= se Est ETC CEE sen _i-i=t-5-5 4 ro 5 Pot 8 6 8 LAIT Bp eer PATES dos ARRET Zaire 2317152 - Ch ak ean epee pee =? hs “= Ed PEU ds bo ie isiar CRÉENT Re SA ET AT ET RE DÉMOS P= ba Ra el Ded ; ~—*. Satalelati teeta ese de a nm DER E EE at ra = : 9h» vein of the hind wings is ¢wo branched.. Thisis an error. All of these species agree with the figure in Westwood’s introduction, in having it three branched.) D. cryptolechiella and D. dubitella differ from Depres- saria in the form of the palpi, which, in the former, are like those of Gelechia, except, perhaps, that they are a little slenderer and more elon- gate, while in D. dubitella the brush is very small, though divided. In 2. cryptolechiella the hind wings are not excised beneath the tip. Both of these species also have the neuration, though not the shape of the hind wings, as in Strobisia, rather than Depressaria, the difference being that in Sérobisia the subcostal vein is ¢rifid from the discal vein which gives off a single vein, while in Depressaria the subcostal zs simple and the discal vein gives off two branches—as though a-branch of the subcostal of Strobisza had been separated and placed a little lower down on the discal vein. Otherwise these two species also agree with Defressaria. These species all have the wings comparatively narrower than most of the European species ; shaped rather like D. Af/ana (or even narrower) than like 2. umbellana, as those species are figured by Stainton. They are wider, however, in 2. Cryprolechiella than any of the others. The prevalence of dark brown or dark ochreous colors seems to be characteristic of the genus ; and comparing my species and Dr. Clemens’ descriptions of D. afrodorsella, cinereocostella and pulvipennella, and Dr. Packard’s description of D. robiniella, and Mr. Bethune’s description of D. Ontariella with the figures in Stainton’s Vol. 9, Nat. Fist. Tin., and other figures by Stainton and Douglass in the Zrans. Lond. Ent. Soc., those colors seem to prevail to a greater degree in the American than in the European species. The known American species are, however, too few as yet to predicate this statement generally. rT. D. Cryptolechiella. N. sp. Third joint of the palpi black, with a narrow longitudinal white line on each side. Second joint pale yellow with a narrow longitudinal black line beneath. Antennae pale yellow, checkered above with black and with a narrow longitudinal black line on each side of the basal portion. Head, thorax and base of the anterior wings dull reddish-orange ; anterior wings to the naked eye, pale golden, with the lustre of ‘watered’ silk, produced by a multitude of transverse, narrow, wavy, dark browa lines, as seen under the lens ; six small dark brown spots in a row around the apex, to the naked eye appearing like a narrow marginal line. Ciliae pale fus- cous, with a silvery lustre and a somewhat darker hinder marginal line at © Bc € Lieu “lS THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ~ their base. Hind wings yellowish white with a silky lustre. Alar ex. 5 inch. Possibly this may belong to Cryfvolechia, but I have no knowledge of that genus other than Mr. Stainton’s brief mention of it in the volume before mentioned. 2. D? dubitella. LN. sp. \ Palpi very large, rush small, face and: palpi yellowish white. Head, thorax, antennae and anterior wings dark brown, with three microscopic ochreous spots, one at the beginning of the costal ciliae, an opposite dor- » sal one and one on the disc, forming nearly an equilateral triangle. Pos- terior wings pale fuscous. Alar ex. 12 inch. Kentucky. Larva unknown. 3. D. albisparsella. WN. sp. Dark brown; extreme tip of third joint of the palpi white. Fore wings faintly suffused with ochreous and sparsely and indistinctly sprinkled with white scales, which at the beginning of the costal ciliae become a little more distinct, forming a narrow, clouded whitish fascia pointing a little obliquely backwards; tips of the ciliae whitish. A/ar ex. a little over 5 inch. Kentucky. Larva unknown. AND bestia: Na sp Palpi with the second joint ochreous, dusted with dark brown ; third joint dark brown tipped with whitish. Face very pale ochreous, dusted with brown ; antennae brown; thorax and anterior wings dark brown, a little bronzed and with a little ochreous intermixed, especially in two small patches, one of which is just before the middle and the other about the middle of the wing ; a small whitish costal streak at the beginning of the costal ciliae and another at the beginning of the dorsal ciliae ; ciliae pale ochreous dusted with brown at their base; posterior wings pale ochreous with a silvery lustre. Alar ex. 54 inch. Collection of Mr. Wm. Saunders, London, Ont. ENTOMOLOGICAL REPORT FOR 1871.—We are ‘glad to be able to state that this Report is now printed, and will be mailed to the members in a few days. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 93 INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. From Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana : Insecta. (Continued from Page 57.) ([x73.] 229. Cacuinium simite Avrby.—Length of body 7 lines. A single specimen taken with the preceding species. _ This species in most respects is so like C. 47. Proteus, that I had set it by as another variety ; but upon further consideration I am induced to give it as distinct, since it differs not only in colour but in the form and sculpture of the prothorax and other parts. The apex of the palpi is more dilated, so that it is strictly securiform ; the front behind the antennae is elevated and gibbous, with few scattered punctures: the sides of the prothorax are more puffed out, and much more minutely and thickly punctured, and there is a pair of impressions ‘in the disk : the antennae also at the base are rufous: in other respects it does not differ from JZ, Proteus. [This species, together with the preceding and the subsequent one, belong to the genus Phymatodes Muls. It is probably another variety of the very variable Proteus, as it has not been identified by any author that we are aware of. | 230. CALLIDIUM DIMIDIATUM A7zréy. Length of body 4 lines. Two specimens in Lat. 54°. Body not glossy ; impunctured ; hairy underneath; and except the forebreast, which is black, of a dull rufous. Head channelled between the eyes, behind them convex ; antennae rufous, shorter than the body: pro- thorax somewhat coarctate at the base; minutely granulated ; obsoletely channelled, more conspicuously behind : elytra rufous anteriorly. This species comes very near to C. (Merium) Alni, but it is larger and has no white bands. [CLyTus PALzLrATUS Hald. is a later synonym of this species. It is taken in Canada and the Eastern States; also on north shore of Lake Superior by Agassiz’s Expedition. | [174.| Sub-genus TErroprum Xvrby.—Eyes four, connected by an elevated line. Antennae robust, short: scape much incrassated, subcy- lindrical, remaining joints subclavated. Prothorax constricted anteriorly and posteriorly. Thighs much incrassated, sometimes clubbed. 94 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. The type of this subgenus is Ca//idium triste Fabr. for those with cla- vated thighs, and C. awlicum, for those in which they are incrassated nearly their whole length. These insects will be found to have four dis- tinct eyes, separated by the substance of the head elevated into a ridge, which at first sight appears a continuation of the eye, but which evidently has no lenses implanted in it—they are also distinguished by their hee and short antennae. : 231. CaLLIDIUM (TETROPIUM) CINNAMOPTERUM Azrby. Plate y, fig. 8. Length of body 314 to 6 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. At first sight this species seems the exact counterpart of Cad/idium triste, which it resembles in almost every respect ; but upon examination it will be found that the thighs of these two insects are of a very different shape, those of C. 7° #risle being much attenuated at the base, while those of C. T° cinnamopterum axe not at all. In the latter also the sides of the fore-breast are red, and the elytra are considerably darker, very near the colour of cinnamon. The American specimens vary much in size, but all agree in the shape of the thighs. [Taken at Ottawa, Ont., by Mr. Billings; Lake Superior (Agassiz.) Not common. | [175.] 232. CLyrus unDaytus A7rby.—Plate vu, fig. 5. Length of body 8 lines. Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°, 65°. Body black, underneath hoary from decumbent hairs, above velvetty. Head anteriorly hairy with whitish hairs, behind the antennae very thickly punctured ; palpi, labrum, tip of the nose and cheeks, eyes, antennae, and subface rufous ; prothorax rough with very minute and numerous granules, the base and apex have an interrupted band of yellow hairs, and a hoary spot on each side produced by hairs; scutellum dark brown : elytra with an oblique linelet adjoming the scutellum, another in the disk near the base, two wavy bands, the extremities of the anterior one pointing to- wards the base, and of the posterior one towards the apex; the apex and suture, all pale yellow, produced by decumbent hairs : underneath on each side of the breast are three spots of the same colour, as likewise is the tip of the ventral segments of the abdomen; the legs are rufous, sprinkled with hoary hairs. [A variety of C. undulatus Say.—Ent. Works, i, 119, plate 53. Taken during Long’s second expedition by Say; Lake Superior (Agassiz); and throughout Canada West. } ae gt eat Png ee nn THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 95 233. CLYTUS LUNULATUS Airby.—Length of body 7% lines. One specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Taken also in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. _[176.] This species is extremely similar to the preceding, but its bands and spots are quite white without any tint of yellow: the prothorax has no posterior interrupted band, the anterior spot of the elytra is crescent or kidney-shaped, the thighs are dusky; and the eyes are black; but the most striking distinction is exhibited by the head, which is perfectly smooth and without punctures, but when the occiput is disengaged from the prothorax, as it is when the head is inclined forwards, the front will be found to be separated from it by a bilobed line, behind which the head is thickly and confluently punctured. | Probably a variety of the preceding species. | 574 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. This species resembles the last in having the occiput similarly punc- tured, and the markings of the elytra are similar, except that instead of the white streak at the base there is only a dot: but it is of a brown colour, with the head and prothorax nearly black : the former is distinctly granulated ; the palpi, labrum, eyes, and antennae are rufous, as in C. undatus, and like that the prothorax has both an anterior and posterior interrupted band of white hairs; the elytra and underside of the body are reddish-brown ; the legs rufous, saostcniot ones very long. [Taken at Ottawa and other places in Ontario. | 235. CLYTUS LONGIPES K7rby. single specimen taken in Lat 54°. Length of body 5% lines. A [177.] Body reddish brown, underneath hairy, with white decumbent hairs. Head black, minutely and thickly punctured, with a longitudinal slight channel, transversely elevated between the antennae; vertex ele- vated; palpi, labrum, antennae and extremity of the nose, rufous: pro- thorax black, rather oblong, elevated longitudinally in the disk with an anterior bowed transverse ridge, followed by several minute acute tuber- cles, next in the middle is another shorter ridge, which is also succeeded by similar tubercles: the sides of the prothorax are granulated ; between the granulated portion and elevated disk, it is minutely reticulated, with a pore in the centre of each reticulation: elytra brown, subacute, with three bands formed of decumbent white hairs; the first forming a crescent at 96 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. the scutellum, which runs along the base and down the suture ; the second in the middle first running transversely, then turning upwards towards the base and again turning down so as to form a hook next the suture; the third near the apex, running transversely from the external margin to the suture and then turning upwards so as to form another crescent; there is also a dot between the two first bands near the lateral margin ; there is a large hairy white spot on the sides of the breast, and the anterior ventral segments have a white hairy band at the apex: the legs are rufous, the hinder pair remarkably long. [Included in List of Canadian Coleoptera. | 236. CLYTUS MURICATULUS X77by.—Lençgth of body 5 limes. Many specimens taken in Lat 54°. : This comes extremely near to the preceding species, but is smaller, the discoidal ridges of the prothorax are nearly obsolete, that part has four white hairy spots, the bands of the elytra are differently shaped, and the posterior legs are considerably shorter: the breast and base of the abdo- men underneath are hoary with white hairs, but not always spotted and” branded. [Has not been identified as a distinct species. | [178.] 237. Harctum [ RHAGIUM] LINEATUM Ofv.—Length of body 5% lines. ‘Taken more than once in Lat. 54°, and also by Mr. Drake in the province of Massachusetts. Body black, rather glossy, hoary from longish cinereous hairs. Head constricted behind into a neck, punctured with large scattered punctures ; antennae shorter than the prothorax, robust, last joint ovate, pedicel tes- taceous : prothorax constricted anteriorly and posteriorly, armed on each side by a stout rather sharp spine, punctured like the head, and hairy, but there are three longitudinal stripes without hairs, and the intermediate one without punctures, the lateral ones pass over the spines: elytra mottled with whitish or cinereous hairs, with three longitudinal ridges, the two external ones confluent near the apex, and a little higher up including between them a short abbreviated ridge; the interstices are punctured like the head and prothorax ; at the base and lateral margin the elytra are reddish, and on the ridge next the suture there are two yellowish spots: coxae, trochanters, and base of the thighs reddish: abdomen carinated underneath. [Taken generally from Philadelphia northwards, under the bark of pine trees. | THE CAN ADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 97 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION or APHIDES.—The Aphis family is, as vet, very little known in low latitudes, and there are only two instances of its occurrence to the south of the equato. The first is a Madagascar genus, published by Coquerel: this genus has the fore wings more highly organized than those of any other known form of the tribe. The second dwells near New Caledonia, and is described by Montrouzier, and has much resemblance to some of the European Aphides. In Dr. Leith’s collection of Bombay insects, I have observed an Aphis which, if its spe- cific characters are not obliterated by its shrivellcd condition, is identical with acommon English species. The next record of the family is in North Italy, where Passerini has published a monograph of the species therein. Africa, Asia and Australia are thus almost undiscovered coun- tries as regards Aphides, and afford a large space and require much time for research. The Aphides of America are unknown from the Southern end to the Northern States, where several new species have been described ; a few there, are also species of Europe, and may have been introduced thence into America. Kaltenbach has published a work on the Aphides of Germany ; and Koch another, on those of the same coun- try; and, notwithstanding the three monographs here mentioned, and various descriptions of species in France and in Sweden, there is much yet to be discovered in Europe, especially with regard to the migratory species, and to the more or less conspicuous and numerous alternate gen- erations, and to the influence of temperature and vegetation in changing the structure. The history of Aphides is connected with that of Coccin- ellae, Hemerobii, and Syrphi, which destroy them from without ; and with that of Aphidiidae, Allotridae, and a few Chalcidiae, which destroy them from within ; and with that of ants, which keep them as a flock, and feed on their honey. ‘The little yellow ant lives with Aphides under ground ; the black ant is a guide to the discovery of the long-beaked Aphis in the crevices of the bark of oak trees ; and the large black and red ant resorts to the Aphides in woods. Some Aphides are especially subject to the attacks of Aphidii, from which other species, though equally numerous and noxious, are nearly free, weather and want of food being the agents in causing the latter to pass away. The comfrey Aphis is the frequent prey of a little red Dipterous larva, which seldom attacks other species. The fact that Aphides are stored by fossorial Hymenoptera as provision for their young is well known; and I observed an instance of it in Fin- 98 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. mark. The Aphides of that region must have a long continuance of the egg state; in England this state varies from one month to eight months, according to the species, and according to the weather. The length and season of the egg state in the Aphides of hot countries has not yet been observed, and is an interesting subject for enquiry.—/rancs Walker, in Newman's ÆEntomologist. MONOHAMMUS MARMORATOR, Azrby.—l was so fortunate as to recelve a specimen of this rare insect from a friend last summer. It was taken in Richmond Square, Montreal, on the 27th of July, 1871. Length of body one inch. ‘The markings agree perfectly with Kirby’s description, but as the antennae of his specimen were broken off, I will describe. those of mine. Antennae a little longer than the body, first joint chocolate brown at the base, remainder grey, through which the brown appears in spots and streaks ; second joint the same; third joint grey at the base, deepening into warm brown at the end; fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth redder brown, grey only showing a little at the base ; remaining joints deep red. This is the only specimen I have got. There is another in the collection of the Natural History Society of Montreal, and Mr. Couper informs me that it was mcluded in his Quebec List. Preris Rap.—This destructive butterfly was very abundant about Montreal in 1870, and ruined the cabbage gardens around the city. Last summer they were not nearly so plentiful, and this coming season I hope to see their ranks still thinner, as a good many of the chrysalids that I examined this spring contained parasites in the pupa state.—F. B. CauL- FIELD, Montreal, P.Q. COLEOPTERA PAR ENVAD'CGRIMESBEE Cicindela lecontei, one specimen, June 2nd. Omophron tesselatum. — Elaphrus clairvillei Kirby—politus Lec. Dr. Horn informs me that the specimen heretofore regarded by Leconte as Clairvillei, is undescribed. Blethisa quadricollis, a specimen taken May 23rd. Lachnocrepis parallelus, two, taken in the lake June 1st. Stenolophus carus, about the roots of trees in the swamp, May 13th. Tachys tripunctatus, under stones near water. Ae Haliplus fasciatus. Hydroporus striatopunctalus. Agabus acuductus. Colymbetis ( Scutopterus ) coriaceus, Hcffm. Taken June rst. i longulus, a specimen taken also in the lake June oth. Æydaticus bimarginatus. Ff. piceus. HH. liberus. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 99 Ochthebius nitidus. Sperchopsis tesselatus. Clambus puberulus. Adranes lecontei, four specimens taken in a nest of yellow ants, May rith. Ceophylius monilis, taken in nests of yellow ants from 25th April to middle of May. Pselaphus erichsonit. Tychus longipalpus. Batrisus nigricans, B. globosus, taken with other sp. of Pselaphide under * leaves in the swamp. April. Homalota lividipennis, Aleochara nitida, A. lata, A. rubripennis, Tachy- porus, brunneus, Bryoporus rufescens, Mycetoporus americanus, Acyloph- orus pronus, Euryporus puncticollis, Philonthus sparsus, P. micans, P. sobrinus, P. terminalis, P. paederoites, Diochus Schaum, Lathrobium _ puncticolle, L. rufulum, Scopaeus exiguus, Stenus stygicus, S. flavicoruts, S. dnnularis, S. arculus, Lathrimacum sordidum, Prognatha punctata. Paromalus seminulum. Baocera apicalts. ; Limulodes paradoxus. A specimen of this curious little 77zhoprerygide occurred in the before-mentioned nest of yellow ants with Adranes and Ceophyllus, making two blind species found in the same nest. Prometopia sexmaculata, Trogosita marginata, Sylvanus advena, Antherop- Aagus convexulus. Cryptophagus cellaris. Taken in a nest of Humble bees. Corticaria rugulosa C. picta, Psephenus lecontei, a specimen bred from a larva taken in the creek at Grimsby. Canthon nigricornis, a dead specimen found on the lake shore June 2oth. Cremastochilus Harrisii, also taken on the lake shore. Agrilus cephalicus, A. egenus, Cardiophorus cardisce, Athous discaleratus. | J. Perren, Book Norice.—We have just received the first number of a new work on “ Indigenous and Exotic Lepidoptera,” (R/opaloceres, Heteroceres ), by Mr. Herman Strecker, of Reading, Pa., U.S. The work is well got up in quarto edition, with colored illustrations by Mr. Strecker himself. It is to be published monthly at 50 cents a number, and we recommend it to the careful attention of our entomologists. We shall refer again to this book in our next issue. + ADVERTISEMENTS. 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T.—Pale ochreous, stained, and the veins lined with a more intense shade. ‘Transverse anterior line arcuate, dark ochreous, continued. Median shade arcuate at disc, thence running straightly downward approximate to the transverse posterior line, continued. Transverse posterior line dark ochreous, even, distinct, slightly inwardly sinuate below vein 2. No vinous shadings whatever. Secondaries concolorous, with primaries ; a single even median line cor- responding with the transverse posterior line of primaries. Beneath paler, whitish ; secondaries immaculate ; primaries with traces of trans- verse posterior line superiorly, and a sprinkling of ochreous scales about the costal region. Body parts concolorous with wings. Æxpanse 23 m.m. Outline and ornamentation of WV. flamentaria; but differing by the absence of any purplish stains, the more intense color and denser squa- mation, and quite prominently by the different shape of the transverse posterior line, which is less even in VV. filamentaria, and runs sooner and more deeply inwardly, attaining the internal margin further from the angle than in WV. expunctaria. The course of the median shade differs also; this more nearly attains the transverse posterior line on disc, and again on submedian interspace. This latter inflection is entirely wanting in 4. expunctaria, which seems a little the larger species. Conchylis Robinsonana, Grote. T.—Primaries blackish fuscous with five silvery white maculations above. ‘The first is ovate, free from the base, well sized, touching internal margin, not attaining costal edge. The second is parallel, outwardly exserted inferiorly. Before the apices are two nearly similar sized moderate spots, and the fifth is larger and covers internal angle. Hind wings pale fuscous. Collar fuscous white; the thorax is white above. Caputal squamation pale, while the abdomen is pale fuscous. Expanse 14 m.m. Size of C. 5-maculana Rod., and resem- bling that species, but differing in the relative size and position of the spots on the primaries, notably the basal one and that covering internal angle. 102 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. I name this little species after my friend and brother entomologist, the late Coleman T. Robinson, whose sudden death has caused so great sorrow in many circles, besides the one in which I knew him best. Who. shall say now that he wasted his time in describing the little insects he loved, when it is his descriptions of new species of North American Moths that will keep his fame after death, and, in the nature of human things, long after his other qualities shall have been forgotten by men? So many. are now properly sorrowing for him—I have only to remember this and be silent. NOTES ON” PIERIS "RAE BY G. J. BOWLES, MONTREAL. The April number of the ENTOMOLOGIST contains a communication from my esteemed friend Mr. S. H. Scudder, with reference to the yellow male variety of this species. In it he asks several questions which I shall endeavour to answer, adding some other particulars to make my notes as complete as possible. I think that entomologists will agree with me in considering P. rape as one of the most interesting insects existing on this continent, not only with reference to its destructive habits, but also on account of its recent — introduction and rapid dissemination over the country. The Colorado Potato Beetle is, perhaps, the only species whose progress has been so carefully recorded ; for both have “made their mark” as they spread from place to place, although the butterfly has not been such a formidable enemy as the beetle. A new subject of interest—the yellow male variety -——is now added to the history of the butterfly, and it is certainly worthy of the attention of students, as it may, in the future, aid in solving some of the problems connected with climatic influences and the distinction of species. I first met with yellow males in 1863, and mentioned it in my paper on Pieris rape published in the Canadian Naturalist for August, 1864. Since then I have captured similar specimens each year, and found them to be produced throughout the season. I remember taking one or two so early in the spring that I felt satisfied they belonged to the very first brood of the year, which led me to conclude that the variety is likely to appear at all parts of the season, and in every brood. ‘Those which I captured on the wing have always been males, but, strange to tell, among THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 103 ft a number reared in confinement during the summer of 1864, a yellow Jemale made her appearance, smaller than usual, but of as dark a colour as any that I have seen of the other sex. It may happen, therefore, that the variety may become a permanent one, and, at some future time, be regarded as a distinct species. Who knows how soon favorable circum- stances may develope a new (and yellow) species of Pieris, to be called novanglie or canadensis ! We cannot, however, claim this variety as the effect of a change of habitat and climate on P. rape, as (with all due deference to Mr.Stainton) it has been met with in England. Curtis, in his work on “ Farm Insects,” (quoted in my paper before referred to), speaks of having in his collection a male P. rape ‘taken near Oldham, in Lancashire, which has all the wings of a bright yellow colour.” From Mr. Stainton’s assurance to Mr. Scudder, however, that it was unknown in Europe, its occurrence on that continent must be extremely rare; very different from Canada, and. especially the neighbourhood of Quebec, where I should say that, at a low estimate, one male P. rape out of five hundred is of a yellow colour, more _ or less intense. This estimate would allow for many specimens in a season, as, of all Quebec butterflies, our friend is decidedly the most abundant and prolific. I have seen them by hundreds, at one time, hovering over the fields of cabbages, to the dismay of the cultivators of this useful vegetable. It is curious that this variety should be comparatively common in America, and almost unknown in Europe. ‘The fact would lead us to think that though it cannot have originated here, yet the tendency to diverge from the normal colour of the species has been increased by the transfer to this continent. The Canadian Picris rape (and, I expect, the New England as well), is, in common with some other species of the genus, subject to great variation in colour and intensity of markings, apart from the yellow variety under consideration. The spring brood is of a much purer white than those produced later in the season, and has the blackish markings less in size and paler in colour. I have often seen spring males without the spot on the upper side of the fore wings, and having the blotch on the apex so much obliterated, that I have supposed them, before examination, to be P. oleracea. ‘The spot, however, is generally present beneath, and can be faintly seen through the wing. As the summer passes, the mark- ings of the successive broods become more intense, until in the autumn, individuals (particularly females), are met with which have a greyish appearance, from the number of black scales sprinkled on the wings, 104 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. especially near the body. ‘The illustrations on page 83 of the Report of our Society for 1871, published by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, give an exact idea of the insect at this season. ‘This change in colour has been noticed in England ; indeed, before its progressiveness had been observed, an eminent entomologist there separated the spring and autumn broods into distinct species. I quote from a letter received in 1864 from - my friend Dr. Jordan, of Birmingham :— “You are probably aware that here in Dana we have two distinct broods of the insect, the first appearing in April, the second in July. The first almost wants the apical spot on the top wing in both sexes, and on the male the central spot is often also quite obliterated. To this the name of P. metra was given by Stephens, who then supposed it a distinct species. In the autumnal brood, or typical P. rapæ, we have a larger and darker insect, with the spots more marked, and the black patch at the apex of the fore wing very much darker.” The yellow variety also shares in this progressive change of colour. The spring specimens are of a very delicate yellow, almost without spots, and are very handsome, while those appearing in the fall are of a sulphur yellow, and heavily marked. Dr. Jordan speaks of there being two broods of the insect in England. I think that in Canada they are more numerous. It is impossible, how- ever, to settle the number with certainty, as one brood encroaches on the next ; and from the time when the butterflies begin to deposit their eges on cabbage plants in the hot-beds, in April and May, until October, larve of all sizes and ages may be found feeding on the same plant. The short time required for the complete developement of the insect also favours the idea of there being three or more broods in one season. Some caterpillars reared by me in June, 1864, grew from one-twelfth of an inch in length to their full size, in eleven days; they then became pupæ, and seven days afterwards, the perfect insects were produced. Allowing for the influence of temperature in accelerating or retarding their changes, thirty days would be a fair average to give as the duration of each brood, and this would be equal to four or five broods in the season in the latitude of Quebec. In fact, there is no other way of accounting for their surprising numbers in the latter part of summer. , I have not yet met with any parasite infesting this butterfly, though I have found pupæ which had apparently been destroyed by them; and a fellow-student here (Mr. Caulfield) informs me that he now has about twenty chrysalids containihg some insect enemy. The most powerful THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 105 agent in lessening their numbers is, in my opinion, the intense cold of winter, for, contrary to the rule with regard to insects passing the winter in . the pupal state, the chrysalis of P. rage, unless placed in a sheltered situa-_ tion, does not seem to resist the effects of frost. In early spring, I have. searched under the exposed coping-boards offences, where these pupæ were suspended in scores, and very rarely found one alive; nearly all were killed and blackened by the severe cold, and any living ones brought into the house invariably died in a few days. ‘The first brood of the year is, with regard to numbers, in wonderful contrast to the multitudes of larvee which must have come to maturity and pupated during the preceding autumn, and this difference can only be ascribed to the destroying effects of the winter’s cold upon the chrysalids. The species, in its new habitat, certainly has to pass through extremes of temperature which it has not been accustomed to in England—from which country it was most probably introduced ; and while the increased summer heat of Canada appears to have made it more prolific, by augmenting the number of broods, the greater cold of winter has balanced the account by killing off the surplus, which otherwise would have rendered the insect an intolerable pest. The “compensating” principle in the laws of Nature is thus in useful operation with regard to ?. rape, and as the power of cold decreases in effectiveness through the butterfly becoming acclimatized (which will probably happen in course of time), no doubt other agencies will arise in the shape of new parasitic enemies, to keep the species within due bounds. It would be interesting to know how far this insect has now extended its range, particularly towards the west of Canada. The prediction I made in 1864 has been fully verified, as it has now spread over the Province of Quebec and the New England States ; and last year destroyed $500,000 worth of cabbages in the vicinity of New York alone, according to the estimate of a leading newspaper there. It does not seem, however, to have made equal progress in Ontario. Could not our Kingston friends give us some information on this point? It would be “ thankfully received and faithfully applied.” THE ENTOMOLOGICAL REPORT for 1871 has now been issued, and, we trust, is by this time in the hands of all our members. Should any fail to receive it, the Secretary will forward a copy on being notified. 106 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. : MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. BY V. IT. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. Continued from page 92. ie DEPRESSARIA. pa Oe REA NN LVA0 GP: eh Brush dark brown, apical joint pale yellowish. Head, thorax, and fore wings pale yellow, faintly tinged with pink, and minutely dusted with fuscous, and with a fuscous streak on the base of the costa. Head and thorax slightly iridescent, wings scarcely so ; posterior wings a little paler. Under surface and legs pale yellowish, sparsely dusted with fuscous. Alar, ex. ¥g inch. Named for Mr. C. V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri. Kentucky. Larva unknown. Also in the collection of Mr. Wm. Saunders, London, Ont. 0. D, fuscoochrella. NV. sp. Palpi white, flecked with fuscous ; third joint fuscous, mixed above with whitish. Head pale whitish-yellow, flecked with pale fuscous, strongly iridescent. Antenne pale yellowish, annulate with fuscous, and basal joint fuscous. Thorax and anterior wings pale ochreous, the wings suffused with fuscous at the base. A large oblique fuscous spot on the costa at about the basal fourth, reaching the fold, mixed next the costa about equally with pale cchreous. Anteriorly, this spot is distinctly outlined, but posteriorly, it passes gradually into pale ochreous, thickly dusted with fuscous, occupying the costal half of the wing, and spreading over the apical fourth of the wing, becoming darker towards the apex. Ciliz silvery. Posterior wings and ciliæ grayish-silvery. Adar. ex. xx inch. The prevailing tint of the basal costal portion of the wing is fuscous: Kentucky. Larva unknown. 7, D. fuscolutecila. LN. sp. Palpi dark purplish-brown. Head bronzed, purplish. Antenne pale fuscous and yellowish. ‘Thorax and anterior wings pale fawn colour, with a silky lustre (under the lens pale yellowish, overlaid with fuscous). Posterior wings paler. Body yellowish, thickly dusted with brown, and with purplish reflections. A/ar ex. 1+ inch, Kentucky. Larva unknown. 8. D. obscurusella. N. sp. Palpi and antennz dark brown, the palpi with a little ochreous inter- mixed, and with the second joint ochreous on the inner surface; face pale ochreous, sparsely flecked with pale fuscous; thorax and anterior THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 107 wings dark brown, mixed almost equally with ochreous, and with a few scattered white scales. In some parts of the wings the dark brown scales are condensed into irregular, wavy, rather indistinct lines or narrow bands, one of which is placed at about the basal one-fourth of the costa, and is oblique and furcate, sending one of the branches nearly to the end of the disc ; at about the apical one-third they are again condensed into an indistinct zigzag line across the wing, and again into a brown irregular _patch at the apex. Sometimes in fresh specimens these zigzag lines and < spots in the apical part of the wing appear to be continuous ; but they are indistinct, and when the wing is a little rubbed, they appear as very indis- tinct separate lines or spots. Cilize dark fulvous, sprinkled with dark brown ; posterior wings pale grayish fuscous, becoming darker towards the tip. Alar ex. 54 inch. Kentucky. Larva unknown. Also in the collection of Mr. Wm. Saunders, London, Ont. 9. D. pseudacaciella. N. sp. Antennæ and palpi dark purplish-brown, streaked and flecked with white. Head clothed with dark brown and white scales about equally, tinged with pale purplish. Thorax and anterior wings dark purplish- brown, streaked and flecked with white and ochreous especially ; a streak extending from the base nearly to the apex, just within the costal margin of which the prevailing hue is ochreous, mixed with white. A white costal spot at the beginning of the costal ciliæ, and an opposite dorsal one, both small. Ciliz grayish silvery, with a rather distinct and wide hinder marginal line at their base dark brown. Hind wings pale ochreous- brown. Body and legs dark purplish-brown, with a nearly equal inter- mixture of white scales. A/ar ex. nearly $ inch. Very common in Kentucky. Dr. Packard (Guide, p. 349) mentions another species, 2. robiniella, which seems to be very distinct from this, but which, like this, feeds upon the leaves of the Locust (Robinia pseudacacia). ‘The larva of this species, when young, inhabits the mines of Lzthocolletis robiniella, Clem., and L. ornatella, Mihi, in the leaves of R. pseudacacia and À. hispida. When older, it sews together the leaflets, and lives between them. I once saw one cut its way into the mines of Z. robiniella, proving thus that its frequent presence in those mines was not owing to its having accidentally wandered into torn mines. The young larva is green, with darker green longitudinal markings, with the head and next segment shining black, and mouth ferruginous. \ 108 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. When older, it becomes pale green, with two dark brown longitudinal stripes on top of the third and following segments, with a row of dark brown spots on each side of each line, and a black longitudinal line on each side. to. D. bimaculella. WN. sp. cae head, thorax and forewings shining dark purplish- oes or black. Extreme tip of palpi yellowish-white ; there is a large white spot on the disc just beyond the middle, and a white spot or streak which starts from the beginning of thé costal ciliæ, but does not attain the dorsal margin. Ciliz fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous, each segment of the venter tipped with white. A/ar ex. 12 inch. Kentucky. Common. Larva unknown. tt. D. cercerisella. lV. sp. Palpi white, except the third joint, which is dark brown from the apex nearly to the base. Face, head, and anterior margin of the thorax, white. Antennz dark brown, faintly serrated towards the apex. ‘Thorax and anterior wings shining, soft, velvety black, dusted with a few ochreous scales which, in some lights, give it a bronzy hue. Three large snow-white costal spots, the first of which is the largest, extending to the fold ; the second is about the costal middle, and the third at the beginning of the. ciliæ. A white dorsal spot opposite the third costal, and about four small white spots forming a row around the apex; costo-apical ciliæ short, dark brown ; dorso-apical ones longer and silvery white ; a dark brown hinder marginal line at the base of the ciliæ. Posterior wings scarcely emarginate beneath the np, pale drab, faintly Hines with pink. Alar ex. 72 to 5% inch. The larva is very pretty. When young, it is snowy white; when old, the basal half of each segment, above, is pearly white, and the posterior half shining black, with a shining black band across the head in front. of the eyes, interrupted in the middle, and a transverse bow-shaped shining black streak on the vertex. ‘The true feet are shining black. ‘This is one of the few instances among the 7Zreina where the colours of the imago are indicated by those of the larva. It feeds upon the leaves of the Red Bud ( Cercis Canadensis), which it either folds or sews together. It is exceedingly abundant in the larval state, but is much infested by an ichneumonide parasite, so that I have been able to rear but a single specimen, and haye captured another. 1 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 109 LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF THE LATE COLEMAN TOWNSEND ROBINSON. BY AUG. R. GROTE, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. I give here a list of those of the Entomological writings of my late esteemed friend, Mr. Coleman T. Robinson, that have been published under his sole signature. These recommend themselves to the attention of the student by their conscientious statement and adequate illustration of the different species they discuss. They were all written subsequent to Mr. Robinson’s return in 1868, from a journey to England and Continental Europe, during the prosecution of which a representative collection of European Lepidoptera was acquired, and especial attention was paid to the smaller moths. Mr, Robinson saw and talked with Zeller, whose researches and studies on the Micro-Lepidoptera have furnished the basis on which our best authors have founded their classifications. He could not fail to be benefitted by such contact, and I know he carried with him to his early grave a sweet recollection of the old Professor who had honored him with his good fatherly counsel and even affectionate consideration. Five papers, under the common title of Descriptions of North American Lepidoptera, and illustrated by 86 figures, have been already published under the joint authorship of Mr. Robinson and myself in the Transactions of the “American Entomological Society. The sixth and last paper, bringing, according to our original agreement, the number of illustrations to one hundred, and with a revisionary supplement, is in great part completed. The collection on which these and all our other joint entomological writings were based, is now in the possession of the American Entomo- logical Society. Sometime I hope to be able to publish this Sixth Paper, and bring to a conclusion our joint plan and labors. How deeply do I feel the loss of my clear-headed, talented friend and coadjutor ! I.—LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL MiscELLANIES. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, February 1st, 1869, pp. 152 to 158, Vol. IX., and Reprint, with one coloured plate. In this Paper the following species are described and illustrated :— Euphanessa mendica, Packard, p. 152, plate 1, fig. 1. Luphanessa unicolor, Robinson, p. 153, plate 1, fig. 2. Leese THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. I am inclined to refer this Texan species to Walkers genus Ameria ; to which also Crocota cupraria, Walk., belongs. Oligostigma albalis, Robinson, p. 153, plate 1, fig. 3. # Cataclysta bifascialis, Robinson, p. 154, plate 1, fig. 4 A Texan | species allied to C. opulentalis, Lederer. Eromene texana, Robinson, p. 155, plate 1, fig. 5. Our only described North American species, and allied to Zeller’s Z. ramburiella. Depressaria cinereocostella, Clemens, p. 155, plate 1, fig. 6. Depressaria atrodorsella, Clemens, p. 156, plate 1, fig. 7. Depressaria pulvipennella, Clemens, p. 157, plate 1, fig. 8. Depressaria lecontella, Clemens, p. 157, plate 1, fig. 9. Depressaria grotella, Robinson, p. 157, plate 1, fig. ro. In thus illustrating the closely allied species of this Tineid genius, Mr. Robinson has performed a very useful task. II.—NotEs ON AMERICAN ToRTRICIDÆ. Transactions of the Ameri- can Entomological Society, Vol. 2, February, 1869, pp. 261—288, with six lithographic plates containing eighty-six illustrations. B. The same reprinted; a pamphlet of 27 pages, with the plates coloured. ; With this article Mr. Robinson commenced his labours on the Tortricide. Forty-five species of the genus 707#1x are described and figured, twenty-three of which are noticed for the first time, one re-named, and fifteen referred here from the other genera. Fourteen species of the genus Zeras are described and figured, nine for the first time, three referred here from other genera, one European species recognized as occurring in this country. Finally, twelve species of Conchyls are also described and illustrated. Of these, three belonging to that section of the genus which contains the silver-spotted species, are newly described ; of the remainder, seven are first noticed in this paper, and two for the first time referred to this genus. III.—LisT or NORTH AMERICAN TORTRICIDÆ. Part 1. ~ New York Printing Company, October, 1869. IV.—LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL MISCELLANIES, No. 2. Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, Vol. IX., December, 1869, pp. 310 to 316, and Reprint. In this paper are described the following species :— Æypena internalis, Robinson, p. 311. This species is now known as ypena torenta, Grote ; the name used by Mr. Robinson is preoccupied. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. | ie bal LTypena evanidalis, Robinson, p. 311. This species is allied ie is humuli, Harris, and has probably been confounded with it. In a paper on the North American species of the genus in MSS., the differences are pointed out. Schoenobius sordidellus, Zeller, p. 31. _ Schoenobius longirostrellus, Zeller, p. 312. Schoenobius melinellus, Robinson, p. 313. | Schoenobius clemensellus, Robinson, p. 313. This is Chilo aquilellus, Clemens, but the name had been previously used. Schoenobius dispersellus, Robinson, p. 313. Schoenobius unipunctellus, Robinson, p. 314. Schoenobius tripunctellus, Robinson, p. 314. Crambus minimellus, Robinson, p. 315. Crambus satrapellus, Zeller, p. 315. Crambus bipunctellus, Zeller, p. 316. So far as known to me, the above list contains mention of all the writings for which the late President of the American Entomological Society was alone responsible. INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. \ a . . From Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana: Insecta. (Continued from Page 96.) 238. PACHYTA LITURATA X7rby.—Length of body 7-9 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54° and 65°. [r79.| This is the American representative of P. quadrimaculata, trom which it differs principally in being not so hairy, with hoary instead of yellow-tinted hairs: the punctures of the prothorax and elytra are more minute; the antennae are rather shorter, and the elytra, instead of two subquadrangular black spots, have three less black linear ones, the two anterior ones being partly parallel, and in some specimens confluent. GENUS LEPTURA, Lz. This genus may be thus subdivided with Teer to the species about to be described. PIE THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Eyes emarginate, or kidney-shaped. + Elytra triangular. a HONG ted: ic. | CSAC Me eae re ns Die premorse, Or with a sinus taken out Fat Lu I prothorax anteriorly constricted without posterior angles. ; À not constricted, posterior angles acute. C rounded i. eo yates on TUEe | tt Elytra linear. truncated t rounded jf Eyes entire. at the apex. Ba Be) 239. LEPTURA CHRySocoMA A7zrby.—Plate v., fig. 1. Length of body 514—6¥ lines. Several specimens taken ; the largest, in the journey from New York, the smaller, near Cumberland-house. ‘Taken likewise by Dr. MacCulloch and Capt. Hall, in Nova Scotia. : [180.] This beautiful insect is related to Z. virens, but perfectly distinct. The body appears to be black, but that colour is, in most parts, nearly concealed by a thick and mostly long coat of brilliant golden hairs with . a very slight tint of green, where the coat is thin the body appears minutely punctured. Head subelongated, the neck exserted, subtri- angular; nose with only a few scattered whitish hairs; antennæ black, — third, fourth, and fifth joints rather slenderer and longer than the succeed- ‘ing ones: prothorax between globose and bell-shaped, constricted anter- iorly, channelled, grossly punctured: substance of the elytra pale testa- ceous, towards the apex externally they are dusky ; the golden down on them is shorter and decumbent ; apex diverging and obliquely truncated : underside of the abdomen particularly brilliant from decumbent hairs : legs less hairy than the rest of the body. [Taken from New York to Lake Superior, but not common. More frequently taken in the neighbourhood of Quebec. | 240. LEPTURA SUBPUBESCENS Avrdy.—Length of body not noticed. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Body black, thinly coated with yellow hairs. Head and neck grossly punctured ; antennæ longer than the prothorax, black, downy, | intermediate joints rather slenderer than the others, fourth shorter than the fifth : prothorax shaped as in C. ¢hrysocoma, widely but obsoletely chan- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. L13 | ë q -— nelled ; rough and reticulated, as it were, with numerous confluent punc- tures, sides more hairy than the disk: elytra thickly punctured, pale testaceous, black at the apex, where the suture curves outwards so that they diverge from each other, extremity nearly transversely truncated : abdomen underneath minutely, breast rather grossly, punctured: podex subemarginate. : one à CA SAT. LEPTURA ERYTHROPTERA Kirby. — Length of body 8 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. [181.] Body very black, slightly downy, underneath minutely punc- _tured. Head shorter than in the last section, as well as the neck obsoletely channelled; thickly but not minutely punctured ; antennæ rather longer than the prothorax ; third and fourth joints a little slenderer than the others, and pale red at the base; the sixth is pale with a black | spot on each side at the apex ; and the whole of the eighth is of the same colour ; the last joint is acuminated ; the prothorax is constricted anter- iorly, and the constricted part is perfectly smooth, the rest is thickly and confluently punctured and wrinkled; at the base the prothorax is depressed and obsoletely trilobed: scutellum black, representing an isosceles triangle: elytra of a dull red, grossly and deeply punctured ; extremity scooped out with the external angle longer than the internal and acuminate : mesosternum emarginate posteriorly. [Taken in Canada on flowers in July; not common. ] . 242. LEPTURA CANADENSIS O/ivier.—Length of body 634 to 8 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. : Body very black, slightly downy, minutely punctured. Head as in _ the last species, but the neck is not channelled ; antennæ with base of the fifth jomt, the whole of the sixth and eighth, except the black apex of the former, pale or pale rufous: prothorax as in. Z. erythroptera, only deeply and confluently punctured but not wrinkled: elytra black, san- guineous at the base. In other respects this species resembles that insect ; the .external angle of the apex of the elytra is however shorter. {Quite common from Georgia to Lake Superior. | aly Dip 243. LEPTURA TENUIOR Azrby.—Length of body 534 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [182.] Body black, rather slender, slightly punctured, thinly coated with decumbent yellow hairs. Antennze shorter than the body, fifth joint 114 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. scarcely longer than the fourth: prothorax between bell-shaped and a truncated cone, a little constricted in the middle, fringed with yellow hairs anteriorly and posteriorly : scutellum triangular: elytra testaceous, yellow at the base, and with three yellow bands, the first interrupted ; oblique sinus at the apex not so deep as in the two preceding species: legs testaceous ; abdomen of a deeper colour ; and segments scarcely emargi- nate. This species differs in habit from the two preceding ones, it is. narrower in proportion, and comes nearer to Z. guadrifasciata, but the posterior angles of the prothorax, though acute, are not so prominent ; it belongs however to the same subdivision, with the last mentioned insect. [Considered by Newman to be synonymous with Strangalia fugax. | eee 244. LEPTURA BREVIS Kirby.—Length of body 5 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. . Body shorter than usual in proportion to its width ; black, underneath minutely punctured and thinly covered with rather silvery decumbent hairs. Head thickly and confluently punctured, rather downy with erect © _ hoary hairs ; antennæ shorter than the body ; fourth, fifth, and sixth joints long and slenderer than the rest; six last short and pale at the base: prothorax between bell-shaped and globose, deeply and confluently punc- tured ; downy with some erect hoary hairs ; anteriorly constricted, poster- iorly depressed: scutellum linear covered with pale decumbent hairs: elytra very grossly and deeply punctured, shorter than the abdomen and rounded at the apex, with a lateral band bent a little inwards towards the base, which it does not reach, of the colour of the yolk of an egg; anus entire : down on the legs yellow. [A variety of Z. vagans Oliv. Taken in Canada, also in N. Y. and Penn. | 245. LEPTURA SEXMACULATA Zinz.—-Length of body 5% lines. Two specimens taken in Lat. 65°. [183.] Body rather short, black, downy, minutely punctured. Head very thickly and minutely punctured, obsoletely channelled; antennæ slender, shorter than the body, fifth joint considerably longer than the fourth : prothorax shaped as in the preceding species but less depressed posteriorly ; very thickly as well as minutely punctured: scutellum tri- angular: elytra pale-yellow, with an arched black spot at the base, then follows an interrupted band consisting of three acute black spots placed in a triangle, beyond the middle is a dentated black band which reaches THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1905) neither the suture nor the lateral margin; the apex also, the suture, and the lateral margin towards the apex, are all black. | ' Variety B. Head not channelled: spot at the base of the elytra coalescing with the intermediate and lateral ones. of the anterior band, and reaching the lateral margin ; interior spot reaching the suture so as _to form the half of a spot common to both elytra ; the intermediate band is broader and reaches both the suture and lateral margin. [Belongs to Strangalia (Pachyta). Taken at Quebec by Mr. Couper; Lake Superior . by Agassiz’s Expedition. | . rhe. 246. LEPTURA SEMIVITTATA A7zrby.—Length of body 6 lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Body long and narrow, black, underneath slightly and minutely punc- tured, with the sides of the breast and abdomen brilliant with a silvery lustre from decumbent silky hairs, above glossy and almost naked. Head thickly punctured, but behind each eye there is a levigated space ; antennæ longer than the prothorax, intermediate joints not slenderer than the others, the fourth as long as the fifth ; neck short and levigated: prothorax bell-shaped, not constricted anteriorly, depressed posteriorly ; thinly punctured, especially in the disk: scutellum triangular: elytra punctured but not thickly, punctures almost arranged in rows, towards the apex they are very slight ; a reddish-yellow subflexuose stripe runs from the middle of the base of the elytra a little more than half way towards the apex, which is diverging and truncated: the ventral segments of the abdomen terminate in a reddish membrane. [Synonymous with L. vittata Oliv.; common in Canada on flowers during June and July; taken from Alabama northwards. | … [184] 247. Leprura cuLosa Kirby.—Length of the body 5 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch. Very nearly related to the preceding species, from which it differs chiefly in being much smaller, in having the underside of the body more thickly covered with hairs glittering like silver ; in having the throat pale- _ red; the fifth joint of the antennz longer than the fourth; the punctures of the elytra more numerous and scattered; the yellow stripe sunning nearer to the apex of the elytra, dilated at the base and not flexuose : the fore-breast also in the disk, the after-breast on each side, and the base of ‘the thighs are obscurely red : the tibiæ are piceous. ae 116 ‘THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. + "St. AL 248. LEPTURA SUBARGENTATA Xrby.—Length of the body 4 lines. Taken in Lat. 65°. Body narrow, entirely black, very minutely and thickly punctured, .underneath glittering, but less conspicuously with silver pile; antennæ shorter than the body, nearly filiform, fourth and fifth joints of equal length; prothorax perfectly. bell-shaped, anteriorly not constricted, posterior angles acute, diverging and covered with silver pile: elytra rounded at the apex. [Taken in Canada and Lake Superior. | [185.| 249. Leprura simitis X?r6y.—TLength of body 3% lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. This may possibly be the other sex of the preceding species which it resembles in every respect, except that the antennæ are rather longer, the scape or first joint, all but the base on the upper side, is rufous, as are likewise the thighs and four anterior tibie; the posterior thighs are however black at the apex. 250. LEPTURA LONGICORNIS A7zréy.—Length of body 5 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. At first sight this species a good deal resembles Z. semivitfata and gulosa of the former section, but its eyes are entire, and its antennæ much slenderer and of a different type, more nearly resembling those of, L. argentata and similis. Body black, minutely. punctured, downy, especially underneath, with silvery hairs. Head minutely, thickly, and confluently punctured ; labrum and base of the mandibles rufous ; last joint of the palpi securiform; antennae very slender nearly as long as the body ; scape incrassated, rufous, black at the base: prothorax a little constricted anteriorly, very thickly punctured with a longitudinal dorsal impunctured line or channel: scutellum longitudinally concave, rounded at the apex; elytra nearly linear, grossly punctured, glossy, nearly black, with a pale stripe extending from the middle of the base to near the apex, and gradually approaching the suture; apex subtruncated: legs rufous at the base. [Belongs to the genus Acæops Lec.] # [186.} 251. Leprura Proteus A7rdy.—Length of body 34—5% lines. ‘Taken abundantly in Lat. 54° and 65°. Body narrow, black, punctured, somewhat glossy, rather hairy, especi- ally underneath, with decumbent hairs, those on the elytra have somewhat THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Tey of a golden lustre, the rest are silvery. Nose more grossly punctured than the rest of the head; vertex convex; eyes subovate, pale with a slight golden lustre; antennae filiform, longer than the prothorax, obscurely rufous, sin the four first joints black, fifth joint longer than the fourth : prothorax campanulate, anteriorly constricted, posterior angles a little diverging, thinly punctured; channelled, the channel running between two dorsal gibbosities: scutellum triangular: elytra rather widest at the base, and punctured there more grossly next the suture; diverging and truncated at the apex: tibiae piceous or rufo-piceous ; four posterior thighs rufous at the base. VARIETY B. In this variety only the base of the six last joints of the antennae is rufous, all the thighs are rufous at the base, and the tibiae of a clearer red, but they are dusky at the apex; tarsi rufous at the base. Length of the body 334 lines. C. Elytra with a stripe at the base, tips and lateral margin rufous: antennae entirely black: legs as in variety B. Length of the body 434 lines. D. Elytra with a longitudinal rufous stripe dilated at the base and apex ; bead of the lateral margin also rufous; antennae and legs nearly as in B, but the whole of the tarsi is obscurely rufous. Length of the body 3—4 lines. E. Elytra rufous with the suture and a stripe near the margin abbreviated at both ends, dusky : antennae as in A; legsasin B. Length of the body 4—5 lines. F. Elytra rufous, with a dusky suture ; antennae as in À ; legs as in D. G. Like F, but elytra luteous ; antennae all black. Length of the body 4 lines. H. Like F and G, but legs and antennae ue Length of the body 334 lines. ZL. Proteus seems to vary ad infinitum in the colour of the elytra, antennae, and legs, but as all the varieties agree in every respect except colour and size, and the elytra advance so gradually from pale rufous to black, or vice versa, there can be little doubt of the identity of the different varieties. [This very variable species is common throughout Canada. It belongs to the genus Acmaops Lec. | 118 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. |187.] 252. LEPTURA LONGICEPS Azrby.—Length of body 4 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54° and 65°. : Like the preceding species but shorter in proportion with a longer head. Body black, punctured, hoary with rather silvery down: head as long or longer than the prothorax; eyes pale, subtriangular ; antennae with the second, third and fourth joints slenderer than the rest : prothorax shaped as in Z. Proteus, constricted before, depressed behind, but without diverging angles, channelled but with no gibbosity on each side the channel : elytra neatly linear, very thickly punctured, dirty-yellow, with a _ dusky lateral blotch extending from the base beyond the middle of the elytrum, suture and subtruncated apex black: down yellowish. [ Belongs to Acmeops Lec. | END OF CERAMBYCIDÆ. OBITUARY. We grieve to have to record the death of another devoted Entomologist, Mr. CoLEMAN T. RoBINsON, of New York, who expired, after a very brief illness, on the 1st of May last. Mr. Robinson was born in Putnam County, N. Y., in 1838, and had but recently completed the 35th year of his age. When quite a young man, he made a prolonged tour through Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land, and spent some time at the University of Berlin. Onhis return to New York, in 1861, he engaged in business as a stock broker in Wall Street, and soon became the head of a very successful and enterprising firm, Messrs. Robinson, Cox & Co. So shrewd and successful were his speculations that in a few years he amassed a large fortune, and on his retirement from business a couple of years ago, he was reputed to be worth about a million and a half of dollars. Latterly he resided near Brewster’s Station, on the New York and Haarlem Railway, where he had purchased a handsome country seat. Notwithstanding his devotion to business of so engrossing and exciting a character,he yet found time to indulge in his favorite study of Entomology, and in connection with his friend, Mr. Grote, described a large number of new species of North American Lepidoptera, chiefly belonging to the families of Sphingidæ, Bombycidæ, Noctuadæ and Tortricidæ. A list of his published papers, prepared by his coadjutor, Mr. Grote, is given on another page. We are glad to learn that amongst his other bequests, Mr. Robinson left the handsome sum of $10,000 to the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, with which he was connected for several years. : THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. PAS) MISCELLANEOUS “NOTES. A New DEPARTURE.-—We invite especial attention to the card of that talented and well known Entomologist, Mr. FRANCIS GREGORY SANBORN. We heartily congratulate our esteemed confrere on the stand he has taken on the behalf of Practical Entomologists. Mr. Sanborn is thoroughly qualified, from his scientific attaimments and per- sonal reputation, to take this step, and we sincerely trust a new era may be dawning for Entomological Science, in which the professional skill of competent scientists may receive an equal share of recognition with that of members of the various other learned professions. We feel, however, quite satisfied that while Mr. Sanborn has laid down his terms of consul- tation, he will always be ready, as heretofore, to afford any information to brother Entomologists, or to students struggling to overcome the diffi- culties of the science.—| Æwitor C. £.| STRANGALIA LUTEICORNIS.—On one of the last days of July, 1871, as I emerged from the woods which cover the eastern end of Bishop’s Island—one of the most romantically situated of the Thousand Isles—lI came upon a sunny glade, and in it stood a flowering shrub, (the name of which Ido not know,) in full bloom. The blossoms were thronged with the insect hosts—well nigh all orders being represented in sufficient variety to stock a fair-sized entomological cabinet. My attention was most | attracted to the Coleoptera, from the great numbers of Zypocerus fugax and some few specimens of Strangalia luteicornis. ‘The latter, from the extreme narrowness of their bodies and elytra, as well as from their markings, were very noticeable ; they were also particularly active, running over the flowers, taking to flight, or dropping down among the leaves in a way that almost defied capture. I, however, succeeded in taking one; and learning from a great authority in such matters,that though well known in Pennslyvania, it has not, as yet, been included among the natives of this Province, I make this note of the fact of my capture.—R. V. ROGERS, Kingston. Notes AND Queries. — Zrichius Bigsbit.—Gnorimus maculosus, Burmeister, Knoch. . This insect seems to be very rare in this part of Canada. During nearly thirty years collecting, 1 have found only one specimen, taken at Drummondville, in the Niagara District. Other collections seem to have been equally unfortunate. Pelidnota punctata.—Common about London and Niagara ; has never to my knowledge, been found near Toronto. oy ' \ € LO) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1 Desmocerus cyaneus.—About 25, years ago, I took a colony of about 30 specimens off some elder bushes in rear of Trinity College. I have never met with another specimen near Toronto, cone A found in fall cf 1870 at the Sault St. Marie. à Calosoma scrutator.—Of this magnificent insect, many dead specimens | may be collected on the south shore ef our Toronto peninsula after a southerly wind, but I have collected but two living specimens on this side of the lake. Query.—-Is it known that any of the large Carabidæ are capable of ejecting an acid liquid like the Bomébardiers? The following anecdote may prehaps be worth embalming in the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST :— In the fall of 1839,1 was wandering with a friend over the rocks at Thurand, near Dresden, and found a magnificent Cerabus, about an inch long, probably Awraïus or Auronitens. Examining it, the beast ex; ploded, and shot me in the eye. The pain was so intense, lasting ‘for full a quarter of an hour, that, notwithstanding my Entomological | proclivities, the insect was allowed to escape. Query.—Can any of your correspondents refer me to a paper on the sugar from the ‘‘ Mexican Honey Ant?” I have seen it, but cannot recall where. On mentioning this to my late lamented friend, Mr. Williamson, who was for years engaged on railway construction in Mexico, he informed me that the Indians were often in the habit of knocking down ants’ nests from the boughs of trees, and extracting honey from the interior ; this honey having been formed, not by the ants, who build the suspended nests, but by a species of ‘bee (he called them Sweat Bees), which constructed their as. in the centre of the ants’ nest. I should be glad to obtain any information of my late friends statement.—H. H. Crort, Toronto. ADVERTISEMENTS. Exotic LEPIDOPTERA AND COLEOPTERA.—I have a large collection of specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera from Australia, Manilla, Mexico, and Central America, which I am now arranging for the purpose of sale, as I intend confining myself to Californian insects for the future. J will not exclude from the offered sale my numerous Californian specimens. I will continue to collect in all branches of the Californian entomological fauna, and I invite exchange. Ihave also a complete set of the Pacific Railroad Survey Reports (13 volumes), in excellent condition, which I shall be glad to dispose of. Apply to JAMES BEHRENS, San Francisco California. Ope Canadian Entomologist. VOL. TV. LONDON, ONT., JULY, 1872. ‘No. 3 NOTES ON ARGYNNIS CYBELE. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. -On the 7th of June, while turning over some loose rails lying on a moist piece of ground, near the edge of a wood, I found attached to the underside of one of the rails, lying high and dry, two spinous larvæ, which, from their appearance and location, I at once suspected to be the larvae of some species of Argynnis. The Wild Violet also, the food plant of at least several of this family, growing in abundance here, helped to confirm my suppositions. ‘These afterwards proved to be the _ larvae of Argynnis cybele. Both larvae were in the act of spinning a small web of silk, to which their terminal prolegs were attached, indi- cating that the change to the chrysalis state would soon take place. The following description was at once taken :— Length 1.70 inches. Body thickest along the middle segments, tapering a little at each end, coils itself up when disturbed. Head medium sized, flat in front, slightly bilobed, each lobe tipped above with a short tubercle, from which arises a moderately long black hair ; colour black in front, edged posteriorly above, and half way down the sides with dull brownish-yellow. On the front there are many fine black hairs of varying lengths. Body above black, with a faint tinge of reddish brown, armed with a transverse row of branching spines on each segment. On the second segment there is a branching spine on each side the dorsal line all black, and another pair on sides between the second and third segments, black above, brownish-yellow at base. On the third segment there are four ‘spines similarly situated, that is, one sub-dorsal pair, and another pair lower down, and placed between the third and fourth segments, all black above, brownish-yellow at base. On the fourth segment there is one pair of spines only, the sub-dorsal. From the fifth to the twelfth segments inclusive, each is alike ornamented with a transverse row of six branching spines, those on each side the dorsal line entirely black, or 122 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. with but a slightly paler shade at base ; the next row lower down black above, with a small portion of their base brownish-yellow, excepting on the twelfth segment, where they are all black; but in the next row below, ihe spines have a larger portion of their hee brownish- yellow, with a small space around the base of each where the same colour prevails. Terminal segment with two pairs of black branching spines, one pair placed behind the other, the hindermost being a little the shortest. On the sides of each of the anterior segments, below the spines, there are several shining black tubercles, each emitting a small cluster of short black hairs. Spiracles oval, black, edged with a paler shade. Under surface dull dark reddish-brown. The fifth, sixth, eleventh and twelfth segments each have a transverse row of shining tubercles, emitting tufts of short black hairs ; feet black, prolegs have a patch of black on the outside at their base, reddish-brown above, and within. 3efore turning to chrysalis, the colour at the base of the spines changed from brownish-yellow to a semi-transparent greenish hue. One specimen hung itself up June 9, and became a chrysalis June 10. From the first, the chrysalis is very dark coloured. The following description was taken a few days after the change was effected :— Chrysalis.—Length 1.30 inches. Colour brown, spotted and streaked with black, the whole surface having a polished appearance as if it had been varnished. Head case square above, the flat portion terminating on each side in a slightly raised blackish tubercle; a dark line extends across from one tubercle to the other, bordered in front and behind with yellowish brown. A double ventral row of dark brown or blackish tubercles, one pair on each segment; below these there is a second row of smaller tubercles of a paler colour along the middle segments, just above the spiracles. At the base of the wing cases is a pointed projec- tion. Anterior segments raised to a sharp ridge, and the ventral edge of the wing cases have a similar ridge along the basal portion. Antennae cases dark brown; spiracles oval black. Dorsal region of posterior segments dark brown, nearly black. On visiting the same locality on the oth of June, three chrysalides were found on the under side of pieces of bark which had been peeled: off a dead tree, and were lying scattered about. The pupae were found attached to those pieces which were lying with their convex side up- wards, thus affording a dry and sheltered spot under for the larvae to attach themselves to, I then collected a number of such pieces of bark, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 123 and laid them about in this manner in spots where the Wild Violets grew : thickest, and on my return two or three days after, found six more chrysalides, and another larva just about to change. I feel assured that with such traps as these laid about in places where they are feeding, any one may secure specimens of these larvae without trouble during the first week or ten days in June. 1 have never-succeeded in finding them other- wise, although I have searched long and often. One of the chrysalides pro- duced the imago on the 26th, another on the 27th of June, and others at intervals between the 27th of June, and the 4th of July. The speci- men which changed to a chrysalid on the roth of June produced the imago on the zgth, but this was kept in a cool room all the time, and was hence probably longer in perfecting than it would have been if exposed to the warming influence of the summer's sun. I should judge the ordinary duration of-the chrysalis state, when left in their native haunts, to be from fourteen to sixteen days. All the specimens bred proved to be Argynnis cybele. ON SOME LEAF-MINING COLEOPTERA. BY V. ‘TY. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, It is necessary for me to correct a serious error into which I have fallen. At page 165, v. 3, I have described a larva mining the upper surface of leaves of the White Oak (Quercus alba), which seemed to me to answer the requirements of Dr. Clemens’ Lithocolletis tubiferella, which also mines the leaves of Quercus alba. The larva was not removed from the mine, but viewed through the integument. It seemed to me to resemble greatly, if it was not identical with, Dr. Clemens’ species. The mine answered, in every respect, to that described by Dr. Clemens. At the same time I remarked the peculiar appearance of the larva, which “differs from the ordinary flat Zithocolletis larva as much as that does from the larva of the first or cylindrical group.” In fact I should never have suspected it to be a Lithocolletis larva but for the resemblance, both of the mine and larva, to that of Z. ¢ubiferella, as described by Dr. Clemens. I did not succeed in rearing the imago, and do not know 124 ‘THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. what it would have produced. On the next page (166, v. 3), I mentioned a larva precisely like it, but in a different blotch mine, inhabiting the leaves of Willow Oaks, and another in leaves of the Black Oak, still another in the leaves of the Beech, another in the Sugar Maple, and yet another in the leaves of a species of Desmodium. Viewed through the integument, all of these larvee, except the Desmodium miner, resembled the supposed larva of Z. fubiferella. ‘The miners of the Beech and Sugar Maple leaves appeared to be identical with each other and with the | supposed Z. /ubiferella, but their mines differed from it, and resembled | those in the leaves of the Black and Willow Oak in being more irregular blotches. ‘The miners of the Black and Willow Oaks differed from the others by being of a bluish or smoky colour instead of yellowish-white. The miner of the Desmodium differed from the others in shape resembling the larva’ of Leucanthiza, as described by Dr. Clemens. But the mine and cocoon (or rather zzd@us), are indistinguishable from those of Zz¢/o- colletis guttifinitella Clem. and allied species of Lithocolletis. These larva are all Coleopterous ! They remained in the mines. without food from September to the latter part of April. All died except the miners of the Beech (Fagus ferruginea) and of the Desmodium. In the latter part of April these became pupæ, remaining in that condition for ten days, when the imagines emerged. The miner of the Beech proved to be Srachys aeruginosa, Say, as identified by Dr. Horn, as I am informed by Mr. Wm. Saunders. The miner of the Desmodium proved to be JZetonius laevigatus, day, as identified by Mr. Johnson Pettit, of Grimsby, Ont. The larva-of the Brachys resembles that of CArysobothris femorata, as figured in Packard's Guide, p. 457, more nearly than that of Trachys yemea, figured on p. 458. The head is rounded in front ; the first segment is much the largest, and the larva tapers rapidly thence to the fourth segment, and thence more gradually to the apex. The larva of Afctonius laevigatus is flat- tened, and is rather widest about the middle, tapering, however, more rapidly to the tail than towards the head; the first segment is largest, and the head rounded in front. It resembles the larva of Zrachys - in outline more than that of Chrysobothris. In examining dead speci- mens of all these larvee removed from the mines this spring, I was not able to detect any trace of feet. : I have no excuse to plead for this error other than the facts above stated, and ignorance of Coleopterous larvæ, de THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 125 Flispa quadrata, Fabr, mines the leaves of the Linden (7%/ia Ameri- cana ). Hispa inaegualis, Weber, mines the leaves of Zupatorium ageratoides. ‘ Both species pupate in the mine. Both identified by Dr. Horn. DESCRIPTIONS OF _ GELECHIA ADUNCELLA AND GELECHIA LABRADORICA. à BY AUG. R. GROTE, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. In a very interesting paper published by Professor Zeller in the Transactions of the Royal Imperial Zoological Botanical Society of Vienna, under the date of July, 1868, I find the description of a North American Gelechia. The specimens were communicated to Prof. Zeller by Baron V. Osten-Sacken. I give here a free translation of Professor Zellers comparative description :— > Geélechia aderucella, Zeller.—Allied to G. Ligudella. The yellowish- ‘white transverse line of the primaries, which becomes pure white on the costal edge, is removed farther towards the hind margin of the wing. It is strongly bent below costa towards the apices, and a little widened, is continued on the costal edge outwardly. The ground colour of the base is greyish-brown, so pale in hue as to allow the three black dots (two on the fold, one obliquely over the last of these outwardly at the middle of the wing), to be more or less distinctly perceivable, whereas in G. figulella and vorticella no dots are visible on the black ground colour of the wing. This greyish-brown tint deepens, beyond the outer tivo dots, gradually into the broad black shade which margins the transverse lime. The fringes of the secondaries are pale grey, becoming paler outwardly, and are even at base paler than the external portion of the wing itself. Beneath, the forewings exhibit beyond the middle, and in a corresponding position with the superior end of the transyerse line of the upper surface, a rather distinct white spot. In size this species agrees with an average specimen of G. “eulel/a. In the Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift for June, 1864, p. 200, I find a description, of which I give here a translation, of a species of … Gelechia from Labrador, by Mr. H. B. Moeschler :-— Gelechia labradorica, Moeschler,—-2—Antenne greyish-yellow with 126 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. iy whitish-yellow annuli, palpi greyish-yellow, terminal joint pale yellowish, feet, head, thorax and abdomen greyish-yellow. Forewings of a darker greyish-yellow, subcostal nervules darker, brownish. Hindwings whitish- grey, a narrow dark marginal line. Beneath, the forewings are brownish- grey, with a narrow yellow marginal line. : Lixpanse 22 mil. This inconspicuous species is illustrated on plate 5, at figure 17. On the same page is recorded the occurrence of Gelechia comfinuelda in Labrador. MICRO. - LEPIDOPTERA BY V: I. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY: Continued from Page 108. DEPRESSARIA. D. pallidochrella. NN. sp. Head and palpi very pale ochreous, almost white, a little darker on top, a dark brown spot extends almost entirely around the base of the third joint of the palpi, and another entirely around it before the apex. — Antennae brownish, with about six white annulations in the apical part. Thorax and base of the wings pale ochreous, sparsely dusted with fuscous, with a fuscous line across the wing close to the base. About the basal one-fourth of the wing a fuscous streak passes obliquely backwards as far as the fold, and from thencé to the apex the wing is pale ochreous, rather thickly dusted with fuscous and dark ochreous, with the extreme apex fuscous. Posterior wings pale fuscous; ciliae of all the wings grayish- ochreous ; abdomen dark ochreous, each segment above tipped with very pale or whitish ochreous. Under surface very pale ochreous, with fuscous patches on the anterior surfaces of the nveso and meto-thoracic legs. Anterior legs dark brown on their anterior surfaces. Æ/ar ex. less than 15 Of an inch. Captured in May in Kentucky. The posterior wings in this species are deeply emarginate beneath the apex ; this and the succeeding species which resemble each other being the only two described American species which display this character. This species may be distinguished from the next by its smaller size, paler color, and the brown tip of the forewings. \ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 12 D. versicolorella. N. sp. ‘Head and palpi ochreous, thickly dusted with brown; a brown annulus around the base of the third joint of the palpi, and another before the apex. Antennae dark brown, faintly annulate with ochreous, and with five or six white annulations in the apical portion. ‘Thorax and anterior wings ochreous, thickly dusted with dark brown; a little less thickly in the basal fourth of the wing, with a brown streak across the base of the wing, and a brown streak extending obliquely from the costa about the basal fourth, to the fold, which, however, is scarcely distin- guishable from the thickly dusted portion of the wing behind it; no brown spot at the apex. Posterior wings pale fuscous : abdomen ochreous, the segments not margined with whitish, as in the preceding species. Alar ex. +; Of. an inch. Captured in Kentucky in May. D. bicosto-maculella. N. sp. Head pale yellowish, the vertex dusted with fuscous ; antennae dark brown; second joint of the palpi pale yellowish, tipped with brown beneath: third joint brown, sprinkled above with pale yellowish : thorax and anterior wings blaekish, or very-dark brown, with ochreous and gray intermixed, with a small and indistinct ochreous spot on~the costa, near the base, and another distinct costalous at the beginning of the ciliae, and an opposite dorsal one; ciliae yellowish-ochreous. ‘There are several rather undefined irregular blackish spots or patches on the wings, which, to the naked eye, appear to form three irregular transverse bands, not very definite in outline, one of which adjoins each of the costal ochreous spots, whilst the other is between them. <4/ar ex. * inch. Kentucky. LD. guerciclia. NN. sp. This species is a Depressavia in every respect except that there is a small but very distinct tuft of erect scales at the apex of the thorax. 1 have but a single specimen, which, however, is in perfect condition, and shows no sign of any injury, so that I cannot doubt that the tuft is a normal structure. Antennae dark brown or rather blackish, annulate with white ; palpi iron gray; head silvery, flecked with dark brown or blackish scales ; thorax iron gray, the tuft being ochreous ; anterior wings dark iron gray, with a distinct small blackish spot on the costa at about the basal fourth, and two other smaller ones on the costa, one about the middle, and the other at the beginning of the apical ciliae; there are three or four similar small ones on the disc; ciliae ochreous ; posterior wings pale 128 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. _slate colour, and the abdomen is yet paler. The entire insect, in some lights, shows purplish reflections. Under the lens, the iron gray colour is resolv ed into blackish or dark brown, mixed with ochreous and whitish scales. Alar ex. 1% inch. | \ The larva has the head and first segment dark purplish-brown, except the anterior margin of the first segment, which is whitish. Remaining segments whitish, with two longitudinal narrow pale purplish lines on top, outside of which, on each side, is a wider deep purple one; there is also a multitude of small purple spots, from each of which graceede a hair. It sews together leaves of the Oak (Quercus .obtusiloba) im May, and ‘remains in the pupa state about ten days, the imago appearing early in June. | The two preceding species and 2). obscurusella, ante, p. 100, and 2. bistrigella, ante, p. 92, xesemble each other very closely. 2. obscurusella is more ochreous than the others, and the markings assume the form rather of narrow irregular and zig-zag lines, although, on close inspection, three dark costal spots may be discovered as in gwerciella, but less dis tinct. 2). bicostomaculella is smaller than the others, and the three costal blackish spots have, in it, become to the naked eye three irregular bands, narrowing towards the dorsal margin. 1 have no specimen of 2. rs gella now before me, but I think it can be distinguished by the more linear shape of the ochreous streaks before the ciliae, and by the two small ochreous patches about the middle of the wing. 2. gwerciella may, however, be more readily distinguished by the thoracic tuft. | As the species of Depressaria described in this and the preceding No. differ somewhat, structurally, it is possible that some of them ought not, in strictness, to be placed in this genus. Yet they approach it more nearly than any other. The following notes will explain their similitudes and differences : — D. dubitella has the second joint of the palpi much thickened, form: ing a small wnadivided brush ; the superior portion of the discal vein is very oblique, and the superior branch is united to the subcostal at the end of the cell. ‘The abdomen in my single specimen is broken off. It does not belong strictly in Depressaria. D. albisparsella has the palpi of Depressaria, but the brush is very large; the wings in my single specimen are closed so that I cannot observe the neuration. The antennae are minutely but distinctly pectin: ated, more so than in the true Depressaria. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 129 D. cercerisella and D. bimaculella resemble each other in the ornamen- tation as well as structure. The abdomen is subdepressed, the palpal brush is small and undivided, except at the apex. ‘The neuration is that of Depressaria proper, though the superior and inferior branches of the discal nervure respectively, originate a little nearer to the subcostal and median than is usual in true Depressaria. D. pseudacaciedla has the’ abdomen subdepressed, scarcely tufted, and the superior branch of the discal vein arises very near to the subcostal; otherwise, it is a true Depressaria. D. fusco-ochrella has the abdomen and _ palpi of Depressaria, but the neuration of the hind wings is like that of some species of Ge/echia ; that is, the superior branch of the discal vein is absent, and the subcostal is furcate behind the cell. 2. dicostomaculella, D. Rileyella, D. obscurusella, D. Versicolorella, and D. pallidochrella, are true Depressarie, T believe, though the abdomen in my single specimen of 2. obscurusella is missing. D. pallidochrella and D. versicolorella axe very deeply emarginate beneath the apex of the hind wings. 2. guerciella has the small thoracic tuft, but is otherwise a true Depressaria. All of the foregoing species agree in the neuration of the anterior wings, and all have the Defressaria habits of seeking concealment, and of sliding about upon their backs in their efforts to escape. HAGNO, £é7. 100. At ante p. 01, 1 have described a species as Depressaria cryptolechiella, and have there pointed out the differences between it and the true Depressarie. Indeed, it is scarcely more nearly allied to Depressaria than to several other genera; but having then but a single specimen of that species, and none of any other species allied to it more closely than the species of Depressaria, 1 preferred to place it provisionally in that genus. Since then, however, I have bred the species mentioned below, and not wishing to encumber that genus (already large) with any thing which does not rightly belong there, and, not knowing what else to do with these species, I have concluded to erect for them this new genus. Head and face slightly roughened. Antenne more than half as long as’ the wings ; face rather narrow; eyes large, globose; tongue scaled, longer than the anterior coxæ ; maxillary palpi minute ; labial palpi very long, completely overarching the vertex, second joint without a brush, third joint accuminate, about two-thirds as long as the second. 130 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Posterior wing not emarginate beneath the apex, wider than the anterior, the costal margin nearly straight, the dorsal regularly curved. The discal cell is closed: the costal vein attains the margin just before the apex ; the sub-costal at the apex ; the median sends a branch to the posterior margin betore the discal vein, and becomes furcate at the discal vein, delivering both branches to the posterior margin. ‘The discal vein is slightly oblique, and sends two branches to the dorsal margin ; internal vein, simple. Anterior wings ides ae Bee apex ; costal margin a little convex, dorsal margin nearly straight, apical margin obliquely curved, and apex obtusely rounded. Discal cell closed ; costal vein attains the margin about the middle, and the sub-costal attains it before the apex, giving off one branch before the discal vein; the median rounds gradually into the discal, sending, near the discal, two long curved branches to the dorso- apical margin ; and the discal sends off four veins, the superior of which is furcate, delivering one of its branches to the apex, and the other to the costal margin before the apex ; the three other branches of the discal are delivered to the apical margin behind the apex ; the sub-median is furcate at the base ; the internal is wanting, and the fold is very distinct. The neuration is, therefore, that of Depressaria. The abdomen is also shightly depressed, though not so much as in Defressaria ; and it seems to differ from that genus only in having the palpi more elongate, and without any brush, and in its wider wings, which are more obtusely rounded at the apex. It is certainly not equivalent to either Lxwretia or Ortholelia, but possibly may be equivalent to Crvffolechia, which, however, has not the depressed abdomen. Can this genus be the equivalent of Psz/ocorsis, Clem. ? (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., r860, p. 272). It meets all the requirements of Dr. Clemens’ diagnosis, except as to the form and neuration of the fore wings. Not only so, but what I have called the pattern of coloration is the same in my species as in those described by Dr. Clemens, especially as to the peculiar markings of the antennae and palpi; and even the very shades of colour are the same to a great extent. I have not seen any of Dr. Clemens’ species, and can only compare mine with his written descrip- tions. The striking resemblance between my species of Aaguo and those of Psidocorsis, as described by Dr. Clemens, did not attract my attention until after the preceding portion of this paper was in the hands of the printer, for, on comparing the fore wing of A faginea with a _ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 131 sketch of that of Pszéocorsis, as described by Dr.Clemens, the very decided differences at once satisfied me that the genera were not the same; and the species were accordingly described as belonging to the new genus Hagno. Subsequently, my attention was attracted to the close resem- blance between the species, and a closer comparison has suggested the probability that Dr. Clemens has misdescribed the forewings of his genus, and that the two genera may be equivalent. ‘The differences are con- fined entirely to the fore wings; but then they are decided, and are as follows = Dr. Clemens says that in ifcorsis the hind. margin is obliquely pointed. In Aagno, the costal and dorsal margins are nearly parallel. The wing is widest just before the apex, which is obliquely truncate with the angles rounded. In Psz/ocorsis, there is a secondary cell which I have not been able to detect in Æagro. In Psilocorsis, the subcostal gives off (besides the long branch from near the middle), fowr branches from sear the end of the cell, and the fourth is furcate. In Magno, only three are given off (besides the long one from the middle), from wear the end, and the #44 of these is furcate. In Psclocorsis, the median vein gives off four branches from near the end of the cell. In Æagro only three. In ffagno, the discal vein gives off two branches, but Dr. Clemens does not mention any branches from it in Psz/ocorscs. These differences are too great to occur in one genus; and as they first caught my attention, they satisfied me that the genera were very distinct. On closer examination, however, I cannot help suspecting that there is some mistake in Dr. Clemens’ diagnosis, and that the genera will prove to be equivalent. 1. LH. cryptolechiella. D, cryptolechiela. Ante p 91. Guide fogmella: LV. sp. Ochreous yellow, with a silky lustre; anterior wings dusted with - brown, and with confused indistinct dark brown blotches, and with a row of dark brown spots around the apex. ‘The antennae are annulate with brown ; the second joint of the labial palpi has a dark brown stripe along its under surface, which is continued along the under surface of the third joint to its apex, and the third joint likewise has a similar stripe along the outer, and one along its inner surface. Anterior surface of the two first pair of legs with dark brown patches, and their tarsi annulate with dark brown. Ar ex. 34 inch, Kentucky, 182 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. © | The larva sews together the leaves of Beech Trees (Hugus ferruginea ) feeding between them, and there passing the pupa state, the imago emerging in May. The larva is whitish, with the head ferruginous, the 5 next segment faintly so, and there is a pinkish patch on each side of the anterior margin of the third segment. H. cryptolechiella also pupates between the leaves of its food plant, and this habit, like the stripes on the palpi, which are common to both species, might almost be considered generic characters. à Depressaria cercerisella, ante p. 108, seems to connect this genus with that. It has the abdomen’ but little depressed, the palpi elongate, as in this genus, and the brush is scarcely deserving that name, being very small, and appearing to be divided only near the apex. It agrees also. with this genus in carrying the wings rather more nearly horizontal than Depressaria, and while it has not the dark stripes on the terminal palpal joint, it has that entire joint black. But in Æagro, the anterior wings are not pointed, the apical margin being oblique, whilst in 2. crcerisella, as in all my other species of that genus the anterior wings have the apex pointed or obtusely pointed. It also differs from /Zagv0, and agrees with Depressaria, in not pupating between the mined leaves. TELPHUSA, g¢/l. 100. Nearly allied to Defressaria, from which it differs in having the abdomen not depressed, the antennae more setiform ; the palpal brush very small, though there is a trace of a longitudinal division ; and the terminal joint of the palpi longer than the second. The superior branch of the discal vein arises from a common stalk with the apical portion of. the subcostal, so that the discal sends off but a single independent branch; but this is likewise the case in some species of Depressaria, as e.g. D. pseudacaciella and some others ; and in all the species of Dre saria, when it is independent, it arises very close to ‘the sub-costal, the difference in this respect being that the letter V, formed where they arise from a common stalk, is split at the apex, when they'‘do not. D. cerce7- sella has the normal neuration of Defressaria, but has a very small scarcely divided brush. In Magno, mihi, they are more distinctly separated than in any species of Depressaria that I have seen. With these explanations, the account which I have given of the neuration of Hagno will do for this genus and for Depressaria also. In Hagno, the palpi are as in Depressaria, except that there is no brush. yicostoma, as defined by Clemens, has very nearly the same neuration with Depressaria also, but \ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 139 - has the third palpal joint ‘short. In Telphusa, the costal margin of the hind- wings is a little excised from about the middle to the tip, and the apical part of the subcostal vein is curved. In all these genera, as well as in Callima and Tricotaphe, the neuration of the fore wings is the: same. The two latter genera differ somewhat from each other and from the preceding genera, in the neuration of the hind wings. T. curvistrigella. N. sp. Palpi dark purple, the tip of the second joint and an annulus near the tip of the third, white ; head white ; palpi white, annulate with dark purple above ; thorax and anterior wings rich dark purple; at the base of the costa is a patch of whitish, mixed with purple, and just behind it is a rather wide white streak, which begins on the costa, crosses the wing obliquely to the dorsal margin, and extends along it and into the dorsal ciliae nearly to the apex; just behind the middle of the wing in the dark purple part of it, is a faint indication of a whitish fascia. A/ar ex. $& inch. Kentucky. . ENS LOU RRUIT GROWERS. PAPER NO. 5. BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. THE PEACH BORER. _ The wasp-like moth of the peach borer, Zgeria exitiosa, will be busy during the present month, depositing her eggs on the bark of the trunks of the Peach trees : then as soon as the eggs hatch, the young grubs will begin to eat their way to the inner bark, where it is difficult to reach them. Much good may yet be done, either in preventing the moths from laying their eggs, or, if laid, in destroying the young larvæ, by ; brushing the trunks and main branches of the trees with soft soap, reduced with lye to about the consistence of paint. Fig. 8 respresents, both sexes of the moth; 1 is the female, 2ethe male. It will be observed that they are very unlike each other, so much so that they may readily be 134 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. mistaken for different species. Besides the disparity in size, the fore wings of the male are transparent, while those of the female are opaque, and blue; the female also has a broad orange colored belt encircling the abdomen, which is wanting in the male. TENT CATERPILLARS. It is gratifying to be able to note that the American ‘Tent Caterpillar, Clisiocampa Americana, has been quite scarce during the present season, pest ; ¢ represents one of the ring-like clusters of eggs, and d, the cocoon. During this month the eggs will be laid for the next years crop of caterpillars ; they are usually placed upon the smaller twigs of the trees, each ring or elus- ter containing about two hun- dred and fifty. The Forest Tent caterpillar Clisiocampa sylvatica, fig. 10, has been equally scarce ; in- deed we have not met with a fullgrown speci- men of either va- riety this summer, NAS js i although in past : years they have swarmed on our Fig. 9. - trees and fences. Whether the severity of the weather last winter operated unfavorably upon them, or whether their decimation is due to the increase of their natural insect foes, we are unable to determine ; the fact, however, is an interesting one. THE GOOSEBERRY FRUIT WORM. There is probably no insect more troublesome to the cul. “7 | tivator of the Gooseberry, or more difficult to contend with, Fig. 10. than the worm which attacks the fruit, popularly known as the “ goose- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. E35 whe berry fruit worm.” It isa pale shining green or reddish-green caterpillar about three quarters of an inch long, with a pale brown horny-looking head, and with a patch of a similar colour on the second segment. It lives within the fruit, making its ingress and egress through a small hole, barely big enough to allow its body to pass through ; and as there is no room in the enclosure in which it lives for the larva to turn itself, when danger threatens it backs out very expeditiously, and by means of a silken thread, always ready, allows itself to drop gently to the ground; but when the disturber of its quiet has gone, it draws in the thread by which it had descended, and thus regains its former position. ‘The first indication of its presence is in the premature colouring of the fruit it is operating on, and an unnatural grouping of the berries, which soon put on a withered look. On examination, it is found that the berries surrounding the one in' which the insect lives have been drawn together, and bound with silken threads ; and to facilitate this binding process, such berries are usually detached from their natural position by biting through the stems, and are then held in place by the silken threads only. This insect does not confine itself to to the cultivated gooseberry ; we have found it on the wild ones as well, especially on the Prickly Gooseberry, Ribes cynosbati. Jt also freely attacks the Currant, both the white and red varieties, and occasionally though less often, it is found on the Black Currant likewise. In the case of these smaller fruits, a single berry is not large enough for the worm to shelter itself in ; so here it draws the clusters together and lives in their midst. During the latter part of June, this worm, now full grown, lowers itself by the silken thread already referred to, to the ground, where it con- structs a small silken cocoon amongst dry leaves or other rubbish, and ‘within this changes to a dark brown chrysalis. It remains in this condi- tion till the following spring, when it appears late in April as a small grey moth. Fig. 11 represents the moth and chrysalis, natural size. ‘The fore wings of the moth are pale grey, with many streaks and dots of a Fig. 11. darker shade ; the hind wings paler and dusky. The moth deposits its eggs soon after the fruit has set, and when hatched, the young larva begins to burrow at once into the fruit. This insect has been very numerous during the present season. Where it once establishes itself it is very difficult to eradicate ; in proper time hand picking is the 136 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. surest remedy, but as the worms will, by this time, have gone into the pupa or inactive state, it is too late to apply this means now ; some good may, however, be done by raking up and burning all the dry leaves and. rubbish under and about the bushes. It has also been recommended to give fowls the run of such places, when they are said to scratch up and. devour many of the chrysalides. In the absence of such friendly help, a — top-dressing of lime or ashes would probably prove beneficial. For fuller details in reference to this insect the reader is referred to the report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for 1871, p. 42 and 43. DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO, SPECIES: OF ANAPHORAS BY AUG. R. GROTE, DEMOPOLIS. In Dr. Clemens’ Tineid genus Avaphora, the fore wings are 12-veined. The submedian fold, however, seems to me to become a true vein towards the margin, giving an additional vein (vein 1b). Internal nervure, vein 1a, shortly furcate at base. Median nervure sending out vein 2 near the extremity to internal angle; and emitting 3 and 4, nearer together, on to the external margin. From the base of.the wing at the middle of the discal cell, a ‘ veinlet” is emitted which is furcate before the centre of the wing, sending one branch, the lower, out to extremity of the cell between the origin of 4 and 5, near 4, and angula- tedly connected with it, while 5 seems independant. Its upper branch, apparently the ‘“‘ median fold,” terminates between veins 5 and 6. An analogous “‘veinlet” is thrown off from the lower side of sub-costal nervure beyond the point of furcation of the median “ veinlet,” and terminates at the extremity of discal cell, and at the origin of vein 8. Veins 7, 8, 9, near together at base; 8 to apex; 9 to costa; 10 4 little removed at base; 11 thrown off near base of the wing. Hind wings $-veined ; veins 1a and rb divaricating on to the margin. Discal cell closed by a “ veinlet ;’ vein 4 thrown off from a furcating median veinlet at the middle of the discal cell; 5 thrown off from the “ veinlet,” closing the cell between 4 and 6, near to 6, which latter is sub-continuous with the upper fork of the median cellular ‘‘ veinlet.” The two internal veins are counted together. Vein 7 to apex; 8 to costa shortly before the tip. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 13% AT + Anaphora mortipennela, Grote g.—Labial palpi reflexed, thrown back over and as long as the dorsum of thorax, but not closely applied, thickly scaled but less so than in allied species, fuscous outwardly along the sides, dead whitish on the inside. Head and thorax above dead or dirty whitish. Primaries pale, dirty whitish, with heavily sprinkled black scales on costal region at base, fading outwardly. A black scale patch at extremity of discal cell, and a larger one on submedian fold, below median vein, at about the middle of the wing ; parallel with this at base, a few black scales. ‘There is a faint sprinkling of black scales over the median nervules, and about internal angle are two or three better marked’ black points on the margin. Four costal black marks before the apex, the first of these above discal spot ; other costal marks towards the base of the wing. Fringes fuscous} faintly ined. Secondaries fuscous, much darker than, and strangely contrasting with, the pallid primaries. Beneath both wings fuscous with ochrey stains. ‘The basal joint of labial palpi is prominently dark fuscous or blackish outwardly. Æxpause 25 m. m. Central Alabama. June. | Smaller than 4. Plumifrontella, and easily recognized by its pallid discolorous fore wings, which are also a little more determinate at apices and internal angle than usual. Anaphora agrotipennella, Grote T.—Fuscous or blackish wood brown. Labial palpi reflexed, and as long as the dorsum of thorax, a little paler inwardly, blackish outwardly. Primaries above fuscous, blackish, with a light purplish reflection. From the base outwardly, below median vein, is a prominent pale streak fading externally, where it is diffuse and dark ochrey. It is bordered beneath at base by black scales like a dash, and surmounted and partly interrupted by a black scale patch below median nervure before vein 2. On the discal cell is an unprominent black scale patch towards the base, beyond which an obscure ochrey longitudinal median shade, sometimes lost, stretches over the nervules, and is inter- rupted at the extremity of the cell by a distinct black subquadrate scale patch. [faint blackish costal and terminal marks; fringes fuscous. Secondaries and their fringes fuscous. Beneath, both wings and body parts blackish-fuscous. Æxpanse 27 m.m. Central Alabama; June and July. Very common. I have only seen males of this species, in which the ornamentation of the fore wings above recalls that of various species of Agrotis, such as A. jaculifera, etc. I have tried to recognize in this species À, Popeanella, la8 te THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Clemens, from Texas, but I have failed to reconcile his description ve my specimens, which are not “luteous or yellow along inner margin.’ In A. agrotipennella, at the extremity of the median ochrey shade subtermi- nally, are a few black scale points. These can hardly be the same as the row ‘‘of dark brown spots” of Popeanella. Neither can I, from the description, consider, the Gi nes. of colour and ornamentation as produced by any defect in the condition of Dr. Clemens’ specimens. Recently, a specimen. of À. agrotipennella came into my room to light, upon which, even before capture, I saw several large scarlet mites. Upon pinning the insect, I found them to be five in number, moving freely over the body. When the insect settled, they collected on the dorsum of the abdomen, and were hidden by the wings. ‘The specimen did not seem to be suffering from the presence of these proportionately enormous external parasites. After the death of the moth, they left its body for the table, which they traversed in various directions with considerable celerity. I regret I did not observe them further. The genus Anaphora is represented in Cuba by a species much exceeding in size our A. plumifrontella, which latter exceeds the two species described above in expanse. Specimens of the species above described are contained in Coll. American Ent. Society. I am sure we are all grateful to Mr. Stainton for his collection, in book form, of the writings of the late Dr. Brackenridge Clemens, on North American Z?xe7na. Within the limits of 282 beautifully printed pages, we have collected all of Dr. Clemens’ writings on this group, with memoranda of his descriptions in other families of the moths, and copies of his correspondence. No student of North American Micros can afford to be without this book, which is enriched with notes on our species by its talented editor. As a matter of international courtesy, this publica- tion deserves meritorious remembrance. From an original engraving of the head of Anaphora Popeanella, on page 60, fig. 4, we see that its palpal structure differs from that of 4. plumifrontella, with which latter À. mortipennclla and A. agrotipennella coincide. MISCELLANEOUS NO WES: FremaLe Dercoys.—Last summer an enthusiastic lepidopterist an Kingston put a young female Cecropia moth (Platysamia Cecropia) in a box, with wire gauze on one side, and placed it on his verandah—which, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 139 _ by the way, is at a considerable distance from any trees. Although my friend did not watch very long, yet, the first night he caught five males, attracted thither in some unknown and mysterious- way, by their fair relative ; the second night, ten males were captured, and on the third, eight more were taken ; while, in the morning, the scattered remains of five other amorous moths, (slain doubtless by the cats), were found lying near the cage. Several specimens of Ze/ea Polyphemus were taken m the same manner. Is not this decidedly the easiest and most successful way of collecting a good harvest of these gorgeous creatures ?—R. V. Rocers, Kingston. BLISTERING Brrries.— During the past month complaints have reached us of the ravages of one of the Blistering Beetles, AZacrodbasts fabricii, Lec., (Lytta cinerca, Fab.,) on potato vines. ‘They are said to have been very destructive in the township of Burford, destroying the tops in some localities, eating small holes all over the leaves. Fig. r2a represents this. species, the hair line at the sides showing its nat- ural size. à is another variety of Blistering Beetle not yet found in Canada, but destructive to the po- tato in some parts of the United States. Complaints reached us last year from a correspondent jn the eastern Pee t of Ontario, of the Striped Blistering Beetle, Æpicaufa vittata, fig. 13, damaging, in fact almost destroying a crop of Beets. In some of the southern parts of the Western States they are Bios 12. 5 very abundant on the potato vines, sometimes injuring them considerably. Should any of our readers meet with either of these insects in any Quantity, we should be greatly obliged if they would collect a few ounces of them and for- ies ward by mail, as we are anxious to have their medicinal ‘value as blistering agents more thoroughly tested than they have hereto- fore been.—W. SAUNDERS, London, Ont. SERIDULATION OF ORTHOSOMA CYLINDRICUM, Æabr.—lhe stridulating noises made by many Long-horned beetles ( Cerambycid@ ) are well known to be produced by rubbing the posterior margin of the prothorax against 140 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. certain horny processes between it and the mesothorax, or against the base of the elytra. It is not so generally known, however, that the above named insect forms a decided exception to the rule. This speciés is a true fiddler, stridulating like the Orthopterous Zocustide by rubbing the _ hind femora against the elytra. Ifa specimen be carefully examined, the inside of these femora will be found raspéd from the base to near the tip, by a number of short longitudinal ridges, which, when played against the thin and sharp emarginations of the elytra, produce the rather loud creaking so peculiar to this beetle. ; I cannot recall any author who has published this fact, though as Prionus coriarius is called “the fiddler,’ in Germany, that species may stridulate in the same manner.—C. V. Rirev, St. Louis, July 9, 1872. P.S.-—Prionus imbricornis Linn. (1. e., the dark brown form which, I believe, is labeled od/iguicornis in Le Conte’s collection), likewise stridu- lates by rubbing the hind femora against the lateral edges of the elytra. But as the thigh in this species does not reach as far above the wing- cover as does that of Orthosoma cylindricum,we find no rasp on the inside, which is perfectly smooth ; and the noise is produced by the friction of ~ the inner lower margin, principally near the end of the thigh, where it is shghtly dilated.—C.V.R. ; INSECTS IN PENNSYIVANIA. The Seventeen-year Locusts, as they are called, have made their appearance here and in the vicinity. Here; very abundantly, but diminish in numbers at Jersey Shore and Lock Haven: Further westward, I saw none. In the stage from the depot to Jersey Shore, I listened to an exposition by a physician! on the poisonous qualities of the insect in question, of the existence of which quality he was quite assured. ‘The lady, however, who was his inquisitor, thought it strange if the “locusts” were really so poisonous, that the children, who handled them freely, were not more frequently poisoned. The doctor got over this by assuring the lady that they were not “aggressive.” Popular report gives the year 1865 as that of their last appearance, but this is not very reliable authority. So far as intervals of business allow mie to judge, I should say that insect life is not abundant in North-western Pennsylvania this year, An Argynnis observed at Ridgway,nearly at the summit of the Alleghanies, in considerable abundance. Have not yet determined the species. Czcin: dele, principally repanda, 12 guttata, with a few purpurea, found on the banks of the Susquehanna from Schickshinny downwards. —W. W. ANDREWS, Williamsport, Pa., June, 1872. Che Canarian Entomologist. VOL. IV. LONDON, ONT., el, ia No. 8. THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. Our readers will no doubt be pleased to learn that the condition and prospects of the Entomological Society are now eminently satisfactory. The roll of membership has been increased by upwards of forty names of new members during the current year. 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James Hubbert, Professor at St. Francis College, Richmond, P.Q. Shortly before his death, which occurred in Florida, whither he had 149 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. gone for his health, he bequeathed to the Society his large cabinet of fifteen drawers, and a good useful microscope. ‘The former will be devoted to the reception of a collection of local insects, while the latter will at all times be at the service of members for the purposes of study and investigation. It has been a source of no small gratification to the editor and his coadjutors to receive so many kind expressions of appreciation of their “ Annual Report to the Legislature of Ontario,” which has been recently — distributed among all the members of the Society. 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DESCRIPTION OF THE FEMALE OF ANAPHORA AGROTIPENNELLA. BY AUG. R. GROTE, DEMOPOLIS. In this sex, the labial palpi are short, not exceeding the front to which they are closely applied, porrect. In the male they are reflexed AN à THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 143 and thrown back over the dorsum of the thorax, which they equal in length. In colour and appearance the sexes do not differ. In repose, the À labial palpi are closely applied to the thorax in the living speci- men, and from their pale ochrey outer colour have-the effect of thoracic vittæ. In my original description I call them blackish “ outwardly;” the exposed upper portion is pale or ochrey, else they are blackish. In the _dried specimen they are apt to become a little elevated. A. agrotipennella varies in the obsolescence of the discal ochrey shades, while the pale submedian dash itself is sometimes a little indistinct. I have already noted that Dr. Clemens’ A. Popeanella disagrees with A. agrotipennella by, among other characters, its being described as luteous along the inner margin ; that authors description of A. arcanella better agrees, but this must be decidedly distinct also, since Dr. Clemens places 4. arcanella in a distinct section ; labial palpi shorter in the 2 than in the other species ; ascending but not recurved. This character is totally opposed to our species, in which the À labial palpi are as long as in A. plumifrontella, which latter species I have taken at night at Hastings, on the Hudson, N.Y., in July. There is a certain correspondence in the position of the dark spots on the fore wings in this genus, which gives a similarity to the specific diagnoses. Memes ON AVEEUABUS BIPUSTULATUS, Fabr. BY MARY E. MURTFELDI, KIRKWOOD, SI. LOUIS, MO. In the spring of 1871, my attention was attracted by the peculiar manner in which many of the leaves of the Laurel Oak (Q. imbricaria) were rolled up. ‘The cases thus formed were compact and cylindrical, varying in length from one third to one half an inch, by an average ‘diameter of one-fifth of an inch, and very neatly finished up. Several of them were opened, and each found to contain a single, smooth, spherical, _ _translucent-yellow egg, about 0.04 inch in diameter. Desirous of rearing the insects, I collected quite a number of the interesting little nests, and _ watched, with much curiosity, for the larvæ to appear—not knowing, at that time, what to expect. But my observations were not rewarded; and, after several weeks of impatient waiting, I made another examination into the contents of the now blackened and shriveled up cases, and found two or three very small larvæ, dead and shrunken, but evidently of some curculio, 144 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. £ During the latter part of April of the present year, I again found the cases in considerable number on the same species of Oak; and one evening, about the 1st of May, after sunset, I was so fortunate as to discover the parent beetle in the act of finishing up one of her nests, trimming ‘up and tucking in the ends with her beak. After watching her movements for a short time, I secured both beetle and case. The former was at once submitted to Mr. Riley for determination, and pro- nounced to be AZtelabus bipustulatus, of Fabricius. If one of these nests be very carefully unrolled, the wodus operand: of its construction can readily be seen. ‘The egg is first deposited near the tip of the leaf, and a little to one side ; the blade of the leaf is then cut through on both sides of the mid-rib, about an inch and a half below ; a row of punctures is made on each side of the mid-rib of the severed por- tion, which facilitates folding the leaf together, upper surface inside, after which the folded leaf is tightly rolled up from the apex to the transverse cut, bringing the egg in the centre ; the concluding operation is the tuck- ing in and trimming off the irregularities of the ends. No trace of any gummy substance to assist in keeping the case in shape can be perceived, | except the slight extravasation of sap caused by the punctures and pres- sure of the beak of the little artisan. As I have never been able to observe these beetles working on their cases in the day-time, except on the occasion referred to, when it was already growing somewhat dark, I conclude that their period of greatest activity is during the night. : Observing that the cases invariably dropped to the ground a few days after completion, I collected a number, and placed them upon moistened sand in a breeding jar. By May 15th, several of the eggs had hatched, the tiny larve produced from them being oval, translucent-white, with strong brown jaws; they seemed to be feeding upon the dry substance of their nest. An examination a few days later showed this to be the case, as the larvæ had grown considerably, and had excavated quite a cavity in their dwelling. On opening one of the nests about the last of May, I was much surprised to find the inhabitant already in the pupa state. Several of the remaining cases—-which were by this time reduced to mere shells—contained full-grown larvæ, of which the following are the general characteristics :— ; Average dorsal length 0.22 inch, diameter on abdominal segments 0.06 in., tapering anteriorly from fourth segment. Color shining yellowish- white ; thoracic segments slightly depressed on dorsum and swollen on: THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. LAS _ venter ; abdominal segments convex above and flat beneath, each one divided into three irregular shallow transverse folds, lateral surfaces with a double row of smooth polished oval tubercles, most symetrical in form and position from segments 4 to 11 inclusive; above the tubercles on each segment is a deep depression ; a few fine light hairs are scattered over the general surface. Head horizontal, rounded, small—about half the diameter of first segment, into which it is somewhat retractile— shining, translucent white; mandibles and other mouth parts reddish- brown, surrounded by longish hairs. Some of the larvee have from three to five fine purplish longitudinal lines on dorsum, the medio-dorsal one being most distinct; in others these lines are. wanting. They always remain curled up, and moye sluggishly on one side if placed upon a flat ~ surface. The pupa is cream-white in color, 0.12 inch in length, broadly shoul- dered with an almost triangular outline; thorax bent forward, beak pressed down and extending below wing cases; on top of thorax is a shallow depression surrounded with short brown hairs ; abdominal seg- ments sharply ridged and roughened with minute hairs, posterior ex- tremity terminates in a pair of bristly points, white, tipped with brown. The change to pupa takes place inside the larval nest, and the insects remain in this state only from five to seven days, the first beetles issuing on the 2nd of June. The perfect insect is well known: a small, highly polished, black curculio with two large orange-red spots at bases of elytra: It has been figured by Harris in his ‘‘ Injurious Insects,’ but his description of the cases of Attalabus as “ of the size and shape of thimbles,” does not apply to this species, nor does he record any observations upon the habits of the larvae. I have also found the cases of this curculio on the leaves of Red and — Post Oak, and recently took a single one, some larger than the others, on Hazel. The Laurel Oak, however, seems to have the preference, and the cases formed from its leaves are much neater and more symetrical than those found on other trees. The second brood of larvae may be found early in July. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT .OF SCIENCE.— The Rey. C. J. S. Bethune and Mr. W. Saunders, the President and Vice- President of the Entomological Society of Ontario, have left for Dubuque to attend the meeting of the Association as representatives of Canadian science. | 146 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. + MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. BY V.,T: CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. Continued from Page 133. CIRRHA, ew. 200. At page 92, ante, I have described as Depressaria albisparsella, a species which, on examination of other specimens, I have concluded to make the type of a new genus. As stated on a preceding page, the species was described from a single captured specimen, the wings of which were not spread. The specimen was also slightly injured, so as to cause the brush on the palpi to appear to be divided, and to obscure some of the markings of the wings, which are faint even in perfectly fresh specimens. Since then I have bred and captured other specimens, and find that it differs from Depressaria in the following particulars :— The antennæ are more distinctly pectinated, the brush on the palpi is long, ragged, and not divided, and the abdomen, though depressed, is not flat enough for Depressaria. Having ascertained its food plant, I have given it a more appropriate specific name, and annex the following more correct description :— C. platanella. (Depressaria dbisparsella, ante, p. 92.) Dark gray-brown, the head a little paler and somewhat iridescent ; palpi and antennæ dark brown ; anterior wings dark gray-brown ; about the middle is a small pale or whitish spot, and there is another of the same hue and equally indistinct about the end of the disc, behind which is an indistinct whitish narrow fascia sometimes obsolete in the middle. Alar ex. 5 im; Kentucky. The larva feeds on the underside of leaves of Sycamore trees ( Platanus occidentalis.) It is yellowish-white, with contents green, and it lives ina roll or short tube formed of the down of the underside of the leaves, Imago in the latter part of June. DEPRESSARIA. Further study induces me to make the following additional remarks and changes of the species which I have placed in this genus. Dr. Clemens, in his account of his Depressaria Lecontella, states that it is the only true Depressaria “he has thus far met with,” adding that “we possess numerous nearly allied species.” Mr. Stainton, in his edition of THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. SAE ‘ 7 Dr. Clemens’ papers (a copy of which he has kindly sent to me), suggests that’ these species probably belong to Cryprolechia (Dr. Clemens having | also suggested that they were intermediate between Gelechia and Depres- _saria). J have little doubt that the majority of the species which I have, placed in Defressaria belong to this intermediate group. But from an unwillingness to multiply genera, I have placed them in Defressaria, indicating the points in which they structurally differ from that genus, and giving, when known, the food plant of the larvee, so that the insects may be identified and disposed of in other genera by future students having easier access to European ‘specimens, and to the works of European authors. I will, however, indicate my views as to their generic affinities a little more fully. 2. cryptolechiella 1 have already removed to /agno, and D. albisparseila to Cirrha. : D. dubitella, am satisfied, should be removed, at least provisionally, to Gdechia; though even the elastic limits of that accommodating genus (the Micro-Lepidopterist’s ‘‘waste-paper box”) will hardly stretch to receive it. Still it is nearer to that genus than to Defressaria. D, cerceriseila, 1 think, will hereafter be placed in Crypfolechia, but I have not sufficient knowledge of that genus to be certain. Mr. Riley informs me that he has known the species long, and has referred it doubtfully to Ge/echia. 1 think, however, that it is nearer to Defressaria. D. bimaculella must accompany 2. cercerisella. À. Rileyella 1 consider a true Depressaria. D bistrigella, D. fusco-ochrella, D. fuscoluteclla, D. obscurusella, D. pseudacaciella, D. bicostomaculella. In these six species the palpal brush is longitudinally divided, but the brush is rather too small, the anterior wings are too -narrow, and the colours .are too dark brown for Defressaria, and the abdomen, though depressed and tufted at the sides, is hardly fat enough for Depressaria proper. Yet as I cannot place them in Gelechia, and from the divided brush they cannot belong to Cryptolcchia, 1 leave them for the present in Depressaria. The division of the brush is much more distinct in the living insect than in the mounted specimen. D. guerciella has the same structure as the six preceding species, except that it possesses a small double tuft at the apex of the thorax. It is not a true Depressaréa, and is probably the type of a new genus. D. pallidochrella and D. versicoloretla. These. species have the abdomen as distinctly flattened and tufted at 148 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. > the sides as the true Depressarie, and the brush is as distinctly divided. Their small size, narrow fore wings, and deep emargination of the hind wings beneath the apex, suggest doubts as to the propriety of their loca- tion in Depressaria. I have described the neuration of these species as compared with Depressaria in a previous paper. In all of these species (except dwbitella ?) the wings in the living insect are carried almost horizontally, or but little deflexed, in repose. One colourational peculiarity is common to many of the species which I have placed in Depressaria and to many species of Gelechia ; that is, the costal pale streak at the beginning of the ciliæ, and the opposite dorsal one. Another peculiarity, though possessed by some Ge/echia, is more characteristic of Depressaria : that is, the small ochreous or brown spot or spots on the disc. Gelechia dubitella (Depressaria dubitella, ante), has the discal ochreous spot, but not the costal or dorsal streaks. WD. ? ‘cercerisella has the costal and dorsal streaks and about four small ochreous spots on the disc. (By an oversight, I omitted to mention these in the description). In 2.? dimaculella, the costal and dorsal streaks are white, and there is a rather large white spot on the disc. In 2. Ri/eyella and ~ D. fuscoluteella, the costal and dorsal streaks are absent, and the discal spots are minute, indistinct, and dark brown. 2.7 pseudacaciella has the costal and dorsal streaks, but not the dots on the disc. So have D. bistrisella and D. bicostomaculella. In D. quercielia, D. pallidochrella, D. versicolorella, D. fusco-ochrella, and D. obscurusella, neither the marginal streaks nor discal spots are perceptible. ~ Though I think that hardly enough weight is given to the ‘‘ pattern of colouration,” as characteristic of genera, and even perhaps of higher groups, neverthless its value is subordinate to that of structure, and in the genus allied to Gelechta, one is soon at a loss as to what value really should be attached to it. As the genus Ge/ec/ia is at present constituted, I do not doubt that many, perhaps most entomologists, would place the majority of the above described species in that genus. But a genus which contains them, and such species as G. voseosuffusella (which Mr. Stainton says 1s a true Gelechia), to say nothing of such species as G. Æermonella, is certainly a hetorogeneous assemblage. Perhaps, however, that is not a very serious objection, for in my humble judgement no well defined and constant line exists between Defressaria (including in it Axaeretia and Orthotelia) Cryptolechia, Gelechia and other allied genera, and the more THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 149 thoroughly the allied species are made known, the more completely will the supposed distinction vanish. ADRASTEIA, gem. 70Y. The two following species resemble each other very closely, not only structurally, but in ornamentation. They are closely allied to Gelechia, or rather to some species of that genus. The second joint of the palpi is clothed beneath with a dense sfreading, but scarcely divided, brush ; the basal joint of the palpi is distinctly clavate, and the wings have distinct though small tufts of raised scales, and rows of separate raised scales not in tufts. Having but a single specimen of each species, I have not denuded the wings to examine the neuration. It, however, can be seen to approach closely that of Ge/echia, if it is not identical with it. In all other respects the genus agrees with Gelechia. A. Alexandriacella. N. sp. Head and second joint of the palpi grayish-white flecked with dark brown; third joint dark brown, with the tip and an annulus about the middle, white. Antenne dark brown, faintly annulate with white ; thorax, to the naked eye, gray; under the lens, white, flecked densely with dark brown, and with a minute ochreous or yellowish-white tuft on each side at the tip ; anterior wings to the naked eye gray, mottled with dark brown spots and with a few small white spots; under the lens they appear dark _ brown, largely intermingled with grayish-white, and the white spots are seen to be four minute tufts of raised scales placed - : + An irregular white fascia, angulated in the middle towards the apex, crosses the wing at the beginning of the ciliz. To the naked eye, this fascia appears as two small white streaks, one at the beginning of the costal, and the other of the dorsal ciliæ. Apex dark brown, with a row of small white spots around the base of the ciliae; ciliae pale luteous, dusted with dark brown. Posterior wings pale fuscous ; abdomen pale fuscous, somewhat iridescent. Alar ex. 56 inch. Captured at Alexandria, Kentucky, in June. A. fasciella. N. sp. Head yellowish-white, dusted with dark brown ; antennæ dark brown ; first and second joints of the palpi dusted with dark brown, third joint dark brown, scarcely flecked with white, and white at the tip; thorax and anterior wings pale gray mottled with small dark brown spots, one of which is just within the dorsal margin near the base, another behind the 150 : THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. first and on the costal margin, another just within the dorsal margin, about the middle, with a small one near it on the disc, a larger one about the end of the disc, with a small one near it on the costal margin, just behind which is a narrow angulated white fascia indistinct in the middle. ‘There is a small tuft of ochreous scales on each side of the apex of the thorax, a scattered patch of raised scales about the basal fourth of the wing just within the costal margin, another behind it near the dorsal margin, another further back near the costal margin, and a row of scat- tered raised scales within the dorsal margin. Viewed along the surface from the direction of the base of the wings, these raised tufts and scales exhibit prismatic colors. Alar ex. 5g inch. Kentucky, in June. ERRATA.—Ante p. 127, for ‘“costalous ” read ‘ costal pale ochreous.” In the description of 2. pseudacaciella, line 4, place the ; before “espe- cially’ instead of after it. NOTES ON LIMOCHORES BIMACULA, Scudd. BY C. S. MINOT, BOSTON. The following is a description of Limochores bimacula, Scudd ¢ , Æes- peria acanootus, Scudd., which I drew up some time ago :— Dark brown marked with chrome yellow. Above: head, thorax, abdomen and antennæ black, the head and abdomen having a few yellow hairs. Both wings dark olive brown; primaries with an indistinct spot a little above and beyond the outer termination of the disk; a large patch extends over the middle third from the outer margin to the disc, and is crossed by a black velvety dash, which if continued would bisect the apical angle. Sécondaries with chro- maceous hairs over the central and basal portions. Beneath: palpi, femurs, thorax, abdomen, and the fringes of the wings whitish, both wings chromaceous. Prémaries with three bright spots, and black at the basal, grey along the interior part of the wing. Secondaries with the costa slightly and the abdominal fold more or less covered with black scales and hairs. é¢ 2 taken in the last of July and first of August in company with Euphyes metacomet, Harr., to which it is closely allied. a PL TEE OT i SET THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1 Hy | NE re re ee INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. COMPILED BY THE EDITOR. Krom Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Americana: Insecta. (Continued from Page 11%.) FAMILY ANOBIDÆ. {190.] 253. ANOBIUM FOVEATUM A?réy.—Length of body 2 lines. A pair taken in Lat. 65°. This species very closely resembles 4. striatum, of which it may be regarded as the American representative. It differs principally in having a rather large excavation in the middle of the elevated back of the pro- thorax, the sides of which are armed with a triangular tooth or promi- nence. The male is obscurely rufous, both above and below, the female is browner above. [Taken in Canada by Mr. Billings. Belongs to the genus Hadrobregmus. | 254. Cis MICANS Püabr.—-Length of body « line. ‘Two specimens taken in the Expedition. Body subcylindrical, black-brown, glossy, with numerous short upright pale rather glittering hairs; minutely but not very visibly punctured. Head rather flat and lacunose ; antennae and legs testaceous. Prothorax anteriorly sinuated on each side with the middle lobe rounded and pro- jecting a little over the head; sides slenderly margined ; posterior angles rounded. Punctures of the elytra seem almost, but very indistinctly, arranged in rows. [191.] FAMILY SCOLYTIDA’. 255. Tomicus pini Say.—-Length of body 134—-2 lines. Frequently taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland-house, and also in Lat. 65°. Body cylindrical, deep chestnut, glossy, hairy underneath. Head above with scattered granules ; nose fringed with yellowish hairs ; antennæ testaceous : prothorax rather oblong, angles rounded, anteriorly granu- lated with minute elevations, posteriorly punctured with scattered punc- tures, hairy next the head and on the sides : elytra hairy on the side, with five rows of transverse punctures next the suture, which reach only to the truncated part; punctures of the side and apex scattered ; apex truncated ro THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. obliquely and excavated, with the external edge of the excavation armed with four denticles, of which the second and third are the largest : legs pale chestnut ; tarsi testaceous. In the other sex? the elytra are entire and unarmed, and the dorsal rows of punctures on the disk of the elytra are more numerous. VARIETY B. Entirely rufous, or pale-chestnut. [Quite common in Canada under bark of Pine trees.] | 7 [192.] 256. APATE BIVITTATA K7rby.—-Plate viil., fig. 5.—Length of body 134 lines.