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OSBORN AND METCALF—SALT MARSH CICADA.

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NOVEMBER, 1920. No. 9.
CONTENTS
Chamberlin—Description of One New Ramsden—A New Kricogonia from
Buprestid with Notes on Other @ubar(Eepye Ropes sire eae tere 259
Little Known Species (Coleop.).. 241 Davis mindianay (nSGCts mn.) tenets rs 5) oc 260
Martin—Notes on the Genus Hetaer- Brimley—On Scolia bicincta Fab. and
ius and Descriptions of Three Scolia undata Klug (Hymcnop-
New Species (Coleop.).........- 245 TELA COMMA) acielelere eine ers) + sie 201
i — TES 1) GOURUs ase a 26
Osborn & Metcalf—Notes on the Life- LS EIDE SS a Se 20
F : Editorial—Mental Attitudes toward
History of the Salt Marsh Cicada
Ae fer : Insects; Anert an Increased Sub-
(Tibicen viridifascia Walker), ae s
(emip) 248 SCH CIOL Ma bI COL Unite ete eens: Sade at ate 263
Peep cnnee re rege srg = Skinner—Two Syntomidae New to
Mann—The Occurrence of Mallophaga Mississippi (Lep.)..........---- 263
on a Dragonfly (Odon.)....... 252 | Entomological Literature............ 264
Calvert—Studies on Costa Rican Odo- Review of Morse’s Manual of the
nata IX. Sympetrum with De- Orthoptcra of New England..... 207
scription of a New Species....... 253 Correctlonicascaev a oe rite wissen oe eens 270

Description of One New Buprestid with Notes
on Other Little Known Species (Coleop.).

By W. J. CHAMBERLIN, Forest Entomologist, Oregon Agri-
cultural College. ,
Cinyra robusta n. sp.

Form elongate, robust. Entire upper surface, head, thorax and elytra
covered with scattered, short, fine, recumbent hairs, arising from the
punctures.

Head same color as elytra, not shining, very coarsely punctured, with
a faint median line running one-third from the thorax. Front rough with
irregular callosities extending across the middle. Clypeus_ shallow,
broadly emarginate. Antennae with the third joint twice as long as the
second; from the fourth joint on, all joints are broad and flattened, entire
antennae black not testaceous.

Thorax coarsely, moderately densely punctate with irregular smooth
callosities, especially along the middle, sides of thorax slightly arcuate,
widest just behind the middle and narrowing sharply at the anterior
fourth. Scutellum semi-circular, small.

Prosternum dull black not shining, an irregular slight depression ex-
tending around the sclerite just inside the border: (Fig. 1). From this

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depression protrude many lines of long yellowish hairs. Metasternum
with large shallow punctures and scattered pubescence.

Length of elytra 10 mm., apex quadri-spinose, finely rather densely
punctate, costa apparent on the posterior half; an irregular network of
callosities over the whole elytra. Color dull purplish black, the punctures
giving a faint bronze reflection in the light. Elytra narrowing rather
sharply at the apical fifth.

Abdgmen dull black with a faint purplish tinge, sparsely punctate with
intermediate, smooth elevations; last ventral truncate.

Length 14.5 mm.

Fig. 1. Prosternum of Cinyra robusta n. sp.

Fig. 2. Prosternum of Cinyra prosternalis Schaeffer.

Fig. 3. Last ventral segment of Cinyra robusta n. sp.
Fig. 4. Last ventral segment of Cinyra prosternalis Sch.
Fig. 5. Last ventral segment’ of Cinyra gracilipes Mels.
Fig. 6. Lest ventral segment of Cinyra purpurescens Sch.

One specimen Texas. Exact locality unknown. Type in
the author’s collection.

Abundantly distinct from its nearest ally, C. prosternalis
Schaeffer, by its more robust form, darker and less shining
color. In the specimen of C. prosternalis which I have, the
antennae from the fourth joint on have testaceous lobes,
(similar to Chrysobothris dentipes), a point not mentioned by’
Mr. Schaeffer. In C. robusta the joints are broad, flattened,
uniform in texture and color. The border of hairs around

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the prosternum as well as the shape of that sclerite (Fig. 1)
is different. In prosternalis the depression near the border
of the prosternum extends only down each side, the hairs
are short and scattered, the surface is smooth and shining.
In robusta the hairs are thick, extend entirely around and
the surface lacks any luster.

The last ventral segment of prosternalis is stated to be
truncate; in my specimen it is slightly sinuate, while in ro-
busta it is squarely cut off, almost twice as broad as in pros-
ternalis and lacks the definite spines of the latter. Our
four* species are, I believe, very readily distinguished as
follows:

1. Front coarsely, evenly punctate, metallic coppery color, with no prom-
inent callosities. Clypeus broadly emarginate, rounded at each corner.
Menothy Samitniep en sta nc cist eiciy 1m 6 ginreca ats C. purpurescens Schaeffer

2. Front with scattered, coarse punctures, dull blackish violet with faint
greenish tinge. A depression at the vertex and an irregular callosity
extending across the middle. Clypeus broadly, slightly emarginate,
cornersangulate: Wength 14:5mm...............-... C. robusta n. sp.

3. Front coarsely punctate, shining green, with callosities more or less
resembling an inverted W. Clypeus more deeply emarginate, angles
sharper, edges thickened. Length: 13 mm..C. prosternalis Schaeffer

4. Front densely, moderately coarsely, punctate. Coppery bronze,
metallic, with a shining green callosity in the shape of an inverted Y.
Clypeus triangularly emarginate. Length: 11 mm.

C. gracilipes Melsheimer

There is, I believe, ample reason for separating the above
species into different genera as suggested by Colonel Caseyf,
but this could only be done by one thoroughly familiar with
exotic genera.

Ultimately the species mentioned above will probably
fall into three separate genera. C. gracilipes Mels. in one,
purpurescens Sch. in another and C. prosternalis Sch. and
robusta n. sp. in the third.

Agaeocera scintillans Waterhouse.

This beautiful buprestid has not heretofore been reported
as occurring in the United States. Dr. Frank Lutz kindly

*]T am unable to distinguish Col. Casey’s C. macilenta from C. gracil-
ipes Mels.
7 Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. XI, p. 176 (1909).

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presented me with a specimen of Agaeocera, which I took to
be A. gentilis Horn, but upon comparing it with the type, at
Philadelphia, I found it was an entirely different species
and have placed it as A. scintillans Water., previously re-
corded from Mexico. The specimen which I have, with
another identical specimen in the American Museum, bears
the following label: “Sabino Basin, Sta. Catalina Mts.,
Arizona. July 8-20, ’16. 32°22’ N. 110°16.5’ W. About
3800 ft.’’ Collected by Dr. Lutz.

The species is easily distinguished from A. gentilis by its
prominent shining costae, narrower thorax, on which is a
median sulcus extending two-thirds from the base towards
the head and the presence of an elongated fovea on each
side of the thorax, which are lacking in gentzlis.

Dicerca pecterosa Lec.

This rare buprestid has been bred from both peach and
prune, where the larvae work low down in the trunk, most
commonly in trees attacked by the peach root borer (San-
ninoidea opalescens). It has been submitted from Roseburg
and The Dalles, Oregon, where it is causing considerable
damage to orchard trees. Much of the damage in this state
attributed to Chrysobothris femorata Fab. is in reality due to
C. mali Horn and D. pecterosa Lec. The native host tree of
pecterosa is not known with certainty, although the author
collected one specimen in Grant County, Oregon, on lodge-
pole pine (Pinus contorta), where it was apparently oviposit-
ing.

Melanophila pini-edulis Burke.

This rare species has been recorded from Utah, Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexico, and California and Mr. H. E. Burke
gives Pinus edulis and Pinus sabiniana as hosts. A speci-
men was taken from its cell in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffrey)
at Waldo, Oregon, in March, 1914, by Mr. J. M. Miller,
thus giving a new host plant for the species and extending
its range into another state.

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

By J. O. Martin, Berkeley, California
(Continued from page 225.)

Hetaerius mitidus very closely resembles brunnipennis Rand;
but in that species the lateral thoracic area is crossed at
basal third by a distinct sulcus, represented in nitidus by a
foveate depression. In brunnipennis the lateral thoracic
area is coarsely punctate, in nitidus it is very finely so and
the punctures are fewer in number. The interstrial spaces
of the elytra in brunnipennis have coarse scattered punctures
which are lacking in nitidus. The pygidium in brunnipennis
is smooth, in nitidus punctate and hairy. They agree in
having the margined area of the prosternum closed by the
meeting of the marginal striae.

Hetaerius hirsutus sp. nov.

Body oblong, shining, castaneous, upper surface feebly convex.

Head piceous, vertex concave, punctate, portion next to thorax moder-
ately, coarsely punctured, each puncture with a coarse branched hair,
cephalic portion more finely punctured without hair; front smooth, shin-
ing, impunctate.

Thorax two-fifths wider than long, slightly narrowed in front, divided
longitudinally by two suture-like diagonal grooves into a discal and two
lateral areas; lateral areas again divided by a deep transverse sulcus at
basal third; discal area slightly longer than wide, a little less than one-half
as wide in front as at base, bordered laterally by a shallow sulcus which
is smooth, shining and impunctate; central portion of discal area smooth,
shining, impunctate, between this rounded impunctate portion and the
impunctate bordering sulcus is a roughly triangular area with base at
upper edge of elytra and extending slightly less than two-thirds the length
of disc which is coarsely and thickly punctured, each puncture bearing a
long branched hair, depressed and directed caudad, forming a brush-like
bunch at its outer basal portion; along the apical border of discal area are
ten to twelve punctures, each with a depressed, squamose, fringed hair;
lateral area of prothorax widest at its cephalic end, thickly, coarsely
punctured, apical punctures bearing depressed, squamose, fringed hairs;
in the lateral and basal punctures the hairs are not squamose but are
long, pointed and branched, forming at the edge of the transverse sulcus
a brush-like tuft which nearly conceals the sulcus; posterior part of lateral
area piceous, shining, tuberculate, lateral edge with numerous. long,

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branched hairs which are combed inward, partly covering the tuberculate
portion.

Elytra shining, hairy, slightly wider than adjacent base of thorax,
sides sinuate at base, nearly straight at middle, gradually curving inward
to the obtusely rounded, outer apical angle, the truncate tips slightly
arcuate; first stria from the suture nearly reaching to apical margin, sinu-
ate, outer edge raised and densely covered with inward pointing, squa-
mose, fringed hairs which at basal third become long, branched hairs
directed inward and form at base a brush-like tuft which meets a similar
thoracic tuft at an acute angle, their tips intermingling; second stria about
five-sixths the length of elytra, broad, shallow and rounded at base,
smooth and impunctate; third stria not as broad as second, nearly meet-
ing second at tip, subhumeral stria extending two-thirds the length of
elytra; the outer edge of all striae being raised; interstrial spaces moder-
ately punctured, punctures bearing depressed, squamose, fringed hairs
and among them a few, long, simple hairs.

Prosternum punctate rugose, ventral surface two-thirds its length; area
within the margin shining, sparsely punctate with two slightly converg-
ing ridges which are widest apart caudally and extend two-thirds the
length of the margining striae; marginal striae bent inward at cephalic
end but not meeting.

Thoracic and abdominal segments smooth, shining, sparsely micro-
scopically punctured.

Legs smooth, shining, moderately punctured, punctures without hairs.

Propygidium moderately, thickly punctured, punctures with squamose
fringed hairs. Pygidium smooth, shining, with a few microscopic punc-
tures.

All hairs of the various parts described are yellow.
Length 2.5 mm. width 1.8 mm.

Described from two examples; one, the type, taken by my-
self at Mill Valley, Marin County, California, is in my own
collection, the other, a paratype, is from San Francisco and
is in the collection of Dr. E. C. Van Dyke.

This species resembles loripes Casey, but differs from it in
elytral striation and the brush-like tufts of hairs. I have com-
pared it very carefully with tristriatus Horn, from which it is
distinct in elytral striation, its hairy tufts and the absence of
hairs on the sides of the legs which in ¢ristriatus are present
though very small.

Hetaerius williamsi sp. nov.

Body oblong, one-third longer than wide, shining, castaneous, hairy.

Head shining; vertex concave, shining, evenly, moderately, coarsely
punctured, each puncture with a stout fringed hair; front nearly smooth,

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clypeus moderately hairy; genae and upper part of mandibles with numer-
ous fringed hairs.

Thorax one-fifth wider than long, divided into a discal and two lateral
areas by a suture-like groove which extends nearly to apical border and
is paralleled by the shallow sulcus of the discal area, said sulcus being
smooth, shining and impunctate; discal area twice as wide at base as at
apex, moderately, thickly, coarsely punctured, each puncture witha
slightly squamose, fringed hair which becomes longer and more pointed
toward the base; lateral area widest in front, the apical angles obtusely
rounded, divided at basal third by a deep, transverse sulcus; front por-
tion moderately thickly punctured, punctures with fringed hairs which
are longer at sides and edge of sulcus over which they project; basal por-
tion of lateral area piceous, tuberculate with a few punctures on its sur-
face, becoming more numerous on the outer side.

Elytra shining, moderately thickly punctured, hairy, coarsely striate;
first stria from elytral suture nearly reaching apical margin, broad and
shallow at base, becoming narrow at apex, outer edge raised and thickly
covered with squamose fringed hairs; second stria almost as long as first
and like 1t broad and shallow at base; outer edge raised and bordered with
squamose fringed hairs which are not as dense as on first stria; third stria
slightly shorter than second with raised edges, having fewer and shorter
fringed hairs than second stria and likewise broadened at base; subhumeral
stria extending two-thirds the length of elytra, also broadened at base;
the broad basal part of all striae smooth, shining, impunctate; striae one
and two with a few longer, branched hairs at base; interstrial spaces
moderately, thickly, coarsely punctured, each puncture with a depressed,
squamose, fringed hair and among them a few erect, long, simple hairs.

Prosternum opaque, rugose-punctate; margined ventral surface moder-
ately punctate and with fringed hairs, marginal striae extending one-
half length of prosternum, very slightly inflexed at cephalic end, not
enclosing area.

Thoracic and abdominal segments shining, moderately punctate,
punctures with fringed hairs.

Pygidium and propygidium moderately evenly punctured, punctures
with fringed hairs.

Legs shining, moderately punctate, punctures with fringed hairs.

Length 3 mm., width 2 mm.

Described from three examples from the collection of Dr.
E. C. Van Dyke, taken at Merced Lake, San Francisco,
California, in the nests of a grey Formica by Mr. F. X. Wil-
liams, for whom I have named it. Type in the collection of
Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, paratype in my own collection.

This species has the same form as that figured by Dr.
Horn* as morsus, Lec. but the elytral striation is quite dif-

* Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. III (1870), Pl. 1

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ferent and the size much smaller. It resembles Joripes
Casey, but differs from it in having the whole of the discal
area of the prothorax, excepting the sulcate lateral border,
punctate and hairy. The elytral striae also differ from his
description, as does the margined portion of the prosternum
and the vestiture of the pygidium. Casey did not describe
the vestiture of the leg surface.

Notes on the Life-History of the Salt Marsh
Cicada (Tibicen viridifascia Walker) (Hemip.)

By H. Ossorn and Z. P. MEtca.F, North Carolina State
College and Experiment Station.
(Plate III)

While collecting at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina,
on July 27, 1919, we had the fortune to collect a goodly num-
ber of the adults of the Salt Marsh Cicada (Tibicen viridi-
fascia Walk.). We also made some observations on the
life-history of this species which seem worth recording.

The adults were common on the beach, frequenting the
tall dense grasses that abound everywhere in that region.
They were especially common on the so-called Sea Oats
(Uniola paniculata) which grows luxuriantly on the higher
sand dunes on the Wrightsville Banks. The males were
busily singing and usually half a dozen or more could be heard
at one time. The song is a high pitched zing-g-g-g which
is much prolonged. One male observed singing was clinging
to a stem of the sea oats about five feet from the ground,
head up and abdomen well elevated. Several other males
were flushed from a coarse, densely matted, short grass which
grows near the edge of the water at low tide. These were
not singing and were only flushed when they were in danger
of being tramped upon. All the females collected were found
in this latter locality but a numbr of adults were flushed from
the sea oats which did not give the peculiar startled zing
given by the disturbed males and were apparently females.

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A close examination of the stems of the sea oats revealed
characteristic cicada egg punctures. These punctures were
found principally on the old stems of last year’s growth as
well as on the growth of the current year. In one case old
and new punctures were found in the same stem. These
punctures were found at varying distances from the ground,
some being about eighteen inches and others about four feet
from the ground. The number of punctures found in any
one group varied from one to at least ten. Examination
showed that the punctures went right through the thick wall
of the stem to the pith. The eggs are not placed in pairs as
is the case with the periodical cicada, but several are placed
in each puncture averaging 6-7 in the cases where the eggs
were actually counted. What appeared to be fresh egg punc-
tures were brought back to the laboratory and placed in
cages on August I. Owing to the writer’ absence from the
laboratory these eggs could not be examined again until
September 2, when several larvae were found dead in the
bottoms of the cages, so that they had evidently hatched
some time previously.

The nymphal cast skins were found in various situations,
clinging to the sea oats on the higher sand dunes, clinging to
the short grass at water edge during low tide and in the drift
cast up by the waves. Some, if not most, of the nymphs
must pass their underground life in the between tide zones
and be subject periodically to submersion during the in-
coming tide.

The following technical descriptions are appended.

The egg is pearly white in color and measures from 2.1 mm. to 2.2 mm.
in length and .5 mm. in greatest diameter. The egg is slightly curved and
tapers to blunt points at either end.

The first stage nymph. The recentiy hatched nymph is about 1.5 mm.
long from tip of head to the end of the abdomen. The abdomen is slender
and the head is somewhat flattened. The body is sparsely but rather
uniformly clothed with long slender hairs. The hairs on the legs and an-
tennae are somewhat shorter and much stouter. The general body color
is chitin yellow with the eye spot dark red. The antennae are rather
short, stout and seven-jointed. The first and second joints are subequal
in length with the second much more slender. Joints three to six are

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subequal in length and diameter. The seventh joint is shorter and sub-
globular in shape. The arrangement of the spines is shown in figure 4a.
The beak is stout and reaches beyond the middle of the abdomen. The
fore legs are well developed, with the coxa long; the trochanter about
half as long as the coxa; the femur about as long as coxa, broad and heavy
with ventral tooth well developed and provided with a prominent lateral
tooth; the tibia is slender, about half as long as the femur, and the single
tarsal claw is very long, nearly equalling the tibia in length. The middle
and hind legs are slender with long coxae and single-jointed tarsi which
are without claws at the tip.

Fig. 5. Mature nymph. X2. Fig. 5a. Antenna of mature nymph. x15. Fig. 5b.
Fore leg of mature nymph. 4.

Last nymphal stage. Length of body 18 mm; in general appearance
like other cicadas in the last nymphal stage; head large and robust, eyes
large; frons well inflated, crossed by eleven rows of long hairs; antennae
3.1 mm long, eight-jointed, the first joint stouter than second about
two-thirds as long, joints three to six gradually decreasing in length and
diameter, the seventh and eighth abruptly so; beak stout reaching hind

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coxae, three-jointed; all the coxae are very much elongate, and the femur
of the front legs is thick and heavy with a long ventral tooth provided with
an anterior tooth, secondary ventral tooth present; the femoral comb
with seven teeth decreasing in size apically; the fore tibia is about as
long as the femur, bifid apically; the fore tarsus is long, three-jointed
and provided with two sub-equal claws, the median one smaller. The
middle and hind legs are nearly equal in size, with the tibia provided with
five, stout, black spines at the apex, the tarsi are one-jointed with two
very unequal claws at apex, the outer claw about one-half as long as the
inner.

The adult is a medium small cicada with a bright green collar, the costal
vein brownish and sub-costa and radius bright green to the bend of the
wing and the other main veins of the fore wing green to the cross veins,
black beyond.

The head is black above, with fuscous spots at the inner angles of the
eyes and a greenish stripe from the antennal ledges to the eyes, the frontal
arcs are fuscous with the interspaces heavily pruinose; the antennae
are eight-jointed with the two basal joints heavy, the others flagellate.

The pronotum is fuscous with narrow anterior border between the
eyes and the collar green, two converging black spots continued poster-
iorly in a broad triangular black spot bordering the collar. The mesono-
tum is mostly black with fuscous markings. Legs yellowish fuscous with
the spines and the tips of the tarsi black.

The abdomen is black above. Beneath, the head, thorax and lateral
parts of abdomen are heavily pruinose, the central part of the abdomen
lightly so, showing the pale fuscous ground color. The drums are short,
broadly, roundly divergent, the uncus is wish-bone shaped with the
prongs long, curved and sharp-pointed.

Length to end of abdomen, male 23 mm; female 24 mm; to tip of
wings, male 38 mm; female 41 mm; width of collar 10 mm.

Previous records indicate a distribution restricted to the
Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from North Carolina to Louisiana,
but no suggestion of the adaptation to aquatic conditions
appears in any record that has come to our notice.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE III.
Tibicen viridifascia Walk.

Fig. 1. Dorsal view adult male. 1%, showing characteristic color
pattern and venation of fore and hind wing.

Fig. ra. Adult antenna. X15.

Fig. tb. Female genitalia ventral view. 2.

Fig. 1c. Ventral view of male abdomen, showing hind leg, opercula and
male genitalia.

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Fig. 1d. Male genitalia extended lateral view.

Fig. te. Male genitalia extended posterior view.

Fig. rf. Tip of ovipositor. 8.

Fig. rg. Anterior leg. X2.

Bigvo ne gee sy octs:

Fig. 3. Stalk of sea oats showing characteristic egg punctures. Xl.

Fig. 3a. Stalk of sea oats cut longitudinally to show arrangement of
egg punctures. XI.

Fig. 3b. Single egg puncture. X15.

Fig. 3c. Single egg puncture. X15.

Fig. 4. Recently hatched nymph. X20.

Fig. 4a. Antenna of recently hatched nymph. X120.

Fig. 4b. Anterior leg of recently hatched nymph. X35.

The Occurence of Mallophaga on a Dragonfly (Odon.).

Mr. E. B. Williamson has recently sent me specimens of Mallophaga,
several of a small species of Gyropus, and one Trichodectes, which he found
at Quebrada La Camelia, Colombia (Feb. 18, 1917) attached to a dragonfly
(Ischnogomphus jesset Williamson). The only recorded case of a Mallo-
phagous insect found on another insect is that noted by Sharp (Proc. Zool.
Soc. Lond. 1980, p. xxx) who found several attached, apparently by the
mandibles, toa Hippoboscid fly, Ornithomyia avicularia. As this is alsoa
bird parasite it is not surprising that the smaller Mallophaga should at
times crawl upon it, but the occurrence of the’ Colombian specimens on
the dragonfly seemed at first inexplicable, especially as the genus Gyropus
lives exclusively on small terrestrial rodents. However Williamson, in his
description of the dragonfly (Occ. Papers, Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. No.
52, 1918, p. 44) shows that it is in the habit of alighting on the ground or
on leaves near the ground, and one may reasonably suppose that the drag-
onfly had recently perched upon some dead agouti or similiar rodent and
that the insects had then attached themselves to it. So while this case
is very interesting, it is not an example of phoresy, but more properly
belongs with other cases of insects being found in unusual situations,
best explained by our genial E. A. Schwarz in words which formulate a
simple yet indubitable biological law: ‘‘They must sit somewhere.”’

Wm. M. Mann, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C.

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Studies on Costa Rican Odonata.

IX, Sympetrum, with Description of a New Species,

By Pamir P. Catvert, University of Pennsylvania, Phila-
delphia, Pa.

The only Sympetrum recorded from Costa Rica in the
Biologia Centrali-Americana is S. illotum virgula, specimens
of which were examined from San José, San Francisco and
from an altitude of 6000-7000 feet on Irazi. Dr. Ris, in
the Catalogue, Collections Zoologiques . . . Selys* and in
his Libellen (Odonata) aus der Region der amerikanischen
Kordilleren von Costarica bis Catamarca,{ has neither added
any Costa Rican data for this form nor increased the number
of species of Sympetrum from that country.

In the course of the year May 1, 1909,-May I0, 1910, we
observed Sympetrum illotum in Costa Rica at Cachi, Paraiso,
Cartago and vicinity, Laguna Ochomogo, on the mountain
Carpintera, near Tres Rios and at Alajuela. These seven
localities represent a range in altitude from 985 to 1600
meters (3230-5250 feet).{ For the vicinity of Cartago,
including San Isidro del Tejar, our notebooks record its
appearance in every month except December and January
(during the latter of which we were absent except for short
visits by one of us), transformation to the imago on Septem-
ber 20, October 30, 31, November 12, 21, 29, and oviposition

*Fasc. XIII. Libellulinen, p. 677, Bruxelles, 1911.

+Archiv f. Naturges. 82 Jahrg., Abt. A, 9 Heft., p. 180. Berlin, 1918.

{Details as to altitudes, localities, etc will be found in ‘‘A Year of Costa
Rican Natural History” by A. S. and P. P. Calvert, New York, Mac-
millan, 1917.

I have also one male, intermediate between 7. al/lotum and 7. virgula,
sent by Mr. C. H. Lankester with specimens taken near the Rio Jesus
Maria, on the Pacific slope, April 2-4, 1918. The altitude of this locality,
less than 100 meters, is much below that in which this species has been
observed elsewhere in Central America or Mexico. The specimen has
been submitted to Mr. Lankester, who writes that it ‘“conveys no memory
of capture.”” The envelope in which it was originally sent to me is part
of a printed page, another piece of which contained an Erythrodiplax con-
nata whose occurrence at Rio Jesus Maria there is no reason to doubt.

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on May 10, June 20, August 28, September 26, October 7,
11, 31, November 12, 21, April 5, 20. Specimens are not
at hand for all the dates on which the species was noted, so
that it is impossible to specify which subspecies was the form
seen at each observation. Those which are accessible, irre-
spective of locality, are chiefly of the subspecies illotum vir-
gula, or intermediates between 7. virgula and 7. giluum, as
these are defined in the Biologia, volume Neuroptera. There
are before the writer I o& 7. virgula and 2 @ intermediate
between 7. virgula and 7. giluwm, all three taken at Cartago,
May 10, 1909, over the same swampy place. “Two males
taken just above Cartago, May 24, 1909, are respectively
intermediate between 7. allotum and 7. virgula and between
1. virgula and 1. giluum. It seems unlikely, therefore, that
the exact form of the species has any strict correlation with
the habitat.

In Costa Rica we found this species in open swamps and
open fields, at small pools (as in lanes at Cartago), on the
banks of the Rio Reventazon (at Cachf), at a tank in a coffee
plantation (Cachi). As in other species of this genus, the
male and female fly around together while the latter is ovi-
positing, the male holding the female’s — with his abdom-
inal appendages.*

The occurrence of this species at a given station is erratic.
Thus on the southern edge of the town of Cartago:

“The day . . . . was May 10, I909. The rains of the two
preceding days had changed the dusty roads to damp and produced little
swampy spots in the pastures. Over one of these swamps a species of
dragonfly (Sympetrum illotum virgulum) was swarming
There was an exceedingly handsome frog here (A galychnis helenae)

The morning of May II was not so bright as that of the preceding day,

*Dr. C. H. Kennedy states that in California ‘‘ Usually the female of
this species oviposits unaccompanied by the male but here [Auburn in
Placer County] I observed a pair working together.’’ Proc. U. S. Nat.
Mus. vol. 52, p. 609, 1917.

On all of the eleven dates mentioned above for oviposition in the vicin-
ity of Cartago and also at Laguna Ochomogo on Sept. 25, our field note
books expressly record that male and female were flying together, the male
holding the female. We have no record of oviposition in any other way.

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although the sun was shining. We revisited these same swampy spots
but not a single individual of the bright red species of dragonfly nor one
of the peculiar frogs was to be seenthere . . . "'f

On March 4, 1910, this species was at a tank in a coffee
plantation at Cachi and on March 5, by stagnant pools near
the bank of the Rio Reventazon near Cachi; on March 9
and 10 it was not found at these two places respectively
although the days were sunny.

The dates at which this species was observed at localities
other than the vicinity of Cartago and Cachi were: Septem-
ber 25, Laguna Ochomogo; December 4, La Carpintera;
December 9, Alajuela and vicinity; March 17, east of Tres
Rios.

On April 21, 1916, Professor Anastasio Alfaro, Director
of the Museo Nacional de Costa at San José, who has done
so much to advance scientific knowledge of that country,
collected some Sympetra on the Volcano Poas. These at
first sight appeared to be intermediate between S. illotum
virgula and S. allotum giluum, but a detailed study apparently
justifies their recognition as a distinct species for which I pro-
pose the name

Sympetrum nigrocreatum n. sp.

Similar to S. allotum virgula Selys but differing as follows: Size larger.
Range of length of abdomen <, 26-28 mm. (22-25*), 9, 26-28 (21-23);
average o 27.045 (23.33), 9 27.14 (22.6) mm. Range of length of hind
wing 7 30-33 (26-29), 2 31-34 (27-30); average # 31.72 (27.41), ?
32.35 (28) mm.

No additional transverse carina on abdominal segment 4 in <, except
in one o& in which it is low but distinct (present, distinct), but present
in the 2 (present, distinct).

TA Year of Costa Rican Nat. Hist., pp. 73,74.

*The figures and other statements enclosed in parentheses in this de-
scription are those obtained from 12 o&, 5 @ of S. illotum virgula and
intermediates between it and S. zllotum illotum on one hand and S. illotum
gibrum on the other, from the seven Costa Rican localities mentioned on
page 249. They are given immediately after the corresponding figures
for S. nigrocreatum which latter are based on II o', 7 9. Where percent-
ages of variation are given, as for venational characters, each wing, fore
or hind, = 2.777 % for nigrocreatum and 2.941 % for S. illotum virgula
and intermediates.

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Apices of the femora and all of the tibiae and of the tarsi blackish brown
(femora and tibiae luteous or reddish); some tendency toward paling of
the legs is shown by one male which has all the tibiae with a superior
luteous stripe, two males which have the third tibiae somewhat reddish
superiorly and one female which has all the tibiae reddish.

Venation, especially near the front margin of both front and hind wings
blackish brown (luteous or reddish except in three @).

Yellow coloring at the base of the wings reaching on the front pair
to the first antenodal, less frequently to the arculus (most frequently
to the level of the triangle), on the hind pair to the second, rarely the
third, antenodal (to the nodus, less frequently to the second antenodal
or triangle and then a nodal yellow spot is present); no yellowish spot at
nodus of front wings (present). Dark brown streak at base of wing in
subcostal and partly in costal area reaching distad on the front wings
to one-third or one-half way to the first antenodal (one-fourth way or
less to the first antenodal), on the hind wings to the arculus or, less fre-
quently stopping at a point half-way from first antenodal to arculus
(first antenodal, less often to arculus). Dark brown basal streak in
cubital area of hind wings varying from a mere trace to reaching almost
to the cubito-anal cross-vein or anal crossing.

Pterostigma uniformly luteous or even golden yellow, not paler at its
distal end (luteous or ochre brown, paler at the distal end, but golden
yellow in 1 o, 1 @, and not paler at distal end in 3 co’, 3 9), longer, 2.66-
3.26 o! (2.33-2.74), average 2.92 (2.51), 2.81-3.18 Q (2.52-2.81), average
2.97 (2.63) mm.*

Antenodals, front wing, 84 2.77%, 9% 36.1%, 10 2.77%, 10% 44.43%,
11% 5.55%, the remaining 8.32% somewhat irregular (71% 8.82%, 8%
79.38%, 934 5.88%, 8% 5.88%); hind wing 6 22.17%, 7 72.2%, 8 5.557%
(5 + % 5.88%, 6 91.14%, 63% 2.94%). Two rows of cells between M2
and Rs on the front wings begin at the following distances from the mar-
gin and extend thence distad: 2 cells 2.77%, 3 cells 8.33%, 4 cells 33.33%,
5 cells 33.33%, 6 cells 16.67%, 7 and 9 cells each 2.77%f (2 cells 41.16%,
3 cells 23.52%, 4 cells 5.88%, while 29.4% have but one row of cells here) ;
marginal cells here 2 25%, 3 61.1%, 4 13.88% (1 5.88%, 2 82.4%, 3 11.76
%). Two rows of cells between M2 and Rs on the hind wings begin at
following distances from the margin and extend thence distad: 3 cells
22.21%, 4 cells 41.66%, 5 cells 27.77%, 6 cells 2.77% (2 cells 58.8%,
3 cells 8.82%, while 29.4% have but one row of cells here); marginal cells

here 2 11.10%, 3 69.43%, 4 11.1%, 5 2.77% (2 88.2%, 3 11.76%).

*The measurements for the length of the pterostigma and for the super-
ior and inferior appendages of the o’ were made with an eye-piece mi-
crometer in a Zeiss binocular microscope fitted with eyepieces 4, paired
objectives F 55.

tPortions of the hind margin of two wings have been injured, = 5.55 %.

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Double cells between Rs and Rspl, front wings, 0 11.11%, I 11.11%,

2 22.22%, 3 22.22%, 4 30-54%, 5 2.77% (0 97.03%, I 2.94%); hind wings
© 36.11%, I 19.44%, 2 16.66%, 3 13.88%, 4 13.88% (0 100%). Margi-
nal cells between Rs and M3, front wings, 17 13.88%, 18 22.21%, 19
30.54%, 20 16.66%, 21 2.77%, 22 8.33% (13 5.88%, 14 14.7%, 15
5.88%, 16 47.05%, 17 20.58%, 18 5.88%). Marginal cells between
M4 and Cu1, front wings, 4 36.1%, 5 36.1%, 6 13.88%, 7 8.33%, (2 5.88%,
3 52-94%, 4 38.23%, 5 2.94%).

——1-Omm.—>

Fig. 1. Ventral view, apex of abdomen S. nigrocreatum, o&, no. 5, Volcan Poas, alt. 2500
m., April 21, 1916, A. Alfaro. Camera lucida, card at stage level, Zeiss stand, comp.
micros. oc. 2, obj. A, lower lens off.

Fig. 2. Ventral view, apex of abdomen S. illotum intermediate between subspp. virgula
and giluum, oO, no. 53, Cartago, February 19, 1910, Calvert. Same lens and camera
lucida outfit.

3’. Inferior denticles of the superior appendages, viewed from below,
tending to form a reversed curve as shown in text figure 1 (line of denti-
cles almost straight, see fig. 2) and occupying .28-.416, average .353
(.409-.532, average .461) of the total length of the appendage as meas-
ured in profile.

Inferior appendage .89-1.11 mm. (.89-1.04) wide at base, average I
mm. (.96), .30-.44 mm. (.22-.30) wide at apex, average .37 (.28) mm.
Ratio of apex width to base width .333-.435 (.229-.337), average .368
(.295).

Locality. Poas Volcano, Costa Rica, 2600 metres [8530
feet], April 21, 1916, by Professor A. Alfaro. 12 0, 8 92

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sent for examination, I o&%, I Q returned to him. Type &
in the writer’s collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia. As to the type locality Professor Alfaro
wrote, July 22, 1916:

‘‘Durante la semana santa estuve en el Volcan de Poas y colectado
muchas libéllulas en el Potrero del Alto, cerca del crater; alli hay un
Hotel y junto a los desagiies de la casa me pareci6 distinguir tres especies,
lo mismo que en la zanja del Potrero; la especie de mayor tamafio no
dejaba arrimarse y de la tercera solamente un ejemplar vi; creo pues que
mis ejemplares colectados en numero de 40 son o y @ de una sola es-
pecie . . . las libéllulas del Volcan de Poas, por ser esa la mayor
altura en que he colectado Odonatos: 2600 metros.”’

Mr. E. B. Williamson, at my request, has examined a pair
of these specimens collected by Prof. Alfaro and independ-
ent of any suggestion from me has also reached the conclu-
sion that they represent a new species allied to Sympetrum
virgula.

Several features of S. nigrocreatum described above are of
special interest. According to Dr. Ris,* but three species of
Sympetrum possess an additional, or supplementary, trans-
verse carina on abdominal segment 4: dilatatum Calvert
of St. Helena, zllotum Hagen and corruptum Hagen of (chiefly
North) America. S. nigrocreatum is clearly closely related
to illotum, yet the male, in the majority of specimens exam-
ined, lacks this carina, although the female possesses it
distinctly developed. In the male, the appearance is as if
the carina had been smoothed out, its site being indicated
by a slight difference in the surface of the segment. Whether
the presence or absence of such transverse carinae has any
correlation with the internal anatomy has not been deter-
mined, apparently.

Assuming that S. zllotum is the nearest ally of S. nigro-
creatum, the latter is larger and has a greater number of
cross-veins (e. g. antenodals) and of cells on its wings. As
nigrocreatum inhabits a higher, and presumably cooler, sta-
tion than does the Costa Rican zllotum, a causal relation is

*Libellulinen Monographisch bearbeitet. Cat. Coll. Zool. Selys, fasc.
XIII, pp. 617-624, 1911.

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suggested when similar conditions existing in highland and
lower land individuals of Jschnura ramburt1 and I. dentt-
collis* are recalled. Similarly individuals of Erythrodiplax
berenice from the northern Atlantic coast of the United States
are larger and more densely veined than those of the coasts
of Florida, the West Indies and Central America.{ The
question needs much further investigation to determine
whether a presumably lower temperature is a cause of larger
size and denser venation. If this be so, one would expect
individuals of S. illotum from British Columbia and the
northwestern United States to exceed those of corresponding
or lower altitudes in Mexico for example. It is to be hoped
that some one with sufficient material will study it from
this point of view. A number of the venational features of
nigrocreatum given above are not in themselves sufficiently
diagnostic to distinguish this form from d/lotuwm and its sub-
species. They do, however, show the tendency to vary away
from the conditions to be found in allotum.

A New Kricogonia from Cuba (Lep., Rhop.)
By Cuas. T. RAMSDEN, Guantanamo, Cuba.

While on a recent visit to the Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia, Dr. Henry Skinner generously called my
attention to specimens of Kricogonia from Guantanamo,
Cuba, I had sent him some years before. These differ so
much from individuals of other localities that they seem to
belong to a new form and may be known as:

Kricogonia cabrerai n. sp.

o Upperside. Primaries: Yellowish white; costa from’ insertion of
wing to one-quarter of its length is lemon yellow, the remainder slightly
tinged with yellowish.

Secondaries: Same colour as primaries except for a black band 8 mm.
long and 3 mm. wide which begins at the costa running toward end of

*Biol. Centr.-Amer., Neur., pp. 387-389, 1907.
TIbid., p. 268.

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discal cell. This band is unbroken by the nervures while in terissa it is
breken.

Underside. Primaries: Pearly white, base of wing lemon yellow,
apices straw color and marbled.

Secondaries: Straw colour having a marbled appearance produced by
short brown lines except where the black band shows through.

Q Upperside. Primaries: Same as male, the lemon yellow parts being
more intense.

Secondaries: Also as in male but with the outer margins and base
suffused with yellow. Black band lacking.

Underside. Primaries: As in male, lemon yellow base more intense.

Secondaries: Straw colour entirely marbled with short brown lines.

Expanse one wing, o& 27 mm., 2 26.5 mm.

Male and female, Guantanamo, Cuba, May 27th, 1914.
Collected by the author.

Type and allotype in the collection of The Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Paratypes in collection
of the same Academy and also in that of the author.

This form is larger than any I have seen from any other
locality.

It differs from ferissa, on the upperside, in having the black
band longer and wider, extending in this form to nearly the
middle of the wing, while in ferissa it hardly extends to more
than one quarter. The base of the primaries is not orange
as in ferissa and differs on the underside, by the marbled
appearance of the secondaries.

I take pleasure in naming it after don José Cabrera of
EI] Cotorro, Cuba, a tireless and unassuming student of
Cuban Entomology.

Indiana Insects

It is the plan of the department of Entomology of Purdue University
and the Agricultural Experiment Station to build up a collection of insects
which will satisfactorily represent the insect fauna of the Central West,
east of the Mississippi, and particularly that of Indiana. Records, pub-
lications dealing with Indiana insects, and specimens themselves are
solicited.

Careful records of occurrence and economic importance will be kept
with a view to publishing the ‘‘Insects of Indiana” at a future date. Rec-
ords should, therefore, include name, authority for determination, exact
locality, date of capture, stage, host if known, collector and other per-
tinent data.

Your coéperation is earnestly solicited.—JOHN J. Davis, Agricultural
Experiment Station, Lafayette, Indiana.

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On Scolia bicincta Fab. and Scolia undata Klug
(Hymenoptera, Scoliidae).

By C. S. BrimLey, Division of Entomology, North Carolina
Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C.

On looking over our specimens of S. bicincta and S. undaia
I find that they grade into one another and that no definite
line of demarcation can be drawn between them.

In addition to the usual white cross bands on the second
and third abdominal segments above, which may be without
any interruption whatever, even in otherwise typical undata,
there are present in two-thirds of the males examined and
in one-third of the females, white markings of some sort on
either the pronotum, post-scutellum, first abdominal segment
above or second abdominal segment below, or on all of these
or in any combination.

The spots on the pronotum are usually a smail round spot on each
side in front; one specimen, however, has a spot on only one side and
another has an enlarged transverse wedge-shaped spot on each side.
Present in five males.

The marking on the postscutellum is usually a small roundish dot,
elongate in one specimen. Present in nine males and three females.

The marking on the first abdominal segment is either a roundish dot
or a transverse stripe; in the latter case it may be either short and narrow,
extending on about the middle fourth of the segment, or it may be broader
and extend right across the segment. In two cases there is a roundish
dot on one side of the middle. instead of in the middle. Present in some
form in twenty-seven males, and three females.

On the underside of the second abdominal segment there is, in seven-
teen males, a roundish or oval spot not far from the lateral margin of the
segment. These spots vary a good deal in size and but little in shape.

The following table shows the number of specimens showing the vari-
ous combinations of the above markings:

With usual white stripes on segments 2 and 3 only, males 16, females IT.

With additional markings as below: males females
1 A spot or stripe on seg. I above only............... 9 Z
2 A pair of white spots on seg. 2, below only.......... I Co)
3 A white dot on postscutellum only................. 2 2
4 On seg. 1 above, and seg. 2 below only............. 10 oO
5 On seg. 1 above, seg. 2 below and postscutellum only. I o
6 On seg. I above, seg. 2 below, postscutellum and pro-

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7 On seg. I above, seg. 2 below and pronotum only.... I fe)
8 On seg. 2 below and postscutellum only............ I fe)
g On seg. 1 above and postscutellum only............ I I
10 On seg. I above, and pronotum only............... I oO
11 On seg. 1 above, pronotum and postscutellum only. . I fo)
otal Fes. oh eil je she hae A «te ee 47 16
With white crossbands only on segs. 2 and 3 above.. 16 II
Wath additional white marnkinesman 0 ee een cite 31 5

Specimens examined, Raleigh: 33 males, 9 females; Elizabeth City: 6
males, 1 female; Andrews: 4 males, 1 female; Jefferson: 1 male; Blowing
Rock: 1 male; Bushnell: 1 male; Statesville: 1 male; Greensboro: 2 fe-
males; Durham, Blantyre and Whittier: 1 female each. All localities in
North Carolina and all specimens taken between mid-July and mid-Sep-
tember.

House Flies in Court.

One of the noblest decisions on record, so far as bald-headed men are
concerned, has been handed down by the Supreme Court of Maine. It
is notorious that a bald head has a peculiar attraction for the common
house fly. He prefers to roost there or promenade there to any other
place in the neighborhood. Now the high court has declared the bald-
headed persons are entitled to protection. In the case of Williams vs.
Sweet, a hotelkeeper sued because the defendant, who had contracted for
accommodations for a certain period, left the hotel before the time had
elapsed. The defendant said he was pestered by flies, which were par-
ticularly numerous in the dining room.

The august court held that the fly is a nuisance and its disease-carry-
ing characteristics are well known. A patron of a hotel was warranted in
leaving the establishment, regardless of a contract for a longer stay, if the
dining room was infested with the pests. An innkeeper, it declared, agreed
by implication to furnish accommodations compatible with the prices
paid, the standing of the hostelry and the class of persons invited to be-
come patrons. ‘‘Accommodations,”’ the judges asserted, included apart-
ments, dining service and sanitary conditions, and if the hotelkeeper failed
to maintain these in inviting and wholesome manner the patron was war-
ranted in seeking quarters elsewhere, regardless of an engagement to
remain for any specified time.

Hotel men had better get busy with their fly swatters. Restaurant
people also.— RICHARD SPILLANE in the Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Aug.

4, 1920.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER, 1920.

Mental Attitudes toward Insects.

Among other occupations, the editor of the NEws gives
a course of lectures and readings to university students on the
history of entomology. The other day they were reading
Otto Keller’s Die Antike Tierwelt, which called his attention
again to the long period in the history of civilized peoples
in which progress in zoology, and hence in entomology, was
very slow. It may seem difficult for a zoologist to realize
what must have been the mental attitude of many a cultured
Egyptian, Greek or Roman toward insects. But while the
editor was in this frame of mind (he is one unit of the fifty
millions who make up the rural population of these United
States), the butcher came. His business transacted, the
butcher observed that the coming winter was likely to be
cold only in its latter part—because he had been feeling
the caterpillars along the road and they were hard to the
touch only at their hind ends!

Anent an Increased Subscription Price.

In the October NEws (page 226) we asked all our readers
to fill in and mail to us a card, from a page near the back
cover, stating their willingness or unwillingness to subscribe
for the News for 1921 at $2.50. About eighty replies have
been received, but we urge all others to whom the October
number has gone to send us their message on this question
at once, as we must hear from all our subscribers in order to
make our plans for 1921.

Two Syntomidae New to Mississippi (Lep.).

Mr. W. C. Dukes, of Mobile, Alabama, has recently sent me two spe-
cies of Syntomidae (Lep.) from a new locality. They were taken on Cat
Island, Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico. The species are Cosmosoma
auge Linn. and Didasys belae Grote. The former is found in Florida,
West Indies, Central America and South America, and the latter, so far
as I am aware, has not been recorded outside of the State of Florida.—
HENRY SKINNER.

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

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

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

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

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

2—Transactions of The American Entomological Society, Philadelphia.
4—Canadian Entomologist, London, Canada. 5—Psyche, Cambridge,
Mass. 7—Annals of The Entomological Society of America, Columbus,
Ohio. 9—The Entomologist, London. 11—Annals and Magazine of
Natural History, London. 12—Journal of Economic Entomology, Con-
cord, N. H. 17—Lepidoptera, Boston, Mass. 20—Bulletin de la Societe
Entomologique de France, Paris. 31—Proceedings of the Entomological
Society of Nova Scotia, Truro. 33—Annales de la Societe Entomologique
de Belgique, Brussels. 39—The Florida Buggist, Gainesville. 45—Zeit-
schrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, Berlin. 49—Entomolog-
ische Mitteilungen Berlin-Dahlem. 50—Proceedings of the United States
National Museum, Washington. 53—Nature Study Review, Ithaca,
N. Y. 62—Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New
York. 68—Science, Lancaster, Pa. 76—Nature, London. 81—The
Journal of Parasitology, Urbana, Illinois. 82—The Ohio Journal of
Science, Columbus. 90—The American Naturalist, Lancaster, Pa. 103—
Biologisches Centralblatt, Leipzig. 110—Naturwissenschaftliche Woch-
enschrift, Jena. 111—Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 112—Ento-
mologische Berichten, The Hague, Holland.

GENERAL. Blackmore, E. H.—Rare and uncommon insects taken
in Br. Columbia during 1919. (Rept. Prov. Mus. Nat. Hist. Br. Colum-
bia, 1919, 17-23.) Bouvier, E. L.—Revue d’entomologie pour les Annees
1910-1914. Part 1, Biologie; Part 2, Structure et physiologie, developpe-
ment et adaptation. (Rev. Gen. d. Sci. Pures et Appl., xxxi, 410-18;
155-62.) Bouvier, E. L.—The psychic life of insects. (An. Rept.,
Smiths. Inst., 1918, 451-9.) Chetverikov, S. S.—The fundamental
factor of insect evolution. (An. Rept., Smiths. Inst., 1918, 441-9.)
Crampton, G. C.—Remarks on the basic plan of the terminal abdominal
structures of the males of winged insects. 4, lii, 178-83. Dixey, F. A.—
The geographical factor in mimicry. (Rept. Br. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Bourne-
mouth, 1919, 201-7.) van Eecke, R.—Varia entomologica. 112, v,
153-5. Folsom, J. W. et al.—Symposium on ‘The life cycle in in-
sects.” 7, xiii, 133-201. Gibson, E. H.—Professional entomology:
the call and the answer. 12, xiii, 355-7. Lyon, M. W.—Family and

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subfamily names in zoology. 68, lii, 291-2. McConnell, W. R.—
Obituary. 12, xiii, 371-3. Onslow, H.—The iridescent colours of
insects. 76, cvi, 149-52 (Cont.). Parman, D. C.—Observations on
the effects of storm phenomena on insect activity. 12, xiii, 339-43.
Raymond, P. E.—Phylogeny of the Arthropoda with especial reference
to the Trilobites. 90, liv, 398-413. Sahlberg, J. R.—Obituary notice.
68, lii, 216-17. Smulyan, M. T.—An insect and lack of entomological
knowledge an immediate cause of the world war. 5, xxvii, 85-6. Tothill,
J. D.—The chloral hydrate method of preserving insects for dissection.
31, 1919, 8-10. Weiss, H. B.—The contents of our entomological jour-
nals during 1919. 4, lii, 169-73. The insect enemies of polyporoid
fungi. 90, liv, 443-7.

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Bilsing, S. W.—Quantitative studies in the
food of spiders. 82, xx, 215-60. Chamberlin, R. V.—On chilopods
of the family Mecistocephalidae. 4, lii, 184-9. Corrections to Mr.
Gunthrop’s summary of Wood’s Myriopoda papers. 4, lii, 202-3.

Chamberlin, R. V.—New spiders from Utah. 4, lii, 193-201.

NEUROPTERA. Lacroix, J. L.—Deux Odonates nouvelles. 20,
1920, 175-9. Watson, J. R.—An apparently new Haplothrips from
Cubase s9viv, 7 12s

Macnamara, C.—A new sp. of Pseudachorutes (Collembola). 4, Iii,
173-6. Watson, J. R.—New Thysanoptera from Florida. 39, iv, 13.

ORTHOPTERA. Walker, E. M.—Report, Canadian Arctic Expe-
dition 1913-18. Vol. iii, Part J: Orthoptera, 4pp. White, F.—The
‘katydid. 53, xvi, 258-61.

Rehn & Hebard—Descriptions of new genera and species of North
American Decticinae. 2, xlvi, 225-65.

HEMIPTERA. Baker, A. C.—Generic classification of the hemip-
terous family Aphididae. (U.S. D. A., Bull. 826.) Distant, W. L.—
Descriptions of a new species of neotropical Cicadidae. 9, lili, 169.
Goding, F. W.—Sinopsis de los membracidos del Ecuador. (Bol. Med.
y Cirugia, Guayaquil, xviii, 31-37.) Hickernell, L. M.—The digestive
system of the periodical cicada, Tibicen septendecim. 7, xiii, 223-42.

Davidson, W. M.—A new Myzocallis (Aphididae). 4, li, 176-7.
McAtee, W. L.—Key to the Nearctic species and varieties of Erythro-
neura. 2, xlvi, 267-322.

LEPIDOPTERA. Randall, J. L.—‘‘ Winter Hunting.” 17, iv, 66-7.
Schaus, W.—Descriptions of two new species of butterflies from tropical
America. (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., x, 434-5.) Seitz, A.—Die gross-
-schmetterlinge der erde. Fauna Amer. 745-76. Strickland, E. H.—
The noctuid genus Copablepharon with notes on its taxonomic relation-
ships. 5, xxvii, 5.

DIPTERA. Bresslau, E.—Eier und eizahn der einheimischen stech-
mucken. 103, xlix, 337-55. Edwards, F. W.—Scent-organs (?) in

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female midges of the Palpomyia group. 11, vi, 365-8. Engel, E. O.—
Dipteren, die nicht pupiparen sind, als vogel-parasiten. 45, xv, 249-58.
Fritsche, E.—Fliegenlarven als parasiten des menschen. 110, xix, 506-8..
Hine, J. S.—Description of horseflies from middle America. 82, xx,
311-19. Osburn, R. C.—The syrphid fly, Mesogramma marginata,,.
and the flowers of Apocynum. 82, xx, 261-6. Seamans, H. L.—The
external anatomy of Anthomyiaradicum. 7, xiii, 201-222. Seguy, E.—
Liste des moustiques de la collection Meigen conservee au Mus. Nat.
d’Hist. Nat. 20, 1920, 226. Sturtevant, A. H.—The dipterous genus
Zygothrica of Wied. 50, lviii, 155-8. Treherne, R. C.—A note on the
wingless tipulid Chionea valga. 4, lii, 201-2. Villeneuve, J.—A propos
de la revision des Muscidae testaceae de J. Surcouf. 20, 1920, 223-5.
Walker, E. M.—Wobhlfahrtia vigil as a human parasite. 81, vii, 1-7.

Malloch, J. R.—Descriptions of Diptera of the families Anthomyidae
and Scatophagidae of the Katmaiexpedition. 82, xx, 267-91. Schmitz,
H.—Eine neue nordamerikanische Phora-art. 112, v, 223-6. Stein,
P.—Nordamerikanische Anthomyiden. 2. Beitrag. 111, 1918, A. 9,
1-106.

COLEOPTERA. Boving & Champlain,—Larvae of North Amer-
ican beetles of the family Cleridae. 50, lvii, 42-53. Desbordes, H.—
Description d’un genre nouveau et d’une espece nouvelle d’Histeride.
20, 1920, 156-7. Fleutiaux, E.—Etudes sur les Melasidae (Serricornia).
33, Ix, 93-104. Frost & Weiss.—A bibliography of the literature on
the described transformations and food plants of North American species.
of Agrilus. 4, lii, 204-10. Kleine, R.—Ueber den stridulationsapparat
der Brenthidae. 111, 1918, A. 10, 1-84. Kolbe, H.—Die Paussiden
Sudamerikas. 49, ix, 131-41 (cont.). Obenberger, J.—Remarques et
rectifications systematiques concernant le famille des Buprestides. 20,
1920, 189-91. Richmond, E. A.—Studies on the biology of the aquatic
Hydrophilidae. 62, xlii, I-94. Rosewall, O. W.—Wood-boring beetles.
of black locust. 4, lii, 203.

Davis, J. J.—New species and varieties of Phyllophaga. (Bul. Nat.
Hist. Survey, Illinois, xiii, 329-338.) Fall, H. C.—New Coleoptera, IX.
4, lii, 211-15. Jeannel, R.—Notes sur les Trechini (Carabidae). 20,
1920, 150-55. Martin, J. O.—A new California Methia. 4, lii, 215-6.

HYMENOPTERA. Bequaert, J.—Bees and wasps. Katmai Expe-
dition. 82, xx, 292-7. Boulange, H.—Sur le retournement de |’ap-
pareil copulateur des Tenthredinidae. Sur les muscles qui actionnent
l’ensemble de |’appariel copulateur chez les Chalastogastres. 20, 1920,
216-8; 227-30. da Costa Lima, A. M.—Contribuicao ao conhecimento:
dos microhymenopteros parasitos de lagarta rosea . . . no Brazil.
(Arch. da Esc. Sup. de Agric. e Med. Vet., Nictheroy, Brazil, iii, 57-63.)
Enderlein, G.—Zur kenntnis aussereuropaischer Braconiden. 111, 1918,
A, Heft 11, 51-224. MacGillivray, A. D.—Urocerus flavicornis. 4,

lii, 216. Santschi, F.—Nouvelles fourmis du genre Cephalotes. 20,

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1920, 147-9. Shapley, H.—Note on pterergates in the Californian
harvesterant. 5, xxvii, 72-4. Viehmeyer, H.—Anleitung zum sammeln
von ameisen. 111, 1918, A. 9, 160-70. Wheeler & Gaige,—Euponera
gilva, a rare North American ant. 5, xxvii, 69-72.

Cushman, R. A.—The North American ichneumon-flies of the tribes
Lycorini, Polysphinctini, and Theroniini. 50, Iviii, 7-48. Girault,
A. A.—New Serphidoid, Cynipoid and Chalcidoid H. 50, Iviii, 177-
216. Wilcox, A. M.—Notes and descriptions of species of Telenomus
having ten-jointed antennae. 5, xxvii, 78-81.

MANUAL OF THE ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND, INCLUDING THE
Locusts, GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS AND THEIR ALLIES. By ALBERT P.
Morse. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 35,
no. 6, pp. 197-556, pls. 10-29, 99 text figs. April, 1920.—It is a rare oc-
-casion in the experience of any student of a special field in zoology or
botany when he is able to pick up a new comprehensive work, purporting
to be both technical and popular, written by a brother specialist, with
almost all of whose conclusions and methods the reader finds himself
‘quite in accord. Usually there will be found a number of rocks upon
which the conformity of opinion is shattered, some radical innovation
which is untried and frequently unwarranted. Morse’s ‘‘Manual’’ is
clearly one of these rare studies, a painstakingly accurate and thorough
piece of work, a model of its kind and fully in keeping with the high plane
achieved by that author in his previous memoirs.

The style is attractive, literary and where needed is scientifically con-
cise, the illustrations are generally well selected and carefully executed.

The first paragraph of the Introduction (p. 207) fully deserves quota-
tion, as it epitomizes the order better than we have seen done by any
previous author:

“The Orthoptera form a group of insects whose members touch upon
man’s interests in a variety of ways. Some are among the scourges of
the earth, devastating wide areas, reducing the inhabitants to penury
and starvation and leaving in their wake misery and pestilence. Others
of obnoxious character enter dwellings in search of food and shelter, and
though acting in part as scavengers destroy large quantities of food-stuffs
and defile the premises. Wherever he wanders, whether on some name-
less peak of the farthest ranges or in the less inviting vacant lot next
door, by seabeach, grainfield, alkali desert, or mangrove swamp, on city
pavements or yielding footpath to the spring, these little creatures are
his companions; whether he sleep in hut or palace or beneath the stars
their voices soothe his rest.”

The ‘‘Manual” is made up of five major divisions: Introduction, The
Orthoptera of New England (treated in systematic fashion), Accented
List of Scientific Names, Glossary and Index.* The introductory division

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is made up of eighteen major sections, all of interest, very well presented
and taken as a whole the best presentation of the subjects there treated
we have ever seen in a work of this character. We feel called upon to
comment upon certain of these sections, largely to direct the inquiring
student to their contents. The ‘History of New England Orthopter--
ology”’’ is well and concisely presented, the author, however being too
modest to give his own most valuable published work its proper empha-.
sis. Under ‘Classification’? there is reviewed that published by
Brues and Melander, and a modified form of the classic arrangement of
the order, as influenced by the work of Brues and Melander, is followed
in the Manual. Under ‘‘ Anatomy,” the external structure is clearly dis--
cussed and explained, with the aid of numerous figures, and the basic
internal structure is briefly summarized. Under ‘‘Habits”’ we find egg--
laying, situations for egg placing, hatching, moults, maturity, food and
migration discussed; while under ‘‘Songs”’ we find a careful exposition of
the three methods of sound production in the Orthoptera. Under the-
third method it might have been well to have considered the possibility
of the thickened radiate veins of the wings of certain Oedipodinae pro-
ducing sound in display flight or direct flight by rubbing one over the
other, as their surfaces possess accessory modifications in certain species.
“Coloration of Orthoptera’’ is treated in a very careful summary, in
which there are discussed the types of colors in insects, relative predom--
inence of ‘“‘sympathetic and protective” coloration in the Orthoptera,
the principles of ‘‘counter-shading,”’ display coloration, ‘‘contrast-mim-
icry’’ or ‘‘signal coloration’’ as it has been variously called, the seasonal
deepening of color in certain locusts, the rare albinistic and melanistic
conditions, pink katydids, dichromatism, and the uncertainty and unre--
liability of color shade and markings in general as diagnostic features in
New England Orthoptera. The author’s suggestion as to the signal value-
of the conspicuous wing colors in the Oedipodinae is clearly logical and
fits in with our own field experience. Dr. Phineas Whiting has con--
tributed a section giving a summary of his experimental work on color
determination in the green-striped locust (Chortophaga viridifasciata),
from which it appears that temperature rather than light or humidity
is the important factor in color determination in that species, and that:
certain ‘‘so-called color varieties . . . are but color phases dependent:
to a large extent at least upon environmental conditions.” This is an
interesting piece of evidence, making less secure the position of those
workers who would name all such probably purely physiological forms.
Under ‘‘Geographical Distribution of New England Orthoptera”’ we
find a discussion of the New England life zones, analyses of the more
typical species of the three zones, 7. e. Boreal, Transition and [Upper]!
Austral, with a classification of the remainder of the Orthopterous fauna
into such categories as ‘‘ Domiciliary—all introduced” and ‘ Adventive
or introduced.’’ The Orthopterous ‘‘Colonization of New England” and

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“Dispersal Routes’’ are very well presented and the effect of the disap-
pearance of the one-time extensive coastal sandy plain on the range of
certain Orthoptera, which now have discontinuous or localized distribu-
tions, is considered. The importance of the influx of campestrian sand-
loving species from the southwest is emphasized, and a comprehensive
summary of locust habitats or societies is given, the groups being those
already used by the author. Morse’s attitude toward certain of the
present day ecological work is a just one and his footnote on page 260 is
well worth reading by those interested.

In the section on ‘‘Wingless and Vestigial-winged Orthoptera’’ the
author reaffirms his previously expressed hypothesis on the correlation of
long and short-winged locusts in general with definite types of habitat.

In his table of the species recorded from New England the author gives
132 species as recorded from New England, 104 of these native and 28
introduced purposely or accidentally.

In the discussions of locust injuries and other matter of economic im-
portance the fact is emphasized that in New England severe outbreaks
usually have been local in area and of comparatively limited extent,
although, as the context shows, occasionally of great severity. Methods
of control and natural enemies are discussed and it is shown that such
enemies are numerous and varied, ranging from fungus to the lowly farm-
yard cat. There is a most useful section on ‘‘ Methods of Collecting and
Preservation,’’ which gives a summary of the procedure followed by the
author, and also draws upon the experience and practice of other workers.

The division of the work treating systematically of the New England
Orthoptera follows in general the following method: discussion of each
family, general character, summary of development, food, general dis-
tribution, key to species; under species, leading references, brief descrip-
tion, measurements, habits and life period, distributional notes and
records in New England, and generally one or more figures. Under
families such as the Blattidae and Gryllidae established exotic species
and adventive species are each properly treated separately from native
forms. English names are given in all cases for species, the majority
newly coined; the results are not always happy, as for example the ‘ Broad-
shouldered Angulate Pygmy Locust,” although as a whole the names
have been more carefully selected than is usually the case. The author
avoids initiating nomenclatoral novelties, which is greatly to be com-
mended, as a work intended as a manual for the student is no place for
the airing of innovations or controversial matter, but should, instead, be
founded on previously published conclusions.

We find the earwig Euborellia annulipes reported as introduced in New
England for the first time. Brief analyses of the variant color patterns
of the species of Orphulella and of Chorthippus curtipennis are given,
and these are particularly timely and useful. The word pictures of habi-
tats and actions of Arphia xanthoptera, Psinidia fenestralis, Trimerotropis

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maritima, Circotettix verruculatus and Melanoplus punctulatus are par-
ticularly fine, although all of such verbal sketches are good. The data
presented (pp. 481 to 482) on the probable stridulation of species of spine-
breasted locusts (Locustinae) is interesting and should stimulate further
observation along these lines.

The author’s picture (p. 495) of the repopulation of glaciated land, in
treating of Podisma variegata, well deserves quotation. ‘Not by ex-
tended flights of many miles at a time was the land in the wake of the
retreating ice-sheet repeopled by this species, but by hopping, hopping,
hopping, a foot or a yard at a time, pressing northward as the vegetation
and circumstances permitted, clambering up the mountains as fast as
the forest line advanced, dying out in the southern areas and on dry
slopes as ‘the fatal sea of warmth filled the valleys below’ and swept on-
ward far to the north, until now such colonies as that on the summit of
Ascutney Mt. are forever cut off from their kind.”

Another species definitely and correctly recorded from New England
for the first time is Melanoplus dawsoni, while some additional light is
given upon the surprising occurrence of the western Phoetaliotes nebras-
censts in New England.

The Glossary is most useful and quite extensive, the ‘‘Accented List
of Scientific Names”’ is welcome and the ‘‘Index’’ quite full.

Of the twenty plates, three are originals in color, eight are black and
white plates of details, in large part original, one plate of crickets is taken
from a paper by E. M. Walker, three plates in colors of tree crickets are
from Fulton’s study, a set most desirable to have republished in a work
of this character, and five plates are of habitat photographs.

The author has labored for years in his all-too-few spare hours on this
splendid paper and his fellow students have eagerly awaited its appear-
ance. We need say in summarizing only this—it has met every expecta-
tion in scholarly, dignified fashion, it is more than a ‘‘Manual,” it is
instead a monograph. It will soon be one of the much thumbed works

of constant reference in the library of the student of the order.
JaAsGak

Correction

On page 235 of the October, 1920, NEws, in the review of Blatchley’s
“Orthoptera of Northeastern America,’”’ the words ‘original constancy”’
are used in the fifteenth line. The words intended were ‘‘regional con-
stancy,’’ and the line as printed might convey a meaning quite the reverse
of that intended by the reviewer.

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of _ recently purchased. Owing to the high cost of printing, only a small
edition of this catalogue will be printed, and it will be sent only to those
- who have made purchases during the last two years, and to such others
Biss as may apply for it before the supply is exhausted.

fi 226 Eatrlopics Nos. 7 and 8, roo and 110 pages respectively, containing

~ over 5000 titles on all branches of entomology, will also be furnished upon
eta

es "Butterflies of Eastern United States
eager A ie “ivand Canada
| a ; By Samuel H. Scudder

Three volumes, quarto, new buckram
1958 pages of text, 89 plates (21 colored)

Price Twenty-five Dollars

ites Almost ready to issue—
(All page prone corrected)

Leng’ s Catalogue of Coleoptera of |
Ti, veers wae North America
"About 480 pages (including Bibliography of 80 pages)
Price Ten Dollars

JOHN D. SHERMAN, Jr.
132 PRIMROSE AVENUE
MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK

From Celemila. Sa ‘America
OVER 10,000 BUTTERFLIES, INCLUDING |

Morpho cypris
sulkowskyi
From Cuba: Oa9
| 1500 BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, INCLUDING

Papilio columbus
andraemon
celadon
devilliersi

4c

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From Venezuela:

Over 5000 Lepidoptera ea 2000 Cal a :
200 Dynastes hercules _ ee - 200 2 Ses ra

ay

From Assam, ‘Indias. :
1200 BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, INCLUDING

Papilio arcturus . Kallima
“* philoxenus Brahmaea
And Many Other Showy Species re es ts -

From Tibet (Bhutan) Raed

Armandia lidderdalii ‘Parnassius h

GATALOGUES OF .-
ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES AND SPECIMENS
ON APPLICATION

If interested kindly send your list of desiderata tor Poesiieg inform mati

Department of Natural Science
G. Lagai, Ph.D. ghee 404- 410 W.