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NEW EAST INDIAN CHILOPODS—cHAMBERLIN.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

WOK. SV: NOVEMBER, 1914. No. 9.
CONTENTS:
Chamberlin—Notes on Chilopods from Editorial—Sanitation in Vera Cruz,
PME aSt Imdies pareem eine =irias sie elsin'a ais 385 WERT CO) sic.cin'a c n/sieteeettateteeiipie~ slats
Weiss—Insects found on Nursery Stock de la Torre Bueno—The Collection oe
Imported into New Jersey during the late G. W. Kirkaldy............ 418
iP) E pias ooonanoanomauaudopdodoooseone 392 | Changes of Address.........-----+-00-- 418

Gissnit_A new Genus of Chalcidoid
Hymenoptera of the Family Cleo-
nymidae from Australia ........... 396

Goding—Catalogue of the Membraci-
dae of Uruguay (Hemip., Homep.) 397

Van Duzee—New Species of North
American Dolichopodidae (Dip )... 404

Lovell—Why do Honey-Bees Discrim-
inate Against Black? (Hym.)...... 407

Williamson—Dragonflies _ (Odonata)
collected in Texas and Oklahoma 411

Evermann—A Note on the Abundance
of the Thistle Butterfly Pyrameis
Cardur@Lepid:)e.cccsscns..c5-2:--6 415

Dodd—A new Genus of Platygasteridae
from Australia (Hymen.).......... 416

Zimmer—Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns in
North America ? (Hemip., Heter.) 418
Theses on Entomology in American
WHIVErsities, 1OI4cerreeeisie = =te 419
Huguenin—Notes on Calligrapha sig-
moidea Lec. (Col., Chrysomelidae) 419
Maidl—Third International Congress
Of Entomology. 2 cecceciicciswiaiaeisicee 420
Entomological Literature............ +. 421
Doings of Societies—
American Entomological Society
(Dip., Orth., Lep., Odon., Hym.) 427
Feldman Collecting Social (Dip.,
Col., Lep., Hym.) 429
Obituary—Dr. Theodore Nicholas Gill ee

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Notes on Chilopods from the East Indies.

By Rate V. CHAMBERLIN, Cambridge, Mass.
(Plate XVII)

The following chilopods were secured by Dr. Thomas Bar-
bour, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, during his trip
in the East Indies and neighboring parts, 1906-1907, incident-

ally to his other collecting.

All of the specimens, including the

types of the four new species here described, are deposited in

the Museum at Cambridge.

SCOLOPENDROIDEA.
CRYPTOPIDAE.
1. Otocryptops melanostomus (Newport).

Locality —Java: Tjibodas.

This species is widely distributed in the tropics of the en-

tire earth.

OTOSTIGMIDAE,
2. Otostigmus punctiventer (Tomdsvary).

Locality —Dutch New Guinea:

Sorong.

The single specimen obtained is variant in having three lat-

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eral spines on the coxopleural process (with two dorsal) and
in having the median pits of the sternites of the middle region
of the body very weak. The species was previously known
from Borneo and New Britain.

3. Otostigmus nemorensis Silvestri.

Locality —Java: Buitzenzorg.

A number of specimens were obtained. In all of these the
last ventral plate is clearly narrowed caudad, being less qua-
drate than would be inferred from the accounts of Silvestri

and Kraepelin. The species was previously known from Su-
matra.

4. Otostigmus barbouri sp. nov. (Pl. XVII, figs. 1-3).

Dorsum olive green, with the head and prosternum a little more
brownish. Venter paler and less greenish than the dorsum. Legs
greenish distad of the prefemora.

Head shining. Distinctly punctate, as is also the first dorsal plate.
Unfurrowed.

Antennae composed of 20 articles. The proximal 2 1-3 articles
glabrous and shining; the others densely clothed with fine short hairs
of the usual type.

Dental plates of prosternum moderately long. Teeth 4 plus 4; the
inner pair and the outer pair on each side separated by a wider and
deeper interval than that between the members of each pair; the most
ectal tooth much smaller than the adjoining one, as is also, though less
so, the most mesal.

Dorsal plates from the fourth to the twentieth longitudinally bisul-
cate, the sulci fine but distinct, excepting on the fourth plate, where
they are less pronounced at ends. Plates of the middle and caudal
regions of body with a flat, inconspicuous or often obscure median
keel, but with no lateral keels whatsoever. Plates from the ninth to
the twenty-first distinctly margined; the seventh and eighth also with
margins less sharply set off by longitudinal depressions; the twenty-
first plate most sharply margined. Plates of the middle and caudal
regions weakly longitudinally rugose at sides and finely sparsely
scabrous, the minute spinous points becoming more distinct caudad.

Last dorsal plate with the median keel obscurely indicated on the
anterior two-thirds of length, the keel being followed caudad by a
moderate longitudinal depression. Caudal margin obtusely angular,
mesally a little rounded.

Ventral plates distinctly subdensely punctate. Those from the sec-
ond to the nineteenth inclusive with distinct traces of longitudinal

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sulci, these being evident only across the anterior borders in the anterior
region of body, but in the middle and caudal regions extending to the
middle of plates. None of the sternites with any distinct pits or de-
pressions.

Last ventral plate strongly narrowed caudad; sides convex; caudal
margin deeply subangularly excurved. Smooth, without furrows.

First seven pairs of legs with 2 tarsal spines; the eighth to twentieth
inclusive with one.

Coxopleural process moderately long, ending in 2 stout points; bear-
ing in addition either 1 or 2 dorsal spines and 3 lateral. (See Fig. 3.)

Prefemur of anal legs with 4 spines in the ectal ventral series and
3 in mesoventral series, 5 more occur in a series at or a little ventrad
of the middle of the ventral surface, and dorsomesally are 2 in addition
to the spine at the distal corner. Other joints unarmed.

Length, 43 mm.

Locality—Dutch New Guinea: Sorong.

Two specimens.

This species seems to be closest to O. spinosus Porat of Java
and Borneo. Among the various differences, it is readily to be
distinguished from that species through the absence of the
characteristic spinae on the prefemur of the twentieth legs.

5. Otostigmus malayanus sp. nov. (Pl. XVII, figs. 4, 5).

Dorsum brown, tinged with dilute bluish green; a deeper narrow
bluish green band along the middle of caudal margin of each plate.
Head and, to a less extent, the first dorsal plate a little paler and less
greenish. Antennae pale. Legs somewhat testaceous, tinged with bluish
green distad, the green more pronounced in the caudal pairs.

Head and first dorsal plate subdensely but not coarsely punctate.
Otherwise smooth.

Articles of antennae 21, of which only the first 2 to 2 1-3 are
glabrous and shining.

Prosternal teeth 4 plus 4, the two most mesal on each side largest,
a minute denticle at edge of mesal incision on each side, including
which the teeth number 5 plus 5. Lines setting off dental plates meet-
ing at an obtuse angle. Process of prefemur with two denticles on
mesal side below apex.

Dorsal plates from the fifth_on and somewhat obscurely also the
third and fourth, with mostly 7 more or less clearly defined longitudinal
keels which are not sharp edged. Keels, especially caudad, finely but
neither finely nor especially conspicuously scabrous. Plates from the
third caudad distinctly and sharply margined, the raised edge thin.

Last dorsal plate parallel-sided; rather sharply bowed out caudad,

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without keels or cornicles. A very short but sharply impressed median
longitudinal furrow immediately cephalad of the caudal margin.

Ventral plates with two distinctly impressed longitudinal sulci which
in the anterior region mostly cross the entire plate but caudad may
extend only one-half to three-fourths the length. Without pits; but
some of the plates showing a transverse depression or furrow between
the middle and the caudal margin.

Last ventral plate strongly narrowed caudad. Caudal corners ob-
liquely excised. Caudal margin incurved.

First 15 pairs of legs with 2 tarsal spines; sixteenth to nineteenth
with 1 tarsal spine; the twentieth with none.

Coxopleural process short, subtriangular; terminating in 4 points
or spines. A single lateral spine; none dorsally.

Length about 27 mm.

Locality—Malay Peninsula: Johore State.

(Taken January 10, 1907.)

This species stands closest to O. scaber Porat, occurring in
China, Siam and the Nicobars, and O. insularis Haase, known
from Ceylon and the Seychelles. From the former it is read-
ily separated in having 2 tarsal spines on the first 15 pairs of
legs instead of on the first 7 only, etc.; and from the latter in
having no tarsal spine on the twentieth legs, in having fewer

pairs with 2 tarsal spines, in having the antennae 21-jointed,
etc.

6. Otostigmus moluccanus sp. nov. (Pl. XVII, figs. 6, 7).
Olivaceous, with the head and first few plates somewhat paler.
Head and first dorsal plate finely and uniformly punctate.
Articles of antennae 18. The first 2 or 2% glabrous and shining.
Dental plates moderately long, the lines setting them off meeting at

an angle. Teeth 3 plus 3, of which the outermost on each side is

separated by a wider and deeper interval from the median one, than
the latter is from the most mesal, the median and most mesal being
fused nearly to their apices.

Dorsal plates from third to fifth caudad margined. A median keel
only obscurely indicated. Lateral portion of plates in caudal region
weakly longitudinally rugose; only finely and weakly scabrous.

Last dorsal plate subangularly bowed out, with a conspicuous median
longitudinal depression immediately in front of the caudal margin.

Ventral plates with distinct paired longitudinal sulci extending
mostly about two-thirds the length of the plate or very nearly so. In
addition to the paired sulci there is a median longitudinal sulcus or
furrow distinctly impressed on the anterior portion of the plate, espe-

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cially in the anterior and middle region of the body, but tending to
be reduced to an indistinct impressed dot caudad. Plates punctate.

Last ventral plate strongly narrowed caudad. Caudal margin con-
spicuously and somewhat angularly incurved. A weak median longi-
tudinal sulcus.

Only the first 5 pairs of legs with 2 tarsal spines.

Coxopleural process long and subcylindrical, ending in 2 points.
Lateral spines 3, of which the two most proximal are larger than the
distal one. Also with 1 stout dorsal spine. (See Fig. 7.)

Length, cir. 20 mm.

Locality—Moluccas: Ternate. One specimen.

This species appears to be nearest in structure to O. puncti-
venter (Tomosvary), above listed. It differs from that species
in having the last ventral plate more conspicuously narrowed
caudad; in the longer and more strongly marked sulci of the
ventral plates ; and in various minor points.

7. Trematophychus immarginata (Porat).

Locality—Upper Burma: Katha and Tagourg (December
19 and 20, 1906). Java: Buitzenzorg.

This species is widely distributed in the East Indies and ad-
jacent lands, having been reported previously from Sumatra,
Borneo, India and the Philippines.

8. Trematophychus longipes (Newport).

Locality—Java: Buitzenzorg.

This species is distributed throughout the tropical regions
of both hemispheres.

9. Ethmostigmus rubripes (Brandt).

Locahty—Dutch New Guinea.

Also known from Australia, Java, Thursday Islands and
China.

10. Ethmostigmus cribrifer (Gervais).

Localities —Moluccas ; Ceram Is. ; Wahaai; Halmaheira Is. ;
Sain.

Originally described from this same general region.

SCOLOPENDRIDAE.
11. Scolopendra morsitans Linné.

Localities —Dutch New Guinea. Java: Buitzenzorg.
A cosmopolitan species.

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12. Scolopendra subspinipes Leach.
Localities —Dutch New Guinea: Manokwari and Sorong.

is. Scolopendra subspinipes dehaani Brandt.
Locality Java: Buitzenzorg.
Four very large specimens were secured at this place.

14. Scolopendra gracillima Attems.
Localities—Java: Buitzenzorg. Moluccas: Ceram Is., Wa-
haai.
Originally described from Java, heretofore the only known
locality.

15. Trachycormocephalus indiae sp. nov. (Pl. XVII, figs. 8-10).

Brown; with a somewhat obscure slightly greenish dark median
longitudinal band along the dorsum, the band being about one-third
the total width of plates; each plate with a narrow stripe of much
deeper greenish color along caudal margin, this being the width of
the longitudinal band; the longitudinal band widens across the first
plate and embraces the entire head which is distinctly greenish in
color. Antennae green. Legs testaceous, the last pair tinged with
green.

Head subcordate, conspicuously narrowed cephalad. Smooth, not
punctate; a distinct transverse furrow a little in front of the caudal
margin; on each side a V-shaped impression with apex at transverse
furrow, the inner arm extending a little distance cephalad parallel
with its fellow of the opposite side and the outer arms diverging
ectocephalad; two short submedian parallel longitudinal furrows be-
tween the V-shaped impressions; all these impressions rather weak.

Antennae composed of 18 articles. Short, reaching to or a little
caudad of the middle of the third pediferous segment. The 3-5 prox-
imal articles nearly glabrous; the fifth to seventh or eighth somewhat
intermediate; the others fully clothed.

Dental plates of prosternum long, each bearing 4 distinct, subacute
teeth or with a small fifth tooth at mesal end. Of these teeth the
most ectal is a littke more widely removed than the others are from
each other, the latter being more or less fused at bases. Line setting
off dental plates subsemicircular.

Dorsal plates from the third to the twentieth inclusive longitudinally
bisulcate, the sulci all complete and distinct. Only the twenty-first
plate distinctly margined.

Last dorsal plate with caudal margin subsemicircular or bow-shaped.
With a distinct and complete median longitudinal sulcus.

Ventral plates from the second to the twentieth inclusive bisulcate;
otherwise nearly smooth.

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Last ventral plate conspicuously narrowed caudad. Sides straight
or nearly so. Caudal margin nearly straight or but slightly incurved,
with the corners a little rounded.

First 19 pairs of legs with a tarsal spine. All legs, including also the
anal, with spines at base of claws, those of claw of last pair very small.

Coxopleurae but slightly extended at caudomesal corner, the very
short process distally rounded and bearing 3 points or spines. A
single small spine laterad of process on caudal margin.

Anal legs short. The prefemur twice as long as greatest thickness
or very nearly so. Prefemur bearing ventrally an ectal row of.2 spi-
nules, a submedian one of 3 and an inner or mesal one of 2; dorso-
mesally a series of 3 spinules; the corner process at distal end bearing
2 or 3 spinules. Other articles unarmed. The claw with small fine
spines at base.

Length, 22-23 mm.

Locality—lIndia: Jeypore (November 8, 1906). Two speci-
mens.

The separation of this species from the two previously de-
scribed may be made as follows:

a. The last dorsal plate with a distinct and complete median longi-
tudinal sulcus.
b. Claw of anal legs without basal spines, dorsal plates from
seventeenth to nineteenth caudad margined; antennae with
fo) ae Le) Se Sg ere ae a ene T. mirabilis (Porat)
bb. Claw of anal legs with distinct basal spines; only the twen-
ty-first dorsal plate margined; antennae 18-jointed,
T. indiae sp. nov.

aa. The last dorsal plate without a median longitudinal sulcus.
Antennae 17-jointed; only the twenty-first dorsal plate mar-
gined; claw of anal legs with basal spines....7. afer (Meinert)

GEOPHILOIDEA.
MECISTOCEPHALIDAE.
16. Mecistocephalus punctifrons Newport.
Localities —Java: Batavia. Upper Burma.
This is proving to be a common form in the warmer parts
of both hemispheres.
ORYIDAE.
17. Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport).
Locality —Java: Buitzenzorg.
Common in the warmer parts of America as well as through-
out the East.

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SCUTIGEROMORPHA.
SCUTIGERIDAE.
18. Thermopoda sp.
One young specimen apparently belonging to this genus. It

is lacking the head, making further identification impossible.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII.
Otostigmus barbouri sp. nov.
Fig. 1. Portion of prosternum and prehensors showing dental plates.
Fig. 2. Last ventral plate.
Fig. 3. Lateral aspect of the twenty-first segment, showing coxopleura.

Otostigmus malayanus sp. nov.

Fig. 4. Last ventral plate.
Fig. 5. Lateral aspect of twenty-first segment, showing coxopleura.

Otostigmus moluccanus sp. nov.
Fig. 6. Last ventral plate.
Fig. 7. Lateral aspect of twenty-first segment, showing coxopleura.
Trachycormocephalus indiae sp. nov.
Fig. 8. Portion of prosternum and prehensors showing dental plates.

Fig. 9. Last ventral plate.
Fig. 10. Lateral aspect of twenty-first segment, showing coxopleura.

Insects found on Nursery Stock Imported into
New Jersey during 1913.
By Harry B. Weltss, in Charge of Nursery and Imported
Stock Inspection, New Brunswick, N. J.

The inspection of imported stock is primarily of course for
the purpose of preventing the introduction and spread of in-
sects and diseases not already established. According to the
report of the Federal Horticultural Board by C. L. Marlatt,
there were imported into the United States in 1912 44,781
cases of nursery stock, of which amount about one-fifth en-
tered the State of New Jersey.

A list of the insects, therefore, which were imported on
stock entering New Jersey during the year 1913 should not be
without interest to those engaged in inspection work in other
States. As a rule, one is not aware during the inspection sea-
sons of what is taking place in other States and it seems that

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some system of co-operation, whereby the different inspectors
could be informed of such happenings, would be of value in
putting one on his guard, at least with respect to some species,
By consulting the charts, one can get an idea of the proportion

CHART I,—Importations of Nursery Stock into New Jersey, Spring of 1913.
6600 parcels.

of stock received from various European countries, Holland
and Belgium being by far the largest exporters, at least into
New Jersey. The narrow blank sector in each circle repre-
sents the amount of stock from all other foreign countries.
The majority of the stock coming from Holland consists of
boxwood, evergreens, fruit trees, roses and deciduous plants;
from Belgium we get palms, bay trees, azaleas, rhododendrons
and shade trees; from France, shrubs, fruit stock, evergreens ;

304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ Nov., 714

from Germany, greenhouse stock, evergreens, fruit trees,
roots; from England, roses and fruit trees; from Scotland,
roses and rhododendrons; from Ireland, roses; from Japan,
evergreens, fruit stock, miscellaneous plants. Belgium occu-
pies the largest space on both charts by reason of the numer-
ous shipments of bay trees, palms and azaleas which come from
that country.

During the spring the following species were intercepted:

Pseudaonidia paeoniae Ckll., on azaleas from Japan; Pseudococ-
cus azaleae, on azaleas from Japan; Parlatoria pergandei Ckll., on
maples from Japan; Diaspis pentagona, on Prunus persica from
Japan; Aspidiotus hederae Vall., on bay trees from Belgium; Aspidio-
tus britannicus Newst., on bay trees from Belgium; Coccus hesperi-
dum Linn., on bay trees from Belgium.

CuART II.—Importations of Nursery Stock into New Jersey, Fall of 1913.
5600 parcels.

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During the fall the shipments infested were as follows:

Aleyrodes sp., on thirty-one shipments azaleas, Belgium; Aleyrodes
sp., on one shipment azaleas, Holland; Aleyrodes sp., on one shipment
aucubas, Holland; Aleyrodes sp., on one shipment bouvardias, Eng-
land; Lepidosaphes ulmi Linn., on fourteen shipments boxwood, Hol-
land; Tingitidae, eggs, on one shipment of rhododendrons, Belgium;
Coccus hesperidum Linn., on nine shipments bay trees, Belgium; Pseu-
dococcus sp., on five shipments palms, Belgium; Pseudococcus sp., on
two shipments bays, Belgium; Pseudococcus sp., on one shipment Met-
rosideros, Belgium; Pseudococcus sp., on one shipment bamboo canes,
England; Chrysomphalus aonidum Linn., on one shipment palms, Bel-
gium; Chrysomphalus dictyospermi Morg., on one shipment palms,
Belgium; Aspidiotus britannicus Newst., on one shipment bays, Bel-
gium; Aspidiotus hederae Vall., on one shipment bays, Belgium; As-
pidiotus hederae Vall., on one shipment oleanders, Belgium; Aspidio-
tus hederae Vall., on one shipment palms, Belgium; Aspidiotus hed-
erae Vall., on one shipment Yucca tricolor, England; Diaspis boisdu-
vali Sign., on one shipment orchids, England; Hemuichionaspis aspt-
distrae Sign., on one shipment ferns, Belgium; Hemichionaspis aspi-
distrae Sign., on one shipment ferns, England; Macrosargus cuprar-
ius, on one shipment azaleas, Belgium; Peronia sp., on one shipment
azaleas, Belgium; Gracilaria sp., on one shipment azaleas, Belgium;
Acanthia saltatoria Linn., on azaleas from Belgium, Det. Dyar.; Gra-
cilaria azaleae Busck., on azaleas from Belgium, Det. Busck.; Perip-
socus sp., on bay trees from Belgium, Det. Banks; Apion ulicis For-
ster, in seed pods of Ulex europea, from England, Det. Pierce.

Mr. C. L. Marlatt and Mr. E. R. Sasscer identified most of
the scale insects, Mr. Busk the Peroma and Gracilaria sp., and
Mr. Walton, Macrosargus cuprarius. Practically all of the
insects, with the exception of the Aleyrodes sp., which hap-
pens to be new, are more or less distributed in the United
States. This, however, is no excuse for allowing them to enter
in abundance. The infested plants received during the spring
from Japan were destroyed, while the bay trees were cleaned
by the consignees before being sold. In most cases the fall
infestations were not serious, Coccus hesperidum and Aley-
rodes sp. being the most numerous. During the entire year no
brown-tail nests or gypsy moth egg masses were noted.

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A New Genus of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera of the
Family Cleonymidae from Australia.
By A. A. GIRAULT.
The following genus belongs to the Cleonyminae.
EPICAUDONIA new genus.

Female.—With the build of Epistenia Westwood, but the
abdomen noncarinated along each side, the second, sixth and
seventh segments longest. Head rather large, the antennae
13-jointed, inserted in the middle of the face, three ring- and
club-joints, the first funicle joint elongate. One mandible
4-dentate (other not seen). Parapsidal furrows four-fifths
complete. Scutellum simple. Pronotum transverse, the pro-
podeum without a median carina but with a fovea more than
halfway to the round-oval spiracle from the meson at cephalic
margin. Postmarginal vein three-fourths or more the length
of the marginal, the stigmal about half the length of the mar-
ginal. Like Caudonia Walker otherwise. Anterior femora
distinctly swollen, the posterior still much more so, but neither
of them excised nor dentate. Wings subhyaline, the infusca-
tion very faint or totally absent. Stigmal knob small.

Male—Not known.

Type.—tThe following species.

1. Epicaudonia scelestus n. sp.

Female—Length, 3.90 mm.

Dark metallic green, the mesothorax with rather inconspicuous
pubescence somewhat like that of Catolaccus. Tegulae, venation, tro-
chanters, knees, tarsi, scape, pedicel and joints 2 and 3 of funicle
reddish brown; antennae black; tips of tibiae white. Thorax finely
reticulately punctate (including the propodeum). Legs concolorous.
First club joint forming half. of that region, the distal funicle joint
distinctly longer than wide but less than half the length of the first,
joints 2 and 3 subequal, 4 about equal in length to the pedicel. The
three ring-joints large.

Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jun-
gle, July 26, 1913.

Habitat—Meerawa (Cairns District), Queensland.

Type—tIn the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above
specimen on a tag, a fore and hind leg and the head on a slide.

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Catalogue of the Membracidae of Uruguay
(Hemip., Homop.).
By Freperic W. GoprineG, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The Membracidae are insects belonging to the order Hemip-
tera, sub-order Homoptera, which includes the Cicadidae, Ful-
goridae, Cercopidae, Psyllidae, Aphididae and Coccidae. As
a general rule they are easily separated by the well-developed
prothorax into a multitude of shapes and forms.

To facilitate the identification of the different species found
in Uruguay, the following synoptic table has been prepared:

I

(28). Tibize simple, not broadened or flattened.
(15). Third apical area of tegmina elongate, base truncate, never
AEUMMALEO Ces Cees cere aie TON Seas oo. Subfamily DaARNINAF.

3 (8). Posterior process covering all or nearly all of tegmina;
destitute of horns; convex, smooth, median carina obsolete.

4 (7). Form robust; ocelli distinctly nearer to each other than to
the eyes.

5 (6). Lateral yellow border of prothorax originating behind eyes,
extends nearly to apex, and occupies nearly half of sides
Glenn Ase! A. Maps aes Hane cts < e's Stictopelta latilinea.

6 (5). Lateral yellow border of prothorax originating behind
humeral angles, terminates at apex of posterior prothoracic
process, occupying very narrow edge....Stictopelta limbata.

7 (4). Form slender; ocelli nearly equi-distant from each other

GPEIENES TEMES «Weitere seit caters cis ce Cryptoptera acutula.

(3). Tegmina almost wholly uncovered.

(14). Corium of tegmina with two discoidal areas.

10 (11). Prothorax elevated in front, armed with a sharp horn ex-
tended outward above each humeral angie; ocelli nearer to
each other:than tothe eyes. %:..!..2..-5. Pyranthe acaciae.

11 (10). Prothorax depressed in front, armed in front with a horn
turned downward; ocelli nearer to the eyes than to each
other.

12 (13). Front horn obtuse at apex, not spatulate, median carina of
which is much more elevated than lateral edges; upper sur-
facelon Norm Notsbi-salcate) Je... <5) 02 Argante incumbens.

13 (12). Front horn broadly spatulate at apex, its median carina
equal to elevation of lateral edges forming on each side a
distinct longitudinal sulcus ........... +2 Argante tremolaris.

14 (9). Corium of tegmina with one discoidal area; prothorax un-

armed, with a median carina, posterior process acute,

Smiliorhachis proxima.

Ny

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19

20

26

27

28

30

(16).

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(30).

(29).

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Third apical area of tegmina triangular, base petiolate,
Sub-Family SMmIINaAg.
Tegmina free; posterior process of prothorax narrow be-
hind humeral angles.
Base of tegmina emitting two longitudinal veins; five api-
cal areas, three discoidal areas.
Posterior process of prothorax 3-forked; apical areas of
wines stylatedaersu- eee oe cee eee Cyphonia clavigera.
Posterior process of prothorax simple, not 3-forked; armed
above each humeral angle with an acuminate horn; front
elevated Qe host nas doe cere mae oe are Genus Ceresa.
Humeral horns and apex of posterior prothoracic process
ferruginous; frequently a fuscous spot on costa near apex
of tegmindmeteccc tue eo eee Ceresa uruguayensis.
Humeral horns concolorous, or apex and below fuscous.
Apex of humeral horns directed outward and backward.
Humeral horns strong; front of prothorax convex between
humeral horns; ocelli distinctly nearer to each other than
ta the” eveswes ca. so er erica eee ere Ceresa pauperata.
Humeral horns slender, very acute, a little recurved; front
of prothorax distinctly convex between humeral horns;
ocelli nearly equi-distant from each other and eyes,
Ceresa brunnicornis.
Apex of humeral horns directed distinctly outward, for-
ward and upward, concave between ...... Ceresa cavicornis.
Base of tegmina emitting three longitudinal veins, four api-
cal and one discoidal areas in corium; dorsum of pro-
thorax convex, posterior process acuminate; size small,
Acutalis variabilis.
Tegmina almost wholly covered by posterior prothoracic
process, with two longitudinal veins, two or three discoidal
areas, interior basal area very broad,
Phormophora arechavelata.
Front tibiz dilated, flattened, foliaceous,
Sub-family MEMBRACINAE.
Prothorax compresso-elevated, produced in front in a
horn, gently decreasing in altitude backward, horn with a
lateral carina on each side in anterior superior part which
does not extend behind humeral angles, summit foliaceous;
four small carinae on each side of median carina on un-
der Stimigee or HOM so. ch... cake. Enchophyllum imbelle.
Prothorax tricarinate, lateral carinae extended at least to
lateral borders behind humeral angles; front produced in
a highvameie or Hor «05. .....606e Enchenopa monoceros.

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Subfamily SmrnimNae.
Genus Cyphonia.
1832. Laporte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ser. 1, p. 220.
C. clavigera Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 17. 1803.
A single example is in the National Museum of Uruguay,
labeled “Uruguay.” It is also found in Paraguay and Brazil.
Genus Ceresa.
1843. Amyot et Serv. Hemip. p. 539.
C. brunnicornis Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. III, p. 236. 1835.

Two examples are in the Uruguayan National Museum col-
lection, labeled “Uruguay.”

C. pauperata Berg. Add. et Emend. Hemip. Argent. p. 149. 1884.

There are three examples in the Uruguayan National Mu-
seum collection. It feeds on Acacia farnesiana Willd. in Uru-
guay.

C. uruguayensis Berg, Add. et Emend. Hemip. Argent. p. 148.
1884.

Very similar to ustulata Fairm., from which it may be sep-
arated by the more slender horns above the humeral angles,
the greenish coloring and the fuscous spot on the apex of the
tegmina. It lives on Acacia farnesiana Willd. and has been
taken at Canelones and on the Corralito River in Uruguay.
Three examples are in the Uruguayan National collection.

C. cavicornis Stal, Freg. Eug. Resa. Ins. p. 284. 1859.
This species is not represented in the Uruguayan National
collection. Stal received it from Montevideo.
Genus Acutalis.

1846. Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ser. 2, IV, p. 241.
A. variabilis Berg, Hemip. Argent. p. 244. 1879.

This species, not represented in the Uruguayan National
collection, closely resembles plagiata Fairm. It differs from
that species in its larger size, apex of posterior process not
black, and absence of the reddish markings on the prothorax.
It differs from anticonigra Fairm. in the very faint lateral pro-
thoracic impression, in the venation of the tegmina, and in
the fuscous spot on the head.

Habitat —Uruguay.

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Genus Phormophora.
1869. Stal, Hem. Fab. II, p. 28.
P. arechavaleta n. sp.

Testaceous, densely punctured; median carina nearly obsolete; a
broad, diagonal stripe on each side behind humeral sinus, lateral bord-
ers from sinus posteriorly, and a spot on each tegmen in front of
middle, yellow; sides of chest, and sometimes spots on posterior pro-
cess of prothorax, tarsi, costa, two longitudinal veins, and veins sur-
rounding fourth apical area, ferruginous; basal half of costal and
interior basal areas, and large part of apex of tegmina, fuliginous.

Long. 7, lat. inter hum. ang. 3 mm.

Described from four females; types in Uruguayan Na-
tional collection and in collection F. W. G.

Hab.—Uruguay.

The fourth and fifth apical areas united equal width of the
broad interior basal area; whereas, in maura Fab., the only
other member of the genus, the same space is occupied by the
fifth area alone; also the third apical area is not small, as in
maura, but is of the usual size and rather long and narrow.

The examples in the Uruguayan National collection are la-
beled “Darnis amargosi Berg,’ which doubtless is a manu-
script name as no description seems to have been published.
It feeds on Syringium sp. in February.

Pupa—tThere is in the Uruguayan collection one example of
the pupa of this species, badly mutilated, the body missing;
but, as descriptions of pupae of this family are rarely pub-
lished, the following has been prepared.

Testaceous, mottled with ferruginous, pubescent; head similar to
the mature insect, but. more rugose; prothorax dome-like, deeply ex-
cavated at base in the middle, on each disc of which it has several black
spots; dorsum highly elevated and rugose, with a deep impression on
each side in front; posterior edge extending towards the summit, on
each side, suddenly extending backward in a triangular shape, on the
top with three large longitudinal fuscous marks; the apex of the tri-
angle nearly reaches the base of abdomen; at the summit is a crest-
like foliation resembling a cock’s comb, red, extending forward; the
metathorax is exposed behind the posterior border of the prothorax.

The wing pads are strong, flat, and joined together, over the abdomen,
by a broad flat membrane. Abdomen is exposed, along its median

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line on the dorsum, is a line of small tubercles, one on each seg-
ment.

The pupa is about half the size of the adult.

I take great pleasure in naming this interesting species after
the distinguished botanist and director of the National Mu-
seum of Uruguay, recently deceased, who was the father of
the study of natural history in Uruguay. The Flora Uruguay-
ensis will cause Dr. Arechavaleta’s name to be respected for all

time.
Subfamily DARNINAE.
Genus Stictopelta.
1869. Stal, Hemip. Fabr. II, p. 32.
S. latilinea Walker, List Hom. Brit. Mus. Suppl. p. 147. 1858.

There are two examples in the Uruguayan National collec-
tion, labeled “Uruguay” ; Walker’s material was received from
Constancia, Province of Rio, Brazil.

S. limbata Burm. in Silb. Rev. Ent. IV, p. 173. 1836.
Four examples are in the Uruguayan National collection,
from Uruguay.
Genus Cryptoptera.

1869. Stal, Hemip. Fab. II, p. 32.
C. acutula Fairm. ibid. p. 481. 1846.

Although this genus is widely distributed from Mexico to
the River Plate, acutula is the only species so far found here.
The two examples in the Uruguayan National collection are
smaller than Fairmaire’s type, but otherwise agree with his
description.

Hab.—Uruguay. Also Mexico, Panama, Brazil (Fowler).

Genus Pyranthe.
1867. Stal, Ofv. Vet-Ak. Forh. p. 558.
P. acaciae Berg, Add. et Emend. Hemip. Argent. p. 152. 1884.

It is closely related to Stal’s bimaculata and laticornis, but
differs from both in the robust, acuminate humeral horns
which are directed a trifle upward and backward.

Berg describes the larva which, with the mature insect, is
found on Acacia farnesiana Willd. The Uruguayan National
collection possesses one female.

Hab.— Uruguay.

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Genus Argante.
1867. Stal, Ofv. Vet-Ak. Forh. p. 558.
A. incumbens Germ. in Silb. Rev. Ent. II], p. 239. 1835,

A series of eight examples are in the Uruguayan National
collection, from Uruguay. It is found in the month of May,
on the leaves of Eryngium agavifolium Grb.

A. tremolaris n. sp.

Black, smaller, more depressed, and much more slender than in-
cumbens. Head broad, short, apex rounded transversely, much re-
tracted forming a sharp edge; ocelli pale, between themselves and the
eyes doubly distant; punctured. Prothorax armed in front with a
strong, dependent, curved horn extending forward and downward
which is broadly spatulate at apex; the spatulate apex is furnished
with a well marked median carina; the edge on each side is elevated
which forms a deep channel on each side; median carina prominent
to a line passing between humeral angles, thereafter nearly obsolete,
the lateral carinze also extending to humeral angles; prothorax con-
vex, laterally somewhat depressed or flattened; posterior process broad
at base, convex, gradually decreasing in breadth to apex which ex-
tends a trifle beyond tip of abdomen, strongly punctured. Tegmina
rather narrow, blackish brown almost to extremities, where they are
narrowly yellowish white and transparent; wings have four apical
areas, base of second truncate. Legs concolorous, front tibize not di-
lated. Female similar to male, larger, and median carina percurrent.

Long. from apex of front horn to extremity of tegmina 8, lat. inter
hum. ang. 2 mm.

Described from oné male and four females.

Types in Uruguayan National collection, and coll. F. W. G.

Hab.—Piriapolis, Uruguay. Collector, J. Tremolares.
Feeds on Syringium sp.

This species differs from incumbens in the absence of
a median carina on the posterior prothoracic process of the
male, broad spatulate form of the apex of the front horn,
in the elevated lateral edges toward the apex which equal the
median carina; in the tegmina being very narrow white at
extremities, and black base of clavus.

So long ago as the year 1835 Germar, and later Berg, men-
tioned the spatulate form of the front horn in some of the
examples labeled incumbens, and doubtless had one of this

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species before them at the time. It is altogether a more slender
insect.

This species is dedicated to Senor J. Tremolares, late sub-
director of the National Museum of Uruguay, who, almost
alone, is keeping up an interest in the entomology of Uruguay.
He is now on the staff of the Uruguay Geological Survey.

Genus Smiliorhachis.
1846. Fairm. ibid. p. 290.

S. proxima Berg, Add. et Emend. Hemip. Argent. p. 154. 1884.

No examples of this species are in the Uruguayan Na-
tional collection; but the type was taken in Uruguay. It is
close to variegata Fairm. and octolineata Stal. It differs from
the former by the design of the prothorax and color of the
tegmina; from the latter in its smaller size, absence of eight
lines, and color of the tegmina. It is found in November, on
Acacia farnesiana Willd.

Hab.—Uruguay (Berg).

Subfamily MEMBRACINAE.
Genus Enchophyllum.
1843. Amyot et Serv. Hem. p. 534.
E. imbelle Stal, Ofv. Vet-Ak. Forh. p. 271. 1869.

It is not represented in the Uruguayan National collection.
Hab.—Montevideo, Uruguay. (Arechavaleta.)

Genus Enchenopa.
1843. Amyot et Serv. Hem. p. 535.
E. monoceros Germ. in Mag. Ent. IV, p. 28. 1824.

The Uruguayan National Museum possesses four examples.
It feeds on Acacia farnesiana Willd.

' Hab.—Uruguay.

The entomology of Uruguay is well represented in the col-
lection of the National Museum of Uruguay, where the in-
sects are well taken care of. It is to be hoped that arrange-
ments will soon be made for the correct identification of the
material not already determined by the late zoologist, Senor
J. Tremolares.

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New Species of North American Dolichopodidae
(Diptera).
By M. C. Van Duzez, Buffalo, New York.

Systenus americanus n. sp.

Male: Length 3.2 mm. Face covered with white pollen; proboscis
and palpi black; front metallic bluish-green, more blue in the center,
rather long on account of the antenne being inserted so low down on
the head; antenne black, the third joint more brown, first and second
joints short, third joint long and flattened, about the length of the
front; arista terminal, stout, fully one-half as long as the third joint;
cilia of the upper orbit black, of the lateral and inferior orbit white.

Dorsum of the thorax and the scutellum dark metallic blue-green,
bright but somewhat dulled with almost invisible brown pollen;
pleuree darker-colored than the dorsum and with gray pollen.

Abdomen metallic green, more bronze black on the dorsum towards
the apex; hypopygium large, black, the peduncle about as long as the
diameter of the hypopygium, and forming a sort of slender seventh
segment to the abdomen, being concolorous with it; hypopygium with
a small black appendage ciliate with brown hairs on the outer surface
near the tip; outer lamelle yellow, somewhat sickle-shaped with a
crooked spine at the base of the bend.

Coxe and legs black; fore and middle coxe with white hairs on
the front surface, those on the fore pair long and abundant; hind
coxe with a white bristle and several long white hairs on the outer
surface; femora with a greenish reflection; the fore pair with a
fringe of long white hairs on the lower outer edge; trochanters and
knees yellowish; bristles of the tibize small; Hind metatarsi two-
thirds as long as the second joint. Tegul, their cilia and the halteres
yellow.

Wings tinged with blackish; fourth vein bent forward near the
middle of the last section, but parallel with the third vein toward the
tip, and ending in the apex of the wing.

Described from one male from the Black Mountains, North
Carolina, May (collection of Mr. Nathan Banks).

Gymnopternus flaviciliatus n. sp.

Male: Length 3 mm. Face covered with silvery-white pollen; front
blackish with white pollen, which appears brown when viewed from
above; antennz of moderate size, yellow, third joint slightly darkened
at apex, somewhat rounded at the tip.

Dorsum of the thorax dark blue-green almost black, thickly covered
with brown pollen; scutellum bronze-brown with a central longitu-
dinal ridge.

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Abdomen bronze-green with white pollinose spots on the sides of
segments three and four; venter, extreme lateral edges of the dorsum
of the abdomen, and the epimera metathoracica yellow; hypopygium
black with pale yellow lamelle which are ciliate with yellow hairs.

Coxz yellow, the middle pair slightly darkened on the outside; fore
and middle coxe with black hairs and bristles on the front surface;
hind coxe with an erect bristle on the outside; the usual row of
bristles on the fore tibize rather stout, fore tibie also with two or
three longer bristles on the upper surface; middle and hind tibiz with
stout bristles. Halteres and tegule yellow, the latter with black cilia.

Wings grayish hyaline; veins dark brown, yellow at the root of the
wing.

Female: Agrees with the male in all but sexual characters.

Described from fourteen males and seven females, taken
at Spring Creek, Decatur County, Georgia, July 16th to 29th,
by Dr. J. C. Bradley and Mr. M. D. Leonard.

This species runs to G. ventralis in the keys, but can be dis-
tinguished from that species by the lamellae of the hypo-
pygium being ciliate with yellow hairs, while in ventralis the
ciliae are black; the hypopygium is also a little smaller, the
antennae a little more pointed, and the pollen on the sides of
the abdomen forms distinct spots on the sides of the third and
fourth segments, while in ventralis it is more evenly distrib-
uted.

Leucostola terminalis n. sp.

Female: Length 4.75 mm. Face wide, thickly covered with white
pollen; palpi large, whitish with black hairs; front black shining,
dulled with gray pollen; antenne yellow, third joint short, brown
except the base; arista dorsal; cilia of the upper orbit black, of the
lateral and inferior orbit white; postvertical bristles stout, black.

Dorsum of the thorax bright metallic green with broad reddish
coppery stripes on the sides above the root of the wings, and two
fine coppery lines one on each side of the acrostichal bristles; these
lines are easily overlooked; dorsum with white pollen along the front
and lateral edges; pleurze black with thick white pollen, and with the
posterior edges yellow.

Abdomen with the first three segments yellow; the narrow hind
margins of these segments and the whole of the fourth and fifth
metallic green with coppery reflections and covered with white pollen.

Coxe yellow, fore pair with a row of five long black bristles on the
front surface towards the tip; middle pair black on the outer surface

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anc with long black hairs on the front surface; hind coxe with an
erect bristle on the outer surface; legs yellow; fore and middle tarsi
darkened towards the tip; tips of the hind tibie and hind tarsi brown.
Tegule and halteres yellow, the former with white cilia.

Wings hyaline, strongly tinged with yellowish brown, and with
yellowish brown veins.

Described from one female taken by Mr. Nathan Banks at
Great Falls, Virginia, June 2Ist.

This species can readily be recognized by its yellow anten-
nae and also by the conspicuous coppery spots above the roots
of the wings.

Thinophilus frontalis n. sp.

Male: Length 6 mm. Face wide, dark metallic green, with coarse
brownish yellow pollen along the sides below, the portion below the
suture nearly one-half as long as the upper portion and with a longi-
tudinal ridge; palpi very large, reddish yellow, each as large as the
face and covered with coarse black hairs; front broader than the face,
widest at the vertex; ocellar tubercle prominent, a carina from this
tubercle to the eye margin where the outer vertical bristles are in-
serted and forming an excavated basin above the antennez, the outer
upper corner of which is reddish coppery, the center violet, and the
sides green; front with only a little brownish-yellow pollen near the
antenne; antenne yellowish below, brownish above, first joint bare
above, second as long as the first and as broad as long, third very
short with the arista inserted at the base above; orbital cilia black
above, yellowish below.

Dorsum of the thorax metallic black with violet reflections, polished,
with a central green vitta which reaches the scutellum; scutellum con-
colorous with this vitta; a deep black spot above the root of the wing;
dorsum with coarse yellowish-brown pollen; scutellum with two large
and two small marginal bristles; pleure blackish-green with thick
yellowish-gray pollen.

Abdomen metallic green, with six visible segments, the sixth as
long as the others, the incisures bronze-black; abdomen dusted with
gray pollen which is thickest along the lower lateral edges; hypopy-
giutn small, partly imbedded, rounded behind, with two pairs of long,
thick, black lamellz, which reach the ventral hind margin of the fifth
segment, this margin projecting somewhat below and with a pair of
black spine-like bristles.

Coxe black with yellow tips and thick gray pollen; fore and middle
pairs with black bristles on the front surface; middle and hind coxz
each with a large black bristle on the outer surface; femora yellow;
fore and middle pairs with black hairs below, the former with four

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black bristles near the tip on the lower outer edge; hind pair slightly
darkened above at tip; fore tibie brown with three bristles below,
close to the tip; middle and hind tibie black; fore and middle tarsi
yellow with all the joints black at the tip; hind tarsi black with the
first and second joints equal; pulvilli and empodium well developed.
Yegule, their cilia and the halteres yellow.

Wings grayish-hyaline, brown in front of the third vein; fourth and
fifth longitudinal veins and the posterior cross-vein bordered with
brown; last section of the fourth vein slightly approaching the third

at tip; there is an upward sinus at the center of the last section of
the fourth vein.

Female: Agrees with the male in all but sexual characters, ex-
cept that the palpi are blackish, with white pollen and yellow edges,
and the thorax is more thickly covered with pollen. There are six
corsocentral, one large and one small humeral, a post-humeral, one
notopleural, two supraalar and one postalar bristles, also one or two
small presutural bristles; on the prothorax there is a transverse row
of yellowish bristles, those near the fore coxe large, but those on the
dorsal part of the row small. In the male (which I make the type of
the species) all the bristles are missing from the mesonotum and
scutellum although the specimen is in good condition otherwise.

Described from one male and one female which I took on a
salt-marsh on the Manatee River at Bradentown, Florida, in
March.

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Why do Honey-Bees Discriminate Against Black?
(Hym.)
By Joun H. Lovett, Waldoboro, Maine.

There has long been a widespread belief among apiarists
that a beekeeper will receive more stings when dressed in
black than when wearing white clothing. A large amount of
evidence has been published in the various bee journals show-
ing beyond question that honey-bees under certain conditions
discriminate against black. A few instances may be cited in
illustration. Of a flock of twelve chickens running in a bee-
yard seven black ones were stung to death, while five light-
colored ones escaped uninjured. A white dog ran among the
bee-hives without attracting much attention, while at the same
time a black dog was furiously assailed by the bees. Mr. J.
D. Byer, a prominent Canadian beekeeper, relates that a black

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and white cow, tethered about forty feet from an apiary, was
one afternoon attacked and badly stung by bees. On examina-
tion it was found that the black spots had five or six stings to
one on the white. All noticed this fact, although no one was
able to offer any explanation. A white horse is in much less
danger of being stung, when driven near an apiary, than a
black one. It has, indeed, been observed repeatedly that
domestic animals of all kinds, if wholly or partially black, are
much more liable to be attacked by bees, if they wander among
the hives, than those which are entirely white.

Many beekeepers have reported that a dark suit always re-
ceives more stings than a white one; and a well-known Cana-
dian apiarist will not permit any of his assistants to work in
his apiary unless wearing light-colored clothing. A black felt
hat will be “literally decorated with stings,” while a gray hat
will not get a single sting. A dozen bees will follow the black
glass head of a hat-pin all over the bee-yard, jabbing viciously
at it. Mr. E. R. Root, editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture,
after relating his personal experience, adds that so much proof
has been adduced to show that bees will sting black more than
white that he does not see how the fact can be questioned.

Bee-keeping in the Transvaal, South Africa, is carried on in
a very careless manner, and as a result bees belonging to neigh-
boring apiaries not infrequently attempt to rob each other.
Among the stock lost in one instarrce, when the bees went on
the rampage, were black pigs, fowls and a black dog; while a
buff-colored dog on the premises did not receive a single sting.
In another instance 29 black fowls and a black and white cow
were killed by the bees. There were nine Buff Orpinton
fowls in the yard with the others, which were very carefully
examined after the fray, but only three stings were found on
them, while the dead black fowls were literally covered with
stings. (Gleanings in Bee Culture, 41, 612.)

The observations recorded are from very widely separated
localities, and were described by apiarists of very extensive
experience, while the apparent antipathy of bees to black was
very pronounced. But the instances cited occurred for the

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most part incidentally to the regular routine work of the apiary
and hitherto little or no endeavor has been made to test the
matter experimentally. The following series of experiments,
therefore, were performed for this purpose.

On a clear, warm day in August I dressed wholly in white
with the exception of a black veil. Midway on the sleeve of
my right arm there was sewed a band of black cloth ten inches
wide. I then entered the bee-yard and, removing the cover
from one of the hives, lifted a piece of comb with both hands
and gently shook it. Instantly many of the bees flew to the
black band, which they continued to attack as long as they
were disturbed. Not a single bee attempted to sting the left
sleeve, which was of course entirely white, and very few even
alighted upon it.

This experiment was repeated a second, third and fourth
time; in each instance with similar results. I estimated the
number of bees on the band of black cloth at various moments
was from thirty to forty; it was evident from their behavior
that they were extremely irritable. To the left white sleeve
and the other white portions of my clothing they paid very
little attention ; but the black veil was very frequently attacked.

A few days later the experiments were repeated, but the
band of black cloth, ten inches wide, was sewed around my
left arm instead of around the right arm as before. When
the bees were disturbed, after the hive cover had been re-
moved, they fiercely attacked the band of black cloth as in the
previous experiences; but the right white sleeve and the white
suit were scarcely noticed. At one time a part of the black
cloth was almost literally covered with furiously stinging bees,
and the black veil was assailed by hundreds. The bees be-
haved in a similar manner when-a second hive on the opposite
side of the apiary was opened.

A white veil, which had been procured for this purpose, was
next substituted for the black veil. The result was most sur-
prising, for, whereas in the previous experiments hundreds of
bees had attacked the black veil, so few flew against the white
veil as to cause me no inconvenience. Undoubtedly beekeep-

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ers will find it greatly to their advantage to wear white cloth-
ing when working among their colonies of bees and manipu-
lating the frames of the hives.

It has been suggested that possibly a white band on a black
dress might be attacked in the same manner as a black band
on white apparel. To test the matter by experiment I entered
the apiary dressed in a black suit with a band of white cloth,
six inches wide, around my right sleeve. Three hives were
opened in succession, and in each case a throng of angry bees
endeavored to sting the black clothing but scarcely noticed the
white band.

It is not the quality of the material which irritates the bees
since they will attack a band of black paper, so smooth that
they cannot cling to it, as fiercely as a band of black cloth.
They have likewise been seen to discriminate against black felt,
feathers, hair and glass.

Experiments were also made with four spectrum colors.
When yellow and green bands were successively substituted
for black, the bees paid absolutely no more attention to these
colors than if they had been white. A blue band irritated the
bees a little more than white, but very much less than black.
There were never more than four or five attempting to sting
this color at the same moment. A red cloth band, on the con-
trary, was attacked almost as fiercely as black, although less
persistently. Throughout all the experiments with the various
colors the white suit and veil attracted the notice of the bees
only to a very small extent.

I have no theory to offer in the present paper in explanation
of the behavior of the bees toward black and white and the
spectrum colors, but should be pleased to have an expression of
opinion from the readers of ENromotocica, News. I would
premise, however, that black per se does not appear to irritate
the bees, since they do not attack a black garment thrown over
a hive, or suspended from a pole in the apiary. They only
discriminate against black when it is worn by an animal or
human being which appears to threaten the safety of the
colony.

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Dragonflies (Odonata) collected in Texas and
Oklahoma.

By E. B. Witiamson, Bluffton, Indiana.

During part of May and June, 1907, Dr. D. A. Atkinson and
Mr. G. A. Link, of Pittsburg, and the writer collected in Texas
and Oklahoma. The first two named gave their attention to
herpetological material, while I collected dragonflies. In addi-
tion to the material collected at this time, I later obtained
specimens collected in Oklahoma in August and September,
1907, by Frank Collins, a boy with whom I became acquainted
at Wister; and also specimens from Mr. C. A. Hart, of the
University of Illinois, collected at Brownsville, Texas, No-
vember 25, IQIO.

A brief itinerary of our collecting trip follows:

May I1, 1907, arrived at Brownsville, Texas.

May 12, spent most of the day at Isabel on the coast and later
in the day about the fort at Brownsville.

May 13, above Brownsville along Alice road.

May 14, drove to Mercedes via Santa Maria, where we ate
dinner ; returned to Brownsville at 2.30 A. M., May 16.

May 16, en route St. L. B. & Mex. R. R. to section house at
Black Bayou, where the railroad crosses the Guadalupe
River, Texas.

May 17, at cypress swamp on left bank of river, along the
river, and along a small tributary on right bank just above
railroad bridge.

May 18, about shallow, marshy lake south of railroad track,
on the right of the river, and about one mile from the
section house. (See under May 21.)

May 19, same as May 17.

May 20, about lake north of section house and on the left side
of the river. (See under May 21.)

May 21, same as May 18.

The two lakes or ponds mentioned above (May 18 and May
20) are entirely different in character. The one south of the
track is in grass and alder country, and dragonflies of several

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species were numerous. About this lake cotton-mouth snakes
were uncomfortably numerous in the alders. The lake north
of the track lies in a more barren country, is surrounded with
bulrushes, and fairly teems with alligators. Neither bulrushes
nor alligators were noticed at the other lake. When we were
at this north lake dragonflies were very rare, excepting
Brachymesia gravida, of which there were a great many teneral
individuals. Snakes were very numerous (we caught 57 large
ones one day), but no cotton-mouths were seen. In one day
we caught 39 alligators, one of them over g feet in length.
Alligator paths were everywhere through the tall bulrushes,
and the large alligators were in holes and burrows among
these rushes, while the small alligators lay in the mud in shal-
low water about the edges of the lake. Large handsomely col-
ored bullfrogs were also taken in considerable numbers at this
lake, but were not seen at the other.

May 22, about Black Bayou, near the section house, and later
at the lake visited May 20.

May 23, about Black Bayou and in railroad cut near it, and
en route to Bay City, Texas.

May 24, at pools along St. L. B. & Mex. R. R. and along
Colorado River, near Bay City.

May 25, at Matagorda, along shore and along river.

May 26, at Williams Lake, reached by driving from Bay City.
A beautiful small lake which would well repay careful
and prolonged collecting.

May 27, pools along railroad near Bay City, and in evening to
Clifton, Texas.

May 28, rained all day.

May 29, along North Bosque River above Clifton.

May 30, along river below Clifton.

May 31, along very small stream on left bank of river above
Clifton.

June I, same as May 31.

June 2, en route to Wister, Oklahoma.

June 3, about artificial lake along railroad about 1% miles
north of Wister.

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June 4, same as June 3.
June 5, along stream west of Wister, and packing to return
home.

Most of my material was papered. A few vials of alcoholic
material were collected and sent to Dr. Calvert, who identified
and reported on this material in a letter to me. The larvae and
exuviae collected have not been studied, and the following rec-
ords refer only to imagos.

Six papers have been published which mention material col-
lected for this paper. They are:

1. A New Dragonfly (Odonata) belonging to the Cordulinae, and
a revision of the classification of the subfamily. E. B. Williamson.
Ent. News, Nov., 1908, pp. 428-434.

2. The North American Dragonflies (Odonata) of the genus Macro-
ma. KE. B. Williamson. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 37, Dec., 1909,
pp. 369-308.

3. Studies in Tetragoneuria (Odonata). R. A. Muttkowski, Bull.
Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. IX, July, 1911, pp. 91-134.

4. Hetaerina titia and tricolor (Dragonflies—Odonata). FE. B.
Williamson. Ent. News, March, 1912, pp. 98-101.

5. The dragonfly Argia moesta and a new species (Odonata). E.
B. Williamson. Ent. News, May, 1912, pp. 196-203.

6. Gomphus pallidus and two new related species (Odonata). E.
B. Williamson. Ent. News, Feb., 1914, pp. 49-58.

SPECIES COLLECTED.

1. Hetaerina americana.

Texas: Clifton, May 29, 30 and 31; 65 6, 33 @.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 4 (Collins), 19 ¢, 11 Q.
2. Hetaerina titia.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 17 and 19, 12 @, 4 9, several of them
teneral; Bay City, May 24, teneral ¢ ; Clifton, May 30, 2 é.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 1-6 (Collins), 18 @.

This species has been discussed in the paper No. 4 above listed.
3. Lestes alacer.

Texas: Bay City, May 24,1 @ ; May 27,4 2 in alcohol, det. Cal-
vert.
4. Lestes simplex.

Texas: Clifton, May 31,2 ¢@, 2 9. These specimens seem dis-
tinct from alacer, and I believe are simplex.
5. Lestes sigma.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 18 and 21,1 ¢,1I Q.

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Several individuals were seen, but all flew at once back into
the dense alder thickets, where the collector must follow often
on hands and knees, and where brush prevented the use of the
net even if approach to the wary and restless dragonfly was
possible. Add to these difficulties the fact that the poisonous
and sluggish cotton-mouth snakes were common at the same
places where the Lestes occurred, and some idea of the labor
and excitement involved in the capture of these dragonflies
may be grasped. The two specimens I succeeded in collecting
are identical with specimens from the interior of Guatemala
(Gualan) taken under easier circumstances in June, 1909.

6. Lestes inequalis.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4,1 @,2 9; several seen, but they
were very wary and active, escaping in vegetation.
7. Argia tibialis.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 17,1 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, and Aug. 2 (Collins),6 ¢,3 2;
3 pairs and 3 ¢ in alcohol, det. Calvert.

8. Argia moesta.

Texas: Bay City, May 24,2 ¢, 2 9; Clifton, May 28 and June 1,
16°$,0 9.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3, and Aug. 2 and 4 (Collins), 7 ¢.

9. Argia intruda.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 2 and 4 (Collins), 15 ¢,17 9.
10. Argia translata. '

Texas: Clifton, May 30 and 31, and June 1, 24 ‘4, 2 9 ; 3 pairs
and 3 ¢ in alcohol, det. Calvert.
11. Argia sedula.

Texas; Brownsville, May 13, 2 ¢ in alcohol, det. Calvert; Black
Bayou, May 17, I9 and 22, 4 @;8 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert; Mata-
gorda, May 25,1 ¢; Williams Lake, May 26, 2 ¢ ; Clifton, May 20,
30 and 31, and June 1, 47 ¢,7 934 pairs and 9g @ in alcohol, det.
Calvert.

12. Argia apicalis.

Texas: Brownsville, May 13, 3 ¢, 1 9 in alcohol, det. Calvert;
Black Bayou, May 17, 19 and 21,1 ¢;2 ¢ and 1 pair in alcohol, det.
Calvert; Bay City, May 24 and 27, 4 @; Williams Lake, May 26,
1 2@; Clifton, May 29, 30 and 31, and June 1, 44, and 3 6,1 Q in
alcohol, det. Calvert.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 4 and Aug. 2 (Collins), 8 ¢,1 Q.

13. Argia vivida.
Texas: Clifton, June 1, 1 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert.

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14. Argia immunda.

Texas: Clifton, May 29, 30 and 31, and June 1, 61 2,5 9;6 4;
I @ in alcohol, det. Calvert.

The antenodal cells in both front and hind wings were counted for
all the papered material with the following result: Front wing, 2 ante-
nodal cells, 1 wing; 2%4 antenodal cells, 1 wing; 3 antenodal cells, 115
wings; 3+ antenodal cells, 1 wing; 4 antenodal cells, 4 wings; total,
122 wings.

Hind wing, 2 antenodal cells, 5 wings; 2%4 antenodal cells, 1 wing;
3 antenodal cells, 113 wings; 3+ antenodal cells, 2 wings; 4 antenodal
cells, I wing; total, 122 wings.

The 5 @ have 3 antenodal cells in every case.

15. Argia violacea. :
Texas: Clifton, June 1,2 @.
Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4,3 ¢3;1 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert.

(To be continued)

———_———~ee——____

A Note on the Abundance of the Thistle Butterfly, Pyrameis cardui
(Lepid.).

Recently I made a trip to Buttonwillow in the southern part of the
San Joaquin Valley, California, to make some investigations concern-
ing a band of about 4oo head of California elk (Cervus nannodes
Merriam) that ranges over the 500,000-acre ranch of Messrs. Miller
and Lux, the well-known cattle company. Two days (April 24-25)
were spent on the ranch. When hunting for the elk we drove with a
team of horses around in various and devious ways, through the im-
mense fields of alfalfa, oats, barley and yellow mustard, across irri-
gating ditches, and over greasewood plains. The days were bright
and sunny, and many things unique and of great interest were noted,
but I shall at this time tell of only one of them, namely, the marvelous
abundance of a certain species of butterfly, the Thistle Butterfly or
Painted Lady, Pyrameis cardui Linnaeus.

As we drove through the fields of yellow mustard these beautiful
butterflies flew up in front and on either side of us literally by the
‘thousands, There must have been millions of them; they were every-
where in the fields, and the fields contained hundreds of acres. With
a net one could have obtained several in one cast. I never saw any-
thing like it, not even among grasshoppers in Kansas in “hopper years.

I have understood, of course, that Pyrameis cardui is one of the
most widely distributed butterflies, and that, in many places, it is an
abundant species, but I never dreamed any butterfly was so marvel-
ously abundant anywhere. What a fine field Buttonwillow would be
for anyone to visit who cared to study individual variation in this
beautiful and interesting species!—Barron W. EverRMANN, California
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

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A new Genus of Platygasteridae from Australia
(Hymen.).
By Avan P. Dopp, Nelson, via Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Trichacoides noy. gen.

Q (?). Head rather wide, a little wider than the thorax;
eyes moderately large, bare; ocelli rather close together, very
far distant from the eye margins. Antennae 10-jointed, scape
rather long, pedicel slender ; first funicle joint much narrower
and shorter than the pedicel; second distinctly longer and
wider than the first; the others gradually widening towards
the apex, all distinctly longer than wide. Thorax twice as
long as wide; pronotum visible from above on the sides only ;
mesonotum longer than wide; parapsidal furrows distinct, al-
most joining at the posterior edge of the mesonotum; scutellum
not much lengthened, a little longer than wide, rounded pos-
teriorly, raised from the mesonotum, convex, covered with
dense, rather short, sharp spines. Forewings reaching apex
of abdomen; broad; veinless. Abdomen as long as the head
and thorax combined; as wide as the thorax; fusiform; first
segment a little wider than long, second segment equal to one-
half the abdominal! length, distinctly longer than wide. Legs
moderate; tarsi 5-jointed.

A genus distinguished by the peculiar, thorny scutellum.

Type.—Trichacoides scutellaris described herewith.
Trichacoides scutellaris sp. nov.

Female (?).—Length, 2.20 mm. Shining black; legs (including
coxae) and first six antennal joints golden yellow.

Head and mesonotum with fine polygonal scaly sculpture. Abdomen
with first and base of second segment striate; rest of abdomen smooth.
Forewings hyaline; marginal cilia rather short; discal cilia moderately
coarse and dense.

(From I specimen, 2-3 inch objective, 1 inch optic, Bausch
and Lomb.)

Habitat—North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). De-
scribed from one @ (?) caught by sweeping grass along
streamlet in forest, August 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd).

Type—tIn the South Australian Museum, a @ (?) tag-
mounted plus a slide bearing antennae and forewings.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER, I9QI4.

Sanitation in Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Statements have been recently received from Vera Cruz
which show considerable improvement in the general health
of the community there. There was a marked reduction in
the civil death-rates per thousand of population, per annum.
During June and July, 1913, the mortality was 39.55, and dur-
ing the same months this year the mortality was 32.29. Dur-
ing the latter period there were 161 deaths from communicable
diseases. What concerns us most in this report, is that in
large part, these diseases may be transmitted by insects.
Those known to be thus conveyed, entirely or in part, are
malaria, typhoid fever, dysentery, tuberculosis and enteritis.
The statement has been made that mosquito-breeding has been
largely suppressed and that twenty-five miles of ditches have
been dug and miles of vacant lots and hundreds of acres of
swamps drained. Dysenteries and diarrhoeas have been
brought under control and foodstuffs protected from flies by
appropriate screening.

The significant fact is that the work has been properly and
efficiently done and the result apparent. By contrast let us
look at the conditions in places not in Mexico. Perhaps in the
majority of large cities in the United States these conditions
are the same as in Philadelphia, where many kinds of food are
exposed to street dirt and insects, particularly house-flies. We
have laws against the exposure of food substances to flies and
street dirt and dust, but the lawyers tell us the laws can’t be
enforced. ‘The writer of this statement sees, each day, basket-
fuls of fruit, to be retailed, exposed on the sidewalk, dusted
off with a filthy brush, and large quantities of apples, polished
with a dirty rag.

The brush removes enough dessicated horse-manure and
dried tubercular sputum to render the fruit less unsightly and
the rag removes most of the fly-excrement from the apples.
The brushings are needed several times a day, particularly dur-
ing dry weather, when clouds of street filth are wafted into
the air.

It is a curious attitude toward things, that in Cuba, Mexico
and Panama preventive medicine has reached a high degree of
efficiency, while in most municipal governments in the United
States it is at a very low ebb.—H. S.

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Notes and News.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

The Collection of the Late G. W. Kirkaldy.

The collection of the late G. W. Kirkaldy has come into my hands.
From letters to me it would appear that there is some loaned material
contained therein. If the lenders will communicate with me, I shall
return whatever of this loaned material may still be in existence.—
J. R. pe tA Torre BuENO, 14 Dusenbury Place, White Plains, New
York.

Changes of Address.

J. E. Hallinen from Cooperton, Kiowa Co., Oklahoma, to Interlaken
School, Rolling Prairie, Indiana.

Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., to Southwest Museum, Marmion Way and
Avenue 46, Los Angeles, California.

W. R. McConnell from Greenwood, Mississippi, to Hagerstown,
Maryland.

J. Percy Baumberger from 791 Buena Vista Avenue, San Francisco,
Calif., to Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Boston, Mass. (where he
is taking graduate work in Entomology).

H. A. Horton from McPherson, Kansas, to Turner, Oregon.

Victor E. Shelford to Department of Zoology, University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois.

Henry L. Viereck to California State Insectary, Commission of
Horticulture, Sacramento, California.

Richard F. Pearsall to Allaben, Ulster Co., New York.

Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns in North America? (Hemip. Heter.)

In Entomotocica, News for May, 1914, I notice an article on page
230, by Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, regarding certain European
Heteroptera whose occurrences in North America are questioned.
Among the species listed is Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns.

Several years ago a Silver-haired Bat, Lasionycteris noctivagans
(LeConte), taken at Lincoln, Nebraska, came into my hands, and
from it I secured a specimen of a Cimex which I identified as pipi-
strelli. This specimen I compared later with another, labeled C. pipt-
strelli, which was loaned by Prof. C. P. Gillette, of Fort Collins, Col-
orado, and which proved to be conspecific with mine. Both of these
agreed well with the descriptions of the species in question given by
Professor Herbert Osborn, on pages 162 and 163 of Bulletin 5 of the
U. S. Bureau of Entomology, which descriptions include a copy of
the original one by Jenyns. It is possible that these descriptions are

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not complete enough in detail for the separation of C. pipistrelli and
any parallel but distinct species which may occur in North America,
but I have always been of the belief that the North American form
was not distinct; at best I believe that it will prove to be not more
than a variety of the typical form, although I have never had the
opportunity to compare specimens from both continents to make cer-
tain of this point.

My specimen of this bat-infesting bug is deposited in the collection
of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and I do not have the exact
data here at hand, but I submit this note for what it may be worth—
Joun T. Zimmer, Manila, P. I.

Theses on Entomology in American Universities, 1914.

According to Science for August 21, 1914, the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy was conferred, during the present year, on the following
persons who presented entomological theses.

Cornell University: Lucy Wright Smith, Studies of North Ameri-
can Plecoptera (Pteronaricinae and Perlodini); Ruby Green Smith,
The Evolution of the Venation in the Anal Area of the Wings of
Tnsects.

Harvard University: Rudolf William Glaser, Caterpillar Diseases,
with Especial Reference to the Wilt of Gypsy Moth Caterpillars; Axel
Leonard Melander, A Taxonomic Study of the Empididae, a Family
of Dipterous Flies; Bradley Merrill Patten, A Quantitative Deter-
mination of the Orienting Reaction of the Blowfly Larva (Calliphora
erythrocephala Meigen) to Light.

University of Illinois: Stanley Black Fracker, The Classification of
Lepidopterous Larvae.

The Johns Hopkins University: William Lee Dolley, Reactions to
Light in Vanessa antiopa, with Special Reference to Circus Move-
ments.

Notes on Calligrapha sigmoidea Lec. (Coleop., Chrysomelidae).

I herewith present some notes and observations on the collecting of
Calligrapha sigmoidea Lec. in the suburbs of San Francisco, on the
Sunnyside Hills, at an elevation of 500 feet, for three consecutive win-
ters, I9I0, I91I and 1912.

On February 26th, 1910, three specimens were collected; March
1ith, seven; April, nine; December 7th, three; December 18th, six;
January 3rd (1911). five; February 15th, four; February 2oth, five;
March 12th, nine; March aist, eight; April 11th, five, and two larve
were seen but not collected, the weather was fine but slightly cold.
On April 19th, two imagos and one larva about two weeks old were
observed, weather very fine and warm. April 29th, one imago and
two larve observed; May oth, one imago; weather fine. On June Ist

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and 12th, none; the food plant—wild hollyhock (Sidalcea malvaeflora)
plants—all dried up. July 8th, none; September 15th, none; October
28th, none; November 16th, none, hollyhock plants not out yet; No-
vember 28th, none; December oth, none, the weather very hot; De-
cember 20th, none, and the food plant not out yet; January 29th (1912),
fourteen imagos observed, the weather very fine and warm; Febru-
ary 14th, six imagos seen but not collected, weather fine; May 17th,
eight imagos seen but not taken. After March 17th, 1912, I did not
visit the locality again.

It therefore appears that Calligrapha sigmoidea is a winter and
spring species. I have found the eggs, and young larve hatching in
the winter and spring months. I also do not believe that the imagos
observed were the hibernating individuals that were coaxed out by
the fine weather during the months mentioned above, as some of my
colleagues have intimated—J. C. HuGuEnin, San Francisco, California.

Third International Congress of Entomology.

The Congress will take place in Vienna from the 5th to the 12th of
September, 1915, in the rooms of the University.

Besides numerous lectures, discussions, demonstrations concerning
the different branches of theoretical and practical entomology, it is
intended to visit the scientific institutions and public collections of
Vienna and to make some excursions in the neighborhood of the town.
Annexed to the meeting of the congress, it is intended to travel across
the Alps to the Adriatic coast and to visit some of the Karst caves.

An entomological exhibition will be open during the whole meeting,
showing in the first place: Private collections important from a bio-
logical, ethological, geographical, economical or any other point of
view; objects of historical interest. Pictures, books, tables, maps, etc. ;
optic or mechanic instruments; means of instruction, school collec-
tions, models, etc.; objects of agriculture, sericulture and other
branches of practical entomology.

All entomologists having the intention of taking part in the con-
gress or in the exhibition are invited to subscribe as early as possible.
Tickets for a member for life: at least 240 kroner. Tickets of the
member of the Third Congress, 24 kroner. Supplementary tickets for
accompanying family members, 12 kroner. Certain benefits (theatres
and other amusements) are strictly dependent on the succession of the
ticket number.

All entomologists who intend to hold lectures in the meetings or to
send objects for the exhibition, are requested to give the necessary
indications for a definite program as soon as possible.

Office of the ITI. International Congress of Entomology: Vienna 1,
Burgring 7—Dr. F. Marpt, General Secretary. A. HaANpiIRSCH,
President.

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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), including Arachnida and
Myriopoda. 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, always excepting those
appearing in the January and February issues of the News, which are
generally dated the year previous.

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

The records of systematic papers are all grouped at the end of each
Order of which they treat, and are separated from the rest by a dash.

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

1—Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel-
phia. 2—Transactions, American Entomological Society, Phila-
delphia. 3—The American Naturalist. 4—The Canadian Ento-
mologist. 5—Psyche. 6—Journal, New York Entomological So-
ciety. 7—U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology,
Washington. 8—The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London.
§9—The Entomologist, London. 11—Annals and Magazine of Nat-
ural History, London. 14—Proceedings of the Zoological Society
of London. 18—Ottawa Naturalist. 21—The Entomologist’s Rec-
ord, London. 22—Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 85—Annales,
Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 88—Wiener Entomologische
Zeitung. 40—Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 68—Science, New
York. 84—Entomologische Rundschau. 92—Zeitschrift fur wis-
senschaftliche Insektenbiologie. 122—Transactions, City of Lon-
don Entomological and Natural History Society. 181—Proceed-
ings, South London Entomological and Natural History Society.
1583—Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
166—Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben. 173—Die
Grossschmetterlinge der Erde, Fauna Americana, von A. Seitz,
tuttgart. 179—Journal of Economic Entomology. 180—Annals,
Entomological Society of America. 184—Journal of Experimental
Zoology, Philadelphia. 193—Entomologische Blatter, Cassel. 195
—Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 198—
Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.
216—Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt a. Main. 221—New
Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Durham, N. H. 285—
Nature Study Review, Ithaca, N. Y. 291—Proceedings of the
Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, Lancaster, Pa.

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295—Handbuch der Vergleichenden Physiologie. Herausgegeben
von Hans Winterstein, Jena. 822—Journal of Morphology, Phila-
deiphia. 338—University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment
Station, St. Paul. 369—Entomologische Mitteilungen, Berlin-Dah-
lem. 373—Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera
of North America, by Wm. Barnes and J. H. McDunnough, De-
catur, Ill. 411—Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society.
420—Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus: A monthly journal of ento-
mology, Washington. 447—Journal of Agricultural Research,
Washington. 452—Lepidopterorum Catalogus, editus a H. Wag-
ner. 462—The Butterfly Farmer, Truckee, Cal. 463—Bulletin of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 483—
Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala. 484—Report of the British As-
sociation for the Advancement of Science, London. 485—Journal
of the Royal Microscopical Society, London. 486—Journal of the
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Chapel Hill, N. C. 487—Pro-
ceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 488—Journal
of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society.
GENERAL SUBJECT. Anon—The Canadian Entomological
Service. A separate branch formed [Agric. Gaz. of Canada, 1,
270]. Anon.—A national collection of Canadian insects, 4, 1914,
251. Anon.—Entomologische neuigkeiten, 40, xxix, 58, 64, 68, 74.
Biedermann, W.—Farbe und zeichnung der insekten, 295, iii, Heft
1, 1657-1922 (cont.). Blume, E.—Ein neuer Lichtfang-apparat, 92,
x, 243. Cockerell, T. D. A.—The entomology of Helianthus, 9,
1914, 191-6. Cook, O. F.—Fiat nomenclature, 68, xl, 272-3. Dixey,
F. A—The geographical relations of mimicry, 484, Ixxxiii, 518. -
Eastman & Von Zittel—Text-book of Paleontology (2d edition),
Vol. I. Insect, p. 785-821 [Macmillan & Co., 1913]. Fuchs, C—
Obituary note by F. E. Blaisdell, 68, xl, 91-2. Gambera, M—Ein
neues universal entomologenmikroskop, 869, iii, 193-97. Graef,
E. L.—Some early Brooklyn entomologists, 411, ix, 47-56. Hallett,
H. M.—A chloroform killing and relaxing bottle, 8, 1914, 175-6.
Heath, E. F.—Obituary by A. G., 4, 1914, 299-300. Hegner, R. W.
—The history of the germ cells in insects with special reference
to the keimbahn-determinants, 822, xxv, 375-510. v. Linstow, Dr.—
Die ocellen der insekten, 166, viii, 115-16. Lyman, H. H.—Obitu-
ary by C. J. S. Bethune, 4, 1914, 221-6. Moeser, F. E.—Obituary
notice by H. Bird, 4, 1914, 268. Poulton, E. B.—Discussion on
mimicry, 484, Ixxxiii, 518-20. Richardson, C. H—Some comments
on the value of warning colors and mimicry in insects, 5, xxi,
136-7. Sanderson & Peairs—The relation of temperature to insect
life, 221, Tech. Bul. No. 7. Sherman, F.—Studies of the animal
life of North Carolina with suggestions for a biological survey,

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486, xxx, 69-89. Scott, A. W.—Metallizing flowers and insects,
462, i, 188-9. Webster, F. M.—Good and bad bugs on the farm
(The Breeder’s Gazette, Ixv, 1173-1174, 1914). Weiss, H. B.—In-

sects and pain. The destructive insects of N. J., 4, 1914, 269-71;
322-3.

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Cockle, J. W.—The occurrence of Rhyn-
cholophus sp. on Lepidoptera observed at Kaslo, B. C., 4, 1914, 332.

Murphy, R. C.—Reactions of the spider Pholcus phalangioides,
6, xxii, 173-4.

Brues, C. TA new peripatus from Colombia, 195, Iviii, 375-82.
Chamberlin, R. V.—On a collection of Myriapoda from Costa
Rica, 2, xl, “185-194. Notes on Myriapods from Douglas Lake,
Mich. A new Julus from California, 4, 1914, 301-6, 314-15. A new
diplopod from the Galapagos Islands, with notes on the Chilopods,
5, xxi, 85-92. The genus Watobius, 195, lvii, 107-12.

APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Creighton, J. K—On Pedi-
culus capitis, 488, iv, 145. Cummings, B. F.—Scent organs in Tri-
choptera, 14, 1914, 459-74.

McGregor, E. A.—Some notes on parasitism of Chrysopids in
So. Carolina, 4, 1914, 306-8. Navas, L—Some Neuroptera from the
U. S., 411, ix, 60-2. Paine, J. H.—Note on Linognathus forficula, 5,
xxi, 117. Woodruff, L. B.—Some dragonflies of a Connecticut
brook, 6, xxii, 154-9.

ORTHOPTERA. Caudell, A. N.—Regeneration of antennae,
68, xl, 352-3. Comstock, A. B.—Cricket music, 285, x, 204-6.

Burr, M.—On some Central American Dermaptera in the U. S.
N. M., 4, 1914, 273-76. Caudell, A. N.—-Some bromeliadicolous
Blattidae from Mexico and Central America, 420, ii, 76-80. Davis,
W. T.—A cricket new to Long Island, N. Y., 6, xxii, 171-2. Rehn
& Hebard—A revision of the Orthopterous group Insarae (Tetti-
goniidae, Phaneropterinae), 2, xl, 37-184. United States and Mex-
ican records of species of the genus Doru. Records of Dermaptera
and Orthoptera from West Central and Southwestern Florida,
collected by W. T. Davis, 6, xxii, 89-96, 96-116. Somes, M. P.—
The Acridiidae of Minnesota, 338, Bul. No. 141, 98 pp.

HEMIPTERA. Davis, W.: T.—The seventeen-year cicada on
Staten Island in 1912, 291, iv, 99. Ewing, H. E.—Notes on regres-
sion in a pure line of plant lice, 198, xxvii, 164-8. Tower, D. G—
The Mechanism of the mouth parts of the squash bug, Anasa tris-
tis, 5, xxi, 99-108.

Barber, H. G—New Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with comments
upon the distribution of certain known species, 6, xxii, 164-71. In-

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sects of Florida, I[l—Hemiptera, 153, xxxiii, 495-535. Bergroth, E.
—Eine neue neotropische Cicade, 38, xxxiii, 175-6. Davidson, W.
M.—Walnut Aphides in California, 463, No. 100. Distant, W. L.—
On a few undescribed Cicadidae from California, 11, xiv, 165-7.
Hood, J. D.—Notes on N. Am. Thysanoptera, with descriptions
of a new family and two n. sps. Two Porto Rican Thysanoptera
from sugar cane. A new T. from Panama, 420, ii, 17-22, 38-41,
49-53. Quaintance & Baker—Classification of the Aleyrodidae, Part
I, 7, Tech. Sery Nos27, pee:

LEPIDOPTERA. Anon.—Vogel als schmetterlingsjager, 216,
xxviii, 81. Adkin, F. E—Gynandromorphous L., 4, 1914, 331.
Ball, F. J—Le dimorphisme saisonnier des androconia chez cer-
tains Rhopaloceres, 35, lviii, 170-182. Bethune-Baker, G. T.—The
correlation of pattern and structure in the Ruralinae group of
butterflies, 484, Ixxxiii, 516. Bowater, W.—The heredity of me-
lanism in L., 484, Ixxxili, 514-16. Brandt, P.—Verschiedenes ueber
die Aufzucht der ueberseeischen spinner, 216, xxviii, 75-7. Car-
penter, G. D. H.—The enemies of “protected” insects, with special
reference to Acraea zetes, 484, Ixxxiii, 516-17. An interesting poly-
morphic butterfly, 488, iv, 131-4. Forbes, T. M.—A structural
study of the caterpillars: III, The somatic muscles, 180, vii, 109-
134. Frohawk, F. W.—The sleeping attitude of Lycaenidae, 9,
1914, 212-13. Jones, T. H.—Some notes on the life history and
habits of Lauron vinosa, 420, ii, 108-11. Poulton, E. B.—Mimicry
in the N. Am. butterflies of the genus Limenitis, 131, 1913-14,
35-7. Rogers, St. A.—The scents of butterflies, 488, iv, 144-5.
Swett, L. W.—Geometrid notes—with descriptons of new species
and varieties, 4, 1914, 289-92. Winn, A. F.—How lepidoptera
winter. Notes on the eggs of Macronotua onusta, 4, 1914, 295, 296.
Wolff, P—Ueber die technik der temperatur experimente mit
schmetterlingspuppen, 216, xxviii, 77-8 (cont.).

Barnes & McDunnough—Synonymic notes on No. Am. L. Some
new N. Am. Pyraustinae, 373, ii, 198-223, 224-50. Bethune-Baker,
G. T.—On the correlation of pattern and structure in Rhopalo-
cera with special reference to Ruralidae, 21, xxvi, 177-84. Busck,
A.—A destructive pine-moth introduced from Europe, 179, vii,
340-1. A new Gracilaria on Azalea. The chestnut bastminer.
Seven n. sps. of Ethmia from Tropical America, 420, ii, 1-2, 3-4,
53-57. Chapman, T. A.—Lepidopterology, 21, xxvi, 176-7. Some
Lycaenid notes, with a discussion of the segmentation of the abdo-
men in L., 122, 1912-13, 67-74. Comstock, W. P.—Erycinidae and
Lycaenidae from the island of Trinidad, 6, xxii, 152-4. Von Dalla
Torre, K. W.—Thyrididae, 452, Pars 20. Dyar, H. G—Two new

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Phycitinae from Montana. Four new L. from British Guiana. A
note on Phobolosia and Melanomma. A new Saturnian from
Mexico. A new Syntomid from Cuba. A new Phycitid injurious
to pine. The larvae of some L. from Mexico, 420, ii, 2, 4-6, 8-10,
107-8, 111-12, 112, 113-17. Field, W. L. W.—Hybrid butterflies
of the genus Basilarchia, 5, xxi, 115-17. Grinnell, F., Jr—Abund-
ance of Pyrameis cardui in California, 411, ix, 63. Kaye, W. J.—
The Ithomiinae, 181, 1913-14, 38-48. Lloyd, J. T.—Lepidopterous
larvae from rapid streams, 6, xxii, 145-52. Oberthur, C.—Etudes
de lepidopterologie comparee. Fasc. ix, pt. 2, 180 pp. Seitz, A—
Das system der schmetterlinge, 84, xxxi, 83-6. Seitz & Rober—
Genera Vila to Catonephele, 173, Lief. 60-61. Skinner, H.—Studies
in the genus Thanaos, 2, xl, 195-222. Verity, R.—Note in answer
to Dr. Jordan’s, Mr. Bethune-Baker’s and the Rev. G. Wheeler’s
observations on my “Revision of the Linnean types of Palaearctic
Rhopalocera,” 21, xxvi, 170-76. Walker, J. J—The geographical
distribution of Danaida plexippus (Danais archippus) with especial
reference to its recent migrations, 8, 1914, 181-193 (cont.). Wolley
Dod, F. H.—Bombycia improvisa and tearlii. A correction, 4,
1914, 297. Wright, W. S.—Notes on certain Californian L., 420,
ii, 6-8.

DIPTERA. Aubin, P. A.—The buzzing of D., 485, 1914, 329-34.
Becker, G. G.—Migrating larvae of Sciara congregata, 5, xxi, 94-5.
Bridges, C. B.—Direct proof through non-disjunction that the sex-
linked genes of Drosophila are borne by the X-chromosome, 68,
xl, 107-9. Chambers, R., Jr—Linkage of the factor for bifid wing.
The bifid wing and other sex-linked factors in Drosophila, 198,
xxvii, 151-63. Hyde, R. R—Fertility and sterility in Drosophila
ampelophila, 184, xvii, 173-212. Lutz, F. E.—Biological notes con-
cerning Drosophila ampelophila, 6, xxii, 134-8. Patten, B. M—A
quantitative determination of the orienting reaction of the blow-
fly larva (Calliphora erythrocephala), 184, xvii, 213-80. Sturtevant,
A. H.—The reduplication hypothesis as applied to Drosophila, 8,
xlviii, 535-49. Townsend, C. H. T.—The relation between lizards
and Phlebotomus verrucarum as indicating the reservoir of ver-
ruga, 68, xl, 212-4. Walton, W. R.—On the work of the late D. W.
Coquillett and others, 6, xxii, 159-64. Webster, F. M.—Natural
enemies of Simulium: Notes, 5, xxi, 95-9. Welch, P. S.—Observa-
tions on the life history and habits of Hydromyza confluens, 180,
vii, 135-47.

Alexander, C. P.—On a collection of crane-flies from British
Guiana, 2, xl, 223-55. The crane flies collected in Costa Rica by Dr.
P. P. Calvert, 6, xxii, 116-24. Banks, N.—Notes on Asilidae, with
two n. sps., 5, xxi, 131-33. Dyar & Knab—New mosquitoes from

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Peru, 420, ii, 58-62. Enderlein, G— Weitere beitrage zur kenntnis
der Pantophthalmiden, 22, xliv, 577-86. Zur kenntnis der Asiliden-
subfamilien Dasypogoninae und Archilaphriinae, $38, xxxiii, 151-
174. Felt, E. P—Hormomyia bulla, n. sp., 4, 1914, 286-7. Addi-
tions to the gall midge fauna of New England, 5, xxi, 109-114.
Descriptions of gall midges, 6, xxii, 124-34. Gall midges as forest
insects, 18, xxviii, 76-9. New gall midges, 420, ii, 117-23. Hendel,
F.—Berichtigungen und bemerkungen zu einigen arbeiten Dr. En-
derleins ueber D., 22, xliv, 497-9. Die bohrfliegen Sudamerikas,
483, xiv, No. 3, 84 pp. Johannsen, O. A.—Sciara congregata sp.
nov., 5, xxi, 93. Johnson, C. W.—The discovery of Eclimus har-
risi in the White Mountains, N. H., 5, xxi, 123. Kelly, E. O. G.—
A new sarcophagid parasite of grasshoppers, 447, ii, 435-46. Knab,
F.—A new mesembrine fly, 4, 1914, 325-6. A review of our species
of Trigonometopus, 5, xxi, 123-26. A new Pantophthalmus. On
the genus Cryptochaetum, 420, ii, 27-29, 33-6. Knab & Yothers—
Papaya fruit fly, 447, ii, 447-54. Malloch, J. R.—Synonymical
notes on N. A. Sciomyzidae, 4, 1914, 323-4. Notes on Illinois Pho-
ridae with descriptions of three n. sps., 411, ix, 56-60. Martini, E.
—Some new American mosquitoes, 420, 1i, 65-76. Parker, R. R.—
Sarcophagidae of New England: Males of the genera Ravinia and
Boettcheria, 487, xxxv, 1-77. Townsend, C. H. T.—Connectant
forms between the Muscoid and Anthomyioid flies, 180, vii, 160-67.
New muscoid flies, mainly Hystriciidae and Pyrrhosiinae, from
the Andean mountains, 420, ii, 10-16 (cont.). Villeneuve, J.—
Notes synonymiques, 38, xxxill, 207-8.

COLEOPTERA. Coad, B. R.—Feeding habits of the boll
weevil on plants other than cotton, 447, li, 235-45. Urban, C.—
Beitrage zur lebensgeschichte der kaefer, III, 198, x, 176-8 (cont.).
Williams, F. X.—Prothetely in the larva of Photuris pennsylva-
nica, 5, xxi, 126-9. Wradatsch, G.—Ueber das ueberwintern der
kaefer, 40, xxix, 65-6 (cont.).

Arrow, G. J.—Some further notes on lamellicorn beetles of the
subfamily Dynastinae, 11, xiv, 257-76. Dury, C.—On Cioidae, 6,
xxii, 172-3. Leng, C. W.—Notes on the species of Scaphinotus
inhabiting northeastern America with description of a n. sp., 6,
xxii, 139-44. Leng & Mutchler—A preliminary list of the C. of
the West Indies as recorded to Jan. 1, 1914, 158, xxxili, 391-493.
Prell, H.—Beitrage zur kenntnis der Dynastinen X., 369, iii, 197-226.

HYMENOPTERA. Gates, B. N.—The temperature of the bee
colony, 463, No. 96. McIndoo, N. E.—The scent-producing organ
of the honey-bee, 1, 1914, 542-55. Poulton, E. B—Mr. W. A. Lam-
born’s observation on marriage by capture by a West African

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wasp, 484, Ixxxiii, 511-12. Riehn, H.—Hornissen und wespen beim
fllegenfang, sowie das ergebnis eines hornissennestes an Coleop-
teren, 92, x, 234-38.

Cockerell, T. D. A——A new carpenter bee from California, 420,
ii, 101-3. Crawford, J. C_—Some species of the bee genus Coeli-
oxys, 180, vii, 148-59. <A revision of the Braconid genus Urosi-
galphus. Three new H., 420, ii, 22-27, 36-8. Girault, A. A.—Notes
on the H. Trichogrammatidae and Mymaridae, 4, 1914, 327-30.
McGregor, E. A.—(See under Neuroptera.) Rohwer, §. A—Synop-
sis of the N. A. species of the genus Capitonius, 4, 1914, 316-22.
Roman, A.—Die Ichneumonidentypen C. P. Thunbergs, 483, i,
229-93. Schmiedeknecht, O.—Opuscula Ichneumonologica, Fasc.
xxxvi-vil. Wheeler, W. M.—The American species of Myrmica
allied to M. rubida, 5, xxi, 118-22.

Doings of Societies.
AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Meeting of April 23, 1914. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President,
in the chair. Ten persons were present.

Mr. Rehn, Chairman of the Publication Committee, said the
committee had inaugurated a scheme of addressing a circular
letter in relation to the Transactions of the Society, making an
appeal for subscriptions. It is now possible for persons to
subscribe for separate papers on various orders. A summary
of the results obtained to date was given.

The President exhibited photographs of entomologists for-
merly belonging to the late Prof. P. R. Uhler and presented to
the Society by Mrs. Uhler. On motion a vote of thanks was
extended to Mrs. Uhler for her gift.

Mr. Hornig said he had observed recently hatched larvae of
mosquitoes on the 6th and on the 16th of April. They pupated,
and emerged by the 20th. They were found in a sheltered
pool about two by three feet, the species being A. sylvestris.

Mr. Rehn made some remarks on the genus Scudderia; he
and Mr. Hebard studied about a thousand specimens. The
differences in the male sub-genital plates were described in de-
_ tail and a new species mentioned as having been found.

Dr. Skinner exhibited a collection of butterflies from, pupae

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which had been subjected to heat and cold respectively. The
specimens so altered were reared by Prof. Standfuss.

Mr. Rehn referred to the colors of Neophasia terlooi and
said the Orthoptera found in the foothills of So. Arizona,
Texas and New Mexico showed that the orange color is in-
tensified.

Dr. Skinner made some remarks on the genitalia of the
genus Thanaos. Mr. Williams spoke of the remarkable con-
stancy of these organs in the genus.

Dr. Calvert showed specimens of Anomalagrion hastatum
from the vicinity of Cartago, Costa Rica, remarking that it
and Pantala flavescens are the only species of Odonata com-
mon to that locality and Philadelphia, a rather remarkable fact
considering the smallness of Anomalagrion.

Mr. Rehn spoke of the coming meeting of entomologists in
Philadelphia next December. He moved that the chair ap-
point a committee to arrange for their entertainment. Adopted.

Meeting of June 8, 1914. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President,
in the chair. Nine persons present.

Mr. Rehn said the system of circulating letters in relation to
the Transactions had been well received.

Mr. Hornig presented a collection of mosquitoes, compris-
ing three species and twenty-eight specimens.

The following persons were appointed by the President as
an Entertainment Committee for the meetings of entomologists
to be held in Philadelphia next December: Henry Skinner,
H. W. Wenzel, J. A. G. Rehn, Morgan Hebard, E. T. Cresson,
Jr., and George M. Greene.

The President read a letter soliciting subscriptions to estab-
lish a monument in honor of Fabre, the French entomologist.
It was moved and adopted that the Treasurer of the Society
be authorized to receive subscriptions for this purpose.

Mr. Rehn referred to a remark made by Mr. W. T. Davis
that celluloid mounts would be seriously affected by carbon
bisulphide. Experiment showed that such was not the case,

Mr. Hornig said he had found cocoons of Callosamia cyn-

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thia badly parasitized by Spirochalcis mariae. These speci-
mens of parasites were only half the size of those that came
from the cocoons of Platysamia cecropia.

He also referred to having found Aedes triseriatus breeding
in a cistern, away from the woods. The species had been sup-
posed to breed in the woods or near them in all cases. He also
spoke of the scarcity of Culex pipiens at the Point Breeze
Amusement Park, Philadelphia.

Mr. Greene said there was an excellent collecting place near
the Overbrook Seminary at Merion, and spoke of the rare
insects he had found there, particularly Hymenoptera and
Coleoptera.

Mr. Williams referred to the species of Lycaena from which
he had extracted and mounted the genitalia. He said species
in this genus, in some cases, apparently distinct by maculation
characters, had identical genitalia. The species in the genus
found on the Pacific coast of the United States had evidently
come from Europe originally, and became fewer as they neared
the south, as there were only two species found in Mexico.

Mr. Rehn referred to genitalic characters in the Orthoptera.
In one genus they may be good to separate species, and in
others valueless.

Dr. Calvert spoke of the term species and gave the Linnaean
definition and referred to recent work in the breeding of Colias.

HENRY SKINNER, Secretary.

FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL.

Meeting at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 Stewart Street,
Philadelphia, May 20, 1914. Twelve members were present.
President Wenzel in the chair.

Professor Calvert showed larvae and pupae of Xylomyta
pallipes Say (Diptera, family Leptide) found beneath the bark
of a living Carolina poplar in West Philadelphia, April 16,
1914, from which he bred the imago identified by Mr. E. T.
Cresson, Jr. A description of the puparium and pupa of this
species, under the name Subula pallipes Loew, was published
by C. H. T. Townsend, in ENtromotocicaL News IV, p. 163,

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May, 1893, but the present specimens differ in some details
from that description.

Mr. Harbeck exhibited a specimen of Brachyopa taken by
Mr. Lewis Unruh on Dogwood blossoms at Wenonah, New
Jersey, May 10, 1914. There are no specimens of this Dip-
terous genus mentioned in the New Jersey List, but he has
taken vacua O. S. at Roxborough, Pennsylvania. The one ex-
hibited does not agree with any of the species he knows. Also
exhibited a specimen of Myiolepta strigilata Loew taken by
himself at Iona, New Jersey, May 17, 1914. Said that Gnor-
imus maculosus Knoch (Col.) was quite common on Dogwood
blossoms at Wenonah, New Jersey, May 10, 1914.

Mr. Daecke described some of the interesting collecting
places around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, of which there are
many in the mountains of that district. Recorded and exhib-
ited the following two species of Coleoptera, family Elateride:
Corymbites fulvipes Bland, Rockville, Pennsylvania, April 19,
1914, and Limonius stigma Herbst, same locality and date.

Mr. Kaeber said that the meadows of the Philadelphia Neck
have been filled in and there are many young willows there;
though they look perfectly healthy, fully 75 per cent. are in-
fested with Cryptorhynchus lapathi Linn. (Col.). He has bred
the following Coleoptera: (1)—Alaus oculatus Linn. from
decaying oaks, April 27, 1914, (2)—Melasis pectimcorms
Melsh. from hickory, May 3, 1914 (and every warm day since),
(3)—Desmocerus palliatus Forst. April 28, 1914, (4)—Xylo-
trechus colonus Fabr. June 21, 1913, and (5)—Acanthoderus
decipiens Hald. June 15, 1913 ; numbers 3, 4 and 5 were raised
from larvae (in glass tubes). He exhibited a pair of brass
forceps of his own make with a small cup arrangement on the
tips for picking up small insects found under bark.

Mr. H. W. Wenzel said he had taken the usual spring forms
(which are very early this year) in southern New Jersey on
the pine, including eight Buprestis ultramarina Say. He ex-
hibited Elater sayi LeC. Philadelphia, May 14, and Buprestts
decora Fabr. Philadelphia, May 15, both accidentals captured
by George Mahoney.

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Mr. H. A. Wenzel exhibited a dozen specimens of Hetaerius
brunmipenms Rand. and its host from Malvern, Pennsylvania,
May 10, 1914. Said he had found these beetles under a large
perforated stone in company with large black ants, and all the
specimens were in these perforations and not in the galleries
of the nest. The beetles are about 1-16 inch in diameter and
the ants and had found some of the specimens in the galleries.
the under side of the ant and are carried away. Mr. Laurent
stated that while out collecting with Mr. Liebeck on April 11,
1914, at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Mr. Liebeck found a colony
of black ants, from which they took a number of specimens of
this Histerid, but had not noticed any of them being carried by
the ants and had found some of the specimens in the galleries.

Adjourned to the annex.

Meeting at the same place June 17, 1914. Eleven members
were present, Mr. Lewis Unruh visitor, President H. A. Wen-
zel in the chair.

Mr. Daecke said he had caught many insects on Force Mt.,
Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Harrisburg, in the clearing
made where the oil pipe line crosses the ridge. He had often
wondered what mosquitoes fed on in the wilds where there
were no human beings until seeing a box tortoise in this clear-
ing one day with some insects flying about it, he caught them
in his net, and they proved to be Culex canadensis Theobald
filled with blood. He exhibited a micro-moth Hememene n. sp.
from Rockville, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1914, on papaw,—this
was formerly recorded from the State of Texas and Cincin-
nati, Ohio; another moth Mesoleuca ruficiliata Gn., Dauphin,
Pennsylvania, May 24, 1914, was shown. He said he had
noticed two leaves (which were opposite each other) curled up
on a viburnum bush at Inglenook, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1914,
and upon examining them found a fine specimen of the beetle
Centrodera decolorata Harr., which is of a light brown color
the same as the leaves where found.

Mr. Huntington said that in the evening of June 7 at Great
Falls, Virginia, a searchlight was thrown on the falls and in-

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sects were seen in the rays by the thousands.

Dr. Castle said he had been to Pine Beach, New Jersey,
May 14, and had caught five species of Cicindela. He found
some flat fungus on the ground which he placed in a tin box
and bred from it Caenocara oculata Say (Col.). At Glasgow,
Delaware, May 24, he had beaten the weevil Brachystylus
acutus Say from persimmon.

Mr. Geo. M. Greene reported collecting as good in his usual
collecting spot, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. He exhibited a spe-
cies of Coleoptera from there which he had never had before,
Mycetochara binotata Say, June 7, 1914, and two species that
he had but had never himself taken: Perothops mucida Gyll.,
May 30, 1914, and Eurymycter fasciata Oliv., June 7, 1914;
also a series of Melandrya striata Say, May 31 and June 7,
1914, and /thycerus novaboracensis Forst., May 30 and May 31,
1914. The two wasps recorded last season, /balia maculipennis
Hald. and Arotes amoenus Cress. (no males seen), are again
numerous, as are three species of Megarhyssa: atrata Fabr.,
lunator Fabr. and greenei Viereck, both sexes.

Mr. H. W. Wenzel said that at Anglesea, New Jersey, May
30, 1914, he saw the first large washup of insects for years,
among which were five species of Calosoma: externum Say,
scrutator Fabr., willcoxi LeC., frigidum Kirby and calidum
Fabr. He exhibited a pair of Chrysobothris gemmata LeC.
collected by F. H. Snow, one at Douglas, Arizona, in August,
the other in the Baboquivari Mts., Arizona.

Adjourned to the annex.

Gro. M. GrEENE, Secretary.

OBITUARY.

Dr. THEODORE NicHoLas GILL, who died in Washington,
September 25, 1914, although chiefly known as an ichthyolo-
gist, took an active part in the meetings of the Entomological
Society of Washington years ago. He was born in New York
City, March 21, 1837. An obituary notice has appeared in
Science for Oct. 16, 1914.

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