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THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VoL. XXXII. OCTOBER, 1920. No. 8.
CONTENTS
Cresson—Description of a New Spe- Conference of Economic Entomolo-
cies of the Asilid genus Pogosoma BISES HOEY Set yee rt iel teeta a ara te Pere a 227
(Diptera). ...... Ciph D Sae -> 2II | Reorganization of Division of Ento-
Alexander — Undescribed Crane-flies mology at the University of Cali-
from Argentina (Tipulidae, Dip- 4 i.
a, a ore FORMIA Scans ore cP tene teen sscseles 227
Mason—Cicindela nevadica LeConte TUE Se MAS MGS
MGoOleOpeles ac. aask a Paces 221 Pennsylvania.................. 228
Martin—Notes on the Genus Hetaer- Entomological Literature............ 229
ius and Descriptions of three Review of Blatchley’s Orthoptera of
By ae ea eens ies any - 222 Northeastern America........... 233
Beg eo Seren en Erice Doings of Societies—Entom. Sect.
of the News be Increased?....... 226 Read ANKE, SG Phila ab
Orthoptera: Tettigidae.............. 226 . ; Si te ae) a 233
Some Collecting Activities during the Obituary—W. R. McConnell, J. R.
Srimmcrofeslozony tae ale. 227 Sahlberg, J. Pantel.. Doncaster,
Williamson—The Cornell University H. Loomis.......-...+--..+-+.. 239
Entomological Expedition to Malloch—Additions to the Recorded
South America of 1919-20....... 227 Illinois Reduviidae (Hem.)..... 240

Description of a New Species of the Asilid genus
Pogosoma (Diptera).

By E. T. Cresson, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.

The species of this genus are always interesting. They
seem to be distributed in most of the world faunas. Kertesz,
in his Catalogus Dipterorum, lists eleven species: Four from
Europe, four from the East Indies, two from North America,
and one from Mexico. In working over the collection here,
in connection with some material collected by F. M. Jones
in the western states, this genus was brought to my atten-
tion by a female from California. On comparing this speci-
men with another female without data, a male from Colo-
rado, and another male from New Jersey, I found many dis-
agreements in characters which seem worth while consider-

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ing. Through the kindness of Prof. J. G. Sanders and Mr.
A. B. Champlain of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Harris-
burg, Pennsylvania, I am enabled to examine their collection
in this genus, consisting of two males and one female from
Pennsylvania and Virginia, and two males from Colorado.
Of the above material from the Bureau of Plant Industry,
Mr. Champlain writes: ‘I wish to call your attention to the
fact that all were collected from Pine. Knull took the Vir-
ginia specimens from pine; I got the Colorado specimen fly-
ing around cut and infested pine logs, and Sanders collected
the Pennsylvania specimens flying around cut white pine,
the latter being attacked by Monohammus, Ips, and other
pine insects. It is probably a predator on pine insects in
both adults and larval stages.”’

Critical examination of the above material, supported my
earlier supposition that there were two distinct species repre-
sented respectively by the eastern and western specimens.
They are all typically Pogosomae and possess the following
characters in common which may be considered of generic
or subgeneric importance:

Shining, sparingly pilose species. | Head twice as broad as
high, deeply excavated between the eyes above; ocelli on a
prominent, conical tubercle; antennae inserted near ocellar
tubercle, far above center line of eyes. Facial profile pro-
duced in form of an obtuse cone to opposite the end of first
antennal joint, but leaving a space below antennae straight
and nearly vertical. First antennal joint twice as long as
second; third as long as first and second together. Proboscis
straight, conical, pilose at apex above. Scutellum without
true macrochaetae. Abdomen elongate; segments somewhat
constricted at incisures. Femora thickened beyond middle;
fore tibiae without spur. First submarginal cell divided by
a cross vein from anterior branch of third vein; first posterior
cell narrowed or closed at margin; posterior cross vein and
apical cross vein of fourth posterior cell parallel but not con-
tinuous.

Genotype.—Asilus maroccana Fabricius, 1794, [Original
designation].

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The two species credited to North America are Laphria
dorsata Say (1824) and Laphria melanopterum Wiedemann
(1828). The former is cited as ‘‘taken near Philadelphia”’;
the latter as ‘‘Vaterland?’’ but credited by all students to
North America. Williston notes what he considers Wiede-
mann’s species from Florida, and states that it differs from
dorsata in having the wings black and broader, the face being
clothed with black, and the dorsum being shining. I cannot
distinguish melanoptera from dorsata either by descriptions
or notes relative to these supposed species. The former is
probably a very dark form of the latter, and as the material
before me shows much variation in the wing color, I do not
think that Wiedemann’s name can be retained for any North
American species or variety.

Pogosoma dorsata Say.

1824. Laphria dorsata Say, Amer. Ent., i, pl. vi, page 5.
Q 1828. Laphria melanoptera Wiedemann, Ausser. Zweifl. Ins., i, 514.

Say’s description agrees so well with my eastern material
that I do not doubt the determination. As there is very
much variation in the color of the wings, this character can-
not be taken seriously. What I consider dorsata may be
described as follows:

3. Black entirely, except more or less brown on post alar calli and on
the pleural and ventral sutures. Shining to polished, with some bluish
metallic or grayish reflections. Face especially below, occiput especially
post orbits, one or two pairs of spots on mesonotum (one at each dorsal
end of the two sutures, the anterior pair being most pronounced), suture
above base of wings, pleura especially towards pectus, silvery according
to the angle of vision. All true bristles black. Pile or bristle-like hairs
black as follows: on first and second joints, face above and upper part of
mystax, occiput above, palpi, apex of proboscis, prothoracic collar, humeri,
mesonotum posteriorly, sometimes a few on margin of scutellum, pleura,
and abdomen. Pale (white) pile on frons, around base of antennae, lower
part of mystax, lower occiput, proboscis below, mesonotum anteriorly,
disc of scutellum and all coxae. Pile long and mixed on legs, but paler
on femora becoming black on tarsi. The pile is long and abundant on
the lower surfaces of head and legs; long and woolly and rather sparse on
scutellum. Wings very variable, from evenly subhyaline, grayish to
densely fuscous with lighter areas in the cells especially along the inferior
margin.

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There are only two bristles in the supra-alar region, one each side of
the sutural depression; two or three on the post-alar callus; one, strong,
on post margin of mesopleura. Hypopygium complicated; claspers with
numerous long bristles along the sublateral margin; between the bases of
claspers is a broad appendage with a rounded, laterally directed, tooth-
like projection. =

Q. Similar. Wings generally darker, more blackish. Pile mostly
black; that on cheeks, base of proboscis, and on scutellum generally, re-
maining pale; it is also less abundant especially on the legs. Length—
18 mm.

I have examined the following material: I o’, Browns
Mills, New Jersey, June 15, (H. Skinner), [A.N.S.P.]. 267,
East Falls Church, Virginia, July 1-8, (J. N. Knull), [Penna.
Dept. Agric.]. 19, Drumgold, Pennsylvania, July 16, (J.
G. Sanders), [Penna. Dept. Agric.]. 19, without data, [A.N.
Sak

Pogonosoma ridingsi new species.

o. Similar to dorsata but more robust. Mesonotum and scutellum
not shining but subopaque. Color of bristles and pile similar except on
the face where they are pale (yellowish not white) with several long black
bristles on the prominence medianly; of the scutellum and postcoxae,
black. The facial pile is more abundant than in dorsata, and along the
alar margin of the mesonotum and on the postalar calli there are numer-
ous black bristles, while the scutellum has some erect bristle-like hairs of
the disc. The vestiture of the pleurae is more abundant than in dorsata
and the pile on the fore legs is very dense, noticeably more so than on
the middle and hind legs. The wings, although probably they will show
much variation, seem to be fairly constant in having the fuscous clouding
confined to the veins, even those near the costal margin (none of the speci-
mens showing the density of dorsata). The hypopygium more robust,
similar in general form; but the appendage between the bases of the
claspers is tooth-like, not developed laterally into tooth-like lobes. The
bristles of the claspers are stronger and fewer in number.

9. Similar, but as in dorsata the pile is mostly black, being pale
(brownish) on the cheeks only. The wings as in the male. Length 20
mm.

Type-—o. Colorado, (J. H. Ridings?), [A.N.S.P. No.
6343]. Paratypes—1<; Florissant, Colorado, June 24, 1914,
82 (A. Champlain), [Pa. Dept. Agr.]. 1 o&; El Paso County,
Colorado, August 5, 1911, (A. Champlain), [Pa. Dept. Agr.].
1 9; Keddie, Plumas County, California, July 4, 1918, (F
M. Jones), [A. N. S. P.].

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The subopacity of the mesonotum, abundance of bristles
along the alar margin, the more abundant and pale facial
pile, the more abundant pleural pile, the hypogygial tooth,
as well as the more robust habitus and its western distribu-
tion, are characters of seeming specific importance.

Undescribed Crane-flies from Argentina
(Tipulidae, Diptera)

By CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, Urbana, Illinois.

The species of crane-flies described below were sent to me
for naming by Sefior Charles Bruch and Sefior Pedro Jorgen-
sen-Hansen. Some of the species were taken in the “ Puna”’
or highlands of the Province of Jujuy by Vladimir Weiser, a
civil engineer engaged in surveying this country, and kindly
included in the material sent me by Sefior Bruch. ‘The types
of Tipula moniliferoides were taken at the Estancia of Mr.
B. M. Barrett, at Monte Veloz, about 150 kilometers south
of Buenos Aires, where most of them were found in the houses
in the morning, presumably having been attracted to lights
earlier in the evening. The types are preserved in the writer’s
collection, paratypes of some of the species in the La Plata
Museum. I am greatly indebted to the gentlemen above
mentioned for the interesting material described at this time
and elsewhere.

Gonomyia (Gonomyella) weiseri new species.

General coloration gray; antennae black throughout; mesonotal prae-
scutum with three brown stripes; pleura grayish with a conspicuous yellow
ventral stripe; halteres elongate, pale, the knobs brown; wings subhyaline,
the stigma brown; Sc elongate; male hypopygium with the largest pleural
appendage bifid.

o Length about 5.5 mm.; wing 7.2-8 mm. 9? Length 6.8 mm.; wing
8-8.2 mm.

Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black, the flagellar segments
cylindrical. Head light gray.

Pronotum dull gray, the lateral margins narrowly yellowish, broadest
on the scutellum. Mesonotal praescutum light gray with three con-
spicuous brown stripes; pseudosutural foveae conspicuous, oval, jet black;
tuberculate pits at the extreme cephalic margin of the sclerite, separated

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from one another by a distance a little greater than the diameter of one;
scutum gray, each lobe with a brown mark continued backward from the

lateral praescutal stripes; scutellum gray, broadly margined with pale;

postnotum light gray. Pleura grayish, a conspicuous yellowish longi-
tudinal stripe across the dorsal portion of the mesosternum and the ven-
tral portions of the mesepimeron, beginning as a narrow point behind the
fore coxa, broadest above and immediately behind the middle coxa.
Halteres long and slender, pale, the knobs dark brown.

Legs with the coxae dark grayish brown; trochanters brown; remainder
of the legs brown, the tips of the femora, tibiae and tarsi darker.

Wings comparatively long and narrow, subhyaline, the stigma con-
spicuous, oval, brown; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc long, Scr ending
just before midlength of the long Rs; Sc2 removed a short distance from
the tip of Scr, Scr alone being about equal to the basal deflection of Cuz;
Rs very long, almost straight, longer than the combined R2+3 and R3
beyond it; r on R2+3 nearer the fork of Rs than to the fork of R2+3;
R2 approximately equal to R2+3; cell rst M2 open by the atrophy of
the outer deflection of M3; basal deflection of Cur a short distance be-
fore the fork of M.

Abdomen dark brown, sparsely pruinose, the caudal margins of the
segments narrowly pale. Male hypopygium with the pleurites stout,
the appendages inserted near midlength of the inner face; three pleural
appendages, the largest heavily chitinized, bifid, the outer arm again
slightly split at the tip so that the entire appendage appears indistinctly
trifid; inner pleural appendage a flattened blade that is slightly dilated
distally and provided with rather numerous sense setae; outer pleural
appendage about as long as the second appendage, heavily chitinized,
sinuous, narrowed to the blunt apex. Penis-guard long and narrow, the
apex indistinctly trifid. Ovipositor with the valves slender, acute, strongly
upcurved. é

Habitat: Argentina.

Holotype: &; Cueva Iturbe, Province of Jujuy, altitude
3700 meters, November 10, 1919 (Vladimir Weiser). Allo-
type: 9, Hornadita, Province of Jujuy, altitude 3400 meters,
November 30, 1919 (Weiser). Paratypes: 1 @, with the
allotype; 7 o' 4 9, Tilcara, March 20, 1920.

This interesting fly is dedicated to its collector, Sefior
Vladimir Weiser, to whom we are indebted for considerable
assistance in determining the range of distribution of Tipu-
lidae in Argentina.

Gonomyia (Gonomyella) argentinensis new species.

General coloration light brownish gray; antennae dark brown, meso-
notal praescutum with three brown stripes; pleura dark brown with a

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conspicuous light yellow longitudinal stripe; wings with a faint brownish
tinge, the stigma very faint; male hypopygium with the intermediate
pleural appendage narrow basally, gradually widened, the acute outer
angles subequal.

o&. Length about 5 mm.; wing 5.5 mm.

Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown. Head light
gray, with an indistinct, darker, median line.

Pronotum dark brown, the lateral margins narrowly pale yellow. Meso-
notal praescutum light brownish gray, with.three dark brown stripes;
scutum brownish gray, each lobe with two brown spots; scutellum and
postnotum dusted with gray. Pleura dark brown; a conspicuous light
yellow longitudinal stripe across the dorsal portions of the mesosternum,
extending from behind the fore coxae to dorsad of the hind coxae; cephalic
portion of the mesepimeron yellow; dorsal pleurites dusted with gray.
Halteres light yellow, the knobs brown.

Legs with the coxae reddish brown; trochanters dull yellow; remainder
of the legs obscure yellow; the tarsi darker.

Wings with a faint brown tinge; stigma very faint, slightly darker
brown; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc2 some distance from the tip
of Scz, immediately beyond the origin of Rs; Rs but slighly arcuated,
about as long as R2+ 3 and R2 taken together; 7 indistinct, inserted at
about midlength of R2+3; cell rst M2 open; basal deflection of Cur
before the fork of M, this distance being about one-half the deflection.

Abdomen dark brown, the posterior margins of the segments indis-
tinctly paler. Male hypopygium with the pleurites having three ap-
pendages, the outermost flattened, the short apex produced into an acute
point that is directed at a right angle to the remainder of the blade, some-
what like the beak of a bird; the intermediate appendage is slender basally,
gradually dilated into a fanlike structure, the outer margin concave, the
lateral angles thus formed produced into acute or subacute, subequal
points; inner pleural appendage a pale, flattened lobe that is gradually
widened to just before the apex, the tip obtuse. Penis-guard distinctly
trifid at apex.

Habitat: Argentina.

Holotype, o&, Rioja, February, 1915, (E. Giacomelli).
Allotopotype, 1 Q, in poor condition.

This fly is allied to G. velutina Alexander, G. weiseri new
species, and other members of the subgenus in the Neo-
tropical fauna but is readily told by the structure of the
male hypopygium.

Gonomyia (Leiponeura) bruchi new species.

Antennae black, the scapal segments largely yellow; head yellow, the
vertex with a brown blotch; thorax yellow, marked with brown; thoracic

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pleura yellow with two brown longitudinal stripes; halteres brown, the
knobs yellow; legs brown; wings yellowish gray, the stigma indistinct;
male hypopygium with the outer pleural appendage a chitinized hook -
with a short horn near its base.

o&. Length about 4 mm.; wing 3.8 mm.

Rostrum brown; palpi dark brown. Antennae of the male provided
with very long verticils as usual in this group of species; first scapal seg-
ment yellow; second scapal segment enlarged, dark brown, margined with
yellow; remainder of the antenna dark brown. Head light yellow with
a large brown blotch on the vertex.

Pronotum whitish yellow. Mesonotal praescutum with three dark
brown stripes that are sparsely purplish gray pruinose, entirely confluent
in front, separated behind to show the yellow ground-color; lateral mar-
gins of the praescutum broadly yellow; scutum yellow, the center of each
lobe purplish brown, this color produced by the backward extension of
the lateral praescutal stripes; scutellum yellow, with a conspicuous brown
median blotch at the base; postnotum brownish. Pleura yellow with
two conspicuous brown longitudinal stripes, the more ventral suffusing
the sterno-pleurites; mid-line of the sternum yellow. Halteres pale
brown, the base of the stem and the base of the knobs darker; remainder
of the knobs conspicuously light yellow.

Legs with the coxae and trochanters pale; remainder of the legs pale
brown, the distal tarsal segments darker.

Wings with a strong yellowish gray tinge; stigma barely indicated by
a long, dusky suffusion in cell Rr; veins pale. Venation: Sc rather
short, Scr ending a short distance before the origin of Rs; Sc2 removed
from the tip of Scr to a distance that is but little shorter than r—m; Rs
rather short, almost square at origin; cell rst M2 broad, the basal deflec-
tion of Cuz at or immediately before its fork.

Abdominal tergites dull yellow, with a broad, brownish median stripe;
sternites yellow. Male hypopygium with the pleurites moderately
stout, the outer angle produced into a long, stout, fleshy lobe; outer
pleural appendage a long, chitinized. hook that is broad at the base, nar-
rowed gradually to the sinuous, acute tip, beyond the base with a short,
stout horn; inner pleural appendage very small, fleshy, provided with
stout bristles and tipped with a powerful spine. Penis-guard formed as
two parallel flattened blades, the tips blackened and produced into a
short beak that is directed cephalad; gonapophyses black, bent slightly
at their tips which’ are minutely and irregularly toothed.

Habitat: Argentina.

Holotype, &, Province of Buenos Aires, October II, 1919,
(C. Bruch). 1 @&, 2 9, La Aranja, Alta Gracia, Proy.ide
Cérdoba, April 1-8, 1920 (C. Bruch).

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This beautiful little fly is respectfully dedicated to its col-
lector, Sefor Charles Bruch, to whom I am greatly indebted
for many Argentinian Tipulidae.

Holorusia catamarcensis new species.

Antennae naked, the basal half yellow, the distal half passing into
brown; mesonotal praescutum brownish buff with three conspicuous
gray stripes that are narrowly margined with dark brown, the median
stripe bisected by a narrow line of this color; legs yellow, the tips of the
femora and tibiae dark brown; wings brownish yellow, the stigma and a
spot at the origin of Rs darker; abdominal tergites yellow, trivittate with
dark brown.

9 .—Length about 19 mm.; wing 20.5 mm.

Frontal prolongation of head brownish yellow, narrowly dark brown
laterally; nasus long and slender; palpi dark brown. Antennae with the
basal seven segments light yellow, the flagellum thence passing into
brown; flagellar segments cylindrical with microscopic verticils only, as
in the genus; first flagellar segment very long and slender, nearly as long
as the succeeding three taken together. Head pale brownish testaceous,
sparsely gray pruinose.

Mesonotal praescutum pale brownish buff with three conspicuous gray
stripes that are narrowly margined with dark brown, the median stripe
split by a conspicuous brown stripe; scutum pale grayish testaceous, the
lobes largely gray; scutellum and postnotum testaceous, sparsely whitish
pruinose, the postnotum with a capillary brown line. Pleura pale brown,
sparsely pruinose, the dorso-pleural membranes dull yellow. Propleura
dull yellow, with an indistinct brownish spot above the fore coxa. Hal-
teres pale, the knobs slightly darker.

Legs with the coxae yellow, sparsely pruinose; trochanters yellow;
femora dull yellow, the tips conspicuously dark brown; tibiae similar,
the tips narrowly darkened; tarsi pale brown, the distal segments darker.

Wings with a strong brownish yellow tinge, the subcostal cell yellow;
stigma oval, brown; a brown cloud at the origin of Rs, a brown seam below
vein Cu; obliterative areas before the stigma in cell rst R2 and across
cell zst M2, the basal deflection of Mz+2 and the outer deflection of
M3+4 being largely pale; cell C above the stigma pale; anal cells dark-
ened distally, cell rst A with a pale triangle at the apex, slightly before
vein 2nd A; veins dark brown. Venation: Rs rather long, exceeding
R3, slightly angulated at origin; vein R3 not strongly arcuated; cell
1st M2 narrow; petiole of cell Mz about one-half as long as m.

Abdomen yellowish, the tergites trivittate, a narrow brown median
stripe, the apical segments with the caudal margins narrowly darkened;
sublateral stripes broader; lateral margins pale gray; second sternite
with a large brown blotch at the base. Ovipositor with the tergal valves
long, straight, compressed.

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Habitat: Argentina.
Holotype, 29, Esquina Grande, Catamarca, April 7, 1915.
(P. Jorgensen-Hansen).

Holorusia jujuyensis new species.

General coloration dark brownish black, pruinose; nasus bifid; antennal
segments with short bristles; legs dark brown; wings gray, the veins
seamed with subhyaline; Rs short, petiole of cell Mz short; abdominal
tergites reddish brown with sublateral brownish black stripes.

Length 18 mm.; wing 16 mm.

Frontal prolongation of the head comparatively short, dark reddish
brown; nasus broad, distinctly bifid at apex, clothed with long yellow
bristles; palpi brownish black. Antennae with the first segment dark
brown, sparsely pruinose; second segment brownish yellow; flagellum
uniformly brown, the outer segments darker; but ten evident flagellar
segments, the first segment a little less than the succeeding two taken
together; flagellar segments cylindrical with comparatively short verticils,
the first and second flagellar segments with numerous such bristles. Head
dark brown, narrowly gray along the inner margin of the eyes.

Mesonotal praescutum grayish brown, with three dull gray stripes
that are margined with dark brownish black, the median area of the
sclerite discolored in the unique type; humeral regions and lateral mar-
gins obscure yellow; scutum blackish with two large gray areas; scutellum
and postnotum dull gray with a narrow blackish median line. Pleura
dull gray, indistinctly marked with blackish; a conspicuous whitish area
on the lateral sclerites of the postnotum, immediately cephalad of the
base of the halteres. Halteres dark brown, paler basally.

Legs with the coxae and trochanters dark brown, the former dull gray
pruinose, remainder of the legs dark reddish brown, the tips of the fe-
mora, tibiae and all the distal tarsal segments black.

Wings broad, dull gray, the veins broadly seamed with subhyaline,
isolating the ground-color to the centers of the cells; a nearly continuous
subhyaline streak along vein M, passing into cell R near its end, crossing
cell zst M2 and into cell M4 where it forks before the wing-margin;
similar forks are found in cells R5, Mz and 2nd M2, leaving gray tri-
angles in the apices of these cells; stigma large, dark brown; cell R2 pale,
centered with gray; cell R3 gray, the outer end pale; vein rs¢ A 1s_ bor-
dered on either side by a broad subhyaline space; veins reddish horn-
color. Venation: Rs short, a little longer than R2+3; R3 rather strongly
arcuate; cell zst M2 comparatively broad; petiole of cell Mz short, about
one-half of m; fusion of Cur and M3+4 punctiform.

Abdominal tergites reddish brown, with conspicuous, sublateral brown-
ish black stripes and narrow gray margins; segments narrowly ringed
caudally with pale; sternites brown, the distal segments more blackish.
Ovipositor with the tergal valves almost straight, long and slender.

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Habitat: Argentina.

Holotype: of, Province of Jujuy, January 12, 1920 (V.
Weiser). Allotype: @, Tilcara, Jujuy, January 12, 1920
(Vladimir Weiser). Paratopotypes: 1 &, I 9@; paratypes,
fone, 2. 9, La Granja, Alta Gracia,* Prov. de Cordoba;
April 1-8, 1920 (C. Bruch).

Tipula moniliferoides new species.

o& Length 12-13 mm.; wing 13.6-14.3 mm.; antenna 10.2-II mm. @
Length 18-19 mm.; wing I4.2-I15 mm.

Similar to T. montlifera Loew, differing as follows:

Antennal flagellum beyond the first segment brownish black. The
three thoracic stripes are present, the median stripe represented by broad
margins that are a little narrower than the lateral stripes. Pleura uni-
formly light yellow.

Habitat: Argentina.

Holotype: o&, Monte Veloz, Province of Buenos Aires,
January 17, 1920 (C. Bruch). Allotopotype: @. Parato-
potypes: 2 o's, 5 9Q’s, Estancia B. Barrett, Monte Veloz,
ianuary T4—-17, 1920 -(C. Bruch). Paratypes: 4c", 49,
La Granja, Alta Gracia, Prov. de Cérdoba, April 1-8, 1920
(C. Bruch).

Tipula mitua Alexander (Colombia) which has the antennal
flagellum dark colored as in the present species, differs in the
relative shortness of the antennae and the coloration of the
thorax.

Cicindela nevadica LeConte (Coleop),

A series of ten specimens of this extremely rare Cicindela (six females,
four males) was taken by Mr. Morgan Hebard, August 23, 1919, on alkaline
flats near the Fairbanks Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nevada, at an elevation
of 2300 feet. They were very wary and difficult to capture. There is
only one specimen without even a State label in the Horn Collection; the
species has evidently not been taken recently as no records are available
other than Nevada from where the type was described. It is one of the
few species not represented in the collection of Cicindelidae of the late
Edward D. Harris. In company with nevadica LeC. was taken a series
of Cicindela haemorrhagica LeC. (subsp.) var. pacifica Schaupp.—F RANK R.
Mason, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Notes on the Genus Hetaerius and Descriptions
of three New Species (Coleop.)

By J. O. Martin, Berkeley, California

During the past five years I have spent such time as I have
been able to spare during the proper season in collecting the
curious ant guests belonging to the genus Hetaerius. It isa
rather laborious form of collecting as the ant nests in which
these beetles are found generally occur under stones, many
of which require considerable effort to overturn.. Thus far
in my experience, I have found them only during the winter
months after the ground has been thoroughly wet by the
rains. At such times the ants bring their eggs, larvae and
pupae, as well as the Aphids they may possess, to the under
side of the rocks to absorb the heat gathered by these stones
on such days as the sun may be shining. Here too other
guests may sometimes be seen and occasionally the desired
Hetaerius. Once I found six specimens of Hetaerius zelus in
a single day, often two and more often but one represented
the spoils of a strenuous day’s work. Far outnumbering
these red letter days were those in which the only reward
was an aching back and painfully worn finger tips.

As to the habits of these beetles I have been able to learn
little, for during the excitement, due to the sudden flood of
sunlight the main reaction seems to be toward escape to the
underground galleries. Sometimes the Hetaerius may be
found clinging to the under side of the stone, though more
frequently he is jarred off by the over-turning process. He
then feigns death as so many of the Histeridae do, but in a
short time comes to life and straddles rapidly away on his
clumsy appearing legs toward the gallery entrance. Twice
I have seen an ant pick up the beetle and start under ground
with him, but as a rule the Hefaerius makes off under his
own power.

During a recent trip to Mill Valley, Marin County, Cal-
ifornia, I had the good fortune to take two specimens of
Hetaerius which on examination turned out to be unde-

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scribed. Dr. E. C. Van Dyke very kindly turned over to
me for study the specimens of this genus in his collection as
did Dr. F. E. Blaisdell. Among Dr. Van Dyke’s material I
found one each of the two species taken by myself at Mill
Valley, and three examples of still another species which
appears to be undescribed.

Up to the present there have been described thirteen
species of the genus Hetaerius in the United States and of
these seven are from the state of California.* The three in-
cluded in the present paper make a total of ten for this state
and sixteen for the United States. Beside these there are
but five described from the rest of the World.

* Hetaerius, Erichson, Klug. Jahrb. Ins. Vol. I. p. 156. (1834).

blanchardi Le Conte, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., Vol. XVII, p. 609 (1878).
Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

brunnipennis Rand, Bost. Jour., Vol. II, p. 40 (1838). Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Pennsylvania; Ohio.

carinistrius Lewis, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8, Vol. XII, p. 85 (1913),
Hartford, Connecticut.

minimus Fall, Psyche, Vol. XIV, p. 68 (1907). Colorado; New Mexico.

hornit Wickham, Psyche, Vol. VI, p. 322 (1892). Cheyenne, Wyoming.

exiguus Mann, Psyche, Vol. XVIII, p. 108 (1911). Pullman. Washing-
ton; Kendrick, Idaho; New Mexico.

californicus Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. III, p. 137 (1870).
Sonoma and Pasadena, California.

morsus LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. (1859), p. 70. Fort
Tejon, California.

tristriatus Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. V, p. 21 (1874). Calaveras
County, California; Pullman, Washington.

wheelert Mann, Psyche, Vol. XVIII, p. 30 (1911). Palo Alto and
Berkeley, California.

zelus Fall, Can. Ent., Vol. XLIX, p. 165 (1917). Pasadena and San
Francisco, California.

strenuus Fall, Can. Ent., Vol. XLIX, p. 167 (1917). Santa Cruz Mts.,
Pasadena, California.

loripes Casey, Memoirs on the “Coleoptera, Vol. VII, p. 236 (1916).
Tulare County, California.

Terapus, Marseul, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 4th ser. Tome 2nd, p. 682

(1862).

mnizecht, Marseul, ibid. Pasadena, California.

Synonym: Melanetaerius infernalis Fall, Psyche, Vol. XVI, p. 69 (1907).

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In the preparation of this paper I have examined speci-
mens of the following species, brunnipennis, Rand; blanch-
ardi Le Conte; californicus Horn; tristriatus Horn; zelus Fall;
strenuus Fall; and wheeleri Mann. I have also gone over
the original descriptions of the thirteen species, a bibliog-
raphy of which will be found in the first footnote for the
convenience of the future students of the genus.

In studying the vestiture of these beetles it is evident that
there are three different types of hairs: first, the ciliated or
branched kind; second, flattened or squamose hairs with a
border of cilia; and third, ordinary hairs. The California
species may be grouped as follows on the basis of hairs found
on the upper surface of the body.

Without squamose or branched hairs on thoracic disc or elytral spaces:
californicus, nitidus.

With both squamose and branched hairs on thorax and elytra: ¢ri-
striatus, hirsutus, williamsi, morsus?, loripes, zelus.

With majority of the hairs squamose ciliate: strenuus.

With a few minute fringed hairs on thorax and elytra: wheelert.

The presence or lack of hair and its arrangement on the
body seems to possess significant specific value and also the
pygidium and flattened surfaces of the legs. As so many of
the descriptions are silent on these points, as well as on many
others of importance, I shall not attempt to construct a
table of species at this time.

Hetaerius nitidus sp. nov.

Form oblong, moderately convex above, rufo-castaneous, smooth,
shining.

Head smooth, shining; vertex viewed from above not concave but
slightly convex, with three triangularly-placed setigerous punctures near
caudal end of the margined area and three seta-bearing punctures in a
transverse line at cephalic margin; front slightly rugose and with a ver-
tical row of four to six setigerous punctures on each side of the impunc-
tate middle space; clypeus sparsely,.coarsely, and irregularly punctate
with six setae bordering the apical margin.

Prothorax twice as broad as long, narrowed apically, lateral margin
straight from apical angle to one-third the distance from base, where it
becomes suddenly arcuate to basal angle; disc one-third wider than long,
smooth, shining and bearing three or four setigerous punctures on apical
portion which are not regular in position; the pentangular disc separated

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from the slightly rougher lateral areas by a margined sulcus which begins
at the basal angle and follows the basal margin for about one-fifth the
width of an elytron, then, turning at nearly a right angle. crosses the
prothorax diagonally with a slightly sinuate course to its inflexed tip,
where it dies out before reaching the apical margin; parallel to this sulcus
and on the lateral margin of the disc is a broad shallow groove which at
its basal end forms a broad foveate depression, is constricted at its middle,
and broadens again at its shallow apical end; lateral area narrowest at
base, widening to apex and divided at basal third by a broad foveate
depression which is not a distinct groove as in other species of the genus
examined by me; apical portion of lateral area has about eight setigerous
punctures irregularly placed, the included setae reddish yellow and de-
pressed; the basal portion of this lateral area is moderately tuberculate
and has about six setigerous punctures; thoracic lateral margin bordered
with six to eight black setae unequally spaced.

Elytra smooth, shining, slightly wider than thorax, about as wide as
long, sides slightly arcuate, distinctly rounded posteriorly; first stria
_from the elytral suture reaching three-fourths of length of elytra, with
two setae at basal end, none at tip; second stria nearly reaching apex,
two setae at base and five along apical end; third stria not quite reaching
apex, with an increasing number of setae from base to tip; subhumeral
stria not quite reaching apex, with fairly evenly spaced hairs throughout
its length; interspaces and disc smooth, shining; a row of setae on apical
margin.

Pygidium and propygidium smooth, shining, moderately, evenly punc-
tured, each puncture bearing a subulate seta.

Prosternum rugose, flattened, margined area on caudal end reaching to
one-half its length, margin sinuate between the coxae, beyond arcuately_
convergent and meeting, completely enclosing the cephalic end of mar-
gined area which is smooth and shining.

Legs smooth, shining, sparsely punctured, punctures with setae, hind
tibia not much wider than femur.

Meso- and metathoracic segments and abdomen smooth, shining with-
out punctures. Length 1.5 mm.

Described from four examples; type in my own collection,
from Mill Valley, Marin County, California; paratypes in
the collection of Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, who kindly loaned
them to me for comparison.

My specimen was taken from the nest of a small grey ant
while those of Dr. Van Dyke came from the nest of a much
‘larger species.

(To be Continued)

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Notes and News

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE

Orthoptera: Tettigidae.

Dr. Joseph L. Hancock has found it impracticable to continue his
studies in the Tettigidae. His collections are now being added to the
material deposited at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
by Mr. Morgan Hebard.

Correspondents or students wishing to have Tettigidae determined or
studied will receive as prompt attention as can reasonably be given by
writing Mr. Morgan Hebard, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Some Collecting Activities During the Summer of 1920.

Dr. Henry Skinner and Mr. R. A. Leussler, of Omaha, Nebraska, col-
lected at Moab, Utah, and for shorter periods at Park City and Salt
Lake City, Utah, and Evanston and Laramie, Wyoming, in July and
early August.

Messrs. Morgan Hebard, J. A. G. Rehn and Frank R. Mason collected
in the Santa Marta region of Colombia, South America, in July and
August.

Mr. Charles Liebeck paid special attention to Donacia (Coleoptera)
in New Jersey.

The Cornell University Entomological Expedition to South Amer-
ica of 1919-20.

This expedition (on which a note appeared in the News for May last,
pages 139-140) had, on June 17, reached Campamiento Colonia del
Pereni, Peru, and had been joined by Mr. Jesse Williamson. Mr. Harris
was recovering nicely from paratyphoid fever and about ready to sail for
New York. Drs. Bradley and Forbes and Mr. Williamson were actively
collecting. (From letters from Mr. Williamson.)

Jesse Williamson arrived home August 24. On June 22 he was taken
ill with amoebic dysentery and was confined to his bed ten days. Drs.
Bradley and Forbes left the Colony of the Perene on July 3 and he ex-
pected to follow as soon as he was able to travel. But on July 5 he was
arrested as a Chilean spy and taken back to San Ramon, where he was
detained five days. Bradley and Forbes made a seven days’ mule ride
to Bermudez on the Ucayali River and were to leave there July 17 for
Iquitos. After Jess was released, he was still so weak that he decided he
could not overtake them, so he returned home by the west coast and Pan-
ama. Fe has entirely recovered.—E. B. WILLIAMSON, Bluffton, Indiana.

Conference of Economic Entomologists,

An informal conference and field meeting of eastern entomologists was
held in The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and at the Jap-
anese beetle laboratory at Riverton, New Jersey. on July 29 and 30, 1920.
Various introduced injurious insects were discussed, certain recommenda-
tions made and the establishment of an Eastern Branch of the American
Association of Economic Entomologists recommended. The proceedings
of the meeting are given in some detail in the Journal of Economic Ento-
mology for August, 1920.

Reorganization of Division of Entomology at the University of
California,

A reorganization of the Division of Entomology at the University of
California has been announced, taking effect July 1 of this year. The
personnel of the Division consists of eight members and will hereafter be

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known as the Division of Entomology and Parasitology, with Professor —
W. B. Herms as newly appointed Head. Professor Herms will continue
his activities in the field of Parasitology, particularly Medical Entomol-
ogy and Ecology, while Professor C. W. Woodworth will devote his time
largely, if not wholly, to research. The new organization of the Division
embraces three groups with Assistant Professor E. C. Van Dyke as chair-
man in supervision of activities in general Entomology and Taxonomy;
Assistant Professor Essig, chairman in supervision of Agricultural Ento-
mology, and Assistant Professor S. B. Freeborn supervising activities in
Parasitology, particularly in relation to the animal industries. Dr. H.
H. Severin will continue investigating Euteitix tenella in relation to sugar
beet blight, while Messrs. E. R. de Ong and G. A. Coleman will continue
their activities in their respective fields, namely University Farm School
and Apiculture respectively.

The Gypsy Moth in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

This European insect which has scourged much of New England for
the past twenty years has now spread southward. The Newark (New
Jersey) Evening News of July 27, 1920, published the following: ‘‘Staff
Correspondence. Trenton, July 27.—Investigation of the outbreak of
the gipsy moth on the Duke estate at Somerville by the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture has revealed the presence of the moth at various
other points, including Somerville, Manville, Millstone and Bound Brook.
Further scouting, it is believed, will reveal additional infections.

Through the co-operation of A. F. Burgess, federal agent in charge of
moth work, trained scouts were sent to the infested area. Thousands of
caterpillars were found and complete defoliation had occurred over several
acres on the Duke estate planted in blue spruces. It is feared that nur-
sery stock shipped from the Duke estate to points both in and outside
New Jersey may have carried the egg masses to various places. A small
infection recently discovered at Deal was traced to biue spruce trees or-
iginating at the Duke estate. Other shipments from that point are now
being traced.”

The Philadelphia Public Ledger of August 7, 1920, contained a despatch
from ‘‘Harrisburg Aug. 6—The gypsy moth one of the most destructive
pests known in the Atlantic states, has been discovered upon spruce trees
recently shipped to the Charles M. Schwab estate near Loretto from the
Duke estate at Somerville N. J.

“For some time the moth has been prevalent in parts of New Jersey and
the state Department of Agriculture has been conducting a campaign to
keep it out of Pennsylvania. Reports of an insect damaging trees at
Loretto reached the Capitol a few days ago and Director J. G. Sanders
detailed one of the department experts to make an investigation. Word
was received by Doctor Sanders today that the moth had been identified.”

The same journal on August 27 1920, stated, ‘‘ Harrisburg, Aug. 26.—

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Agents of the Bureau of Plant Industry have found the gypsy moth in
only two places in Pennsylvania as the result of an intensive inspection
compaign. The moth was discovered first at Loretto and found later
near Scranton. Both places were immediately isolated and precautions
taken.

“Since then scores of shipments to this state have been traced, including
many to the vicinity of Philadelphia, but no signs of the moth have been
found.”

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 Entomology of the Americas (North and
South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American ento-
mology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of
insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. ‘

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

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

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

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

2—Transactions of The American Entomological Society, Philadelphia’
4—Canadian Entomologist, London, Canada. 6—-Journal of the New
York Entomological Society. 8—The Entomologist’s Monthly Maga-
zine, London. 10—Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash-
ington, D. C. 11—Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London.
12—Journal of Economic Entomology, Concord, N. H. 17—Lepidop-
tera, Boston, Mass. 19—Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological So-
ciety. 20—Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, Paris. 30—
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, The Hague, Holland. 49—Entomologische
Mitteilungen, Berlin-Dahlem. 50—Proceedings of the United States
National Museum, Washington. 54—Proceedings of the Biological So-
ciety of Washington, D.C. 57—Biologisches Zentralblatt, Leipzig. 68—
Science, Lancaster, Pa. 71—Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 72
—The Annals of Applied Biology, London. 75—The Anatomical Record,
Philadelphia. 76—Nature, London. 82—The Ohio Journal of Science,
Columbus. 88—Occasional Papers of The Museum of Zoology, Uni-
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 90—The American Naturalist, Lan-
caster, Pa. 93—Bulletin, Division of the Natural History Survey, Ur-
bana, Illinois. 96—Physis. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Cien-
cias Naturales, Buenos Aires. 98—Annals of Tropical Medicine and
Parasitology, Liverpool. 102—Broteria. Revista Lusco Brazileira. Serie
Zoologica, Braga. 103—Biologisches Centralblatt, Leipzig. 106—Anales

de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires.

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GENERAL. C. G. H.—The imperial entomological conference. 76,
cv, 502-4. Cockerell, T. D. A. Eocene insects from the Rocky Moun-
tains. 50. lvii, 233-60. Craighead, F. C.—Direct sunglight as a factor
in forest insect control. 10, xxii, 106-8. Dickerson & Weiss.—The
insects of the evening primrose in New Jersey. 6, xxviii, 32-74. Esche-
rich, K.—Zeitschrift fur angewandte Entomologie, vi, Heft 2. Imms, A.
D.—The training of practical entomologists. 76, cv, 676-7. Imms &
Husian,—Field experiments on the chemotropic responses of insects. 72,
51, 269-92. Meyer, P.—Art oder varietat? Eine auffassungs-und zweck-
massigkeitsfrage der systematik, betrachtet vom standpunkt der biologie.

49, ix, 1-9. Oberholser, H. C.—The nomenclature of families
and subfamilies in zoology. 68, lii, 142-7. Pierantoni, U. Nuove
osservazioni sulla luminosita degli animali. (Rend. Acad. Sci. Fis. e
Mathe. Soc. R. Napoli., lvi, 24-7). Poche, F.—Zur begrundung dreier
antrage zwecks einschrankung der zahl der namensanderungen und absch-
affung des liberum veto in der Internationalen Nomenklaturkommission.
(Arch. f. Naturges., Ixxxili, 75-155, 1917). Weiss & West. Fungous
insects and their hosts. 54, xxxili, I-20.

ARACHNIDA C. Glendenning, R. Some notes on the Erio-
phyidae in British Columbia. 4, lii, 136-7. Petrunkevitch, A.—De-
scription of Orchestina saltitans. 6, xxviii, 157-60.

Chamberlin, R. V.—Canadian Myriopods collected in 1882-3 by J.
B. Terrell, with additional records. 4, lii, 166-8. A new diplopod from
Texas and a new Chilopod from Alaska. 54, xxxiii, 41-4.

NEUROPTERA. Campion, H.—Some new or little known Gom-
phine dragon flies from South American. 11, v, 130-41. Chaine, J.
L’attaque des vegetaux par les termites. (Revue Gen. Sci. Pures et
Appli, Paris, xxxi, 250-55; 281-85). Crampton, G. C.—Some ana-
tomical details of the remarkable winged zorapteron, Zorotypus hubbardis,
with notes on its relationship. 10, xxii, 98-106. Needham, J. G.—
Burrowing mayflies of our larger lakes and streams. (Bull. Bur. Fisheries,
Xxxvi, 269-92). Reijne, A. A cocoonspinning thrips. 30, Ixiii, 40-5.
Snyder, T. E.—The colonizing reproductive adults of termites. 10,
xxii, 109-50. Williamson, E. B.—A new gomphine genus from British
Guiana, with a note on the classification of the subfamily. 88, No. 80.
Wilson, C. B.—Dragonflies and damselflies in relation to pondfish cul-
ture, with a list of those found near Fairport, Iowa. (Bul. Bur. Fisheries,
Wash., xxxvi, 185-264).

Caudell, A. N. Zoraptera not an apterous order. 10, xxii, 84-97.

ORTHOPTERA. Blatchley, W. S.—Orthoptera of northeastern
America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida.
(1920. The Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, 784 pp.). Borelli, A.
Dermatteri nuovi 0 poco noti del Messico. (Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp.
Univ. Torino, xxx, No. 699). Borri, C.—Sopra il numero e la situazione
degli stigmi toracici negli Acrididi. (Mon. Zool. Italiano, xxxi, 22-9). Cho-

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pard, L.—Diagnose d’une espece nouvelle du genre Hygronemobius. 20,
1920, 120-2. Cravero, A.—Contributo allo studio dell’armatura genitale
di alcuni Dermatteri. (Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino,
xxxiii, No. 730). Davis, W. T.—The true katydid nearly extinct in New
York City. 6, xxviii, 78-80. Morse, A. P.—Manual of the Orthoptera
of New England, including the locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, and their
allies. (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xxxv, 197-556.)

Hebard, M.—Revisionary studies in the genus Arenivaga (Blattidae).
2, xlvi, 197-217.

HEMIPTERA. Deletang, L. F.—Contribucion al estudio de los Cica-
didos Argentinos. 106, Ixxxviii, 25-94. Dozier, H. L. Notes on the
genus Platycotis. 82, xx, 209-12. Lahille, F.—Nota sobre un nuevo
genero de ‘“‘Diaspinae”’. 96, iv, 595-99. Parshley, H. M. Ethological
remarks on some New England water striders. 19, xv, 67-70. Penning-
ton, M. S. Nota sobre las especies argentinas del genero Phymata.
Descripcion de un nuevo hemiptero. Notas sobre las especies argentinas
del genero Nezara. 96, iv, 523-30. dela Torre Bueno, J. R.—Notes on
the Heidemann collection of Heteroptera now at Cornell University. 19,
XV, 70.

Baker & Moles,—A n. sp. of Aleyrodidae found on Azalea.
10, xxii, 81-3. Davis, W. T.—North Amer. cicadas belonging to the
genera Platypedia and Melampsalta. 6, xxvili, 95-135. Drake, C. J.—
Water striders new to the fauna of Ohio, including the description of a
new species. 82, xx, 205-8. Ferris, G. F.—Scale insects of the Santa
Cruz peninsula. (Stanford Univ. Pub., Univ. Ser., Biol. Sci., i, 1-57).
Hussey, R. F.—An American species of Cymatia (Corixidae). 19, xv,
80-3. Knight, H. H.—New and little known species of Phytocoris
from the eastern U. S. 19, xv, 49-66. Malloch, J. R.—A n. sp. of
Typhlocyba from Illinois. 19, xv, 48.

LEPIDOPTERA. Brues, C. T.—The selection of food plants by
insects, with special reference to lepidopterous larvae. 90, liv, 313-32.
Comstock, J. A.—Butterflies of California (Bul. So. Cal. Acad. Sci.
xix, 48.). Ehrmann, G. A.—A n. sp. of Pierinae from Honduras, C. A.
17, iv, 43. Lizer, C.—Nota acerca de la presencia de la ‘“‘Sitotroga
cerealella’’ en la Republica Argentina. 96, iv, 530-1. Prout, L. B.—
New Geometridae. (Some Neotropical) 71, xxvii, 265-312. Raymundo,
B.—Noticia sobre algunos lepidopteros serigenos do Brasil. (Ann. Col-
legio Pedro II, iii, 29-95.) Saunders, A. A.—Notes on the life history
of Eurema lisa. 54, xxxili, 35-6. Schaus, W.—New species of L. in
the U. S. National Museum. (Neotropical.) 50, lvii, 107-52. Seitz, A.
Die grossschmetterlinge der erde. Fauna Amer. Lief. 102-114. Simms,
H. M.—Butterflies observed in Dead Horse Canyon, Calif., during 1917
season. (Southwest Sci. Bull., Los Angeles, i, 9-12.). Strickens, H.—
Collecting in February. 17, iv, 43-4. Wolff, G.—Physikalisch-bio-
logische beobachtungen an _ schmetterlingsflugeln. 103. xl, 248-59.

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Busck, A.—A new tortricid moth from Nova Scotia. 4, 1920, 125.
Comstock, J. A.—A new sp. or race of Argynnis from California. Meli-
taea sabina. (Southwest Sci. Bull., Los Angeles, i, 4-8; 30-2.). Flint
& Malloch,—The European corn-borer and some similar native insects.
93, xiii, 287-305. Heinrich, C.—On some forest L. with descriptions of
new species, larvae and pupae. 50, lvii, 53-96. McDunnough, J.—
New species of Lepidoptera. 4, lii, 161-5.

DIPTERA. Alexander, C. P.—New or little known crane flies from
tropical America. 4, lii, 141-4. Records and descriptions of Neotropical
crane-flies. 6, xxviii, I-13. Chandler, S. C.—A study of the malarial
mosquitoes of southern Illinois. 93, xiii, 309-28. Duda, Dr.—Revision
der altweltlichen arten der gattung Sphaerocera. 30, Ixiii, 1-39. Ed-
wards, F. W.—Dimorphism in the antennae of a male midge. 8, lvi,
135-6. On the use of the generic name Ceratopogon (Chironomidae).
11, v, 127-30. The nomenclature of the parts of the male hypopygium
of Diptera Nematocera, with special reference to mosquitoes. 98, xiv, 23-
40. Hine, J. S.—Descriptions of horse-flies from middle America. I.
82, xx, 185-92. Huxley, J. S.—Intersexes in Drosophila and different
types of intersexuality. 68, lii, 59-60. Lischetti, A. B.—Algunas
observaciones sobre la morfologia de los huevos de ‘‘Culex.’’ Un verme
del genero”’ ‘‘Planaria’’ enemigo natural de las larvas del mosquito. 96,
iv, 588-95. Macfie, J. W. S.—Heat and Stegomyia fasciata: Short
exposures to raised temperatures. 98, xiv, 73-82. Tavares, J. S.—
Cecidologia Brazileira. 102, xviii, 82-96. Zetek, J.—Anopheles larvae
in salt water. 68, lii, 15.

Alexander, C. P.—The crane flies [of the Katmai expedition of the
National Geographic Society]. 82, xx, 193-203. Malloch, J. R.—Some
new N. Am. Sapromyzidae. Some n. sps. of Lonchaeidae from America.
4, lii, 126-32.

COLEOPTERA. Angell, J. W.—Dorcus parallelus var. costatus.
19, xv, 66. Brethes, J. Un nuevo genero ‘‘Philoscaptus” para ‘‘ Pod-
algus bonariensis’”. 96, iv, 602. Bruch, C.—Metamorfosis de Cotinis
semiopaca. Descripcion de un nuevo criptofagio. Un nuevo coleoptero
ecitofio. 96, iv, 393-99; 522-3; 579-82. Chamberlin, W. J.—Notes on
two little known wood boring beetles. Chrysobothris sy!vania and
Melasis rufipennis. (Buprestidae). 6, xxviii, 151-7. Davis, J. J.—
The green Japanese beetle (Popilia japonica). (New Jersey Dept. Agric.,
Circ. 30). Doorman, G.—Die mechanik des sprunges der schnellkafer.
57, xl, 116-9. Frers, A. G.—Metamorfosis de coleopteros argentinos.
96, iv, 565-73. Hayes, W. P.—The life histories of some Kansas Lach-
nosterna. 12, xiii, 303-18. Lucas, R.—Catalogus alphabeticus generum
et subgenerum Coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius. (Archiv f. Naturges,
Berlin, Ixxxiv, Abt. A, 1-696.) Nicolay & Weiss,—The group Traches
in North America. Part 1. The genera Pachyschelus and Taphrocerus.
6, xxviii, 136-50. Poche, F.—Ueber den wert von specialzeitschriften.

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(Munchener Koleop. Zeit., iv, 344-48, 1914.) Satterthwait, A. F.—
Notes on the habits of Calendra pertinax. 12, xiii, 280-95. Sharp, D.—
Studies in Rhynchophora. IX. The sexes of Conotrachelus brevisetis.
6, xxviii, 74-8. Wickham, H. F.—An interesting Otiorhynchide weevil
from Vancouver. 4, lii, 134-5.

Barber, H. S.—A new tropical weevil from Florida and Cuba. 19,
xxii, 150-2. Blatchley, W. S.—Some new Rhynchophora from eastern
North America with additions and corrections of the ‘‘Rhynchophora
of Northeastern America.”’ 6, xxviii, 161-78. Chittenden, F. H.—A
new species of Phyllotreta. (Jour. Washington Acad. Sci., x, 389-90.)
Garnett, B. T.—A new Aphodius from British Columbia. 4, lii, 139-
41. Hopping, R.—A new sp. of the genus Pissodes. 4, lii, 132-4. Not-
man, H.—Coleoptera collected at Schoharie, N. Y., with descriptions of
n. sps. Legs in the Carabidae. Col. collected at Windsor, Broome Co.,
N. Y., with descriptions and notes. 6, xxviii, 14-31; 80-9; 178-94.
Van Dyke, E. C.—Description of n. sps. of Cerambycidae from the
Pacific Coast of North Amer. with notes concerning others. New name
for Nemosoma punctulata. 19, xv, 33-48; 85.

HYMENOPTERA. Bequaert, J. A new host of Laboulbenia
formicarum, with remarks on the fungous parasites of ants. 19, xv, 7I-
79. Bruch, C.—Descripcion de una curiosa Ponerina de Cordoba.
(Discsthyrea neotropica). Nidos y costumbres de hormigas. 96, iv,
400-2; 539-41. Cockerell, T. D. A.—Eye-colour in bees. 76, cv, 518.
Hogben, L. T.—Studies on synapsis. I.—Oogenesis in the Hymen-
optera. (Proc. Royal Soc. London, B, xci, 268-93). Johnson, W. F.—
Hibernating ichneumon flies. (Irish Nat., Dublin, xxix, 65-6.). Jordan,
H. E.—Studies on striped muscle structure. VII. The development of
the sarcostyle of the wing muscle of the wasp. . . 75, xix, 97-123.
Lowe, H. J.—Bees and the scarlet runner bean. 76, cv, 742. Poche,
F.—Unberechtigte namensanderungen unter H. und prinzipielle bemer-
kungen uber einschlagage nomenklatorische fragen. (Entomol. Mitteil.
Berlin, vi, 44-54. Wheeler & Bailey.—The feeding habits of pseudo-
myrmine and other ants. (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., xxii, 235-79.).

Cushman & Rohwer—The North Amer. ichneumon flies of the tribe
Ecoenitini. Holarctic tribes of the ichneumon flies of the subfamily
Ichneumoninae (Pimplinae). 50, lvii, 379-96; 503-23. Rohwer, S..A.—
Descriptions of 26 n. sps. of North Amer. H. The North Amer. ichneumon
flies of the tribes Labenini, Rhyssini, Xoridini, Odontomerini, and Phyto-
dietini. 50, lvii, 209-31; 405-74.

ORTHOPTERA OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE
TO THE FAUNAS OF INDIANA AND FLorIDA. By W. S. BLATCHLEY. Indi-
anapolis. The Nature Publishing Company. 784 pp. 246 text figs.—
The present work is the first effort which has been made to produce under

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one cover a “‘Manual”’ of the Orthoptera of any very considerable part
of North America. The part of the title ‘‘Northeastern America” is
unfortunate, as America is made up of several major divisions and South
America has, as well, a northeastern section. The words ‘‘Eastern North
America”’ certainly should have been used, as the first sentence of the
Introduction would indicate.

The manual is intended to treat of the order as found in ‘‘the United
States east of the Mississippi River and Canada east of the goth Meri-
dian.”

The volume is divided into the following major sections: Introduction,
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Orthoptera of the Eastern United States
and Eastern Canada, Bibliography, Glossary of Terms used in Text,
Index to Synonyms and New Generic Assignments as Recognized in This
Work, and General Index.

The Introduction states that the present work ‘is an outgrowth or
expansion of my ‘Orthoptera of Indiana’ issued in 1903.’ The manual,
as the author calls his study, is said to have been prepared to meet ‘“‘the
needs of the tyro and not those of the specialist in Orthoptera.”” The
major sections of the Introduction discuss the classification followed,
which we might add is not in toto that of any previous author, synonymy
of species, explanations of the method of bibliographic quotation used
in the body of the work, the habits and songs of Orthoptera, acknowledg-
ments for aid received, relationship of the insects of the order to other
animals, the general external anatomy of a locust, the enemies of Orthop-
tera, preventive and remedial measures against destructive locusts, and
the collecting and preservation of Orthoptera.

Under ‘‘Classification’’ the author voices disagreement with the enforce-
ment of strict priority and has little sympathy with the rigid interpre-
tation of this fundamental of present day nomenclature. The author’s
belief in individual exceptions has led- him into at least one blind alley,
as he uses a family Acrididae, but does not like to use a restricted sub-
family name Acridinae, derived from the generic Acrida, which must be
the basis of the family name. Under ‘‘Synonymy of Species’ (p. 6) we
find a commendable analysis of the several variational factors which have
been responsible for much of the synonymy in the order. The section
criticizing the efforts of some present-day workers to locate certain of the
older, briefly described species is quite out of place, and gives no considera-
tion to earnest efforts which have been made in the way of studying
itineraries of collectors, checking probable collecting dates and localities,
etc., as well as in securing data from the original material when existent.
These names were published, are generally recognizable when topotypic
material is available and, under generally accepted codes of nomencla-
ture, they cannot be cancelled until they are proven to be unrecognizable.
Lack of the biographic, historical and other correlated information to
make such locations excuses no one from making the proper effort when

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studying a group, and certainly honest painstaking effort should not be
called ‘‘guessing,’”’ unless the critic has a better interpretation to offer.

The author’s attitude toward trinomials is not that taken in most
present-day zoological works, and he has been led, by following a dog-
matic conception of possible but unproven intergradation, into associat-
ing as ‘‘varieties’’ a large number of forms which are considered as dis-
tinct species by more than a few workers in the Orthoptera. This has
been done, in a number of cases, without the study of sufficient material
to gain a personal conception of the constancy or inconstancy of the fea-
tures which are there denied specific weight. In many of his associations
of forms as “varieties” or what not we cannot but feel Prof. Blatchley
has acted without proper consideration of the facts known to exist, has
permitted a mental bias to govern many of his decisions. His attitude
toward geographic races (p. 7) shows a failure to grasp the true inward-
ness of original constancy as an index to racial recognition.

The section treating of the external anatomy of a locust is relatively
full, but contains certain features worthy of note, one as an important
correction, as on page 14 it is stated the labial palpi are attached to the
‘Jabrum.”” The slip for labium is, of course, evident to the initiated,
but the text figure accompanying might readily convey to the tyro the
same impression as the incorrect text. It is unfortunate that certain of
the anatomical figures, taken from Lugger, contain reference symbols
which are nowhere explained in the text before us, and it would have been
more in keeping with the general plan of the anatomical section if the
structure of the venation of the hind wings had been considered somewhat
in detail, as the venation arrangement is known to be important in the
classification of the Acrididae, to say nothing of certain of the other
families.

In the ‘Descriptive Catalogue” we find the arrangement is under the
form of suborders, i. e., Dermaptoria, Cursoria, Gressoria and Saltatoria;
the first of these equals the Dermaptera of most present authors, the Cur-
soria comprise the Blattidae or cockroaches, the Gressoria are made up
of the Mantidae and Phasmidae, while the Saltatoria are composed of
the generally associated saltatorial families, the Acrididae, Tettigoniidae
and Gryllidae. Under each family the general method is to give a sum-
marized description of the physical form, special appendages, life history,
approximate number of known species and number known from America
north of Mexico, while the principal literature is cited and a key to the
subfamilies given. Under the subfamilies the treatment consists of
physical features, key to genera and other pertinent matter. The gen-
eric treatment is similarly made up of a summary of the features and a
key to the species where more than a single species is treated. The spe-
cific treatment consists of a description, with measurements, a general
statement of distribution within and outside of the territory covered, com-
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its habitat, and occasionally by critical taxonomic information or discus-
sion. In many cases we find much to criticize in the latter, which is, in ©
a number of instances, too controversial for introduction in a work of
this character. A book for the tyro is no place for the airing of moot
points of relationship and nomenclature, and the average zoologist con-
siders the critical matter accumulated in the composition of such a man-
ual best published in advance in another paper, which action would re-
move the otherwise inevitable doubt and uncertainty from the mind of
the “tyro”? to whom the manual is addressed.

The keys are relatively full and the illustrations numerous, although
very few are original and many of those taken from other sources are
poorly reproduced, in some cases on account of too great a reduction.

In the Blattidae we find Compsodes cucullatus (Saussure and Zehntner)
recorded from the United States for the first time.

In the summary of the Saltatoria the author gives the impression that
all sound made by the insects of the suborder is produced by or with the
wings, overlooking the remarkable abdominal and limb sound-producing
specialization found in the Old World Pneumorinae and in which the
wings have no part. The grouse-locusts are considered a family equiva-
lent in rank to the remainder of the locusts, which are termed the family
Acrididae. The author shows a peculiar perversity in many of his con-
clusions regarding the rank of forms treated, shutting his eyes to certain
important structural features, often other than genitalic, which latter
types of characters he frequently condemns although drawing upon them
freely at other times. In more than one case he has fallen back upon a
color feature to use in relegating a form to the limbo ofa “‘variety,” and
has ignored in his argument a structural feature mentioned in the descrip-
tion preceding it, and which a previous author had utilized. The con-
clusions reached in the critical discussions of a number of species and
races, as Radinotatum brevipenne, Trimerotropis acta, Podisma glacialis
vartegata, the relationship of certain forms of Mermiria and of Chorto-
phaga are not sound and not supported by the facts in the cases. The
conception formed relative to the position of certain species described
as belonging to the genus Eotettix and also the conclusions on the rela-
tionship of many of the species of Melanoplus and certain of those of
Hesperotettix are open to serious question. The naming of the form of
Eritettix simplex which lacks supplementary carinae on the pronotum is
unfortunate, as it opens to some workers the necessity for naming a num-
ber of similar forms in the Amblytropidi as found elsewhere. The au-
thor’s desire to retain his ‘“‘sylvestrus’”’, one of these forms of- Macneillia
(there called Pedeticum), is possibly responsible for this attitude, which
is quite out of keeping with his treatment of many other forms.

Under the Tettigoniidae we find many sharply criticizable points, the
general conclusion reached in regard to the relationship of Amblycorypha
oblongifolia, A. floridana and A. floridana carinata being entirely unsound
and not supported by the known and published facts. The nomenclatoral

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comments on the forms of Orchelimum are in some cases distorted by par-
tial quotations from other authors and do not give a full consideration
of all the points involved. Partial and incomplete quotation is a weak-
ness of the author, a method unfair to all concerned. The study of the
genus Ceuthophilus is one of the best pieces of work in the manual, par-
ticularly with the original illustrations. Two new species are described
in this genus, one with the specific name of rehebi, an atrocious effort
to associate the names Rehn and Hebard in one specific name. In the
new tettigoniids described we are sorry to see no single types indicated,
as has been recommended more than once by congresses of zoologists
and is now pretty general entomological practice. These new forms are
Conocephalus viridifrons, Odontoxiphidium apterum affine and Diestram-
mena japanica (error for japonica). In the case of the latter the recent
Old World literature has been ignored.

In his treatment of the Gryllidae the author leaves much to be desired,
and shows a lack of appreciation of tarsal characters in his presentation
of the genus Anaxipha.

Vernacular names are given to most of the species, many newly coined
and often mere translations or near translations of the technical specific
names. Some new full synonymy has been established, and in some cases
in a rather obscure way.

The type work leaves much to be desired as errors are numerous, although
the press work, except on certain cuts, is good. Cuts on pages 223, 253
and 560 appear inverted through printer’s slips.

Professor Blatchley has given to us a work of considerable usefulness,
and one which must be in the hands of any student of our eastern Orth-
optera. It contains much original matter and represents a vast amount
of labor, while our one regret is that it most signally fails to be the im-
partial, evenly balanced and personally unbiased exposition of the sub-
ject a manual for the ‘‘tyro’”’ should be. The entire work was done too
hastily, without the proper examination of the larger collections upon
which such a work must be grounded, if it is to be more than a summary of
the past literature. The author was handicapped by lack of constant
access to the material absolutely necessary for the critical type of work
into which he unconsciously turned his manual, originally intended for
the beginner. Many of the seeming inconsistencies of some previous
work would have been apparent to him if the material in the Philadelphia
collections alone had been given more than a several days’ examination.

j. Ae GR.

Doings of Societies

Entomological Section, The Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia

The annual meeting was held December 8, 1919, with Director Philip
Laurent presiding and twelve persons present, including Mr. J. J. Davis
and Mr. C. H. Hadley, of Riverton, New Jersey.

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Lepidoptera, Mr. Williams exhibited some species of day-flying
moths.

Diptera. Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., exhibited a small collection of Dip-
tera presented to the Society by Mr. F. M. Jones, of Wilmington, Del.,
and collected by the donor in western United States and Alaska. Altho
the collection contains only 95 specimens, it represents 49 determined,
and about 17 undetermined species; ten of these are new to the collec-
tion, four of which were described as new to science. Particular attention
was called to the excellent condition of the material. Special attention
was also called to two of the new species. One belonging to the Leptid
genus Arthropeas which contains only two other American species, differs
from all known species by the entirely black legs and is further charac-
terized by the globose facial swelling. The other species, belonging to
the Tabanid genus Silvius, is especially interesting in that it differs so
materially from the other representative of the genus, gigantulus, while
having all the appearance of some of the species of Pangonia. However,
in the structure of the antennae and in the absence of hind tibial spurs,
supposedly generic characters, it is certainly typical of Silvius. The
descriptions of the new species are published in the Proc. A. N. S. P. for
1919.

Orthoptera. A series of Orthoptera and Dermaptera was exhibited
by Mr. Hebard, showing the largest and smallest species of the various
families. It was pointed out that the largest known species of Orthoptera
is the walking-stick Phryganistria grandis Rehn, the smallest is the
cricket Myrmecophila oregonensis Bruner. The distribution and habits
of the various species exhibited were discussed. Further remarks on the
subject were made by Dr. Skinner, Laurent and Rehn.

Coleoptera. Mr. J. J. Davis exhibited, in Riker mounts, specimens
showing the life history of the Japanese Scarabeid beetle, Popila japonica,
and its ravages on plants (elm, willow, oak, 5-leaved ivy, fern, Norway
maple, apple, grape, sweet cherry and smart-weed), and gave a_ short
but interesting talk on its habits, distribution, destructiveness and the
methods being pursued with a view to minimizing its ravages and prevent
its spread. He stated that it seemed to be confined to Burlington County,
New Jersey, appearing in June and continuing its activities into Septem-
ber. It had first been noticed five years ago, multiplied rapidly and was
hard to control; the insect in its adult state skeletonizes the leaves of the
plant it attacks and seems to eat everything. He spoke of the efforts
being made for its reduction, as plowing the ground at the proper season,
hand collecting, insecticides and salting, cutting the roadside growths, a
difficult task as there were about 200 miles of road in the infested area.

There was discussion as to methods of capture by Messrs. Hebard,
Skinner and Williams.

Mr. C. H. Hadley spoke of the quarantine established against these
beetles and stated’ that they were sun-loving, active insects and did not
appear in woods. The infected area is now about 25 square miles.

R. C. WILLIAMS, JR., Recorder, pro tem.

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Meeting of January 22, 1920. Six members and contributors and one
visitor present. Vice-director, R. C. Williams presiding. Mr. A. B.
Hiedemann was elected a contributor.

Lepidoptera. Mr. Williams exhibited a box of butterflies, being some
curious aberrations of Catopsilia agarithe, Zerene caesonia, Argynnis
halcyone, Melitaea nubigena, quino, and fulvia, Plebeius saepiolus, Cyaniris
argiolus echo, Everes comyntas, Heodes helloides, and hypophlaeas. He
also spoke about collecting in Connecticut, especially of the irregular
appearance of some species, stating that he considered it impossible to
plot the distribution of species by collecting in a single season.

Diptera. Mr. Cresson made some remarks on a new ‘Trypetid in-
jurious to the English walnut in Arizona.

Orthoptera. Mr. Rehn exhibited and made some interesting remarks
on some Orthoptera of the southwestern portions of the United States.
He took some exceptions to Mr. Williams’ remarks on collecting, stating
that by expert and constant collecting in one season, a good representa-
tive collection of the orthopterous species can be secured.

E. T. Cresson, JR., Recorder.

Obituary

An obituary notice of WILBUR Ross MCCONNELL, Assistant
Professor of Zoology and Entomology at the Pennsylvania
State College from 1907 to 1912, and subsequently connected
with the Federal Bureau of Entomology, appears in the
Journal of Economic Entomology for August, 1920. He was
born at Whitesburg, Pennsylvania, in 1881, and died at Car-
lisle in the same state, June 23, 1920, and had paid much at-
tention to the parasites of the Hesstan fly.

The Bulletin of the Entomological Society of France (1920,
No. 10) announces the death of J. R. SAHLBERG at Helsing-
fors, Finland, on May 8, 1920, aged 80 years. He published
on the Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Finland and on ento-
mological collections, especially of Coleoptera, which he had
made in conjunction with his son, U. Sallas, along the eastern
and southern Mediterranean. His father and grandfather
also were well-known entomologists. Since this note was
written, an obituary notice has appeared in Science for Sept.
3, 1920, giving his age as 75.

An obituary notice of JoSEPH PANTEL, whose death was
mentioned in the News for July last, page 210, is accessible
in Science for Sept. 17, 1920.

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The death of LEONARD DONCASTER, Derby professor of
Zoology in the University of Liverpool, on May 28, 1920,
was reported in Science for July 2. Although chiefly a stu-
dent of heredity and cytology, as evidenced in his two books
Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910) and The De-
termination of Sex (1914), his research work was largely
based on insects. He published on Gametogenesis and Sex
Determination in the Gall-Fly, Neuroterus lenticularis (3
parts, Proc. Roy. Soc., 1910, 1911, 1916). On the Relation
between Chromosomes, Sex-limited Transmission and Sex-
determination in Abraxas grossulariata and On the Chromo-
somes of Biston hirtaria, Nyssia zonaria and their hybrids
(Journ. Genetics 1914), and On Some Gynandromorphic
Specimens of Abraxas grossulariata (Proc. Cambr. Phil. Soc.
1916). He was born at Sheffield, Dec. 31, 1877, attended
the Leighton Park School at Reading, went to Kings College,
Cambridge (of which he became a Fellow in 1910), and was
Lecturer on Zoology at Birmingham University, 1906-1910.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915.

The Philadelphia Public Ledger, of August 30, 1920, pub-
lished a despatch from ‘Tokio, Aug. 29. The Rev. HENRY
Loomis, a pioneer missionary, is dead here. He was born
in Burlington, New York, in 1839.’’ We suppose that it
was he through whom a number of American entomologists
obtained Japanese insects, especially in 1888 and 1889.

Additions to the Recorded Illinois Reduviidae (Hem.)

Van Duzee’s recent Catalogue of Hemiptera contains all the published
records of Reduviidae from Illinois, but there are in the collection of the
Illinois State Natural History Survey many species which are not in-
cluded in that catalogue as occurring in the state. The following list
supplies the omitted species. The nomenclature is according to Van
Duzee’s catalogue.

Ploiariola errabunda Say, P. tuberculata Banks, Barce annulipes Stal, B.
fraterna Say, Oncerotrachelus acuminatus Say, Pnirontis infirma Stal,
Pygolampis sericea Stal, Stenopoda culiciformis Fabricius, Oncocephalus
apiculatus Reuter, Narvesus carolinensis Stal, Reduvius personatus Linne,
Melanolestes abdominalis H.-S., Sirthena carinata Fabricius, Rhiginia
cruciata Say, Apiomerus crassipes Fabricius, Zelus exsanguis Stal, Pselli-
opus barberi Davis, Repipta taurus Fabricius, Fitchia spinulosa Stal,
Arilus. cristatus Linne, Acholla diadema Fabricius, Sinea spinipes H.-S.

This brings the state list to a total of 30 species, three more than re-
corded from New Jersey in 1909. J. R. MALLocuH.

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Wanted—N. A. Coleopterists interested in European Coleoptera.
Liberal exchanges and friendly correspondence. Mr. C. Crozet, 155, Via
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