
law of priority in all cases and express the desire that the
most important and generally used names should be protected
against any change on nomenclatural grounds.

C. C. Adams, C. F. Adams, C. N. Ainslie, J. M. Aldrich, C. P. Alex-
ander, G. G. Atwood,

C. J. S. Bethune (1), F. C. Bishopp (2), S. C. Bishop, F. E. Blais-
dell, Sr. (2a), W. S. Blatchley, D. Bodine, F. C. Bowditch, J. C. Brad-
ley, A. F. Braun, H. H. Brehme, C. S. Brimley, W. E. Britton, F. E.
Brooks, C. T. Brues, L. Bruner.

I. Caesar, P. P. Calvert, 'T. L. Casey (3), D. M. Castle; G Chapaae
J. W. Chapman, C. W. Collins, J. H. Comstock, W. P. Comstock (4),
I. J.. Condit, E..C. Gotton (5), E. TI. Cresson, E. “TP: Cresson gn ee
Criddle, C. R. Crosby,

V. A. E. Daecke, A. Davidson, J. J. Davis, H. Dean, E. L. Dicker-
son, W. G. Dietz, G. Dimmock, R. W. Doane, S. B. Doten, R. P. Dow,

I. M. Eliot, M. J. Elrod, G. C. Embody, H. Engle, J. D. Evans, H.
E. Ewing,

H. C. Fall, W. L. W. Field, Adele M. Fielde, J. W. Folsom, S. A.
Forbes, W. T. M. Forbes (6), S. W. Foster, H. Fox, H. J. Franklin,
C. A. Frost, W. D. Funkhouser,

J. H. Gerould, A. Gibson, W. H. Goodwin, H. A. Gossard (7), E. L.
Graef, S. Graenicher, F. Grinnell, Jr.,

J. C. Hambleton, A. G. Hammar, W. H. Harrington, J. R. Haskin,
T. J. Headlee, J. L. Healy, E. F. Heath (8), R. W. Hegner, S. Henshaw,
G. W. Herrick, P. H. Hertzog, C. G. Hewitt, M. M. High, W. E.
Hinds, E. F. Hitchings, H. E. Hodgkiss, T. E. Holloway, R. Hopping,
C. O. Houghton, L. O. Howard (9), S. J. Hunter, W. D. Hunter,

Vol. xxiti] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 303

O. A. Johannsen, C. W. Johnson (10), F. M. Jones,

E. O. G. Kelly, T. Kincaid, V. King, W. V. King (11), W. Knaus,

C. Liebeck, H. W. Lohrenz, J. H. Lovell, C. S. Ludlow,

A. D. MacGillivray, P. B. Mann (11a), W. M. Mann, C. L. Marlatt,
F. Marloff, H. O. Marsh, W. S. Marshall, R. Matheson, W. L. McAtee,
J. F. McClendon, F. A. McDermott, E. P. Meiners, Z. P. Metcalf, J.
T. Monell, A. H. Morgan, A. W. Morrill, M. E. Murtfeldt, R. A. Mutt-
kowski,

W. A. Nason, J. G. Needham, J. A. Nelson, H. H. Newcomb, W.
W. Newcomb, E. J. Newcomer, W. Newell,

O. W. Oestlund, W. C. O’Kane, C. E. Olsen, H. Osborn (11b), R.
C. Osburn,

Seeeeeeatke:, P.-j. Parrott, EF. M. Patch, R. F. Pearsall (12), A.
Petrunkevitch, E. F. Phillips, W. J. Phillips, C. V. Piper, C. H. Popenoe,
P. B. Powell,

H. D. Reed, W. Reiff, W. A. Riley, C. H. Roberts, D. M. Rogers,
R. R. Rowley,

J. G. Sanders (13), C. Schaeffer, W. J. Schoene, FE. A. Schwarz,
Beer scot. V_ E. Shelford (14), A. F. Shull, C. A. Shull (15), H.
Skinner, A. T. Slosson, H. E. Smith, P. E. Smith, E. A. Smythe, Jr.,
T. E. Snyder, C. G. Soule, H. A. Surface,

Weelieetsou. 2. Ss) backer, © H. Turner,

P. R. Uhler, F. W. Urich,

D. L. Van Dine, E. P. Van Duzee (16),

B. H. Walden, E. M. Walker, L. B. Walton (17), W. R. Walton, F.
M. Webster, R. L. Webster, A. J. Weidt, O. S. Westcott, W. M.
Wheeler, H. F. Wickham, F. X. Williams, S. W. Williston, H. F. Wil-
son (18), G. N. Wolcott, H. P. Wood, A. H. Wright, W. G. Wright

(19),
W. W. Yothers,
Total, ror.

The following qualifications or comments were appended to the B
ballots, as numbered in parentheses above:

(1) Any name in general use for, say, 25 years should not be changed

(2) I should prefer to vote for a proposition between A and B, i. e¢.,
that the Law of Priority should be generally applied especially when
there is any dispute as to the name to be adopted.

(2a) Any modification to be controlled by a committee and care taken
to avoid any injudicious or unscientific tendencies.

(3) provided they may have been the only names used during a
period continuously of 60 years or more succeeding the epoch of the
first comprehensive paper in which they were employed in what may
have been a new sense. P. S. In other words if a name has not been
rectified or challenged in 60 years it should stand permanently.

304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’

(4) I concur with the statement of Mr. J. C. Bradley, Ent. News,
vol, xxIII. pp. 226-227.

(5) General use for several years should count for more than priority.

(6) also names of secondary importance so far as established by
general usage.

(7) Whole matter should be determined by Committee of International
Congress of Entomologists and names chosen by Committee should be
adhered to unchangeably.

(8) Absurd. Leads to endless confusion to no practical end Lappend-
ed to crossed out alternative A].

(9) but believes that the rulings of the Committee on Zoological
Nomenclature of the International Zoological Congress should be
adopted universally even if they hold for strict priority.

(10) Meigen’s first paper is the cause of my conviction.

(11) Provided a rational method is adopted.

(11a) unless for special good reasons.

(11b) but so safeguarded that it will apply es in most essential
cases and with very general consent.

(12) and would suggest that where the type is in existence, the
author’s name be retained for it in all cases, except his name be pre-
occupied in the same family group.

(13) by decision of a committee (general), such fixed names to be
indicated by a hyphen or + or X signs, viz. Pontia X rapae, Pontia
+ rapae.

(14) provided that generally used names be established by majority
vote at international congresses.

(15) However, where names are not long time-honored, generally
used names, I do favor the Law of Priority as giving us the only
permanent basis of nomenclature.

(16) Would vote A if certain ‘freak’ books could be eliminated.

(17) as determined by a general committee on nomenclature.

(18) Provided three or more specialists of any group have an oppor-
tunity afforded them to place before the committee such proof as
they may see fit. The opinions of all workers should be solicited.

(19) No generally used old name to be changed nor new name (as
of a new species) used without approval of supervising board.

Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell declines to vote for either A or B but
votes: That the rules should be so amended as to reduce nomencla-
tural changes to a minimum (many of the changes are not due to prior-
as such but to special methods of selecting generic types, etc, also,
especially by throwing out genera without species designated or im-
plied, by enforcing the rule that generic names are not homonyms
unless spelled alike, many changes will be avoided). When all has
been done that is possible in this way, it may be proper to consider
whether a certain number of names should not be conserved by special
international vote.

Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 305

A New Mallophagan.

By E. A. MoGrecor, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Batesburg,
S. Carolina.

Several male specimens of a somewhat curious Colpo-
cephalum were taken from the screech owl Otus asio maccalh
at Dallas, Texas, by the writer in January of 1911. Professor
Kellogg validated my convictions that the species was new to
science in a communication in part as follows: “* * * but
it has such produced and amputated temples and such marked
differences in the thorax, that .it cannot be put with C. sub-
pachygaster * * *”’ The latter species is a well distributed
owl Colpocephalum with broad head and broad abdomen and
is perhaps closest to the present species.

Colpocephalum painei sp. nov.

Male—tLength 1.30 mm., width across abdomen .57 mm. Pale yel-
low in color with no pronounced markings.

Head. Length .39 mm., width .53 mm., being thus almost half again
as wide as long. Front blunt, very slightly emarginate with no trace
of hairs or spines. One long, strong hair on the very prominent angle
in front of the deep ocular emargination and two shorter, weaker
hairs on the sides before it. Neither the antenne nor the palpi nor-
mally projecting. The eye is large, prominent, with a large, black
fleck. A narrow, chestnut-yellow, bow-shaped clypeal band. Ocular
blotches deep-chestnut, inflated-comma-shaped. The ocular fringe ex-
tends to the angle of the temples and is continued onto the latter by a
line of four or five short bristles. Temples nearly parallel to one
another with two long, very strong hairs near the hinder angle pre-
ceded by a shorter, weaker one. Occiput strongly concave, for the
most part pale, with a short, transverse, bow-shaped bar connecting
laterally with the enlarged ends of two bands which arch obliquely
backward to the occipital margin. Occipital bands wanting.

Thorax. Length .25 mm., width .52 mm. Prothorax semi-lenticular,
the anterior margin rounded, while the posterior margin is much more
angulated. The latter bears a long hair at each lateral angle, another
pair about half way to the middle, and a pair of somewhat shorter
hairs near the rounded median angle. The transverse bar is narrow
and indistinct, and the curving chestnut-yellow, longitudinal lines be-
yond the ends are clearly defined and are continuous with the oblique
bands of the occiput. A small, crescent-shaped marking occurs on
each side at the junction of the pro- and metathoracic margins and
encroaches slightly on the latter segment. Metathorax short, in shape
that of an anteriorly emarginated trapezium, with flatly-convex pos-

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terior margin which bears a row of about ten longish hairs, and with
two long hairs at each posterior lateral angle. The lateral margin
bears about six short hairs. Legs pale, but with darker marginal
markings which are sharply defined on all the tibiae. Numerous hairs
occur on the femora and tibiae, most of which are disposed on the
outer edge. A series of four parallel combs on each of the hind
femora near their posterior margin. ‘These consist of short, attenuate
spines placed side by side of which the first comb has three, the sec-
ond eight, the third nine, and the distal six.

Distal

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Proximal
Colpocephalum painet n. sp.
F1G. 1.—Dorsal view, entire insect. Fic. 2.—Combs on dorsal surface, hind femur.

Abdomen. Ovate, broad in front, abruptly pointed behind. Length
.75 mm. ‘Two hairs at the posterior angles of segments one, two,
three, four and eight; three hairs at the posterior angles of five,
six and seven. Of the above the following hairs are very long, two
at segment one, one at segments two, five, six and seven. The ter-
minal segment is triangular, is supplied with two very long bristles
and many fine, shortish hairs. Each of the remaining segments are
supplied posteriorly with a row of about ten longish hairs.

Type in Museum, Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

Named for Mr. John H. Paine who, as junior author with
Prof. V. L. Kellogg, has described a number of species of
this group.

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Two New North American Species of Necrophorus
(Coleop.).
By Joun W. ANGELL, New York City.

A study of the North American forms of the genus Necro-
phorus in my cabinet has resulted in the discovery of two
species new to our fauna, one from Tuba, Arizona, and the
other from California. These species may be described as fol-
lows:

Necrophorus mysticallis sp. nov.

Form moderately robust, black, shining, epipleurae at base and an-
tennal club orange red, tarsi more or less fuscous. Head coarsely
punctured, lateral impressions deep. Thorax oboval, widest. at an-
terior third, narrowed behind, anterior angles broadly rounded, sides
behind anterior third only very slightly sinuate, base arcuate and
broadly margined, finely and densely punctured, disk sparsely punc-
tured, median impression linear and strongly marked. Elytra not
wider than thorax, slightly longer than wide, feebly divergent pos-
teriorly, apex squarely truncate, surface shining, coarsely punctate
and wrinkled, body beneath shining, sparsely and finely punctate, mid-
dle and posterior tibiae slender at base, broadened at apex, posterior
tibiae arcuate.

Length 25 mm.

Described from a single male in my cabinet taken in Tuba,
Arizona, by Mr. Woodgate. This species resembles an im-
maculate example of N. carolinus but is more robust, more
shining, and the thorax is more finely punctured.

Necrophorus grandior sp. nov.

Form moderately elongate, black, epipleurae and median spot on
elytra, orange red. Head coarsely punctured, lateral impressions mod-
erately deep. Antennae black. Thorax transversely cordate, broader
than long, apex truncate, broadly rounded in front, very slightly sin-
uate behind, and broadly rounded at base, sides broadly margined,
finely punctate, anterior transverse line only moderately impressed,
median line feeble. Elytra narrower at base than thorax, gradually
wider posteriorly, sides slightly sinuate, base sinuately truncate, sur-
face coarsely and densely punctate with two faintly marked costate
lines on each elytron. A single orange red spot at basal third of each
elytron. Abdomen densely: punctured above and below. Middle and
posterior tibiae gradually broader to tip, not arcuate.

Length 26 to 30 mm.

Described from two males of my cabinet, labelled ‘“Cali-
fornia” without more definite locality. Readily distinguished
from N. guttula by the larger and more oval thorax, the lateral
margins of which are as wide as the basal margins, and also
by the less strongly impressed transverse line.

308 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’12

Cerambycidae from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
vicinity, with notes (Coleop.).*
By W: S. Fisner and H.B. Kirk, Harnsburg, Pa.

Having accumulated notes and data on collecting and rear-
ing longhorn beetles, we give the results, thinking they may be
of some interest to others.

The region about Harrisburg is quite variable, affording a
great variety of food plants. Here and there are small groves
of dying hickory trees which are ideal for night collecting,
and on the mountain sides along the edge of woods are patches
of wild hydrangea, rose and Jersey tea. When these plants are
in bloom, they are visited by a number of species, especially
the tribe Lepturini, and on a warm day the blossoms are
swarming with insects feeding on the pollen. Near Harrisburg
a pipe line has been laid across the mountains and the trees
have been cut down for a number of feet on each side of this
line, leaving an open space through the dense woods. A great
many insects are attracted to this open space from the sur-
rounding woodlands and are found during the warm part of
the day swarming over the blossoms, or nesting on the upper
side of the leaves, apparently indulging in the luxury of a sun
bath.

A great deal of our collecting was done in the usual way, by
sweeping flowers and beating dead branches, but the most in-
teresting was the collecting at night with an acetylene light.
A number of the species that are seldom taken during the day
time, and which seem apparently rare, were secured in numbers
by this method of collecting. Some of the species were found
running up and down the tree trunks, while others were ovi-
positing in the dying trees. When the light was thrown on
the tree trunks, the insects on them would remain motionless
until the light was removed, when a slight touch would cause
them to fall into the cyanide bottle.

During the early months when the ground was still frozen

*Contributions from the Division of Zoology, Dept. of Agriculture,
Harrisburg, Pa.

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and very few insects could be collected, we devoted most of
our time collecting the dead limbs, twigs and sections of trees
that were infested, and placed them in cages for rearing. By
collecting material from a variety of trees in different locali-
ties, we were able to get a number of interesting rearing notes.

So far, most of our rearing has been from material from de-
ciduous trees.

In all cases, unless otherwise stated, the material was col-
lected by the authors.

ORTHOSOMA Serv.
brunneum Forst.—Highspire, VIII—17—07 on oak stump; Ingle-
nook, VIII—16—08 in rotten log.

PRIONUS Geoff.
laticollis Dru—Harrisburg, VII—23—08, VII—15—10; only fe-
males taken at night; ovipositing in oak trees.
imbricornis Linn—Heckton Mills, VI—22—10 on chestnut tree.

TRAGOSOMA Serv.
harrisii Lec.—Carlisle Jc., VII—4—08 flying along pipe line.

SPHENOSTETHUS Hald.
taslei Bug.—Harrisburg, VIII—1909 on beech tree (Coll. by A.
B. Champlain).
CRIOCEPHALUS Muls.
agrestis Kirby—Harrisburg, VII—18—08 flying.
obsoletus Rand.—Harrisburg, VII—7—10 flying along street in
city; VI—20—11 (J. A. Smith).

SMODICUM Hald.

cucujiforme Say.—Harrisburg, VII—6 to VII—20 on fallen oak
trees at night and under bark during the day time; Highspire, VII—
10—09, beating.

PHYSOCNEMUM Hald.

brevilineum Say.—New Cumberland, VII—4 to VII—11; West
Fairview, VII—2—10, running on trunks of living elm trees during
the day time; Harrisburg, V—7—10, pupa under bark of fallen elm
tree:

“RHOPALOPUS Muls.
sanguinicollis Horn—Heckton Mills, VI—21—09, on pitch pine.

HYLOTRUPES Serv.
bajulus Linn.—Carlisle Jc.. VI—27—09, on pine log; Highspire,
V—30—06, on hickory; Harrisburg, VII—19—07; Mechanicsburg,
VI—20—08.
ligneus Fab.—Mount Gretna, V1I—20—06, on cedar stump.

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PHYMATODES Muls.

variabilis Fab.—Harrisburg, VI—12—08; New Cumberland, VI—
4—08; Heckton Mills, VI—15—09; Highspire, VI—15—09, on pop-
lar tree.

amoenus Say.—Harrisburg, V—30—09; Highspire, VI—19—09;
Camphill, V—31—09; reared in numbers from dead wild grape col-
lected in various localities.

varius Fab.—Heckton Mills, V—31—09, beating.

CALLIDIUM Fab.
aereum Newm.—Carlisle Jc., VI—22—09, on chestnut shoots.

CHION Newm.
cinctus Dru.—Harrisburg, VI—18—07, at arc light.

EBURIA Serv.
quadrigeminata Say—Harrisburg, VII—15 to VIII—4, on oak
tree at night; Craighead, VII—18—08, on hickory tree; Highspire,
V lI—27—07.
ELAPHIDION Serv.

mucronatum Fab.—Harrisburg, VI—24 to VII—15, on hickory
trees at night; Perdix, V—2—11; reared from walnut, poison ivy
and wild grape.

incertum Newm.—Heckton Mills, VI—25—08; Harrisburg, VII—
11 to VIII—19, in numbers on mulberry tree, and frequently on
hickory at night. Found breeding abundantly in mulberry tree.

villosum Fab.—In all localities; common. Frequently injurious
to fruit and shade trees; reared from wild grape.

unicolor Rand.—Harrisburg, VII—21—09, on mulberry; Heckton
Mills, VI—25—08, on wild grape; Highspire, VI—30—O05.

TYLONOTUS Hald.
bimaculatus Hald.—Harrisburg, VI—20 to VII—=30, on ash trees

at night.
HETERACHTHES Newm.

quadrimaculatus Newm.—Harrisburg, VII—12—09, on hickory
tree at night; Rockville, VII—4—09; reared from hickory.

PHYTON Newm.
pallidum Say—Lemoyne, reared from hackberry (A. B. Cham-

plain).
OBRIUM Serv.

rufulum Gahan.—Highspire, VII—11—08, beating; Lemoyne,
reared from dead ash twigs.

MOLORCHUS Fab.
bimaculatus Say—Rockville, V—6—09; Camphill, V—31—09; Le-
moyne, IJ]—12—11, adult cut from dead hackberry; Camphill, XI—
3—11, adult cut from red bud.

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RHOPALOPHORA Serv.
longipes Say—Rockville, VII—4—09; Harrisburg, VII—9—10,
on flowers.
PURPURICENUS Serv.
humeralis Fab.—Carlisle Jc., VI—27—09, VII—4—08; Harrisburg,
V—3—08, VI—25—09; Highspire, VII—4—07, female ovipositing in
oak stump.
axillaris Hald—Carlisle Jc., VII—4—0s8.

BATYLE Thom.
suturalis Say—lIn all localities on flowers; common.

CYLLENE Newm.
caryae Gahan.—In all localities from IIJI—25 to V—10, on wood
piles; Lemoyne, reared from wild grape.
robiniae Forst—In all localities from VIII to X; common on
golden rod flowers; breeds in locust.

CALLOIDES Lec.
nobilis Say—Highspire, VI—6—08, on cultivated grape; Carlisle
Jc., VI—27—09.
ARHOPALUS Serv.
fulminans Fab.—Carlisle Jc., VI—27—09; Harrisburg, VI—12—
09, flying along street, VIJ—13—09, at arc light; Rockville, VII—
23—10, on fallen oak tree at night.

XYLOTRECHUS Chev.

colonus Fab.—In all localities, common; reared from hickory
bark, elm, thorn and other trees.

sagittatus Germ.—Mount Hope, VIII1—27—07, flying.

quadrimaculatus Hald.—Inglenook, V1—20—09; Highspire, reared
from Norway maple limb.

undulatus Say—Inglenook, VI—20—09.

nitidus Horn—Highspire, VI—19—10; Inglenook, VI—11—11.

NEOCLYTUS Thom.

scutellaris Oliv—Harrisburg, VII—15—10, on oak tree.

luscus Fab.—Harrisburg, VII—7—08, on hickory trees at night;
reared from hickory limbs.

caprae Say—Highspire, V—8—09; Lemoyne, III—29 to IV—23,
on ash wood pile.

erythrocephalus Fab.—In all localities, common, breeds in all
kind of wood.

longipes Kirby—Lemoyne, IV—17—09, on ash wood pile.

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CLYTANTHUS Thom.
ruricola Oliv.—Perdix, V—27—11, VI—1—11; Inglenook, V—28
to VI—26; Carlisle Jc., VI—24—10; on flowers.
albofasciatus Lap.—Camphill, X—1—10, running on rotten log;
Lemoyne, Harrisburg, reared from wild grape.
CYRTOPHORUS Lec.
verrucosus Oliv.—Highspire, V—3—08; Rockville, [V—16—10;
Harrisburg, XI I—18—09, hibernating in dead limb.
EUDERCES Lec.

picipes Fab.—In all localities on flowers; common.
DISTENIA Serv.
undata Oliv.—Harrisburg, VII—7 to VII—15, on hickory trees
at night.
DESMOCERUS Serv.
palliatus Forst.—In all localities on elder; common.
NECYDALIS Linn.
mellitus Say.—Harrisburg, VI—13—08; New Cumberland, VI—
30—09 (Coll. by W. R. Walton).
ENCYCLOPS Newm.
caeruleus Say.—Inglenook, V—28—11, on flowers; Camphill, V—
31—09, on hickory tree (Champlain).
RHAGIUM Fab.
lineatum Oliv.—Rockville, [1—22—09, under pine bark.

CENTRODERA Lec.
decolorata Harr.—Carlisle Jc., VII—4—08, on flowers of Jersey
tea.
picta Hald—lInglenook, VI—11—11.
TOXOTUS Serv.
trivittatus Say—Heckton Mills, V—31—09, on hackberry foliage;
in all localities on flowers, V—26 to VI—21.
cylindricollis Say.—Inglenook, VI—17—11.
cinnamopterus Rand.—Camphill, V—31—09 (Champlain).
PACHYTA Serv.
monticola Rand.—Carlisle Jc., VII—4—08, on flowers.

ACMAEOPS Lec.

directa Newm.—In all localities on flowers; common.

GAUROTES Lec.
cyanipennis Say.—In all localities, common; found in numbers
ovipositing in fallen cherry tree.

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BELLAMIRA Lec.
scalaris Say.—Inglenook, VI—9—11; Harrisburg, VI—12—11;
Perdix, ViI—10 to VII—1 on flowers.

STRANGALIA Serv.
famelica Newm.—In all localities on flowers; common.
acuminata Oliv.—Harrisburg, VI—17 to VI—26; Carlisle Jc., VI—
24 to VII—4; on flowers.
luteicornis Fab.—In all localities on flowers; common.
bicolor Swed.—Carlisle Jc., VI—24 to VII—9; Inglenook, VI—
11 to VII—18, taken mostly on wild rose flowers, not rare.

TYPOCERUS Lec.
lunatus Fab.—Carlisle Jc., VI—27—08, on Jersey tea blossoms.
velutinus Oliv.—In all localities on flowers; common.
lugubris Say.—In all localities on flowers; not rare.

LEPTURA Serv.

emarginata Fab—Highspire, VIII—31—10, flying.

subhumata Rand.—Inglenook, VI—26—10, on dead hemlock.

lineola Say.—In all localities on flowers; common.

nitens Forst.—In all localities on chestnut and flowers; common.

cordifera Oliv.—Carlisle Jc., VI—24—10; Highspire, VII—27—
07; Inglenook, VI—25—11; Heckton Mills, VII—4—09; on flowers.

rubrica Say.—In all localities on flowers; common.

vagans Oliv.—Carlisle Jc., VI—24 to VII—4, on flowers; Harris-
burg, reared from hemlock.

proxima Say.—Inglenook, V—26 to VI—21; Linglestown, VI—
6—09; Perdix, VII—1—10; not rare on flowers.

biforis Newm.—Carlisle Jc., VI—29—10, on chestnut; Inglenook,
VI—20—09; Rockville, VII—4—08.

octonotata Say.—Inglenook, V—28 to VI—24; Linglestown, VI—
6—09; on flowers.

vittata Germ.—In all localities on flowers; common.

pubera Say.—Inglenook, V—26—11, VI—20—09; on flowers.

ruficollis Say.—Carlisle Jc., VI—22—09, on flowers.

vibex Newm.—Inglenook, VI—20—10, V—28—11; on flowers.

aurata Horn—Carlisle Jc., VI—22—09; on flowers.

mutabilis Newm.—Inglenook, V—26 to VI—17; Perdix, V—27
to VI—1; Linglestown, VI—6—09; on flowerxs.

CYRTINUS Lec.
pygmaeus Hald.—Carlisle Jc., VI—22—09, sweeping.

PSENOCERUS Lec.
supernotatus Say.—Camphill, V—31—09; reared in numbers from
climbing bitter sweet collected in various localities.

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MONOHAMMUS Serv.
titillator Fab.—Inglenook, V—28—11; Harrisburg, VII—18—10.
VII—22—09.
scutellatus Say.—Harrisburg, V—27—07, on street in city.
notatus Dru.—Highspire, VII—18—11, VII—30—10; Perdix, VI—
1—11; Harrisburg, VII—24—08, at arc light (Walton).

DORCASCHEMA Lec.
wildii Uhler—Harrisburg, VI—26—09, on mulberry tree (Cham-
plain).
alternatum Say.—Harrisburg, VI—12 to VII—6, on mulberry
1G EXE
nigrum Say.—Highspire, VI—6—09; Eberlys Mill, VI—9—09;
Harrisburg, VI—4—11; New Cumberland, reared from hickory.

HETOEMIS Hald.
cinerea Oliv.—Harrisburg, common on Mulberry; New Cumber-
land, reared from hickory.
GOES Lec.
pulchra Hald.—Harrisburg, VI—14—11, on hickory.
pulverulenta Hald.—Harrisburg, reared from dead elm.

ACANTHODERES Serv.
quadrigibbus Say.—Perdix, VI—18—11; Inglenook, VI—20—09.
decipiens Hald.—Harrisburg, VII—6—08, reared from cherry;
Enola, VII—5—09.
LEPTOSTYLUS Lec.
parvus Lec.—Rockville, reared from climbing bitter-sweet.
macula Say.—In all localities; not rare.

LIOPUS Serv.
variegatus Hald.—Harrisburg, VI—24—07, at arc light; Lemoyne,
reared from hackberry; Rockville, reared from climbing bitter-
sweet; Harrisburg, reared from Virginia creeper.
alpha Say—In all localities on sumac; common.

DECTES Lec.

spinosus Say—In all localities on rag-weed; common.

LEPTURGES Bates.

symmetricus Hald.—Harrisburg, reared from hickory; Lemoyne,
reared from walnut.

signatus Lec.—Highspire, VI—26—08, on hickory; Lemoyne,
reared from hackberry; Rockville, reared from climbing bitter-
sweet.

querci Fitch—Highspire, VIJ—13—08; Harrisburg, VI—2—11;
Rockville, reared from climbing bitter-sweet.

facetus Say—Highspire, VII—13—07, beating.

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HYPERPLATYS Bates.
aspersus Say—Highspire, VII—2—09, on cherry tree; Harris-
burg, VI—21—08.
maculatus Hald.—Harrisburg, V—19—09; Highspire, YV—19—09,
VI—22—07, on oak; New Cumberland, V—30—09.

GRAPHISURUS Kirby.
fasciatus DeG—Common about Harrisburg on hickory, oak and
beech.
ACANTHOCINUS Steph.
obsoletus Oliv—Harrisburg, VII—6—08.

HOPLOSIA Muls.
nubila Lec.—Eberlys Mill, V—30—08 (Champlain.)

ECYRUS Lec.
dasycerus Say—Harrisburg, VII—4—09; Inglenook, VI—9—11.

EUPOGONIUS Lec.
vestitus Say—Highspire, reared from oak; Rockville, reared from
climbing bitter-sweet; Harrisburg, reared from Virginia creeper.
subarmatus Lec.—Harrisburg, VI—27—08 on mulberry. Rockville,
reared from climbing bitter sweet.

HIPPOPSIS Serv.
lemniscata Fab.—In all localities, collected by sweeping.

SAPERDA Fab.

calcarata Say—Harrisburg, VII—10—07 at arc light (Walton).

candida Fab.— Inglenook, V—26—11; Perdix, VI—10—11; High-
spire, VI—27—10; common on apple.

vestita Say—Harrisburg, VI—1 to VI—11 on linden.

discoidea Fab—Harrisburg, VI—2 to VIII—19, only females
taken at night, ovipositing in dying hickory trees, both sexes taken
by beating during the day time. Reared from elm bark and hick-
ory.

tridentata Oliv.—Harrisburg, V—7—10, VII—14—11; New Cum-
berland, reared from elm bark.

imitans Jout— Rockville, V—20—10 (Walton); Harrisburg, VI—1
to VI—7 on linden and hickory.

lateralis Fab—In all localities on hickory shoots; common.

puncticollis Say—Harrisburg, reared from Virginia creeper.

OBEREA Muls.
bimaculata Oliv.—In all localities on blackberry, common.
var. tripunctata Fab.—In all localities; common.
var. basalis Lec.—In all localities; common.

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var. affinis Harr.—In all localities; common.

ocellata Hald.—Carlisle Jc., VII—4—08 on sumac; Heckton Mills,
V [—22—10; Harrisburg, VI—11—10, ViI—22—10.

tripunctata Swed.—In all localities; common.

var. myops Hald—Heckton Mills, VI—25—o8 flying; Inglenook,
VI—21—10; Brandtsville, VI—14—10.

var. mandarina Fab.—In all localities; common.

gracilis Fab.—Carlisle Jc., VI—24—10; Heckton Mills, VI—21—
09.

ruficollis Fab.— In all localities on sumac; not rare.

TETROPS Steph.
jutunda Lec.—Inglenook, VI—21—10 flying.

TETRAOPES Serv.
canteriator Drap.— Rockville, VII—29—06 on milk-weed.
tetraophthalmus Forst.—In all localities on milk-weed.

DYSPHAGA Lec.
tenuipes Hald—Harrisburg, reared from beech twigs. Found in
the pupa stage during winter.

Nezara viridula Linne, an Hemipteron new to the
Northeastern United States.

By J. R. pe ta Torre BuENo, White Plains, New York.

Negara viridula was one of the species included by Linné in
his comprehensive genus Cimex, in the tenth edition of the
great Systema Naturae. Owing to its variable nature and
world-wide distribution it has been redescribed under no less
than twenty-one different specific names cited by Distant in
the first volume of the Hemiptera part of the Biologia Cen-
trali-Americana. It is recorded from the whole of Europe,
except the extreme North, Asia, Africa, Malaysia, Australia,
New Zealand, South America, at least in the north, Central
America and enters into the United States at the south, being
found in Texas and Florida; the former mentioned by Stal
and the latter by Van Duzee.

It has been my good fortune to come into possession of a
specimen taken in a greenhouse in Brooklyn, on December 10,
1g11. So far as can be ascertained, this is the first authentic

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record of this species from so high a latitude in North Ameri-
ca. It is in all likelihood an adventitious visitor, very probably
imported in nursery stock from Europe, either as an egg or
a nymph, or else possibly brought from Florida. The specimen
is quite typical, and varies no more than in the usual degree
from the more clearly marked individuals that I have seen. It
lacks the 3 or 5 white points at the base of the scutellum along
the edge of the pronotum, although there are indistinct smooth
concolorous spots where they are usually to be found.

It might seem that there is no reason why this form should
not be able to establish itself here, as it is quite at home in
Germany and Russia, where certainly the winters are no
warmer than in the United States. We therefore have in the
North Atlantic States three species of Nezara to look out for,
namely Nezara hilaris Say, pennsylvanica De G. and possibly
viridula Linné. They may be separated as follows:

1 (2). Osteolar canal short, truncated, scarcely extending in a ruga.
(S. g. Nezara A. & S.)
N. viridula Linné.
2 (1). Osteolar canal extending in a long narrowing ruga.
(S. g. Acrosternum Lieb.)
3 (4). Anterior sides of pronotum rounded; rostrum scarcely reach-
ing the middle coxae; species broad oral.
N. (A.) pennsylvanica DeGeer.
4 (3). Anterior sides of pronotum straight; rostrum reaching hind
coxae; species elongate oval.

N. (A.) hilaris Say.

In addition to these characters, N. viridula has a black dot
at each basal angle of the scutellum, and the 2d and 3d an-
tennae joints subequal, while in hilaris the dot is absent and
the second joint is slightly longer than the 3d. N. pennsylvant-
ca in addition to the characters given has broad head slightly
blunt and incised in the middle, characters absent in the other
two. Viridula is a duller insect; the other two more polished.
N. viridula is recorded as feeding on orange, Celtis, mul-
berry, rice, sugar-cane, cotton, maize, potato and Gynandropsis
pentaphyllum; hilaris also feeds on orange, cotton, bass-wood,
trumpet-creeper, cowpeas and tomatoes, all these according to

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Kirkaldy. I have secured hilaris abundantly on golden rod,
and have beaten it from wild cherry. Of course, it does not
necessarily follow that these are the food plants. Of N. penn-
sylvanica nothing appears to be known.

In connection with this finding of a European species thus
far North, I venture to comment on the record of Pyrrhocoris
apterus from New Jersey. If the fact be taken into consid-
eration that it was found not far from the landing place of
European vessels, the explanation of its presence there is sim-
ple. What more natural than that a few ova, or even hiber-
nating adults, may have been brought over in hay or straw,
which, thrown overboard, drifted to a favorable location and
breeding ensued. It would be interesting to ascertain if the
bug has succeeded in establishing itself in the locality of its
capture, a thing possible to any of our enthusiastic New Jer-
sey friends.

A new Chalcidid from Guatemala (Hymen.).

By T. D. A. CocKkErELL, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colo.

Although Mrs. Cockerell brought home a large number
of bees and wasps from Guatemala, she obtained only a single
species of Chalcidide, but this a very remarkable form, with
the abdomen greatly produced. When I undertook to deter-
mine the genus with the aid of Ashmead’s tables, I failed to
place it; it clearly belonged to the Smicrini, but according to
the Ashmeadian system, the genus appeared to be new. I
prepared a description, and sent the type to the National Mu-
seum. Immediately after doing this, I received a specimen
from Mr. J. Rodriguez, of Guatemala City, with the state-
ment that he had raised a number from a lepidopteron, and
had sent some to London, where they were said to belong to a
new species of Conura. I was satisfied that the insect could
not go in Conura, which is not one of the Smicrini at all, and
Mr. J. C. Crawford is entirely of the same opinion. Mr. Craw-
ford writes, however, that: he would place the insect in Eus-
typiura Ashm., with which it agrees, except for the fact that

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the basal member of the series of teeth on the hind femora is
not enlarged. In Mr. Crawford’s opinion, this is not more
than a specific character. Mr. Crawford has also kindly as-
certained that it is different from the described species of
Eustypiura, and also has kindly searched Cameron (Biologia
Cent. Am.) and Cresson to see if it might have been described
under Smicra or Spilochalcis, but without result. It seems
certain that it is new, and I venture to call it after Mr. Rodri-
guez, who has collected so many new insects in Guatemala.

Eustypiura rodriguezi sp. n.

@.—Runs in Ashmead’s tables (Classif. Chalcid Flies), p. 251-252,
to 16, and runs out because the hind femora have 12 small teeth. An-
tenne 13-jointed, (last two joints short), inserted about level with
upper end of lower third of eye; head broad, eyes extremely prominent;
clypeus extremely small; front depressed in middle but with a slender
median carina on lower half; ocelli large and prominent, in a low tri-
angle; scape long; prothorax large, with a vertical transparent keel
on each side anteriorly; thorax rugose, middle of mesothorax with
transverse ridges; parapsidal grooves entire, deep; scutellum large,
briefly and obtusely pointed posteriorly, with on each side a hyaline
transverse keel; pleura with a broad transversely ridged groove; meta-
thorax posteriorly with four small teeth on each side; wings large,
hairy, postmarginal vein long; anterior and middle legs slender; middle
tibia with one short but well-formed spur; hind coxe extremely long
about as long as their femora, with a small transverse projection above
near end; hind femora much swollen though not subglobose, with 12
small black-tipped teeth on lower edge, but no large tooth; hind tibize
arcuate, sharply pointed at end; abdomen with a very short petiole-
joint, deeper than long; remaining part elongate, compressed, with a
very long sparsely hairy ovipositor-sheath, from which the ovipositor
projects for a short distance.

Length about 1114 mm., of which nearly 9 is abdomen; head and
thorax’ lemon-yellow marked with black; eyes reddish; face below
antennz all yellow, above with a thick rather H-shaped black mark;
vertex and cheeks yellow, occiput black; scape yellow in front; flagel-
lum reddish, infuscated above; thorax with the sutures broadly black,
the prothorax with a median dark mark and one on each side; the
mesothorax dark with a large yellow V, broken at apex (posteriorly)
and a yellow C on each side (marginal) ; scutellum with a black band
down middle; metathorax mainly black, with a pair of large yellow
marks; wings slightly stained with yellow, dusky gray apically, nervures
testaceous; legs yellow suffused with reddish, hind femora with about
the basal two-thirds black on inner side; abdomen yellow, the seg-
ments with rather poorly defined broad ferruginous bands; tip of ovi-
positor black.

Hab.—Guatemala City, Guatemala (W. P. Cockerell; J.
Rodriguez).

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A new Tetropium, two new Bruchides, with brief
notes on other Coleoptera.

By H. C. Fatt, Pasadena, California.

The following undescribed and very distinct species of
Tetropium has recently been sent me by Mr. Ralph Hopping
of the Forestry Service in the Sequoia National Park of Cali-
fornia, with the statement that it is very destructive to both
white and red fir (Abies concolor and A. magnifica.) Mr.
Hopping requests that it be given a name in order that he
may better refer to it in a forthcoming report.

Tetropium abietis n. sp.

Dark brown varying to pale brown, but concolorous throughout.
Head and prothorax shining and not densely pubescent, the former
numerously simply punctate with distinct median sulcus, the latter
quite strongly granulate punctate, and with a strongly marked sub-
oval impression, which is narrowly smooth and slightly elevated at
middle posteriorly. Elytra obviously wider than the prothorax, parallel
or slightly narrowed posteriorly, with the usual fine and short ap-
pressed pubescence; luster dull, the discal raised lines distinct but
fine; sculpture exceedingly’ fine, subgranulose or asperate punctate.
Beneath shining, finely punctate, and with longer sparser pubescence.
Length, 13—17 mm.; width, 3.5—4.5 mm.

Male: Antennae about five-sixths as long as the body, slender, all
joints linear or nearly so, second slightly gradually wider apically,
twice as long as wide; third nearly or quite twice as long as the
second and more than four times as long as wide. Prothorax varying
from distinctly transverse to barely perceptibly so, subangularly
rounded at or a little in advance of the middle; femora stout; pygidium
obliquely narrowed behind, the apex rather broadly truncate.

Female: Antenne scarcely longer than half the body, a little more
slender than in the male but similarly formed; prothorax with sides
more evenly rounded; femora less stout; pygidium with apex broadly
evenly rounded in nearly circular arc.

Described from a series of a dozen specimens taken at
Huckleberry Meadow, Fresno Co., California, all bearing date
July 19, t910. This is the most strongly characterized Tetro-
pium in our fauna, and at once distinguished from all others
by its granulose sculpture and the strong oval prothorac im-
pression, the latter somewhat suggestive of Nothorina.

Bruchus julianus Horn.

This species was described in 1894 from San Julio and San
Ignacio, Texas. Later, larger specimens from Brownsville
were held to be identical and so distributed, and upon these

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my conception of the species was based. Mr. Wenzel now
announces—Ent. News, 1912, p. 140—that a series taken re-
cently by H. A. Wenzel in Western Texas are typical julianus
and quite distinct from the Brownsville species. Specimens
sent to me by Mr. Wenzel prove to be my recently described
ochreolineatus, which name therefore falls into synonymy,
This leaves the big Brownsville species without a name, and
I would propose for it the specific name

Bruchus major n. sp.

The two species are much alike in structure and markings,
but the ochreous lines of pubescence on the elytra of the
smaller species are more conspicuous, the second antennal
joint is relatively shorter as compared with the third, and the
number of blackish joints of the antennze is two or three
greater than in major. Julianus, according to Mr. Wenzel,
is always found on a low shrub near the ground, while major
breeds abundantly in the seed pods of the tree Acacia flexi-
caulis.

The two following species were represented in my collec-
tion at the time of my recently published tables of Bruchus.*
The first was held back thinking it might possibly have been
described from Cuba, and the second was known to me only
by a unique specimen. Recently Mr. Schwarz has seen the
Florida specimens and pronounced them different from any-
thing known to him from either Cuba or Mexico; and of the
second I have just received additional specimens from Dr.

Blaisdell.

Bruchus depressus n. sp.

Form strongly depressed, black, shining, lateral half of elytra red,
varying through the reduction of the red area to entirely black;
antenne black, basal four or five joints pale; legs entirely red, or
with the hind thighs blackish at extreme base; pubescence thin, short
and inconspicuous, ochreo-cinereous in color. Antenne moderately in-
crassate; fifth joint as long as wide, following moderately transverse.
Eyes separated by about their own width as viewed from the front;
head finely closely punctate; front feebly obtusely carinate. Pro-
thorax subconical, wider than long, impressed before the scutellum,
rather coarsely and closely punctate with intermixed finer punctures.

Elytra as long as wide; sides parallel and broadly evenly arcuate,
depressed along the suture; striae rather strong and strongly punctate

* Trans. Am. Ent. Soa XOXO 1910, p. 160.

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basally, intervals subrugose and each with a somewhat irregular and
indistinct series of coarser punctures. Pygidium oblique, rather
coarsely and closely but not deeply punctured. Hind thighs armed
with a single long acute tooth on the inner margin; terminal spur of
hind tibie very short, not longer than the other marginal denticles.
Length, 2—2.2 mm.; Withdth, 1.2—1.35 mm.

Florida (Orlando?). Three examples bearing date March
14, 1894, collected and given me by Mr. Frank S. Daggett.
This species belongs to Horn’s Group V, and in my recently
published table may best follow discopterus, differing in its
even more depressed form, more shining surface, dark an-
tennae and differences in elytral coloration.

Bruchus brunneostictus n. sp.

Form of pauperculus, pullus and allies, and agreeing in all respects
with pullus except as follows: Size much larger, the cinereous pubes-
cence denser, the livid spots contrasting more strongly. In fully macu-
late specimens the spots are arranged in three transverse series on
the elytra. Those of the apical series seem most likely to disappear,
then the basal ones, and in one example there remains only the sub-

lateral median spot external to the pale line on the third interspace,
Length, 2.35—2.9 mm.

California. Alhambra Valley, Contra Costa Co. (Blais-
dell), type. Santa Clara Co. (Baker.) This is possibly only
a large and finely developed race of pullus, but I have seen
no intermediates and it certainly seems worthy of a name.

Anillus,

In Blatchley’s Coleoptera of Indiana, page 79, the author
records the taking of two specimens of an Anillus identified by
him as A. fortis Horn, from beneath stones on a wooded
slope near Wyandotte Cave in the extreme southern part of
the state. On the 15th of July, rg1o, several specimens of
Anillus were taken by Mr. Blatchley and the writer under
precisely similar conditions near the town of Mitchell, In-
diana, about one hundred miles south of Indianapolis. These,
as we expected, proved to be identical with the Wyandotte
examples. On returning to California and comparing my
captures with specimens of fortis from North Carolina, it

became evident at once that the Indiana species was some-
thing else. On investigation it was found to agree well with

the description of A. affabilis Brues* from Austin, Texas,
and a recent direct comparison with Mr. Brues’ types shows

* Am. Naturalist XXXVI, p. 306.

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that the two forms are too close to separate with safety. Mr.
Brues has very generously placed in my collection one of the
three specimens from which his description was drawn. This
specimen is evidently of narrower form than any of the In-
diana ones but, if my memory serves me, it is also more slend-
er than either of his two remaining types; the difference
therefore is likely to be sexual or possibly merely individual.
Aside from it, there is scarcely anything to distinguish the
Indiana specimens from the Texan ones.

Hyperaspis wolcotti Nunenmacher, Ent. News, 1911, p. 73.

This is a Hyperaspidius. A series sent me by Mr. Wolcott
shows great variation in color. The species seems to be dis-
tinct from any previously described Hyperaspidius, but of
this I am not entirely sure.

Lytta (Cantharis) nunenmacheri Wellman, Ent. News, 1912, p. 36.
Typical specimens kindly sent me by Mr. Nunenmacher
show that this is precisely Cantharis incommoda Horn. No
reference is made by the author to the important sexual char-
acters, a knowledge of which is necessary in order to place
the species in jour present tables. The comparison with
blaisdelli is apropos for no other reason than that the two
species occur in the same region, since they belong to two
different sections of the genus.
Lytta arborea Wellm. ibid, p. 34.

A specimen of this from Mr. Nunenmacher, who collected
the type series, indicates a species closely allied to stygica. It
is smaller and more slender than any specimen of stygica in
my collection, but otherwise possesses scarcely anything in
the way of definite characters. I cannot believe that the oc-
currence of the specimens on trees has any special signifi-
cance. Any species of Cantharis is likely to, and many cer-
tainly do, climb to considerable heights on plants and bushes
Lytta hoppingi Wellm. ibid p. 35.

This species should be placed near lugens in our tables. It
is structurally quite similar, but is very distinct and at once
recognizable by the color, and the very narrow, shining,
sparsely punctured thorax. T owe a good series to the kind-

ness of Mr. Hopping.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY, I9I2.

With the present number of the NEws our discussion on
priority in nomenclature closes for at least two calendar
months. Whether it be reopened depends on future events
and our contributors. Elsewhere in this issue we give the re-
sults of the vote of North American entomologists on this
question. The results throughout the world, as at present
known to us, are:

For strict Against strict

Priority Priority

Scandinavian Zoologists 2 120
German Zoologists II Diy

American Entomologists 95 191

Total 108 426

So far as the ballot instigated by the News is concerned,
we believed it was desirable to determine whether strict prior-
ity or the preservation of commonly used names was approved
by the majority of working entomologists. When this is de-
cided, the ways and means of carrying the decision into effect
can be devised.

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_ Some of the views expressed in the course of the discus-
sions in our previous issues lead us to remark that there are
many ways of selecting nomina conservanda. Just as a cer-
tain edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae has been accepted
as a starting point in our nomenclature, so a catalogue of
Coleoptera of 186— or a check list of Orthoptera of 190—,
approved by the Nomenclatorial Commissions of Entomologi-
cal and Zoological Congresses, can be made final standards
for the nomenclature of those groups back of which we shall
not go. Conserved names are even more for the present and
the future than for the past, and the standard adopted for
any group may, or may not, have been prepared on the basis
of strict priority.

No numbers of the News are issued for August and Sep-
tember.

Notes and News.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

Strict Priority In NoMENCLATURE—OR Not?—I am in favor of pro-
tecting the most important and generally used names against changes,
because I believe that this method would greatly lighten the labor
of the economic entomologist. The waste labor involved in looking up
nomenclature for the species the economic entomologist desires to
discuss is a useless tax on his time. Of course, when the same name
is in use for two species or when the name is for some other reason
unfit, changes should be made, but even then these changes should be
made by a representative board and not by the isolated taxonomist.—
T. J. HEADLEE.

Srrict Prrorrtry IN NoMENCLATURE—oR Not?—I write as an upholder
of the Code, though I cannot understand all the commission’s methods
and I am much interested in reading your Editorial in the May number
of this magazine. I feel that as civilized beings, we are almost bound
to accept and work under a code of laws; therefore, I work under the
International Code and hope to get it altered and improved where exper-
ience shows it is necessary.

You, Mr. Editor, say, “that the Law of Priority has not given the
stability it was expected to give.” For my part, I did not expect sta-
bility in my generation; it is too much to expect. We shall not get

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stability until all the genera and species of the early authors are mono-
graphed by specialists, but the law is a means to an end, and it is
working slowly but surely to that end; the real question is this: which
is the best scientific basis to adopt, the principle of Nomina conservanda
or the Law of Priority?

For general zoologists, especially perhaps professional zoologists and
biologists, no doubt the former would be the more convenient. A short
time ago one of the most eminent entomologists in England said to me,
“of course Passer domesticus will always be Passer domesticus to me.”
He was not an ornithologist, and naturally the names we have known
species by for many years remain remembered, simply because we are
not working at that group. That gentleman, however, is a strict
“Priorist” and it is quite impossible for a systematist and a specialist
to be otherwise. When we monograph a group, we must look up all
the old literature on the subject and find out if they had previously
described any of the species we are working at. This is not antiquari-
anism—it is scientific investigation. If they had I for one should feel
obliged to adopt the oldest name up to the 1oth edition of the Systema
Naturae (1758). By this process we gradually bring Kosmos out of
Chaos, to use an extreme phrase, and we are working to put the next
generation on solid ground. I think Mr. Caudell is largely right when
he says that “priority is certain of more unanimous consent,” for I feel
sure this will be so among systematists and specialists.

I cannot, however, understand for what reason the commission sent
round a note of inquiry about Meigen’s names; they appear to have
forgotten their own laws. The adoption of that list of names is ab-
solutely contrary to article 25 b; it breaks the very first law of “The
Law of Priority’ which reads: “The valid name of a genus or species
can be only that name under which it was first designated on the con-
dition that the author has applied the principles of binary nomencla-
ture.”

Meigen did not apply the principles of binary nomenclature, therefore,
the whole of that list published in 1800 is invalid and cannot be
adopted—if three years later he adopts some of those genera and indi-
cates their species as well, then, but only then, does he comply with
the code, and therefore the names date from 1803 not 1800, and as a
consequence some of Latreille’s names dating from 1802 have prece-
dence over Meigen’s, which can only date from the time when he
conformed to the principles of binary nomenclature. My view of this
is, that the commission cannot break their own laws and if they want
to rule in favor of Meigen, they must amend article 25; this I sincerely
trust they will not do. Of course the commission may say that they
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under the code, but my point is that the whole of that list is absolutely
invalid so far as the date 1800 is concerned, and 1800 cannot be a date
that gives precedence.

Some of the laws of the code lack definiteness and I am glad to think
that the subject is to be brought before the Oxford Congress, for we
must remember that the number of species entomologists have to deal
with is much greater than that of all the other branches of Zoology com-
bined, and I trust that one of the results of that congress will be the
establishment of an Entomological Council for nomenclature, who
should carefully revise the present code and bring it up to present needs
so far as we are concerned, after which the International Commission
should be approached so as to try and bring the two bodies into some
working agreement with the object of bringing out an amended code
binding on all zoologists who are not a “law unto themselves.”—G. T.
BETHUNE-BakER, Edgbaston, England.

AMERICANS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CoNGRESS OF ENtToMoLoGy.—In
addition to those mentioned on page 178 of the April News, we are
informed that the following will attend the meeting at Oxford, August
5-10, 1912; Prof. S. A. Forbes, Urbana, Illinois; Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt,
Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa; Dr. A. Fenyes, Pasadena, California;
Mr. Charies T. Ramsden, Guantanamo, Cuba; Prof. G. C. Cramp-
ton, Amherst, Massachusetts; Dr. L. O. Howard, Washington; Prof.
W. M. Wheeler, Harvard University; and Prof. J. G. Needham, Cornell
University.

Foop PLANT or DyspERcus MIMuS Say.—The genus Dysdercus is
well known for its attacks on cotton and cther malvaceous plants, but
although D. mimus is widely distributed, I do not find any reference
to its food plant in the literature I have examined, including Mr. Bal-
low’s apparently complete review of the subject in the West Indian
Bulletin, 1906. It may therefore be worth while to report that in Feb-
ruary of this year my wife found both young and adults of D. mimus
at Gualan, Guatemala, living on /resine paniculata (1.)', one of the
Amaranthaceae. The insects were kindly determined by Dr. Van
Duzee, and the plant by Captain Donnell Smith—T. D. A. CockerreELt,
Boulder, Colo.

EnToMoLocIcat INVESTIGATION OF OKEFENOKEE SwaAmp.—A_ party
left Cornell University, May 25th, for the purpose of investi-
gating the biology of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia.
The fauna and flora of this extensive and in many respects unique
swamp have heretofore almost entirely escaped the attention of natur-
alists. ‘The eastern part of the swamp consists of vast inundated
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wooded islands. Much of the swamp is a sphagnum bog, whence the
Indian name, originally spelled “Ouaquaphenogaw,” meaning “tremb-
ling-earth.”

The personnel of the party consists of Professors C. R. Crosby
and J. Chester Bradley, Dr. A. H. Wright, Messrs. M. D. Funkhouser,
M. D. Leonard, A. R. Cahn and S. C. Bishop of Cornell University,
and E. Lee Worsham, State Entomologist of Georgia. Dr. Wright and
Mr. Cahn will give their attention to the vertebrates, and Mr. Cahn
also to collecting fleas and Mallophaga. An extensive series of blood
smears will be made, for the detection of blood-parasites. The other
members of the party will devote their attention to insects, especial
attention being given to aquatic forms. The party expect to remain
in the swamp from eight to ten weeks.

CoLLECTING IN Tropica, AmMrERICcA—As foreshadowed in the NEws
for November, I9I1I, page 423, Messrs. A. F. Porter and John M.
Geddes have enjoyed about, eight months collecting in the tropics.
“We touched at St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbuda,
Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados and then
down to the main land of South America in British Guiana. We col-
lected usually two weeks in each of the islands and secured some nice
things. As a whole the islands proved very unproductive in Lepi-
doptera, but when we got out into the bush in British Guiana, we were
indeed surprised at the great numbers of moths taken at night by
light. We used an auto headlight and several lamps and would secure
from 50 to 300 specimens on a single evening, or rather all night, for
we usually worked all night long. Butterflies were not so plentiful,
but the difference in species was very gratifying. I had no sickness
of any kind during my entire trip and never spent such an enjoyable
outing and collecting trip before. It is wonderful the different number
of species one will take on a good night at light. On one of my best
nights, I, myself, took 304 specimens and out of that number 267 were
different species and besides Mr. Geddes secured about the same
number of specimens, but I did not look over the material to see
how many new species he could add to my list of different species.
In all I think we took probably 10,000 specimens during our trip and
if one is looking for exciting and interesting collecting, let him go to
British Guiana.”—A. F. Porrer.

Scarcity oF Earty INsects.—Insect life here this year is wonder-
fully scarce. I have a large trap in which I have taken many hundreds
of insects that come to light. I have set it thirteen evenings in April
and three times in May and have captured absolutely nothing. To-day
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lonesome Calliphora vomitoria cavorting on my window pane. I
noticed also Pyrameis atalanta in my garden. Before to-day there has
been nothing. I have thought that a winter of changeable tempera-
ture, when we get alternate thawing and freezing, was specially de-
structive to insects, but maybe so severe a winter as we have had,
followed by so late a spring, has been equally unfortunate for them.—
O. S. Westcorr, Oak Park, Illinois. May 3, 1912.

One REASON FOR THE CHANCE oF NaAmes.—At this season when so
much of the News is given to nomenclatorial matters it may not be out
of place to call attention to some reasons for the change of names.
One ot the chief reasons is, the obscure ways in which many names are
proposed.

As an example of the way names should not be proposed, one may look
on page 228 (15th line fram the bottom of the page) and page 232 (19th
line from the top of the page) of May, 1912, Entomorocica, NEws.
Here two new generic names are proposed. They are not set off any
more than any old specific name would be; they are not in the “con-
tents”; and they stand a fine chance of being overlooked until some
one has proposed another name, when they may be recalled and the lit-
erature “upset” again, so those who favor nomina conse vanda will have
another “example.” Of course they may be in the index, but who reads
indices for new names? It is to be hoped that those whose fault it was
that these names appeared in such an obscure way will read this notice;
and that they will see that new names are set off so they can easily
be seen by catalogers or those interested. A number of changes, in the
generic names of sawflies. were necessary because new names were pro-
posed or new genera described in just such obscure ways.—S. A.
ROHWER.

[Mr. Rohwer’s suggestions, in so far as they refer to the editorial
side of the matter, will be adopted, although we can not excuse him
from looking into indexes.—Eb.]

An EXPERIMENT ON THE OVIPOSITION OF A HyMENOopTEROUS Ecc
PaRASITE.*—While experimenting with the Hymenopterous egg para-
site, Trichogramma minutum (pretiosa) Riley, during the summer of
1911, | exhausted my supply of the moth eggs which this parasite at-
tacks, and was forced to examine many plants in the field for eggs to
serve as hosts for the adult parasites which I had on hand. For some
reason, however, there was a temporary scarcity of moths, and no
eggs were found. In searching for Heliothis eggs on okra plants, I
noticed the partially solidified globules of juice which had been ex-
uded from the fruits and stems, and the thought occurred to me to

*Published by permission of the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology.

330 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’12

collect some of these globules and give them to the parasites as a
substitute for their accustomed host eggs. The idea seemed so
absurd, however, that only after a complete failure to obtain moth
eggs was it put into execution.

Twenty of the juice globules were collected, some of them a little
smaller, some a little larger than the eggs of the bollworm, Heliothis
obsoleta, a favorite host of Trichogramma. These were placed in a
small glass vial, and a female Trichogramma which had been in a tube
with males of the same species was introduced. She quickly went to
a globule and soon oviposited three times in it. There was a short
interval between each two ovipositions. She then oviposited in each
of four other globules. Then after running about for a few seconds
she rested on the side of the vial. The vial being shaken slightly, she
ran about again, got on a globule, but did not oviposit. In a few sec-
onds she became motionless. The tube was slightly moved, and the
parasite ran about but did not oviposit. She soon came to a resting
position on the side of the vial, and was not observed to oviposit
again.

The globules were observed carefully for several days, and, as may
be expected, they all dried up without the emergence of any parasites.

The female of Trichogramma is usually represented as carefully
inspecting the host egg to learn if it is suitable for oviposition, and I
have often observed females walking over the eggs and touching them
many times with the antennae, but it seems from these observations
that the female is unable to ascertain whether the egg is suitable or
not.

Unless it be admitted that the mature female is impelled to oviposit
in anything like a moth egg which is at hand, it seems clear that she
is unable to learn not only whether or not a host egg is already para-
sitized, unless it has turned black, but even whether it is of a suitable
species or whether it is an egg at all. The parasite under considera-
tion is known to have some forty-three hosts, and is supposed to
oviposit in any soft-shelled egg, within certain limits as to species.
The globules of okra juice were surrounded by a film formed by the
exposure of the juice to the air, and were fairly good as an imita-
tion of the egg of a Noctuid. It seems probable that Trichogramma
oviposits in many unsuitable eggs, at least under conditions of
scarcity of its usual hosts.

The reason for the careful examination of the egg by the female
is a subject for further speculation. Possibly the examination serves
merely to locate a suitable place for the insertion of the ovipositor—
T. E. Hottoway, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Audubon Park, New
Orleans, La.

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Entomological Literature.

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

Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En-
tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and
Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted;
but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how-
ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded.
The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered
in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all
dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a
record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new
North American form.

For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record,
Office of Experiment Stations, Washington.

1—Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
2—Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia.
4—The Canadian Entomologist. 5—Psyche, Cambridge, Mass.
6—Journal, New York Entomological Society. 7—U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 8—The Entomologist’s
Monthly Magazine, London. 9—The Entomologist, London. 10—
Nature, London. 11—Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
London. 19—Horae Societatis Entomologiae Rossicae. 21—The
Entomologist’s Record, London. 22—Zoolgischer Anzeiger, Leip-
zig. 24—Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 25—Bolletino, Musei
di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata d. R. Universita di Torino.
35—Annales, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 45—Deutsche
Entomologische Zeitschrift. 47—The Zoologist, London. 51—
Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 56—Mittheilungen, Schwei-
zerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, Schaffhausen. 84—Ento-
mologische Rundschau. 89—Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 94—
“Das Thierreich” herausgegeben von d. Deutschen zoologischen
Gesellschaft, Berlin. 97—Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie,
Leipzig. 128—Bulletin, Wisconsin Natural History Society, Mil-
waukee. 128—Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Sidney. 129—Annali, R. S. Superiore di agricoltura di Portici.
148—New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva. 166—
Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben. 177—Quarterly
Journal of Microscopical Science, London. 180—Annals, Entomo-
logical Society of America. 182—Revue Russe d’Entomologie, St.
Petersburg. 190—Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift “Iris,”
Dresden. 191—Natur, Munchen. 193—Entomologische Blatter,
Cassel. 214—Naturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift fur Forst- und
Landwirtschaft, Stuttgart. 218—Mikrokosmos, Zeitschrift fur die
praktische Betatigung aller Naturfreunde, Stuttgart. 236—Boletin,
Sociedad Aragonesa de Ciencias Naturales, Zaragoza. 243—Y ear-

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book, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 254—Ar-
chives de Parasitologie, Paris. 263—Proceedings, Hawaiian Ento-
mological Society, Honolulu. 277—Victorian Naturalist, Melbourne.
285—Nature-Study Review, Urbana, Illinois 315—Memoires, Aca-
demie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences, 2d ser., Brussels.
385—Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 844 —U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 350—Bulletin from the
Laboratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa,
Iowa City. 3868—The Monthly Bulletin of the State Commission
of Horticulture, Sacramento, Cal. 369—Entomologische Mitteilun-
gen, Berlin-Dahlen. 379—Proceedings of the International Zoolog-
ical Congress. 3880—Annual Report of the State Board of Horti-
culture, Denver. 381—Experiment Station Record, Washington,
D. C.’ 382—Revue Zoologique Africaine, Bruxelles. 383—Proceed-
ings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science,
Halifax. 884—Archivio Zoologico Italiano, Napoli.

GENERAL SUBJECT. Anon.—Economic Entomology, 381,
xxvi, 451-461. Banks & Caudell_—The entomological code: a code
of nomenclature for use in entomology, Washington, D. C., May,
1912, 31 pp. Forbes, S. A.—Twenty-sixth report of the State Ento-
mologist of the noxious and beneficial insects of the State of IIli-
nois, 160 pp. Gillette, C. P—Third annual report of the state ento-
mologist of Colorado for the year 1911, 380, xxiii, 101-169. Goldi,
E. A.—Zur vergleichenden morphologie der mundgliedmassen bei
Crustaceen und insekten, 22, xxxix, 483-487. Gross, J.—Hetero-
chromosomen und geschlechtsbestimmung bei insecten, 89, xxxil,
99-170. Hewitt, C. C—Map illustrating faunal zones of No. Am.,
4, 1912, 129-130. Martelli, G—Altre notizie dittologiche della
mosca delle olive, 129, ix, 33 pp., 1910. Maxwell, H.—Insect para-
sites on trees, 10, Ixxxix, 191. Mehely, L. v.—Die bedeutung der
epistase in der artbildung, 379, viii, 339-355. Muschamp, P. A. H.—
The cleansing of greasy insects——A new solvent, 21, 1912, 123.
Osborn, H.—A problem in the flight of insects. Faunistic studies
in entomology, 180, v, 61-64. Quaintance & Scott.—The more im-
portant insect and fungous enemies of the fruit and foliage of the
apple, 344, Farmers’ Bul. No. 492. Rhumbler, L—Ueber eine zweck-
massige weiterbildung der Linneschen binaren nomenklatur, 379,
viii, 859-874. Richard Scholz, M. F.—Ein hilfsmittel bei der fund-
ortsangabe der insekten, 369, i, 140-144. Rosen, R.—Elternsorgen,
191, 1912, 328-331. Rothschild, W.—On the term “subspecies” as
used in systematic zoology, 51, xix, 135-136. Schenkling, Karl.—
Obituary note by H. Soldanski, 45, 1911, 730-732. Schmutz, K.—
Fransenflugler. Eine anregung zum studium einer wenig bekann-
ten insektenordnung, 218, vi, 15-18. Schubert, Karl—Obituary by

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H. Soldanski, 45, 1911, 728-730. Silvestri, F.—Contribuzioni alla
conoscenza degli insetti dannosi e dei loro simbionti (Galerucella
luteola), 129, ix, 46 pp., 1910. Stubbs, F. J.—The sense of fear in
insects, 47, 1912, 158. Terry, F. W.—Obituary notice, 263, ii, 189.
Webster, F. M.—Report on the celebration of the centenary of
the foundation of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
4, 1912, 130-132. Wetch, P. S.—The insect life of pond and stream,
Pt. II, 285, 1912, 181-195.

APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Back, E. A.—Notes on Cuban
white-flies with description of two n. sp., 4, 1912, 145-153. Davis,
W. T.—A symmetrically deformed dragonfly, 6, xx, 68. Hood,
J. D—On N. Am. Phloeothripidae (Thysanoptera), with descrip-
tions of two n. sp., 4, 1912, 137-144 (*). Johnston & Harrison.—
Notes on some Mallophagan generic names, 128, xxxvi, 321-328.
Korsakoff, R.—Regenerationserscheinungen bei Embiiden, 379,
vili, 609-620. Muttkowski, R. A.—A synonymical note (Odonata),
123, ix, 166-169. Navas, R. P. L.—Insectos Neuropteros nuevos,
$79, viii, 746-751. Parrott, P. J—The pear thrips, 148, Bull. No. 343.
Russell, H. M.—An internal parasite of Thysanoptera, 7, Tech
Ser. No. 23, 25-52. Tillyard, R. JStudies in the life-histories of
Australian Odonata No. 4: Further notes on the life-history of
“Petalura gigantea,” 128, xxxvi, 86-96. Wodsedalek, J. E.—Natural
history and general behavior of the Ephemeridae nymphs “Hepta-
genia interpunctata,”’ 180, v, 31-40.

ORTHOPTERA. Borelli, A.Specie nuove di dermatteri di
Costa Rica, 25, xxvi, No 644, 10 pp. Griffini, A—Viaggio del Dr.
E. Festa nel Darien nell’ Ecuador e regioni vicine, xxiv, 25, xxvi,
No. 639, 8 pp. Rehn, J. A. G—The orthopteran inhabitants of the
sonoran creosote bush (Abstract), 1, Ixiv, 143-144.

HEMIPTERA. Bequaert, J.—L’instinct maternel chez “Rhino-
coris albopilosus” . . ., 382, i, 293-296. Bergroth, E.—Notes on
Coreidae and Neididae, 35, lvi, 76-93. Bradley, J. C—Note on
“Henicocephalus culicis,” 6, xx, 69-70. Lutz, F. E—A Membracid
and mimicry, 6, xx, 67-68. Hirschler, J—Embryologische unter-
suchungen an Aphiden . . ., 97, c, 393-446. Matausch, I.—Ob-
servations on “Micoutalis calva,” 5, 1912, 66-69 (*). Observations
on the life history of “Enchenopa binotata,” 6, xx, 58-67. Olsen,
C. E.—Contribution to an annotated list of Long Island insects.—
Hemiptera, 6, xx, 48-58. Pergande, T.—The life history of the
alder blight Aphis (Pemphigus tessellata), 7, Tech. Ser. No. 24.
Phillips & Davis.—Studies on a n. sp. of Toxoptera, with an ana-
lytical key to the genus and notes on rearing methods, 7, Tech.
Ser. No. 25, 1-16 (*). Pierantoni, U.—Studii sullo sviluppo d’Icerya
purchasi. Parte I—Origine ed evoluzione degli elementi sessuali

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femminili, 384, v, 321-400. Rimsky-Korsakoff, M.—Regenerations-
erscheinungen bei Embiiden, 379, viii, 609-620. Rothschild, N. C.—
Notes on the structure of the sexually modified segments of the
Cimicidae, with special reference to “Clinocoris columbarius,” 51,
xix, 93-96. Wefelscheid, H.—Ueber die biologie und anatomie von
“Plea minulissima,” 89, xxxii, 387-474. Wilson, H. F.—Aphid notes
from Oregon, 4, 1912, 153-159 (*). Zimmer, J. F—The grape scale
(Aspidiotus uvae), 7, Bull. No. 97, 115-124.

LEPIDOPTERA. Aijiken, J.—Notes on “Anosia plexippus,” 9,
1912, 146-147. Aldrich, J. M.—Larvae of a Saturniid moth used as
food by California Indians, 6, xx, 28-31. Barnes & McDunnough.—
“Basilarchia weidermeyerii angustifascia” a new geographical race,
4, 1912, 163. On the larval stages of certain arctian species, 180,
1912, 132-136. Braun, A. F.—Notes on some No. Am. Tineina, 4,
1912, 159-161. Closs, A—Ueber einige interessante Sphingiden, 24,
lvi, 121-124. Comstock, W. P.—“Erebus odora” taken at Hoboken,
N. J., 6, xx, 68. Courvoisier, Dr.—Zur nomenklatur der Chryso-
phanus-Arten, 166, vi, 29-30 (cont.). Ueber zeichnungs-aberratio-
nen bei Lycaeniden, 190, 1912, 38-65. Druce, H.—Descriptions of
seven n. sp. of Heterocera belonging to the subfamily Ophiusinae,
11, ix, 552-554. Engelhardt, G. P.—‘“Calpodes ethlius” on Long
Island, 6, xx, 70. Essig, E. O.—The potato tuber moth (Phthori-
maea aperculella), 368, i, 203-213. Fassl, A. H.—Neue Heliconius-
formen aus Kolumbien, 84, xxix, 55-56. Fruhstorfer, H.—Neue
neotropische Pieriden aus der sammlung Staudinger, 84, xxix, 59.
Hampson, G. F.—Descriptions of n. sp. of Pyralidae of the sub-
family Pyraustinae, 11, ix, 433-444 (cont.). Johr, O.—The missing
vein. A lepidopterological study (Russian with English abstract),
182, xi, 283-293. Kaye, W. J—A rare Jamaica butterfly (Chlosyne
pantoni), 9, 1912, 150-151. McAtee, W. L.—Bird enemies of the
codling moth, 243, 1911, 237-246. Meyrick, E.—Corrections of im-
possible names, 8, 1912, 111-112. Newcomer, E. J.—Some observa-
tions on the relations of ants and Lycaenid caterpillars, and a
description of the relational organs of the latter, 6, xx, 31-36. Per-
rin, J— Catalogue of butterflies and moths, mostly collected in the
neighborhood of Halifax and Bigby, Nova Scotia, 383, xii, 258-290.
Rau, P.—The period of incubation of the eggs of “Samia cecropia,”
5, 1912, 69-70. Rothke, M.—Beitrage zur kenntnis von “Arctia
figurata” und ihren formen nebst einigen betrachtungen uber deren
wesen und bedeutung, 190, 1912, 1-14. Schaus, W.—New sp. of
Heterocera from Costa Rica—XV, 11, ix, 421-433 (cont.). Schulze,
P.— Ueber versondrusen bei L., 22, xxxix, 433-444. Skinner, H.—
Mimicry in butterflies (abstract), 1, Ixiv, 141-142 Strand, E.—Zur
kenntnis der Uraniidengattungen “Coronidia” und “Homidia” n. g¢.,

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45, 1911, 635-649 (*). Swett, L. W.—Geometrid notes-descriptions
of two new Hydriomenas, 4, 1912, 164 (*).

DIPTERA. Alexander, C. P—A peculiar new crane-fly from
Porto Rico, 5, 1912, 63-66. Alexander & Leonard.—Venational
variation in “Cladura,” 6, xx, 36-40. Doan, R. W.—New western
Tipulidae, 180, v, 41-61 (*). Felt, E. P.—‘“Lasiopteryx manihot,”
n. sp., 4, 1912, 144. Kleine, R.—Zur biologie von “Hylemyia coarc-
tata,” 24, lvi, 133-138. Rougemont, F. de— Details biologiques sur
la “Phytomyza” du Thalictrum, 56, xii, 82-86. Schulze, P.—Eine
interessante monstrositat von “Eristalis tenax,” 24, lvi, 172. Sur-
couf & Gonzalez-Rincones.—Dipteres piqueurs et suceurs de Sang
actueilement connus de la Republique de Venezuela, 254, xv, 248-
314. !

COLEOPTERA. Arrow, G. J.—On an. sp. of Melolonthid beetle
(Phytalus smithi) destructive to sugar-cane, 11, ix, 455-459. Bern-
hauser et Schubert.—Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 40: Staphy-
linidae III, pp. 191-288. Blunck, H.—Beitrag zur kenntnis der
morphologie und physiologie der haftscheiben von “Dytiscus mar-
ginalis.” Die schreckdrusen des Dytiscus und ihr secret, I. Teil,
97, c, 459-492, 493-508. Burgess & Collins—The value of preda-
ceous beetles in destroying insect pests, 248, 1911, 453-466. Car-
penter & McDowell.—The mouth parts of some beetle larvae
(Dascyllidae and Scarabaeidae) with especial reference to the maxil-
lule and hypopharynx, 177, lvii, 373-396. Cassani, R.—Ricerche
sull’ovaris degli Emitteri, 384, v, 15-27. Davis, W. T.—Notes on
the distribution of several species of tiger beetles, 6, xx, 17-20.
Dow, R. P.—A new variety of “Trogosita virescens,” 6, xx, 70-71
(*). Elmhirst, R.—Some observations on the glowworm (Lampy-
ris noctiluca), 47, 1912, 190-192. Fenyes, A.—‘‘Falagria” and its
relatives, 6, xx, 20-27. French, C_—A plague of beetles (Australia),
277, xxviii, 215. Hyslop, J. A—The false wireworms of the Pacific
Northwest (Elodes), 7, Bull. No. 95, 73-87. Leng, C. W.—‘Exo-
chomus scapularis” from Arizona, 6, xx, 68. The geographical
distribution of Cicindelidae in eastern N. A., 6, xx, 1-17. Maria
de la Fuente, R. D. J.—Rectificationes ad Catalog. Coleopterorum
Europae .. . auctoribus v. Heyden, Reitter et Weise, 1906.
Corrigenda, 236, xi, 97-116 (cont.). Nusslin, O.—Studien ueber die
naturliche systematik der borkenkafer, 193, 1912, 99-108. Zur phy-
logenie und systematik der einheimischen Hylesinen. -Die Gat-
tungén, 214, x, 267-290. Ohaus, F.—Ein neuer “Aclopus” (wun-
schei) from Brazil, 45, 1912, 82. “Isoceraspis” subgen. nov. Melo-
lonthinarum, 45, 1911, 669-670. Ueber die untersuchung der mund-
teil bei den Lamellicorniern, 45, 1911, 681-684. Pic, M.—Coleop-
terorum catalogus Pars 41: Ptinidae, 46 pp. Schaeffer, C.—Note

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on “Sphaeridium bipustulatum,” 6, xx, 68-69. Wagner, H.—Neue
Apionen des Nord- und sudamerikanischen faunengebietes, 51, xix.
97-118 (*). Webster, F. M.—Preliminary report on the alfalfa wee-
vil (Phytonomus posticus), 7, Bull. No. 112, 47 pp. Wickham, H. F.
—A report of some recent collections of fossil C. from the miocene
shales of Florissant, Colorado, 350, vi, 2-39 (*). Wickham & Wol-
cott—Notes on Cleridae from No. and Central America, 350, vi,
49-67 (*). Wolcott, A. B.—Two n. sp. of C. from Illinois, 4, 1912,
161-163 (*). Zawarzin, A.—Histologische studien uber insekten.
III. Ueber das sensible nervensystem der larven von “Melolontha
vulgaris,” 97, c, 447-458.

HYMENOPTERA. Banks, N.—Notes on the eastern species
of “Cerceris,” 180, v, 11-30 (*). Buysson, R. du.u—Un hymenoptere
parasite des Ixodes, 254, xv, 246-247. Cockerell, T. D. A.—New
bees from Brazil, 5, 1912, 41-61. Descriptions and records of bees,
XLIII, XLIV, 11, ix, 377-387, 554-568. Friese, H.—Neue arten der
bienengattung “Xylocopa,” 45, 1911, 685-687. Geyer, K.—Beitrag
zur kenntnis der facettenaugen der Hymenoptera, 22, xxxix, 375-
386. Girault, A. A.—The occurrence of the Mymarid genus “Ste-
phanodes” in N. A., 6, xx, 40-44 (*). On the identity of the most
common species of the family Trichogrammatidae, 128, ix, 135-165
(*). Habermehl, Prof.—Revision der Cryptiden-gattungen “Cralo-
cryptus” und “Cubocephalus” unter berucksichtigung einiger Gra-
venhorstschen und Thomsonschen typen, 45, 1911, 601-630. Hooker,
C. W.—The Ichneumon flies of America belonging to the tribe
Ophionini, 2, xxxviii, 1-176 (*). Hunter, W. D.—-Two destructive
Texas ants, 7, Circ. No. 148. Kieffer, J. J—Ichneumonidae, Evanii-
dae, 94, Lief. 30, 431 pp. Malysher, S. I.—Zur biologie der Ody-
nerus-arten und ihrer parasite (Russian with abstract in German),
19, xl, pt. 2, 58 pp. Mann, W. M.—Parabiosis in Brazilian ants, 5,
1912, 36-41. Matheson & Crosby.—Aquatic H. in America, 180, y,
65-71 (*). Newcomer, E. J.—See under Lepidoptera. Perez, C.—
Observations sur l’histolyse et I’histogenese dans la metamorphose
des Vespides (Polistes gallica), 815, iii, 103 pp. Rohwer, S. A——A
new sawfly from Brazil, 5, 1912, 62-63. Sawflies from Panama, with
descriptions of new genera and species, 335, lix, No. 12, 6 pp.
Sadownikowa, M.—Stereoskopische bilder aus dem leben der amei-
sen (Russian), Moscow, 8 pp. and many illustrations. Scheidter, F.
—Beitrag zur lebensweise eines parasiten des kiefernspinners, des
“Meleorus versicolor,” 214, x, 300-315. Smith, H. S—The Chalci-
doid genus “Perilampus” and its relations to the problem of para-
site introduction, 7, Tech, Ser. No. 19, 33-69.

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